The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-12-21


sufficiently extensive to give profitable employment tc
600 persons Tor generations 10 come The ore is in
virgin state, disseminated in small PARTICLES and is found
IN three distinct depostessand and gravel beds on de
composed granite and lntermixed with kind of slate
II generally found from Immediately beneath the sur
face to distance of four feet and its position aud the
pure state in which is found is believed to be the re-
suit OF general volcanic eruption The gold region lies
within about hundred hundred and forty miles
OF San Francisco; il about the same distance from Mon
erey and the great majority OF the population OF these
places-merchans doctors, lawyers mechanics, labor
ers, soldiers, seamen, deserers Americans, Spanards
Mexicans, lndians-a have cleared out, and as
busy avaTice and ambition can make them, engaged in
the pleasant labor OF gold finding From November I'LL
March, embracing the interval of the rainy season, but
little progress can be made In digging so that any en-
erpsing young man who would start now, would be all
IN good time for the commencement OF next years opera
tons. Mr. Cutting is rather old and very strong
He worked at the dhnding for forty days
Being regardfu of his health he chose the dry dggngs
to operate in In this time he got fifteen hundred
dollars worth of 1t is found easier and in larger
quantities in the 'wet dggings;" but working in the
latter is unhealthy. His implements pick
axe, aspade, butchers knife and tin pan One midi
ydua found solid piece OF one weighing thirteen pounds
Surely this is literally the "golden age" The climate of
California Mr. Cutting describes remarkably saubri-
Gus and healthy except on the Sacramento river where
fever and ague 10 some extent prevail.
The Crescent, of the date, adds The total Amer
lean population OF the territory estimated at about 5000
vi this the greater number Is employed in the mines,
where, including Indians there about 5000 persons
at work. The gold which is found by the latter class
soon passes into the hands of the whites, the Indians
willing TO sell it for almost any kind of trnke lit
tie gunpowder Ratchet, and they frequently give it
for its weight in beads This, however, will not be the
case long, as the Indians will soon commence to know
the value OF the article by the estimate the whites set
upon It. The mining region, as far as il has been ex-
plored extends 400 miles in length by $50 in breadth
that is, from the headwaters of the San joaquin in about
latitude $40 3y, to latitude 40 north
From the Californian of September L.
Pursuant to call published in last weeks Californian
and by printed handbls large concouse OF citizens
the largest probably ever held in San Franciscoassem-
bled at the public hall In Portsmouth square, Satur-
day evening" for the purpose OF devsng to
fixed value to gold dust, and to insure its ADOPTION in
the present scarcity OF coin, circulating medium to
the ordinary transaction of business, at sixteen dollars
an ounce
Mr. Brannan addressed the meeting at some length,
and at the close of his remarks presented the following
resolutions, which were adopted
Resolved, That we, the citizens of San Francisco will
influence and patronage to support market at this
place which will receive gold dust at SIG per
Resolved That unless the citizens California sustain
the price of gold at home, it must depecate abroad
Rssoipsd that we look upon every measure to reduce
the price of gold injurious to the best interests OF the
country.
The following resolution was then presented by Mr.
Clark which also adopted:
Rescued, That we, the citizens of San Francisco, will
unite in establishing gold dust as currency at SIG
ounce
On motion of Dr. John Townsend a committee of five
appointed to draught memorial to the Congress OF
the United States urging upon tina. honorable body the
speedy establishment OF branch mint at this place
the Californian o October
MORE GoLD-When will they be done discovering gold
in California The last that has to hand was in
the neghborood of the "Cudad de los Angeles" where
gold has been known to exist for long time in small
quantities; but it not until recently that any expo-
rations were made when 10! the gering was found
in as great abundance as on the American fork and other
well known 'diggngs" Where will be the next discov-
cry of this no longer precious substance! Really, we
dread the digging Of well the grading of a street in
our neghborhood.
San Francisco has lately been the scene of election
campagnhe officers to be chosen being an Alcade and
F. NJ Leavenworth Alcalde, by majority of "a and
B. R. Buckelaw and Barton Mowry, councilmen The
whole number of votes polled for Alcade 15s, and
for councilmen 147 The vote small in consequence
of the departure of many inhabitants for the gold
gion.
By the appearance of the San Francisco paper the ad
vertisements &c. that place must be becoming quite
American settlement evidence of which give the
following marine news from the Californian of the 18th
PoRT OF SAN FRANCIsco-Arrived Oct Peruvian
brig pacico, Lawrence, from Canton and Hong, Kong,
via Monterey; 9TH, Russian American Company's brig
Ochots Klinkofstrom, from Ska, New Archangel.
Sailed-Oct |, brig Saline, Hatfield, for Oregon City
ps Gs h Pde and San
Bias, to-day barque MARY, Frances, Gould, Honolulu,
o,day barque Olga, Bull, for leward ports, Monday
brig Maek Adhel, Hall, for Mazatan tomorrow brig
Topic, Luce, Honolulu next week. brig Cayuga, Mazat-
Ian, next week.
Memoranda Ship Sweden, hence, at Mazatan, May
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lHE 1MM1GRATION,-We nave Deen informed rom re-
liable sources that 300 wagons on their way from the
United States to this territory. Some eighteen twenty
have already arrived We learn also that the emigration
from Oregon overland to this territory will this year
amount to between 700 and 800 persons.
Californian, Sept. o.
MARINE.--The arrival of the ship Belfast, Captain
Jordan, 1863 days from New York, is announced in the
Californian OF the odd Sept
| THE TABLES TURNED.-Rather an anomaly is now
presented in this Territory in the relative conditions
men, The capitalist is in reality the least Independent
person among and the laboring the most sought
after and respected This state of affairs extends into al
occupations and trades. For instance, what would thu
craft in New York or Boston say they TO tina
usually humble individual the deu, stumpng the edto
to JEFF to see which should split up the irewood Cab
tOrnian
The confectionery establishment 10Th street, neal
Pennsylvania avenue, of Monsieur and Madame Faver
who were burnt out last summer, has risen, PhDnxlike
from It's ashes, and offers every temptation those wh'
| wish euierain their frends q dinner