The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-01-28

California.
The last news from California has the gold fever
up y red heat. The New York Commercial says
Vessels continue be bought up and put the berth
for the Pacific. To-day have two fndiameR. the
Samuel Russell and Helena up for San Francisco Sew
eral vessels will leave port this week. The ships
South Carolina, Hamilton, Pacific. Panama. and Robert
Browne, and barques Keoka and Eliza nearly ready
and will be of day or two Some OF the vessels
only waiting for the bakershe demand for hard bread
being such that It is with difficulty the contracts be
| fulfilled
from New York alone; among them are some of the
largest class. such a, the ships Morrison, Memnon.
Courier, George Washington. Flavus Ofpheus John G.
Coster Elizabeth Ellen, Henry Harbeck, Loo Choo, &C.
| The GOLD FEVER IN CHIsA-Ths Chin chins have
caught the Infection; and private letters received by
balloon express state that immense number Of junks
are "up" for the gold market The Boston Transcript
gives this extract from bonn file letter Just received
from Canton from genuine Celestial to brother he has
the China Tea Companys store in Washington street,
Boston:
| "Good many American men speak of California Oh !
very rich ooan'5y hear good many american and
hear Oh! some people say get money very qscK
every day two or three pound; OF gold each. feel as
next summer Alter going to America first suppose no,
keep Oh! Cal fornia is very pleasant I'ace-new
That is good for China ffaid mother like
go there. Peoo'e tell that months sail is the
distance from here there wish you would come back to
China soon, and wait here fr This you count
upon. l afraid you will laugh "
letter received from Cuba, and published in the New
York Despatch, dated Havana, December 30, contains
the following curious remark:
1.-The California gold fever is beginning take here
Mendez Garcia who assisted lawson preparing map
of the gold dggngs from actual surveys in
OF Cortczind he that lis the quickest and most
practicable OF all the routes TO California and it Is nearly
200 miles shorter than Chages, and healthy and
&c momical The immediate want is stout little steamer
for the navigation OF the RIVER up 10 The "a
,ained in any quantity, at the rate OF 70 passenger and
tor each $50 lbs of baggage which, by the way, should
1 q ID
weight
ing The right of way the hmus of Tehu
aniepec, {the isthmns Of Coez ought to say and in
proportion of loss becomes understood il
will be and more subject of regret Panama will
be poor substitute for that short California and
Oregon"
| The N. Y Evening Post says: We understand that
Mr. Walker Secretary of the Treasury, declared
months ago that the discoveries OF gold about TO be male
in California would unsettle the business of the world
is fact that good time is coming for Debtors if
one else.
Correspondence Of the N Y. Courierl
| MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, Oct 2)th, 1913.
| The Pacific Squadron has arrived his place from
mill the 18th inst The Ships here the Qho Dale,
expected hourly. from The United States
Here San Francisco and in fact throughout all pper
California, gold, gold, cold, the cry. Fortunes beng
made, squandered, and recnperaed Everybody going
70 the placer + .hee or has been There the
has removed his headquarters hitler Deseitions
the ma ter Or a merchantmen in port offers hun-
died dollars onth for seamen TO carry his ship to Caao
twenty and thirty ships are lying at San Francisco
without the slightest prosper OF Obtaining crews
his departure for the mines yesterday TIL object of
his is possible to imagine However, in conse-
a party remained here himself circular letter from
the commandern-chief to the Pacific squadron was bat
recently read the quarter decks OF oil the vessels,
which he speaks OF the plae as dieu lous golden
@c Nc Bn, , ss 1 on arriving ,a IL Mos a
depose of about four hundred square miles the edge OF
even the governor Of the newly acquitted territory was
among the degers he prepared for journey to the land OF
dreas must be admitted that IN this case precept
much better than example
But you can conception Of the Of affairs
stark starting mad Officers Of the army have so far Tor
gotten their dignity TO commence system OF specnla-
IT, s. upon them, may be travelling brisk rate.
and surrounded by parties OF gentlemen. in high spirits,
mounted fine horses, strong mules some OF which
almost branded as above, all taking norhwad course
In these wagons are visible saddle bags pots kettles
nation he would find nicely slowed away underneath all
ns sed not be surprised yS as ID ,d
everybody mad. Talk Of M,rch Aaresnonsenss the
smilltude must be changed to YdHkees IN California
From the New Orleans Pics une. January Is.
| We have. been kindly favored by Mr.. Mexican Bu-
chanan, b of this city, in the following extracts of
letter from his father. Purser Buchanan of the navy
The letter arrived on Thursday from Vera Cruz and was
in answer letter which left here late September
18th for Mazatlan. This shows the Mexican mails 10 be
pretty we'll ordered The Letter not written for pub
freshness of its tone and unprecedented character:
U. s. SuiP DALE, (Maza,lan,) Nov. 20, 1913
Wewl sail for San Bias to receive 100000
for army, and then will sail for the Sandwich islands.
We will remain Ho and Honolulu short time, and
San Francisco and Upper California early in Feb
ruay We leave abont the 2h of February for Valparaiso
and Rio and hope reach the United States beloc
August 10Th.
You will doubt haze hea ID this reaches you the
very extensive gold mines which have been discovered in
Upper California, about miles from San Francisco
When sailed from Monterey the 81 of November,
said there were about Tour thousand persons washing
digging and collecting gold dust Some is in very large
pieces One piece taken Of solid gold weighing TWEEN
tyoar pounds; and another pounds Pieces OF
from one twenty quite II about
and high in Upper California AT the mines labor is from
fifteen dollars per day; board dollars per day,
NTH the priuege Of sleeping under pair Of blankets
ia worth eighty dollars jacket $50 Tea is worth
five dollars pound, and everything in like proportion
Just before ef Stevenson's regiment mustered
of service and nearly all went up the mines; al
though there snow the ground Captain H,leck.
of the engineer corps who has been there says there
tale in the Arabian Nights half and golden
these mines pacers. they called. The gold is
collected the surface OF the earth and in vuefs from
An of three hundred miles by
thirty fifty broad has been explored, and due from
two hundred miles yet pIored contains gold Nume
vessels from here have gone up loaded with goods
money, and passengers and people from all parts of tho
world Hooking there great numbers There have
been many deaths as maay are obliged to stand in the
water their knees with intense their heads,
and many are laid up with fevers The gold there is
worth rather sells $lI Sl3 per troy ounce is
worth about fi9 in the United Safes.
The storc-ship Lexington will sail for the United States
about the Ist Of ecember with about 100 in gold
She received Monterey $4,000 in gold We expect to
receive a very large freight