Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-15
WAsHIWeToN.NEWs AND GOSSIP

SrRAws SHOW WHICH WAY THE WNBHows.
Most of our readers are doubtless aware, not
only that there was to have been great anti
Lscompton meeting in New York city on Friday
night last, bat that 1t turned out to be-take it
all in all-the most notable popular abortion
known to the history of these excited times
The expected thousands dwindled down to hun
dreds, and the Empire city Democrats who were
expected to lend coun tenance to the success OF
the schemes Of the Republican party getters-up
Of the affair, if they really promised to do 50,
quietly skunk away ere they could be seen,
leaving the affair wholly in the hands of the
most ultra persistent and notorious Republican
party politicians of whom New York boasts
But We have not to do, now, with the aforesaid
meeting, further than to say-and We were in
New York at the time-that it simply served to
open the eyes of an to the fact that in the great
commercial capital Of the country, the opposi-
ton to the admission of Kansas into the Union
on the Lecompton constitution can probably
count no supporters outside Of the Republican
party ranks.
The aftercIap of this shocking failure to
draw, however, was decidedly the point Of in
tsrest. Mr.. Frederick p Stanton was the
trumpeted orator for the occasion. The Tri-
6uns was eloquent over his abilities and vir
tues through various columns for days previous
to the advent of the mOmentous occasion, until
ii struck US that the redoubtable Horace had
come to love him, politically, with the ardor Of
an unaedged youth, for his first mistress. This
opinion was borne out to the letter by the
scene that came off in Mr. Stantons parlor, at
the New York hotel, after the mass Of the
mOurners had dispersed. A few hundred Of
the choicest spirits repaired there and formally
paid their respects to the lion no other than
the redOubtabe Horace acting as the ctoperon
the grand marshal-Of the occasion. Horace
Greeley it was, who introduced the guests,
seT'atim, to Mr.. Stanton throughout this fra
termination, So they go Liberte! Egaiite !"
Fraternite -
CALIFORNIA-HER MINERAL RESOURCES
AND HER CAPABILITIES, AND THE NECESSITY
OF KNowISG MORE OF THEN-Below the read
er will find another interesting communities ton
from the pen of the California savan whose pen
has 50 frequently. of late, graced the Star 8
columns. We regard him as being, at this mo
ment, perhaps the most useful man in private
life in the United States; insomuch as he i.
doing most for the elucidation of che so far hid
den resources industraD of our great acquisi-
ton on the Pacific side, which, however yalua-
ble in various ways it may have been to the
various business interests of the rest of the
United States, is destined in due time to be ten
thousand times more valuable; while it must
be, If fairly dealt with by Congress, our Col
conda for centuries its agricultural resources
will make it in due time our Italy-the garden
spot of the American Union-the territory Dos
sessing the delightful climate Of Texas, with
the fecundIty of tina dalta af thA Missiasinn;
perior region, abounding with q concentration
OF all the industrial blessing that benign
Providence ever provided for the most favored
people.
We have not yet fairly commenced to know
the value of California to the rest of the Union.
The Star has steadily endeavored to do it's share
in the work Of making her value known and
with the future assistance of the eloquent and
ready pen of the writer of the communication
that Will be found below, we hope to be able to
DO much more in time to that praiseworthy
end:
The GEOLOGY AND MISERALoGY OF CAI1roR-
MA AND THE PACIFIC DOMAIN Probably there
Is no part Of the earth's surface SO rich in miner
aioglcai development as is that of Pacific ter
rHofy. In no part of the world can there he found
crowded together such excellent varieties and
quditles or marble, granite and other building
nAleIias as IN the State Of California. The
abundance OF infusorial, moluscous and verte-
Dfate JeSrtlIeTT2 Is so great that in every town.
snip OF the State they met with and wondered
.. Dy others than scientific qudnuncs. In the
counties OF Monterey and San Luis Obispo whole
ranges OF mountains exist of fossil oysters (some
OF them over two feet long, and an endless variety
OF the marine mOlusca, in the most beautiful
state OF preservation. The vertebrate fossil, are
also slnynIaTly abundant in these two counties
ana SOLID and liquid asphaltum, burr mill stones
ri 10 it, A.. n.
tude OF places " 'i'i-
seems to us great opportunity is presented
10 our Government to collect reliable infotmation
OF the supe fetal geology and miDeraIo1v OF tSs
fsclnc domain through the employees OF The nj
ted Srates Surveyor Generals ofices in Califor
MIA, washington and Oregon There are no,,
employed some fifty deputy surveyors from pm
gets sound to san Diego, whose IaI,ors carry
rom the ocean to the eastern foot of the Sierr.
Nevada Everywhere valuable minerals ar
minerals and building materials abound N.vv
~ seeno 10 u.s. the Government could ma ke use OF
tu@e genus 10 collect information and Specimens
Tor cabinet at Washing ton TO pronerfy info,,,
tne sclentlnc officers, civil and military as we'll
as Tor public Use. By Offering small premiuns
Tor the best collections in the rougb moi In sxaa
pound In weight, to be Transmitted To Nasb-
lh2'9n through the surveyor Generals office AZ
san Francisco, in or two the nubIic yy,oniJ
nave cabinet OF minerals building stones xnh
minerals, (as oorax, soda salt etc = fossil. and
formations OF the greatest practical
day use. Zach OF the officers ought to be paid
sInau sum for such extra labor and trouble and
they ought to be instructed by the Smithsonian |
Institute how to do u inteIligently and cheaply
yet efhcientiy. The necessity of this Pacific cab
met becomes every day more appa rent because
the value Of this depOpulated domain is the very
sheet anchor OF the stability, wealth, renown
and progress OF the United States as an united
Tepublic.
The cash value Of this wonderful domain we /
hkeh 70 the hgures OF nine hundred and ninety
nine thousand millions Of ounces OF gold This
may seem 10 SAVIOR Of Aladin's valuation of es-
ssrneo things, YET the present value Is not drop
Al tne que krt 10 Tue future value oft. For with
this old lamp found by the C,,Iiforpia ii.din
lust Ten YEARS ago, d ter he had hawked with his |
ant sAo"ins P-ddier' 5 basket through thenaaions
VI ths sanh We may only rub a little of the
snihl OF once year, and presto will spring into |
HIe i've hundred more shinplaster banks Der an |
hah with sPeculafors aud schemers who will |
put through a railroad from Texas to CaIiforni.
In twelve months. This, IL seems &, The s,r.nd |
use OF the ave hundred millions Of C.liSa.ni |