UNITED STATES.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 442, 27 October 1849, Page 4

UNITED STATES.

From the United States the political intelligence is interesting. It was reported that Capt. Charles Wilkes '©f the late exploring expedition will be sent out as commander of one of the vessels to be dispatched in search of Sir John Franklin. The admission of California as a State ■next session was considered probable. It was rumoured that the President would, lay Mr. L&bouchere's bills for the repeal of the Navigation Laws before Congress as a proper subject for legislation. The cholera continued its ravages ; General Worth had fallen a victim to the disease. The city of New Orleans, after being for -some time.afflicted with cholera, which swept away many of its citizens, is now threatened with even a more fearful and irresistible foe, in the overwhelming waters of the Mississippi. The city lies below the high water level of this great river, and is guarded, as Holland is, from the inroad of the sea by dykes or levees, as they are called along the Mississippi. A portion of these levees above the city having been earned away, the waters were passing rapidly through the opening, overcoming all efforts to stop the breach, inundating the plantations below, and actually pouring through some of the streets of the <;ity. Our latest dates by the mail are to the 13th ult,, when in many quarters the inhabitants were already driven by the invading waters to take refuge in the upper stories of their houses. Business, of course, must be materially checked by such a state of things.