The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-12-03

We are indebted to friend in this city for the follow
ing beautiful extract from letter he has Just received
from Monterey, in Alta California September 10th,
Zone OF the latest date from that country He states
the most extraordinary facts in the most brilliant Ian
guage II would seem as if the Arabian nights had been
revived and the lamp of Aladdin were placed in our
hands
Extract
"The citizens Of California very anxious the es-
Enlistment of Branch Mint in the Territory. There 10
very itle coined money in the country; aud the
quence is they obliged soil their grain gold at ruin
sacrifice The house duties all eluircd TO
be paid in coin, and this absorbs the little that still remains
in circulation. The people obliged their grain
gold around in their bbs of their pocket handker
chiefs, and in goose-qus, for change They want u s.
mint and have held many public meetings on the SUBJECT
calculated that two millions Of dollars are taken
out OF the mines in grain gold per month"; and this sum VIII
be more than quadruped another This grain gold
is shipped of in large quantities to Mexco Chilli and
Peru where will be coined ande the insignia oil those
republics and lost the metallic basis OF own circu-
atng medium This gold can be secured own cur
ency only by mint Such institution will bring this
grain gold its intrinsic value, and sustain it there,
and the emgrants who get out OF the earth
from the hands of sPecuators. 1t will do more to
cherish and sustain emigration than the appropriation OF
millions for ordinary purposes and will at the same time
swell immensely the aggregate OF our national coin.
Ths head OF the emigrant column for the year has al
ready reached California they will pour themselves in
mass into the mines There will also be large emigration
from Oregon and also from the Sandwich Islands; and
there will be heavy tide the Ishmus the
steamers their destined track When the wealth Of
these gold mines Is really known and believed in the United
States, there will not be Wagons and enough,
a can be spared, TO bring the elgants here You
now all Dcreduous; you regard statements as the
dreams Of an excited imagination; but what you
mere fiction, is stern reality it Is gold In the
clouds or in the or in the of rock-rbbed
tain but in tho soil OF Misunderstanding the and
glering in its II lies the open plain In the
shadows of the deep ravine, and CLOVIS the SUBMITS
of the mountains, which have lifted for ages their golden
coronets TO heaven.
"As evidence of the facility with which IL is pro
cured let OF two facts suffice. Every sailor that
ships from port in California gets his fifty dollars per
month and hut very few be procured these wages
An offer of one hundred dollars per month would be
ected by nneenhs Of those eng aged in the mines.
They consider their labor there good for thirty dollars day.
and often realizes them Even the poor Indian,
when you talk OF hiring him, shakes his bag of gold in
eyes The consequences is have hired laborers
no servants; every man must black his boots This
is practical denocracy-no theory-no talking about
equay all on level by that great law of crcum
stances, which one surmount The rounds of your
ladder it true, of gold your neighbours ladder
runs just as high
"We are proud of this mine--s vast extent and rich
throws all other mines into the shade 1t makes the
fifteen twenty millions paid Mexico feather in the
opposite scae and reduces the expenses of the
a NOMINAL fraction"
What extraordinary spectacle is this How for
tunate countrymen Here are hordes of the
most precious metal which has slept for ages in the
bowels OF the EARTH They deed all the sagacity of the
Spaniards famous they for discovering in their
most secret recesses the treasures of the earth But no
do they belong u.s. than some fortunate acct
dent reveals enerprsing countrymen the secrets
Of ages!