April 23, 1871 (4 pages)

~~the work is-at-tast done: Bat inthe Ty “+ Aikanenid Gelda etatus:tliat. mets of the “ SUNDAY, APRIL. 23,487!" aed es Comprehensiveness of the Hevision of the Law. ee ee The Uominission appointed to revise the laws of California continue their labors very industriousty, and before the mesting of the next Legislature, says the Alta, they will have completed a large part of their work. The. pors tions.so far received are 330 pages ef the. penal code, 110 pages on county offices, 100 pages on corporations, 50 pages on county boundaries, 30 pages on town government and 25 pages on eminent domuin, making 645 pages in all. The work is done with general good judgment, much knowledge and studious care; and so far as we have read we find no serious mistakes or omissions, but the changes are so numerous that such an examination as peers a ——— —— . Would be necessary before expressing a definite opinion upon their value would require far more time than we editorial labor. The comprebensiveness _ of the revision will be one of the obstacles in the way of its adoption. The Lawyets in the next Legislature may excuse themselves from reading it because it would take all their time, and prevent-theny from doing anything elec that session. : We suggest, therefore, that the holdover members of the Senate, attorneys whe desire.to go to the next. Legislature, and judges whu have some leisure should examine the work of the Revision Commission as fast as it appears, 8o as to be prepared to express opinions upon it atthe opening of the next session. The inconviences of the pres=ent confused and confliciing muss of statutes are so great that if this revision should net be. adopted another will soon be undertaken, and so on until future, as at present. the same ‘evil will arise, that the more comprehensive the reform of the old evils, the more difficult will-be the work of verification, and the more desirous the Legislature will be of avoiding the labor of exam. ination and the responsiLility of adopting a new system. —_—. THE merits of narrow gauge railways seem to be very generally recugnized, and.they are being rapidly introduced in various parts of the country, The Philadelphia ~ North American now advocates the applicas) tion of the, same principle tu street railways, It proposes a gauge of two feet ‘and cars of five feet in width, holding twelve personseach. Every car need have but one horse and one driver, while the streets vould accoms modate a double trackas easily as it cam Dow a single one, . With this ar~ Tan.emem it claims that a line could berun with greater economy to the owners, and greater cvavenience to the public than by the present wide system. The dead weight of the large street cars is-out of all proportion to the loads they carry, and hence the ex pensive wear of horse flesh and iron track. The suggestion is worth av experiment, and that it-will dotbtless soon receive. QuatL and pruirie chickens are so plentiful in Chicago that nearly ten thousand of them were fed to hogs in one day. The Chicago Tribune urges the passage of laws which will prevent the indiscriminate slaughter of game after the middle of January. It says that millions of birds are now killed in Iowa and Illinois every year after the game seagon has passed. THE complete returns from the Rhode Island election give Padelford a majority of 3,474. The Senate is composed of 26 Republicans, and -9 Democrats, and there is one vacancy. ‘The House contains 51 Republicans, and 18 Democrats, and there are eight vacancies, gi LETTER from, the South A rican diamonds found are flawed, very few, indeed, being perfect gems. lished in your, paper of Stnday Jast 1élative to the attempsed safe. robbery of Menner & White’s store,in this place, in whieh was stated that Constable Huckins ‘was called upon, hurried to the scene with a posse of citizens, rattled at the front doors of said store, and. frightened the robbers off.” “The inference to be drawn. from this is, that Mr. Hackins merely went to the front door at the time of the discovery of the ats tempted robbery, and that he was among the firstto gothere. Mr. Huckins says injustice has been done bim in this. respect,and gives me the following: statement relative to the matter; which is corroborated by those who were present: Mr. Huckins was not among the first of those who went to the front door of the store, upon the discovery of the robbers in the building.