The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-10
Geld and iss Preduc,..

, bred man would be guilty.
Cold and iss Products.
1t 10 twelve years since the wotli was start,e,
, WIN the cry OF golden sands, and gold bearin.
rocks, ana golden cities, on the Pacific Coast O
america, IN Californian streams. The skeptica
public might doubt, but it was no idle cry. TIL,
gold was there, and is yet there, in insxhausr
Ole Quantities. Tens Of thousands en,igra,ed
from Europe, Asia and America to dig thei,
fortunes by standing knee.ieep in water, aud
strung sande. or hammering rocks. Old men
and young men, lswyers, doctors. aud finally
ciergymen and women, thronged to Californis
Iawny Chinese, with long ques, dark Mala,s
brown Canadians. rudy Irish, with their Mile
sian brogue, aud square German, with their
rough gutteral, and the long Yankee and broad
Virg'nian, all vent to California. Fever and
whisky and night brawis kill. their Thousands.
out what OF that? Thousands more crowded IN
San Francisco was built in q night Gambling
saoies, aud whisky dOggerles, and stores. and
| AZ last Churches and Custom Houses came and
by the aid OF the gallows, the Church and ,he
| Vigilance Committee, The Golden CITY became
civilized. The Golden State came into the
oh,on, ana golden piles of eagles and Wash
| ihgt0ns, coined after the latest fashion. were
phed up IN Wall street and Chestnut street.
and in the shops Of the money changers. We
reckon that, up to this time, California has pro.
duced fire hundred millions of dtliars! LISA
great, q mighty sum. 1t would have fought all
the o tiles OF Alexander and Caesar, and thrown
the nc es OF C.9sus into insignifcance. This
| It SO much for California in twelve wears onIv
But, in only some five years or since. anotbe,
cry came-"morc gold-more nussets-tor-
tunes IN an hour.-come on, all ye souls thirsty
tor god!" Aud they did come. The barran
Wiz, and dreary Australia, where the usliest OF
all negroes dwell, and the worst of all scosn-
drels are exiled to-tbis great desolation was
ntted up III an hour, or day. The ocean was
covered with its vessels bearing their tens q,
thousands to that distant and dreary coast But |
the gold was there, and we reckon now that the |
olggers have got out for the use of the world. |
abou. three hundred millions more of our cyr |
rency-soiii, substantial gold
About the same space of time has passed |
and We hear another cry-"Gold. cold gold I
all Tor Ffazet's River; all ye souls thirsty for
gold. come oDl"
The world is no longer skeptical-an are
rushing tor the new gold hills In one week,
San Francisco sends twenty ships, with as many /
thousands of her miners! After making and
exhausting fortunes, their dream is AGAIN re-
Sved. The fever rises fast-,hirst, the thrs,
OF gold. parehes their souls; and we thrs to
hear the cry OF the Human.
We cheer the pale 9oid-dggers-
Each soul is worth much on Change,
And marked, like sheep, with figures"
But, We may not moralize. Whether gold be
. curse or not, we are likely to have enough o.
It, and the great stream Of the world will roll
on toward the golden shores, wherever they
may be. As We said before, California and
Australia have given US, in some dozen years,
eight hundred millions Of gold dollars! And
Their fountains have not ceased, and are not
likely to, till the intrinsic value Of currency is
changed, and the world will no longer cry ;
''more gold" Even now California. il Mt the
height OF her production, and Australia conin-
les to pour forth her abundant supplies. Let
u look at this matter seriously, and ask the one
question, is this supply of gold to !
continue? Ii SO, what is to be The Eject on the
v ord? Our owu conviction is, tina, net only ;
$ this great supply Of gold to continue, but il !
5 to be greatly increased. This conviction is
ounded ON the fact that very large portion of
lie earth IS actually gold producing. just as a '
arge portion IS tine producing; that the largest |
part OF these gold Tracts has till .utly been
lnexplored, and large part remains , ct 10 be I
Explores; and also, that till recently the world
vas not i'll a condition to explore or niue the q
yold tracts properly. Look ut the facts The
spanish settlements of California re on or b
rear the coast. They d d not explore the 9
aud had not the means Vi crushing b
ocks. And SO OF Australia. What was known a
II Australia till The British made it penal &
colony! And then till a few travellers began to
penetrate the interior; and what do they know
II throw? Very little. And where is Fraser's 8
river? This river enters the Gnlf OF Georgia.
Which separates Vancouvets Island from the !
naia land. But, whence does it come, and why Il
oes it bear gold? Fraser's River rises in that
asst immense chain OF mountains which, COM Il
nuOin nm tha Ar.f liz, G..u tt,o
ickenzie's river, runs through the entire con Il
ineDts OF America, till it terminates near Cape
Torn. In some places it Is split, or settled into
hversent CHAINS, under different names, but is Il
verywhere clearly disting unstable as the great d
ackb0ne OF the American Continent On the r,
lor,h. we hear OF il as the Rocky Mountains
q California as the Sierra Nevada in Mexico a
s the Corderas; in Peru and Chill as the
Indes Going back now to our early discoveries. al
nd coming down 10 the present, we find that
old was found in immense quantities in Peru
nd Chit; that it was found in Mexico that its al
bundance in California has astonshed the
'orld; and that now it 10 announced as won
erluily plenty on Fraser's River. There is, fe
therefore,, nil probability not only that IL z
bounds there, but throughout this whole vast b
ange Of mountains. All analogy is in favor o. q
ach a superstition. Is there net room, then, "
D believe that more remains 10 be discovered RI
nan mas oeeu oiScoSeTeu. why not De found =
n Mckenzies Riverg throughout the vas, Pa RI
'c coast of British and Russian America u
I ny not re open the old regions OF Mexico and
cru. Those countries have never been thor
uehly examined, and never will be till the
,tivc, ambitious, and never-satis6ed Anglo
n,ercan goes to work on them, in has own Al
APP dash, irresistible style. Who IN say how lu
uch Of gold imbedded in rocks, to be hereafter to
roken by steam machinery, lies in that long N
ld almost upbroken range of mountains be- b,
veen the Arctcs and Cape Horn? Or. who b
lall say how much gold lies hid in that great SC
gon known as Australia pl
Passing these by, do we not know that Africa &C
as, in ancient times. the great depository Of C.
,lds In modern times, the portuguese found CO
Did enough at Quillimene, and along the coasts A
that river, but their miserable policy and in Ct
tness have left them without men or power in
ere. Including America, the Pacific Islands, re
I'd q large part of Africa, there is reason to Z,
.liese that the largest part of the earth con- Oh
ms gold formations. and that very much Of FRI
ese has not been explored. ga
On such data, we cannot resist the convic. wi
IN that immense supplies OF gold are to be By
'ured upon the world, and that gold is hereaf. &C
to be worth much less in its relation to 9th. nv
products The Golden Era may be the last,
i'd not the early period of the world.-Cincin- of
ii Gazette. cx
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IKE the ENGINEs TO THE TRAcK.-We learn N.
ut on Tuesday afternoon. the engineers ST.