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Seri.TmanwllWw tlaven Got wills, God'i will be done.1 The spilt in the Whig party in New mi: winds. rubliritied every TuuTidayTy' 7. 8USE tance of two hundred and fifty miles. The supplies tent from Sacramento City for th relief of the emigrants were nearly exhausted. He expended all the money plaoed in, hit hands, and all hit private funds, amounting to between live and six thousand for provisions for the emigrants.

He left tome three thousand pounds of breadstuff there, The Philadelphia Ledger tays i The urging of resistance to the law is) the height of madness. The first conflict between the fugitives and the legal authorities would raise up active supporters of the law in thousands who now are disposed to let slaveholder! recover LitTE FROM CALIFORNIA. We are Indebted to the fine steamer Pacific, from New Orleans, for papers of the 4lh. These papers bring accounts from San Francisco to tho 1st September, brought by tlie Alabama from Cha-gres. i The newt of Gen.

Taylor's death excited intense feeling in San Francisco. All parties united in deploring the loss of the deceased hero. Obsequies in his York, in consequence of the proceedings of the Convention in Syracuse, it much commented upon. The mast of Whigt, it, it slated, are unanimous in the opinion that it was highly injudicious on the part of the majority of that tbdy" to insist on uf Scotland County. Ma.

Sotcr I send you for insertion in your valuable paper, and for the benefit of subscribers, a few of the statistics of Scotland county, in this State, as taken by me as Assistant Marshal 576 families, averaging about 7 to the family. 850 persons over 20 year who cannot read or write. 125 slaves In the county. Dreadful Explosion vf Gun Powder. Wc learn from an extra from the office of tho Columbia Statesman, that a most heart-rending accident occurred in that place on the 5lh instant.

Two kegs of gunpowder, in the large new brick stofe-rooin of Mr. Samuel L. Stephens, exploded, killing one person instantly, nnd wounding a number of others. The accident occurred about 1 1 o'clock in the forenoon, when some twenty or thirty persons were in the store, which would probably last ten days, dis the passage of the obnoxious resolutions r- tributed in moderate quantities. There The address of the Secedcrt has been Via wat but very little provision in the val honor were celebrated on the 30th of put forth ley, and the prices are still very high.

August, All business wat tuspended, IMUIYItA 75 deaths during the year ending 1st It eommencat with a liistory of. the and even the grogshops and gambling clour sold lor $1 00 to per pound, and other articles in proportion. nreceedingt of the Syracuse Convention tOCT. 17, 1850 houses were closed. 1 ho procession was very long and presented an imposing ap and it seems almost a miracle thut any of Mr.

Johnson gives painful accounts of and endcavort to thow that every thing had been done, that wat possible, to se the distress on the plains. I torn the best information he could obtain, the xj -M- OF THE WHIG Two Dollars if in advance. pearance. J. li.

Wcller was Mar shal. The Masons and Odd Fellows at' them escaped. Mr. Josiah M. Short was killed instantly; his body was so awfully disfigured, that it was with difficulty cure harmony without a sacrifice ot prtn-cinle or the abandonment of the Presi inAaA i i numucr oi overiana emigrants win ex Two Dollars and Filly cents if paid dent and the men who have patriotically June, 1800.

1 Pauper. 3 Blind. 2 Idiots, 1 of whom is blind. The above comprises, as near at may be, some of the statistics of Scotlaud county, Mo. The population of Scotland county, in 1848, was just 2,800, showing a large increase in two years.

Yours, truly, Z. LEAR, As't Marshal. came a military escort, and then the UP tothel3th Junelhere hearse, drawn by four milk-white horses. h.aJ been 39,000 names registered at he was identified; Ben. T.

While and iu six months. devoted themselves to the settlement of And Three Dollars if not paid till the- wife seriously injured, the latter died in The horses were appropriately capari- ramle- About 15,000 arrived California. the sectional controversy relative to slavery and the preservation of tlie Union. the afternoon; Mrs. Susan Duncan badly expiration of the year.

