, 1858-09-10
ARRIVAL OF THE CONSTITUTION
Latest from the North
From BslIingham Bay, Victoria, etc.

Steamer Constitution, on Tuesday evening,
with the mails, freight aud passengers, we
were placed in possession by the purser,
Mr.. G. E. WILLIAMS, Of the WhatcOm
Northern Light, Of the 4th inst, and files
Of the Victoria Gazette from July 3lst to
September 3d. We are, also, by this arri-
val, indebted to Mr.. J. ]. MURPHEY, Of the
" Alta Express Company" for files of At
lantic city papers up to the goth Of July.
MEMORANDA.
Stmr Constitution with U. s. nails left Olympia
Friday September 3d. at o'clock P. NJ; arrived at
SteiacOom at $50 Seattle IL P. NJ; Port Gamble,
Sept 4th, at A. NJ, delayed two hours Port Lud.
low, $50 A. NJ; Port Townsend, IL A. NJ; WILDLY
Island P. NJ; Whatcom, p NJ, delayed coaling ship
1880 arrived at Smiahmoo Sept 9TH at P. NJ, de-
layed A:30 arrived at Victoria Sept. 6th at A
Returning left Victoria at P. NJ; Dungness, $50;
Whidbys Island, $3.50; Port Townsend, 5:l2; Port
Ludlow, II P. NJ; Port Gamble, Sept 7th, at S;l5 A.
NJ; Port Madison, $3.50; Seattle, 9:35 Steiacoom,
1890 P. NJ, delayed "a left SteilAcoom, 2:S4 and
arrived at Olympia 1854 Left mails at every station
and waited for their transfer The engines, newly
fitted under the supervision Of engineers Gates and
Latey, performed admirably.
The shipping report of the Light, shows
that between August 2Sth and September
Sd, the following vessels had arrived at the
port Of Whatcom, viz The steamers
Wilson G. Hunt, Northsrnsr, Rssolute and
Leriathan, and the schr. Jesse.
According to the Victoria Gazefte, the
following vessels had arrived in that harbor
between August goth and September Sd,
viz The Stmrs Santa Cruz, otter, WI
son G.. Hunt and Northtraer. Schrp. H.
C. Page, Long Island, j. R. Whiting,
Mary Ann, Equity, Simon F. Blunt, I. l.
Stsusns, amelia, Raager, C. s. Kidder and
Blaok Prime. Barks America and Mallory
Brigs Ellen II. Wood, J. S. Cabot and w.
A. Rice. SlOops Midnight Cry and Leo
media, and clipp'r ship SIR OrGclc. A large
proportion Of these vessels are reported
from San Francisco.
The Light publishes the report Of Capt.
W. W. DELACY to the Commissioners Of
the trail from WhatcOm to Thompson river,
which we will endeavor to find room for at
another time. The document is prepared
m good taste, and much OF it is quite inte-
resting and instructive concerning the re-
gion of country between the points men
TONED.
I Mr.. ALEXANDER G. ANDERSON, Collector
tof> VI. MS customs at Victoria, has issued
an additional flaming PronHneiameHtO
against all boats and canoes proceeding
up Frazer river or past the revenue vessel,
without q sufrance from the Collector.
His Notice" was issued on the 3lst ult.
The editors of the Light have taken al
excursion thirty-fve miles out on the trail,
as far as Sumas Prairie, and give no very
aattering account of its present condition,
for the passage over it of pack animals.
fThey complain of the fallen timber on the
route, and recommend that means be adopt
ed for at once clearing it out of the way,
and say that, unless they [citizens inte-
rested do so promptly, their voice, at least,
shall be silent when an attempt is made to
induce packers aud others to travel the
route" 1t appears, however, that OF q
meeting Of the citizens, measures were
adopted for procuring the sineiOs necessary
to repair the trail as far as it requires re-
pairing at present.
Nineteen pack animals had recently
been started on the trail with supplies
The mining news contained in the Light
is very meagre. Frazer river still contin'
ues too high for extensive successful opera.
tiOns, and was again rising. Provisions
continued scarce in the neighbOrhood ol
the forks Of Thompson river. A Mr.
HooD reports, that at Miners Bar, some
twenty miles above Fort Yale, claims paid
from IS to $50 to the hand and at Eos
ter's Bar, twenty-five miles above the forks,
they were making from an once to two
ounces to the hand. For distance of thirty
miles above the forks, miners had claims
staked Of, and were at work. The What
com trail, it is said, strikes Thompson river
about fifteen miles above the forks. The
Indians on the upper rivers, it is said, are
very friendly. Capt. SNYDER had formed
a treaty with them, and no trouble was ap
pretended frem that source.
The Victoria Gazetts, Of July 3lst, says
that man named L. STEINER had beer
arrested and held to bail in the sum oI
5000, for attempting to take the life of O
Mr.. LEWIS, with an axe,
A negro man and Kanaka have beer
arrested on suspicion Of being guilty of the
murder of the Cbinaman found dead or
the road to the H. B. Co.'S springs, re.
Gently.
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