The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-29 00:00:00

CALIFORNIA.

Oar New York cmrespondeat writes as follows :
The Empire City, which arrived in this city on
Sunday morning from Cbagres, brought no arlt •
million of gold dust, and also the mail from California
that should have come by the Onio. With htr cam •
a large number of passengers, and it is now a " fixed
fact " that there is to be a crowd of travel rs con-
stantly oft the way going to and coming from Cali-
fornia. Them:mbar* even now exceed those tram.-

ported by the Cunard line, and the repulsr esilina
packets barrier' New York and Liverrol, and the
amount of merchandise and gold is even greater.
This may seem Ike sxaggeration, tut really it is the
truth. Already there are 100,000 people in Ca,ifor-
nil ' • before the next six months are passed :brie will
be 100,000 more. Let us see wny this be so.
It appears by our advict s from Sao Francisco to
the Ist of October, that the gold, so far from being
exhausted, is only beginning to be discos?. red. Trinity
river is the latest point of attraction. Gold has be. n
found so abundantly that th. re is quite a rush tic re
from the old plectra. Feather river has been elm st
abtudoned in consequence. The labour of Indians at •
comparatively cheap rate is the only inducement f
the miners to continue at the latter Incslity. The
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mountaineers country, washed by the Juba rii.r, con-
tinues very attractive. Nu less than 5,000 people er
there constantly employed. An ounce a day is the
usual average of each man's work under the elisad-
vantag.sof extreme heat and high water. At the
middle fork the miner. were doing well. A party of
four men obtained 6,000 dole. in e ight days. At Dry
Creek the miners were still more successful. Six p-r-
-eons beloogieg to a Dr. Boyerot's e mpany gained in
eight days, 8,000 dole., and the hard workers gath.red
several ounces daily. Tte tributary streams of the
San Joaquim are ascertained to b' extremely rich. A
lamp of gold was found imbedded in rock in th • dig-
gings of Callaverns, weighing nearly 30 lbs. A per-
eon writes in refereLce to this, " I r m preprr.d to
believe anythirg I hew about the gold in Calnernis."
I could multiply these einem ere to a degree th.t
would be tiresome to your readers. Let In-. add bet
two more. Within three m leg a toe place where
the first discovery of gold was met., eel vibe re it was
suppnsed it was no longer to no u ,d, ad pi sit of
the precious metal has been deeded equal in richness
to anything in California.
To-day it was my fortune to he present at the re-
ceipt and delivery ot about 84,000 d Mars in gold re
ceived by the steamer. T e pereAs varied in sums
from 7,000 doll •rs to 60 dollars, and many were
addressed to hma'es. They were packed up to
small boxes, leather purses, and mars, brown piper.
'lt was a curious sight. They are sun:. remitted by
USW ads, brothers, sore, the prow, ds of veinier. mer-
cantile adventures, or the gatherings of the had-
merging children of necessity. The wind could not
but be struck by this &trance innovation upon
Ameriern business. Within a year a new world has
been opened to American enterprise, a metal with
which we are not very familiar has b come riiremely
common, and almost every person you meet has re-
ceived iOlll6 of it from an ate q.t and adventurous
friend, and carries it about his person. One thir g is
very curicns. Toe Chinese are &Ire egly quite am fat of
California wants. Houses &resent from Canton in con-
siderable numbers, grotesque enough. and as crooked
in their timbers, as the most unsightly and ill ere.. n
trees can make them ; and yet they ell leeway at
1,500 dole. each. A friend of mine, who almost built
a shop for himself, and that at an expense ot 3,000
dole., writesme that he has sold i for 9.090 &Akin earl.
To sum up the whole of this pert of our nesse
briefly, it is enough to say that the population of
California is rapidly increasing, .he amount of gold to
be taken from the rivets and rocks is incalculahie, and
the commerce connected with the country must be-
come immense.
The convention for the formation of a constitution
for California had been in session three weeks and
had not entirely concluded its labours, though it was
expected to adjourn early in the month of October.
The constitution as proposed is chiefly borrowed from
New York and lowa—from the earliest and Meet
members of the confederacy. The only feature likely
to excite any interest in England is that with regard
to slavery, and it must be confessed that the decision
of the convention so far has almost bordered on the
ludicrous. Not only are slave s excluded from California,
but free negro& The proposition, excluding them
front settling there, passed in committee of the whole,
and seemed to accord with the sense of the delegates.
It was, however, feared, that the exclusion might
jeopard the admission of the territory into the Union,
and it was supposed it would be reconsidered and
rejected. This idea of exclusion seemed to hit both
slaveholders and abolitionists. It was like saying,
a fig "on both your houses." And now, let me ask
lin all gravity, why it is that the whites must every-
' where be followed by this interminable question
about colour? The white Americans populate Cali-
fornia. By what right a plausibility of right do the
negroes, not tow there, thrust themselves into a com-
munity, where they are not wanted, and their pre-
sence creates disunion and discontent ? What new
code is this, by which black men have a right to go
where they are not desired, and demand an equality of
rights with people who do not desire their some ty, and to
the acquisition of whose rightsthey have contributed r.o
thing? I am nofriend of slavery, but why isthiseverlast-
ing subject of disc. rd to be kept alive by men and for
men who are of no possible advantage to the com-
munities
where these questions are agitated. The
people of California do not want any blacks at all,
free or enslaved. Can they not be permitted to say
so? Why should a fractional interest be allowed to
impair the general peoeperity of thousands P I cannot
for the life of me see why the blacks, free or not,
should be thrust on any population against their will.
I should like to see the attempt made by a tribe of
Patagonimis to be recognised by act of parliament as
qualified English voters, when even Englishmen
themselves are confined to certain limited qualifica-
tions.

