Enter a name, company, place or keywords to search across this item. Then click "Search" (or hit Enter).
Collection: Newspapers > Nevada Daily Transcript (1863-1868)
June 10, 1870 (4 pages)

Copy the Page Text to the Clipboard

Show the Page Image

Show the Image Page Text


More Information About this Image

Get a Citation for Page or Image - Copy to the Clipboard

Go to the Previous Page (or Left Arrow key)

Go to the Next Page (or Right Arrow key)
Page: of 4

throughout the United States, that sho
= pesca Sostmartconnes Aaah or aie
ekins will be so scarce as to. be co
sity. But the common belief on this
subject is not Sastained by statistics,
ing, betadt de Valpidiy Soy’ atby-cillans os
is generally Gapposed. “When the first
European settlements were made in
what is now the United States, the
number of Indians in the country, ae 4
éording to the best ‘alithorities, was
about half # ‘million. This ‘estimate
: above or below the trae numer, ag fhefe ids ‘mever. lias been avy
means of arriving at accaracy in regard
to the Indian population. According
to the late report of Indian Commie
sioner Parker, the presént Indian population is estimated at ‘over 300,000.
The Alaska Indians ate not included in
either ‘estimate. Parker, himeclf an
Indian; shares in the general opidion
ot the race disappearing, and would not
be likely to over estimate their present
number. It would thus appear that af
ter two hundred and fifty years contact
with the whites, three-fifths of the original number stili retain «their tribal
character. Even at this rate, a good
many of the race would be alive and
sean Ook ta thousand years
from the time they began‘to adopt the
vices of civilized life. In addition to
this, when we take into account the
large number of aborigines who have
abandoned their tribal life, and become
amalgamated with the whites, it may:
well be questionied whether they have .
not very nearly held their own in the
struggle for life. They had undoubt.
édly bedn a stationery race, for a long
period atiterior to the “European séttlement of the continent, their numbers
the different tribes. > Siti whole
tribes were exterminated, for they
another than they bave towards the
unfortunate whites that have been in
~their power. We can only conjecture
what their condition would have been
now, had the continent never been discovered by Europeans, but it would not
be difficalt to show that contact with
civilization has been no disadvantage
to them.
— ee : ‘
A RurorT from the State Department to the House of Representatives
gives statistics of arrivals of passengers
from foreign parts, including immigrants. ‘We deduce from it the following items: More than half @ million of .
passengers arrived at our ports in the
" Yeats 1868 and 1869; the number in the
latter having been twice that in the
former yeat. Nine-tenths of all were
immigrants who purposed remaining
Seventy-five per cont arrived at New
York ;'11 per cent in California, 10 per
cent ia Massachusetts, and in M
less than 4. per cent; in ee
about 8} per cont, and legs than 1 per
cent in any. other State. ‘The immigrants. from Germany exceeded those
“from Great Britain by 10,000; two
thitda of all came from those countries; .
‘About 8 per cont from Sweden and Nor. .
way. China and British North Ameri.
a farnished .about 4} per cent, China
being a little in excess; Switzerland,
Denmark, France and Prussia contributed each frotm mearly 1 to about 1}-per
om ;
“ies flocx—_The Calaveras Chron” gole says: We have been shown by Mr.
Louttit of our town, some of the richSey ’ weal fais
ll, -amd ae
— eatichaction thet the mill men of the
mills. The separator, or slime washer,
is the inveation of Rawlins’ & Stevens,
and for cheapness of constraction, siming the sands and De ierenc cian:
ly over the revolving table. The sands
are washed Off before the table makes
its round, and at the proper point a
brisk stream of fresh water carries the
sulphurets into a tank which is made
for the patpess.’ “Yn thé “round #hich
the table makes the gently flowing water carries off the sand and lighter matter, leaving even the finest sulphurets
for the clear «water ‘to’ wasls into the
sulphuret tanks. The even distribution
of water over the table is most inge‘Biously arrranged for by a stationary
chine. Some idea of the value of this
separator may be formed by the result
of its three months work at the Wis
consin. The tailings put through it at
that mill were first wurked over in the
mill by some of the old style separa‘tors, and after being so worked were
sett down tothe Rawlins & Stevens’
machine. ‘The process in the mill saved
thirty tons of sulphurete, and then the
+uew machine took hold of the tailings
ao worked and got from them twentyone tons of sulphirets.
i en omens party of pros.
. pectors have just returned from a pros. pecting toar after gold from Lower Calafornia. . They penetrated. some dis‘tance into the country, and found
abundant evidences of gold and silver
