Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-06-26
WEAVERVIIIE, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1853.
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YREKA.-The Union has commenced its fourth
year; an excellent dignided and soundly Demo
cratic paper They are making new road to
Sweetbriar, which will shorten the distance 80
miles The amp-mceting at Scott's Valley was
largely attended. The Siskiyou county oonven-
tion is to be held in Yreka on the 20th of July
primary meetings on the 10th. -. The miners aud
settlers of Mariposa will hold n convention ON
the goth. :. A Digger fight took place in Butte
county, recently, in which one pair of native
moccasns got summed. Senator Brodcrick has
introduced resolutions demanding Investigation
of Post Master Wellcr's conduct at San Francisco,
charged with demanding aud retaining illegal
fercign postage +. A. Wheelock, of San Fran
cisco, is arrested on accusation of having forged
check for $4,000 The Associated Sons OF
the Emerald Isle' are going to celebrate the 4h,
ut the Bay Sixteen hundred persons started
up.coast on the Cortes on the 7th, mostly miners
from the interior. E. At last accounts II party of
dcspcrados were on secret trial in Carson Valley;
nothing was heard of the proceedings. Two
persons were shot, lately, In aflr0ys in Mariposa
Much discussion is had about an effort to
compel Government to give 100000 for $500
acres of barren land at the San Francisco Bay
entrance, in order to secure grounds for Fort;
as usual, Senator Gwn was advocate for the
eXtortoncr Some drunken Indians had fight,
ten days since, at Penn Valley, Nevada, and one
was shot dead with an arrow. The rest tried
him in a Judicial lynch court, and acquitted be-
cause he was drunk. Saint Parick's church
has been built in Placervllc. =. Two persons
were attacked by Indians on the Pitt river road
not long since--onc detected an Indian in the act
of shooting an arrow at him. The Yuha county
Judge and an attorney, of Marysville, had a con
siderable of ght, some days since, in which n
pistol was drawn by the lawyer; the weapon was
taken from him and the fight proceeded regularly
until ended by others interference. OnefourIh
of the Clear Creek ditch was sold last week for
10000. Half the population of Folsom have
gone, or are about to go to Frazer river. They
have a brick making machine at San Francisco,
which makes grnds, moulds and prcsscs-20,.
600 day . Corvallis, in Oregon, has 4,S75 in
habitants. 1t is built in the center of William
cite Valley, the richest Of the territory. "A
land claimant chopped another in the thigh with
an axe, near Eureka, two weeks ago. -. Five sta
ges came into Marysvlc on Tuesday week, with
l20 passengers, all bound for British America
-. II is thoncht that John Nugent, Of the San
Francisco Herald will be appointed California
Indian Agent "A horse thief was arrested in
The Coast Range, and on the way to safe keeping
broke through grain field and escaped. Two
n Il, r,, pi tn
OroviIc; they report badly Of the northern coun-
try and prefer working at the old place The
Butte Record tells Of 'son-strokc;' old Mr..
Trwllshury and his son had q fight at Ilclllown,
and the old man got black eye. Baillic Pey-
ton and Gregory Yale were going to fight duel
at Oakland, bccausc Peyton refused TO fight n
friend of Yale's-- but they didn't fight e.. Scve.
raj elephant tusks were found in n gravel bed,
near Sonora, 20 feet under ground The Mrcnry
wants to know how long since the animals cut
their eye teeth ?....A prisoner jumped overheard
from the Sacramento Prison Brig and was drown
ed, last Friday. Whitman and Mcony are go
ing to try their case about the Controlcrship on
the lst of July Some one in Sacramento has
invented portable rocker, for prospecting, which
can be packed in small box and carried under
ones arm Two Indian women Of Fresno were
recently tried for killing a Chinaman who tried
to ravish one Of them; they were discharged ...
A man in St. Louis recently made oath that an
other person threatened to knock hell out Of
him. and further testified that he feared his enc
my would do so Broderick and McKlbben are
expected on the next steamer =. woman OF
Mccklenburgh county, in Virginia, gave birth to
four children, two white and two black; they call
it the Virginia compromised The Shasta
Courier and Sacramento Mercury are having a
'jawing Improbable for two good papers
as they are.
THE Wisconsin official bribery case is one OF
the grandest instances OF corruption ever heard
of. The purpose was to get certain public lands
for the Milwaukee and La Crosse Railroad, for
which the following sums were disbursed in
bribery:
Governor Of State, $4,000; Governors pri-