The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-19 00:00:00

CALIFORNIA

The cholera seems to be too fatal among the emigrants.
At Galveston and ether places numbers had died, and
many were so sick that they were returning home. The
latest advices from the Sacramento city are dated March
28th. The spring has opened, and the rainy season is
over, and everybody is getting ready to begin gold hunt-
ing. New parties are constantly arriving. Gold washing
has been carried on during the winter with but partial
success

On the '` Middle Fork," an average of two
ounces of old a day for each man has been gathered. On
the Yerba river, a large_ party_ of Oregonians have made

the rivers to fall. There is some talk of diverting the
rivers from their beds in order to get at the gold on the
bottom.
_A place called Stanislaus, appears to be the

favourite haunt for the gold hunters." At Sacramento city
the men are healthy, but the scurvy has broken out at
some of the diggings. _ The mania for making cities and

speculating inliouse lots, equals that experienced in the
West in 1837-38. A millwright has made a diving bell,
with which he expects to pick up gold in deep water. The

writer says

'e, and the advanceu

)on San Fran-

cisco prices is but proportionate with the the times.
Lumber is with the greatest difficulty obtained, although
the Culloma Saw Mill is running incessantly ; 80 cents
per foot is not balked at in many instances—we should
marvel not to see it at one dollar. Horses are worth from
200 to 5300 each (worth did we say ! gross libel upon
horse flesh.) Oxen bring S-200 per yoke. Freight from
this place to the dry diggings is S-30 per hundred. Flour
sells at S3O. Beef on the hook, $45, scarce ; and dried
beef, 575 per cwt., &c., &c. Board at this place, exclu-
elusive of lodging, is 820 ;per week. It would be well
were one of those boarding-house vessels advertised in the
United states to arrive. We would undertake to ensure
her owners a fortune " up Feather river," as the saying
goes. Certainly, at the rate proposed, such an enterprise
would be flatteringly encouraged.
A piece of gold has been found at Stanislaus river, by
Mr. Webber, of Stockton, which weighs seventy-eight
ounces, the value of which is 51,284. Mr. It. A. Parker,
formerly of Boston, son of David Parker, Esq., has had a
new warehouse burnt down, which he had leased the day
before at '2,600 per annum. Mr. Geary, the new post-
master from the United Srates, had arrived and entered
upon his duties. Meetings have been held at Monterey
and other places, to choose delegates to a convention to
form a territorial constitution.

The Crescent City, which would bring to New York the
first accounts of the news brought by the Oregon
California from San Francisco, was due about th.
instant, and would bring Chagres dates to the sth or 6th
June. A letter from San Francisco says—" The people
here are about all natives of the United States, and never
were seen individuals of such singular (originals) caprices
In the Custom-house they charge you a real
for every line of written document—bills of
',;ch you present there. They demand

e 15th

four seals (half-a-dollar) for a single scrap Of stamped
paper ; and for each signature of the collector (adminis-
trador) you are called on to lay down a dollar, and some-

times SlO, SIS and £2O. There is in the same office a
single custom-house officer, (tenedor de arancel,) the only
taxes are levied, and he gets £lOO a day at
cbons it is the same thing, for the same

- APALACHICOLA
Liverpool.

ANDRIA

CHARLEST
29tb, Harriet

Cleared

.ORIDA.)

cents. Oats, 34 to 36 cents. Indian Corn, early in the past
week, was quick at 63 to 63} cents for round yellow; but, on
Saturday, the favourable news per Niagara caused an advance
of one or two cents. One sale was made at 651 cents to fill a
vessel. The market closed yesterday quite dull—there being
no transactions for export : 64 to 65 cents was the asking price
for round yellow. Southern white brought 58 cents, mixed
Western 58 to 59 cents, and Southern flat yellow 60 cents.
FRElGHTS.—Engagements of 20,000 bushels of corn, for Li-
verpool, at 6d. in bulk, and 5/d. in bags (bagged at the expense
of ship) ; 225. 6d. for heavy goods ; cotton at *d. to 5-32 d: _

CHARLESTON, June 2nd, P.M.
The Cotton Market continues quite firm. though the busi-
ness is not large in consequence Of dealers holding off for the
Niagara's advices which have not yet reached this port.
_

ALBANY

June 4, 8 P.M

Receipts since Saturday—Flour, 18.200 bids.; Wheat, 8,200
bushels; Corn, 54,000 bushels. In flour there is but little
doing, and the market has a downward tendency. For Corn
the demand is good, and the sales reach 22,000 bushels at 58
cents for White, and 62 to 621 for Yellow. In Oats the sales
are 9,000 bushels at 35 cents. Sales of 100 bbls Whiskey at 21
cents.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

