Baltimore commercial journal, and Lyford's price-current. [volume] (Baltimore, Md) 1840-1849, 1849-02-03

Is 900 or $50 900 worth of gold each, in three or
four months. clerk can obtain salary OF > LOUD
a year from any merchant here, and at the mines
boy TO attend shop can command SIS day Flour
has sold here at + pound and blankets at $ 100
each. young in a store here told me that he
paid short visit TO the mines, carrying with him
few articles amounting in value TO Sl9O' These he
Cold has lately been found at a spot not sixty miles
from Monterey. At the mine it is sold for SO or
81 ounce. At this place, a short time since, 1t
brought s. 10 an ounce; now it commands s ii and
Sll 80.
1t is amusing to see the spectators in the precious
dust running around to purchase it. How Is gold
this morning.; is common question, Tor 1t IS up and
down like bank stock.
Uncle Sam makes money here on his old clothes
aud provisions. lie had some provisions and cloth
ing which condemned as unfit for use, winch
were sold day before yesterday at auction. OId pea
jackets, moth catcn and which cost, when en-
tircly new, Sc, sold for about s TO- Damaged flour
which scarncn would not cat was sold for Sl4
barrel
You may think the accounts Of the gold discovc-
rics exaggerated, but | you they not.
The following fact hesitate to tell you, because it
seems incredible, but ii is, nevertheless, tact
friend Of the French Consul (and the Consul has
reported the same to his Governmcnt,) went out
days since to the gold region lie dug for four
days, during which time he got forty pounds Of gold!
There are plenty Of Jumps found weighing from one
to pounds each, and it is said there is piece in
san Francisco weighing twenty five pounds. Indeed,
an acquaintance assured me ne had held ii in his
hand Truly yours, l.
The Washington Union urges upon Congress the
necessity of providing at the present session, such
Legislation will establish the protection of law to
person aud property in California, and quotes in sup
port of its views the following letter, dated
New York, January 81, 1919.
There is the greatest excitement here you can i'm
agnc, about the newly discovered gold region, Hun
drcds and thousands preparing for California, and
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;i VI" r. "ng VI J 5i an d
WILL ne sae" p;s'tss III ''i%' lint "ip a. 81
iio'" III o', '"t' t''o VIZ si" nI"i ~ O'oo"s..
%n ''.' Nv W ,hy e' St f b ,
to California 90 prepared with the NECESSARY mate
rails to wash the golden sand prepare them
selves win me comforts Oh me lhcy 20 WIN just
a largr n,aioritv are comnosrd If vonn~ men who
have never been brought up to labor but have lived
an idle and dissipated life. Can these young men
20 to the gold REGION and expose themselves to the
hot and waters of the Sacramento? 1t will be
death to them. None but the hardy and labOring
man can stand and work in the streams of Calfor
MIA, without sacrificing their health. And what will
be the consequence? why, hundreds, whose con-
stitutions will not admit Of their applying themselves
10 that kind OF labor, will prey upon the abors OF
others and who is TO protect them from the awless
acts Of robbers and mnrdcrers' Not our govern
m'n, it seems; for ! believe Congress Will DO moth
ing this session towards extending law and order
over this new territory: The life of one good cItl.
zen IS worth years OF Legislation by Congress; yet
mark my word! hundreds of lives will be sacrificed
by their neglect, and the blood OF the victims WIZ
rest on the heads OF these manufacturers OF Pnohc
cannot say pro'ecors W n1t I mou' u, ~
She would have had law and order there She
would have had her vessels OF war and her thou,
us Vi uoIl;s mere " , p ~ "
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nv ny s'r"t l,o'"' wv" ~; -. a e. If Con-
WIN lSNoi''ls' o,N' H, 49, 49, ~ III
Sr'SS "o.s not eN'enu ls Pi"lIo,'s iii' Nv ri
cum r tl'Se ;i VI m b Joh
to the offender.
strife of Socjetu in the Gold Rcrion-Nr Ten
FL. ,o Co,r,issio,or ot tho Sandwich
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islands, writes nome 10 MS Ileh"s at w "'er'o"h'
New York under date of August 9th:
s.I bo-o ,is;tod tb, I;gri,gs somc f,rtv miles
,on W bat ;s called the American For of the Sacra-
mcnto; almost every ward is occupied, aud all are
getting out quantities OF ore nave about 70 worm
OF gold aust whlch washed OUT my i iH 'nJ
course OF two or three hours. shaii keep Us OF
course, as mcmcnto OF what mysel nave uone III
gold digging The elect OF inns discovery wiz Dc
bad Tor The morals oil the country, anu VIII rum All
IT'S prospects as farming or agricultural country
would not again go through what nave 10 see Hie
country, and would not See do'rn 10 ttce IN tJo'
al The god IN me MINES. ne mode OF me Is nonri,
Die, aud more diSSPated ana h,nlora SCI VI PeoPT
never yet saw People are Hooking IN mere from all
parts OF the coast and as soon as me news reaches
foreign parts the worst oil their population VII emf
crate hher. pity any decent white man VINO may
live in this region SIX months hence
MANY exaggerated stories are in circulation in re-
c.,,,, 9, C,aIic,rri, aud lie ooIdcn produc,s The
New York tribune has the loiiowing'-
Mr. Lippett, formerly teacher in the school Of
the Brothers Pcugnct, in this city, and who went
out as captain in the California regiment, has writ
ten letter. which at his request, was read TO the
scholars of the Messrs. Pcugnet's school, among |
whom he was always fovorite. He states that he
is in excellent health aud will return in three