New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-09
NETWORK TRIBUNE.

F.RrHyR FROM TIE PAcrFic.-We extract from
our files Of Sandwich Islands papers few add
sional paragraphs Of interest relating to California
and Tahiti
The revenues Of California under the old regime 1914
sn5 as amounted 10 about t1O0OO0, which has bee
chiefly absorbed by the military and their pAruzans
The average annual duties for the lest ten YEAR,
been as 90: last year they amounted to SloVVys
enormous tax upon Impoverished country o. yen
Thousand inhabitants be public debt sboui slyO.t
mostly acknowledged military claim. ffesioes 70 ~,
reduction Of the Tsr8 BY the American Wy
inhabitants were obliged 70 pay the following
rates for the neccssaIies Of life American pfin~ =
cents per yard common cotton ~ DO licking - ~
yard cheapest 6rosdclotb sl2 per YARD eoree 81; e.
Der ID; sugar - cts per lb Hour 90 shOt ~ GU
Ii powder 49, The reduction u the duties 70 the
American standard will have the elect 10 sresuy "
crease the consumption, and Ultimately 10 bring tnt
prices OF foreign goods ~ the average oil tns pace.
The country N rich 10 mineral resOurces-mines o.
sod silver copper lead sulphur and quicksilver are
rapidly discovered. Two Of rich quicksilver ore
30per cent Of pure metal are now "a ~ %. p,.n
cisco Bay 2oOc lbs. have already been exuscvu u O
the later The Deighborhood Of the quieknseI nine'
to those Of the precious metals WIZ gfcsuy e
PROFITS Of working them and II very productive rcoeee
he value of the kothschiid monopoly IN Europe Inc
facilities 81 expectation from their vicinity 10 nooie
harbor are unrvaled No less than seventy announce
roents Of mines made 70 the slcsde Of san Jose
within the FIVE months previous 10 June last In the
rear of Pueblo dc los Angeles there exists gold pia
GER or washing said 10 be eighteen leagues square
BY the laws OF Mexico this cannot be held as mine
but 10 free 10 the industry OF any one The most moo
lent Indian 1t Is said by washing the sands can get ms
IL reals worth OF gold per day Msny thousand aohhs
rave already been exported 10 the United states
The Hudson Bay Company have sold out their estao-
n,bment a, san Frsncisco. TO Messrs Howard Mel0s
Mr. Leidesdof late L. 4. Vice Consul, has erected build
ings at the Bay expense OF $1,000 and has val
liable contract for supplying the ssian fur Company
with beef. -four and provisions.
TAHirI-The PoiyResiaR Of sept 20 has the ioi
lowing
mare had Intmated her desire 10 return 70 isnu ana
that the French Government had placed brig OF war At
her disposal II was however considered very doubtful
whether she would return. The political state oil the
island continues the same.
Inc Catholics have adopted very novel but we sp-
prebend efectua system Of proseysm at al events 90
lar the pockets concerned by sort Oh copaIt
nenhip between marnmon and faith we give tne IA
formation this point received from our correspond
ont In the following extract
We believe business has received a death DO" mere
by the establishment Of commercial missionary store
by the Jesuts OF France Their object u 10 disseminate
the Catholic faith throughout the Islands IN the racine
and their first step 10 ingatste themselves Win the
natives by selling them goods cost and charges, IN
dcrsel the merchants and drive them on the Island
They are 10 have house In Valparaiso Tahiti and Oahu,
sdons and the Feeees They have twelve ships OF the
sixe Of Arch Dahsnce and another both mere now
with some twenty thirty Jesuits on board and mum
Der Of small vessels Is arranged that one OF mem
will leave France every month 10 Keep tne" cs'osn
ment supplied with goods.
We are informed sso that the missionaries purchased
the establishment OF h. l.. Gray, ESQ. and commenced
Immediately selling 10 the natives at prices nucn bco"
Inc cost Nothing whstever, at any price IL SOFA 10
foreigners II this information be correct there Is
something more In this scheme than appears at first
sance and the merchants hare will have 10 besrr them
selves avoid being driven altogether out oil the neid