March 29, 1871 (4 pages)

NEVADA CITY Bureau of Mininz. —— WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 4871, Sericulture. “Peter Post,” writing t® the Sacra manto Union, gives some interesting items in regard tu the cultivation of silk in Nevada county ; One of the most hopeful indications of prosperity in the future is to be found inthe attention now being paid to sericulture through» Grass Valiey Items. We get the following items from the Gtass Valley Union of yesterday : The Concert Hall is being bailt with all dispateh by the Mobawk Lumber Company. As many carpenters and masons will be pnt to work as can be successfully employed. It is predicted Washingteh. @ “Considerable prospecting is being done in the vicinity of Washington,and fair resulte have been. obtained. The town is situated in the midst of a rich quarta and gravel miaing district, but for the past few years little advancement—has-been made in the develop“Oregon, and the business affairs are to The Miser Convention recently held in Sacramento, has resulted in the fore mation of a “Bureau of Mines and Mining Statistics of the Pacific Coast.” It is proposed to hold an annual Conven™s tion, composed of one delegate from each county in California, Nevada and be condueted by a Board ef seven Directors, three of whom may be representatives of foreign countries, accredited to the United States. The object of the organization is declared to be «‘to establish a source of correct and reliable information to foreign and dy mestic capitalists, and other "persons who may desire to obtain information respecting mines and mining property, and thereby furnish a channel for the investment-of capital, and encourage the development and working of valuable mines-on the Pacific. coast.” The out the State generally and in this county especially. This subject has of late excited a deal of disuussion among the sharpers of publié opinion. one of peculiar interest to the resis dents of the mining section, as it is generally conceded that the valleys cannot compete with the mountains in this respect—all the circumstances being favorable to the production of a superior quality of silk at the least expense io the latter locality. In the presence of existing facts, it is difficult to see where the opponents of the silk culture find their material on which to found theit epposition. There can be no doubt of its success in this State.— The question, “willit pay?” has alalready been successfully answered.— Those who pronounce it a failure should remember that they must prove either that silk cannot be successfully that the hall will be ready for occupas tion in twenty-five-days. On or about the Ist of May the new hall will be opened witha grand ball and supper, to which everybody will be invited. There will be room on the main floor for five hundred dancers, with a gallery which will contain an immense num~ ber of spectators. The size of hall, exclusive of dressing roots, will be 44 feet by 120 in the clear. The gallery is to be forty-four feet by twenty-four. All Nevada City, all Grass Valley and all the adjacent towns will be invited to attend on the opening night, and it is expected that the invitation wil] be generally-accepted. ‘I'he people of this ment'of mines, At Rocky Bar and vicinity, where sume years ago exten~ ‘sive work was done on the old river Iv is . "Bed, and rich pay and large nuggets found, several companies are prospecting with fair encouragement. Some months ago, Dr. Esmond ‘found good indications, but was unable to continue work on accoint of the water in the river. There area number of Portaguese and Chinese companies at work along the river, and most of these appear to be doing well. Prospecting in quarts will be renewed in all probabils ity when the snows are melted. A company of prospectors are at work, and are obtaining good indications on proper appreciation of the spirit for public improvements, which the new Concert Hall demonstrates to exist here. ; at Washington seems to be capital for the deve’opment of the mines, and sys— tematic labor in working them. The rich pay of the old river bed and the arctic region, and obtain his report. mines have been adopted : Rule by the Secretary. property examined by them. interested. ‘ just. representative of foreign capital. of this coast. Tne Secret.—The Francisco papers are devoting much space to arguing the importance of mining to this State. The secret of this new born zeal is the fact that a prospect of gold has been found in the sand hills near Selby’s smelting works ; and from speculations ; in -homesteads, tide lands, and water ‘. re lots, San Franciscans hope to reap a ain fortune from locating and selling A oy gold bearing sand hills. Aj einen and Constipation of the Bowels. Directors are required to examine, or cause to.be examined, all wining property, together with the titles of all claims which are brought before them and make a report, which they are required to cause to be entered upon the books of the Bureas: Owners of mines depositing 4 sum sufficient to pay eXx~ penses, may have their property exam ined by.a mining expert or engineer The following } rules fer securing the examination of Rule 1.