The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-08-20

still remains under the government of th
| Vigilance Committee, but the excitement ap
pears TO have in a great measure subsded.-
Judge Terry remains in custody, and no fina
disposition would be made of his case unit
the recovery or death of Mr.. Hopkins, tn
man wounded by him. and who, at the las
accounts, was in precarIous condition from
lerysipelas. There had been several larg
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From the summary in the San Francisc,
Bulletin, prepared for transmission by tn,
steamer, we copy the following:
The general feeling throughout the State
continues strongly in iavor Of the Vigilance
Committee of Sun Francisco. Persons living
at distance from this city can scarcely COM
prehend the many difficulties which have
arisen, and which appear daily to increase, to
impede the complete salutary action of this
body. Meanwhile, the committee are work
ing increasingly and manfully, collecting evil
dence of official corruption everywhere,
bringing the charges home to to the guilty
parties, and banishing them one by one from
the State forever.
Though nobody pretends to foresee the ex-
act time when, and how, our local troubles
are to be terminated, yet the general feeling
is hopeful, and all believe that the end will
certainly be for good. In this feeling and be-
lief the interior towns and mining camps are
one with the larger and better portion of the
citizens OF San Francisco. In regard to one
of the chief matters for consideration with the
executive committee, to-wit: the disposal ol
the judge of the supreme court, David s. Ter
ry, the people in town and country alike have
said that if Terry's victim, Hopkins, should
die, then Terry must be hung; if Hopkins
should survive, then Terry should be banish-
ed from the State. Happily, Hopkins still
lives, and the disposition of Terry remains,
therefore, uncertain. Under any circumstan-
ces he never again can be allowed ty he peo
pie to pollute the supreme court with his pre-
sence on the bench. ...~-..
The mining interest continues in prosper
Gus condition. Owing to the increase of tun-
leling and the more dangerous and complicat-
ed character of mining operations, many fatal
accidents are constantly taking place. The
interior papers are full of the records of such
calamities. Notwithstanding the miners as .
whole, seem satisfied with their prospects.
The first returns of the grain harvest are
coming in. 1t is believed that the crops of
this year will be larger than those of any pre-
vious year. The quality of grain is excellent.
Col Zabriskie and Gen. Allen recently made
an attempt, as authorized" by Gov. johnson,
to settle amicably the case of Judge Terry with
the Vigilance Committee. The committee
declined to have any thing to do with the mat
ter, and Terry was impracticable Then it
was whispered that the commissioners had no
authority from the Governor to act. Next
Zabriskie and Allen, and the Governor him.
self, gave contradictory statements, and SO the
whole affair become "muddle.''
The weather in the interior towns is ex-
tremely hot, the thermometer occasionally
showing 10 in the shade. In the upper val
leys, where the miners work, it is even hotter.
However the country is remarkably healthy.
The Vigilance Committee arrested Michael
BIannigan, hack driver; Christopher Lilly, Q
notorious character of San Mateo, who was re-
ing security that he would leave the State on
the Goth; John Cooney, Charles Gallagher,
Alfred a. Green, ex-member of the Legislature
and his brothers Robert and John.
An immense mass meeting of the people
was held in front of Montgomery Block, to
hear the report of the committee appointed to
wait upon the officials and request their resig-
nation. The officers refused to resign.
FIRES AND Loss OF LIFE.-A fire broke out
at Placerville on the 5th of July, which de
stroyed one hundred and eightysix buildings
and property of the estimated value of one
million dollars. Mr.. BenhaIn perished in the
flames, Sam'l Hopkins was badly burned, and
two or three others more or less injured. The
fire commenced in the Union Hotel at IL o.
clock A. NJ, spread rapidly to other buildings,
and swept down Main street to the west, burn
ing every building on the south side of the
street, except Hooker & Co, Postoffice, and
one other on the north side. Everything was
burned except the fire proof building of Lee,
Harmon & Co., A. & L. Selgman and s. Lyon
& Co., and stopped with the destruction of the
stable of VIM Stevens & Co. 1t burned the
Democrat and American offices entirely out,
together with the best buildings in the city
Oaloma street the building of B. Herrick and
Cunrad's Exchange were destroyed.
The fire swept every building in south
east direction to Cedar Rayine, except those
of A. Haws, Wells, Fargo & Co., and Caspar
Hunt So rapid was the spread of the flames
that nothing was saved in the business part oil
the city.
There was large fire in Georgetown on the
| 8th of July which consumed nearly the whois
village The Sacramento Union says:
~ So complete was the destruction that on
| Monday there was not more than slx-horse
wagon load of provisions, all told: The only
property saved was by clothing and other mer-
lchants. who shouldered as much as they could
carry and fed. The aggregate loss is some
where in the neighborhood of 100000. The
! number of business houses destroyed was
about rs but fortunately no lives were LOST
i The village of Fair Play, Eldorado county.
lconsisting of about ten houses, was destroyed
lby fire on the 18th Nearly the entire popu
Ilation had the day before, removed to the
i Middle Fork of the Cosumnes, and conse