The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-01-30
FURTHER INTERESTING PARTICULARS
RELATIVE TO THE
q @ Z . 4 4 G. 1 o N.
Our Isthmus Observation-Disclosures.

RELATIVE TO THE
GOLD REG ION.
Our Isthmus Correspondence.
The California Geld Hunfers-.dn English Ship OF
War taking a,ooy 100000 s'erng North Of the Got1
Dust-The Qu,cksiioer Mines-7he Gulf STREAM
The Bnn'h Consul Prohibiting the use Of Mules be-
longing to the English to any american for
ing the Gold Dust-Sickn and Deaths on the Bark
Anne and Juits, at Chagres- Scenery on the Riper
Chosres- Deaths from Fahsue-The Thermomefty al
Mn BENrEr-- VI A. ''
Internal place. We were the first boat up, having
beaten every boat on the river. Grog and money
made our men work ior snsif lives we are about to
doubtless, be the hrst boat I'M and then we will try
our luck over the mountains. We have had traly
awful time. The current runs six miles in some
places and We came near being swamped and upset
The California, It Is rumored, has arrived II you
come BY way Of the lsthm%s, bring dimes and half
.no pa: l ps.. for zach onx hss
psnse up the river in . party Of four, cost to
Not more than half the passengers Of the Crescent
City will ever get to Gorgona and certainly to
Psn.ms. The rosss are broken; There is good sr.
90 degrees this morning must close and rum to the
canoe. will write at Panama, but doubt II you will
eaten for twenty hours and have been lying vet
in tbs canoe since left Chagres / send you the
truth, without evaporation My health Is good, but
regular meals, cypress me much; but hope for the
above all, not at Cruces. Get single canoe, with
three osrsmen. Give them not too much. Pay
them some money to put you through, While on the
Do thing to put you through, not stopping Go to
Cruces by . sure footed mule, at any price. Don't
n: help IT, Give % from
rioetes and pecusrites, and atmosphere rs sweet
as any the globe. have acquired more know ledge
you than had ever obtained In all my travels; but
have paid dearly for my information. s. H. B.
.PAKAxA. New GRANADA, !
Sunday. Jan Z, 1s49-7 p. NJ
This being an interesting locality Of the earth 1T the
prs sent moment and just learning that Mr.. Caring
ton the ntemanly purser Of tho Crescent City, will
not leave town unit, morning. will give you piece OF
what conceive to be most precious intelligence
pectipg matters the Pacific coast, which concern
A gentleman, whose name will not mention lest
might involve him In difficulty with his government,
began conversation at dinner to- day Importing what
knew that Sir Francis Drake was the first dscoverer
Of Oregon, in the time Of Elizabeth; which, together
with Capt. Cooks and Lieut.. Ven Couvsr's discove-
res, the basis Of Engan claim to Oregon that
EngIa nd lopg since surveyed tho above 49, aud
discovered coal mines Van Couvers Island which
above 49, which she conceived to be invaluable, mas
much below, through California very little wood
land b found that for the Of the coal
mines, England would have warred Spain the 17tn
tury and for the coal Mines she would have wsrrsd the
United States in the 18th century Forty nine has
been the point Of England and in order to be that
the coal mines were wide spread at Van Couver and
through the ATTITUDES above 49, she sent surveyors
the Pacific coast four years since trouble
with the United States about the boundary, who have
British two three years since that
the coal above 40 boundess. England,
this report from her surveyors being made resolved
to have 49, with the coal or aght that coal from these
mines 10 worth 81 ton and increasing since the Dis
covery Of the gold mines in Cafernia, without which
the Californians cannot exist and prosper Thus We
the profound ssgaoity Of British statesmsn who
have ct this moment no less than twenty-five ship, Of
war With surveyors traversng every portion Of the
In relation to the riches Of the California mines he
was 1t Francisco in October saw Suffer- and the two
who first discovered them, enc Of whom 10 now
boarding at the fremont Hotel in Francisco, and IL
very RICH get $500 per day and
that he forth $4,000, who had hariy . shirt
TO their back that the Mormons had all left for Salt
Lake where there Is aso gold and that there
10000 on the ground In Ocober that at that time rs
knew that 81 900 600 worth Of gold dust in the
town OF Franoisco that 1t was carried In belts, all
afraid Of each other; that robber caught and
ty hours In the country he could be shot by any
that the English brig of-wsr Sampson brought do
f2o 600 sterling worth Of the dust, and that similar
amount had gone to Valparaiso in British vessel He
spoke Of the quick liver mine as very ROB, 500 men
being employed in IT, that st the gold mines lesden
bullets cast the spot. and that (speaki os lit
tie exaltiDgly being Englishmsn) ali the Cslifor-
mans wanted (hsviDg no wood land was the coal Of
40 and upwards. which the British bad the ssgacty to
get from us, 40 being all she wanted.
He said that the firm Of Talbot Co. Of the Sand
wich Islands had ade most princely fortunes in pur
cnas1ng Rold 30 ounce, paying In proVisiOns,
clothing. &C. and that they were about retiring 70
England on their money; that the merchants of Val
paraiso and Mazatlan San Bias &c had also made i'm
menfe sums by way Of trade in specie He gave me .
little history of Eugsuds operations in Mexico. That
she always had vessels as nov, prowlng about The
coast under the pr.tenoe OF survey, bat whose al
object was to smugge specie from Mexico through Ma
zauan AND San Bias for the vaults Of the Bank OF
England Thatit Is law of Me xco no specie shall
be exported to foreign countries but that the
chants English, Scotch German, Sc secretly tie up In
favored by the British vessels Of war hoverinx OF
the coast, who take 1t from them giving them receipt
for the amount Ito be cancelled by British pfac
tures) and rent round Cape Horn IL O yer thu
tthmus hence the vast utility their mules for ne
want Of which American emigrants are nov dying
upon the mountains) down the river Chaxres on
board Of the British monthly mail steamers, What
met In the mountains . few days since Ths British
smpgglipg operation In tn wise the Of
the ship, to make him true to tns British crown,
has ~ per cent? "a brig Of war smuggled enough q
short sine to give the cemmsnder nuty OF
200 pounds sterling for life, receiving only IL per
centsge, What smuggling operation thai mast
have been y He FIRST operates on the Mexc
General at Mszatlsn, whom he approaches thus: Ca
neral will give you per cent for all specie you will
peI NIT the merchants Of MaEstlan to place under
protection for rranst across the Istnmus to
ductsn The General replies. Ask the custom no l,e
oficer what he thinks about It," This COMMA ndsr
goes for with to officer OF the customs whom he
oilers per cent Il am relating trsnsac lon that so
finally took place last monthly The custom house Off
Ger Dod- dissent (the bride wssn't enough and he
We actually oi'Nhargsl By the General, AID mors
hstss .ss spsO,S.s~, ses.-ss ws--l a..G.ss l.a