Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-11-30

To justify our giving place to the following COM
municaton, il is enough to say that the writer is
known to US; that what he says is OF his own ex-
penence and knowledge; and that, so far from
having any hostility to the welfare Of California,
his own interest is, to some extent identified with IT,
TO THE EDITORS
Messrs GALES & sEAros read letter few DAYS aeo
Ia the IntelIgence" from your correspondent J. T. w..
dated Calorns, Marposa September g. 1885, which fur
nlshes very correct portrait Of and things in that
region. All the author says fully corroboraed by letters
have received from gentlemen of known reputation residing in
San Francisco
The Inellgencer' of this morning contains On article
from the "Journa Of Commerce" from which extract the
following paragraph Between seventy and eighty
ed Caonans reached ST. Louis about the 10th instant ge
nsraly in destitute condition. Many had moi the means
to defray their expenses The of gold brought
not from $780, OO" The paper announces the ar
rival Of the steamship Crescent CITY, bringing S.7000 900
worth Of gold. With your permission beg leave to make
few comments, and in doing am alone Influenced by
sincere and honest wish to place additional lights before the
many misguided and nformed persons who are ru.hng to
California under the fatal belief that fortunes await them
Alas how many have gone there, like Ulysses TO the
shore, only to weep"
have been resident for upwards Of year in California,
and what is based upon actual observation But in
the first place. word two in regard the amount of gold
brought by the Crescent City Without positively sayisg this
amount did not come, am free say that entertain serious
doubts. My doubts have their origin 10 having short time
read article in Of the New York city papers head
ed arrival of(the of the do not recoec-
some million of gold dust" Reading the article through,
found that of this amount but twenty-five thousand Ave
hundred manifest, the balance in "the hands Of
passengers they numbering something short Of two hundred.
Hence find two hundred happy souls returning from Ell
Dorado the possessors Of million Of dollars minus only
twenty two thousand five hundred Doubtless these The
most favored body of who have aversed the blue
Of old Neptune for many long day. Would that such
really true But who has witnessed the almost destitute
condition of much disappointed and suffering humanity
returning home, and not regard this statement hubug
Il would be quite interesting know by hat chemical pro-
the fact of this money being in the hands of the pas
sengers determined. II is we'll known fact that
chants and heavy dealers do make remances any
great extent by private individuals and hence conclude
that if this amount in the hands Of the passengers il
their How infinitely fortunate has been the
luck Of those men than the eighty who have just returned to
st. Louis, desute, 1t were, with but hardly twenty
thousand dollars giving to EACH if equally divided little
two hundred dollars while in the other have every
man loaded down to the guards with the talesf kind of
pile II would be mercantile, and certainly
tisfactoy, the actual amount nan simply stated,
for any knowing what is in the hands of indiv-
duas out Of the question, Now incline very strongly
the belief that the have mentioned not bera
commentary upon other arrivals.
And now let say word or two about California,
in which / shall "nothing exenuate nor aught set
down in malice" A relnquishes friends and home
at an expensive outfit and pays about $3.50 for cabin
passage from New York to San Francisco put the
pense Of crossing the Ishmus with its known contingencies
$50, which is not out Of the way Now, the outfit and
passage money would enable in the West to buy l60
Of an build thereon and stock it, where he might
joy his health and the society Of family and friends under
"the shade Of his and fig tree The voyage is
made ia thirty days-beng expense of SIS per day for
cabin and 81 SO for deck for the privilege going
to California; where out Of every ten realize little
else than bitter disappointment loss of health and unfor
t.naey often their good 1t be denied that
the nrals Of California very loose, generally speaking
and me' under reckless and desperate impulses often resort
to ways and Mems they would have spurned at home
The majority Of the passengers Cat least reurnng) arc
deck passengers and is really amusing Or humliatineI
do not know which is the phrsseto witness them as
sembling round the galey",t grub time Of day, like con-
vcts in prison, each with his tin pot Nate and spoon. ne
he chance 70 have these very useful article 10 receive from
insolelt understapper his allowance fod
am here Speaking Of the voyage in the Pace and NOR,
particularly my own voyage board Of the Pa in Tia,
ocean. There table for US, hat space 49,
up to crowd in more passengers y "between decks -.
badly ventilated and when, through iad weather,
had to 20 below the stencil really nupportabe. II,
the instant that you land the Ishmus, Panama.
you get shpboard at Chagres, the Atlantic, you
deemed h subject for every species Of imposition. not eI-
ceping robbery and murder. do in oil honesty think that
the Isthmus Panama boast of bad and unprpc
pied than cam for the population, be found any where
else.
The public hospitals in San Ffsnci-eo always full to
OVERLOOKING with destitute and sick, and but for this lbe
raj provision of the Town Council know not what had
been the fate Of many emigrant.
It is high time that would pause and count the eoss
ere they abandon comfortable living home and enter upon
an experimental system in California.
The skepical cannot but that individual enter
prise in the mines barely, in most cases. yield but living.
while thousands doing than nothing in San Fam
CISCO The thing has been ovedone and reaction has taken
place Lots lying in the upper and Of town San
Francisco, which purchased year ago, and then
regarded great bargains would fetch onehaf the
paid and many poor fellow the day be invested bis all
in Getty property, especially in that which lies high
the valuable being " beaehioat and cap lots !" for
here business has concentrated and in all likelihood will re-
main.
To capitalists with powerful machinery the mines NAV be