The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-01-15
important from tower q alieornia.
BATTLE BETWEEN AMERICANS AND MEx1oANs

The United states mail ship WI
Dorado, capt. A @ Grey from Asp
inwal The evening Of The ooh nlt /,
arrived Al this port yesterday after
nnn at 2 o'clock, bringing one hun
DID passengers and fify-one thou
sand dollars in specie.
The III Dorado was detained TWEEN
ty four hours by heavy northers.
The Fl Dolado brings The Califor-
MIA mails received By The Golden Gate
which left San Francisco the after-
ternoon Of the 10Th nit.
The John l.. Stephens reached San
francisco the 18th at 10Am The
other steamer, had not arrived whe
the G,lded Gate left.
The steamship Uncle Sam ft
Panama, and the Cortes, for tSat
Juan, sailed from San Francisco .,
the 18th. On the run down to Pan.
ANNA the Golden Gate beat the I'ncl
Sam twenty four hours, notvithstand.
ing having called at two ports cn the
way.
$1,S42,5t5 10 specie, was shipped
for San Jun by The Cortes ane
s666,370 by The Golden Gate fo
Panama
Tue health Of the Isthmus still con.
time good
The Panama Railroad COMPANY
now run the cars all the way to tn
Matachine station, and Col 1otten,
the chief engineer Of he company i
making arrangements for The tran@por.
alton Ct passengers from the latter
pace direct to Panama, so that the
me occupied in crossing from Aspin-
ali to Panama, will not exceed clever
hours
by the FL Dorado we have receiy.
ID files Of San Francisco papers to the
10Th ult. Highly important news
'ad been received from Lpwer Cali
f'r'a. An engagement had taket
figce be- Walkers party and the
| 'exicans, III which the Americans was
eiialrd wifb loss ii ten killed
Another account states fi,,t the
american party was wholly destroyed.
The news crca ed great excitement
% Sau Franoise,, and IN the interior,
o'l a body d three hundred men, web
'rmed and provisioned, sailed from
San Francisco to the relief oil
Walker, on the 18th ult Ano,lel
| petition, numbering about one
iousand men, was 70 sail before the LIT
4 January The San Francisco Her
,ll says.
On The night Of the 18th of Decem
Der, Mejor Emory, Secretary If State
or The new Republic, arrived IL San
frapcisco, simultaneously with the
news Of the battle of la Pas, and the
ESTABLISHING Mt Of the new Republic
His object was to obtain reinforce
merits. The news Immediately 'ele-
graphad to different points, and the
work of enrolment commenced with
nut delay A number Of young men
in the city. Stockton and Marysville,
expressed 'ler willingness to join the
he expedition, and in a day or two
it was understood that three coupan-
is bad been collected from the dli,er-
ant points in this city. Those having
lie matter in charge issued script,
| tpon which in addition to voluntary
Contributions an ample supply Of pro
tiions, arms and munitions Of war
we're obtained. Those movements
were co Quoted quietly and without
interference from any quarter. The
British bark Anita having cleared reg
Hlary at the ell }tom house on hlondat
the 18th inst, with 40 passengers, i
was pretty we'll understood that slt'
would be the barer of the Expedition
Its, either that night or the following,
as the most active preparations could
be discovered in certain quarters. On
the morning Of the 18th, however.
the steamer Southerner arrived from
San Diego, bringing startling ev.
which had the eliec Of hasteniug 'pe1
ations. A Courier had arrived at
San Diego on the TIL, from Gauda-
loupe, Of Lower Gal fotnia, Of an en-
gagement which was said TO havt
taken place a few days previous, he
tween small party Of Walkers's men
anIaa nurtv Of Califnrnians, under