The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-09-17

ment for the past four weeks in the political
world of California, and this city has been
made the grand theatre or rendezvous OF the ,
opposing parties in Convention.
Our mutual friend Col. j. Nelly johnson,
was fortunate enough to receive the nominal
ton in the Convention of the American party I
for the Governorship of the State, and will, !
doubtless, be elected. Upon this same ticket
Gen. Allen, of the Marysyille Herald, has re- |
ceived the party's nomination for State Prin-
ter, in which | am directly and pecuniarily In
terested. Should he be elected the printing is
divided between US. This is a compromise
which was made so that both parties might
not come before the Convention, thereby elect
ing third.
Our party is strong, very strong, and the
vote of the mountaineers will come down like
an avalanche. The political humbugs and
charlatans of the Phalanx party have been
resting their last faint hope upon the POSSIBLE
ty of our State Convention permitting itself to
be distracted by the introduction of discord-
ant clements, that sectional issues would be
raised, and that there might possibly be a di-
vision of the Convention itself, similar to the
one which took place in the Foreign Phalanx
ranks in 1854, when the Requisites and Boilers
held separate Conventions and nominated sep
arate Congressional tickets, claiming to be
aDemocraticn
But our Phalanx enemies were doomed to
disappointment. Every thing was conducted
with the most perfect propriety and in the ut
most spirit of harmony. A Platform, the rock
upon which it was fondly hoped our Conyen-
ton would split, has been unanimously adopt
ed and published to the people of California,
j Ga copy of which you will find here enelosed,)
as an expression of the principles of the Amer
lean Party, which does not fail to meet with
warmest approval of every American through
out the State.
Indiana has row been called upon to furnish
second Governor for the great Pacific State,
and she will do so in the person of our esteem
ed friend, J. Nicely johnson. Mr.. McDougal,
her first Governor, was from indianapolis. He
made very worthy Executive, and retired
from office bearing with him the approval of
,seven-tenths of the State.
Col. johnson has every element of success.
Three times he has been before the citizens of
this county for their suffrages. The first
time in 1850, he was elected District Attorney
Eby 100 majority. A vote unprecedented. |
know many Phalanxers who will support
Nicely when the ides of September shall have
arrived. 1t is my firm conviction that the
American party will sweep the State-electing
their whole ticket by an overwhelming vote,
and woe to the foreign Phalanx should such
be the case. But, as l before stated, the
country is safe, and will therefore diverge from
political affairs and speak briefly Of other mat
tiers equally interesting to the general reader
Our city, like San Fracisco is filed to over
flowing with multitude of people who are
idle, and who have been so for sometime
f How they manage to live l am unable to say
: Many, I fear are falling into bad habits, and
such habits, too, that will weave for them be
fore long winding sheet. How people car
be content to lead such idle lives, is more thar
| can see. Idle men and women in large cite!
very rapidly ripen for the penitentiary, the
mad house and the grave. Thousands wht
come to this country, Mr. Editor, do so witt
the false idea that they have not to labor al
t heretofore in the States, but if they can blu
O reach the goal--but tread upon our soil, thei
fortunes are soon made with scarcely an efor
upou their part. How visionary the picture
How different the reality! There is no coun
: try under Heaven where the laborer more de
t Iservedly earns his hire than in California to
. day.
y Forbes, in his history Of California, publish
n ed in 1856, says in relation to the export trad
5. of California; ats chief exports are hides, tai
Il low and cattle, with small quantities of wheat
I wine, raisins and oliyes-the whole amountinj
!" in value to G26,OOO.n Mark the contrast il
sixteen years Here are the exports for tn
|, month of June last, which copy from the i'm
,fIport and export tables of the Herald:
n Liverpool breadstufFs. ..................sI30 60
New York. wool, hides taliow ...... SO %
Batavia, general merchandise. % 90
Tahiti. do. ....................-...... 81 Sc
r. Honolulu, -. ............. 1s 20
Hongkong, quicksilver and specie.. q q
Valparaiso and Callao quicksilver prin epay. II B
San Quenein, merchandise. Observation-Disclosures. Is
The entire counties Amador and Calaveras
Is are very naturally terribly incensed against tn
. Mexican portion of the population of that sec
be ton of the State, in consequence of the blood
;, Ebuteheries perpetrated by portion of thei
: lcountrymen during the past week. 1t is re
+ ported that the citizens are determined to ex
pei every Mexican from those counties, be h
innocent or guilty. A detail of the horrid mas
), sacres alluded to you will find in your Cali
= = fornia exchanges.
u The clipper ship Coer de Leon, recently ar
a rived at San Francisco feighted with Raj roa
y iron and Machipery for the Sacramento Valle1
: Railroad This pioneer road will soon nav
y some fifty miles of the route in running order
!" In few years, now that the ice is broken
&c California viii not be far behind your own gal
!, liant State in Railroad enterprises.
y There was tremendous ratification meet
! ing, Thursday evening last in front of the Or
= leans in this city, composed of some six thou
= sand "Sams, :" to ratify the ticket put forth b.
: the American nominating Convention. Tn
:. meeting was addressed by Col johnson ant
others upon the State ticket. The utmos
! harmony and good feeling prevailed. Success
- to the ticket Adios
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