October 9, 1869 (4 pages)

The Baily Granscipt, NEVADA CITY. CALIFORNIA. SATURDAY, OCT. ©, 1869. =z ./ UNION REPUBLICAN SICKER. Judicial Nominations, For Judges ofthe Supreme Court. LORENZO SAWYER, O C.PRATT, For Judge of the Mth Judicial District. T, B. .MeFARLAND. THe Postau TeLeEGRAPH.—Gardner G. Hubbard is doing good service in the advocaty of the Postal Telegraph system, presenting statistics and arguments so convincing in the matter that the opponents of the adoption of the system our government do not attempt to.counteract them. In his speech at Sacramento recently, he showed the . following to be the rates in countries -Wwhere.the.lines are controlled by gov ernment. ‘Belgium and Swiss, 12 cts. for under 200 ‘miles. ‘French rates, 26 -cents for under.600 miles, and that fors eign rates are uniform for certain dis‘tances, He then goes on to show that the rates in the United States are arbix trary, twice as high in the East .as “~vabroad, and twice as high in the West as in the East, and for these-differences there are two sets of causes, one class may be remedied and the other cannot be. The remedible ones proceed from the undue proportion between capital _ aud property,the poor character of lines, _ and the small amount of business done. The causes resulting from the system » are competition andconsequent increase of capital and expénse. He then goes on to say that offices were estabs lished for the tramsmission and delivery of the correspondence of the people,and there is no reason why telegraph coms munication should not be conducted by the Department, adding: “It is now proposed that the Post Office Depart-~ ment shall receive all this correspon~ dence, transmit one portion by contract with railroads and other carriers, another portion by contract with a telegraph company, and deliver the whole, ‘the mailed letters as at present, the telegraph letters by special carrier. That this plan removes the objections made to the governments buying or building and operating lines; that the rates offered, 22 cents for messages of 20 words for every 500 miles of trans« ‘mission, with the right of reducing rates given to the Postmaster General, are reasonable and fair; that the facilities in the country will be increased ; and in the city by the provision for the res ception and delivery of messages thro’ the sub-offices, street doxes, and letter carriers, that the facilities will be greatly increased,” : _ CHINESB.Tustimony,—Judge Sawyer, of the Fourth District Court of San, Francisco, has decided that Chinese testimony is admissible in the Courts. His decision is precisely the same as Judge McFarland’s in the Auburn case, and is given as follows in the Alta’s report: “Judge Sawyer said he had no doubt that the State law took away from Chinamen the right to testify in such eases as this, but it. was equally clear that the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment, which overrides all State laws, confers the right to testify in pro. tection of his life or his property. ~He was aware that the Pelice-Jdutge had decided otherwise; but that was a matter in which that Judge had to decide for himself, ana ih nowise concerned his (Judge Sawyer’s) opinion. He admitjted that a different opinion might be _ held as conscientioysly as he claimed to hold his. Still he believed the Judge to be mistaken. Was it to be argued that if two. Chinamen were walking along, and a white man comes up and slays one of the Chinamen, that the other is to be precluded from giving his testimony? Ifhe were so precluded, how could it be argued that all had “equal _protection” of the law? —If a man swears an unfounded claim against your ‘property, the only way you ean protect that property is‘by swearing that the claim is unfounded. If you are fot allowed ‘to do that, how can _ it be said that you have the “equat “proteetion of the law,” which thé Constitution des clares is the right of all men?” THe Prorsssor.—In noticing the paintings of exhibition; at: the” Mes. chanics’ Fair, the Times says: “Of the trash, ‘we shall notice only one piece, and notice that only beeause, as we “Were informed, the man who executed it has been elected Professor of Painting, (or something of the sort,} to the University of California. Immediately to the right, on entering tke gallery, is a hopeless piece of smeared canvas, ens titled a view of Oakland.” It is ridiculous in drawing, perspective and color. . It is no exaggeration to say that many asign painter might be ashaméd of it. We call the Regents’ attention to the . matterin order that they may.eause its instant removal. If they. Will not remove the man who was guilty of it, at least let them preserve the University and theniselves-from-ridicule.” TICKETS.