Show LATEST rrok TROX it was with great pleasure that we were permitted to shake hike hands with our old friend gen rich in the midst of his own domestic circle in our city on an tuesday ev evering evening instant we found the general healthy and cheerful and as natural as life ile he was accompanied from california by bro 0 P rockwell and about 51 others mostly brethren of whose names we have not learned mamy many there have been great changes in california since bro lyman left the cause in part may be seen by the following extract of a letter from elder george cannon to mr joseph cain dated middle fork sept 26 1850 saturday last it commenced raining and we were not able to do anything in the claim sunday was fine and monday the river river had so raised that work could not be done but this night it descended in torrents without intermission all night tuesday evening the stream rose several feet in a few minutes it carried everything before it with ir irresistible force rockers pumps boards etc etc floated past from all accounts every dam on the river suffered poor edgar gibson is dead also ars tuttle and burnham have died since you left this frem frev freshet shet caused a great suspension of gold diggin digging r throughout the country on the stream and deranged business generally as a delage deluge of rain at an unusual time durino during the dry season necessarily must while the tile waters were up all business was suspended and when they abated there was not time to repair the dams and get much advantage th the annual rainy season would coin corn commence mence consequently there was little left for the miners and aa others to do but gamble away what little they had and those who had nothing had nothing to do but steal rob play at cutthroat cut throat and such like socia social games hoping to get something to satisfy hunger which was very naturally feeling after a great many so long as their pockets were empty and although one two throe three four or five murders per day wre itce in n the territory and no mans life or property were safe during a nights sleep the general rem lem remarked irked that he had not heard of the first capital punishment having been inflicted by the legal authorities so far as has been reported to ua us from various sources it ia is generally supposed that the authoritative pow cra cro cr of CaVorn california la anc arc ia of too toos much property and are engaged in too much business of their own to devote much time to the public good while only such petty crimes as burglary arson theft robber robter robbery yand and killing are concerned hence no wonder if it every man should be for himself and the devil for the rest of them BO so long aa as whiskey abounds and the teeth of hunger are sharpened by abstinence food ia in plen pien tier lier at the mines than means t to obtain II 11 many would be glad to go home but have not dot means many will probably go ia 3 ta sandwich islands to winter many will doubtless sicken and die as others have done leaving their wives widows and their children fatherless and many more who can neither die nor get away nor get food sufficient mast in all probability babi lity suffer exceedingly among the refined drink ino ing ing and gambling gambling and drinking are the popular exercises from mornin morning 6 to evening and from evening to morning and this is the way great fortunes are lost and won or our informants are entirely mistaken one of the first arrivals of the train was mr sir T goodale who delivered our despatch es in california last summer and who immediately on arrival presented us with the th daily alta california extra tuesday 2 0 clock sept 17 which gives an account of 4 a four fourth ih terrible conflagration in san fran cisco the present season the fire commenced in the philadelphia home about 4 a m and swept off several squares the news office lost every thing 9 even to hi iluk books about buildings burned loss ea es timatea to the alta extra says our latest dates from washington only come down to the time when the omnibus bill was clayed dicapula ted led dissected and then buried with the tho single exception of what hat bat pertained to utah the tb deseret of the mormons cormons Mor mons Weare we are notable not abl abi to divine what great things have been done for the deseret of the mormons cormons Mor mons unless it be well we wont pretend to guess now as the above extra is all we have ral rov possible we may get another by y spring and learn without guessing the above we have penned from the bet bei information we could obtain and wid will be b gratified with any corrections or addition from any olour friends just arrived gen richs train lost not a man on the route neither had bad they a horse the indian indians followed them in large numbers on marys ilver river and for near miles the general met two men mer of the company of 10 emigrants who last left this place aaa 4 pal pat passed sed the cutoff cut off the two returned with the general and on the way found three of odthe tack tf companions killed probably with ball bill aad and and powder with some come cutting and 1 scalping and ard lii ill firth er on sound found where the remainder of the 10 1 h hid A pro ably had a fight V with mit wit indians rut lut f tr d nut the bodies thus men suffer fw for dp good counsel the indiana are ara mayg numa kunu rous savage and ind bold cowards coward on marys mays ys dver nver should not the next nail bring brin a prospect of cleome some bome favorable nato faTo rable rabie achon of congress towards many aro ao think thinking ing of ir |