New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-08
The T,ou.,e. m California.

The intelligence from California, which
we publish in the present number Of THE
Tribune, gives signs of trouble and dissen-
sion. The peace aud security of the country
are threatened, through the pressure Of Diff
culties which might have been in great
measure, if not wholly, prevented by the
prompt recognition Of California as con-
stituent sovereignty of the Republic, aud the
different policy which such recognition would
have prescribed for her. The failure
thereof has been q serious check upon all
her recent movements.
There is no fear that the disturbances
either among the Indians or Foreigners, will
occasion more than temporary embarass-
ment. The weaker party will succumb to
the stronger for the time, boarding up Its
futile enmity till more convenient season.
But this feeling will breed continual bicker-
ings, oyerthrowing the order of the mining
communities, and endaugering the lives Of
many blameless individuals. The tax on for
eign miners is felt to be an imposition, and
however strongly the State Agent may be
backed in his effJrts at collecting it, the for
eieners will evade and resist it by every
means in their power. The necessity of
providing in some way for the scanty
Treasury of the Government does not hide
from their eyes the illiberal, not to say I'M
Just, character Of the act. They would be
willing to yield a proper tribute to the au-
thority of the United States, but they cannot
see California-not yet acknowledged as a
portion Of that authority-making herself
steward of the Public Domain, and filling
her Golfers from her burdensOme exactiOns
on their labor, without .mpatience and en-
nifty. Whatever may be thought of the pol
icy of such a regulation, when legally estab-
Ished, there can be no doubt as to the ques-
ton: Has California right to make it?
The Indian quarrels, however, threaten
10 involve us in m,re protracted difficulties.
There is a class of the miners composed of
men from the extreme West, and from the
borders of Texas and Oregon-men who
seem to be, in their natures, cross between
the Indian and the White-to whose reckless
barbarity and want Of good faith nearly all
the troubles with the tribes in the mountains
may be sscribed. These characters keep
alive the hostile feeling by thousand petty
acts of cruelty, setting promises and cove
nants at naught We have therefore little
hone that the relations between the two
races, so unhappily begun, will speedily
reach Harmonious. termination. Mean
while. what has become Of our Indian Agent
IN California, to whose hands the manage
ment of this subject is entrusted?
The accounts from the placers are not SO
,;vely as usual. The continued high water
of the rivers has in some degree checked the
operations of the miners. Business In the
cities. however, goes on as brisk as ever, and
California does not seem to be wanting
money when she can send US two and a hall
millions in gold dust BY one steamer
The new settlements of Trinity aud Hum
,o,dt more than fulfil their first Hat
,.r;ro PROMISES, and they will soon
sreste a fOurishiDg agricultural district
s,;awav between San Francisco and Oregon
CIV The southern portion of California
800 Genial 10 climate, though less prOid'e