August 24, 1873 (4 pages)

is e -mismanagement of their prodeces he os * the outset of reports of fraud and _ corruption on the parbof the American Commissioners, Geheral Van -“@ne awaits us. The Daily Transcript JEVADA CITY, CAL, Sunday, Aug. 24th, 1873, REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. L. W. WILLIAMS. For Assemblymen, H. ATWATER, BH. L. HATCH. B. D. BURT, -M, M. WHEELER a eS Poe here, — E, 0. TOMPKINS. For County Clerk, JOUN PATTISON. For County, Recorder, WM. GEORGE. For County Treasurer, E. .P. SANFORD. For Superintendent of Schools, FRANK POWER. ne For Coutty Surveyor, . BR. BODY. * — Por Public Administrator, {mercial street, San Francisco. —“Teonsisting of Hon. H.H. Haight and} Ld _ Whe Codes. ‘We have received the following circular signed by Stephen J. Field,, Jackson Temple, Johii W. }winelle: _ . Op the suggestion of the Justices of the Supreme Caurt, we have been appbinted by the Goverhor of the} 9 Two Cards in One. ' My first impressions, and when I left Liberty Hill were, to run as an mmdependent candidate for the Assembly. With the asstrance -of a gentleman of Grass Valley, who has my unbounded confidence, that should I run he would do all he State ‘to serve-as a, commission to , Legislature. on that-work-at our rooms, 630 Comi We have entered up-. Bar Association of San Francisco . had already appointed a committee, . W: W. Cope, T. J. Bergen, R. Har. ison and R. Tobin, . Esquires,—‘to . take into consideration and report a . plan for the révision of the codes re. cently passed by the Legislature, and for the amendment-or-revision. of the Constitution of the State.’ This} Committee, as well as.many of*the Judges and members of the bar,have already given us the benefit of their suggstions, and have prontised us. iS Fe SMR. * For Coroner, W. C. GROVES. _ForSupervisors, — W.C. RICHMOND, JOHN McCOY. T. BR. CRANDALL. The Van Buren Vienna Expose. That the United States’has escaped if at all,.a national disgrace, that is known throughout the civilization, may be attributed to our Minister to Avtria, Mr. Jay, says the San Francisco Alfa. It can scarcely’ be cluimed that we have escaped, for although the Commissioners ap_pointed in the place of those ‘suspected, accused, and suhsequently proven guilty of corruption, did all possible to remedy the evils resulting from the rascally transactions and sors, still the American portion ef . were a pair ef. gold bracelets and a further-assistance of that kind. We shall be glad to receive in our work the suggestions and advice, not only of the bench and_bar, but aiso.of . merchants, bankers, -teachers, miners, agrieulturalists, executive and ministeral officers, and of other persens engaged in the various branches of business carried on in the State, to meet them at our rooms, and to receive their suggestions in writing. Such suggestions will be more readily understood by us if they are put into the form of legislative enactments, and this will also lessen our labors. A NoveL.swimming match took place between five young girls in the East rivera few days since. They swam a half-mile, and the ‘prizes pair of coral ear rings. The girls were dressed in bathing suits, and, grand Exposilion was but a fee. indication of our country’s prothe way of agricultural, mechanical ahd inventive arts. At . pleted their half mile in fifteen min‘ y though the river was rough, comy utes. = eo wwe Naeve-rentus of the visitors to Stratford are Americans, and Englishmen of culture living within fifteen miles of the locality have never had the curiosity to look upon--the Buren Wrote very indignantly\abou; the charges preferred and the actign . altogether the truth of the charges. ~We are inclined not only to believe him, but also. to defend him. But upon second thought concluded to wait awhile. For we. reccollected that nearly twenty-two years ago, when a resident and-a citizen of this State, he was charged with obtaining a seat in the Staite Senate by means not at all honorable in those who did the: tminipulating. Cxpt. Fair, who had been the Whig candidate against Van Buren, informed the . i Dep he, Fair, was perfectly ~patisfied that he bad been elected, but had been chested out of his election by the minipulating of the returns. We have had some very significant instances of this system in our own city. Recollecting old times, we did not attempt vindicating Gen, Van Buren, but awaited . the report of the investigation ordered. It has tore, and we are sorry to "have to say that it does not leave Gen, Van Buren in a very favorable light. And as for hissecovd,; Mayer, there is no cleansing alkali sufficient to bleach his reputation to a decent complexion. This is a bad, shoWwitig for the American name in the fave of the assembled Europe; together with a fine wepresentation from South Atnerica, Africa and Asia, We have notheard thet any scandal of a mercenary character attaches to any other Commission batourown. Egypt, Bradil, ‘Turkey, have not been dishonored; we have been. Not merely in the establishment of grog shops—for that is the ¢errect term, however the shame of ptaprietors may dislike the name, howevét their genins may invent appellatieps cf less repulsive ‘soutid, such as ‘“‘saloon’’ “sampling rooms”—but in ‘exacting a bribe for the privilege und a division of the profits, Such were the acts thatdisgraced the American name. And now the question naturally arises: What is to be the intluence of such acts our own Exposition, three years hence? Can-we expect other . nations