The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-30
THE CALIFORNIA NEWS.
BY THE MOSES TAYLOR.

HAS experienced Calm..
The health of San Francisco is good; business
improving
The first mail from Salt Lake, under the new.
| overland mail contract, arrived at Placervile on
the 2lst ult., and was received in that place with
great reloicings. The first mail going eastward for
Missouri via Salt Lake City, started from Placer
VILE on the 24th, and although only days no.
tce was given in Sacramento city, five hundred let
tcrs were sent from that place and the immediate
vicinity, to the Eastern States. tits expected that
the mail will reach ST. Louis about the lst of Sep
tember
On the I'd of August, the second overland mail
reached Placerville. The news was confirmatorv
OF the belief that the truce with the Mormons
was a hollow one. Several passengers came
through by this route the second trip and speak
| highly of it.
The work on ths road across the Sierra Nevada.
from Placerville to Carson Valley is RAPIDLY pro-
gresslng The present stage fare from Placerville
! to Genoa is $40.
The approaching election encrosscs most attention
just at this time. ''The Democratic party if pre-
served intact has" according to the San Francisco
B"0e'R, 'no serious opposition in California, but
just now schism exists in the ranks growing ont of
| the Buchanan and Douglas split Senator Brodcr-
lex, who has just returned from WASHINGTON being
the leader of the Douglas Democrats in this State
Is engaged IN the hercuean task of battling against
| Federal patronage and influence here. Judging bv
the Convention at present assembled at Sacramento
the Administration wing appears in the ascendancy
but 1T is difficult to tell the real sentiment of the
of the Douglas wing of the Democrats with the Re
publicans. There is little probability that it will
succeed; fit does, the Democratic ticket will be
defeated in September"
| The Republican State Convention was to moot nj
| Sacramento on the 5th.
| - Hall McAlster, prominent member of the San
! FRANCISCO Bar has published very strong opinion
against the constituonalitv of the anti Chinese law
passed by the late Legislature This law, if will be
! receected, prohibited Cinnamon from coming to
| California after the lst of July ult
An unsuccessful attempt to steal $40 900 was made
on the Sd August, by man named Henry Lowry.
d'i0s McGray, and an unknown accompice The
money belonged to young native Californian,
who, starting to Monterey, carried it aboard the
steamer Senator, lying at the wharf. and locked it
IN his stateroom. While he was lettering in the
! cabin, waiting for the boat to start the thieves
made their way through skyght to his room
got his money, and were making off with it, but
were seen by the Captain. Chase was given, and
the one with the cash was overtaken. The other
escaped
Mrs. l.. G. Lyon, wife of Dr. Lyon, late Coroner
OF Amador county. was found dead in Il well on her
husbands premises, on the afternoon of Sunday
July 4th. On several accounts it was believed that
there had been foul play and her husband was sus-
pected OF poisoning her before she found in the
| well. The circumstances pointed very strong
| against him. \ COroner's jury was summoned on
| the 9th Of July, before whom lengthy invcstiga-
ton was had. The jury adjourned to await the
analysis OF the stomach of the deceased which was
sent to Sacramento. On the 18th the stage from
Sacramento carried to Jackson the report of
the examining physicians, which declared that
there was large amount Of poison in the stom-
ach; Inc jury again met, and brought in a
si gerd'ct that the deceased came to her death
ing the adjournment of the jury, Lyon had disap-
pearcd but Coroner kibbec obtained information
that he had been seen near Stockton. and he and
| Constable Wilson started for this cty arriving
here at daylight on Sunday morning, the Coroner
having issued warrant for his arrest. They pro-
| cceded at once to the room of Marshal Kennedy,
| and aroused him. A special policeman, Mr.. b. +.
| Sanborn. Joined with them and the city and vcini-
ty was thoroughly searched. but without success
Finally trace obtained, and Mcssrs Sanborn
and Wilson started in pursuit. Lyon was overta-
ken on the opposite side of the San joaquin sitting
upon the pOrtico of Il hotel. His buggy was in the
stable, and his little boy was with him 1t was
| supposed that he was on his way to the southern
country. The fugitive was carried to Stockton and
delivered by Marshal Kennedy into the charge Of
| Constable Wilson. by whom he was taken back to
Jackson. Lyon is said to be quite wealthy.
