New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-15

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ington Territories The forces now there feel them
.elqes niiy able 70 manage and keep in sahjeeti0R
the Indians without additional aid.
The San Francisco and Plaeerville telegraph Fua
had been extended beyond the latter place A. far
east as the summit Of the Sierra Nevada This fnci
dent had created much juoilant feeling in the state
The following is the first dispatch sent in to the san
Francisco papers:
sUEHtr OF 7HE stERRA NEVADA
Messages are nov passing hourly from Piacervilis
East. : ''''~
The wagon road contractors are pushing The wortr
forward vigorously Only four miles vet remain In
cut through the timber. Thirty days will e0nDlets
the work.
Parties Of immigrants and camp followers arc
passing daily. Large qualities Of goods Ara Fei1
sent across the mountains to supply the settlers n
Carson Valley and the troops en- route for California
Uns line works excellent. Nights cool and bracing.
Comet looms up bright and glorious.
The Sacramento Mercury publishes a eommunicar
ton revealing the existence Of project to make
flibustering incursion into Sonora.
FAcRAHEsTo. October g. 1853
| respectfully submit the following to the sacra.
mento ilibusters: Having learned from good 4uthoe-
ty that expedition is forming in this city, for the
purpose Of occupying the State of Sonora and ageng-
ing the massacre by the Mexicans, of Henry A. Crabb
and his party would take this occasion 10 give the
adventurous young men Of Sacramento some advice
10 regard to this matter. Sonora is large State and
has an effective standing army capable OF resisting
large force The Inhabitants generally, are Hnfavor
able to these frequent ncurs0ns Of flibusterng par
ties, and will throw every obstacle in their way. It
IS supposed that Capt. Vim. B, Newby, late aidde-
camp in Walkers army will command this expedi-
ton. DE Is daring dhbuster, hut unacauainted with
sonora or any Of the localities he proposes to take
and Will IN al probability meet the same fate az the
/ unfortunate Col Crabb. Young men viii do wei "a
ake tne ABOVE facts into consideration before COM
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thereby, save themselves miserable death or 1qhat
IS worse, long confinement in Mexican prison.
RESIDENT Or SONORA.
Commissions were issued by the Secretary Of State
on the sth inst, to the following District Judges:
S. B. Mckee, Judge ofthe Third Judicial District
Niles Seares Fourteenth; B. Hayes, First; VIM. RI
Dangerfeld, Ninth 20. d. Creaner, Fifth e. W. Nc
Kinstry, Seventh Joaquin GARLIC, Second NichoIaa
Gleary, Thirteenth Caleb Burbank Fourth n NJ
Bliss, Tenth B. F. Myers, Eleventh.
RIcH DIGGrNGs.--At the head of Long Bar, Yufa
county, Evans q Co are working. They have wing
damned about four hundred feet of the river which
required the labor Of forty men for about three
months, at cost of over Sc 600. They then had ia
strip on some ten feet Of sand and tailinQs portio
Of which they washed, it yielding them over IS COO
On Saturday last they struck strata eff dirt ahont
eght eet deep which pays as high as eight 70
the pan. They are now making upwards Of 81 600
per day. The bed rock being deeper than exnected
they are much troubled with water. The con1narv
employ some sixty men, and have sufficient guam
ty Of rich dirt 10 sight to keep them EMPLOYED fan
some months. [MarysVlle Express.
AFFAIRS AT VALLEJo.-Va1lejo contains four hun
dred buildings, and its population is twelve hundred
It presents lively and healthy appearance and the
inhabitants seem contened and happy in their sew
eral localities and places Of business
Inc Government Is about to commence building
steamship at the navy yard of $50 or 500 tuns bur
then, which will give labor to some one hundred az
one.hundred and fifty more men than ia now at work
on the Island, the number now at work being he
tween three and four hundred. II is expected how
ever, that many Of those now at work "a the Island
will be discharged on account of the appr0priatiou
under which they are working being about used an
There are two lines of stages running to this Mace
| from Benicia-the mail line, which continues on tn
Napa, and an accommodation line, Just started.
martinez Gazette.
Washington.
The Indian war has been eompleteIy ended IN
the 9Th Sept. Col. Wright had another engagement
with the Indians on the Spokan Plains defeating
them thoroughly. He then pushed on TO the CCeqT
dAe1e Mission destroying the huts stores and cattle
of the Indians, and they soon sent in begging for
peace, and offering to surrender with no condition
save that their lives should be spared. Col Wright
granted them peace-to the four hostile trjbes-ta-
ing hostages from all of them. The war being at an
| end, Gen. Clarke has returned to this city
Victoria and British Columbia,
There have been number of arrivals from Veto
ria during the fortnight all telling the same story
little gold and much discomfort on Fraser river. The
emigration to California still continues briskly.
Sonora.
The Government Of Sonora has aiken measures ia
give free passage, from San Francisco to Guaymas,
| to all Mexican citizens in California who NAV wish
to return to their country, but who on account q
their destitute condition, are unable to do so.