The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-06 00:00:00

GET ON THERE.

Perhaps it may be interesting to yanr readers to lean:
rimetling of the mode of getting to California. If an
Englishman with suck intent should arrive in New York he
would And that there are three different lines of steamers
constantly plying hence to Chagrin. They are all of the
Ant elms, and some of them. such as the Ohio and Georgia,
are of 2,000 tons battles. Besi les these two belonging to
the government main., there are the Empire Cr y and
the Cr. scent City belonging to Howard's line, and the Che
r.kee end Philadelphia of Howland and Aspinwall's line.
The lowe.t steerage fare Is 60 dole., and cabin 100 dole. The

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accommodations are excellent, and the vessels are sajit and
sac. A cabin passenger is allowed to take eight cubic feet
of luggage free of charge, baling equivalent to one fif:h of •
ton, and a steerage passenger six feet. When the reamer
arrives off Choler's, she anchors off the bar, or lies in Navy
Bay, several miles from the mouth of the river, and the pas.
sengen land in the ship's boats or canoes of the natives
This landing is at the caper se of the ship. On their arrival,
Chapala is found by the praetor n to be • miserable yellere
of huts, filled with half clad upon, where the whites ese.
not live and maintain their health, and the night air for all
aliases is pestiferous and deadly. Of course all seek to hurry
away. Some hire minces, and others go on board a little
steamer called the Herren, which is miserably inert ient,
and proceed up the river as far as they can in her, perform-
ing the rest of the distance by water in canasta The price of
the conveyance depends upon the number of passengers.
Ordinarily, • person may go up the river with a trunk or
portmanteau fur about 10 dollars; oftentimes 2.5 dollars have
been paid. The voyage on the river terminates in the dry
season at Gorgon', and in the wet at Cruces. It is now the
dry season, and the lower road, is preferred, is Gorgon" is
some miles below Cruces. At either of these places mules
or masteries may be obtained at trim 10 to 20 dole. each,
to transpott passengers or Nero". A mule load is about
260 Itis. It usually occupies about two days and •It to
cram from Chagres to Putama. Within the last threem• nibs
several very comfortable inns have been built at Chagres,
Cflbeee, and Panama; and there is not so much expense in
the transit as formerly. Panama is changing its appearance
very much. The Americans Lave been busing and leasing
property for various purposes; and the old inhabitant., who
for yeses have been quite poor, now deem themselves rich.
The rents of dilapidated stores, that • year shire were not
worth .50 dollars per annum, have gone up to 600 dam. It
is now believed that the seat of government will be removed
to Panama, which will give it much additional importance.
Large improvements are going on at the Island of Tobago,
opposite the town, where the steamers lie. A steam terry to
the island is about to be established, and American commie-
' vial houses are beginning business there on a large seal..
Prom Panama to San Francisco the voyage is made either in
Howland and Aspinall's mail line, or in the oripcsition lines
of Law and of Rowland. Bach of the latter have s at round
steamers to the Pacific. A cabin passage In these coats 300
dollars, and • steerage passage 160 dollars. The voyage occu-
pies about 20 days. Freieht is as yet excessively dear, being
ab:ut 160dula per ton of 40 cubit feet. It is not to be denied
that a trip to California is no joke. After an adventurer
arrives there, unless he has a great deal of money, cr
equivalent on self denial, and an iron constitution, he is
doomed to great suffering. A couple of weeks' resideate at
San Francisco is so expensive that it will eat up many
hundred dollars. The journey to the mines is tedious and
difficult. After he arrives at them he finds the ground has
been very thoroughly explored, and all the b et places
prospected and el-copied. If he starts off for any new
spot, he is in danger of starving to death. What he can
gather he has to expend for food at very exorbitant price.,
and now and then • hug from a grisly beer, or an arrow
from some unseen bow, concludes the journey. In the wet
diggings, if he has strength to bear the labour of digging,
stooping, and washing, he is obliged to be constantly in
the water: in the dry, he is exposed to a hot sun, or to the
most piercing cold. Very many give up in diapair, after
the first attempt, and make their way back as soon as pos-
sible to the settlements, often doomed to certain death whin
they arrive, by attacks of the dysentery, the podium* of the
climate and its labours.
And yet there are thousands who endure all this and
more, and acquire fortunes in • very short time. The gold
is inexhaustible, but human life is precarious. Illustrative
of this, let me relate an anecdote just this moment told me
by a merchant returned from Sacred:lentos City. Nit long
'tau a party of Philadelphians went to work on a place near
the Yuba river, and after working for some weeks, settled
up their accounts, and were losing fileen dollars each. They
left in disgust, and sold out their ,right to soother early at a
little distance, who were getting out a thousand dollars per
day. These last, after the Philadelphians had left, repaired
to their new porches', and by digging only one fuot deeper,
struck a vein equally as profitable as the other.
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One of the Ciliforitia iepresentatives has brought with him
spicimens of the quartz rock. They are valuable beyond
belief. One small lump sent to the Mint in l'hilultkibia
has been waged, and found wor h 800 dole. We have u
yet bad only the debris. Toe rocks themselves bays soucely
bean broken up by the miners.

VIENNA. FEB. 28.—The Wiener Zeitung, of this
t rimo,spublisbss the following telegraphic despatch, dated
, Feb. 27:
"Lela, Fan 22.—The majority of the Hungarian re-
fugees at Travnik, in Bosnia, ham entered the military ser-
vice of the Poste.—Cattaro, Feb. 23 —The payment of the
lazes is rvery where going ow with regularity, generally
with perfect order, and without the necessity of putting in
ezmutiom."

