Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-05-21
From the . ew York Express.


4 returned Californian, gentleman o
prohliy and intelligence, writes us de
plnrahle account e matters and !Eings il
the so-callcd Paradise of the Pacific, Sc
widely dif'cri from the spirit of Tho
Galilnnia press, that perhaps the con;ras
will help 10 sober ltlle the excited i'm
aginalions of those among us, yet painting
to 90 TO The land where fortunes are TO be
had for the mere picking up. He says
INC ayarcc and cupidty of the specuIa.
tors and newspaper editors, induce them
10 send home the most wicked reports
concerning the righteousness Of gold
Seven-eigh,s of The people who have gene
To California, he thinks, have besn eyre
giously humbugged. The land spceula-
tors he calls just so many land pir"teS.-
The necessaries of life are hard TO be got
a, any price. Thousands are dying with
the scurvy AMI o'her diseases, of which
the newspapers, for their own interests,
never take any cognizance. Five out OF
every IN elvc are sick and out of every five,
thrce either die or are invalids for life
iOne-half of the people who 60 TO Calfor-
MIA intending to run TO the Atlantic States
lin tue course Of two or three years, will
never return to their homes, our inlor-
man, thinks. The gold regions will
make more widows and orphans in one
year than did the whole Of the Mexican
war. There are more beggars-more
real misery and poverty-in California,
he saws, than can be found in any State in
the Union. There are hundreds Of 'cit-
zens" in the streets of San Francisco,
Sacramento, and other towns, who know
rot whether 10 turn to look for food
Starvation at every step stares them in
the face. Thousands would gladly re-
turn home, had they the means TO do so.
He says i, is the object Of the spectators
+ dclude men thee from cve'y quartz; Of
the world, only to find profitable market
for their merchandise, their houses, their
sheds and shaniics, for human beings
must have shelter and something TO eat,
even though they steal The one, and beg
the other. But we shall let our friend tell
the rest Of his own story IN his own way
thus:
If the people Of the Onited States would
bu, pause and reflect upon the powerful
influence of a few moneyed men,in league
with The press, and how extremely well
that influence is exercised, they would
soon become rational again: the great
,horoughfare to California would soon be
closed, and peace and quiet would reign
trumphanlly around our hearlh-stones.-
If the people will count the cost of a jour
new to California and back, they will see
that they are losing wealth instead of
gaining it. Not less than $500 10 every
Imam. besides the outfit, which on the av-
trage cannot be less than one 500 more.
Now we will suppose that two hundred
thousand men from the States have gone
&c California, and it costs them on an av.
erage 5000 a piece 10 GO and come, to-
!ccIGer with their outfit, which in the ag-
Grega,e will sum up Sl2,O00,000. Then
comes the cost Of living say one year SO
Dcr dav, which makes 81 ,G95 more to the
man which in the aggregate makes S23l,-
,OOO coo. This vast amount is only to
co and cume and stay one year, Now Is
There a rational man in America, after
twcn,v minutes cool deliberalion, who
will say 1921 ,OOO,O0O worth of gold can
bo taken from the mines of California IN
one wear am sure that not one man
,ha, has ever visited the gold mines, can
say truly If he has his senses that the
twentieth part Of this amount has yetbeen
taken, or the tenth part ever can be taken,
Inv ,hat number OF men in one year. And
+ this he true, who can or WHO will sup
rIy ,he deficiency, or the balance of trade
oC,inst the emigrant TO California!
During my stay at Sacramento City,
NV bosiness called nc daily to many
parts cf it. (bcing in the wood and timber
irade.) Nv feelings al last pecame cal
ions against the groans and means 0i The
/ sick and diving; more especially IN the
month Of Decent. last. Thousands
. had come down from the mines sick and
warn down with fatigue, and pitched Their
,cnrs on the wet and muddy ground and
many who had not already the fever, were
soon attacked with il and on every side,
rs passed through the streets. l could
hear the hear-bleaking suppllca'lons OF
the wre;chcd sufferers. Let a man IN
the Unied States picture to himself being
sick in foreign land, in one Ct the Call
| fornia tents, perchcd on wet and muddy
soil. with no floor but the damp ground
with no fire in the ten, 10 dry II, or to
aisprl The gloom within; no feeling friend
/ t. ~; L,,r,.;u,r fnrchpaI or mOlSiPu