Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-30
What Comes Next ,

newspaper men ma themselves buried up In
heaps Of old exchanges filed with nothing
but matters pertaining to telegraph celebra-
tions, threadbare railroad and wagon road
schemes, mail routes, DC, and consequently
find it difficult to get up interesting papers.
AT least, such we find to be our predicament
to-day, The steamer is now over due. and
may be freighted with still more joyous news
than that brought by the last one-and over
which California has teen rejoicing so Justify
such as a railroad to the moon, a telegraph
line capable of carrying letters and packages
with the same rnpidity that they now convey
thoughts, the conversion of Mount Vesuvius,
by some Yankee, into a wholesale bake-oven,
or, what would be vastly more astonishing
and less to be expected, the determination OF
the Administration to recognize the great
Democratic principle Unpopular sovereignty
/ by admitting Kansas into the Union at the
next session Of Congress with Constitution
framed and adopted by a majority of the
people who are to live under and abide by
its provisions Such an improbability as the
last mentioned is almost beyond the pale of
hope, yet strange things are every day trans
piring, and We are prepared for almost any
wonder Unless the steamer now due and
every one arriving hereafter, does bring the
news of some great achievement, either in
science, art or war, the people will not be
satisfied, and will soon learn to consider the
Steamship Company Of but little consequence,
except to rob the honest immigrants-who
seek our shores to find homes for their fam-
lies, where the labor of their hands is re-
warded, and where true happiness is vouch
safed to all who strive for and deserve it--by
keeping the prices of passage up to an out
rageous standard. To those going on visit
to the old States, the small pittance of one or
two hundred dollars, out of which they are
fleeced in the price of passage, is not so much
felt as 1t is by those coming this way. Cali
forna experience teaches the formor to place
a very small value on money, and they gen.
orally have plenty of it; while with the lat
ter, a dollar bears a very strong resemblance
to broad-tread wagon wheel, and, as gen
eral thing, they are not necessarily compelled
to employ assistance in getting their cash
on board the steamers at New York. Cali
fornians do not so much desire increased
travelling facilities between the borders Of
, their own State and those on the Atlantic
side of the continent, on their own account as
they do on that of their friends in the East.
We of California, as a general thing-enjoy-
ing more advantages than the inhabitants of
any other State or nation-are not dying to
get back to the region of country in which
the iron heel of money pressed 50 heavily
upon our necks in times gone by; but we
are anxious that as many of those we left be-
hind as possible shall be allowed to enjoy the
blessings so lavishly bestowed upon us in
this favored State, where LABOR, not gold is
King.
Our greatest immediate necessity, there
fore, is another permanent line Of steamers
between New York and San Francisco, and
we rejoice that the prospects are good for
such line just now. Bnt until we see it in
operation, and under the control of an entire
ly different class of men from those purchase.
able money grabbers who have heretofore
conducted opposition lines, We shall cou6ne
our rejoicings to very narrow bounds. We
readers when the first steamer Of the oppos.-
tion line arrived at San Francisco, neither do
we cease to remember what very small
sized gimblet hole we felt like crawling into
a short time thereafter, when the pro.
prietors of said line published sickening
card, stating that such of their passengers as
held tickets could take passage on the mail
lines steamer, or have their money refunded
at the companys office. With these recolec
tions fresh in our mind, we do not intend to
be again placed in such an unenviabe posi-
tion by making a similar blunder. When
we see new line of steamers running, and
carrying passengers at fair price, and the
proprietors give us good reason for believing
them honest and sincere in their professions
and intentions-in short, when we become,
to use local and beautiful expression, thor
oughly convinced that there is no "shenani-
gan" going on-then, and not till then, will
we believe we are to have permanent op-
position to the odious monopoly which is
now practicing a stupendous system of ex-
tortion upon all classes whose business or
pleasure leads them to journey to or from
California. Between a mushroom line, star.
ted only for the purpose of being bought off,
and the present monster monopoly, we would
choose the latter, as the largest of two evils.
But, as our good old friend, Col. Rust would
say, eve have already exceeded the space
intended for this article and must defer fur.
ther comment for another occasion"