The Placer herald., 1858-07-10
From an Occasional Correspondent.
SAN FRANCIsCo, July 6, 1858

Editor Herald:-The anniversary of our
national independence has come and gone
the noisy squbs and crackers of patriotic
Young America have subsidized into silence
dullness has resumed its reign in San Fran
cisco, and aching heads and real pain, are
all that remain to testify to the spiritually in
cined, that the 4th was not all dream
And yet it was considerable of sham, our
City Fathers to their shame be it said "Carv-
ed not bone, raised not dime" In honor
of the day, "But left it alone in its glory"
The Old Guard fired the usual salute, and
the Monumental Engine Company spread
collation. in the engine house, to which the
Maryland boys did ample justice, and there
after followed sundry speeches and patriotic
sentiments. Sundry individuals celebrated
on their own hook, but the City Fathers,
like Frazer river, did not show the color; and
like it all men pronounce them bumbug.
Your county, learn has been sadly de-
pleted by the Northern exodus. think this
folly has reached its height, and many who
are now here, will bless what they considered
their i'll luck, in not being able to get off.
Nearly 10000 people have left our shores
for this modern Utopia, and now wait not
for the troubling, but for the falling of the
waters; while hard fare, exposure, and fabu-
fous prices for the common necessaries, are
wasting their health and strength and ex-
hausting their means They will come back,
if they ever do come back, like famished
wolves, and if they wreaked their vengeance
upon those who have deceived them, land
some think that the Pacific Mail Steamship
Co. are not as innocent as babies in this mat
tpr,) it would be righteous retaliation upon
the authors of yet untold misery.
We have had exceedingly cold weather,
and there is not blood enough circulating in
our city to keep the body polite warm. The
harvest is pretty much over-Alamda has
cut its barley, and there will be no lack of
malt liquor if the brewers get hold Of it, A
plentiful crop of smut has rewarded the
labors Of the husbandmen in the upper val
ley of the Sacramento; but Napa, beautiful
Napa, reigns in her golden fields, where
whea: from $4,000 acres, averages from 25
to 80 bushels to the acre. Come back, We
gold hunters. and cultivate the soil, it will
yield more than the twelve feet square { just
big enough for burial lot,) given you bv
the British Fur Company, at the bottom of
Frazer river.
In the way Of politics there is not much
doing. Douglas stock is not quoted on
change, and the Bears have it all their own
way. l noticed in montgomery street the
other day, another man who was a candi-
date for the Presidency. l forget his name,
but it wasn't Fillmore nor Buchanan, but
remember he parted his hair in the middle.
Shall we have a war with England is the
question? | think not-there will be much
ink split, and fine spun negotiations. till the
original issue is forgotten. Louis Napoleon
has nearly half million of soldiers who
grow impatient for action. They are ready
to pounce upon "Perfidious Albion" bu. that
the latter power shrewdIy gets up show of
fight with US, and diverts the Gallic Eagle
to this new scene. while in the mean time,
Europe SINNERS over the fires of revelation,
and something may turn up and develop
a new plan Of operations. But should we
have war, how defenseless is our city. Some
80 men at the Presidio, at Fort Point all
silent is the half finished work-and a forty
gun trigate would have rare sport in sending
hot shot into our wooden city
BY the news from China, you will see
that the Celestials refuse to treat, and the
Four Powers refuse to retreat, so we shall
have more fighting, and more blood of the
Fowry Empire.
We wait anxiously for the news by the
next steamer Of the announcement of the
Vigilance Committee of New Orleans, and
the inception of one at New York The
latter would make glorious scattering of
rasca's VIATOR.