November 13, 1869 (4 pages)

SATURDAY, Ove 18, 1869. — 9 Tue Best INcENTIVE.—Recently the agencies which will best promote ‘the interests of the State have been generally discussed by .the press, and under the above caption, the Stockton Independent, speaking of the controverSY, 88y8: : Every day and from every quarter California exchanges come to hand with large ape devoted to. disquisitions, generally replete with dogmatism, on ' the necessities of this State and the best means for relieving them. Immigration—the absolute necessity of immigration, and he best means of inducing immigration, form the chief burden of innumerable, pondérous and some profound editorials. Of the, multitude who have discussed this subject,. none have seemed to bring to bear upon it ® greater amount of unimpassioned thought and absolute clear-headedness, than has the editor of thw Nevada TRANSCRIPT, who embodies the gist of the controversy in the crisp sentence, that ‘before employment can be given to-imuani ts, we must find industries that can be carried on at a profit.” Our readers. will remember that the position taken by the TRANSCRIPT was, that on account-of ‘a lack of the knowledge of our climate, seasons and demands, Eastern. farmers could not reasonably be expected to come and develop that diversity of products we so much need, and while we would not discourage immigration, we hold that it is useless to induce them to come until work is found at which they can be employed. This was in reply to an article urging that immigration must be brought to show us how to dewelop the resources. The Independent says: “The rejoinder of the TRANSCRIPT is apt, terse, and it would be difficult to improve upon its position or argiment.” This-indorsement of our position, coming as it does from one of the best pa—pers inthe State,.whieh—is—publi, in the richest agricultural district, we take asa high compliment, as showing that, there exists. among those who have best opportunity of knowing, on opinion identical with our own, naniely, that if ofr products are diversified, and our resourcés are developed, it must be accomplished by the péople of this State—those who by experience and practice are competent for the task.— When this is done we may expect a steady influx of immigrants, and a heathy. growth in prosperity: as we increase in population. As a general thing, the people'of Calfornia are as en" ergetic and enterprising as any people in the world, and the best Eastern farmers would, whder the same circum. stances, have dono just as our farmers, and will continue to, until the necessity fora change is apparent. It ‘is “now becoming so, our farmers are beginning to see it, and they will not be long in taking advantage of the new demands upon them. They bring to the task that knowledge of the soil, climate, seasons, etc., indispensible to sticcess in farming in any country, A MARRIAGE—The Grass Valley Union relates the following: Wednes, day last an ardent couple ran the toll gate of the Grass Valley and Nevada Turnpike, They wanted to get married and cowld not stop to pay toll. Our young friend who keeps the toll gate, did not hke such proceedings, he wants people to see him as they pass, which the love-smitten couple did not. He came down to Grass Valley to have the gate runners arrested. He applied to a Justice of the Peace and the Justice had just received an invitation to attend the wedding. His Honor concluded that a __,. Wedding was better than a trial,-and he. informed the gate keeper what was on hand: “The keeper concluded that all was fight, forgave the parties who ran by hith' and he attended the wedding. ‘The: inoral is tlatan’ anxious couple, one which is in a hurry, will not stop to pay toll, however much they may be willing to do so thereafter. STATISTICS show that one fourth of all immigrants that have landed in the United States since the formation of the government, have come to us during the last nine years, notwithstanding our great civil war. 2 at AFTER THE Srate.—Among the many schemes for fleecihg thelpeople of the, State next Winter, is the prorposition to ask aid for an institution” lately organized in San Franeisco, called the Immigrant Aid Society.” A San Francisco correspondent says :° A. D. Belt, formerly of the Bulletin, gets a salary of $300 per month, as an agent of the new Immigration Society, in this city, to collect statistics, to trayed with the immigration movement generally. It is intimated that a very large appropriation will be asked for from the Legislature of this State, now soon to assemble, in aid of the movement, amounting to hundreds-of thousands of dollars.” In a circular issued, the Society avows its purpose-to ask.aid to bring to this State as immigrants, “farmers of small means,” who are expected to invest their small-means in lands, stock farms and then show the people of this State how to secure diversified products.