— There were several persons in a saloon acfoss the ‘street from the store, and: one of them had stepped to the door, to go home when he heard the noise of blows from the inside of Menner & White’s store. He immediately called out in a loud voice to the proprietor of the saloon, that he “heard a noise across the street, and to come out,” and inquiring if either one of his companions had any weapons. None of them having any, two of the party stepped across the street and listened at the door. They heard stepsingide, and making bo noise, one of the party went for Constable Huckins, found him, and both came back to the front of the store, listened, but heard nv noise ins side. Mr. Huckios thinking the keyhole of the front door might be phigged‘up, passed his knife blade througi it, but it was clear, and no light inside, He came to the conclusion that his ins formant was mistaken, and went across to the saloon, where the statement was corroborate! of the hearing of blows from the inside of the store. Then the officer went to a hotel near by to get . assistence and weapons, -but-could ob-t tain none. Coming back to the front door of the store he listened again, and then made a noise as if about to open the doors. Hearing nothing inside he went around to the rear end of the building and found that the :ron-doors there had been forced open, the outside door of the safe cut open, but the inside door, fastened by a combination lock, unopened. This is a plain statement of the facts, ag stated by the offi cer and those cognizant of them. The noise made in culling the proprietor of the saloon to hear the noise, undoubtedly was heard by the burglars, who then immediately fled, : TEXAS has earned the respect of her sister States of the nation by the way she has set to work to clean out: the Ku Klux on her own hook. If the ether States would tollow her example, Congress would-soon be relieved ‘from the necessity of legislating. In Tex~ as, on the first of July last, according to the official repert of the Adjutant General, there were 2,790 known criminals evading arrest in 108 counties, of whom 702 were murderers and 413 guilty of assault with intent to kill._— At that time a silver mounted State police, consisting of 196 men, was organs ized, and on the first of January 978 of these criminals had been committed for trial. The work has also been vigorously prosecuted since, so that now the State is-quite free from the Ku Klux, and there isa general feeling of security. It is much better for the Southern States to do this kind of work for themselves, but if they won't underteke it they must not complain it the General Government does it for them, and somewhat roughly, teo. WuEN the Bostou jail was built, at an expense of $40,000, it was remarked that it cost the city more to provide for her prisoners in jail th n it would to board them at the Revere House. = Tae Eastern papers are very severe on Jim Fisk. The New York Tribune Bays that on the Ist day of April, thirty six years ago, the greatest ‘prac~ tical jeke of the age was perpetrated Upon an entire nation by the birth of James Fisk, jr. Tithe Bulletin, announge the completion of a bed rock tunnel im the Blae Point Minipg Company’s @laim,, at Sucker Flat, which has occupied four years and cost of $46,000. The.clean up of the first washing has yielded $40,000 ia gold dust. Another company at Sucker Flat lately cleared up $52,000. These items are capital illustrations of: the value of the deep gravel mines of California. Smartsville {fs situated only a few miles--within the foothills It is below the pine region, where are the most extensive gravel deposits, and only a few hundred feet above the valley. ‘The deposits at Sucker Flat, like those adjoining at Timbuctoo, are from 25 to 75 feet deep, and rest, generally, on granite, filling basins in the rock, ‘The rims of these granite basins rise nearly or quite to the surface, and before an outlet can be got fur the hydraulic washings, tunnels have to be cut threugh them, frequently for a distance of several hundred feet, and sometimes for several thousand. .They are put in a depth sufficient to receive washings from the lowest part of the into the river channel or some gorge leading thereto. Large: numbers oi these bed rock tunnels have been cut in all parts of the Sierra Nevada by the labor of small associations, without capital. Generally the miners can extract gold enough--by snperficial penses, or they hire out at intervals, saving their wages to maintain them while working at the tunnel, and to buy posvder, drills, etc. It is wonderful how much has been accomplished in this-waytoward the development of the extensive deep gravel deposits of the Sierra) Nevada. Too often the result has been loss and disappvintinent after long years of self-sacrificing toil. portance of systematic methods, directed by skill and capital; and these gravel deposits, with protituble results, promising to bring up the placer gold yield in the course of years to larger figures than it now boasts, Patents to Mining Claims. Some of the United States patents to placer claims have been received and in the grant to applicants the follows ing exceptions are made: ; And that any vein or lode of quartz, or other rock, in placer bearing gold, silver, cinbubar or copper should be discovered within the above described premises, shall be and hereby is expressly excepted and excluded from these presents. And that the premises hereby conveyed may be entered by the proprietor of any vein or lode of quartz, or other rock in placer bearing, gold, silver, cinnabar or eopper which has been or may be patented to him by the United States should the same be found to penetrate or intersect the mining prems ises or lot of land hereby granted for the purpose of removing the ore from such