The Arkansas banner., 1849-05-08
Nine Days Later from Ca.iforuis.

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 The Philadelphia Ledger publishes the fol'o~ing special IeiegraPhie dispatch originally from Boston, from whence. through the direct trade of ,hs t-rptisng merchants of that city silh i!ie Pariic has lately eoine some oi the most highly coloreG accounts:
 NEw YoxK, April 10. is!e From Boston letter. which has been received by IL \. Hooper X Co. via Mazatlsa. xe learn llt4l the steamship California, from New York hud ar. rived stSsn Francisco, with Gen Persifor F. smith sud suite on board The writer says that he on the previous day weighed i20 pounds of gold and that 1t was pot uncommon thing 10 see cart load of gold dust goias from one S.8Ee 10 another. Real estate k rsFidiy aJyaneing-co-n aCiny twenty dollars per square yard Flour is ssting at $i5. Bread sl3. Pork s:so. Lumb~r is selling at ~4 ~4lO per thousand feet. Smallest rOous let readily al Si0o per moath Ne advises friends to send any quantiiy of Uniber and smsll houses, ready ,o put up. which wHi brRg 519 per cent. advance inc next iSo years. Cooks wages xiuo a month. Egg E per oozrn. Saierstus S- per pound. Pork 25 crpts Cheese 75 cents, Butter St 50 Beef l2i, cents Fowls g 5a, Fircwosd Ss6 per cord. Mix Sl per bottle. Board sl0 per week Common labor CTS S6 per day, and carpenters &. Our sales for ihs last four months smnunt Ia threx-g aarterS of million of Gollars. The nominal gpYerunien nt here still goes collecting rey~nar ia spite of Secre- tary aIAers circular. Ail tutes paid uader pro- test.
 There ls Ba California Jats given above but in 'he Newark \. J Advertiser we find the folios- ing letter of Narrh lst. from the Rev. T. D. Hnnt to his friends, which c1me also hy the Mexcau overland route. snd possibly the sane convevance ss the above. IL was postmarked al Vera Crnz April ,, coming from ih-nce via New Orleans showing the intelligence to be niue days later.
 Sax FRAxclsco, March I. iS49. My tsbors have been uninterrupted since my Fiva here from the islands. and l have continued 10 have fs.! eongre <'ti"H he Sabbath. There ts certainly reason 10 complain of ny reception treatment here by the ecnruanlty. Although we have no church organization vel, have snjoycd F.s appropriate lsbors here vastly than al, the islands Ia sccaoH 10 iwo regular sermons each sabbath, and a bciure on "Wednesday evening". have slso, for two months past. preached oae in HswaiiaR on Sag.5Ith afternoon. hesIses lecil ring repeatedly oH telnperspc-: aud We have organized q tsnperance soejrty sf nearly forty members. The uoRthly conceT. Is also observed. and have once celebrated Inc Lords Supper, having tReive com nuniranis,
 ] Hitherto have had ths IaboTing car alone. but kind Providence hss just stuj two more t,borers into tic field. The bong expected steamer Cshior- i nia arrived yesterday morning, bringing. among other passengers, several ministers. One, Rev. Mir. Wiley went on shore al Monterey las; we eek lis associate tn the ~eryce of the Home Missionary Society. Rev. Mr Douglass, i- here, and took my bed last Hight-I ,skinG the floor. ior sach IS the ! town eroWdAd-iuIl ard overlooking. The other two cergymea renamed ou board-Rev. Mir. Woodbridge, from Long Island. sent cut by ihe aS- senIbty's board. aud R'v. MT Wheeler aud isdv, late o Jersey city, hcltnging to the Baptist church. To-niorrow l shall Iccempaav Mr. Douglass 10 Pueblo de San Jose, sboat 50 miles s0nth of this. lie was to be stationed here. but finding the ground, goes there, where probably support can be immediately raised or hm hy the reSIents NIT. i W oodbFage will pz.haby go somewhere to the northeast-up the golicu stream.
 1 The country is lik'ly 10 til up rapidly. Froha- hiy thonsaud passengers have arrived within o.
 fortnight. But oh. .lheworliiHesS the moral ds>ola- toa this gold fever crates. New discoveries el the { precious dust constantly being made, I Eamlssr is S5tD p'v thousand fr-t. The California wi nat la, able Ia fetaER seen for ' the want of coal. SIe does not % 10 Oregon. In great haste, I DwlGHr HcSr.