— These immigrants, who are totally ignorant of the nature of oar soil.and its ‘capacities, who. know nothing about our seasons, and are about as well qualified-to teach California farmers as they are to teach Chinese how to raise tea, are to be induced to come to the State at, the expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the State treasury. Ifthe Legislature desire to benefit the State, let it do so by contributions of money to excite local enterprise. Let our own-farmers who are qualified for the business: by experience and a knowledge of the climate and sovil, be encouraged in every way, let regulations be adopted that will insure the equal taxation. of property, so that it will not pay land grabbers to hold the best lands for speculation. Let a Board of Equalization be’ established, and rules for its government laid down so that there can be no unjust’ discrimination against any kinds of property that money, improvements, lands, etc., may be made to bear only an equal share of taxation, aid in this way more may be accomplished than in the expenditure of thousands, throwing upon the State a population which in the nature of the Case cannot find employment, We shall oppose, under all circumstances the placing at! the disposal of private individuals or local institutions the public funds, especially when, by so deing no benefit. will .be derivéd. .In the matter of building up the State, let each, locality depend upon the ehergy and enterprise of its people, and a steady and healthy growth will be the result. Immigrants will be eager to get homes among us when avenues of employment are opened, APPOINTMENT.—Acorrespondent of the Bee, writing from San Francisco, says: ‘Colonel Coey, our new Postmaster, has not. made Many removals of clerks in that establishment, and it 1s understood that he does not intend to. Walter Mead, late a resident of Nevada county, has received an appointment, insome capacity, on the recommendation of Congressman Sargent.” THE , Vallejo Railroad is now completed and running to within ten\miles of Yuba City. Two weeks more, and OroVille will be connected with the Bay of San Francisco by direct railroad communication, A PETITION to the Legislature in favor of the erection of a new county out of the northeastern portion of Monterey is being numerously signed in that county. TAXATION.—The Union of Thursday has an article on Taxation, showing that the bulk of our national taxes comes under four heads: F irst, annual interest on the debt, $125,000,000,-. See~ ond, annual reduction of the debt, which ' under Boutwell’s policy amounts to $100,000,000 per year ; this it estimates may, With good results, be cut down one half or two thirds. Third, the War Department, which has cost an average of $60,000,000, and which it now estimates may be cut down to $30,000,000. Fourth, the Navy, which costs $25.,000,000 a year. The Union estimates that with the civil and diplomatic list,. ~~ office and contingent expenses of ongress, the amount to be raised per year will be about $375,000, oF taking the population at 40,000,000; about bi: 000. “ $9 37} cents to each inhabitant, el, and to write up all matters. connect-. ELE TAI APRA ELD IRS TAAL ALO EE RE SINE EL OLIN ese pase Race yor LirE—A THRILLING scxie—te make # ‘an ‘intelligible m titer to the reader, let me say that the Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburg toad intersects the Lake shore at this place. The station at the junction is named Brocton. Now let it be understood that from this point to Maysville, at the head of Chatouqua lake, a distance of only ten miles, a train is carried over an elevation of 700 feet. From the sta~ tion to the summit, the grade is about 80 feet ‘to the mile, with curves which increase the distance by four miles. It ties of petroleum are brought. On Tuesday evening, about 9 o’clock, a train, consisting of six oil cars and two passenger cars, reached the summit, on its way to the junction. Here, by some cause, as yet unexplained, one of the oil tanks took fire. The passen. ger cars were at once detached and the brakes stopped them, Next the oil cars were cut off, and the locomotive, tender, and a box car, containing two valuable horses and two men, passed down the toad, the engineer supposing that the brakemen on the oil cars: would arrest the course of those, but what was his horror, on looking back to see the cars in pursuit of him down the grade, enveloped in flanties. They not only ‘pursued, but overtook him, striking the box car with inconceivable force, knocking the horses and men flat on the floor,and yet almost miraculously: not throwing the engine from the track. eee It was now, with the engineer, a race for life, and he gave the engine every ounce of steam. Looking south from the place of my residence at