The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-02-22
Six Weeks Later News.

Six weeks Later News
.arrisql Of uHitary-.agairs Getting Wqrss-Igsnty
| Laus-Fomr Millions Of Gold Procured, etc.
The Washington papers, of the 18th, publish the
following very interesting official letter from Cali
fornia being about six weeks later than former adj
vices. The Union says "We understand that a
letter is received from an officer in Commodore
Jones' squadron, of the 7th January. The Ohio was
| then at Mazatlan. Reports had been received OF
the arrival at San Diego of the Dragons and COM
pany of artillery, under Col. Washington, who had
| gone across from Camargo, and passed through
Monterey, Saltillo, Parras, etc.
| SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA. Dec. %. 1913.
| NM Dear .Sir-Commodore Jones has but this
| moment informed me that the Ohio will sail to-day
for Mazatlan, and l take the opportunity for for
warding a few public letters. also enclose two or
three private letters this being the only means of
getting them TO the States. Will you please to have
| them sent 10 the post-office at Washington
Since last wrote to you, the affairs of this coun-
| try have been constantly getting worse. We have
| no government here, either civil military, and
the country is full of lawless men, who commit
| ting the most shocking outrages. Murders and
robberies are of daily, and, might almost say, of
hourly occurrence. Not an arrival occurs from the
north, south, the INTERIOR but notifies the commu
nifty of acts of villainy, which go uRpunished.
| Within six weeks more than twenty murders have
| souls. The people are acting in selfdefence,
and four five days since, three men hung by
Lynch law sixty miles from this place. 1t is of the
last Importance that the distressing condition of
California should be impressed upon those at Wash
| ington who have the power to apply remedy. The
povernment 'p.'s game Init shonld
Congress give us territorial organization at the pre-
sent session, i. will supercede the popular local or
| ganzation now taking place, but which cannot go
| into effect before the ensuing summer. The United
States revenue laws now in force here and will
! yield an income of say $450,0OO the ensuing year,
and perhaps more, and four-fif of this amount will
be collected at this port. Much dissatisfaction
lists at the payment of such tax on the part of the
inhabitants, without either government or repre-
sentation. This feeling is gaining ground from day
! to day.
wrote you very long semi-official letter some
time since, September 49, going at length into the
history of the gold mines trust that you have re-
ceived that communication, as it accompanied other
official papers, all of which, am informed, were
correctly sent from Mazatan to Vera Cruz about six
weeks since. have only time now to inform you
that everything stated in that letter has been more
than realized up to this date. The gold mines con-
tnue to be rich before, although the rainy
son has caused many to suspend their work. There
be doubt but that at least 81 600 900 of gold,
at SIG per ounce troy, has been taken from the
mines. The most accurate estimates am able to
make, show that 81 100000 have been sent from
OI IL Has gone IIOHl tnlS
port. One vessel took 100000. Two-thrds of all
that has been exported has gone to foreign coun-
tries, and, consequently, to foreign minis.
am, dear sir, in great haste, yours truly,
J. L. FOLSOM.
General Jesup, Washington, d. C.
Interesting Details from California.
Gold in oregonooAbpndance ofProvisions-Deolin
Hard times for Greenhorns, etc. etc.
Several of the New York papers give copious
items of California news, brought by Mr.. Robert
Anterior, who arrived in that city on Monday morn
ing, the 18th inst, having left San Francisco the
10th of December, and made the journey, via Ma
zatlan and the city of Mexico. We copy the fol-
lowing from the New York Tribune:
Mr.. Anterior has resided for ten years on the Pa
cifc and two at San Francisco. He left San Fran
cisco on the 10th of December, and came to the
United States by way of Mazatlan, Guadalajara,
Mexico, and Vera Cruz. The passage from San
Francisco to Mazatlan occupied ten days, the vessel
touching only at one port. From Mazatlan to
Mexico the journey was made on horseback, in two
days. Mr.. Anterior has accomplished the whole
of this loLg and arduous trip with remarkable dis
patch, having been only sixty-one days upon the
route; the cost of the whole, from San Francisco
to New York, has been about 500.
The gold region is now understood to embrace
territory thousand miles in length and three hun
dred in width. The gold is distributed over this
vast extent, though by no means equally, some
parts being of surprising richness while others are
comparatively barren of the precious metal. No
limit can be fixed to the number OF men who may
find employment in extracting it, to the length of
time for which gold-dgging may be profitable.
There is room enough for all who may desire to
make their fortune by this new sort of attractive
industry, and sufficient quantity of the glittering
dust in the earth to keep them busy indefinitely.
But, as we learn from Mr.. Anterior, the business
of mining has nothing that is agreeable except the
gold that it sometimes, not always produces. In
short, it requires the hardest kind of labor such
only strong constitutions and muscles indurated by
toll can undertake with prospect of success.
Young men delicately brought up, and more
familiar with the drawing room, counting room, or
lawyers office, than with the plough sledge-
hammer had better keep their imagnations free from
all visions of placers rivers floating with gold DUST
and big Jumps of the real stuff to be had for the
picking up. Gold is not to be procured in that way
even in California, but yields itself only to strength
and Skill Even these are not always successful.
Mr. Anterior knew one company which went out
from San Francisco with all the proper TOOLS ma
chimes and accessories, and whose members. after
digging some time, with better zeal than fortune
came back each with flea in his ear and not a iot
of gold in his pocket.
However, a man of the right sort, in respect of
health, strength, and Skill may, with fair luck and
hard and steady work, obtain three ounces Of gold
on an average per day. 1t is not often found in
Jumps. Still Mr.. Anterior has one mass
weighing seven pounds, and friend Of his had
seen another weighing 81 pounds The number of
persons who had been 10 the mipes when he left is
estimated at 10000, but there had not been more
than $500 digging at any one time. One man of his
acquaintance, a blacksmith, had got $4,000 worth
in three weeks. A good many Indians had been
employed as laborers by the miners, but they are
poor assistants. They do not work steadily, and
never can be kept at it above month at time,
when they leave for San Francisco to spend their
earnings in dissipation.
Mr.. Anterior brings with him the bills of lading
of gold to the value of 00000 shipped on English
account, on which he proposes effect insurance
here. Mr. Atherton states that the Lexington has
on board $4,000 worth of the genuine metal
She was about to sail when Mr.. Atherton left for
the United States.
There was nothing doing at the mines when Mr.
Atherton left owing TO the rains it being the rainy
season there not much sickness in the dig
gings, no robberes and no disturbances.