to exhibit ahy ‘such interest in it as they would have been likely to do had this disgrace been spared * G3? What confidence-can they have that a swindling, dishonest use will not be made of our advantages, when the whole Exposition will be within our borders? If eur Government “does not exercise mere judgment than it did in the Vienna matter, another humiliation amd’ a greater ik f + Hampshire-has decided to ‘‘cheerrenee? by Judge Widney. tomb of Shakspeare, but are content to gaze from a distance upon the ns. One ofthe sewing girls employed in making Graphic balloon is Miss McQuade of Rhiladelphia, who is entirely blind. Sh loes ‘lier work as neatly and quickly as~her more fortunate companions, guiding the long seams and avioding mistakes by her careful finger tips. : “JustLy proud of her position as one of the original thirteen,’’ New fully co-operate with her sister States in their efforts to make this" celebration (the centennial of 1876), worthy of the great. event it is intended to commemorate,'’ * a eas eS Tue total absence of boot-jacks, pomatum pots, and other household missiles in the remains of Swiss lacustrine villages leads Dr. Hartmann, the distinguished ethnologist, to the conclusion that the domestic eat was unknown to pre-historic man. AN experienced aeronaunt, who. numbers his. ascents by hundreds, says he never knew of a single case of diziness, Being the only point in space without any possibility of comparison with another, the means of becoming giddy are not at hand. A rumor is current at Teheran that the death of the Shah’s mother was due to some extent to the grief she experienced at the departure of her son. nim A MARKED bottle, thrown into the river at Niagara Falls, July 13th, safely made thé passage of Lake Ontario, and was picked-ap-in. Clement’s Bay, July 31st. ‘Tue peach crop is almost a total failure in Suuthern Zilinois this year. Union county, the great peach-producing region, has none for market. Tur $5,000 Tibet suit against the editor of the Macom}, fit. Eagle has been withdrawn by the plaintiff. On Trinity Mountain a terrific fire has been raging for a week past, twenty-five miles north of Shasta. — Tux San Diego World man has been acquitted on the charge of libel “exumine the codés adopted by the ‘nounced myself through the fou? lasteLegislature, and-to-prepare-such . amendments as seem to be necessary, . for the , consideration of the next . i} taken by our Government, et ASS of the church-that—covers—his} $144,793, 962. remai : could for me; (and whom _I regret to learn is. sti!kseriously ili) I anspirited papers of the county. J ran in gonveution on my merits, and asked no man to voteforme. The Grass Valley. delegation casting 21, out of 22 solid votes eagh against me, reminds me of hogs eating acoris without looking up to see who knqcks them down, Taxation without-representation was what. Col. Epbraim-+ Doolittle fought against in ¥.0-.] lutionary War,and conquered, (Why . Chinamen?). His saw mill was said to be-burned-down by a,scouting party of Indians. (Col. Joel Doolittle, his son,: inherited the mill rebnilt. _JoekDoolittle 2d, my father, likewise, who started for the battle of Plattsburgh but was not in time to participate in the fight.They were of the-elass of men of whom-~it} was said, ‘we'll subdne those haughty Democrats ;we’ll pull their dwellings down; we’ll have their States inhabited with subjects to the erown.’’ (In a horn.) I named my oldest son Jefferson, born. at Jefferson, South Yeba River, January 10th, 1856, in . honor of that illustriots patriot who . penned the Declaration of Independ=} ence, and who was the father of Demoeracy in the’ United States. My schoolmaster_in Cleaveland (I am in favor of compulsory, education) said it would have been better ifthe committee, (Findley was not then chairman,) had left it as it was, instead of expunging those words which they did. 2 The true issues before the people now_ate Democracy in the true sense of the word—maintained intact,—or the American nation is at its zenith, and soon to retrograde, with the but two classes, the immensely rich with their dependants and slaves; which caused the downfall of the Roman Republic nearly two thousand years ago. My millionaire partner, a gen-' erous, true, and kind hearted friend . of 25 years’ standing says, ‘‘The office-is without honor or -profit,’’ and with best regards for my frignds I withdraw my name from the political arena. Iam. Ce : Your Very Humble Servant, A. J. Doonirrue. Grass Vatley Union, Truckee Republican and North San Juan Times will please copy and send bill fur prompt payment to the Dutch Flat Bank or to the Raymond & Ely office, San Francisco. Ade D Nevada, Alig. 23d, 1873. 5 2. Be a . Gainsborough, realized $31,500. should it not be repeated against . : pany now mix their various compounds in Libby Prison, while the famous Castle Thunder, used during the war’as a prison for Southern deserters, is now the manufactory. and warehouse of a tebacco firm. ° Tue society ‘formed -by the young ladies of San Francisco for the supSecretary ‘to: have “gone up the ” ‘ flume.’’, Ata late sale of pictures in London, one canvass forty-eight by thirty-nine inches, ir traits-of two young ladies, by Ty ——— oo shortly found an. agricultural. and stock raising colony thereon. a —— oo $140,000. Butler fought a prize fight, -in which Butler got chawed up in eleven rounds. Garnier and Duley. will engage in ‘the coming Chicago billiard tournament. einnati are coming to the Pacific coast on an excursion. Vicrnzo Morto, an: Italian rascal, has beén arrested in New York for holding Italian boys in slavery. , Sermon To-Night. Rev. Mr.'Sims will. preach a sermon this eyening at the Congregational Church, 6ti the following subject: ‘‘Belteshazzar’s last night in imperial Babylon.”’ All are invited to attend. _ Preaching Sunday. Divine Services will be held in the Meth odist Church, Sunday morning at 11 0’clock, and in the evening at 7% o’clock. Sabbath, School at 2 o’clock, Pp. M. Rev. PL. Haynes Pastor. pes Preaching at the Congregational Church every Sunday morning and evening at the Trt amount of United States -meneys and securities redeemed and . destroyed during the year ending June 30th, 1873, shows a total of Average daily de$110,000. Amount of legal tenders destroyed during the year, $65,019,067. A Cuicaco paper asserts that while an old lady lay ill with meningitis at her home in Laporte, Ind., last week, her son procured some boards and proceeded to make a coffin in the same room. She entrea and the eeffin was about completed when she died, Jamks siaceeee .Roihanetaess a man enter his state. reom on the Red Wing, the other night>and then, ‘Pard,,can I leave my satchel in here?” He smelled a strong odor of. chloroform a minute, woke up in the morning and found he had been robbed of eighty-five dollars. ° Fcrton, Mendicino county, is growing rapidly. The freight business averages, $1,000 per month. The stage‘line established to Mark West Springs is duing an unexpectedly good business. It runs daily,connecting with trains: .A lafgeamount of grain is shipped from this point. A mos has captured Lescygus, Kansas, and threaten to hang the Sheriff unless he gives up a man who murdered his wife and two children last Sunday and afterwards barned their bodies. The Sheriff has him in concealment. Tur James surveying party (Colorado river) are encamped on the desert with Cocapah Indians, near the river, The project of filling the the Colorado is reported upon as feasible. = ne be : ; ville, Wisconsin, fell off ‘his ‘pulpit platform and broke hisarm.> It happened during an elecutionary climax. __I1mverant preachers are ‘accused of ereating trouble among the Indians at San Diego. . TEE Great Register of Sacramento county, contains 10,267 names, an increase of 492 over that of last year. Mrs. Pumomena Barry has been sent to the Insane Asylum from San _ . Francisco. struction of fraetional currency over. . him to desist, but he refused, . Colorado Desert from the water of Rev. E. D. Huntley, of Janesusual hours of worship. Sabbath school immediately after morning service. Rev. esi. . ery Sunday morning a. -11 o’clock, by Rev. Mr. Anderson. . : i Divine Services -at the Catholic Church Sunday morning at 10% o’clock. Sabbath School at 2, and Vespers at 7% P.M. Rev. Father Meagher, Pastor. Divine services will be held at the A.M. ¥E. Chufch Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Services in the evening at7% o’clock. Rev J.-C. Dorséy, Pastor. . Divine services in the Baptist Church, every sunday morning and evenihg, at the usual hours of worship. Sabbath school immediately after morning service. Preaching by Rev. H, P. McKusick. + COMMERCIAL INSURANCE COMPANY Of California. : California Street, Tallant’s New Bank Building, N. E. corner California and Lattery Sts. ID UP CAPITAL, $200,000 This. Company issues Policies against loss or age by Fire on Buildings, Merchandise, ‘Rurniture, Vessels in Port, Leases, Rents and other. insurable property, and against\ihe perils of Inland and Ocean navigation. \ C. W. KELLOGG, President. H. G. HORNER, Secretary. DIRECTO W. W. Dodge, uf W. W. Dodge & Go. Merchants. ‘ Claus Spreckels, Sugar Refinery. Selden 8. Wright, late Judge of Probate Court. = : W. A. Cummings, of W. B. Cummings Mma om ~ & Co., Merchants. C, F. MacDermot, Capitalist. : James M. Barney, of W. B. Hooper & Co, Mahan, “ oe C. W,. Kellogg, Wilmerding & Kellogg, Merchants. ” A. W. Jee, Capitalist. ; Peter Dean, Capitalist. John H. Wise, of Christy & Wise, Merchants. : C. J. Deering, of Deering & Co., Merchants, Levy Stevens, Bauker. Union Telegraph Company. E. T. Gile, of Gile, Hayes & Co., Merchants, Charles Main, of Main & Winchcster, ae Ww. B . B, Hoeper, o . B. Hoo Be Merchants. — — a” G. L, Bradley, of Bradley & Cockrill, Merchants. ; James Phelan, Capitalist. SACRAMENTO. . H.S8. Crocker, of H. 8S. Croeker & Co., Merchants. N D. Thayer, Capitalist. F.8. Freeman. of Woodland, Merchant. D. H. Haskell, C. P. R.R. The Commercial Insurance Company has no cennection with combinations; its busi-: ness’ is transacted at the lowest paying rates of premium; each hazard is judged. ~~ its gh pone at and treated without erence ar rules or vexatious regulation a 8. ; WM. H. DAVIDSON. Agent, for Nevada City. ‘PIANO FOR SALE. OX Seven Octave Upright Piano for sale. Price, $150. aire at Book and Music store of a23 ‘Nevada, August 21, 1873, Tue Southern Fertilizing Compression of slang, is reported by the . and bearing the-porsr es + . May 6th, IStipwe havefixed the 24th day of Gro. Gant, of London, has puerfer the hearing of proofs to determine as Ghcsed a county i Ranma and wilt] Se mSete ce seeicstitnesl chamatet ot Tus Mennonites who have gone . West brouglit with them $340,000 in . gold. One hoary Menncnite—badOn Saturday, the 16th inst, ~at. Fulton, Arkansas, Billy Ward and . Turety prominent citizens of CinEpiscopal services at the Court House evFFICE IN SAN: FRANCISCO, NO. 228 President California James