that terrible juncture, one of the most magnificent spectacles was witnessed that a man sees in a lifetime. A sheet of was seen coming down the southern slope, apparently with the speed of a meteor, and really very near the speed of a hurricane (80 miles an hour); for pursaer and pursued flew over the course, or rather down it, and around’ the curves, at the rate of more than 70 miles an: hour, as the engineer declares; and as everybody can. believe who witnessed the spectacle. The whole heavens were. illuminated, and the landscape was lit up as by the noon-day light. Onward and downward flew the engine, and behind it. flew and thandered the huge firey demon. Twice its prodigious weight was driven against the fugitive, ‘as if instinct with a purpose to drive] it from the track. .It seemed as if to the heroic engineer and fireman there was a perfect environment of peril. The speed of the engine-Was such that it ceased to pamp ; thenagain the Cincinnati express train was due at the junction at this time, The engineer of the oil train whistled “open switch,” and shaking hands with the fireman, they bade each other farewell, knowing that their lives depended on the opening of the Lake Shore switch by their friends below, and this was to imperil the express train coming down from tne west with its living human freight. The engineer on this train saw the fire when it first broke out on the summit, and supposing he could clear the junction before the flaming terror reached it, he too, a his engine to its utmost speed on the level grade, A mile short of the junction he saw the effort was a vain one, for the flying conflagration had rushed up out of the Lake Shore track and was roaring onward in the direction of Dankirk. He checked the headlong rush of his train and brought it to a stand-still. It did not proceed until 3 o’clock in the morning. _ The case took in another danger, and it.wasiminent. A heavy freight train was coming up the Lake Shore road. that it did eran to the side track, and only escaped by the last minute of possibility, . : Running on toa safe distance from the depot, the engineer of the oil train detached his engine and left the six cars to consume. He says his situation was fully realized by him: He expected to lose his life. At every moment he expartes the engine to leave the track, e saw that he was going at a perilous Tate of speed, but there was no elp for it. The demon was: behind him, and he declares that it looked like a demon: With that fondness, or real affection for his engine that these men display, he said, “I thought everything of my engine,and was determined to stay by it to the last.” The fireman made one attempt to escape by jumping from the tender, but the engineer restrained him. Altogether, the occurrence was a able for this, no lives were lost. The brakemen on the oil train had wone back to the passenger cars when the oil cars started. Tt was well they did. Unless those rear cars had béen detached and stopped, their inmates would have been burnt to death inevitably. — Grand Rapids (Mich.) Eagle, A NaruraL Wonper.—The Helena (Montana) Gazette, of October 22d, states that a boiling spring has been discov. ered in the vicinity of the Big Canyon feet, . ~~ is over this road that immense. quanti-. intensely bright flame, 60: feet high, . ’ All I will say of the eseape of this is} premarkabie oné,and in part remark-. of the Colorado, which’ throws a stream ten feet in diameter to a hight of 100 . week. "Want LiaHT.The Sacramento pa pers ar@ calling upon the ¢ity axghork tios for more light for the streets, before the meeting of the Legislature. The Trustees.should light the streets Jeadi the new capitol, or many of ‘the Solons may fall by the way during the session. s EEE —— } —— this. city, Nov. 10th, 1869, John, son of Pk eo Jane Hanley, aged 10 years and 11 4 months, ©. . a a al ae ad EEE ATE NOTICE.—Probate Court, City yi County of Nevada. In the matter of the Estate of Mathew Creamer, deceased. It appearing to the Court by the petition presented and filed by D. C. Teeple, the Administrator of Mathew Creamer, deceased, praying for an order.to sell real estate, that it is necessary to sell the whole of the real estate to pay the allowance to the family, the debts outstanding against the deceased, and the debts expenses and charges of administration. It is therefore ordered by the Court that all persons intereated in the said estate appear before the said Court, on Monday the 13th day of December, A. D. 1869. at 11 o clock, a.m,-of said day, . at the Court House of said Probate Court in the City and County of Nevada, State of California, to show eause why an order should not be granted to the said Administrator to sell so much of the real estate of the deceased as shall be necessary ; and that acopy of this order be published at least four successive weeks in the NEvapDa a rch a Jono rinted and publis in said city ity. . . A, C. NILES, County Judge. “J, G. K. Farquhar, County Clerk of Nevada county, State: of California, and. ex-officio Clerk of the Probate Court, in and. for said . : county, do hereby certify the foregoing. to. be a true end correct copy of an order duly made and entered upon the minutes of said Probate Court. ; ~~) Witness my hand and tke Seal of seal }said Probate Court; this 12th day of —~ ) Nov. a. D; 1869, GEO. K. FARQUHAR, Clerk, ¢ : By Joun Anpey, Deputy.’ Williams & Johnson, Attys. : nis U. 8 REVENUE COLLECTOR. UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTOR’S OFFICE, 4th District, Cal. ‘ OcTOBER 22nd, 1869. OTICE is hereby iven that I have been duly appoint spre Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth Division of the Fourth District of California, agers aes the Counties ef Nevada and Sierra, All Taxes assessed under the Excise Law of the United States He gs geen are payable at my office in the town of Grass Valley, Nevada county. All Letters intended for me’should be directed to Grass Valley. eE= poy Coliector. Grass Valiey, Nov. 12th, 1869, ONE PER CENT. PER MONTH AMAT ON SIX MONTHS’ DEros:BY THE CALIFORNIA BUILDING, LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, California Street, one door from Sansome Street, SAN FRANCISCO. THOMAS MOONEY, President. 825-3m SPENCE & CO, DRUGGISIS, No. 43, Broad Street, Nevada City, California. N AND AFTER JANUARY ist, 1870, the above firm willbeknown as __ PRESTON & FAIRCHILD, Nevada, Nov. 8, 1869. ‘i IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! J & 8. ROSENTHAL, at the Old Stand, Broad Street, Nev: invit of ladies to aoe a ee Fall and Winter Goods, which they have just received. The ever brought to the county of . _ aoareant Dress Goods, Genuine Furs, Household Goods, Dress Trimmt georer Articles, Hats, ete., etc, i-Ladies of Nevada county will find it t their ae te on as, a0 we can give them Better a Finer Assortment to select from, and LOWER P be found elsewhere. MIORS Wea cin Don’t neglect to call. J.& 8, ROSENTHAL, né ‘ Broad Street, Nevada. ~ GO T0 THE — 2 DOLLAR STORE! In the Building Adjng. National Exchange Hotel, BROAD STREET, NEVADA, ND SEE what Splendid Goods. . A EGR Splondia py ota ) L—you can obtaing FOR ONE DOLLAR: Such as Glassware, Plated W; Geuts’ Under Clothing. Shits Socks Glows" Kerehies, May = mbs,. Brushes, Hand. os, Albums, Knives, : GEORGE W. DIXON, } ROSENSTOCK, PRICE & CO's COLUMN, MAN’S GREATEST DUTY ! oLook Out For No. L oS You CANT GEE OVER THAT FACT, CLOTHING, BOOTS & SHOES, ‘ARE SOLD CHEAPER -~AT—ROSENSTOCK, PRICE & CO’s COR. PINE & COMMERCIAL STREET, (Haas & Co’s old stand.) THAN ELSEWHERE! Ris Se As evidence of this fact the people have only to call, take no= ‘tice, compare items, examine stock, —AND— JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES. . ey LEAVE YOUR MONEY WHERE YOU GET THE MOST AND BEST. —FoR— THE LEAST MONEY! Now ON HAND, and CONSTANTLY RECEIVING CLOTHING OF ALL KINDS, consisting in part of SPLENDID SUITS : BEVER, CASSIMERE, BROADCLOTH, OVERCOATS, o And in fact EVERYTHING ' INTHE CLOTHING LINE. ns MEN'S AND BOYS’ CALIFORNIA MADE KIP AND CALF BOOTS, GAITERS, SHOES, AS WELL AS EXCELLENT RUB_ BER BOOTS FOR MINING. Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods, —avn— FANCY GOODS OF ALL KINDS. ee ta" Men’s & Boys? HATS & CAPS. te" Recently LARGE ADDITIONS have been made to the Stock. : KE No troubie to show. our Goods, and a plJeasure to tell Our Prices. Call on us and try Our Goods once, and we are SURE of your custom afterwards, iro not forget the place ROSENSTOCK, PRICE & CO. Corner of Pine and, Commerhe The 3 LO Jim Mc ROAD Com remeniber McCue wl opposition fornia Ste North Sar afterward: riento—al annoyed 1 The Comp pun or bu} yarn. No to a living by bidding their princ Jim Hawo company, was the ‘ against. 1 or bluffed « low, popul a good-hea favored th @ reductior soon let Ji hear of hit Pacific Ra Colfax. W for his tick him in gr refused it, . cars. Goir commencec for $50,00( came of thi . had occasio offering as Conductor : Jim contin charge. O the’ Conduc company. __at that tim months ago cars coming Conductor « searching f who was *‘What are ticket?’ C was. “W: you’re gree I feel like i mind ‘that have anothe paid them going to ric whenever I . don’t like it learn on go road compa: clusion that and in orde: have issuec ductors, “n fare to’ Jim and go ove wherever hi CHANGE) master Guil fort of those General Del moved that the building where part apply for let stand on the change will M. Cann has remove Omega to th house forme ‘adjoining J: street. Mr. commence . March. . CHANGE . Colby’s Ne will hereafte P. M., daily 1 ward bound Flat station. arrive in thi daily, with ' the Hast: BALTIMOR timore oyste on Thursday per can, the dozen. BENEVOLE Schmittburg to the Beney

