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Indiana State sentinel., 1849-11-15

L. BUTLER KINGS REPORT FROM THE MNEs.-The
New York Post publishes extract of letter from
an intelligent gentleman in California to friend in
New York, Of which the following passage deserves
to be generally read II is dated August 25lh.
mot one that have varies in his report from
what have previously related, that there Is gold IN
abundance but only to be obtained by excessive la
Dor, in temperature of lI0to l30 deg. Nowthstand-
ing the universal reports of the miners themselves,
you will, however. receive by the mail. official
port from Senator King, of Georgia. in relation to the
extent and value of the mines, which without per-
haps making a single statement will go far
to deceive the public and to draw thousands on to
their rule.
SIT appears that MIR. King sent out by the GO
vernment for the purpose of making survey of the
mining district which lie has just completed, and it
is reported here, that his statements will be- that
hundred thousand men cannot exhaust the gold IN a
hundred years-that il extends over eight hundred
square miles of territory, and that the richness othe
diggings will necessarily the building up Of San
Francisco lCithin fire years, TO pop1tldtiUn larger
than Neto York city.
This last opinion he expressed within day
to gentleman, who related it to me- But in his re-
port he will probably carefully avoid saying anything
of the immense toll and great sacrifice of life.
" A gentleman who has read the report about to be
made, characterzes it as superficial and wholly un-
worthy of the subject and the country. The result
however will be that thousands upon thousands will
rush out here; and as large portion of them will
not get means TO return, IL will be mode
of populating the country. Symptoms of this state of
things already exist. hare had repeated offers Of
the services of respectable young menlaw students
and others. for their board and dollar day.
Business here is already overdone There are too
many sellers and too few buyers too many goods for
tine number of consumers, and the result far, is q
gradual reduction of profts-and the final result will
t probably be within year. blow-up which will scat
ter about half of those in business here TO the
four Winds and reduce rents aud real estate TO a
paratirely moderate rate.
'Noihing viii probably avert this but the effect OF
such reports Senator King proposes to send home,
which may cause few months delay-6ut the end
must Such is the general opinion"
The writer Of this letter has probably come nearer
the truth than any of the leterwrters from
California.
Indiana State sentinel., 1849-11-15

PoRK MARKEr.-In Cincinnati sales have been
made at 2.75. Weather warm. At Alton, contracts
have been made at $50.
Indiana State sentinel., 1849-11-15

More money is expended by the city of Boston for
education than by the English government for the ed
ucation Of it's seventeen millions Of people.
Indiana State sentinel., 1849-11-15

The JEFFERsoNvILLE MURDER.-The New Albany
Ledger says that the murderers of the German gar
dener examined Saturday, and both confessed
to the Decd One of them also confessed that he CON-
mitted murder in Germany before coming to this
country, and that he compelled to leave his native
land. The villains were handcuifed and taken to the
county Jail at Charlestown to await their trial. On
the same day judgment was passed upon the boy
Ealy, convicted Of manslaughter-four years in the
State prison.
Indiana State sentinel., 1849-11-15

OErThe Nicaragua or Mosquito difficulty, between
the U. S. Government and England, grows out of the
following circumstances. For many years past Great
Britain has had eye the exclusive possession Of
line of communication between the two oceans, al
some eligible point along the sthmus dividing North
and South America. After having inspected all the
routes she has finally planted herself on the Mosqui-
to coast, commanding of the most eligible lines
of water communication with the Pacific. There is
the mouth of the San Juan river, watering a rich
country and extending back to the great lake Mica
ragua, and the lesser lake Leon, of which the San
Juan is the outlet. Its head-waters are, therefore
within fifteen miles of fine river communicating
with the Pacific With this cut, and some slack wa
erng and canals at the rapids of the San Juan, the
canal is made between the Atlantic and Pacific. Plant
ing herself at the mouth Of the San Juan, Great
Britain claims the monopoly of this passage between
the two oceans. She has taken up raw, greasy,
monkey roasting native, in his blanket, and has
crowned him King of the Mosquitoes and has pledged
him her protection. A New York company having
contracted with the State of Nicaragua open ,his
channel of communication, her Britannia Majesty.
consul Barclay at New York has protested agains
the enterprise infringing upon the territories o.
the King of the Mosquitoes the ally agent of Grea
Britain. The matter has gone up to the Secretary o
State. A correspondence has been opened between
him and the British minister ad interim, Mr.. Cramp
ton. Mr. Clayton justly protests against the assump
ton Of England. Mr.. Champion adheres TO those as
sumptions of exclusive monopoly of the mouth Of thu
river. Here is question in which our commerce il
vitaIly interested It may be settled to the satisfac
tion of the American contractors and The American
people by udicious negotiation; but it is question
in the settlement of which commercial relation
may be placed in the most critical position. as in th
Oregon dispute.
Indiana State sentinel., 1849-11-15

