, 1858-08-06
LATEST FROM THE NORTH
ARRIVAL OF STEAM AND SAIL VESSELS!
INDTAN TROUBLMS.
New Roules o lhe cod Region, u, &c:

last have one weeks later news from the various
ports on Puget Sound. The whatcom Northern
Light or July 2lth and the Victoria Gasste of July
2sth were received by this mail The steamer Oregon
had arrived at Victoria with cargo Of freight aud
2Ss passengers. From the shipping reports of the
papers aIlnded to- find that between the l6th and
27th ut the following vessels had arrived from San
Francisco at Bellingham Bay and Victoria harbor =
Steamship Sierra Nepada, steamship Pacific, ships
AHR Perry and CaIi5ian, schooners Emma. Alice
and Fayatray, brigs Jpaiimartie and Frdnkiin Id
ans, and barks Jenny Ford, MayfO'cer, D. NJ Hall,
Lucy l.. Hale, Mallory, acadia and iocean Bird.
Al these vessels had full cargoes Of various kinds
and from 2s to 800 passengers each. We learn from
other sources that within the past week the following
vessels have arrived at other ports Puget Sound
Ship Robert at Ensalada. with passengers ship Sea
Bird at same place. with passehgers ships AlGs and
BosiOnia loading spars at Port Discovery the barks
Chas. Derans, Ork, and Adslads, and the brig Cyrus
at other ports awaiting cargos ..
The e. S. mail steamer Panama, on her last trip
brought to Victoria I2s passengers. Almost every
vessel that returns to San Francisco, it is said, Is
crowdedwith returning disappointed and strapped
gold hunters. The Frazer river excitement 10 San
Francisco has completely "wihled out = and at the
latest adSces, steamers except those Of the p. NJ.
s. IS. Co., were up for Puget Sound. 1t would seem
that the steamer companies have combined, and de
termined that having enjoyed a golden harvest in
conveying passengers from California as far mp Fra
zer river they dared to ventrc-getting all their
cash-that they will permit them to die there of
starvation and exposure unless they should he fou-
nate enough to succeed in "panning out enough of
the 'needfal" TO pay their passage back. Very be-
nevolent institutions are these steamboat com
Ianies. t .tiu
The injury sustained by the U. S. NJ. steamer Con.
stitUtio is by no means great at first reported
having only broken her steam connecting pipe on &C.
ing ashore at Victoria. Her hull sustained no con.
siderable injury, and is sound as dollar. She was
taken up to Port Ludlow, under canvass for repairs,
aud will be on duty again in a short time.
! I A Mr. D. HUST, deputy surveyor on Whidbys
Island, it is ascertaned has been murdered. He was
last seen alive near the north end of Swnnimish pass
in a canoe. Capt. Fay, Indian gent, has arrested
two Indians, suspected Of the MURDER and Is on the
lookout for two others. Hl I.-fHi tra
News was brought to Victoria by the steamer Una.
tiHa, that the Indians had probably murdered party
of seven miners between the month Of Frazer river
! and Fort Langley, and had wounded and made a
prisoner OF a woman This party had been due some
days at the fort and II supposed they were attacked
in their canoes on their way up. large company
from Fort Langley started down, on receipt Of the
news, torescue the woman and punish the Indians.
The NoTtheTu Light has late intelligence from two
separate parties of miners concerning the mining re-
gon Of (Scatscat) skagit 1--WE must rtpudiate the in
novation.) Mr. MrLToN +. MOUNTS, and prospect.
ing party had just retained from the north fork of
that river. He had been up seventy miles from the
mouth-represents the river to be $50 yards wide,
with an average depth Of from ten to twenty feet
well adapted to steamboat navigation when the i'm
mense accumulation of drift-wood is cut loose and
got out of the way He says there are rich valleys on
either side of the river, from two to five miles in
width with heavy forests Of timber broken occasion.
ally with small praires-gold was found on its banks
everywhere, but as with other rivers the water was
too high to permit the party to give the bars thor.
ough test. Game was very abundant. Another party
was up the main channel seventyyc miles, who rep
resent it as magnificent agricultural country, and
have no doubt but that gold in abundance will be
found on the river bars. The Indians informed this
party, that Thompson river could be reached in two
days from the spot where they conversed, and that
they would be willing To pack IT, by their trail
for dollar day. Il seems that Mr. DeLacy located
bis trail over the eadwaters Of this river and that
party of Americans are now at work there, doing
we'll Several members Of returned parties, numer-
ousy accompanied, have started back. Other parties
will soon be on their way thither. .... a.
Mr.. J, G. Hyatt has been appointed by Mr., R. V.
Peabody, Deputy Postmaster at Whatcom. -,.-.
i A temporarily insane man named Waterhouse. CON
dned in the whatoom block house, attacked Mr..
wm Wolf, as he entered the house, and obtaining
possession Of his revolver discharged three shots at
hin-wounding him somewhat severely IN the hand
and neck.
The Indians about Bellingham Bay appear to be n
truly deplorable condition. and were recently visited
and talked to by the faithful and watchful Indian
Agent for this district-Col NJ. T. SIMMONS It seems
that they have disposed of most of their canoes to the
Bostons-bought liquor with the proceeds, and are
now badly off to get their winters supply of salmon,
&c, The lecture and advice given them by Col S. is
excellent and safety should dictate, that it be OBJ
served alike by whites and Indians.
A large number of miners had arrived at Belling-
ham Bay during the week. bringing a considerable
amount of gold dust and reporting and rich gold
discoveries the head-waters Of Frazer, Thompson,
Harrison Liwoot and skagt rivers, and their trbu-
taries. There are three paying bars now on Frazer
river below tho great falls, to-wt Hills, Texas and
Emerys bars. =
4 (The Victoria G4zsfts is now issued daily The
number for July 2Sth is mainly occupied with com
m1nication from the special correspondent of that
paper, giving an account of an excursion of the
steamer UE0tild, Capt Ainsworth, from Fort Lang
ley ala Harrison river through Lake Harrison, to the
mouth OF the Lilliwoot river-some IS mies-never
having before been traversed by steamboat. 1t is
claimed that this is the nearest and most practicable
route to the Upper Frazer river mines as it places
tho mill fba iuns