The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-03-23
Further California News.
INDIAN MASSACRE

The Overland mail dates from San Fran
cisco to the 2sth u!timo, bring some further
news.
The total contributions in California for
the relief OF the Jews at Gibraltar amount
ed to 1880.
The French Republicans on the night
of the Oath celebrated tine twelfth anniver-
sary of the overthrow of the Bourbon dynas-
ty.
= gentleman we'll known in San Francis
co, bought on the oath 60 feet in one Of the
Washee silver mines at $35, 600.
A railroad route is under survey from
Folsom to Plscerville. The people OF Neva-
da have petitioned the Legislature for per-
mission to loan the credit Of that county to
aid in constructing railroad to Folsom, or
to the nearest connection with the Sacra-
mento Valley Railroad.
The Republicans fired salutes in the differ.
ent counties of the State on receiving news
of the election al Speaker of the House of
Representatives at Washington.
A bill has been introduced in the Legisla-
ture which proposes, for the sum of $50, 900
per annum, for ten years, to have the State
take charge of the Indians and reservations
of California, without any further expense
to the General Government. ~ The bill also
provides an apprentice system for the In
quire industrious habits and labor for their
own support on the reservations now estab-
lshed. The total number of Indians in the
State is estimated at 10000.
A large number of prominent citizens of
San Francisco departed yesterday for the
Washee silver mines.
Three hundred iron TASKS were sent from
San Francisco to sNapa to- day, where it is
stated there is more than enough quicksilver
to ill them already produced from the new
mines.
The bill for the protection oil California
bound emigrants tromibogus ticket swindlers
In New York by appointing an agent to re-
side there permanently, has passed the Az
sembly.
Topographic dispatches from the south
part of Oregon, dated the Goth, represent in
tense excitement rs existing in the vicinity
OF jacksonville ON account Of rich quartz
discoveries. One company had taken out
one hundred and twenty i've thousand dol
lara in gold. Eight hundred pounds OF rock
yielded sixty dollars in gold.
The steamer Columbia arrived from the
southern ports Of Oregon to-day, bringing
news Of horrible massacre OF Indians at
several villages around Humboldt Bay, by q
party OF forty white men. On sunday morn
ing at day lighs, on the Goth, at Indian Is
land, opposite the town Of Eureka, and dis
tant therefrom but few hundred yards,
more than forty Indians were killed, three
! tourths of whom were women and children.
| On the south entrance Of Humboldt Bay
,orty or fifty more were massacred, that
helng every human being with red skin at
taat village. 1t was reported and believed
al Eureka, that a simultaneous attack wac
MADE the same morning upon the Indian
villages at Eel river. From what is known,
not less than 200 lndians-men, women and
ehildren~,were killed that morning, and
these deeds were gerpetrated by the iarmers
and grsziers OF ,Esl river county, who have
the past year. They claim that the peace
tul Indians around Humboldt Bay have fur.
nished aid and ammunition to the hostile
Indians in the mountains, and hence wal
of determination has commenced.