vein or lody its dips, angles or variations. —It will be remembered the first law enacted provided for the sale of quartz lodes, and by the last Congress this law was amended so as to include the sale of placer mines, and there is no reason why in such patents the Government should make any exceptions, unless rights acquired are ats fected. We do not think there is anything in the law requiring this exception, but even if there bethe rights of proprietors are not affected, as the Jedges contained in the claim may still be held under the local customs, as the patent would not affect any right acquired by local custom. THE SUNDAY ScHooL ConvENTION. The State Sunday School Convention met at San Jose on Tuesday last. On the first day there were over 500 d gates present and more than 2,009 persons in the audience. ‘Some of the leading Sunday school workers of the United S:ates were present ang assisted in conducting the exercigesGeneral Bidwell is President ofthé Convention. ele~ SNoRtIne CurRED. — An ingenious . wife in Des Moines cured lier husband of snoring thus: She had a gutta percha tube with two cup-shaped ends; one she pitts over his nosé anJ mouth, aud the other over his ear. sumes his own noise, as a stpve does its smoke, and wakes up instanter. basin, avd discharge either directly . . “Operations to pay” their current ex— . " . He ¢en. }. a ed her méPher the otLe&day sive had tound out Where they wade hosts; “she ‘had seen’ man in a shop Just finishing one éf them, for he was Bails ing on his last foot.” aera — PRESTON & FAIRCHILD Will Remove their stock of Drugs, Paints, Oils etc., TO THEIR NEW STORE, UNDER THE TRANSCRIPE OFFICE, S. W. Corner Broad and Pine Sreets, On Piay 15th, Nevada, April 24, For City Marshal. Petes B. GRAY is hereby announced as a candidate for the office of U:TY MARSHAL, at tue Charter Election, May Ist, 1371. ‘ ap23 —_— “Legal Enterprise. $100,000 CIFT FESTIVAL ACADEMY OF MUSIG, : ay ‘ Company ‘nsures not oniy a perfect title i: OMAHA, NEBRASBA, . the jands given as sécarity but-aisu, promt ~~ _ May 25th, 1841. Se eee IN AID OF A PUBLIC LIBRARY. Tickets Two Dollars Each. COUPONS, ONE DOLLAR EACH. Gifts to be Awarded : 1 Cash-Gift= + ---=~= -~-$20,0007 1 Cash Gift So se + -«15,000 1 Cash Gift 10,000 1 Cash Gift = ~ 5,000 1 Cash Gift -° 3,000 1 Cash Gift . 2,000 1 Cash Giff = 1,000 1-Gash--Gift= ---s--s =" 1,000 1 Cash Gift -. 1,000 1 Cash Gift . 1,000 1 Cash Gift = “1,000 1 Cash Gift __ 1,000. 1 Cash Gift : 1,000 1 Cash Gift 1,000 1 Cash Gift ~ 1,000 15 Cash Gifts, $500 each = 1,500 10 Cash Gifts, $250 eac, 2,500 20 Cash Gifts, $100 each + 2,000 50 Cash Gifts, $50 each 2,500 100 Cash Gifts, $30 each 8,000 1000 Cash Gifts, $l0each 10,000 1000 Cash Gifts, SSeach + 5,000 2310 Gifts, amounting to $100,000 Which will be distributed by the MuruaL Arp AssocIaTION among the Ticket holders. OS" This enterprise will be conducted in a precisely similar manner to that of the late Grand Gift Concert of the MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSUCIATION, of San Francisco, which gave such universal gatisfaction. ; : REFERENCES: A. 8S. Pappock, ex-CGovernor of Nebraska. W. B. Sanu, Clerk U. 8. Circuit and District Courts: *; Pleatiaat Dep. ee Marshal. i GABRISKIE, late Government Clerk U. P. R. R., Omaha, Neb. =e Good, responsibie agepts wanted. 20 per cent. commission allowed. Addresg, LYFOKD & Co., Omaha Nebraska, Business Man 5 Office, Caldwell Block. “apes THE BEST OFFER YET. Bargains! Bargains ! RS. H. C. "ELLS, on COMMERCIAL STRERBT, Nevada City, offers ie best inducements to purchasers of Dry Goods as she desises to close out the entire stock, Founp Ovut.—A little girl joyfally: +0 STATE INSURANCE COMPANY, “OF CALTFORNTA. Objects of the.Company, First—To preveot.tte continued pericdicat skimming or the e by purely iocal-ang loreign Lusurance Companies, as isnmuw doin f the sarther ¢: ntralization of capital w tsi. city to be controlled by the few; thé pernjciuus effcets.of which are everywhere Visibic und generally acknowledged, 8 d—‘'o make the lands and property of the Wheat Grower; Woel Grower, “Wa e Maker, the Miner, aud the Manufacinie; available security tor sach reasonable juan. and advances as their successiul prosecuuun naturally requires ; which ig the preat ove:-shaduwing demaud—ot the tim Lag: citic Coast. i Plan of the Company. first object of the Corlipany cay be moet tui.y and perfectly acconiplished by the estiblisiiing of a branch in each and all of the principle towns of the State, under the tnpervision and control ‘of ‘lucal Directors and v.ficers, through ‘Whom the Capital of the Company shall be Jouned in the localities where subscribed; and for like purpose, the anLmal division of the entire net rece. pts of the Company amchg ail the: branches, fro raia, aceordipg to the Capital Stock represented by each. an this method, every: branch office is practically a home office, ‘enjoying all the acvanteges which coild possibly assras throwzii ‘. any purely local organigauiou, greatly i.creased by an extended influence and pnasiesp. Funsturance of Loans, Second—It is confidently hoped,. believed . andexpected