Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-27
a WARNING VOICE PROM cALIFoRNr4.

we copy from the Boston journal the subo;nAd
extracts from private letter written by broths,
IN California, inreply to lser asking his advice 4
70 the propety of another brothers going out 10 tba
gold regions It was not designed for publication,
ana 'ne journal says that its statements may be re-
iied upon. u is dated at Beas-Kiver on the 9Th
of january. ~ -'s"-.
The principal object Of your letter was 10 ask nav ~
vice ABOUT brother AS coming to California Now, BE-
seech you, do not think Of such thing for moment
will tell you why In the first place A. is
ana has family Of children watch over and take
OF ana what could he do for them here? Another re
son - A. comes out here IL will cost him nearly S4o,
ana ne VIII be landed without dime in Land ,rharf
every thing Is ten times costly as at home with the
only exception Of labor, which at the present Anne i h
low par will give you few facts which Won can rel
upon as truth The last trip up Golden Gate she had
On ooaru ta~teen nunded and mn passegrs-mostly me-
cnanics from New York and the State Of Maine rood
portion Of them Immediately started for the mines when
they had got some hundred miles from Sacramento thew
found themselves without dime in the world The land
was fu OF them They could not 60 to mining and If
tny should they would not make enough to pay for what
they eat putting aside tools work with have had a
least hundred men c6to tork for me for their board and
you can hire as many you want for from $50 to $50
per month, and that sum no man can live out hare
wSn PAo'asous AIc ~ hlYn as they now Every
have spoken to about AS coming out here saws saw to
him. stay ut home by all means. Do not let him make
1901 OF himself by coming out here thousands Of Others
have DONE He is ten thousand times better of at home
with seventy-fve cents day than with SO or 81 out
here.
You must not believe all the stories that are written
about California Think the list Of those YOU know
who came to California and see how many Of them have
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mace any tning. Yrcu. inuy get Just money
enough to get home and thousands and thousands die
here because they cannot get money to take them home
Let me tell you how live out here. Since last July
have slept the ground, with merely blanket
me- and when it was raining in torrents piece Of board
to keep me from the wet and old tent to keep the
thickest off my head; have lived like niger and
worked like slave and you know how much of the stuff
called gold have been able to send home. it had not
been for my PRIDE should have been home long ago. No
one knows what have NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for food
and with nothing but the blue canopy Of heaven
me at night Is it at all strange, then that feel so
about Us coming out here for if he Does he has got
go through with the Tell him he is better of with
seventy five cents day at home than he could be out
here.
You will see in the papers accounts Of rich discoveries
made out here. Some of them true but by testing
nine out of ten would not pay dollar day. AT
the present time there seventy miners round my
bridge and they do not average 81 per day, and it
oil over the mines There exceptions, but they
are taken up found and it would be mpos
sibe for outsider to get chance at them for the
sun to shine at night"