Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-02

Il
oughly American men we ever knew, and, by
his scientific and literary labors, is doing far
more than any other one mans share in the
rapid development of the resources of the re-
eion Of bis adoption. That he is all We write of
him, will be easily comprehended from the so
interesting letter from his pen, to which we
invite the attention Of the Stars readers:
MONTEREY, Nov. ~ 1857
Editor of the Washington Star:
Since the last mail, there has been much ex-
citeInent about the Cent al America shipwreck
aud the Normons, and everything now Is made
to hinge on the Pacific Railroad. The Gadsden
purchase is attracting more attention from its
minerals. One hundred and fifty years ago the
Jesuits told the same story, as you will see in the
extract enclosed from tho Globe. DR.. Butler, Who
lived in sonora and the Gadsden purchase, tells
me that one-tenth of the truth is not told, and
that when the railroad is made II will be richer
than California Indeed, all accounts 90 TO prove
that there is no end 10 gold, copper aud silver
mines and all easily within reach OF navigation
by laying down short rail or plank roads, fl ON -
to l56 miles. DR.. b tells me the Company have
shipping points of the North Gulf of California,
at S5UO a ton. There Is also, he says, a large
amount of agricultural lands but, he says, the
population there, as yet is the usual rough from
tier one, and that a large portion of the cnltvdta-
BILE land is Government land. 1 suppose all these
facts well known to you. at any rate, the
subject is attracting great attention here.
This Mormon business though makes our peo-
pie anxious. The communication may be even
affected through the GadSdrn purchase by them
Great expectations have been raised in the pub
lie mind of our state by tue safe arrival OF Lieut
Beae and the camels. at Los Angeles, In prime
order | think that If the Government could
make some two or. three year old contl acts TO
carry military stores and mails by camels--the
company TO start with Il stock of 5OU cameis--
emncntly beneficial results would flow from
il. CdInels travel safely in snow aud cold in
Siberia ard Chinese TaItaTy and the countries
thereaway They would answer for the whole
Rocky Mountain country The nearest ports they
could he brought from To California are the PEI
sian Gulf ~, GOO miles from san Francisco. |
don - think they can be got in sufficient numbers
from Shan2hae OF North China. but yOu can find
this ont from the L. =. Consuls, or probably Rus
SLAMS in Washington This camel bushes bears
very important political aspect 10 orr people
just at this contingency OF public events. III the
State had now $40 camrls, they could put through
military stores to tue Salt Lake i'm fifteen days
from California. The Russians have sometimes
had 1000 camrls in campaign and so have the
English They would he invaluable in keeping
the peace of the Indian territories, and i'm com
meTcial transactions with Sonora and the Gad<-
den purchase Probably the cheapest way would
be for spectators to bring them from the Allan
tic coast of Morocco Cat NOgadore,) which is
1000 miles from the mouth of the Rio Grande.
Camels are very cheap in Morocco. Indeed,
think the Government could get50O younS female
caInelS delivered at Matamoras al Sun head,
and probably when the trade was opened, specu-
lators would bring over yearly shipments They
never ought to be kept on the Atlantic or Gulf
coast over ten days, but walked right over 10 the
neghborhood of San Antonio, where the country
begins to be dry. California, New Mexico, West
Texas and Sonora, are the very countries for the
camel, being like Syria aud Egypt, where have
seen plenty of them. With water every four days,
nvoyage in the tropics, camels can be brought
over TO Texas very easy. They fare well in any
country where il is not sloppy or swarnpy. Cam
els ought to be brough in propelers, as the track
Morocco thrOuph
$50 called by sailOrs,) where Gains prevail.
SO far our people have felt very little OF the
commercial Revision of the East but we cannot
tell how things will 60 in the future. Our peO-
pie, 1t is certain. cannot be much more ruined
than we are now, after a three years drought.
Things have nearly got to the bottom; and II our
land titles were settled, and cheap communica
ton opened with the Atlantic things would
jump right up. The rage with u.s. in the South,
is wine and sheep in the North, cattle, butter,
and cheese; in the Sierra Nevada, gold. We are
also slowly progressing with our fsleries-and
more IN salmon whale, mackercl, and herring,
than at any other time. And they begin to pay
permanently In the first week OF October, 5000
barrels OF mackerel could have been taken within
500 yards of Monterey beach. Our fishermen,
though, had no nets nor schooners; but they
made good deal of money with their boats
They are now working very valuable quick
silver mine in Monterey county, about 50 miles
south OF San JUAN which, / am told, is fully as
rich as that of the New Almaden of Forbes, and
exists in greater quantity
II going to do with the railroad and the Nor
mons; also, about our land titles, to completely
quiet them. There Is one thing about the Gads-
den purchase, that, il seems to me, ought to be
attended to; and that Is, minerals ought to be
denouncable after the old Spanish and present
Mexic fashion, only as long they are work
ed IL Will be highly necessary that this is done,
or claiming to work silver minerals on lGO acres,
etc would breed hosts of quarrels and law suits.
The expedition of Lieut.. Ives up the Colorado
Is now at Fort Yuma, and great interest is felt by
southern m AZ dee m
Germs us. There is said TO be great deal of good
country on the MOhave and Colorado, and In the
country between tue Mohave aud the ella. There
Is stated, by hunters and surveyors, to be noun
tains Of copper, sulphur, lead, gold and silver
in the East-Mohave mountains
The UTAH MAIL.-General orders have been
issued by the War Department that, arrange
ments having been made by the Post Office De-
partment to establish, Immediately, a weekly
mail from Leavenworth City as far as Fort
Kearney, the mail between that point and Fort
Laramie will be transmitted by the Command
ing Officer of Fort Kearney; and between Fort
Laramie and the nearest station of the troops
in Utah by the Commanding Officer of Fort
Laramie.
As nearly as possible these mails will be
semi monthly, on the first and fifteenth of each
month.
At each post an exact account will be kept of
the number Of letters, documents, &c, received
and sent, with the date of their receipt and
transmission.
The letters, documents, &c, to be sent in the
mail will be made into convenient packages,
enclosed in stout wrappers, and sealed The
several packages in each mail will he num-
bered, and the number Of letters, &c, in each.
written upon it. With the mail, letter will
be sent to the Commanding Officer of the next
station, giving him list of the package. sent,
with the number of enclosures in each
The receipt Of the mail will be acknowi-
edged, and any deficiencies in it noted, by
return mail.
The Commanding Officer of Fort Kearnoy
will put the mail for Fort Laramie, and the
posts beyond, in separate packages. and if on