The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-17
Letter from California.

CREssEY STATION, Merced Co. Cs,.f
Dec. . 1875.
III. A. MCPIKE-D Dear Sir. Inst .s expectad
the convention threw you overheard / have
known you as a Democrat since 1852 when YOU
com m enced your iabors M the .Johnstown Echo
and formerly believe that your abors for the
party 10 those twenty-three years was worth
and night, the party would often have been
1rithout an orgptt and YOU have succeeded To-
keep one running during the greater part of
that time and on more econ omical basis tha
any one else could have done. Itwas meet and
cd the Office you snugh., but while hoped, I
doubted, and my doubts, l regret To say, hav e
oeel rcaiized. hope, however, that Providence
may lead you on the road to prosperity and
that you may in California hang nuge, yet strike
Inc election went, to some extent. against
my productions; but firmly believe that Penn
there could h" an hon. - was, Dem nocTatic. II
fhiiadelphia should be stricken from the State,
There is abundant evidence of fraud. for Gyures
cannot ne and the population does not justi-
The RepnbIicans are at present triumphant.
ana should not care for that, if the party would
10 my opinion, as expressed before the election.
tiat resumption is impossible and all the in
telfigent Republicans know that it is imposs-
pie Ihey made the issue with malice afore-
! ihonght, never intending 10 fuIfil their prom
ises but merely to h0odirink the people. They
stole the livery of heaven the Democratic
hard money doctrine) to serve the devil In
As As long as we pay one hundred and three MIL
lions dollars u interest annually IN COIN uIiile
the total proceeds nf the mines arr only seuemfp-
ttree millions, it is i'm possible to resume specie
PAYNE do not look for resum ption du ring
of getting out Of the debt owing to Europe:
]. BY Reputation.
.. BY Conquest.
3. BY Convertible Paper
The first way is morally and politically wrong.
The second way. to ,oit making money by the
conquest of Cuoa or Mexico, is putting in a
The third way might succeed if our citizens
had two billions dollars in gold and silver with
which to purchase the new bonds and redeem
m hrIff he gold Hcf-
yer Is wanting Consequently things must re-
main in stdtu q,to. We have already paid, in in
tercst since the close of the war. fO,oteen hum
dred millions OF dollars, all a dead loss; and The
drain still continues We will pay twice that
interest before the foreign debt is extingushed
"a poor time to commence another warl
CALIFORNIA.
B'it must say something about pros
poets out here. We have had a month of rain.
1t rained during all of November, and it still
be the greatest year for crops and fruit that
TINS State has seem or will see for many a day.
Il few go nj spring showers the crops will he ex-
cclient. We had flood in Ncvember that far
river rose thirty feet from low water mark
and fiooded the comn' ry. There have been heavr
faliIs and Hoods all over the State. Many she eD
ara cattle were drowned. l know one man
VINO lost 1000 sheep, and another that lost 4fO.
| consequently lost. RE weather is now warm
ana beautiful. like August In your State after
up in abundance ard our folks are blowing.
1hey sowed loo acres of rye and they are now
.it the wheat. Tie land they are now prbwing
is one mile and a half long and eighty rods wide
equal to 24O acres. There are six such lands
yet to plow.
The Legislature meets this ynar. 1T meets
to-day. Ii meet every other year. This body
may do something To mend the hard times. hut
HOOK Tor the stringency To continue for some
time yet, IL not for some years. The tiphtnes.
oil the money market makes the sale of wheat,
wool. wine and fruit dull. but wheat will event
uaily rise in price. England must have bread
stuiis and our canals end lakes, and the Baltic
sea in Europe, will soon close, lea wing the ONLY
outlet to be California. This will enhance the
price, temporarily.
/ should like very much to return to the
States. but 1T costs two much Besides. [ have
an ofhce now aud cannot go. / was unanimous-
" elected Justice of the Peace for Town ship
NO A. Merced county, by majority of two
votes III only knew who cast those votes I
should introduce them to some PENNSYLVANIA
calfskin, and send them higher nora kite. But
am 10 get the laws Of California to peruse for
two years. which / wish to remark is some CON
solat1on- Hoping to hear of a sudden rise in
youI financial thermometer, remain,
Truly yours, ROB Roy