Advertisements inserted at $1 per so, a u'liiia imran innri. The Transcript has seen and convors It shows (says the reporter) that the nf 15 lines Long Primer, or 13 lines soned, followed immediately after the 1 ed with a gentleman who has justarnved their slaves ine best way uiey can, without any of their assistance or sympathy. The Boston traveller of i Tuesday, says: "A meeting wat held at the church of' -tlie Rev. Mr. Snowden, laat evening, composed of the fugitive slave! residing in Boston.

The object was to take measures for their Protection against the operation of the infamous fugitive slave law. A coramitteee of teven was chosen to draft resolutiont and mature a plan of protection, and report at a future meeting. There are now between three and four hundred fugitive slaves residing, in Boston. Some of them have resided here many years, have acquired property, and are respectable and useful people yet they are liable to be apprehended and sold into slavery." Notwithstanding tbese outbreaks of. temper, the law will be executed.

There is good tense and respect enough for tho rights of the South, in the people of the free States, to do justice in the cases for which this law provides. It it salutary and just, and its operation will toon divest it of the bugaboot and hardships with which these intemperate oratore resolutions adopted by tlie Convention re-open that controversy, and attempt to from the country by the northern over Brevier, for the first insertion, and 50 burnt. Jas. Crews, considerably burnt; Mrs. Short, slightly burnt.

Miss A. McBridc, daughter of Judge McBridc, Miss Catharine Lynch, Win. Mosely, hearse. Upon the hearse was painted the last words of the President "I have cents per sq. for each additional insertion, incorporate the peculiar opinions ot Air, land route from the United States, who fully corroborates tlie distressing accounts of suffering among the immigrants.

He done my duty I am ready to die." seward into the creed ot the Whig party, and that their tendency and desigr In regard to the mining operations the ioh the wiun. STRANGE DOCTRINE! 'Giving tends to thrift." "What ub J. Stephens, owner of the store, and his two clerks, Thomas Stephens and passed numbers who had very nearly ex are to build up an Abolition party on the San Francisco papers speak in very en hausted their provisions, and were drag remains ol the Whig party, tt states couraging terms. George Morris, James Howard, St. Clair surdity, to sav that giving awav my pro that though the candidates may be unex ging onward wearily, almost bereft of 1 -1 .1 I perty will make me richer, lellafool that, but don't think to make me be' ceptionable, it is not possible to support them upon the principlei upon which few loads of good dry Wood wanted at this Office immediately.

Rcoisteh or THE LiSD On ICK. Information has been reecived here from Washington, unofficial, of the appointment of Col. Llovd P. HallacIc, as Register of the Land Office at this place. Col.

Halluclc is a merchant of this place, and Perry West, and a little son of John C. Davenport were likewise injured, most of them slightly. The escape of jiojw. amines mere were, reuuucu iu a state bordering on destitution and starvation, among which the helpless infant lieve it." Un the trinity, shasle and Klamath rivers thousands are at work, with extraordinary average success, and new diggings are almost daily opening. A great many Oregoniant are employed in these mines.

Over the coast range many thousands Not so, my friend. You have not ye they are nominated. It calls a State Convention to meet at Utioa on Thursday, 17th of October, to shared the keen pangs ot distress alike with the watchful mother and despairing Mr. Stephens was miraculoua indeed. looked at it rightly, "uivmo does tend to Thrift." The whole experience A negro woman belonging to J.

L. Mat lather, there were numerous grave; take such measures as they may think of men who have tried it, proves it a Tact. along the road, and frequently were found thews badly burnt; supposed she will proper. are industriously digging, scattered over Hundreds of men in our land, could they a good Whig, and a moat worthy citizen, bodies unburied, deserted by human kind not recover. The cause of the accident The Albany State Register, in a strong the large extent ol country watered by speak with united voice, would testily.

where victims to disease and fatigue had the upper tributaries of the Sacramento, leader on Monday week, recommends Curing tends to limit. laid themselves down to die. is thus stated in the extra The accident occurred in this way so surround it. Repub. The Sacramento Transcript gives an The Bible teaches the same; and in its the Whig papers in the State not to en account or new discoveries on Feather tar as wc can learn Air.