tnat the second ob ect above stated, can be as iuliy and comp etely secured . through a new form ot policy, -in-whien the ‘Lhe insurance of Crops, and the snufliciency of collateral securities for other intereste, i+ is gone in Keeterm States, may aiso becowe of such impurtance as to induce the Cunipany to add those branches tv its other biciLess. Reduction of Interest. the thousand agencies ef this Company wus tend to the redaction of interest. Capital Steck. The Capital Stock of the fompany will be Two Hundred Thousand Dollars, void co: ., divided inte-Four-Shousand Shares uf tity Dollars each, Payable. re) Subscription Lists. Will be opened at San Francisco, Stocktoi, Sacramento, San dose, Marysville, Vakiac, Los Augeles, Santa C.uz, Petaluma, San Kafuel, Nevada ity, Chico, and Vatlejo, where Local Boards have already been partually uganized, $ Who Should Subscribe. Every man in the State of California should identify himself with a Company whicu fo fully embraees and so pertectly biends the interests of the whole State. r Mutuality of Interests with Co-operative Efforts, deserves and will command suctees. _ » DIRECTORS. Hon. Geo Pea: ce Wm H Knight, Wm R. Wells, i H Wm J Miller, Isaac R. Jewell, t John Simms, H. B. Hasbrouck. ‘LW Walker, Hon. J.N. Saunders, ! @ Warner, Jd D Farweh, 'C Tempel, Richard Ivers, : Robert Seavy, A. Newnian, {MM Hstee, H. Rosekrans, ' EBarke, . Wm K Wadsworth, «© L W Kennedy Hon DB Wilson, iJ Kittredge, O W Childs, ‘J W Nye, P. Beaudry, ! Cyrus Palmer d F Barns, 1EJC Kewen, A. C, Niles, 1 3B Caswell, Hon Chas Marsh, ‘CE Thorne, OC Torson, ' Geo Hansen E W Bigelow, John Cashin, R.W. Tally, i ira A saton, Joseph Verrin, pa W Lester, ata Daag ' he = Eddy, onat Clark, toe regory, Hon. 8 B McKee, : @ W Smith, A P Brayton, ; , Chas & Muiloy James Stratton, ‘OH LaGrange, Janes Koss, GE Smith, Thos H Hanson, @ W Swan, Manville Doyte, dohn Keyes, Wma Bil, N eng FT Maynard. 3 Geo W rrescott. ! ‘ ‘ Zyler Carts, , ag ’ in” ra . arvin, Read these Prices! Hon CL Wiggin, . OC Hayden, . Wm hd ' Chris Weisel, MUSLINS at ONE BIT; BEST CALICOS . Jacob Schleider ‘ Chas Travers 10 yards for $1 ; BEST SHEETING. ten quar-. Abner Doble, AtW Armstrong: texs, S0cents a yard; TOWKLING 1934 cts: eller, . W C ¥ei “HUES from % cents to $2 50 for the best San . John Jones. . James McGuire, rare Eneke: spninssaits Scents per yard . S$ H Mott, . Amos Warring, Kib GLovesn ABOLS 91:1 & ee : Wan Ht Keep, Figures won't i Andrew McShan iW . anything in the Dey aca ind sll whew . Win Hall,” . Andrew aitkon, giving me a call that the entire stock can be’. N H A Maso . 7 N Hoag, ught in proportion to the above rates, Jacob Rich, : John Suverkrup, one rote is money made, and Ladies ean passe Marphy, H ee Hass, ral «] e i 4 . eat stock im the ean spel goat from the toes ener, i ie P Boucherty, a20 MRS. H. C. MILLS. . P Burnett, ' koberis, Hon Amassa Pray, . Ci White, baa 2s eR 8 fcc evada Restaurant. Jchn Grant," : @ $6 Groosbeck, JAMES H. FRENCH, Proprietor, an ' B Kulieriman, . Ps ? is . ys 4 covonsnciat, age; xavapas . ESE ue (Dasani : ' al M*s AT all hours, Tables supplied . Robert beck, s Hnoeh Jasoor healg trom Opus to Ce Wag in Te eee to Jents, . m i ‘ live well give nie a call. Mf 204. Wom. ort Crowell” ‘ © Weiler. apis JAS. H. FRENCH. hg e ; paw ne, : ner, “JAMES MON 20, Soha Gouger’. Lediabereted. Dealer eter Mio t Jos . . Beef, Pork, Mutton, Cormed Beer, . 1°22 : Rie Wn Laarente, CORNED PORK, VEAL, &. Aastin SperSs iWo'Beicer, 7~ Meats sold at ble rates for Cash . KE A Kalisher” 1OM t. shop on ‘Broad Street, opposite the Neved . EL Beacan Sanaa elt . E Schoen, i First—No doubt whatever exists, that the’ Constant accessions to local capital threu,i — Payable in four installments of Tweat y-five 7 ——— ae Dad Se eee ren LOCA county Sun Drove Be, M. E. Church, day and Thurs commencing. al Dr Vincent ha school interest copal Charch, : bly known as-¢ field. Though ver of one_ of nominations, h all workers in ° and-all_ are t churches, to. th work, for the s¢ ers and friends afford te allow unimproved, parts of the ¢ wachers, and ¢ are interested . Stituday Sctiool repaid by the and suggestio worker, Let \ ty such a Co aad if such hel unce, what th Convention Wi iuske-of-ours-t The Sunday f Rev, J. W Hinds, who rey State Sunday wrod to this speak of the ge thtisiastic as w day School mec evst. Nearly absendance; at last day’s exe 3.000.° Amozy; ers of the Unit luittee was or was elected Be ly. We under of these who le stitute will vis turning to the Phillip Phil This distir give a Concert time. Mr. Phi School singer . gregational C said by those 1 be one of the t ted States. a Removal. Preston & their store on . Pine streets, u fice, and will ; 15th of May. fine style, New Rinks, The mania . tinues in this being laid in. anda rink w last of the Pi brook, of this or two for Mi rink at that p The Champ George Cha orders last we ot his” invent! rink was open 25 pairs of his floor. He has he can fill t tied Charch’s cellent. G District Cou Nesmith vs. fer partition 6 Waggoner: Ment for defe: ’ Patrick: 8 we land, was adi Court, adjon “ PAPC 8 ® cay City Marshal held two weel

