The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-10-05


yo.,or5,,, manning we gave detailed account
Of ,a.r, IN California. This intelligence presents
,h,, country in colors more glowing and attractive,
..-L.,. ,h.r anv in which it has heretofore been
rs.or,.d But this is only one side of the picture.
W. have been called on by gentleman Of in
,sllioepee who came a passenger on the Alabama.
Ne has been in California some eighteen months.
During most of this time he has been laboring in
The mines on one of the tributaries to the Yuba-
a section in which gold is abundant, perhaps as
in any other. Some $4,000 of the dust" is his
compensation for the tolls he has undergone, and
the dangers and sufferings to which he has been
exposed. He returns to his family, resident IN
Alabama, quite satisfied with his gains and with
California.
He says that it is almost impossible to form any
estimate of the number of the population oil oan-
fornia; that there is no means BY which 10 niahe
any reliable calculation. The wnoie country Is
overrun with people. From the mines OF uie
Trinity, in the North, to those oil sonora, IN tne
South every town, village, hill and vale is occu-
MED and by multitude as mixed and coniuseu aS
was that at Babel after the dispersion; amongst
whom there is scarcely a sentiment in common
except determination on the part of each one, by
fair or foul means-and generally by the latter-to
appropriate to all himself that is possible. Only
two classes of persons succeed in California
who apply themselves with perseverance and un-
faltering energy to mining, or some other leglu-
mate business; and those shrewd, unprlnclpled
dare-devils who stop at no obstacle to the attain
ment of their object. With the latter class the
game of 1aont is the universal favorite. By means
of this and kindred SPORTS they possess themselves
of millions of the hard earnings Of unwary miners
Our informant says that scarcely one in thous
and actually realizes respectable sum of money
The successes of the few are heralded to thu
world by newspaper editors while the failures O
thousands pass unnohced. Among the latter, h
says, the restitution and actual suffering, in ever!
portion of the country, are now immense; ar
increasing, and will continue to increase while thu
emigration from the States sets thlther with s.
strong a tide. Most of these unfortunate person
| 90 there with the expectation that, because it i
California the land of gold, fortune will flow int
| their possession without effort on their par
| In most cases they reach there without funds, O
| if any remain are soon absorbed by the usus
enormous expenses ofliving; they are disappointed
become respondent; have means with which t
get away from the country, and none to enabl
them to get into profitable employment. They ar
consequently left without friends, without helI
generally without health and, finally, in cond
tons of want and misery revolving to every sent
ment of humanity. Thus are thrown upon tn
community thousands and tens of thousands of pei
sons, who, if they live at all, do so only by mean
| the vilest and most corrupt
Our informant stated to US many additional fact
in regard to the country different somewhat fror
what we commonly in print; but which W
are not now able to give for the want of spac,
The foregoing however, is quite sufficient to sho,
| that the picture has two sides.