Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-10-20
pnospER1rYI OF SAN FRANCISCO.

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PROSPERITY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
No pen can describe properly the progress
of improvement in this country. The hrs'
we hear in the morning and the last we hear
at night is the noise Of the hammer and the
saw. 1t is utterly impossible for any person
to keep pace with the onward march Of gen.
eral melioration in all things. Walk the
town of San Francisco to-day and make
memorandum of all the new houses, and
some one will follow right after and report
the erection Of new building. | came hith-
er about three months ago, and since that
time the town has more than quadrupled in
sizeA Commerce and trade of every kind
keep pace with the increase of the buildings
The streets are filed with merchandise,
while the beach is fairly covered with goods
arriving and shipping for the coast and tivers'
Real estate is cash in hand and sixty days,
but still it has continued steadily 10 advance.
Within the last two months it has risen more
than 100 per cent. There is nothing we feel
the want of so much as mint. Large
amounts Of gold dus, are daily arriving from
the mines but it is with the greatest diff
Guilty coin enough can be procured TO pay
duties and this scarcity reduces the value of
the dust 10 SIS per ounce. The harbor pre-
sents perfect forest Of masts afiording
most beautiful and lively scene. Some of
the finest ships in the world float on our wa
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THE COURTS AND THE LAWYERS.
The same writer sketches the law proceed
ings in the following paragraph:
Col. Geary, who was unanimously chosen
by the people of San Francisco District for
the responsible office of Alcalde, has entered
on the discharge of his duties in good ear
nest His court is thronged with business
day after day. Although every person ap-
pears to be making money here by attending
TO his business we cannot afford TO sacrifice
the luxury of little law. No portion of :he
community is exempt. Mechanics and ira
ders, land spectators and merchants, ship
masters and sailors-al alike indulge in the
propensity. We have some very clever
limbs of the law practising at our court, but
at the same time we have an abundance of
the most miserable sticks any portion of the
world ever witnessed A friend OF mine re-
marked few days since, that as we had no
statutes for California, that the lawyers in
troduced little from the different State sta
tutes in the Union, little from English, a
little from French, little from Dutch, and a
little from Spanish and then drew lots for
which they understood best. The acade is
no doubt bothered somewhat in the dispensa-
tion of Justice, BY the crotcheis of the law
yers. l understand that few days since he
rendered his personal responsibility to one
and held another TO answer as one gentleman
holds another; u,.in both instances his firm
ness and nerve were n little more than the
offenders of official dignity were willing to
encounter As we have no Jail, some of the
citizens have an idea of peiitionug his honor
10 hickory the fellows when they misbehave
in court.
cALiFoRN1AN's EXPERIENCE.
The following is extracted from private
letter, written 10 the New Orleans Bulletin,
by one who made tha trip in one hundred
days by the Corpus Christi route After Civ.
ing an amusing account of his adventures and
description of San Francisco, he says:
''A small 16 80 weather boarded house.
rough inside and out, has cost S2S 900, and
rents for $4,000 a year, payable in advance.
Building lots are worth from $4,000 TO SlO, 900
| pity the poor devils who have bought and
built at these prices, for in six months they
will not be able to realize one-tenth of their
outlay. Those who have come out with
goods are bound to lose money. Goods have
been shipped from all the Pacific ports, which
can always supply the country with the re.
quired provisions Our friend here gives
the story of his travel 10 the diggins, ant
then says:l The gold is not on the surface
as has been represented, but you have to dig
deep for ii, tear up the solid rock, work il
the water, and then it is all luck whether YOU
get much or none. The work is of the hard
est kind, and after trying it, may candid,
say, that | would rather drive dray or rol
boxes on the Levee, than follow it up Te
all who purpose coming out, would advise
them first to begin at daylight and carry kes:
of nails, boxes of tin, or any other heav,
packages from the sidewalk of any street ir
New Orleans, carry them into the store anc
Pile them up do not stop for breakfast, Of
lunch or liquor; at noon stop an hour ant
eat small piece of salt pork and ship,
biscuit, and then work until sundown, anc
see how you feel. If you can then find
comfortable nights sleep on the ground, un
der tree, with single blanket and million
ants running over you, and enjoy all this, yol
can then come out TO California and live 81,
months, and be able to save with good luc
at digging, from $500 to 1000 1t is al
in the luck, for where there is one who ha
made $4,000 or $4,000, there are 500 VIII
have not $500, and all doing the same labor
There is no doubt, that California is one vas
gold mine, but it requires much hard labo
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