The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-06-25

frame house, boards and all, as ! is framed, tor
$500 thousand, which cost, freight and all, here,
go. If only had cargo here, could make my
fortune comrlete; but plenty is coming soon, Nine
vessels arrived here the day we got in, and they
are arriving daily. There are now in port 65 yes
sells The Ohiols h,i~ad imagine my feelings,
alter travelling l,500X...es, on horseback, TO see
the American flag once more floating in the breeze.
All the crews are deserving here, soon as they
arrive; our crew are all hand-cufied. All | want
is 10 GO TO the mines and get little, and then come
time will tell ALL | advise no one to come out
here, 10 make money. There is plenty of gold;
but TO get 1t is like lottery. Some work for one
day and 20 home; others stay months. have not
seen man who has been digging gold year.
:, have mnde up my mind not to drink drop of
liquor. Such men as manage San Francisco now
are rascaIs, with few excep,ions-generally drunk.
VIII tell you d positive tact-that land sold here
considered here Of any value. Can such state
OF things remain long No, no. Who is to give
such enormous pricrs for articles Certainly
reaction is TO come quantities OF the higher artl-
Giles mentioned are shipped continually from the
Pacific coasts Yesterday, gunpowder was worth
$40 per ID, to-day So; Tomorrow, probably $40
again. Here you see all nations. The regiment
Of infantry sent from New York has Just arrived,
and many of the officers know well. Some wa
CONS shipped on board a vessel by which A.
sent some things around on the ID OF November,
sold tor $500 piece and the boxes they came
packed in sold for more than the original price of
knows what Is coming, and therefore cannot send
tor any thing, because he either makes his fortune
IN trying II, or loses all. am now making ar
rangements TO learn al the mines, while am there
what is gong on at San Francisco. | can get
$4,000 per year; Governor Smith has offered NE
that.
SAN Francisco, California, April %, lai9
Having few leisure moments, | will improve
them by writing another letter from this important
city OF San Francisco. expected to leave imme-
diately after writing the other, but having got on
board brig for Stockton, below the Stanislaus
mines, The crew all deserted us-and now we, with
all our luggage, on board this same brig in San
Francisco Bay, expecting to get off Tomorrow
There are now lying IN this harbor, a number of U.
s war vessels; the Ohio is here, and sloop o'-war
ST. May's. have concluded to go to the mines
till my Instruments arrive, and then try my luck at
engineering. There are number of new cities
building in the vicinity OF Sacramento and San
you probably have not yet heard Of. All is luck
here, respecting the gold. | saw, yesterday, two
men just from the mines, who had been there six
weeks, and one had $l,640. the other $500
Some work weeks, and do not make one single
cent.
The blue laws prevail or rather, Lynch laws
If man be caught stealing, he'receves $50 lashes
on the bare back and letters sent to all the other
mines, stating his crime and appearance /; and If
he is caught again. at any other mines, he receives
200 more II again, he Is taken to a tree, and
shot Some have made $1,000 week. Provi-
sions are exceedingly high at the mines, the cost
every one that the labor is much harder than any
other kind of work that it is excessively hot
there and there are not less than 20, 900 people at
work, digging for the yellow ore / Just came
from an extensive house here, and they showed
me an invoice OF good goods which they had lust
offered for the cost of the things in New York
Gust the face of the invoice.) Saeratus is So per
h., butter 81 per ID. shoves only 81 apiece,
and crowbars S. AT the BARRIERS they charge ST
for cntting your HAIR, 81 for shampooing, and 50
cents for shaving.
1t is singular, how some things that are sent,
supposed to be wanted most, are cheapest, and as
cheap as in the States. Furniture, there is none.
A man with steam engines and saw mill attached,
might make his fortune; for across the bay, is
some of the finest timber you ever saw-and near
San Francisco there is more. But you cannot
make money here, unless you have capital to start
with, that is certain. The land of San Francisco
is very uneven indeed-laid out with no regv-
larity, and comparatively nothing done for it, as
city. There is no lime here at all; and so cheap
is cotton clsth, that II is taken TO answer the pur-
pose Of ceilings and walls; painted, after being
tackled on 10 Intermediate oists, placed to receive
1t. understand, after the first Of May no foreign
ers will be allowed to enter the port or land.