Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-04-07
summary Of General News.

WM. COSTELLO will be hung at Sonora on Fri
day. May sth, for killing Carver. THE Cover
nor has appointed n l.. Broughton Inspector Of
Pork, Beef etc, for San Francisco, and the Sen
ate has confirmed the appointment. The bill
to establish county nfrmaries was defeated in
the Assembly E. SENATOR LATHAM took his seat
in the U. S. Senate on Monday, March 5th. -.
REAGAN, of Texas, wants s5,OOOOOO placed at
the Presidents control to suppress Mexican hos.
tilities on the Rio Grande. Modest sum, to com
mence with THos. II. STOCKTON, of Philadel-
phia, has been chosen chaplain of the House of
Representatives .... THE steamers from New
York, March 9th, brought seven hundred frkins
of butter. Mrs. RICHARDSON and S. p Foster,
of San Francisco, have been sent to the Insane
Asylum. Hon. JOE MCKBBEN will return TO
this State Immediately after the adjournment OF
the Charleston Convention. -. THE Sonora Age
says large number of persons are about to leave
Tuolumne county for Washoe. The Age may
look for large return immigration in three or
four months. Gov Roop, Of Carson Valley,
calls on Gen. Clarke for company of dragons
and six FOUNDER to subdue the Pah- L tab Indians
... ONE hundred homesicll Cafornians, who
had gone East to remain, came back on the last
steamer. JAS. BEELER and John B. White, Of
Kane county, Illinois, were drowned in the San
Joaquin river, March goth. NINETEEN whales
were taken by two Monterey companies between
Jan. 1st and March 18th. The several Lodges
of Odd Fellows in Sacramento will unite in cele-
brating the Goth inst THE Grand Lodge OF
Odd Fellows of California will meet at Sacramen-
to on the first Tuesday in May. ...SEvEN hundred
and eight y four passengers came on the Golden
Gate TIE Crescent City Herad says two hun
drcd miners are making good wages at Gold
Beach, now.... THE Washington correspondent
Of the New York Tribune says, the bill submitted
by ColfaX, of Indiana, from the Post Office Com
mittee of the House, to reduce the expenses OF
the Department was agreed to at a meeting this
morning. 1t provides that Postmasters, the re-
cepts of whose Offices for letter postage is less
than one hundred dollars per quarter are now to
receive, instead Of the commission now allowed
! them, from one hundred to four hundred dollars
per quarter GEN. SCoTT has ordered five hun
dred troops to the Rio Grande from the Northern
stations AT Bridgetown, Barbados, on the
18Th of February. S2,500000 worth of property
was burned =. THE steamer POwhattan, with the
japanese Embassy, arrived at San Francisco on
the 29th ut. The Supervisors Of that city i'm
mediately memoralized the Legislature TO ap-
prCprate $4,000 10 properly entertain them. 80.
CONGRESSMAN SCHUYLER CoLFAX, of Indiana,
reported bill authorizing newspaper publishers
to print on their papers the date when snbscrip-
tions expire. The bill passed -. THE mail steam
cr Champion arrived at San francisco Oh Friday
of last week, with between three and four hun
dred passengers SATURDAY last was the last
day on which Legislators drew $40. They get
only $5 now. We may look for speedy adjourn
ment. JUICE Gro. WILSON, OF Grand Island,
Colus county, died ON the 27th ult. =. OVER
three hundred thousand dollars have been taken
from the lsh quartz mine. in Oregon. THE Red
Bluff Beac0a says the Cold Spring Valley Indians
are again committing depredatiOns. NEW veg
etables are selling in San Francisco at retail,
follows Potatoes 10 to ~ cents per pound ;
green peas, 2j cents celery, per dozen, so cents
| to 81 arichokes, 81 to So per dozen cauli
flowers, 5 80 per dozen asparagus, 80 to 40
cents per bunch rhubarb, per pound, % cents,
and horse-radish, 20 cents per pound. The
wholesale prices are about onc-third less. THE
Marsh Opera Troupe, consisting OF MIR. and Mrs
Marsh and thirty children, arrived at San Fran
| cisco on the Golden Age. The same steamer also
brought giant, over seven feet high, company
/ of learned mules, dogs and ponies circus clown,
one circus horse, four fast horses, three noted
/ stations, two coveys Of quails, sundry Guinea
fowls, peacockS, fancy pigeons, monkeys, game
cocks, green turtles and other curiosities....
SADDLE passage from Pluccryille to Washoc is
$40. Fiity-iye cents per pound for freight was
offered on the 3Oth, and refused.