The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-07-14
THE GOLD REGION!-LATEsT AND AU.
THEN TIC ACCOUNTS.

The New York Courier and Enquirer publish.
Is some interesting facts in relation to the gold
country Of California, which were obtained
from Mr. Jas. L. Loring, who has just re-
turned from San Francisco.
Slate Of .4dairs-The numbers of foreign.
ers chiefly from Peru Chill, Mexico, and the
Sandwich Islands, who are pouring into Cali
%foinia, is almost incredible. Seventy or eigh-
ty vessels were lying in the harbor, completely
deserted by officers as we'll as men, left with
no one to take care Of them, and rapidly falls
ing to pieces at the wharves.
The great peril to the whole country is 10
grow out Of the great influx Of fUreighers,-
Not only do they seize upon the mines, from
which they have been excluded by formal pro-
clamation Of the United States Government,
but their department towards the Americans is
said to be in the highest degree insulting and
provoking. At the latest accounts the for
eignners out numbered the Americans ten to
one in the mining Districts, and their demean.
or was correspOndingly Overbearing and in.
insuferable. This had Created the deepest in.
dignatiOn among the Americans, especially as
the Mexicans were foremost in iRsult and bragg
adocio. sTheYankees had already TAX en- steps
towards organizing themselves into a Native
american Association, and it is said that. upon
the arrival Of large bodies Of the Americans
who were understood to have sailed from va
rious parts of the United states during the
months of January and February, they were
determined TO drive eUery foreigner out Of the
country at every hasard. Although they are
greatly ~outnumbered, still they are far better
armed than the foreigners, nearly all of them
having r%evolvers and Other arms, and are be-
sides far superior to them in physical,
mental and moral qualities. Mr.. Loring tells
us that they are determined to massacre The
VhoIe population, rather than submit to their
insolence and competition. .
On the other hand, Messrs. R. C. Wilson, of
Illinois, and Samuel Packwood, Of Oregon,
who left the mines on the 23d of March, report
as follows, as published in the New York Her
aid. g
With regard to the state Of society in the
gold regions. they says emphatically that it is
just as good as in New York, and that women
are far more respected there than here: that
there are families living in the n~eighborhood
Of the mines, and no man would attempt to
insult female there. They say they never
saw a better set Of men anywhere, and crime
is less than in any one Of the United States,
with all the advantages Of civil Government.
Persifor Smiths proclamation about foreign
ers is laughed at, because it is impossible to
carry it into execution. There is no /" natlveD
feeling there. There is room enough and to
spare, The the | indians were working har-
moniously with the white men in the mines
Before their arrival, they did not know the
value Of the gold which they trod. When
these gentlemen left there were thousands
upon thousands arriving, and they met parties
armed as If they were going to war, an absur-
dity which they soon find out by experience.
There is no necessity for arms,