The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-12-02

S.:ssstisa are most generally purshs. q srsST
qa.asiti:. f'sn The Atissss S.:seas heretofore,
and - there are strsng indicstns that very
srs.s secs,non to 9 made tour population,
By spring We shall hope T. sesthe prospects Of
business, In every depart ment, advance rapidly.
This Is the opinion now eAtertsed by majority
Of the most observing merchans.. Before this is
done, however, many reckless spectators viii hApe
to 90 by the board, and the moo and manner Of |
doing business will have to undego radical re-
form. Just now no regular systenin the manage.
Every has had 4ss and
own rules. They are. however, eompg togstbsr
and becoming better known to each other Thu
merchants, as body, viii soon be unitel-they,
are the chief agents of citys rise, psersss. and
commercial power. A few years more and our
merchants will be felt in every port ana every ma
ton whose shores are washed by the waters OK the
Pacific. When We shall concentrate and oroan;ze
to achieve commercial renown and prosperity We
win progress with unexamped success
The Country East of the Sierra Nev.a
From the San Francisco Post Oct 30
IL ID known that ut least five or six rivers eake
their sources on the eastern decvties of the Siss
the north, and the southeastern limits Of Mariposa
county, and waste themselves in the desert OF the
Great Basin. These rivers have numerous trim.
taries many Of which act as drainers to the lakes
greater or less extent, aboundiag in Wild game.
fsh, SC. Indian tribes, have their settlements in
these valleys, but to what extent of numbers. Of
whether they have any connection with those on
the west side, is not known. The line between
this State and Utah territory trains along the
lower mountains and the desert, until it intefsects
the 39th parallel of latitude, near Carson Valley
where it turns to the southeast, alsng the DESERT
and over the southern range which encloses the
Great Basin, to the Colorado, at the 35th degree;
so that it intersects nearly all these streams, throw
ing some of their ha bita5le valleys into Utah. 1t
would have been better if the northern portion of
this dividing line had been fixed degree east Of
the country along s the rivers vest of the deserts
Utah.
This portion of California remains less known
than any portion of the State, and likely to re-
main so, unless extensive discoveries of gold
shall tempt our adventurous population to scale the
mountains and explore the hidden vallies and noun
tain streams. Very little accurate information is
possessed of this vast extent of country. with its In
dependent rivers and isolated valies except the
regions bordering on Carson and Truckee rivers,
along the emigrant trails Judging from what is
known of them, however, and from imperfect and
partial explorations of the other portions of our
territory, there Is extent of habit
able country around the mountains and in the fer
tile vallies, along the course Of the rivers sufficient
to answer a. receptacle and more secure asylum
for all the Indian tribes west of the sains Fish
abound in these streams and lakes, and wild game
IL now more abundant than on this side. Upon this
they now are, and infinitely better in every other
respect.
1t would be of equal advantage to both rases if
our government would, at as early day as prac-
tcabe, adopt the policy in this ease that necessity
has everywhere else dictated, and remove all the
tribes Except the little remnants that domiciled
upon the lower rivers-converted, they are some
times designated) beyond the Sierra Nevada The
barrier ofthese sno y mountains would te a strong
guaranty Of peace to the frontiers and better So
curty to the miner than any treaties, or even arms
can, under the circumstances Afford and these
measures are urged by considerations of Humanity
as well as Of sound policy. The same hostlities
which have marked the steps of settlement and civil
ization westward, must exist 80 long the Indian}
are settled on the verge of the mining districts,
where our population is unsettled, and, from the
nature Of their occupation, scarcely less nomsaic in
their habits --..-.-.-.-'.
With q view to the ultimate adoption of the
measure, and as q means Of acq airing valuable in
formation as to the character and resources Of
q country at present but little known II s desiraI
BILE that an expedition, with small military escort,
either under the control Of some officer Of the >
army, or of some of the Indian Commissioners,
should be sent out to explore the country upon the
eastern borders Of the mountains from the Oregon
line south to Ovens River. II would GENE within
the province of such expedition to ASCERTAIN
whether the deposits of gold on any Of this series
Of rivers, corresponding in some respects with
those west Of the mountains, are as rich many
conjecture. IL tueh should be the fact, it would
be sgarded rs fortupate by the civilized, and, il
not, 1t would prove blessing to the Indians.