deposits. The Indians exhibited mar
vellously rich spécimesis of rhailk-white
_. quartz thickly studded with gold, but
, . sullenly_refused to give information. of.
the’ whéréabonts ‘of thé ledges from
which they were obtained. The squaws
wore gold specimens strung as beads,
and no one of the party has the least
doubt that marvellously rich deposits
exist in that section. At one time the
entire company were ‘without water for
seventy hours, but a spring wae fortunately strack, and a disastrous ending
of the expidition .was aveided, The
stock of provisions giving out the expedition returned satisfied as stated with
the prospects, and bring rich specimens
from croppings, but without having acA portion of the same party, wikuewe
new recruits, will start ona fresh ex.
ploring expedition to the same quarter.
RELIGION AND THE CeNsUs.— While
the ninth ceneuyig to bevery full in all
matters relating to the material interéate and business of the people, bat
little is demanded under the head of
religion. The inquiries are confined to
the number ef church organizations,
number of church edifices, the denominations, the total number of persons
which the churches of each denomination will accommodate, and the value
of charch property. At the time the cenaus. bill was before Congress it was suggested that each person be required to
state what his belief was, or
rather what religion he ‘professed, but
the suggestion was rejected on the
‘ground of its prying into the haman
conscienée. So that it was finally decided to ignore the spiritual part of Teligion and confine the inquiry to the
} material part, in the shape of churches,
thelr aeommodation and value.
er City of Rogusa, left. Liverpool for
. New York on the 3ist of She is}
Provisions for three monthe.
; “orth” dock ‘or chronometer along the’
of a sidereal pendulam, swinging in
have been very prevalent of late in this
A SMaLL~Crarr.—The telegraph
gives information that the little steamonly 21 feet long, carries a crew of two
vatiicy, tet en paepeue af determining
the longitude of St.Louis.. The signals}.
consisted of a comparison of the local
This was done by transmitting the beats
wires sat Ee eee ‘coincidence
G peaches ‘the aaaes. of a large
sidereal clock; by w simple bat ingen
ions contrivance, was] placed in direct . '
, 30 that “edch oscillation
broke the cireaisn@ was transmitted . .
to St. Louis by a single Aapof the instrument. The signals from St. Louis.
were somewhat different. Every fifth
setond: Of a ‘solar elifotiometer : was
transmitted, and then every second,and
lastly every tenth second each throughout a minute._Everything worked
to a charm. The clattering tongues
of the telegraph instruments were
hushed for'a'time, and’ the steady beat
Washington—a thousand miles, or so
awsy—was the only sound heard. Prof.
Harkness, of the Washington Univer‘ity; and who'has learned to work the
telegraph. tolerably, was. present in the }
observatory, and sent and received signals. Some little interruption was
caused by the cariosity ,of telegraph
operators in West Virginia, who could
not for the life of them make any sense
out of the clock beats, and ‘wanted to
know what it ali meant.
re
» Ramzoap: Rumozs: — Rumors ‘and:
conjectures concerning railroad changes
Stete., Among others, we have.the report that the Union and Central Pacific
had consolidated and bought out the
Celifornia Pacific, er Vallejo Railroad.
‘The Record js assured. that net one of
the changes reported hay actually ocare contemplated, The. Appeal says
‘the reported sale of the Vallejo Railroad has gained credence in some}
-quarters frem-the. fact that iteowners j —
have recently ééased the constraction
of -carwand ‘raunidg ‘stock; and have
discharged many ‘of their employees.
The company is in fact reducing its expenses to thé smallest possible limit,
only cattying forward work’ that isab.
solutely necéssaty! Tle. fteasén for this
rigid eddnémy, ts; is’ we learn frot the
very best of authority, the fact that in
Jaly'the company has ‘some $200,000)
to pay in the East as interest. on its}
outstanding bonds, and every dollar
‘that can be devoted to meeting their
hee
‘te. such purpose. _. Ru BOC
i! ht
Pius IX “sp St.Peren—On the}
17th of this month, Pius IX . will com.
mence the twenty fifth year of his Pontif.
cacy. Accérding'to's tradition current
in Rome, the fires Pope, St. Peter, installed at Antioch, and then at Rome,
in a. D. 42, governed the Chireh for
25 yeats, 2 months and 7 Gays, None
of his 256 suctessors have reigned so
long. . Pius VI occupied the Papal
throne for 24 years 8 months and 14].
days, which is the next greatest duration. Pius 1X will have attained the
fatal limit of St. Peter's'on the 24th of
‘August, 1871, . He appears to have the
conviction that he shall complete the . °f
period.in spite of the Roman -proverb . order.
that no Pope shall see the years.of St.
‘Peter. He is said to intend to abdicate