KtLT—Herr Too Ilerbous the chief of the depart-
meat of Fur. ign Affairs, arrived here on the 27. h nit. tram
his mission to Berlin, and the following day Drought Presi-
dent Vollpracht, the oomeniss'oner appointed by the Ver-
waltung. rath to inquire into the state of the du hies. The
latter will proceed to the *oath of Schleswig at once.
firALTIt Of LONDON DURING TIM WEEK.—The
report of the Itegistras-fleneral ssys:—" In the week ending
' last Saturday, the deaths in the metropolis were only 896, a
result which indicates • low rate of mortality at the Prompt
time as con.pared with this 11.11111,111 in former rare. During
the lest month, the numbire returned weekly have been
1,094, 957, 938, 911, and 690, inhibiting a oontinuoue de.
cline. In the week iorresponding to lut, of the years 1810.9,
they WI re never lower than 918, in seven of the ten weeks
they ranged above 1,000, and last year when cll lore was
!,itpllpcioasycehni net ao;dthireariuonusvrefoidpoemntzewreeelti,leisrol7o4t;
w 1,11338.
, ich
°Directed for increase of population emonee 1,138; the pre-
sent decrease on this estimate is therefore 242.

INDENCE RESPECTING THE
AFFAIRS OF LIRA.

Lima, Dee. 11, 1849.
To James Whitehead, E.m.—Dear Sir,—Aport-
beside, that an incorrect statement may fled its way into the
public karma', relative to the difilenhr whisk occurred yes-
terday at the French Hotel, between Henry Btephea Sulli-
van, the English charge, d'affaires to the Court of Santiago
de Chili, and myavlf, I have learned with great satisfaction
that you *intuited the Weir, and that you see conversant
with the facts connected with it. Will you do me the kind-
ness to inform me what you know relative to it; and sopa-
cielly of the insult offered by bias to my sib, during my
absence from the hotel ? I desire to place this matter in a
just light before all boeourable men, and =pall la a correct
Priam Won my government. With Mgt regard, I remain,
your obedient earns% (Signed) Z. W. Porru,
U.S. Cauca for Valparaiso.

-1849.
To Z. W. Potter, UB. Consul for Liss, Ike. 11,
Chill.—Dear Bir,
I am in receipt of your eavour of this morning, and have
taken due note of its ocatonte.

As sm Eogliehman, I feel much grieved that necessity and
truth compel me to bear testimnny against a countryman,
and that countryman • representative of my nation at a
',reign court. You ask ma to inform you of what has come
under my own notice regarding the insult and indignity
off-red to your wife by a Mr. Sullivan at the French Hotel,
during your absence on Sunday last. I shall therefore
refrain from noticing what I have heard from other eye-wi
UMW, and confine myself to such facts as Imu answer for
before God or man. Oa the day in question I wee 14614
in General Getrera's room at the said French hotel, when I
was suddenly called by Kra. Idleklit (the general's daughter)
to go and protect Mrs. Potter from being insulted by Mr.
Sullivan, who, she said, had taken possession of her room.
I attended the call instantly, and on reaching the room found
your lady in tears, pale and trembling with her bay in her
arme. I also found Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan and their servants
in the room, the former talking v.ry lout The enact words
I could not catch, but they were certainly to the effect that
your lady must leave the room, and that it had been taken
for him. The only. answer I heard from your lady, was.
Do wait, sir, until Mr. Potter comes in."
The appeal did not appear to be listened to. I ineedi•
ate ly called Mr. Suilivan's attention to the fact of the reams
having been taken by you, and poeses.lon given of them,
and that I should protect the lady in them until your
arrival. This drew Mr. Sultivan'a attention to wyee.f, who,
with that peculiar puppy arrogance, asked me if I knew to
whom I wee speaking. I answered in the affirmative, and
took the liberty of giving him a plain English version of
what I thought of him—(a rich page for Punch). During
the altercation between us, your lady entreated to be taken
out of the room, fearing some bad consequences from her
alum. I accompanied her towards the door, when, to my
astonishment, Mr. Sullivan approached her in the bland,
submisseive tone of " Mamma, do not whip me : I will be
good, I will;" entreating her then not to leave the room I
Judge !
Now that I have detailed fan so fu as my recollection
of words goes, I meat beg to venture an opinion, which is
that a more ungentlemanly and wanton outrage on the part
of Mr. Sullivan towards your wife I never witnessed in any
society, and that every high toned gentleman will say,
" Well done," to the caning you gave him, and to which
I soy "Amen." Hoping your good lady has entirely re.
covered from her bright, I am, dear sir, your's truly,
(Signed) ,lams WHITIVIAM •

Valparaiso, Jan. 3, 1860.
To Beq.—Dear Sir,—l enclose you, at your
request, true copies of the correspondence which took place
between James Whitehead. Esq., and myself, at Lima,
touching the unpleasant difficulty that occurred between the
English charge and myself. General Herrera's letter I
transmitted, with others, to the United States government
for the purpose of publication, if necessary, without retain-
jug • copy of it. It was in Spanish, and being unacquainted
with the language I did not translate it into English sad
keep a copy. But the general is now in town, and he will
hand me a letter at any moment if I desire it. lie heard
the offensive language used by Mr. Sullivan, in which he
told the landlord of the hotel that " Mrs. Potter must leave
the room, that she was nothing but a common cook," sod
other offensive sneers at her position as a lady. I trust the
inclosed letter of Mr. Whitehead will satisfy every impartial
mind that I wan compelled, however unpleasant it was to
me, to take the steps I did. Let all the facts be known, and
abide the verdict of the world.-1 remain, most truly,
yours, &c., (Signed) F. W. Perrin, U. 8. ConsaL

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1850.

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