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Intelligence from California
IRON the st Louis Era Dec. 20. |

From the St Louis Era. Dec. 20.l
Yesterday NOR ming, DR.. Jett of Han nibal in this
State, came passenger in the steamer Edward Bates
from New Orleans to this city, whence he arrived n
few days previous direct from California nd the gold
"dgeiDs" The Doctor, during his absence has ex
ploIeo the most Of Oregon and Caifo-n and being
a gentleman Of intelligence and acute observation is
enabled to mpsrt great deal Of valuable infor
thote who lsboring under the gold
mania Of the present day. He came by the way Of
Panama and Cbsgres. from whom we learn the follow
ing facts connected with the route nd mode
Of conveyance across The isthmus: The expense for
tran, porting freight from Chagres TO Pansms Is dol
per lar hundred pounds "a miles OF which Is by land
and the residue by water The land carriage Is per-
formed entirely by pack mules whose cargo GO insists
each OF 500 pounds weight five miles Of the road Is
very bad and nothing can be carried except In appro
pirate packages, adapted to being packed on mules
The cb arge s seventy.fve Ger Is Q hundred and six
dollars hire for the OF mule to ride to the
water transportation. The water carriage s accom-
pitched in large size the propretors Of which
charge twenty Eve cents q hundred; in addition TO
which each passenger 10 charged four dollars fare to
Panan, ,,u ON reaching Pansus you have to pro-
ofhng which Is additional cost OF four dollars for
each trip Of the lighter several however going out
can join together In employing these small boats
At Panama. 1t il impossible TO procure nv Mind of &C.
commodatiop under four dollars a day: advepturers
would, consequently do We to take their tents and
equiDage with them so that in the event of de-
tention at Panama they could pitch their own tents
and themselves this great expense for rather poor
bv ng steamer makes the trip from Panama TO San
Francisco In from ten to twelve days, and DR. Jstt
thiLks there will be rick of any very great deen
tion at Panama; the trip from Chagres to Panama 10
accompIisksd with ease in twenty.four hours, and
very unhealthy the prevailing disease being fever
ague, but the Pacific side the climate is saubrous
From San Francisco to Suffers which Ia In distances
hundt ed miller from the coast you proceed in small
sail vessels the passage in which 10 six doars each and
lar hundred When you reach Suffers you are with in
forty miles Of the gold "dggins" to which every man
has W make his way the best he can San Frsncsco
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Herald Marine Correspondence.
u s.s: ;snS g
Prior st Johns NF Jos(phne, Porter Orleans Palmetto
.na Mobile. yG ss s sn:a Wiz s"a ~
Beov-Bark Anna Reynolds, Matthews. Boston.
Miscellaneous.
the Exchange Reading Room this day at half o'clock
o'clock. ' "'''' '''' ~ '''-' .''A ' -
NAssAv NJ Dec G.%il'u Sylvester e load salt
Orleans d bark Dabsnon ssS.nnss viii
total wreck brss Castor Norton fOT York. ~ days
condemned.
Ga bark beax Harding. fhladslphi. brs Foster
RossH James CSC fsass
ApSslg., n Yora -. - "a, -, o,..,. -.
S sss 4! David .s
cart ao Nancy Bishop psvis Key Vest Dec BRIG Tosac
ssss " sSs sssS
lou; Sh. sxsGs
Smith s% s. TO Ys1 rs G.
BAN; sxsS5s Bermuda; .ehs Frens sss My
j:ss' $ ,s; SAs'sS y
Tanning csscaI Xoi; - NauTmahai Cooper d. oit
brig David Pratt Wilson. Richmond 50. shr Sovereign r.
Boston port sp Montreal bark Emma Isadora brigs
della Dtna schs Kenncbec, oWdes Eric, Bold KunnsS
Adams the brig and three sob. unknown.
Jan PAT barks Vernon Fay Now York Pets
Dcni Hoey. New York; brig Wilson Fuller, Crawford, New
York; sehr Waterloo, Jordan ThomastOn 3d. ship Samue
In port ships Liverpool (B) Raisbsck Liverpool Stirling
Theobad, Liverpool Eli Whitney D. er watpg ismerlane
Nariz; Riga Beard repairing Hartford
New York; Liverpool Irvine Liverpool Ihrs (Bi MoFar
and lNcrpoo Victoria (B Hunter Hull Laure Du kett
Liverpool Pomars tB) Wisen Greenock Yeomau Pur
den Liverpool hounaineer OBJ Carr, waiting Catharne b
(B) Gales Liverpool Emma ats Watt Liverpool Bue
Vista Mustard LveIp OIL Samuel rl eIhoon liverpool He
n Jacks dischagpg st Lawrence hGgcs Liverpool; Mar
tha 0oham waiting Orandsr, whs waiting; barks Vernon
Fay dnctarDf Carlos, BedG New lr4 Peter Demil Hoey
komsn Doans. Boston, Theoba Liverpool
| Boyd, brummond. Hayre Adoph. (Bml Remers Brsno
Gardh Spies, New York: Clyde. Homer New RI
Penre (br Morris, LIVERPOOL Ellen. BrD Mclaughlin Liver
pool Dea OBJ Buchanan, vepool Springfield (Br) Roy
Liverpool Ada. Watson, dschargnG Athol (Bl HutchD
Jones' Taylor PhadsiphiA; Exec, Rsvci discGarsins
Lucy Atwood Atwood wn Josephus Pitcher, NYork; GAL
leo, Durham, d Macon, Sheffield NYork Alert Millen wig
Ottoman Hannum disc; ell Warren Boston American
Ross New York; rhura Thatcher dso; Zenob
Gulner Boston; Sea Belle Herman ldg Toledo Glover
srloo Jordop, dsc Jones' Rad H. NYrk; Midas Hagsrdon
do Tucarors Foster; philadelphia Albert Vina MarshS wte
sr MARYs Dec 27-Arr brigs Watson, Watson New Yorl
York. brig Curts True Boston, sch Col Hanson
New York. Cid brig Attention, Symops, Boston.
WILMINGTON Jan Arr lot sohr Albano Pitcher Bristol RI
3D. brig Colorado. Bal Boston, 3d. brig Catharne Ncke
Boston; PEARL Moore JaeksoLve Albion,
do Cid Lousne Smith, York: Thorr Wainwright do Har
Coming in smith, Nichols York; brig Dom West
port.
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MARITIME NTELLIGEN Gle


