The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-21
THREE DAYS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
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Her overland Mail.
HORRIBLE MASSACRE OF INDIANS.
.MEtoY's STATION, March 19.-The overland Cali
fornia mail, with regular San Francisco dates to
the 9th, and Geographic dispatches to the 2sth
ult, arrived here last night
The total contributions obtained in California
for the relief of the Jews at Gibraltar amount to
$1,000.
The French Republicans celebrated at San Fran
cisco, on the night of the oath of February, the
twelfth anniversary of the overthrow of the Bour-
bon dynasty.
SHIPPING INTELMGENCE-Arrived at San Fran
cisco on the 25th, ship Henry Brigham from New
York, briggs M. Garibaldi from Rio and Cabanna
from Liverpool
A gentleman well known in San Francisco
bought, on the 18th ult sixty feet in one of the
Washoe silver mines at S35, 900.
The Republicans fired sautes in the principal
towns OF California on receiving intelligence of the
election of Speaker Pennington.
A bill has been introduced in the California Lee
lslature proposing to allow $50, 600 PEI annum for
ten years, so as to have the State take charge of
the Indians and the Indian reservations in Califor
MIA, without further expense to the General Gov
eminent. The bill also proposes an apprentice
system for the Indians with the view of compel
ling them to acquire industrious habits, and labor
Tor their own support on the reservations. The
total number of Indians in the State is estimated
at sixty thousand.
diagram of he original COmstock Carson
Valley silver mine has been brought down to San
Francisco. The shares of the lead are to be two
ana nall miles long, running north and south.
All the mine is claimed by thirty companies, who
are digging shafts tunnels in twenty-four places
into the hills where the lead is supposed to pass
few months will establish the extent of this mine.
As yet, it is only proved to be rich in one section,
although evidences of silver have been found
through the distance claimed. There are hundreds
of claims for miles around in the region which
have been taken up and opened by tunnels and
shafts, but months must eapse before thing posi-
tive as to their richness can be known.
THE LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2S-5 O'Clock p. Mall
the business doing is of speculative character the
regular traders have not the means, if they have
the desire, of entering the market unless the
try trade revive, when some reaction will probably
be eHuced.
Money is getting more stringent for speculative
wants.
Candles very dull at 10 cts. Extra clear Pork
in bbls S21; in half bbls. SLIPS; Mess Pork, in
bbls SIS. Bacon Is cts; Hams Is cts. Lard is
quiet, but held for higher rates. Butter is droop
| ing; sales at 30 cts for Isthmus. Cheese 1916
| cts. Sugar-saes of 500 bbs. Baltimore crushed
| 10 cts; IS bills New York sugar 1319 cts; New
Orleans sugar firm at II. All these sales were on
| speculation.
large number of prominent citizens of San
Francisco departed yesterday for the Washoe silver
| mines.
Three hundred iron TASKS were sent from the CITY
to-day to the Napa mines, where there is more than
enough quicksilver to fill them already produced
| frow the mines.
The bill for the protection of California bound
emlSrants against Dogus-tlcket swlndllng at New
York, by appointing agent to reside there
permanently, has passed the Assembly.
FROM OREGON.
Telegr aphic dispatches from the southern part
| of Oregon dated the Goth, represent intense ex-
citement existing in the vicinity of Jacksonville,
on account of rich quartz discoveries. One com
pany had taken out Sl25,0OO in gold. Eight hun.
bred pounds of rock had yielded $50 in gold.
The steamer Columbia, arrived from the south
ern ports of Oregon to-day, brings news of hor-
rbe massacre of Indians at several villages around
Humboldt Bay, by party of forty white men.
At daylight, on the Goth February, at Indian Is
land opposite the town of Eureka, more than forty
Indians, three fourths of them being women and
| children, were killed
On the beach at the south entrance of Humboldt
| Bay, forty to fifty more massacred, that be-
ing every human being with red skin in that vii
| lage.
1t was reported and believed at Eureka that a
simultaneous attack was made the same morning,
| upon the Indian villages Eel river, and 200
more Indians, men, women and children, were
| killed
These deeds were perpetrated by the farmers
and graziers of Eel river county, who have suffer
ed from Indian depredations during the past year.
| They claim that the peaceful Indians around Hum
| boldt Bay have furnished aid and ammunition to
the hostile Indians in the mountains and hence the
war of determination commenced.