New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-28

F,or The California Chronicle, March 5.
The chief subject of excitement during the past fort
night has been the trial of a. A. Cohen, assignee IN
the case Of Adams & Co., on a charge Of having en-
bezzled money and books placed in his care. A large
amount OF testimony has been elected and published
in the newspapers and the publication has not had
any tendency to lessen general prejudice TO call IT
BY the mildest term for him against Cohen. Several
witnesses testified the tria that they had been told
in Cohen's presence by persons in his company, and
apparently in his confidence that $3.50 900 belonging
To- Adams & Co had been 'eposited by Cohen in a
certain safe and TO all this the latter made no objection
c. X Garrison testified that Cohen, after having OBJ
tanned of these funds had spoken OF starting
a bank in New-York with capital Of s2j0,OOO. For
some months past great exertions have been used to
lean what had become of the ledger and cash book OF
Adams & Co. Cohen said he had never obtained pos
session of them; but the fact that he had not com
planed of their absence while acting as assignee, left
ground for strong presumption that if they had not
come into his possession, he was partly to blame for IT,
On the evening of February "a bag was discovered
floating in the bay, and in that bag were found the
ledger and cash-book Of Adams d Co., with hall
dozen leaves containing some of the most important
transactions, torn from each.
To-day March 81 the Democratic State Convention
meets at Sacramento to select delegates to the Cncn-
nat Convention. The delegates chosen will probably
be in favor of Buchanan or Dickinson In this city
the Democratic party If at present spit on hne SIM
liar in respects to the line which separates the
Hards and Sots in New-fork.
A large fire occurred at Sonoro the 2oth reDruary'
The loss was s36, 600.
Tbeshipments of specie from San Francisco for Feb
ruary reached q, ,39l 1913.
attacked the whites burned number OF houses, and
killed about twenty persons. Among the Killed Is
Capt Ben Wright, late SubIndian Agent. lady
and her daughter are in captivity with one of the
Indian Tribes.
The CITY Council of Sacramento has passed an or
dnance requiring all the butcher shops or meat mar
kets in the city to be closed at and after IL III. on
each Sunday, nor must they make sale of any meat
on that day after that hour. This is the first law In
the State TO forbid on Sunday the prosecution OF
calling acknowledged by all to be necessary ana
moral. ~
Gold Beach Crescent City, and other places, Is very
affective and alarming. The previous accounts which
came down were mostly entirely from Northern Ore
gon and Washington Territories, and gave hopes OF
peace The accounts which came yesterday represent
The feelings and acts Of the Indians in Southern oregon
az very different There they in arms and in blood
They have attacked and killed the farmers-have at
tackled and killed nearly all of portion of one COM
panv of volunteers have burned all the houses on the
south side of Rogue River and have taken possession
Of all that section except the north side where tnee
l. a fort. They seem determined To make general
havoc of the whites. They do not spare even those
who have heretofore been supposed their inendS thOse
having Indian wives. OF this latter class Is Capt Ben
WRIGHT Sub-Indian Agent, whom II was generally
thought the Indians would not inlure. Capt. Wright
has been killed. At Gold Beach the Indians have
united with the hostles, and are slaughtenng all the
whites within their power. Now should De known
Inv ali that the whites capable of bearing arms in those
places are in number vastly inferior to the Indians and
there are not arms enough to enable them 10 deiena
themselves. The people of Crescent city have peu-
toned the Governor of this State to authorize them 10
call ont as Volunteers all those capable OF bearing
arms This he should do at once, and, If possible fur
nish them with arms enough to supply any dehclency
Sometime since he was authorized TO can out CON,
napy of Volunteers for service IN the northern part OF
the State and il would have been well had that Com
nary been called out and put in service. There ls
such proverb as Penny wise and pound foolish"
If the expense of one Company would have saved the
lives of OF the poor creatures VINO nave Deeh
murdered, the expense would have been tnne HOW
ever neither the Governor nor any other person here
20 far as we know, was aware OF the great danger
which appears TO threaten the whites OF Northern
| California and Southern Oregon. We trust that the
danger nav not be great the reports would nd-
| cate; but yet we would urge upon the Governor to
giant the prayer of the people Of the Crescent Clty
Our Legislature should take such steps as the rea ex-
| igencies of the case demand. The State should at
least forward for the use OF such volunteers as
| are without them.
A correspondent from Crescent City says Cuisines
here entirely stOpped-no farming, no merchandis-
ing everything is panic struck! He says further
more that certain friends OF the Indians, persons
who have been keeping squaws and siding with their
| savage friends admit the necessity of calling
out volunteers to take the field against the Indians
| e" This is charming" says he 4" after twenty-three
"men, women and children are murdered. Now they
have come to their senses The Indian kills every
thing in the shape of white men-frlepds and all we
that there much more tndt
1.-TWO boats dispatched from this place for relief, ar
rived to-day Feb 26 from up the coast, and cor
| roborate everything. We had a meeting last night
in order to send, by volunteer subscription imme-
| date relief.
The number of vessels which arrived at this port
| during the month of February lls with an aggre-
gate tunnage Of %, ,769 tuns, against lOi vessels oil
81 s6O tuns in January. The departures in February
were g. vessels of 81 ,544 tuns against l2 vessels oi
34772tuns in January. The amount Of freight moneys
paid upon cargoes of vessels arriving in February from
| domestic Atlantic and foreign pors was 1922
| against s322, $40 in January.
We regret that figures are obliged TO record the
fact Of our population having decreased by departures
in excess of arrivals by in February by no less
number than 357 souls The net gain IN January was
4O2 souls from which subtracting the loss OF
February shows that our population in the two trst
months Of the year has gained but lOi5 person. al
| told
The EXPORT of precious metals TO all quarters IN
February was 90 47O,356 which ADDED 10 that OF Jan
nary g. 49, sl4 gives So 10 as the total export
thus far this year II these amounts be taken as q
criterion for the whole Of the current year the aggre-
gate will show great falling of from preceding years
The value Of our exports other than treasure 70
foreign countries in February was s2eI 7l2 included
in which were 2573 fasks Of Quicksilver, valued a.
s96.ss7 SO The exports Of January were s2'3 D.
The largest customer 10 February for our e1poItsoe
commodities was Australia which country took To the
value Of Sl26 80, principally in Breadsutfs Peru
ard Mexico stand next on the ,t, 10 which countries
60 the bulk Of the Quicksilver shipped to tbs port
RECOVERY OF THE LOST BOOKS OF AD-
ANS Il Co.
Fro- TAs Alta California. ,
An unusual excitement prevailed Throughout Tue
ctv Yesterday in consequence Of the mysterioe u re
coyey of the missing books OF Adams CO., when
has been claimed were necessary TO full knowledge
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