SUN RISES hoou SETS. .rses
SETS. .......... 4 As HIGH ...........S
Arrived.
samship Hermann Crsbtee southampton Dec II. via Bos
TOP, 80 hours 18th mdse TO Ocean steam Navigation Co.
stesmihp roee lyon Savannah ~ hours with mdse 10
Mitchell Bus been by strong head winds all
ptssage. The ship samuel Hicks. hence. arrived Jan g.
Bark Touloun Tue Nassau Mp Dec % with cotton 60 To
Benson Jan lat ~ 20 lon 70 A. spoke schr Mars Hill toI
eav, gale from NV on the ob made Montauk bore for
Vineyard the 9th underway after landing Capt John
Crofs. wpe board By the News Boy.
Sv Juno Saber Ccntdgos Key West where
has been ashore, to Funcfe u Mencke.
BRIG Melissa Ann, Tabbo Joneupor II days. with spars to
order.
days witt plaster and N her to ] Neyins 81 Son.
Sehr q King. wainwright. Wilmington. NJ, 8 days.
schr Samuel Appleton, Hamilton Boston l0dAya
schr Crotcn Cbsce. Boston, 6 days
Sctr Victor. Berry, Boston, q dava
sthr Oscar Coles, Barrow, Newport
Schr fotus Bistey WsrehaW
Schr Excelsior, Bell, New Bedford
schr A,barnbrs. Bullock ThoDason.
solr Wetsustoga, Clark, Portland, 10 days
Schrtamhrdge Lazy Boston.
Sehr Oread. Bibber. Eastport, 10 days.
scbr Ign bbuFr Hawkins. Bosten.
Sebr We come. Bttsy, WaIeham.
Soop bhode Island, Hull. Providence.
Soop MOTTO APP eby. Providence.
Ssop Proofglsss, Hsllcsb. Providence,
Sloop Tecumscb Fowler Providence.
sloop " illard, Baker, Providepce,
Below.
Psokct ship Montezurna, Lowber, from Liverpool
Packet chip Northum berland Hammond, London.
Sailed.
Brig David Henshaw, for San Francisco, and othera
large quantities Of drift Toe in the upper bay,
during the day.
JANUARY wind. at SUNRISE N; meridian. NNE sunset
ENE, light
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CITY TRADE REPORT,

JANUARY 10 vi.
The flour market maintained the buoyaucy pre-
vieu,y noticed, and saes made to fair extent
mostiy to the homo trade, at slight advance yes.
terdays prices. There doing In wheat, and
sales were pretty freely made Of Illinois and Ohio
on terms stated below Corn continued to sell at
yesterdays prices There was no change in meal
Rye was held at previous rates. Oats were nrm. A
further advance realized In pork, with sales Of
both and prime. Old mess was also frmsr
Old prime scarce and small eass made nj an
advance. Beef was firm. There not much doing
in lard Cotton continued active and Gales were
pretty freely made including lots for export at yeste
days quotations. There was material change in
groceries.
Small eales Of pots were reported at So SO. Some
holders asked SO rs Pearls worth Sc IS
ToBAcco.-We annex the usual weekly stateme mt,
showing The prices, saes receipts and stock hand,
for the week ending this afternoon, Jan. o.
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Died.

