The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-16

Bosros, Oct. 70, ls4s.
THE cALlroRsrA ADVENTURES.


THE CALIFORNIA ADVENTURES
The news by the Falcon and the Empire City
will undoubtedly have an effect To stimulate the
present rapid emigration from New England TO
California Already in all our cities and small
towns parties Of three, five more, preparing
to depart. The letters sent home by the fortunate
men and boys who have already succeeded in
making little fortunes for themselves before they
have been six months at the diggings have had the
effect of rousng once more the adventurous spirit
OF our population The peculiar feature of this
emigration is, that nine out of ten go with the in
tention OF returning IN year or two after picking
up, the banks of Feather river or some other au-
riferous stream, gold enough for themselves and all
their families
And truly the accounts, though contradictory,
are OF a character TO awaken ones curiosity to go
and see Tor himself. One young man writes from
the Sacramento river to his father. in New Bedford
(Nlr. Philip +. Davis,) that he is one of company
OF thirty who have succeeded in turning stream
at the North Fork laying bare the bed of the rver
and that their success has averaged two hundred
dollars per day for each man, with every prospect
OF realizing similar amount per day for indef
mite period of time. He says he has accumulated
about $4,000, and means TO return home in a
month.
AS if to Offset this Pactolan story, young Bos-
tonian writes, under date of San Francisco, Au-
gust 80: 81 have enough of the elephant to
last me for the present. was at the mines about
month, with company of six Americans and three
natives of the Sandwich Islands, and did not dig
gold enough to pay our expenses. have heard OF
a few this summer who have done well, and great
many who have done nothing. Gold-digging is
too much of lottery for me-"
have another letter before me from San Fran
cisco, which says: "The climate here is as bad as
has ever been represented. Pulmonary complaints
abound, and though the deaths few among the
male population, the females seem to be fated. Fe
male strangers almost certain to lose their
health, if not their lives, in California
FLoGGING sEAMEN.
A MIR. Haynes is at present in city to 'agi-
tate' public opinion the subject of putting stop
to the practice Of 'fogging'' in the Navy. Mr.. H.
is sailor himself, but whether he has ever felt the
ropes end cannot say. His cause is good, and he
brings high recommendations from Mr.. Fillmore
and other distinguished men. II is the wish of Mr.
Haynes to bring the subject before Congress, and
he means to get up public meeting in our city
have myself seen something of nautical if not
val togging; and in every instance rum had thrown
Jack into such state that the CATO nine tails
the only argument to which he could be made to
listen Take away his grog, and he will not need
chastisement. have no doubt that the abuse can
be safely abolished, if rum is abolished first.
CAPITAL IN MASSACHUSETTS.
In little pamphlet, just wet from the press |
find interesting calculation exhibiting the power
and distribution of capital in Boston and Massachu
sets. In this city, it appears, there two hun
dred and twenty four individuals who are worth,
in the aggregate, S7l 1856, 900; the average wealth
of these individuals would be 1921 ISL. Ii is gen.
orally supposed that this estimate is below rather
than above, the truth. No estimate is here made of
the wealth of any individual whose property is sup
posed to amount To less than 800, 900. Let us be
moderate in our estimates, and suppose that there
in all the towns and counties in the State, Tin
GLIDING Boston,) 5000 other individuals who are
worth $4,000 each; their aggregate wealth would
amount to 100000 900 Add this to the S7l $685.
900 owned by the two hundred and twenty four
men, and we have 3 l6l $500 These estimates
more or less Incorrect but they give the near
est approximation to the truth that we can obtain
Mt the present time The valuation of the
property in the State of Massachusetts in Is40 was
299 $50 1856; hnd therefore, by the above estl
mates that three thousand two hundred and TWEEN
ty four individuals more than half of all the
property in the State -