The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1850-12-21
cALrronNIA---AGLooMY ACCOUNT,

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The passengers Of the steamer Alabama
who arrived at New Orleans on the 2sth
from California, have published statement
Of the condition Of things in Tint couutry,with
view As they say OF correcting the ial-r
and Exaggerated report. sent TO this part Of
the country respecting the success OF the mi
ncrs, They say they had mover witnessed
fuch scenes Of suffering ~ were presented 10y
the mining districts, Twenty thousand min
crs have been engaged all the summer in
turning aud damming the rivers Slanislaus
Tcwalama, Mercedes aud other STREAMS, the
beds Of which have all proved barren of the
precious dust. They have exhausted all
their means in this Improbable labor aud
are deeply IN debt To The merchants The
raining season which commences ia Noycm-
her " i'll force them back, pennies nndydcsti-
tutc 10 the townswhcrc they must be- fed and
supported during the winter or sent back to
the States, either of which appears almost inn
possible, The great object of Californian
cmigrant /, no longer 10 mako a fortune bat
30 pay his passage back 10 the states, This is
sometimes rto NhoI ofmonths BUT here f..
their own statement
s;ly oyelnkcrs, mcrchants.aud trader. whose
transactions extend throughout the
re length aud breadth OF the gold region,
,ssiSt. IN no small degree, in misleading the
public in regard to the lattcring prospect ct
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tlucrd thousands and tens of thousands 10
seek fortunes in California at great sacrifices,
who never would have tried the experiment
n They had hCcu informed on thU rUut ruurtI
ton and prospect of those engaged in working
the mines
We believe that thousands have been in
duccd to cmigrac to California, during the
past year, on account of the exaggerated re-
-llnrL- llllIlGE -lLc-LaN GIIII-GlL- Lt--Alr-
King, and 10y the statements made bv The
delegates IN Congress, in relation to the gold
hearing quartz. They stated that quartz rock
existed, 10 an unlimited extent, and worth
from one To three dollars per pound These
statements coming 10 the miners through the
newspapers published ahrhad. struck them
with profound astonishmcnt Now, there is
not one miner in five hundred who has found
IN all his researches pound of quartz rock
worth hlty cents per pound, and the under
signed, who have been deeply interested in
the matter, having carried machinery Ia the
lines At great expense, to work the quartz,
know that none can be found there worth the
present price for labor to work it.
II has been estimated TINT ahout one hun
dred thousand Americans were in California
AZ the commencement of the present year
The emigration this year is put down at six !
~ thousand across the plains, ten thousand o.
Yer Land through Texas and Mexico and iii
" thousand across the Misunderstanding two
hundred and twenty thousand. Surprising
that twenty thousand have returned home
during the present year, (aud this is said 10
be liberal calcuation) two hundred thou
''SiHd Americans remain in the country II |
asked what is the condition and prospects of !
this large number of American citizens, we
would say ''most dcplprabr." The fOfte or
httv thousand who have been engaged in |
dlnlming and turning the rivers during the /
summer, have been almost universally disap- /
pointed, -fiariu: Tort thr lnbor uf three sum
mers, and the means they had prcyinuSly prn- ]
cured, thousands Of them are reduced {,
want and involved in debt for subsistence,
etc. .
Those who were engaged in the dry dig
pings, depots, &c, have also been unsucccss-
full during the past season. 1t was the gene
raj opinion of the miners last mentioned, that
not more than eighty or ninety in every hun
drod had realized money enough to enable
them to return To their families; and not more
than one in twenty has realized dollar clear
of expense during the season. All hopes of
making fortunes in California are lost sight
OF IN nncty-ninc cases out of hundred, and
the almost universal feeling il to get home.
And IT is trnl hearl=rcnding- toawiiness the j
general dependency which exists among the Il
miners, and to st9uI-heartcd and brave
men shed tear at their hopeless condition.
We have deemed it our duty--a duty we felt
due to the American people-thus honestly to
present for their consideration the foregoing
leaving all to actnccurding 10 their own judg-4.
mcnts in the matter.
ANpE-p- SeE- .AtE-tt---Atr Abdominal, -A.tsa,f,L
died at Sharon, Conn, on the Odd of Novem-
Der, aged 81 years lie was n soldicrin Col.
Humans rcgimcntand went to Canada ia !,
100. He was one of the volunteers under I,
Col. Ethan Allen that attacked Montreal
where the whole party was captured. He was
sent with thirty-thrce others, among whom ,
was Col. Allen, prisoner to England 1t was
intended therd, 10 execute the whole for hiuh ,
treason, Int reprisals being threatened, the
prisoners were taken tn Halifax, and subsc- ,