Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1850-02-08
California.

-AHoNieI nue. ana CRY mas Oeeu St0Tteu Dy tHOSe
interested in the golden humbug of the west.
California, heretofore richer in gold than Ophir,
lin emeralds, rubies and diamonds richer than
Golconda ;-heretofore her rivers have rolled
over beds of gold, and her ptacers have yielded
in lavish profusion the broad cast crop of shining
ore. But now We learn that this vast and unap-
propriated wealth has been nothing but the ex-
hibition of seedy and decent poverty compared
with the discoveries which have recently come
10 light. Henceforth /" her sands are pearl her
waters nectar, and her rocks pure gold" The
discoveries of T. Butler King and others who
are coming on with some rich specimens of ore
from the mountains, make known, if we can be-
ieve them, that the solid rocks of tho Sierra Me-
vada, yield at the rate of from 81 so to $500
in gold for every pound of rock Now we be-
Ileve IN almost every thing, and are very credu-
lous on points which 10 us seem reasonable, but
we do protest against the outside OF This story.
We do not believe there is more money to be made
in California than there is in Wisconsin. If the
cheated thousands of California wish to retrieve
their ruined fortunes and get out of the scrape as
best they can; if the propagandists of slavery
wish TO introduce the peculiar institution into
California, the best way for both classes is to
pursue the course then have now adopted; invent
larger gold stories-te them it is altogether
more abundant than it has BEEN tell them that
the sol d mountains are gold And be particular
10 ;otrod,oo
of the south, to tell them that it requires great
capital and large outlay for help and machinery
tell them it requires the lords of the south with
an ample fortune, and hundred slaves and il
they succeed no farther than to inveigle enough
gold hunters into the country upon whom they
can fatten and make upa small part of what they
have lost-by which means they can pay their
passage home; they will do we'll
Further, what does all this agitation in Con-
gress at the present time. Why is the trinity of
Senate Gods, Cass, Calhoun, and Clay al work
to break down the Wilmot proyiso and establish
this "n on-intervention policy" which literally
interpreted, means, slavery extending policy.
Why is the message of /" Zachary the first"
promulged with such ambiguous terms; why
does he wish 10 drop the question of the Wilmot
proviso. He knows very well that if this ques-
ton is only let alone mastery inactivity will
settle it as it was settled in Texas, or else the
arch compromiser viii succeed as he succeeded
in Missouri
We care not fig FOR tn, value of the terrific
ry OF California az so many acres of land; ii
would be better to-day in pccuniary point Of
view for this country, ii the waters of the Pacif-
! ic should swallow up every rood, and her Wa
tiers henceforth beat upon the base of the Sierra
Nevada.
From the best calculations which have or can
be made, it appears that great deal more mon
ey is carried ont of this country than is return
ed to it in all ways from California And we
are satisfied there is not place in California
whore labor is SO surely repaid as in Wisconsin
and if you wish to get rich by specializing,
there are hundred towns il the North part OF
this State, where more money can be made by
specializing, than in California. c.