Mcphens was numerous promises would impress on us THE BOUNTY LAND BILL. The Locofocos are boasting that they river. in receipt of a large stock of goods, which dorse the Syracuse ticket as it will lead to a dissolution of tho party ir. the United uiiwig, rends to Inritt. The Transcript says In its assurances, towards the liberal were lying about the floor in boxes uno Department of the Intekior, October 3, 1850, On the east branch of the North Fork and a confirmation of the report of his appointment will be gratifying to his many friends here.

Pennsylvania Election. The election in this State took place on the 8th. As yet we have but few returns. Gilpin, Whig, elected Mayor of Philadelphia by 2.000 majority. Wilkinson, Independent, elected Mayor of the Northern Lib States, have got rid of Wilmot Provisoism by setting aside David Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, in making their Congressional nom its doctrine is.

"giving tends to thrift." pened. They had reached him during of Feather river, below the Lawson em The Congress of the United States at The New York Tribune sustains the ine past lew days, i wo Kegs ot pow In its commands, in order that we may be sure to prove its efficacy, it would igrant road, two bars have lately been its late session, having in a spirit of jus der composed part of the stock. These Sewardites. discovered ol remarkable richness. Un tice and liberality passed an act "grant were received the night previous, and have us secure the benelit, ami know by one of these bars about one thousand men inations.

Nevertheless, the District Convention that nominated Mr. Wilinot't successor, adopted the following ing bounty land to certain officers and experience, that giving tends to thrill, were placed in the lobby near the counter, and some ten feet from the door. are at work. The other is all taken up, soldiers who have been engaged in the Denunciation of the Fugitive Slave law, If you doubt it, try There would military service ot the United states," be less of doubts, if there were more of Each miner is allowed to occupy a place fifteen feet square, and the leads are so erties by 1,200 majority. In the Oth A meeting of colored people, to the On the morning of the catastrophe, one of tlie kegs was discovered to be in bad the President has esteemed it no less experiments.

Prove by trying it, that Resolved, That we are unalterably op number of 2,000, was held in Zion't Congressional district, McNair, rich, that claims are frequently sold at it does not tend to thrilt, and you will privilege than a duty to adopt all the measures in his power to give prompt re-elected; 6th, Ross, Dem. re-elected Church, New York, the evening of the from $100 to $250 per foot. The aver have more show of reason for neglecting posed to the extension of slavery into territory now free, and that we hold it to be the duty of Congress to prohibit, by order that is, it was seen even through the sacking that the powder had leaked from the sides or bottom on to the floor. Yet the quantity was small, but to pre 1st. Wm.

P. Powell was, on motion, and efficient operation to this beneucent 8th, Stevens, Whig, re-elected. 9th, age yield to each miner per day is at least $100, while occasionally a man the plain requirements ol scripture. measure, Andrew fuller says the people of called to preside. positive law, its introduction theroin.

meets with still greater success. As in I deem it proper, therefore, to announce vent accident the sound keg was placed The meeting was opened with prayer Resolved, that standing upon these Glasgow used to say, "David Dale gives his money by sho'elsfull, and God Al to those entitled to the benehts of the by one of the clerks on the top of the un- stances just before our informant left, he was assured that a miner had washed out a pint cup full of gold that morning. law, that with his sanction, I have caus mighty sho'els it back again." e. f. sounu one tlie intention being very soon principles, and relying with confidence upon the integrity of G.

A. Grow, faithfully to carry them out in our national by the Rev. Mr. White, who supplicated for victory over their enemies, and sought the omnipotent power to guide ed all the necessary forms and instruc to remove both to a shed back of the It was then about 10 o'clock, a. m.

Two tions to guide claimants in applying for California has made a very fair com store where the powder of the establish' Clancy Dukes, Dem. elected; 10th, Dim-ick, Dem. elected withcut opposition; 7th district, Isaac C. Dickey probably e-lected; McLanahan, elected in the district composed of the counties of Perry, Franklin and Cumberland. In eleven wards and districts in Pittsburgh.

