CALIFORNIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 570, 18 January 1851, Page 3

CALIFORNIA.

[From the Sydney Morning Herald,} The Artemisia brings San Francisco newspapers to the 24th October. The weather continued very fine, but the rains were daily expected, and the mining season was considered to be at an end. The quantity of gold obtained was very large, but the average obtained by individuals was small. As a not insignificaiii symptom, we notice that the number of persons who left San Francisco in the quarter ending October Ist exceed those that arrived by some hundreds. Some cases of Asiatic cholera had occurred, and caused considerable alarm. It first broke out in a vessel that arrived from Panama, where the disease has been raging for some time. California had been admitted into the Union (making the thirty-first state) on the 7th September, by a majority of 150 to 87. The event was to be celebrated by a grand festival on the 29tb October. • News from New York to the 10th September had been received. The appointments of President Fillmore appear to have been considered judicious. Professor Webster was nanged for the murder of Dr. Parkman on the 30th August. [From the Southern Cross, December 24.] The Californian intelligence,—such at least as is of interest here, —may be briefly told Gold yet continues to be tolerably abundant, although individual enterprise at the diggings is stated, in the aggregate, as not likely to pay. Capital and combined exertion are essential to success, and when mechanical science shall be applied to the miners’ operations, it is supposed the most auriferous expectations will fall veiy far short of the rich reality. Outrages at the mines were, meanwhile, i becoming much more frequent and much more ■ ruthless in their character. o Potatoes were again at a high price ; —from I x5O to £6O per ton being the quotations gie ven. How long they are likely to remain at ; that figure is the question. We sincerely • trust the new and abundant crop from this province may be shipped in sufficient time, i and arrive sufficiently sound to reimburse ■ . ot *’ grower and shipper. Those that went in t.ie tween decks of the Inchinnan, we are | gloved to hear were much damaged, whilst | 10s ® in the hold proved comparatively sound. I gain those in the hold of the Sarah Scott,

(which made an excellent passage of sixty days) were greatly injured, whilst those of the ’tween decks were in good order. Luck would appear to be superior to care in these arrangements.