Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1853-05-31

Calaveras, 100000
Horticulture, Manufactures, &c, 1,15O,OOo
Quartz Mining, 5,s71,OOO
Plaster, 4,174,4I9
Other, 385l.623
Estimate for Ell Dorado, 100000
Total, $lO8,522 Sc
In the above estimate no land except in ac-
tual cultivation is included.
The comparative agricultural wealth of Cali
fornia thus appears: In horses she is in ad-
vance of fifteen of the States. in mules of
twenty-six States; mich cows of twelve States:
of work-oXen of eight; ;. value of live stock of
twenty States; barley only equalIed by New
York; potatoes next to New York and more
than one-half of all produced in the Union;
wheat, greater than ten of the States; oats
threc-fourths of the other States; hay, ex-
ceeding nine Of the States; mining, without
parallel; fruits, exceeding all the States in
variety, and one-half of them in quantity pro-
duced.
We remember being in Paris when a re-
turned French Californian came to the Ameri-
can Legation to get fresh papers He had
made money in San Francisco, but he could
not live in Paris any longer. Everything was
polced up to the eyes, so restricted, so slow,
so wanting in business economy. "Some ar
chitccts," said he have shown me plans for
the Californian cities told them the Ameri-
cans would build the cities in about the same
time French architect would be thinking
about the plan. They cannot comprehend
such a community here in Paris. 1 must get
back to it."
How far California has been profitable or
Improbable to the country at large, the ex-
penses of the war, the costly intermediate
agency of ships, steamboats, and wagons, the
iii of lnlNo II n
States all considered lis not now the ques-
ton. The extemporation of an empire. bril-
liant and successful beyond comparison in
history, is exhibited in her marvellous career.
Her annals are unparalleled. The proverbs
OF the past in politics fairly upset by
them. The power of self government, the
energy of individualism, were never so fully
displayed as in the career of the men hurl-
ed on her shores; digging and legislating,
building, plowing, trading, with rapdity
and success that make all Europe stare, and
even excite remark in this latitude.
The trait of individualism in California is
the grandest product of her community. 1t
is worth more than the gold mines. In Eu-
rope everything is amassed. The religion is
centra ized, whether at Rome or Oxford the
hardest muscle is absorbed and wasted in ar
mics business is overlaid with clumsy media
val restrictions, that render it comparatively
ifeless. England accepted the passport sys-
TEN is in full force along with the electric
telegraph even, and the social and industrial
limbs are bound down with custom. But
what contrast is California to this How
personality sticks out! How selfsubsten-
tation is exhibited in universal labor, the dis
tinction between fine and coarse professions be-
ing abrogated and all being literally hard work
ing men! How the power of physical restitu-
ton is exhibited in the rebuilding over and over
again with almost magical quickness of burnt
towns and cities.
The romance of Arabian fabulists has been
equalled in the career of California nation
being the hero, and not some lucky prince
The people but yesterday setting up their pio-
neer business, are already starting an expedition
to Japan. The hoary automata of the past
the Chinese the number of twenty five thoti-
sand, are in California, learning the industrial
| and political ways and means of the onward peo-
pie. We shall soon hear of their influence at
home. The revolution, whose success is lust
reported from China, will not stop at a change
of dynasties, with such new influx of light
from our Pacific coast So, too Japan: wheth-
er the ports are opened peaceably or not to out
| vessels matters not as regards the future Thev
will be opened by some means, and the Califor-
MIA Expedition is mere beginning in that quar-
ter of a japanese revolution.
In view of the vast career opening to us in
California, it becomes our Government to make
a Pacific Railroad without loss of time. Young
America must at least triumph on that question.
even though, as observed by veteran Demo
crat, the project will destroy the Democratic
party and its strict construction of constitution
al powers.
One single fact exhibits with force the posi-.
ton of California, in regard to the old States
The space which the news from that quarter oc-
cupies habitually in our columns, is as great as
that required by European intelligence: The
demands upon our Typography are thus sud.
denly doubled. With additional territorial am.
nexation we shall be puzzled to accommodate
the voIumlous details of enterprise-the stand
humanity is not deemed as precious as cold
the deadly encounters gigantic products
which such policy begets.
NeO Pork Tribune.
"Now FOR HONE PIN the mIIe,n;orardi,n