The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-11-12
The News from Cali 10 rnln.

The steamship Empire City, with the mails
gold dust, AID passengers, from the Oregon at
Panama, brings int lligence from California down
to the fret OF October.
The news is OF the most interesting complexion,
and OF the highest Importance. Gold and politics,
law end ORDER preaching. gambling. and specula-
ton, all prosper together American enterprise,
overcoming all obstacles. and capable to meet all
demands, is cleaning out the mines, laying out
cities, specializing ia town lots, buiIdag churches
ard school houses. and State constitution, all at
the same time. They are over head and ears 10
gold dust, politics, aud religion. and are begin
ming to transact considering the scarcity OF Ia
dies) a smart business in the way OF murimony;
as il the thousands and tens OF thousanls OF emil
grants by land and water, did not all up the terri
tory fact enough.
But, II .mgrants coming by ship loads and
caravans, they are also removing in considerable
numbers. The steamers returning 10 Panam, are
a. full as those going out The Oregon brought
down three hundred; aud the passage tickets are
in the same demand al San Francisco az in New
YoIk, commanding, NJ this time, even higher
premium on the Pacific eide. No doubt, vast
number of young men have gone out TO be disap-
pointed, from incapacty TO stand the hard labor Of
the mines and the hard clma,e. /, is only that
class who can endure hard work in the sun, rain
aud water, aud The toughest fare and usage, who
can suck it out at the diggins." Such men, IL
appears, may still ave gc''an ounce" day; and,
ulon the whole, the gold, though not quite NJ
abundant ever, does not appear TO be very sen-
.ibly diminished. Some curious specimens of the
raw material have been found, one piece a good
likeness Of bulls head. horns and all, of pure
gold aud another, among the specimens in the
possession Of a passenger by the steamer, Mr.
Eaton, (half an ounce) a very good figure Of fish
with one eye. lie wears this curiosity breast
PIN.
From our correspondence, there is reason to ap.
prthsnd that the sui.eungs Of the westward eni.
grants have been very severe. Baggage nj lug
gage wagons--a world Of wealth--have been sbtn.
con,d from necessity aud, with the carcasses Of
dead eatile aud mults strew the trail through the
mountains and deserts, for hundreds Of mics.
But fer the half way settlement vt the Mornons,
on the salt Lake, and their surplus of provisions,
thousands Of the emigranis ~oald, IN all prob L.
biity, have perished, who are now sale Cor the
winter. among the saints Of the New Jerus lem.
A body Of men. however, Of perhaps not less than
twenty thousand. had pushed forward iniO the
Grca, Desert basin. A few straeglers had crossed
il aud the range Of the Sierra Nevada int1 the
sscrsm,nto valley bu, the main army was stu
behind There was some anxiety for their safety,
al he mines; ard there issreason to lear thlt our
neat arrival " III tring VS. Intelligence ~ gloomy
end oisasifous character, notwithstanding some oil
the late California opinions To- the contrary
a very criiuus EatGre of ,he news IS that "icn
relates to the Chinese sdyCniurtrs to toe god