The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1849-11-30
Gbe Ganfasttr Ga'ette.
LANCASTER, NoVEMBER 40, Is4o.
CALIFORNIA ITEMS.

correspond ence, containing some new
facts, which we copy below:
San Diego, Oct. 5M.-Mr. Robb, oil
the St. Louis Reveille, goes home for a
press. He has entered into copartnership
with Capt. Marcy, and they will establish
government paper at the new capital
Puebla San Jose -as soon as the neces.
sary materials can be procured. The
new paper is to be called the "Californis
Statesman, and with the State patronage
will not fail Of success. Both are demo.
ocrats. Capt. Marcy is the son of the
late Secretary of War.
The Sacramento and San Joaquin dis
tricts will have nearly the whole repre-.
senta,ion in the California Legislature
they will, at least, hold the balance of
power.
By a letter received, in this place, we
learn that our old friend of the Eagle, H.
H. ROBINSON, is to be one Of the Editors
of the California Statesman, Ed Gaz.
CONSTITUTION OF CALIFoRNIA.-W Wo.
mans Rights Of Property--- Homestead
E1empti0n.-The special correspondent
of the New Orleans Picayune. under the
date of Sept %, says that quite warm
discussion occurred yesterday in commit,
tee of the whole on one of the miscela-
neous provisionsrelative to conjugal rel
tions. The section secures all the real and
personal property of the wife obtained
before marriage, and all acquired by gift,
devise or descent; aud also provides for
the passage Of laws more clearly defining
the rights Of the wife, and for the regis,
tration of her private property this is
the civil, and differs materially from the
common law. THE section was adopted
Another section securing from seizure
aud forced sale a certain portion of the
property of all heads offamiles, tine home.
stead, not to exceed 800 acres of land. or
any own or city lots moi to exceed So .00G.
and prohibiting its alienation by mar
ried man unless by consent Of the wife,
also caused much debate. but was ulti-
mately adopted.
GAMBLING.-A San Francisco cores
pondent, of the New York Journal of
Commerce, has The following picture of
gambling in California in his last letter:
What would you think to see every
house around the Park an open gambling
house, monte tables in each corner-fa.
ro, A. B. c. roulette, and numberless
French games in the centre; splendid.
ly stocked bar; band Of musicians to en-
terrain the crowds, who thr0ng these
places SO density that you find it difficult
to press your way ,hrough or get near
table. Abandoned women visit these
places openly. lsaw one the other even
ing sitting quietly at m"nte table, dres-
sed in white pants, blue coat and cloth
cap. curls dangled over her cheeks, cigar
in her mouth and glass of punch by her
side. She handled pile of doubloons
with her white kid gloved hands, and
bet most boldly. One man approached a
faro table, staked hundred dollars and
won seventeen hundred in fifteen minutes
Next day | saw MIN running from friend
to friend to borrow fifty dollars. He
was broke. Yesterday gambler, who
came on in the Oregon, and who is worth
some 100000, told me that the proceeds
of his bank, for the preceding day, were
$4,000; and yet, with an infatuation truly
astonishing, men flock to these places
and stake the products of months labor
at the mines. Now and then, it is true.
some bank gets the worst oft. One of
them was completely broke up by south
eruer few weeks ago. He took $780,.
900 from the bank in two nights play
ing.
BAYARD TAYLOR. in letter from Cali
fornia, says that ,hose who return home
disappointed say they have been hum
bugged about the gold. The fac, is, they
have humbugged themselves. about the
work.-lf they expect to make money
out of the earth without severe labor.
they are wofully mistaken.
Tue DIGGINGs ON MoKALUME RIVER.
-Bayard Taylor, writing from Moka-
lume river, relates the manner in which
the gold is found upon that stream:
cdr. Gillette. to whom am indebted
for many kind attentions, has related to
me the manner of his finding the rich
gulch which attracted so many to the
Mckalume diggiugs. About six weeks
ago, d.. Martin aud himself came down
from the upper bar, to prospect for gold
among the ravines in tho neighborhood .
There we're no persous here at the time,
except some Indians belonging to the
tribes Of Jose Jesus. One day at noon
while resting in the shade of tree, DR..
G. took pick, and began carelessly tur-
ming up the ground. Almost on the sur.
face, he struck and threw out a lump of
gold, Of about two pounds weight. In
spired by this unexpected result. they
both went to work, laboring all that day
and the next, and even using part of the
night to quarry out the heavy pieces of
rock. At the end Of the second day,
they went to the village on the upper bar
and weighed their profits, which amount
ed to twenty eight pouudsl They start.
ed againin the. third morning, under pre-
tence of hunting but were suspected and
followed by the ,otherd diggers. who came
upon them just as they commenced work.
They continued to dig for week or two
l.. FINa