Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1845-1851, 1848-12-28
COMMUNICATIONS.
California.

MrsRs EDIroR,rhc follow ing passage from Prescots
Conquest Of Peru exhibits wildly The sufeg' and dis
appointment attendant the rush Of Innings alton to the
" Land Of Gala that it would be well for those
have caught the mania Of the preser crusade to California
examine reflect and well the cost before turning
their faces 10 hls new ~ Dorado
Far better in opinion, would il be for country if
these golden streams Of wealth bad flowed into the Golfers of
The Spanish lidaSa or The Mexican Don With them gold
has wrought work ldleness mpiovidence crime,
and poverty, have followed the golden Of Charles aud
Philip OF Spain Where now are the millions paid for nca's
Piano Where the hundi eds OF millions
sent by The cary governors Of Peru to he mother country
The Spanatd has not; his poverty ha, become
Spain has 'eogsdd in ali that pertains to national
pe'y; aud wh let me ak does not ascibe il 10 he album
dan supply Of gold anj silver derived from her Colonies But
To the exti'c he,e It
The splendid promises held by Francis Pizarro his
recent visit T. This county, had revived the confidence
h'' de "oedulou' by 'ereaed dIsappo'nt
izcd- was no longer the golden reports that they we've to
trust bat The gold Itself which dspl'ye such profu-
'on before them. AL eyes wee now TUNED towards the
The broken .perdth,ift it, quarter
repair hi' fortunes speedily he ID ruined them.
The merchant inst al Of seeking the precious COMMODITIES
OF the looked The opposite decou aud counted
at higher gains here the common articles of life
manded exoibiant prices The cavalier eager 10 win
both goi and goy at The point Of his lance thought find
fa field io his rIowess on The mountain plains Of the
Andes
time that cavalier (Hernando Pizarro) saw
himself al the head Of one OF the and well
pointed obably that had left The shores Spain
great fleet of in the lime Of Ferdinand and
Isabella. III was scarcely more fortunate than MS
Hardly had Hernando put when viot tempest
fell the squad and compelled him tn and
Iei Al length lac crossed the ocean, and reached the te
haib0r Of Nomb'e de DN. safety. But prepaal
had been made fr his coming and he detained
time before he could The mountains his company
suffered greatly from scarcity Of food IL their extremity
huesome articles geedily evou,ed. and
many cavalier spent his little savings procure himself
able subsistence Disease usual tIOd closely
track OF famine and numbers OF The unfortunate adventures
sinking under the uraccusomcd heat of the climate per-
ishcd the very theshhOld Of discovery Ii tale
often repeated in the history Of Spanish enterprise.
4 few, mole lucky than the rest stumbled X
peoted pze, and hundeds, attracted by their
forward in The path But the spoil ,thich tau
the surface has az, eddy been sep array, and those cho fol-
iO,r TO wi their treasure by long protracted and painful
eIeyioas Broken in sp and in fortune. while others
man,d where they IN die ia despair They thought
dig for gold but they dug only their graves."
Such leaf from the history Of Peu and the Anglo
SiXons enduring their yscal nature. than
the aniaids Of the sixteenth century Read the whiting,
of Prescott and judge How the bundled thousand
giants whom imagine will reach California BY June
subi>i How many of these will realize that dream OF
wealth which ,educed them ,om their homes would
make untsin Of molchills. but great uncertainty
tends the present aej expectations Of riches CALI
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