CALIFORNIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 679, 4 February 1852, Page 4

CALIFORNIA.

[From the Maitland Mercury, January 10.] We are in receipt of San Francisco papers to the 13th November. Murders and outrages were becoming more common once more, and the Vigilance Committees had been called on to act in different places. The rainy season had set in in some parts, but a mild and dry winter was anticipated. Mining News. — Parks’ Bar, Yuba River. —The Squad Company, the Canal Company, and the Ohio Company, we understand, have ceased operations for this season. The two latter companies have proved unusually rich even for the Yuba River. They will all turn the river next season. The Perry Wing Dam, just below the Ohio Company, has made-the most enormous returns of any fine gold claim in California. They have taken out 540 dollars to one nan of earth. We understand that but about onefifth of their claim has been worked this season. They are making preparations all along the river fir great operations next year, from the head of long Bar to the mouth of Deer Creek, the richest part of the river.—Calaveras express. Four Men Murdered by Indians.— Mr. Ca mpbell reports the murder of four men I by the Indians, between Scott’s Valley and Reading s Springs. These men were on their way from Scott’s Bar to the Storings for a load of provisions, when they were attacked by the Indians and horribly butchered. The name of one of them was Albert R. Young ; he was about 28 years of age, and belonged to Bangor, Me. Ma. Campbell did not learn the names of the other three men.— Klamath Correspondent of Alta California. The Vintage has fully commenced, and our vine growers are busily engaged in gatherJng..Llie.jus£io.us_grapeB and converting them into wine and brandy. The quantity manufactured will be immense, notwithstanding the shipments of grapes that have been sent up the coast, — San Diego Star. The Alta California, Nov. 20, thus coolly disposes of a series of frightful proceedings at Sacramento : —“ The Sacramento papers publish accounts of the murder of six men at Auburn, whose bodies had been found with the marks of lariats around their necks ; of the rising of the people at Grass Valley and the formation of a Vigilance Committee there, to be armed, equipped, and mounted at eight o’clock last Tuesday morning, E. B. Lundy, Esq. being the captain ; of the formation of a Vigilance Committee at Ophir, Placer County ; of the horrible murder of a miner near Dry Town, the mortal wounding of another, and the serious wounding of two others in the same tent; of the rising of the people, the capturing of one of the villains, the fact that he was hung, and the pursuit after the remainder cf the scoundrels. There is no other news of importance. At Marysville things were equally bad. *1 he Heiaid, Nov. 18, states :—“ That it had not more than announced the murder of two men when it is called upon to publish the accounts of the murder of three others, about four miles from Honecut Creek. One of the unfortunate men was named George Mather from Boston or its vicinity. He had been engaged in carrying goods to the mines. In searching for his body the bodies of two oilier murdered men were found near. The name one was supposed to be Jenkinson. He had received 17 stabs, seven of which were in the breast ; that the other was thought to have been Gardner ; his hair was light, and his front upper teeth quite prominent. Suspicion rested upon some Mexicans, and parties were out in pursuit of them. Here follows a postscript, in which the Herald says that since the three bodies had been found the bodies of six others have been found also. This makes 17 murders that the same paper has announced within a day or two. The Vigilance Committee were to meet yesterday morning, to take prompt steps in the premises. Hera follows another postscript, in which it is announced that Sheriff R.’b. Buchanan and bis posse went out to the Sonorian Camp, hearing that three of the men suspected of the recent murders were there, and while he was getting through the bars of the fence was shot in the back near the spine, the ball passingout in front, near the hip, and severely—it is feared mortally wounded.” J