New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-04-06

A correspondent of the Chicago Times, writing
from San Francisco under recent date furnishes
some items of news from the Pacific coast, a por-
ton of which we reprint.
THE PREslpENT-sTATE OF POLITICAL FEELING.
At meeting in this city, held on the evening
that the news of President Johnson's veto was
first received for the purpose of raising funds for
the freedmen's aid commission, Governor Lowe
presided and made speech. He proclaimed him.
self an enemy to President Johnson's veto. No
one expected anything else from the narrow
minded Governor Of California, whose brain is as
thick and as incapable of conceving lofty ideas as
a mass of putty. Cornelius Cole our newly elected
United States Senator, made a speech in Sacra-
mento the other night but was very careful not to
allude to President Johnson's veto message.
1t is understood, however, that Cole is against
President johnson. He has always belonged to
the disunion abolitionists-why shouldn't he op-
pose any policy that looks to restoration of the
Union? The notable newspaper opponents of the
veto are the Sacramento unlon the San Francisco
Flag, Marysyille Appeal and Stockton Indepen-
dent-all extremely radical during the war.
have thus briefly told who are the leading oppo-
nents of President Johnson in California.
To foffset this opposition, we have the entire
Democratic party of the State-50, 900 strong, and
numbering only 5000 less than the entire opposition
at the last election. We likewise have all the
leading newspapers of this city that have hereto
fore been the most steadfast adherents to the
Union " party-the Bulletin Alta and Morning
opinions. If an election were to be held to NOR.
row to test wether the people indorsed President
johnson or not, / am confident that 20,0 600 ma
jority would vote in the affirmative.
tremendous meeting to indorse President
johnson was held at Platt's Hall on Monday even
ing last. 1t was called by the Democratic county
committee, but many Republicans participated.
Ex-Governor John 3. Weller presided and made
an excellent speech. Col. Thomas ]. Henley, for
merly member of Congress from Indiana, like
wise made an eloquent speech. About 5000 peo-
pie attended the meeting.
REMARKABLE AFFAIR ABOUT NOTORIOUS MUIR
| DERER.
| In the year 1861 man named VIM. Wells mur-
dered man in his bed at Sacramento for the pur-
| pose of robbing him. He fled to Washoe after the
murder, with the money in his possession After
living there for a time he was identified arrested,
| put in charge of three men, and started back to
Sacramento for trial. During the journey, and
| when only a short distance from Sacramento, Wells
released himself, snatched a revolver from one of
his guards, killed all three of them and escaped.
| Since then he has been heard from IN various
parts of the country JEFF. Thompson. the ''swamp
fox OF Missouri was not more ubiquitous during
the rebellion than was Wells, after Killing the men
near Sacramento Now he would be heard from
in Salt Lake. then in Arizona, then in Sonora,
British Columbia and Idaho. There was fellow
named Coe in Sacramento, who knew of Wells
| crime there. Coe was in mortal dread of Wells,
for the latter had been heard to say that he would
kill Coe AT the first opportunity. So he went to
| Idaho, hoping to escape him. But he had not
been there long before he saw Wells, or man he
thought was Wells. He determined to ''peach''
on him, and did so. Wells was arrested heavily
| ironed and started for Sacramento. He arrived in
| this city day or two ago, and hundreds visited
the jail to see him and recognize him. Some said
| he was Wells. but many others said he was not
The man stoutly denied that he was Wells. He
slid his name was Donald Mcdonald. He gave a
detailed account of his life on the Pacific coast
telling where he had lived how he had lived, and
what he had followed for living.
Many people who had seen Wells and knew him
Intimately persisted that the stranger was Wells
while others who knew Donald Mcdonald well said
it was not Wells. Amid this conflict of testimony
The prisoner went to Sacramento where hundreds
will know him if he be really the guilty man. The
case creates great excitement.
4 A HUMBUGGING COLONEL FROM EAST TENNESSEE.
A fellow calling himself COL" Hawkins has
recently made his advent in San Francisco in the
4 role of beggar for the freedmen's aid commits
sion. He claims to hail from East Tennessee
where he said he was prosecuted for his loyalty
during the war. l heard him make speech the
other night where he told his 'eXperience.'
Among other things he said that jeff Davis once
offered $4,000 for his head. If any one could see
the creatures head they could appreciate the alb
surdity of the proposition. [ am informed tha
this vagabond ''colonel' once made very unen
viable record in Chicago and Quincy, Illinois, il
the year 1868, and that the files of the Chicago
Times for that year contained things about hin
not at all fattering to his character | know meI
here who would give not little for those files be
cause they would like to clip the wings of this
mountebank from East Tennessee. If any reader
Of this paragraph knows anything about Hawkins
he will do his country a service by sending the
facts to the editor Of the Examiner, San Francisco
Cal.
,r THE RUSH AFTER NEW DIGGNGs.
The stampede to Montana, New Grenada and
British Columbia has fairly set in. The Northern
4 ocean steamers go out crowded in every part with
l adventurers. On the last Panama bound steamer
but one, one hundred and twenty eight persons
took passage for the mines in New Grenada. They
took all kinds Of mining tools, camp equpage, and
everything else that will tend to make them com
| Portable. One newspaper suggests as an outfit fol
every man who goes a coffin filed with provisions
1 When he has finished the provisions, he will re
quire the coffin, the editor thinks. A number OF
| private letters from the mines have been received
i'll this city, but the information they convey is not
extremely favorable. Those miners who car
retain their health in the tropics make from SO tc
! $50 per day; but there are comparatively few
whose constitutions can withstand the malarious
! climate of the mining regions. Nevertheless
people will go there: Parties are forming here
| for the purpose of hiring schonners to convey
themselves, tools, provisions and other articles tC
I the mines That Is the best and cheapest way tC
go. But the great rush, ] imagine, will be tC
Montana. Many are going now, but when the sea
son fairly opens the people will crowd the roads
leading to the mines by the thousands.
THE WHAT CHEER HOUSE ROBBERY.
| Several months since | wrote, in q letter to the
| Times an account of the robbery of the safe OF
the What Cheer House, in this city. The clerk
was knocked senseless about O'Clock in the
morning, and over $50, 900 in gold taken from the
| hotel safe. The robbery was committed on the
| morning of the 18th November, 1865. Two days
afterwards the detectives had the supposed robber
"spotted." His name was VIM. Welch, and he
| lived in Sacramento, with his mother They did
n n arra Of nrlpn for bnJ M
| found where the money was, and they thought if
they allowed him to travel unmolested that he
| would lead them to the money. For three months
| they " shadowedh him, following him through the
| State so closely that he could do nothing unob-
served. But, while the detectives were at work,
the men whose deposited money had been stolen
from the hotel safe commenced suit against r. B.
Woodward, proprietor of the hotel, to recover the
amount stolen. All the evidence against Welch
was about to be divuged, so the detectives had to
arrest him before the maturity of their plans. In
this connection, it may be well to state that the
suits against the proprietor of the hotel were de-
cided against him. The courts ordered him to re-
store the stolen money.
EDITORIAL RENCoNTRE.
| Two knights of the quill in this city, had q set
to in the street the other day, that created no lit
| tie sensation in town. The parties to it were G.
*. Fitch of the editors and proprietors of the
| Daily Bulletin, and Charles H. Webb, editor of the
Californian, literary journal. In addition TO be-
ing editor of the Californian, Mr.. Webb is cor
respondent of the New York Times, under the
name of sc. II. WI He was once local editor of
| the Daily Bulletin. In recent letter to the New
| York Times, he mentioned the fact that when he