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AMERICAN PAPER S.-
ADDITIONAL INTELLIGENCE FROM THE
CALIFORNIA GOLD REGION. -
(From the New Orleans Picayune' Nov. 24,)
Lieutenant Loeser, U.S.A., arrived here yesterday,
in the !schooner Desdemona, from Jamaica, with dis-
patches from Governor Mason, of California, to the
United States Government. Lieutenant Loeser left
Monterey in August last, for Payta, in Peru, which s
place he made in forty days. He came thence by
the 'way of Panama and 'Jamaica to this city.
In company with Lieutenant Loeser came David
Carter, who went out to California in the employment
of the Government, early in -the commencement of
the war. From the latter we learn that there was no
excitement in California, except that produced by the
reports from the gold regions of the Sacramento and
its tributaries. The mania for gold digging had.
reached, such a length that. it , was difficult
to procure workmen in Monterey, except at
the most extravagant wages. Desertions had taken
plaee from the-United States forces, and from the
marine to such an extent that the United States ship
Ohio had to supply men to take the sloop Warren
lower down the coast out of the way of the infection.
From the latter vessel a boat's crew deserted in open
daylight for the golden regions.
• Company Fad Artillery, and:the dragoons, left at
Monterey, had suffered little from desertion, but the
citizens, generally had gone off in quest of the precious

Lieutenant Loeser brings over with him specimens
of gold obtained in . the valley of the Sacramento.
Some of the pieces are the first found in the eountry.
The extent of the gold region bas not been ascer-
tained, but the ore has been found in a territory ISO
miles in extent and 40 in breadth. Mr. Carter
thinks that many of the accounts of the great abun-
dance of the precious metal in the region in which it
is: found are exaggerations, but that it is discovered in
large quantities is absolutely known. lie informs us
that the ore is procured, at some risk and vrith.great
labour, yet :that it must abound ip the country--
considering the quantities brought to Monterey, and
the imperfect means employed in separating it from
the soil.

The tract of country constituting the gold region is
• Jevel plain. Whether the particles, of gold have
been washed down from the mountains or heaved up
by volcanic force, no one knows, but the latter is.
generally believed to be the true theory. Mr. Carter
has himself seen drops of virgin gold weighing two
ounces, and there are those who assert they, have met
with it in bulks of greater weight.
As yet, all attempts to employ capital in procuring
gold have resulted disastrously. Those who have
organized a company to collect the precious metal
have lost their outfits, for the persons hired for such
a service invariably leave their employers and set up
business‘on their own account—taking with them the
implements entrusted to them. The gold is not con-,
fined to the beds of the rivers, but everywhere within
pteicribed limits it May be had by digging up the
earth, and washing the soil from the metal.
The effect produced in .California by this new
source of wealth has been anything but beneficial to
the colonists- or advantageous to the public service.
The New York volunteers, as soon as they were dis-
banded, repaired, to the gold region, Colonel Steven 7
son with them, and every article of merchandise,
food, or clothing had risen in value to an exorbitant
extent. The epidemic was universal. The crews of
whale ships and other commercial vessels had deserted
for the enchanted region, as well as the enlisted men
in the United States service. _ _

Money in coin, which' was plentrenough for, all
purposes before gold was discovered,' had grown BO
scarce that the•duties upon impoited goods could not
be paid except by hypothecating ".dust:" Those who
cOuld not .procure • better means of collecting gold,
wandered off in its quest with' tin pans, buckets' and
whatever else could be- used to separate the metalfrom
the earth by washing.
We annex a letter and • a proclamation from Col.
Mason, showing the -troubles which this gold fever
hes brought upon the Custom house. Our informant
thinks it-will require a large force to protect the inte-
rest- of- the United States-from the-depredation of the
" diggers," who form the largest, most desperate, and
vagrant class of " foreigners ' in that territory.
Large numbers of them have perished during the
sickly season; on atcount of their reckless course of
life and insufficient•means of comfortable living: -
- • . San Francisco, July 22, Is4*.
Sir,—We beg leave 'to submit .to your Excellency
-proceedings• of a meeting held last evening at
the Citylidtel of this place.
;We pray that your Excellency will take, into im-
_mediate tenside4tion matters of such vital.import-
ance to the commercial as well as to the other in-
terests of the -country; and will be pleased to forward
us, your desision, at-as early 'a day akyour valuable
time will allow.
We are, ,respectfully; your. Excellenoy's. most
obedient servants,

W. D. M. HOWARD.
C. V.,-Gu.Lisrni.
•./AM's C. WARD.
:To hit Excellency Colontl R. B. Mason;
Governor of California.

Head-Quarters Tenth: Military Department,"
Monterey, California, July 31, 1848.
Gentlemen,-.—;Yonr communication of .the , 22d,
together with its inelbsure.; has been- duly,received.
I will instruct the collector at San ',Francisca to
receive 'gold dust in payment of duties at- the custom-
house, with-Abe priyilege.reserved to the payer. of
redeeming one-half by a payment to the collector in
gold or ailveronin, any time within ninettdays; and'
the other half by alike payment, any time .within
one hundred •and eighty days. This, however; is to
be a mere temporary arrangement, owing to the pre-
sent scarcity of, coin•in the country. -
It would give me pleasure to comply lolly with
the wishes' elpressed..by the public meeting held at
San Francisco on the, night: of the 21st instant, :by
making, the ,whole redeemable in one hundred and
eighty days; but it would have the effeot of entirely-
cutting': off the receipt of . any available.' funds in
the Custom-house for six months to, come. That
is a longer time than •it will be prudent to- dry up
the only source-of -revenue that the country affords,
and would beleo wide a departure from my instruc-
tions, which are very positive, to collect the duties
erclusively in gold and-silver coinr before the.
goods, wares, or merchandise leave the, custody-of
the Collector; or, in other words, before they are
suffered to go into, market. lam willing-, to allow
the' goods to ge at , once into the market and to wait
,three and sir months for the duties—although I am-
ordered: to collect them in -cash—provided the gold
dust is taken, at a rate low enough to make it certaiin.
that the merchant will redeem it at the stipulated
time, and if
.be -does • not, that there will. be no doubt.
that the duties can be realiied at once by putttng it
up at auction; if the money be immediately required.,
You will readily perceive the situation in which I am
placed; a,large amount of duties will be received at
San Frascisco ; should some ten or twenty thousand
dollars of this-gold dust,,received at the Custom-house
_reckoning at the rate per ounce at which it will be
received—faillo be redeemed at the stipulated time,
and I should be forced by want of funds to throw sud-
denly this large amount into marketii:nutroi;bidelu
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I am very sure that none of the merchants of your