On Wednesday, Dec 81, 1s4s, by the Rev. Henry I
Chsevtr, Mr. JAMES G. HuMBERT, to Miss MARY Fly NJ
both Of this city
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Died,
On Saturday the 9th inst, FRAScB TrLLoU, Senior,
aged 81 years.
His friends requested to attend his funeral from
his late residence No 70 Henry street. this (Mondsy)
morning, the eth inst at 10 o'clock
On suncay Jan T. 1s49, Of consumption, JoHs
MEeRABAS, in the 40th year of his age
The friends of bis brothers. James and Henry iIar-
bipton are invited u attend bis funeral from his lste
residence No 10 Dover street, on Tuesday, the 9Th
int at O'Clock. r. NJ
On Saturday, the 9Th inst CArpEnInE ARApvLL.,
daughter 81 George A. and Catherine f. Curtis, in tue
5tb year Of her age.
ThefreDds Of the family are invited to attend the
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hip Cberokse-MJ Craigo child
want Mr. helntoh Barrier Mr. Hazard Prime. Flour.
noy W Ross Craige McRea, Capt SCOTT. A, W
jacques Cohen Harrington Adams n Milworth.
worth, Stone De Martin. Derslow, and in stesrage.
NAssAu-Bak Tououn-Capt John Cross Ia Of the bark
Ge Henry Capt VIM Dicb late Of schr Mary Hammond
Z Rogers of Ne, and fcversl wrecked seamen.
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ROBT. a. NORRrs, Pm.

York Capt John HE
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COnl Trade

Po1TsvLLE, Jan. eve give below the ofnoial
quantity Of coal sent to market from the different
regions in lS4s, together with the quantity sent In
1916 and ls17 showing the annual increas6:-
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Increase-tens. 635 ,392 100 27
Showing the increase in 1s47 1846 cas- 800
and an increase of only 100 727 tons in 1SlS, with
largely increased facilities for mining and
ton 1847
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FOr the Republic.
Extract from the Journal Of Chaplain in the Conf
mental .frmy.

Extract from The Journal Of Chaplain in The Cont
mental .4rmy
l775, Cambridge Mass, May g. Capt Good
rich marched his company to Dorchester Point, on
the presumption that the regulars would attempt TO
take possession Of II in the night
Rev Mr. Emerson from New Hampshire came
TO camp to-day with a number Of soldiers.
May H. A provincial fast was held to-day.
preached on the common.
May % A detachment Of militia marched yes
terdsy TO Weymouth, and burnt quantity Of hay
which the regulars were about to carry TO Boston.
They we're fired upon by the enemy, but received
no injury.
May Is. Six hundred regulars took possession
Of Noodles Island, in Boston harbor. Visit the
hospitals and pray with the sick daily.
May %. Yesterday a number Of our army
went upon Noodles island to take off live stock
Being repulsed by the regulars, they retreated to
Hog Island, where number Of our men had taken
the ground and got off stock. The regulars pur-
sued and fired pstoons upon us. The British
schooner Diana, with number Of barges, then
came up and began their fire. Col Putnam and
his men now planted themselves in a ditch near the
shore and reserved their FIRE ill the barges came
within reach Of musket-shot when a hot and brisk
fire commenced on both sides. The regulars find
ing too warm reception, tired very hard for our
boats, but we happily secured them. Upon this
the schooner and barges retreated and were en-
gagged with great fury by along the shore
with musketry. Capt Foster, Of the train, now
came up with two three-pounders, and with one
shot Of double charge cleared the deck Of the Diana,
and size drove and lodged on the ferry wharf Our
men then took bundles Of hay came up to her stern
broke open the windows, threw in the hay, set il
on FIRE and burnt the schooner down 10 the water.
| While we were doing this, three cannon played
upon US continually from the top Of Noodles Is
/ land. sloop came To the assistance Of the Diana
/ Capt Foster gave her few shots, which wound.
| ed her that her hands were obliged to tow her Of
! TO the shipping The enemy got off most Of their
/ killed and wounded Col afterwards Gen Put.
nam and few others returned TO Cambridge in
high spirits.
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g AMOS KENDALL
Indian Agencies I'm California and New
Mexico.

