The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-07-25


this city, from friend in California, l take
the privilege of making the following extract
from it, believing it will be acceptable to the
readers of your favorite Journal. The letter
is dated Oregon Bar, Cal. May %, 1850;
and as the writer is an old citizen Of st.
Louis whose character for veraeity is well
established, your readers may place implicit
reliance on what he says. But to the ex
tract:
81 would be doing extreme violence to my
conscience were TO advise any Of my friends
to come to California. In the particular To-
caIiiy where now am. ! see enough Of vice
and immortality to utterly forbid such thing.
During my stay In this region have COLI
sumed much Of my time in travelling, and
have, therefore, had opportunities afforded
me TO learn the true state of society both So
cially and morally. Suffice it for me here TO
say-not having time or INCLINATION to dwell
upon the matter-that in both respects So
ciety here is vastly different from what it is
in the States, and is not Of such character
az should induce any sensible man to mi
CRATE hither from the States, merely to enjoy
it. Another fact to induce young persons to
stay at home, is that they are more subject
to disease and death than are old and middle
aged men. This is strange and apparently
unaccountable, but nevertheless entirely true.
My knowledge in this particular is gained,
l not through others, but by actual ohserva-
ton. The diseases most prevalent-and they
prevail to al alarming exient-are scurvy
and bilious darrhea. have enjoyed good
. health, and have made myself active in
r helping the dislressed-alleviating the pains
' Of the afflicted. Those then who would avoid
8 the horrid pictures Of misery add distraction
!. which have been called upon to witness
should stay at home in the States
Several months since visited n small place
t called Georgetown. situated about twenty
t, miles from the Sierre Nevada mountains.
J. 1t is surrounded by deep pine woods, and
e seems entirely shut out from the world
s One George Trips-who first settled here
and thought by naming the place George
town he would hand his own name down io
/ the admiration of coming generations in
e formed me during a conversation with him
l. that being out on a deer hunt shortly affc
his location in what is now Georgetown, h,
discovered trail, and following i, up for sew
h eral miles, was lead into long and deeI
J. Kanan. Pursuing his course he soon cam,
upon number of persons of haggard APP
pcarances anxiously peering into the SAM
:. and rock. Nov, =" says Tripr, they wa
lie queer looking objects, and ort to been hun!
for looking so. l war ieerd to 60 anon.
'em at first lest I'd find 'em to be some XIII
"a Of Caliiorny annerconders." Trips contin
+ ued by stating that some twelve months pre-
vious - this pack Of Oregon savages" dis
covered "god diggins" there. and, in tn
Is hope that they would realize the wealth {
- the mines themselves. they had kept the fac
Of their discovery profoundly still. ~ didn
like this Internal selfissness " says Trip
~ sand rolled barrel Of ticker right anon
- 'em, and in two weeks had skinned III
half naked varmnts Of half the dust they ha
just as easy as WOLVERINE 'ud lick
Hoosier."
he These mines were rich Of gold but al
70 Cow pretty well exhausted learned
"a one peice Of gold valued at 100000 beir
to take IN from them, and of others whose r
cir spectve value would fall but little short
, a $1,000. There are now about $50 men
we work here, all ofwhom give way TO excessi'
,n- NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. particularly in intoxic
Try ting liquors. As matter OF course there
ak continual uproar, excitement, and not unfr
he quently blood-shed.
,er But to return to Oregon Bar. Provisio
has here during the winter were exceeding
on, scarce and sold at exorbitant prices. L
at following is copy of bill of provisions
ing made and paid:
,ity Oregon Bar, April 8, 1850.
Bt Of E. Cook & Co.,
IT, 81 lbs Of bread q As 50
usy 4 cheese | 5 lbs n 81 %