Daily national Democrat., 1861-09-20
Our State. although in its infancy. boasts

| many, very many, hourlshlng manufactures
of different kinds, in successful operation
! But our wooden manufactures, although pro-
ducng the finest wooden fabrics | have ever
heheld are clearly insufficient to answer all
our wants. This fact is exemplited 10y simp
ly observing he fact that we yearly export
immense quantities of wool, and also import
each year large quantities of wooden goods
This shows want of proper enterprise in
that direction. Our farmers are able to com
pete 18th the world in wool raising, for our
| valleys and mountnn sides furnish an I'M
limited field of pasturage for sheep at no cost
to the owner except proper attention to keep
them from being lost But the competition
is all at too great disadvantage when we
have to ship our wool thousands of miles to
find "a market. Of our other manufacturing
interests can say nothing, for want of relia-
bic information.
Stock raising has ever been (until very
latey) one of the most lucrative branches OF
business wi hin this State. Our laws have
ever been very favorable to that branch of
business, requiring the cultivators Of the soil
to inclose their lands with good and suhstan-
tial fences, or otherwise submit to the depre-
daions of stock without any legal redress
This system of legislation had the effect to
make all the lands in the State not thus en-
closed. free commons Therefore, men with
but a limited amount of capital could engage
in stock raising, making use of none other
than our States free forage for the subsist-
of their herds. This system of doing bust
ness was very happily illustrated by an old
resident of this State, who, in conversation
with me one day, told me that when he came
here he brought with him considerable mon
ev and some cattle--that when ne arrived
here he expended his money in the purchase
of u large stock ranch, which was unim-
proved He soon found that his land was
roamed over and grazed upon as much 10y
the cattle of Others as by his own, despite all
his efforts to the contrary. He then contem-
plated fencing his land, but upon calculating
the cost he found that it would be as much
as all his cattle wonld bring. so" said he,
II found purchaser for my land sold it to
him, and then purchased more cattle with
the money thus obtained, and left my cat
! tie to roam wherever they pleased aud my
whole band continued, despite my purchasers
efforts, to roam as much upon this very land
as they did whilst owned it" The liberality
of this system encouraged SO many people to
engage in it that for some years past it has
ceased to be a very lucrative business. The
enterprise of people in stock raising end
breeding, presume is unsurpassed in any
stock anywhere obtainable have been and
still are, almost regardless of expense, pur
chased and imported here, until already our
stock of cattle horses, sheep, mules, hogs,
etc compare favoraLly with that of any
other State in the Union.
OF our mechanical interests | cannot lie
expected to say much, as my mechanical ge-
MUS hae never developed itself in the slightest
! H4lt puu n dem f
ment here is display ed such a seemingly end-
less variety Of curious inventions calculated
to supercede human muscle, that am lost in
contemplation while viewing them, ana AIN
sometimes 20 entirely lost whilst ing
them, and am sometimes so entirely lost to
understand for " hat many OF them are co n
structed as to he led almost TO believe that
they are some internal machines | would
from this exhibition. certainly be led to the
conclusion that mechanism had exhausted, if
it had not overstepped itself, were it not for
the fact that in the farmers fields, as in al
most all other branches af ourpeople's indus
try, have noticed that they make use of
many foreign manufactured implements and
machines. This seems strange to me when
feel So certain that our land is filled with
plcntude Of the material and genius ucces sa-
ry to their construction, and our mountdn
{
manufacturing purposes which are unim
proved. | trust the spirit Of our people will
rise equal to the demand, and soon supply all
these departments with necessary machinery
of home mnuufacture.
The display here Of agricultural and horti-
cultural products, completely defies any at
tempt upon my part to describe them rem
der them their Just praise can neither ad-
wise nor imagine wherein any advancements
in either of these departments can he made
Relative to this matter, had hoped 10 ex-
hihit some degree of talent, for | was reared
farmers boy, and profess now to under
stand the art of blowing. hoeing, moving,
etc. | also in early life spent much time in
horticultural labor, but all | then saw and
learned is far toe meager for me to attempt to
attempt to teach Cali4ornia's farmers or gar
deners anything in their professions. My
conclusions are and my advice TO you is to go
ahead, and if You are eXcelled by any per-
sons in the word it viii certainly be by YOU
selves.
AS | behold all these bounteous gifts of
Nature and Of Art with which We are sur
rounded, and compare our States present
position with that of many of our sister
States, my heart swells with praise to that
Divine Providence which thus permits US to
]
amongst our kindred, and almost within our
hearing civil war unveils all its ightiest
horrors and alarms There. instead Of the
pluwman's merry whistle and the lowing Of
the peaceful herds, each breeze swells with
! the widows moan, the orphans wall, the
neigh Of the war horse and the bugle's shrll
blast to arms The war god, Mars rules the
hour; bis iron tread marks the farmers field
with desolation and his cottage hearth with
bood. Millions cause the earth to tremble
beneath their tread, as fired with hate and
armed with sure destruction they rush to
battle. migrate must be that heart that fails
to return Just praise to that God which saves
this land in which he lives from such dread
Disaster With pleasure turn from that sick
ening field of contemplation to eok again at
our bleet land, to view our Stnte in the alb
stract, nod note its beauty and richness.
California presents one of the most beNti-
full and varied landscapes in the world
Standing upon the dome OF this building in
which we are now met, a spectator to-day
could have Leheld a scene unsurpassed
in loveliness and grandeur He would
have found himself standing in the midst of
proud city, the Capital of a still pronder
State. whose fine streets and public buildings
ohullpnge admiration, filled with fine resi-
denees and beautiful cottages almost hid from
the view Of the passer-by by the clamOerng
vines and roses that embrwer them-eGch
yard surrounding them densely wooded with
choice shade and fruit trees, in all Of which
the grape and fig is purpling, the luscious
peach blushing, and the mellow pear and
I Il.,Y