Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-03-24
ArrivaI or the GEORGE INV.

New York, March 16.-The STEAMSHIP
George Law with California dates to The
2oth, arrived here this morning.
She left Aspinwall on tho evening Of the
9th inst, and brings a million in gold =
She connected at Aspinwall with the Jno
L. Stephens. The latter steamer passed
the Golden Gate with the New York pas
sengers, which left in the steamer on the
9Th inst, and the Sonora with the passen-
gers that left New York on the goth ult
All well.
The George Law touched at Havana on
the l1th inst, and on the 10 inst, she
spoke tie steamer Granada from Havana
for Aspinwall.
The U. s. Ship Independence was lying
off Panama.
The principal consignments Of gold are,
Drexel & Co., $3.50, 900, and Wells, Far
go & Co., 1890
Among the passengers by the George
Law, are General Wool. Col. Casey, and
Lieutenants Arnold and Bissell.
The steamer Sierra Nevada left San
Francisco on the 11th ult., with several
hundred recruits for Gen. Walker.
| The news from California is unimport-
ant. The mining intelligence is rather ia
vorable. There has been heavy rains in
various parts of the State, causing much
damage from floods.
San Francisco markets are extremely
dull. Flour is quoted at $S11.
The California Legislature has impeach-
ed DR.. Bates, the State Treasurer, and G..
w. Whitman, Comptroller, for their mis-
appropriation of the State funds to the
amount of $4,000 for the payment of
the interest on the State debt. DR.. Bates
has resigned and James English, ex-May-
or of Sacramento, has been elected to fill
the vacancy. -,
Twelve of the band of robbers who
recently murdered Sheriff Barton, have
been hung by the people of San Diego.
Two shocks of an earthquake occurred
at San Francisco on the evening of the 5th
ult, causing much CONSERVATION, but no
damage. 80
An affray took place at Sau Francisco
between F. A. Cohen, banker, and Thorn
as King, editor of the Evening Bulletin.
Cohen, who was the aggressor, received a
pistol shot through the jaws. Both were
arrested King was discharged.
Companies of fillibusters are organizing
in the interior to aid General Walker.
A bill to legalize the State debt has been
introduced into the Senate, and will un-
doubtedly pass.
A large body of fillibusters have gone
to Sonora to join Guadaura.
| Advices' from La Pason. on the Mexi-
can coast, state that General Blancarte had
seized all the vessels in the ha, Dor, putting
them under embargo. .. r
He was to leave i'll a few days with sew
en- hundred men for the capitol.
Advices from Salt Lake had been re-
ceived to the 7th of January. Heber
Kimball has been elected President of the
State Council.
Oregon dates to the ! 9Th ut. had been
received.
An Indian outbreak had taken place
near Fort Simcoe. Four white men and
a large number of cattle had been carried
off.
There was great mortality among the
cattle in the neighborhood of the Dalles,
and one-fourth of the stock had per-
| ished.
Advices from Washington Territory
state that the Territorial Legislature ad-
journed on the 29th of January, after hav-
ing censured Governor Stevens for his
course in the Indian war and martial law
affair. -r ..
Dates from Australia are to the Cd of
December. The mines were yielding un-
usually. A fire had occurred at Adelaide,
destroying property to the amount of half
a million dollars. .r.-i
The Indians had made an attack upon
Pitt River Valley, Shasta county, and mur-
dercd all the inhabitants remaining there,
burned the houses and killed all the cattle
horses, &c. The greater portion of the
inhabitants had previously left the valley,
wit the ~f----~~~'-r" III 'he
spring.
J. NJ. Rhodes, banker at Sacramento,
and one of the bondsmen of Bates, the
State Treasurer, has suspended. "rE
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New YoRK ELECTIoNs.-We adverted
some days since to the preponderance of
Republicans in the town elections. Fur
ther returns only make the case stronger.