The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-28
From California.-The Gold Fever and Gold Re-
gion &c.-Oondition of Mexico.

The Union notices the arrival in Washington on
Saturday evening, from California, of Mr.. Edward
| Fitzgerald Beale, Ithe grandson of Commodore
Iruxton) passed midshipman. He is just from
Commodore jones' squadron, and he has performed
he most rapid journey that has ever been known
from the Pacific to Washington. The Union says:
He left Commodore Jones at La Paz on the LIST of
August came by Mazatlan and arrived at the Port
OF San Bias, on the 10th, and pushed his way by
horses and mules the country to the City of
Mexico, where he arrived on the 18th. He was
detained by Mr.. Clifford three days for dispatches,
and IN torty-eight hours passed from Mexico to Vera
Cruz, about 275 miles, sleeping not more than ten
minutes at time From Vera Cruz he sailed to
Mobile, and arrived here on Saturday evening.
Mr.. Beaie crossed from the Pacific at San Bias to
the Gulf at Vera Cruz in the unexampled Journey
OF ten days on the road, and was detained at Mex
leo three days He brings dispatches to the Secre-
| taries of State and Navy
He found the country full of instruction, rob-
berries, and murders He passed several murdered
bodies on the road. 1t was said at Mexico that
there we're only about 100000 of the 100000
ett ON hand; and when it is all exhausted, fears
are entertained OF an InsurrectiOnary spirit and
rious disturbances
But the most extraordinary intelligence which
Mr. Beale brings is about the real Ell Dorado the
gold region In California. His accounts of the ex-
traordlnary richness of the gold surface and the
excitement 1t had produced among all classes of
people, inhabitants of the country and of the towns
among seamen and soldiers are confirmed by letters
from Commodore Jones and from Mr.. Larkin the
United States naval agent at Monterey, California
MIR. Beae states that the whalers had suspended
heir operahons-the captains permitting their sea-
men to go to the gold region upon condition that
every ounce of gold the seamen obtained should be
given to the captain for $40, making six or seven
dollars by the bargain The towns were being
eVacuated-mechanics &C., going to the attractive
spot. The two newspapers had been suspended
Inc compostors going off to gather gold for them
selves. 1t Is fortunate that no such FL Dorado is
within striking distance of our Ofice-although we
nope that our worthy partner will be amply COM
pensated for leaving us alone in our glory'' for
the rich Ell Dorado gold mines of Virginia.
The danger In California is from the want of food
for the residents, and still more for the stream of
emIgrants. Would not some of our merchants find
It profitable speculation to send cargoes of bscuit
iio1r, DC, round to the Pacific coast!
This is the country which the last House of Re-
presentatlves has left without organized govern
ment-no provision made for the public lands-and
none for the collection of revenue, at time when
so much could be obtained from its increasing re-
sources.
1t is, of course, impossible for us to saw how long
tins gold fever will continue And it is still doubt
jul whether it will eventually rebound TO the ad-
vantage OF California. One effect it NAV have
viz: to invite emigrants from the United States,
oregon, DC, to fill up the country sooner.
The Union gives the last letter of Mr.. Larkin.
U. S. Naval Agent, dated Monterey, California.
July l, lS4S 1t confirms fully all the statements
made up from letters from the Rev. Mr. Cotton
We append the following extracts, presenting some
new features:
since my last letter to you written in San Francisco
found all had been rep esented to me- NY anticipation
were fully realized The part visited the south fork Of
NE rlVef American, which Joins the Sacramento Suffers
forks, branching than twenty miles from Fort Suter
washing for gold On Bear creek and Ruo creek branches
OF Feather rirer, many now beginning to work. 1t is
streams contain vast quantities of gold and that the valleys
between them are rich with the same metal.
As to the Emodus operandi'' of procuring the
gold, Mr.. Larkin, after mentioning two rough ma
chimes belonging to eight men, eighty to one hun
dred feet long, in the shape of cradle without
ends, through each of which there was daily wash
ed three fourths to one pound of gold each. He
says of the plan of others:
First with pick and shovel they clear off two of the
top earth then put In tin wooden bowl shovel of
a go INTO running water with the hand stir up the dirt and
OF emery or black sand, containing five dollars This
can De done once twice day Each day causing
now use The day left some small companies Of i've to
eight men bad machines from which they anticipate five
SIX hundred dollars day.
AS to the present and prospective product:
do not think exaggerating in estimating the amount
OF gold obtained on the rivers have mentioned thou
sand dollars day for the last few days There every rea
son to believe the will this season (unleSs the
washers are driven from their work by sicknes be any less
In this the addition of workmen joining the first
ones and the emigans from the Atlantic States we shall
have in October and December will swell the value of
Caona gold that will be washed to an unhead. of
value. Many who have the Placer" think it will
last thirty or forty should think that would aord
work two thee years many thousands of people, and
may for very many years as cannot calculate the
country having gold The working of uuicksiyer mines
like everything else, is stopped.
The Union adds: 'We have seen specimens of |
the California gold. As far as we have seen, it |
does not appear in large Jumps, such as was found
the other day in gold mine in Virginia, worth |
$3.50. Indeed, the largest piece said to have been
found does not exceed an ounce. The specimen we |
have seen is in minute pieces, very much resembling
the scales of a small fish,