—Great care’should be taken “says the Union, in preparing tickets for the judicial election, toavoid ambiguity in respect to the office for which the candidate is intended. It will not do to vote simply for Sawyer and Pratt, without designating which is to fill the long and which thé short term. Such a ballot might be thrown out altogether fur indefiniteness. On the other hand, if either Sawyer or Pratt were voted for as a candidate for the wreng term, the practical effect would be to throw away the. vote. The only proper and sure way is to print the tickets as follows: “For Judges of the Supreme Court—For the long. term, Lorenzo Sawyer; for the short term,O. C. Pratt.” SECRETARY BourwELu’s policy of buying up the national debt has re~ sulted in extinguishing $56,000,000 of interest bearing debt in seven months, and leaving a balance of $108,000,000 in coin in the treasury. That kind of a showing will please the people. It ‘shows, also, that the revenues of the government far exceed its expenses, and giyes our people the option of reducing taxes or continuing Mr. Boutwell’s policy. Itis.alrthe result of the Republican administration, while Dem+ ocratic papers are doing nothing but blowing. —«._. Express TRAIN.—The express trains will soon be running through from San Francisco to New York in five days and a half. The trains will consist en tirely of Pullman cars, will not, stop. at the way stations except for wood ‘and water, and will run weekly, the first leaving the East about the 18th, and. west about the 25th. PASSENGERS on the Chilean and Panama steamer, who came up on her last voyage,report that when off Callao, there occurred an earthquake of such violence as to throw down a high hill in sight, On the 20th, 2tst and 24th of August there were heavy shocks at Callao, Araquipa and Lima, . THe Oakland Transcript says Moss, of the Hxaminer, never hired but one Chinaman in his life and that was as cook incamp. This Celestial, says the Captain's apologist, drank up all. the whiskey, and Moss has since opposed Chinese lahor. A LECTURE society in Boston has engaged distinguished men who are opposed to each other on the sécial and political questions of the day, and has arranged that-the opposing speakers shall appear on afférnate nights of the course. ni THe Engineer and Surveyor of the -Yailroads in New York State has just published his annual report, from which it appears that the different companies have paid during the.year in the shape of damages recovered by passengers the sum of $528,310, THE’ Nova Scotia papers are loud in their defiance of Canadian dominion,} and ‘declare that province will ses up for independence as aoon as the British . troops, now being withdrawn, are out of the way. ; . Tue Litand Empire hag information that Governor Blasdel has disposed of his entire interest in White Pine for $200,000. QNg of she Cuban pi back to Macon, @a., was found to bea girl. COs 7 Cuban patriots brought . ® Pele,,what o'clock it was. + CBF, _ Eastern News.—Reports of damage by. the late-flood, still continue to comé. A-dispatch from Springfield, Mass. says: Travel is still intérrupted éast, north andwest. Twenty or thirty bridges are carried ,away. in Franklin county, including the Vermont and Massachusetts railroad bridge over Deerfield river. Three persons were swept away with the bridges and drowned, . Another from Philadelphia says :, About $500,000 worth of “property was destroyed: by the flood in and about this city. ot Pe The ‘Tennessee Legislatiire has been organized. = oe alee A dispatch from. St. Louis says: Suit was brought.in the United-States District Court against ex-—Governor . Fletcher and Bacon Montgomery for $50,000. damages; by Berry Freeman, for personal violence and destruction of his printing office in Lafayette county, in 1866, by Montgomety, then coms manding the State militia ON Thursday greenbacks were selling at 76 in San Francisco. How THE FIRE. ORIGINATED,—-The engineer gives the following, which is the most plausable theory we have seen in. regard to the origin of the Avondale disaster, in the Engineering and Mining Journal of Sept. 28th: “The mine was ventilated by a furnace, and, from my own observation of the shaft to some distance below the tunnel above mentioned, and from the best information I have obtained from those who have. been down and exam-~ ined the shaft and furnace since the accident, and frem those who worked in the mine before the fire, it cannot admit of a reasonable doubt that the fire was catised by the furnace. The furnace was built while the late Mr. Wier was ‘mine boss, and he at two different times moved it further back into the mine, being always: fearful (and not without proof of its possibility) that it would ignite the wood work, bratticing and buntings (for the shaft itselfis in solid rock, except a short distance near the month, where .it is in masonry) in the shaft. He was in the habit of pumping water down the shaft two or three times each week, in order to keep the wood work damp —a very good precaution to take against fire, but one not very favorable to a good furnace vens tilation. The mine is exceedingly dry, all the pumping being done in a few hours in the week ; it is therefore not to be wondered at, that the timber work should burn “like a box of matches,” since, moreover, the precaution of wets ting the shaft every few days had been discontinued, The furnace is stated to be at a distance of from 100 to 150 feet from the foot of the shaft—a safe dias tance,one would say, under all ordinary circumstances—but the furnace flue is cut in the coal itself, and is without brick or stone lining. Here is one great