The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-03-18


THE OrHER SIDE. In the Providence Journal
we fnd letter "lrom an intelligent person who has
been for several months in California and who
presents in vivid coors the other side ofthe question.
1t Is truly dark and melancholy one. The letter is
dated San Francisco, Jan. q. 1t says:
"First, association is formed for mutual protec-
tlon (more needed at home than here, by the way,)
the snip Is loaded with every thing imaginable while
money, the only thing really needed here except
Christianity Is left at home, with the idea that they
are gong 10 dig it out of the ground-Ihey arrive
here and TO their utter establishment, the gold mines
are still further off They work in the streets few
weeks, add little to their funds, and start for the
Mines After digging and sitting to no purpose many
slcken and de- and others return to San Francisco TO
seek employment. Hundreds lie about cur streets
waiting tor some kind Samaritan to take care of
them. But most of our citizens are Leyites. The
hospital Is directly opposite to my residence, and from
my own observation, should say that nine burials
day is the average for that place. The officers
We're IN such hurry one day last week, that they
doubtless made mistake, and were obliged to carry
one man back from the buryiug ground. They per-
sisted IN burying him, but he protested against it.
They urged that he was dead on the clerks book,
but he kicked Justify against the coffin and swore
he was bound for Sacramento and the mines. | have
no doubt but many Of cur New Enganders are car
ried to their nal resting place in the same manner
am well aware that many will say that | have
given the worst view of California. To those who
viii not be convinced all can say Is, and
OF one hundred and forty of our company who ar
rived here last September, one hundred and ten went
to the mines and have not paid their expenses. do
not say this to inlure the feelings Of their friends
home, but my duty to hundreds who are now fitting
to come here c0mpels me to do it. Six eight re-
main here and are doing well, the remainder |
not account for, except two who died at the mines.
But it is arged, every steamer goes loaded with
gold True TO a certain extent. But brokers, gam
blers, spectators and mechanics send home three
fourths oft Where miner has sent home five
hundred dollars, hundred have returned to this city
poor and discouraged. Where one has sent home a
thousand dollars, ten have died.
have given you these views of this gold mania
because | have been grieved to see young men res
pected at home, obliged to resort 10 such means to
support nature. They wash clothes dig in the Streets
and have been IN some cases, driven to theft These
last as reward have got chain around one ankle
and the other end attached to iron ball, and they
will have steady employment in the streets of San
Francisco for three years AT the expiration of that
time, their gold fever will be somewhat abated.''
The Washington correspondent of the Boston Cou-
rier says:
We are unable to find that any Northern wing
member of Congress concurs with MIR. Webster in
propriety establishing territorial governments in
New Mexico, &c, without the ''Wilmot." And it
is freely sad that his argument that is not worth
while to ''re-enact what God has ordained would
have been good an argument against the original
passage of the ordinance of 1897 as it is against the
application of the 'Wilmot'' to territorial govern
ment for New Mexco.''
The N. Y. Tribune talks well of the position Of
the Massachusetts Senator
eve have read this speech not without regret
The opportunity was and is yet great one for a
man endowed with great mind, great heart and
courage up with the times. There was and is an
opportunity for man who should come not with a
new compromise, for this is not the day of compro-
misses, but with calm, comprehensive and impreg-
nable assertion of the principles and policy of free
dom with an uerance of what is in the heart of the
:, People. We should rejoice had Mr.. Webster taken
hold of this opportunity. But he has not and such
opportunities, when rejected, seldom present them
selves a second times
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t IA Campbelle Church has been established in
Boston, the first, believe in Massachusetts, if not in
New England. This sect is quite numerous in the
| South and West. Their f1under is lax.,Jor Co,o,