—Persons registeringmines} or mining property, shull be required to furnish the Secretary with a true copy of the record of the mines or min. vada city and in the immediate vicinTag Prope: ein the distriot ia whiel . ecorder in the dis : CE tind property ts located; or of +are enyaged in the business. Among the County Kecorder, as the case may ve, which shall be registered in a book kept for that purpose in the office of Rule 3.—The Board of Directors shall employ only such persons to examine any mining property as are known as mining experts,or mining engineers,und no report shall be received where it shall be made to appear that the parties making the examination have any interest directly or indirectly in the Rule 4.—No director of this Bureau 1 shall take part in the examination or adoption of a report thereon upon any mining property in which he may be Rule 5.—The Board of Directors may. fix such fee for registering mining property, as they may deem proper and This movement was inaugurated by Consul Berton of France, his object being to secure relisble information as to , the character-and. value of mines as the IF you desire rosy cheeks and a complexion fair, and free from pimples, ~~ platehes “and eruptions; purify your, blood and invigorate your system by ioe ‘ taking Dr. Pierce’s Alt, Ext,, or Golden Medical Discovery. It has no equal a . for this purpose, nor as a remedy for 4 :) “Liver Complaint,” or “Biliousness,” by druggists. Pamphlet sent free. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. produced, or that there will be nu market for it. As to the first, it has been already proved beyond a doubt that io no part of the world can the finest quality of silk be produced more readily than ia our California mountains. As to the latter, perhaps some of the gentlemen who have no faith in silk will be kind enough to inform the public when the demand for it is likely to cease or grow less. ; The writer gives the following items as to the progress made: There are in this county at present, at the lowest estimate, in nurseries and plantations, over 100,000 mulberry trees. In Nes ‘gentlemen of this city for the purpose The Webster Company had a clean up last Saturday. Acurious nugget, weighing about an ounce anda half, was picked up out of the sluice boxes This nugget represents in shape the design on the Seal of the State of Cali-~ fornia. The Goddess of Liberty, with the cap-on and staff in_hand, is geulp-. tured in pure gold, by the hand of Nature. An imaginative eye can also see outlines of the bear at the left hand of the Guddess. This singular specimen is to be saved from the melting pot affd the mint because of its cufious sliape.”~ Those who want to of erecting a skating’rink. Work will . see the nugget can do so by calling on be commenced immediately, and it is} Dan Holbrouk. _ banks is not exhausted by any means. . There are cement and gravel banks of great extent and richness, which, with the modern appliances for working, ought to yield equal to any in the county. The residents of Washington all seem satisfied of this fact, and seem willing to work. and wait for the good time coming. The New Rink. The lot on Broad street, opposite the Theatre, where Chauval’s hotel once stood, has been purchased by several THE United States steamer Periwinkle, now being putin order at the Washington Navy Yard, is expected to sail next month with Captain Hall’s expedition party to the arctic regions, Heavy timbers are being used in order to strengthen ber, and inside of her sheathing there will be a coating ot cork. She will have two boilers, one of which will use blubber, the only fuel accessible in some portions of the To protect her propeller when she reaches the ice ficlds, she will carry a propeller well. Constructor Delano, under whose directions several of the former arctic expeditions have been fitted out, has the superintendence of the work, and is giving his personal supervision to the fitting out. of the vessel, which is of 887 tons burden, and will probably bot take more thab one or two guns. With the experience of Captain Hall as an artic navi gator, and the fact that an open sea at the north pole is no longera myth, but Scotchman’s Creek. .The great want . town and its surroundings will show a . an actual fact, having been seen by two different persons with the naked eye, is it too much +o expect that the ex~ pedition now fits will, on its return fromthe **oy aes us the tidings that the stars and ‘stripes have. been planted’ upon some glacial eminence at the north pole, overlooking the polar sea? “’Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.” AN old man and two women are digging for hidden treasure in a Penngylvania Village at a Spot pointed oat by one of the women as the very place where a subterranean cavern is located in which is hidden $4,000,000. The woman says that over 500 spirits guard the treasure, and consequently she does. not want to be present when the tmoney is reached. a ity some half a dozen different parties. these are Ed. Muller, with about 6,000 trees and about 50,000 in nurseries; A. Isoard with a plantation of 6,000 or 9.