SATURDAY, Ove 18, 1869. — 9 Tue Best INcENTIVE.—Recently the agencies which will best promote ‘the interests of the State have been generally discussed by .the press, and under the above caption, the Stockton Independent, speaking of the controverSY, 88y8: : Every day and from every quarter California exchanges come to hand with large ape devoted to. disquisitions, generally replete with dogmatism, on ' the necessities of this State and the best means for relieving them. Immigration—the absolute necessity of immigration, and he best means of inducing immigration, form the chief burden of innumerable, pondérous and some profound editorials. Of the, multitude who have discussed this subject,. none have seemed to bring to bear upon it ® greater amount of unimpassioned thought and absolute clear-headedness, than has the editor of thw Nevada TRANSCRIPT, who embodies the gist of the controversy in the crisp sentence, that ‘before employment can be given to-imuani ts, we must find industries that can be carried on at a profit.” Our readers. will remember that the position taken by the TRANSCRIPT was, that on account-of ‘a lack of the knowledge of our climate, seasons and demands, Eastern. farmers could not reasonably be expected to come and develop that diversity of products we so much need, and while we would not discourage immigration, we hold that it is useless to induce them to come until work is found at which they can be employed. This was in reply to an article urging that immigration must be brought to show us how to dewelop the resources. The Independent says: “The rejoinder of the TRANSCRIPT is apt, terse, and it would be difficult to improve upon its position or argiment.” This-indorsement of our position, coming as it does from one of the best pa—pers inthe State,.whieh—is—publi, in the richest agricultural district, we take asa high compliment, as showing that, there exists. among those who have best opportunity of knowing, on opinion identical with our own, naniely, that if ofr products are diversified, and our resourcés are developed, it must be accomplished by the péople of this State—those who by experience and practice are competent for the task.— When this is done we may expect a steady influx of immigrants, and a heathy. growth in prosperity: as we increase in population. As a general thing, the people'of Calfornia are as en" ergetic and enterprising as any people in the world, and the best Eastern farmers would, whder the same circum. stances, have dono just as our farmers, and will continue to, until the necessity fora change is apparent. It ‘is “now becoming so, our farmers are beginning to see it, and they will not be long in taking advantage of the new demands upon them. They bring to the task that knowledge of the soil, climate, seasons, etc., indispensible to sticcess in farming in any country, A MARRIAGE—The Grass Valley Union relates the following: Wednes, day last an ardent couple ran the toll gate of the Grass Valley and Nevada Turnpike, They wanted to get married and cowld not stop to pay toll. Our young friend who keeps the toll gate, did not hke such proceedings, he wants people to see him as they pass, which the love-smitten couple did not. He came down to Grass Valley to have the gate runners arrested. He applied to a Justice of the Peace and the Justice had just received an invitation to attend the wedding. His Honor concluded that a __,. Wedding was better than a trial,-and he. informed the gate keeper what was on hand: “The keeper concluded that all was fight, forgave the parties who ran by hith' and he attended the wedding. ‘The: inoral is tlatan’ anxious couple, one which is in a hurry, will not stop to pay toll, however much they may be willing to do so thereafter. STATISTICS show that one fourth of all immigrants that have landed in the United States since the formation of the government, have come to us during the last nine years, notwithstanding our great civil war. 2 at AFTER THE Srate.—Among the many schemes for fleecihg thelpeople of the, State next Winter, is the prorposition to ask aid for an institution” lately organized in San Franeisco, called the Immigrant Aid Society.” A San Francisco correspondent says :° A. D. Belt, formerly of the Bulletin, gets a salary of $300 per month, as an agent of the new Immigration Society, in this city, to collect statistics, to trayed with the immigration movement generally. It is intimated that a very large appropriation will be asked for from the Legislature of this State, now soon to assemble, in aid of the movement, amounting to hundreds-of thousands of dollars.” In a circular issued, the Society avows its purpose-to ask.aid to bring to this State as immigrants, “farmers of small means,” who are expected to invest their small-means in lands, stock farms and then show the people of this State how to secure diversified products.