Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-09-19
From he .4Lta California.


From Ute Alta California.
The subject Of the government reserves is be-
ginning to excite general attention, and has
found us way into courts of law.
The snip Carthage had arrived at San Fran
cisco from Liverpool, with the new Custom
House on board. 1t is made of iron.
From the Sandioich Islands. from
Honolulu have been received to the 2Ith. AT
fairs Throughout the kingdom were prosperous.
arrivals al Honolulu more frequent. Over
40 vessels were IN port.
The government has devised manv important
improvements, and appropriated SlSO,O0O for
the same.
A new Parliament House, Court House, and
other public structures, are TO be commenced i'm
aiedialeIy.
The building Of four large wharves is also
contemplated. Agricultural meetings have
been held Tor the improvement OF the SOIL
Oregon.-The dates from Oregon are to the
2lst.
The streams were so high that satisfactory
examination could not be made. 1t was thought
however that the mines would yield we'll
The U. 5. steam propeller Massachusetts
rived at Astoria on the 30ih OF June, with the
Joint commission OF army and navy officers ap-
pointed to select positions for lighthouses and
forifications. The Spectator says, 1t UNDER
gets Sound and the adjacent country concern
ed, and will now examine the mouth Of the Co.
lumbia.
China-From China, the accounts are a
month later.
The spring has been excessively cold. Three
pirates were hung at West Point on the LIST of
May.
The Friend states that the report was cur
rent that the Portuguese Government were
sending out naval force and 1000 troops TO OBJ
tain satisfaction for the murder of the late gov
ernoT OF Macao.
A fatal disease called the typhus fever, said
TO resemble the plague which desoIated Loudon
two centuries ago, had broken out in Canton
and relghborng villages.
NEW York, Sept. 9th.
The Cherokee and Georgia have both arrived
at this port.
The Cherokee brings over 5 ,000,O00 and
large number OF passengers.
Among those vino died of cholera on board
the Panama, and on he islhmus, was VIM. Taft,
of Brattleboro, VT.
The passengers all bring very unfavorable
reports from the mines, the rivers remaining
high, ann there was much disappointment in
consequence.
Tne following is an extract from letter in
the Sacramento Transcript relating to the over
land emigrants:
"The number now on the plains is variously
estimated at from so to 100 COO souls destined
TO this Eldorsdo. the one half OF whom will not
reach here without suffering, and one quarter
without subsistIng on their animals or enduring
starvation. | have seen hundreds, more than
$50 miles on the other size of the Sink of Marv's
river that were out OF provisions, or had but
few pounds to sustain miserable and wretched
With oh
the desert on account of the scarcity of forage.
Mary's river is six or seven feet higher than 1t
was ever known TO be before; the bottoms,
where the only feed grows, are almost entirely
under water. Not beng able myself for sever
al days to get grass on this side of the river,
hired some Intans fo. Is dollars to swim across
and float some over, to keep my animals from
perishing Had | been entirely destitute of
means, as thousands are, should have suffered
in that particular in the same manner. From
this circumstance alone, it may be possible that
three four,hs of the animals on the plains must
perish from hunger, and the emigrant with his
scanty fare must foot it till life itself becomes
bunhen. Those who arted later will fare still
worse-as the season becomes warmer, feed less
and provisions shorter, | saw one man with
two small bows, l20 miles beyond the Sink, who
had left his wagon and lost all his animals but
one. and all The provisions he had was three or
pounds of rice-another with his wife and chill
dreu, overlook seventy miles beyond the sink
with four horses that were just able to move
with the empty wagon, the wife walking an cad
in the burning sand and scorching sun, to re-
leve the poor burdened animals, who were des-
tined never TO reach the Sluk. l saw on the
| roadside, where slices had been taken out Of
/ dead horses and mules, to appease the gnawing
appe.ites OF emigranls." 81