Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-03-23
NORTH CAROLINA.

past winter the matter left to be acted upon by
the people, without any general concert In the
Wilmington or 18th, Congressional District re.
presented by Mr. Ashe (Democrat) the counties
have had public meetings. and on the 18th inst
district convention met at Wilmington, and ap.
pointed two delegates to Nashville, viz the Hon.
Robert Strange Democrat and Griffith J. McRee
(Whig.) Delegates were also appointed, six from
each county, to State Convention to be held al
Raleigh the 9Th April, the object of which will
be to select four delegates on behalf of the State
TO the Southern Convention. In the District Con-
vention at Wilmington, the following resolution
was offered, discussed and rejected, three coun-
ties voting fort and five againstit
Resolred That this Convention recognizes the Nash
vile Convention, simp y advisory COUNSEL to
suit and deliberate Tor the preservation OF our South
interests, guaranteed by the Constitution of the
United Sates-f the welfare OF our common country,
and the perpetuty OF our glorious Union.
The Raleigh Register gives rather an amusing
account of public meeting in Granville county,
(which Mr.. Thos. Brown Venabe, son of the
Hon. Abram W. Venable, was the most active
mover. Mr.. Venable, jr., reported from COM
mittee set of resolutions, one of which, it seems,
declared strongly for the Union, and another that
the Nashville Convention is "expedient," and that
eve, the people of Granville, approve the same, -
While the committee were out, the Southern
Convention warmly opposed by Gen. Saun-
ders and Mr.. John B. Kerr The Union resolu-
ton passed unanimously, but when the other came
up, it was moved (says the Register) to amend the
resolution by prefxing IN to erpedient and dis to
approve, which was carried; and the resolution
thus amended was adopted" The Register states
further that in Brunswick, Franklin and Hyde
counties the Nashville Convention has been con-
demned and that ''the same decided opposition
will be manifested in many counties"
The California Romance and Reality.
The spectacle exhibited in our Pacific province
of California is certainly the most extraordinary ever
presented in the worlds history When the first tidngs
of the gold discoveries reached the States there were
many suspicious that the accounts were extravagant
that the pacers would be exhausted, and that the
emigrants would have sad to deplore their
barking in so wild speculation. But the widest anti
cpaons in regard the abundance of the god and the
possibility of obtaining sudden wealth in California,
have been exceeded. The state of society there is
wholly unexampled. We hear constantly of ndivi-
duas Who by some fortunate adventure oppor
tune investment have earned immense fortunes. The
valuation OF all kinds OF property and merchandise is
contingent and huctuating Town lots often rent for
much one-thrd Of the enormous prices which they
command in the market Every species olabour is
dinatey dear. Although gold the staple of the coun-
iry money may be said sense be scarcer than
any other commodity commanding the unheard ofin-
tere.t of from 10 TO per cent month
These are obviously circumstances in which few
men, by shrewdness good luck, will reap enormous
gains, whilst the great endure bitter dsap-
poinments There are unhapply California tevers' Of
very opposite character to the mental affection which
lays hold of many this side the Rocky Mountains
There is reason believe that the want the comforts
of civilized life and the necessary exposure of great
majority Of the immigrants the ycssitudes of the eli
mate have caused rghttul mortality amongst the i'm
migrant population. We have been particularly struck
with some startling facts mentioned by Mr.. Edward
E. Powers formerly composor in the New Y ork
Tribune office, in letter published by that paper, dated
Sacramento City, Jan. H. He represents that the Ca
lorna papers do not publish in thousand ofthe
deaths that occur and that thousands die whose friends
do not hear of their deaths for many months
81 have observed (he writes that of those who come
mere as a general thing, the that have left home
with high reputation Tor general health and hardness
OF constitution the first to be taken sckthe first TO
wither under the baleu influences OF this detestable eli
mate; while, in many instances, those who have for
years been in the habit at home, OF suffering from
1ious bodily weaknesses, have here ned and
altogether desirable temperament and tone of health.
never knew what sickness while in
Ghe States here have had sip and taste of that Bit
ger cup sufficient to open my eyes little to the bles
sings OF health.
DR. Hazard, very intelligent man. from Providence,
says this climate a compounded mainly of the worst in
gradients OF all the worst climates the gobe-espe
caly during the summer months; and that all men that
stop here, or anywhere else IN the valley of the Sacra
lnento other valleys OF this country run The risk of
their lives Tar more than anywhere else general
thing. am OF the same opinion, from what can Learn,
and from personal observation.
"The population OF this town, in November last was
supposed be from five to 1000 though much less at
present and Dr. Hazard tells that the graves that
have been dug and filled within the year. in the various
buryng grounds the town, number full 5000
You may be under the impression, from statements
published in the California papers and elsewhere, that
the climate of this country IS OF very superior order
but the very reverse is the TACT
1t must of course be remembered that the fue thou
sand grareS here spoken ofare not those only of CT
fzens OF Sacramento, but chiefly OF way-tarng gold
diggers. Still the number is appalling
II will be interesting to the friends OF the Richmond
and Dauville Railroad Company to know that Judge
Scarburg, at special term of the Petersburg Superior
Court on Friday the 18th inst, dissolved the ipunc
ton, obtained at the instance of the Chesterfield Rail
road Company, by which the Danyille Company had
been restrained from making branch CT their road to
the coal yards opposite Rockets and overruled mo-
lion TO dissolve injunction, previously awarded TO req
train The Chesterfield Rainoad Company from con-
demning certain Of land necessary to the oca-
lion of the said branch The cases mad been eabo-
ratey argued before Judge S. at the last regular tarn Of
the same Court.
The largest cotton mill in the State OF New York
has recently been erected Utica. 1t is $50 feet long
and the steam engine which is to drive the machinery
Is nj 210 horses noJUor and cost S24 600