1t will be remembered that a Convention Of color
ed residents was held several months since at San
| Francisco, and that committee was appointed to
inquire and ascertain the point offering the GREAT
! est inducements for immigration letter has
heen received in Sacramento recently from Gen.
| Bosques, of Panama, which is deemed eminentIy
satisfactory. The General who is colored man
apologlses for not answering previously, stating
that he was then President Of the Senate, but as
| sures the committee that under the laws of New
Granada distinction of color is known virtue
his letter numerous instances where colOred people
hold important trusts under the Government
OREGON AND WASHINGTON.
Dates from Oregon to the 9th july
The grain crops, it was feared, would harvest
light. Numbers Of parties were leaving Oregon by
the overland route for the Frazer River mines
| Gold discoveries reported near IIillsborough
in Washington County, .. T.
The official vote for Governor at the late elec-
| tion in Oregon, is as follows: l.. +. Grover. Dpm
1858: }. X. Kelly, Rep, 4,l9O-majority for Gro
| ver 500.
The people of ofVancouver, w. T., were firing guns
| and having general jolliiication Sunday last
over the arrival of parties from Fort SmcOe direct
to Vancouver instead of the usual roundabout way
| by the Dalles. The pass through the Cascades is
easily travelled, and the United States authorities
are about to clear wagon road by this route direct
from Fort Nancouver to Fort Simcoe. Fort SimcOe
is very near the head waters of Thompson river
| new town is being laid out at Vancouver; and
the natives are in high gee over their newly opened
prosperity.
On Saturday, the oath ult, an Indian woman.
wife of an dtache Of the Hudson's Bay Company,
! came into Fort Langley, from visit to an Indian
village about ten miles down the river and inform
ed her husband that the Indians there had 4 white
woman prisoner among them, wounded in the arm.
Several boats subsequently, arrived at the Fort, and
the passengers who came in them reported that
these Indians had one two boats in their possess
! ion belonging to white men, were dressed in red
Shirts and new clothing generally, and had acted
saucy and quamelsome with them when passing by
! on their way up the river. With this information
before them, the agents of the IIudsOns Bay Com
pany at Fort Langley supplied party of California
miners with arms and ammunition on Monday even
| ing last, and about hour before sunset they
started down the river for the scene of the supposed
| Indian depredations
The party consisted of five boats, containing forty
four men, all told, with the IIudson's Bay Co npa-
ny's interpreter at their head. About l013 o'clock
| the same evening, the steamer Umatilla, then on
her way down from Ilarrisons River, was hailed
when passing the Indian village, by the boats
tanning the party before alluded to- and informed
that the Indians had killed eight white men and
one woman, and then had one white pris-
oner among them, who was wounded in the arm
They also stated that since they arrived off the vii
! lage, the Indians had been firing upon them, and
! with the dawn Of day they intended to attack them
! They requested Captain Ainsw0rth to inform all
boats in the river of the affair." and to warn
them to keep good look out. The Indian difficulty
was generally regarded as the beginning Of long
| and serious Indian
! From private advices received from Washing gtOn
| Territory, it would seem that General Clark has
determined to act vigorously in preventing and
I punsliins Indian hostiiite5 in that quarter. IIo
| has, we have been informed, admirably arranged
! his plan of action. About eleven hundred efficient
men have been organized into two columns, the one
! under the command of Col Wright, and the other
under Major Garnett. These columns are now ad-
vancing in different directions into the interior ofthc
| Yakima and Spokan country. The Quartermastcr's
Department, under Major Allen, is also said to be
well arranged 1t is to be hoped that such activity
/ ana Sucn a demonstration VIII nave the desired
effect on the troublesome savages in that quarter.
A correspondent of the Orcyonian, writing from
old Fort Waa-W Wala, under date of the 18th inst,
! says:
ave leave here to-day for Shuswap, under the
! charge of Mr.. James Mclaughlin, who was ycster-
day unanimously chosen by the company as the
most suitable person to lead the party. 0ur force
consists of 81 men, all in good health, and armed
with 10 guns and about the same number of revolv-
! ers, mostly of the large size We have been wait
ing here for the last ten days for reintorcemens
! our party-hearing that number were on their
way up from the Dalles to join us-but they have
not arrived and we shall 60 without them.
| On the 9th several Indians came near the camp of
Mr.. Mclaughlin, in broad daylight, and run off Is
head of his companys horses. They were soon
missed, and traed to Snake river, but further pur-
! suit deemed useless.
Yesterday, party of four men that crossed Snake
river, Il miles above, short time since, and intend
ing to wait for us lost all their animals, II in
| ber. Four or five Indians, armed with Hudson Bay