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November 11, 1866 (4 pages)

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RANTES LE BML ISD AE RE ARCOM ore i # S) SUNDAY, NOV. 11, 1866, _ Mantyg 42.0mea4.—A correspondent, "writing from Omega, informs us that the ry,up their stumps,” and all of them,are actively erigaged in Being up their claims _ for the spproaching season.’ Canon. recently: set: off a large blast in his \diggings ‘which loosened ‘a large ‘arnotint of gtoufid. Prescott will soon have his ground prepared for washing. Creamer & Teeples aré going abead. The Germari boys are rinning a tunnel for the purpose of getting an outlet to the mine, and they ' expect to have everything ready for work in five or six weeks. Kyléiseonstructing ai large Teservoir and ditch for claims that Will be opened as soon as the work is completed. Shaffer and Foster are also opening a large claim which they ‘anticipate will pay well. The greatest activity prevails in the hydraulic mines, and they will be more extensively worked this sea: son ‘than for ‘years past. Claims of this character at Diamond Creek are also payIn-quarta mining also, great activity prevails, ‘The Enterprise Company have had five tons of rock worked at Grass Valley recently, which yielded $45 -per ton.— The Mary Etta mine is now opened toa depth of sixty feet, with a drift tunning north thirty feet, showing a, lode from three to five feet wide, and.ore as rich asf any that:was foarid in the incline. A con siderable amouiit of prospecting is still being done and the quartz interests, are very flattering: ) . Pam. .Propayrres.of . Nyrno-Grvcrs niwe-~+M. Kopp,/the ingtnions French chemist, writes that nitro-glycerine is a yollow-brownish oil, heavier, than, wator, but,.soluble in aleohol. and ether; that prolonged exposure to only a feeble degree of'cold, catisés it to crystalize in clongated Needles; that when spread on the-earth, ‘contact. with. a burning body docs not easily inflame it, and cannot ‘be madeto ‘burn it more than partially : that'a flask-full of it may be smashed on a stono payement without the nitro-glycerine detonating ;'thatit) may be volatilized without decomposition by a regulated heat, but cannot long undergo brisk ebullition with“ont exploding; and that a drop made to fall on a moderately hot plate volatilizes quietly, but on a ted hot plate immediatea its burning. like a grain of gunpowder, but. without noise, and ona plate hotenough to cause the nitro-glyceriie to boil, iminediately decomposes with a vio_ lent explosion. “He aids that nitro-glycer__. Me, especially wen imputé and acid, may decompose spontaneously after a time, With disengagement of gas.and produc tion of oxalic and: ‘glycerine acids, and he . regards it as) probable that some of the wiystériotis etplosions of nitzo-glyceriné” which have recently taken place may have been duo to’ this cause. “The hitroglycerine,” he says, “being. enclosed in well-stoppered bottles, and gaseous product of decomposition, not being able to escape, . exert & very: great pressure’ on'the vitro. . Blycorine, and under . these. circumstances the least shock and the slightest motion may bringabout ati explosion.” And yet, the vapor Which it gives off being so pois. onots, ‘nitro-glycérine must not be kept’ in open vessels. pew eee) a GENERAL BUTLER, as he goes farther West, says the New Nation, lags savage in hia tono towards the President, ) probally Adapting his language to what he. ae Mg be the feeling of hia auditors. He only sh Gleyeland; but at Cincinnati he described thé whole process for the benefit oflaymen and then"served notice on Andy Johnson,” _ Mahe ip pleased to, call him, that if hedia not obey the ubehests of ‘the Senate, the “boys in blue” would make him. Wax. PS, more torriblé'as ha procecded, Are sin ' pgaveknow, the smallest provocation; t at if they attempted to lielp the wait~dady : . they would be. “swept'away like cobwebs § before! thie mdmning. sup.” Deut 1018 of) ) erp eee viet ts Norary, Pupug—0. \P. yrtar North Sen Juan, has been uppoitited No‘PARLE (taal wl eielt bus y . iva i ai eer r ” § __. ae ah qt adowed forth an impeachment at n We inson ant ignored, the Jury ‘believeing that the informing them than punishment by law.