Daily national Democrat., 1860-08-07
Daily ylatloHaI Jlrmoftat.

"ttD GN"ttoHu@ Ni1HtUlldI.
Mr.. MuRDocH the actor, was in St. Louis Il
last accounts, and was shortly 20 start foi
California.
AN insane man named Mathew NJ. Gillett
native of Vermont has been sent to Stock
ton from San Francisco.
THERE are fifty four prisoners confined il
the Sacramento prison. Two are there fol
murder.
CAPTAIN Abner Bassett has commenced tb,
work of dredging the Oakland bar, accordiu,
to contract.
The Union Cape Claim at Orovillc. will b,
in readiness for being worked by the latte,
part of the present month. Two hundred
hands will be employed.
SOME land was lately sold in the citv o
London at the rate of 100000 per acre.
IT is stated that nearly all the pack trains
carrying freight from Red Bluff TO Yreka
have drawn off, in consequence of the mul,
and OK teams having put the freight below
a living rate-three and half and four cent.
per pound.
MIR. j. Lothrop Motley, the American an.
thor, received the honorary degree of D. C.
/. at the last Oxford commemoration-
Amongst the visitors present was Bishop Pot
ter, of New York.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune says that the defalcation ofthe
New Orleans Postmaster amounts to 10000
GEN. WALKER.-Accounts from Ruatan
state that General Walker left that place on
the 9th June, it was supposed for Central
America. Honduras was to take possession
of the Bay Islands on the Goth June. and it
was said the people would resist the transfer
with force of arms.
AT Knights Landing says the News. the
demand for lots is unprecedented Last
week, more than fifty were sold.
MURDER ON SCorr MoUxrAIx.-A man.
name unknown, was shot and killed on Scott
Mountain, on Tuesday night last, by another
man named John Ward The shooting was
the result of a quarrel. Both men were
Ward escaped; he is about five
feet high, has red hair and whiskers, speaks
French, had on blue pants and usually wears
a bowie knife in his boot leg.
ToRNAppEs- On the 28d of July Louis
Vile, Cleveland, and other cities, were visited
by destructive tornadoes which unroofed
Frustrated trees, blew boats from
heir moorings, etc.
The State of Chipas, in Mexico, was lately
invaded by party offlibusters from Guate-
nala. They burned several hacendas and re-
.urned hcme with large amount Of booty.
A DISPATCH from Washington. July 22d,
'Ays accounts continue to reach that city that
our mercantile marine is subjected to the
most annoying perplexities in the waters Of
Netherlands India; So much so, indeed, un-
less some remedy hy interposed by our Gov
ernrient no American commander will risk
lis life and the property of his employers on
he seas.
WELLS THE MURDERER Knights
Landing News says that man answering the
description of the murderer Wells, stopped in
hat place on the night of the 27th ult' Par
lies are in pursuit of him. When last heard
from, they were on lis track back of Colusa
COOP THRowING.-At a grand trial of en-
gines at Mansfield, Ohio, on the Fourth Of
July, Ogontz engine, of 5andusky City, threw
( stream, through 200 feet of hose, wet paper
26S feet and threw solid stream go feet.
RoBBERs IN NEVADA CouNTY.-The Hy-
draulic Press says that Nevada county is
overrun with villains and thieves. No man
who has ten dollars in his pocket, is safe in
travelling about the country without body
guard and half dozen double-barreled guns
loaded with buckshot.
KIDNAPPNG CAsR. In San Francisco Fri
dry, a man named William Wilson was ar
rested on the charge of kidnapping little
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