Richmond Palladium

Important Action of the Government In Reference To The Gold Regions.—According to the following from the Washington correspondence of the N. Y. Sun, of the 12th inst, the Government is taking steps to prevent the export of gold ore, duty free, from our new mines in California.

It is rumored, and I have every reason to believe the rumor is true—that the Government, in Cabinet Council, on Saturday last, decided to send immediately a number of small vessels of war, brigs and schooners, to enforce an embargo upon all merchant vessels going into the harbors of Monterey, San Francisco and other ports on the coast of California, requiring them to come under bonds not to receive on board for transportation, any part or parcel of the gold ore dug from the public lands or mines on the Sacramento or other parts of the gold region in Alto California.

This decision has been come to doubtless, to prevent European vessels, as well as those of South America, from transporting vast quantities of the gold ore to be coined in foreign mints without paying the rightful tax or percentage to the Government of the United States. This prompt action of the Government will have the effect to secure the greater part of the ore for our own mints, and followed up by the establishment of a mint in California, and the organization of an efficient revenue department, will prevent the drain of millions which would otherwise ensue.

The Government is fully awake to the importance of the gold region, and the cabinet undoubtedly regret that a mint for California was not acted upon at the last session, before the close of which they had an inkling of the gold regions.

A State Government will undoubtedly be at once organized in California, and the mines taken possession of by United States troops. The final methods for securing the mining regions to the Government have not yet been decided on.