, 1875-04-03


of whom were sufferers from the
grasshopper plague. Their loea-
ton has not yet been definitely
settled, though it will probably be
in the southern part Of the State
Mr.. Martin says the indications are
that fully $4,000 immigrants will
come to California this season
Sacramento Record Union.
Now, while it is palpable that
emigration from the grasshopper
districts of the Western States to
this coast is, in many respects, to
be commended, it is not a little
singular that the immigrants allow
themselves to be cajoled by Cali
fornia spectators to such an aston
ishing degree as to take up with
the arid plains and barren sand
bills of the southern part of that
State, where occur drOuths-for
example those of 1868 and 1860
to which the evil they are seeking
to avoid bears no Comparison. But
then it is easily enough accounted
for. The immigrant shapes his
course by publications that meet
him at every turn, issued BY par
ties who have sage-brush lots and
lands for sale, who own, edit and
publish newspapers in Southern
California, which intrinsically as
newspapers do not pay, but as ad-
vertisements yield heavy returns
BY bringing the unwAry immigant
within the msshes of their scheme.
The country east Of the Rockies
is flooded with these productions,
and their connections through tel
egraphic agencies and the press
are so complete that every day
the world Is treated to disguised
doses Of advertisements as news,
or in the shape of incidents. This
explains the rush oftraver thither,
to the neglect ofplaces better adap-
ted for settlement. II that $4,000
we're sufficiently enlightened to
turn their attention to Puget
Sound, they would roalize from
the day they took their claims and
erected their dwellings an inde-
pendenee to which they must in
evitably remain strangers so long
as they exist in that country of
drouths. Settlers in this region
are eminently blessed, for not only
is i we'll watered and wooded
neither Of which are extant there
but nature, in her exuberance,
overhows with sustenancs for man
and beast, in the glades Of the sv-
ergreen forest, the fertile soil, the
prolific water courses. and the un-
equaled archipelago, whose depths
are swarming with the 6nny tribes
and whose shores unquali6edly
abound in unsurpassed varieties
Of shell-6sh. Some families who
have been 50 indiscreet as to
have left good homes in this Terri
tory and gone to Southern Califor-
MIA, write back to local papers and
friends, @lf We were only once
more in Washington Territory
We would know enough to stay
there" And . gentleman, long q
resident Of this town,now in Santa
Barbara, writing to his friends
here, says, This country is terri
bly, ovsrrated." And, again, the
WallaWalIa Union ofths 27th says:
g We were yesterday shown . let
ter received BY . gentleman in
this city from . friend in Los An
| geles. From the tone Of the let
ter one would imagine that the
Washingtonians who have taken up
their abode in that vicinity are
thoroughly disguised with the
'salubrious' climate and sbalmy'
atmosphere. They have had
enough Of italian winters to do
them for awhile, and would like to
find . way in which to get back to
= country where they do not live
in dread of drouth, and have 70
pay 800 per acre for such land as
they can have here just for set
tling on it. The brackish waters
of Los Angeles have also soured
on them,' and they would like to
come back here for a good drink
Of pure water, and to a place
where poor man can make a hv-
ing without becoming . serf to
some nabo5.n = sA