The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-27

Private Adviccs from California,
The ~ o. Bulletin says: While we give lit
tie credence to the great variety of reports
which, from repetition, have become stale, of
California, we have faith in private communities
tons, emanating from friends, and addressed to
friends, when no motive exists to mislead and
deceive. A friend has given to us communi-
cation of this sort, and we make from it the fol-
lowing extracts: fE4}G Efts#
Business at this time (May 27th) in San
Francisco, is hardly worth undertaking, owing
to the great competition, the frequent fluctua-
tons in the market, and the heavy expenses in
cident to any aud every kind Of business; and
yet commission business, with the necessary
means and proper qualifications, would be con-
Quoted, without doubt, with profit. Digging
in the mines, from the extreme labor and expos
urc required, has become excessively repulsiye,
and it Is taken up as last resort.
suppose people in the States think digging
gold, if not easy, is profitable; but if they SIT
down and count the number Of persons work
ing, they would soon discover that the sum for
each man would be small. know, of my own
knowledge, that not more than one-half make
more than their expenses, and live worse than
any other class of human beings, white or black,
| that you every had the pleasure to see.
| There have been many failures here this win
ter. 1t could not be otherwise, with rents so
high and market so fuctuating as this, together
with two destructive fires. Few men, without
much money, could stand it. et
Gamblers appear to have their own way yet
They have become perfect nuisance, and it is
shameful that such host of 1blacklegs" should
monopolize the best part Of the city, and bring,
in every sense, a blighting curse upon it.
Many articles just now are very lew, while
others are high Lumber, which at this time
last year sold for $500, has been sold as low as
$40. A house frame complete, which cost 400
pounds sterling in Sidney, was bought at auc-
ton, on shore, for $llO, by a friend of mine.
So here is reaction with a vengeance. Dry
goods, clothing, and miners tools, which last
summer you could hardly give away, and when
laying about your doors all night no one thought
them worth stealing, now pay two or three hum
dred per cent profit. Rents must soon come
down, and, in fact, now you can see bills posted
all about town TO Rent
CONSTITUTION OF New MExIco-We transfer
to our columns this morning, an article from the
National Intelligencer of the 9th, announcing
constitution of New Mexico, at the seat of gov
eminent, and giving some extracts from it upon
the subjects of slavery, the boundaries they have
seen fit to prescribe to themselves, the time,
| place and mode of putting the State Govern
ment into operation, and the election of repre-
sentatives to Congress, &C. We commend the
subject to the special attention Of our readers,
and we ask them to observe the dates as they
proceed, and then say whether they have ever
before seen so solemn and important a proceed
ing hurried up with such railroad speed. Those
people have quite penchant for decimals. They
make progress by leaps every ten days, and that
! in country without mails, or any other mode
Of rapid INSTRUMENTATION The people yoNs
for delegates to the convention, upon notice of
ten days. The body assemblies, makes its con-
stitution or rather adopts one already cnt and
dried to its hand, and submits its work to the
people for acceptance or objection, and the cleo
ton Of members to the Legislature, all OH a
notice of ten days. The Legislature thus to be
elected is to meet in ten days thereafter, and at
the expiration of another ten or twenty at farth-
est, if their haste does not wear out they may
have their Senators and Representatives trotting
into Washington, and ENDURING for the big wig
wan, that is, if they take the precaution to elect
trio of swift Pueblo runners. To be serious,
we are sick to death Of this burlesque, this con-
temptuous disregard Of all the forms and So
IDENTITIES which ever have and ever should mark
the laying of the foundation stone of republi-
can government. But as new order Of things
has begun Mt Washington, we trust this cabinet
bantling will be permitted to descend to the
common receptacle of wretched party tricks and
devices, there to be forgotten as quickly as pos
sible, and that Congress will speedily provide
for territorial pupilage to the Pueblos, to con-
tinue for at least twenty years to COME Mobile
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