The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-17
California.

n a, most eminent statesmen Listen to Mr.. Webster
Ting the debates of the last session upon the war, and
:. would not suppose that either California or New
,,,i,o WAS worth dollar The extraordinary value OF
oorts of California the fertility of large portion OF
command from the Massachusetts orator a single
.nils of favor The LONDON Times" from which we
axe the following picturesque extract has iuster idea
fas value But even the description of the Times and
. uredictions about the treasures which American
sprise is about 10 bring forth in that distant
,oO fall short of the reality up TO this time What
sill il be when a few years have passed over ?
considerable emigration is already taking place, and
/ ,r,vips out its latent resources. When the Times
,o,s is article the extraordinary mines of quick
1vsr were the principal object OF attraction in the
sra line; but what will it say Of the still sin
url,r developments which reported to have been
.s Of the gold in California The time is even rapidly
coming when the expression of Mr.. Martin Chuzzewit
: will receive a greater expansion, and when new
western acquisition will be pronounced on all hands to
be one Of the most remarkable provinces of coun-
,o The resources and the population of the Territory
will act and react upon each other country full of
resources, and population full of enterprise, will ex-
and each other The productive it appears, the
more people il will invite to settle there-and the more
people who settle in its borders, the more the re-
sources which they will develop 1t is to be hoped that
many years-nay perhaps many months-will not eapse
before Mr. Webster will admit the incoectness of his sta
scs and if he does not make the discovery, many of his
|sneprising counymen will confess its value Their 600
whaling vessels will draw thousand advantages from its
ports The mechanics and farmers from New England
who will be induced to emgrate to this country will
spread themselves the handsome settling in the
present towns-ohers assisting to build up new ones
whilst others penetrate the earh cultivate its surface
Mexico might have dozed for years the riches of the
land but the ingenuity and enterprise of the Americans
and even the foreigners who will flock to it,, will strike
the rock, and make its waters flow out. The 5000
souls will, in short time, multiply to 10000
souls If we watch the current of emigration as il is
indicated by the steamers and other vessels bound to
Chagres cruising around Cape Horn, or passing from
the borders of the United States from Santa Fe
Tor through Arkansas to California we shall soon be
satisfied that there will be sufficient number of nhab
ants TO make vast track of the earhs surface subser
went to hencreasng of man." Let us never forget
that the acquisition of California one of the trophies of
Of acquiring a valuable territory which extends our
Union from the Atlantic to the Pacific
From the London Times
There is ealya great deal of interest to be acquired in
The selzng OF California; taken by the United States
We mean that there is something very amusing the spec
hcle OF the most inqusve and tenacious people in the
worn nheu loose INTO huge mysterious, unex pOred
son 1t Is something beyond Demon and his brother ga
Tue brush Association in japan, with the free of the
Islands il is certain that, at this ent no human being
Caucasian extraction has any conception of what may
be dcoverabe on the ten degrees of the globes surface be-
tween the Rio del Noe and the North Pac c ocean and
lis almost as Ger ain that in two years me there will be
load g across the province and boarding houses at
every station It something these dull times to have
real true terra incogna in store, with Americans for adven
mIers The truth is that the Colorado beats the Oxus ho
pw lor mere was time when Bacrana was civilized
ana accessible region enough whereas there is no GER
ny that the spot of ground indicated by latitude 49,
longitude liz, was trodden by any foot but tina,
oil an Indian horse stealer. We say no certainly be-
this country blue book stamped with ali the an,boItv
ola Parliamentary warrant positively states that 'sinde-
naen! nations living in large towns and tnocn only by
,p",are presumed TO exist within the old domains OF
ing the between Santa Fe and Vera cruz s W sy must
conclude they lie somewhere hereabous, if anywhere The
mystery OF the report is quite charming The existence of
c hue II Is not exactly 80 well
9 ueed reached the spot but had the walls there
Of rather stronger analogy that Of FL Dorado,
seen me reflection in lake. Seriously though there
s an enormous indefinite be explored and
- ready TO rOut and ransack
corner OF It, like the underakers at the drawers and cum
0p paasn IN HogaHL's picture Of the dead mser
a retLnap our readers would like to learn something of
e known state OF California, point de depart from
winch 10 venture into those interesting details which will
o GauD, reach us by every American mail Under the
spanish monarchy, Upper or New California was one
S o hfee Provinces composing the Vice.royalty of New
palh. Its settlement, however, limited to The estab.
mshhen oil some eighteen twenty missions along the
which were dedicated to the various saints whose
uugs sun survive, between Francisco and Diego, and
which We're calculated, with precision and Certainty
anabe by none but Spanards to render The colonial
h o, ,he country altogether an mpossibly San Diego
american frontier will debouch upon the Pacific, was
IN 10Y before which year there European
were founded the others, ali on the SAME model and
running the The aspect of the presi1ios
ep"So W V2sa snds W 1H rule of the
ranclsco, he osnd the chief anchorage of this noble
aUn town," of which the constituent elements are
an agent of the Hudson's BAY COMPANY: n store
nep ny an American; biIard.room and bar poop
iuan captain; backsmith's shop. and some out.bud-
AS this is decidedly the most famous colony on the
p'de Hreem. but we may probably saw ourseves
w pouDie oil describing San Carlos or Santa Barbara or
resides the present white population of the nrovnce %
perhaps about 600 souls and some 900 or 10 600
wds Of as 81, eaiculaed roam abroad in the mysterious
SO Vi me Interior. The whites true sons OF Old
WIN everything of Ca stian but his bravery But
o presence OF certain English and Americans the In.
nh Would inalliby drive them into the sea- After calm
noersauon and mature reflection Capt Wilkes i, com
& 70 pronounce that hey may be termed cruel to their
yves In greater degree still to their slaves and cattle
dino ignorant of everything but extortion ri
''aS hofses and catching bulIocks."
Weld ue Yankee graft upon this valuable stock must
M va wonderful result and shall not be long before
havs III II. we described lately the precautions which
), fo eh 80 promptly taken to bring the new territory
@ under hand, and it appears that the work of discoy
ton s es neaay commenced At present the great arac-
mrac GINS ather IN the bowels Of the earth than on its
and hundreds of independent citizens are at work
nonn eit plckaxes like seekers in the Harz
we ae M, 0ncksiveI is the main object of search and
'oiu IN setnoffcia and serious renort of