Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1849-04-03
MORE NEWS FROH CALIFORNIA.
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st. Louis Organ.
MORE NEWS FROI CALIFORNIA.
New YORK, March 49,
The steamship Noriherncr has receccd
orders to remain at Chagres ten days, to
wit for the steamer California to come from
San Francisco.
| A house in Pearl street of this city, has
recaivcd some very interesting letters from
california. From one Of which the follow
inc are some extracts:
s.Tbc amour, of gold obtained is truly as
tonishing. Every article Of foods very high
at the mines
"a room, at the hotels rents for $500
month. The most common novels you can
mag bring from $50 and 40 per month.
/"The gold is inexl,aussible, and for years
Ito come immense quantities must continue
to be cot out, and trade must be carried on
between California and all other parts of the
world. Lumber is $50 per thousand;
carpenter can earn SO Per day.
"Ihe entire population Of Oregon has q.
bandouel their crops and farms and are
> coming here. The Sandwich Islands are
deprived of al! their free population.
, EVERY vessel from every part Of the
coast is filled with adventures to the
, mines.'
An arrival at Savannah brings late news
, from Chagres. Upwards of five hundred
v persons were waiting at Panama for thei r
-, turns, fer passage to California, and great
speculation is carried on in the transfer OF
tickets.
HOME DEpARTMEhT.-.I This measure met with
considerable opposition in the Senate, but was
e finally passed. at late hour, by q vote Of 81
= to Is.
= Cu!cAoo.-The first clearance from the port
o of Chicago was on the oath March.
} LIBERAL OFFERS.
Tho enthusiastic German Republicans Of he
east have recently been offering large rewards
for the heads Of several prominent supporters
,e Of monarchy in the old country. Kings, Prin.
=, ces, Barons and simple politicians have all
been priced, and marked out for early sa cr
10 fec. In the west the spirit is being caught up
C. and the indictments held out to aspirants aftcl
rewards and patriotic fame rather surpas>
those offered by the fasteners. We clip The
IS following from the Gcrnlan Tribune, OF last
Thursday: Carl Ambruster, the great demo.
cratic sd usage manufacturer OF st. Louis dc
re sires to make the following offer for the head
D. of the tyrans of Germany: For the head ri
:. the Emperor Of AustriA--ti.rty yards Of ga US
!" age. For the head of the King Of Prussia
twenty five yards. For the head OF Wndsch
% gratz, the haugman-two hundred yards; an,
:, for the heads o! all other inferior members o.
OF supporters Of royaltv-ffleen yards each The
nv hca ds TO be delivered in St. Louis, at his US
=. age mandatory, on Carondelct Avenue.
" He adds, that he has one thousand yards 0
s2n5, with which to string up his victims.
st. Louis Revelllc.
The steamer Panama took out from New
~ York for California. some $50 0oO in specie.
vn We copy the following from the New
Covenant, published at Chicago. 1t give
in good esciiption Of the hardships som
r. our western representatives have to en-
counter, and it is very true that Mr.. E
IF has the perseverance to accomplish tn
rs: task
at A WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE.
az ar The Hon. Joseph Bowron, (rccolIec,e
ain perhaps by a portion of your reade rs nea
he Lockport, on the canal represents at tn
he present time, in the Wisconsin Legisls
ture, the counties Of St. Croix and L
our Pointe, an area Of about one-f fourth Of tn
are State.
ute The St. Croix settlement is accessible
in the summer by the way Of the Mssis
sippi and the St Croix rivers, by boat
LIST In the winter it is bound in by a vast re
era gion Of snow and ice. Mr.. BIS residenc
j.. is about three hundred miles from tn
Ivy Capitol-two hundred from Prairie d
n nd Chen, by the most direct route.
To reach the capitol at the opening {
er- the session, he left home about the cat
of Of December, time peculiarly inhospit'
bic for that angry season-traveled te
e days in snow from twenty inches to tw
the feet deep, without meeting human hi
g. bitation, and sleeping nine SUGGEST,
i've; ~, nights in the open air.
his That he is a faithful Representative
~ those who know him need not be told TIM
-, as ne is persevering one, those who kno
him not, will most readily perceive
life myself saw some hardships in II
era country between Chicago and Rock Ri
err, but when compared with this give
..u up. You eastern representatives, wi
w. -. roll through the extent Of your State
single day, in your cushioned cars, VIII