Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-04-04
LADIES FOR CALIFORNIA.

1t is generally known that Mrs. FARrHAM is
organizing company of female emigrants in the
Northern Cities for California. The avowed OBJ
jec Of the ladies' is to humanize and refine the gold
diggers-on what particular plan, we are left to
conjecture. They leave home and friends, and en-
counter all the perils Of long voyage, and, what
is Tar worse, the chances of disappointment in the
land Of their destination, (f it is not ungallant to
hint at such a thing,) on purely philsnthropc mis-
sion. What a se1fsacrifcing spirit do thoy ex.
hihit!
When the arrival Of the ladies at San Francisco
is announced, there will doubtless be- quite stir at
the gold mines. The spade and sitter will be thrown
aside, aud we can imagine the devo,ees OF Nam
mon, after undergongthe necessary additions, start
ing off to inspect the novel importation, each one
anxious to procure new shrine at which to wor-
ship. The scene will certainly surpass in interest
the famous Hungarian marriage markets. There
will be no simperng affectation among the girls, no
pretending not TO understand when the gentlemen
propose. They go out to help the poor telling fell
lows, and the more tattered and forlorn they are,
and especially the more encountered with gold DUST
the more they will receive their favorable regard
For some time past brisk trade in fnarriageable
females has been carried on between England and
her South Pacific Colonies, and the enterprise is
said to be profitable to all the parties engaged in it
and to have had good effect IN improving the con-
dition of the colons,s. 1t is also matter of bisto
ny that during the years 1920 and 1921, ship loads
OF girls, virtuous and fair, were imported into Vir-
gina; and very likely if the genealoges of some of
our "iirst families" could be traced, it would ap
pear that they descended from those buxom
lasses who were struck down to the highest bidder
at from hundred and thirty to hundred and fifty
pounds of tobacco.
Yet after all, we do not like the idea "Calebs
IN search of wife" is very common and some
times very interesting spectacle but "Vrgo in
search of a Husband" and sailing around tho world
Tor one, is, to say the least something we did not
expect to see in this prudish age and corrtry If,
however the girls are determined to help them
selves to husbands, we. think they may be accom-
modated nearer home We could undertake to
direct some dozen Of them to as many thrifty
bachelors in our own vicinity, whose hearts are
ready to receive the first fair applicant and who
need help-mates quite as much as the distant Cali
fornians.
The New York Evening Post, referring to Mrs.
FARNHAM, says:
Passage for her association has already been en-
gagged on board the fine ship Angeliuue-a spacious
and commodious vessel, fitted up with state rooms
throughout, bathing apparatus, sc. The ship is
well ventilated and with Mrs Farnham's care, we
presume nothing will be mes ected that can conri-
1ete TO The health and comfort of her party. Mrs
Farhham expects to visit Boston Tomorrow for the
convenience OF those in that quarter who may de-
sire 10 consult her about sharing i'm her enterprise
ohe has already about sixty engaged, we under
stand The English papers announce the forma-
ton.