New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-21
CALIFORNIA.
San J0se-The MISUNDERSTANDING In Cali
fornia-Newspnpers-Fr chools-Judge
MRrvin-The ChOIera--lIining-Ag
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MesVs. Greeley & Me1yath
As the time is near at hand when the second
Legislature of this State will convene at this
place, have removed from the commercial to
the civil capital where shall hereafter be located
as 1 signi6ed in my letter of the 18th ult. From
the peculiarities Of my position, need not assure
you that my facilities are unrivaled for giving you
and the many readers of The Tribune all the
latest Intelligence from every port Of California as
well as full digest of all the important issues
which shall come before the Legislative Assem-
bly,.
On Monday next, 9th inst, the first scene in the
political role will come off, and the session. which
will probably be a short one, will commence.
mistaken notion appears to have seized the minds
of nearly all persons both with as and with you,
even among the most intelligent, that the chief
business of the present session will be to undo the
works performed at the last. This will be found
to be quite the contrary. Notwithstanding the
obloquy heaped upon the memory Of the first body
of Representatives who assembled here last Win
ter, they certainly did very large amount of
labor and with all their faults and vices, positive
and negative, they certainly deserve WELL for the
most part, of the people, and will be remem-
bered by posterlty. Paragraphists and letter
writers who came 10 California for only a day.
may malign them and us all as much as they
please: the good, like the precious product of tie
placer, will abide the test Of time aud the action
of destructive forces, while the bad has already
"waxed old and is ready to vanish away"
The present Legislature has been more the
deliberate choice 1.-THE people than the last could
have been, and is, OF course, composed OF men
who are more tried and capable and who will feel
that whatever they may DO, they are directly re-
sponsible to an intelligent constituency. Nothing
that is done here can this Winter be " done in
corner" The daily proceedings Of each House
will be gathered up by the stenographic reporters
we have employed and after they shall have been
printed in the Daily ArguS, they will fly on the
wings of the wind andof steam, as with you,
TO the homes and places of business throughout
the State. And even the na51serS are at last de-
termined to have intelligence From the efforts
of single agent in TuoOmne County for few
days only, received last night order for over
tioO haHGled copies OF the paper during the session.
And this is but single proof OF the powerful
reaction which is already taking place in all parts
OF the population of this country No reading, no
books or the Utle trash that is than none, is
10 longer the order of the day. Good substantial
books are in request, and OF these unuckily but
too few can vet be found. The few boarded In
private collections, or slowed away in the lumber
of passengers boxes and chests are carefully
sought out and conned with earnest attention.
Like the period Of gaming and shameless de-
bauchery, the desire of honest pursuits and law
ful love has succeeded the snreit induced by pre-
yious excesses Will not the scores of wealthy
Publishers in Boston. New York and Philadelphia
send hither small ventures ofthe choicest wares
we want no others-to crafty the cravings OF this
highly intelligent community? We wait only the
completion of the Isthmus Railroad to know the
snswer which this question must receive.
And while upon this subject, may l remark that
fIsa in,
our history respects all the interests of learn
lHg and religion. Now the foundation OF glo-
rious system of Free Schools and must be laid
in this land. To insure this, an able and efficient
Superintendent of Public Instruction has been
chosen by the people, in the person OF Hon John
g. Marvin, at present District Judge for Tuoumne
County. Judge Marvin spent the years OF 1885,
80 and 40, in course of collegiate studies at the
Wesleyan University at MlddetowH, Connect
cut and subsequently four years of Luxurious study
at the l. aw School in Harvard University, where
he graduated with high honors He has applied
himself to a thorough study of various modern
| languages. and may be considered as we'll &C
gu ainted with the requisites in liberal aud thor
! ough system OF public education. | AN satisfied
that in ali the qualifications necessary for his
! office, there are bat few here or Ia the Eastern
| States superior to Judge Marvin
He will enter upon his public duties as Superin-
! tendent about the 18th inst ana expects TO make
| Lis residence at this place, where he may be ad-
| dressed. Will not some true friends OF Schools
send him some Of the many good books aud other
| appliances III which you so fortunately abound In
the older States No placer of the Sierra, be as
! sured could be of so much value to the people as
good school bookS and apparatus. Every article
properly packed aud addressed TO Hon. JOHN Il.
| MARVIN, Superintendent OF Public Instruction,
San Jose, will come through without doubt with
perfac ct safety and shall be publicly acknowledged
IN the columns of the Argus.
Loo drd cir yh
the deaths from this source do not appear TO aug
ment the usual rates of mortality.
The miners are doing fair amount OF work
but the want of the expected fall OF rains has
been serious impeachment in the way OF opera
lions in the 50 called dry diggiRgs. And by the
way, | make two remarks about these: FtrSf,
that they prove the most wet and dsagreeable OF
all the mining operations and second, that next
to the quartz they are destined to be the richest
Past and recent discoveries in Tuoumne County,
near Sonora and pasSim in Ell Dorado, near
Culoma and Auburn and in Iuba, near Nevada
City, and between that and the Feather, as well
as in numberless other localities throughout the
gold bearing formation, ali indicate that in the
ravines and elsewhere buried beneath the debris
accumulated during the vast cycles OF geological
periods, and strewn over the solid and ribbed
sides of the mighty snowy mountain range lies
concealed an untold wealth Of gold. The opera.
tions in the Ural, and the researches and reports
of Murchison, if can understand them, exhibit
to view phenomena precisely similar to what l
have witnessed and to what are daily brought to
light in the California mountains
The most interesting subject affecting the deve-
lopement of the resources of this country at
present is the great attention about to be paid to
Agriculture. l cannot stop too day to say ali wish
to set before readers at the East. In word,
this interest has improved beyond the expecta'
tions of the most saDguine. | will describe more
fully what mean in my next
The election of the U. S Senatorto fill the place
now occupied by Col Fremont, will probably take
place at an early day, of the session Of the Lee
sislature. There is not the most remote proba-
biity Of that gentlemans reelection and among
the numerous candidates for the vacancy from
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