Daily Alta California, Volume 12, Number 138, 18 May 1860 — BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. Per Alta, Placerville, and Salt Lake line. [ARTICLE]

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. Per Alta, Placerville, and Salt Lake line.

More Murders.—-Pyramid Lake.—Sacramento Soldiers— Another Return.—Electlon, etc., etc. Virginia City, May 17, 9 p.m. Messrs. Espers, Anderson, Lamar, Ques. King, Charles Palmer, and Marco Cuesavick, left here Saturday, 5th, for Pyramid Lake. At Red Bluff, Truckee River, they were joined by John Gibson and Mr. Canfield, recently from Oroville. They left Red Bluff, Monday morning, for Pyramid Lake. Their bodies have been found in Willoughsby River, four milei from the place of departure, showing that they were murdered the day they left Red Bluff. This was the day on which the massacre at Williams' Station took place. This settlement has been considerably alarmed a few nights past, by reports of Indians close at hand. There are no Indians probably within fifty miles of this place. Great fear has been experienced by thousands of poltroons who have run away from here. Two hundred and fifty stand of arms and an escort of twenty men, under Col. Sanders, from Sacramento, reached Genoa last night, and started for Virginia City this morning. Dr. T. Jader [sic: Tjader], reported killed in the battle, returned yesterday, with three slight arrow wounds, He lay concealed near the battle ground two days. He saw seventeen dead bodies of whites stripped, but not mutilated. Three days ago their faces were beaten with stones. Dr. Jader had nothing to eat for four days. At an election held here yesterday, to decide for or against a Provisional Territory, the vote stood : Ayes, 7; noes, 1,175. Carson also opposed it, but Gold Hill and Silver City voted in its favor. ——o—— The Industrial School Celebration. — A lovelier May morning than that of yesterday has seldom dawned upon the Pacific coast. The sun rose unobscured above the Contra Costa hills, made his diurnal circuit through the clear heavens, and sank to rest in the calm waters of the Pacific, unbedimmed by even a floating cloud. At an early hour, most of the livery stables were emptied of their stock, and the out-of-town omnibusses left the Plaza crowded, so that the belated applicants for passage had to exercise no little tact and activity in procuring any mode of conveyance to the country. Of those who wended their way to our suburban retreats, a large number went out to attend the anniversary exercises of the Industrial Schoolt—than which, no more useful institution of a benevolent character is to be found in our midst The audience, numbering some two hundred of our most influential business-men, with their families, assembled in the large lower apartment, used as a school-room, and which fronts to the southward of the building. Ira P. Rankin opened the exercises in an appropriate address. He referred to the derogatory remarks which had been made in regard to the non-success of this enterprise; that although the institution had been inaugurated with a grand flourish of trumpets it had failed to come up to the expectations of its projectors and patrons. The speaker maintained that this verdict was premature, and showed conclusively that it had already accomplished much towards effecting the object for which it was founded. All of the applicants for admission had been received and properly cared for. A prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Willey, after which the visitors examined some very creditable specimens of the hand-writing of the pupils, who soon after joined in singing a hymn. Historical and poetical passages were then read, followed by exercises in spelling, and a dialogue between two of the lads. In all of these the boys acquitted themselves very creditably, and their performances elicited commendations from the visitors. One of their number, and a juvenile genius in his way, next gave a Shakespearian recitation, a pastime that he frequently indulged in before a troop of his quondam associates on the docks, prior to his "reformation." The children next sang in chorus the multiplication table, after which they were addressed by Rev. T. Starr King. A benediction, pronounced by Rev. Mr. Williami, closed the regular order of services. The visitors, before their departure, were invited to partake of a bountiful collation, to which ample justice was done, and the company returned to town pretty well convinced, despite the carpings of the inconsiderate, that this benevolent institution is in a great degree fulfilling the hopes entertained of its usefulness at the time of its establishment. Destructive Fire.