The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-08-20
InteIlixence frem New Caledonia.


\ lstter from Victoria Vancouvers Is
land, dated July l4th, says that there are
upwards Of 10, 900 persons in that place, I
which but a few weeks previous contained
bat two or three hundred inhabitants
Town lotsfhat We're sold by the Hudson
Bay o.npany six weeks since for $50, and
500, are now selling from $4,000 to $780,
00c. One man who purchased lot two
months since for s., has refused $4,000 for
it,. Building Is going on rapidly, and
there are at present no less than one hun
drcd good frame houses. Lumber is selling
at 800 thousand feet The price does
not deter many from building. The emf
grafton from Australia is estimated ut fifty
thousand at least, but it has not yet set in,
but win have, before any unfayorable intel
ligenee can have checked it. u- - "a
At the last accounts reaction had taken
place; lots were going down al a rapid rate,
and all confidence in the golden resources
of the mines were yieldingt to the disappoint-
ment aud difficulties that surrounded the
adventures. The California papers that
first stimulated the emigration TO .Frasers
: River by these exaggerated and glowing
dest ription of the wealth of the mines, are
now, after seeing the effects Of the move
ment upon their own State, trimming their
sails TO the popular breeze, and decrying il,
as an arrant humbug and cheat got up by the
Hudson Bay Company and the owners of
steamships. \ San Francisco correspondent
of the Cincinnati Times, who tries to ex-
tract the truth from the contradictory re-
ports, says: n -ir-s -
Our newspapers are now exerting all
their influence TO subdue the FIRE they so
rashiy kindled; but are as usual, going as..far
to the extreme in this second effort as in the
first, No~ giving all the dark side, and sup
pressing much that is favorable. The truth,
| find may be summed up as follows: The
new mines are rich beyond the shadow of
doubt, and will pay larger per diem to the
hand than the best river diggings in Cali
forRia, but the trouble is, a mistake has been
made rs To the season for working them,
and hence, as | anticipated, the fever has
died out, and we are at present receiving
all manner Of hard reports, with rumors of
| serious restitution and suffering. 49,.
The worst however, is not yet, and ap-
prellend that before the golden harvest in
New Caledonia really commences, we shall
hear of want and misery Of the most dis
tresSing character.
All this is bad, God knows, but il does
not Indicate a sCintilla OF contradiction rs to
the value Of the new diggings. have seen
and conversed with returned miners, who
were on the ground in the Spring, just prior
TO the thaw, and in every case had the
same story, making up evidence which
would have satisfied the most credulous. |
saw the gold they dug-hsndled it, obtained
specimens of it, and feel assured, from what
then saw and heard, and from general OBJ
servation since, that Fraser and Thompson
rivers and the neighboring country will
prove one of the richest gold bearing terri
tories in the world. Although the excite
ment, as / said, has died away, the interest
in regard 10 the newly discovered mines re-
mains with Californians rs strong as ever,
strong enough, you may depend, to develop
at All carly period their full extent and
wealth.