Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-05-01
Later from the Pacific Coast.

The steamship Moses Taylor arrived at New
York on Tuesday, with California mails Of the
9TH nearly million and half in treasure, and
upwards of 800 passengers. Col Schlessinpcr.
the iilibustcr, was passenger.
The California news is of great importance.
There had been heavy frcshcts, especially in tho
mining regions. Capt. Bennett, of the late brig
Cornclia, was arrested at San Francisco and held
to bail, on charge of having scuttlcd his YES
sci at sea, having first robbed her of fifty thou-
sand dollars in silver, which he had shipped ot
Mazatlnn for San Francisco. The treasure l.
said to be buried near Cape st. Lucas, to which
point a vessel had been sent for its recovery.
Oregon dates arc to the 9th ut. The "a.
lem wing Of the democratic party had nominated
Lafayette Grover for Congress- and John WIFI.
takcr for governor and also adopted unani.
mously resolutions sustaining Duchanan's adj
minsitration. The other wing Of the party would
hold convention April /.
There has been an utter want Of animation in
nearly every department of trade since the las,
mail, and previous quotations have been main
tanned only in articles that were connaro,i '"
scarce, while III others, especially brcadstufs
and coal, there has been markell decline Thn
invoices of provisions by the latest arrivals from,
New YORK and Boston having been all sold bc.
lore, the market for them continues firm. Min
ing matters have improved owing TO recent
heavy rains. The returns for March show an
increase Of 80 per cent over those of January.
Money easy and loans readily made at2a2l.2
on merchandise securities.
The decision of the California supreme court
that Col. Fremont docs not own the minerals
in his Mariposa lands had occasioned great re-
joicing among the miners occupying them, but
the idea very generally prevailed that the Uni
ted States court would reverse the decision.
Tho Of nn Gtrrief.o gla,.n al
on trial before the L. S. commissioners His
owner Stoyall had gone to Mississippi and it
is understood that if he cannot get Archy as his
slave in California, he will obtain requisition
for him as a fugitive from justice in Mississippi,
take him back, and hold him thcre-'rhe peo-
pie of Mariposa are excited again at the pres
ence Of the Chinese, to whose care essness they
attribute several destructive fires Some of the
citizens have drawn up manifesto, ordering all
people from the howery kingdom to move out
side Of certain limits within certain time. 4
bill is before the legislature to prohibit Chinese
immigration, and another to prohibit the inmi-
grafton of negroes and mulattocs.-A band Of
Indians lately visited some mining camps above
Nocanoyille, FL Dorado county, drove the min
ers out of their cabins and took possession of
some four or five hundred dollars worth of pro-
visions, and all the pistols and guns they could
find. The people in the vicinity of Grey Eagle
and Nolcanovillo, some fifty in number, have
started in pursuit of the Indians
Severe frosts had destroyed the prospect Of
a peach crop throughout the State.-One Of the
tax collectors says that he found Norwegian
in FL Dorado county, who made oath that his
sole earthly taxable effects were church and a
school house. This singular ndi, idual is poor
miner and has built the above mentioned e.-
adjustments with his own hands, without aid
from any one. His church is free for the use
of every sect of religionists except Mormons
and Universalists. lie has mining claim which
he has worked for five years and whenever his
diggings will average more than TWO dollars a
day, he will go out into the. highway and coax
some poor fellow to share the profits Of his la
bors.