CAMANCHE MATTERS. - A dispatch was received yesterday, by the agent of the New York Underwriters, directing the delivery of the Camanche to the contractors, and thus the main source of all further difficulty in the progress of the boat is removed. All the insurers but two have paid salvage to the wrecking party who rescued the Camanche, and upon settlement by the owners of the ship upon the uninsured part of the boat, and upon the freight money, nothing will stand n the way of contractors. Yesterday, seventy-two men walked up to the pay-roll and received the hard cash for their good work, and were notified to be on hand this morning, bright and early, to continue their labors. Next week, full two hundred men will be employed, and after the iron-plates are all up and in position, this number will swell to three hundred, all employed in clinching bolts and closing rivets up. This will be no small item to the account of the honest sons of toil. Three hundred men paid off every week, will make glad four-fold that number who will enjoy the benefits.
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POLICE COURT. - Eighteen drunks were up yesterday, most of whom forfeited their bail. Charles A. Owens, for whaling his wife, was sentenced to ten days imprisonment, or a fine of $10, as a just and righteous equivalent for the enjoyment it must have afforded him to see his "old woman" waltz around. Henry Koit, for assaulting a man, and being unable to show a first-rate excuse for it, was sentenced to imprisonment for fifty days, or to pay a fine of $25.
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STATE PRISONERS. - Trinidad Martinez and Alexander Brown came into the City Prison, at ten o'clock last night, with a terrific clattering of iron chains and fetters and took lodgings. They have engagements at the State Prison that will require their presence there for a matter of three years, which is the only explanation they have to offer to the citizens of San Francisco for not staying longer with them. They have been stealing horses a little, up in Placer county. Sheriff W. Sexton is their traveling agent.
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