UNITED STATES.
There is no abatement in the flourishing accounts from California, which are further confirmed by official documents from the officers of the United States navy. Half the diggers, it is stated, were sick, but there had been few deaths. There are no less than 50 vessels entered for loading in the port of New York for San Francisco, California. The articles ol agreement for the construction of a railrpad across the Isthmus of Papama have been signed. The contracting parties are Messrs. Aspinall, Stevens, and Channay, constituting the Panama Railroad Company. A grant of 250,000 dollars a year, for twenty years, to Messrs. Aspinall & Co., is recommended. It is proposed to complete the railroad in three years.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 407, 27 June 1849, Page 4
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119UNITED STATES. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 407, 27 June 1849, Page 4
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