danger, though it does not appear to have been the cause of the fire’. The immediate cause of the fire was undoubtedly. the fact that the fire on Monday morning, as was the custom, . was fed with wood—sonie say with oil barrels. The sparks from’ this wood penetrated to the shaft, and there—not necessarily at the ‘bottom—lodged in some of the wood work. It burned for hours before it was discovered ; the engineer and others who were at the head of the shaft, oiling the sheaves, tound it so hot that they @uld’ not stand there and suspected something was wrong. When the fire burst through the “hoist way,” it required but a moment; to fill the shaftwith fire, and it prevented the rescue of a single individual. The furnace was unquestionably the cause of this fire, as:it has been of a dozen others we could mention. The Buttonwood Shaft, the Empire Mines, the Enterprise Colliery, the Taylorville Shaft, etc., were all set on fire by the furnace ; ‘and if we go through any of our coal basins, among thé places which are using,or have used furnace ventilas tion, we do not think. we exaggerate much in saying one half have been on fire at some time or other fr6m that cause. The hard anthracite ignites with diffiulty and burns slowly, others wise our calamities wouldhave been ‘far more numerous yet and more serious. 4 : : eT te AMONG the different means employed by the Russian government to effect the thorough Russification of Poland, the most singular ig undoubtedly a decree lately issneq, at Warsaw. In future, all public clocks throughout the kingdom are to mark no longer Polish, but St. Petersburg time. An amusing anecdote is reported in connection with this new act of despotism. The Km— peror happened, afew days after the decree, to ask one of his aides-descamp, -The offiwithout looking at his watch replied :'* Whatever. hour your Majesty pleases.” . a -L blew the wagon to splinters‘ killed the serraay net Aerial A CONGRESSIONAL enactment pro-— actual delivery of the coin purchased, is again being seriously considered as a remedy forthe gold gambling which disgraces our great money center. ee Ir turns out that the letters publish» ed in the Alta, signed W.J.8., purs porting to come from Senator Shaw, who is traveling in China; were for geries, perpetrated by a man residing a KEG of powder. fell off a wagon, near La Paz, a few days ago, ignited, team, and mortally wounded the driver. Ir is expected that the Senate and. Assembly Chambers of the new Capitol will be completed in time for the meet. ing of the Legislature this Wihter. 6 ea “FLorA TEMPLE,” the QueenDowas ger of the Turf, is thirty-three years old. . A NEw married couple were traveling in the cars near Albany, when the huss ‘hand pulled a roll of something from fis pocket, which his wife thought was chewing tobacco. Shesnatched it from him and threw it out.of the window. It proved to be a roll of greenbacks, $2,500. For Justice of the Peace, Q B. DAVENPORT is hereby announccd as \%@ a candidate for the office of Justice of the Peace of this, Nevada Township, subject to “the decision of the people. ONSTABLE’S SALE.—Staie of California, County of Nevada, Township of Nevada, ss, By virtue of an Execution to me. delivered, issued from the Court of J. C. Palmer, Esq an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, bearing date Oct. 5th. 1869, to satisfy a judgment revdered by said Justice of the Peace, onthe 28th day of December, 1868, in favorof A. Sanford and against Hugh Drummond for the snin of $295 07 principal and $60.69 interest, in all $380 01 in, United States gold coin. debt, interest, damages and costes of suit. I have taken in execution, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash. the following describe i to-wit.; All the right, title and interest of Hugh Drummond, of, in and to that certain Ranch, situated, lying ané being in the township ef Nevada, county of Nevada, State of California, -and about 134 miles westerly from Nevada city and bounded as follows ; on the east by lands of Pats Gillchrist and D, McKeon, on the west] by lands of Thomas L. Hughes. »n thé nerth by Big Deer Creek, on the south by the old Grass Valley road, the same being nuw occupied by the said Hugh Drummond as a residence, together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or’in anywise appertaining. Notice is hereby given that I will expose to public sale the above described property to the highest bidder for cash, in U, S gold cuin, in front of the Court House door, in Nevada city, on THURSDAY the 28th day of October, 1869, between the hours of 9 o’clock, a. m. and 5 o'clock, Pp. M. Taken as the property of Hugh Drummond to satisfy the above demands and accruing costs. Given under my hand this 7th day of Oct. 1869. 08 J. B. GRAY, Constable, N. T. NEVADA THEATRE. ‘ Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Evenings, Oct.11,12,13and14, ee hibiting “all gold sales except pon in San Francisco, The Alta was sold-.