The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-27

not fail to peruse the richly spced report Of the
usual and very extraordinary proceedings at the
Fillmore meeting last night. As every politician
in the country is deeply interested in the trans
actions Of this assemblage, the reporter has endea
yored to throw as much light on the affair as the
crowded state of our columns, owing TO the great
rush Of advertisements, would permit. Several hun
dred girls want situations well the politicians ;
so the latter had to give large portion of the space
to the former. Read the politics, and be sure to
read the advertisements, and you will have all the
information necessary to avoid rogues and deal with
honest people.
The California Mines ard Mining Associa-
ti0ns.
BY an announcement in the proper quarter, we
see that Mr.. Francis H. Rugges, Of the stock
holders in the penny newspaper recently started in
this city by the Seward interest, capital Of forty
thousand dollars, has abandoned that concern, and
accepted what is called the presidency Of the So
nora Gold Mining Company'-capital stock two hun
dred thousand dollars, IN shares Of one hundred dol
lars each, in the market for sale to those who
have money to invest. This gentleman is the same
Mr.. Ruggles who was Auditor of the State for four
years, and who had the curious. "do-what-is-rght'
correspondence with Mr. Hawley, of Buffalo, in re-
the banks, reported by Mr.. McMurray, during the
last session of the Legislature. Mr.. Ruggles, we
understand, has been stakeholder to the amount
OF ten thousand dollars in the newspaper in ques
ton, but that affair not turning out as we'll as was
expected, he has abandoned newspapers for gold
mining. and perhaps he has made very proper
and judicious change. He announces, also, that
in his Judgment, his position as officer Of Ca
lifornia gold mining company is incompatible
with the "disnterested and independent rela.
tons" of journalism and he has, therefore, in
accepting the one abandoned the other. This
shows a very delicate sense Of propriety, but we
are sorry to say it has not been initiated in ano-
Their quarter where there are more pretensions to all
the virtues, all the purity all the piety, and all the
| philosophy now extant We allude to Mr.. Horace
Greeley, who is announced as secretary and trea-
surer-one of the most important functons-to the
Manhattan Quartz Mining Company organized
last December, with capital of hundred and fifty
thousand dollars divided also into shares for sale to
the credulOus. In accepting the high Office Of sec
rotary to a California gold digging company, Mr..
Greeley finds it still compatible to retain his posi-
ton as editor, manager, philosopher, and mission
airy to the world at large. Only few days ago, the
same parsonage boasted Of making by his journal
an immense annual income, some representing it to
the extent of fifty sixty thousand dollars year
If that be So what other motive than that of avarce
can induce SO prosperous an editor to pile up the
quartz, and gold, and wealth, and riches, in being
also a secretary and treasurer to a mining COM
pany! But this, it seems, does not satisfy the
avarciousness of the philosopher in question, for he
is a stakeholder, it appears, in mining company
at Lake Superior, and in other speculative companies
| all the country. In fact, the Tribune estab
lshment seems to be company of Spectators, whose
| purposes and objects are, not only to make money
| by their profession, but by all sorts of mining,
speculative stock-jobbing schemes that be de-
vised But the most striking of these are those in
! gold and quartz which editors and others seem to be
rushing into wtha looseness which is perfectly
founding at the present day. Let us take look at
this subject.
There is 10 feature in the present operations
| of mankind and hardly one in the history of the
past, at all comparable, in point ofmportance, to
that unccasng flow of emigration which is now seen
tending to California and to the shores and islands
of the Pacific, when viewed in combination with that
other great moyement-the warlike expedition from
America to Japan. But few years ago and the
placid bosom of the Pacific very rarely reflected the
sails of some solitary bark, and California the
miserable home of scanty, debased, and hof-iam-
ished population: but now, these changed
rs if by the rod of the necromancer-so sudden aud
complete is the metamorphosis-and the Pacific
Ocean is now studded with the fleets of every mari
time nation. but more particularly own, ex-
tending commerce and civilization to its shores ;
and California is the rendezvous for the various
races of the earth, and the theatre of operations
70 mt ha md rs
1t was reserved for American skill and enterprise
to produce this mighty change, and which is in
itself but the Introductory act to Others still
more magnificent - the establishment Of COM
mercial relations with the Asiatic continent,
and the spread of enlightenment and civilization
over that vast region. The immense emigration
pouring into California from England, France, Ger
many, and over the Isthmus of Panama. will and
must extend itself to the opposite shores and islands
Of Eastern Asia, and form there, perhaps, the
nucleus Of European colonies. Who can, therefore,
form anything like just estimate Of the import
ance to the universe at large Of these movements
The discovery of the gold mines of California,
and Of the no less wonderful mineral wealth of Aus
tralia have primarily led to these great changes.
That is the influence which has attracted, and which
will continue to attract, myriads of European adven
turer to those countries. That the poetry Of this
age; and it has tended to create wdness and love
of adventure, marked by an enthusiasm as deep as
ever swayed communities. This enthusiasm is,
however, beginning to be played upon by designing
and speculative parties, who have set on foot
projects protesting to be for carrying on extern
sive mining operations in California and Austria
liza. Within the last three months, some twonty
or thirty of these mining associations have been
started, in London, Paris New York, and elsewhere,
and through the influence of portions of the press,
and by their agents and advertisements scattered
over the country, endeavorng to dispose Of their
stock.
We much fear that some Of these companies
but reyivas Of the MAGNIFICENT humhugs nerpetra-