— These immigrants, who are totally ignorant of the nature of oar soil.and its ‘capacities, who. know nothing about our seasons, and are about as well qualified-to teach California farmers as they are to teach Chinese how to raise tea, are to be induced to come to the State at, the expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the State treasury. Ifthe Legislature desire to benefit the State, let it do so by contributions of money to excite local enterprise. Let our own-farmers who are qualified for the business: by experience and a knowledge of the climate and sovil, be encouraged in every way, let regulations be adopted that will insure the equal taxation. of property, so that it will not pay land grabbers to hold the best lands for speculation. Let a Board of Equalization be’ established, and rules for its government laid down so that there can be no unjust’ discrimination against any kinds of property that money, improvements, lands, etc., may be made to bear only an equal share of taxation, aid in this way more may be accomplished than in the expenditure of thousands, throwing upon the State a population which in the nature of the Case cannot find employment, We shall oppose, under all circumstances the placing at! the disposal of private individuals or local institutions the public funds, especially when, by so deing no benefit. will .be derivéd. .In the matter of building up the State, let each, locality depend upon the ehergy and enterprise of its people, and a steady and healthy growth will be the result. Immigrants will be eager to get homes among us when avenues of employment are opened, APPOINTMENT.—Acorrespondent of the Bee, writing from San Francisco, says: ‘Colonel Coey, our new Postmaster, has not. made Many removals of clerks in that establishment, and it 1s understood that he does not intend to. Walter Mead, late a resident of Nevada county, has received an appointment, insome capacity, on the recommendation of Congressman Sargent.” THE , Vallejo Railroad is now completed and running to within ten\miles of Yuba City. Two weeks more, and OroVille will be connected with the Bay of San Francisco by direct railroad communication, A PETITION to the Legislature in favor of the erection of a new county out of the northeastern portion of Monterey is being numerously signed in that county. TAXATION.—The Union of Thursday has an article on Taxation, showing that the bulk of our national taxes comes under four heads: F irst, annual interest on the debt, $125,000,000,-. See~ ond, annual reduction of the debt, which ' under Boutwell’s policy amounts to $100,000,000 per year ; this it estimates may, With good results, be cut down one half or two thirds. Third, the War Department, which has cost an average of $60,000,000, and which it now estimates may be cut down to $30,000,000. Fourth, the Navy, which costs $25.,000,000 a year. The Union estimates that with the civil and diplomatic list,. ~~ office and contingent expenses of ongress, the amount to be raised per year will be about $375,000, oF taking the population at 40,000,000; about bi: 000. “ $9 37} cents to each inhabitant, el, and to write up all matters. connect-. ELE TAI APRA ELD IRS TAAL ALO EE RE SINE EL OLIN ese pase Race yor LirE—A THRILLING scxie—te make # ‘an ‘intelligible m titer to the reader, let me say that the Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburg toad intersects the Lake shore at this place. The station at the junction is named Brocton. Now let it be understood that from this point to Maysville, at the head of Chatouqua lake, a distance of only ten miles, a train is carried over an elevation of 700 feet.. From the sta~ tion to the summit, the grade is about 80 feet ‘to the mile, with curves which increase the distance by four miles. It ties of petroleum are brought. On Tuesday evening, about 9 o’clock, a train, consisting of six oil cars and two passenger cars, reached the summit, on its way to the junction. Here, by some cause, as yet unexplained, one of the oil tanks took fire. The passen. ger cars were at once detached and the brakes stopped them, Next the oil cars were cut off, and the locomotive, tender, and a box car, containing two valuable horses and two men, passed down the toad, the engineer supposing that the brakemen on the oil cars: would arrest the course of those, but what was his horror, on looking back to see the cars in pursuit of him down the grade, enveloped in flanties. They not only ‘pursued, but overtook him, striking the box car with inconceivable force, knocking the horses and men flat on the floor,and yet almost miraculously: not throwing the engine from the track. eee It was now, with the engineer, a race for life, and he gave the engine every ounce of steam. Looking south from the place of my residence at that terrible