Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-10-04

tnat naII OF all tne emlgrants leaVe the |
mines within the first week.
This is mining life. Sunday ofcourse
is day of rest. Then clothes are
washed, visits exchanged, books read,
and all public business transacted.
The yield of gold is entirely over
estimated. Nearly all must wash over
again and again last years earth, and
obtain only the shadow of last years
virgin substance. In two or three years
profit can be obtained only by scientific
machinery, and enormous outlay of
capitol. Gold will always be found,
and not as now by the man who starts
with merely his bare hands and stout
heart.
SACRAMENTO CITY.
Is represented as much more quiet
place than San Francisco, and quite as
busy. 1t is the old California Embar.
cadero, Americanized into Sacramento
City. In the two weeks one was absent
from Sacramento City, it had doubled
its size, and the emigration from San
Francisco up, and the mines down, in.
creased this ratio in almost geometrical
proportion. At this moment there are
no less than ten thousand men there, and
not single house to sleep in. AT the
mines we hear sometimes of lucky
man in a rich "lead" who is making a
fortune, but the general cry is "What
fools we all were, to leave comfortable
homes for this corner of h." The
man who can and will work hard, aver
ages from half an ounce to an ounce
daily, and will soon quadruple that
amount. His board, if he cooks for
himself, costs nearly 81 per diem.
THE SCIENCE OF MINING.
The mines of California have baffled
all science, and rendered the application
of philosophy, entirely nugatory. Bone
and sinew, philosophy, with sprinkling
of good luck, can alone render success:
certain. We have met with many geol
ogists and practical scientific men in the
mines. and have invariably seen then
beaten by unskilled men, soldiers anc
sailors and all the like. The simple
secrets that gold has been thrown abou
promiscuously by volcanic power, an,
distributed along the margin of stream
and it is the hard working and lucky
men who restore it.-Pidcer Times.
EFFECT OF ExPELLING FOREIGNERS.
Encouraged by Gen. Smiths Procla
nation, from Panama, the American
have expelled most injudiciously, al
foreigners from the mines. Vessels
bound down the coast are filled witt
Mexican, Peruvian, and Chilian emf
grants returning home. The country
is thus deprived of the only available
cheap labor within reach, until the yielt
of the mines shall have fallen off fit,
per cent. Gen. Riley, with good sense
and humanity, has gone to the southern
mines with view TO protect such for
eigners, still there as may decide to up
ply for letters of naturalization.
NO REGULAR MAIL TO OREGON.
California has put Oregon so entirel,
in the shade, that it is quite impossible
! TO get intelligence from that older an
5 better country, towards which we wer
wont to hold such intimate and friend
y relations.
A letter from the Pacific says:
!; The mail is brought regularly only
D San Francisco, and the steamers, instea
of conveying it up TO Astoria, are CT
a gagged in the more profitable emplo,
g ment Of conveying passengers fro
Panama. The mail, in the meantim
, is either not sent to Astoria at all, or
y so, is sent up irregularly by some ira
sicnt vessel, and at the cost of fe
5. dollars, for doing that imperfectly f
d which the contractors receive mar
rs thousands. A large Oregon mail, CO
r. tanning much official matter had acc
:, mulaled in the Post Office at San Fra
v. cisco at the time of the arrival there ,
. The 18th of July.
IS The Government should remedy II
he inconvenience and disappointment
- speedily as possible.
toll IMMIGRATION VIA PANAMA.
III The number Of passengers that h
k. sailed from Panama, from January /
n. July 81, according 10 the official rePc
- - e AL. novarnment IL set doun nj "a