The Sierra citizen., 1854-03-25
Further News by the Steamers.
CHILE.

FROM the Panama Star we learn that
rumors of revolution in Chile were rife
throughout the month Of January, but
that the government was well prepared to
meet any emergency.
THE tendency Of emigration in Chile is
southwark Thousands of persons are
leaving the arid and dusty plains of the
northern portion of that Republic, for the
purpose of settling in the moist and
healthier regions of the south.
The mortality report of Santiago for
the month of December exhibits list of
73S.
The Copiapo Railroad company real
lied dividend of nearly 80 per cent, for
the year 1853
III. B. M. frigate President arrived at
Valparaiso on the 10th of January in fifty
eight days sailing time from England-a
remarkably short passage. The President
was captured from the United States
Government during the war of 1872, and
has been kept in constant service ever since.
ECUADOR.
A decree has been passed by the Con-
gress of this Republic and approved by
the Executive by which the river Amazon
and most of its tributaries is opened to
the free navigation and traffic of all ma
tions for twenty years. The decree also
grants 800 acres of land to settlers and
traders, and exempts them from taxation
for the space of twenty years, on the sole
condition that they cultivate it within the
period of five years from the date Of the
grant. Grants located on the banks of
rivers are allowed frontage thereon of
275 yards.
Gold dust was selling at $3.50 on the
coast Of South America and much cheaper
in the Amazon mines. A correspondent
of the Star, says the best place for disem
barking by persons from California, in
tending to settle or mine in the Amazon
country, is at Huanchacho, two hundred
miles to the northward of Callao.
ATLANTIC STATES.
A terrific hurricane swept over Prince
Edwards Island, bearing along with it all
Instructions, houses, fences, cattle, &C. :
The st. Pauls church, in Charlottetown,
was unroofed by the same gale.
A passenger on the steamboat Hunts
uiHe was put ashore about six miles above
Grand Gulf on the Mississippi, and beaten
by the officers so brutally as to cause his
death.
SIERRA LEONE AND THE SLAVE TRADE.
1t is said that facts have lately been
brought to light that show that the
British Colony OF Sierra Leone, in Africa,
has been largely engaged in the slave trade
for many years back, but the whole ar
rangements conducted so secretly that The
officers of Government had no suspicion
of it-Ntw Orleans Delta.
The GADsDEN TRE.TY.-The New
Orleans True Delta says: "We have no
hesitation whatever it in claiming to be one
of the most creditable and advantageous
to the nation that has ever been negotia-
ted by the federal government. This
declaration is not lightly made. nor upon
insufficient data; on the contrary, it is de-
Iiberately advanced, with full knowledge
of all the impedinents our Minister had
to encounter, not only in the characteristic
dilatoriness, irresolution and diplomatic
craft of the Mexican government, but in
the tortuons proceedings Of therepresenta.
tives Of England and France, directed
from the first, and necessarily, to the de
feat of the honorable and pacific policy
which actuated the administration o
| President Pierce"