Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-10-29
Further frsn C.lifsrnla.

Further frsm California.
The Alta Californian of October 5th, furnishes
the following summary Of the fortnight's news:
The news Of the successful laying Of the Allan
tic Telegraph Cable has been the ocoasiouof great
rssss1Iy ss'snissS eeiessstion. SfsSe s,ssi sss{
Ts n:is 8 h:fS' :: my Il
~, HusS oidl relesrsA ha. Ssen sssnpleted
g., Ms Pie me : the - sums oftAe sisrss
The oMcial vo,eiof the State at the last election.
hts been counted, and shows "A ,597 votes for Jus
tice Of the Supreme Court, and &c 2 for Curry,
anti Admtnistratiou-Baldwin having majority
offs, 1877. The total number votes cast for Supreme
Judge. was 80, 797 against 90 1853 for Governor in
PSI and Ito. % fos President In 's6 49, 4
| mining tunnel in Gold Cannon, Sierra county.
The Los Angeles Vineyard reports that gold. !.
and ores Of silver and copper, have been found in
carbonate Of silver Is supposed to come from q
valuable IN n.
Large numbers of Indians have recently made
| alarm al San Bersardino. They have Conducted
attacked and wounded several Americans, and
have stolen number OF cattle. .t 81. .t+' .-
There are between eight and ten thousand head
| Of cattle on the road from Texas to Los Angeles,
mostly Of good quality, and all doing well.
| The San Diego Herald reports that there 10 an
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| that place and Fort Yuma, new wells having
been dug at the Indian and Cooks, which will
| never fail hereafter.
ator, started from Placerville the Sd inst, in
the overland stage, to 20 to Washing ton via Car
son Valley, Salt Lake City. the South Pass and
The GO College Of California % at Oakland, cele-
brated Its fourth anniversary at oakland on the
LIST inst. =
| - SAN Francisco Cry.
lac ~ IN n
| deposited In the United States mint.
| The Bensly Water Company, since our last
! advicts, have completed their aqueduct, and are
| now supplying large portion Of the city with
pure and cool water from Lobos Creek stream
| emptying into the ocean a short distance below
the entrance Of the harbor. The capital Of the
| expended over $200, O0O! The water 10 raised by
| means Of two steam engines Of $50 horse power
! into Distributing reservoir, situated on Tele-
| graph Hill, near North Point, at an elevation of
| sixty feet above Underwater The aqueduct is
| capable Of supplying an abundance Of water to a
city four times the present population Of San
On the 10th and 3Oth ult the weather was In :.
enSely hot in this city, the mercury rising to $50
| In the shade. -|sL
Donati's comet has been seen during the last
| fortnight, in the northwest.
| Upwards OF six hundred returning Adventures
| from the Fraser river country have landed here
| during the fortnight.
About O'Clock on the morning of the LIST, Gre
| was discovered in the hre-proof brick warehouse
| Of Moore Folger, on Davis 81. near California
The loss is estimated at Si50,OOO Most Of the
| goods, however, were stored by numerous par
ties, so that individual losses are comparatively
light.
During the month Of September, the gold coin
| silver coinage to $59.0OO
The mercantile house of G II. Il w s. Shook
have d ed applications for the benefit of the in
| solvent law. Debts SIS 600, assets SIS, 900.
Hon. ID. C. Broderick left this CITY on the 3Otb
for Washington, via Placerville and the Plains.
large party Of his political and personal friends
Chartered steamer and accompanied him as far
| as Benicia.
There is much sickness principally measles)
| prevailing amongst the children Of the city;
otherwise, the general health Of the town is eI-
| cellent.
OREGON AND wAsHINGToy
| We have dates from Portland to the 22d ult.
Captain Jordan had returned TO Fort Dallas from
| Simcoe, and brought an Indian rumor, believed
to be reliable, that party Of Dragons who had
| been sent out scouting by Col. Wright, bad cap
tured the two noted hostile chiefs, Qualchen
and Ouni Both were shot bv Col. Wright's or.
der IL Is reported that Kamiakin was melting
the Indians to vigorous prosecution Of the war.
Col Wright had battle with four hundred
hostile lndians-Spokans, Pelouse and Ceur d.
Allenes-on the LIST ult, at place known as the
Four Lakes The Indians were defeated with q
loss of eighteen killed, not one Of the United
States troops being wounded. The officers at
tributed This victory to the MIME rifles, which
surprised the Indians. They did not know w bal
| to think when they were shot down at a distance
L VI iouf VI nNc nunQreo yards IL was new to
them and they were badly scared at the result
SANDWICH ISLANDS
We have Honolulu dates to the 10th ult
new treaty has been made with rance This
Advertiser says the main points yielded to rance
are That the French lang uage Is to be placed on
level with the English; the duty liquors tc
| be reduced from IS to 80 gallon: French vessels
In the Hawaiian Kingdom are to be placed on
the same footing as Hawaiian; the French consul
Is allowed TO exercise judicial functions bel ong-
Ing Of right to the Hawaiian courts.
The NORTHERN WHALING GROUNDS.
} BY way Of Honolulu we have bad news from
the North Pacific whaling vessels, partculi IL
In the Arctic Ocean and Bristol Bay
| UP 10 the latter part Of August 200 barrels was
the best catch reported in the Arctic, and many
ships had absolutely nothing while the average
would not he over $50 barrels to each ship
The probability is, that the Ochotsk feet, mum
berins some sixty ships, will make what the
whaiemeh term good cut-that Is, get plenty OF
So far we have heard of but one ship a. havi ue
been lost-the Napoleon Ill OF Havre, a noble
| large vessel which, with about / 300 barrels OF
oil on b ard, was cut through by the ice in the
Arctic. Some 700 or $40 barrels of the oil had
been saved by the American vessels, the Bra
CANA and Hercules. The Kodiak fleet has done
very well compared with those in the Arctic and
Bristol Bay.
Some remarks have been made in regard to the
anticipated Interference by the r ussans with the
operations OF the whaling feet in the Northern
Seas: Captain Bryant, in the America reports
| that he was boarded by an officer from a uss a
steamer In Behring'S Straits, close In with the
land, whose professsd object was merely to as
certain the name Of the ship and amount OF oil
on board: Capt b. does not appear to entertain
the belief that the Russians will enforce any new
regulations in regard to whaling on their coasts
| SOUTH Pacific
We learn from Tahiti, via Honolulu, that the
| ship Wild Wave, Of Boston, 4 $50 tons, bound
| from this port TO Val paraiso was wrecked OH the
| law island OF Osno, in lat 30 deg min south
IjO de- 81 min. west, on the night Of March 4th
| she was total loss. All the persons board |,
| % men were saved, or rather 81 were on the
island at the latest accounts, with provisions su-
| hcient to last them four d We months md about
| three months after the wreck, the United States
slooP-o fwar Saratoga, at Papeete, went to rescue
| them.
| FRASER RIVER.
We find but little news from Fraser river The
| Harrison river trail may be said to be completed
the greatest difficulties having been surmounted
| The Hudson Bay Company appears to be making
the most Of its brief authority. The ten per cent
al ca!orem duty is rigidly exacted. Governor
Douglass, II Is said, is to be knighted. He has
not yet returned from his long visit to the mines
| The Callfornians are making every endeavor to