Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-08-19

r,,p,roKY or AR.zoNA.-The interest
:n".,on If our county, familiarity known rs the
Gd.den Purchase d about to claim the attention
If the public in Is great degree - has CahfornA'
and for the same cause-its Immense minerva ~
The popular idea chat this Territory, acqaTed oy
purchase from Mexico, is . worthless aud barren
desert proves unfouhded and absurd IS n"1oS
other popular ideas have proved heretofore re- ~.
cords and maps ienk hidden IN the arcn'e G. ~
Mexican Government and in the jesuit o9"ese-,
show couc3uslyely that, more than hundred years
ago this TERRITORY was settled by large ana hour,
ishiue mining poSulation; and that at the base OF
the mountains and along the streams, the rancneIo
gra1ed his thousands Of horses ana ~" mr.nss
farmer raised luxur'ant crops Vi co''' ""~' s'"p
and traits Of every variety
MS. r;yiixaton persisted before the devastating
career of the Indian tribes Of the country, as the
Mexican civilization in Sonora is to-day perishing
before the attacks Of the Apache Indians.
The recent decision of the Postmaster General in
favor of the overland mail route to California via Ell
Paso and Fort Yuma, will have an important infiu-
ence upon the settlement and development of Arr
zona 1t is the only practicable route for a mail;
and the wagon and stage road 5 bat the forerunner
Of the great Pacific Railroad. 1t therefore becomes
matter Of great national interest that the country
through which it passes should be protected from
Indian attacks, and that legal rights should obtain
as they do in our Eastern States.
The necessity Of some legislation was acknow.'
ed by the last Congress, bills having passed ootn
Houses creating a separate Judicial District ana
Land Office Owing. however, to some MINOR o'ss-
greement, the bill failed to become law.
At the opening of the next Congress a renewed
effort to obtain that protection which every citizen
has q right to demand from our Government, Will oe
made by the people of Arizona. Their memorial Is
to be presented to Congress by Lieutenant Mowry,
whose long residence on the Ga and Colorado rivers
has made him thoroughly acquainted with Arizona,
her people, and her wants.
The memorial sets forth, in brief but urgent
terms, the utter want of civil or military pro.
lection, the great mineral wealth in silver and
copper, and the various other necessities Of the
Territory, and prsys that the Gadsden Purchase
may be separated from New Mexico and organized
into distinct Territory, under the name OF Arizona
The population of this Territory is upward Of six
thousand, and rapidly increasing. The recent re-
ports of Colonel Bonneville, United States Army.
upon the country north of the Gn River, which it
is proposed to include within the limits of Arizona
will give an impetus to immigration. They furnish
guarantee that the State contains the great
element of national agricultural resources.
Our readers must bear in mind that the whole val
ley Of the Ga and its branches, draining an i'm
country, cotton lands Of the best descrip-
tion and that it is virgin soil.
We learn that Lieutenant Mowry, by the desire
of many friends of the development of our unknown
possessions, will be present at the Knoxville Con-
vention Nothing can be more appropriate for the
consideration of the delegates assembled at Knox
vile, than project which shall greatly advance the
opening of a safe, rapid and easy communication
overland to the Pacific, and add to the Confederacy,
at an early day, thriving and populous State.
Arizona will be known as the Silver State; and
the prediction of Humboldt that the relative value
of gold and silver would one day be restored, will
be fulfilled from the almost fabulous wealth Of the
" Gddsden Purchase"
We copy the above from the Charleston Mercury,
and hope that the Knoxville Convention will give
encouragement for the speedy settlement of this
important Territory and that treasures of silver Of
Arizona as well those of gold of California, may
be firmly knit by link of iron with the older States.
This union OF Atlantic and Pacific shores by means
of the railroad system, should be at once pushed
forward, for it will be political tie only second to
that made by the navgable waters of that great
river, which, stretching from the Western slopes Of
the Alleghanios to the Rocky Mountains, makes by
species of physical necessity, country of the
whole continent between the Lakes and the Gulf.
The Pacific Railroad will at once bring the silver
mines of Arizona into communication with the mar
kets of the world and aborers will pour in to work
them The variety Of the mineral products of this
country. well the fertility of the soil and It's
diversified character, give a natural independence
as remarkable as our political isolation. When the
gold of California, the silver Of the region of the
Gila, the copper of Lake Superior and the coal and
iron of the Eastern States are embodied, they form
image of future empire more grand than the Wis
ion Of the Chaldean monarch