% Via. Dutch Flat. a —— THE.DUTCH FLAT RNKEVADA SPAGE Line pwill hereafter make direet ~ connection with ihe Eastern and Western bound trains at -Dutch Flat, as follows: M., or on the arrival of the Westward ‘bound train, arriving in Nevada City at 11 a, My. Leaving Nevada (ity at 2 o'clock, P. M. wi} connect with the Eastern bound train, -at via ted Dog, You Bet and (er The entire trip made in daylight. ey “For passage apply at the Stage Office, Union Hotel, on Main street, “Nevada, Oct. 5th. — sperecinlt “4 y [PATENT.] The attention of "liners,is called to ~ our Globe Nozzle and Coupling, designed to supply a great want in Hydraulic Mining, dis. pensing entirely with canvas or other Hoge, and supplying a Cheap and Durable Machine, . which can be worked under any pressure with ease and safety. : b These Nozzles have been used by Marselng & Maltman, Nevadacity, Geo.H, Atkins, 8uerintendent of the Little York Water ang Mining Cu, and,others, to whom we refc, Prices 3 ed at the NEVADA FOUNDRY, or of the tindersigned at the following rates.: No; 1+16-inch Globe,. $75 00 No, 2—2)-inch Globe..150 00 No. 83—82-inch Globe..300 00 Every Machine warranted to sustain any pressure and to work with ease. . For particulars apply to cee pias ‘ R. R. & J. CRAIG, Nevada, Oct. 5th. A Good Chance, ° m A One-Half interest in the aoe Moore’s Flat and Eureka Sta and Express Line is offered tor salecheap. A good paying business. Apply to JOS. a ENGLISH, Novade City, -:/ tb For Justice of the Peace, : B bg CALDWELL is hereby announced as a candidate for the office of Justice of the Peace of Nevada Towuship—suabject to the decision of the péople. For Justice of the Peace, the decision of the people. _ NELES SEARLS, _ Attorney and Counselor at Law, id cern OFFICE—Corne of Broad and Pine Streets over Carley & Beckman’s saloon, Nevada, a? SPENCE & CO, One Hundred and Fifty Costly ; Presen‘s Distributed to the Audience’ each evening. The Manager announces a limited engagement with the distinguished Vocalist ~ MARIAN TWOMBLY, Also the wonderful ~~ Italian Marionette Family, Who will appear and go through their Laughable and Astonishin Performances, as introduced at the Stuyvesant New York, for 361 Con° sécutive Nights! Admission: 75 cts. Parquette, 50cts ; Children, 25 cents. Every Ticket entitles the holder.to one sharé ia the Distribution. Doors a at 7; commences at 8 : 8] i G. H. TWOMBLY, Agent. _R. FININGER & CO. 76 Broad Street, = . Nevada, DEALERS IN * WINES AND LIQUORS, Provisions and Groceries, MINERAL WATERS, Ge" Frencu Wink Vinge@ar, Choice Lots of Teas and CorrEzEs, CAN Goons, &o, 05 ONE PER CENT. PER MONTH AMownp ON SIX -MONTHS’ DEPOs. BY Tite CALIFORNIA BUILDING, LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, California Street, one door from Street, SAN FRANCISCO, THOMAS MOONEY, President. Sansome MLLE. AURAU, FINE WASHING 111 Kearny St,, bet. Sutter & Post, Late of the Holman English Opera Troupe. : Dry Cleaning and Lace Mending, } Te ESTEY COTTAGE ORGAN . 4de-the best-and cheapest: latest improvements tox HUMANA and vox JUBILANTE. J. ESTEY & CO., Sole Manu facturers, Brattleboro; Vt. el NEVADA TO MARYSVILLE! Carrying the U, S, Mail. @u TAGES will leave Nevada on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, at 2 o'clock, A. M. , r And on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS AND SATURDAYS, at 6 A. M. Returning will leave Marysville at 6.30 A. M. daily, arriving at Nevada city, at 3 P.M. CUNNINGHAM & KILEY, Ptop’rs. W.H. Davinson, Agent. 06 WooD ! woop! WoOoD ! , —— Seasoned 7 ‘Oak Stove Wood, for éaie. their-Winter’s Wood ; Those canine to RB now, should a to ee WM, H. SMITH. 2™ Orders may be left. at A. W. LESTER & CO’S Grocery Store, on Broad Street. Nevada, Oct. 7th, 1869. Furniture For Sale. M* HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE, consisting of Sofas, Chairs, Tabies, : Stoves, Cooking Utensils, etc. All new, will-be sold at half price, as I am desirous of closing out before the 20th inst.— SAN FRANCISCO, 824-1m Apply at the residence of T. L. BALDWIN, Piety Hill. Carpets, For Nevada State and Omaha! : Leav ng Dutch Flat Station at T o'clock, 4 Dutch Flat, at 6.10 P. M, qine ond coming: ittle Yor GEO; H, COLBY, Proprietér.~ : THE CLOBE NOZZiE Cy There are three sizes which may be obtatnH. DAVIDSON is hereby announcda is « @ candidate for the ottice of dusete ef . the Peace for Nevada Township, sfibject 10 WADVERTIZ Grand-opening of the GIFT SOIREES MAGIQUE _SOMBTHING By the original RN ee eect FAKIR OF VISHNU, VERY FEW DAYS. . The renowned Oriental INusionist,_— mS ‘ , Nestor of Art. Contains the~ NEW ARRANGEMENTS . Neate CORDS of first rate, thoroughiy, —~ “it. Gh 2 THI gician » Grass mence next } ley U his art ., superi gainec sor of gentle ment dexter tractia -of pre article CHA pers v certific ‘ inatioz that a -above This i teache vantag school; . Jarge « desirin fied. w to the . _ Its . covery the w Church with cé yond a of an! ould-b desire « to eng: ' the aut for the: SomE cently . this” cit the lar; circum{ 174 the From « riety, J thatiwe If any them b ABou of the ¢ ments 1 mine ir intende an exte Valley, will dor valuabl. mines < opened, In Ti agent fc city, on Office. ) . and was . Sad, here up many w meet hii LITE} day eve: the roor tian Ass organize favorab! attend. THE ; the Stat: ped into tore 12. by the: For B. Dave candidat Peace. STUAR out it. and the excellen will rem ples, anc gives a « rivalled haye use Sun Pe For State:

The Baily Granscipt, NEVADA CITY. CALIFORNIA. SATURDAY, OCT. ©, 1869. =z ./ UNION REPUBLICAN SICKER. Judicial Nominations, For Judges ofthe Supreme Court. LORENZO SAWYER, O C.PRATT, For Judge of the Mth Judicial District. T, B. .MeFARLAND. THe Postau TeLeEGRAPH.—Gardner G. Hubbard is doing good service in the advocaty of the Postal Telegraph system, presenting statistics and arguments so convincing in the matter that the opponents of the adoption of the system our government do not attempt to.counteract them. In his speech at Sacramento recently, he showed the . following to be the rates in countries -Wwhere.the.lines are controlled by gov ernment. ‘Belgium and Swiss, 12 cts. for under 200 ‘miles. ‘French rates, 26 -cents for under.600 miles, and that fors eign rates are uniform for certain dis‘tances, He then goes on to show that the rates in the United States are arbix trary, twice as high in the East .as “~vabroad, and twice as high in the West as in the East, and for these-differences there are two sets of causes, one class may be remedied and the other cannot be. The remedible ones proceed from the undue proportion between capital _ aud property,the poor character of lines, _ and the small amount of business done. The causes resulting from the system » are competition andconsequent increase of capital and expénse. He then goes on to say that offices were estabs lished for the tramsmission and delivery of the correspondence of the people,and there is no reason why telegraph coms munication should not be conducted by the Department, adding: “It is now proposed that the Post Office Depart-~ ment shall receive all this correspon~ dence, transmit one portion by contract with railroads and other carriers, another portion by contract with a telegraph company, and deliver the whole, ‘the mailed letters as at present, the telegraph letters by special carrier. That this plan removes the objections made to the governments buying or building and operating lines; that the rates offered, 22 cents for messages of 20 words for every 500 miles of trans« ‘mission, with the right of reducing rates given to the Postmaster General, are reasonable and fair; that the facilities in the country will be increased ; and in the city by the provision for the res ception and delivery of messages thro’ the sub-offices, street doxes, and letter carriers, that the facilities will be greatly increased,” : _ CHINESB.Tustimony,—Judge Sawyer, of the Fourth District Court of San, Francisco, has decided that Chinese testimony is admissible in the Courts. His decision is precisely the same as Judge McFarland’s in the Auburn case, and is given as follows in the Alta’s report: “Judge Sawyer said he had no doubt that the State law took away from Chinamen the right to testify in such eases as this, but it. was equally clear that the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment, which overrides all State laws, confers the right to testify in pro. tection of his life or his property. ~He was aware that the Pelice-Jdutge had decided otherwise; but that was a matter in which that Judge had to decide for himself, ana ih nowise concerned his (Judge Sawyer’s) opinion. He admitjted that a different opinion might be _ held as conscientioysly as he claimed to hold his. Still he believed the Judge to be mistaken. Was it to be argued that if two. Chinamen were walking along, and a white man comes up and slays one of the Chinamen, that the other is to be precluded from giving his testimony? Ifhe were so precluded, how could it be argued that all had “equal _protection” of the law? —If a man swears an unfounded claim against your ‘property, the only way you ean protect that property is‘by swearing that the claim is unfounded. If you are fot allowed ‘to do that, how can _ it be said that you have the “equat “proteetion of the law,” which thé Constitution des clares is the right of all men?” THe Prorsssor.—In noticing the paintings of exhibition; at: the” Mes. chanics’ Fair, the Times says: “Of the trash, ‘we shall notice only one piece, and notice that only beeause, as we “Were informed, the man who executed it has been elected Professor of Painting, (or something of the sort,} to the University of California. Immediately to the right, on entering tke gallery, is a hopeless piece of smeared canvas, ens titled a view of Oakland.” It is ridiculous in drawing, perspective and color. . It is no exaggeration to say that many asign painter might be ashaméd of it. We call the Regents’ attention to the . matterin order that they may.eause its instant removal. If they. Will not remove the man who was guilty of it, at least let them preserve the University and theniselves-from-ridicule.” TICKETS.