The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-04-26
Er!trr from California.
Correspondence Of The Cecil Wing.
STocKroN, CALIFORNIA, }
MARCH 18TH 1851,


You still insist that California is a hum
bug. You 'intidel," will nothing con-
vince you to tn, contrary. grant you
that the newspapers and letter writer's
put forth many lies to induce a large inn
migration to the country; but should an
intelligent man be mislrd, when the
means OF obtaining a correct idea ofthe
resources of the country, are so frequent
and varied. True it is, many thousands
have calculated, that, could they but
reach California their fortunes were
made; and, upon arriving, are disappoin-
ted to find that time, patience and work,
added to ingenuity, alone can acquire
wealth, even in California. They then
cry humjug! This disappointment is
solely the error of their calculation; and
by no means the fault of the country.
Humbug indeed! What means the
monthly shipment Of over two millions
ofthc precious dust from the port of San
Francisco Does as large an amount
leave the city of New York ! What
means that thousand sail of shipping
(irom whose masthead ilutters the col
ors OF all commercial nations, i'm the
port of San Francisco Does humbug
lure them there! And what has built
that immense city in two years Those
giant rows Of brick and iron edihces.
What has constructed those miles of
splendid wharves, where two years ago
was but a muddy and almost unknown
shore And these hundreds Of thriving,
busting towns, what has built them
hat has fenced in these many fine
farms, where but two years ago was a
trackless and unknown wild In short
what has enabled so many men, former
ly poor, to return to their families in in
dependent circumstances
These things have enumerated are
all the result of the immense and real
treasure that for many years lay buried
III the earth Of California. And equal an
indeed, in my humble opinion, much
greater amount yet lies buried, and will
and is, daily being brought to light.
California is no humbug. 1t is the
country where labor is most respected
and most literally rewarded. Its min
eral region is extensive. Its soil is gem
orally fertile and productive. Its eli
mate is serene and sunny. Good order
is slowly and surely asserting its SUI
premacy. Gambling is fast being num-
bered with the evils of the past. One
year ago, the rillage of Stockton con-
tanned twelve or fifteen gambling hou-
ses; all doing a hourishing business; now
the Ctty of Stockton has but three, and
even they are lingering out sicllly ex-
istencc. Murder and robbery must soon
depart from the country; as the people,
in defiance of weak, and badly admins
tered civil laws, are returning to the
more sure and just code of Lynch law.
" illness the recent hanging by bonfire
light, Ola murderer at Sacramento city,
and say if men will not soon be COM
PEELED to respect life little more, than
they have in the country during the past
ten months.
The present Governor of California
is one of fortunes most favored few
Less than four years ago, knew him as
"knight of the vardstick," "a mer-
chants clerk of indianapolis, Ind. Be-
meath that smiling and jovial counte-
nance, none dreamed there lurkcd an
ambition that would so soon elevate him
to station ofsuch distinction. If high
toned honor, generous impulses, frank
ambiguous spirit be the qualifications
that entitle one to prefcrment, Gov
McDougall richly deserves the wealth
and honors that have been showered up
on him. Some half score of his fell
low counter-hoppers have followed him
to the country, and, in the days of his
triumph, he has not forgotten them.
One of them occupies the post of private
Secretary to his Excellency, and others
have Jared as we'll.
Now | must show you glimpse CT
the other side of the picture, by way of
showing what California has done in the
matter oflevelling. Just six doors from
where | write, in a large provision store
is an old, sorrowful, carc-worn man of
slxty-five winters. His stature, once
proud and erect, is now humbled and
bent. Time and grief have done their
work. His hair is white and his step
totters. That is Doct. for twenty
years Cashier of a Bank in Philadel-
Pbla. He now occupies the situation of
cook for mercantile firm from that
city. An Ex-Governor of Missouri is
keeping little retail grocery in this
place.
Our Legislature has adjourned after
one hundred and sixty Intellectual bal
lettings for U. S. Senator. This Sena-
torlal district is represented in the leg
islature by Thomas Van Buren,, a neph
ew of the sage of Undertook. Col.
Fremont passed through Stockton few