Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-07-03

ing events in that State:
Al no time since the acquisition of Califor-
mia have such number of wonderful events
occurred, or so much intensely excited public
feeling been known, as during the period en-
braced in the past fortnight. The ten days
preceding the sailing of the last steamer gave
these startling occurrences origin, but Their
after development has exhibited an immensely
not yet at its ultimate. All matters through
out the State have been regarded as compare
lively unimportant in view of the one absorbing
fact that by authority of the people a great
revolution has begun, attended by acts that
assure us of the accomplishment of reforms,
which none can say we have not needed.
The weather has been pleasant, though in
various places unusually heavy rains have fall
len, accompanied in some Instances by wind,
thunder and lightning. Accounts from the
mining regions are highly favorable, and while
few rich discoveries are made, the old claims
are being vigorously worked, and are paying
well for the labor expended on them. Business
in the larger towns has not been very brisk,
but merchants and mechanics anticipate a
speedy change for the better. The villages Of
the interior exhibit considerable activity, and
many improvements are going forward. The
crops are neither remarkably good nor poor,
very promising. We incline to the opinion
that, when the season is little further adj
vanced, we shall be enabled to report the com
ing harvest g one of abundance.
The Indian war in Tulare has about termi-
mated
A. j. Blake was shot dead at Tuttletown by
Jack Thompson, who escaped.
A man named A. Williams has been arrested
at Sacramento, against whom charges of grand
larceny will be brought, extending through the
past two years.
On the day following the sailing of the last
steamer, May %, the funeral of Mr.. King took
place at the Unitarian Church, amidst the most
profound sorrow, participated in by dense
multitude of citizens, and thousands from Sac
ramento and other cities of the interior. While
the solemn obseqaies were being performed,
different and more dreadful scene was enacted
at the rooms of the Vigilance Committee. The
opportunity had been chosen to execute the
murderers, Casey and Cora, and the proceed
ing was completed before the crowd had time
to assemble in its vastness around the building
from the windows of which hung the dead
offenders. The conduct Of the Committee in
thus carrying out this retributive necessity,
and in all else they have since done, was
marked by the greatest decorum and serious
of the execution, the prisoners were offered an
opportunity to speak to the people in the street,
when Casey addressed them for ten minutes,
wildly affirming his innocence OF murder.
Cora made no effort to speak, but stood I'M
moved while Casey was speaking. The execu-
ton took place at twenty minutes before
O'clock and at q the bodies were taken down
and placed in charge of the Coroner. All the
while, strong guard, armed with muskets, re-
volvers and sabres, was stationed on every
street leading to the Committee Rooms, and
the outside spectators preserved the utmost
order.
The funeral of Mr. King was the most i'm
posing ceremony ever seen in the State. Every
association and profession was represented,
and every honest grade of society joined in the
procession. At the conclusion of the leading
movements of the day, the Committee dis
charged their cannon into the bay and stored
away many of their small arms and accoutre-
ments, still keeping, however, a strong guard
at and near their rooms. The crowd dis
persed to the various localities offering faci
tiles for small groups to talk over the probable
course of the Committee in future,
Casey, the murderer of Mr.. King, Just before
his execution, addressed the crowd as follows:
Il have but little TO say at this time; did
that am an assassin, but i am not; am no
murdere. The press Of this city have, with one
or two exceptions, done me great injustice;
they have branded me with committing cold
booded murder. The Globe, Chronicle, and
Alta, have all spoken of me in harsh and bitter
terms; but / charge them not to repeat these
false and malignant assertions when l am gone.
Let not them, and no one else, dare to call me
a murderer hereafter, for l am not; let them
not dare to do me this great injustice. l have
my faults am free to confess; they were the
results Of defective education / was early
taught to resent injury, and ] have always
done it, in doing so | may have sometimes
done wrong and | would caution others against
indulging in improper resentments; still deny,
gentlemen, that | am a murderer; tried to
get satisfaction for the wrongs that were done
me- and / could not, and when | am gone ]
hope no one will dare to condemn me as muir
derer. have an aged mother, and il is for her
that ] care the most; let her never hear me
charged with the commission ofso foul a crime;
have only aimed to repel insult and injury, as
/ had always been taught to do, and in this
case not without cause.
ON Saturday morning, May 81, Yankee Sui
Ivan was found dead in his cell in the rooms
Of the Vigilance Committee, and upon exami-
nailOn, the CAUSE Vi uGhbH Was iOuuu W NC
wound on the left arm, above the elbow, which
had severed the brschal artery. The fact Of
his death was not made known outside the Com
mittee Rooms until IL O'clock noon, and it twas
stated that Sullivan died between the hours Of
and s o'cloch. From all we can learn, he
must have died withina few moments after the
wound was inflicted and without experiencing
much suffering, as in all cases of an artery be-
ing cut, the person gradually sinks into insen-
sibility from the loss of blood.
The remains Of Charles Cora were on Satur-
day, oath May, conveyed to the Catholic bury
ing ground at the Mission Dolores, and there
buried. At o'clock the funeral took place
from a house on Broadway near Stockton.st.,
occupied by the servants of the widow. The
body was enclosed in a richly trimmed mahog.
any coffin, and was dressed with greattast and
expense. The coffin was borne in a hearse
drawn by four black horses, which was follow
ed by seven carriages, the first one containing
the widow Of the deceased and her sister, and