Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-02-22

MRS, Farnham I'm CalifoTnia--A Chance Women
The New York Evening Post has been favored
with the following extract Of private letter received
by enc of Mrs FARNHAM's friends, announcing her
safe arrival at San Francisco after having been ran
away from at Valparaiso by the captain Of the YES
sci in which she left New York, who had not even
the common humanity to leave her Young children
with her, but took them along to Calfornia, while
the mother was left to follow them chance or the
advice of strangers might dictate. But she found
friends and passage up the coast arriving at San
francisco only two weeks after the vessel which had
deserted her. and found her children safe and we'll
She writes by the last mail
FAN Francisco, Dec 80, l849.
have been but two days here but as the mail
goes day after tomorrow am Constrained to write
you in the midst of confusion that quite de6es the
attempt to say than that | am here that
came from Valparaiso on the Louis Philippe found
the Angelique here fortnight before me and all
thlngs right Women are imprisoned here
at this by the horrible condition of the streets
We have to mems boots and shorten our skirts
as much possible. have been in the street but
twice, and each time in that costume. Wo-
men are more in requisition than gold any thing
else. Those who came out with me had Immediate
ly offers of employment at SIS and 500 per month
If there had been five hundred instead of FIVE, they
could all have engaged Immediately similar terms.
They must be got here in considerable numbers be-
fore society can take any shape assume any char
| acter. hope that while good brethren at home
are bestring themselves kindly to send out church.
es and elergymen they will not forget that the best
OF all missionaries to such population are resolute,
virtuous, intelligent
One Of the chief difficulties that felt by the
women who consulted me, the fear that they
should not be protected against rudeness perhaps
something worse. | reasoned then that it would not
be So but it was difficult to convince by argument
Therefore, let the fact be known to all who to
know it, that the utmost possible Difference and care
shown to females and that any woman, to expe-
rence, rudeness insult here, must expose herself
much more imprudently than she would to incur
| the risk in your cities. No woman need fear
to come here who has the and energy to take
of herself elsewhere and she will have, in her
capacity for any occupation suited to her SEX bet
ter capital than the gold of the mines Ifthere had
1000 females sailed last May, they would, all who
choose to, be proftably employed this day. Every
thing is scarcer here than gold.
Launch of the .. S. Steamer Po7vhottan.
A slip from the Portsmouth (Va.) Pilot, gives the
following account of the launch of the T. S. steamer
Powhattan, the 18th instant
The launch of the immense Steamer Powhattan
was perfect and beautiful At the time appointed
Is minutes of IL oclock-this noble ship glded into
her destined clement, amid the huzzas of thousands
who thronged the wharves, shipping and vicinity
the sprit-stirrng strains of Hail Columbia and
salute from the Pennsy lvania.'
;, Although but six inches allowed on either
side of the ship to escape from the cage (shphouse)
in which she built so complete and skillful were
all the arrangements of Constructor S. T. HARTT
that she passed out raising not splinter She part
ed her hemp cables like thread and was brought
up in the mud on the opposite side, without any
| damage.
The following are the only correct dimensions Of
the ship yet published. They are official: