Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-27
TWO WEEKS
& ATEB FROM CALIFORNIA.
Animal rrrE.. IL. -.
ONE MILLION AND a HALF IN GOLD.
ACQUETTA5 OF Or. BATES.

AcaUITTA' OF Or. BATES.
New York, March %. The steamship
Moses Taylor from Aspnwall on the alter
noon OF 18th, has arrived She brings ST.
403,749 in treasure.
The through trip has been performed in
twenty days and fourteen hours. being the
| quickest on record.
The U. S. ship St. Louis was at Aspin wall,
to sail on the evening of the 18Th for New
York.
The principal cousignees are Wells, Fargo.
and Co., $473,0OO Rowland and Aspinwal.
S2l,O00; American Exchange Bank, $50. ,
OOO; Duncan, Sherman, 4 Co., $40, OOQ; W.
L. Coleman Co., 500 600.
Lieut.. Cohen is passenger in the Moses
Taylor. bearing dispatches from Commodore
Long Of the fTigate Merrimac, hich had ar
rived at Calao.
From he California Chronicle.
During the past fortnight the weather has
been remarkably fine throughout the State.
The crops are Hourishing finely, and there
being sufficient water in the rivers the miners
are able to work TO good advantage, and in
many instances are doing we'll
There is nothing interesting to communi-
cate to our Eastern readers
There are only three Democratic papers in
tie State that sustain the Presidents views
in relation to Kanzas as euunciated in his
special message; the balance some twenty.
are opposed to the admission of Kanzas under
the Lecompton Constitution
James Nahir aged fifty years, and formerly
from New Hampshire, was suddenly killed
on the 10th of February, while at work in
his hydraulic claim, near Dutch Flats
On the 22d ult. an awful tragedy occurred
at Grass Valley. IN Placer county. Michael
Brennan, late President of the Mount Hope
Quartz Mining Company killed himself and
whole family, consisting of wife, Lorinda and
three children, Ellen, Robert, and Lorinda.
The NeagS is informed that on the 18th
inst. the row at st. Louis, Sierra county,
was three feet deep, and still failing. All
communication between there and La Porte,
distarce of six miles, was on snow shoes.
Our State Legislature is still in session. The
only act of Importance which has vet been
passed, is the recinding the State Prison con-
tract with James NJ. Estile.
DR.. Bates, late State Treasurer, has been
tried at Auburn, Placer county, for abstract
ing the sam of $4,000 from the State Treas
ury, and acquitted.
The people Of Scott Valley have subscribed
fund Of $4,000, to open wagon road to
the Sacramento valley.
AAiN ClAHdoa hllQ A''lueh age NOLN leave
for Panama today. The rates OF passage have
been materially reduced, and large number
Of our citizens take passage for the East
a meeting of the French residents had been
held, and an address prepared to be sent to
Louis Napoleon, expressive OF the feelings of
the signerS In relation to the recent attempt
tc assassinate the Emperor Of France. The
address is extremely local in its tone
(From the AHa.) The Legislature passed
an act on the Goth ult., to take the State Pri-
son from the possession of Estill, the present
lessee, and place it in charge of agents Of the
State to be appointed by the Governor.
On the lst, Gov Weller went to the prison
to take possession. He demanded the KEYS of
the building from the sub-lessee, who refused
to give them up, and refused to admit the
Governor into his office, whereupon the latter
broke open the door Of the office, ordered the
sub-lessee away, took possession of the place,
and notified the guard chat they might con-
unue IN their present position as employees Of
the State.
A Joint Committee of the Senate and As
sembly rendered a long report on the I'd inst,
recommending the adoption of memorial to
Congress praying for an abrogation Of the pres
ent contract for the conveyance Of the mails
between San Francisco and New York, and
the formation Of new contracts with two 9th.
er companies, each to carry the mails once in
two weeks each way, alternately
ATchy, the slave, is confined in the Stock
ton jail, by order OF Stoyel, who is his mas
ter and owner under the decision of the Su-
preme Court Of the State.
The Indians on the Sebastian Reservation,
in Los Angeles county, reyolted on the l4th
nit, and refused to work or obey the orders
OF the Superintendent a party of soldiers
frightened them into submission. and the
leaders OF the rebellion received from twenty
to one hundred ashes each.
Nicaragua.
General Lamar was formally received BY
the Government Of Nicaragua on the 22d
nit. The Yrssari Treaty, still before the Leg
islature, it was believed would not be ratified
unless with alterations which will reopen
the whole affair at Washington.
Carey Jones had taken leave Of the Gov
eminent.
George Jerez was appointed Minister or
War.
The steamer San Carlos was lost on Lake
Tusquehanna at San Suan.
Peru.
Vivanco has captured africa. Frigate APP
urimac having first shelled tie town, he land
ed $500 troops, and then took possession
The loss on both sides was 200 killed and as
many wounded. One-half the town is in
ruins.
Yivanco had withdrawn his troops from
! Iquique.
An attempt at revolution in Lima has been
suppressed.
SURPRISE PARTY TO Hon. JosEPH I. BUCK
| INGHAM.-Of those still living among us, " no
! br- thoir lioog ba furnished ,,oblo ovo,rrlo,