The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-10
IMP0RTAxT FRosI CALrFORNTA.

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- San FRAsrIsoo, February lst.
Our gold region or placer il iualIy the onI,
Thing OF circumstance that ever knew not exager
a'ed Law, gospel aud politics are becoming obso
iete, In the great eagerness 10 obtain share of tn
placer. Last July gold diggers satisfied 4
obtain TWO or three ounces Of gold per day; nov
they throw up The pck-axc and spade y they don
1nd 'chunkn every hour or two. Up 10 thi
date eight hundred dollars have been paid for sin
gle hump. am informed there u In this town
piece weighing thirty pounds have heard Of sew
eral pieces weighing each five pounds; there Is Ii
Town piece of stone Weighing seven pounds, con
tainine aboa. ssssa pounds q gold looks ASH TIL
In January, 1877, Alta California contained l6 4
1900 vhItrs 10 January, 1850 she viii number &
10 100000 Inhabitants; Two hundred vesseis VII
land IN this year, b0ato 100 passengers each thI
steamers 200 psI month 1000 viii come BY land from
Oregon, 10000 from the department Of sonora, COZ
more from other etaies Of Mexico, 20 $1,000 By
land from our own country. We are 70 hnve. thou
sends from every part of the Pacific, and mex
From November 10 March, the San Joaquin and
Sacramento valleys. are 100 cold for gold digging
although the-peopIe have built from four 70 six hun
bred Lighthouses, and are busfly engaged In indine
geld. From the frat Of Aprilto August, there will
be daily turned out or tho banks and rivers six 10
eight thousand troy ounces Of gold to Fl III car
ats fine which sells here for merchandise at sl6 per
ounce IA for cash. After August, thousands win
leave the placefs onefourth Of those who remain In
August and September viii be sick with fever that
holds them from thirty TO hundred days.
Some twenty cargoes Of merchandise are landing
In this port at this date. From hence greater part
y reshpped In aunches for the Sacramento and San
Joaquin rivers, one hundred and twenty miles up, q
run oftwo or three days. Freight al The rate of3
Fer bDli psssenssrs sl6. each one feeding himself
byeto "a by l6 feet each, $40 10 sl00 per month
hotel IL next month 10 be opened here the build
ing cost $4,000 has sixty rooms that will bring GOO
70 $500 per annum each. The owner calculates,
with the nicey Of Yankee, thus: should the build.
Ing burn down In ak months, II pays cost and the
bar and tablet pay $1,000 or $4,000 per month Should
i ast over thar time, il pays l6 per cent, per month
in rents only, There are small houses paving the
same rates
Freigh,s 10 Monterey Zone days sair $40 per tom
prigs are chartered at $4,000 per month: capinins
wages $500 per month maies, $50 to 5000 psr
month; pork, 900 per Dbl; -four $40 ono week, the
nexl s25, fowls, 10 81, eggs, 3 to "a per dozen
(pot an hundred y washing Of clothes IL to S24 per
dozen. Some merchants send their washing to The
Sandwich Islands, only 1900 miles A shirt for
be In time for the owner. II Is proposed 20 getup
Forwarding Company, to send clothes monthly TO
New York by the steamers providing the washer
woman are not all leaving for the "placerv Of CALI
iiornia. House lots Of twenty-five feet front, nre
bought up Mt $1,000 TO $4,000 the purchasers sending
10 Boston or New York for their houses. G
We have no worknlen, no time TO DO any thing
but dig or pocket gold. No one has much lime to
dun debtor and no debtor has any time TO listen 10
tor one party. Even our government at Washing
ton appear In the same way us far us attending TO
California. which with New Mexico cost Uncle Sam.
Sl5000000 the interest Of which Is say $4,000 per
month, whichth duties collected In this port alone
willcoser, and the placer will distribute one million
nsr month"; and no mistake. Any man, woman, or
child, who may need thousand dollars, has only to
so TO the aCaliIornia Placer Bank md take H. and he
finds himself Immediately ready. stockholder
apd director, Alare on the 50 aheadsget-g gold prn-
cplei doctora, lawyers, traders, boatmen. carriers
diegers thieves, and mnderers
Up 10 this dale the murdered bodies have boon re-
cognized--at least could be counted This year,
fear they cannot be counted. Gold real pure gold
IL 80 plenty, You may see piled up counters and
tables like 80 many bugs of shot, one 10 the three
hundred ounces In a bag. Nothing Is more common
for person travelling from one town 10 nnothcr on
horseback to refuse TO carry gold for friend on ac
count Of rs weight II Is equivalent 10 asking your
friend 10 carry bag Of corn 10 mill In any other
country. We have become a strange people, and
live in a strange country. Nature Is not satisfied
With covering the valleys Of the Sacramento and
San Joaquin with gold but, 10 please a, abe has this
winter covered the earth with snow 10 call up old
associations We have, for the first time, snow in
the streets. sl#tH A'sA#
We laarn our Government have given Oregon d
Governor, excluded slaves, and nre now framing
laws for that country; we, TOD, shall need something
Of the kind ere long; we do not require slaves and
those who bring any viii find themselves disap-
pointed.
Thousands Of applicants in Washington city win
gladly come here for $1,000 per annun, but when
they arrive here and find cooks and stewards ask
$500 each, thoy viii az gladly resign and take to
digging,
won't pay. How the officers now In California, pa
iently awaiting to be relieved pay their way hard
" know. The temptation to dig or speculate ls
great-yet from the Governor TO Lieutenant, they
have attended solely to their duty In their respective
Offices; perhaps men were never tempted before
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