Demoine courier., 1854-11-02
Letter From California.
The following has been kindly fur
nished TO The Telegraph for rubilca-

nished TO The Telegraph for rubilca-
tion: a i aaa 9rsH
as. SAN JOSE. Sept. I2!h, '54,
DEAR BRoTHER:--The Election is
over. Know Nothings, Sabe Muchos,
bogus Democrats and Simon Pures and
Wings. have all had their candidates in
the field, but sad to tell, they are no, all
elected. AT present it is liiie uncer-
tain who are elected to Cungress. but
probably Bowie and Benham. the Wing
candidates. The Democrats will pro5a
bly, have majority in the Legislature on
join, aallot--bui there is a family quar-,
rel which may result in the election Of
q Wing Senator this winter. The
Know Nothing ticket was successful in
San Francisco, and in This place also.
say .Know Nothing because MADAME
Rumor' called cerlain tickets by that
name. ! Know Nothing about them
myself. This district has elected son
of jeremiah Day. President OF Yale
College, gentleman who will confer
some honor upon the Legislature in place
of receiving honor from his connection
with ,bat body. While speaking OF
elections might as well give you l,,de
insight into the modus operand Of
choosing public oificet.. The business Of
the day is carried on as in older Stalesl
ailh perhaps the exception of "pistoI
practice" IN The crowd gathered about
the polls--bu il is the nigh, work" iha.
YOU are ignorant Of The polls are de-
dared Close d doors and windows are
harricaded and lhe whole interior Of The
room is concealed from all. save the
Judges and The clerks. and now ecmes
he real eiccficn The ballo, bcx is
npsned--nbnoxiou tickets are removed
aud in their place are put tickets 5earirg
the names Of those whom The judges ~
I.Ihoir wisdom have decided shall rule! /
know this may sound strange TO you
(who have always regarded the bailo'
nsx as sacred) hut IL is nevertheless
sworn to by many good citizens. A, the
last election ticke's we,e printed after
I he polls ,cere closed. This j. fas,
country. sa"s $3.50 tH'@.sa.71 .a2'
| / saw notice in the Telegraph
Of an Ar,esian well now being bored 10
ST. Louis on which they have spen, FIVE
years Of labor. &c. During the early
| par, of last winter, or some eight months
since. the frs. Artesian well was bored
IN this Valley. There have since thai
time been about one hundred sunk
fiuding water AT depths varying from
I City six 10 one hundred and forty feet.
! Nearly all the wells force beautiful
stream OF pure water from two to five
( feet above the surface of the ground
l'here is one well in town that many
! think will carry It's water fifty feet above
the surface in pipe of course) and dis
/ charge water enough to turn machinery
/ equal 10 one set Of mill stones. Ii is ,he
/ finest thing ever saw in the way of o
/ fountain. Since i, has become a facl
/ we'll known that to bore is to get living
fountain of pure water which can te
carried to any part Of your house, many
have gone into the business and the time
is not far distant when every farms. viii
have abundance OF water for purposes ol
] irrigation.
The grain crop Of the Valley was
lighter this year than many anticipated.
Go no, think the average, led Of Wheat
! (which was the main crop) would exceed
twenty bushels per acre, although some
fields were said to have yielded sirfy.
three. Wheat is selling in San Francis.
GOA, 90 cents per bushel, or as they say
here ! ] cents per pound. Of course the
more farmer sells the worse he is of.
"Hard times" is sentence that ex-
presses about as much as any other of
the same length. Truly the times are
hard in California jus, at this time, and
wha, is worse they are not going 10 i'm,
prove soon. l,is impossible 10 keep up
an excitement forever, and when the de-
preston comes i, must equal in degree
the excitement which caused il. II will
be many wears before California will see
wha, are called "good times" again.--
Blu, we win see what we shall see.