The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-01
FROM SAN. FRANCISCO.

FROM SAN. FRANCISCO
Loss OF a speaner.-Over TWO Hum
ared Lives Lost..The Shenandoah
...Indian observation-disclosures
Rosecrans. t-r
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-The steamer
Ocean Queen brings San Francisco papers
of August Sd.
The steamer Brother Jonathan, from
San Francisco July 2S, for Portland, Ore
CON. and Victoria, with between 200 and
500 passengers, was totally lost near Cape
Lincoln, Oregon, July 80. Only fourteen
men and women were saved. Among the
passengers were Brig. Gen. Wright and
family, Lieut.. Wait, Surgeon A. Ingraham
Of the army, and Captain Ohaddock of
the revenue service. No particulars yet
received. General Wright was en- route
to take command of the department Of
Columbia.
The pirate Shenandoah had destroyed
the bark Susan Abigail, near the Cult Of
Anadair. It seems the Susan Abigail had
San Francisco papers of the 10th of July,
containing accounts of the collapse of the
rebellion, but Waddell, the pirate captain,
would not credit them as they came from
Northern papers, and announced his inten-
ton of burning every American vessel he
could find. After destroying the Sarah
Abigail, the pirate went toward Behring
Straits and the Arctic ocean. At Saint
Lawrence Island he burned the ship Gen.
Williams, Of New London, and the next
morning burned Eve moro vessels. The
bark Gen. Pike had arrived at San Fran
cisco with the crews of the seven vessels,
viz: Brig Susan Abigail, ship Gen. Will
iams, bark W. @. Nye, Of New Bedford !;
barks Gpsey, Catharine, Nimrod and Isa-
bella, all of New Bedford.
A New Westminster dispatch, of the
Goth of July, snnounces the arrival Of Col.
Charles 8. Bulkley, and party, who would
soon proceed up the coast.
The Pacific Warehouse, in San Francis
co, was burned on the I'd. Loss, guar
ter Of million dollars.
A Salt Lake dispatch, of July 80, says
the telegraph operators report that the In
dams have carried off five miles of wire on
Platte Bridge. ,.s.
On the 26th, some 1000 Indians at
tackled the post at Platte Bridge. There
was heavy skirmishing all the afternoon,
many Indians being killed. Lieut.. Col
Inns, Of Go. N, 1lth Ohio, and ~ men,
were killed.
Lieut.. Collins was killed. while leading q
charge Of 200 Kansas troops against some
600 Indians.
The Indians have gone South. A reg-
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pursue the Indians.
The telegraph line will be repaired as
soon as wire can be procured.
Gen. Rosecrans received most enthu-
siastic welcome inSan Francisco.
The steamer Ocean Queen brings near
ly million in treasure, and large num-
Der Of passengers.
New YoRK, Ang. 29.-Among the pas
sengers on the lost steamer Brother Jona-
than, was James hesbitt, for many years
one of the editors Of the San Francisco
Bulletin.
The paroled prisoners report that Capt.
Nye, of the Abigail, must have succeeded
In notifying some vessels Of the proximity
Of the pirate, for as, 900, and 271 officers
and men of the destroyed whale ships put
on board for San francisco. Among those
turned back by cthe Gen. Pike were the
Addison, Pierce and Canton packets, both
of New Bedford It is believed the pirate
viii certainly destroy fifty more vessels,
| az they were all to the nOrthWard. The
bark Richmond was also warned off, and
sailed from Plover bay for the Sandwich
islands. In conversation with Captain
Smith, Of the ship VIM. Thompson, the
pirate asked the news. Capt. Smith re-
piled that president Lincoln had been as
sassinsted. '' / was prepared to hear that"
said the pirate exultingly. He would not
believe that Lee had surrendered. Among
the people on the Shenandoah was an En-
glishman who seemed to be prospecting
for fine vessels to put on line between
Australia and New Zealand, and probably
would purchase some Of the captures made
by the pirate. Officers of the Shenan-
doah talked of arming two of the whalers
to 60 up and destroy whalers where they
could not get, and were very DESTROYS to
enlist the captured crews, in some instan-
ces being successful in obtaining Canucks.
An English vessel, laden with coal, was
seen BY the ship A N. Clifford, bound for
the Shenandoah. a- .ae. -
why Gen. Leess Name was With.
drawn from the Weftz ChaFges.-.
Railroads, &c.
Nxw YoRK, Aug. 24-A correspondent
says gentlemen in a position likely to
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