The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-09
Total,
10000

The articles exported are hides 5000 talov
SIS 900; Peltries, wood, &C. els 000 total $3.50 600
The business done under the Mexican flag is not in
Mexican vessels but in those belonging 10 citizens
Of other countries doing business in Mexico. In
lS4l Of eleven vessels that reached California un.
der the Mexican flag, only one, boat Of Sc tons, in
the service OF the government, was Mexican. In
relation to the soil Of California he remarks as fol-
lows:
"The soil is ofen in the valleys, two metres deep:
the superior strata are formed in part Of organic de-
tritus, and are, Of course, extremely fertile
The soil is naked grass il through the
whole year. The gTsmineous plants attain the
height Of eight ten feet But the trees of Cali
fornla n not the largest, are at any rate the talest,
on the globe.
THE seasons follow the same course as in (south-
ern) Europe, and the year is divided into two we'll.
marked parts, the season Of rains which begins in
October and ends in March, and the dry season,
which embraces the remaining six months Of spring
"once only since the colonization of the country
has snow been known to fall in the plains.
"To resume, Upper California is, on the whole,
admirably fitted for colonization. This province
presents the greatest facilities for raising cattle for
culhvang corn, plants, and for the grape; il might
contain twenty million ofinhabitans;
| and its ports are a point OF necessary communca-
ton for vessels going from China and Asia to the
western coasts of North America.
at is, beyond doubt, that so soon as an intelli-
gent and laborious population is established there,
this country will occupy an elevated rank in the
commercial scale; 1t would form the entrspot where
the coasts Of the great would send their prod
ucts and would furnish the greatest part of their
subsistence in grains to the northwe to Mexico
to Central America, to Ecuador, TO Peru to the
north coast of ASIA and TO many groups Of Polyne-
sia-such as the Sandwich isles the Marquesas, and
Tahiti"
In relation to the ceaseess encroachments Of the
English, M. de Mofras states, that Hudson's Bay
company were pushing line efforts into the coun.
try, in anticipation of compromise between the
Mexican government and its London creditors by
which lands in Upper California will be offered in
payment. He expressed the opinion, however, that
California would fall to the United States; and in re-
lation to the seizure of Monterey by Com. Jones, in
1910, remarks:
commodore Jones acted imprudently, perhaps
in taking possession of the town of Monterey; but
when the thing was done he ought to have kept it,
and above all, TO have taken the port of San Francis
co. No government in the world would have
dreamed of dispossessing the United States Eng
land Alone angry at seeing herself anticpated might
have protested, perhaps; but everybody knows this
power, naughty with those who fear her, knows
how to make concessions, when she meets with adj
versaries who do not seem to be inundated"
This is singular language to be published under
the directions of the French ministry. While, how.
ever, eVents are maturing IN Calif0rnla to place that
country within the confines of the Union, England
is making more rapid advances in consolidating her
power in the Mosquito country, which embraces
the extremity of the northern continent down to the
lsthmus of Panama. Her claim is some pretended
deed Of gift by some drunken old savage, who, un-
der the tutelage of English agents, not only made
over to her all his own country, but also some man
ufactured claims to land that never belonged to him
BY this right, English agents impose upon Ameri-
can vessels charges for cutting mahogany so enor-
nous as to drive them away and to give the mo-
nopoly to the English vessels The American in
erests in that quarter have been greatly neglected
through the incompetency of the resident consul
there.