Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-03-20
Latest News OF the State.


mail without the kind Offices of these gentlemen
they would not arrive until the JOURNAL of the
week had been printed
RED BLUFFs.-The Beacon has closed its first
year, is prosperous, and We are glad Of it. The
steamer Gem struck a snag OH Thursday, but no
great damage was done. An Ark of the Order
of Knghthood has been established with D. Dunn
az chief officer The Antelope Indians have shot
fourteen men within few months, besides vari-
GUS other murders and thefts The roads about
Red Bluffs are in fine condition-without mud or
DUST but young man got on a roaring drunk,
assaulted an old man, and succeeded in kicking
up general dust, through which he went to jail,
where he burned up his clothes to spite the com
monwealth. Everything about the place beto-
kens spring and active lte-seys the Beacon.
THE first German Lodge of Masons, on the Pa
cifc coast, was founded on the evening of the 9th
inst, in San Francisco, 1t is called the Hermann
Lodge.
THE Shasta Courier has begun to live its sew
enth year, and is in good health and spirits.
FLOUR is selling in American Valley at 81 a
hundred farmers have begun getting in their
crops.
THE Grand Jury Of Sacramento have condemn
ed McGowan's paper as nOxious to community.
A COMMITTEE of the Legislature has been ap-
pointed to look out another site for State
Prison.
BAILEY, three feet high, is growing below
Sacramento. Apple trees are in bloom on the
American river.
OVER $1,000 was taken out Of the Cardinell
claim, near Columbia, in a single day, not long
since.
SEvENTY-oNE thousand dollars worth OF i'm
provements have been made in Downevile since
the fire. The tunnels at Monte Cristo, near by,
are paying prOdigiously.
AT social sort of party in Siskiyou, the COM
pany took several games Of billiards, fifteen stag
dances, ten gallons Of whisky, ditto Of water, and
a schottisch.
THE Sacramento Age credits us with saying
that the small pox is in Yreka. Didn't FAY SO :;
the pesky stun is here.
THE little Marysville opposition boat Maria
is being enlarged and preparing for heavier
pull.
Two Cinnamon were recently murdered in
Bear Valley, by McNicans, who escaped.
THE brother of Chief Justice Murray has ad-
dressed letter to the DownievlIe Bar in which
he says:
Permit me in Lchalf Of a bereaycd mother,
and for myself, to tender our most sincere thanks
to the members of the Bar of Sierra County. and
&. T.
tribute Of respect TO one who was near and dear
to us
A QUARTZ miner at the BLttcs, in Sierra coGn-
ty, had his head dashed by the mill machinery
his brains were scattered in every direction.
Is looking after bodily comfort the Downie-
Vile people are also mindful of the soul they
have set about building new church vigorously.
Low FREIGHT-The Shasta Republican says
that freight on the California Steam Navigation
Companys boats, from San Francisco to Red
Bluffs, has been reduced to $40 per ton.
A SILVER MAE has been discovered on the
Colorado, forty miles above Fort Yuma. Nine
tons of ore was worth 100000.
The Marysville city convention have approved
the railroad project; there is wealth and interest
enough there to build the road.
BUTrERFIELD's party, who started from San
Francisco to the States by way of Tejon Pass,
report the distance to that point to be 700 miles,
by roadometcr.
A STATE Quarter Master General is to be cleo
ted Oh the lst of April, and is to get $4,000
year for doing nohng-making April fools of
the people on a grand scale
RICHARD PEARcE ROBINS ON, of San Francisco,
says he is not the Robinson of Helen Jewett
memory-th0t person, he says, died in Louisville,
some time ago.
IT is said that Palmer, Cook & Co., the "ope-
rating" political bankers, of San Francisco, are
the holders of the State Prison Wall warrants,
which the Senate agrees to pay.
Four men are to be hanged at jackson on the
10th of April-tbrce Cinnamon and white man.
THERE were 526 convicts in the State Prison
on the lst.
The farmers in Mariposa are in great fear that
the dry weather has destroyed their grain crops
The first lot of spring goods arrived in Cres-
cent City on the 2d,-after a long absence four
steamers came in on that day, says the Herald,
and we reckon they got last years mail.
THE Crescent City Herald says that 'Lesch,'
noted Indian chief who was saved from being
hung some weeks since, by the act of The people
in keeping the Sheriff under arrest until the hour
of execution had passed, has been re.seutenced
to suffer death on the 10th ult, and doubtless this
time met the fate he so justly deserved. No one
we have conversed with who is resident Of or
acquainted with affairs in Washington Territory
euterans any doubt but that another war will
be commenced by the Indians SO soon as the
spring opens
Why THEY CALL HIM CHAMPAGNE. THE
Sierra Democrat tells why the Downieville people
call a certain one Champagne"
"One evening in the winter of '53, the late
popular comedian, Charlie Burke, was having a
jolly time with some friends and CT arlie espied
Sam, when about drinking, and Immediately
called him to the bar, to have something to
take" Sam came up, not Over-large boy,