Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-10-29
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TWO WEEKS
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Arrival of she enr,,sl,ip 81. Louis.

New YORK, Oct. IS. Steamer st. Louis
arrived at this port at noon, with lab, 900
III treasure and California dates of the 9TH.
The United States irigate Roanoke, sloop-
OF war Sarotoga, and storeship Relief were at
Aspinwall.
The successful laying of the Atlantic Cable
was celebrated throughout California Sept. Z.
PROFESSIONS, cannon firing, oratlons, and il
lumlnations took place everywhere.
The Humboldt telegraph line had been
completed from Placervile to the first sum
nit of the Sierra Nevada.
Baldwin's Democratic Coficial) majority
for Judge of the Supreme Court is 1897.
A vein of valuable red chalk has been
found in Gold Canon, Sierra County.
Gold, silver, and copper, have been found
IN the mountains of Los Angeles.
Large numbers of Indians had made their
appearance on the Mohaye, causing great
alarm at San Bernardino, They had attacked
and wounded several Americans, and stolen
number of cattle.
There Is said to be an abundance of water
on the desert between San Diego and Fort
Yuma.
Senator Broderick started for Placervile Sd
INST. IN the overland mail train via Carson
Valley and Salt Lake City to St. LOUIS.
The Bensey Water Company are now sup.
plying large portion of San Francisco with
water from Lobos Creek. The water is raised
by two steam engines of ono hundred and
nifty horse power. The aqueduct Is capable
OF supplying city four times as large as San
Francisco.
Upwards OF six hundred returned adven.
tufers from Fraser's River, had landed at San
Francisco.
The oF O "
Wis street. was burned on the LIST. Loss Sl5O,-
600 Most of the goods were stored by nu.
merous parties. so that the individual losses
are light.
The coinage at the mint during September
was 81, 1920, 900 in gold, and 500 900 in silver.
The mercantile house of &. IL. & w. S.
Shook have applied for the benefit of the in.
solvent law. Debts 800, 900; assets SI5, 900.
Oregon.
The news by the overland mail is confirmed.
Two obstinate chiefs had been captured and
shot.
The accounts from Fraser's River are very
discouraging. The river has fallen some if
teen ieet, but the result has disappointed even
the most sangulne, as little or no gold is found
below high water. 1t is now supposed that
the prospect will not improve until the water
@SN-SA'SS
appointment, several of the bars heretofore
worked with great success, appear to be Civ
ing out, and the claimants are selling out
for trihing sums.
The rumored massacre of Gen. Palmer, for
merly Indian agent in Oregon, and his party
OF sixty men by the Indians turns out To have
been untounded. They had been attacked,
however. but beat off their assailants with
some loss on both sides
Andrew ]. Taylor. Familiarity known as
Natchez,' the keeper of shooting gallery
and salesroom for arms, in San francisco,
was killed on the oath, by an accidental shot
from pistol in the hands of John TraYers.
Thomas Starbuck of Massachusetts,. da-
guerreotypist, fell dead in the rooms of Mr..
Shew. III San Francisco, on the 2Sth ult
Oliver Matthews was killed on the 18th Of
September, by Mr. Evans, at Kincaid Flats,
Tuolumme county. The men were quarrel.
ling, when Matthews assaulted Evans, who
who seized gun and shot him dead.
Eliza Ann Hayden, aged thirteen, dangh-
ter OF DR.. Hayden, living near San Jose, was
burnt to death, in CONSCIENCE of her clothes
taking lire, on the 22d Of September.
black man, named Brown, from Port
land, Me-, was murdered by unknown mis-
creants, on the 10th ult., near Marphls, in
Calvaras county.