—Great care’should be taken “says the Union, in preparing tickets for the judicial election, toavoid ambiguity in respect to the office for which the candidate is intended. It will not do to vote simply for Sawyer and Pratt, without designating which is to fill the long and which thé short term. Such a ballot might be thrown out altogether fur indefiniteness. On the other hand, if either Sawyer or Pratt were voted for as a candidate for the wreng term, the practical effect would be to throw away the. vote. The only proper and sure way is to print the tickets as follows: “For Judges of the Supreme Court—For the long. term, Lorenzo Sawyer; for the short term,O. C. Pratt.” SECRETARY BourwELu’s policy of buying up the national debt has re~ sulted in extinguishing $56,000,000 of interest bearing debt in seven months, and leaving a balance of $108,000,000 in coin in the treasury. That kind of a showing will please the people. It ‘shows, also, that the revenues of the government far exceed its expenses, and giyes our people the option of reducing taxes or continuing Mr. Boutwell’s policy. Itis.alrthe result of the Republican administration, while Dem+ ocratic papers are doing nothing but blowing. —«._. Express TRAIN.—The express trains will soon be running through from San Francisco to New York in five days and a half. The trains will consist en tirely of Pullman cars, will not, stop. at the way stations except for wood ‘and water, and will run weekly, the first leaving the East about the 18th, and. west about the 25th. PASSENGERS on the Chilean and Panama steamer, who came up on her last voyage,report that when off Callao, there occurred an earthquake of such violence as to throw down a high hill in sight, On the 20th, 2tst and 24th of August there were heavy shocks at Callao, Araquipa and Lima, . THe Oakland Transcript says Moss, of the Hxaminer, never hired but one Chinaman in his life and that was as cook incamp. This Celestial, says the Captain's apologist, drank up all. the whiskey, and Moss has since opposed Chinese lahor. A LECTURE society in Boston has engaged distinguished men who are opposed to each other on the sécial and political questions of the day, and has arranged that-the opposing speakers shall appear on afférnate nights of the course. ni THe Engineer and Surveyor of the -Yailroads in New York State has just published his annual report, from which it appears that the different companies have paid during the.year in the shape of damages recovered by passengers the sum of $528,310, THE’ Nova Scotia papers are loud in their defiance of Canadian dominion,} and ‘declare that province will ses up for independence as aoon as the British . troops, now being withdrawn, are out of the way. ; . Tue Litand Empire hag information that Governor Blasdel has disposed of his entire interest in White Pine for $200,000. QNg of she Cuban pi back to Macon, @a., was found to bea girl. COs 7 Cuban patriots brought . ® Pele,,what o'clock it was. + CBF, _ Eastern News.—Reports of damage by. the late-flood, still continue to comé. A-dispatch from Springfield, Mass. says: Travel is still intérrupted éast, north andwest. Twenty or thirty bridges are carried ,away. in Franklin county, including the Vermont and Massachusetts railroad bridge over Deerfield river. Three persons were swept away with the bridges and drowned, . Another from Philadelphia says :, About $500,000 worth of “property was destroyed: by the flood in and about this city. ot Pe The ‘Tennessee Legislatiire has been organized. = oe alee A dispatch from. St. Louis says: Suit was brought.in the United-States District Court against ex-—Governor . Fletcher and Bacon Montgomery for $50,000. damages; by Berry Freeman, for personal violence and destruction of his printing office in Lafayette county, in 1866, by Montgomety, then coms manding the State militia ON Thursday greenbacks were selling at 76 in San Francisco. How THE FIRE. ORIGINATED,—-The engineer gives the following, which is the most plausable theory we have seen in. regard to the origin of the Avondale disaster, in the Engineering and Mining Journal of Sept. 28th: “The mine was ventilated by a furnace, and, from my own observation of the shaft to some distance below the tunnel above mentioned, and from the best information I have obtained from those who have. been down and exam-~ ined the shaft and furnace since the accident, and frem those who worked in the mine before the fire, it cannot admit of a reasonable doubt that the fire was catised by the furnace. The furnace was built while the late Mr. Wier was ‘mine boss, and he at two different times moved it further back into the mine, being always: fearful (and not without proof of its possibility) that it would ignite the wood work, bratticing and buntings (for the shaft itselfis in solid rock, except a short distance near the month, where .it is in masonry) in the shaft. He was in the habit of pumping water down the shaft two or three times each week, in order to keep the wood work damp —a very good precaution to take against fire, but one not very favorable to a good furnace vens tilation. The mine is exceedingly dry, all the pumping being done in a few hours in the week ; it is therefore not to be wondered at, that the timber work should burn “like a box of matches,” since, moreover, the precaution of wets ting the shaft every few days had been discontinued, The furnace is stated to be at a distance of from 100 to 150 feet from the foot of the shaft—a safe dias tance,one would say, under all ordinary circumstances—but the furnace flue is cut in the coal itself, and is without brick or stone lining. Here is one great danger, though it