New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-19
CALIFORNIA.
California as 10 Is.

and daily occurring in busy land like this,
which, if truly described, would furnish food
for many newspaper, to the exclusion OF all
matters, political personal and general az
home.
can only glance at few as meet them on
my busy way through this golden land Since
I last wrote you, have twice visited this city,
and also "been the rounds" on mules back
rom Sacramento to Placerville, Cor more prop
erly Hanptown,) COlOma, Greenwood Valley
Spanish Dry Diggngs and Spanish Bar, George
town, Yankee Jim's, Murderers Bar, Salmon
Falls and Morrison Island. Atnearly all these
mining towns | have posted our company to
sing, and am thus enabled to hurry to this place
for day or two to attend to some business on
home affairs ere the departure OF the steamer
on the LIST.
The more I see of glorious California the
more am delighted with the land yet the
more do / see the need Of incessant labor III
her behalf and Of cautonng friends at home not to
rush ooshIy and unbidden into this wilderness OF nov.
city excitement and trial may be most truly snid OF
California that IL the best and The worst country 10
emierste 10 on the face of the earth. Sometimes my
heart achee in keenet and pity at the tales OF SUIT
sering hear and the personal sufferers often meet
While at Hangtown last week, (where spent three
scores Of men women and children in Ox.wegons and
overland teams, came into town. almost every one OF
whom had more lees Of sorrow and suffering TO re-
veal The accounts all agree that there Ia, been I'M
ense suffering OH the Plains this year, and death has
made mournful havoc among the emigrants all along
the weary way. In one train some twenty children
were bereft of their fathers and mothers by cholera
met young man from ST. Lous by the name OF Henry
C. Fifey who told he ten persons buried Ia one
grave and within the space OF 20 miles he had counted
between SO and GO new grnves.
1ov
young orphan child Ia his and calling out to the
people lac passed, Can any tell me whose chld
this s Its parents are both dead, (as supposedly ana
the child Is unable TO tell its name. The little orphan
was kindly cared for taken into good family in Hang
town and adopted by gentleman and lady who have no
children of their own do wish our couutrynen and
legislators would arouse to the pressing wants ana needs
Of California Let Congress commence the mighty pro
ect OF Railroad the Paine invite the sons oil toll
and tlers OF the soil TO profitable co operation IL the
same aud In years from ye men OF leisure aud
pleasure by spending little ofy0ur surplus treasure can
step into the Boston New York Cincinnati or ~
Louis, ride through rich and fertile lant dotted all
aions with beautiful Streams and visit the most nighii
cent country on the face Of the globe ia ten days alb
scnce from home. The mountain scenery in Caluorula
SURPRISES anything have Witnessed and then 20 re
ase that lor hundreds and hundreds Of miles the ground
literally "u Of precious gold opens most attractive
induccment 20 millions of our cOuIrymen 10 VISIT this
wonderful land. Aud 1t is downright shame that
Legislators home cannot realise and take hold of this
magnificent project iraught with such Immense and III
~alculeble benefit 70 our common country and 10 man
Kind
Il ia the most urgent with of the acc, and every in
,ucement that could be offered whether OF pecuniary
or humane character, demand IL consunnntion. II
will enrich this whole nation more and bind TINS Union
together" with stronger bands than all the coerclveaws
In the universe II Congressman would for one yearre'
move the seat of Government from Washington 10 Cali
foruia aud the members all work their way hther as
best aley may we should not long be waiting for this
Grand Railroad meet not man IN CALIFORNIA; but II =
bless them are detenniped TO do something more thln
mere idle talk here They already preparing their
petitions to Congress, and ere long you may expect
demonstration that will surprise the nation and awaken
the dreamy politicians to sense OF their duties and re-
sponsbiltes.
very ssiyAton OF the nation Let Newly aud all the
great cities of the East testify To know that the only
mournul drawback this great country Is the danger
and difficulty Of coming here seems resily cruel ami
Disgrace 10 the age in which we live There no really
safe and passabe route hther eXecptaround the Horn
and that Is not without It's dangers, and 50 wearisome
and long that but few eau bear the Thought the
time incurred in going on such voyage.
But there no use la my lenghenng out this subject
We shall have the Railroad and that before three
years more have passed Already have the men OF
S.eramento moved, and the hrs; Railroad Company "a
now formed in California. The Sacramento Valley
Railroad Company is already organised and gone into
active operation On next Saturday, the ih OF Septen
ber the books win be opened for public subscription 1T
San Francisco, Sacramento, and ct MTysvilc,
and probably another steamer ssis orders may be
prepared for the iron and the engines and the cars
California CiAhaiChlN ana men mere
one day discuss project the unite and the third
day they execute their work In TIMES past men have
been too much IN hurry, even to stop Tor Railroad
but the country rs maturing capital concentrating
and business sysnatisng that the people ready
for Railroad; yea, for a hall score OF them ani
within the next two ycrs there viii undoubtedly be
roeds connecting with nearly all the important cities ami
fowns And IL Congress wants aid. (dN, II she needed
IL California would NED her kaif rdy ne Plains
Thu city is fast improving, and growing Ike young
giant she is in all the elements OF strength andweata
and stability Of beauty and fashion, and folly too, seem
ing 10 me more like NewlOrk than any other city have
ever visited old London herself les, think san
Francisco to-day has more vital life according 10 her
population and age) than any other city III the world
Magnificent freproof brick blocks going up in all the
central BURNERS streets and it Is really treat 10 look
out from the point where now write upon the busy
secnes Of labor all over the vast city. We have not all
the nosc and thunder OF old Broadway but We have the
whole CRY in se:ive labor, with pOverty,streets or
ragged children, or superHnnuatcd old beggars or any
thing OF the sort Caliogilaus all live men and
sheads speak OF the masses who have Tired 70 Sc,
here The Climate all over the land IS beautiful and
hcahhfu here IN San Francisco the chilling sea breazes
with sometimes little too gene4ou. sprn Kim of sand
but the climate Is besntiiu ~ swhole and the sun a.
ways shines over this beautiful land Let men come
here with capital and conscience with money aud mercy
and here IL field Of labor aud of love not eusl.l IA Inc
whole earth. We want paper mills and nour mile
Ubough wish IL mercy Hour mills had never been ia.
vented the b0lSisR proeess) Here j. the secret of
hall the ills OF earth Above all some glorious
good hotels in this country, and wa,e-cure esahh.
mcnte among inc eptll----nlincS Tor the
weary and dusy traveller Owing mainly to the cs,n
yorous habit. OF the people and the absence in m4ny
places of proper vegetables and grSnivorous food added
60 the general ignorance among men OF the Laws OF
health and the lack throughout the hand plain Grahs
bread and the thousand exposures and privssions TO
which miners subject often meet with inyalds in
my travels many afflicted with chis and feyes and bill
ioss Disorder OF various ypes Within the past thirty
days have met perhaps hundred men with feyeIs,
twenty or thirty with clons their fingers and
of others with various cutsneous diseases What say
TO one say TO sGo the great physician OF Nature,
TO the good air and water and bread of life Add to
these good nursing and sympathy, and man can gen.
orally get cured Of any disease in any country.
do with some good philanthropsts would establish
water-cures in California have found several OF
The great thoroughsres 10 the northern mountains
OF the finest springs in the world und any of the pl6
lie roads good houses could be well sustained Men cl