The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-27
From tho New York Express.


From California.
The following copy OF letter from highly respecta
BILE has been placed in hands by COL Griffin,
whose Office, ls3 Broadway the original may be
The writer is well known in this city and vicinity, and
what he says he has seen can be relied oni
Correspondence Of tho New York Express]
CRY OF MEXICO, April Is, 1S49.
Here are safe and sound, after travel Of fifteen
days from Vera Cruz, the road bsng very bad and our
wagons very heavy. After arriving here. finding that
we could sell Otr wagons fof a good price, and buy
horses, have done SO, and have shifted the most OF
baggage to Acapulco TO 90 from henss Up the coast
San I'VE S %Sx a &C.. along ssss
had trouble of any kind In Coming, except that party
Of robbers blocked up the road on the LEFT OF Rio Fro
mountain one day and waited Tor u.s. but when they say
what savage looking party we were they started of,
and we no more OF them
have had great deal of difficulty in passing sover
egas as they will not take them st il here, ana there
Of some friends and when We get to Mazatan OF San
Francisco. they will 90 for five dollars each,
There three here on their tcdy home from Gait
fOrnia with THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH
with them, which they have made in one year.
and which they showed US. The news they bring is
courage equal to anything that may Two three
OF party have had the fever and ague. and have
been docorng them with the tonic mxture, which cures
il man has sufficient capital shall write at Mazaan,
1 if possible and the moment reach San Francisco
MIR. ketchum is well, &c, ..-
CALIFORNIA IrEMs-Leers from San Francisco, dated
March 8, parties in this city say many OF the volun
cers who went out from this city IN Col. Steyensons
regiment shave done remarkably welP' at the gold
wasbings. Some OF them making arrangements to
come home by the first opportunity.
The people OF Oregon reaping rich harvest from
the lumber trade they carrying with San Francisco.
The rsa0Yned Captain Sutsr was in tha, ely ABOUT
fort though and WAS Ito, 70 ey win him about io0 wild
They have town in California not far from the sea-
coast which they call Webster. Thus the Masaachu-
sets spirit showing Itself in Dorado is the best
new commercial firm just started at San Francisco the
latter New Yorker. Mrs. Mcneil, OF Weathers6eld,
Connecticut, who keeps the leading boarding house at
San Francisco, lost lovely boy, ii months old, recently
says the letter we alluded to above
letter from Mazatlan dated March 2Sth, says Amer.
leans are coming in there from all quarters OF tho CONT
nent The Mexicans are coming, too, and swapping
their fngers at Gen Smiths proclamation; but the fan
KEGS are Swearing vengeance" Both parties are well
armed.
board ship A member of the ALBANY and Sacramento
Mining Company" who out in the Helena, writes
back as follows TO the Evening Journal at Albany:
SATURDAY April I4th.--To-morrow expect DO in
Rio, and all brushing up our best clothes Prepara
tory attending in the great Cathedral, IT we get
nature Three weeks ago ali wanted 90 Rio fr
the sake of seeing beautiful city, about which we had all
thing drink We have been 50 long drinking bad
eating that has become the height OF
ambition lie off OF the French Gales and eat ice
cream and drink sherry cobbers.
Here is an amusing programme Of the no less amusing
order of the gasronomc exercises on board the Helena;
Act Overture with handbel by steward! All rush
down! Hopes JOY Increased animation!
Act z Grace said very long! Frequent nudges under
table Anxious glances a. coyers' Yawns!
| Act3 Covers taken off! Corned beef and mush dis
| PLAYED! Indignation! Scowls Suppressed oaths
Act Plates changed! Knives not ditto! Increased
! hopes! Indian meal! Contempt! More oaths
Acts Grace again said! All pour up stairs! Unsup.
pressed murmufs! Grand tableau1 OF Disguised men
Curtain falls I -
Weae all going to Furnish ourselves with donkeys Rio.