New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-06
Nen 0rleans 4ailp Crescent.
SUPPLEMENT- /.
Eight Days Later from California.

By the arrival yesterday Of the steamship HAbsna
from Minattlan We received our San Francisco flea
TO the Goth ut, eight days later than the advices by
the overland mail to st. Louis The news ia interest
ing, and some portions Of 1t important.
The San Francisco Bulletin has the following para.
graph:
By telegraphIc dispatch per State line, we learn
that W. p wilkins the alleged seducer Of Miss Hattie
A. May, when about to address political meeting on
the Sacramento river, Is miles from Marysville
yesterday evening, Was shot BY Miss Nays father
he fired two shots, one Of which struck him in the
| side, passing through bis body. The Sheriff was
present and arrested Mr. May.
later account renders it probable that wilkins
will recover. Miss May had run away with him, and
they were followed to several towns in the State
before overtaken.
A correspondent, writing from Butte county gives
q different version Of the attack upon the Indians
there from that received by the overland mail as pub
lished in the Red Bluff Beacon. He says:
A most brutal crime was perpetrated this morning
near this place. Some Indians, camping about two
miles from here on the ridge in the direction Of Chico
creek, were surprised by party of white men,
painted, who fired upon and killed nine of the Indians
wounded several others. and robbed them Of $50 or
SO in money and whatever else of value they could
lay their 6endsh hands upon. OF the killed two
were children, two women, four Of the men were sick
one Of whom WAS blind, ono aged, and with one ex.
ception all were helpless The only able victim was
scaIped.
One Of the victims may have been guilty Of some
crime. II so he should have been arrested almost q
any time In daylight, without indiscriminatey muir
dering innocent persons. The Indians who escaped
have been almost daily employed In packing for the
people 10 this vicinity and were frequently trusted
alone with goods Of some value. None feared their
committing crimes. Tho murdesen will escape pun
ishment, perhaps, because their victims are only
Indians! Some people make such . distinction
between whites and Indians that they think It no
crime to murder the latter in cold blood. When the
Indians In this vicinity commit wrongs It ID easy to
arrest and punish them formally. Any one Of them
might have been arrested.
The San Francisco Bulletin has the following:
John Callahan, proprietor Of Hat Greek Station,
on the Pitt river road TO Yreka and his cook were
killed by Indians on Friday night, 18th August, and
the house robbed Of provisions, arms and ammuni.
ton. They were found next morning by some team.
sters-Calahan, with four bullets and one arrow
through him, close to the house. The cook was
found some distance OIL shst with five arrows through
the back. No others were there. The station is
thirty miles from Fort Crook, on the head of Cow
creek. The Indiana are killing cattle, and have q
horse which they told valley Indian they had taken
from white man whom they killed. They are of
the same band.
The Placeryle Observer has the following.