The Nevada journal., 1851-11-01
Saturday Evening, Nov. 4.
A Mint for California.

the glories that dwell in the stars and
stripes, which every citizen Of the United
States feels, is nowhere a stronger prin-
ciple than in Ca ifornia. the Atlantic
and more western states it is highly
natural, for the paternal, fostering care
of the government is eyinced in prepa>
ring every facility to commerce, every
encouragement to manufactures, and
every guarantee of the continuance un-
interrupted Of the institutions which are
the fountain Of these benefits Not to
be contented with such a governmo ont,
when the obvious advantages are go
great, would be incompatible with the
character of an intelligent people. In
California there is as strong love for
existing institutions as exists in any
section Of the other states, while there
is scarcely motive for its existence at
all. From the first the conduct Of Con-
gress has eyinced u jealous suspicion of
the younger daughter, and disposition
toneglect if rot oppress, by frequent re-
fusal to pass laws of the FIRST Importance to
our prosperity. When we were under the
loose organization and in the degrading
position of territorial dependence, with
a population swelling beyond the re-
quired limit for state, and magnifying
every day. we were taught to linger on,
month after month, our urgent repre-.
sentations unheeded. We petitioned,
we demonstrated; our petitions were
disregarded, our remonstrances elected
only contempt. And, when after long
and yexatious delay, the recognition of
our stateship was obtained, and our peo-
pie hailed the event as an indication
that our necessities were at last under
stood, and would be provided for, it was
found that the generosity evinccd by
Congress was only spasmodc, and we
were as far from being relieved as ever
One measure of prime Importance to
California was the establishment of q
mint. Congress well knew it. In every
form Of presentation was the question
urged by our agents in that body. The
great loss to our citizens in exchange to
the Atlantic-the inconvenience and
waste in dust as currency-the con-
tinual and necessary draw upon Cali
fornia-the embarrassment of merchants
and loss of the miner. In three days
giving reasonable time for the gasconade
inseparablo to the passage of any
measure in Congress, bill that would
obviate all this, might have been passed,
and yet the mean local p-ejudices of
Atlantic states defeated the passage of
any such measure, Of the justice and
necessity of which not one could doubt
Instead thereof that bill of abominations
establishing On assay Office, enriching a
few officials, and drawing an enormous
per centage from the miner and mer-
chant, was passed. To that assay Office
We are indebted for tho taking of dust,
which is divisible into small sums, and
casting it into "slugs" of unwieldly
proportions, as little adapted to the
common wants of trade as was tho iron
money of the Spartans. A man with a
fortune in bis pocket, in the shape Of
slugs, in the mines, is frequently unable
to buy his dinner. The frogs OF Egypt
were scarcely o greater plague to the
land they overrun than are these heavy
Jumps of gold to California. Instead Of
having his dust in small coins, as. ne
might with mint, the miner, if he gets
it coined at all, is compelled to have it
put in shape moro for show than for
use, and all the practical advantages Of
a proper currency he is deprived of.
The great wants for q currency in
California have compelled the use in it
VI iVtciHu SVlHo ~ NuluSS WILMA thcy
will not bear in other states, aud which
will be reduced whenever o mint is es-
tablished here, to the loss Of the holders.
We are particularly subject here to the
influx Of foreign csin, and have no means
at hand to guard us from loss in con-
nsction with them, which mint would
supply, by reducing their value at once
to the standard they hold in other states.
We scarcely can hope that at the naxt
session of Congress- early attention will
be given to to this subject. We are so
accustomed to neglect, that it is too
much to expect that any immediate re-
lief will ke granted. Though q mint in
California would receive nearly the en-
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