—Parties desiring: mining 7,000, and C. L. Dimon with a planta~ property examined under the direction ofthe Board of Directors and a report thereon; shall deposit such sum ot money a8 the Board of Directors may determine to cover all actual expenses of such examination and report, a copy ot which shall be furnished, properly certified to by the Secretary, to the party or parties making the applica~ tion, and the original report shall be entered ina book kept Jor that purpose tion situated between this place and Grass Valley of about 10,000. There are other plantations in this city and Gr ss Valley and in different parts of the county which will easily swell the figures to the amount stated. Many more already existing in contemplation will soon become substantial realities. The many testimonials as to the qual. ity of the silk produced here, from those most conversant in such matters, in quarters where sericulture is best understood, show conclusively that it is nowhere excelled. Muller and Isoard were the pioneers of sericulture in this county, and it-is especially owing to the perseverance and earnestness ot the former gentleman that its success in this State has been assured. REPUBLICAN STATE Con VENTION .— at a meeting of the Executive Commite tee. of the Union Republican State Centrul Committee ; Resolved, That .a general meeting of this Committee be held in San Francisco, on the 4th day of May, to detertine the time and place tor holding the State Convention, to apportion the del_It . egates to compose the same, and tor the the object is faithfully carried out, the reealt will no doub’ bring large investments of foreign capital in the mines transaction of general business. Resolved, ‘That the Chairmanof the several County Committees be requesto a successful termination. ee, possessed of considerable wealth is $500,000. : a few minutes. Harge-enough-to-.ceommodate-a-t—The-}-son-of W+-D.-Smuith: Phe -injury~ist . The following resolutions were adopted . ted to call meetings of their respective Committees with a view te the jormation of a club or league in each election precinct in the State. to the end that the coming political Gampaign may be opened immediately atter the State Convention, und vigorously prosecuted Ir 1s estimated that there are 18,000 colored people in New York city ; their children have seven grammar schools, all well attended ; $142,000 is shown to be to the credit in the branch ot the Freedmen’s Savings Bank of laborers and sefvanie, and some of them are wealth, Among these abvut six own between $100,000 and $150,000, about twenty. possessed of property valued between $10,000 and $75,000. There are seven colored churches, whose aggregate A ROASTED onion. bound upon the palse on the wrist will, it is claimed stop the most inveterate tootliache in . dock, to take the place of the present; expected the building will be ready for. A boy, aged about six years, was 8euse in twenty days. The lot is fifty . verely kicked by a horse, last Sunday feet wide and one hundred and seventy . afternoon, This happened at Allison feet deep. As the building is designed . Ranch, where the parents of the boy especially for a skating rink, it will be . reside. The unfortunate lad was the Jot is centrally located, where ample . quite a severe one, as the upper lip is light and ventilation can be secured, . severed from the nose, and several of and a commodious and convenient . the teeth are lousedand broken, The structure will be erected. boy, though badly hurt, will soon recover, Wells, Fargo &-Co. presented a tickDistrict Court, March 28th. Latta vs. Marker. Judgment for plaintiff for $882 05 and costs of suit. . et trom J. F. White. ef Sacramento, Powell vs. W.M, Eddy et als. De. which entitled Mr, White to the sum murrer overruled, tweuty days given to . of $3,000, ‘I'he money was paid in the answer and cause continued féf the ‘coin of the realm. Thus one by one term. . do the big prizes depart, and the mem~ Court adjourned till to-morrow morn. bers of the Committee who superintening at 10 o’clock. ded the drawing get nothing. If the Committee had fixed up any trick that was dark, #0 profit thereof came of the trick. John W.Bost and Robe:t Watt of Sacramanto, won, together, the sum of $142 50, and they have generously donated the sum to the Grass Valley Ors Serious Accident. Yesterday afternoon Maurice 2’Hern, aged about 14 years, fell, while skating at the rink, and sustained serious injury. His wrist was dislocated and oae of the bones of the forearm broken. Dr. Hunt was called and set the broken limb. phan Asylum. The coin was paid over to the: sisters in mpl of the Asylum, Pork. through the hands ot W. 8. Byrne. Jake Naffzigar has just received a ai number ot hogs in splendid condition, . _M¥8TERtous Diacing.