The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-03

Fourth states that respectable persons having not less
than flOO, are wanted 10 complete panty; and NTH
TINT sea-iarins man Is ready 10 go equal shares In
purchasing schooner TO sail ON speculation" What
number may DO found to answer these appeals II III
impossible 10 conjecture. Commonssensc,would say
not one but experience Of what has been practised
IN this country, over and over again, reminds us that
the active parties on the present occasion are not cal
culating too largely on the credulty OF their country
mon,
The advertisements in question will be paid by
many hard earned siSpencGs and shings eagerly
lodged as the preliminary deposit allowed by the 7lh
and Sth Victoria and considerable surplus will still
doubtless reward the enterprise OF the promoters
In this respect therefore, warning Is unfortunately
needed As regards emigration, parties may be left
TO take their chance also the shippers Of assorted
goods. That the country will be pandemonium
long before any one can reach It from this side Is
hardly 10 be doubted, unless, indeed, the United
States government shall have been able to establish
blockade and Gordon, in which case the new arri-
walls will have to get back as well as they can.
But there is no question that the first corners stand
the chance OF large gain II they are able TO fight for
H. and there Is little danger OF starvation since the
district abounds with deer and rabbits, and grain will
flow there in quantities from the southern republics
while as regards articles OF manufacture, the sand
wich Islands, long oyerstocked, will be able to send
supplies Those who go out, have, therefore, at all
events, some compromising prospect for their risk
but for those at home who may be deluded into part
Ing with their money not shadow OF its return can
exist. This would be the case under any circum-
stances since the idea of London board being able
to insure that the practical head gentlemen Of their
| expeditions and the bodies Of laboiers accustomed
to the extraction Of gold in all its forms shall toll for
them and not for themselves when the uuited States
government even by the severest discipline, can
scarcely command the service Of single individual
on the station, Is too preposterous to be reasoned
| about. When, however, we observe that, except In
one case, where the list contains captain with the
simple address California and merchant Of New
York; who IL unfortunately not to be found in the
New York Directory, no names are given OF the san
gune directors who hold out the present bats, IL
8. SINS almost beyond patience that the blind impulse
Of greed should be 50 overwhelming as TO impose
even for a moment the duty Of expostulaion,
From the Liverpool Mail January 10
Gods II is the God Of this world. Only whisper
the wod, and Its worshippers fall down on their
mountain top. Tell where II can be found, and the
millions rush 10 thaspot faster than they would go
to heaven.
California That is the newest South Sea Bub-
be' Of the day There, they say IL is TO be had In
buckets full for the galhernE-here il is strewed
"thick as the leaves in yallambrosa" Mr.. Jonathan
Polk Of the United States, is one Of the most remark
ably cute lradesmen Of these times. He wants mon
cyl but he the idea Of picking itup, which act
OF picking, perhaps, he would consider fraud upon
the public spirit and patriotism of this republican era
He, therefore in erven spirit OF true mnnfcence,
invites the citizens Of the world gather il for them
selves. Go to California he says, There is godF'
The eyes of the dolators glisenthe gulls flap their
wngs-and 1t s well they gulls, for large por-
ton of the imaginary gold district Of California is six
months of the year under water But go they will
without any mistake, with their pickaxes and mel
ting pots and if they only find copper instead ofgod
nothing at all OF any value the object of MIR. Polk
will be accomplished He will relieve New York of
a few thousand reckless advenlirers whom his Mex
lean war has made penniess and desperate attract
other adventures from this or other countries, and
he will procure settlers and inhabitants sufficient for
his purpose.
been practced since one Magregor calling himself
the Cazique OF Poyais sold, In this country land he
never possessed and never saw They tell us that sill
yer dollar will buy its weight In gold in California,
and that lump worth sovereign Is freely given in
exchange for red herring, The people that believe
these things are only fools who ifit were not sin,
richly deserve TO be cheated We remember the
time when Mr.. Canning " called the new world into
existence to redress the wrongs Of the DID,, and when
numberless companies were formed TO work. by the
aid OF British machinery and British skill, the silver
mines of South America That was The California
Of 1924 The late Mr.. Huskisson, always Utopian,
though at the best very dull man, was inspired
by this grand application of British capital and me-
chanical power, that he predicted that SO super
abundant would silver become that every gentleman
Of ordinary means in England would, before two or
three years, have instead OF iron, steel brass,
silver tenders and fre-irons In every paror Of his
house.
We need not say that this lucid prediction has not
yet been fulfilled. The ardent adyentllrers instead
of gaining silver Tenders and silver fre-irons only
burnt their fingers and lost their investments,
n.y. VINO SURVIVE, ltSlly. 30 VIII IL DC Win
California and its gold
From the Liverpool Mercury,
To those who are not old enough to recollect the
mining mania of 1924 and 1925, and who may be
alnred by the very promising prospectuses which
California mining companies have already begun to
circulate we should recommend the perusal of the
article, mining Companies" in M'Culloch's Com
mercial Dictionary They will there find full and
detailed exposition Of the dire results Of IAN iaatua
ton hardly second TO that which led to the South
Snn aud Hest nj orbn IL. Ia tn bs hfNo
that Englishmen, warned by the lessons of bitter
experience; will not, on any large scale, repeat the
madness OF an epoch so dseraceful in our CONNER
cial history The blindness of the gambling spirit
will now as then, doubtless cause the ruin Of race
of gus. But we may, at least, indulge the expeca-
ton that the evil on the present occasion may be
mitga,ed and that the fastening 10 be rich may not
make so very many poor as did the Real del Monte
Anglo Mexican, United Mexican, and other compa-
MES which Illustrated the former period.
Even were the gold region in California all that
fancy paints il, the pense of distant management
the simi-barbarous condition of the inhabitants,
the absence Of settled government and the high
price olabor, would render the investment Of capital
in any mine OF mines TO be there worked, the most
hazardous of experiments II Is related by Cheva-
lier, that the Real del Monte Company required arm
ed forces for the transportation Of the ore from the
mines to its destination, and that the miners were
exposed TO the murderous attacks Of banditti.
share in this company formerly brought $50 lbs
may now be purchased for the moderate sum Of five
shlings.
The capitalist cases, however are not the only
parties who need to be warned against the risks Of
California II is fearful TO contemplate the suerings
that in store for the private Adventures who can
Just scrape together Gl00 to carry them to the Valley
Of the Sacramento. The bones OF thousands of these
deluded creatures are doomed to mix with the gold
dust of the plains. Already there are more deaths
than burialsamong the gold finders; and murder and
rapine diversity the process Of requirement. The
gold fever in California may this year number as
many victims as the cholera To all, we say--Be-
ware
CORE spondence Of The London Times
VALPARAISO, Oct. 30 ls4s
During the month most classes of English goods
particularly cottons, have been In brisk demand at
good prices The mportaiions from Europe (Which
continue fmied) during the month amount to $780,
000 The greater part Of which sold within few days
after the arrival OF the goods. In produce for export
alton there is little or nothing doing at present.
The news lately received from California Of the
discovery ofan extensive gold washing (of which you
will no doubt have heard In England) has produced
great deal Of speculation. Several cargoes have been
despatched from this market, and Others have been
prepared; while houses being opened in Califor
mia In connection with mercantile establishments
here The chief ground of hope fer the success Of