The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-24 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF TIIF. EUROPA.

The Itoyal Mail steamer Europa, Captain Lott,
arrived at Liverpool last evening, at five o clock, with
the mails from the United States, Canada, &e., and
66 passengers. She has also about 64t,000 dollars
specie on freight. The Europa left Boston on the
lath, and Halifax the 11th inst. On the lath she
saw a large steamer off Halifax, supposed to Is the
Asia. There had been no later advice; out since tho
Pacific.
Since the adjournment of Congress the Senate had
been in special session for executive business. No-
thing important has transpired.
There had been another arrival from California,
wnwu, though u. a. than ormedine.
gives some interesting particulars not noticed bell re.
The following letter, describing a bottle with In-
dians and the massacre of Americans, is from the
Alla Cohfornia :

San Juan, Sunday, Jan. IS.

An express rider from Mariposa county arrived in this
city this evening. Ile hat brought intelligence of a battle
between four hundred Indians and a party of fifty or sixty
Americans, under the command of Captain JAM. Bar-
ney. 'the despatches containing this intelligence arc
dated at •• Aguu Frio," and they state that the Indians
were strongly entrenched in are of their
portion was attacked at the dawn of day, on or taut the
morning of the 9th instant, by the Americans, led nn by
Captain Burney. The battle was n hard-thuglit .ate, and
lasted three hours. The result was that the Indian', ta,Te
driven from the village, with a 1.., Of sixty killed and fr.,m
tea to twenty wounded. Eight Americans were wounded,
two of them mortally. One of the latter was Lieut. S.
Keane, and the other a Mr. Little. After the the
Americans burned the village and retreated. They were
pursued, and eon-tautly fired upon by the Indians, *during
a retryat of ten miles. But the most horrible
contained in the despatehes pl, that of the ma-saere of
seventy-two men by the noblest 1,2%,12V%. The mass arre
took place near Rattlesnake.ereek. The men were work-
ing in a gulch or chasm, and bad stacked their arms, nut
apprehending any danger. The Indians came 1111,01 them
by stealth, and hat lug seeuretl their arms, massacred them
one by one in detail.
A .petititm liar aid, signed by filly or sixty citizens of
Mariposa county. has been precasted to the executive. Tho
Indians app,ac to has; emumenced a war of extermination.
A letter, publi,lted in the Stieramenlo Tot imeript,
gives the following amnia of an encounter with
the intlians:

Johnson's-ranch, Jan. '!pi.
On the morning of the 23rd inst. a party of thirty-ibur
men marched from Pleasant-valley and South Welter, over
to the Itangtown road, three miles above thin place, where
we were joined by twenty-nine men from JohnsM.-raneh
and Mut:town. At about nine o'clork, a.m., we moved up
the road, and after a forced march of twenty-tit e
(two miles on the north side of the south writ of the
American) we came upon an Indian ranclicria. The nit
met '• vacated it probably an hour before our arrival. The
moment we set tire to their hedges we hearth them (the
Indices) hitaling like wolves nn the ridges above te.. The
come; nd W:l4 imtantly divided into three parties, to enable
us to outthink the enemy, and, if p.n.-Wilk, drier titian into

