The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-01-26

r~sa~@s ~ A#AN "a $40 MA
a friend baa favored al says he New
Orleans Bulletin With tba psrusal ofa ls,S
Ger from - intelligent md observing cor
|respondsntin San Francisco. daad Nov as,h
from which We make ihe flloWint iu.efer.
ing e1Iacts
Oar mines etc yielding mos abundantly
The great deAideratum. water. Is being ann.
Piled by canals and fumes. some 81 1bisb
extend from twenty 70 forty miles nt y cosf
Of from three 70 five hundred thousand dol-
lars. The quartz rock IS now crushed Viii
profit; aDd.tDnnels perioratinQ the mountain
ineyerg direction. occasionally - exeeed;nol
81 rich lead is struck Work has barose
q ssematlc end The great masses out here.
feeling the most desirable of allother conn.
tries have an eve % permanence III plarnino
ana carrying into execution new entefnrisee
The great change being wrought n IA
country Is evidenced ~ tie soliditv ~ ei,1c.
ture and beauty Of architecture which nhar4
aete'izes The magnificent buildings recently
sprung into existance IN this city the centre
and soul Of che Poetic shores. I thinkT
say with truth that il point Of finish and
novelty Of style, New Orleans can scarce.
y surpass us. And this has been effected
Il the face Of falling rents. and one of sbs
longest and sevefest crisis through which
orr Merchants haze ever passed. There
are but few Merchants ID this civ Wild
have not sunk money ia the last eighteen
months. However times are moro Dropit.
uous jus. now, Tie fall trade having beer
pretty brisk; some articles, such candles and
butter, advanced near 100 peF cent. The
last two years have been particularly 6es.
Tuctiye to the farming interests ana vel
during the last season I have known r,aa
g make from $500 g $500 per acre Ga pos
tasoes and onions. Our farmers are 81
new order thinking one or two days is
week sufficient for work and many Of them
old sailors and professional men Withoutnny
knoWledge Whatever Of the persuit. But
such Is the productiyeness Of the soil that
from go % 100 bushels 81 grain having been
gathered from III acfo n some ms cea
whole crops yielding sixty loseventv burhs
els per acre. The next season / thipf
will be more favoTable TO farmers forthose
Of speculative character have changed for
other pursuits more congenial. and our
western men with their families have creased
the plains and n0s settling down with y view
Of making a living neither calculating nor
expecting fortune the frst season.
The yicinage and country round about Ca1
Franclsco is unsurpassed for the beauty of
scenery, and variety Of landscape blending
the picturesque with the sublime. The az
mcsphere is serene and bland and he TEN.
prrature Of climate genial and heaIthful.-
We have delightful retreats shifting our
noble Bay which are Tesorted to bv our dem
liens for heath md recreation The lille
town Of Oakland just across the bay which
is certainly one of the most beautiful places j
ever surprising HaVanna ia variety
ofmagni6cence of scenery though moi quite
its equal in richness. There is fne bold
mountain shirting plain Of the most lax
urious verdute on the cast-and as YOU as
scend It, each step presents q view more
magnificent than is fellow until reaching
the summit when 70 the east the eve roarng
lover plain " mountain, piled upon mountain
with its snowy peaks melting into the skies
and to the West. bay of uneoualled gran
ldeur-coVered with the fleets of an nations.
with the greatchain Of coast mountains torn
lasunder-so that tie eye can look beyond
the gates into the fogSbanks which hang
lowering on the Pacific shores. Such the
sscene hpon which the eye now tires Is look
land stirs up althe poetry "a mans soul.
Add to this Che redeeiioh q unsurpassed
lproductiyeness Of soil--a climate always
temperate water pure and sWeet--and
lhealth such as We had with tie good old ap-
lpetite il our school days Do You hot think
that We ought 70 feel thankful to our God
70 i've II such acountry2 ] do most sins
cerely Having tried many States and coun-
tries, | prononnee this The best.