The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-12-15
From the New Orleans Delta.
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We publish below statement which psesens gloomy
picture Of the condition Of anrs in the wh0m land OF
gold I was drawn up and ss1sd Sy ne pssssnSsIs o.
by Col Mills formerly of Texas with pressing re9ues
that we should give place in our columns Col MIL.
an observing and sagacous gentleman he has spen,
vouches for the correcness of the facts contained in the
communication, The Colonel assured US that he had
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miners have been engaged all the summer in the southern
mines IN dammng and turning the rivers Sianisa1s Ie-
bays a proved barren Of The precious dus TSev have
exhausted all their this unproftable labor and
depy in debt to the merchants The raining season.
penness and destitute 70 the towns where they must be
Sss - & :se siss
give se to excesses and dsorders Of the mos, alarming
The great object Of California emigrant is no longer
back to the States. This is sometimes. The labor Of
-appplisd to Col Mills when he passed through
MA Col Mills advanced eight hundred dollars to ihem
on condition that they should follow him and work for
him until they would reimburse him. They agreed to
five monhs and could repay him only hundred and
thittyye dollars OF the amount advanced BY him. The
Colonel related many other instances OF disappointment
and unrewarded toll, which occurred under his own OBJ,
servation Out OF seventeen personal friends who had
iabored in the same diggngs with him, only three had
collected enough the dust to deay their expenses back
to their homeshe others had not only lost all the
money which they brought with them, but bad gone in
debt "a s5 "a tgstf9 i7'saa alI' " aasi.t6 la1 lo
Thus is the golden mirage Of California vanishing
. SrEAMER ALABAMA. November n. 1850.
We, the undersigned passengers in the steamship Ala
bama, direct from Calfomia in view OF the many false and
circulation regards the poduc-
for
sideratioa Of those who contemplate visiting that State
ta nf mi In VCln lu hafo
the pubic our sapelsncs and obss"aon. n Gsona
WE n y .,ysy sa a aat our 6
motive desire those who may be induced
leave homes for the desperate chance
We have viewed with regret the many false statements
Ss % on u %hs
engaged in the transportation business the Atlantic and
basns.. transactions extend throughout the entire length
and breadth Of the gold REGION assist in small degree
those engaged in mining They have Induced
and OF thousands 70 seek fortunes in California great
they had been informed of the real condition and prospects
OF those engaged In working the mines. Ga t-fs
We believe that thousands have been induced to emf.
grate TO California during the past year. Of the
sssEgsrssd report o. The Soysfnmssnt m agent Mt hns
In relation 10 the gold bearing quartz They stated hai
quartz rock existed TO unlimited exent and worth from
TO the miners through The newspapers published abroad
struck ihem with profound a tonshment Now, there Is
searches pound Of quartz rock worth ffty cents por
pound and the undersigned, who have been deeply
esed in the mater, having carried machinery the
Al grea. expense work this quartz, KIN that
be found there worth the present price t labor work IT,
Il has been estimated that about hundred thou
sand Americans in California the
Of present The emigration this year Is down
sixty thousand the pipins thousand overland
through Texas and Mexico, and fifty thousand the
Misunderstanding two hundred and twenty thousand Sup.
posing twenty thousand have returned home during the
year. tand this Is said TO bc liberal calculaon
hundred thousand Americans remain in the country
asked what the condition and prospects Of this large
number of American citizens, would say. "most de-
plorable." The forty fifty thousand who have been en-
gaged In dsmmbg and turning rivers during The summer
have been almost universally disappointed Having los
pre- vously procured, thousands of them reduced
want, and involved In debt for subsistence, &c.
Those who engaged In the dry diggings, de
pots Sc. hnve also been during the pas
season. .,....
Il was the general opinion Of the miners last men
toned that than eighty ninety In every hun
ded had realized money enough to enable them to return
their families and that than In twenty
mad realized dollar clear OF expenses during the sea
son.
An hopes Of making fortunes In California lost sigh
of ninety mine Of hundred and the anos
universal feeling to get home And Il Is truly beartrend
ing witness the general depondency which exists amonf
the mines and stouthearted and brave shee
tears at their hopeless condition.
We have deemed IL duy-a duty we felt due q
American peoplethus honestly TO present for the
the foregoing facts leaving all % act accord
ing TO their own Judgments Ia the matter
[Signed by nineiy-nine persons.l