Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-01-03
From the Daily Globe.
. From the Daily GIobe.
The E.atcst ;1Rnei most Interesting EnteI
ligence from tEae Gold Region.

The E.atcst aRaei most Interesting anteI.
ligence from the Gold Region.
From q semi-ofiicial letter, (lor which
we are indebted 10 Major General JEsUP,
it is apparent that the connection Of Cali
fornia with this country is soon 10 be sue
cee9ed by important results. The range
of gold mountains, extending coo miles,
with their streams, stones, and even their
soil, mixed with gold, will create a new
sort of polarity on the earth, which will
give direction to the enterprise OF the
world with a power as all-pervading as that
which governs the magnet The tide OF
emigration will set TO the shores OF the
Pacific, where our flag secures freedom.
Justice, and equality, with rapidly which
distinguishes all the great recent move.
ments which have their origin in the Uni
ted States. The career oil steam naviga-
,ion, the flight of intelligence on the cleo
trio wires. are but preparatory steps in the
great progress of an age which, by the
discovery Of the gold regions on the west.
ern slopes of this continent, is destinedy In
u few years, 10 lead an immense popula-
ton 10 these shores-cover them with ag-
ricultural industry, busy towns, and an
active commerce-all plying the work of
which the golden mountains are the centre
of attraction. The portion Of our Repub'-
lie which looks toward Asia will not make
the slow progress in filing up with popu-
lution which marked the growth of the COL
onies on the Atlantic side. Colonization
was in its infancy in the first settlement
Of this continent, and could barely crawl.
Nations have malured their machinery for
great movements. and everything is done
with leap-wlh q rapidity characteristic
of this mpulsive era Of the world. Cali
rornia will not be peopled from the United
States: we see that it is already emptying
the Pacific Islands Of their European pop
. ulation, and we shall presently see the
people of all the disturbed States Of Eu.
rope-of the distressed sections Of England
and freland-ffying to the new region,
which invites labor from all quarters by
rewards which no portion of the globe ev-
er held out before. Englishmen. indeed,
had obtained immense grants, and were in
the act Of obtaining more, from the Next
can Government, at the moment Fremont
interposed and prevented them. Some OF
the perfected grants, il they are sustained.
probably extend over portions Of the gold
region, which will thus become exclusive
as private property. And had not the
pronpitude uf Fremont struck his blow
at the critical moment. the English Gov
ernment, rs well as its subjects, would
have been in condition to assert right
to all the wealth which makes that oil the In
dies, in its days of old romance, seem poor
London, IN length, is eight miles, in
breadth three, and in circum erence twen-
tysix. 1t contains 5000 streets, lanes,
alleys and courts, and sixly-fve squares.-
It has 246 churches and chapels, 30'
meeting houses for disscn,es, forty-,hree
chapels for foreigners. and six synagogues
for Jews-maklng SOP places Of public
worship. The number of inhabitants is
at present estimated al about 1000, 600.
In this vast city there are 1000 semina-
ries for education. 10 institutions for pro-
noting the arts and sciences, l22 asylums
for the INDECENT. II for the sick and lame,
13 dispensarles, 704 charitable institutions.
So courts of justice. 1000 professional
men connected with the law. There are
1890 vessels trading on the river Thames
in The year, and 10000 wagons going ene
returning to the metropolis in the same pc
riod. The exports and imports, to ant
from the Thames, are estimated at Eos,
ell ,222 annually, and the property float
ing in the vast city every year is s'fl7O,