~~the work is-at-tast done: Bat inthe Ty “+ Aikanenid Gelda etatus:tliat. mets of the “ SUNDAY, APRIL. 23,487!" aed es Comprehensiveness of the Hevision of the Law. ee ee The Uominission appointed to revise the laws of California continue their labors very industriousty, and before the mesting of the next Legislature, says the Alta, they will have completed a large part of their work. The. pors tions.so far received are 330 pages ef the. penal code, 110 pages on county offices, 100 pages on corporations, 50 pages on county boundaries, 30 pages on town government and 25 pages on eminent domuin, making 645 pages in all. The work is done with general good judgment, much knowledge and studious care; and so far as we have read we find no serious mistakes or omissions, but the changes are so numerous that such an examination as peers a ——— —— . Would be necessary before expressing a definite opinion upon their value would require far more time than we editorial labor. The comprebensiveness _ of the revision will be one of the obstacles in the way of its adoption. The Lawyets in the next Legislature may excuse themselves from reading it because it would take all their time, and prevent-theny from doing anything elec that session. : We suggest, therefore, that the holdover members of the Senate, attorneys whe desire.to go to the next. Legislature, and judges whu have some leisure should examine the work of the Revision Commission as fast as it appears, 8o as to be prepared to express opinions upon it atthe opening of the next session. The inconviences of the pres=ent confused and confliciing muss of statutes are so great that if this revision should net be. adopted another will soon be undertaken, and so on until future, as at present. the same ‘evil will arise, that the more comprehensive the reform of the old evils, the more difficult will-be the work of verification, and the more desirous the Legislature will be of avoiding the labor of exam. ination and the responsiLility of adopting a new system. —_—. THE merits of narrow gauge railways seem to be very generally recugnized, and.they are being rapidly introduced in various parts of the country, The Philadelphia ~ North American now advocates the applicas) tion of the, same principle tu street railways, It proposes a gauge of two feet ‘and cars of five feet in width, holding twelve personseach. Every car need have but one horse and one driver, while the streets vould accoms modate a double trackas easily as it cam Dow a single one, . With this ar~ Tan.emem it claims that a line could berun with greater economy to the owners, and greater cvavenience to the public than by the present wide system. The dead weight of the large street cars is-out of all proportion to the loads they carry, and hence the ex pensive wear of horse flesh and iron track. The suggestion is worth av experiment, and that it-will dotbtless soon receive. QuatL and pruirie chickens are so plentiful in Chicago that nearly ten thousand of them were fed to hogs in one day. The Chicago Tribune urges the passage of laws which will prevent the indiscriminate slaughter of game after the middle of January. It says that millions of birds are now killed in Iowa and Illinois every year after the game seagon has passed. THE complete returns from the Rhode Island election give Padelford a majority of 3,474. The Senate is composed of 26 Republicans, and -9 Democrats, and there is one vacancy. ‘The House contains 51 Republicans, and 18 Democrats, and there are eight vacancies, gi LETTER from, the South A rican diamonds found are flawed, very few, indeed, being perfect gems. lished in your, paper of Stnday Jast 1élative to the attempsed safe. robbery of Menner & White’s store,in this place, in whieh was stated that Constable Huckins ‘was called upon, hurried to the scene with a posse of citizens, rattled at the front doors of said store, and. frightened the robbers off.” “The inference to be drawn. from this is, that Mr. Hackins merely went to the front door at the time of the discovery of the ats tempted robbery, and that he was among the firstto gothere. Mr. Huckins says injustice has been done bim in this. respect,and gives me the following: statement relative to the matter; which is corroborated by those who were present: Mr. Huckins was not among the first of those who went to the front door of the store, upon the discovery of the robbers in the building.