Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-03-12
2 WEEKS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
ARRIVAL OF THE GEORGIA.

The U S. mail steamer Georgia arrived at New Y ork
at IL o'clock on Friday night bringing two weeks later
advces from California than those previously in our
possession by way Of New Orleans.
The Georgia left Chages on the 9th OF February, at
half past o'clock, P. NJ, and anchored at Havana in
three DAYS and fourteen hours She detained there
Sc hours, coang, and left the evening OF the 18th
instant; doubled Cape Hatteras nearly eleven hundred
miles distant, in sixty hours the shortest rum we pre-
sumo, record, and arrived at Sandy Hook at seven
o'clock on Friday night
The Georgia brings the mails of the California and
Panama steamers of the 18th OF January and lst OF
February She had about three hundred passengers
board when she left Chagres, fifty of whom land
ed at Havana to proceed to New Orleans by the Fal-
No gold direct is entered on the manifest OF the
Georgia.
The Panama certainly brought $685., 594 to the 18TH
/, mus, passengers brought in addition to the above
amounts $3500O0 in dust, not on the manifest
The steamer California which sailed the 18th Jan.
brought $500 600 which on board the above ves
sells.
Col. Fremont, United States Senator from Cafor.
MA arrived in the George from Chagres accompanied
Mrs Fremont has recovered from her late Illness
Not SO with Col Fremont he is Just able to walk about,
having had protraced attact OF intermittent fever
When sufficiently rested the party will proceed to
Washington.
Col. Fremont, before leaving California presented to
the State small library OF valuable works relating to
law and political science.
The intelligence from the pacers is Invested OF inter
est respects the mining operations at them, winch
are interrupted either by the swollen condition OF the
to reach the mnes that provisions abundant and
to be purchased moderate prices Flour by the guam
tty selling at Is cents per To- Pork from 81 to 62
Potatoes readily command 81 50 per pound. NO other
vegetables to be obtained On the Middle and North
Forks otthe American the miners camps are abundant
ly supplied with venison.
AT the Georgetown diggngs, settlement of one
thousand souls the placer is said to be nearly exhausted
At Hangtown, near the South Fork, where about
5000 people quatered although the snow has inter
pted mining operations, the belief is prevalent that the
ted value. This is opinion which is very general
respecting the entire country watered by the American
8 river.
The F1ooD.-The first accounts of the flood at sa-
cramento City were not extravagant. Nearly every
house was inundated and most of them to the second
/ floor.
The city was kept under water for nearly three weeks
with the exception OF small portion OF |, J, H. and
streets. AT least oneourth OF the tents and dwellings
were carried away, rendered unhabitable. The loss
OF property estimated several millions. tits stated
that the site of the city be secured against nundaton
without any great by evees and 100000 have al
ready been subscribed for that purpose.
1t is stated that gold has been found in San Diego
and that the community in great state OF excite
ment about it. Town lots had risen more than one
hundred pei cent IN value.
The Alta California of January 81, gives history Of
the proceedings OF the boundary commissioners down
10 the end of November, when work put an end to
by the exhaustion of funds. We constrained to say
that very little more appears to have been accomplished
than the making OF beginning. The initial point on
the Pacific established, and series OF astononi-
cal observations made for the determination OF a
straight line 10 the mouth OF the River ella its
fuence with the Colorado.
The Legislature at the Capitol working quite in
dustrousy though the treasury is perfectly empty
loan of 100000 authorised, in not to be less
than $1,000; but the time for presenting proposals
elapsed and capitalist appeared to do the State any
service. The Legislature undecided what to do
Nis now proposed that State scrip be issued, which il
probably the only expedient which can be resored to-