Arkansas Intelligencer

Matrimony in California.—A letter from San Francisco, written by a lady to her friend in Massachusetts, says:

Since my husband went to the gold region. houses have become vacant in all parts of the village, and the entire male population has left us.— The women have been obliged, in the absence of the males, to congregate together in large numbers, in the large houses, and live together, and do their own cooking, &c. I am now living, or as we call it, messing, with a company of fourteen. The experience of the world, men, have said, show that women could not live together without quarrels—and turmoils; but our sisterhood at this time gives a plain contradiction to this slander upon our sex. When not interfered with by men. and when permitted to drink our cup of tea "under our own vine and fig-tree," we are as quiet and peaceable as lambs.

The demand for marriageable women seems to be as great as for goods. This is the only country in the world where women are properly appreciated. The proportion of males in the territory is five to one of females, and the labor of females is as much needed in cooking, &c., as the gold region. as the males. There have been more marriages the last few months than in ten years previous in this country. The squaws, before they will go to the gold region, make efforts to get white husbands, which they soon obtain in the present state of affairs. Father Manaque, the Catholic priest, has informed me that he married the last month ten white men to squaws. The consequence is, that the poor Indian will soon be left without any class of females from which they can choose—as certainly no white woman. of whatever condition in society. will marry an Indian, when she can readily marry a white man of some wealth and prominence. Some of the most ugly and slovenly servants here marry traders who have accumulated fortunes in a few weeks.

A woman who comes here with one tooth in her head, has a great capital to begin on in the matrimonial line; and I have thought that if a cargo of girls were shipped from Lowell here, it would turn out a great speculation to some enterprising Yankee. By all means induce Peggy to come here by the first vessel. Ugly as she looks she would be readily taken by some enterprising trader in the present brisk state of the market.