Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-10-18
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From the London Times, Sept. g.
The Aspect Of the CALIFORNIA; Wonder in Europe.
California seems at last to be in earnest. On the
21st ultimo the steamer Panama arrived at Panama,
from San Francisco, with 81, 100000 in gold dust,
the whole of which, by the 7th instant, had been
brought to New York by the steamers Empire City,
Georgia, and Cherokee. Our intelligence from San
Francisco is up to the 1st ultimo and at that date
the news from the mines was considered more favor
able than ever. On the subsistence of the annual
foundations, works had been commenced in new pla-
ces, and reopened in others, very large scale,
and, for the time, with general success.
AS for the Californian republic, and the scattered
community of the Pacific of which it is suddenly the
queen, one can almost them growing in each
fresh arrival from the States At San Francisco,
the rayages of the last confagration have been
paired with substantial materials. All the
wants of civilized man are there supplied even quick
than the thirst of the goldhunter and even bricks
and timber keep pace with the demand The sand
hills that frowned the first batch of immigrants
already covered with fine gardens, and San Fran
cisco is now as well supplied with vegetables and
fruit as this metropolis The press fourishes and
we have several namesakes in that remote region
There is the Pacific News the San Francisco Her.
aid, the Placer Times the Alta California, with the
Sacramento Transcript and the Sacramento Times
We delighted to list Of California maria
ges, of them described in terms which night pass
for a paragraph in fashionable contemporary
" The city of Sacramento are told by the Pla-
GER Times, /" has never witnessed a more brilliant
assemblage of beauty and fashion" During the
three months Immediately preceding the departure
of the Panama, there had arrived at San Francisco
467 vessels, of which 81 were British-the tonnage
of the whole being 1872 867. Notwithstanding an
immense importation. prices were generally main
tanned. The Sandwich Islands had largely profted
by the rising trade, of which they lie in the high
way Vast numbers of Chinese are settling in them
The port of Honolulu is full of vessels and pub
lie buildings projected at the cost of near $780,
OOO Before many years the great Pacific will be as
thronged with merchantmen-the only effective mis-
sonaries, says the Weekly Herald-as the Atlantic
or the Mediterranean. Already the Californians
look on Australians and New Zealadders much as we
do on Germans and Swedes.
These gloomy episodes are not permitted to chas-
tse the e1uberance of American anticipation. Ac-
customed transatlantic cousins are to expect
everything and to claim everything, they little tho't
five years ago that they would SO occupy the
western coast, be the lords Of the Pacific, and pos
sess city there whose sudden rise surpasses even
the imperial creations of Constantinople and Alexan
dria. They are quite beside themselves with won
derment and joy. So confident are they that every
thing is working in their favor-so firm are they in
the persuasion of their destiny to fill the New ord
and hold the balance Of the Old-that they be-
ginning to be Indifferent rather careessly unani
NOUS to ordinary political questions. The cry is
&c Let's have settlement anyhow, that we may push
altogether for the great game before u.s." The ques-
tons OF slavery, OF the Texan and New Mexican
boundaries of the California constitution, and even
of the tariff have all been buried or slurred over
One thing they say they must have, and that with
out delay-a railway or canal through the 18TH
mus By this and by an electric telegraph through
Mexico they expect soon to bring San Francisco as
near to New York as New Orleans was a few years
ago. Preparations are already in progress for ship
building in Oregon, in order to save the passage
around Cape Horn. Even the overland route is be-
ginningto lose its terrors The Mormons are form
ing settlements just at the point where they will
prove most serviceable to the exhausted caravans
and before very long it is by no means impossible
that railway may connect New York and San
Francisco. In the midst of these brilliant prospects,
it is very natural that the citizens of the Union
should show even less than their usual modesty.-
But the same prudence which should learn them to
moderate their hopes suggests to also, not to do
this for them. 1t is not for to say what destiny
is or is not in store for them. When the present is
far out of human calculation, what is likely
than that the future should be also