juncture, one of the most magnificent spectacles was witnessed that a man sees in a lifetime. A sheet of was seen coming down the southern slope, apparently with the speed of a meteor, and really very near the speed of a hurricane (80 miles an hour); for pursaer and pursued flew over the course, or rather down it, and around’ the curves, at the rate of more than 70 miles an: hour, as the engineer declares; and as everybody can. believe who witnessed the spectacle. The whole heavens were. illuminated, and the landscape was lit up as by the noon-day light. Onward and downward flew the engine, and behind it. flew and thandered the huge firey demon. Twice its prodigious weight was driven against the fugitive, ‘as if instinct with a purpose to drive] it from the track. .It seemed as if to the heroic engineer and fireman there was a perfect environment of peril. The speed of the engine-Was such that it ceased to pamp ; thenagain the Cincinnati express train was due at the junction at this time, The engineer of the oil train whistled “open switch,” and shaking hands with the fireman, they bade each other farewell, knowing that their lives depended on the opening of the Lake Shore switch by their friends below, and this was to imperil the express train coming down from tne west with its living human freight. The engineer on this train saw the fire when it first broke out on the summit, and supposing he could clear the junction before the flaming terror reached it, he too, a his engine to its utmost speed on the level grade, A mile short of the junction he saw the effort was a vain one, for the flying conflagration had rushed up out of the Lake Shore track and was roaring onward in the direction of Dankirk. He checked the headlong rush of his train and brought it to a stand-still. It did not proceed until 3 o’clock in the morning. _ The case took in another danger, and it.wasiminent. A heavy freight train was coming up the Lake Shore road. that it did eran to the side track, and only escaped by the last minute of possibility, . : Running on toa safe distance from the depot, the engineer of the oil train detached his engine and left the six cars to consume. He says his situation was fully realized by him: He expected to lose his life. At every moment he expartes the engine to leave the track, e saw that he was going at a perilous Tate of speed, but there was no elp for it. The demon was: behind him, and he declares that it looked like a demon: With that fondness, or real affection for his engine that these men display, he said, “I thought everything of my engine,and was determined to stay by it to the last.” The fireman made one attempt to escape by jumping from the tender, but the engineer restrained him. Altogether, the occurrence was a able for this, no lives were lost. The

brakemen on the oil train had wone back to the passenger cars when the oil cars started. Tt was well they did. Unless those rear cars had béen detached and stopped, their inmates would have been burnt to death inevitably. — Grand Rapids (Mich.) Eagle, A NaruraL Wonper.—The Helena (Montana) Gazette, of October 22d, states that a boiling spring has been discov. ered in the vicinity of the Big Canyon feet, . ~~ is over this road that immense. quanti-. intensely bright flame, 60: feet high, . ’ All I will say of the eseape of this is} premarkabie oné,and in part remark-. of the Colorado, which’ throws a stream ten feet in diameter to a hight of 100 . week. "Want LiaHT.The Sacramento pa pers ar@ calling upon the ¢ity axghork tios for more light for the streets, before the meeting of the Legislature. The Trustees.should light the streets Jeadi the new capitol, or many of ‘the Solons may fall by the way during the session. s EEE —— } —— this. city, Nov. 10th, 1869, John, son of Pk eo Jane Hanley, aged 10 years and 11 4 months, ©. . a a al ae ad EEE ATE NOTICE.—Probate Court, City yi County of Nevada. In the matter of the Estate of Mathew Creamer, deceased. It appearing to the Court by the petition presented and filed by D. C. Teeple, the Administrator of Mathew Creamer, deceased, praying for an order.to sell real estate, that it is necessary to sell the whole of the real estate to pay the allowance to the family, the debts outstanding against the deceased, and the debts expenses and charges of administration. It is therefore ordered by the Court that all persons intereated in the said estate appear before the said Court, on Monday the 13th day of December, A. D. 1869. at 11 o clock, a.m,-of said day, . at the Court House of said Probate Court in the City and County of Nevada, State of California, to show eause why an order should not be granted to the said Administrator to sell so much of the real estate of the deceased as shall be necessary ; and that acopy of this order be published at least four successive weeks in the NEvapDa a rch a Jono rinted and publis in said city ity. . . A, C. NILES, County Judge. “J, G. K. Farquhar, County Clerk of Nevada county, State: of California, and. ex-officio Clerk of the Probate Court, in and. for said . : county, do hereby certify the foregoing. to. be a true end correct copy of an order duly made and entered upon the minutes of said Probate Court. ; ~~) Witness my hand and tke Seal of seal }said Probate Court; this 12th day of —~ ) Nov. a. D; 1869, GEO. K. FARQUHAR, Clerk, ¢ : By Joun Anpey, Deputy.’ Williams & Johnson, Attys. : nis U. 8 REVENUE COLLECTOR. UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTOR’S OFFICE, 4th District, Cal. ‘ OcTOBER 22nd, 1869. OTICE is hereby iven that I have been duly appoint spre Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth Division of the Fourth District of California, agers aes the Counties ef Nevada and Sierra, All Taxes assessed under the Excise Law of the United States He gs geen are payable at my office in the town of Grass Valley, Nevada county. All Letters intended for me’should be directed to Grass Valley. eE= poy Coliector. Grass Valiey, Nov. 12th, 1869, ONE PER CENT. PER MONTH AMAT ON SIX MONTHS’ DEros:BY THE CALIFORNIA BUILDING, LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, California Street, one door from Sansome Street, SAN FRANCISCO. THOMAS MOONEY, President. 825-3m SPENCE & CO, DRUGGISIS, No. 43, Broad Street, Nevada City, California. N AND AFTER JANUARY ist, 1870, the above firm willbeknown as __ PRESTON & FAIRCHILD, Nevada, Nov. 8, 1869. ‘i IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! J & 8. ROSENTHAL, at the Old Stand, Broad Street, Nev: invit of ladies to aoe a ee Fall and Winter Goods, which they have just received. The ever brought to the county of . _ aoareant Dress Goods, Genuine Furs, Household Goods, Dress Trimmt georer Articles, Hats, ete., etc, i-Ladies of Nevada county will find it t their ae te on as, a0 we can give them Better a Finer Assortment to select from, and LOWER P be found elsewhere. MIORS Wea cin Don’t neglect to call. J.& 8, ROSENTHAL, né ‘ Broad Street, Nevada. ~ GO T0 THE — 2 DOLLAR STORE! In the Building Adjng. National Exchange Hotel, BROAD STREET, NEVADA, ND SEE what Splendid Goods. . A EGR Splondia py ota ) L—you can obtaing FOR ONE DOLLAR: Such as Glassware, Plated W; Geuts’ Under Clothing. Shits Socks Glows" Kerehies, May = mbs,. Brushes, Hand. os, Albums, Knives, : GEORGE W. DIXON, } ROSENSTOCK, PRICE & CO's COLUMN, MAN’S GREATEST DUTY ! oLook Out For No. L oS You CANT GEE OVER THAT FACT, CLOTHING, BOOTS & SHOES, ‘ARE SOLD CHEAPER -~AT—ROSENSTOCK, PRICE & CO’s COR. PINE & COMMERCIAL STREET, (Haas & Co’s old stand.) THAN ELSEWHERE! Ris Se As evidence of this fact the people have only to call, take no= ‘tice, compare items, examine stock, —AND— JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES. . ey LEAVE YOUR MONEY WHERE YOU GET THE MOST AND BEST.. —FoR— THE LEAST MONEY! Now ON HAND, and CONSTANTLY RECEIVING CLOTHING OF ALL KINDS, consisting in part of SPLENDID SUITS : BEVER, CASSIMERE, BROADCLOTH, OVERCOATS, o And in fact EVERYTHING ' INTHE CLOTHING LINE. ns MEN'S AND BOYS’ CALIFORNIA MADE KIP AND CALF BOOTS, GAITERS, SHOES, AS WELL AS EXCELLENT RUB_ BER BOOTS FOR MINING. Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods, —avn— FANCY GOODS OF ALL KINDS. ee ta" Men’s & Boys? HATS & CAPS. te" Recently LARGE ADDITIONS have been made to the Stock. : KE No troubie to show. our Goods, and a plJeasure to tell Our Prices. Call on us and try Our Goods once, and we are SURE of your custom afterwards, iro not forget the place ROSENSTOCK, PRICE & CO. Corner of Pine and, Commerhe The 3 LO Jim Mc ROAD Com remeniber McCue wl opposition fornia Ste North Sar afterward: riento—al annoyed 1 The Comp pun or bu} yarn. No to a living by bidding their princ Jim Hawo company, was the ‘ against. 1 or bluffed « low, popul a good-hea favored th @ reductior soon let Ji hear of hit Pacific Ra Colfax. W for his tick him in gr refused it, . cars. Goir commencec for $50,00( came of thi . had occasio offering as Conductor : Jim contin charge. O the’ Conduc company. __at that tim months ago cars coming Conductor « searching f who was *‘What are ticket?’ C was. “W: you’re gree I feel like i mind ‘that have anothe paid them going to ric whenever I . don’t like it learn on go road compa: clusion that and in orde: have issuec ductors, “n fare to’ Jim and go ove wherever hi CHANGE) master Guil fort of those General Del moved that the building where part apply for let stand on the change will M. Cann has remove Omega to th house forme ‘adjoining J: street. Mr. commence . March. . CHANGE . Colby’s Ne will hereafte P. M., daily 1 ward bound Flat station. arrive in thi daily, with ' the Hast: BALTIMOR timore oyste on Thursday per can, the dozen. BENEVOLE Schmittburg to the Beney