The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-12-15

cien indueement for the risk incurred your business
whatever il may be, yields you respectable living, re-
al it, and in few years, by industry and economy
you will be better on Be satisfied that you are doing
No man over forty years Of age should 20 to Cafor-
MIA. Old men should die at home, surrounded by their
family and not in distant country among unsympahiz-
ing strangers.
II you are young, vigorous, and active without any
prospect OF doing well at home il you can stand at
tack OF dysentery for three months, without particular
Inconvenience II you can resist spruous liquors and
monte tables then, by all means, go to California Very
possibly you will make fortune. The chances are
greatly in your favor Gold is abundant and there are
many ways ofgetng hold OF IT. besides great many ways
OF getting rid OF IL.
Thus is our deliberate opinion OF the chances in Califor
MA Fortunes are yet 10 be made. but not BY magic
Energy good health, temperate habits and
clear head, must lay the foundation and do the work.
The present appearance OF San Francisco is srkingy
hill sides covered with tents and cottages In the
principal streets good frame houses sprngng up day
after day, as # by magic Carpenters, backsmiths,
away from daylight till dark Every body is busy about
something To-day you vacant lot-to-monow
store is built upon it, and brisk trade is going on.
Hotels and eating houses are numerous II only costs
$3 night payable in advance, TO sleep in canvass
room feet square, with two beds in the same and
the goans of the sick and dying around you IN every di-
crowded to suffocation Each establishment has its
band Of music to attract the bypassers, and the din Of
and mns
airs, is enough to wake up old Opheus Young sent
out by their parents to seek their fortune go the whole
figure at the and practise extensively at the
bar To youth OF seventeen eighteen, with long
soaplocks, little fur his upper lip, California
sombrero cooked one side Of his head pair of Mexican
shining buttons flaming red sash around his waist and
long nine in his mouth-to such youth swagger
up to monte table, plank down his ounce lose II, rip
out OATH and take horn at the bar on the strength OF
it's most encouraging sight for parents who wish
their sons to see the elephant and come home with
pocket full of rocks.
At Panama passengers for California, varously esti-
mated at from two to hundred, had been waiting
since the departure Of the last steamer bound to San
Francisco. Some had been waiting for six weeks The
number has since been greatly increased by the arrivals
from New Orleans and New York by the Crescent City,
Francisco on the 18th November. The California will
necessarily be compelled to leave numbers behind for
the next steamers Two sailing vessels at Panama
up for San Francisco but people beginning to find
out that voyage from the sthmus in sailing vessel is
worse than voyage round Cape Horn Prices Tor
by the crowds rushing the sthmus. Indifferent
mules $lS apiece-good mules from 20 to $25, to
Cruces The cost OF transporting baggage is about $2
for trunk. weighing from so to $50 pounds. This is
in addition to the expense OF mule hire Canoes from
Cruces down TO Chages rated according TO the num-
are from 81 TO $12; up the RIVER double those
rates. The entire cost OF crossing the isthmus from Cha
gres at this date, from $40 to $75 This includes the
necessary delay OF few days at Panama For greater
length of time very Indifferent board can be had al 50
day; but the houses badly ventilated and the rooms
The Crescent City had splendid run from Chagres,
and universal satisfaction is expressed by the passengers
in relation TO the fare and management OF the vessel
A PASSENGER IN THE CRESCENT CITY.