Year: 1862

THE DAWN OF DAY.


As no reporters were admitted into the rooms
of our Legislative delegation on Thursday even
ing, we were not apprissd until yesterday morn
ing Of the very definite action that was then
taken by the delegation on the city land title
bills And our reporter spoke upon misinforma-
ton, we are most happy to state, when he said
that there Wa no fiual conclusion arrived at by
the members from this city.


The San Francisco Legislators determined in
council assembled to indefinitely postpone the
consideration of all the land title bills referred
to them. After listening to the remarkably
lucid and convincing remarks of S. A. Hollsdsy
and VIM. J. Shaw, the delegation voted uuhesi-
tatingly in the manner we have recorded. Their
conduct in this particular evidences the best
wisdom on their part, their proper and perfect
independence and good faith And involved in
this actiOn-ss quite q subordinate matter-is
the proof of the insuficiency Of the yellings OF
the subsidized Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart)
journals to sgeTve or affect the course of honest
representatives from the path Of rectitude and
honor in official stations. None Of these things
viii be forgotten.


And row may we not itly congratulate
ourselves and the community at large upon the
Frightening prospect What exceeding great
comfort a day has brought forth And how
sure the tokens for increasing light and liberal
and he lthy life. The dark clouds Of lmcer-
tsinty and dependency which the executive
committee and their organs have raised over
this people have been pierced; they are parting
and dissOlving in innumerable places, and soon
We know we shall feel the uninterrupted and
genial rays Of the sun of truth aud peace The
gloom and feverish unrest that prevailed but
yesterday are largely removed; cheer and holy
satisfaction and quiet are already made manifest
on every hand.


It is not time to relax in vigilance The labor
9f disenthraling and Tedeeming the city from
the yoke of bondage and shame which an organ
ized gang Of despsradoes have thrown about
our necks, is only begun.


But It is even now time to be proud in posi-
tive realization of success in the name and cause
Of right, as well as glad in glorious hope.


THE RUSH TO SALMON RIVER.


The desire to rush madly toward the new min
ing regions of Salmon river is somewhat abating,
the latest accounts rom that region rendering it
perfectly plain that there is no possibility OF
reaching those lands Of unlimited treasure and
immoderate expectations before the setting in of
May OF Juue-by which time. if they are dill
gent, the great majority of our population viii
have fully repaired the DAMAGES they may have
suffered during the past season and be en- the
high road to a prosperity more permanent than
anything that can possibly come ofSalnon river
or the Nez Perces mines.


We do not object that the unemployed. or the
shiftless should seek those distant wilds 70 i'm
prove their fortunes. These ore they. who hay
ing 90 particular pursuits b. reclaim their aten-
ton if mining fails them, viii struggle until
they have WTested a livelihood from the soil or
Perished in the attempt But he who has q mod
erately paying business OF q farm, OF d vineyard
OF ranch that is Just doing well, may rest assUr-
ed that he viii DO far better and accomplish
more by husbsnding that which he has, than by
selling out at sacrifice to add q unit % the in
Vulnerable crowd who fOck TO al new mining
grounds the first report of a rich painful being
discovered, regardless how limited may be the
gold producing surface which they seek.


An intelligent correspondent Of the Portland
Times says that the present mines are comprised
within an area Of about four niles square, con
ssting of from fifteen to twenty gulches and
creeks, regarding the yield of which there is
great want Of confidence on the parts Of differ
ent writers, some of them alleging that fabulous
amounts are taken ont with the smallest proper.
ton of labor while others assert that average
will not come up to that in the California mines
The proof of the pudding is in the eating-the
proof Of the mines is IN their yield, and we shall
be ready to put faith in the tremendous stories
told of these diggiugs J5heR IRE see the gold dust
arTt0tRg, and net a momant before.