Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-02-11
From California.

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From California.
I'VE have been permitted to make the follow
ing extracts from a letter received in town last
week from one of the Lewisburs CaliiornlanS.
it will in,eres, many Of our readers.-En.]
Mission SAN JOSE, Dec. %, 50.
arrived here last Thursday
after being two months on the road from
Philadelphia. All our party enjoyed good
health during the trip, and are we'll now.
Samuel Strawbridge, did not come up to
this place he went to Sacramento. The
rest arc stopping here for the present
What they intend to do, or where they are
going, l can not say. We fell in with
VIM. Jones, Harrises, and Pensil, at Aca-
pulco. They came up from Panama, on
the "New Orleans" and We having Sc
cured cabin passages, with the privilege Of
sleeping anywhere We could fud place
We came up together to San Francisco;
Jones came up here with our party and
Harrises and Pensil went up to Sacramen-
to, and from thence they purposed going
to some of the Northern mines. 1t rained
the day we arrived in San Francisco and
has been raining nearly every day since
The hills near the Mission for several NOR
nings past have been tipped with snow,
which makes the air somewhat cool.
You may perhaps ask how l like Cali
fornia! So far a. l have seen it, l like it
very much. The country around the
Mission is beautiful, as much so as any
country have ever seen. The grass is
just commencing to grow, and in a few
The farmers faIa arc busy ptoughing whenever
the rain permits them. There will be
large amount of wheat sown in this cOun-
try this season, in consequence Of the high
price Of breadstuffs. Wheat is selling now
at II and Is cts per h., and -four $1,000
per barrel.
A few moments ago the mail from the
States came in, and you may imagine my
disappointment at not receiving any letters
am getting very anxious to hear from
home.
suppose you would like to know some
thing about our trip thro' Mexico. In the
first place, then, We were not killed, shot,
murdered or robbed by those terrible peo-
pie the Greascrs, as some Of the good peo-
pc of Lewisburg would fain make US be-
l.evc when we started At Perotc, the
evening we got there, it was reported around
that the diligencia would be attacked next
! morning; but the LadrOnes must have got
sight Of our "Coits" The next day
after, when the stage came up, there being
only Spaniards in, sure enough it was
stopped BY the gentlemanly Ladrones and
the passengers politely invited to g fork
over" which they did, Of course. a
Spauiard would Mt resist robbcr, if he
had u dozen Colts pistols about him. The
robbers never attack Il party of over thr' c
foreigners, but they ii stop stage full Of
Spaniards.
! thought before left home l had seen
some nice farming, but altered my opin-
ion when saw the wheat fields of Mexico
as level and smooth as garden bed
before planting; not u clod as large as your
fist to be seen.
saw fields of 900 or 500 acres pre-
pared-or, rather, tinished-in this way.
There is some of the finest country in the
world in Mexico. 1t is great pity Uncle
Sam did mt keep it when he had it; it
would have saved him the trouble of Ia
king it over again, which he will have to
do before many years, or l am much mis-
taken.
We travelled in stage from Vera Crus to
the City of Mexico. We were part Of four
days in making the distauce-ninety
leagues. We spent four days in the City,
and then started for Acapulco. We rode
horses, and packed our trunks on mules.
We were eleven days between Mexico aud
Acapulco, ITO leagues. Between aeas and
turtulas, we had rather pleasant time Of
it. We were eleven days going up from
Acapulco to San Francisco. Two men
died while at sea, and were heavcd over
board with but little ceremony.
But I am at the end of my sheet,
and must close for this time although
could give you more that might interest
you. = -
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