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THE STATE AT LARGE.

HE STATE Al LA k<OEs
Martin Gallagher, one of the distin~
guished gentlemen who were exiled from
San Francisco in 1856 by the Vigilance
Committee, has recovered $1,000 dam
ages from the Captain of the vessel
which took him away.......A new steam
er has been launched at San Francisco,
intended for the lower coast trade. The
San Andreas Independent describes the
shooting to death, by sheriff's officer
in Mariposa county, of desperate
Chilean assassin who was charged with
five murders in this State. A good rid
dance. ......A Mr.. Hopper of San Fran
cisco has constructed row boat on the
plan of Winan's cigar-steamer. 1t is
tweuty-four feet long. The Santa
Cruz Sentinel has been informed that a
lead of silver ore, supposed to be very
rich, has lately been found at place
some eight or ten miles from the Soledad
Mission 1t was discovered by an old
prospecting Mexican. A company has
been formed to work it. 49,. Frank Soule,
the able editor, has returned from Aus
tralia.. The law prohibiting the i'm
migration of Asiatics into this State,
passed by the last Legislature, has been
decided unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court. The papers are reviving discus
sion on the policy and necessity of re-
stricting in some way the future influx
of Chinese. The Siskiyou Chronicle
contains an article on the subject of the
division of the State Thinks there is
an apathy on the part of central and
southern California towards. the interests
of the north complains thatthe project
for connecting these sections of the State
by railroad to Shasta and Yreka, does
not meet with proper appreciation and
adds that at the north the watchword is
growing to be, a railroad or division 49,.
The State Medical Society meets at
Sacramento on the 9th of February.
An exciting time is anticipated when
the Cole SANDER comes up for consider
-ation......The Trinity Journal mentions
the capture by Capt. Messed of $50
Indian prisoners. The Humboldt people
ars anxious to continue the "war" ,un-
til there exists no longer any danger of
savage murders. Who can blame them
yet who can help saying poor red
men ?.....-...M Mining operations about
Yreka are suspended on account ofcold
weather. The Masons and Odd Fellows
of that city are about establishing;a
cemetery for their dead. Union. 49,. The
Sacramento Valley has been enyeloped
in dense,fogs for.the past fortnight. The
net revenue to.the State from the sale
of stamped paper, from July list, 81, to
Dec. 18th, '5S, was S15S,13 3d..
The debt of Tuolumne county is about
S150,000.. &C. A. Washburn is about
to start new Republican paper st SIN
Francisco. 80. 1t is stated that 105 900
sheep are to be brought to California from
New Mexico, and that there is drove
of 10000 from Ohio now at Santa Fe,
bound for the same destination. :. The
Pollock testimonial netted 1900 to
the beneficiary The Board of Super
visors of Sacramento are considering a
proposition, made by one of their men,
bers, to sell the court house to the State,
as a Capitol, for 100000. =. Linen, a
poetical Scotchman of San Francisco,
was appointed to preside at the centen-
nial Burns anniversary in that city, and
afterwards requested to resign, because,
being a retail liquor dealer, it was
thought he could not confer dignity
enough upon the position. Bosh... The
Bee challenges any State in the Union
to produce as good looking Senators and
State officers, for the year, as those of
this State. How about the Assembly
men?
The HEsPERIAN-This refined Jour
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