— There were several persons in a saloon acfoss the ‘street from the store, and: one of them had stepped to the door, to go home when he heard the noise of blows from the inside of Menner & White’s store. He immediately called out in a loud voice to the proprietor of the saloon, that he “heard a noise across the street, and to come out,” and inquiring if either one of his companions had any weapons. None of them having any, two of the party stepped across the street and listened at the door. They heard stepsingide, and making bo noise, one of the party went for Constable Huckins, found him, and both came back to the front of the store, listened, but heard nv noise ins side. Mr. Huckios thinking the keyhole of the front door might be phigged‘up, passed his knife blade througi it, but it was clear, and no light inside, He came to the conclusion that his ins formant was mistaken, and went across to the saloon, where the statement was corroborate! of the hearing of blows from the inside of the store. Then the officer went to a hotel near by to get . assistence and weapons, -but-could ob-t tain none. Coming back to the front door of the store he listened again, and then made a noise as if about to open the doors. Hearing nothing inside he went around to the rear end of the building and found that the :ron-doors there had been forced open, the outside door of the safe cut open, but the inside door, fastened by a combination lock, unopened. This is a plain statement of the facts, ag stated by the offi cer and those cognizant of them. The noise made in culling the proprietor of the saloon to hear the noise, undoubtedly was heard by the burglars, who then immediately fled, : TEXAS has earned the respect of her sister States of the nation by the way she has set to work to clean out: the Ku Klux on her own hook. If the ether States would tollow her example, Congress would-soon be relieved ‘from the necessity of legislating. In Tex~ as, on the first of July last, according to the official repert of the Adjutant General, there were 2,790 known criminals evading arrest in 108 counties, of whom 702 were murderers and 413 guilty of assault with intent to kill._— At that time a silver mounted State police, consisting of 196 men, was organs ized, and on the first of January 978 of these criminals had been committed for trial. The work has also been vigorously prosecuted since, so that now the State is-quite free from the Ku Klux, and there isa general feeling of security. It is much better for the Southern States to do this kind of work for themselves, but if they won't underteke it they must not complain it the General Government does it for them, and somewhat roughly, teo. WuEN the Bostou jail was built, at an expense of $40,000, it was remarked that it cost the city more to provide for her prisoners in jail th n it would to board them at the Revere House. = Tae Eastern papers are very severe on Jim Fisk. The New York Tribune Bays that on the Ist day of April, thirty six years ago, the greatest ‘prac~ tical jeke of the age was perpetrated Upon an entire nation by the birth of James Fisk, jr. Tithe Bulletin, announge the completion of a bed rock tunnel im the Blae Point Minipg Company’s @laim,, at Sucker Flat, which has occupied four years and cost of $46,000.. The.clean up of the first washing has yielded $40,000 ia gold dust. Another company at Sucker Flat lately cleared up $52,000. These items are capital illustrations of: the value of the deep gravel mines of California. Smartsville {fs situated only a few miles--within the foothills It is below the pine region, where are the most extensive gravel deposits, and only a few hundred feet above the valley. ‘The deposits at Sucker Flat, like those adjoining at Timbuctoo, are from 25 to 75 feet deep, and rest, generally, on granite, filling basins in the rock, ‘The rims of these granite basins rise nearly or quite to the surface, and before an outlet can be got fur the hydraulic washings, tunnels have to be cut threugh them, frequently for a distance of several hundred feet, and sometimes for several thousand. .They are put in a depth sufficient to receive washings from the lowest part of the into the river channel or some gorge leading thereto. Large: numbers oi these bed rock tunnels have been cut in all parts of the Sierra Nevada by the labor of small associations, without capital. Generally the miners can extract gold enough--by snperficial penses, or they hire out at intervals, saving their wages to maintain them while working at the tunnel, and to buy posvder, drills, etc. It is wonderful how much has been accomplished in this-waytoward the development of the extensive deep gravel deposits of the Sierra) Nevada. Too often the result has been loss and disappvintinent after long years of self-sacrificing toil. portance of systematic methods, directed by skill and capital; and these gravel deposits, with protituble results, promising to bring up the placer gold yield in the course of years to larger figures than it now boasts, Patents to Mining Claims. Some of the United States patents to placer claims have been received and in the grant to applicants the follows ing exceptions are made: ; And that any vein or lode of quartz, or other rock, in placer bearing gold, silver, cinbubar or copper should be discovered within the above described premises, shall be and hereby is expressly excepted and excluded from these presents. And that the premises hereby conveyed may be entered by the proprietor of any vein or lode of quartz, or other rock in placer bearing, gold, silver, cinnabar or eopper which has been or may be patented to him by the United States should the same be found to penetrate or intersect the mining prems ises or lot of land hereby granted for the purpose of removing the ore from such vein or lody