New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-13
Later from California,
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP ia spER.

esting.
During the week ending the 14th, the Surprise,
from San Bias via Mazatlsn, brought to San Fran.
cisco $50 ,O00 Adding to this (says the Alta) the
$500 900 brought by the Santa Cruz, and the
Of gold brought by the Brother Jonathan and North
erner and we have importation OF 81 ,l29 800 Of
treasure during last week.
The proprietors OF the San Francisco Evening BuI
letn J. W. simonton and c. O. Gerberding, were ar
rested on the 18th on charge Of violating the law
against obscene publications. in having spread before
their readers the reports they found In the Eastern
papers OF the Sickles trial They were examined be-
fore Justice Hudson the next day. The proprietors
proved that the report Of the matter in question was
put into the paper BY the assistant without being
read in the hurry Of making up the news at the last
moment, and that neither Of the propretors saw the
copy before it was printed. Nevertheless they were
found guilty as charged, and sentenced to pay fine
Of 500, or be imprisoned fifty days. The defend
ants took an appeal, and gave bonds in $500.
From the San Francisco National, Of the 10th and |
18th, we extract the following paragraphs
We are glad to observe that the agitation of the |
subject Of sending letters by the overland mails has
had the desired effect in awakening public interest to
the importance Embarrassing the necessity for the
carried sixteen hundred and twenty.seyen through
letters and one hundred and twentyt6ree way letters
Mr.. Mcdaniel, who was shot in an ARRAY with P. |
Nagle at Lagrange, stanslaus county, last week,
s reported to be in very dangerous condition. Mr..
Nagle was examined before Justice Of the Peace
and acquitted.
Yesterday no less than four hundred and seventy
Cinnamon arrived from Hong Kong and the dav be-
fore some Two hundred came in making In all nearly
seven hundred.
During the last week 2e ,41o ounces Of gold, worth
about 100000 were deposited in the Mint. The de.
posts OF silver amount to II 900 ounces 1904 for
silver dollars 5154 for refined bars, and 5l07 were
purchased. The coinage amounted to 4405 900
$3.50 900 in double eagles SIS 600 in silver dollars
and sloOoO IN half dollars. Among the gold deposits
were number of foreign coins, worth perhaps
$50 900.
VIM. G. Taylor, an actor who had been connected
with the California stage several years. died very sud-
denly on the 18th ult in San Francisco of hemorrha pe
of the lungs.
A dispatch of the 10th ult. from Yreka says:
Five men are reported to have been killed by the
Indians, near klamath lake. Thirty men have
started from Jacksonville in pursuit. to jacksonville
in Oregon. I
On Saturday last man named Abel George, a no.
torious Indian hunter, killed man named McCasson
by stabbing him in the breast with bowie knife,
from the effects of which he died instantly.
The San Francisco Bulletin publishes the following
letter, dated Genoa, Maya:
We learn from VIM. Naley,. just from Honey lake,
| that eight men started ont from there few days
ago to prospect for silver, at place called Rabbit
Hole Springs, eighty miles east Of Honey lake.
When about sixty miles out they camped, and in the
morning, when about starting on their journey were
fred upon by the Indians. Peter Lassen, Joseph
| Lett, George Lathrop, John Moot and man named
Chopper, together with two men whose names were
not learned by our informant, were killed. One Of
the party named Wyatt was out after the horses at
the first fire, and on looking around saw Lassen fall
Wyatt made his escape, saving only one horse as he
retreated. He received bullet through his clothes
The Indians were supposed to be Shoshones Tween.
l We had cta cd 10 loJr
pursuit of the Indians.
| From the San Francisco Herald we extract the
following:
| Our Geographic dispatch, through the Alta line.
announces the following dreadful calamity contained
in an extra of the Red Bluff Beacon Of the 18th
The house OF Col. e. A. Stevenson, about three
miles from town. on the opposite side of the river,
was burned to the ground last night consuming his
wife and three children, and Mrs. Kronk, with her
two children. Mr.. Krouk Col. Stevenson's overseer
was IN the house, but by some means managed to
escape. though 80 badly burned it is doubtful about
his recovery. Col. Stevenson was formerly Indian
Agent at Nome I4ackee, and was absent at Tehana
at the time Of the fire. :
Mrs. Stevenson had two brothers sleepinp in a ora
nary some distance from the dwellinghouse that wa
burned; but they escaped, although not till aftel
the women and children were burned. It is gener
ally supposed the fire was the work Of Indians. AS
there was an Indian boy sleeping in the house las
night. Fears entertained that if tits the worl
Of Indians, other places In that section may hay,
shared the same fate. Mr.. Myers, who conveyed
Mr.. Krouk to his place, thinks, if it is the work o
Indians, they murdered the women and children be
} fore the house was fired.
The following dispatch gives account of furthe
Indian depredations in the same neighbohood
RED BLUFFS, May 14.-Last night at III o'clocl
our town was alarmed by seeing fire on the oppo
site side of the river. number of citizens started
Immediately for the fire. It proved to be Mr.. Seti
Rockers house, situated about three miles from Col
Stevenson's and five miles from here When partie
from this place arrived, the building entirely de
!, stroyed. 1t is believed to have been the work O.
Indians.
No change yet in Mr.. Krouk's condition his re
, covery is still regarded as doubtful
INF. Krouk, it will be recoected, was badl,
burned at the time Mrs. Stevenson Mrs. Krouk AMI
their children were consumed by the firing Of MI
, Stevenson's dwelling, near Red Buffs]
j There was petition circulated to day, asking ali
of the Governor for the purpose of expeing the In
dams from our country 1t received the SIGNATURE
every citizen to whom it was presented. The peopl
have arrived at the fixed conclusion, that it is absc
utely necessary for their protection to drive the IL
r dams entirely out of the county.
!. The Indian boy who set fire to Col. Stevenson
, house had an examination to-day. He still maintain
that there were other Indians that they compele
him to set fire to the house, and threatened to shoe
him if he did not.
A dispatch of the l4th, from Yreka, says of tn
t klamath murders
II James Clugage has just returned from the scene
l. the recent Indian murders, on the trail leading t
:, klamath lake, about sixty miles from Jacksonville
q He reports that the party have found the bodies
four of the murdered men, and the jaw OF the fft
They were buried in thicket and the graves covere
d over with bushes.
:. All the Indians in Jacksonville were arrested We
! terday
Abel George has been committed for trial on til
charge of the murder of Mr. Casson There is grei
10 excitement in Jacksonville and the populace wou
certainly have hung George had the result of the
% animation been otherwise.
IS dispatch OF the 18th, from Yreka, says:
8 At Roseburg, Oregon, on the 7th inst the Deput
n Sheriff of Douglas county attempted to arrest
desperate named Mcpherson for shooting ma
g in the hand. Mcpherson resisted, and the Sheri
ordered several citizens to assist him. NcPherso
then drew his revolver and fired several shots, KILN
e Brad Robinson, and woundng two other men, b.
" finally arrested on the 9th inst During the e.
"a animation before Justice of the Peace, the prsont
g attempted to wrest knife from the witness who WI
e. at the time tesying against him, and escape. TIL
so eaasperated the populace that they hung hi
a without further ceremony.
,e A letter of the Sd ut., from Clear Lake. has II
following:
1t An occurrence took place in this vicinity about
G, week ago, which could not call anything but W
"a full murder. An old Indian and his sluaw were e
r. gagged the harmless occupation of gathering Glove
d the land of Mr.. Grgsby, when man by the nan
p of Frank Harrington set Mr.. G.'s dogs on thel
IS (Which, by the way, three very ferocous ones
H. and before they taken off them tore the mangl