Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-04-07
Later froln caiifornio.

Aater RON Californian
The steamer Daniel webster has ar
rived from san Juan and Chagres. with
400, 600 in specie. and SEQ ps.senoer..
She brings California dates 10 Febrs,ary
.14th, and Chagren dates to the 9Th ult
CALIFORNIA AFFA1Rs.-Hon. John b
Weller. u. s. Senator from California !:
Hon. r. NJ. McLans, and Judge Smith.
are among the passengers by the Daniel
Webster.
The mail steamer Panama was not to
sail until the 18th.
The miners in California were doing
well, and many nav and rich placers had
been discovered.
The small pox had broken out at the
mines on Longs Bar.
Business at San Francisco WAS mode
rate, and generally unchanged.
At Sacramento business was brisk
Desirable goods were scarce at slight
advance. Oats and barley scarce
Grain of all kinds had advanced. Flour
dull. Liquor cheap and slow of sale.
There was three feet of snow on the
ridge below Feather River Bar.
Very rich placers had been discovered
at Beale's Bar,
On Upper Feather River, the miners
we're averaging $40 per diem.
Judge Henry A. Theft, of San Louis
Obispo, and three others, were drowned
on the passage, between Santa Barba and
San Francisco.
The fugitive slave law had passed the
CaliforAia Legislature.
The clipper ship Sword Fish had ar
Wv ~ IN
New York.
The snow lies forty feet deep at some
points between Marveyills and JAmisOn'E
creek.
Indian dspradations were frequent. A
young Californian had been shotby them,
and party of drovers had arrived at San
Diego on the Cd, who had been robbed of
5000 sheep.
The civil debt of California was s.ti-
mated at $779, 900, and the war debt at
$1,445,OOO.
The sheriff of Calavaros county had
recently shot couple of Frsnchmsn who
refused to obey an order of the court ON
the ground that they recognized no law in
California. A large body of them had
got together, and assumed a hostile atti
tude.
A Jew had been punished with fifty
ia9hes by the Vigilance Committee for
robbing his partner,
There was but little doing in stocks,
and the market was depressed, dealers
awaiting the action of the State Legisls-
tUre relative to State securities.
Tie IsrnMUs.-Thc Steamship Brother
Jonathan arrived at Kingston ON the 9th,
and would leave at 10 O'clock the game
evening for Chagres and San Juan.
There were at least 800 passengers still
remaining on the IsthmuS, Provisions at
Panama continued scarce, and prices high
Louis Lewis, her British Majesty's Vice
Consul at Panama, is dead.
The state of health upon the Isthmus
was unusually good.
There WAS one steamship and seven
sailing vessels up for Californian Panama
on the Cd inst.
The Panama Railroad was to be open
ed for regular trips from Navy Bay to Ba-
hia SAldO, its present terminus, on the
18th of March.
Much disappointment and excitement
was manifested by some of the passengers
who had reached Panama with through
tickets for California, purchased of an IT.
responsible house in New York, who had
no steamers to send them forward.
The steamship Santiago arrived at Pa
mama on the 10Th ult., from the South Pa
citic coast, with one million Of dollars in
specie.
CnrL1-Adviccs from Chill state that
the revolution had terminated. Gen.
Cruz, the revolutionary leader, had been
defeated with terrible loss, on the 9Th Of
December, by General Buluc1, near
Longamilla.
The defeat WAS followed by the revolt
and total dispersion of his army on the
18th. The news reached Santiago on the
18th, and caused great rejoicing
PERU.-At Peru all was quiet.
Generals San Roman and Vivanso, the
late revolutioniIt leaders, have NbIcon-
ded
The now administration is represented
as favorable to peace and the cause OF
progress.
A change in the ministry is announced
at Bolivia, and much diIAfrcction prevail
ed in the North.
Much trouble is anticipated at EncAdor,
growing out Of the withdrawal of the Spa.
nish Minister.
Gen. Flores was at Peru.
NEWSPAPER BORROWERS, &c.-As We
were about penning few lines for the
benefit of class Of people denominated
} Newspaper BorroUers--those who are
able, but too stingy to subscribe for q
newspaptr-we CHANGED 10 come across
the following paragraph in one of our ex,
changes, which expresses our views sc