North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-11-08
CALIFORNIA.

San Francisco, 1t Is stated, Is rapidly spreading,
ii now presents the massive appearance of City.
v,Dv large and elegant brick and stone buildings
Lave been erected since the fires of May and June.
o,aer now prevails in the City, and this is owing to
ho commtee of citizens who took the law in their
own hands.
Agriculture and horticulture are receiving daily
and increasing attention in every part of the State
The mining intelligence from California is of the
n0st cheering character. All accounts in say
mo that the yield of the pacers has never been great
Or than at present, while the daily discoveries Of
ib auriferous quartz veins and the developments of
those already worked, indicate that if the pla-
GERS fail, good supply may be obtained from the
hills and mountains. We copy follows from Cali
frnia papers as to the mining operations
From all parts of the State we have the most en-
rraging intelligence of the of the miners,
and we hazard nothing in saying, that the present
weld of the mines exceeds that of any former PERIOD
The season, so far, has been very favorable to the
success cf the various daming companies, through
out the State, and the result has been large yields in
that department of mining. The prospects for the
appr0oching rainy season still more encouraging.
During the dry season. great numbers of miners who
have been operating along the beds of creeks and
rivers, have been engaged in raising dirt in the dry
diggngs to wash when the affoad them the re-
Ouisite supply Of water. Besides, steady business
now being prosecuted by the various quartz COM
vanies particularly in the vicinity of Nevada City,
and along the tributaries of the San Joaquin. These
companies will be able 20 prosecute their labors as
well in the rainy as in she dry season. 1t may be
we'll remark that the quartz business appears 10 be
that which, a considerable extent, is attracting
the attention af capitalists of investment.
The extensive outlay for costly machinery, in order
prosecute this branch of mining successfully, nee
esariIy limits it to those who have accumulated the
requisite capital by other and cheaper modes of mi
ming and to those other capitalists who ready to
make heavy investments. San Francisco Post.
company consisting of fourteen men, who lately
constructed wng-dam on the North Fork of Rattle
snake Bar have got work in the bed of the stream,
and Saturday last took out s 800. Sac. Times.
The result of the elections in the great States
Of Pennsylvania and Ohio are decisive of the utter
hOpessness of the claims of certain Wing aspirants
10 the Presidency. The pretensions of Gen. Scott
entirely annhated, and he has met with an attack
and overthrow in the Advance from whch he new
errecover. The Democracy of those States have de-
clared in the solemn and emphatic their
devotion the constitutional rights of the South, and
their determination to oppose any man or set of men
identified with the dangerous and corrupt faction of
the higher law school of politicians and have shown
TO people that it is to that party they to look
for vnGication of their just claims under the confed
eracy.
The brilliant success ofthe Democracy in this State
falls too like another bomb in the wing camp. and
skaters to fragments all their hopes of the avalb
yof Mr.. Fillmore for the next Presidency. A strong
demonstration made by the Administration upon
Fgnia-here it that the President and his cabi-
net took up their summer quarters during the past
season, and the most lofty expectations enter
alned that this good old commonwealth would sweTve
from her ancient faith, and marshal under the banner
OF whig rule. HOrfOM Argus,