its dips, angles or variations. —It will be remembered the first law enacted provided for the sale of quartz lodes, and by the last Congress this law was amended so as to include the sale of placer mines, and there is no reason why in such patents the Government should make any exceptions, unless rights acquired are ats fected. We do not think there is anything in the law requiring this exception, but even if there bethe rights of proprietors are not affected, as the Jedges contained in the claim may still be held under the local customs, as the patent would not affect any right acquired by local custom. THE SUNDAY ScHooL ConvENTION. The State Sunday School Convention met at San Jose on Tuesday last. On the first day there were over 500 d gates present and more than 2,009 persons in the audience. ‘Some of the leading Sunday school workers of the United S:ates were present ang assisted in conducting the exercigesGeneral Bidwell is President ofthé Convention. ele~ SNoRtIne CurRED. — An ingenious . wife in Des Moines cured lier husband of snoring thus: She had a gutta percha tube with two cup-shaped ends; one she pitts over his nosé anJ mouth, aud the other over his ear. sumes his own noise, as a stpve does its smoke, and wakes up instanter. basin, avd discharge either directly . . “Operations to pay” their current ex— . " . He ¢en. }. a ed her méPher the otLe&day sive had tound out Where they wade hosts; “she ‘had seen’ man in a shop Just finishing one éf them, for he was Bails ing on his last foot.” aera — PRESTON & FAIRCHILD Will Remove their stock of Drugs, Paints, Oils etc.,

TO THEIR NEW STORE, UNDER THE TRANSCRIPE OFFICE, S. W. Corner Broad and Pine Sreets, On Piay 15th, Nevada, April 24, For City Marshal. Petes B. GRAY is hereby announced as a candidate for the office of U:TY MARSHAL, at tue Charter Election, May Ist, 1371. ‘ ap23 —_— “Legal Enterprise. $100,000 CIFT FESTIVAL ACADEMY OF MUSIG, : ay ‘ Company ‘nsures not oniy a perfect title i: OMAHA, NEBRASBA, . the jands given as sécarity but-aisu, promt ~~ _ May 25th, 1841. Se eee IN AID OF A PUBLIC LIBRARY. Tickets Two Dollars Each. COUPONS, ONE DOLLAR EACH. Gifts to be Awarded : 1 Cash-Gift= + ---=~= -~-$20,0007 1 Cash Gift So se + -«15,000 1 Cash Gift 10,000 1 Cash Gift = ~ 5,000 1 Cash Gift -° 3,000 1 Cash Gift . 2,000 1 Cash Giff = 1,000 1-Gash--Gift= ---s--s =" 1,000 1 Cash Gift -. 1,000 1 Cash Gift . 1,000 1 Cash Gift = “1,000 1 Cash Gift __ 1,000. 1 Cash Gift : 1,000 1 Cash Gift 1,000 1 Cash Gift ~ 1,000 15 Cash Gifts, $500 each = 1,500 10 Cash Gifts, $250 eac, 2,500 20 Cash Gifts, $100 each + 2,000 50 Cash Gifts, $50 each 2,500 100 Cash Gifts, $30 each 8,000 1000 Cash Gifts, $l0each 10,000 1000 Cash Gifts, SSeach + 5,000 2310 Gifts, amounting to $100,000 Which will be distributed by the MuruaL Arp AssocIaTION among the Ticket holders. OS" This enterprise will be conducted in a precisely similar manner to that of the late Grand Gift Concert of the MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSUCIATION, of San Francisco, which gave such universal gatisfaction. ; : REFERENCES: A. 8S. Pappock, ex-CGovernor of Nebraska. W. B. Sanu, Clerk U. 8. Circuit and District Courts: *; Pleatiaat Dep. ee Marshal. i GABRISKIE, late Government Clerk U. P. R. R., Omaha, Neb. =e Good, responsibie agepts wanted. 20 per cent. commission allowed. Addresg, LYFOKD & Co., Omaha Nebraska, Business Man 5 Office, Caldwell Block. “apes THE BEST OFFER YET. Bargains! Bargains ! RS. H. C. "ELLS, on COMMERCIAL STRERBT, Nevada City, offers ie best inducements to purchasers of Dry Goods as she desises to close out the entire stock, Founp Ovut.—A little girl joyfally: +0 STATE INSURANCE COMPANY, “OF CALTFORNTA. Objects of the.Company, First—To preveot.tte continued pericdicat skimming or the e by purely iocal-ang loreign Lusurance Companies, as isnmuw doin f the sarther ¢: ntralization of capital w tsi. city to be controlled by the few; thé pernjciuus effcets.of which are everywhere Visibic und generally acknowledged, 8 d—‘'o make the lands and property of the Wheat Grower; Woel Grower, “Wa e Maker, the Miner, aud the Manufacinie; available security tor sach reasonable juan. and advances as their successiul prosecuuun naturally requires ; which ig the preat ove:-shaduwing demaud—ot the tim Lag: citic Coast. i Plan of the Company. first object of the Corlipany cay be moet tui.y and perfectly acconiplished by the estiblisiiing of a branch in each and all of the principle towns of the State, under the tnpervision and control ‘of ‘lucal Directors and v.ficers, through ‘Whom the Capital of the Company shall be Jouned in the localities where subscribed; and for like purpose, the anLmal division of the entire net rece. pts of the Company amchg ail the: branches, fro raia, aceordipg to the Capital Stock represented by each. an this method, every: branch office is practically a home office, ‘enjoying all the acvanteges which coild possibly assras throwzii ‘. any purely local organigauiou, greatly i.creased by an extended influence and pnasiesp. Funsturance of Loans, Second—It is confidently hoped,. believed . andexpected tnat the