—The Senora He has: abundance of fresh pork and Democrat ot March 19th anys: Last is also turning out a large quantity of week three men with a small — hams, lard and bacen. His last ships . “me es county, and camped in ment were of the finest quality, woods about a mile below the city, anf dug around a number of trees and stumps on a hill side south of Wood's creek. When they came they borrowed a pick at John York's. bouse for the purpose of prospecting as they stated. After digging a day or two one of them came to this place to find an old resident to tell him where a certain stone chimney formerly stood. The next day the party left ; when passing York’s house they returned the pick and said they got what they came for. There has been much curiosity and specula. tion as to what they came for. In. 1855 the Stockton stage was robbed of $32,. 000 from Adams & Co.’s Express, of which $14,000 was found secreted near the point where these fellows did their digging. Jt is believed by many that ‘the balance of this money is what they were after. —, Lucky. Truckee was lucky in the Grass Valley lottery, but not in any large prize. Some fifteen prizes were drawn in Truckee, and the highest was $75. Whe Roads, The roads -have-been very rough, but the wind and sunshine of the past few days have dried the ground and improved them considerably. The New Rink. A new’skating rink, for the use of the Dickinson skate, will be opened at the Theatre on Saturday evening. A MERCHANT of Fairmount, W. vey whose store was infested with Tats, invested $3 in a terrier dog, and put him in.the store all night; -Phe next morn ing the merchant found thirty-three dead rats. Good dog. Gov. Chamberlain has declined an offer of the Tresidency of the . Maine State Agricultural College, and is said to have under consideration a -proposiC. B. Dexao, who has recently re-~ turned from Washington, states that the Navy Department will order the construction at Mare Island of a stone ddbtbinat dork: ‘ tution at the West for a salary of about tion to take charge of ‘a literary instiA BRUTAL fellow in Philadelphia, on — Ash Wednesday, severely injured four or five boys, by burning their brows. with lunar caustic, Which he told them ~ was a specimen‘of ashes blessed by the Pope. o coughed up a herd of hedge grass which had lain on his lungs for over thirty-six years. It still retained its original shape but had grown as hard as a stone. ; THE total assets of the banks and insurance companies ef Hartiord are $166,669,930. = $75,000 Gold Coin. A GRAND te GIFT CONCERT! .# WILL BE GIVEN AT THE ETROPOLITAN THEATRE, SaCkA MENTO, MAW 1, 1871, s —BY THE— Sacramento Pioneers and Sacramento Library Association, For their joint benefit, and to pay their ex. isting indebtedness, During the Concert 1,317 Gifts will be distributed, among Ticketholders--amounting to $75,000 in Gold Coin, as follows: 1 Gift of Gold Coin. osece seeccees +e 6 $15.000 1 Gift of Goid Coin.. covccescccee 10,009 1 Gift, of Gold Coin..e.e.eeee.-5,000 1 Gift of Gold Colas. .3scceeceses 2,008 8 Gifts of Gold Coin, $1.000 each.63,000 5 Gifts of Gold Coin $500 each..:. 2.500 § Gifts of Gold Coin, $300 each..-1,500 50 Gifts of Gold Coin $100 each..-. 5,000 100 Gifts of Gold Coin, $50 each.. 5,00 8u0 Gifts of Gold Goi eachesss2. 9,000 890 Gifts of Gold Coin’ $20 caches. 17,000 1,317 Prizes,amounting to $75,000 TREASURER, . B. F. HASTINGS & CO. Bankers. With whom 3 moneys will be deposited, an by whom 4il disbursements will be made. 50,000 Tickets will be sold at $250 Coin, Each. This Ticket will admit the bearer to Conccrt2" The drawing will take place and the Gifts awarded in a precisely similar manner as at the Concert given jn San Francisco, in uid of the Mercautile Library, and under the joint supervision of a Committee of well . cers ofeaid Associations: €2~ Persons at a distance can obtain Ticketa by sending Checks on any of the Sacramento Banks, or Coin by Wells, Fi & Co. ‘Ten per cent commiesion will be allowed to rsons sending for Kiity or more Ticketsission paidia Tickets. All orders should be addressed to CAPWALADER, DAVIS & COyas . Business Agents. P. 0, Lock Box 228, Sacramento, Cal$5,000. : General wa between Jami aT)" 44 Fourth street, bet’: 4 Norripeewock deacon recently = The D LOC Bold Bobb Yesterda: Philip Manu tured by a © “The robbery that has eve vicinity. M been confine matism, and terday mor® came to the to open it. door, when . robber rush: knie, raise s-—n of a b— He then con $12 50 from While he w into an adjo and halloed dow. TheHe ig supper was seen . cabin a shor robbed, anc cabin on Go actions yest cabin, he is Advertised The follos letters in th tur the wee 27th, 1871. the followi: “advertised O K Bick vis, Ed AF W Haynes, ——Lyneh,Ad McKinstry; James Tia ‘lreflen, Goldsmith of goods to ty Banner . stock is lar; beautiful ix hold article trom’ Chics store is fitt goods are n ranged. T Neatest, de above all, t than at a Nevada cot towns, whe be sure anc Goldsmith. $75,000 t The Sacr mento Lit -in this no they will g the Metroy on the Ist Taising mo ness of the tickets are and 1,317 ticket hol schemes the object ofthe Me If you w this schen How to. Prof.Ls San Fran how to ur * evening, city. He and his e toall. N and but } skating. 