Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-02-18
Arrival Of the Star of the West.

New YORK, Feb. 10.
The steamer Star of the West has arriv.
cd with 81 ,a4S, 900. For Fargo aud Com.
there is S46S goo.
The California news is not important.
On the 9Th Gov. Johnson delivered hi:
last annual message. He reports the tota
amount of taxable property at Sl3I 500 ,26t
an increase Of over SIS, 900 900 in the YEA
Total Indebtedness $3S, $3.50, 900, annua
revenue SI,l52.OO0; anhual expenditure,
S699 600. On Isl January last there wert
in the State Treasury S35l,OOO, cash. Gov
Weller 5 inaugural was delivered the SAINT
day He says he will use the whole homo
OF the State to put down any organization
hostile to the dominion OF the State Courts
He says a law should be passed to protec
in good faith improvements made in goo,
faith on other peoples lands, and hints Iha
mining claims should be taxed. He com
mends PAPER money; calls for a Pacific Raj
road, ard demonstrates against the discuss
ion and agitation OF the slavery question:
Tne MASSAGE was tavOrably received by the
press and the public.
The Legislature had taken no action i'm,
portance. Resolutions had been offered pra,
Ing Congress to guarantee the neutrality u
Nicaragua route.
There was a Save case in Sacramento ia
which a Missourian applied or authority t.
take u negro named Archy, who came Can.
tornia with him, back to Missouri Comm:s
sioner Johnson dismissed the application ,hy
having no jurisdiction Us Archy die not COME
as u fugitive to IN. State. The friends 0
the slave sued out ii habeas corpus, bui
Judge Robinson postponed The decision Iii
the Odd.
a resolution endorsing Senator oue las,
wts presented 10 the Legislature exciting
angry discussion but nc ilnal action was Ii.
ken.
Richard II. Stanley who has been a law.
yer N Sacramento since the early days Of
that city has recently been detected in some
rougeries in which his clients will suffer /,
the amount of $50 900.
Tn miners in Calaveras Co., have com.
menced anew the crusade against the Chi,
aese miners lately. Public meetings wert
held at Vale Cito and Douglas Flat, a
which resolutions were passed, ordering the
celestials 10 leave within ten days or forfeit
their lives. These cxcitementS against Chi.
naInen are periodical in California.
The banking firm of Williams g. Co. at
Oerviiie, suspended payment Oh the 9Th o!
Junuary. In a card they put down their ill.,
debtedness at $4,000.
About the 2Sih OF August, FIVE American
gentlemen, whose names at present are un-
ascertained, lett Carson Valley for Sail
Lake City, and it is understood that they
travelled To Utah with Mormons who had
Quilted Carson Valley To return to Salt Lake
by order OF Brigham Young.
News has been received that stbese gen
tIemen have been murdered at a point about
100 miles South OF Salt Lake, by Indians,
and 1t is supposed that the Saints had some
hand in the Massacre
Numerous volunteer companies are being
organized all over the whole country to
await a call from the President to march
against the Murmons in Titan.
Dates from Oregon are to January Cd
News is bare of interest. Ii is reported that
the Snake Indians have Joined the Mormons
against the U. s. The Clickitruts are con-
c%iiiating as to what they had best do in the
Mormon war. The Laints have smissaries
among all the indian tribes to inveigle them
upon their side.