Howe, Whig, for Congress, has 631 majority. Chandler, Whig, elected in the 2nd District. and obtaining their rights to be prepared, and protect those who are going to the land where men do not trample on one ment was kept. Mr. Short came into councils, we present him to the Democratic voters of this district as our candidate for Congress.

men dug from one of the bars, in one day, fifty-six pounds of gold, avordupois weight. Another, digging on the same and they are now in the hands of the another. mencement in the way of appropriations. The following items have been inserted in different bills passed by the late Con printer. At the earliest practicable mo the store smoking a cigar, and while standing near the two kegs, fire dropped from the cigar, (as is supposed,) on the Resolved, That the bold and unflinch The President, in opening tlie meet bar.

saved twentv-six Dounds in a dav. ment copies ol these papers will be for ing, made these, among other, remarks The strata in which the gold is found warded to each member of Congress, and gress for the benefit of her citizens loose powder on the floor, the quantity not being larger than a gun load, and in yield from $10 to $500 the panful. to the clerk of the court of every county You are told to submit peaceably to For the survey of her coast, $190,000 ver $1400 worth of gold was taken from ing manner in which Hon. David Wilmot has advocated in Congress the preservation of frae territory from the encroachments of slavery, meets the admiration and approbation of the Democracy of the district. in the United states, the laws will you do so No, no.

Custom House at San Francisco, 100,000 stantly the house was in ruins. It will be his purpose to administer a single panlul ol dirt on one occasion, ou are told to kiss the manacles that Ihe store room is a very long and Negotiation of Indian treaties, 25,000 the law in such a manner as to make it he two bars above relerred to are bind you, will you do so No, no, no. large one. two stories high. Two-thirds Marine Hospital, San Francisco, 50,000 For commencement of a Floating what Congress designed it to be, a boun The law is made by the people.

The of the building (the front part of it) are shallow, and the gold is found from the surface to the bed. The rich places are Great party, these Locofocos And ty to the soldier, and not to agents and people have told you that you must do so Ury Dock, in ruins literally torn to iragments decidedly grow-ing. speculators. in crevices ot slate rock. 1 he gold is will you obey thera No.

Upon your quite coarse. One piece has been found The forms and the mode of proof have decision, this night, hangs the liberty of $465,000 Miller's (whig) majority in the first Chance for California. We have been valued at upwards of $d0O. 1 liese dig- therelore been made as simple as possi millions, this covenant with death, a Congressional District of Iowa, over mgs are located about 150 miles from ble, and every facility will be afforded to greement with hell, and violated at all York Whigs. The Whigs who informed that Col.

E. D. Baker, acting under authority from the Panama Rail Thompson, is supposed to be about 600. larysville. They were discovered some hazards.

Cheers.1 applicants to establish their just demands five weeks ago by a parly in search of Mr. Downing said I am a father, and So much for the poll book fraud. Clerks are now engaged in preparing road Company, ts about proposing to the Lrold Lake. from the rolls on hie, certilicates ot service, in order that those who have not seceded from the Syracuse Convention have published an address, justifying their course. The whole gist of the difficulty is very pithily stated by the se bound by every tie to protect my wife and children, and I here declare, that if those who desire to visit the gold mines, a proposition something like this He We are also informed by Mr.

Toll Fin. A fire at Carbondale, on that among the high lands, between the received discharges, or have accidentally any man any fiend in human shape will transport them lrom St. Louis, or the 2Sth destroyed about fifty hou South Fork and the Yuba river, dry dig lost them, may not be disappointed in ob dare to cross the threshold of my castle, some other convenient point, to Panama ceding members, in the following brief gings, ot unknown extent, have been fl send him to hell before he shall ae- taining their just reward. sentence omplish hit mission. Vociferous the policy ol this law in all its provis pay all their expenses lurnlsning them everything necessary to their comfort, (including medical attendance) for found.

They will not be much worked before another winter. The quartz rock "They did not choose, for the purpose ions is to discourage speculation in the cheers. I have used that hard word because I do believe that any one who claims ot the. act provides which they are to labor upon the rail OAio Election. Wood is elected Governor by probably 10,000.

The Whigs, it is thought, will have 35 members in the lower House, Locos 33, Free Sorters 4. In the Senate, 18 Whigs, 16 Locos. For Congress, 9 Whigs, 9 Locos, and Giddings, Freesoiler, Townsend, A-bolition, and Johnson, Independent. POPULATION OF HANNIBAL. 1996 Whites.

