The weekly Placer herald., 1853-11-19

tols III all us various bearings, LOOKING nj
it legally and politically, as well as moral
ly and fairly, we are clearly of opinion
that the best interests of the people would
he promoted by permitting events to take
their natural course, and the choice of a
Senator come before the representatives
of the people after they shall have re-
ceived Instructions directly on the point.
Produce of the GOld-Fields.
SIR,-I am very happy to observe, in
to-day's .4rgus, some hopes of the real
state of the gold-diggings being at length
fairly represented. This will, trust,
check the increase of the distress now,
and for some time past, witnessed amongst
the innumerable gold seekers who kave
! been induced to come to this colony, led
away by the high o'ored accounts of
"Our own Correspondent" Sc, and for
which to a certain degree, the press is
morally responsible.
1t is a notorious fact, and can be prov
ed by figures, that the gold fields have
been gradually falling off in the yield of
produce since October last. There were
at that ii ne about $4,000 persons, pro-
ducing upwards of 10000 ounces week
~ NhCICuS ht lbC JiC IIlOIIltUl uD-
wards Of 10000 persons scarcely pro-
tiuce So, 900 ounces y weekly, and even
this amount is on the decline. Yet, in
the very face of these results, the gold
fields are still represented in the most en-
couraging manner, do not mean to say
that few more discoveries may not be
made in different parts of the colony,
which may afford profitable occupation
to large number of Industrious diggers
+ for many years to come; but when we
consider the scattered, and very superfci-
al character of the god-felds, the rnpidity
Of their exhaustion, aud The absence of
any mines on which to ral back, | do
mintain that there is nothing to justify
the eXtravngant estimates which have
been, and are being, made of the eTtent
and pcrmdnenry of the netnlc wealth of
this colony. All the intelligent diggerS,
and agents of the Respective gold field 3,
wi hear out and confirm my views on
this point; Md am sorry for the sake of
thousands who are landing here daily.
that the truth has been ~ long concealed, :,
and now appears in all it, startling naked
ness. | am, Sir,
J ours respectfully.
EVAN HOPKINS.
27h June.
L. = he cXtravaganCe OF the sue
ceSstul diggerS nre things of the past great
prizes are getting scarce, ana in a very
short time these gold fields will be brought
to the ordinary level of all gold producing
Countries f.. ii.
The game having been fairly worried
and all the choicest portions consumed, it
is evident that it is quite time to beat off
the dogs that ran it down, and have
greedily devoured The best of it, and to
make over the carcass to the sly, keen
sightad old hawk, which has sat quietly
upon his perch, and waited so patiently
for his turn. Mr. Hopkins proves most
satisfactory that the gold fields Of Victoria
are Enthusiastically done for, and nothing
appears left for it now but to make them
over forthwith to any enterprising mining
company which will take them for fifty
years at pepper-corn rent.-ED. III
THE RAMSEY RouTE.-Mr. Ramsey
has written letter to Messrs Burgess,
Gilbert s. Still, of San Francisco, in rela-
ton to his route through Mexico, IN
which he holds the following language
We copy from the Sun:
"Ihe steamer runs from New Orleans
to Vera Cruz in seventy-two hours We
take the mail from thence to Acapulco in
seventy-two hours regularly, making six
days from New Orleans to Acapu co, and
in six days more we could be in your city,
if the steamt rs connected
81 amnow arranging to carry the mails
between Acapulco and Vera Cruz in forty
eight hours, which very soon can be done
with all ease, the distance being 388 miles
by our actual measurements.
"You will perceive that the Winfield
Scott touched at Acapulco on the 9th day
of September, on her way up to San
Francisco; our mail had arrived there on
the 7th, where 1t remained until the 10th,
before leaving for your city, and the Scott,
touching at San Diego and Monterey,
made her voyage ten days from Acapulco.
Had our mail been taken forward on the
7th, direct to San Francisco, news from
New Orleans to the LIST Sept. would have
been in San Francisco on the 18th.
'sIt is our intention to carry the mails
between New Orleans and San Francisco
in twelve days. AS soon as we have a
steamer running direct from Vera Cruz to
New York. we will carry the California
mails to New York in fifteen days"
Rough and Ready, in Nevada county,
polls 2fs vctss.