The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-01-22
INTELLIGENCE 81 THE MAILS.
THREE WEEKS LAT B FROM CALIFORNIA.
Highly Important from the cold
Region.

Region.
| On Saturday night, too late, however for pubii
cation on Sunday, we received intelligence from
California, extending to late as the 10Th of No
vember, being three weeks later information than
what was previously received from that quarter
We give 1t at length to-day.
Our correspondence is dated at Monterey. the
10th November. 1t came through Mexico to Vera
Cruz, and reached New Orleans by the schooner
w. E. Coils, Captain Jarvis, which vessel arrived
there on the llth instant, whence we received it
by mail In this city. We believe 1t is the latest
correspondence Of the kind that has been received
III the United States, with the exception, perhaps,
Oh private intelligence that may be in the possession
OF some OF the members Of the government. We
also believe that it will be published In the HeraM
exclusively.
Annexed will be found the long accounts given bv
our correspondent. This gentleman is well quail.
fled to describe the gold movements In California.
He has resided in that region since the year 1882
the most of the time In public capacity, and has
been at the gold region for weeks at time. He
was the first who gave US, last summer, state
ment of those vast discoveries, and he organized
several commercial expeditions from this city to
San Francisco, which will, probably, yield mil
lion of dollars of profit Those expeditions were
commenced about the middle or latter part of last
summer. 1t will be seen, from his description of
matters, annexed hereto, that the rumors hereto
ore circulated in connection with the government
officers in California, are not altogether without
foundation.
We have also received private and confiden-
tal letter, which contains intelligence so extraordi-
nary, and, we may say, so astounding concerning
the god regions, that we forbear giving il to the
public at this time lest they would not credit it.
and might only laugh at us for pains, and accuse
us OF attempting to hoax and deceive the public.
According to those accounts, the extent of the
gold region on the San Joaquin and Sacramento
rivers extends distance of eight hundred miles
in length, by one hundred in width. 1t embraces
not only gold, but quicksilver almost equal album
dance, particularly on the San Joaquin. 1t is es-
timated that a small population, actively engaged
In mining operations in that region, could export
one hundred millions of dollars in gold every year:
and if this be so, an additional population might
increase that amount to two or three hundred mil
lions annually, and thereby, in comparatively
short time completely upset the specie currency Of
the whole civilized world.
This is not fancy. Thousands and thousands of
people from the islands In the Pacific, from Mexi-
/ Ia
Indies, as soon as they learn of those dgplnps.
will crowd to California. There can be no doubt
that the detachments of American troops In Mon
terey and San Francisco, from COL Mason down.
will return to the United States, perfectly loaded
with pure gold. 1t seems that Colonel Mason has
been three times In the digglngs, and that all his
officers and men are with hlm-at one time at ono
place, and at another time In another--and that
Captain Marcy, and few others, are left to occu-
py head quarters, and share In the spos, at res-
sonable time afterwards. AS Ir as this goes, il
would seem, the rumored stories In this city, rela-
tive to Captain Marcy, and Their officers in that re-
gion, not far from the truth.
But we cannot tell more of the private Informs
ton which we have r. ceIved by this despatch II
would hardly be believed. Annexed will be found
our public corresp ndence, which we have no doubt
will be read with great interest, for it is quietly
and soberly written, and much inside the truth.
tCorrsspondence Of the New York Herald
MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, Nov l6, 1913.
JAMES G.. BENNErr, ESQ.,,
EDITOR NKw YORK HERALD-
We can now call ourselves citizens of the Uni
ted States. We have now only to go by law, a.
we formerly went by custom-that is, when Con
gress gives US government and code. The old
foreign residents California, having done very
well ten or twenty years, without law, care but
very little whether Congress pays early or late at
tentlon to the subject. Those who have emigrated
from the Atlantic States within the last three or
four years, deem the subject an important one;
only call it difficult. The carrying out a code of
laws, under existing circumstances, Is far from
being an easy task The general government may
appoint governors, secretaries, and other public
functionaiies; and judges, marshals, collectors,
&C., may accept Offices with salaries OF 5000 or
$1,000 per annum; but how they are to obtain their
petty officers, at halt these sums, remains to be-
seen. The pay OF a member Of Congress will be
accepted here by those alone who do not know
enough to better themselves. Mechanics can now
get $40 TO SIC per diem; laborers on the wharfs or
elsewhere, s. to $40; clerks and storekeepers
$1,000 to $4,000 per annum; some engage to keep
store daring their pleasure at So per d ay, or I to
/ Il lbs OF gold per month; cooks and stewards go
to 900 per month. In fact, labor Of every desorip
ton commands exorbitant prices.
My previeus Information to you merely for
walded TO your office to open way to the futsre
belief OF your many readers. I had not much ex-
pectatlon OF being believed. The idea of moua-
tains OF quicksilver only waiting the ingenu ty Of
man to make them pour forth as a stresm-of
rivers, whose bottoms and banks are of gold, u
rather too much to play upon the credulity OF New
Workers or Yankees. l suppose my story passed
as an enlarged edition Of the Arabian Nights, I'm
proved and adapted to California.
Whether you or your readers took the tale for
fiction or truth, know not. Your last paper thas
has reached US Is OF April This know tho
Sandwich Islands, Oregon, and Lower California,
are fast parting with their inhabitants, all bound
for this coast, and thence to the great .'pIacer"
OF the Sacramento Valley, where the digging and
washing OF one man that does not produce one
hundred troy ounces OF gold, % carats. from the
size OF half spangle to one pound in one mouth,
the digger TO g. Prospecting" looking