New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-15
Iatsr e-on1 California

AaAy-I OH Wa1IE0En1a.
by the Eapfre city pe received lat night oar
regular California fIes 10 the 2Ist from tlle Ana
Gallternia Weez,raet The following Summary of ii
ne news Sl the aaccessfdi laying Of tie Atlantis
telegraph line created great sensation tz0pghasf
IL 1a .lsls 8efs lmpromptu celebrations i'd
many oi 5he towns. Ia San Francisco the bells were
rung and cannon fired during the afternoon n fle
day when the neWsarrieeds and III the evening there
we're IHnmfnatIons and 5ontfres. Preparations ars
now making for q celebration on a greater se3ts
The official TetdEns Of the State eleesian ara noe
yet all in, but the majority for BALDWIN (AdJ over
Garry tAntiLecomptonJ viii not vary much nom
1900. Il
Among the officers elected al TIE late election vysra
thirteen District Judges The following Judges nave
been elected in the districts from which We haye fa
returns, viz: Benjamin Hayes, Of Los Angeles -
media; Caleb Burbank, Of San Francisco Nich9ias
CleaYg, Of Mariposa G. ". CreanoT Of Stockton
| }. Il. McKnne, Of Sacramento T. w. MeKiustFy. Of
Napa; B F. Myers, of Placer Mics Se8res Of
sierra Wm.P P. DaingeFfeId Of Shasta.
y. r. Dorsey, formerly Register Of the q. g. Land
Ohee 10 hos Angeles was shot and naoFtaIIy wounded
at III Monte in Los Angeles comfy, BY his fathern
law W. ". Rabott0In, on the 9Th inss. Mt. and Mrs
Dorsey quazreled, and she went 10 her fathers home.
/ Mr. Dorsey followed her. Mr Rubottonl ordered him
| TO keep away. Mr. D.f pistol in hand, entered The
yard and WeTES upon the porch. Mr. r. met him with
a gun-both fged at the same moment, and Dorsey
iell mortally wounded RubotsoM is justified Ely the
/ people and by the officers of the law
Mrs Jalia Mason died in saeramentoo On the Iafh
INST, IN consequence Of taking srychnine ia peach
Inc murderer has not yet heen discovered.
The case Of James Henneasy ys, Manrog es a.. 4
suit ior damages against the Vigilance Committee
growing out Of the banishment of Hennessv from
San Francisco during about tFo years va called 4
fortnight since in the District CoBt at DowutagiIa
| and there Here nifty g1rymen summoAed. Oh these
fortysix excused from serving because OF sym.
/ pathy with the Committee, three from prejudice
against that organization and one found competent
having recently arriVeG in the country, and enter.
tanning decided opinion the subject Of viganc-
/ ISM The case was continued to next term.
/ The schooner Jane, with cargo worth about
/ 5000 her way from this city to Stockton, was
run down on the night of the llth instant, in the
/ San Joaquin river, by the steamer Brandon. The
/ schooner sank Immediately bat no lives were lost.
The clipper ship Wild Wave which left this port
on the 10th February for Valparaiso has nos been
/ heard OF, and is supposed TO be lost.
4 Oar city was visited by eaite smart shock OF
earthqsake on the evening of the 18th, No damage
was done.
Some six hundred passengers have come down
from the Fraser river coantFy during the week
Hon William L Ferguson, who was shot in duel
on Angel Island, August 2Ist by Geo. Pen Johnston
died of his wound on the evening Of the 14th. He
had on the morning of that GaY become SO reduced
that incsion made into the thigh to discover
the exact extent and character of the wound This
operation developed the fact of its being in so critical
condition as to render amputaton at necessary.
This was Effected, the patient being under the ntu-
ence OF chlorOform. The shock to his nervous and
already shattered system proved too great, aud he
died in few minutes after the operation had been
performed.
A Coroner's inquest was holden on the 18th. After
examination Of several witnesses of the occurrence
besides the attending surgeon the jury retired and
returned with verdict to the effect that the deceased
| had come to bis death from pistol ball fired by
George Pen Johnston. The latter parsonage has been
absent for week past having gone down the coast
on pleasure excursion. He will be indicted by the
Grand Jury on his return
W.
Col. Wright has established military post called
Fort Taylor on Snake river at the mouth Of the Tu-
Ramon.
Major Garnett has had brush with the Indians
near Okanagan, and defeated them with small loss.
Vancouver and New Caledonia.
The steamer Sea Bird, which ran aground in Fraser
river near Fort Hope in June, was launched again
on the 2Sth ut. She was in good order, and put
on between Victoria and Fort Langley but on her
first trip from Victoria was burned, when Is miles
from Victoria. No lives were lost.
From FFnser River.
Gov. Douglas is still at Fort Yale, attempting to
arrange matters in those regions to the satisfaction
of the company and the miners. There is no i'm
portant news from ap the river. The Wilson G.
Hunt arrived from Fort Langley day or two since
and the little Ranger No. . yesterday. We have the
intelligence that the river has fallen four feet
and that affairs are Frightening theyeaboUts Very
few miners are returning. The nights aud mornings
are growing cool, and the people begin to hope
Surely they need little OF that commodity now a
days, for never were men wearing longer faces
than at this time. ut is long lane that has nc
turning says the old proverb aud affairs here can
scarcely change for the worse. 1t is likely that YOU
next batch of news will consist of more cheering in
formation. There are several men in town with gold
dust, taken from the upper Fraser, They were re
fused $l4 per ounce for it in one or more places.
was, believe, retorted gold dust. AL La Foutaine
above the forks and at Santa Clara Bar men are re
ported doing remarkably we'll also at 'Murderers
Bar, below Fort Hope, where some dtching opera
ons are under way. At the better known loealitie;
between the forts the usual good fortune attends the
, miners. As whole, the mining news. such as we
have does not materially differ in character from that
sent by last conveyance