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NEVADA CITY Bureau of Mininz. —— WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 4871, Sericulture. “Peter Post,” writing t® the Sacra manto Union, gives some interesting items in regard tu the cultivation of silk in Nevada county ; One of the most hopeful indications of prosperity in the future is to be found inthe attention now being paid to sericulture through» Grass Valiey Items. We get the following items from the Gtass Valley Union of yesterday : The Concert Hall is being bailt with all dispateh by the Mobawk Lumber Company. As many carpenters and masons will be pnt to work as can be successfully employed. It is predicted Washingteh. @ “Considerable prospecting is being done in the vicinity of Washington,and fair resulte have been. obtained. The town is situated in the midst of a rich quarta and gravel miaing district, but for the past few years little advancement—has-been made in the develop“Oregon, and the business affairs are to The Miser Convention recently held in Sacramento, has resulted in the fore mation of a “Bureau of Mines and Mining Statistics of the Pacific Coast.” It is proposed to hold an annual Conven™s tion, composed of one delegate from each county in California, Nevada and be condueted by a Board ef seven Directors, three of whom may be representatives of foreign countries, accredited to the United States. The object of the organization is declared to be «‘to establish a source of correct and reliable information to foreign and dy mestic capitalists, and other "persons who may desire to obtain information respecting mines and mining property, and thereby furnish a channel for the investment-of capital, and encourage the development and working of valuable mines-on the Pacific. coast.” The out the State generally and in this county especially. This subject has of late excited a deal of disuussion among the sharpers of publié opinion. one of peculiar interest to the resis dents of the mining section, as it is generally conceded that the valleys cannot compete with the mountains in this respect—all the circumstances being favorable to the production of a superior quality of silk at the least expense io the latter locality. In the presence of existing facts, it is difficult to see where the opponents of the silk culture find their material on which to found theit epposition. There can be no doubt of its success in this State.— The question, “willit pay?” has alalready been successfully answered.— Those who pronounce it a failure should remember that they must prove either that silk cannot be successfully that the hall will be ready for occupas tion in twenty-five-days. On or about the Ist of May the new hall will be opened witha grand ball and supper, to which everybody will be invited. There will be room on the main floor for five hundred dancers, with a gallery which will contain an immense num~ ber of spectators. The size of hall, exclusive of dressing roots, will be 44 feet by 120 in the clear. The gallery is to be forty-four feet by twenty-four. All Nevada City, all Grass Valley and all the adjacent towns will be invited to attend on the opening night, and it is expected that the invitation wil] be generally-accepted. ‘I'he people of this ment'of mines, At Rocky Bar and vicinity, where sume years ago exten~ ‘sive work was done on the old river Iv is . "Bed, and rich pay and large nuggets found, several companies are prospecting with fair encouragement. Some months ago, Dr. Esmond ‘found good indications, but was unable to continue work on accoint of the water in the river. There area number of Portaguese and Chinese companies at work along the river, and most of these appear to be doing well. Prospecting in quarts will be renewed in all probabils ity when the snows are melted. A company of prospectors are at work, and are obtaining good indications on proper appreciation of the spirit for public improvements, which the new Concert Hall demonstrates to exist here. ; at Washington seems to be capital for the deve’opment of the mines, and sys— tematic labor in working them. The rich pay of the old river bed and the arctic region, and obtain his report. mines have been adopted : Rule by the Secretary. property examined by them. interested. ‘ just. representative of foreign capital. of this coast. Tne Secret.—The Francisco papers are devoting much space to arguing the importance of mining to this State. The secret of this new born zeal is the fact that a prospect of gold has been found in the sand hills near Selby’s smelting works ; and from speculations ; in -homesteads, tide lands, and water ‘. re lots, San Franciscans hope to reap a ain fortune from locating and selling A oy gold bearing sand hills. Aj einen and Constipation of the Bowels. Directors are required to examine, or cause to.be examined, all wining property, together with the titles of all claims which are brought before them and make a report, which they are required to cause to be entered upon the books of the Bureas: Owners of mines depositing 4 sum sufficient to pay eXx~ penses, may have their property exam ined by.a mining expert or engineer The following } rules fer securing the examination of Rule 1.