does not appear to have been the cause of the fire’. The immediate cause of the fire was undoubtedly. the fact that the fire on Monday morning, as was the custom, . was fed with wood—sonie say with oil barrels. The sparks from’ this wood penetrated to the shaft, and there—not necessarily at the ‘bottom—lodged in some of the wood work. It burned for hours before it was discovered ; the engineer and others who were at the head of the shaft, oiling the sheaves, tound it so hot that they @uld’ not stand there and suspected something was wrong. When the fire burst through the “hoist way,” it required but a moment; to fill the shaftwith fire, and it prevented the rescue of a single individual. The furnace was unquestionably the cause of this fire, as:it has been of a dozen others we could mention. The Buttonwood Shaft, the Empire Mines, the Enterprise Colliery, the Taylorville Shaft, etc., were all set on fire by the furnace ; ‘and if we go through any of our coal basins, among thé places which are using,or have used furnace ventilas tion, we do not think. we exaggerate much in saying one half have been on fire at some time or other fr6m that cause. The hard anthracite ignites with diffiulty and burns slowly, others wise our calamities wouldhave been ‘far more numerous yet and more serious. 4 : : eT te AMONG the different means employed by the Russian government to effect the thorough Russification of Poland, the most singular ig undoubtedly a decree lately issneq, at Warsaw. In future, all public clocks throughout the kingdom are to mark no longer Polish, but St. Petersburg time. An amusing anecdote is reported in connection with this new act of despotism. The Km— peror happened, afew days after the decree, to ask one of his aides-descamp, -The offiwithout looking at his watch replied :'* Whatever. hour your Majesty pleases.” . a -L blew the wagon to splinters‘ killed the serraay net Aerial A CONGRESSIONAL enactment pro-— actual delivery of the coin purchased, is again being seriously considered as a remedy forthe gold gambling which disgraces our great money center. ee Ir turns out that the letters publish»

ed in the Alta, signed W.J.8., purs porting to come from Senator Shaw, who is traveling in China; were for geries, perpetrated by a man residing a KEG of powder. fell off a wagon, near La Paz, a few days ago, ignited, team, and mortally wounded the driver. Ir is expected that the Senate and. Assembly Chambers of the new Capitol will be completed in time for the meet. ing of the Legislature this Wihter. 6 ea “FLorA TEMPLE,” the QueenDowas ger of the Turf, is thirty-three years old. . A NEw married couple were traveling in the cars near Albany, when the huss ‘hand pulled a roll of something from fis pocket, which his wife thought was chewing tobacco. Shesnatched it from him and threw it out.of the window. It proved to be a roll of greenbacks, $2,500. For Justice of the Peace, Q B. DAVENPORT is hereby announccd as \%@ a candidate for the office of Justice of the Peace of this, Nevada Township, subject to “the decision of the people. ONSTABLE’S SALE.—Staie of California, County of Nevada, Township of Nevada, ss, By virtue of an Execution to me. delivered, issued from the Court of J. C. Palmer, Esq an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, bearing date Oct. 5th. 1869, to satisfy a judgment revdered by said Justice of the Peace, onthe 28th day of December, 1868, in favorof A. Sanford and against Hugh Drummond for the snin of $295 07 principal and $60.69 interest, in all $380 01 in, United States gold coin. debt, interest, damages and costes of suit. I have taken in execution, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash. the following describe i to-wit.; All the right, title and interest of Hugh Drummond, of, in and to that certain Ranch, situated, lying ané being in the township ef Nevada, county of Nevada, State of California, -and about 134 miles westerly from Nevada city and bounded as follows ; on the east by lands of Pats Gillchrist and D, McKeon, on the west] by lands of Thomas L. Hughes. »n thé nerth by Big Deer Creek, on the south by the old Grass Valley road, the same being nuw occupied by the said Hugh Drummond as a residence, together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or’in anywise appertaining. Notice is hereby given that I will expose to public sale the above described property to the highest bidder for cash, in U, S gold cuin, in front of the Court House door, in Nevada city, on THURSDAY the 28th day of October, 1869, between the hours of 9 o’clock, a. m. and 5 o'clock, Pp. M. Taken as the property of Hugh Drummond to satisfy the above demands and accruing costs. Given under my hand this 7th day of Oct. 1869. 08 J. B. GRAY, Constable, N. T. NEVADA THEATRE. ‘ Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Evenings, Oct.11,12,13and14, ee hibiting “all gold sales except pon in San Francisco, The Alta was sold-.