‘some days before the expiration of the
term, either from a respect for the first
in reigning beyond ibe limit. _ But. SATUBDA
there is noserious foundation for the
DgFEATED.—The vote in San Fran-.
‘aidy of $1,000,000 to
in 5: in part of San Diego
time! of the’ tWo. ities by_ telegraph. . hace
all who have been attacked with it. It
. has been treated for scarlet fever, but
Pontiff, whose name the Popes never}
. také, or from a fear to die if he persists .
cisco on the question of granting a sub4
, ef more importance than
even the rich wo developments of the
Indications of}
pede nie
tin .
See dt ata daens toe a
zevegled the ex a
Seer ricentlargeand well detted .
Washington School-house,
: ‘
Sent Maa . Tey Misdiosadanp-5iltbanndog:
wr 28, 29,and 30.))
leads of . ‘pre of greativichness. A mining district—the Bainbridge—has been
ogee and Se on biased .
Nex Pa a You
Tintendent of Pap’
IN ZDUCATION LL INTERESTED
a are — ra attend. The State Super.
and Oiher™
distinguished ceeatine will aetttte addresses
. ee the session. The yr of Exercises
Commercial : Adwertiser ts pon Every ex wate a made pee rad York presen me. ery : "
figures, showing in the vote on the ja the Ineo 74 . pos: gy
dicial ticket, at the late election, a fall. RSE,
ing off of nearly half the vote of the
States The aggregate vote at the Pres-County Superintendent of Common Schools.
Nevada, June 4th—td.
jdential election, in 1868, was 840,766.
In. 1870, at the late election, the aggregate vote will not exeeed 439,000, according to the official figures of some
4. HENNEMAN.
counties. There can scarcely be less
than'a million of voters in the State,
and considerably less than half never
went'to the polls. The falling off is
CHARLEY char.
SENNEMAN & GRAF.
OULD INFORM THEIR FRIENDS
and the public generally that they have
opened & Kew balogn, o opposite tke Nationa}
esti the ether ten will k ‘
fifty counties, estimating poset a — dh < eep COL
‘Wines, Beer, Ales.Liquors & Cigars
ts which they invite the atrention of the éntire community. Give ae a call. my
mainly “in the rural districts, where
little interest seems to have been taken
in the election.
A New Diemase—A strange disease has made. its appearance in Pat.
terson, N. J., which has proved fatal to
is attended with many symptoms which
make it a out of the ordinary list
of diseases that the human race ere afflicted with. The Victims have holes
eaten through their throats, and after
death, which has always followed a few
days soffering. the bodies become black.
Many deaths have ocearred, and the . my27
Grass Valley Ice Cream Saloon.
JOHNSON & MENGER,
—Proprietors—
Ee OPPOSITE HAMILTON HALL, 2?
Church Street, Grass Valley.
Kee Cream, Strawberries, ¢tc., always on hand.
EVADANS VISITING GRASS VALLEY,
will find neatly furniched and pleaean’
— fitted up ior the accommuedat ion af
CANDI£S and CONFECTIONERY of ail
kinds at wholesale or retail.
g@ CALL AND SEE US,
JOHNSON & MENGER.
disease.is.reported as increasing. The
victims are mostly children.
Tg, Aurora Borealla which was seen
PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY
bh f E th pe over the greater part of Europe on the
nightof the 5th of April last, is said to . WwW. N. TP REEE
avi oin pan str . ____ BAS OPENED THE
disagreeable odor, which was noticed . Chareh Street Picture > Salers,
both in France and Germany. So statGrass Vales,
fash anpeeesioaees of the! mais: Esra HAS BETTE
bh A of Sciences. c
. headomy. == Aber hemes 1 ony onan in [oveda
A WouLD BE suicide at Cincinnati
wastpulled off the track ‘before a coming tenn’ by'a railroad ‘man, who wars.
ed him *gainst trying to “huss up the .
‘engine in any'eech way‘as that.” — e
: DEPOT OF GENUINE
meng ‘Heaa And Enameled Card
PICTURES.
‘Tattle alien
5 iy he lees pher in
eminent<<
i June 10%, 180, ; Nevada, May 21,
ICE CREAM, . ~R. M. HUNT, MD.
FOUNTAIN SODA,
a THe 0.8. BAKERY, 11NE STREET.
ATTENDING PHYSICIAN
NEVADA CITY.
See
JULIUS PORTTIR
Wis of Revada Ci ty and icity. a he is
Tee Créaia UAT. Ptialihe oan,
ins oh bade of the and evening. Parties
osgeataee tome nerved up ts the highest ete . give ua a call
AB.Carey *
ARCADE SALOON,
Adjoining Julius Greenwald’s Cigar Store, op
CABLEXN & TOMPKINS,
DS byt} da mh arndemscshwteceyed new stock
Liquors, Wines and Cigars,
And eee but the best will. be kept.at the Bar.
id friends and new cumers are a.
E_O. Tompkins e.
Pound, Fruit. Gake,ieed or pain, made to .
ATEST FROM CHICAGO t
of PERFUMERY
ae every . TOMLET ARTICLES we as the Deng tore oF
morni ng. . overs lest st the Bakery rw Preston & Fairchild.
: RUGS, MEDI P. , OFS, &
avetion! auction: —. D'sudre siere — cae a
IPTIONS CAREFULLY COM, JUNE 11th, 187 POURDED xo} th, o, . P POUNDED at the of
sees —a
Jobn Sa
later De
San Fra
of Depu
were tal
there.
Sacram
mitted i
place t
whether
indictec
ceny, 8
MeBro
know W
ney an
being
mento,
has con
of the .
Anot
one wh
~, brougl
* Conste
in jail,
Quinn.
Bell of
defanl
for six
et wi etere © @Bewranree ¢ aOR SS 276 Eee
4