—About firs o'clock yesterday morning, a fire broke out in a frame building on Clay street, opposite Brenham Place, and soon, with the adjoining houses, was in flames. Five houses were destroyed. The fire broke out in Mrs. Conrad's millinery store, which was in charge of Mrs. C.'s brother and a young girl, the proprietress being absent at San Jose. Several persons in the adjoining houses had a narrow escape. It has been published that suspicious circumstances show complicity on the part of the proprietors in originating the fire. The statement, we are able to state, positively, is incorrect. One of the carriers of the Alta, Mr. Johnson, on discovering the fire, broke open the front door, and, with one or two others, commenced carrying out goods, the flames being then confined to the back part of the store. The draught caused by opening the door drew the flames out, and drove everybody before them, so that only a show case or two of laces, etc., was saved. The fire burnt with amazing rapidity, feeding upon the very inflammable material of the buildings. The sufferers are: Mr. Conrad — loss in goods, etc, $1,000, insured; Henry Gurkee — loss of building, about $1,200, insured; Mr. Collins, jeweler — building and furniture, $3,000, not insured; Mr. Johnson — loss of furniture, $800; Mr. Hobson, shoemaker— $180; Mr. Kuhn, carpenter — loss of tools, etc., $350; others — names not known — about $500. Total — about $5,000. The Fire Department was on hand in a remarkably short time after the alarm was sounded, and have never worked more nobly and efficiently in the discharge of their onerous duties. Good substantial brick buildings will be speedily erected in the place of those consumed. Board of Education.—At the meeting of the Board last night the report of the Committee on Examination of Teachers was read; out of thirtynine applicants, only nineteen received certificates; of these were one for Principal, three for First Assistants, three for Second Assistants, and five for Assistants, of Grammar Department, and one lor Principal, and six for Assistants, of Primary Department Certificates were ordered to be issued. The Committee on School Houses and Sites were authorized to purchase lot No. 602, at the price offered The Committee on Furniture and Supplies recommended an appropriation to purchase furniture for the school houses to he erected ...... Thanks were tendered to Messrs. Swett, Myrick and Leonard for their assistance to the Committee on Examination of Teachers The salary of the Principal of the Hyde Street School was fixed at $150 per month On tbe ballot for Teachers for the Normal School, Mr. G.W. Minns was elected Principal, and Messrs. K.H. Holmes and John Swett were elected Teachers; for Spring Val'ey School, Mr. G.H. Peck was elected on the fourteenth ballot; for Hyde Street School, Mr. G. W. Bunnell was elected; for First Assistant of Rincon School, Miss Harriet E. Porter was elected; for Second Assistant of Powell Street School, Miss J. A. Rappeleye was elected; for Greenwich Street School, Miss L.M. Cutler was elected Principal, and Miss Anna Prescott, Assistant. Adjourned Adjourned to Tuesday. "Oh Woman! In our Hour of Ease," etc. — We were the accidental witness, last evening, of a scene which, while it evinced a debased and shameless manhood, portrayed at the same time that devoted tenderness of the true wife, ever character. istic of woman's love. The scene was that of a well-dressed woman assisting, or directing the steps of her drunken husband homeward, up Clay street toward the Plaza. She had found him, doubtless, in one of the low groggeries, and, asserting the wife's prerogative to rescue her best-loved from destruction, she urged him gently along. Although the man was so inebriated as to stagger against his wife, with force enough to push her off the sidewalk, she still clung to him, seeming regardless of what might befall herself, so intent was she on getting him safely and speedily home. But the task grew at last too arduous for her feeble strength, wheu a gentleman, observing her distressed look, volunteered his services—more for her safety than to aid the helpless object of her solicitude—and the two succeeded in getting him to the Mission omnibus station, on Kearny street, where she was fortunate enough to find a stage about starting. The brute was hoisted in, and with his head pillowed on ber shoulder, the faithful wife and her "leige lord" started for their home. Though many, in their hearts, execrated the drunkard, none ventured to wound the feelings of the woman, by expressing their sentiments. Such is a true wife's devotion. Murder at San Jose. — We clip the following dispatch from the Bulletin: San Jose, May 17—11 a.m. An American, working on a ranch close to town, was murdered by an Indian yesterday, about two o'olock. He had accused the Indian of stealing some rope, and the Indian beat him to death with a club. This morning the Indian was examined and committed to jail. The dead body lies in the Justice's office. There is much excitement here on the subject. I have not been able to learn the name of the wounded man. Big Tree Route to Washoe.—After the first of June a tri-weekly stage will run from Stockton to Genoa by the Big Tree route, which, it is said, is the best road across the Sierra Nevada, and the one by which tbe all the heavy San Francisco trade will go before the close of the summer. At present many persons on foot and on horseback are taking that route on their way from the southern mines to Washoe. Supreme Court Decisions. — Green vs. Palmer et al. Decision reversed... Also, Lombards vs. Furguson, Shaw vs. Randall, and Elliott et al. vs. Chanman et al.; appeals dismissed. .