CALIFORNIA.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 380, 5 December 1849, Page 3

CALIFORNIA.

The Pacific News states tint the stcomcr Oregon anived at Sun Francisco on tho 2v)th September, with 420 pns«-ngert, ten oF whom were females. Oho pas* Bfnger died on the passage from Panama. The Oregon left Panama on the 28th of August, iiiakinp the run in 21 days. Two hundred or moic poisons were left at Panama, many of whom were detained for want of means, others in consequence of sickness. No United States mail has heen brought hy this steamer, thus causing disappointment to hundreds who had anxioUßly awaited her arrival. A lurejo mimbiT of persons from the Mines who had visited San Fiancisco for the nuip^se of obtaining lotters from home, and have stopped here at an enormous expense, until the anival ot the Oregon, must (eel the thbappouvlment very severely. The Convention at Mw'ercy had under consideration an in tide to be attached to the UiU ot Rights, piohibiting Lotteiies in California— also prohibiting foreigners fiora landiuj without paying a tax. All the members of ttie Convention had not arrived at the timi* of the steamer's sailing; Sept 17ih. Newspapers ate destined to tlnow their light over California. An editor, with all his printing apparatus, recently lefc Nu'wich, Conn., for San Francisco ; and not less than three cntiie newspaper establisinnentß have heen sent thitherwnrd from New York. Tv welling hy WArrm... .The distance from New Yoik to San Francisco viaC-upc Horn, U 17,000 milcH, and requires usually 150 ilayb to accomplibh it. Fiom New Yo k to Chagres is 2000 miles ; across the jHhmus to Panama, 50 miles ; anil then by water to gun Francisco, 3500 miles ; in all, 8500 miles, which i 5i 5 travelled in 40 of 50 days.

Through i'kom New Yokk to Calumknia. in Sbvbntbkn Days !-— Not by the Pacific railroad, nor bulloans, norajml steamers, nor telegraph wires, nor streikcd lightning ! No, we piopose to irmUe our seventeen days trip l>y means aheady prepared for our use, and by a route well known and frequently t>avelled. Taking the ordinary mail route- from Now York to St. Louis, wo could an We at Independence, Missouri, in seven days. From Independence, with good saddle horses, distributed at post &tationa along (he route, we would cairy a mail to Suler's Fort in nine days. From Suter's Fort, by steamboat, to Sun Francisco in one day. Total, seventeen days. Add stages to the horses, on the linn from Independence to Su'.ei's Fort, and passenger could be taken from New York to San Francisco in twcnfy-lhrce days ! Is it practicable ? It is. As sure as post horses can travel at ths late often »>i cs an hour under saddle, or six miles an hour in harness, just so sure is this practicability of establishing an Express mail, going iluough to the Pacific in 17 duys 1 All that is wanted to accomplish this Rieit achievement is the sanction of the U. S. Government, with llio establish nient of military pobts nlong the route. Tl.e road is nheady prepured by the emigiants, excrpt ut one or two points in the Siena Neveda; and die Governmm possess all nc«eisary power, we believe, to improvo the ro»d for military purposes. It we are not mistaken, a law haß already been passed by ( ongress, autbonzing the establishment ol a mail route or milttuy posts* acrohfi the coiuincnt to the Pacific. If so, we trust, the Piesident will loie nu time in executing the power tlnis conferred upon him. It cannot be posiible to see urd the opening of a road thil/uinmer, but it u poisible to establish a horse ex

press, under the protection of a military escort. A mail even once a month would be a commencement' as gratifying to the people as it would be creditable to the government. If such a route were now established, its cost would bj met within six months hy the transmission ofletters alone. We heard one of our most extensive merchants say, within n day or iwo, that to scenic the transit of a letter regul.iily to anil from San Francisco, even within thiity dnys, he would willingly pny one hunched dollar? per letter, for one year at lensr. Hundreds of our merchants and capiliilmts would do tln> same. The Californiuns, with their pockets full of fjold, would reciprocate this libeiul support of im ovciland mail. Let it be established and it will provithe germ of the Continental Railroad. — IVtio York Sun.

Thk luisii Statk Prisoners.— We have been informed that Mc^srd. Smith OBrien, Meagher, Macs Manus, and O'Donalmc, havo been sent out wild directions to the Lieutenant Governor t<> isiue tickets-of-leave to them, provided they conducted themselves property on the voyage, and were willing to engage that they would not use the hbeity thus granted to them in order to make their eticape. Wo understand ■ hut Meagher and O'Doiiohue have ngreed to theic terms, and will accordingly he entitled to all the privileges of ticket- of-leave holders. OBrien and MacManus huvo refused to enter into such an engagement* and will, therefore, be sent to some, of the stations at Maria lslaud or the Ceniusula, and there be subjected to such an amount of coercion as mny be nrcessary to prevent their escape, We regret much that they should he so extremely ill-advis n d as to refuse the only lleviation of their unfortunate condition which it is possible to grant, and one which would leave them so great an amount of compmative liberty. The Swift, packet, had been specially allotted for the purpose of conveying them hither, and commissioned at a vessel of war. They were treated with the utmoßt kindness and consideration on the voyage by the Cap. tain and officers. The other State prisoner*, Martin and Dohcny, who had bpen sent to Sydney, are also to be transmitted to this island, the Emma being en* i aged for the purpose, and her state cabin appiopiiated to them. The Swift c.i'led at the Cape, but was only allowed to remain twelve hours to tnke in u. supply of water and fivsh provisions. The Nepluue, prison-ship, with Mitchcl on board, had not anived, nor had any account of her been icceived. It was reporttd, but we cannot learn on what nullioiity, that she was lost oli' the La<;hullnB. Tho pi soucm have since been thus dispersed :— O'Uricn at Mariu Island, under sdict euiveillanee ; M 1M 1 Maims, holding a ticket oileave, at New Norfolk ; Measlier, CampbelKown ; Doghdty, Oallaudi ; Mirtin, UothwpU 5 and Donohuc, Hobart Town.— llobart Town Paper.