—Persons registeringmines} or mining property, shull be required to furnish the Secretary with a true copy of the record of the mines or min. vada city and in the immediate vicinTag Prope: ein the distriot ia whiel . ecorder in the dis : CE tind property ts located; or of +are enyaged in the business. Among the County Kecorder, as the case may ve, which shall be registered in a book kept for that purpose in the office of Rule 3.—The Board of Directors shall employ only such persons to examine any mining property as are known as mining experts,or mining engineers,und no report shall be received where it shall be made to appear that the parties making the examination have any interest directly or indirectly in the Rule 4.—No director of this Bureau 1 shall take part in the examination or adoption of a report thereon upon any mining property in which he may be Rule 5.—The Board of Directors may. fix such fee for registering mining property, as they may deem proper and This movement was inaugurated by Consul Berton of France, his object being to secure relisble information as to , the character-and. value of mines as the IF you desire rosy cheeks and a complexion fair, and free from pimples, ~~ platehes “and eruptions; purify your, blood and invigorate your system by ioe ‘ taking Dr. Pierce’s Alt, Ext,, or Golden Medical Discovery. It has no equal a . for this purpose, nor as a remedy for 4 :) “Liver Complaint,” or “Biliousness,” by druggists. Pamphlet sent free. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. produced, or that there will be nu market for it. As to the first, it has been already proved beyond a doubt that io no part of the world can the finest quality of silk be produced more readily than ia our California mountains. As to the latter, perhaps some of the gentlemen who have no faith in silk will be kind enough to inform the public when the demand for it is likely to cease or grow less. ; The writer gives the following items as to the progress made: There are in this county at present, at the lowest estimate, in nurseries and plantations, over 100,000 mulberry trees. In Nes ‘gentlemen of this city for the purpose The Webster Company had a clean up last Saturday. Acurious nugget, weighing about an ounce anda half, was picked up out of the sluice boxes This nugget represents in shape the design on the Seal of the State of Cali-~ fornia. The Goddess of Liberty, with the cap-on and staff in_hand, is geulp-. tured in pure gold, by the hand of Nature. An imaginative eye can also see outlines of the bear at the left hand of the Guddess. This singular specimen is to be saved from the melting pot affd the mint because of its cufious sliape.”~ Those who want to of erecting a skating’rink. Work will . see the nugget can do so by calling on be commenced immediately, and it is} Dan Holbrouk. _ banks is not exhausted by any means. . There are cement and gravel banks of great extent and richness, which, with the modern appliances for working, ought to yield equal to any in the county. The residents of Washington all seem satisfied of this fact, and seem willing to work. and wait for the good time coming. The New Rink. The lot on Broad street, opposite the Theatre, where Chauval’s hotel once stood, has been purchased by several THE United States steamer Periwinkle, now being putin order at the Washington Navy Yard, is expected to sail next month with Captain Hall’s expedition party to the arctic regions, Heavy timbers are being used in order to strengthen ber, and inside of her sheathing there will be a coating ot cork. She will have two boilers, one of which will use blubber, the only fuel accessible in some portions of the To protect her propeller when she reaches the ice ficlds, she will carry a propeller well. Constructor Delano, under whose directions several of the former arctic expeditions have been fitted out, has the superintendence of the work, and is giving his personal supervision to the fitting out. of the vessel, which is of 887 tons burden, and will probably bot take more thab one or two guns. With the experience of Captain Hall as an artic navi gator, and the fact that an open sea at the north pole is no longera myth, but Scotchman’s Creek. .The great want . town and its surroundings will show a . an actual fact, having been seen by two different persons with the naked eye, is it too much +o expect that the ex~ pedition now fits will, on its return fromthe **oy aes us the tidings that the stars and ‘stripes have. been planted’ upon some glacial eminence at the north pole, overlooking the polar sea? “’Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.” AN old man and two women are digging for hidden treasure in a Penngylvania Village at a Spot pointed oat by one of the women as the very place where a subterranean cavern is located in which is hidden $4,000,000. The woman says that over 500 spirits guard the treasure, and consequently she does. not want to be present when the tmoney is reached. a ity some half a dozen different parties. these are Ed. Muller, with about 6,000 trees and about 50,000 in nurseries; A. Isoard with a plantation of 6,000 or 9.