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the conme of the river. 'The nu•n wcr• .0 p•rectih worn
Out with the march, and also front carrying their blankets
and two days ration•, that it was utterly inrpo••ible for
them to obey the order, that is, mirth with any degree of
rapidity. An it was, however, we managed to kill it of
them, and wound, doubtless, a great many. We had hut
one man wounded in the action. The enemy numberd, I
would judge, (rota the report of the two flanking parties,
and from what I taw, upward of ninety warriors.
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The accounts from the Gold Bluff's confirm the
reports of the auriferous character of the sands in
that locality. The Bluff's are some thirty miles to
the northward of Trinidad, presenting to the ocean a
perpendicular front of front one to tour hundred feet
et height, and extending a distance of alsatt six
miles. Au abundance of take slate mixed with
quartz, and small quantities of quartz gold, are found
at the base. The beach is a mixture of grey and
black sand, combined with fine scales of gold. Tho
Pacific Mining Company are preparing to wash the
lilufis on an extensive !wale, but from present appear-
ances, there is little encouragement fur individual
enterprise.
A new steamer has been placed on the Chaves
river, to run between Chogres and Corgona. Ano-
ther steamer is building at Navy-bay, intended tube
placed on the river as part of a daily line. About
three hundred and fifty persons, principally French-
men, are engaged in working the Buena Ventura
mines, of which the average yield is front two to
three ounces per day.
Another fugitive *slave ease has been brought be-
fore the United States Commissioners at Philadel-
phia. The alleged fugitives are a coloured woman,
about forty years of age, and her son, a boy of ten or
twelve. they were arrested at Columbia, I'u.. and
placed in the charge of the U. S. marshal in Phila-
delphia. No attempt has been made to resist the
execution of tlte law. The woman is far advanced in
pregnancy, and the question arises whether this cir-
cumstance can lie pleaded in her favour, the issue, if
born in a slave state, being a slave.
Robert Morris, a young coloured lawyer, of ability
and respectable standing in Reston, has been bound
over for aiding in the late rescue of the alleged fu-
gitive slave Shadnwh. Ills bud was the lute mayor
of the city,. Josiah Quincy, Jun.
A requisition has peen sent by the governor of
Pennsylvania to the goveniment of Maryland fur the
delivery of a man charged with kidnapping a free
negro. The person alleged to have been kidnapped
was a child five years old, who was bort of a fugi-
tive slave woman in Pennsylvania, and reclaimed
with his mother by her owner. The governor of
Maryland refilses to surrender the accused on the re-
quisition.
The New York papers say that an English mer-
cantile house there has received orders from Eng-
land to procure the building of a clipper ship of 1,101.1
tons. _ _ -

A Swims, namill Carnal, ham been found guilty of
the murder of Charles Woman, and scale:KA to
suffer execution on the 2nd of May.
We leant from Central America that a battle, be-
tween the armies of Guatemala and of Salvador and

llonduras,took place on the 21st of January, at a vil-
lage called Sun Jose, about three leagues from Chi-
quimala. It continued from 9 o'elmk in the morn-
ing until 3 in the afternoon, when the forces of Sal-
vador and Honduras were vompletely defeated. The
vanquished, who fled in all directions, were pursued
by General Carrera, who, it was thought, would
march upon San Salvador.
By this arrival we have advices from Valparaiso to
Jan. 21. A vessel, intended ns a sloop-of-war for
the (,'Lilian nuvv, and construeted of materials en-
tirely of domestic manufacture, was launthed on the
19th. A house belonging to the American consul at
Talcahuano was destroyed by tire on the 12th ; ono
or two other buildings shared the same fate; the
total loss being about 70009 doll. A large fleet of
vessels of war was m the harbour of Valparaiso at
the date of our adviees, including the British ships
Asia, Da lulus, Daphne, and steamer Druid. The
British frigate Portland was expected about the Ist
of Feb., to relieve the Asia. A new law has been
adopted for the regulation of the coinage. The bri-
tish ship Alfred, with a cargo of coal, was burned
about two miles from the Island of Quiriquana, at
the entrance of the harbour. The crew escaped, and
arrived at Talealluana in the ship's launch, on the
11th of Jan.
The election of president of Peru has terminated
in favour of Eeheuique. Congress is to meet un the
2oth of March.
One or two partial insurrections have occurred at
Bolivia. Belau was at La I'ar. A decree has been
issued for the banishment of all Buenos Ayrcans
who were not married to Bolivian females, or who
were federalists.
A steam ferry-boat at St. Louis burst her boiler
on the 23rd of February, completely shattering the
floor part of her cabin and deck, and killing and
drowning at least twenty persons. Several women
were on deck, only one of whom is known to have
escaped.