Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1849-10-17
From the New York Tribune.
Sixteen Days Later from Cali
fOrnin.

= San francisco to August 10, being
sixteen days later than the news
brought by the steamer Panama.
This intelligence was received thro'
Mazatlan, Mexico and Vera Cruz,
and reached New York in the mail
of the British steamer Severn, by
way of Mobile.
The news from the mines is of a
quite glowing character; the yield Of
gold was steady, and though there
was, as matter of course, much dis
appointment among individuals, the
general report was highly satisfacto-
ry. It is estimated that the aver
age product Of all the mines togeth-
er thus far, since the beginning OF
the season, has been $1,000, 900 per
month, and there was thought to be
no doubt of its continuance at the
same rate of abundance. No change
is quoted in the prices either of gold
or merchandise.
The health of the population both
at the mines and elsewhere, is gen.
orally good, and neither Cholera nor
any other serious malady is reported
as having made its appearance.
The jealous unfriendly feeling
which has SO long been in existence
between the American and South
American of Spanish origin, has at
last approached crisis, and by the
next arrival we may expect to hear
Of grave collision at least ifthe par
ty warned off display anything like
manly spirit. The Americans have
determined that the Mexicans and
Chilians who are at the mines shall
no longer enjoy the privilege of dig
ging out the riches of the earth, and
have taken deliberate measures ac-
cordingly. All companies # these
nations who have come organized to
work for the season, with the inten-
ton of returning to spend the Win
ter and wet season at home, have
been informed that their presence
will no longer be tolerated, and have
received positive orders to leave the
gold region and not return. The
more active and energetic part OF
the American mining population are
understood to be engaged in this
new movement of nativeism, but we
are not informed what number of
persons are actually engaged in this
expulsive movement, nor how the
parties would bematched in case of an
attempt forcibly to compel the Mex
leans and Chilians to evacuate; but
there appears to be no doubt that
the latter would have no resource
but to submit at last.
The order to evacuate allows a
fixed time, sufficient for the retiring
parties to make all necessary prep
arations. The Americans seem, from
our information, to have proceeded
very calmly about it, and up to the
lSth no disturbances whatever had
taken place; they were waiting for
the expiration of the allotted period,
after which, should the rejected ad-
venturers refuse to leave, they would
set about making them. When that
moment arrives there is in the ma
ture of the case, danger of fighting
and bloodshed.
Politics seem to be much more
quiet through the Territory than at
the last dates, when the hustle of
the elections had not yet ended, and
the excitement of parties was still
fresh. Now it is comparatively stag
nant. Not a word is mentioned in
our advices about the proposed
State Constitution, nor is the Con-
vention so much as alludedt'. From
this, the inference naturally is, that
the people are too intently occupied
with the great business of taking out
gold and getting rich to devote any
great amount of thought, in the hot
weather Of the dog-days, to any
thing of so little personal interest as
public affairs in country where the
spoils of the Treasury are not so
rich as those of the placers, nor so
easy of access and exciting in the
acquisition as those of faro bank or
a roulette tabl,.
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