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son to be sick in who has no home, nor friends to
care for him. Thus far I have been very fortunate
to escape sickness, for the past two years, for which
I feel thankful. ---

Three Steamers have now arrived here within
the past week about three thousand persons from the
Atlantic States. What inducement they find to tempt
them to come to this country I can form no idea of
certainly the chances for doing well here, at the present
time, are not one half as good as they were when
I left home & there are now thousands in the
country who are out of employment & worse than this
many of them are out of money, & it is a mystery to
me, how they manage to live from one day to another.

Owing to the low price of fare, from here to New York
many are returning home by every Steamer, who have
money enough left to get them there & I think it the
best move they can make. I do not doubt but what
many of them who have arrived here the past week
after looking about and finding business of all kinds
as dull as it really is, will return home within three
months satisfied that California is not the place af-
ter all the fuss that is made about it to make a
pile in a few months, & that for comfort & a good
home it is not to be compared with those places
which they left on the Atlantic side of the United States.

This last remark I can testify to myself --