The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-18
Our New Territory.

night, and at Newark 0-mOrrow night.
Our New Territory.
CALIFORNIA, June l, 1S4S.
We still live and have our being in this "Farest
West" with only one serious apprehension, that we
in danger Of having more gold than food for he
that WELD spade, and shake q DISH can fill his
pockets, su gusto. Oh this California climate GER
tainly influences dispositions. Californian never
dreams Of work. Some horseback have to exert
themselves in tanning wild horses and cattle, and in
he after management of them, but "raIga me dois,"
hose who obtained stay in this world by headwork
when in office, or obtained credit the hopes ofone
q Californian will pay bis debts, but takes his
time in doing this any other good thingD had to
get up nciament0, occasionally, as funds or
credit ran low the natives having oy the change Of
they best can by the ownership of few leagues Of
land and q few thousand head of cattle.
'Tis the Yankee turn, beginning in October,
1916 under Lieut. Washington Bartlett alcade of the
town of Yerba Buena. Hundreds Of our countrymen.
obtained in that town at SO each house lots Of 90
under Judge Bryant and Judge Hyde, one an editor,
the other q lawyer of your city Houses costing 500
to 81 0OO sprung up like the story of Aaddns times
Fifty lots without any improvements sold from
100 to 1000 Mexican dollars. Merchants, lawyers,
little houses Many sent home for their families all
doing well Mechanics obtained four to eight dol
lars per day. some Of the volunteers came in for
large share by the we'll timed and prudent permits
sion of their Gcers while they performed their duty
to government. Lawyers, $500 fee the merchant
made 100 per cent clerks and schoomasters, 500 to
ST 600 per annum Every one appeared happy and
contented making money wthouttroube, like Cali
fornian, imagining Providence had taken them under
special protection. When all this in the full blast
Of successful operation and probability Of its being
brought to close-prestO! some one proclaim
.sgold for the gathering" This cry, believe, began
from the Mormons; Immediately the most thought
less the most sangune took horse OF launch Tor the
rivers of wealth In less than month they return
ed to Yerba Buena, San Francisco with few
hundred dollars Of gold dust worth in the States $
per ounce The whole of foreign population
struck not for higher wages, but tor none at all
spades and hovels from So to $l0 tin pans and
cups to unhesrd of prices; few considerable turner's
and blacksmiths remained to make spades and picks
and turn wooden dishes to wash out the sand These
few making $40 to $40 per day cooks and
words is that, than half think three fonrths
of the houses in some towns, vacated. passage
in the launch rose from nothing to 81 to IS to SIG
Dorado of rivers whose bottoms were gold, only re-
curing to step In SCOOP up handful of black sand
the hand few minutes in the water, and there
remained the pure thing itself Rivers, whose banks
glittered with the fine black sand impregnated with
quantities gold that gstened still until the
spot $40 day was demanded by one to spend day
to to the nearest rancho for quarter of meat or
$40 day to cook for q mess of ten men, So q man
This, they say, submitted to for few days
Whether these golden stories of rivers of gold
much was seen. No from the gold regions
had any time to stop to talk or spin street
yarns: but with more tools, tea, boffee flour
and crackers, paid for in gold dust itself at Sl4
per ounce, they of again There was no waiting
for what the Germans call stand point No hesitation
misbelief-by the most skeptical all must go;
and truly, in some towns, all have gone. Near two
hundred houses in the town of San Francisco closed
Benicia, a small town of a years. growth, situated
forty miles from the entrance Of San Francisco Bay,
had but two men left who were earning $50 day by
the gold fever its inhabitants in general thinking
they are sufficiently rich can sford for few days
Longer 10 let wen ION put OF M
lating towns, carrying of men, women, and children.
six.year old child can gather 50 or SO day q man
$40 to $50 old and young ladies' proportion accord
ing how they admire to stand two feet deep in the
water dig with shovels roll round wooden dish
y Should these reports continue the year out, and
prove to be true, and continue monthly report the
mighty Herald for three nations paying its owner $50
he the printer does the saying for him)
per year would stop, for want of hand like the
papers of California who would print Heralds at So
"a day, when, in the Far West he could gather
cup of gold day? had better stop as am, your
men will quit as it is.
The Indian depopulating the Oregon.
Peace will disbsnd the volunteers on the Pacific.
The astonishing tales from this country of rivers with
bottoms and banks of gold-of quicksiver-pent up
for thousands Of years in leagues Of mountansonly
waiting the rush the Pacific of that everrestles
contented Yankee to loose it from its
fnement-to make gold and mercury as plenty as
all desire. This spreading over the Atlantic
States, these three continuing causes will soon fill
California from all parts of our country.
have told you and your readers not half the writer
is bound to believe much Of it-al Of it. How long
the banks of rivers will produce gold dust Is our
affair Those who have travelled these splendid regions
soy there is end to their riches, although there
must be to SU AMIGO PAlSANO.
send you a few slips to back my improbable tales
Of gold and quicksilver.
POLICE STATISTICS OF PARIs.--By a report pub
lished at Paris by the Project of Police, IT appears
that there are in Paris 81 ,4S0 workmen living in
furnished apartments of these, II ,53S are en-
ployed in various ways. The number of unem-
ployed workmen is 1887 In the week ending
August Sth 1894 strangers arrived In Paris. In
the week after, 1914 arrived; and IN the next
week, 1914, showing regular increase OF arrivals
On the 18th of August, 7lO foreigners arrived at
tinues regularly increasing. Only 745 have since
left Paris In the space OF seven days, 1850 pass
ports were delivered, Of which 542 were to for
common prisoners in the ;;aalis. The prisoners of
June amounted at the same date to 6444.
The Savings Banks of Paris begin to be again
more resorted to by depostors. Ia the two days
of August 20 and q, there were 26l depositors
the sum deposited was %, 7sl francs
From the 18th to the 9th of August, there were
10 suicides. The number Of theffs and burglaries
committed IN Paris average 6 per day. There
are no attacks upon persons. The number OF
deaths, owing to the events OF June, is 143l.
IRISH REApERs.--A greatnumber of Irish reapers
have arrived at Liverpool, for the purpose of ga
thenng in the harvest IN this country. The rebel
lious proceedings in Ireland do not appear to have
diminished the mportatons of this class of per-
sons.--Lirrpoot Journal, dug. 10.