% Via. Dutch Flat. a —— THE.DUTCH FLAT RNKEVADA SPAGE Line pwill hereafter make direet ~ connection with ihe Eastern and Western bound trains at -Dutch Flat, as follows: M., or on the arrival of the Westward ‘bound train, arriving in Nevada City at 11 a, My. Leaving Nevada (ity at 2 o'clock, P. M. wi} connect with the Eastern bound train, -at via ted Dog, You Bet and (er The entire trip made in daylight. ey “For passage apply at the Stage Office, Union Hotel, on Main street, “Nevada, Oct. 5th. — sperecinlt “4 y [PATENT.] The attention of "liners,is called to ~ our Globe Nozzle and Coupling, designed to supply a great want in Hydraulic Mining, dis. pensing entirely with canvas or other Hoge, and supplying a Cheap and Durable Machine, . which can be worked under any pressure with ease and safety. : b These Nozzles have been used by Marselng & Maltman, Nevadacity, Geo.H, Atkins, 8uerintendent of the Little York Water ang Mining Cu, and,others, to whom we refc, Prices 3 ed at the NEVADA FOUNDRY, or of the tindersigned at the following rates.: No; 1+16-inch Globe,.. $75 00 No, 2—2)-inch Globe....150 00 No. 83—82-inch Globe....300 00 Every Machine warranted to sustain any pressure and to work with ease. . For particulars apply to cee pias ‘ R. R. & J. CRAIG, Nevada, Oct. 5th. A Good Chance, ° m A One-Half interest in the aoe Moore’s Flat and Eureka Sta and Express Line is offered tor salecheap. A good paying business. Apply to JOS. a ENGLISH, Novade City, -:/ tb For Justice of the Peace, : B bg CALDWELL is hereby announced as a candidate for the office of Justice of the Peace of Nevada Towuship—suabject to the decision of the péople. For Justice of the Peace, the decision of the people. _ NELES SEARLS, _ Attorney and Counselor at Law, id cern OFFICE—Corne of Broad and Pine Streets over Carley & Beckman’s saloon, Nevada, a? SPENCE & CO, One Hundred and Fifty Costly ; Presen‘s Distributed to the Audience’ each evening. The Manager announces a limited engagement with the distinguished Vocalist ~ MARIAN TWOMBLY, Also the wonderful ~~ Italian Marionette Family, Who will appear and go through their Laughable and Astonishin Performances, as introduced at the Stuyvesant New York, for 361 Con° sécutive Nights! Admission: 75 cts. Parquette, 50cts ; Children, 25 cents. Every Ticket entitles the holder.to one sharé ia the Distribution. Doors a at 7; commences at 8 : 8] i G. H. TWOMBLY, Agent. _R. FININGER & CO. 76 Broad Street, = . Nevada, DEALERS IN * WINES AND LIQUORS, Provisions and Groceries, MINERAL WATERS, Ge" Frencu Wink Vinge@ar, Choice Lots of Teas and CorrEzEs, CAN Goons, &o, 05 ONE PER CENT. PER MONTH AMownp ON SIX -MONTHS’ DEPOs. BY Tite CALIFORNIA BUILDING, LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, California Street, one door from Street, SAN FRANCISCO, THOMAS MOONEY, President. Sansome MLLE. AURAU, FINE WASHING 111 Kearny St,, bet. Sutter & Post, Late of the Holman English Opera Troupe. : Dry Cleaning and Lace Mending, } Te ESTEY COTTAGE ORGAN . 4de-the best-and cheapest: latest improvements tox HUMANA and vox JUBILANTE. J. ESTEY & CO., Sole Manu facturers, Brattleboro; Vt. el NEVADA TO MARYSVILLE! Carrying the U, S, Mail. @u TAGES will leave Nevada on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, at 2 o'clock, A. M. , r And on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS AND SATURDAYS, at 6 A. M. Returning will leave Marysville at 6.30 A. M. daily, arriving at Nevada city, at 3 P.M. CUNNINGHAM & KILEY, Ptop’rs. W.H. Davinson, Agent. 06 WooD ! woop! WoOoD ! , —— Seasoned 7 ‘Oak Stove Wood, for éaie. their-Winter’s Wood ; Those canine to RB now, should a to ee WM, H. SMITH. 2™ Orders may be left. at A. W. LESTER & CO’S Grocery Store, on Broad Street. Nevada, Oct. 7th, 1869. Furniture For Sale. M* HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE, consisting of Sofas, Chairs, Tabies, : Stoves, Cooking Utensils, etc. All new, will-be sold at half price, as I am desirous of closing out before the 20th inst.— SAN FRANCISCO, 824-1m Apply at the residence of T. L. BALDWIN, Piety Hill. Carpets, For Nevada State and Omaha! : Leav ng Dutch Flat Station at T o'clock, 4 Dutch Flat, at 6.10 P. M, qine ond coming: ittle Yor GEO; H, COLBY, Proprietér.~ : THE CLOBE NOZZiE Cy There are three sizes which may be obtatnH. DAVIDSON is hereby announcda is « @ candidate for the ottice of dusete ef . the Peace for Nevada Township, sfibject 10 WADVERTIZ Grand-opening of the GIFT SOIREES MAGIQUE _SOMBTHING By the original RN ee eect FAKIR OF VISHNU, VERY FEW DAYS. . The renowned Oriental INusionist,_— mS ‘ , Nestor of Art. Contains the~ NEW ARRANGEMENTS . Neate CORDS of first rate, thoroughiy, —~ “it. Gh 2 THI gician » Grass mence next } ley U his art ., superi gainec sor of gentle ment dexter tractia -of pre article CHA pers v certific ‘ inatioz that a -above This i teache vantag school; . Jarge « desirin fied. w to the . _ Its . covery the w Church with cé yond a of an! ould-b desire « to eng: ' the aut for the: SomE cently . this” cit the lar; circum{ 174 the From « riety, J thatiwe If any them b ABou of the ¢ ments 1 mine ir intende an exte Valley, will dor valuabl. mines < opened, In Ti agent fc city, on Office. ) . and was . Sad, here up many w meet hii LITE} day eve: the roor tian Ass organize favorab! attend. THE ; the Stat: ped into tore 12. by the: For B. Dave candidat Peace. STUAR out it. and the excellen will rem ples, anc gives a « rivalled haye use Sun Pe For State: