The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-20
ar ended These lands cannot be worth anything

war ended These lands cannot be worth anything
without population, and the bubble OF the gold re,
Q on has been got up more TO attract attention and
draw immigrants on this side OF the Rocky Noun
taine, than for any other purpose. mere nave oeen
away With the prospect OF making fortune, have
found s.the elephant" and have written in, wishing
70 compound matters and return to duty. This has
been refused them, and the result has been that not
less than dozen have been hung up between hea-
ven and earth for robberies and assassinations.-
Thus you have the Dorado of California, or pic
sure OF II. Since have gone far will tell you one
which ! think will cap anything you heard of du-
ring the war, not excepting the elephant.
hoosier purchased in this place, few days
ago. % worth OF pins and needles ne carried ne,i
TO Suffers Fort, and there sold $500 worm, ana
wrote back to a friend that he had S2,ooo worm Oh
hand still
Gov. Lane passed through this city sh9Lt tl he
just anchored, eight days from CounlDla river
She reports that the governor had not arrived ana
that all was quiet IN the country. uoI b., roo,, .ro
pretty much like the game " heads WIN, tails you
lose.h If a man finds an ounce OF gold, hunger
obliges him to give 1t Tor niorsel 10 eat; so, as
told me the other day. there is no gaming any
There is nothing like civil government here, nor
do believe there Is a man of sabe enough In hun
in all California TO form a code of laws Every
body does as he pleases, and General Smith will
have pretty time of il to put things to rights now
BY this time, California ought to be territory, and
civil governor apo inted
i believe have given you all the news OF the
day. shall myse return 10 Mazatlan very short
ly, and hope TO the United States. l am tired Of
being tossed about.
Mdshpman Beale, who left Washington with
the duplicate dispatches brought out by me- has not
arrived, nor has he been heard from. lie may be
blocked up in the snow in the Sierra Madre. At
last accounts, Lieut.. Beale had reached Santa Fe
in safety and was on his way to California, by Col
Cookies route.l have heard much OF the climate
Of California, but never tried it. At the present
time, il is cold, rainy and dlsagreeable-,no nothing
Like the Mexican sky-and. if possible, more
ehangeable than in the United States in the same
latitude. This, they say, has been an extraordl-
p. s. The news of Old lacks election has been
received, and was brought by me. Much JOY and
NO terms to him, say /.
Correspondence of the Newark Daily Advertiser.l
SAN FRANCISCO, March l. lSf9.
Happening in at the countlng-room of Messrs:
Starkey, Janlon ~ co. am informed OF vessel
TO Mazatlan, the mail for which will close in an
hour. l avail myself, therefore, of the opportu-
nifty to write ,hurriedly and very briefly.
My labors have been uninterrupted since my ar
rival here from the Islands, and have continued
70 have a full congregation on the Sabbath There
Is certainly no reason to complain OF my reception
or treatment here by the community. Although
we have no church organization as yet, / have en-
5oyed my appropriate labors here vastly more thar
ever at the Islands. In addition to two regular ser
mons, each Sabbath, and lecture on Wednesday
evening, have also for two months past preached
one in Hawaiian on Sabbath afternoon, besides
lecturing repeatedly on temperance and we have
organized temperance society OF nearly forty
members The monthly concert is also observed,
and we have once celebrated the Lords Supper,
having twelve COMMITMENTS.
Hitherto, have had the aboring oar alone, but
kind Providence has just sent two more laborers
INTO the field. The long expected steamer Cali
fornia arrived yesterday morning, bringing among
other passengers several ministers. One Rev. Mr.
Wiley went on shore at Monterey last week. His
associate Tin the service of the Home Missionary
Society Rev. Mr. Douglass, is here and took my
bed last night taking the floor, for the town is
really crowded-ful and overlooking. The other
two clergymen renamed on board-Rev. Mr..
Woodbridge, from Long Island, sent out by the
Assembly's Board, and Rev. Mr.. Wheeler and
lady, late of Jersey City, belonging to the Baptist
Church.
Tomorrow shall accompany Mr.. Douglass &c
the Pueblo de San Jose, about so miles south Of
this: He was to be stationed here, but finding me
on the ground goes there, where probably a sup
port can be Immediately raised for him by the re-
sidents. Mr.. Woodbridge will probably go some.
where to the northeast, up, the golden stream; !
like the appearance of all the brethren, and shall
render them any aid in my power TO locate as ad;
welcome, and bid them hearty 4" God speed"
The country is likely to fill! up rapidly. Proba-
bly, thousand passengers have arrived within
fortnight We hear the excitement in the States
Is very great, and that both across the continent,
by the 1shmus and around the Cape great num-
bers are focking hther But, oh, the worldliness
the moral desolation this gold fever creates
New discoveries of the precious dust are constant
ly being made.
NJ and the children are still at the Islands, but
look for them during this month, and expect to
have finished for them small house now in pro-
gress. Lumber is only $500 per thousand feet! |
tember Both, but none by the steamer. The :" Cali
fornia will not be able to return soon for the want
OF coal. She does not go to Oregon.
In great haste, T. DWIGHT Hunt.