—Parties desiring: mining 7,000, and C. L. Dimon with a planta~ property examined under the direction ofthe Board of Directors and a report thereon; shall deposit such sum ot money a8 the Board of Directors may determine to cover all actual expenses of such examination and report, a copy ot which shall be furnished, properly certified to by the Secretary, to the party or parties making the applica~ tion, and the original report shall be entered ina book kept Jor that purpose tion situated between this place and Grass Valley of about 10,000. There are other plantations in this city and Gr ss Valley and in different parts of the county which will easily swell the figures to the amount stated. Many more already existing in contemplation will soon become substantial realities. The many testimonials as to the qual. ity of the silk produced here, from those most conversant in such matters, in quarters where sericulture is best understood, show conclusively that it is nowhere excelled. Muller and Isoard were the pioneers of sericulture in this county, and it-is especially owing to the perseverance and earnestness ot the former gentleman that its success in this State has been assured. REPUBLICAN STATE Con VENTION .— at a meeting of the Executive Commite tee. of the Union Republican State Centrul Committee ; Resolved, That .a general meeting of this Committee be held in San Francisco, on the 4th day of May, to detertine the time and place tor holding the

State Convention, to apportion the del_It . egates to compose the same, and tor the the object is faithfully carried out, the reealt will no doub’ bring large investments of foreign capital in the mines transaction of general business. Resolved, ‘That the Chairmanof the several County Committees be requesto a successful termination. ee, possessed of considerable wealth is $500,000. : a few minutes. Harge-enough-to-.ceommodate-a-t—The-}-son-of W+-D.-Smuith: Phe -injury~ist . The following resolutions were adopted . ted to call meetings of their respective Committees with a view te the jormation of a club or league in each election precinct in the State. to the end that the coming political Gampaign may be opened immediately atter the State Convention, und vigorously prosecuted Ir 1s estimated that there are 18,000 colored people in New York city ; their children have seven grammar schools, all well attended ; $142,000 is shown to be to the credit in the branch ot the Freedmen’s Savings Bank of laborers and sefvanie, and some of them are wealth, Among these abvut six own between $100,000 and $150,000, about twenty. possessed of property valued between $10,000 and $75,000. There are seven colored churches, whose aggregate A ROASTED onion. bound upon the palse on the wrist will, it is claimed stop the most inveterate tootliache in . dock, to take the place of the present; expected the building will be ready for. A boy, aged about six years, was 8euse in twenty days. The lot is fifty . verely kicked by a horse, last Sunday feet wide and one hundred and seventy . afternoon, This happened at Allison feet deep. As the building is designed . Ranch, where the parents of the boy especially for a skating rink, it will be . reside. The unfortunate lad was the Jot is centrally located, where ample . quite a severe one, as the upper lip is light and ventilation can be secured, . severed from the nose, and several of and a commodious and convenient . the teeth are lousedand broken, The structure will be erected. boy, though badly hurt, will soon recover, Wells, Fargo &-Co. presented a tickDistrict Court, March 28th. Latta vs. Marker. Judgment for plaintiff for $882 05 and costs of suit. . et trom J. F. White. ef Sacramento, Powell vs. W.M, Eddy et als. De. which entitled Mr, White to the sum murrer overruled, tweuty days given to . of $3,000, ‘I'he money was paid in the answer and cause continued féf the ‘coin of the realm. Thus one by one term. . do the big prizes depart, and the mem~ Court adjourned till to-morrow morn. bers of the Committee who superintening at 10 o’clock. ded the drawing get nothing. If the Committee had fixed up any trick that was dark, #0 profit thereof came of the trick. John W.Bost and Robe:t Watt of Sacramanto, won, together, the sum of $142 50, and they have generously donated the sum to the Grass Valley Ors Serious Accident. Yesterday afternoon Maurice 2’Hern, aged about 14 years, fell, while skating at the rink, and sustained serious injury. His wrist was dislocated and oae of the bones of the forearm broken. Dr. Hunt was called and set the broken limb. phan Asylum. The coin was paid over to the: sisters in mpl of the Asylum, Pork. through the hands ot W. 8. Byrne. Jake Naffzigar has just received a ai number ot hogs in splendid condition, . _M¥8TERtous Diacing.