Gamble, Superintendent Western . GEO. W. WELCH. ; United States Land Office. Sacramento, Cal. August 19th 1873. © S. D. Merchant; Thomas Mein, FR: Wing, Oscar Maltthan, Peter Ismert . and Elijah Prior, and to all. whom it may concern; Whereas, you filed your affidavits in the U.S, Land Office, alleging the N B % of N W \. aid NW \ of N E North, Raffte 8 East, to ‘be ‘mineral in character, aud by Commissioner’s letter dated December “2g the sameland is to be treated as Isineral’in character, and more valusble for niining than for agricultural . purposes until thecontrary 1s proved after ate notice. And whereas, Philander Sutton (Post-office addrest\Nevada City, Cal.) did, on the 3d day of March, 1473, file in } the Register’s office of thit.Distzict his . homestesd application No. 546;claiming the same land, and.an affidavit alleging that / it is agricultural in character, and More ‘Valuable for agricultural than for mining. . . purpescs. Therefore;~you will please notice; that-ander-—and by virtue instructions. from, the —_Commissioner of the General Land Office, dated . Sept. A. -D. 1873, at 10 o'cfock A. M., at . this office, before the Registerand Receiver, eaid-jands. . a; . {==)In wittiess‘ whereof, we have here. } seal unto Set our hands” and ‘affixed the . —~ seal of this office, the day and the . year first above written. om T. B. McFARLAND, Register. % HART FELLOWS, Receiver. . Dibble & Byrne, Attys. a22' ; . THE STATE INVESTMENT . INSURANCE COMPANY _ FIRE AND MARINE: —— Cash Assets, $300,000. RINCIPAL OFFICK, 409 CALIFORNIA STREET, * » $AN FRANCISCO. OFFICERS : Peter Donahue. President. A.J. Bryant, Vice President, Chas. H. Cushing, Secretary. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. H. H: Haight, A. J. Bryant, c. D, O'Sullivan, John H,. Saunders. Peter Donahue E. W. Oorbert,:. Geo. O'McMullin, John J. Marks, John Middleton, Frank M. Pixley, A.B Ruthertord, E, Burke,. H. W. Beale, je Wie DEO Alexander Austin, W. A. Piper, M: Mayblum, Richard Ivers, Hugh Whittell, Thos. J Owens. John Rosenfeld. =~, P. H: Kussell, Sacramento, fno. @. Downey, F. P. F. Angeles. : The State Investment Comnany has n») connection With Insurance Co avinations; its business is transavte (at tre low st paying rates of premium; each hazard is judged by &s own merits, ani treated without refecence to arvitrary rales o} vexetious re,ulations. 3 E. W. BIGELOW & CO., Agents for Nevada City. “DRESS MAKING. ‘Temple, Los a22 . Children’s Clothing of all Kinds. '__WRS. SHEA ESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCES to, the ladies of Nevada City and vicinity that sbe is now prepared to fill all orders for ladies dresses, Dresses cut and made in the best and most fashionable styles, and at the lowest prices. { Dress patterns of all kinds for sale. Mrs. Shea can be found at rooms epposite National Exchange Hotel. 022 GRAND REPUBLICAN RALLY. L. W. WILLIAMS, B. D. BURT, H. ATWATER, ocho: hi Ae M. M. WHEELER, 7 FRANK POWER, oe _ AND OTHERS, Will address the citizens of Nevada County at the following Rp times and plades : OMEGA. \_ Saturday Evening, August 23d. ~ N WASHINGTON, Monday Evening, August 25th. TRUCKEE, Wednesday Evening, Aug. 27th. ROUGH & READY, _ Friday Evening, Aug. 29th. GRASS VALLEY. Satarday Evening, August 30th. YOU BET, Monday Evening,September Ist. NEVADA, "Tuesday Evening, Sept. 2nd. _ Local Committees are requested to make rrangements for the Ht g tad Every is invited to attend ; the issues of the campaign discussed. Pe By order County Central Committee. & 4 G. BELL, Chairman. al2 » 5 At of Silks All good = Business everything that oes Seal 4 $< _—— GREAT BARGAINS . ~ § : ‘ 9 : A. BLUMENTHAL, Pantie : he has purchinged the Stock of ILD respectfully L ‘inform t eof Nevada City he Pro. Dry & Fanty Goods <a ~IN°’LHE STORE, Py “ ON THE Corner of Broad and Pine $s, NEVADA CITY, a Low Figure! And now dffers every ar. ticle in store at . t . LOWER RATES Than they can be bought any where else in this county or State. ea The stockconsists in part Dress Goods ! Of every kind and quality, such as of different_kinds, Irish and ‘French Poplins, Grenadines, Alpaccas, Merinos, Calicos and a great many other kinds too numerous too mention; to which I invite the es: pecial attention of the Ladies. —_——_ a HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS! In this line will be found every ar-ticle necessary for use in a-family, such ag Blankets, Towels, Napkins, Sheetings and many other thing’ which purchasers ‘need for comfor and convenience. < eal Fancy Goods ! T have on hand a splendid stock of Goods in this line which embraces so many articles that it is impossible to attempt to. enumerate them, but I invite the Ladies to call and sé this-class-of goods-_. k in this line is large a4 and embraces almost * of these Goods are first elas. and Lintend.to: give the ladies * if not better bargains in t? can get at any other establishment this State. Cor. Broad and Pine S* Nevada, Aug. 22; 1873. ‘and Vicinity that . Wew zens to. “and. £0 1 aniining places a ~ them fr _ collecte Our cil every b ~ nance i pipes tl baildin: flues, 1¢ the-ow nance. coo}, al will be dry wi winds forad every flues a s0 loss avertec The with st dell, w Count; charge horses acquit was CC sulted Afte the ec: forger Searls Distri ecutio _ Jos at Hy. "May been . retur1 again they place one o E. 2. urer, Coun speak ant re have“Satisfi form for th We repre resid: centl, semb Fran hono dere¢ sent _whie “McC intro labor McC: fixed for y for k cour for ¢ had old « unse said

