The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-18

So, ~ we'll of As any Great Britain When We
read Of loo nansy hap thinking ectmsnts have
or,ethipg TO with It, In the MIDST OF TINS misery
@ misery there undoubtedly Is to fearful extent
ionis sscrbe the deaths by starvation first
neve those who secondly to the cheaPness of
food in other words they maintain that the Irish pea
sarves because there Is plenty Of food ana
keep him alive Other hold the probably opinion,
that loss Of the potato crop the cause OF the fam
inc and that vicious system Of landlordsm has rem
dered the island peculiarly subject to that visitation
The controversy is imported by the aosentees into TINS
sand and we find ourselves the subject Of much angry
crticism by Irish proprietors residing English wa
tarng places for the Fin Of making them maintain their
own moor at the same time that to put q
spote in their wheel whenever they asking for q
grant from the imperial exchequer.
The English View or tho California Gold
Discovery.
From the London Times May IL
The advces just received from the United States
sert that the stream Of emigrants to California has
up to this moment, been uninterruptedly continued.
We have keeping steadily In view the information
periodically arriving from these quarters connected
with Of the strangest events Of times and
although the history Of the settlement has
tainiy not yet emerged tn. period of barbarism
our readers may, perhaps be amused with summary
Of what has transpred since our last on
noticed in the intelligence from San Francisco Is attri
butable to the suspension OF operations during the
winter, and expect TO the colony taking
the Geld again great strength with the which
has now opened 1t should be remembered, too, in con-
Il at the scene laid almost the remotest quarter
Of the habitabe earth San Francisco being only not
quite 80 far off Vancouver's Island. As MIR. Web
ster observed the other day the American Senate,
tho voyage undertaken by the citizens OF the States
from the province of New York to the province OF Ca
forna win be the longest prosecuted the face Of
the globe There has, hitherto moreover, been very
little correspondence between the gold districts
and Western Europe Our intelligence has been almost
exclusively received from American ports, and 1t Is
difficult to say what may mot hsLe or lost
The most singular condition attaching to the terrific
~ question has at length we believe been partially
Terminated. The richest province in the world Is no
longer without owner. it has now been proclaimed
that the regions the Sacramento are the national
property Of the United States and that the privilege
OF exploring the soil Is obtainable only the usual
considerations. What effect this announcement may
produce in the absence Of machinery for enforcing
the law on the spot unable to conjecture but
the declaration, said, would not be lest the
gscous emigrants from the Union 1t the resolu-
tion We informed Of these free and enlightened
citizens to employ this ordinance against all foreign
In the case Of ali upon territory not their
Even before this announcement there seemed to have
Keen some efforts made to establish national owner
ship, for real estate" reported selling at ten
thousand dollars the twenty five yards though
what functionares gave the title or received the cons
Iteration money is more than say Tho revenue
laws of the States, however, have been enforced but
port prevent the ingress Of imitation gold dust,
the settlers have loudly expressed their
that their first nstalment of law should
appear in the form Of tax.
TO what extent the colonization of this district has
been really carried it Is difficult to say letter from
Francisco incidentally dscloses the fact that at
the of the present year the white SET
tiers about 600 in number but the tide of emil
grafton has been setting steadily in that direction
since. According to q calculation made in America,
few weeks back, 200 vessels stated have
taken their departures for California conveying
average about 60 emgrants each or these fully
fourths took the tedious route round Cape Horn and
about eighth that by Chagres, while the remainder
debarked at Vera Cruz, Tampico, or the Brazos To
these must be added the supplies carried by overland
Jefferson, and NauvooJ and the contributions from,
Oregon and the Pacific islands, though too much stress
as the entire adult population, white and red, young
and old, natives and immigrants, at the diggings
gagged in washing sitting, aud exporting gold dust.
more single minded settlement than that OF San
Francisco probably never existed There is but orc
trumps They dig and wash wash and dig, and dig
again No slave drivers Of Cuba ever conceived such
an work to be reaizable from human instru-
ments Is here performed, where every man Is his
task master. There is Sabbath, though party
of diggers less abandoned than the Others devised
kind Of compromise between their profession and their
duties spent the first day of the home, lin
bags Of Oow.hide.'' Provisions have found their way
to the colony, In tolerable abundance but sickness
serious calamity where doctors visit costs six ounces
Of gold and advice another ounce-was prostratng
great numbers Of the diggers Who the physicians
Or BY what good luck this single Of the learned
professions has found representatives the Sacra-
mento we are unable to say Ministers Of religion
there are none not even Roman Catholic missionary
usually carries in his cartridge.box.
The consequences have not been long in disclosing
themselves. Murders reported in such extraor-
binary numbers to the nearest magistratetha Is to
say the in chief Of the naval forces the
Pacific Ocean-that this ohcer issued order to the
ships of his squadron directing search to be made for
asassins In all vessels leaving San Francisco, and
exhibit recent traces Of mutny or murder Robbing
hives seems to have been found more agreeable pas
does pundered first the diggers and then other
and finally the crews hired to carry of the gold dust
with the prize So truly the affairs estima
ted that advertising columns be observed to
addresses 70 e.
most destructive principles and at the lowest terms
while in America resolution Of Congress has autho
rized the supply of from the government stores
1t is not little remarkable that after the continue
tion Of these frantic borrowings for more than half
year little gold should actually be forthcoming.
We do not mean to throw any doubt on the substan-
tal accuracy Of the intelligence received the
trary admit that the character Of the accounts is
rreconceable according the accepted rules of evil
dence with any supposition but that Of their general
truth. STILL it il extraordinary that little effect
should as yet haze been PRODUCED even in the more
contiguous country Of the States. Hitherto the ope-
ration Of the discovery has been exactly the
Of that anticipated; and 1t Is the flow Of gold to Cali
market" said our New York correspondence few
weeks frightened in consequence Of the export
of gold to California and discount in Wall street
rules at from to IL per cent per snnum" 1t
tmated that at least 900 goo dollars had to that
remitances from this port scarcely reached by the
highest calculations to 900 600 and were more
sonaby set at 500 ooo-very little Of which had
tuslly arrived that the balance at present was
greatly against the diggings. The commercial jour
mails expressed hopes that California would surely
ere llong contribute gold to the supply of the
treasury" but Of the precious cargocs seemed to
have been heard Of nearer home than Valparaiso. 1t
will be grand day when the first galleon Of the
public Fails up the Hudson and disgorges her golden
tribute do mean to say that some such event
may not speedily take place. But the experience Of |
six months has certainly gone far to show that the
effects Of this prodgious discovery will prove readily
hmitabe and that no such arrangement OF European
commerce as originally apprchcnded is likely to |
ensue
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