The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-10-15
AFFAIRS IN CALIFORNIA.
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OUR GOLDEN CORRESPONDENCE
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suferings Of the Emigrants,
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THE PROSPECTS OF TIE GOLD DIGGRRs,
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AFFAIRS IN CALIFORNIA
THE PROSPECTS OF THE GOLD DIsGRRs.
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Our California, Correspondence.

Saw FRANCISCO, August s. 1919
Trip Of the Manhattan Company The Cold bgnes-71-
Overland Passsse through Meaieo Terrible Sufeyines
of the Psvy-Seareity Of Provisions Supper Of Rattle
snakes snd Toads, &c, &c
arrived here last week after long and severe Jour
nsy party ofus sixty in number, left Vera Cruz on
the l24th Of February but that number did not con
tnus together but for . week, found out ths,
such large party could not get accommodations verv
well on the road Fifteen and myself withdrew from
the divisions and styled ourselves the "Independsu.
Enterprise Division" We travelled through withou.
being molested in any manner whatever
When arrived at Mszatlan we took pas,age In the
schooner Dolphin Captain Winslov for which We paid
siItynve dollars head We sailed the 23d OF Asril
and when three days out, We discovered that
we running up the Gulf OF Californis and soon
after we running down We then put out to sea
and for ten days, when OF the passengers
said that the water getting short We then sp
pointed three persons TO examine the water msks
report, which they dill they said there was twenty
days water at quart per day for each which
We thought we could get along with. We then con
tinued on way for fifteen ssys when discovered
that the provisions also out We had meet
ing called the object being to mark out course to
pursue Several proposals. made aud oue t.
come down 10 pint of water per day adopted ans
another for the captain to the main land wa.
could not make landing ~ the breakers high
We continued up the coast for four days longer We
then called meeting IN the cabin and on motion OF
J. u. Mhitcombe ~ received that all the pssseB
gers sho we're able should shore and walk Up o.
san Diego aud leave the water Tor those who stopped
beard GO work the vessel 70 san Diego where the
tain va 20 wait until their arrival The following gea
uemen landed -
Charles Kher, }. B; wliteombe. r. C. wlHssoa, Andrew
. X. .sri 'Ea tro,h,r 4 La.s NJ Gre,n andrew wifa
soodey' :. nsrie, MT. layton smite spd brothsr NJ
kli p 5 2; Sr.sgi VII Cay w. G,<9 s.i':
rrihsu,, Nj johnson, Mr., nsCaliy, M seciasoly NJ
Brisg, Mr. sssniicrt Mr. Gould Mt Montgomery, william
1wen,y.one stopped ON board making 90 In all
Ina the afternoon Of The 29th o. Msy in latitude % o.
we msde landings and at O'Clock We were on the
beach We moved over the sandhlis thst evening for
about Fix miles AZ O'Clock We hated, and each
upfraDped his BLANKET and lay down Tor reposs with
out ire No Travellers generally do. The next mornns
We we're aroused by the bowling OF wolves 1ba.
had had some experience In the Rocky Neuntains We
started pretty early, that might get Of the
ssndbs before the burning We all started
81 ia good spirits, hoping that might strike
ssttlement Some Lad little rice a litlle hard
bread and others nothing at ALL TO eat AZ 10 O'Clock
struck the bed II riyer and dug Ia spots
water but va could not ina any. We continued up
the rsvine and at noon ped, and Of the
party veNt out TO aut . caou In short time no
running bsck, crying out water We soon reached
the spot ana by digging about three feet deep found
plenty Of whtsr We then followed up the rAvins, and
found more water but II little br4ckish; and
the further went up IL continued get better We
CONTINUED ON the course for three dsys found
srosd. appeared more like a COW path than public
highway. Owing TO this circumstance we felt
what pissed and We bad great hopes Of soon eomingto
the settemsnts That dsy and the day before We has
thrown away almost every thius had save our guns
snd We should have cast them aside too bad IL net
b.es the fact that va aid mot Know what KIND Of
country were in, and whether the Indians hos
tie on friendly
We travelled en- Finding some hor,, mart.-ve bad
some hopes Of hsdus something 10 eat before long for
suffering severely for want u something for
food Ny supper vas rsttlesnske. anu there not be-
on tn. ev.uns Of r. ar,t of June ". met
with horse. the enc that We tracked 20 far lie
srpetites We eat heartily Of him then thought Of
ths comforts OF home which lad et 70 CONS 70 ths
lsrd 81 protnits We continued our journey on the
were some miles ahead Of the nau body for
Determined TO ke,P on all night as q rs. cool and o.
We rusbsd ca with high hearts hoping q ind hsbts
tons OF some Kind. We came up. aud w found
cut that IL w.s The deserted village Of San Fernando
found son traveller fNsnean. ~he Ravs us sosae
frina which some parched and some boiled. IN the
motnins re s,t sn Indisn g s'e us htue ost mssl
pint TO each and then had 10 walk forty miles
TO The town Of Rosario before could got anything 70
eat We reschsd there on the 9Th where vs found
sufficient food which consisted q cakes beef ana
beans. and plenty Of milk In the morning The people
treated ne very Kindly indeed but any people that
tsw 20 poor, msersbis, n act Of housn beings ~ Ne
were, could not help but to se- some have shoes
and othe, none, some have blankets and some none
some have coats and some aud others gun aud
others pistol and What ~orst Of al, Ne had
wtsiied and pale countensBcs for American people,
spo feet all from the sects 81 the stones
ana gravel Of the road for the previous week he'd worn
out eur shoes and left feet erposed to the ground
after We left Rosario ascut ave miles the road run
along the beach Of that great for which bad
tpept thirty nine days, and the greater part Of that
time in misery We continued along up the coast and
that evening espied two Fails ahead which we in
tended TO reach that sisht; bot night coming We
encsmped on tho beach, and the next morning con
tinued our journey. on reaching them ne found one
20 be the fohOcncr Dolphin. and he other the brig
Paradise ntn San B.s, who bad ut In for water.
Some q our companions went bosrd Of the Dolphin
We again cODtinued journey, aud arrived At san
Diego The 2sth Of june where took passage in tie
brig Paradise. which bad come In ~ Moyisions, and
stfived here afstr pssssge Of twenty days ron
SAN Diego ssw three II conp bus VINO had
sailed from San Diego In the schooner Dophn but had
abandoned her about Bfty miles below Monterey and
walked up here. They told me that they had TO kesr
Jumping Der continually she has not arrived here
jet, sBd ! fear she never will
les,eft the dissipgs 20 morrow shall urte 10
YOU from there
lnmy Dext shall let you know W the Dolphin AZ
iivss and fnot shall furnish you With ist Of the
names Of her passengers.
OsK rms MsrHsrrA~
California Overland Assoc n, ID. WuIiAmssr, Prestl