The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-08-16
From Hunts Merchants Magazine.
California Coin.


The absence of mint is a serious inconvenience 10
our friends ON the golden shores OF the Pacific, will
be seen by the suboned statements OF our contemporary
of the Alta California IN San Francisco. The next Con
gress which meets in December. WILL we trust, at an
early day pass All act only providing for the estab-
lishnent OF mint in San Francisco, but one IN New
York ctythe only points in the United States where
minis absolutely required The iofmer as the COM
mercal centre OF line Pacific and the latter OF the Allan.
lie, and the largest godecelyng market IN The United
States
The present difficulties in the way Of trade, conse'
quen upon the issue OF irresponsible CON- result nalu
rally from the failure of Congress 10 provide US wiih
mint in the absence OF which these spurious limitations
have flooded the channels OF trade until they have be-
water logged have sunk, and are now IKE snaYs'
knocking the bottom OF commerce, and business gen.
orally The bankers, who especially aided IN getting
this coin in crculaon by which they OF course, made
pretty fair per ceniage have determined to decry ~ ana
thus make another good per cenage by purchasing
when the panic shall have depressed It below It's real
value The merchants also have repudaled II. Ihis
movement of theirs would have been much better had
they taken it long ago AS ii is. it will probably recoil
in great measure upon themselves; for miners and
country merchants coming for supplies, when they ma
all but the United States assay issues refused will nat
uraiy enough rank that with the rest, refuse TO have
their gold dust coined and insist upon making their pay
men,s in it, Our merchants will therefore, have to go
back their little scales again, and our monetary system
recede Ia what il was year ago; for the United States
assay Office coming nothing less than nifty dollar pieces
cannot supply currency suited to general tade Inc
whole system wrong, and is oppression upon tins
State. We should have had mint here and in the alb
sence of that the assay Office should have been 80 con-
structed supply the deficiency with coin suited to
the OF the country and its tadea coin decided 10
the satisfaction OF every to be legal tender as val
liable United States mint coin, and for which The UNI
ted States treasury should have been responsible
The IKDIANs-The havoc which the smallpox and the
cholera have made among the Indians within The last
twelve months has been very great Those Diseases CO.
operating with the fatal vices introduced by the whites,
have caused very considerable dmnu,lon OF the adlan
population. Manifest destiny" appears to be over.
taking the poor Indians with lis most destructive agen-
cies. There but few persons, we suppose, who DO
not anticipate the entire extinction OF all Inc present
tribes of North American Indians Ever since the An
Clio Saxons established themselves this continent II
has been apparent that the savages could not exist in
their vicinity Each year has reduction in the
number OF the red men, until now their aggregate popu-
laon is comparatively very small.
Wherever the white man goes The lndan disappears;
and, the whites rapidly than ever dtusing
themselves this great continent the period when but
few scattering Indians will be found not very remote
Within the last few years disease has greatly hnned the
numbers of several tribes. The Mandans, by far the
most advanced OF the western Indians, were almost all
swept away by the smallpox lew years ago. Other
tribes have suffered terribly Our government has for
several years been engaged in efforts to elevate the con.
dion of Indian popuation in the hopes OF saving
unless they foego those habits TO which they cling and
which in a majority OF to be tenacious as
the love OF life itself The only which can be
pursued preserve OF the present tribes is to cdu-
their minds and civze their habits. Ii they could
be induced adopt the methods of the white man. they
might survive the ruin which threatens them. We have
but little hope OF The permanent success OF any efforts to
turn aside from them that fate which inevitable
They will perish, aud their modes OF life will live only
in traditions romance. and song -LousvHe Journal.