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Show HOME jNEWS. San Jcan Iseakd and Tns Nortit-. -In purSuanco of orders from Gen, Harney, Companies A 0. & H., Captains Cap-tains Malonoy, Hunt and UrtgHsTj, and Liout3. Kellog and Conner, all Under tho command of Lieut. Col. Gaspy, the xhole" foreo numbering About 150 men, with two, heavy brass field gun3 and about 50 tons of amunition,6tor-s, j loftgteilacoom, AugustO, and arrived - at San Juah Aug, 12. The American force, ujloii, the island at present con-' con-' Bista of about MO men. At noon H, VL. S. SatQlUto steamed into .tho" harbor. har-bor. Aug. .6,an attack was made by 500 Snake Indians on tho Warm Spring Indian Reservation, near tho Dalles. rVj- i3fcL '--'-'rr attack w "totally nrieiepectcd, Br. Fitchj tho resident physician, and fltiv-icra fltiv-icra Indians belongirig to tho rescrva- tloti, w(9 killed m companies; of jbrbops have been sent out against the Snakes1: '7 - CALIFORNIA-, &e . Fetasx of jiie Yntam Tho Jios Angeles, Vineyard ot Aug 20tb .Says tho patronal feast of that vino giH.city was celebrated Oh Sloftdayj itf$ irist.,-witji,unusitsii irist.,-witji,unusitsii solemnity hnd public fW tivity. On tho isvcnlrig jjf tho feast. thoyouhg ladies.of thd Academy Ofthb Imtnaculab Conception,; nearly three hundred in number bcarihg witli tlusrn a stafuo 6 E. ipur Lady Gf Angelcsiwa'lkcd -in1 profession .from Acatfcmv to tho, church, where a beautiful decorated altarJad beoR erected by thp fair' eeh-: orttasi-; Jfho statue whs placed. ; ori .thq-altarmhlst .thq-altarmhlst ablaze of,,lght;, fromff thousanU. Ifiiran ftBlSpei: hons-'iloud nar deepenqdith'agolemniiyi while the mcit'ch'imo of bell3';pealed i forth.nO.tofjoyaptVgladnesthrough-; : put. .thVcl.ty.' , Within? tho; church; the , crcbc-Stla'ii'jn dulcet-strain? bf Soft'racl p(jyt'prociatmcd,. thb approach ; of' "thp; , festal --day'.' Later- ittj-thccveningii; ceneral flluriiination.tqblfjil , the- resldoneo q;thovfathcr3;.itas: 'bri)Uan"t blase rcfloctd:fn 5 ' ablfe'torches and latnfeif ' ' '--i, '.Pi - 77.'!jl-ft v3s& fi'driKibb ha1i''":prgnwze ofv'olunteers', an'd?iivnb-- cftrdti'toiror. ,fic"cfs;;jp '-camp'anyr!Stf3 ufnS". :ofBe"Blulfsl sW Sch'eUI -TrVtitKHvrerJd:LjLtc'n jolni f-McCitrlpf I WveUlold: ieufpnjntlre'ti ,:Or-.erlySerge!d'n t: .WcaVcrviltejp 112 r2utallb.aiida'lC .43jsonid;S '5'CbfpdralJfJdhri Mtbi J'nvlitoSt'aryi " i ' ' "" ' " ?' ''r 7 Vl- .'. ' Editojr'of'thbi' Clinstittn .'AdVoeato ,'- ;$'ays.t-, ' ' 7 7 ' i jlu durlHtcTftiip'riorth ifa.&Xft- iome-! ' thihg ahdjward inuclt bf the Indians; -Of thisoasU. IFhey ai-o a haploss race; q.f abused; savagcsl Christ tin men noratnally vs;uch -ar-rs guilty at outrages ijpon these savages thajwlll.givo otn-, ptoistifl their. dathnatiqn in" tn'o. 'cofn-. lhpy; tho ' aborigines ar- -melting ;nrdyj as 'thelmys of -the moutuaina in J"une Corrupfed.and r depraved,- 'fn.ijp.tly ;and'6ul, by fiontttctnth. ttvlato- frien thoyartj. dqoinpdVtP. sVcejIy .extirpatibitV; Flity.A-Placjtfvi -says: iQwing.,to: th"6;:care!cs .mi'granisnhiuildi jnllei. of thelirohcr aro Voh --fettvaiprig'. .tho'line of tlie new' road. ;'ho;firo itas;-destroyed itas;-destroyed 'bnd briilgalnhd bumt nearly onc'miloof the poles 'of the- Ovland, leiegraph Company, i" . 