o. Major Noah has something to say in dspar-
agement of the democracy of New York city; and
the Wings call it turning states evidence" on his
part. Well, every body knows, that it is always the
greatest rascal who turns States evidence and betays
his comrades, and the compliment to the Major is
therefore somewhat questionable. The major by the
way, left the democratic party years ago. since then
has been editor of avowed whg paper, the Evening
Star; and is whg yet for aught we know to the
contrary Some of our younger contemporaries OF
the Wing Press not well posted up in political
history, if they believe Major Noah to be democrat.
Indiana State sentinel., 1849-11-15

OtTThe Washington Union of the 9th ult con-
tanned article, showing the wretched condition in
which foreign relations have been brought to by
the buugling Taylor Regency. We regret that we
have been able yet TO copy it. But now the Tay-
lor correspondent of the Journal of Commerce CON-
plains, and as the complaint is brief we copy it. He
says
Our foreign missions are far from being in a satis
factory condition. In ST. Petersburg have neither
q Minister, nor Charge, Secretary, nor Consul,
and the archives of the legation are in the hands OF
foreigner, vice Consul.
In Berlin, we have no minister, Mr.. Hannegan
having never even entered the borders of Prussia
written one line since he left, to the Secretary of
State. He is supposed to be in Paris. All the cor
respondence relating to that mission is conducted With
Mr.. Fay.
AT Rio we have no minister Mr. Donelson is kept
on salary as a supernumerary minister in Prussia,
under a diplomatic fiction. There is such govern
ment i'm existence as that to which he is accredited
He ought to be recalled.
The Wings have promised if they get the House.
to investigate some of these abuses and apply cor
rective to them. Whether they have u majority or
not, if they will undertake the work Of reform, IN
stead of encouraging abuses, they will find that the
democrats are disposed to 60 far aud as fast as
they will. The democrats cannot hold back from the
work of retrenchment and REFORM if the friends of
the administration will lead IL.
Mr.. Hannegan, we presume, can give good reasons
for the position he is said to occupy As to Russia.
il is as unfortunate strange that this country is
entirely unrepresened there, considering the import
ant events which are pending between that powerful
despotsm and other governments II is inexcusable.
COLUMBUS AND XENIA RAlLRoAD.-The Columbus,
O., Statesman says that they were to commence lay
ing the iron upon this road the 9th inst and would
be able TO lay three-fourhs of mile day, with the
present force and the road will be completed by the
lst of February. The rail is heavy of the most
improved description and weigh each bar of Is feet,
400 lbs, portion Of which fitted for fastening
in England Its cost at Columbus is about three cents
pound. The rails will be fastened at the joints by
chains, which simply consists of wrought iron
plate onebalf inch thick, six by broad, fasten-
ed by one-half inch bolts, the two outside cutters
turned up form a ssmicircle Of the precise dmen-
sious Of the bar the additional fastening is by bolts
three feet apart passed through the rails.
Indiana State sentinel., 1849-11-15

concludes argument against slavery thus:
But it is said that slavery gives man leisure and
opportunity to cultivate virtues which he could not
otherwise do. This cannot be. Idleness is the
ther of vice. Show me man distinguished for any
good and useful quaity-noed in his neighborhood,
county. or S:ate-and will show you a man that has
no leisure. Point me 10 the man in the Convention
that possesses the greatest influence and will show
a mar of incessant toil and labor. That law of God
which ordans that shall live by the of his
brow, cannot be habitually broken by any
munity of men with impunity. 1t must be obeyed.
The individual experience of each man tells him So,
and the history Of every community shows it. To
say that the good qualities in the Kentucky charac-
ter spring from ideness is almost bad say they
come from slavery.
Indiana State sentinel., 1849-11-15

