The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-01-11
important fssn Lower Falisorlaa.
BATTLE BrrwIlS A,lrR1cAS ID MrlscASs.

The United States iii slip Ell
Dorado, capt. IA. G. Grey, from Asp
inwall the evening IF the Goth ult !
arrived at this port yesterday after
noon at 2 o'clock, bringing one hunr
dred passengers and ffty-one thou.
sand dollars in specie. .....as
/ The FL 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 18th plt.
The John L. Stephens reached San
Francisco the 18th at 10 A. y. The
other steamers had not arrived when
the Coded Gate left.
The steamship Uncle Sam for
Panama, and the Cortes, for San
Juan, sailed from San Francisco on
the 10th. On the run down to PAN
ANNA the Golden Gate beat the Uncle
Sam twenty four hours, notwithstand-
ing having called at two ports on the
way.
| $l,3i2,545 in specie, was shipped
for San Juan by the Cortes, and
s666,370 by the Golden Gate for
Panama.
The health of the Isthmus still con-
tinue good.
The Panama Railroad Company
now run the cars all the way to the
Matachine station, and Col. TotteD,
the chief engineer of the company is
making arrangements for the transpor-
tation ct passengers from the latter
place direct to. Panama. SO that the
time occupied in crossing from Aspin-
wall to Panama, will not exceed eleven
hours.
BY the Ell Dorado we have receiv-
ed files Of San Francisco papers to the
10Th ult. Highly important news
had been recei7ed from Lower Cali
fornia. An engagement had taken
place between Walkers party and the
'iexicans, in which the Americans was
defeated with loss OF ten killed.
Another account states that the
american party was wholly destroyed.
The news created great excitement
in San Francisco and in the interior,
aud a body Of three hundred men, we'll
armed and proylsioned, sailed from
San Francisco to- the relief Of
Walker, on the 18th ult. Another
expedition, numbering about one
thousand men, was to sail before the lst
Of January. Tue San francisco Her
aid says: :
On the night Of the 18th of Decem.
Der, Major Emory, Secretary Of State
tor the new Republic, arrived III San
Francisco, simultaneously with the
news Of the battle Of La Paz. and the
establishm, Mt of the new Republic.
His object was to obtain reinforce
ments. The news Immediately tele-
grsphad to different points, and the
work of enrolment commenced with
out delay. A number of young men
in the city, Stockton and Marysville,
expressed their willingness to join the
the expedition, and in day or two
it was understood that three compan-
les had been collected from the differ
eut points in this city. Those having
the matter in charge issued script,
upon which, in addition to voluntary
contributions, an ample supply Of pro-
visions, arms and munitions of war
were obtained. Those movements
were conducted quietly and without
interference from any quarter. The
British bark Anita having cleared reg
ul,rIy at the custom house on Monday
the 18th inst, with 10 passengers, it
was pretty we'll understood that she
would be the barer of the Expedition
lists, 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 Southcrner arrived from
San Diego, bringing startling news
which had the effect OF Fastening cper,
ations A Courier had arrived at
San Diego on the It'll, from Gauda-
loupe, OF Lower California, Of an en-
gageneut which was said to have
taken place few days previous, be-
tween small party Of Walkers men
and "a party Of Californians, under