Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-12-12
Latest from California.


BY the Georgia at New York advices from
San Francisco are 10 Nov. /. The Alta Cal
itornia of Oct. % says
Our citizens were startled Yesterday NOR.
ming by the report that vessel had arrived
IN The barber having on board a large mum.
Der OF cases Of cholera. The vessel proved
10 be tie scl.oonef e. II. Montague, Capt.
Meek. She sailed from Sacramento CITY ON
Friday last with forty six passengers, and n
crew ut seven IN number, anj was bound 10
Panama. On The day after sailing from Sac.
Iamento City a disease, which hus been pro.
nounced 10 be The cholera, broke out among
The passengers, and on thai day Rankin
Lamb OF Groion, Conn.,, died, and was bur
ed al Benicla. The captain aud four pas
sengers are now sick on board. The bodies
OF the SIX persons mentioned as having died
since Monday afternoon, were buried yesrpr-
day by the CITY. The vessel has bee !, order.
ed INTO quarantine, aud nurses sent on board
TO take care OF The sick The Medical So
cery was called together LAST evening at the
reques; OF The mayor. In addition 10 The
above, four deaths irum cholera were stated
TO have occurred in the city within twenty
four hours
AT Sacramento City. from Oct. 81 10 Oct.
p, there we're SO deaths by cholera; among
them, Oct. %, Samuel Drake, 81, Maine
The deaths in Sacramento by other Diseases
were 3 for week ending Ocr. 70.
4 letter dated at San Francisco, Oct. 81,
says
The cholera is raging very bad at Sacra-
menIu--about 80 deaths per day. and eunIrn-
ues on the increase. la Tins Guy but very
4
not be affected with 1t.
Siocking Steamboat DiSdtr-- From the
Alta California of Nov. /
AZ FIVE o'clock just as the steamer Saga
more was casting Oft iom Central wharf,
with large uumbcr OF passengers, bound
| tor Stockton. her boiler burst with terrible
explosion. MASSES OF timber and human bo-
dies were scattered in every direction Capr.
Cole, tie master NJ the boat, was blown To IA
distance of fittv feet into the water, but his
wounds not OF such nature as 10 pre-
cIute u speedy recovery. The number Of
persons Oh board was from 15 TO 100. Ma
| nv hodies were so much Inflated that il
was found impossible 10 identify them
Limbs and fragments were gathered up in
baskeis-a shocking sight.
A grand celebration ia honor Of the admis-
sion OF California took place at San Francis
co on the 29lh October, in which all The
state and government officers and benevolent
societies foreign citizens and others, took
part. 1t is described as having been spleu.
did affair.
The Georgia brought about million Of
gold in the hands ofpassengers, and Sl0O, 900
on freight. The Georgia sailed from Ha-
vana Oh the 81. in the evening
Senators Gwin, Foote and Downs came
passengers in the Georgia, and Hon. Messrs.
ST. Sere, Morse and Judge Billiard, Of the
house of representatives, also Gen. Herrera
and Don Ramon Herrera. Every thing
was quite still in Havana. and Americans
were permitted TO 90 on shore without any
difficulty. The American steamers were al
so permitted 10 go TO their dock. Better
feelings seemed to prevail, and the Lopez ex-
ped,tIon was almost forgotten. Jonathan G.
Foster. OF Beverly, Mass, and Joseph Guild,
of Sharon, Mass, passengers, died on board
,he Georgia on her home ward passage and
were buried at sea. They were both from
California. and died from the effects Of dys-
entery. There was no prevailing sickness
| al Panama and Chagres.
Three Millions more Of Cola, The En-.
pire City, Captain Wilson. arrived at New
York on Sunday morning, making good
passage and bringing a precious cargo
of gold from California. Her news was an
licipaied by the Georgia. She has 325 pas
sensers, among them Gen. Mosquera, exs
nreSident of New Grenada.