41 Free Blacks. 282 Slaves. 2319 Total. 249 Mason Township, out of Hannibal. 2568 Total in Mason Township, including Hannibal.

Another Awful Steamboat Disaster. The steamer Kate Fleming, Captain Dunham, from Louis vslle for Cairo, burst her boiler on the 5th about 12 o'clock, at Watkins' bar. She had been aground, but had got off, and after making a few revolutions, she exploded, and burned to the water's edge. Some twelve persons are reported killed and missing, and a number wounded. The cause of the explosion is said to have been a want of water in the boilers.

ses in the trot business part of the town. Among the booses buret were three hotels, the Temperance Hall, Post Office, Printing Office, and a number of stores. A large amount of property was stolen and carried off, while the fire was raging, by the miners who work in the coal mines of the place. of placing a crown of glory on the head of Mr. Seward, to stamp with condemnation the President of the U.

States, all sales, mortgages, letters of attorney, road, (in building nnd laying superstruc engages in such a mission is a servant of ture, for one hundred days; after which, the Company will transport them, free of all charge or expense, from the devil, and dying in that service he must go to hell. Cheers. By the provisions of the bill I might be liable to be and such earnest Whigs as Henry Clay and Daniel Webster." abounds all through this region, and some experiments lately made by scientific men have produced very satisfactory evidence of its being rich with gold. Many pieces of this rock have been tested and found to contain from twelve to fifty cents worth of gold per pound. One company of miners are contemplating the or other instruments of writing going to affect the title or claim to any warrant hereinbefore provided for, made or executed prior to the issue, shall be null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever, nor shall such certificate or warrant Panama, and land them in ban rancisco And they were perfectly right.

The following are among the appoint city. It is proposed to leave for Panama some time prior to the 15lh day of De seized. And suppose I am not, how many are there here who do not hold so prominent a position as I do, and who may be made liable to the bill? With Stage Coach Robbery. The mail coach purchase ot machinery and steam engines or the land obtained thereby, be in any going East, was robbed on the night of wise affected by, or charged with, or sub ments of the President confirmed by the Senate previous to adjournment them leel. I Hear, hear.J call on cember next, so as to reach Panama a-bout the 1st day of January, 1851 the hands to labor during the months of January, February, and March, and will be for the purpose of working entirely a-mong this quartz.

Specimens of it will ject to the payment of any debt or claim you, not to go out to battle, but to arm the 30th while ascending Laurel Hill, about five miles from Uniontown, Judah P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, to soon be brought to this city to be expe yourselves for liberty. Pa. A number of trunks were taken off rimented upon by the assayer. JJr.

smith then advised his hearers to be District Judge of the States for the Northern District of Louisiana. resist the Dogberry Mayor of this city, the stage, and rifled of their contents. A John S. Healy, of Massachusetts, to incurred, by sucn otneer or soiuier prior to the issuing of the patent." In his judgement the issue contemplated in the body of the above recited clause of the law is the issue of the patent. Consequently all sales, transfers, assignments, and incumbrances of soldiers' land and his Dogberry officers, and shoot them be District Judge of the U.

States for down like dogs. He advised that one of package containing $7,000, addressed to the Cashier of the Cumberland bank, was taken; besides several other packages, the Alaysville Herald tells ot a party of nine men, who took a claim on Osca-loosa bar, on the Middle Fork of Feather and in four weeks took out seventy-five thousand dollars something over eight thousand dollars to each man. the Southern District of California. their first duties was to have a committee landed In San Francisco city about the 1st of May next, in time for a full mining season. By this plan, a man will reach the gold mines just as the mining; season commences instead of reaching there, as they do by the plains, just as the season closes, and in about the same length of time, and without the outlay of a single dollar in cash.

Springfield Jour. Calhoun Benham, of California, to be of two appointed, who would be always containing in the aggregate about $4,000. claims, made before the emanation of the on hand to give evidence and aid in favor Attorney of the U. States for the northern district of California. 1 he sonora Herald says Three Frenchmen, working a hole patents, are void, and will be disregarded by the Government.

