Year: 1870




The Democracy are jubant oyer the result of
the two last elections in this State. 1t is eE-
ultingly proclaimed by their spOkesmen that the
reign of Republeanism is over, and that the
spois will hereafter be gobbled np by the faith
ful and consistent opponents of each and every
attempt to preserve the union and put down the
rebellion. Stranger things have happened than
that the present party in power in California
should suffer inglorous defeat. II is within the
recollection of nearly all that in 1860 the Repab-
lcans had barely plurality and the Democratic
vote was over sixty thousand. Time reduced
this to forty-three thousand and gave Republi-
cans an overwhelming proponderance. After
wards circumstances induced an extraordinary


influx Of Democratic voters ana the tables were
turned. The Legislative proceedings this win
ter show that the Democracy assume that they
have perpetual lease of power Are they cor
rect? Old Roger De Coverly, when hard pressed
to decide some kuotty point in dispute between
friends, shrewdly replied that there was great
deal to be said on both sides 1t is estimated
California twenty years hence will contain
$500, 900. For several years we have been
stationary in point of population Last year we
made a forward movement. 1t is confidently
predicted by those enjoying every advantage OF
information and position that extensive immi-
grafton will soon set in. Where it will come
from, and how will it affect the vote? Will it
be Republican States or Democratic which will
builG up this coast? Will immigration take a
northern or southern route This question is
discussed with ability by the Los Angeles News,
as given below. Read and ponder it, Demo-
Gratis, and take heed lest ye fall from power


In 1866, 1867 and 1868, remarkably high
prices for remarkably large crops, made Calfor-
MIA by far the most prosperous part of the
Union. In the South, by failure of crops, and
fearful expectation of complete wreck on the un-
known sea of reconstruction, many communities
were in a state of despair California, with its
satisfactory politics and its material prosperity,
drew thousands of rebels to its shore. But early
in 1868, affairs changed in the South, and "a fair
crop of cotton sold at high price made money
| plenty. In 1869, business was better still. 1t
was found that reconstruction did not mean ruin, ,
and having got Andy Johnson off their minds,
| the Southern people became content If not
! happy. In 1860, the current changed in Cali
forDa. The price of wheat was so low, and the
crop not large. The completion of the Pacific
! railroad gave san Francisco a reconstruction,
financially disastrous like that of the South.
This prostration of business makes the end OF
Southern immigration, and already the Southern
emigration has begun. The rebels who in 1865
| left their homes in disgust, now say that there
is no land like their own, and that they want to
see their darkies again. They are now going
back. California Democracy can receive no
more reinforcements from the Confederacy. The
future immigrants will come over the Pacific
railroad and he m mi iUraIinn will ha la rue


Disappointment was felt that so few came last
summer. Caifornians expected host on the
first half dozen trains. But the flow of immi-
grafton is seldom like the overpOurng of wa
terfall Generally, its course is like that of a
stream. Last year the immigration was like the
small brook in two or three years it will be
like the mighty river. The migrations from
Eastern States to Western has been along par
allels The Pacific railroad is on the parallel
of Chicago, the Western reserve, northern New
York and New England, and the main body of
our future immigrants will be from the Yankee
States and the Yankee settlements of the West
The major part of them will be of Republican
politics.