The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-02-23

tons of law and usage which daily arise, there ar
many of the old inhabitants, as well as of the re
| cent Immigrants to California, who believe or a
leaSt profess to believe, that my presence shor
| will add strength and influence to the law an,
order-abldng portion of the community.
have the honor to be, your obedient servant.
Commander-n- chief u s. Naval Forces Pacific Ocean
10 the Hon. JOHN Y MASON. Secretary of the Navy,
The Union adds Lieut. Lanman, of the Uni
ted States Navy, arrived last evening in Washing
ton, In the Southern steamer as bearer of dis
patches from the commander of the Pacific squad
ron AT Paita, on the 18th January utimo, he tool
passage in the mail steamer California and arrived
at Panama on the Eth. On the Goth, the Calfor
MIA was to sail for San Francisco We learn from
Lieut. Lanman that there were about five hundred
persons, including Gen. Smith and other officers
waiting at Panama for passage up the coast
Lieut. L. Is confident in the opinion that they were
all accommodated with passage in the steamer
The American ship Philadelphia and an Fnolish
vessel, discharged coal at Panama. There had no,
Deen much sickness or mortality on the sthmus. u
The following extracts are from a letter from a
printer, in the New York Sun:
After gathering as much "dllst'' as we could
without endangerlng our lives, party concluded
TO return TO the settlements. We had been gone
only twenty four days, and in that time ten of us
Seven men and three boys collected five hundred
and seventy eight ounces which at sixteen dollars
an ounce, the market price here, was something
over nine hundred dollars for each hand.
have said that the mines are unlimited-in ex-
tent, mean. There is undoubtedly limit to their
productyeness, for three pacers have already been
exhausted, and do not believe that any veins have
been found in the mountains.
Since June last four millions of dollars worth
have been washed out, nearly one-fourth of which
has been paid to South Americans and English mer-
chants for merchandise and supplies sent here from
all along shore" A quarter of million has gone
tha IrIta Stofa Il. l.
ing down to be forwarded by the U. S. ship Lexing-
ton and other vessels, for New York. The Lex
ington has nearly half million on board. The
captain is in some doubts about the propriety of
taking more.
The merchants, however ARE gathering the largest
share OF this glorious harvest. Capt. Suffer is sell
ing off his last crop at enormous advances. He is
now engaging freight here for New York, on a
large amount of ore, reported at $4,000, on his
own account.
Many of the New York boys are going home in a
few weeks. Winter has set in at the placers: thew
are compelled to abandon their tents and what it
would cost them to build houses, at present prices
would pay their passages home. They are return
Ing daily from the mines, being greatly disappoint-
ed in the climate, which it was supposed was very
mild. White frost set in at the upper placer on the
Sd of November, and black frost on the I'd instant,
with heavy snow on the mountains, but none as
yet in the valleys. A very rich placer was found
last month near the boundary line separating Ore
gon from California, but the winter setting in SO
suddenly, it cannot be worked until spring.
Medicines scaIcer than DOCTORS and in better
demand OF lawyers and printers we have an
abundance, and the clergy are well represented by
the benevolent Catholic padres, who would have a
complete monopoly of ecclesiastical affairs We're it
not for the MOrmons.
The Express publishes long letter, dated Dec
7, from which we select the following passages:
l have just returned from the washings, with an
invoice of the " root of all evil" which mean to
deposit safely here, then | will go back again, to
accumulate little more, after which shall return
to this place, and take passage with my treasure in
the first ship for New York.
Most of our company 81 have formed CO CO.
in the digging business We work
on the mutual plan, and live altogether pretty much
after the system of that worthy philosopher, Charles
Fourier. The tents which our regiment brought
from New York, are all worn out now, so that we
are obliged to make a kind of mud hut on the
TO sleep in at night. Those mud
huts are grouped together, grotesquey enough, and
present at a distance very much the appearance of
so many mOle-hills.
/ have been in the dggings something like three
months, and though have scraped up enough of
the dust to make me comfortable for life Gf | can
only get it shipped TO New York y | would not 90
through the suffering and prvations again for
ten times the quantity. There was, however, no
alternative left but to go to the mines. Provisions,
became all of a sudden so exorbtanty high that
to stay in San Francisco was but to starve.
OF course, we have no law here, and are not
likely to have any Every man is his own legisla-
tor, his own judge and jury, and in some instances
could mention, the administration of Justice is
dispensed summariIy enough. Society, however,
is not as bad as it might be; but, have already
there isevery reason to fear for the future
Among the gold-diggers great many print |
FRS, who making vastly more profitable specu-
alton picking up scales and Jumps, than they did |
n New York, picking up the types. Indeed, every
lrt and profession is well represented at the |
yashings
The whole amount of gold collected at the wash
ngs since the excitement first broke out is vari-
,usly estimated-some put it down as high as four
Millions Of dollars, but this think is little too high
Who of you at home, seeing what a crowd of |
5agabonds we were on Governors Island, just be-
ore got up that everto aforementioned 6meute |
With Col. Stevenson, would have ever imagined so |
,reat a change in our affairs. Many of us are ma
,obs now, instead of Migrants as we were then
Capt. B. is rich, Private Simpson is richer, and |
col. S. richest; but we have all made out pretty
yell considering