The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-01-31

W: are indeed, comparatively speaking, .ninfscted,
In tins country Jet It might bs unsafe to take for
sranso mat many qaeeks win not dad Some patients,
ana tnss the daily administration Of indsmmatsry s
FORE do We warn al those Of our Who have
tedious but pursuits Of regular and honest in
dustry snd rush into schsmss Of which, thew really
oonpsuou low s.nsss os sSs
msroial caution and good sense Of the community We
know but little Of the gold di.trict Of California
but We know enough Of the great unaterabie laws OF
commerce. sndenough Of the history Of all FL Dorados
from the beginning Of the world to predict that cruel
be rich leaves them leisure to count costs There
10 nothing really new In this Californian affair. We
have had II all before, and again and We
know just ~ well what FL Dorado ends In, as We
know ct what O'Clock the sun will rise to- morrow
morning. We have had two Of them already. In our
1isionaiy rssistsrsd' railway bubbles and he that
runs may read. As regards this particular Cali
fornisn FL Dorado, any man with an atom Of COM
surs in Which Ii. dup.s Of their p own greed
without government without magistracy, without law,
except that Of the bowiek nfs and REMOVING pistol;
country TO which oil the buc.nsering advsntursrs OF
two hemspheres are rushing, In armed swarms, each
fearing to be behind the other country in which all
the necsssares Of life run up by the combined In
huences Of scarcity and social insecurity to exor
bitsnt and fabulous prise-suoh . country will not
only be perfect pandemonum Of all tho passions but
what more germane to our present purpose) 1t will
be sngularly dcult and do ngerous place for making
money or course, . day will come when the rightful
owners Of the Californian gold district will assert their
proprietary title and send sufficient military po
lice force to stop the scramble but let be
ed whenever that day comes there 10 end Of the
Dorado In the meanwhile, Californian emigration
simply gambiDg-with the chance Of being wrecked
starved, robbed, or murdered. Why 10 SO far, when
dice are to be had at home?
On the whole, although We have never happened to
see and handle any Of that Californian gold, and
although II 10 most voraby spoken Of by the asssyers
We unhssitatinsly tell readers that 1t is not BY
many degrees, 20 free from alloy the New York
sspans would have us think. And We earnestly en-
trset suoh Of our countrymsn as feel the remotest
inolinston to take voyage of 1000 miles with the
view Of trying their luck in scramble which my be
all over by the way before they reach their journeys
AK not so ssS: starting
secondly, 1t quite certain that there not very
good gold mines at home that will handsomely pay the
working!
From the Liverpool Mail, Jan. l3]
Gold 1t isthe God Of this world. Only whisper the
word and its worshippers fall down on thsir knees
ns b. sss
CaliforD!a That q tn. newest "soath Sc.
in buckets. full for the gathering there It 10 stre.sd
thick Is the leaves in vsllambres.:" Mr.. Jonathan
bly, cute tradesmen Of these times He wants money,
but he scorns the idea Of picking It up, which act Of
picking, perhaps, he would consider fraud upon the
public fprt and patriotism Of this republican He,
therefore, in fsrvsnt spirit Of true munhcenee, in
vites the citizens Of the world to gather 1t for them
selves GO to California he says, there is gold %
The eyes of the dolators gistsn-ths gus ZAP their
wngs-and It is well they gus, for large portion
Of the imaginary gold district Of California Is six
months Of the year under water. But 60 they will
without any mistake with their pickaxes and melting
potts. and If they only find copper instead Of gold, or
be accomplished. He will relieve New York Of few
thousand reckless Adventures, whom his Mexican war
enursrs rom this or other and he vii pro-
cure settlers and inhabitants sufficient for his purpose
We do not believe that srosseI mposture has been
Carque Of Poy ais sold, ia this country land he never
possessed and never eaw. They tell US that silver
INN buy s III s0a and
these things only fools who II it not sin,
when Mr. Canning called the new world into exist
encs to redress the wrongs ofthe old" snd when
British machinery and Britain ski the silver mines Of
South America. That was the CALIFORNIA; Of 1924. The
late Mr. Hushisson, always Utopisn, though ct the
best very dull map, Inspired by this grand APP
plicstion Of British capital and mechanical power that
he predicted that so supersbundant silver would be-
land would before two three years, have instead Of
IRON or steel OF brass, silver fender and re-irons In
We need mot say that this lucid prediction hes not
yet been fulfilled The ardent sdventurers instead Of
gaining silver tenders and silver reirons, only burnt
stu survive can testify So will 1t be with California
and Its gold.
Iron the Liverpool Msrcury]
TO those who are not old enough to recoleot the
mining mania Of 1924 and 1925, and who may be al
lured By the very promsing pro.psctusss which Ca
fornis mining companies have already begun to cir
epste We should recommend the psruss Of the article
Mining Companies" in M'Cunech's Commercial Die.
tionary They win there ind full and detailed expo.
siton Of the dire results Of an infatuaton hardly
second to that which led to the South Sea and Mis-
sissppi schemes" ills to be hoped that Englishmen
warned BY the lessons Of bitter experience will not
on any large scale repeat the madness Of epoch
AiaRyo I'M In ~t~u
Of the gambling spirit will now, % then, doubtless
eausc the ruin Of race gulls But may at least
indulge the expectation that the evil ON the present
occasion may be mtigsted, and that the fastening
be rich may not make 80 very many poor as did the
Real del Monte, Anglo Mexican, United Mexican, and
Even were the geld region in California oil that fancy
paints 1t the expense Of distant the SEMI
bsrbsrous condition Of the inhabtsns the absenoe Of
setted government and tho high price Of labor would
render the investment Of capital In any mine mines
be there worked the most Of experiments
lis related BY Chevaer that the Real del Monte Com
psny required armed forces for the transportation
the ore from the mne to its place Of destination and
Of bsnditu A share in this company stock which
formerly brought $50 lbs may be purchased for
the very moderate sum Of Ave shillings.
The capitalist GLASSES, however, not the only
parties who need to be warned against the rsks Of Ca
iifornis II is fearful to contemplate the sufsrings
just scrsps together soo to csrry tbsm to the Vs.v
Of the Sacramento The bones Of Thousands OF these
deluded creatures are doomed to mix with the gold
dust OF the plains Already there more deaths than
burias amon the gold finders and murder and rspine
Diversity the process of requirement The gold fever in
California may this year number many victimes %
the cholera. To all, We say-Bewaee!
From the Southampton Independent, Jan. 161
BY the latest advices from America 1t appears that
the long soughtfor FL Dorado the golden country,
has been at length discovered though not In the
geographical position In which Sir Walter Raleigh sup
posed to be situated He and the Spanisrds Of his
day believed the land Of gold to exist in the centre
OF South America, somewhere between the Oronoco
and Amazon rivers; but II reserved for his des
cendants Of the Anglo Saxon race to discover that
this region lay much farther north and west
on the shores Of the great Pacific Ocean:
Now what We have most to do with, In rejecting on
this extraordinary discovery, is to consider what will
Its effect be upon own commerce. IL the reports
We receive not sxsggerstiens, expect the dis
covery Of the Californian gold TO produce great
revolution In the monetary Affairs of the world did
the conquest OF Mexico and Peru in the 10th century
In the fret instance, merchants sure to reap
plentiful harvest In that au AFTER by the Tor