The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-10-12

Provisions. provisions have been very steady
American beef is la better demand but without any ao,
vance in price. Bacon Is in very good request, aud all
dese commend In'i prices snou'u 'Siss Iowsr
Tbs political news Is unimPoItsnt
1As A.pss. or ,As C.l,1osn,. vssd.r IL E~r.Ps.
VT f+H From the London Times, Sept a.
California seems al last TO be IN earnest On The 2ist
umo the steamer Panama arrived al Panama, IRON can
Francisco, with ~ 100000 IN gold dust the who,s oI
| which, BY the TIN instant had been brought 70 New
York by the steamers Empire Ciy Georgia and 1hsI TO-
kee Our intelligence IRON San Francisco 10 up 10 Inc
lst umo and at that date the news from the mines was
considered more favorable than ever On the subsistence
OF the annual inundaons, works had peeh col,neneea
in new places and reopened in others, on very large
| scale, and Tor the time, win general success. -.
AS for the Californian republic, and Tue scattered com
muniiy Of the Pacific OF which II rs suddenly .pe queen
one almost them growing IN each fresh aryal
from the States AT San francisco, the avages oi inc
last conagaton have been repaired with more suosah
tia materials All the OF civilized man are there
supplied even quicker than the thirst OF the gold hunter
and bricks aud timber keep pace WIN Tue demand
The sand hills that frowned the hrst batch OF inmi
grants are already covered with fine gardens, and oan
francisco is now as well supplied with vegetables and
| fruit this metropolis The press hourshes ana we
have several namesakes IN that remote region here Is
the Pacific News, the San Francisco Herald the Placer
Times the Alta California, with the Sacramento Iran
script and the Sacramento Times We are delighted 70
list OF California marriages, one OF them described
which might pass for paragraph ~ our fashion,
able contemporary "The city OF Sacramento, we are
told by the Placer Times, has never witnessed more
brilliant assembage of beauty and fashion During me
three months Immediately preceding Inc departure Oh tne
Panama there had arrived at San Francisco ao7 vessels
OF which 81 were Brtsh-he tonnage OF the whole being
were generally maintained The Sandwich Islands had
largely pofted by the rising trade OF which they lie IN
the highway Vast numbers Of Chinese are settling IN
them The port OF Honolulu full OF vessels, and new
public buildings projected at the cost OF near 100000
Before many years the great Pacific will be as hronged
with INTERCHANGEABLE only effective missionaries says
the Weekly Heraldas the Atlantic or the Medrerra,
Already the Californans look on Australians anu
New Zealanders much as we do on Germans and
These gloomy episodes are not permitted chasse the
exuberance of American anticipation Accustomed, as
transatlantic cousins to expect everything and 70
claim everything, they little thought hve years ago thal
they woul 80 occupy the western coast, be The
lords OF the Pacific and possess city there whose sud
den supassee the imperial creations OF Consian
tnople and Alexandria. They are quite beside them.
selves with wonderment and Joy So confident they
that ythng is working IN their favor-so hrm are
they in the persuasion of their destiny TO NIL the New
World and hold the balance OF the Oidthat they are be-
ginning to be Indifferent or rather careessy UNANIMOUS
as to ordinary political questions The cry s, Let's
have settlement any how that we may push altogether
for the great game before u.s. The questions OF slavery
OF the Texan and New Mexican boundaries, OF the Cali
lorna constitutions and even OF The farm, have all been
buried slurred over One thing they say they mus
have, and tnat without deay-a railway or canal
through lhe shmus BY this and by an electric
through Mexico they expect soon to bring San francisco
as near to New York as New Orleans was few years
ago Preparations alreay progress for ship, build
ing Orreon in orderto save The passage around Cape
Horn Even The overland is beginning 10 lose ite
errors The Mormons are forming settlements Just al
the point where they will prove most servceabe TO the
exhausted and before very long It IS by no
means impossible that railway may connect New oTk
and San Francisco In the midst OF these brilliant pros
poets, very natural that the citizens OF the Union
should show even less than their usual modesiy But
the prudence which should learn them to moderate
their hopes suggests TO Also not to do TINS Tor them
II is not for TO cay what destiny is or IS not IN store o
them When the present is SO far out OF human cacula
ton, what likely than that the future should be
also 2 "
\ ~ The Revelation Hssse-Casssl.
/ Although uns,aned by excuses or violence of any
kind the revolution in Hesse Cassel still maintains Tor
midabe aspect The struggle between the Elecor and
his people continues and appears that the former de.
termnsd to persist his policy The seat OF government
is TO be moved from Casse TO small town in the vicinity
of Frankfort; and HassenpHug. who remains minister
has summoned the different servants OF the government TO
lWilhemsbad The people, the other hand, preserve an
attitude OF constitutional resistance the martial law pro
claimed by the Eec,or has been nowhere enforced and
the country remains IN state OF perfect tranquility IL 10
manfesty impossible for the government % restrain The
movement since the .abc iunctonaries, the army and
the people, unanimous n their determination 10 resist
what they consider aroitrsy invasion oil the coDstiiu-
ton 1t is said that NJ Hassepphug canno, count
on the cordial support OF his colleagues in the cabi
net and there is for believing that the coup
sat OF the electoral government has been prompted or
couniensncea by Austria Reports TO that effect have in
deed been indusoisly circulated, although they do not
appear be founded upon facts but rather upon the
suned aggressivencss Of Austrian diplomacy II is the
fashion that government OF the most determined
absouis propagandsm but II is not necessary to resort
10 such hypothesis account for the movement in
Hesse The OF wisdom IN the Elec,o and the want
OF honesty in his minister, render II supeuous to seek
for exaneous influences the causes OF the revolution
which is in progress But whether the crisis Is 10
be attributed 10 the agency OF Others the unpromp,ed
measures OF the Prince the dangers to be apprehended
are equally grave.
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