Baltimore commercial journal, and Lyford's price-current. [volume] (Baltimore, Md) 1840-1849, 1849-04-28

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SAN FRAHclsco, Feb. 81, lS49
arrived here yesterday, and find it one OF the
widest places ever was IN. II was crowded with
people, aud for the present shall stop on board the
snip. The steamer has not yet arrived, but IS eX-
pcct"d daily. News here from the United States up
TO December. There are 80 vessels here with goods
aud passengers from all parts OF the world and stl
more coming, yet they do not bring more than
enough 10 supply the population The gold mines
are 50 miles from here, and persons go up and dig
two or three thousand dollars in the course Of
month, or six weeks | Mr. Comstock, Capt.
Grey : matc) on shore to-day, he has been up to the
mines and done very well,-is going back in few
days.
Luter from SIN Francisco-We are indebted to
our esteemed fellow citizen, Henry N Hooper, Esq
for second letter from hi, brother, William Hooper,
ESD, a partner in one Of the principal mercantile
houses Of San Francisco. This letter bears date
twenty days later than any published accounts
from San Francisco +
SAN FaAxclsco, (U. c. Feb. 25, 1919,
brig sails to- morrow for Mazatlan, attording the
opportunity of dropping you line announcing 10 you
the arrIva! OF the California steamer from Panama.
She brings large mail but no letters for me. Hope
you are that you drop letter in the Post
Othce for me any day, and it will come on safe.
suggest that you write month-the day before
the steamer sails.
By the steamer we have late dates from the United
States. The California gold fever appears raging
among you; and well it may, for surely there never
was discovery like it. Every day only adds to my
antonishnrnt. Yesterday | weighed 100 lbs. Of it,
Real estate is going up rapidly In this place good
sites sell al $40 the square yard There is rcdnc-
ton in the prices Of most articles, owing 10 the
pcctcd arrivals from the United States.
AT present flour is s ); pilot Tread s II; pork
$50. OF all things lumber goes the highest. lpaid
to-day 5 400 the thousand feet. The smallest room
rents for ) 100 per month Advise your friends TO
send any quantity of lumber and small houses ready
TO put up. They will bring 500 per cent. advance
me- Cooks
are y 100 month; eggs = per dozen; salcratus )
per ID; butter + so; cheese Is cents; beef IL
cents; pork % cents; fowls $3.50 each; hrewood
s 30 per cord; milk = per bottle; board for mcchan-
les $40 per week. Common laborers earn so
day; carpenters IS.
Our sales for the last four moths amount TO nearly
threc-quartcrs Of million Of dollars 1t is not an
uncommon thing to cart gold dust from one store to
another.-BOSt0n Transcript
Ftffy Days Oue,land.-l3y way of Mazatlan, Vera
Cruz, and New Orleans, have intelligence from
San Francisco to the LIST Of March. The U. ).
steamer California about " hich there has been so
much anxiety, and for which many OF our country
men have been anXous waiting at Panama, arrived
at san Francisco the LIST ult and was likely to be
detained there some time for want Of coal. The
vague rumors that have been received through the
lsthmus, that she had met with some disaster, are
therefore satisfactorily answered.
The following letter from the Rev. T. ID. Hunt,
has been furnished to the Newark Advertiser for
publication 1t came by the overland Mexican route,
aud was posimarked AT Vera Cruz, April ID, having
been received by arrival at New Orleans, in the
short period OF % days:
Correspondence of the Newark Daily Advertiser
san FRANcIsCo, March LIST, 1919.
Happening in at the counting room of Mrssrs.
Starkey, Janion CO., am informed Of a vessel TO
MaZatlan, the mail for which will close in an hour.
avail myself therefore, Of the opportunity TO write
hufricdly and very briefly.
My labors have been uninterrupted since my ar
rival here from the Islands, and have continued to
bny Till ,r,tin mn lnS Sab here is
certainly reason to complain of my reception or
treatment here by the cummunlty. Although we
have no church organization yet, have enjoyed
my appropriate labors here vastly more than ever
at the Islands. In addition to two regular sermons
each Sabbath, and lecture on w Wednesday evenings,
| have also for two months past preached one IN
Hawaiian on Sabbath afternoon, besides lecturing
repeatedly on Temperance; and we have organized
a Temperance Society Of nearly 40 members. The
monthly Concert is also observed, aud we have once
celebrated the Lords Supper, having twelve COM
nunicdntS.
Hitherto have had the laboring oar alone, but,
a kind Providence has just sent two more aborcrs
into the field. The long expected steamer "Call-
tornia' arrived yesterday morning, bringing among
other passengers several ministers One, Rev. MIR.
Wiley, went on shore al Monterey last week. His
associate Gin the service of the Home Missionary
Society Rev. Mr.. Douglass, is here and took my
bed last night taking the floor, for the town is
really crowded-fu and overlooking The other
two clcrgymcn remained board-Rev. Mr..
Woodbridge, from Long Island, sent out by the
Assembly's Board. and Rev. Mr.. Wheeler, and
lady, late of Jersey City, belonging to the Baptist
Church
Tomorrow | shall accompany Mr.. Douglass to
the Pueblo de San Jose, about 80 miles south OF this
He To be stationed here, but finding me on the
ground goes there, where probably a support can
be Immediately raised for him by the residents.
Mr.. W oodbridge will probably go somewhere TO the
North East-up the golden stream. like the APP
pearancc Of all the brethren, and shall render them
any aid in my power TO locate as advantageously
as possible. We gave them a cordial welcome and
bid them Good speed"
The country is likely to fill up rapidly. Probably
a thousand passengers have arrived within fort
night. We hear the excitement in the States is
very great and that both across the Continent, by
the Isthmus, aud around the Cape great numbers
are docking hthcr. But OH the worldlincSs-the
moral desolaton this gold fever greatest New DIS
covcres of the precious dust are constantly being
made.
NJ. and the children are still at the Islands, but
look for them during this month, and expect TO
have finished for them a small house in pro-
grcss. Lumber is only 500 per thousand iect l
received letters by way Of the Islands dated Sept
Goth, but none by the steamer. The ''Caliiornia
will not be able TO return soon for the want OF coal
She does not go TO Oregon
In great haste, L. DWIGHT HUNT.
INDEPENDENCE, (MIssouRI.)
A correspondent OF the Newark, On. J.) Adver-
tiser writing from Independence, MOI under date
of April Ssh, lS49 enquiries
Were you ever at the rendezvous Of gathering
army? Then you may form idea of the condi
ton and appearance Of this California depot for it is
simply that Just now. The little town is itself
mere circumstance. Dctachmcuts of emigrants
coming in daily, and yet the hotels and private houses
are ali full ami the country about has the appearance
of an cncampnen Not less than ten or a dozen
compani,s from nearly as many States, have pitch
ed their tents, with their wagons, and camp equip
age, along the river and road, waiting for the grass
For the mules and must have fodder. Each
company has its organization and all appear TO be
well eouircd. | doubt if sold Zack" had better
EQUIPPED body of troops at Buena Vista. Most of
those have are hale, hearty looking young
men, and their sproutng chins and checks give them