The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-16
Further Cal rnia News.

NeW York, Sept. l2,z-From the Califcrn, !
files by the steamer ja5. arrived the following
details of news are ga Il red:
The grading on .1e, San Francisco am,
Marysville railway is ra ,idly progressing, and
San Francisco is now sJso in communication
by magnetic telegraph With Yreka. ! .
Advices to the l4th from the Fraser iivee
country were received here by the Panama o.
the 18Th. The river had fallen, and the mi ners
were generally doing better. !. 3
fire at Sonora on the 9Th consumed
$4,000 worth of property Presbyte riae
church was destroyed among other buildings.
A large amount of wire has been purchase
in this city for the Placerville and Salt La
telegraph line. ::
The Marysville Nescs is defunct, and the NJ
tional Democrat has arisen on its ruins. TT
new paper ts strongly anti .Lecompton =
The difficulties between j. C. Fremont a.
the MERGED Mining Company continue. .Tt15
latter refuse to yield possession of their ve'<,
and the men who occupy it insist that they WI
resist any effort to displace them. @
The last overland mail from Salt Ls..s
reached Plscerville on the l6;h The ca RI
brings the painful intelligence of the murder u
Joseph Condi, Thomas Conover alias Ether esSl
and Thomas Barban, guards of the mail nj !
left Placerville July 3lst. They were K llea
by the Shoshonees Indians, about 20fniles fro.a
Gravelly Ford oA'
The Indians about Humboldt Bay were 4
ceedingly troublesome. A man named lrw, /
Stevens was killed by them on the 10th ultim ,
and another, named John Vsndol, on ~
10th.
The Anti, Lecompton Convention nominate;
John Curry for Supreme Judge, L. N. Davol-
for Comptroller, and James c. McKibbin arr
William l.. Dudley for Congress. The Lecomts
tonites nominated j. G.. Baldwin for the 81,
preme Court, and A. R. McEIroy for Comptr,s4
Ter. The Republican State Convention endors
the nomination of Curry for Judge, bet nomi !.
ated +. T. Tracy. vice Dudley. They also nor. :
mated DR.. 8. C. Gum for Comptroller. =
Thomas Doyle is the only passenger know1
to have been lost by the disaster to the steamss
Oregon. J.
Large numbers of adventurers who went =
Fraser river are returning to San Francisco. Z
The Steamer Pacific arrived on the 7th fro
Victoria, bringing $50 passengers. The sh@
T. f. Willetts reached here the same day VII
LAT passengers from the same locality.
A portion ct the troops which recently a.
rived by the Golden Gate deserted in citized Z
costume, but several were arrested.
The amount of gold bullion deposited fes
coinage at the mint during the week end -
the 7th, amounted to l,SO9,870 ounces. liz,
gold coinage for the week was 200 dollsrs,
all double eagles.
During the last ten days, 1000 Chinan.a
have landed on our shores
Markets.-The receipts of merchandise -
ring the preceding fortnight suddenly beca L
profuse, owing to the advent of quite feet y
square-rigged vessels; so that the market .
abundantly supplied with new and assorte :
merchandise. The Erase river cessation of eu-
grafton necessarily causfd falling of in Ii ]
expectation OF goods, and in consequence Az :
gust presents striking contrast when cog
pared with the brisk times of July. The sief !
seem 10 be changing once again, and it wote-
De oy no mears surprising if September shor 5
channels.
From Oregon.-Oregon dates are to the IL II
Inc Oregonians are trying to balance their d 1
appointment at the non admission of tn,
State, with the hope that this very fact NAL =.
more certain the payment of their war debt. =
new paper called the Oregon Farmer b ~
been stated at Portland. - !
From South America There is nothing /
portant from South America or New Grans.S !,
Sailed from Valparaiso, July 10th. the Al; J
l.. L. Fitzgerald, for Baltimore.
Important from Nicaragua learn frt =
Nicaragua that Col. Canty attempted to ia.
possession of Punta Arenas in the name e
Costa Rics. he was opposed by the Britt,
consul at Greytown, and the British naval OF
GERS, who propose annexing the point to Mn
quito. This movement will, it is suppose
lead to further complications of the Cent n
American question. Col. Canty had left 70,
Aspiawall.
A food had occurred in the San Juan riv.ar,
causing much damage topropery on its banla
The frigate Sarsnsc, from Nicaragua, arrie =;
at Panama on the 29th, making three war WI
sells, including the French and English, j..
port. :
NeU York, September IL, p M-The GiS
loving further details may be added to IN
news by this arrival: The New Grsnadi0l