The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-04-11

ia nirunks, boxes, and on the person Of IFS own
ers, to Oregon, Valparaiso Sydney, N. S. W.,
Sandwich Islands, the United States, England,
&C., &C., to save freight. Several lots ot $2o,-
600 each, had gone off in this way. $1,000.
600 was scattered over California, in large and
small parties, miners, &C., that had not been
sent down to San Francisco. This Mr.. Suwer.
krop assured us, was very moderate calcuIa
ton. 1t was made with The greatest care IN
order not to deceive the public.
WOMEN AND MATRIMONY IN CALI.
A letter dated San Francisco, July %, written
by lady to her friend in Massachusetts, says:
Since my husband went to the gold region
houses have become vacant in all parts OF
the village. and tie entire male population has
| left us. The women have been obliged, IN
the absence Of The males. TO congregate togeth.
| or in large numbers in the large houses, and
living together and do their own cooking. NC.
| an now living or as we call it messing with
company Of fourteen. The experience Of
the world, men have said showed that women
coull not live together without quarrels and
,urmoils, but our sisterhood at this time, gives
plain contradiction to this slander upon our
sex. When not intertered with by men, and
when permitted TO drink our cup of tea "under
our own vine and fig trce," we arc as quiet and
as peaccahle as lambs.
The demand for marriageable women seems
to he as great as for goods. This is the only
country in the world where women are proper.
" appreciated. The proportion OF males IN
the territory is five 10 one of females, and lhe
| labor of females is as much needed in cooking,
at the gold region, as the males. There have
been more marriages the last few months than
in ten years previous in this country. ne
soaws before they will 60 to the gold region
make efforts to get white husbands, which they
soon obtain in the present state OF AFFAIRS
Father Manaque the Catholic priest, has inform.
ed me that last month he married one hundred
anlten white men 10 squaws. The consequence
i, ,ha, the poor Indians will soon be left without
any class of females from which they can
choose-as certainly no white woman OF what
ever condition in society will marry an lndlan'
when she can readily marry a white man Of
some wealth and prominence. Some ol Inc
most ugly and slovenly servants here marry
traders, who have accumulated fortunes IN
few weeks. A woman who comes here with
one tooth in her head has great capital 10 be.
Gin on in the matrimonial line; and have
thought if a cargo Of girls were shipped from
Lowell here it would turn out a great spccula
ton to some en,erprisi6g Yankee. by all
means induce Peggy to come here by the first
vessel. Ugly as she looks she would be read'-
" taken by some enterprsing trader IN the
present brisk state o! the market.
|
COL. Webs CALIFORNIA COMPANY.
In our paper of Wednesday, we published
from the New Orleans Picdyune, an account
Of the progress Of this body of men, on their
route TO California via Brassos and the Rio
Grande. and the melancholy statement that the
Cholera had a,saGkssfd M Gbksf4 Them causing the eea!h OF
We had Yesterday an interview with Mr..
Graham, one Of the gentlemen who returned.
and passed through here on his way to New
York.
He gives us a most melancholy picture OF
! The state Of affairs at the time he left. The
| Cholera broke out when the party were en-.
camped at Davis rancho, about $50 miles above
the mouth Of the Rio Grande, and three men
died that night. On the following day, took
boat Tor point 35 miles higher up, two died
before 5 o'clock, and number were taken
sick.
Col. Webb, the commander, left the encamp.
men,,or the purpose, it was stated, OF purchasing
mules or horses for the party, taking with him
the principal physician, and leaving MIR. AUDI.
hon in command Of the men, 96 in number.
This conduct of Col. Webb created great dis
satisfaction among the members Of the Compa.
NJ, and great number Of them concluded to
abandon the party.
When our informant-who was among those
that re,urned-lef, ten had died, and there was
some twenty sick. Mr.. Audubon, who was
much beloved by every member of the de,ach.
ment. did everything in his power to alleviate
The sufferings of the sick. Fearless oflhc dis.
ease, he was continually at the bedside Of the
patients, soothing the dying. and administering
such relief 10 the sick as circumstances per-
United.
The loss of the money in the possession Of
Mr.. Audubon annoyed him much. The great.
or portion of the amount was Joint stock iund
some OF it was the private property of indi-
viduals who had placed their funds in his hands
for safe keeping, he being the business man OF
the detachment. .i ~
Mr.. Graham gives most deplorabe accounts
oflhe progress Of the Cholera along both hanks
Of the Rio Grande. The boat, on which he
came down, lost in three days her pilot, clerk.
bar keeper, carpenter, and one hand. At
Brownsville and Matamoras it was awfully de.
structive, the in,ermen's from this dsr"se shew-
ing an alarming per centage OIL the population.
4 letter in The New Orleans Picayunc, dated
Brassos, March "a, says:
81 have been to Brownsville, where | found
most of the stores closed in consequence the
people having left, fearing the cholera. Mata-
moras is most awfully afflicted with this malady.
| was there three times and could not see