The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-13
A GLORIOUS COUNTRY.

California, Notwithstanding the mountains OF
gold which she has given to the Unit.
States, is jus, beginning to develop her great
est resources. As an agricultural country
she is the first on this continent. A land
which produces strawberries half foot in
diameter, Irish potatoes rs big as your head,
wheat fifty bushels to the acre, is undoubt.
eddy ahead of all creation. A San Francisco
May l5l correspondent Of the National In
telligencer says.
"No country possesses within Itself such recu-
parative powers. The gold yield Is SIS great or
more than ever and the grain crops are Incredible.
Large shipments are going forward OF -four aud
barley to Australia, where there happens TO be
short crop, and OF wheat aud barley 10 New York.
Tnis latter, of course, under the high freights
round Cape Horn, could only be done under the
high prices caused by the European war and yet
only think Of land yielding on an average fifty
bushels Of wheat per acre and subject to no vicis.
si'udes Of the seasons T. The rains entirely
about this time. and the farmer suffers neither from
heat nor wet but leaves his crop to stand 10 per.
feet security until fully ready for the sickle 1t
said that under the usual farming system OF your
part OF the country, wheat can be raised a. torfy
cents per bushel, and then zach climate to work
in to tire 10 See the range OF the thermometer
In the printed slip herewith, not varying but Jour
degrees 10 ten successive days, and not more tnan
,no degrees on any one day between A.. ~. sna
P. n, both inclusive Then such vegetable pro-
auctions; the year round! No buying OF salt
provisions; no packing away In the fall Tor your
winter food no spelling of meat by heat or colo
oh that might live TO see what this country VIII
be In twenty years! A doctor told me this morn.
log that the deaths 10 the city (he population o.
000) we're only fifteen per month. cannot vouca
for this, 30 incredible does It appear"
What country! We wonder that any
body can ever leave it. Yet, according to a
San Francisco paper of May 6, the emigra'
ton from California for some time past has
been confessedly greater than the accessions
to its population. One steamer. the Golden
Gate had just carried from its shores some
thirteen hundred souls. What is 1t that &C.
casions this exodus? Our California con.
temporary gives the following explanation:
"The answer IL a simple one men have become
reckless In their pursuit of wealth In this coun
try that each 10 afraid to trust the other the
result is that the prudent taking their depars
ture We have been swinded by bankers and
legislators. and interruptions "1rst citizens till
public sentiment has become corrupt and dis9f ace
fails to follow successful frsud the scOundrel who
succeeds Ia, on the contrary, honored.
All who have come to California have done 30 with
hopes more or Iess vivid Of obtaining money. The
class who are content to make good living are
almost entirely unrepresented here Many OF those
ceased eXerting themselves and become idlers.-
They are ready TO leave the couptry at any mo-
meDt. Others, having done reasonably well, have
invested their money and Lost IL through freud ana
dishonorable dealing They have become disgust
ed and fly from cur shores. Others again, who
have been more fortunate, have retained their
earnings bu. have SO little confidence In the ssabi
iy of affairs 10 California that they think 1t pru
dent course to leave her BORDERS So we have
only left among US the few who are content to
make this State their home, those who are 10 bust
ness and cannot leave without loss, and those who
have no money to get away. OF these three
classes only the former can be considered beneh'
cial to opr State.
And this feeling of insecurity will not stop in lis
tfscts here. Atthe East it will deter many from
coming here who would Otherwise have been dri-
ven away from the Atlantic slope by the prevalent
depression in trsds ia that region The price Of
passage was considered high even when the in
ducements were greater; what will be its Effects
now In vain may we picture to them our unsur
passed climate; the absence Of suffering from To-
clement weather II ensures; the opportunity to all
to earn more than good living afforded By the
mines; the wonderful fertility OF cur soil. They
will point US to the high rate of interest the f1uc'
tuattcg condition OF trade; the unsound position
OF public sf-ifs; the want OF proper public SEN
,imeat against scoundreiism and public pecula,ion;
and what can be our rejoinder. Siencs. We have
sown the wind we must reap the whrlwind."
This, however, is but temporary. Let the
Californians follow the sensible advice of
their journalist, place their State and city Fl
nances in good condition, bring down high
rents and exor bitant rates of interest, diver
sify their pursuits, seek gold in the cultiva
ton of their wonderful soil as well as in the
glittering caverns of their mines, and pOpu-
lation will flow back in broader and might
Ter stream than has yet laved the Pacific
shores. California is an empire in herself.
AMERICA AND THE FRENCH EXHIBITION.
| 1t is said that the number of American
commissioners at the Paris exhibition is in
striking contrast with the number of articles
they have to exhibit. The American depart
ment is remarkable only for the paucity of
its specimens. The commissioners however
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