New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-13


We published, on Monday, private letter from Cal
iforria which exposed in cogen anguags the real diff
cutie. lying in the way of the success of emgrants
and tbe enormous decisions existing with many persons
in regard 10 the true state of affairs there We beg all
those who may yainy hope to benefit their condition by
taking Part in gold diegings their cognate specula
tors, to ponder well the facts therein set forth.
The whole California theory, in fact, from the war
with Mexico down to the present day, is a delusion.
Gold apart from what is used in the arts uot wealth,
but he REPRESENTATIVE Of wealth aud increasing the
ouautty of it does not enrich a country but IN pro-
orton 10 It's augmentation prices of ali kinds are IN
creased The convenience Of gold as circulating me-
dium is Dot 20 be disputed but il may be procured at
too great an expense. That such has been the case
with California, viii hardly be denied The war with
Mexico besides requiring many Thousands OF lives OF
men who would otherwise have been working at the
nlouoh the loom or the anvil, cost the country two
hundred and seventeen millions Of dOlars-a sum ap
proaehng to the entire value Of all the property ia the
civ Of New-YOrk The population Of California is
tbree hundred and eight thousand the total value Of
tbtir occupied lands their houses stock implements,
and so forth is one hundred and eight million dollars
Il il safe to assert that had they remained in, emf
grated TO States already occupied, possessed Of inter
nal Improvements, and commanding home-marhets,
they would have acquired-if they did not already pos
sess-an equal sum with an equal outlay OF capital
skil and enterprise, and without the terrible Vciss
tudes and mortality which have eminenty marked the
career of emigration thither. In fact, II we esme
the cost of Quitting sending and keeping unth h'
co,d earn something at only three hundred dollars
for each euigrant, il amounts to sum about eq4al 70
the above sum.tota Of the value Oh 1iorna exclusive
g ,bo r,cdr.t Of the mines BuC We know t has cost
III 80 ,b.n three hundred dollars Many thou
lands Of emierants have, through Illness ignorance
;dsc,etiop or vice los. fortunes IN The pursuit oil
ct;r,era there H. too, calculate the gross pro-
5rc+ # the mines at from hy 20 sixty millions
"a ooronsre IL with whar good agricultural AMI man
,,f.ctur;pp home.market would produce, We dnd no
o.se for CONCENTRATION, considering gold as val
ueble p,oduc. as the necessaries Of Life.
Oftte men whether in Congress in the democratic
rrooms throughout the country whO have perfected
tho theory Of am exaon il my be questioned If one Of
tr ever studied TO know what it is that gives real
yalre 70 land Indeed We cannot IN the whole roar
inc rautne policy on this head anything but the most
oraut abneeaton Of every essential truth that lies at
she root Of sound policy and national progress. We
have been constantly assured thar land Is wealth Now
This an enormous error Land Is worthless except as
labor il bestowed upon it. Hence, all additions Of ter
rrorv are valuable as labor is given to them. But that
labor il shorn Of its most profitable qualities, fcgerted
from the channels Of those States, where owing 70 the
secretion Of capital il work in combination on the
richer soils and have the advantage Of the means, skill
science and machinery produced by all the toll whcl
has been bestowed for centuries in public and private
undertakings
The older States Of the Union have undergone yl'
sacrifices Their history has been full OF trias i"'
wars With the most powerful nation on the Earn nn
merable fights with savage foe; pioneer sacrAce' u
the deadly svamps or dreay woods colossal 'aOOI' ~
small gains dismal contest with British Inon'PO'l
when thew we're coonsts, and beso'tsd adherence
owing 10 Southern influence, 70 policy ~nen na'
them in almost colonial yassaage TO England
have been the lot Of the older States
their difficulties and drawbacks, they began u ,iaA
beadway. when they are suddenly called on to do1Ol
their EXPENSES on the roadfor that IS the true readn
Of the ease-and keep up frenzied commercial hr
with California, to support Pacific colony When mac
If the richest lands of the Oldest States is yet un'ouene
with the pIow when not shaft Is driven INTO CO'' ~