New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-08
CALIFORNIA.
INDUSTRY AND SOCIAL LIFE IN CALL
FORNIA.


From Our O-vB Correspondents
San FRAscIsco, Sept. 30, Is54--4PM
You remember il is as but yesterday that we all
thought and spoke Of California as barren sterile
region, in which famine and want would be the
companions Of the " gold bunter" unless his necess
ties were carefully watched over by the provident
trader; and even the very men whose weary foot
steps measured the length and breadth of the fertile
valleys now blooming and teeDDg under the hand OF
cuv attic D. would credit the fact that country IN
which no rain fell for months in the year could,
by any possibility ever yield reward for labor be-
stnwed upon its cult gston. But how now ? Friends
of TIE TRIBUNE be not startled from your usual pro-
prety when tell you that so prolific is our beautiful
and romantic State in the returns for labor bestowed
upon its coll that the best wheat and potatoes in the
world are Actually cheaper in cents per pound than
phh you being in comparative relations to labor,
interest etc ETC.. if your dealers gaze aoay their
-four grain pots'oes aDd paid you toicc their ralue
an addition for taking them The same with oats and
barley and with almost every product of the SOIL
Melons where the freight does not up the cost,
the same, and none more delicious than ours; while
such grapes thrown upon this mark CT IN lots of
hundred and tuns at trip, and as often as two
three times per week, in the funess of their sea-
SON. you can probably equal in lusciousness or
size-bunches weighing as much as 81 lbs beng on
sale at the fruit stands, Il have purchased such
while at the fairs we have bad those weighing six,
seven and eight lbs and retail prices for them
range cay 25 cents per b., and even lower in small
parces-which would be in the ratio of COS cents
with you.
To vegetarian our markets present the most in
vitire and fairly lovely aspect Our vegetables are
the largest and the best in the world and the prices
now would shame a glut with you OF course the
PRODUCERS are suffering Board and lodging ain
high Notwithstanding these facts though much reduc-
ton has taken place. Rough mechanic board and
lodging can BIO had as low as Sc per week; decent,
slo; still better, S12; good, with single rooms,
sl40sl6; first class boarding houses and hotels,
s20@s3o.
Notwithstanding the excellence Of vegetables, -four,
grain &C., and their abundance ii is scarcely posi-
bic 10 get amoutbiu of vegetable food, or bread ct
hotel boarding house. restaurant truly fit 10 eat,
In the whole length and breadth OF the State. Bakers
bread is found everywhere and more pernicous trash
the human stomach scarcely have fed TO 1t, while
vegetables and everything else that can be- are fairly
swimming or steaming all redoent of stale lard and
rancid butter which very APPLY term "sush cookery
These causes with tie almcs, universal use of filthy
tobacco the consumption of an immense amount OF
very bad always bad however good liquor, with an
army Of drug doctors and druggists very nationally
accounts for the immense sacrifice of human life here
without taxing into the account bowie knives pistols,
dirks, &C.. &c. Yet we not all toe slaves to the
filthy habit of tobacco-using, nor do we all drink
liquors. though by reason that we cannot yet help
ourselves many have 10 swallow siush cookery and
bad bread, because if they refuse such, they must
either starve or cook for themselves the latter not
being always at all possible though many make great
a,,Qar tpua nf snah
become SO great that violent outburst of grief found
lie way into one of our leading dalies few days
since ard our some vegetarans) hearts desire aud
prayer 10" some decent caterer in the feed lne,'
il that the march OF reason msy have taken its west
ward course az well as the OF empire, SO that
those uho would be pure in mind may have tho aids
which sound and not improperly stimulated body
affords.
To those who contemplate coming bither in pursuit
Of fortune or peeuniry advancement II is high time
20 offer e hints especially TO that class which de-
SIGMA 10 live without hard labor or such California
has an immense glut. There are at least twenty pro-
fsional ruer clergymen excepted where there should
he ONE of SPECTATORS brokers, and every description
of mere gamblers the same; OF clerks ana those VINO
xouid become such and accountants from MY 70
hundreds stand waiting with their mouths vide open
ftreyen the scent of employment; and almost an
canal redundancy in the mechanical asPirants Tor
lsbor The wages of labor still remain very high.
giving splendid remuneration TO those IN employ; but
~ agrin and disappointment attends the major portion
ofemnloy9es on the Pacific coast, with restitution
and suffering unless they able and willing to go TO
wo,l IN the mines. There constant employment OF
some kind can be had, though the pay ls not high
enough TO satisfy the general wish for the hardship Oh
the service performed. The only class OF persons
uso are in demand among us now are those
;nued 10 hard labor, and who sM 90 mo Tue
names at once and face and overcome al na'u-
ships, Such men can mine, LUMBER quarry
a;, water bitches farm, &c, and they can oy
economy and industry, accumulate al least iroln
tonr 20 ak times as much wages here as they can
a, home; while if intelligent and prudent IN INNING
for themselves they have their chance IN common
Nth those Who are eminently successful but the
interest Of our State demands the men who shan come
hr 10 settle who bring their families, and do not IN
tend 10 gather up every dollar possible and remit
an, of the State the instant they clutch II we
arc now enrching and sustaining the burdens of the
East. with no small allowance for all Europe, while
we are houly becoming poorer Permanent improve
ue,,s esp.cisly of public character, must long be
among u.s. unless the suicidal policy Of send
ing all our money from to support The citizens OF
o,Sr States and nations ceases. OF the class Of now
com.rs with whom we already so Overstocked, Al
60, all who have the means either retGrn home by
n. first or second steamer do~n he coast to South
America, 10 the Islands, or to Australia, when go
inc from the "fryipgpan into the hre with vense-
80 We have as many mice young men, and
decent mechanics even, as viii ind something turn