Daily national Democrat., 1861-04-05
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wherein he says, after prasing the fresh and
iuvigorating atmosphere of California that
it is of such crystal clearness that the out
lines of mountains thirty to fifty miles dis
tant are as sharply defined as by the finest
cutting instrument, and every shade of color
Is distinctly visible. What would these skep-
tics think, if informed that certain peaks OF
I the mountain ranges can be seen for two hun
dred miles quite clearly, in all their outlines
As an evidence of exaggerated statement,
one of the journals quotes from the report Of
the State Fair of California, for 1865, in
which were exhibited among other prodigies
a beet weighing 73 pounds carrot weigh
ing 10 pounds, and feet inches in length :;
"A corn stalk measuring 81 feet and inches
in height, and an apple measuring l59 inches
each way. Now, we all know here that
each one Of these prodigies has been exceed
ed in dimensions in this State. The Eu-
ropean and English journals, however, set
these statements down "to that Cyclopean
grandeur Of description in which American
fancy is apt TO indulge
The English papers do not acknowledge
that California is as rich in her gold products
as Australia How far the improvements in
quartz crushing DC. may tend to counteract
the decrease in the available surface deposits
they don't know. Well, the improvements
in quartz crushing, the shaltng, the tunnel
ing and the hydralcug have placed Cnlifor-
MIA 1--WE can tell those papers, far ahead OF
Australia and the business men Of the word
know it.
These journals furthermore say that Cali
fornia is not progressing as has been repre-
scnted.
"Do what she will she cannot attract i'm
migration to her shores, now that the gold
fever has for the present passed away. She
does not afford a field of labor attractive to
the civilized and orderly portion Of mankind.
The first check to her astonishing career was
given in 1851, when the discovery of gold in
Australia carried off at once n considerable
part of her restless mining population. Many
of them no doubt returned, disheartened by
their i'll success in n region where, though
the deposits are some" hat richer than In
California, the labor of extraction is said to
be somcW hat greater; others, as our Annal
lists haze the audaciy TO declare, 'disgusted
with the moral contamination of working be-
side the convicts of Van DiAmen's Land and
New South Wales Still the drain westward
on the whole continued. ana has constituted
ever since n serious drawback California,
AT the close of 1858, contained about 35o,-
GOO inhabitants, of whom about one-hith
were females. In the last three Yeas, ac-
cording to Mr.. Seyd, she has received scarce
ly any addition to her population.' The
stream of emigration seems, for the present,
to have been elfectually diverted across the
Pacific. Seyd's book is written expressly for
the purpose of restoring it to his own state
and in a region where, as he tells us, Many
a maid-oi-all- work, or scullery- maid, re-
ceiVes as high a salary as Judge in Germa
ny many negro gets as much as major
or colonel in the Prussian service; and er-
and boys of ten years of age earn more
than double the pay of an European lieu
tenant of the line, this should seem no such
difficult task nevertheless the fact is other.
wise; even to the toughest class of inmi-
grants there are some general wants beyond
those OF mere nature; and they, too, have
a sense that security, order, and civilization
are not objects of entire Indifference. Social
Improvement has, we believed, begun; but
years must elapse before California redecms
her character from the memories OF stuffed
ballot-boxcs, Vigilance Committees and re-
sdectabe citizens pulling at one end of a
rope which was strangling some wretched
being murdered under the hap-hazard YER
diet Of a Lynch jury"
Now, we in California know well enough
what estimate to put upon English and Eu-
ropean prejudice. We know that the days of
Vigilance Com mittees and lynch law have
passed that emigration is steering annually
to our shores that social improvement is
moving on with a steady step; that security,
order, the protection of life and property,
and The general benefits of civilization exist
and are extending.
Notwithstanding all the efforts of the Eng
lish Gov ernment to bring out the resources
of Australia, that country lags behind Cali
fornia in her gold and her agricultural pro-
ducts.