— These lads were chatged with stealing horses. “he Jury recommends that the burial ground’ at the County Hospital be sur, rounded, by a, substantial fence, and that head-boards with names of deceased be placed upon the graves. The Jury suggest that. the. bell at the Court House be so arranged that it can be rung from the Sheriff's office, arid’ state that. the corner of the building upon which it stands needs repairing. ~The Hospital committee found that ¢stablishment in a most satisfactory condition, the building and rooms in good order, and everything in ‘a cleanly condition — The Ffospital contains thirty-four patients, whoare well cared for and fed. Arm Broken.—E. W. Noonan, says the Grass Valley Union, while driving along Auburn street, last Thursday évening, was thrown from his wagon; by which accident he had his left':arm broken near the wrist. It was tolerably dark at the time, and one of the fore wheels of the wagon went into a hole, thus pitching the vehicle forward and throwing Noonan to the ground. Dr! ‘Tyrrell was called who set the broken limb. PEAN UTSs.—-Twenty-five tons.of peanuts, raised ify Chinamen, in Yolo county, were shippéd to San Francisco, via Sacramento, afew days ago, ‘The California peanuts are better flayored, and Jarger.than, those imported from Africa, and there is a ready market forall that‘can be raised. Should thesupply ever exdocd’the demand for eating purposes, the surplus can be employed in thé manufacture of oil.’ ‘The oil pressed from peanuts is listpéd, ‘almost colorless, and is said to be superior to that of the olive for allthe purposes for which the olive is used, .~; t 33 . $Loop aT Hornrros+-On Sunday last Hornitos experienced a heayy flood from the rise of Hornitos creek. One gentleman residing in Hornitos. says the water stood in his yard four feet higher than in the flood of 1861-62. Tt carried off a barn and 200 tons of hay belonging to one man and washed away fences, doing much damage. It had been. raining hard two hours when the water poured from the clouds in torrents some two hours Jonger, swelling the creck four feet. higher than ever. before known, The wate? soon subsided, however. , elicitin 3. Sasi A* Frencit journal referring to the statement often made that more cham pagne is annually sold than the entire Dompaune Uistrict exh raise, answers that the anual exportation is 90,000,000 bottles only two fifths ofthe averige crop of the district; 135,000,000 bottles are therefore consumed at home, and the total growth is 225,000,000 bottles, €, C, Fuint, chief accountant of the Portsmouth, Va., Navy Yard, decamped from that city several wecks ago, and it is now discovered that he wits a defaulter to the amount of ‘$7,000, and) Was accompanied in his fliglit by unether man’s wife. pe _ ONE wagon ofa train loaded with powder belonging to.Joseph Fayors,-and driven j by one Doolittle, lately blew up Gn Rok crook, Utah Territory. “Pee driver wis Was blown intoatoms,and three of the five oxen torn in shreds, \ Francis Joseph’s family is styled the hous¢ of Mishaysburg, . ARRIVALS AT THE NATIONAL EXCHANGE HOTEL. Broad Street, Neyada;City, California, LANCASERE & MASEY; Praprictor. November 10, 1806. M: Mobler Willow Valle de H Minard Canada Hil! at ; Col Hid 1 waka 4 McManus San Francis ood CW GRranpb Jury Report.—Thoe Grand Jury rpanneled @8day last, subpritted . . a Rerday; pfterggon.— Jary@Sdnd six true bills and ignored . "The charges against the boys Robg,of Grass Valley, were papi gon ne ow jate firr ae JOHN FITTER. . . .. North San Juan, Nov. 6, 1866. 