Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-08-22
Sc q G From the st. Louis Republican,.
California,


California.
Weare indebted to an old friend, DIR.
v. J. # ourgeaud, for copy of the Cali.
fornia Star, Of the lst OF April. Our
citizens will recollect Dr.. Fonrgeaud as
a gentleman in good practice in this,city,
who left, with his family, wear ago, for,
California, and who has settled in San
Francisco. F'he doctor, with whose
literary turn our citizens are acquainted,
is, we observe, contributor to the co.'s
uHns of the Star, and an article on the
Prospects of California" is full ofinter-
est, Some Of the facts and suggestion
which Il contains may be hereafter trans
ferred to our columns.
The Star complains loudly of duty of
twenty per cent, adValorem, levied upon
all goods arriving in the ports OF Califor-
MIA, from any quarter Of the globe, and
hopes that the burden will be removed.
Information has been communicated to
the Star, that a large emigration from
China may soon be expected there.
Some of the '"Celestials" had already
made their appearance. . Is
California is represented to be in
pretty quiet state. For more than a year
no disorders had occurred-the native
Calitornians were beginning to ningle
with the emigrants, and we're gradually
turning their attention to agriculture.
Col. Mason, governor of California,
had issued a requisition for one thousand
volunteers, to garrison Mazatlan and
other Mexican ports in the south. Capt.
Hunt expected to raise battalion from a.
mong4h MoFtnons at the Salt Lake. Four
companies were expected from Oregon.
The rains had been abundant, and the
prospect for good crops WAS cheering
throughout the country. .a.E- ~ y
An immense mine of silver had been
discovered in the valley of San Jose, four
Iniies from the town of that name, by Mr..
). f. Reed. The vein is described as
being three and half feet thick, having
anuninterrupted RIM east for three miles,
the depth unknown. With few hours
tabor, severa! tons of ore were uncovered.
1t was fine ore, and required but little
expense in smelling.
The Star notices the death, In the N
York Regiment of volunteers, of LIST 1t.
w. C. TT mmels and I'd Lit. Charles C.
Anderson. Capt. Turner, and I'd Lierts.
Harrison, Jennings, and Day, had re.
signed. I'd 1t. Vermule was discharged
from The service.
The Star urges upon the emigrants by
all means to keep the "Old Road from
the states 10 California. Their safety
and an their property depends upon it.
Last season, all the companies arrived at
the settlements by the middle of October
The fate ofthose who have taken the
''short cuts" it is said ought to be a SOL
elan warning. "The horrible suffering
Of those who were overtaken by the win.
ter SHOWS on the California mountains
in ls46, are enough to appal the stoutest
heart, but even these were not sufficient
TO deter Mr.. Virgins, with a party Of
about eighty persons, from attempting,
last season, a new route across the coun
try to the head waters efthe Sacramento.
As no tidings of this party have as We,
reached US, we are constrained TO fear
that they have all been the victims ofthat
inhospitable climate, or of the treacher.
Gus and ferocious Indians who inhabit
that region.
The present population Of San Fran.
cisco is set down at over five hundred
souls--males (adrIts) SIS, females III,
children (ofages proper to attend sehool)
sixty. ..-.
Immense beds of copper ore. and caves
Of sulpher and saltpetre, have been found
in the vicinity Of Clear Lake, north of
the Bay of San Francisco. ,.....
A prices current gives US some idea of
the cost Ofliving in San Francisco Bacon
California, &c.; imported 25c p h.; fresh
beef, 81 p cwt.; butter, SO G. p h.; corn
ready sale at 81 so p bushel; eggs, SOC.
p doz.; -four, California, 81 p cwf.; Ore
gon, $5 %; pork, salt. imported, $I4 D
bbl.; potatoes, California, soc. p % lbs;
Oregon, 75e.; wheat, country oyerstooked,
62ic. p bushel.
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