AMERICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 10, 15 March 1851, Page 2

AMERICA.

(From the Times, Oct. 19.) Liverpool, Oct. 21. By the Royal mail steam ship Niagara, Captain Stone, we have advices from New York to the 9th inst. She brings Specie on freight to the amount of 50,000/. The United States' mail steam ship Cherokee Windle, arrived at New York on the sth inst! with Chagres mails of the 25 th ult., and Kingston, Jamaica, of the 28th, the mails from California, and 200,000/. in gold dust. The British steamer Peru, from Callao, arrived at Panama on the 18th of September with 100,000/, in specie on freight. The American steam ship Oregon arrived at Panama on the 18th ult. with 300 passengers and 300,000/. in gold dust on freight from San

Francisco. The steam ships Northerner and Republic had also left San Francisco for Panama with freights respectively of the value of 60,000/. and 80,000/. The United States' mail steam ship Georgia arrived at New York on the 6th, from Chagres the 2nd of October, v&a,Havamiah, with 140,000/. in specie on freight and in passengers' hands. In political circles much interest had been excited by the publication of a correspondence relative to the affairs of Nicaragua, and in which Sir H. Bulwer was charged with having used his influence to effect the recall of Mr. Squier, the United States' Minister. The National Intelligencer says:— "In a letter addressed by Mr. G. E. Squier, late Charge d'Affaires to Central America, to the Hon. H. S. Foote, which lately appeared in a New York journal, there is a paragraph in which the following assertion is made —namely that, ' The British Minister, shortly after his arrival in this country, made a proposition to the Department of State to the effect, in substance, if not in terms, that the United States, in conjunction with England, should set aside the territorial rights of Nicaragua, and boldly appropriate to themselves the Nicaragua isthmus.' We are authorised to state, with reference to the paragraph in question, that no such proposition was ever made to the Department of State, directly or indirectly, by Sir Henry Bulwer, or any one else." The panic created by the passing of the Fugitive Slave Bill was far from subsiding. One slave had been already legally secured in New York, and hundreds of slaves were flying to Canada to avoid seizure. Among those threatened was Frederick Douglas, the well known lecturer. Letters from Washington state that the Secretary of the Treasury had issued a circular in relation to the expenses of weighing, measuring, and gauging important merchandize, the effect of which will be to relieve importers from the payment of those expenses. Our advices from California extend to the Ist ult. Politically their contents are not very important. Sacramento city had not been destroyed during the late outbreak, which had subsequently almost entirely subsided. The Sheriff of Sacramento has, however, been killed in attempting to arrest one of the ringleaders, and rumours prevailed that a new band of disorderlies were congregating in the vicinity. All the excitement against foreigners at the southern mines had disappeared. Assassinations had almost wholly ceased; but a large number of Chilians and Mexicans had abandoned the country in consequence of the law compelling them to take out licenses to mine. Business hf the San Joaquin district had suffered in consequence; but nevertheless mining operations were still prosecuted with industry and success. In the Mariposa mines steam machinery had been brought into requisition in crushing the quartz rock, and the result promised amply to reward those engaged in the enterprise. The Stocton and Aspinwall mines had been sufficiently tested to give stron°assurance of unbounded success. Several companies had recently been started for the purpose of crushing the quartz rock, and several crushing machines hak been ordered. Business, hitherto backward, had given some indication of improvement. In Sacramento there was a decided briskness, and in San Francisco there was every reason to believe there would ensue great activito in the course of two weeks. The great cost of freights, as well as the expenses of building on the site of the recent conflagration, had rendered money for some time scarce, bnt the gold dust was beginning to come iv from the mines, and would, doubtless, from that time for the remainder of the season continue to flow in abundantly. Emigrants continue to arrive in large numbers, and for the most part in great destitution. Meetings have been held in all the, principal towns for the purpose of affording.r.e^ lief, and trains have started with provisions to succour the wayfarers. General Taylor's death was received with much concern in this country.1] From the Sunora Herald we extract the following items of intelligence :— " We have received during the past week communications from nearly all parts'of the southern mines. Nearly all the accounts are favourable. On one or two bars a failure is reported ; but in the great majority of cases the most signal success has attended the labour of the miners. There is a report that a new place lias been discovered somewhere southeastward, between the Tuolumne and the Merced, where there is said to be an immense deposit of the precious metal."

j One man at one haul had taken out a 40 ft>. lump of pure gold on the Yuba, about 14 miles from Marysville. On the Trinity, Shaste, and Klatnath rivers thousands were at work, with extraordinary average success, and new diggings were almost daily opening.