1 r 7' 1 litojt QtlkiX Santa Clara Constr. Tho Sab Jose Telegraph notices eomo I specimens otli-qn oro, exhibited by Mr, Loui3 Wolfer, which is saij to bo very rich Mr,s W. is a practical tn'mor, employed em-ployed at tho Guaualoupo mines.. IJo 'eays that therO js -an inexhatistihio bed bf iron ore in. Santa Clj.ra county, and i that it is" of a very -superior quality. He declines to state tho pieciso locality; of tlto veins, but it is probably within; thi'rty.-fivo miles of San Jpse? in tho BQighborhood of Gilroy. JCjiX Moj.a:S War. Wq condonse tlfej. following from an extra of the Los. ;'Artgcles Star, which furnishes a derailed de-railed account of a battle fought on tho Sth'vinsb between fifty 0. 45. troops under Maj. Armisfead; and. Lieut. Mar-shall Mar-shall wltlr a largo force- of Mojave rridipsVbont. "fifteen miles, below JFcrt MSjayJj. Maj.Armistead, who was. in ptlyattce, first engaged iho Ind'ans in thevJVrrbwwo.od Thickets After a, slight-skirmish, tho troops took position fnagrovoof mosfjuitc, whore tho ground .wajrclcaf Of undergrowth. They had not long- to wait for tho Indians, wtio inada their appearanco in large numbers',. num-bers',. and surrounded the position within short rango of the rjflo muskets, which ' wbrb sbbn brought into play with deadly efie'et. Maj. Armtstead continued to "Ongago tho Indians Tor three qua'rters of an'hour, and. fresh warriors were arriving arriv-ing every minute, whcij Lieut; Marshall, who had heard tho firing, arrived with his company, and the, wh.olo force charg' ed the Jndians, driving thcm from their positions. They 6oon rallied,hQv-ever, rallied,hQv-ever, but were again forced to retreat After two hours' rest under thp shade of tho mosquito trees, tho troops wero ordered o march on tho return to tho PortvJimt had npt proceeded far when tho Indians again rallied in largo fprce. Tho . whole body of Indians camp running run-ning up,- yelling and whooping, and chargci fcartea'sTy apoii thBv'bomrna the bravest of t)iern cbnting up'to withlri ;f,cn pr fifteen yards of tticf xntmlqb? tho rifles ; tHeso,howeirc'r, tiaid' dearly for their temerity, tho steady and welf directed ftrcs;0f the, men held them' in checkjwhen after thirty minutes hard fighting, Maj.'Armistcad. ordered tho cbriimand to charge thcmr1?hich was dona fearlessly TKo Indians raised and broke jtn pyery, direction, perfectly discotnfited j nk a yell-or sound bf any kthtl was ;bo .heard after Vthls ; tho Victory was complcto. Twppty-thr'ee. Indians were fputrd deadv 'ciosb Jto :iho position.; the grpur)d further off was not rwOnhoitercd.-if !In f '0i,'f many, were sccnrcarryjnfri.tho.;dcad and, 'wounded frOmw'tho:',1ll.eld lit,' iai.supp'oscd'' that spmo 'fty -hie; 'sixty'Jiavp Jbc.e'liillctL ; Of thdcamihandjthrpci;". men.werb,sliglit-ly men.werb,sliglit-ly founded. 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