Express of Thursday says:
"The excitement at the Merchants Exchange is
constantly increasing. The auction sales by Beecker
81 Franklin were yesterday crowded with buyers.
The former sold about two hundred and fifty lots in
Brooklyn, situated on and near the Flatbush road.
beyond what formerly known as Parmenters
Garden, at prices ranging from $50 to $3OO--these
rates stated to be much beyond any thing anti
cipaied and higher than the widest rates OF 1886.
A piece Of ground Of twenty-nine acres, sold few
months since at $4,000, was resold, few weeks
SINCE at s25 OOO and yesterday again sold Tor Sa "a
000 Seguin's pond sold at private sale for 1000.
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Troy AND RUTLAND RAILROAD Co.-This compa-
ny, having procured the necessary subscription.
paid N ,he Ten per cent, and nled the papers re-
quired by the statute, are now n body corporate,
for the purpose Of constructing a railroad from
Troy through Washington county to the Vermont
line, and thence to Rutland. They contemplate, in
connection with the Troy and Boston road. to lay
their track mp the valley Of the Hoosc, as far as
the Eagle Bridge, a distance Of about ~ miles :
thence Up beautiful valley, through the towns of
Nmtecreek, Jackson, Salem, Hebron, and Gran
VILE, 10 the line of Pouney, in Vermont. The
road from Rutland to Pouiney is said TO be under
contract. Ata meeting held in Cambridge, on Sa-
tuiday last, the following persons were chosen d-
rrectors, under their corporate organization. viz
VIM. Law, A. Il. Law, ID. Valentine, r. Stevens,
a simpson, James MCKEE, Thomas Rice Ahira
Eldndge, ID. Eldrldge, L. Wells, G.. w. Wilcox,
} NJ. stevenson, Jonathan Warner. Commission
ers TO receive farther subscriptons-J. p. Putnam.
Owen kellogg, w. Law, ]. S Croker. J. Thomp,
son.--7 Troy daily Budget.
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LAW Intelligence.

TwronTANT DEcsior.- Supreme Court OF Per nsyl.
vans have affirmed the judgment Of the Court of q ON.
mon Pleas Of Dauphin county rendered for
in the suit by the Commonwealth Of PennsyvanIa vs.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company in which
the in controversy amounted 10 about ninety tbou
sand dollars The opinion Of the Court was delivered
by g lief Justice Gibson.
The main question settled IL, that the defendants
who by statutory license purchased out the interest OF
Maurice Wurtz In certain improvements In Pennsyva
mia and by the license hold land In
are nevertheless New York corporation, and not EN-
aced by the terms Of the acts Of 1870 and s44 taxing
companies incorporated by under the laws OF Penn
sylyania," &c. II Is understood that the company
have been paying the taxes imposed on them by the
prospective act Of 4s-Pti PennsyiVarap, yiig Q,
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Dry goods have been very high, but prices are
coming down.
icoald tell you of many things that would asto.
nish you. Carpenters wages are from 10 to $25
per day, and common laborers are rarely to be
found Lumber of the poorest kind is worth $500
per thousand feet Sperm candles have been sell
ing at NJ SOTO 81 per Id. Sperm OIL Is worth ~
Mr.. Eeleston adds that he is SIN good health,
and doing very good business for small man"
and intends to return to New Bedford during the
ensuing winter or coming spring.-N. H. Mere"ry
From the Albany Argus July o.
SACRAMENTO Cry, March 30, 1919
am keeping a dry goods store at present, In
this city, on the Sacramento river. My location
is very near the gold mines, and ! am doing well,
having cleared about $40, 900 in gold dust. When
the gold was first discovered, deserted from the
company, and in about four months cleared some
$4,S0O. Then | went IN business with man by
the name of Murray, also of the volunteers, (you
will find our advertisement in the Alta Cattf0r-
nian) land, as said, we are doing a very snug
business. 1t was my intention to have come home
last fall, as stated in previous letter; but the
gold fever coming on, with the addition OF so
many more inhabitants-many from the States,
aDd some with whom | was well acquainted pre-
yious to my coming out here-I concluded that ]
had better remain year or more longer, and by
that time, If / retain my health, | shall be salts:
he'd with gathering gold in this distant cline, and
happy to return to my dearest friends. Your inn
preston that was wrong In joining the regiment
and coming here, ] am now convinced was an err
roneous one-and you may tell every one who
wants gold, to come out here and get 1t, for there
is an abundance Of the precious article. A man
can make from $50 to $500 and $500 per day
You may doubt this; but it is so. The most that |
have made in one day, at the mines, was $3.50
This is as true as brother knapp's preachng-and
| am inclined TO think, more so than some oft.
The climate is good for some eight months in
the year. / have been sick about one month, of
fever and ague during my stay in this city, and my
physicians bill was 800 for that length Of time
shall return to the States when ! get little
more gold. Fifty thousand, and nothing shorter,
will answer my purpose. .
All articles of wearing apparel are high, as well
| as every thing else-even females are scarce, and
difficult to be discovered. Good boots sell at $50
per pair, salaratus SIS per pound and every thing
| in proportion.
| will send this by the steamer when she returns
| from Panama. and you will find some of the dust
in the sealing wax. / would put in larger pieces
for | have some-but am fearful Of your not re-
| ceiving them.
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A NEw TELEoRArH ST BERLrN-On the Both OF
May last, Mr.. c. w Semens, of Berlin, read be-
fore the Society of Arts account Of a new tele-
graph IN constant operation IN Germany, the inven-
tage II has is in the small amount of electricity re-
CURED to work IT. the current is broken in each in
strument before the attraction OF the armaiure of
the elecfromagnet Is completed; but the more in
tense the supply OF magnetism the quicker they
work. The principal feature in Siemen's Inven.
ton consists in breaking and restoring the gavanic
current by the electro magnet ITSELF at the moment
when the vibration of the armature TO the one side
or the other is ended. THIS makes 1t a selfactIng
machine. by this telegraph, all important debates
In the German parliament at Frankfort are con-
yeyed $50 miles TO Berlin, and published next morn
Ing.-L0nd0n fnrcntor's Nagasipe.
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PRACTICAL BOOKKEEPING,
NO 90 GEDAR STPEE,C

