The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-01-12


to day or tomorrow, and the United States at this
port on Sunday or Monday, with ten and eleven
days later news from Europe.
Astounding Official Intelligence from Cali
fornia, Suppressed by the Govern ment.
RumOl 8 have been In circulation In FALL street
during the last few days, to the effect that some ex.
traordinary Official intelligence has been recently
received by the Government at Washington, giving
accounts even more brilliant concerning the gold
mines OF California, than any that have heretofore
been published; but that the President and his
cabinet have thought proper, for not ascer-
tanned, to suppress their publication and keep the
information for the of themselves and friends,
until Congress shall have agreed on some terrific
rial government tor that region. For some days
past the particulars of those dispatches have leak
ed out, been discussed and canvassed, in Wall
street and elsewhere, and fact would asonally
appear in some of the journals
We have not thought proper to give currency to
any OF those reports, during the present excited
state OF the public mind in regard to California.
The matter, however, has now assumed such
shape in the newspapers, that there can be no I'M.
propr'ety in referring to it, and giving the public
some nkhngs of Its character, as far as possible.
the following article on the subject -
SURPASSED INTELLIGENce ABOUT CALIFORNIA.
Sin IL perceive in late number of the Eoenins
Post the following paragraph -
III reported that the government are In possession
of sueh reports Of the riches Of the Caforna
mines, that they are AFRAID to publish them"
May ak by what authority the government sup
this information respecting possessions
In Csforn s 10 il that al the friends and relations
Of the cabinet have the first chance In and
their fortunes without being obliged to encounter
general composition perceive California co ppauy
was raised in Albany short time since OF which
relatives and of member OF the cabinet figured
and an instrument at work in the mining districts
very quietly for more than six months andit IL the
first time the latter ever known to be quiet
long bis life The ouadentia secretary Of another
member of the csbiuet has gone is his way out
bly,, remained ignorant of the information which the
cabinet have not dared to communicate to the public
rees to send for this fatal knowledge Of good aud
evil" and judge for themselves whether the American
people have got drmness enough to bear It:
Repeatedly yours, XENOPHON.
The inquiries OF our correspondent very natural
and have doubtless most who read
the announcement aimed in this journal. We had
heard the same story time previous to its pub
cation but will ng to give further currency
to It, until We could trace it, Is we have done to res
ponsibls source. We are unwilling to judge Of the
motives Of the cabinet in suppresng the
particulars Of which nos in possession but in
ourjndgme mt they have assumed an une nvisbls res
In the 6rst place is difficult to see what evils can
certain to follow the receipt Of the revelations
Wall street in less than three months direct from
California; for within that period probably the whole
country wil know much Of the gold region Col.
Steve nson or Mr. Commisssry Marcy.
In the next place those Who may have lost an ep-
portunity of avsDg themselves inteige noe which
the Cover might have placed within their reach,
will look upon Its suppression ofcious and
ssis.h and %erc.n.p, Designs Of their own COVER
In the third place there those who may be led to
that this story has been given out merely to
forh bald tta
sion during the whole of the past intelligence
respecting the wealth of california, which has
those Who have been in the employ of the
by the appointm. mt Of President Polk
Some OF these, 1t Is we'll known, are returning or
have ed with their millions and II the suspicion
ehoud get abroad that portion OF the cabinet had
coDnivsd With these operators BY keeping from the
pu blio the earliest intelligence from California which
they received. they will then repent act which,
without any imputation upon the parties advising It,
10 questionable piece Of ststesmsnship
BY this statement II appears that our cotempora-
ny had heard of those rumors IN common with the
habitres OF Wall street, and could not resist the de-
sire TO trace them TO the sources from which they
sprung. We learn that one of the respectable
sources" alluded TO by the EUem,mg Post is very
eminent merchant down town, Jas. Lee, ESQ.,. per-
haps other authorities are given, but of those we
have not heard.
Looking over the whole matter, we cannot resist
the convection that there may be something In the
Legations made against the government Tor sup
pressing the intelligence which they may have re-
ceived. Our contemporary aludes, without namin
him, to a certain relative of member Of the ad-
having already made an immense for
tune in California under this state OF secrecy. II Is
said that Captain Marcy, son OF the Secretary OF
War, has been selling every thing in his camp In
exchange for gold DUST that he had collected fifteen
barrels iull OF gold ORE and been under the necessi
ty OF buyirg II very secretly, until a vessel OF war
would arrive and convey 1t to the United States.
Other statements go greater length. 1t ID said
that immense masses OF native gold, amounting to
one, two, and three hundred pounds In weight,
have been discovered, with what truth we are un-
able to determine. Again-great suffering, it
seems, exists in California tor the want of food,
and all the whale ships selling every thing they
have, at Monterey and San Francisco, at immense
profits. Emigrants from the, Sandwich Islands.
Oregon, Mexico, and other countries bordering ON
the Pacific, are crowdlng into California, In i'm.
mense numbers. In fact, 1t Is supposed by some
that the mineral wealth OF the region OF the Sacra-
mento, San Juan, and both sides of the Sierra
Nevada, including the great basin which the Nor
mons have appropriated, surpasses In value aud
abundance any thing OF the kind that has been dis
covered from the beg inning LIBERALIZATION to the
present day.
These representations, added to the official in
ormntion heretofore communicated, will tend to
mere ase the fever Tor ENGRAVING to California. No