0. movil.. ge abe ded oh alg eo od Boece ng oa Nevada county, State of C rnia. he inatier ofthe on of Fommés Ori . an 3 vent de ; uant to an order of the Hon: A. C, Niles, Judge of the said County Court, notice i= to all the creditors of the said: solvent, James Griffin, to be and appear before the Hon. A. C. Niles, County Judge aforesaid, at Chambers, in the Court Room of said Court, in the county of Nevada, on the 15th day of December, 1866, at 10.0’clock, a, m. of that day, ‘then and there to show cause, if any they can, why the prayer of said insolvent should not be granted, and an a-signment of his estate be made, and he be discharged from his debts and liabilities, in pursuance of the statute in such cases made and provided, and ithe mean time: all proceedings against eaid in¢olvent he stayed. : 4 {~—) Witness my hand and the Seal of said < seal -Court, this 10th day of November, 1866. pemeeeg R.H. FARQUHAR, Clerk. J. 1, & John Caldwell, Atty’s for Pet'r; nolt WI STAR GOLD, SILVER AND COPPER MINING COMPANY. Lecation, Empire District, Nevada Couuty, California.— Notice. — There ts delinqnent npon the following described stock on account of. Assessment (No. 13) levied on the ist day of October,1866, the several amounts set opposite the names of the re-spective s hollers, as follows : Names. No. Ctf. No. Shs. Am't. Avery EC 5 250 $67 50 Arey E€ 4 200 54 00 Batey R 59 50 13 50 Elisworth D not issned 20 540 Fenton T aes 10 270 Dou a D 62, 63, 64, 65, each 25 200 54,00 McKeel E 80, each 2% 60 1350 Keaulbeck H 69 50 13 50 And in accordance with law and an order of the Board of py yg made on the Ist day of October, 1866, 80 Ihany shares of each parcel of said stock as may be necessary will be sold at public auction, at prt ney of the Company, at Sncker Fiat, Yuba Corfnty, California, on’ the 1WENTY-FOUKTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1866, at 2 o'clock, P, M. of said day, to — delingnent assessment thereon together with costs of advertising »nd expenres of sale. A. SAUNDERS, Sec’y. Office at the Secretary's Residence. nod PACIFIC. MAIL STEAMSHIP Cos THROUGH LINE tt NEW Oh E. :-TO— et Carrying the U. S. Mail. Leave Folsom street Wharf, at 11 o'clock a. ™. of the Slows dates, for PANAMA. connecting via Panama Railroad, with one of the Company's sprengs Steamers from ASPINWALL for NEW ORK, a On:the 1 Oth, 1 Sth and 30th of each month that.has30 ti Aes Onthe2 Oth, 1 ee and 30th of each month that has 31 days. When.the 10th, 19th and 30th fal! on Sunday, they will leave on Saturday preceding ; when rhe Ith falls on Sunday, they will leaye on Monday following, Steamer leavin San Francisco on the 10th touches at All touch at Acapulco, Departures of 18th or 19th connect with French Transatiantic Set oer 8 8 Steamer for St. Nazaire and English Steamer for South America, Departure of 10th connects with English Steamer. for Sonthimpton and P. R. R. Co."s Steamer for Central America, Departure of 80th ‘connects with English Steamer for Tumaeo, the port of.the new mines, The following Steamships will be. dispatched on dates.as given below : Nov, 10+-Constitution, Capt. E. 8:Parhsworth, connecting with Arizona, Capt, Maury. Nov. 1%—Golden Age,Capt. W. F, Lapidge,connecting with Henry Chauncey, Capt. Gray. Nov,.30--Golden City, Capt, J. T. Watkins,conconnecting with Ocean Qneen, Capt. Howes. Cabin passengers berthed through. Ragga checked through=-100 pounds allowed each adult passenger, An experienced Su nm on board. edicine and \atteudance free. . These steamers will positively «all at 11 o'clock. Passengers are requested to hive their baggage on board before 10-0'clock.” Through tickets 10 Liverpool by the Pg ae _ — -< the P. M. . 8. Co's Office in San; Francisco.. For.merchandise freight apply to Wells, Fargo & Co, Manzanillo. atched on Tuesday, January 1, 1867, for Hong ‘ong via Honolalu and Kanagawa carrying pas<opee. mails and freight. Passengers and frelght will also be taken for Shanghw,.te be forwarded from Kanagawa by steamer. For passage and other information apply at the Pacific Mail Steamship: Company's office. corner of Sacramento and Leidesdorff streets, San Francisco. OLIVER ELDRIDGE, Agent. CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD ( N AND AFTER JULY 10, 1966, until arther notice, the trains of the Central Pacific Railroad will run as follows: Going East, Mn Mail and passenger trains will leave Sderamento