The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-11-17
California News.
By the Steamship Empire City.


tiers from California, from which we CLEAN
= few more items of news OF interest.
We copy from the Tribune, Sun and
Herald:
MACH Fallon, formerly keeper ofthe
N. Y. Tombs, is Chief OF Police in San
Francisco. There are about 10 police
men. and # robbery OF the most petty
kind occurs, the perpetra,or is tried sem
fenced and hung within one week, be
cause it is too expensive to board prison.
ers.
Law and order are more strictly obser
we'd in San Francisco than in New York.
One or two executions Tor robbery have
ia'e'y taken place. An open trunk might
De left IN the street over night, and not
a thing would be touched. Dysentery
prevails to a great extent in San Francis
CO, owing to the bad quality OF the wa
ter. The water which the ships bring
is carefully preserved and used, it being
superior 10 any on shore.
The surveying and levelling ofthe
city has commenced. Laborers get 81
per day, equal to 81 at home.
Rents continue 10 be enormous. Al
though houses, or rather shant'es, are GO
ing up rapidly every day, still the de-
mand increases faster.
Board is also very high. varying from
SO to IS per day. Lodging 50 to 81
per night, in hunks, steamboat fashion
Good board and lodging may be had in
tents for s25 per week; in shtas, from
$50 to $50 pei week A single meaI
consisting of roast beef and bread, with a
cup of coffee, costs 81. Everybody in
the place seems busy, though in reality
there ale at least 10000 persons constant
" loafing in id;eness around the hotel.
and wharves.
The first daily paper, called the sCa1.
,fornia Daily SUM-" is shortly to be issued
-Messrs. Moore..and Ormison, formerly
assistant forerlen in the New York Sur
establishment. are The proprietors. They
took out with them in the Apollo all the
materials for large printing concern
One of Hoes FIST pres,e' & a steam engine
will probably be sent out to them before
long.
Mr.. A P. Dodge of New York wa
drowned while bathing in the Sacramen
10 river on the 25th of July last. lie
was buried at Suffers Fort.
Granville s. Oldfeld Jr. Of Baltimore
has been appointed BY King of Sandwich
Islands, the Hawaiian Vice Consul al
San Francisco.
We see that former Washington cor.
respondent, Mr.. Howe, who's chief clerk
Of the State Convention got SIS per day
as his pay,
J. Nj. Crane Esq. who Went out in the
Empire City, to establish paper a, Sar
Francisco, crossed The isthmus and expee
ted to take the Oregon on her return
trip.
Col. D. B. Crockett, formerly of New.
ark N. ]. was keeping an eating house
in San Francisco, paying $3.50 per month
rent, and the two brothers Ford kept sim
lar houses at some $500 per month
rent.
San Francisco (says correspondent o
the Newark Advertiscr,) is a miserable
place 10 live in; the gambling houses gel
the most OF the miners gold They are
numerous and are open ni-ht and day
being specially crowded on Sundays, anc
the gambling is almost universal. 1t is
not an uncommon thing to see Spanish
woman betting 70 to 100 ounces on a
single card. The statements of various
writers making Paradise Of this country
is very rich joke. If one gets sick
here, it seems impossible to get well
there are many sick with the fever ant
egue and with felons on their heads, and
The price Of a doctors visit Gin the mines
is 9 ounces-S32. There are few
wells of braclsish Wafer in the place
which is sold at 9 cents per gallon. Pro-
visions by the whole sale are nearly as
cheap here as IN the States, but in the
mines are uncommonly high.-Chris.
Lilly, the man who killed Mccoy, is here
keeping Monte table and a house OF il
fame.
Many persons have made large for
tunes by buying up lots at lucky time
and selling them still more luckily A
case was told me of young man who
last Fall borrowed money enough to pay
his passage from the Sandwich Islands tc
San Francisco. and who is now on his
way home with $4,000 made in thi:
manner. Three or four gentlemen wh'
came up in the Panama have alread.
made $50 900 by similar operations. A
friend of mine who shipped lumber from
New York 10 the amount OF 5 900 sole
it here for $4,000 Houses which cos
$500 sell readily for $4,000. and the de
mand IS constantly increasing. At leas
IS houses have been imported from Can
ton, and are put up by Chinese carpen
tiers. Nearly all the chairs in prlvat,
families are OF Chinese manufacture, ant
there are two restaurants in The towr
kept by Kong-sung and Whang-tong
where very palpable chow-chow, curr,
and tartS are served up by the celes