The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-20

counts were to the 7th of the same month Thess
three weeks later accounts were received by the
way of the city Of Mexico. Vera Cruz, and New
Orleans.
MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
Bosror, April 1e-P NJ
A letter has been received by Messrs II N. Hooper
Co.. of this city dated Francisco, Feb g. The let
ter via Mazatlan.
The steamship California, from New York, had ar
rived Mt San Francisco with Gen PersIfer f. Smith ana
suite board
The writer says that he yesterday weighed 100 lbs q
gold, and that it not uncommon thing to cart
gold dust from store to another.
Real estate was rapidly advancing, and commanded
$40 per square yard Flour selling at SIS per Dbl.
bread S12 and pork $50 Lumber worth $500 per
thousand feet. The smallest in the place lot
readily for 500 per month He advises his friends to
send any quantity of lumber and small houses ready
put up which, he states will bring 500 per cent ad-
for the next two years. Cooks wages S1O0
per month; eggs, So per dozen; snaratus So per Ib
butter 81 so; cheese, 75c.; beef 121sc. pork 25s;
fowls So rewood $50 per cord milk 81 per bottle;
board $40 per week common laborers SO day; and
car penters S. Our sales for the last four months
amount to three quarters of a million Of dollars
BosroN, April 1916 p ".
Advices FRAN San Francisco to February 2sth have
been received in this city
The steamer California had arrived from Panama. but
the date of her arrival is not given.
There was a reduction in the price of most articles
owing the expected arrivals from the United States
At the date of advccs -four SIS pilot bread,
ST. pork, $50 per Dbl Lumber enormously high
Gen Persifcr f. Smith had arrived,
One letter Francisco, dated February says
that the nominal government there continue tho DOL
lection of revenue notwithstanding the circular Mr.
Secretary Walker respecting the matter and all dutios
paid under protest
The bark Mary Parker from Oahu, Sandwich islands,
arrive at San Francisco the 10th of February.
by MAIL.
From the Washington Union April 10
Just as we are going to press, we have received
the following extract Of letter from very respec-
table gentleman IN San Francisco, to his brother In
this city, to whose Offences we are indebted for
the opportunity of laying before our readers the la
test intelligence from California. AS everything
from the gold region is interesting to our country
men, we hasten to publish it, having no time for
comments
SAN Francisco, February 20, 1919.
DEAR B.-Snce my arrival here on the 18th inst
no less than nine large vessels have arrived, and
lots of people. But for the gold region the ac-
counts from which just received represent the
suiierngs of the people there to be great. Many
have died, and many more will follow. The dis
agreeable and rainy season does not end until the
| month of April.
As may be supposed, everything is anarchy and
| confusion or, IN other words, every one does
| he pleases, and takes of himself.
Commodore Jones has gone on an, expedition up
the bay, in the Southampton with a view of as
certaining how far the navigation is practicable for
r cal estate here is as dear as it is in
Broadway-at least, as much is asked but there
are no housesin the place atiordng any comforts,
| and no person to put them up.
As high an interest as 5 per cent per month
has been paid for money, hypothecating real estate
which cost 500 year ago, and now wcrh $lO,-
CO., and the like.
A great deal you hear from the gold region u.s. of
course, exaggerated but believe its richness
urpasses anything yet heard OF; Indeed, II all re-
ports be true, the whole ear is nxeL with 1t tor
hundreds OF miles, the extent OF which has not yet
been ascertaned, and there cannot be scarcity Of
the article thousand yearsto come.
Gold has risen in value to 81 so SIS, and it is
not likely togo down. There is not much, how
ever, market, and next fall there will be an i'm
mense quantity brought IN.
p. S.-The measles are killing all the inhabi-
tants of the Sandwich Islands 10000, it is re-
| ported, have died. Our commissioner has struck
his flag, and is at loggerheads with the Kanaka
government. Commodore jones' believe, will go
The Newark advertiser of the 10Th inst. con-
tains the following letter from the Rev. L. Dwight
! Hunt, which came by the overland Mexican
route, and was postmarked at Vera Cruz, April I'd.
having been received by the arrival at New Or
| leans
[From the New Orleans Picayune, April 10l
A letter from California, name of the place not
| given, was received LII Gududdjara In the early
part Of March, giving an account of horrid out
rage committed by five American deserters at the
mission house Of San Miguel These ruifians
broke into the premises, and murdered Donna
! Anita Linares, her husband, Gan Englishman,)
| Donna Guadalupe Vallejo, four children, negro
cook, two female Indians and an Indian guide.
The letter states that these crimes passed not only
unpublished, but almost unnotced. We have.
however, received accounts of their having been
pursued by an armed party, and all put to death.
! The Mexican papers publish these and variety of
| Il a..
of the emgation. 1t is, however, stated that the
arrival of General Smith there will probably have
the effect of rendering life and property secure.
| Correspondence Of tho Picayunel
| SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. Is, 1919.
Surprising few lines from these digglns may
prove interesting to you, if not to the public, l
avail myself of the opportunity of the departure for
Mazatlan of the schooner Swallow, one of tho
fastest sailing vessels in the Pacific, to send yos
this, with short synopsis of nofic,as nooidades.
such they
TO commence. therefore, will inform you that
! arrived here on board the Ohio flag ship yester-
| day, tweniyeight days from San Bias a noble
ship, noble crew, and very gentlemanly set of
officers. She is commanded by G. X. Stribling.
Esq, a commander in rank, but more deserving
that of commodore, for being, if not the best,
among the best and first seamen In service.
and one of the very few who commands his ship
in short one of the first ornaments of our navel
, service.
Com Jones left about ten days ago, up the bay.
on board the soop o. war Cor believe now store
ship southampton, on an exploring expedition, to
how tar il was practicable for large ships to
navigate up the bay with safety. This is a very
important matter to ascertain, as the anchorage Il
Yerba Buena is by no means agreeable one,
and the site Tor the grand emporium for the Pacific.
one of the worst, with a scarcity of water, wood,
and everything else (save fog and norhwestersS
that can contribute to the happiness of man.
The ships of war at present here, are the Ohio.
~; ST. Marys, Dale, Warren and Southampton
On the return of the commodore, there will be lit
tie communicating, and break up. The Dale
will go home, and the Ohio will go to the Sandwich
Islands, where our flag has recently been struck.
and a suspension of diplomatic intercourse between
our commissioner and his Hawaiian majesty has
taken place. The fact is, we must alter our 5sie,
will he 70 take the island and establish ourselves
| permanently on it, The agents of our government