Speculators are of the poor fugitive, tie further advis es that subscriptions should be iinmedi several of the passengers lost heavily, among thein Mr. Longsen, of Wheeling. J. M. Jones, of San Jose, California, The steamer Dover, a Nashville and to be Attorney of the U.

States for the within the limits of this town, took out ately entered into by all the colored peo Ohio river packet, was snagged near Pa- The mail was not touched. The trunks southern district of California. therelore admonished, that they can ao-quire no rights by purchase which will be recognized br this Department. three ponnds and a half of the ore in less than three hours from the time they be pie, to assist their colored brethren who would seek their liberty in the Eastern David F. Douglass, of California, to were afterwards found, completely rifled of every thing valuable.

ducah, on the 7th. She sunk immediately, and is an entire wreck. The steamer Meteor No. 3, a RedRiv gan to open the hole, and say they have states. be Marshal of the United States for the northern district of California.

seen enough more ol the metal in the dirt to satisfy them that they will get several Augustus Humbert, to be Assayer in The Hon. George Niles addressed the meeting. He said that the black 1 men fought side by side with their American er boat, was burnt to the water's edge. South Carolina. The Charleston pa- I feel it to be my duty also to warn the frank and confiding soldier against the acts and devices of agents who will seek to exaggerate the difficulties of obtaining the land in order to enhance their own charges.

The evidence of service California. Jenbt Liid. It seemt that Jenny has been remonstrated with for devoting the whole proceeds of her American tour (estimated at $150,000) to the establishment of free schools in Sweden and Norway. Her reply to them was, that the had made provision for her parents, had secured a sufficient income for herself, ($6,000 per annum,) and that as she knew not how toon she might lose her voice, she ought to do her duty on the 2nd about fifty miles from pers say that Governor Scabrook will pounds more out ot it. Miners generally in this region are Redick McKee, of Virginia, George brethren; and had a share in the most shortly call the Legislature of South Ca New Orleins.

Her cargo consisted of W. Barbour, of Kentucky, and O. M. glorious battles that were fought in this country, from the first revolution to the about two hundred bales of cotton, all of rohna together, to deliberate with regard doing well, especially at the Mormon Gulch, where handsome daily returns are made to the industrious. exists among the archives of the country to the admission of California.

which was consumed. The passengers In nine cases out of ten, the only proof late war with Mexico the only argument he would use against this hell- The Pacific News relates the follow all escaped, but lost their luggage. Th required will be the identity of the applicant, or of marriage and widowhood. The Fugitive Slave Law. The salu ing astonishing instance of good luck i hashed code--the Fugitive Slave Bill Wozencraft, of California, to be Indian Agents for California.

Pablo Noriega, to be Marshal for the southern district of California. Jacob B. Moore, Postmaster at San Francisco, California. Robert H. Griffith, Receiver of Public Monies at Palmyra, Mo.

eook, barber, and a cabin boy, were lost, to her countty while she had the power. Who can wonder that, independent of or heirship. These are facts readily pro We yesterday conversed with a gen tary effects of the Fugitive Slave Bill are wat the bowie knife and revolver. They want to drag the black men and the black ven, and therefore, the difficulties will her matchless singing, Jenny Lindit the beginning to be palpably manifest. From Fugitive Slaves.

We had no concep. tleman just down from the1 mines, who gave us an account of the good fortune in most cases, be merely nominal. And to remove even these slight obstacles, most popular woman in the world. the following mspatch from Harrisburg, tion (says the New York Tribune) of women out ol the country but 1 tell you we have as good a right here at any white man or woman. ST.

LOUIS MARKET, Oct. 12. it appears that the slaves who Were the cause of the late riot in that place, have and to give more full and complete effect to the munificence of the Government, I the number of these persons in the Nor thcrn States. Our telegraphic dispatch' Charles Keemle, of Missouri, to be Indian Agent at the Upper Platte Agen-oy, vice Thomas Fitzpatrick. The resolutions are of the same stamp, Tobacco -Sales ranging from $5 30 to beo- leave, resnectfullv.

to recommend to been delivered up to their owners i es speak of a general movement among Here are specimens tlislia Whittlesey, of Ohio, to be first the proper authorities ol each county ana them in various places, most of them $0 00 tor shipping Jugs; seconas at $5 75 to $5 95 and Manufacturing leaf at $9 to $9 05 per 100 lbs. Resolved, That wa. utterly repudiate iompiroiier ot tlie reasury. Meriwether L.Clark, Surveyor General of Illinois and Missouri. leering for Canada, to escape the vigi Hemp We now quote me market firm lance of their (supposed) pursuers.