até a.m, and arrive at Alta at 9:30 a. m. Freight and passenger trains leave Sacramento . at G15 a. M. and arrive at Alta at 12:20 pe. 6, ; also at 3p. M., and arrive at Altaat 9:10 Pp, . Going West, _ Maitland pasrenger train leaves Alta at 9:55 a. M., and arrives at Sacramento at 1:20 p. w. Freight and passenger tratns leave Alta atéa. My, Afrive at Sacramento at 11 a. a. algo at 1:15 Pp. M., and arrive. at Sacramento at 6:30 F. 1. The morning pass nger trains convect at Anbura ‘with Stages from Yankee Jims, Forest Hin, Michigan Bliffs and Georgetown ; and at Colfax with Stages for Grass Valley, Nevada and San ; — —— a ba hn gn for Ciseo, Summit lity, Austin, Virg t all State of Netdan” TRAD prietedayttp The 6 a. m. up train connects at the Junction
with the cars of the California. Central Railroad for Lincoln and Marysville ane all points north. All trains run daily, Sundays excepted. . CROCKER : Superintendent C. P, RR. GF. Harrwet, Ass't Superintendent, seps RAGGEP STAFF MINING COMPANY.£Lo A cation, Knapp’s C K Nevada Caunty, Conk enne District, Notice is hereby givsBHINESTSE AMOUR, omer of So sharon and named Mining Cem that pursuant te notice and in accordance wit an A i “an ! premenicin seesatge es amie es BOE asserement of ea ged § a i Aina are 0. of Shares. ane. John Jones:..., + eres o. Unless the above pee woot ‘thw te sof are mu provided may ©o.um! : The splendid steamphip Colorado will be dis1 i pa Dollars per shar vied een eee a ere Staff claim, The Lo TO SCRIP HOLDERS. rE\HE Treasurer of Nevada ‘Coun ty-will_pay, on resentation, all warrants drawn on the Genbs ‘und and regtevered prior to Aug. 10th, 1866. Trereae On sami¢ ceases At the date of this advertisement. KE. F. SPENCE, Treasurer. in--}~ Nevada, Now.Sth, 1866, DryGoods, Fancy Goods, . How to Economize ! Buy your Goods at A. GOLDSMITH? S Fashionable Dry Goods Store, Cor, Broad & Pine Sts, Nevada City. Carpets, Oil Cloths, Millinery Goods, J. F. BUSSENIUS, Apothecary.and Chemist, Cor Pine & Commercfal Sts, NEVADA. — =” PHYSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTION -CAREFULLY PREPARED AT ALL HOURS—DAY OR NIGHT. nov7 OTICE is hecody given to A. Fossett, 8. Dolley, Simon Brandt and J. Marcellus, members. of the “First North Extension of the Union Ledge Company, ’ situated in Nevada Township, Nevada ee. being nnited in partnership with the unde: , for the purppse of Mining in a certain. . as aforesaid, that a meeting of the Co peny will be held at the National Exchange Hotel, Nevada city, on the 10th day of Nove’r, 1866, for the purpose of levying an assesement to work «afd claim. This meeting is calied in compliance with “an Act entitled an Act concerning partnerships for wee: Set 4 J. A.LANCASTE K.P BARNETT. Nevada city, Nov, 7% J. W. ELLISON.” SERS SALE.—By virtne of an Execution 4) to me delivered isened ont of the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District in and for the County of Nevada, State of California, bearing date Nov, 5th, 1 on a jygement rendered. in said Court on the 5th day of November, 1 in favor of Timothy Sullivan andagainst Michael Shea and James O'Donnel for the snm of Ten Hundred and Ten Dollars, damages, with interest thereon at the rate of two per cent per month till we saidsum principal and interest payable in U. 8. 50 costs and disbursegold coin, er with ma ad 4 en accruin the 4 t, title and ments, at the date of sa’ costs, Ihave levied upon al interest of the defendants, Michael Shea and Jas. O*Donnell herein mentioned in and to the fullowing described property, to-wit:—All and entire that certain aet ¢! gravel Mining Claims or lot of mining ground situated at Moore's Flat, Nevada County, California, bounded on_the east by the claims known as the Dooling claims, and on the wert. by the Pioneer claims, and known-as +t Ohio Co’s claims, Also. in and to that certain other set of Grayel Claims, or lot of minin ground, situated at Moore's Fiat aforesaid, in sa County and State, bounded on the west by the Hooling claims, and on the east by the Knotwell & Co's claims, and known as the