The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-04-20
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA
From an occasional Correspondent
SAN FRANcIsoo. Frb 10. I8Al

GAN rhANClSCO, Fen. ~, 1898.
Ed'trs Picayune.--I arrived here on board the
Ohio Ang ship yesterday, twenty-eight days
from San Bias, a noble shi , a nnble crew and
a very gentlemaply sci Of %oAieers.
The accounts from the gold regions are both
favorable and uufavorahle. The whole region
has been since November about two feet under
snow, III real I'D ,ado' has not consequent
ly been found, though it is expected to be
stumbled upon every moment. The supplies
Of ever, thing are abundant, indeed it does not
require much to supply the wants Of 10000 or
$4,000 men, the most that can now be concen-
trated in the valley of the Sacramento. A
considerable quantity of gold has been found in
the %raVines OF the Sierra Nevada. II has been
picked up, and now that the people hav to dig
for it, they begin to back out. There is good
deal romance in all you hear from Californ-
ia. and to explain the whole story;
The valley of the Sacramento has been
claimed by twenty-eight individuals, who have
run out the lands upon imaginary lines based
upon the grants obtained from Gov. MichelOr-
ma, since the war ended. These lands can
not be worth anything without population, and
the bubble OF the gold region has been got up
more to attract attention and draw Immigrants
on this side Of the Rocky Mountains than for
any other purpose. There have been many
d~eserrers from the army and navy, who, led a.
way with the prospect of making a fortune,
have found "the elephant" and have written in,
/ wishing to compound matters and return to
duty, This has been refused them, and the
result has been that not less than a dozen have
been hung up between heaven and earth for
robberies and assassinati0ns Thus you have
the Dorado Of California, or a picture OF 1t,
Since | have gone so tar, | will tell you one
which | think will cap any thing you heard of
during the war, not excepting the elephant.
A doosier purchased in tins place a few days
ago S. worth Of PITS and needles, he carried
them to SUFFERS Fort, and there sold 500 dol
lars worth, and wrote back to a friend that he
had 1000 worth on hand still.
Gov. La passed through The city a short
time ago IN his wa, TO Oregon. The Malech
Adel mas JUS, anchored, eight DAYS IRON Column
bia river. She reports that the Governor had
arrived, and that all was quiet in the country
The gold dlggins, as they are called by Jack,
are pretty much like the game "headS ! win,
tails you lose" If q man finds an ounce OF
GOLD hunger obIiges him to give it fora morsel
to eat, so, as one told me the other day, there
is no gaining any thing
There is nothing like civil governmental there
nor do | believe there is a man of sober thought
IN all California, to form a code of avs Eve-
.ry body does ae he %pleases and Gen. Smith,
viii have a pretty time of it to put Things to
rights now. By this time California ought to
be a territoryF and a civil governor appointed.
believe have given YOU all the news Of the
day. | shall myself return to MazatIan very
shortly, and | hope to the United States. | am
tired Of being tossed about.
Midshipman Beale, who left Washington
with the duplicate dispatches brought out by
me, has not arrived, nor has he been heard
from. He may be blocked up in the snow in
the Sierra Madrc. (At last aCcounts, Lieut..
BeaIe had reached Santa Fe In safety, and was
on his way to California by Col. Cookies
routeO have heard much Of the climate Of
California, but never tried it. AT the present
time it is cold, rainy and disagfeeable-noth-
ing like the Mexican SIX !, and Il posst Bile more
chanpeable than IN the U. States, in the same
latitude. THIS hey say mas been an extraordi-
nary year. \ urs' &C.