The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-07-15

SAN FRANCISCO, May a. 1850.


The Herald in Cahfovnic-1he Slarery Question
Threats # IrGs1tndeno-7k Mines, &C.
The independent and fearless course Of your
paper, on The exciting questions sgatiDg the
public mind, ano in truth on all others, has en-
deared it 10 eseiytrue American in California; and
this is shown ny The avidity with which it is seized,
10 'he exclusion Of all others, Immediately on the
arrival Of the steamers, readily commanding one
hundred per cent advance of the Tribune and Sun;
the price of The E1otd being fifty cents, while the
latter is bit twenty-five cents and will not bring
that so long a Herald remains unsod
We sit here, afar of, and Judge calmly and
dispassonately OF the merits of the questions at
issue, and cure and despise the fire and birthstone
clspirsp If some of the extremists of the South,
and loaihe and execrate such dirty pot-hoase poll
iicians as Hale and Giddings, the men of the
one idea, which they can never abandon, as it in
wolves their political existence. Settle the slavery
que stion, and they sink back into their sloughs
and natural insienifcance. Their minds are inca
Fable Of graspng with any of the great questions
of the day, involving real craftsmanship and ex-
tensive eIudition.
have travelled over almost every part of Cali
fornia heard the question discussed everywhere,
and among all classes, be they from the North or
from the South and there seems TO be but one SEN
time Mt among the people-,hat slavery is a curse
to that country wherever exists hence they op-
pose the introduction of it into California, which,
sovereign Stale, Tor ought 10 have been ere
this,) they have right to do. But we do not as
the tight to say to the Southern man, that he
shall not take his slaves into territory belonging
equally TO him and myself And should our Sena-
tors and Representatives lend themselves TO the free
soil agiiators TO the leopard ling OF the Union, the
loss Of their political position in this country will
he nj
called upon to sustain at the hands OF their con-
sttuents.
Dissolve the Union, and the destiny of the coun-
try west of the Sierra and Rocky Mountains, is an
independent republic. On the truth OF tins you
moy rely most fully. IT'S fixed fact, as the
existence of those frozen barriers by which nature
has already divided us. There is scarcely man
TO be found in the country, of different sentiment
The cham in the name and recollections Of the
Union, is the centrpetal force which holds 1t to its
centre Destroy the harmony Of the system, and
we, the remoter planets, fly off for ever And by
10 possible chain of events, could union OF this
county with Northern confederacy ever be
effected, for every man from the slave States, and
many from the free, sympathse with the South,
believing, as they do, that nsither religion nor phi
laHthropy has had any part in the motives OF these
fanatics, but originated solely IN lnorbid desire
for notoIiety among that class OF animals OF the
Abby Folsom stamp, who are lost to all sense of
proper decorum.
You will see, by the papers, that another awful
fire has swept away the very heart OF our CITY, The
wore ccmplacent smile but they have been
sadly disappointed, for every one seems fully i'm
pressed with the utter folly fputtlng up again any
Thing beyond mere shanties, to be burnt down in
month And if we were to rebuild the whole of
San Francisco with wood, il would scarcely make
an impre ssion on the immense quantities now in
this place, and augmenting hourly by arrivals from
every habnable part of the globe.
We are somew hat fearful out here, that the
entire mercantile community of the United States
have either lost their wits, or, having joined the
Millerites, have further use for their money.
No sooner do they hear that any article opera
ton is paying well here, than they, one and all,
from Maine to New Orleans, seem to rush into the
market, seize up every available vessel, and hurry
thtmof Do thsy think that we can absorb in
month all the lumber in creation? imagine they
do, for all creation is sending it here-China, New
South Wales, New Zealand, Peru, and Chill, the
Russian settlements, Columbia river, and even the
remote tributaries of the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers. And steamboats, for the Sacramento will
soon be plentiful and quite cheap as lumber.
We have already thirty. four large and small ones
in the San Joaquin and Sacramento, which, with
the eleven more advertised in the Herald as having
sailed or to have done by the LIST April last, will
give us inthree months az steamers The large boats
McKim, Hartford FL Dorado, Major Tompkins,
Gold Hunter, Chesapeake, and Governor Dana-S
On their way out, as advertised by the Herald,
! New World, w. G. Hunt, West Point, ]. W..
Pease, Duncan c. Pell, Golisb, Confidence, Ante
lope, Colonel Stanton, and three propelors, names
not remembered, making 10 large size boats to run
TO Sacramento city, besides the hosts Of smaller
ones, dropping down from the upper streams with
| the falling OF the freshets, TO compete with the
larger boats, by reduction of the fare. But when
tell you that there is engaged IN the same trade at
least hundred fore and aft schooneIs and three
hundred saii-boafs, running at prices at which
steamers could not pay expenses, you may form
idea OF the probable fate OF the steamboat opera
tors. Never was there such a mad community as
the Yankee nation. Are they aware that the most
liberal estimate puts the present population of Cali
fona at l20, GOO, distributed over surface offrom
COO miles in latitude by 100 u longitudel But even
tra,ed al the three points" san Francisco" s Sa-
cramento," and on the +" San Joaquin" and that
every traveller on the river went in the steamers,
is il not plain that even then there would not be
trade for ~ steamers, even supposing that number
should not be increased But the travelling does not
all go in steamers, nor yet half At least three
| quarters 60 in sail boats and the schooners. The
| emgrant coming into the country goes the cheap
est way. The miner, with his pocket filled, takes
the most comfortable. The Gold Hunter" is here.
The owners have been offered $50, 900 for her, 10
run between this place and the Sandwich Islands.
Were che not sea boat, she would hardly bnn K
| first cost.
We have just cast our slough Gold Mexican
laws), and are now being broke into the new order
Of things. The new courts are organized, NUM-
cipal officers elected and altogether settling
down very much after the home way of dong
things.
Instead of despoiling the world Of all iss lumber
and steamboats,, TO send out here, why do not some
of you despatch few csrgses OF that invalu Bile
article manufactured out of the "nb OF Adam ~
IL has never deprecated; and shall never forget
my sensations, when, after hot aud long journey
over the plains from the head waters Of the Sscra-
menio, hove in sight Of old petticost iuttenng
in the wind.
gased and, while gascd, In transport test,
Ny breath vas gone. my voice lsst,
Ny feeble puisr forget 10 play,
tainted. sank and died away"
oh. dear that Sultan of Turkey is a happy dog,
The "Levee" at Sacramento City is progressing
rsIidly, and floods will invade the sanctity
Of its pecincts IL is going ahead beyond any thing
man ever dreamed Of Talk about your steam
cars and "Morse's ,legrsphr' thay can't keep up
with Sacramento City. They have been more
fortunate than we Of San Francisco, in their APP
ponments Of judges and municipal officers, having
obtained, generally, honest energetic, and faithful
men. But from he msjonty OF incumbents at San
Francisco, good Lord.dehver us; without Divine
intsfposifcn or most solid sense nd integrity m