The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-04-15

EMIGRATION TO CALIFoRyIA.-The tide of emf
grafton fiom the Atlantic and Western States 10
the golden region of California, continues and in
creases beyond anything we ever heard Of. There
is not steamship which leaves here for Chagrcs,
that is not filled with adventures, who have thrown
up their occupations and business al home abandon
ed all old occupations, and old friends, families and
acquaintances for the purpose of trying their for
tunes among the hills and valleys of that wonder
full land, with its wonderful deposits of gold. Two
steamships, the Georgia and Cherokee, and one
bark, sailed from this city on Saturday, with some
seven hundred and eighty passengers and the En-
pre City will leave to-day, with four hundred and
seventy-fve more making in two days drain Of
nearly thirteen hupdred from the population OF the
old States, TO be added to the new State on the
Pacific. Such immense emigration is without
a parallel in the history of this country. In fact
the California fever has become mania, and the
vast emigration which has already gone thither
and that which is expected, begins to excite alarm
in some Of the Western States, whose prosperity
depends on the industry and labor of the very class
of persons who are seeking California. There is
every reason TO believe that the overland emigra-
ton, during the present year, will be immensely
greater than that of the last, and fears are enter
tanned that some Of the extreme Western and
Southwestern States will be depopulatcd
OF course, all who 60 TO California will no, sue
coed 10 the extent Of their hopes and expectations
Not more than ten or twenty per cent will ever return
from there with fortunes, and hundreds and thou
sands will meet with nothing but disappointment,
sickness, disease, and an early grave. Thousands
Of young men who left the Atlantic cities with
their minds unbalanced by the golden prospect
which their fancy had created, have fallen victims
TO disease, supernduced by hard labor, exposure,
and want Of proper food. None but men of strong
constitutions, and who are Injured 10 labor of the
hardest and severest kind, should think of encoun-
tcring California. The hand that has been accus-
tened TO hid glove has no bushes in California.
Mechanics, handcrafsmen of every Kind. and Ia
borcrs, have every chance to do much better in
California than they can in the old States while
to young men brought up tendery. without trades
OF professions, and incapable Of undergoing severe
labor and the seventies of the weather il offers
nothing but an early grave. Such persons should
wait until society and business become better or
gained, when the natural expansion will create a
densnd for their services in the usual way.
The number Of persons who are daily arriving
here fem all parts of the country for the purpose
Of taking passage 10 California. together with the
great hhiilbfE on suangcIs VINO are usually IN view
York at this season Of the year, Is so great that
every hotel in the city is full 10 OVERLOOKING ; and
we have even heard that previous the sailing Of
the Georgia and Cherokee, many Of the passengers
were unable TO get lodgings. and were actually
obliged, some to walk the streets and some to set
ell night in the reading rooms Of the hotels as they
could get no lodging accommodations. Such a
rush as this was never before experienced in New
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