is e -mismanagement of their prodeces he os * the outset of reports of fraud and _ corruption on the parbof the American Commissioners, Geheral Van -“@ne awaits us. The Daily Transcript JEVADA CITY, CAL, Sunday, Aug. 24th, 1873, REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. L. W. WILLIAMS. For Assemblymen, H. ATWATER, BH. L. HATCH. B. D. BURT, -M, M. WHEELER a eS Poe here, — E, 0. TOMPKINS. For County Clerk, JOUN PATTISON. For County, Recorder, WM. GEORGE. For County Treasurer, E. .P. SANFORD. For Superintendent of Schools, FRANK POWER. ne For Coutty Surveyor, . BR. BODY.. * — Por Public Administrator, {mercial street, San Francisco. —“Teonsisting of Hon. H.H. Haight and} Ld _ Whe Codes. ‘We have received the following circular signed by Stephen J. Field,, Jackson Temple, Johii W. }winelle: _ . Op the suggestion of the Justices of the Supreme Caurt, we have been appbinted by the Goverhor of the} 9 Two Cards in One. ' My first impressions, and when I left Liberty Hill were, to run as an mmdependent candidate for the Assembly. With the asstrance -of a gentleman of Grass Valley, who has my unbounded confidence, that should I run he would do all he State ‘to serve-as a, commission to , Legislature. on that-work-at our rooms, 630 Comi We have entered up-. Bar Association of San Francisco . had already appointed a committee, . W: W. Cope, T. J. Bergen, R. Har. ison and R. Tobin, . Esquires,—‘to . take into consideration and report a . plan for the révision of the codes re. cently passed by the Legislature, and for the amendment-or-revision. of the Constitution of the State.’ This} Committee, as well as.many of*the Judges and members of the bar,have already given us the benefit of their suggstions, and have prontised us. iS Fe SMR. * For Coroner, W. C. GROVES. _ForSupervisors, — W.C. RICHMOND, JOHN McCOY. T. BR. CRANDALL. The Van Buren Vienna Expose. That the United States’has escaped if at all,.a national disgrace, that is known throughout the civilization, may be attributed to our Minister to Avtria, Mr. Jay, says the San Francisco Alfa. It can scarcely’ be cluimed that we have escaped, for although the Commissioners ap_pointed in the place of those ‘suspected, accused, and suhsequently proven guilty of corruption, did all possible to remedy the evils resulting from the rascally transactions and sors, still the American portion ef . were a pair ef. gold bracelets and a further-assistance of that kind. We shall be glad to receive in our work the suggestions and advice, not only of the bench and_bar, but aiso.of . merchants, bankers, -teachers, miners, agrieulturalists, executive and ministeral officers, and of other persens engaged in the various branches of business carried on in the State, to meet them at our rooms, and to receive their suggestions in writing. Such suggestions will be more readily understood by us if they are put into the form of legislative enactments, and this will also lessen our labors. A NoveL.swimming match took place between five young girls in the East rivera few days since. They swam a half-mile, and the ‘prizes pair of coral ear rings. The girls were dressed in bathing suits, and, grand Exposilion was but a fee. indication of our country’s prothe way of agricultural, mechanical ahd inventive arts. At . pleted their half mile in fifteen min‘ y though the river was rough, comy utes. = eo wwe Naeve-rentus of the visitors to Stratford are Americans, and Englishmen of culture living within fifteen miles of the locality have never had the curiosity to look upon--the Buren Wrote very indignantly\abou; the charges preferred and the actign . altogether the truth of the charges. ~We are inclined not only to believe him, but also. to defend him. But upon second thought concluded to wait awhile. For we. reccollected that nearly twenty-two years ago, when a resident and-a citizen of this State, he was charged with obtaining a seat in the Staite Senate by means not at all honorable in those who did the: tminipulating. Cxpt. Fair, who had been the Whig candidate against Van Buren, informed the . i Dep he, Fair, was perfectly ~patisfied that he bad been elected, but had been chested out of his election by the minipulating of the returns. We have had some very significant instances of this system in our own city. Recollecting old times, we did not attempt vindicating Gen, Van Buren, but awaited . the report of the investigation ordered. It has tore, and we are sorry to "have to say that it does not leave Gen, Van Buren in a very favorable light. And as for hissecovd,; Mayer, there is no cleansing alkali sufficient to bleach his reputation to a decent complexion. This is a bad, shoWwitig for the American name in the fave of the assembled Europe; together with a fine wepresentation from South Atnerica, Africa and Asia, We have notheard thet any scandal of a mercenary character attaches to any other Commission batourown. Egypt, Bradil, ‘Turkey, have not been dishonored; we have been. Not merely in the establishment of grog shops—for that is the ¢errect term, however the shame of ptaprietors may dislike the name, howevét their genins may invent appellatieps cf less repulsive ‘soutid, such as ‘“‘saloon’’ “sampling rooms”—but in ‘exacting a bribe for the privilege und a division of the profits, Such were the acts thatdisgraced the American name. And now the question naturally arises: What is to be the intluence of such acts our own Exposition, three years hence? Can-we expect other . nations to exhibit