Nevada claims. Also, in and to that certain Water Ditch heading Flats, conveying water to the Ohio ‘Co's claims ote. ye er Bids the sagarten = thereunto bele ng or in anywike Aalming. that . will expose. to Notice ia hereby public sale all the ne the hy bidder Gold Coin, it evada, on we a described property, to. or cash, in United States Court. Honee door, in the Fee SDAY, ember 4th. 166, ween the ‘hours of 9 o’¢lotk. A’ M! and 5 o'clock, P. M. Given wnder ‘nry ‘hand at Nevada ‘City, this 5th. day of Noy., 1866, _R. B. GENTRY. Sherif x RB. Be Patton, Under Sheriff, W. W. Cross & "1, Reardan. Attys. nov7 UNION HOTEL. Second and K Sts, SACRAMENTO. L, CULVER; ‘Proprietor. Cras Ni oo G LUBTIB). WATCHMAKER 'aND JEWELER, wb (2 with rooms by the day, A’few choice rooms for vate dining room attached. lard Saloons of the first order. alp Paes, ewe % ut “wars ? " ‘. TREMENDOUS EXCITEMENT); lAVE ON HAND IN THEIR § abent half way ‘between Moore's and ‘Orleans . . GREGORY & WAITE, enti TORE ang teri tai, [ola stand of Jesse Wall and his successors.} A Larger stock of Goods in their ling thah caw be founa ti any omer store {mn the County, Amounting to something less than a cargo {or the Great Eastern and consisting of & Hardware, ‘Wooden Ware, Willow Ware, Crockery Ware, AND : Glass Ware, (To which %e might add for the benefit of competitors, BEWARE) GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS WINES AND Liquors, Of the Choicest Qualities, BARLEY, WHEAT, BRAN,> SHORTS, &e. &e, On hand and to arrive, : “mostly to arrive, 1000 kegs of Powder; Fuse enough For an Ocean Cable and warranted not to break connection. : =, A few miles of Rubber Hose, 4 kinds, Which we are felling to the benefit of one. Goodyear. 100,000 gallons of Kerosene; Lard and Lubricating Oils, To grease the gudgeons of the Universe. More Quicksilver than we want at the present rates.’ 1000 Boxes of Candles, with wicks in them and warranted to burn, Sugars of all them. kinds, a mountain of Teas and Coffees, more kinds than A few Cords of Bacon, warranted corn fed. On hand, also, « big pile of Lard, that never made a sheep's acquaintance, or no gale. 1000 boxes Soap, from Colgates’ down 100 kegs and 49 cases Butter. We buy and sell the best article, 100 kegs Nails, assorted, Rakes, Hoes, Pitehforks, Sluice Forks, Shovels, Spades, Sledges, Steel, Rope, ») Twine, Rubber Packing, Demijoho* and any kind of liquors to fill them, Case.and Shelf Goods in.any quantity ” We button-hole nobody for custom and have 20 motto but ‘fair dealing. —ToO ARKIVE— 1,000,000 Tons of all sorts of Goods [When we buy and pay for them. ] We consult the tastes of our customers and rt member always that it takes two to make a bargain. RE Goods delivered at a resectable dietanct free of charge, oy yn y : ‘ LUO abare et veut NPY $9 Brend Serect ee ' Est k . O° NEVADA LOCA bed i ATrEMPT Al have an idea t . . . anything and @they get inte ¢ with ‘a saflicie themselves. E when brought question freqr charger, Jadg and in many c cept bribes. by the Grand. attempt to bri! The offer was Chung: was ¢ upon the char trunk contain house on Pine an interpreter amination, the der advisemen fore the hourWatt went to “money which the offer and ist” before the would follow : Celestials wot d&s not pay f Youne Foi. Dryden will people of this o'clock. The ing generatio »attend, at the street. This preached last inclement we to-day. Lap¥” Dey was crowded most capacity efit of Lady J in uniform to large delegati dance. The . Lady Don sai quest.” The’ closed last, . night, they : Grass Valley. County Co Githam vs Hi asignee. The People for assault. w day morning Peaple VB attémpt to b To be arraig Arraignme Teard postpor ‘Court ajo Huger PEs saloon we wi from the orcl Hill, which 1 quarters. “T weighed two These monst the mountai Episcopal mitting, Rev pal.services city, today, All are invit ConDITIO} Geérge Dalt in an affray week ago, st tion. Ther recovery. PREACH will be held Broad street and in thee school at 14 Thuysday e Services a this mornin * hours. Sal morning se: Rev. J. A tigt, Church om Se