The Union has made terrible ado over
certain Indian Agencies appointed by the
Government for New Mexico and Cal.
ifornia. Its accusations against the Cabi-
net, as concerned in fitting out gold mining
expeditions at the expense of the Govern
ment, are beneath notice, as they would
be below admission into the columns of
any paper which did not regard the fabri-
cation of calumny against an opponent
as the highest achievement of intellect.
There has been one full Agent appointed
for California, and one for New Mexico,
one of them to be located at Santa Fe,
and the other at the ssGreat Salt Lake. :"
This is not an increase of the number Of
Agents in the service-the two Agencies
having been transferred from the Upper
Missouri river, where they were of less
importance, and where their places could
easily be supplied by sub-agents. The
transfer was made under the authority
given in the 18th section of the act of June
30, 1884, organizing the Indian Depart
ment. The same power was exercised by
President Polk in transferring the Agency
at ST. Peters, Minnesota, embracing the
Sioux, to point higher up the Mississippi,
to include the Winnebagoes and Chippe-
was-a sub-agency being substituted at
st. Peters for the Agency thus removed.
The interests of the public service re-
CURED the change, and President Polk had
it made.
There have been three sub-agents APP
pointed for California and New Mexico,
and this was done by the same authority
under which President Polk appointed
three for Oregon last year--the 9Th sec
ton ofthe act above named, which provide.
that competent number Of sub-agents shall
be appointed by the President, to be en-
ployed and to reside wherever he may d.
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In letter published in the last number of Littes
Living Age, it is stated that new quarterly, to be
called the Anglo-Saxon, is about to be commenced
in London. "The object of the Ango-Saxon is to
bring the scattered sons of the great Anglo-Saxon
family closer together-to record what is most
worthy of remembrance in the history of the great
est of all races-to make mankind more familiar
with Anglo-Saxon history and progress 4" It pro-
fesses to be devoted the interest of AngoSaxons
throughout the world, without distinction Of coun-
try or government. If this idea should be properly
carried out, there is little doubt that the periodi-
cal would be, in the highest degree, successful and
be hailed in England, as well as in America, as
one step towards true Anglo-Saxon literature.
Though the day has gone by when English critics
would ask, with derision, who reads an American
book, or travellers become popular by ridiculing
American peculiarities it is far from being the fact
that any book of American origin, though written
in unexceptionabe language, is recognised as de
j,ue entitled TO place in English literature
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rect. The transfer of the two Agencies and
the appointment of the three sub-agents
were absolutely necessary for the manage
ment of our Indian relations in those two
Territories. Indeed, they are not sufficient
for that purpose; and Congress will, no
doubt, at an early day see the necessity
OF making more ample provisions for that
portion OF our possessions. They were
specially required to aid in fulfilling our
obligations to Mexico under the late treaty
with that country, which engages US to
keep the Indians within our limits from
going into and making depredations upon
hers. The appointments being thus au-
thorized and legal, their compensation be-
ing taken from appropriations made by
Congress therefor, and the interests of the
public service requiring them to be made,
the country will be satisfied, if the Union
is not, that there have been no illegal
and unauthorized appointments of Indian
Agents and sub-agents in New Mexico
and California
The remainder of the Unions denunc-
atoms against the Government in con-
nexion with this subject are as absurd as
spite and Misrepresentation could make
them.
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PRESCRIPTION.

A person who was not familiar with the
tactics of the Locofoco press would natu-
rally suppose, from the outcry which has
been made over the removals which have
taken place, that there was not a single
ce-holder under the last Administration
remaining in office. The present Admin
istration has been denounced as the most
proscriptive that has ever exercised power.
Wholesale sweeps have been announced
time and again, whilst the Post Office De-
partment has been held up as particularly
bloody-minded in this age and reign of ter
ror. And yet, after all the removals that
have taken place, in this bloodiest Depart
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LAKE SUPERIOR COPPER MINES.

Recent explorations in the copper district of
Lake Superior have brought to light some interest
ing facts in relation to the minerals of that country
lrrefragabe evidence that at a very remote period
large piece of copper has been found in the vi
cinity of the Ontonagon river, on the south shore
of Lake Superior, some twenty-four feet below the
surface of the ground. Around this were discovered
copper tools and stone hammers, proving that
miners had been to work there full three hundred
years ago, as further indicated by the concentric
circles of massive trees that had grown over it.
More recently similar discoveries have been made
on Isle Royae, situated in the northern part of
the Lake, on the location of the Siscowit Mining
Company, showing that the mines there were
worked full five hundred years ago. 1t is most
adventures from that immense city, the ruins of
which are visible at this day on the Rock river,
west of Lake Michigan. 1t may be that some of
the specimens of copper exhibited as proofs of the
great purity of the Lake Superior ore are masses
of partially refined mineral, abandoned by the old
'workers of brass' at some Of their now forgotten
locations. A careful examination of these places
would, beyond all doubt throw much light on that
very interesting portion of the history of America
the events before the discovery of the continent by
Europeans.
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THE CHOLERA.

