CALIFORNIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XII, Issue 736, 26 November 1859, Page 3

CALIFORNIA.

By way of Hobart Town we have San Francisco news to the 24th August. *

Two persons, named Connor and Mulhare, had jbeen committed for trial on a charge of stealing 10,000 dollars worth of gold dust..^ ( > ' s A correspondent of the Butte B|ii|jt writes thus under the 29th July, from the^|H«jks- of Butte, about the massacre of the Indians :%*- -:

The most brutal and attrocious wholesale slaughter of diggers that has occurred in the Butte county for many a day, was perpetrated at the Indian, rancheria yesterday morning, situated about two and a half miles from this place, on the north side of the river. The rancheria was attacked about daylight, when an indiscriminate slaughter commenced j nine of the Indians were killed—viz., iive bucks, two squas, and two children, and four wounded, perhaps fatally. Their camp was also plundered of rifles and money.' The perpetrators of the inhuman and bloody crime, and their motives for so doing are alike unknown. That they are white men none doubt: the Indians verify this. They say they were disguised, their faces being Slacked, and that they came from the direction of the valley. These Indians have been here ever since the whites have, and are known to have been peaceable. However, there were two or three bad ones among them—one in particular, called "Malo Jo,"~and he seems to have been a very particular object of vengeance, having been shot four or five times, and his scalp taken by his bloody murderers. It is believed that he and some of his companions have done some mischief either in the valley or in the lumbering region of Deer or Mill Greek, thus being the cause of bringing this terrible vengeance upon himself and tribe. The Deer Creek Indians have been troublesome of late. It is rumoured they have killed two white men, stolen cattle and commit- . ted other depradations in that vicinity, and also that a party is now avowing their determination to exterminate the Digger tribe. Whether this Deer Creek party havecommittedthisoutragejam unable tosay, but whoever they may be, I will take the liberty of saying that they are (i set of cowardly, fiendish brutes. They cannot lay claim to a particle of humanity—there are no manly feelings in their composition. The "Dead Babbits" of New York would shrink with horror from their hellish deeds. There is no justice in butchering the old and crippled and the innocent for the guilty. There is nothing human in butchering indiscriminately a camp of Digger women and children. If " Malo Jo " had done anything to deserve his fate, why did they not come like men, in the broad of day, and hang him up in the first tree ? He could have been taken here any day, and we would have assisted them.in doing it. But coming as they came, under tlie cover of night, with their faces painted to conceal identity in their dark deeds, we can but recognise them as demons of the blackest stamp, ten times more degraded than the Indians, who have no refined feelings or. moral obligations to square their actions.