The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-04-11
- From the Ny. Herald, April 2. ~tzg
vERYINTERESTING FROM CALIFoR.
MA

y N.r.HN NHaE H~r1
Advices from San Francisco, California, to
the 7thsof February, reached town yesterday
safernoou. They were brought by Edward A.
Suwerkrop, who has made very quick trip
oserland ihrangh Mexico 10 Vera Cruz, thence
iozMohile, snd ahence to this ci,y..,-,.Ez..
6 Weslast evening had .he, pleasure of a hrlel
conversation with Mr.. S., at the Irving House.
where hes stops, and obtained from him some
very late and highly interesting intelligence
= not only from california, but from the Sand.
wichIslands, and Mexico.
we are happy 10 have so intelligent gen.
stleman 10 converse with. We found that he
had dsyisifed the mines with Gov. Mason and
!. Capt. Folsom, and had been over about three
leagues of the >diggings. He confirms all that
those officers haveswrtten srelative TO the gold
y gionssss sszlY saas cs -s> - s:i =.
\, The rip of Mr.. Suwerkrap through Mexico
was q uuicksote. He left San Bias on the ylst
/, of Mifch, and sresched Vera Cruz on the 10th,
travelling a distance of990 miles over execra.
blcsroads, and was robbed en- route, in sixteen
days. He left Vera Cruz on the 10th, in The
steam. ship Great Western, and arrived at Mo-
bile on the 24lh. He met in Mexico about
1000 Anne ricans, Mexicans, nglishmen. &c.,
or, their way to the coast, bound 10 California
The Mexican abandiiti levied black mail on all
hut the armed parties of Americans. With
them they had seen'the "elephan,."
: The mail steam ship California passed Mr..
. S.. about two hours sail from Mazailan, on the
night of the 18th of, February. There was
>, mo Goals atgthat gport9for her, as she had only
i, coal enough to take her up, il is matter OF
. nncertan nty as, 10 her arrival at Panama on the
= 18th of March, as was expected. he vessel
that carried the coalfor her 10 ,Mazatian reach
= ed thai port about ID hours after the California
left. Sheproceeded to San Bias 10 discharge.
IS. -, Mr.. Suwerkrop, who. by the way, was "a
% riish Consul al the Sandwich Islands, lei
~ San Francisco on the Both OF January, en- route
a To San Bias. He touched at Santa Barbara
. and San Jose. While at San Bias he recev-
edle,ters from San Francisco Of the 7th OF Feb
z ruary, which, by his Kindness, gires us forty
three days later inteltgence than any previously
received from thegold region.
s. TIE latest letter states shat, after a winter Of
the greatest severity, fine weather had set in
the snow had begun to met, and many d'gg"is
had started, and were on the eve of sart'ng' tor
ihe mines, to re-commence operations, and that
The sales of goods had in consequence, begun
To Increase, 8 = $780,
I" The 6rm, Messrs. J. B. & Co., by whom
the letter was written, had purchased a consid.
rable quantity Of gold, on commission, at Sl4 5o
perolnce; hut could not purchase another par
Gel at that rate.
The price Of gold had risen, in consequences
of the large arrivals of specie from San Bias
Valparaiso, &c, aud which has been placed
nlhe hands OF the merchants at San Francisco
Raefz Investment
Ehe whole Lower California was deserted
hyahe man, ,twho had gone north TO the placer.
When Mr. sSuwerkrop uched at Cape san
4 Jo.e he found scarcely any males there.
About seven hdndred persons had arrived at
hundred from he sahSWs ah5SsFa!so and about '0ur
were about seven thousand in California. ready
to Commences operations in the mines the mo.
n,ent the weather would permit. There were
not many in San Francisco; they were scatter
: ed over The couniry-at Suffers Fort. encamP'
ed on fbespldcers, &c., &C., DC. House room
was, of course, very scarce; many dgsers had
spitched their tents around the Bay Of San Fran
cisco. -, = a -s@ '.'-
There were parties Of gold seekers at Mazat-
Ian, waiting a passage to San Francisco, but
sscotld not get any. Those that had gone up,
sS.s+Iistance aboutl 800 miles.
- The price of provisions had become more
moderate. On the 30,h of January, -four in
parcels was selling at $40 per barrel; by the
single barrel, at Sl6. Pork was dull at $50
per barrel.. Salt beef could scarcely be sold.
No one ;wouh give .$l4 per barrel for it.
80 A large amount Of goods was daily expected
~ four cargoes from China;t two carsoes of Eng
ssI;sb goods from Sydney New South Wales;
sseyenteen vessels from Valparaiso and the West
! coast Of Mexico, and several vessels from Ia.
9biii. There had been no arrivals from the u
.sni,ed. States. The sloop p-ofwar St. Mary was
! The only national vessel at San Francisco.
a tItnppearsthat, notwithstanding the many re.
! ports to The contrary, the U. s. store.ship Lex.
s,isgton did moi sail from San Francisco for the
u. States, till the 25th Of January. She had
100000 in gold on board.
g,sa- The largest lump that Mr.. S. has seen
weighed fourteen ounces. He knew ola piece
that weighed with.the dirt about sixty ounces,
which had been sold for thirty ounces, it con-
tanning about that much of pure gold.
The waste in the gold obtained in The dry
diggings would not average two per cent, while
!. thai in the wet gold would would average from
% to3 I.6 per cent
7sE The barqae Undine, lately wrecked near the
= Straits of Magellan, and sold at Valparaiso for
$4,000, and afierwardsat San Francisco for
$4,000 had gone to the Columbia river, but
> was daily expected back. On her return she
would, proceed TO China.
q The murderer of Mr.. Won Pfser had not
been taken. s-It was supposed that he had fled
10 the mountains. "r
- Affairs In California were, taking everything
into consideration, quite peaceable.
sss None of the Oregon gold had been seen in