News of the City of San Francisco.
The corner stone of a new Catholic church has been laid.
The shipwrights and caulkers have struck for an increase of wages from $8 to $10 per days, and have succeeded, $10 being the wages now.
The long-shore men struck for $6 per day and 9 hours for a day's work, and have likewise succeeded.
On July the 20th a squatter named McCarthy shot the deputy sheriff, who went with a writ from the District Court to dispossess him, and the sheriff in return shot McCarthy. The wound of the sheriff is in the hip, and is not dangerous; but McCarthy is dangerously wounded with two balls in his lungs.
A Chinese Mission is to be established in the city. Fifteen thousand dollars have been subscribed to erect a building, to be used as a church and school house.
There was a fire among the shipping in the harbor on the 25th July. The ship Manco, with cargo, was burned to the water's edge; loss about $40,000.
On the night of July 21st the clippers Surprise and Herbert, when leaving the harbor, came in collision in the fog. The Surprise was not seriously injured, but the Herbert lost the mainmast and mizen-topmast beside other injuries. No person was harmed. The Herbert is in port repairing.
A sample of oats nine and a half feet high has been exhibited in this city.
The renowned robber chief Joaquin, who has been made a great hero of romance by newspaper writers and legislators, has at length been captured by the State troops raised for the purpose -- at least a man supposed to be him has been taken. The Joaquin war has cost the State a good round sum of money, and has resulted in nothing more than is accomplished by the taking of a thief or robber by a constable or any other private citizen. The Joaquin that there has been so much talk about is purely a fabulous character, whose exploits of villainy have been announced as occurring on the same day in half a dozen different places and at the extremes of the State. Still, we are glad that the supposed romantic chieftain has been captured.
A paper is in circulation in this city for signatures to a petition to Congress for the establishment of a mail line over the Nicaragua route. We certainly require additional mail facilities, and hope they will be extended to us, but we doubt if the movement alluded to is the best calculated to secure the desired end. The practicability of two distinct mail lines is very doubtful, and it is more than probably that the experiment would fail entirely.