Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-01-19
REMARKS ON THE CALIFORNIA NEWS.
FROM THE sEw York TRIBUNE.

FROM FORK TRIBUNE.
The advices by this arrival are more favorable
than we had anticipated. Provisions were rather
lower in San Francisco, considerable supplies hav-
ing been received, while more are known TO be at
hand. There is very scanty supply throughout
the mining regions, owing in good part to the pre-
mature setting in of the rainy season, and the con-
sequent swelling of the rills Tor rather rlbeds) to
rivers, and the transformation of the plains late so
arid and dusty into vast sloughs of deepening mud,
crossed by fifty streams in twenty miles, where not
a drop of water could be found month before
The Callfornians are living in hope OF temporary
cessation of the rains throughout the early part of December
SO as to permit the conveyance of provisions into the
more accessible portion Of the dggngs, though at heavy
cost We fear this expectation will be disappointed and that
mining must to great extent be suspended for the present
and two or three succeeding months OF there must
be much prvation first among those unable to obtain pro-
visions at the mines conveyance therefrom secondly
among those who driven thence Sacramento, San Fran
CISCO and the coast will find food and shelter very dear and
the labor market glutted.
The letters of associate BArARD TAYLOR, will
vince the most ncedulous of the immense mineral wealth of
California The instances, Details and estimates given in
those letters must vanquish the most obdurate kepcism
Of course in SO pecaous business wherein most Of those
engaged intensely green badly provided and compelled
shelter &c. there he very many who have had poor
uck but that the average product Of this years actual dig
gngs has exceeded dollars per day each digger
hardly doubt. 1t is melancholy thought that great pro-
portion of the proceeds have been cuched by gamblers
Sellers and other panderers debauched appetes that
many who have been lucky in digging in of
dollar. But such the fact with regard many and
will be as to many more. .. .... ..
We believe more letters brought by the Panama now
their way by the landma from New Orleans, in
which hope to receive fall information from Mr.. Taylor
with regard the rich veins Of gold in quartz rock whereof
he speaks. Of their location apart from Fremonts nche
and extent not clearly advised yet but he speaks
as though they not rich than extensive.
The general prevalence Of peace, ORDER and security
throughout California is very remarkable Apart from the
conflicts with and wrongs inflicted upon the hapess aborg
by people, life, liberty, and property appear to be
quite throughout the gold region in this city.
The election has resulted we have already stated
The candidates nearly all without regard party
hough most of them styled Democrats, with wider
latitude Of meaning Mr. EDWARD GILBERT, editor of the
Alta California, for instance, is chosen to Congress and
calls himself Democratic but be ran Independent,
strongly opposed any party nomination, and not the
democratic ticket made and generally supported in San
Francisco, where he ran behind in consequence. ~.
Where there no organization, and where not half those
entitled to do it, the Wings not very likely such to
make much gue but do not yet evidence that United
States Senators hostile the National Administration will be
chosen The Legislative returns very imperfect and the
members returned politically designated The Pacific
Ne,cs Of the 3Oth November says ..."
Save in San Francisco there hardly petence Of any
Democratic organization and that the election over
I'VE suppose all will admit that the organization here
tireIy incomplete, if invalid 1t wholly failed to
centrae the mass the Democratic of San Francisco
In other places Wings, and doubtless many
Democratic, have been chosen But they have not been
chosen Democrats Wings, but mainly in view of
other personal and local considerations The old party
Sues the Tariff the Subtreasury, the Veto, &c., have not
generally been thought Of in the We felt assured
from the first that this must be the throughout the State
The result showing that the of the have not
voted at all, fully confirms our impression"