INTERESTING FROM CALIFORNIA.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 359, 25 September 1849, Page 3

INTERESTING FROM CALIFORNIA.

We displace some other matter, which had been prepared for our columns to-day, in order to give insertion to the following intelligence, which cannot fail to interest many of our readers, not only from its novelty, hut from the fact of its containing lists of prices, &c, which have been frequently wished for, and hints re - specting those articles which it would appear,

may be profitably exported to the " gold regions," such as timber, especially in a state of preparation for immediate use as houses, &c. So,far as these statements may He depended on, they tend to strengthen a hope we have always entertained that the " gold regions" will yet prove a valuable market for our New Zea land produce.

(From the Cornwall Chronicle.) The journals now in the colony from New York contain s*tiif«ctory newi from the land of gold, to a late date ; unfortunately our columns are to-day too much crowded to allow us to give more than an ouU line, which we shall follow next week, if possible, wilh further particulars. The iteward of the William Penti, of Falmouth, which wai loit some time ago, is announced in the New York Herald of the 10th, as having arrived in , thi ship Franklin, with 4,000 dollars in gold dust, which he collected in four months' digging in Ca» lifortiia. The exportation of pold dust from California has been much larger than we anticipated.

ARRIVALS OF CALIFORNIA GOLD. Dollars, Boston, March 26, ship Tzar, from Honolulu 100,000 " " ship Crusader, from Valparaiso «.. 55,000 V»a Chagrei, by Lieutenant Locser 2 rt ,000 " by Mr. Carter 30,000 '» in imall lots «. 5,0j0 Orerland at St. Joseph, Missouri 10,000 Ship Colchis, at New London 5,000 Ship Mount Walhrton, at New Bedford .. 20,000 Bark Alice, at Cold Spring 4,000 Receipt! tt New Orleans 20,000 Ship S. Robzriton, at Fairluven 15,000 Ship Franklin, Holmes' Hole 5,000 Ship Sophia Walker, Boston 52,000 Ship Ty bee, at Stonington ....;......... 4,500 Total receipt 345,500

Arrivals at London up to April 14 300,000 By whaleship at Talcahmno from San Fran- o cisco 300,000 Whaleship Uncas, on the way from . JN'ew Bedford from the Sandwich Island* 50,000 Sloop of war Lexington, at Valparaiso .... 200,000 Schooner Mazatlan, March 14 240,000 Arrivals in France, reported by French papers 4,000 Whuleship at Rio fiom San Francisco 40,000 March 28, British steamer Peru, at Panama 350,0ij0 April 28,ihip Cosmopolite, at Havre 10,000 British ship Calypso, from Mazatlan, for London ". 80,000 Reported at Sandwich Islands, not reiuipped 350,000 America i bark Tasso, from San Diego 3,9680z 63,443 Brig at Hong Koug fiom Sandwich lilandi 200,000 Total shipments. ...... 2,432,988

So far as heard from, the shipments amount to more th>in two and a half millions of dollars, all from the diggings of 1848. The Biitish steamer Peru, at Panama on the 23th March, from C»llao, had on board 751,0)0 dollars in gold and silver, of which 350,000 dollars was California gold. The Britiih ship Calypso, from Ma2atlan, for London, had on board 1,000,000 dollars, of which 80,000 was California gold. Mr. Skewerdrop's gold is on board this ship. The brig at Hong Kong will be recollected as the vessel the crew of which mutinied. Of the gold on board the ship Soph'a Walker, at Boston, 40,000 dollar! was the proceeds of the sale of the ship Huntress, at San Francisco. This statement must astonish those who have considered the Californian gold stories all moonshine, and be a source of soma satisfaction to those who have engopeJ largely in the California trade, and those who huve friends and relatives on the way to that distant region. We sec by this that more than two and a half millions of dollars have been distributed over the world in the space of a few months, and so much added to the currency at large, the product of the labour of a ft-w hundred men, in a country almost unknown previous to ihe discovery of its mineral wealth. What cannot wa expect when it becomes populated with the Anglo-Saxon race ? — New York Herald, May 8.

ARRIVALS OF CALIFORNIA. GOLD DUST, ETC. Valparaiso, March 1, 1849. I send ?per Sophia Walker, which sails to-day, a package of papers, to which I refer you for the n«jws ; I also enclose a lilt of arrivals at the port of Talcaeuano, for the kit month, which may iutereit some of your leaders J California gold continues to pour into this market. Within the last month over half* million has been received here. The U. S. ship Lexington, Captain Chatard, arrived here on the 7th February, direct from San Francisco, with tome three hundred and fifty thousand dollars of California gold. She leaves this day for New York, via Rio Janeiro. The U. S. ship Dale, Captain Budd, will be here, bound home, within a few weeks ; and I am informed that the U. S. ship of the line Ohio, Commander Jones, is on her way to this port with a large amount of treasure. The Independence, Com. Shubrick, sailed from Callao on the 10th February, bound home, via this city. She returns to port by request of Col. Boston, our charge d'Affaires. There have been over six million! of gold dust exported from San Franoiico, * considerable portion of which must find its way to New York.

Steamer California at San Francisco— Cause of her Detention — Cart-Loads of Gold. The Philadelphia Lidgeroi the 20th April publishes the following special telegraphic despatch, originally fiom Boston ; [Private correspondence of the Public Ledger.] New York, April 19, 1849. From a Boston Letter which has been received by 11. N. Hooper k Co., ria Mazatlau, we learn that the steam ship California, from New York had arrived at San Francisco, with General Persifer F. Smith and suite on board. The writer says that he on the prttious day weighed 120 pounds of gold, and that it was not an uncommon thing to see a cart-load'of gold dust going from one store to another. Real estate ia rapidly advancing— commanding 20 dollars per square yard. Flour it selling at 15 dollars. Bread 12 dollars. Po k3O dollars. Lumber 400 dollars per thousand feet. Smallest rooms let readily at 100 dollars per month. He advises friends to send any quantity of lumber and small houses, ready to put up, which will bring 500 per cent advance the next two years. Cook's wages 100 dollars a month. Eggs 3 dol lars per dozen. Salacratus 8 dollars per lb. Butter 1 dollai 50c. Cheese 75 cents. Buef \\\ cents. Potk 25 cents. Fowls 3 dollars 50c. Firewood 30 dollars per cord. Milk 1 dol'ar per bottle. Board 10 dollars per week. Common labourers 6 dollars per day, and car. pentdra 8. Our sale for the latest '4 months amount to three quarters of q million dollars. The nominal

government here itill goe§ on collecting revenue in spite of Secretary Walker'i circular, AH duties paid under protest.

(From the Boston Atlas, May 2.) Extract of a letter from California, dated Feb. 11. " I lupose you h»ve received ray letters in regard to finding gold near thii place ; and I can tell you that the gold ii found in more abundance than fbcn I wrote to you, and all kind* of business nover was better, and ererything ii going on finely in California, from the labourer to the merchant. We have coming down from the Sacramento about 200,000 dollari' worth of gold duit.— -Now this is no humbug 1 , but reality. The people that are digging gold are grtting all tha way from 16 to 100 dollars per day ; ami In gome casrs, from 380 to 400 dollara, and sotnelimea 1000 dollars per day."

Acapulco, April 1,1849. Editors Delta,— On tke 28th March the British ■loop of war Calypso anchored in this hurbour to take water, direct from California. She had on board half a million of California gold. She reports that provisions were scarce in the gold regions— that much confuiioii and robberies existed, and that there were more than one hundred Americans remaining at Mazatlan whose meant have given out, and weie unable to pursue their journey farther.