Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-06-27

.TFR FROMCALIFORNIA,

co-;ppfeld, Missouri, June 23.-rhe over
Il mail with California advices to the 1st
- June mas been received.
There is great excitement in Western Utah,
,..s.3 by Indian hostillitie5. The Indian at
.a"Es now extend from Walker River to Hon
Lake. necessitatipg the Giscontinuance of
,ie Pony Express.
rhe main body of Indians are concentrated
=, Psrayen Lake, where Col. Ormsby's party
80. defeated, and where, as is now ascer-
med. over one hundred Indians were killed
Tbs enemy are we'll armed and defiant, and
1,n,ber from 1900 to 5000.
On the 29th of May, Col Jack HAYES,
cith party of over six hundred volunteers
I'd Capt. Steward, with sixteen government
Iroops, started for the Indian camp at Viii
,i.ms station, Carson river, where the first
udian murders occurred. A fight ensued
yi,b three hundred Indians, who were de-
.1ated. with seven killed. incluiing princi,
5si chief Two volunteers were wounded.
On the 31si another party of regulars and
voIunteers started for Pyramid Lake, with
the intention of forcing general battle with
the Indians. Intense anxiety is felt as to the
result for if the troops are defeated the most
disastrous Indian war ever known will be in
ey;table The effect of this disturbance has
been to concentrate all the mining population
Of the Washoe region within a very small
compass in the vicinity of the settlements
All the accounts from the new mines in
icate their richness and extent,
The Washoe war is about the only topic oi
interest 10 California.
Tbs complaints touching the management
Of the Vanderbilt steamers are becoming 9
nrtA
fsrings OF the second cabin and steerage pas
sengrrs are reported as terrible.
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
forward, By to days mail, memorial to the
California delegation TO Congress, urging
their opposition to the 9th and 18th sections
of the proposed Tariff, as being peculiarly un-
favorable to the California mercantile interests.
A memorial also goes forward for daily
overland mail, and Congressional encourage
uleut to the pony express. Much anxiety is
frt as the latter enterprise, as the express
from St Louis of the 20.h, was five DAYS
overdue and had not arrived, having probably
been cut of by the Indians. The Pory ex-
press hence on the 18th and 25th ult passed
through Carson valley safely, and it is hoped
have got through the Infested portion of the
route without molestation.
Ing 1O"a LII OIdSe was roooeu Oh Tue
18th, by six highwaymen, of S11 600. in
Charge of Wells, Fargo aud q Co.
There is a general demonstration of rejoi-
eng in that portion of San Francisco covered
BY the Santillian claim, recently rejected by
lne Supreme Court.
fire occurred at Nevada on the 2Stb ult
loss $4,000
Notwithstanding the Iudisn hostilities the
emigration continues to the Washoe mines
The advices from Oregon are to the 2Ist,
bu; hey embrace nothing in er-Stiug.
4 bitter contest exists between the Dem
Oerats and Republicans. the latter trying to
fuse with the Anti-Lcconptonites on the ba-
SIS of sending Republican and Anti-Lecomp-
ton Senators to Congress.
The accounts from the crops of Oregon
and Washington are favorable.
The steamer j l.. Stephens, from Panama,
with tie mails from the Atlantic States to the
9TH Of May, had arrived.