David D. Mitchell, Superintendent of at $80 to lor lair; ana $tu less than three hundred are said to have lownanip ompioy suiMtoie the expense of the county, to supervise the preparation of the applications and proofs of claimants. The ignorant and unwary would thus be protected from imposition, the poor soldiers from burdens they are not able to bear, and the "Thn slm who were confined some time since for riot, after being discharged on a charge of horse-stealing, were this morning brought before the U. 8. Commissioner, McAllister, under the Fugitive Slave Law, when the property was proved, and they were delivered to their masters, who took them back to Virginia, by railroad, without molesta for good; and prim $92 per ton for choice.

i -y Indian Affairs at St. Mo. Ind'mn Agents John R. Chenault, O- left Pittsburgh, Pa. The aggregate num.

ot a man named ohnson. tie had been in the mines but three daj-s in all, and will return home with the largest pile ever taken out in the same length of time. He commenced work on the south branch of Middle Fork of Feather river, digging upward from the base of the mountain, when, on the second day, he came to a rock, around which the river had formed an eddy, and by 4 o'clock njxt day he had taken out sixty pounds of gold, without washing; a panful. The lumps were from five to three hundred dollars. He then sold out his claim for $18,000, and packed his dust upon a mule and started for this city.

He will probably reach here in a day or two. This is undoubtedly the best day's work ever done in California. The truth of the atory is well vouched for, as our informant him- ine law ana lit provisions mat it is so repugnant to every principle of justice, that it can have no binding force whatever upon us and that we do here in the tight of God and before all men, declare that should any one attempt to execute it provisions on any one. of us, either by invading our homes or arresting us in the street, we will treat such sage River; James S. Calhoun, Santa Fe; bci in the Northern States is probably Flour $3 80 and $3 90 per bbl.

Luke Lea, Fort Leavenworth; Gabriel some thousands. No wonder the South Wheat inferior to common grades, o-t W. Long, Chickasaw Agency; Philip Government from many embarrassments which may result from the awkwardness of incompetent agents. tion. to Otic; fair to good, bo to 71; prime to choice, 74 to 77 cents per bushel, exclusive of sacks.

Raiford, Creek Agency; William Butler, an one as assaulting our persons with in Uicrokee Agency; John JJrenner, Choc In conclusion, I desire to say, that should become dissatisfied with a state of things which virtually barred them from tlie recovery of their slaves, even when they found them in violation of the express stipulations of the national taw Agency; Charles P. Babcock, Mack tent to kill, and, God being our helper, Corn Yellow, 50 and 53 cents, white, 55. including new tacks. great care will be used to guard against inac Agency. will use such meant at will repel the undue preferences of one class ot appli cants over others.

With this view, at Gontalve Montesquieu Governor King has pardoned this person, confinedfor some time in St. Louis, for the murder of several citizens of that place about a year ago. He immediately left the city, under charge of Mr. John Tobacco Crop. A dispatch from Hop; aggressor and defend our lives and liberties.

Resolved, That the teachings "and ex the proper time, a sufficient number of Oats 33 and 37 per bush, sacks included. Barley 80 cU. per bu. tackt returned, Rve 55 per btuheL sack ret. kinsville, sayt tb severe frosts on selt saw the gold.

clerks will be employed to issue the cer amples of our oountryman, the prompt Tobacco. The growing crops in Vir The Sacramento Transcript remarks that at no period for several months have Lard 5 3-4 ta 6 uta. ter lb. tificates with the least possible delay, to that all. may have an equal chance of mak ings ot our nature men, as wen at our Bacon Sales of several casks Shoulders duty towards God, tell ut, that whenev F.