MARKETS.
SAW Faartmwo, OCT. 1. —The flour market hu deelleml,
and geed sad sweet Amato* lad Chile sour can be purchased at •
alas bstow oar quotatioaa Mot, navy bread. end oases Nadu of
bessabalb ay sail dull from torentatked market.
Seer temfame dall of lab. walk • largo stock in band. Um sad
am park anis &mad tad fko Moor rata. Sam and bum a
palm grain ant is dimwit salasna
Good broody la ad of mkt; is brls. of 15 to 1$ saltme,
Inn at or uail= ; astansa arms aro selling at say low
prams. issmadi taw gdoolgally ger pal collar, and la mall
ri=sulalia Ow inaspeasisa to ths Wm. Ala sal pater
is inn% eau as Ma et lagortaasa ism tuba gime
dm am ha. Iltsaly. Mos If Ole dim" Ms Ilia lhom tee
111 hal data ansa oar lot spsttkisi• etas* osonaseked
imiekettelimeeim ilirst amp la diamod —Salaam has advanced
to 4 ads. I Ito 6 ask Os terevettebtemle.
Leman. am—Amerkos }treat-Fria the saissaglisa d this ar-
tlsa ha banal asrposta prim aro arm tsevoral Muses him
antsal Ikea Otagia and MINE par% tat lisoMaktat to we the its-
sand. tiagles sae am% sad Ml* wanted. We Um hard of
• sale of am In lid• at al deb. is St deist per Ng. The arrival of a
whale ddp has sepias. the media et am quotations. Mr cargo was
taken tweedy fire exportalen.
'dive wands this mash tam the Atlantic and twelve porta have
been eery ameereas, sad seeteeartly throw a large &monist of goods
In the auks; which him less dimmed eat luw rates.

THE OPPROBRIUM Or THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.
—" The right of next and perpetual presentation to the Neo
tory of Mansfield," in this county, with ► net annual incense
of VW., was put up for sa'e last week at the Auction Mare,
London, and k ,nt ke I down for 4,4505, a sum below tba
amuck yr.c..—Brighion Guardian.