The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-03 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The Canada, Capt. Judkins, arrived at Liverpool
last night, with dates from New York to the 20th,
and Halite: 23rd ult. The Niagara had arrived out
on the 16th, in thirteen days and a half.
The gold-finding in California is still the promi-
nent subject in the journals. At San Francisco, at
the end of September, a meeting was held tor the
purpose of devising means to secure a fixed value to
gold dust, and to insure its adoption, in the present
scarcity of coin, as a circulating medium in the
ordinary transaction of business, at sixteen dollars an
ounce.
The following resolutions were adopted :
That unless the citxene of 'alifornia sustain the price of
gold at home, it must depreciate abroad. That they look
upon every measure to reduce the price of gold as injurious
to the beet interests of the country. That the citizens of San
Premises will unite in establishing gold dust en a currency,
at 16 dots. per canes. That the merchant who will receive
gold duet at 16 doll. per ounce, in payment of dues, shall be
worthy of the patronsg• of the public.
The latest news from San Francisco is to the 7th of
October.
Gold had been lately found on the American fork, as
well as near the Ciudad de los Angelo& The sickly
season was over on the Sacramento, but would
be followed by the raining season, about the be-
ginning of November. In California now the ca-
lalist is the least independent person there, the
• man being the most sought after and re-
41' The editor of the Californian announces the
of the Oregon papers; cause, the gold finer
ration is flowing thence to the Sacramento.
Id is also to be found on the Rio Oils. On the
way out to California, Colonel Emery, of the Topo-
graphical Engineers, attached to the army of the
West, under Oi weal Hearny, followed the course of
the Gila. from the mountains of New Mexico westward.
He speaks of gold at several points along the way ;
and at one point where the river Prieto comes into
the Oils, he gives the following story :—As the story
goes, the Pieto comes down from the mountains,
freighted with gold. Its sands are said to be full of
this precious metal. A few adventurers who ascended
this river, hunting beaver, washed the sands
at night, when they halted, and were richly rewarded
for their trouble. Tempted by their success, they
mad. a second trip, and were attacked, and most of
them killed by the Indians. If this be so, there are
"gold digging" on the tributaries of the Oils, five
hundred miles south-east of the valley of the Sacra-
mono, and it may be that the whole of that great
desert of mountains and volcanic rains, is sprinkled
with gold along the streams.
The best road to California is now a question very
generally dismissed in the American papers. A paper
to market news—The Dry Goods Reporter
--says, when speaking of gold :
The list inquiry now is, how shall goods and passengers
be sent to California. The most obvious may appear to be
by sea, round Cape Horn ; but it is • tedious and expensive
voyage, and there is also • fear on the part of owners that
they wi I not be able to get their ships back, in cones-
quenee of the expected desertion of the crews. The season
of the year is not unfavourable for pamenpre. The other
method is to ship for Churn, and from thence pro-
lend by boats ce canoes up the river of the suns name,
to a village forty-five lades distant, named Crones.
From Cruces to Pumas there is a road 21 Mile. lung. In a
straight lino the distance is but about 40 miles In the dry
seasons, to wit the months of January, February, March
sad April, it takes about two dap to cram, at other times
shout three. It will therefore be perceived that now is the
beet time to emigrate. We perceive that Rowland and Aspic-
wan pop se to coestract a railway at their own expense
ammo the isthmus. sad a New York Company has issued
prop el& for subscriptions to a rad ray of a similar chem.
ter ; and to show how the spirit of enterprise is abroad, and
how it is pervading all elamss of this cosununi_ty, this com-
pany has ter its trustees one of the heroes of Mexico, Gen.
Scott, one of our heaviest capitalism, the collector of the
on pert, and .of Garment learned ex-judges. Similar CIOCUT-
Num took plies ones in Ragland, when a bubble wee he
fisted that had se bads whatever. A large number of
vessels are up fee ports la the Golf and on the l'aeifle, sad
there will be a susersios of embarkations in all this month.
California has been a fertile source for discussion in
the Howe of Representatives at Washington. Four
projects for the settlement of the slavery question in
the territories are now beim Conroe :—I.
Making ass data oteslikezia, to be arganknd baandi-