ahy ‘such interest in it as they would have been likely to do had this disgrace been spared * G3? What confidence-can they have that a swindling, dishonest use will not be made of our advantages, when the whole Exposition will be within our borders? If eur Government “does not exercise mere judgment than it did in the Vienna matter, another humiliation amd’ a greater ik f + Hampshire-has decided to ‘‘cheerrenee? by Judge Widney. tomb of Shakspeare, but are content to gaze from a distance upon the ns. One ofthe sewing girls employed in making Graphic balloon is Miss McQuade of Rhiladelphia, who is entirely blind. Sh loes ‘lier work as neatly and quickly as~her more fortunate companions, guiding the long seams and avioding mistakes by her careful finger tips. : “JustLy proud of her position as one of the original thirteen,’’ New fully co-operate with her sister States in their efforts to make this" celebration (the centennial of 1876), worthy of the great. event it is intended to commemorate,'’ * a eas eS Tue total absence of boot-jacks, pomatum pots, and other household missiles in the remains of Swiss lacustrine villages leads Dr. Hartmann, the distinguished ethnologist, to the conclusion that the domestic eat was unknown to pre-historic man. AN experienced aeronaunt, who. numbers his. ascents by hundreds, says he never knew of a single case of diziness, Being the only point in space without any possibility of comparison with another, the means of becoming giddy are not at hand. A rumor is current at Teheran that the death of the Shah’s mother was due to some extent to the grief she experienced at the departure of her son. nim A MARKED bottle, thrown into the river at Niagara Falls, July 13th, safely made thé passage of Lake Ontario, and was picked-ap-in. Clement’s Bay, July 31st. ‘Tue peach crop is almost a total failure in Suuthern Zilinois this year. Union county, the great peach-producing region, has none for market. Tur $5,000 Tibet suit against the editor of the Macom}, fit. Eagle has been withdrawn by the plaintiff. On Trinity Mountain a terrific fire has been raging for a week past, twenty-five miles north of Shasta. — Tux San Diego World man has been acquitted on the charge of libel “exumine the codés adopted by the ‘nounced myself through the fou? lasteLegislature, and-to-prepare-such . amendments as seem to be necessary, . for the , consideration of the next . i} taken by our Government, et ASS of the church-that—covers—his} $144,793, 962. remai : could for me; (and whom _I regret to learn is. sti!kseriously ili) I anspirited papers of the county. J ran in gonveution on my merits, and asked no man to voteforme. The Grass Valley. delegation casting 21, out of 22 solid votes eagh against me, reminds me of hogs eating acoris without looking up to see who knqcks them down, Taxation without-representation was what. Col. Epbraim-+ Doolittle fought against in ¥.0-.] lutionary War,and conquered, (Why . Chinamen?). His saw mill was said to be-burned-down by a,scouting party of Indians. (Col. Joel Doolittle, his son,: inherited the mill rebnilt. _JoekDoolittle 2d, my father, likewise, who started for the battle of Plattsburgh but was not in time to participate in the fight..They were of the-elass of men of whom-~it} was said, ‘we'll subdne those haughty Democrats ;we’ll pull their dwellings down; we’ll have their States inhabited with subjects to the erown.’’ (In a horn.) I named my oldest son Jefferson, born. at Jefferson, South Yeba River, January 10th, 1856, in . honor of that illustriots patriot who . penned the Declaration of Independ=} ence, and who was the father of Demoeracy in the’ United States. My schoolmaster_in Cleaveland (I am in favor of compulsory, education) said it would have been better ifthe committee, (Findley was not then chairman,) had left it as it was, instead of expunging those words which they did. 2 The true issues before the people now_ate Democracy in the true sense of the word—maintained intact,—or the American nation is at its zenith, and soon to retrograde, with the but two classes, the immensely rich with their dependants and slaves; which caused the downfall of the Roman Republic nearly two thousand years ago. My millionaire partner, a gen-' erous, true, and kind hearted friend . of 25 years’ standing says, ‘‘The office-is without honor or -profit,’’ and with best regards for my frignds I withdraw my name from the political arena. Iam. Ce : Your Very Humble Servant, A. J. Doonirrue. Grass Vatley Union, Truckee Republican and North San Juan Times will please copy and send bill fur prompt payment to the Dutch Flat Bank or to the Raymond & Ely office, San Francisco. Ade D Nevada, Alig. 23d, 1873. 5 2. Be a . Gainsborough, realized $31,500. should it not be repeated against . : pany now mix their various compounds in Libby Prison, while the famous Castle Thunder, used during the war’as a prison for Southern deserters, is now the manufactory. and warehouse of a tebacco firm. ° Tue society ‘formed -by the young ladies of San Francisco for the supSecretary ‘to: have “gone up the ” ‘ flume.’’, Ata late sale of pictures in London, one canvass forty-eight by thirty-nine inches, ir traits-of two young ladies, by Ty ——— oo shortly found an. agricultural. and stock raising colony thereon. a —— oo $140,000. Butler fought a prize fight, -in which Butler got chawed up in eleven rounds. Garnier and Duley. will engage in ‘the coming Chicago billiard tournament. einnati are coming to the Pacific coast on an excursion. Vicrnzo Morto, an: Italian rascal, has beén arrested in New York for holding Italian boys in slavery. , Sermon To-Night. Rev. Mr.'Sims will. preach a sermon this eyening at the Congregational Church, 6ti the following subject: ‘‘Belteshazzar’s last night in imperial Babylon.”’ All are invited to attend. _ Preaching Sunday. Divine Services will be held in the Meth odist Church, Sunday morning at 11 0’clock, and in the evening at 7% o’clock. Sabbath, School at 2 o’clock, Pp. M. Rev. PL. Haynes Pastor. pes Preaching at the Congregational Church every Sunday morning and evening at the Trt amount of United States -meneys and securities redeemed and . destroyed during the year ending June 30th, 1873, shows a total of Average daily de$110,000. Amount of legal tenders destroyed during the year, $65,019,067. A Cuicaco paper asserts that while an old lady lay ill with meningitis at her home in Laporte, Ind., last week, her son procured some boards and proceeded to make a coffin in the same room. She entrea and the eeffin was about completed when she died, Jamks siaceeee .Roihanetaess a man enter his state. reom on the Red Wing, the other night>and then, ‘Pard,,can I leave my satchel in here?” He smelled a strong odor of. chloroform a minute, woke up in the morning and found he had been robbed of eighty-five dollars. ° Fcrton, Mendicino county, is growing rapidly. The freight business averages, $1,000 per month. The stage‘line established to Mark West Springs is duing an unexpectedly good business.. It runs daily,connecting with trains: .A lafgeamount of grain is shipped from this point. A mos has captured Lescygus, Kansas, and threaten to hang the Sheriff unless he gives up a man who murdered his wife and two children last Sunday and afterwards barned their bodies. The Sheriff has him in concealment. Tur James surveying party (Colorado river) are encamped on the desert with Cocapah Indians, near the river, The project of filling the the Colorado is reported upon as feasible. = ne be : ; ville, Wisconsin, fell off ‘his ‘pulpit platform and broke hisarm.> It happened during an elecutionary climax. __I1mverant preachers are ‘accused of ereating trouble among the Indians at San Diego. . TEE Great Register of Sacramento

county, contains 10,267 names, an increase of 492 over that of last year. Mrs. Pumomena Barry has been sent to the Insane Asylum from San _ . Francisco. struction of fraetional currency over. . him to desist, but he refused, . Colorado Desert from the water of Rev. E. D. Huntley, of Janesusual hours of worship. Sabbath school immediately after morning service. Rev. esi. . ery Sunday morning a. -11 o’clock, by Rev. Mr. Anderson. . : i Divine Services -at the Catholic Church Sunday morning at 10% o’clock. Sabbath School at 2, and Vespers at 7% P.M. Rev. Father Meagher, Pastor. Divine services will be held at the A.M. ¥E. Chufch Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Services in the evening at7% o’clock. Rev J.-C. Dorséy, Pastor. . Divine services in the Baptist Church, every sunday morning and evenihg, at the usual hours of worship. Sabbath school immediately after morning service. Preaching by Rev. H, P. McKusick. + COMMERCIAL INSURANCE COMPANY Of California. : California Street, Tallant’s New Bank Building, N. E. corner California and Lattery Sts. ID UP CAPITAL, $200,000 This. Company issues Policies against loss or age by Fire on Buildings, Merchandise, ‘Rurniture, Vessels in Port, Leases, Rents and other. insurable property, and against\ihe perils of Inland and Ocean navigation. \ C. W. KELLOGG, President. H. G. HORNER, Secretary. DIRECTO W. W. Dodge, uf W. W. Dodge & Go. Merchants. ‘ Claus Spreckels, Sugar Refinery. Selden 8. Wright, late Judge of Probate Court. = : W. A. Cummings, of W. B. Cummings Mma om ~ & Co., Merchants. C, F. MacDermot, Capitalist. : James M. Barney, of W. B. Hooper & Co, Mahan, “ oe C. W,. Kellogg, Wilmerding & Kellogg, Merchants. ” A. W. Jee, Capitalist. ; Peter Dean, Capitalist. John H. Wise, of Christy & Wise, Merchants. : C. J. Deering, of Deering & Co., Merchants, Levy Stevens, Bauker. Union Telegraph Company. E. T. Gile, of Gile, Hayes & Co., Merchants, Charles Main, of Main & Winchcster, ae Ww. B . B, Hoeper, o . B. Hoo Be Merchants. — — a” G. L, Bradley, of Bradley & Cockrill, Merchants. ; James Phelan, Capitalist. SACRAMENTO. . H.S8. Crocker, of H. 8S. Croeker & Co., Merchants. N D. Thayer, Capitalist. F.8. Freeman. of Woodland, Merchant. D. H. Haskell, C. P. R.R. The Commercial Insurance Company has no cennection with combinations; its busi-: ness’ is transacted at the lowest paying rates of premium; each hazard is judged. ~~ its gh pone at and treated without erence ar rules or vexatious regulation a 8. ; WM. H. DAVIDSON. Agent, for Nevada City. ‘PIANO FOR SALE. OX Seven Octave Upright Piano for sale. Price, $150. aire at Book and Music store of a23 ‘Nevada, August 21, 1873, Tue Southern Fertilizing Compression of slang, is reported by the . and bearing the-porsr es + . May 6th, IStipwe havefixed the 24th day of Gro. Gant, of London, has puerfer the hearing of proofs to determine as Ghcsed a county i Ranma and wilt] Se mSete ce seeicstitnesl chamatet ot Tus Mennonites who have gone . West brouglit with them $340,000 in . gold. One hoary Menncnite—badOn Saturday, the 16th inst, ~at. Fulton, Arkansas, Billy Ward and . Turety prominent citizens of CinEpiscopal services at the Court House evFFICE IN SAN: FRANCISCO, NO. 228 President California James Gamble, Superintendent