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

reduced and clerks could be hired about
as cheap as in New York, excepting the
better class of bookkeepers.
A large number of young men had re-
turned from the mines, unable to endure
the toll necessary to procure gold, and
this had produced this glut of clerks
Meanwhile labor, however, was still
high, SO per day, carpenters ge. from
$40 TO Sl2.
The South Carolina was ready to sail
for New York, and the Sea Queen was
taking in some ballast for the same des,
tination. Sailors wages were $3.50 to
$50 per month; firemen, $3.50. Sailors
were plenty at these rates, and the
steamers had no difficulty in getting
away regularly. There have been sew
eral arrivals ofcoal vessels at San Fran
cisco for account of the steamboat COM
pany, and the supply was ample.
Cape Horn vessels are arriving by
dozens, but their cargoes pass off
quietly under the hammer, and nobody
notices it, except some ruined owner
who may happen to be on board.
Men should not attempt gold digging
in California who have not been used
to the hardest kind of service at home.
But few of the men save what they
make. Gambling is carried on to an
enormous extent in San Francisco. A
few days before the California left, one
hundred thousand dollars in dust and
Spanish ounces changed hands at a
Monte bank on the turn of a single card.
A notorious New York gambler, who
keeps bank, was broken the night
before the California sailed, having lost
$40 900 at Euchre, at $500 a game.
In San Francisco a new frame bull.
ding has been erected on the lot oppo-
site the Parker house to be used as a
drinking and sporting house, and the
rent of which is to $4,000 per month
or 5000 per day.
Among the enterprises of the town
is large theatre, about being erected
by VIM. A. Buffman, Esq.
A frame building belonging to Messrs
Ross, Benton, & Co., 25 by AZ feet, rem.
ted for $4,000 per annum. A tent
near Parker's Hotel rents for $1,000 o
day. A gambling shop sold for $4,000
cash. Parker's Hotel brings altogether
exchange Offices, grog shops, gambling
shops, &c, over 100000 per annum
Labor SIG to s25 per day. Car,ine
SO to S. per load.
A letter from Sacramento city says
The most of those who are now ir
California, will do well if they work ,o
the top of their energies, and can avoid
sickness. But disease will come and ar
ounce ofgold goes with every pound Of
flesh. The best course land the major
ity pursue iD is to be content with small
gains, work moderately in this enfee
bling climate, and get home as soon a
possible, with just enough to pay ,hei
passage and barely compensate then
for the hardship they undergo. This
, the land for hard hands and hard stom
achs. "None need apply without thes
qualifications"
LIFE AT THE MINES.
We will venture to affirm that tn
standard of morals at the mines is niue
E higher than in any town in the State
: south of Boston. We speak from know
!. edge of the mines tributary TO the Sac
i ramento; of those on the San Joaqui
e we learn that quite the reverse exist
g but on the branches of the Sacrament
IS every mans rights are scrupulously re-
II pected- Very seldom you meet with
Re drunken man, less often with gamblir
n or neutrality-suspicious. Times.
g1 Several letters from California re-
N resent the mines as the most order
L. places in the country.
10 You rise at 4 o'clock, swallow a ha
'g ty Bit or two, leap into your hole al
in delve to IL o'clock. The sun pou
e. down most scorchingly--the high pc
pendicular rocks on each side rehe
ID the heat and make it doubly overpo'
pc ering-and all breezeless as The grave.
m The feeblest one in the company roc
m the machine, the strongest digs in +,
hole, and the other carries the earth.
20. At last you retire for the forenoon,