Nuw YORK.—Arrived : May 31st, Fidelia and Senator ; June
Ist, Sea and Shannon ; June 2nd, Niagara (s.), and Princeton ;
June 3rd, Adaline ; and June 4th, Manilla, all from Liverpool.—
Cleared: May 31st, Oxford and Cygnet; anti June 2nd, Joshua
Bates and Caroline Read, all for Liverpool.—Sailed : May 29th.
Caleb Grimshaw, and May 30th, Canada (s.), both for Liver-
pool

.—Cleared: May 16th, Andrew Scott, for

.une 2n

d, Velocity, for Liverpool
Milo, from Liverpool.—

and May

tge, for Liverpool
May 28th, Conquero
[II tor Liverpool.
ved: May 29th, Palmerston, from

,ire State and Hontard

Liverpool, from Li-

United 1

ena, York,
4th, James
and 24th,

Igdom and

North-Western Railway
coast alongside the Britannia-b
appearance ef

of -one thousand r

parations, including

pool, under the co"m

tubes beine;.eact

n of then

r way, we must re-

FLOATING OF THE BRITANNIA TUBULAR
BRIDGE OVER THE MENAI STRAITS.

MENAI STRAITS, SATURDAY EVENING

The great operation of floating this stupendous struc-
ture, looked forward to with so much interest by the
scientific world, is now definitively fixed for Tuesday, at
the most favourable phase of tide and wind, either early
in the morning, or at half-past five o'clock in the evening.
The calculations of the engineers engaged in the transac-
tion rather lean to the latter conclusion, although the
movement is altogether dependent on the state of wind
and weather. Extraordinary preparations are being made
for the spectacle, and thousands are expected to be present
at the launch of this great product of the engineering
genius of the age. At Bangor, just by, there is •
of accommodation to be had,
at a premium. On Monday or 'ruest.,,,
who it is said will be present at the launch, _
Plas Newydd, the seat of the Marquis of Anglesey, who
entertains a select circle of visitors. Lord Vivian, Hon.
0. Stanley, Sir Richard Bulkeley, and other distinguished
residents, are also to receive visitors of note. Amongst
those who have already arrived, and who are expected to
be present, are Mr. Brunel, the engineer; Mr. Lc
M.P. ; Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, Alderman Thump:
M.P. ; Mr. It. D. Mangles, M.P. ; Sir Charles Dough
P • Mr. W. Jackson, M.P. ; Mr. Vignolles. C T
Errington, C.E. ; Mr. Bidc
som, R.N. ; Mr. J. B. Boothby, _
Binger, and several of the directors of
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Sir

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occupied
bert Peel,
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the London a

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released the Great Britain. Mr. 'Robert Stephenson,
with his assistant, Mr. Edwin Clark, the engineer, has
been down several days past superintending the requisite
lay 30th, Saranac and Lord I arrangements. Special trains, for those who intend to be

ions parts

present at the spectacle, are to be run from v 4
of the principality; return tickets, first and second class,
available for two days, are to be issued at all the stations
to enable persons to be present, and giving them the
of admission to a spacious platform, already er
the top of one of the tubas on the Carnarv,-
the straits, where there will be seats fc
people, and whence a most admirable
manded. Other large stages
that the straits on either side will present a vast amphi-
theatre of spectators. Extra trains are to leave Bangor
after the process of floating, all the arrangements for
which were completed this evening. There is a fleet of
steam tugs in the channel. A spr
over from Kingstown Haa
Several officers connected with to
Railway Commissioners -

Olt
ted, on
cishire side of

3,000 or 4,000
view may be coin-
are in course of erection, so

I steamer is to come
k3ur, with visitors from Ireland.
A l•niralty and the

The
sition they now

:upendous character

employed in the pr
tubes are to be tra
alongside the coast by eight larg

pontoons
will be

n, and t

gradu-

ut an hour and a

manned by one hum.,
ally floated as the tide rises.
half before high water, the current runnir
miles an hour, the tube on the pontoon
out into the middle of the stream by twelve powerful cap-
stans and hawsers, the latter more than two miles in
length and four inches in diameter, reaching from the
pontoons at each end to the opposite shore. To guide the
tube into its place with the greatest possible precision
three large hawsers will be laid down the stream, one end
of them being made fast to the towers between which the
tube is intended to rest, and the others to strong fixed
points on the two shores. To " coax" the monster more
conveniently to his final resting place, a multitude of
smaller ropes will be made use of, each capstan being
worked by fifty men. The most difficult part of the ope-
ration will be when the tube shall have just reached the
resting-place towers, where it has to be deposited on pro-
jecting shelves, and when the tide becomes stationary,
before turning, for fifteen minutes.

f about four
)e drazged.

is -ill 1

The entire length of the stupendous
feet from end to end, consisting of four lar

:truo.ture is 1,841

sections,

originally proposed
ns, the plan