CALIFORNIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 571, 22 January 1851, Page 3

CALIFORNIA.

[From the San Francisco Daily Herald, Oct. IS.] At 12 o'clock to-day the joyful news spread around the city, that the Oregon was entering the harbour, gaily decornted with flags, and bearing at her peak the joyful signal that California was admitted. Our citizens, half wild with joy, poured along the streets half incredulous, but in a few minutes the whole vessel was seen pushing her way into the bay and bringing uunaistakeable signs that she was the bearer of the glad tidings. . • The announcement is conveyed in the following in the evening edition of the New York Tribune, of the 13th of September ;— “ We are at last enabled to send the news so long awaited by our fellow citizens on the Pacific coast. California is admitted into the American Confederacy, and to-day takes rank

as the Thirty first State of the Union • Tbe bill for her admission was brought up in the house on Saturday, and after a short discussion passed as it came fiom the Senate. The 57 votes against the bill were all from the ultra-southern members. The Representatives of (California, who have been so long in waiting, will probably take their seats to-day. “ The news has been received everywhere with the most unbounded satisfaction. At Washington 100 minute guns were fired on Saturday evening, followed by a display of fireworks. In this city, many of the hotels and public edifices hoisted the national flag in token of rejoicing. “The Utah and New Mexico bills have also passed ; and the organized members of our j Confederacy now span the continent in one unbroken arch, whose base is washed by the world s great oceans. May it so stand through the coming centuries 1 “ The California Bill passed the House of Representatives on the Gth of September, by a vote of 153 to 55, and on the 9th cf September it received the signature of the President.

“ Senate, Sept. 11. —Mr. Fremont introduced a bill to extend the laws and judiciary system of the United States over California, to appoint a surveyor of public lands in California, and to preserve peace with the Indians therein. “ State of the Union.—Washington, 12th Sept.—The southern Press still predicts disunion and nuliincation in Georgia, Alabama, Texas, and South Carolina. The rumour of trampling the flag under foot at Charleston is all humbug. “ Mademoiselle Jenny Lind has signified her intention of appropriating the profits of her visit to America to the establishment ofa system of free schools in Norway and Sweden. “ Jenny TA nd has arrived at New York, where she gave her first concert on the 13th of August. Her success was complete, and and at its conclusion she made a donation of 10,000 dollars to the city charities.” [From the Alta oit AMERS. — rL ieW months ago the arrival of an ocean steamer produced the most intense state of excitement throughout our entire community. It was a monthly event, and of no weak importance. The moment it was annnnncprl rhat o ctoomo- tt- ss —; n ,. — _ —w IvUJU va »» ao V«VMJIU£' i into the harbour, there was a general rush to Clark’s Point to witness the landing of the passengers. The advent of Americus Vespucius, the Pilgrim Fathers, or Christopher Columbus, could scarcely have produced a greater interest among the aborigines than i whilom did the arrival of a steam craft from i Panama. But now how changed is the scene. ! The regular mail steamer excites but a moa rl tkn ’nooinrifn nnr z'i i tizens are content to await the issue of an extra or the regular morning newspapers for the latest news, instead of breaking their necks after the latest edition of the States’ paper. Neither is business suspended for a couple of i days, as was formerly the case, and, save for : the cries of the news boys, the public would scarcely know that there was another arrival. I Nor does the sailing of a steamer exercise such a marked event as formerly. The fact ■ is we are getting highly civilized, and are ' brought so near the old sisterhood as to regard ourselves almost in the same neighbouri hood, A trip to the United States is now as j simply regarded as we were wont to consider a trip to Monterey or to Angeles, a pleasant ! way of spending a few leisure hours.

Rowdyism at Night.—lf there is no other method of abating the outrageous nuisance of drunken men, women, and rowdies generally rendering the streets a correct picture of what one mioht snnnnw tfio of the damned, nearly all night, shocking all decency, and quiet with ribaldry, obscenity, language and songs that would infinitely disgrace the character of bis Sulphurous Majesty—we would suggest that all the cisterns, wells, and breaknecks generally about town, which are now in a condition to catch such filth, be left as they are, in the merciful hope that such human scum may boil out of the public pot, and sink to its level, several degrees towards . The Squatter Candidate.—Dr. C. Robinson, now a prisoner on board the “ prison brig” at Sacramento-, for the part he took in the recent squatter difficulties there, and yet awaiting his trial for the saiDG, bas beau elected to the assembly by a vote of 869. The other candidates are John Bigler, and L. F. Dunlap,.the first receiving 1068, the other' 1031. Robinson has companionship in his present victory and circumstances, in some respects. The present Mayor of Pitsburg was in prison at the time his friends elected him. Says the Transcript-— “ The election of Robinson is an event that was not anticipated, but it is not so strange as many seem to think. It should be borne in mind that there were eighteen candidates in the field for the Assembly, on all but three of whom the votes of elec B were thrown awav. On Robinson .tb'"'

concentrated their votes, and he is elected, because the people generally have voted for individuals, and not to defend any principle. Had the settler question been voted upon, the votes cast for fifteen candidates would have been against the 869 votes that elected Robinson."

“ Lynch Law in Georgetown.—An instance of this summary mode of dispensing justice, took place on Monday last at Georgetown, while the election was going on. It seems that a man by the name of Devine had taken to gambling, and as he was in the habit of losing his money, bis wife hid all that came into her possession. On Sunday last, as he had got * broke’ he demanded the money which she had hid. She refused to deliver it if he intended to use it in gambling, whereupon Devine threatened to kill her. As he seized his gun she blew out the candle, and fled into the next room ; he, however, discharged it at her. The contents passed through the door and killed her. An enraged crowd, several hundred strong, assembled forthwith, set Devine on a horse, and rode him off to a tree. Here they made him kneel upon the horse's back, put the rope around his neck, and drove the horse off, leaving him hanging from the banch of the tree,"