Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-05-06
TEN DAYS LATER
FROM CALIFORNIA.

The steamship Northern Light arrived at
New York Wednesday night with specie, and
800 passengers.
I The passengers by the Northern Light left
San Francisco on the evening of April !, at
o'clock, +. NJ. by steamer Pacitic. Running
time 81 days from San Francisco.
A committee has been appointed at San Fran
cisco, and is hard at work collecting money and
provisions to forward by the first conveyance to
the shipwrecked passengers by the North Amer
lea. who still remain at Acapulco, and there Is
every reason to believe that they will be fully
successful. In the meantime, relief has already
gone forward. The steamer New Orleans, at
the earnest solicitation of Mr.. Nandewater,
agent Of the Nicaragua line, consented to take
down forty barrels of provisions and 5000,
which were furnished by the agent of the Van
berbllt company, and are to be distributed gratis
TO the needy and destitute. Since then, the
same agent has chartered the clipper Northern
Light to proceed to Acapulco, and bring away
all who are unable to procure passage. The
Light has been comfortably fitted up with berhs
for four hundred passengers, and she is furnish.
ed with some $4,000 worth Of provisions and
stores. This is all done gratis at the expense
of the company and their total outlay IN hui
name endeavor to alleviate the miserles Of the
shipwrecked will range somewhere from S25,OOu
to $4,000. The Northern Light was to sail on
the % of April.
Comparative Shipments Of Gold in March
| 1850, 81, and '52-rhe amount of Gold dust
shipped from San Francisco and landed at Pana-
ma, during the month Of March, 1850, as pei
records of the United States Consulate, was s
/ OBS, 269 For the same month of 1851, 1t was
l2Ol5,775. During the corresponding month Of
! this year, 1852. the amount shipped to Panama
and San Juan has been 81, 567,7Oi being an in
crease for a single month Of S5ll,959 over that
- Tho, xFpa
before This great increase, it must be recol
lected, has taken place despite the disastrous
/ floods which put stop to all mining operations
and cut off the communications with the mines
during the greater portion OF the month Just
passed.
In the month of April, 1850, the amount land
ed at Panama was ! n 500. Same month II
+ 1851. it was si,O37 ,692 We would not be
surprised if it exceeded Si,OOO,OOO, the present
month
God Dtts, in the hands of Passengers. -SomC
idea of the immense amount of gold dust carried
TO the Atlantic cities in the hands of passengers
mny be obtained by comparison between thu
amount appearing on the books Of the U. ;
Consulate at Panama, which includes only tina
manifested and shipped by parties at San Fran
cisco, and the amount deposited at the Unltet
States MINIS during the same period Thus, 10
Ie5l-
The amount regularly shipped and
landed at Panama, s35,o92Ol'
While Official documents show that
the deposits Of California gold at
the various United States MINIS
for 1851, we're 5I,2c3,1'
showing difference of Sll,39e7i;
This difference can only be accounted for b.
supposine il the sum taken in private hands, am
of which no official or documentary notice coul,
be taken until deposited at the Mint There
FORE the amount carried away by passenger
during the year 1851, average Sl,7o2,6lO pc
month.
Sugar Cultivation Several experiments arr
about TO be made IN San joaquin County IN th
culuea ion of sugar 4. r Bowers & Co, hay
made arrangements 10 receive constant supple
of the cane.
a writer in the San Francisco Herald, say
that Isaac Van Ness, who was recently murder
ed in Lower California, was near relation o
Judge Van Ness Of New York, end was also re
lated, through his mother to the Van Rensselea