The Board of Health have reported the
appearance of this fell scourge in this city.
Since the 18th of June last there have
occurred thirteen cases and SeUen deaths.
Rumors Of deaths from cholera have been
circulated in the streets for several DAYS,
but upon such vague authority that we did
not feel authorized to make them the basis
of formal notice. There can be no doubt,
now, that cholera, in some one Of its
many phases, is here. Though this should
have been expected, yet the proclamation
of the fact will produce surprise in many
minds. 1t is scarcely possible to be fully
prepared for such visitant, however its
coming may for long time be looked for.
We would caution our readers against
undue alarm; for of all the diseases which
afflict mankind, none is so apt to attack
the timid. Prudent living and cheerful
and confding spirit are the best antidotes
against pestilence of any kind The first
symptoms of an attack should be met by
medical advice; for what are called pre-
monitory symptoms are the disease itself in
its incipient stages. 1t has been our fate
to be in many places where the cholera
was raging, and when it was at its worst,
and our experience enables us to say, that
an equable and confident condition of the
mind, cleanliness of habit, temperance in
all things, and especially carefulness from
exposure, and in having every article of
wearing apparel well dried before using it,
almost invariably furnish security against
those violent and sudden attacks which
battle medical skill.
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News OF the Canada.

The Unexpectedly gratifying news brought by
this steamer has induced the whole community to
expect nothing less than perfect success for the
fiungarians, the condition of the affairs of whom
engrosses even more attention thar have the dis
turbances and almost revolution in Paris. II is,
however, to be regretted that the advices are not
definite and that the victory said TO have been
gained by Gorgey over the mperalists under
tiaynau and Rudger, is not placed beyond doubt
Yet it is evident that the battle near Raab has been
serious and that the loss of the allies has been inn
mense. The system Of censorship kept up by the
Austrian Government renders it likely enough
even though private accounts had been received at
Vienna, no journal would venture to alude to it,
The battle at Czorma has, without doubt, taken
place, and the Magyars have been successful The
system upon which the Hungarian generals seem
disposed to act--of avoiding pitched battles, but
fighting by detail the various detachments Of the
Austrian and Russian army-is certain to insure
success. On the other hand, every effort will he
made by the Imperialists to bring on general en-
gagement, in which case the discipline Of veteran
troops would not unlikely triumph over the enthu-
siasm Of the levies of Kossuh.
The French expedition to Italy is still en- peru,a-
nence before Rome, and the energy of Mazzlni and
his associates seems likely to keep them yet longer
at bay. Nothing is more likely than that COLI
sion between the outlying posts Of the French army
and those Of the Spanish and NeapoIitan forces
under Cordoba, at Fiumecino, may occur Should
this be the case, a commouon would certainly en-
sue, which would be the signal Of general war.
The turmoil in Paris seems to become daily
greater; and the determination Of the party known
as the Red Republican 10 unseat the Government
becomes every day more evident The bayonet
alone appears to be relied on as the means of sup
pressing commotion, or preventing difficulties I;
and there is reason think this will continue TO be
the case until the whole nation shall have its ener-
gies and ambition aroused by some interest beyond
the frontiers of France. The plans Of the Red
Republicans appear to have been well laid, from
the fact Of the simultaneous outbreaks at Lyons
and at Marseilles The troubles OF the latter city
will recall unpleasant associations connected with
the first stormy revolution in France, during the
darkest days Of which it was observed that dis
turbance in the capital Of the South was sure
herald Of dreadful commoton in Paris The troubles.
both at Lyons and MarselIles, appear to have been
foreseen-the authorities Of those cities having re-
piled to an order to send troops Paris that not
man could be spared. During the course Of the
day, minuter accounts will probably be received,
making more plain the doubtful points 81 this very
interesting and important intelligence.
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At one Of the recent meetings of the National
institute, Mr. Schoolcran explained to the mem
bers, in brief memoir, the purport Of picto-
graphic petition which was presented to the Presi-
dent of the United States by recent delegation Of
Chippewa Indians from the distant shores of Lake
Superior The entire object of this unique petition
was depicted FIVE sheets OF the inner rind Of the
beiuia papyracea white birch Of the northern for
ests. The paper was referred for report to the
chronological Department.