The Nevada Democrat., 1859-08-10
California News Items.

+. A. Bee, President Of the San Francisco and
Overland Telegraph Company, has issued an address
to the citizens Of San Francisco, stating that in
few weeks the line Of telegraph will be extended
four hundred miles eastward, and that then the ma
terial and means of the Company will be exhaus usted
The Company ask assistance to push the work for
ward, and are very desirous Of at once extending
the line to Camp Floyd, by which means news can
be received from the East in ten days.
We learn from the Mariposa Gazette, that Mr..
Sheppard was considerably injured at Bear Valley,
on Saturday, 23d July, by blow from six-shooter.
man who had been boarding with him struck him
unaware and without cause, except some little pre-
vious difficulty about board. Sheppard, after being
injured, procured pistol, and fve shots were ex-
changed, but no one was touched.
James Allen, who is now in the State Prison, for
setting FIRE to building at St. Helena, Napa county
in the confagration of which man named John w.
Brown was so severely burned as to die IN short
time, has written letter to the NApa Reporter, ac-
companied by a document from one George HNrvey
in which the latter declares Allen to be innocent
and that he himself was guilty Of the act.
The Sacramento Union says. "The gross re-
cepts into the State Treasury for the month Of July
were-lS5S, $l76699 81; 1859, Sl96,7l6 81. An
improvement of $50 000 which the nine counties
unpaid will raise TO $4,000, and this is fair esti-
mate of the actual loss to the State last year by the
Fraser exodus for the July quarter"
William O'Brien, native Of Ireland more re-
Gently from the State Of New York, where he has
surviving relatives was killed on Monday week, by
claim, at the head of Main Gulch, Tuolumne county
He buried six feet under the fallen SOIL dread
fully mangled and killed instantly.
A dispatch from Yreka, dated August 4th, says
"At Indian Creek, last night p A. Olmstead was
dangerously stabbed in the left breast by Thomas
Griffith. Olmstead is said TO be the aggessor, hay-
ing beaten Griffith badly. Griffith gave himself up
IL Ii = l.. s,.l
dition."
On the first inst, while Mr.. Thomas Shuzer and
his wife were riding in buggy on the Preside road
near San Francisco, the horse, valuable one, wa,
caught by one of his hind feet in creyice in the
planking, and in trying to free himself, wrenched
off the entire hoof.
The Alta learns on indubitable authority, that
Gen. Harney has ordered a detachment OF United
States soldiers TO take possession Of San Juan
Island and to establish post there. Some British
subjects occupy the Island as sheep pasture.
The San Francisco and Marysvill Railroad Com
pany have entered into contract with John II.
Atchison, for grading the road from the point where
it is already completed to the Sacramento river, the
work to be completed by the first Of December.
Horace Greeley estimates the number Of immi-
grants on the road to California at thirty thousand
The number Of cattle he estimates at one hundred
thousand. The overland immigration Of this year
will add materially to the population OF the State
The Sacramento Managers of the State Fair are
engaged in making arrangements for agrand Militia
ry Encampment at that place during the term OF
the Fair This will be an immense addition to the
other attractions Of that occasion.
A movement, il is said, is being made in some Of
the northern counties to make the Chinese question
an element in the present campaign, so far as 1t re-
ates to the election of members Of the Legislature.
The Society Of California Pioneers making ar
rangements to celebrate the ninth anniversary Of
admission OF California into the Union which will
be on the ninth Of September next.
1t is estimated that in 1858 there were 1854 4,548
grape vines in this State, and that the yield from
them in 1860 will amount to 100000 gallons Of
wine and 400, 900 gallons Of brandy.
In consequence Of the drought Of the present sea-
son, the supply Of grass in Colusi county is insu
cent for the support Of the stock. The grain crop
in that county is a total failure.
VIM. Lewis Henry, a child three years Of age, was
killed on the 18th u by falling down the stairs Of
his fathers house, near Napa.
Rev. W. W. Hill, Rector of Grace Church, Sac
ramento, has LEFT for the Atlantic States. He will
be gone four or five months.