ME- G. MARSH Accumulate Author Of the " Science q
4l Double Entry Book keeping Simplfed, and the Art
Of Single Entry Improved continues to teach
above.
At once TO keeping books receives separate and
thus becomes with all the books consti
utng set and also with mercantile calou-
aons Persons moderate capacity by this become
competent bookkeepers in about month and receive oer
Aoates to that effect
Prospcctuses with terms, obtained at the A.
N.to6P.M .3s
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The Ndssau Guardian publishes statement of
the expenditure and revenue of that colony, by
which it appears that the expenditure had been
f29, 405 rs. Sd and the income ELS, 277 g. Sd
showing an increase Of ely 1885,, for the financial
year ending the 9th of March. $4,000 had been
paid in the interval, towards the liquidation OF the
public debt. The heat had been intense, but sub
sequeniy showers had fallen AT Wating's Island,
Exuma, and Long Island, in consequence of pen-
teous rains, the cvops were very promising; but
salt raklng would be materially retarded by the
moisture. At Andres Island, Grand Bahamas, and
Berry Islands, the crops expected to be rather
poor, In consequence of drought.
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CLOTHING. &C.
PUBLICATIONS.

TJNBE KNICKERB0CKER MAGAZINE-CoMAENCl
Il ment Of New VOlume-The July number Of the Knci
erboeker contains portrait of the Editor and numb,
original articles of unusual interest The Editor has
and also gives large amount Of matter Ia his Tab
which his happiest vein. Being the first number
Thirty fourth Volume it is time to subscribe
and hope many will send in their Caution
authorized receive subscriptions for the Knck
erbocker in this city account of the subscriber Person
wishing the work will please send their to the publ
cation when il will be to them without charge fol
delivery. iyl0lts s. HOUSTON. 139 Nassau st. I
COLMAN'S IMMENSE STOCK OF BOOKS, EN-.
IGRAVlNGS, DRAWINGS, STATIONERY, AND
FANCY ARTICLES
ARE,BEryG SOLD AT PRICES.
TNHlS INVITATION is GIVEN TO STRANGERS
visiting the city, that they not forget to CALL
examine and purchase if they do wish to buy, may
he induced visit the Gallery of Spen did Paintings above
the store many Of which, it is tad, not surpassed In
this country
The assortment is much the largest in the United States
Recently received several of Engravngs framed and
mounted for less than the price Of the prints NO os
Broadway iylo It,
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Naval Intelligence.

NAVAL Court MARrIAL.-The examination Of Lieut..
Kelly was concluded yesterday morning. DR.. billiard
and Lieut.. Rogers were the next witnesses examined
We learn that the testimony will probably be concluded
to day and that the defence Of Lieut. Prentiss will be
made early next week.-NorJoik Beacon, July I.
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The State debt Of New pshire above its available
funds is $24 $40 L. The expenditures last year
about $4,000. Its State tax S5997S proceeds OF
public lands, $ll1sl SO and its railroad tax wa.
S3S $50 e. divided thusConcord Railroad tax $40 lis
90 Boston and Maine, So sol 05 Nashua and Lowell
Slloa 80 Cheshire, $3.50 % Northern Slo,o56 70
Eastern, So 800 Is.
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$500 REwARD-cRoss' SPECIFIC MIXTURE,

