Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-12-10
Additional California News.

Additional California News
REJoIcINGs At SAN FRANc1sco. On the
18th of October, the Grafton to celebrate the adms-
sion Of California into the Union, was pronounced
by the Hon. Nathaniel Bennett The following is
an extract:
Fellow-citizens: We are. at length, fairly launch
ed upon our course. With a State Constitution ap-
4 proved by the Convention unanimously, adopted by
the people with scarcely dissenting voice-a con-
siitution guaranteeing freedom 10 all, fayorng none,
and bringing all the State under immediate response
bity to the people, there is no reason TO doubt our
eminent success. Judging from the past, what have
we not right 10 expect in the future. The world
has never witnessed anything equal similar TO our
career hitherto. Scarcely two years ago California
was almost an unoecuped wild. With the excep-
ton of preside, mission pueblo, or a lonely
ranch, here and there tiresome distances
1t had never been broken by the footsteps ocivized
man. The agricultural richness of her valleys re-
mained unimproved, and the wealth of a world lay
entombel in the bosom of her solitary mountains,
and on the banks of her UNEMPLOYED streams.
Behold the contrast The hand of agriculture IS
now busy IN every fertile valley, and its tolls are re-
munerated with rewards which, IN no other portion
OF the world can be credited. Enterprise has pierre
ed every hill for hidden treasure and has heaped IN
enormous gains. Cities and villages dot the surface
OF the whole State. Steamers dart along our shores
and nnumerabe vessels spread their white wings
over our bays Not Consian'inople, upon which the
wealth OF Imperial Rome was lavished, not ST. Pc
tersburg, TO found which, the arbitrary power Of the
Gar sacrificed thousands Of his Subjects would rv-
al In rapIdlty OF growth, the fair city which lies be-
lore me. Our State is a marvel to ourselves and a
miracle to the rest of the world.
Nor is the influence of California confined within
her own borders. Mexico, and the islands nestled
inthe embrace of the Pacific have felt the quickening
breath OF her enterprise. With her golden wand,
she has touched the PROSTATE corpse Of South Amer
lean industry, and it has sprung up in the freshness
Of life. She has caused the hum of busy life to be
heard IN the Wilderness ''where rolls the Oregon, -
which but recently heard no sound save his own
dashlngs. Even the wall of Chinese exclusiveness
has been broken down, and the children of the sun
have come forth TO view the splendor of her aceve-
rments
But ttering as has been the past, satisfactory as
10 the present, 1t Is but ioreaste of the future 1t
Is trte saying, that we live in an age Of great
events Nothing can be more true. But the great
est OF all events of the present age is at hand 1t
needs not the gilt of prophecy to predict that the
course of the worlds trade is DIES med soon to be
changed. But a few years can elapse before the
commerce of Asia and the Islands of the Pacific in
stead OF pursuing the ocean track by way of Cane
Horn or the Cape of Good Hope or even taking the
shorteT route OF Tue ISthnuS OF Danen the 18th
mus of Tehuantepec, will enter the Golden Gate of
California; and deposit its riches in the lap of our
own city.
Hence on bars of iron, and propelled by steam. it
VIII ascend the mountains and traverse the desert
and having again reached the confines of civiIiza
ton, will be distributed through thousand channels
to every portion of the Union and of Europe. New
York will then become what London now is the
great central point of exchange-the heart of trade
the force of whose contraction and expansion will be
lett throughout every artery of the commercial
world and San Francisco will then stand the second
cityoi America. Is this visionary? Twenty wears
will determine.
We understand that the remittances of dust and
bills OF exchange from California by this arrival to par
ties 10 New England, are unusually heavy.
The total amount of gold cleared at San Fran.
cisco from November II, 1919, TO September 30 1854
was y ,822.877. Amount cleared in October, 1880
1,eenty-t.eo thousand Iatrs are advertised as
uhcai'ed Tor IN the Sacramento post office.
The Pacific Ne,es states, it was not ascertained
which party had prevailed in eecting Legislature,
which had to choose United States Senator in nace
OF Mr. Fremont. The two parties were nearly baIanc.
ed' and IN some counties political preferences were not
brought into the canvass.