Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-30

Lnter from Northern California.
By the steamer Columbia, we have paper
from Crescent City to 22d September, an
from Eureka, HUMBOLDT Bay, to Septembe
25th:
CRESCENT Cry MINEs.-We continue t.
hear report of the richness of the mines nea
Big Flat of Smith river. The want of wate
still continues to preclude the possibility o
much work Three of the parties there VIII,
have only water enough for two or thre,
hours work day, made in five days, clever
ounces Three men washed out in from thre,
to four hours, $40. Gilman and England
who lately went out prospecting, washed
cut $50 from 400 buckets of dirt, with q
common cradle.
ACCIDENT AT TELEGRAPH CELEBRATrox.-
In firing a salute of fifty guns at Crescent
City, on the 18th September, when the new.
of the Atlantic cable was received Cyrus
Stone had his right hand blown off. 1t ap
pears, that when only five or six discharges
had been made, the party having charge Of
the want of the gun, removed his thumb from
it. and the gun went off while the cartridge
was being rammed home blowing the right
hand off the arm of the rammer (Stone) some
sixty feet.
INDIAN TROUBLES IN HuMBoLDr CoUvrY.-
The Humboldt Times is full of accounts of
Outrages by the Indians of its county upon
white men. On l4th September, Paul Boyn-
ton, who resided ten miles from Union, Hum
boldt Bay, on the Trinity trail, was murder.
ed by the Indians. within two hundred yards
ofhis house. The Humboldt Times of 18th
September, remarks of this and similar out.
RACES:
'SiUce the forepart of June, we have been
called upon to notice, in nearly every num-
Der of our paper, murders robberies and
other depredations committed by Digger In
dians in this section of the State Within
that time two men at work on their logging
claims east of Eureka, have been shot from
an ambush and wounded, one of them quite
severely Thornton of Mattole, has been
murdered, and his body mutilated in man
ner which the Diggers only are capable of
doing. Ross, while peaceably following his
business as packer, on the public thorough.
fare between Union and Trinity, has been
wounded in such manner as to render re.
covery hopeless, and Stevens, while in pur.
suit, with others. of the scamps who shot him,
was himself shot dead Chauncey Miller, a
trader on the Trinity, being down after
goods, and finding the trail dangerously in.
tested by Indians, volunteered for the pur-
pose of removing this obstruction to interior
trade He also was severely wounded Van
dal, murdered near the mouth of the klamath
by his treacherous ides, may also be added
to the list of victims heretofore mentioned
This week we are obliged to continue the
record of milan outrages on the lives and
property of our citizens. 1t has now come
TO that condition Of affairs in the Bald Hill
country, that men are shot down within
sight of their own houses and their stock
driven off before their eyes"
The Times of 18th September, urged that
q continuation of such outrages can only be
pre' ented, either by placing the Indians on
reservation, or by determination Mean
while, it recommended that company of
men should be raised by the citizens of Hum
boldt county, and sent out, immediately,
against the Indians, to keep them at bay until
some plan for their removal or determination
be matured.
The Board of Trustees of Union, Humboldt
Bay, had passed resolutions TO levy pro.
perty tax of not less than so cents on the
800 valuation, the proceeds to be appropr-
ated to the payment of the expenses of any
volunteer company of citizens to proceed
against the Indians etc. The people of Mat
tOle Valley had passed resolutions fixing the
terms of treaty of peace with the Mattole
Indians. The Times of 25th September re-
marks that the arrival, on 10Th September
OF the San Francisco steamer with forty eight
United States soldiers on board, had checked
the movement for the enrolling and organi
zation OF volunteer companies; but, notwith
standing this aid it urged that volunteer
company should still be formed
ILLUMINATION AT EUREKA.-On Monday
evening. goth September, Eureka, Humboldt
Bay, was generally illuminated in honor of
the Atlantic Telegraph
Col. BAKERS ORArIoN.-Col. Z. ID. Baker