Western . GEO. W. WELCH. ; United States Land Office. Sacramento, Cal. August 19th 1873. © S. D. Merchant; Thomas Mein, FR: Wing, Oscar Maltthan, Peter Ismert . and Elijah Prior, and to all. whom it may concern; Whereas, you filed your affidavits in the U.S, Land Office, alleging the N B % of N W \. aid NW \ of N E North, Raffte 8 East, to ‘be ‘mineral in character, aud by Commissioner’s letter dated December “2g the sameland is to be treated as Isineral’in character, and more valusble for niining than for agricultural . purposes until thecontrary 1s proved after ate notice. And whereas, Philander Sutton (Post-office addrest\Nevada City, Cal.) did, on the 3d day of March, 1473, file in } the Register’s office of thit.Distzict his . homestesd application No. 546;claiming the same land, and.an affidavit alleging that / it is agricultural in character, and More ‘Valuable for agricultural than for mining. . . purpescs. Therefore;~you will please notice; that-ander-—and by virtue instructions. from, the —_Commissioner of the General Land Office, dated . Sept. A. -D. 1873, at 10 o'cfock A. M., at . this office, before the Registerand Receiver, eaid-jands. . a; . {==)In wittiess‘ whereof, we have here. } seal unto Set our hands” and ‘affixed the . —~ seal of this office, the day and the . year first above written. om T. B. McFARLAND, Register. % HART FELLOWS, Receiver. . Dibble & Byrne, Attys. a22' ; . THE STATE INVESTMENT . INSURANCE COMPANY _ FIRE AND MARINE: —— Cash Assets, $300,000. RINCIPAL OFFICK, 409 CALIFORNIA STREET, * » $AN FRANCISCO. OFFICERS : Peter Donahue. President. A.J. Bryant, Vice President, Chas. H. Cushing, Secretary. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. H. H: Haight, A. J. Bryant, c. D, O'Sullivan, John H,. Saunders. Peter Donahue E. W. Oorbert,:. Geo. O'McMullin, John J. Marks, John Middleton, Frank M. Pixley, A.B Ruthertord, E, Burke,. H. W. Beale, je Wie DEO Alexander Austin, W. A. Piper, M: Mayblum, Richard Ivers, Hugh Whittell, Thos. J Owens. John Rosenfeld. =~, P. H: Kussell, Sacramento, fno. @. Downey, F. P. F. Angeles. : The State Investment Comnany has n») connection With Insurance Co avinations; its business is transavte (at tre low st paying rates of premium; each hazard is judged by &s own merits, ani treated without refecence to arvitrary rales o} vexetious re,ulations. 3 E. W. BIGELOW & CO., Agents for Nevada City. “DRESS MAKING. ‘Temple, Los a22 . Children’s Clothing of all Kinds. '__WRS. SHEA ESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCES to, the ladies of Nevada City and vicinity that sbe is now prepared to fill all orders for ladies dresses, Dresses cut and made in the best and most fashionable styles, and at the lowest prices. { Dress patterns of all kinds for sale. Mrs. Shea can be found at rooms epposite National Exchange Hotel. 022 GRAND REPUBLICAN RALLY. L. W. WILLIAMS, B. D. BURT, H. ATWATER, ocho: hi Ae M. M. WHEELER, 7 FRANK POWER, oe _ AND OTHERS, Will address the citizens of Nevada County at the following Rp times and plades : OMEGA. \_ Saturday Evening, August 23d. ~ N WASHINGTON, Monday Evening, August 25th. TRUCKEE, Wednesday Evening, Aug. 27th. ROUGH & READY, _ Friday Evening, Aug. 29th. GRASS VALLEY. Satarday Evening, August 30th. YOU BET, Monday Evening,September Ist. NEVADA, "Tuesday Evening, Sept. 2nd. _ Local Committees are requested to make rrangements for the Ht g tad Every is invited to attend ; the issues of the campaign discussed. Pe By order County Central Committee. & 4 G. BELL, Chairman. al2 » 5 At of Silks All good = Business everything that oes Seal 4 $< _—— GREAT BARGAINS . ~ § : ‘ 9 : A. BLUMENTHAL, Pantie : he has purchinged the Stock of ILD respectfully L ‘inform t eof Nevada City he Pro. Dry & Fanty Goods <a ~IN°’LHE STORE, Py “ ON THE Corner of Broad and Pine $s, NEVADA CITY, a Low Figure! And now dffers every ar. ticle in store at . t . LOWER RATES Than they can be bought any where else in this county or State. ea The stockconsists in part Dress Goods ! Of every kind and quality, such as of different_kinds, Irish and ‘French Poplins, Grenadines, Alpaccas, Merinos, Calicos and a great many other kinds too numerous too mention; to which I invite the es: pecial attention of the Ladies. —_——_ a HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS! In this line will be found every ar-ticle necessary for use in a-family, such ag Blankets, Towels, Napkins, Sheetings and many other thing’ which purchasers ‘need for comfor and convenience. < eal Fancy Goods ! T have on hand a splendid stock of Goods in this line which embraces so many articles that it is impossible to attempt to. enumerate them, but I invite the Ladies to call and sé this-class-of goods-_. k in this line is large a4 and embraces almost * of these Goods are first elas. and Lintend.to: give the ladies * if not better bargains in t? can get at any other establishment this State. Cor. Broad and Pine S* Nevada, Aug. 22; 1873. ‘and Vicinity that . Wew zens to. “and. £0 1 aniining places a ~ them fr _ collecte Our cil every b ~ nance i pipes tl baildin: flues, 1¢ the-ow nance. coo}, al will be dry wi winds forad every flues a s0 loss avertec The with st dell, w Count; charge horses acquit was CC sulted Afte the ec: forger Searls Distri ecutio _ Jos at Hy. "May been . retur1 again they place one o E. 2. urer, Coun speak ant re have“Satisfi form for th We repre resid: centl, semb Fran hono dere¢ sent _whie “McC intro labor McC: fixed for y for k cour for ¢ had old « unse said