The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-23

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 capital
100000.
The papers are still filled with accounts from
different sections of the State, of outrages and
murders. The Alta California published, on the
18th, intelligence from Marysville 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. river 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, a report
will be found in our columns Of a bloody affray
in the city of Los Angelo, which resulted in the
death Of some ten or twelve Indians. f..
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 call, d up
again In the legislature, for political reasons, at
least, il for no other. .. s..
The overland immigration into Oregon is all
in. with the exception Of about forty WAGONS,
which, at Ia accounts. were daily expected A
nartv have left the Willamette for Queen Char.
lotte's I-land in search for gold. Fnuring mills
are going up in the territory. and general
state of prosperity seems to prevail there
The markets If San Francisco are flooded
with frui 8, and we learn that in the lower
country the vintage has comm' need md that the
quantity Of vines which will be manufacture d
his year will he immense. Ills. ..
DIVISION oE THE STATE.-The Ala CdlfOr
MAN says: ...... ......... IT,.
at is gratifying fact tha' the Southern por
ion of the Stte. though evidently DESTROYS to
IRON tie separation from their northern bre'h-
ZEN, are still so well informed upon the subject
that thev cannot BE- persuaded into the folly OF
division for the purpose of making two States
rhpy vince decided and anxious desire to be
cut fffrom the advancing North, bit it is from,
no ambitious views, The evils which surround
md almost overwhrlm them, they are eminentIy
DESTROYS of di>sipating, but they see clearly
that the formation of two States out of the
present California will, instead Of benehtting
them, sink T. EN- still deeper and deeper in debt
nd taxation. ..~.. ...
"They, no doubt, see clearly that in time
,ec-ssity and policy viii make it 'cessary ia
ere It ~ many States possible upon the Pacific
There will be no other course unless we wish
,lways to exist at tn pleasure or generosity OF
,ur brethren on the Atlantic. But thev do not
believe tht day has yet come f'r such an enter
rise as an attempt to obtain balance ofpower
Consequently, whilst they are ardently in pursuit
Of a territorial government to save them from
he ruin of the onerous nature of the State taxa.
ion is likely to impos" upon them, they would
strive still more strenuously against the forma
ion of another State. from the conviction that
such step would increase instead Of allevatne
their burdens"