The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-22

ply san Francisco with fresh water, have opened
their books for the sale of shares. Upwards Of
two thousand shares have already been taken
the total number is ten thousand, and the capita
100000.
The papers are still filled with accounts from
different sections of the State, of outrages and
murders. The Alta. California published, on the
10Th, intelligence from Marysvlle Of seventeen
murders, which had been committed in that vi
entity within the past four or five days, and OF
the uprising of the Marysville Vigilance com.
mittee. The other up.rver and mountain pa
pers contain accounts also of various murders
which we have copied in full from day to day
Nor are southern coast counties entirely quiet
in this respect Among other outrages, n report
will be found in our columns of bloody ARRAY
in the city of Los Angelo, which resulted in the
death of some ten or twelve Indians
The agitation relative To a division Of the
State has not yet completely died away, though
it has lost some force since the dissolution OF
the Southern convention at Santa Barbara. The
subject will, however, doubtless be called up
again in the legislature, for political reasons, at
east, if for no other.
The overland immigration into Oregon is all
in, with the exception Of about forty wagons,
which, at Ia accounts, were daily expected A
party have left the Willamette for Queen Char
lotte's Island in search for gold. FIGURING mills
are going up in the territory, and general
state OF prosperity seems To prevail there.
The markets of San Francisco are flooded
with fruits and we learn that in the lower
country the vintage has commenced, and that the
quantity of wines which will be manufactured
this year will be immense.
DIVISION oE THE STATE.-The Ala CalJor
nian says:
at is gratifying fact tina. the Southern 'por
ton of the State, though evidently DESTROYS t.
promote separation from their northern breh
rem, are still so well informed upon the subject
that they counot be persuaded into the folly o
division for the purpose of making two States
They evince decided and anxious desire TO be
cut offfrom the advancing North, but it is from
no ambitious views. The evils which surround
and almost overwhelm them, they are eminently
DESTROYS of dssipating, but they see clearly
that the formation of two States out of tn,
present California will, instead of benefttna
them, sink item still deeper and deeper in deb
and taxation.
"They, no doubt, see clearly that in time
necessity and policy will make it ,cessary Il
erect as many States as possible upon the Pacific
There will be no other course, unless we wisf
always to exist at the pleasure or generosity o
our brethren on the Atlantic But they do no
believe the day has yet come for such an enter
prise as an attempt TO obtain balance of power
Consequently, whilst they are ardently in pursui
of a territorial government to save thsm from
the ruin of the onerous nature of the State taxa
ton is likely to impos" upon them, they would
strive still more strenuously against the forma
ton of another State. from the conviction tina
such step would increase instead of alternating
| their burdens"