Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-03-31
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.

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LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
| correspondent of the N. o. Picayune, writ
ing from Panama. after complaining of delay, cho-
lera, and numberless difficulties at the Isthmus,
says: ' have several letters from San
Francisco, and from person at the gold dig
gings, who states tha, FIVE loads of earth from the
dry dggings yielded, after washing, $4,000
Instances are known where men have carried the
earth to place where they could wash it, and
have collected $500 and $500 in day.
The transportation Of specie across the sthmus
is said 10 be attended with great danger as there
are at that point many dissolute characters who
are without means, and have become desperate
Prices of all kinds of provisions have risen. Five
franc pieces pass for 81 %, while our coin is ta-
ken only for its face therefore it is recommend
ed tina. travellers by that route bring the French
com.
A letter from California, in the same paper,
conlradicts the reports of Lynch law, murder, &c.
said to prevail there, and gives interesting ac-
count of a company of 1873 men, who adopt rules
for their government, which since the existence of
the society, had been infringed but in one single
instance. He says
The exception alluded 10 a poor devil,
who was detected in hiding portion of the days
labor of his company. The members thereof
consisting Of nine, Immediately held meeting
among themselves. gave him his part of their Joint
earnings. (Which was about S3000.) and told him
to go, he knew what would be his fate next
Sabbath. He accordingly went, and has not been
heard of since. The penalty for theft is expatri-
alton. What we mean by that is to leave our
borders, and II found in them. the first time nine
and thirty; the second, he pulls hemp. One of
our laws IS. +" There IS to be no gambling of any
description" Another is, :. No profane or OBJ
scene language shall be used in the assembly Oh
the Sabbath" neither Of which has been violated
in the first instance since have been member"
He concludes his letter with advising all who
are doing well to stay where they are though
fortunes and will be made here, not by pick
ing gold out with jack-knfe in four or five
pound Jumps. but with much toll and hard labor.
From the best information can get, the average
OF our whole number per day, for the last eight
or ten months. has been $40 so. So you see for.
tunes amt 10 be made in day, nor a season. If
you ever saw men at work on canal, or mill.
race, or digging foundation for large house in
your city, you have very good idea of the labor
IN getting gold hsre.'
The California Star of December % states that
many of the citizens shave abandoned the unwise
project of winterDg in the mountains and have
returned or are preparing to return to their homes.
AT the dry dIggings where most are located snow
falls to the depth of two three feet, and there.
fore persons would become obliged to leave camp
for L..
had laid in winters supply. The dry diggings
seem the most profitable, and, notwithstanding
the season, about five hundred persons will re-
main in camp all winter. Log houses have been
erected forming place of 100 houses. called by
Righteousness Dry DtggingsriHe, whose nhabi-
tants are employed almost TO a man in mining and
with success yielding from SIS to five ounces per
day. Houses or shelter of any description is very
scarce, so much so that great deal of suffering
is expected 10 occur from exposure 10 the lncle-
ment weather of the rainy season, which was
soon expected to commence. Such was the
scarcity of lumber that Com. Jones Of the Pa
ciic squadron has been requested by the citizens
to throw open the ports temporarily to foreign
flags, that lumber and provisions, articles of the
greatest necessity, might be brought from those
places of great proximity where they now lie in
abundant supplies, bu, are kept out Of commerce
by the enforcement of our laws. Doubtless the
Commodore, knowing that {. the welfare of the
people is the supreme law,'' will accede 70 this
reasonable request if not, then the people, uc;u-
ated by necessity which knows no law but what
has in its own hands, will evade all the vigilance
ofthe squadron, manned as the ships are, by crews
who seek only an opportunity for desertion to
avail themselves of it. Lumber at the latest date
sold at $l25 per 1000 feet.