The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-06-14
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL,
MAY 10Th, lS54.S

Dear Add: Tomorrow the steamers Gold
en- Gate and Brother Jonathan leave this
port for Panama, and in them some 1900
Caliiornians return 10 their homes. The
morning sun as it rises in the East invites my
thoughts away to that FAR East-the home Of
my youth; and often in these flights fancy
brings TO view the well remembered features
OF nv friend SANDERS, seated in his sanctum
and pouring over musty books and piles OF
newspapers, in sea,ch Of something TO en-
large the boundary of thought, increase the
stock of knowledge, and crafty the tastes OF
his many tasty readers. As such an under
taking | know to be no small task, you will
allow me to hope that our labors are proper
| ly appreciated and suitably rewarded by a
liberal subscription and good pay. As varie.
ty is a needfUl element To the better enjoy
meat OF life, and is that OH which the immor-
tai mind is ever feasting, and must ever COR
time to be toasted; SO with a newspaper
il must be spiced with variety to give inleres,
to its pages and ensure its being read; and il
is for that reason more than any other, pro-
pose occasionally 10 give you a few items
from this side OF the continent, which may
serve to satisfy, to some extent, The great
demand for something new, which editors
must furnish in every issue, o! forfeit the
good opinion of some who prefer 10 be sod
occasionally rather than hunger and thirst
after news. Materials here become abun.
dant out OF which To write a book during each
Interval Of the two weeks throughout the year
but to say nothing of the want Of time, my
pen being of steel and not endowed with rare
or uncommon gifts, refuses to record the
many interesting facts, and touching incl
dents which are of daily occurrence in this
land OF strangers; land where the ends OF
the earth have met, and where the people oil
every cline are represented in propria persona
in costume and manners, dialect and color,
poverty and riches, ignorance and intelli.
gence, in depravity and perfection, in art nd
science, in morals and religion, and in every
other thing from the sublime t. the ridicu-
ous. This group forms picture of a world
in miniature, and exhibits at one view all
sorts and classes Of men, religion, pursuits
and habits; some OF them brought down from
the time Of the antideluvians. The scene
suggests many reflections for the Noralist
aud Statesman. What effect this coming.
ling Of races, of good spirits and bad, white
spirits and black. grey spirits and brown, is
to have upon the moral and religious condi.
ton of our people. and what the effect upon
the political Institutions of our country and
the world at large, are questions to be solved
by that unknown future, which yields it's in
tel'igence in our day to none in advance oil
happening events.
California wants system of Railroads
wants the iron track and the locomotive, the
tender and the car, to fill her valies with
farmers, her mountains with mnera. Not
fortune-seekers for day year, but SUBJ
stantial, permanent residents. She wants
the means Of transporting her freight oil
goods and of people, rapidly and cheapiy.-
Millions OF acres are awaiting, as they have
been for centuries, the plow, the hoe, the
seed, ready to give back at the first call, a
most generous return. Millions of hidden
gold lie waiting for the pick, the spade. the
crusher, as it has been lying for centuries
ready TO make heavy the pocket of the miner.
Millions OF Princely forest trees stand among
the hills as they have stood for centuries
awaiting the axe, the saw. the mill, 10 be
. turned into lumber to make shelter and deco
ration for the people and their fresides.-
we want more people-permanent citizens
more lsborers 10 cultivate the soil, to dig
the guiches, TO make bitches, to tarn the
rivers through auriferous regions, to turn our
forests into dwellings, our fields into grana.
, RES, our mountains into min.s, our wild
prairies into villages and farms. Let me, in
this connection, Mr.. Editor, be perfectly
understood. The class of citizens now need
ed In this State are those who come willing
to identity their future interests with those OF
California; who immigrate with the inte ntion
OF remaining here. The day of speedy for
tunes has long since passed, save now and
then lucky hombre makes a successful
strike, but these, "like angels visits, are few
and far between"
Mr.. Sfias E. Burrows, one of our most
prominent merchants, Immediately after the
receipt of the news relative to the opening
OF the ports of Japan to the trade of the
, world, conceived the idea of making a voy age
TO Jeddo, for the purpose Of sstertaining the