$500 REwARD-CRoss' SPECIFIC MIXTURE,
lures and analogous complaints Of the Of
all remedies ye. discovered for the above complaints
II makes speedy and permanen. cure without tho ieas.
restriction to Diet drink exposure change in application
We sivs noOng quachh recommendations to deceive the
rSs u 70, medicine o dSs rot 'p 70, s no one
had aud the proprietor challenges single recent
70 Be brought II which ss mixture will not effect
This disease that unfortunately peryades all classes Of
s Are Sn T- n r ' Ssmey IN ssc and s. single
without the least exposure in the shortest
Farther II. disease cannot be contracted IL dose Of the
sos,s directions r. Ss s"sS
at 81 bottle: One bottle lasts week which generally
scd a. nc sIus store, I7S Broadway, Irving Hu.
NoCURE, NO CHAkeE.-DH. MURPHY OF 81 GOLD
street confident tally consulted all privsss
debility and IMPOTENCE sSsss !, . .s isSs
from business. open from "a n to ~ IN Jgio Il.
NO CURE NO PAY.-pR coRBrTT 10 DUANE ST..
s1sse. o Gn Ss % s'rsI '..s
nent % delicate diseases enables Dr. TO cure the worst
form q this disease Recent cured in three No
nKJoHNsoN, DUANE STREET so WELL KNOWN
putsOp Cor skill those hall cases that have existed
habit sc,usy s"Id Rssss cases S1SSgss
four dsys. no I,s"
DR COOPER IL DUANE STREET mas, ron an
- last fourteen years confined his practice the treat
ment Of mercuria and other diseases ola delicate nature
ne cure te most aggravated cssS Of this disease
mild cases removed in two TO Eve days perfect cure
charge ii0 lee
CS0-DR. HUNTER WILL FORfEfT ANY SUM- IN
PCO failing to cure Of disease
come rnasr his care no matter how .ns standing salct
ing fstisnts are invited to lis Dpensary, Ne Division
stres ~ Il as thousands cured yearly by hts praec
experience and remedies aud others
have been unfoI in the selection Of pm ysican
Htted TO call the doctor Ills Red Drop like
in diseases Of this class Read and reflect rhe sisted
would DO vel to reflect before their hct hspp
nts and IN mary their lives in the hands of phy
clans Of this elass of aladies II " certainly
possible Tor understand all the ills the
family subject Every respectable pysisas h
particular bran IN, which he is successful than
boh and thersfore 70 that he deyoes Of
his study Dr. Hunter IL known 10 be
cessl rrstoner iu the United states in mercurs aad
venereai diseases 81 rer vsl with directions and
boob kemcnter this the only where his
rtnedy, Dr. bunters Red Drop 6ehad now
all ts country the only thing that really
People uust not be deceived by pretended receipts u
isrreat remedy ~ an OH stale aud trick
got up BY Jealous rivals. Ivlgltt"
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We have been favored by Capt. Edmond Gard
ner with the ptrusai Of the letter from California
received by him and alluded to in our last. 80 far
from being unlntelhgible or in any way mysterious
as y had been described TO ms, il is exceedingly
wen Penncd and intelligent The following extract,
although not OF The latest date, will be interesting
TO our readers. The letter is dated al san Fran
cisco, Apiil 9Th, and the writer Mr. Geo Egleston,
says -
Immense quantities Of gold have been taken
from the mines, and at the present time the miners
are realizing from three to twelve ounces per day
Each man have seen has pieces weighing from one
10 SIX pounds OF solid gold, and have been crediby
informed that one piece has been found weighing
twenty-five pounds know Of a great number Of
men here who went 10 the mines last summer, some
OF whom dug SIX and some ten days, and I know Of
none who got less than one thousand dollars dur
ing that PERIOD while others who were at the
mines three or four months got from five thousand
20 twenty-five thousand dollars each. Real estate
m san francisco Is very high-lots fifty yards
square are selling at from S2j,0U0to 100000 each
All Kinds OF provisions are very high butter al so
per D., cheese a. sailed pork 80 to $50 per Dbl ;
beef, t25 to 500 fresh beet, II TO Is cents per To-
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ELuTINAs ACCoRDIoNs vIoLINs, AND oTBER
~ MUSICAL instruments, in great variety, al JACOBS
Chatham street Bazaar 80 Chatham street. Also gold and
silver Watches Jewelry Sc Accordion taught tuned and
repaired few copies Of Jacobs celebrated nstruc
tion books or the Accordion, % edition, jyl0 IL.