The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-04-18


end, no matter what proceedings the City In
spector may adopt against them We shall see
what steps will be taken TO enforce cleanliness in
those dwellings that have been reported filthy by
the health wardens.
OLD TINES COMING BAcx.-The journals which
live upon speculatons in fancy wealth, are now and
then busy with mining companies of very curious
character-gold mining, silver mining, copper mi
ming If we are to believe them, fortunes are to
be made for little or nothing. Every day brings
out some new company, with or without RESPONSE
BILE head, as is most convenient The whole talent
of these industrious orginaors and spectators, is
directed to mining operations, and If the folly is
not stopped, closed, shut up, or exploded the days
Of the South Sea bubble in England, or of John
Law and the Mississippi scheme in France, will be
revived with like disastrous results to the infatuated
victims of the madness The quid ~Swc journals
of Wall street and elsewhere are particularly ac-
tive in getting UP these schemes, and by pufis and
promises play the Peter Funks to the managers,
who will be among the missing when most wanted.
The business has for some time been carried on by
maps and plans of Lake Superior, Of towns in Viz
ginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and
other States, but new the meets Of wealth are re-
presented to be somewhere in California.
The first step in the formation Of one Of these
companies, is to have q large lump of California
Rold-the larger the better-then to arrange board
of directors, get out certificates of stock, and offer
a few Of the latter to such seedy editors as can
turn them TO account in the market. Pun, pun,
puff 70 the columns every day, till some poor
devils pay down their money for the certificates,
which are worth no more than the paper they are
printed upon. The whole capital invested in such
schemes is in the big lump and few clusters Of
quartz proudly displayed as the generous yield OF
nature TO unlimited enterprise. Fools are guided,
wise men laugh, the SPECTATORS put the money re-
ceved for ecrp into their pockets carry of the big
lump under their ann TO other city, and leave
the deludcd shareholder 10 read the result in the
certificate which he preserves ae an evidence Of
has crcdulity.
This is the succinct history OF every such COM
pany. The machinery is as old a. that OF the Tu-
lip mania in Holland, or in the time OF Harley,
Earl Of Oxford, who was wonder In raising the
wind" and if such decisions are perpctuated by
the ignorant sehshneee Of editors out at the elbows,
or nothing over in bank. we shal be obliged to look
a little deeper into the matter, and make some In
veetigetions beyond prettily colored maps into
those rich mineral localities which so largely con-
tribute 10 drain the hard earnings OF hones Labor
Look out for bubbles about these days.
The Army IN OREaoS.-The officers OF the
United states army, stationed in Oregon, have
memorelized Congress for an increase OF pay
They ground the application upon the fact that the
value Of money is much less in that region than on
the Atlantic coast, and very curiousiy give the
prices current TO prove the anomalous condition OF
trade carpenter gets ten dollars day, COM
mon leborer four dollars, and washing IL set down
AT three dollars dozen. Butter is dollar OF more
per pound, and onions five dollars per bushel.
White sugar is hard at forty cents, and common
brown will only dissolve at twenty-three. The
cheese" cannot he had for less than three-fourths
Of dollar and President Taylor's style Of cggs-
VIC with he would hatch out that cabinet-are
seveniy-fve cents PER dozen. These eggs only
cost the President at Washington fifteen cents, and
such luxury cannot be had in Oregon for less than
five times that sum- Thus it is not without reason
that an increase Of pay Is sought, for II the army Is
to DC supported with its proper dignity, the pay OF
privatcs and officers must conform TO the general
standard Of pTicee. In California the same policy
must be adopted II not. our soldiers will b. rag
red regiments soon, officers and suffers included.
Officers cannot get a new coat under sixty live dol
lars and how can they live in dgnifed position
and command respect, upon ealaries at which
Dutch carpenter would turn up his nose, and with
out coats to their backs Let the pay be increased,
or elsc recall the attachments in the public service.
Something must he done.
Tux IIrroaRIAS 1ssrRrcTioss.-We have al
ready published the instructions cf our government
with rcTpeot to Hungary. They were dated on the
eighteenth Of June last. The instructions Of the
H. ,,;an Minister 20 Major IanbyurRhy arc pub
Gshed by us to-day. They bear daes. respectively,
ON the fifteenth and seventeenth OF June last and
had tlev been known TO our government before the