second ob ect above stated, can be as iuliy and comp etely secured . through a new form ot policy, -in-whien the ‘Lhe insurance of Crops, and the snufliciency of collateral securities for other intereste, i+ is gone in Keeterm States, may aiso becowe of such impurtance as to induce the Cunipany to add those branches tv its other biciLess. Reduction of Interest. the thousand agencies ef this Company wus tend to the redaction of interest. Capital Steck. The Capital Stock of the fompany will be Two Hundred Thousand Dollars, void co: ., divided inte-Four-Shousand Shares uf tity Dollars each, Payable. re) Subscription Lists. Will be opened at San Francisco, Stocktoi, Sacramento, San dose, Marysville, Vakiac, Los Augeles, Santa C.uz, Petaluma, San Kafuel, Nevada ity, Chico, and Vatlejo, where Local Boards have already been partually uganized, $ Who Should Subscribe. Every man in the State of California should identify himself with a Company whicu fo fully embraees and so pertectly biends the interests of the whole State. r Mutuality of Interests with Co-operative Efforts, deserves and will command suctees. _ » DIRECTORS. Hon. Geo Pea: ce Wm H Knight, Wm R. Wells, i H Wm J Miller, Isaac R. Jewell, t John Simms, H. B. Hasbrouck. ‘LW Walker, Hon. J.N. Saunders, ! @ Warner, Jd D Farweh, 'C Tempel, Richard Ivers, : Robert Seavy, A. Newnian, {MM Hstee, H. Rosekrans, ' EBarke, . Wm K Wadsworth, «© L W Kennedy Hon DB Wilson, iJ Kittredge, O W Childs, ‘J W Nye, P. Beaudry, ! Cyrus Palmer d F Barns, 1EJC Kewen, A. C, Niles, 1 3B Caswell, Hon Chas Marsh, ‘CE Thorne, OC Torson, ' Geo Hansen E W Bigelow, John Cashin, R.W. Tally, i ira A saton, Joseph Verrin, pa W Lester, ata Daag ' he = Eddy, onat Clark, toe regory, Hon. 8 B McKee, : @ W Smith, A P Brayton, ; , Chas & Muiloy James Stratton, ‘OH LaGrange, Janes Koss, GE Smith, Thos H Hanson, @ W Swan, Manville Doyte, dohn Keyes, Wma Bil, N eng FT Maynard. 3 Geo W rrescott. ! ‘ ‘ Zyler Carts, , ag ’ in” ra . arvin, Read these Prices! Hon CL Wiggin, . OC Hayden, . Wm hd ' Chris Weisel, MUSLINS at ONE BIT; BEST CALICOS . Jacob Schleider ‘ Chas Travers 10 yards for $1 ; BEST SHEETING. ten quar-. Abner Doble, AtW Armstrong: texs, S0cents a yard; TOWKLING 1934 cts: eller, . W C ¥ei “HUES from % cents to $2 50 for the best San . John Jones. . James McGuire, rare Eneke: spninssaits Scents per yard . S$ H Mott, . Amos Warring, Kib GLovesn ABOLS 91:1 & ee : Wan Ht Keep, Figures won't i Andrew McShan iW . anything in the Dey aca ind sll whew . Win Hall,” . Andrew aitkon, giving me a call that the entire stock can be’. N H A Maso . 7 N Hoag, ught in proportion to the above rates, Jacob Rich, : John Suverkrup, one rote is money made, and Ladies ean passe Marphy, H ee Hass, ral «] e i 4 . eat stock im the ean spel goat from the toes ener, i ie P Boucherty, a20 MRS. H. C. MILLS. . P Burnett, ' koberis, Hon Amassa Pray, . Ci White, baa 2s eR 8 fcc evada Restaurant. Jchn Grant," : @ $6 Groosbeck, JAMES H. FRENCH, Proprietor, an ' B Kulieriman, . Ps ? is . ys 4 covonsnciat, age; xavapas . ESE ue (Dasani : ' al M*s AT all hours, Tables supplied . Robert beck, s Hnoeh Jasoor healg trom Opus to Ce Wag in Te eee to Jents, . m i ‘ live well give nie a call. Mf 204. Wom. ort Crowell” ‘ © Weiler. apis JAS. H. FRENCH. hg e ; paw ne, : ner, “JAMES MON 20, Soha Gouger’. Lediabereted. Dealer eter Mio t Jos . . Beef, Pork, Mutton, Cormed Beer, . 1°22 : Rie Wn Laarente, CORNED PORK, VEAL, &. Aastin SperSs iWo'Beicer, 7~ Meats sold at ble rates for Cash . KE A Kalisher” 1OM t. shop on ‘Broad Street, opposite the Neved . EL Beacan Sanaa elt . E Schoen, i First—No doubt whatever exists, that the’ Constant accessions to local capital threu,i — Payable in four installments of Tweat y-five 7 ——— ae Dad Se eee ren LOCA county Sun Drove Be, M. E. Church, day and Thurs commencing. al Dr Vincent ha school interest copal Charch, : bly known as-¢ field. Though ver of one_ of nominations, h all workers in ° and-all_ are t churches, to. th work, for the s¢ ers and friends afford te allow unimproved, parts of the ¢ wachers, and ¢ are interested . Stituday Sctiool repaid by the and suggestio worker, Let \ ty such a Co aad if such hel unce, what th Convention Wi iuske-of-ours-t The Sunday f Rev, J. W Hinds, who rey State Sunday wrod to this speak of the ge thtisiastic as w day School mec evst. Nearly absendance; at last day’s exe 3.000.° Amozy; ers of the Unit luittee was or was elected Be ly. We under of these who le stitute will vis turning to the Phillip Phil This distir give a Concert time. Mr. Phi School singer . gregational C said by those 1 be one of the t ted States. a Removal. Preston & their store on . Pine streets, u fice, and will ; 15th of May. fine style, New Rinks, The mania . tinues in this being laid in. anda rink w last of the Pi brook, of this or two for Mi rink at that p The Champ George Cha orders last we ot his” invent! rink was open 25 pairs of his floor. He has he can fill t tied Charch’s cellent. G District Cou Nesmith vs. fer partition 6 Waggoner: Ment for defe: ’ Patrick: 8 we land, was adi Court, adjon “ PAPC 8 ® cay City Marshal held two weel