The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-02-22
AN ENGLlsAMAN'S VIEW or CALl.
FQRNIA
From The London Sun.

to this time, reached US from California correct
and the fact that they exhibit no very percep.
tible discrepancy, but rather on the contrary,
corroborate the assertions OF each other-the ell
feet produced both in the New World and in the
Old World, will be more surprising than the most
imaginative Spectator can conjecture.
The aurial riches Of the Sacramento will affect
society in two partculars-hrst, it must materi.
ally alter the value of property and the wages OF
industry; and, secondly, it must forward, in
novel and peculiar de- ree the great experiment
of emigration As to the opportuneness CT the
discovery, it is only necessary 10 bear in recol-
lection that the mines OF Mexico and the strands
of the Pactolus had alike begun TO evince the
exhaustion of the material for the accumulation
of which they had been hitherto worked with so
much assiduity. Only one more region was be-
lieved to be in existence where the spendor of
Dorado and the grandeur OF Cathy were outvied;
but that gion was known to be within the verv
entrails Of an impenetrable despotism. Sir Geo
Simpson, only recently the year lS47 had
hinted at the abundant resources, both in coin
and Jewels, flowing into the Golfers of impenetra-
BILE Russia. from the golden rvulets and diamond
valleys of the Ura mountains. The description
OF the pomp derived from those inaccessible To-
caities may be found by the curious in one of the
final chapters OF the "Overland Journey Round
the World" penned by thatintelligent traveller.
But the gorges Of that gigantic chain of noun.
tains are as much beyond the reach OF the spec.
ulators OF London as the streets OF Peerwaradin
are removed from the familiar haunts of the Es-
quimaux. Hence, it was always with kind of
apathy that the public perused the narrative of
those researches on the confines Of Siberia which
principally interesting to the assayer TO the
geologst, and TO the lapidary. 1t is exactly the
reverse with the republican colony of the u S.
There the apples of the New Hesperdes are not
guarded by the Dragons of tyranny. They can
be plucked without molestation They are ri.
pening, not in the gardens OF Absoluteism but in
those Of Democracy.
Whoever en- pay work his passage over to
San Francisco, can take his matock and basket
and pick up the treasures lying about the ground
for the possession of the first comer Those trea-
sures belong, moreover, not, like the waits and
strays of England to a Sovereign Lord OF the
Manor, but to whomsoever might be fortunate
enough to rake them out of the sand, or to silt
them from the sediment Of running stream, or
to extract them from the assures OF the rocks
They the wages paid by the bouuteous hand
of Nature herself to those who will toll at the
agreeable task of their collection.
Those who are discouraged by the reflection
that the spectators from the United States can
reach California much more rapidly than the
spectators from England, should re- assure them
selves by few very simple considerations
| From New York the journey to San Francisco
cannot be accomplished, by way OF Terra del
| Fuego, under period OF six months by Oh gres
and Panama under two months, and across coun-
! try, by way Of Santa Fe, under very nearly the
| time the one last mentioned. From
England the gold region can be reached in less
than 81 days starting from Liverpool to Chagres,
! thence across the Isthmus to Panama, and on
wards between the coast OF Guadalaxara and the
| Revilagigedo Islands to the Sierra de Nevada
1t is idle consequently to maintain that the pop
ulatiOn, of the United s.a.ss have in this partic-
ular an advantage over the inhabitants of the
United Kingdom.
Of all the consequences of the gold discovery
| in California, however, the most remarkable will
inevitably be the extension OF the settlements on
| the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean. Before
half century has elapsed, the result of the
movement OF the Anglo Saxon race to the ex.
IRENE confines OF the Western hemisphere, 10
those confines will Immediately confront the opu-
lent Spice Islands of the Indian seas will be per-
ceptibIe in the performance OF their sway over
| he archipelago of those oriental climates The
effect will ultimately be to enable the wealth of
the Asiatic races to flow eastwards as well as
westwards-the nutmegs and pimento oil Japan,
| the precious stones OF Golconda, the indigo and
Grape of the Chinese, the muslins of Bengal, the
| scymeters of Dude, the variagated raments of
! Cashmere. While new markets will be thus
! opened for the Injuries of the East double
| source of civilization will act upon the opposite
| f1anks of the oriental races The liberal institu.
tons OF Europe, and the benhcent influences OF
Christianity, will act together upon the effete
| but ductile intellect OF Asia. And by this two.
told impetus barbarism and despotism NAV be
alike exercised, and the worshippers of Budda
and the disciples OF Isamism may both be admit.
ted into the family OF Christendom.
Surprising that the descriptions OF the mineral
wealth of the gold regions should prove 10 have
| been grievously aggravated-which is by no
means improbable, the natural fertility of the
soil, the exquisite geniality of the climate and
the healhiul Indictment to exertion on the part
OF the colonist, cannot fail to render their posi- ion
anything but irksome. The individuals who
have already migrated to the precincts OF the riy-
er Sacramento will inevitably-even, as we have
just limited, in the event OF the gold mania turn
ing out to be bubble-prove the germ of one
OF these mighty settlements, which have from
time to time changed the relative capacity of dit
ferent empires, and accelerated the progress of
the human race in the paths OF civilization.
1t is principally, If not entirely, from these con.
slderatlons that we are disposed 10 regard, with
certain comPlacency, the rage for removal to
California which is now agtang the masses