New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-29
From Our Own Correspondent.
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From Our Own Correspondent.
SACRAMENTO, June 4, 1857.
The trial of Henry Bates, the defaultng State
Treasurer, on an indictipen. found against him by
n Grand Jury OF this county, vas concluded few
days since. The Jury stood four for " Not Guilty"
and eight for Guilty" The charge was for un-
lawfully permitting Z. A. REEVE to use the sum of
1924 600 of the moneys belonging to the State. He
will be tried again the same charge, and alse on
another {for which true bill has been found), in
whichhe is accused of fsloniSasly plundering the
State Treasury.
Ned MCGOWAN, indicted for being accessory be-
fore the fact for the murder Of James King of VII
liam, and therefore, by our laws, prin ,ipa has
had his trial IN the County vOf Napa-tO which
place change Of venue was granted from San
Francisco, in accordance with law passed fer
that purpose The examination of witnesses dig
putatious, and arguments of counsel occupied the
Court sOme five days, and the case went to the
Jury on the evening of the I'd inst. After CON
ference OF reyen minutes, that body returned YER
dict of Not Guilty. So Ned is again at large
John Ki-k the Superintendent of the western
portion Of tie wagon road from Independence TO
Honey Lake arrived in the last steamer and will
commence the examination of the route at once.
With him came a con Of Senator Bigler of Pa,
who is it is seid, surveyor by profession and who
will be engaged with Mr. Kirk in tho examination.
From what can learn there will be no actual labor
done on the road this Procrastination SCENE
TO be the order Of the day in this as well as in other
matters for the general good with which the general
Government has anything to do California viii
suffer sorely by this delay. Hsr population is in
creasing but little il any, and Ter various reasons.
First: the absence of safe means OF travel at
reasonable rates between her and the Atlantic
States. TIA Hpean route is not az healthy by on to
rs per cent q the land route, and the prices charged
by the steamers are 81 exOrbltaRt that tey men VI
the class who make good citizens, can afford to come
by it, man with his family canRst from any Of
the Western or South western States, come by
the ocean route for less, on an aver.
age, than $1,000. This, take them all
sound would size their gle, and they would land
on our shores penniless s2d perhaps b@eken down
by the Is,hmus fever. To cay nothing of the abhor-
renee which. Western people have OF a sea yoyage
these facts are alone sufficient to render the ocean
route what it is wholly worthless as the charnel
through which to increase OR population. LIE
land route is the only one by which California can
be benefited. Those who como by that route are,
when they arrive, With but few exceptions, hearty
and robust. If healthy when they start they keep
and improve their health But TIE cheapness Of
the land route is the great fact that makes it ndis'
pensable to our prosperity. Western men can come
with their famises and focks across the plains for
absolutely notbiag--nay, they can make money by
cattle, sack or tsyo of -four and little corn can,
with an outlay Of 800 to $500, provide nus family
with every necessary for the journey, and when he
arrives here his cattle will he worth 80 to 90 per
cent more than when be started. BY the lan6 route
not only would the farmer-cmigsnt save his all but
California would have the Thousands poured eto her
lap which DOW go to ill the Golfers Of tie steamship
companies, beside having her population doubled il
three years, which it viii not be i'll fifteen if We are
10 20 on us we have been DONG.
The second reaeon is the insecurity Of land titles
in this State 1t u no exsggerstion TO sag that nine
tenths of all the good arabic land within our borders
is claimed under foreign title Many of the graots
are spurious-Open forgeries, AID have been 40
proved, hut the humber rejected on that ground
are not, il is believed onehith Of the humber that
ought 10 have been. IT, after claim is confirmed,
any one man or firm had an Dndisputed title to II,
We might get along, bpt there are often SO many
who hold conflicting titles TO the same property, that
the purchaser seldom knows who holds the legal
interest. The courts, however Will soon settle
these matters, and that evil viii thus be partially
abolished Then, again, ! might rcter yon to the
ipeffeieney Of cur laws, or rather tie ganerened