The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1857-11-27

this week will Equal $4,000, ,00Q: larger
amount by several millions than was even IN
the banks 5ptorr
California Gold.
The San Francisco Times gsves the follow
ing as the sum total Of annual shipments OF gold
from California, from the discovery OF The metal
there
1919, $S,l2I,2 $50 1853, S57,331, ,024
1880, !7,676,346 1884, 81 ,32S, ,652
1881, 42,5S2,l34 1888, 43,Os0,2II
1852, 46, ,5sG,l3+ 1896, IS. .SS7 ,544
The amount actually shipped from California
in the first nint months Of 1857, amounts to
$685., 30, ,73+, and on an average the whole
shipments of the present year viii be about 49,
100000. By the above fact and figures we
see that California has furnished within the last
eight years upwards of Three HURdred aad
Fifty Millions of Doiiars in gold alone, TO say
nothing of thu products of Australia during
that time. We need less than Three Hundred
Millions of specie for an exclusive metallic
currency for the United StateS.- Phiia. .frgus.
INDUsrRlAL PRoGREss OF CALIFoRNIA.-
From origina! statistics, we learn that CaIifor-
MIA has about tour hundred saw-mills, of which
one hundred and S1vrnty-one are worked hv
steam and ihe rest BY water power. The CON
structon of these mills cost about two and half
millions of dollars. Most of them are located
in the neighhorhooAiof populous mining districts
where lumbtr for building uses is in increasing
demand. They turn ont about five hundred
millions OF trt of lumber per annunl. OF griSt-
mills there are one hundred and thirty-one with
two hundred and seventy run Of stone, sixty
seven of these mills being worked BY steam and
hltvfour by uater-power. The aggregate ca
paclty OF the former per day is five h1usand
two hundred and forty barr-lS Of flour, and of
the latter three thousand five hundred and fifty
two barrels. The mills of Sacramento, San
Francisco, San Joaquin, aud Santa Clara, are
capable of turning out per annun twice the
quantity OF Hour necessary to supply the entire
population otth- State.
D~ Kansas advicrs slate that th4 consitu-
ton adopted by the Constitutional Convention
was by vote of 2S in favor of IT 10 about a
dozen against it, The whole number of drlr-
getes to the Convention was sixty, consequently
the constitution was adopted, by minority OF
the Convention. fbe majority and minority
reports of the Committee, on schedul-, was
merged into one schedule It provides for an
election on the 2lSt OF December, 10 raily or
reject the Constitution, The voting to BE- by bal
lot, and the votes cast TO be endorsed ''COnSti-
tuition with slavery" and "Constittton without
Slavery - also for an election to be held on
the first Monday in January next, for the elac-
tion of State and Congressional tickets.
0y=In the city of London coal is sent to con-
Sumers in sacks Containing one hundred pounds
each. These are loaded on large carts, drawn
by enormous horses, with scales and weights to
zach cart, and, if desired by the purchaser, the
sack is weighed by the driver. When The hon
eslv of the coal merchant and the integrity of
the driver is well established, the weighing of
the sack is seldom required. And in the pur
chase of cartoad of sacks, some three or four
of them, taken promiscuously, are tested by
the scales, and If found correct, the weighing
of the remainder of the load is dispensed
with. This mode of buying and selling coal is
the result of many years experience in the
vast city of London.
ga whole family in Bradford, Mass, have
been committed to the Jail in Lawrence, 'every
member being addicted 10 the grosSeSt habit OF
intemperance. The family consisted of mo-
ther, 55 eldest son %, another 81, and youn-
geSt | 3 years OF age, and sister OF the mother.
Tht eldest son died on Sunday, in prison, OF
drlirlum tremens and the youngest is in very
critical state Tbs father died some months
since in the same manner.
MlsFRs.-Daniel Dancer, when he had f3,
600 year, used to beg pinch of snuff from
his friends, and when his box was full, bartered
its contents for n tallow candle-But his par
sinonIouS ingenuity appears contemplate in
comparison with that of the Russian misrr,
who learned to bark that he might avoid the ex
prnsr of keeping dog.
"A large quantity OF pork and -four has ar
rived in Boston from the West, for the purpose
of liquidating debts due Eastern creditors. \ |
portion of the flour was consigned to one of
the largest dry goods establishments in the city;
and as there is ready sale for it, it can beIturned
into cash Immediately. Several thousand bar
rels more are also en- route from Chicago for
the same purpose.
The New York Journal Of Commerce SAYS
that the taxes of that city are now at the stag
gering figure of $S,000,000. There will
probably be deficiency of s., 100000, which |
must be- made up by increased taxation next
year. Thousands of people have been stripped
of their personal property, andfhe great burden |
will come upon real estate, some of which will T
have to be sold at auction, to pay the ntolerable
taxes. !