Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-10-29
RALEIG H:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1851.
CALIFORNIA.

We are Indebted to friend in New York for a
eopv of the San Francisco Newsletter, received in
the former City on the 18th, and dated September
18th. We make the following interesting extracts :
.The returns as they come in give evidence that,
as general thing, the Democracy are triumphant all
owe, the State. We shall send Democratic Sena-
tor to Congress. and matters now look very much as
though our representatives will be Democrats also.
The whole southern coast section of our State are
rising for division of California. They complain
0; the enormous taxes which they are compelled to
state that several years more with such taxes. will
ruin every wealthy man from Monterey down.. The
entire Southern press for the
They desire Territorial Government. We think
the separation will take place. and that eventually the
SGhen limb Of California will be admitted into the
union a slave State. convention of delegates
fam the Southern c3unties il called to meet at Santa
Barbara, the 22d inst, to take the matter Of sep
aron into consideration. The Call for the conven-
,ion published in the San Diego Herald of the 2sth
ult is signed by seventy-three persons, among whom
are of the best men in the Southern counties.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the admission Of
California into the Union. 1t passed off very quiet
", the larger portion Of population having to in
quTe what the guns fred on the Plaza by the Cali
fonia Guards, were for.
The Marysvle Herald says: 1--WE hear from
packers and miners, from the mining districts, tina,
on all the Bars on the Yuba River the yield is large
very large, even upon such bars as were abandoned
last season One in particular, known as Condemn
ed Bar, they realizing $25 to the man, and have
been for six wesks past, which may contin2s
for a much longer PERIOD"
That portion OF the above relating to the forma
ton Of State, " i'll attract particular attention
We have thought, all along, that as the mines and
lands of California passed into the possession Of
manen, owners, slave labor would be required to work
and cultivate them and it appears that already a
feeling favorable to the establishment of Slav.
e'yis beginning to prevail. But suppose a slave
holding State is carved out of portion of California
-wiAMs Congress admit her1 "Sufficlent unto the
day." however, s. IS the evil thereof. 1t is the
duy of Congress at once to lease or sell the mines
Such apoIlcy would only benefit the country gen
ealy, but it would add to the importance of Califor
MIA BY fixing her prosperity on permanent basis
and BY attaching her citizens to the soil.
The Raleigh Star is out for National Bank, and
tor distribution Of the proceeds of the sales o.
the public lands; and insists that the Wing party
Is still in business. with its sign up, and witt
The prospect before it Of taking in the unreaectins
snd a'sophisticated as occasion may offer. In addi
uon t" this, the Star has made the discovery tha
tsre are I" Union' and " Southern Rights men il
ne South. Will that paper show US why it is and
now is that an honest advocacy of Southern Rights
i" Incompatible with proper feeling of devotion ts
The Union2