Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-12-09

deserted of their population Hdecuers and beef ekers
padre and hdage, the lazy Indian and active Sandwich
sander-men, women, and children have all off for the
Sacramento with every house uens that could hold wafer,
to wash earth, for the finding the precious metallic
sediment Never did pots and pans reach such price earth
is worth its weight in sver-a wooden bowl quite
fortune revolution similar that which has affected the
human many European capitals notably in Paris,
Berlin, and Vienna, has beaen California crockery and,
whilst printers devils have become statesmen and taken
represent in the one mugs jugs and porringes have sold
and been priced as costly plate in the other.
Indeed the resemblance might be carried further, the Cali
onan revolution having been confined crockery The
discovery of gold in the Sacramento like that of communism
the Seine has produced confusion Of rank and startling
degree of equality The Governor and the mendicant the
Indian and the Don the conquerng Yankee and the subject
epero stand side by side up TO their knees in the sands Of
the river, STOPPING pokng scraping, washing, all intent
the great object Meals neglected, and when had,
paid for at price that distances the for
gotten, dignity thrown aside the comforts and the dencies
Of life alike lost in the american Pactolus Even politics
have disappeared and epubcans ceased be preached for
tie moment for two newspaper editors have declared them
selves without readers and have deserted pen and scissors for
spade and bowl.
We hear Of this Ell Dorado before we bestow
upon serious attention. There which will
bear many weeks washing and the gold mines Of Sacra-
mento may be Of them. Il may happen that this
discovery OF gold may the end produce poverty notweath
The vessels which weekly cowdng great numbers the
harbor Of San Francisco will he 10 export the
produce which they sought Old Spain knows well what
to have population abandon the cultivation Of the soil,
in order wander forth in search of gold the peninsula hay-
not yet recovered the effects of that mania Population,
however, will fail in the Sacramento, for tn, American
press so busy working the mine Of WONDER that should
he surprised find the population of whole States mi
grating the Rocky Mountains into the fabulous regions Of
North California.
PROM THE NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
! The star that presdes over money-dggers, or
| precious metal diggers, il any such there be, is
clearly in the ascendant along the borders OF the
/ !" West countree,'' and its influence will soon be
felt, if it is not felt already, among the least
adventurous Of our home population Every ar
rival every letter. from the gold region Feather river,
brings and more glowing accounts OF the Juror that ami
the people all about there, and of the marvellous
in gathering up riches by which it is noushed and mu
lated All other channels of industry abandoned sailors
from their ships, mechanics fling aside the hammer, the
saw the chse and the planes teo descend from their shop
board soldiers desert their coors; agrcuur to dig
plough; and all classes, men, women, and children,
rushing to the sands Of Pactous which have been
pectedly discovered amid the wilds of California.
The accounts amazng they have been SO from the
first, and they continue grow richness and wonder W.
read of individuals gaining fifty, eighty hundred dollars
day, with the rudsst implements and by the simplest of al
i
dollars said pass from hand hand freely shilling
and quarters DO with the ordinary traffic Of social inter
course the purchase Of necessares ndulgences
Mr. LARKIS, the consul, writes tina, he gathered nearly fly
dollars worth Of the precious dus! in thirty minutes by tn
watch. But per CONTRA the relative value Of the metal pos
sessed in such abundance and such easy TERMS undegoc
change which takes off considerable OF its glitter. Flour
in demand at Thirty dollars barrel pair of shoes cos
eight dollars the picks and shove used in dggin
the rich earth sold from twenty thirty dollars each
when they be had all, which always the
and mems daily wages for gold hunting any other employ
men up 10 which appear be absolutely fabulous
The present OF the gold region, known be such
is represented eighty miles in length and thirty in breadth
Letters represent the already gathered TO be WORT
fifteen millions of dollars and they report that seventies
vessels lying in the harbo Of San Francisco, their
having deserted and gone to the gold region
But the back Of all this, ugly doubts to exist
yet discovered by actual examination of the go
any where hereabou-that il is ali gold thai gIers s.
temptngy in reference which we close by copying tn
following communication from the Journal Of Commerce
this morning
CALIFORNIA GOLD.
gentleman OF Georgia, near Savannah, who has beef
interested in gold mines there that he has
the California gold, called and tina, what shown hin
was not gold but mica. He cannot judge of what is nov
reported be coming into Francisco he only judges Of wha
! he
We all remember the great bubble of the Virginia gc
Mines which Jecided this city in 1884 and 1895. Their
may yet mistake about the California mineral, which
i in custom-house language, is deemed and taken to b
gold. NEW ToRK.
FROM o SATURDAY EVENING.
FRoN SAN FRAScIsco.-We hear that very late account
have been received in New York from California &C. Let
down the 18th of October which very late ou
hr region Some OF the letters intimate tina. is not all tn
pure, brilliant, virgin gold they gathering, as Faihe
Richie Of the Union would have ii but is considerably mix
ed up with mica