The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-12-18

California sssepbled at the Common Council Chaubtr
last night Nothing was done however, more than to
sppcinta committee to make Investigation In regard
TO the means Of going, adopt plan OF organization,
30 which the committee are to report at another
meeting on Monday night Mr., J X. Rose mentioned
that be had New York and made inquiries,
but had not settled in his own mind upon the most
practicable mode Of going He stated that . vessel
could be purchafed there for IS 000 and II the CON-
pspy VIII CHI left Albany could raise mt
to sy for her. and the necessary outfit, could
be secured in New York by mortgaging the vessel.
route Of emigration will doubtless be rsporte BY the
committee at the next meeting. Mr. RomeyD, OF Ul-
ster made some remarks appropriate TO the enterprise
Some gentlemen Of this city, who went to New York
to secure passage for small compsny returned Yes
terdsy and report that the rush Mt the ste
Office Tor convey ancs was over whelmipg 1t
that persons having paid for passage "a ia Ont
their berhs for lJ0 per cent premir for ,n.,sncs
in one case, man who bad psa $500 for his passage
rosu o% d. ,Us S,vuo frar win meet with
'oio snat the sgsats Of the steamers for Chagrss
10 In aot guaranty an immediate passage beyond the
us IN nat case, there may be thousands con
R,tea'eo at Panama unable TO OBTAIN passage to st
r,isco for long time, and be under the necessity
Vi remaining at that point they know not how long,
on. Many people, who In their enthusiasm, do not
stop to enquire how they will get on fart ler II they
can only procure passage to the lsthmus should
Expedite ms for California organizing at Boston,
Plymouth, Salem, Newburyport Providence, Bristol,
Hartford, Windsor New Haven, Albany. Buf,lo,
Bros kyp, Troy, New York, Newark, Philadsl phia,
Pitts ourgh Baltimore Washington aud New Orleans.
Evety village IN the north and west has it's asprs
who eagerly await the first chance of emie rating to
the promise d land The emigration to the terri
tories only limited by its present cost t Is per-
hsps fortunate that there is this regustsr to the
ieh uDeasinese of the public
The Syracuse Jo mnal says, that the "gold manis''
mailing considerable progress in that city 1t will,
doubtless, carry of many victims
From the lntelligencer
The Mormons in California have laid claim to large
portion of the gold territory and demand thirty per
cent Of the taken thererom An express has been
rent to the Salt Lake settlement where about 10 600
ich mines having been discovered that region The
hrty per cent demanded by the Mormons Is expected
to lesott trouble.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec 1911
Washington letter men tons rumor, that the 60
verpment. in cabinet council, Saturday last cided
to nd i'm diately number Of small vessels of
brigs nd schoopere to enforce embargo upon all
merchant vessels going into the harbors OF Monterey,
San Francisco and other ports the coast Of Cafor
hoard for transportation part or parcel OF the
gold dug from the public lands mines the Sa-
crsmento other parts of the gold region in Alta Ca
lf0 mia. This decision has been Ia, doubtless to
prevent European vessels, well AZ those OF South
America irom transporting vast utties of the gold
to be coined in foreign minis, without paying the
rehtfu tax or centage to the government Of the
United States.
From the Louisville Journal, Dec. IL
As has be en- stated already the steamship McKim Is
to leave New Orleans the goth for California The
McKim has proved hersefa very ne sea vessel.
We lear from the Vincennes Gazetfethat Rev. Isaac
Owen, and p. Hester, of Bloomington, Ipd ais.
ing company TO start for Oregon and California
next spring.