Long, on an Illinois river boat for the the 6th and 7th, were more destructive to the tobacco crops in that vicinity, than an- such disaster in the memory of the earliest settlers. Being wholly unex Lakes. He will proceed to New York, ginia have again been seriously injured the recent hail storms. The Lynchburg Republican, of the 26th states that on the. previous Saturday a tremen ing advantageous locations.

ALEX. H. H. STUART, Secretary of the Interior, er the unjust provisions of this law a-gainst Goan humanity shall be at tempt- the accounts Irom the various mining districts, been more generally encouraging than at the present time. The discoveries on the Trinity, Klamath and o- at 4 cents; Sides, olear, 4 3-4 and 5 1-4 cents; good bagged Hams 1-2, sumr-cured at 7 cents per lb.

and thence directly for France. Tne eau euiorcea against either of us. it pected by most settlers, it found them generally with a third, and in many in younger brother still remains oaim were far better that a thousand lives ner- Potatoes 65 cents-per bush. ther streams above the Sacramento, are The National Intelligencer says: It is understood that the Senate, on Monday, Louis. What disposition be made Flaxseed $1 25 per bush.

so far confirmed as to have directed ish in the rescue, than that a tingle human being be permitted to be drareed stances, a half of their crop in the field. Hides Dry Flint, 3-4 a 9 cU. per lb. large emigration in those directions, and every succeeding report increases the iron our mast into DODeiess Dondaire acted upon all the nominations 1 whicn were, laid before them by the President of the United States. Among other ap Some few have suffered an entire loss, The proportion of the crop lost in Chris- of his case is not yet Riot ieirf Whites and Xegrot.

A disp-ch from Philadelphia of the 6th. -J A riot between the blacks and that we desire no grave prouder than that over which shall stand the monument, Beeswax 18 eta. per lb. i Feathers 29 and 31 cents per lb. TsJlow-6 1-4 to 7 1-2 Groceries Sugar, (air to prime, 6 3-4 movement.

Heart-rending accounts of distrest a- pointments ooonrmed, wat that of Hon. Elisha Whittlesey, to be First Comp mong the emigrants on the Plaint had and no page of history prouder than that tian, Trigg and Todd counties, is estimated by the best informed at fully one-third. Holders are in expectation of realizing immense prices, and listen to bo Lad whites took place during the night, reached San Francisco and Sacramento which aaall record the deed of such ret troller or the dous hail storm passed through parte of the counties of Bedford, Franklin, Pittsylvania, Campbell, Charlotte, Appomattox, and Prince Edward, doing immense damage, particularly to the tobacco crop. Gen. Cut.

Gen. Cm hat been renominated far the Presidency by twty counties in Pennsylvania, and bio. Dr. -William Butler, Cherokee Agent, died er Fart the 24th ult. to cents; (Joflee, Jtn, 12 l-i to 13 cents.

G. A. Salt, S)l 25 ta $1 30; per sacks Kanawha. 30 eU par bushel. City.

The Sacramento Relief Associa Resolved. That the crovisiont of -the oilers. tion had tent out Mr. J. N.

Johnson as A' dispatch to Buffalo, of the evening of the 1st, says that Thomas Butler King, Fueitiva Slave Bill of 1850. leavinc us an agent. Of hit return the Sacramento Cattle iood and choice, $3 .50 to $4 on ml and Lombard streets, and terminated in a white man, named Sipple, being stabbed and otherwise mutilated by the blacks. He died whiUt being conveyed to the station bouse. The watchmen accompanying hist were fired FaUt; Matthew has administered the no other alternative, wa must adopt the Transcript sayt That gentleman came from the cost at of Georgia, has been appointed Collector pec inuidTeov xr Saleti to butchers at 50 and motto of our sister State, Virginia "Re Temperanc Pledge to upwards of six thousand fertc since he reached St.

Louitl the terminus of the desert road, on Car sistance to tyrants obedience to bod." a. a 'II I t- of San Francisco, place of J. R. Davis? of Pennsylvania, oecIiDeJT' on by the blacks. son river, lest tlun fir day, a dis- Sheepl KatOntM, WlUSHtMlTOtJ.