The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-02-20

The marvels of MONTE CHRIsTo are
being realizedR Ra the shores of the Pac-
fc. II IS no; alone the splendid fortunes
Which there reward adventure and enter
prise, but the development of athletic civ
iiization and exemplary order, that starlle
the civilized world. Men see the statue
breaking from the inanimate marble in an
hour; they see the symmetry and the har-
mony OF political equality and universal
content made actively manifest almost in
q day. We have before US at this writing,
the California newspapers By the last
steamer; and we pore over !hem with ire
slsublc and constantly recurring surprise
and pleasure. These journals alone, as
we remarked few days ago, are in them
selves the monuments that establish the
progress and prosperity Of California.
Conducted with great ability, abounding
III Information OF the rarest character.
whether of commerce, of politics, or of
general intelligence, they already bear
more OF the metropolitan character than
most OF the boasted dailics of Liverpool
and New York. Indeed they are necess-
arlly vastly different from the newspapers
OF any other quarter of the world-those
OF London prabably excepted. California
is not only the great seat of American
Commerce, on the Pacific borders, bat it
is also the point to which the nations of
the whole world are sending their con,ri-
buttons OF capital and men. China Is al
ready largely represented there; France
has heard the shout of welcome, and pours
/ in her thousands; England, Germany, lta-
( ly, Hungary, Poland, and the far of islands
. OF the sea-yes, even those distant lands
1 were civilization has not vet dawned-all
/ are tending 10 the goal where men NAV
/ become rich either in possession of gold,
or great IN the possession of equality. All
nations move as 10 a common centre in
California; and, in a space of time, incred-
/ IDLY short, all move along in the same
channel, converse nearly III The same Ian
guage, and submit TO the same institutions.
The future may have greater blessings
than tins IN store for the world; but fifty
years hence, men will recur to tthis event
as one OF the greatest and one of the most
beneficial TO mankind, that has occurred
since the Creation. A few of the wor.
ders OF California as we CLEAN them from
the papers before us will serve to show
how much she has advanced in the las
I
The gold shipped at the port of San
Francisco, III one year-lrom January |
1880, to December 30, 1850, amounted
10 the incredible sum of twenty-nine mill.
ions, four hundred and forty one thousand
and five hundred and eighty.one dollars
For more wonders, let US call the read
er's attention 10 the following article con.
densed from the Pacific Ne,cs by the
New York ErpreSs:
/ The total value of merchandise received
from Nov. 2lst, lS49, to Sept 80, 1850
in domestic vessels, was S737 7.275, 10; ton
mage OF vessels, So $40 tons. Total amour
of merchandise received in foreign vessel:
during the same period, s3,35I ,962 90
tonnage of vessels, 81 ,604 tons. During
the year 1850, as we learn from the same
paper, there have entered the port of Sar
Francisco' from all foreign ports. LA:
vessels; IN the same period the number O
vessels which cleared was I.46l. The
vessels arriving have landed upon the Pa