The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1849-08-17

dust, On board, She also brings large
mail.
The Falcon left Chagre> on the 25,h ult.,
nj noon, and made the TIP in SIN days and
a half
Mr.. G. II. r,ll, AGED - years. native
OF New bury port died GA board the Falcon,
on the 2gth ait.
Oar attentive correspondent at Panama.
sends u> the following interesting mtrlh-
Gtnce from California, received at that port
by the arrival Of the steam ship Oregon,
from san Francisco:
PANNNA, July -, 1919.
The steamer Oregon has arrived at tins
pm', hnuSlng a!ytcss from san Francisco
To the III at July.
She brought sixty passengers, and over
hali million IN specie aud gold dust
The commercial news i, not very cncour-
aging; merchandise and manufactures
being drugs in he market.
The accounts from the mines are very
contradictory, Ou, digging appears to go ON
trj>kly.
The country is still subject to martial and
lynch law.
Many Of Stepheuson's regiment are
proving about and committing deyreda-
uon> upon the ChIlian> and PeruviauS.
Mechanics Of every Kind are in great re
quest; and carpenters command auv rate
of wages.
Twenty vessels from Boston, New York.
aud Baltimore, have arrived. Many YES
sells that left the Atlantic cities in January
have lot yet arrived.
Notwithstanding the absence Of the civil
law, the country remains IN a perfectly
tranquil state, and no drpreiations of an
atruciuu> character have occurred, cNcrrt
those committed by the volunteers.
Houses >,ill command enormous rents.
aud lodging is stated to Toe az high ~ three
dollar, per night, without bed TO lie ON.
There are about four hundred persons
now IN Panama.
Since the sailing Of the Crescent CITY six
Americans have died On the I>thmns.
The steamer Oregon got ashore Ola her
way here, and was somewhat injured. 1t
is probable her injuries may dctain her here
a week for repairs.
The Panama is here at present, and will
sail for san Francisco on the FIST Of Au-
gust.
Five sailing vessels are in port, three Of
which are mp for California.
California generally, is very healthy.
The passengers who were transferred TO
the Alaboma, at New Orleans, are still here.
having lost their chances cf proceeding TO
San Francisco.
From our teleCraphc correspondent At
New Orleans, we received the following:
We havo cleaned tie following interest
ing information respecting California, the
gold mines and the Inhabitants, from a gen.
Ieman who was passenger in the steam
ship Falcon, and who comes direct from
San Francisco:
The health Of San Francisco is good.
and thu residents of the towns much more
orderly and quiet than could be Anticipated
The gambling houses are all closed on
the Sunday, and labor Of every kind suS-
pended, although worth from ten to fifteen
dollars day.
-Four churches have been already built,
and another is daily expected to nrrive.'
The suburbs Of the city wear the appear
anee Of the "tentcd field" and San Fran
cisco that of a beleagued town, there being
at least two thousand cloth tents large and
small, belonging 10 companies and indiyid-
uas, IN the vicinity Of it.
The most respectable Americans reside
in the city, aud there are rarely any diff
cuiiIeS, except such "a occasionally arise
between the immigrants aud the natives.
The market has been completely over
stacked with goods. Clothing sells for less
than in the States.
There were fifty or sixty cargoes OF goods
remaining unSSld in san Francisco.
Houses and lumber are very high and
scarce. A house, abou, forty feet long by
twenty feet wide, worth in the States four
hundred dollars, would readily sell here for
-, 800. The expense Of putting it up would
be irl! seven hundred dollars.
Gold continues plenty. Large quantities
Of it were daily arriving. 1t was selling for
$50 per ounce, for specie, and taken at SIG
per ounce when received in payment for
goods.
Though immense quantities Of gold had
been tound, It was considered TO be unCx-
hausted.
The merchants at San Francisco were
generally doing a fne business. They
charge ten per cent. commission for selling
and guarding the merchandise consigned to
them.
On tie lst Of August a convention wa,
to have been held, at which delegates were
TO be chosen, 10 form a Territorial govern
meni, when IT Is intended to apply for al
mission into the Union.
At the mines Lynch law was supreme.
When man Is caught stealing, q jury is
chosen, the evidence heard, and should he
be convicted, hcis Immediately ncgged and
driven away from the mines.
The health Of the persons working n, tho
mines has been very bad. Fever and chilli
have prevailed TO a great exseu,.
The sloop ofwar Warren was lying ut
san Francisco; the Ohio had gone to the
Sandwich Islands.
There were about one hundred vessels
lying at San Francisco, en,erely deserted
by their crews.
Sailors were very scarce, and wages
were from 800 to $500 per month. Near
ly every sailor that arrives runs away 10
the mines and works n while, but soon re.
turns TO San Francisco, 10 take spree and
spend his money.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 1.
The rainy season had set in at Chagres,
and much sickness prevailed, which was
the case also at Panama.
The cholera was raging at Car,ha:cna.
ANOTHER GREAT DiscovERy.-Se nStiire
ILJSy-\Ie had coca siou some DAYS since