The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-08-20


ID We are glad Of tie opportunity Of presenting
our readers with The following letter from lownsmau
Leander Warren, 10 his family with which we have
been oblgingly furnished by them.
SAN FRAxcIsco, JuNE 18Th, l349.
DEAR L-tIeTe am at last in the promised land
We arrived here day before Yesterday. | can hardly
realize that am here. xy days ago was in Boston.
ana now am, BY the shortest passage 5000 miles from
'here' hardly know what to say of this place. have
never seen any thing like it, and probably there never
was anything like il; but will try to give you an idea
OF 1t, although you can have no conception what il is
until you see it.
We left Panama at about 10 o'clock on the 23d of
May, and were 81 days on our passage, Including a
stopPage of three days at San Bias and about day
more at other ports, making running time II DAYS
Most OF the way we in sigh, ofand The whole Of
the coast of Mexico mountainous The land broken n>
to abrupt peaks, like sugar loaf with here and there
table lands, or fl dtop mountan) and towering a ay
as far as the eye reach until the tops are lost in the
clouds. Until after passing San Diego which is the
Northern boundary of Mexico there is not tree or
shrub to be seen the whole is of the most barren
ana deSoale description, but S. has grand and lof.
" character Alter passing San Diego there is some
TIMBER and III coast looks though persons CO ud
live on II, but il is by means inviting.
The tirst harbor we make, after leaving Panama, is
Acapulco, very oil Spanish city and al one time the
port for all tue Spanish trade on the Pacific Il is now
apace OF no Importance but has the most beautiful ar
Dor that can be conceived. Its bay completed, land
licked, and cannot be from sea ten minutes before
you enter the bay We stopped there short time, eff
the mail, and most Of the passengers went on sho re
bought Pine apples, Bananas, &C. The people are
Mexcans and much better looking than those Of Pans
ANA. Some OF the women were quite handsome. Ntu
need not beJealous Acapulco is 1900 miles from Pal,
ANA.
The next port we made San Bias. Here We
stopped days for coal and water There is no barhor
only an open roads ead and Tremendous swell running
all Inc me waves at least Ten feet gh breaking on ht
beach with roar like thunder San Bias is low SAND
bed, the streets with least inches of fine sand II
is the port OF Topic, city of 10000 nhabants. abo,
oO miles IN the interior San Bias is miserable Mer.
Can village, aud i'll the wet completely desert,
cd Ii is 5OO miles from Acapulco up to this poput The
weather was hot after leaving San Bias for dav or two
There was then great change the weather be IAN 10
grow cold, and to this place, was cold enough for a,
overcoat about all the time
Tue next port was San Diego 1000 miles from Sa
Bias, The next Monterey, so miles from San d egor
Monterey is 6ue place. is the head quarters Of The
Army, WINCH consists OF the officers aud some ha dz
en- NEIL The rest have all deserted. There were SONS
tdoz vessels laying atMonterey ihou ere S. w. ef
Monterey at night, and in the mornirg before bfeaka ST
made The Bay OF San Francisco. Inc entrance to4ih
Day Is through passage about mile VIDE, and IN /;
lew minutes; we were III magnificent Bay, about 3f
miles long We sail up the Bay some or & miles be,
we see the town, and nearly hundred vessels Of al
Kinds AMI all atoms laying here. Tue ,arbor is TER
ect forest oil masts, and looks busy aud stirring a,
New York or Boston. Bouts Scows and small vessels IL
all Kinds gong to and lro all the lime
can give YOU idea of the town. |, absoJ,,,e +,
beggars description. Il is made up Of tents. wooden
houses, mud brick houses, (caled adoba and frame
houses covered with duck. The are 6lIeJ with
people and merchandise of all descriptions in evs,,,
cofuef-a great de IN the streets without any Covering
a. dl, ana every BODY has just as much money as lie
wants. Atho' houSes and rents aud all descriptions o.
labor are enormously high, but provisions clothing hard
ware, Dry goods, &c are quite cheap. House lots OF
u feet by oO are sold for $4,000 to S2O COO One
building, the Parker House, large buidn occupied
as Hotel aud gambling establishment, and fitted nm
splendldy rents Tor $50 900 per ye ar some rooms in
rent for Sl5o 90 per day. Stores rent for $500 per
mouth Land to put tent on, in the business par Of
the town, rents Tor $50 per week; a small wooden
house where pitched rents for $3.50
per month. What Ladies there are here are dressed
splend dy. Some of the shops have splendid Goods.
Washing is $500 per doz. Carpenters gel 1890 per
day common Iaborers $500 to $500 per day. The
greatest business done here is gambling. 1. is done
here on an enormous scale and in the most pub c man.
ner. saw man win $500 and another lose 1900 in
~ minutes, last evening, the Parker House. but that
is nothing. There are Gambling houses all over town
and at mos, of them the stakes are enormous. Women
gamble, but they are SFanlsh women.
Ihsi is all the result of getting money easly. The
people who win Or lose, make nothing of ii. Provisions
cheap. Flour per sack Of 200 hundred lbs
Good beef STEAK, IA to l8cs per h. Although A,ur IS
cheap, breads 25cts. per loaf 1t is good bread abo
the size Of lOct. Boston loaf Sugar is lOcts per III
| Pork $4,000 per bb, Mix so cts per quart. Bm,er
81 ,25 per lib cargo of which expected next week
from Chill Clothing is quite cheap. Fire pans are
worth S4OO each, Waterpals, $500, Shoyels, ri 90.
Most articles OF hard ware are cheap.
We have a r., IL