Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-12-28
From the Boston Daily Advertiser
PROSPECTIVE HISTORY OF
CALIFORNIA.


lS4S.-The valley of the Sacramento is
discovered to be the real and long sought
FL Dorado.
IS49.-Forty thousand immigrants move
into California from the United States, Eu-
rope, Mexico and Kamschatka. Notwith-
standing their different origin, great ma
ority of them are found to belong to the
same variety of the human race, known to
naturalists by the name of Outlaws and
Throatcutters. Much distress caused in
the Gold region from over-population, with
its sequels, famine and pestilence. Some
relief obtained by the process of thinning
out with dirks and pistols.
IS50.-Californi becomes State, and
instructs its Senators in Congress TO vote
for specie currency and increase of mile
age. The legislature adopt the domestic
institution of slavery, OIL the principle of
the unquestioned right of the strongest to
make the weakest dig for them In pro-
portion as the sands are washed, the people
are unwashed and crimes whltewashed. Nu-
merous Yankee peders arrive this year with
new invented gold traps of various forms,
which are observed to work better in their
hands, than in other peoples. Sperm oil
and whisky continue to rise in value, ploughs
and harpoons are at discount.
IS5I.-In consequence of the great i'm
portation of Yankee notions into Califor-
MIA, most of the gold collected finds its
way to New York and Boston. To correct
this evil, Congress pass an act laying a pro-
hibtory duty, in all Pacific ports, on Amer
lean manufactures and admitting free those
e e.
groes are at discount, and are found to
consume more gold than they dig.
IS52.-The President in his message
states that if the public lands are properly
looked after, the proceeds in gold will pay
the public debt and the whole expenses of
government, and recommends measures to
be taken in the premises. Congress vote
to lease the lands for ten per cent. of the
proceeds, to repeal all laws for the coec-
ton of taxes and revenue in the United
States, and to send out 500 surveyors, sher-
ifs and sub-treasurers to collect and pre-
serve the government property. This meas
IRE excites dissatisfaction among ,ho Cali
fornians, who hang twenty of the surveyors
upon trees, and tar and feather the remain
der. The legislature at st. Francisco pub
lush declaration of state rights, and multi
fy the proceedings of Congress.
lS53.-A motion in Congress, to give
the public lands to the states in which they
are situated, is lost by the votes of all the
states east of the Rocky mountains. Gov
eminent determine on vigorous measures,
and send out force of 5000 soldiers by
the way Of Sal. lake, and 5000 more o. the
isthmus of Panama, to quell the insurrec-
tlonary movements. These troops meet at
the Rio de los Plumos, fraternize and go to
digging.
1S54.-A labor-saving process is intro
duced into California, called tranSpocketing
by which the original diggers are picked of
with rifles as they emerge from the woods,
and their valuable burdens transferred to
newer and stronger pockets. This process
expedites the forwarding of the precious
metals out of the country. A brisk demand
exists this year for whiskey and firearms.
Several new dis,illeries are set up in Ore
gon, and mandatory at Hadley Falls of
Colts revolvers and double-barrelled rifles.
lS55-Californ declares itself indepen-
dent of the United States, proclaims liberty,
fraternity and communism, votes to license
the slave trade, to annex Oregon, to con-
quer China, to absorb Mexico and repudi-
ate the rest of the world. The country is
convulsed with an electioneering struggle
between the presidential candidates, Gen
Lynch and Gen. Clinch. the former being
!, the candidate of the law and order party
: the latter advocating the principle of the
summary acquisition Of property. Aitei
much brawling and bloodshed, third par
ty appear in the field, called the Gold soil
party, who sweep the state with their prn
ciples, and the struggle ends in the trium
plant election Of General Anarchy.