Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-12-13

DIR. Robinson, Editor Of the Fitchburg News,
who has been resident of California, is writing
a series of articles on thai country, its inhabit-
ants, SC, from the last namber of which we Sc
lect the following.
To describe fully the immigration of Calllor-
MA would be as difficult task as to describe
the nuniberess articles in the Worlds Fair in
London.
While in London are exhibited the productions,
manufactures, arts, and handlcrait OF the whole
civilized race, in Caliiorn!a they have the pro"
ducers manufacturers; artists and craftsmen from
the same source so that the immigration OF Calllor-
MIA is as much more deserving of notice as the
maker is of more consequence than the thing
made. In London may be seen the polished
snuiI-box or cigar case, nwrought with pearl and
precious stones, but in California are not only the
raw material, but the delicate feet, tiny fingers
and intelligent brain that constitute the machine
nv by which they are made. London may have
her dead mummies, but California can exhibit
live ones, air ady smoked and picked for the
winding sheet.
In London may be seen the Elephants tusks
curiousy and wonderfully wrought but in Cali
fornia it is said many have a regular live ell
ephant, tusSs and all.
As the Anglo SaXons are the leading spirits of
the State aud the representatives of all other ra-
ces are mere cyphers, morally and politically,
compared with them, we will pass by the hitter
for the present, and take birds eye view of
.fmerican Cai(ornians.
We find them haling from all parts Of the
Union There is "power' of Missourians, a
''rght smart sprinkling" of Hoosiers and Suck
ers and it is reck0ne8 quite number from York,
and the land of Penn, with few of the "frst
families of Virginia, and the chivalry of "Old
enftlrL - xed mn with set of beings dixie
they were" south enders, and guess there
few down casters, and their neighbor Buckeyes,
and Wolverines. Notwithstanding the Union is
one, and the people of the States generally are of
one race vet, there peculiarites of expression
and manners, as indicated above, to be met with
in California which at once point to the local po-
siton man has heretofore occupied in the states.
For instance, if you ask after a mans health,
and he tells you he is powerful weak, this morn
ing" you may safely set HIM down as from Mis-
souri, If he says he feels cheap worse and
has been running down fright smart" for a few
days, he is a Sucker or Hoosier. If man is
heard to boast of his native state, he is either
Virginian or Kentuckian, all such Boosting is
confined to citizens of those states If, at the
time, he talks Of his intimate friend and
neighbor who belongs to the first families in the
state" he is from Virginia.
Col Gift, the sergeant alarms, of the Assem-
bly,, says every man in Virginia is braided # f.
g. on his back and he knows it to be a fact
for Barnum has hid a squad of men hunting thro
the state several years. to find man of tne sec
0Ra family, to put i'll his museum, but as yet does
not succeed. Were it not that the Colonel was
old resident of said state, there might be some
room to doubt the truth Of his assertion.
The idiomatic peculiarities of men living in diff
ferent states of the Union nowhere be so dis
tinctly recognized in California. In educated
persons it is less marked but among the more IL
literate it NAV he readily detected so much so,
that person is seldom at a loss to know what
part of the country his accidental companion
halls from.