The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-03

| The Immigration 10 California.
After temporary reaction, such as fol-
lows all overstrained excitement, the Cali
fornia immigrating fever seems to have bro
ken out alresh. The steamboats, to Chagres,
and from Panama to San Francisco, still go
crowded; and tickets for berths were, up to
the sailing of the last boat, at premium.
From all the small New England ports, as
well as from Boston, New Bedford, and
other places Oh the seaboard, the number
| of clearances for California have been quite
large. On Tuesday last three ships and
one brig for California sailed from Boston
alone, carrying total of four hundred
passengers, among whom there were only
three women. The same day three yes
sells sailed from Providence, for the same
destination, with upwards Of one hundred
and twenty five passengers. On the 26th
ult. little schooner, less than twenty-five
tons burthen, sailed from New Bedford.
A small craft ike this will bring good
price at San Francisco, while the. large
vessels are with difficulty disposed of at
onefifth their value at home. A specu-
lation has been recently started at the
| North to send out nautical man to buy up
the abandoned ships; but the question
comes up, how will he navigate them after
they are bought
The fact, that the proportion Of female
immigrants to male is hardly that of three
to four hundred, indicates the motives and
calculations of these adventures. They
go, in very few instances, with the design
of remaining They take their chances in
the great lottery, with the intention of
coming back as soon as they have drawn
their prizes. Nine out Of ten dream of
making fortune in two years, and will be
bitterly disappointed if they find it cannot
be done. The accounts of the climate at
the mines and at San Francisco are of a
character to discourage permanent immi-
grafton. Under these circumstances, there
must necessarily be a deplorable wreck OF
hopes and calculations, and thousands will
return chagrined and disappointed.
! Notwithstanding the very contradictory
stories from Adventures, which are now
published in every village newspaper, a
pretty clear idea of the actual state of
things may be formed. That rents and
prices of real estate are unnaturally in
fated at San Francisco, and that disas-
trous collapse must follow, the most ordi-
nary warnings of experience must satisfy
the most sanguine. But every man hopes
to make his profit and escape before the
crash comes; and thus speculation is slim
ulated and kept up, at the same time that
the operators themselves believe in a re-
action that is at hand. The land titles,
interchanged, must be in many instances
very questionable; and this must be fer
tile source of litigation and disappoint-
ment.
Gold-digging does not seem to have lost
|, its immemorial character Of precariousness
in California. The most authentic state
ments fix the average OF miners receipts
at less than $40 day; although he may
hit upon lump which will enrich him IN
moment. These instances are, however,
/ very rare. The toll, privation, and wear
z and tear OF health at the diggings, are OBJ.
2 viously very considerable. But temper
ate, steady, hard working men, with con
stitutions fitted for the labor and the eli
{ mate, can unquestionably do well, and lay
e up handsome amounts over their expenses
Y II is to be feared, however, that hun
T dreds are Joining in this great Californian
I, exodus without calculating the conse-
Y quences, or forming an accurate idea o.
e what they must expect. Already We
1 hear of stragglers, who are returning wei
: cured of the California fever. The few
f who go prepared to remain are likely tC
: do the best. But the rush Of sanguln,
+ young men, who are pouring out of oul
= Atlantic ports TO California in the expecta
!. ton of plucking fortune from the bowels
s Of the earth, in season to be back before
!, another haying time, must be checked, q
$ the most bitter and widely spread disap
e pointments must be the result.
IL IL rumored that project is in contemplation
by the British government 70 buy up the mortgage
y held on Irish estates and offer the land tempting
e terms to occupants or capitalists. The city O
London has intmated that it will advance $4,000,
900 Tor the carrying out Of the scheme, good Sc
i curity