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and who is the servant of the father of one of them. The
eldest of these girls was not 20. It seems their imagina-
tion had become excited by the gold stories which they
had heard, and they had determined at trying their hands
at making a fortune. The old negro was past work, and
was left in tEe camp during the day to look after the
household affairs, and keep watch, while the girls pursued
their miAng operations. When the party reached the
camp the—old negro was alone in it, but the girls came in
during the day, and received their visitors hospitably.
They expressed no fear of being molested or robbed, and
said they shoUld leave for home when they had accumu-
lated ten thousand dollars—they had already gathered
seven thousand dollars. They were from Florida, and
the youngest ran away from school to enter upon the ex-
pedition.

- JENNY LIND.-Mr. Barnum has addressed a letter to
the New York Tribune, in which he states that he has
ratified his engagement with Madlle. Lind, and for a less
sum than that lady has been in the habit of receiving.
He says,—" My agent saw an offer to her of £6OOO or
30,000 dollars to sing twelve nights in England, which she
declined; also an enormous offer for the grand concerts
at the imperial concerts of Russia, an offer nearly double
that of my own, which she, for reasons, also declined.
She ,vas offered £l2OO, or 6000 dollars, to sing in one
concert to be given at the ' Great World's Convention of
Arts and Manufactures' in Hyde-park, London, in 1851.
It was further intimated to her from Queen Victoria, that
her services would be required about the same period in a
contemplated grand sacred festival, at Westminster Ab-
bey. where the tickets will be held from 25 to 100 dollars
each. Both of these last offers she was induced to decline.
in consequence of her desire to visit America. as proposed
by my agent. In her engagement with me (which engage-
ment includes Havana as well as the United States), she
expressly reserves the right to give charitable concerts
whenever she may think proper. During the last eight
months she has been singing entirely gratuitously for
charitable purposes ; and she is now founding a benevo-
lent institution in Stockholm, her native city, at a cost of
350,000 dollars."

CALIFORNIA.—The Times supplies the following in.
formation from California, which has been furnished to
that journal by an intelligent medical practitioner, who
left San Francisco on the Ist of December last, after a
six months' residortce :—" It appears that at San Fran-
cisco the common estimate of the present population in
Upper California is beyond 200,000, although, as is usual
in all such cases, this would most probably be found ex-

cessive. The number in the city was at least 50,000, and
the progress of the place was daily becoming more won-
derful. There was employment for all, and the wages of
ordinary labouring men were from five dollars to ten dol-
lars a day, and for carpenters about sixteen dollars. A

large number of Chinese were now included in the popu-
lation, and several excellent hotels were kept by them.

They were mostly, however, employed in constructive la-
bour, and could earn, as carpenters, about seven dollars
a day. Houses from China were constantly arriving, and
were ornamental in their appearance, while the architec-

would be imagined. Streets were rising up as if by magic,
and a new building, just finished, called the Graham
Hotel,' contains not less than two hundred rooms. The
revenue to be derived from it may be conjectured from
the fact that the charge for an ordinary apartment in a
good part of the town, sufficient to answer the purposes
of a small store, was still about three hundred dollars a
month. No church had yet been built, and the services
of religion continued to be performed in tents; but S+•
day was strictly observed far as tl,-