—The Senora He has: abundance of fresh pork and Democrat ot March 19th anys: Last is also turning out a large quantity of week three men with a small — hams, lard and bacen. His last ships . “me es county, and camped in ment were of the finest quality, woods about a mile below the city, anf dug around a number of trees and stumps on a hill side south of Wood's creek. When they came they borrowed a pick at John York's. bouse for the purpose of prospecting as they stated. After digging a day or two one of them came to this place to find an old resident to tell him where a certain stone chimney formerly stood. The next day the party left ; when passing York’s house they returned the pick and said they got what they came for. There has been much curiosity and specula. tion as to what they came for. In. 1855 the Stockton stage was robbed of $32,. 000 from Adams & Co.’s Express, of which $14,000 was found secreted near the point where these fellows did their digging. Jt is believed by many that ‘the balance of this money is what they were after. —, Lucky. Truckee was lucky in the Grass Valley lottery, but not in any large prize. Some fifteen prizes were drawn in Truckee, and the highest was $75. Whe Roads, The roads -have-been very rough, but the wind and sunshine of the past few days have dried the ground and improved them considerably. The New Rink. A new’skating rink, for the use of the Dickinson skate, will be opened at the Theatre on Saturday evening. A MERCHANT of Fairmount, W. vey whose store was infested with Tats, invested $3 in a terrier dog, and put him in.the store all night; -Phe next morn ing the merchant found thirty-three dead rats. Good dog. Gov. Chamberlain has declined an offer of the Tresidency of the . Maine State Agricultural College, and is said to have under consideration a -proposiC. B. Dexao, who has recently re-~ turned from Washington, states that the Navy Department will order the construction at Mare Island of a stone ddbtbinat dork: ‘ tution at the West for a salary of about tion to take charge of ‘a literary instiA BRUTAL fellow in Philadelphia, on — Ash Wednesday, severely injured four or five boys, by burning their brows. with lunar caustic, Which he told them ~ was a specimen‘of ashes blessed by the Pope. o coughed up a herd of hedge grass which had lain on his lungs for over thirty-six years. It still retained its original shape but had grown as hard as a stone. ; THE total assets of the banks and insurance companies ef Hartiord are $166,669,930. = $75,000 Gold Coin. A GRAND te GIFT CONCERT! .# WILL BE GIVEN AT THE ETROPOLITAN THEATRE, SaCkA MENTO, MAW 1, 1871, s —BY THE— Sacramento Pioneers and Sacramento Library Association, For their joint benefit, and to pay their ex. isting indebtedness, During the Concert 1,317 Gifts will be distributed, among Ticketholders--amounting to $75,000 in Gold Coin, as follows: 1 Gift of Gold Coin.. osece seeccees +e 6 $15.000 1 Gift of Goid Coin.... covccescccee 10,009 1 Gift, of Gold Coin....e.e.eeee..-5,000 1 Gift of Gold Colas.. .3scceeceses 2,008 8 Gifts of Gold Coin, $1.000 each..63,000 5 Gifts of Gold Coin $500 each...:. 2.500 § Gifts of Gold Coin, $300 each...-1,500 50 Gifts of Gold Coin $100 each...-. 5,000 100 Gifts of Gold Coin, $50 each... 5,00 8u0 Gifts of Gold Goi eachesss2. 9,000 890 Gifts of Gold Coin’ $20 caches. 17,000 1,317 Prizes,amounting to $75,000 TREASURER, . B. F. HASTINGS & CO. Bankers. With whom 3 moneys will be deposited, an by whom 4il disbursements will be made. 50,000 Tickets will be sold at $250 Coin, Each. This Ticket will admit the bearer to Conccrt2" The drawing will take place and the Gifts awarded in a precisely similar manner as at the Concert given jn San Francisco, in uid of the Mercautile Library, and under the joint supervision of a Committee of well . cers ofeaid Associations: €2~ Persons at a distance can obtain Ticketa by sending Checks on any of the Sacramento Banks, or Coin by Wells, Fi & Co. ‘Ten per cent commiesion will be allowed to rsons sending for Kiity or more Ticketsission paidia Tickets. All orders should be addressed to CAPWALADER, DAVIS & COyas . Business Agents. P. 0, Lock Box 228, Sacramento, Cal$5,000. : General wa between Jami aT)" 44 Fourth street, bet’: 4 Norripeewock deacon recently = The D LOC Bold Bobb Yesterda: Philip Manu tured by a © “The robbery that has eve vicinity. M been confine matism, and terday mor® came to the to open it. door, when . robber rush: knie, raise s-—n of a b— He then con $12 50 from While he w into an adjo and halloed dow. TheHe ig supper was seen . cabin a shor robbed, anc cabin on Go actions yest cabin, he is Advertised The follos letters in th tur the wee 27th, 1871. the followi: “advertised O K Bick vis, Ed AF W Haynes, ——Lyneh,Ad McKinstry; James Tia ‘lreflen, Goldsmith of goods to ty Banner . stock is lar; beautiful ix hold article trom’ Chics store is fitt goods are n ranged. T Neatest, de above all, t than at a Nevada cot towns, whe be sure anc Goldsmith. $75,000 t The Sacr mento Lit -in this no they will g the Metroy on the Ist Taising mo ness of the tickets are and 1,317 ticket hol schemes the object ofthe Me If you w this schen How to. Prof.Ls San Fran how to ur * evening, city. He and his e toall. N and but } skating. 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