September 6, 1870 (4 pages)

4"UESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 6. : ood The German Invasion. It is related by the Army and Navy Gazette, that a distinguished American soldier called upon General Von Moltke, two years-‘agojat Betlin,where he foand tlie great Prussian strategist pouring over his maps of the Rhine frontier. “If you will permit me, General Von Moltke,” said our friend, “I should like to ask you ‘an impertinent question, which you must answer or not as you think best.’ “Certainly,” replied the General ; “ask. it.” Laying his hand upon the open map with significant gesture, he inquired: ‘Are you.ready?” . “Yes,” was the answer: “only we cannot, in case of a war with France, hope for such good fortune as attended us —in the campaign against Austria. The great difficulty is that our King cannot be pursuaded to declare war, and thus give us the benefit of the initiative.” France took the initiative in the war, but the result of the first month’s fighting has shown that Prussia was thoroughly prepared, while the French have awakened from their dreams to find how deeply imperial corruption had eaten into th very heart of her military administration, The one million-of chassepots, and the ammunition for which she has paid, are not forthcoming ; and it is asserted that some of the battalions on which she has depended have an existence only on pa per. There shonld have been some 450,000 men in her regular army, but no suck number has yet been accounted for in thé campaign.” Three years ago, General Trochu published a pamphlet “on the French Army, in which he criti_ elzed severely the French system of the Empire; -and~pointed -out=its--defecte: For this it is-said be lost favor in impe“tial-civcles, but itis now-appreciatedhow just and timely were his warnings. The nation’ has been swindled to on ~ enormeus extent by contractors, peculators, and imperial favorites, and to this her present disasters are mainly at» tributable. We have no doubt that the French, under popular leaders, will make the ‘most superhuman exertions to recover their lost prestige,‘ and roll back the tide of invasion. It they do not, they have degenerated since 1793, when their situation was more desperate than now, and when almost at the tapof the drum they brought into the field and organized a million of men. Her borders were then invaded by the armies of all Europe, but as one of her armies »Melted away another was ready to take its placeyand in less than two years the invaders were turned back. It isa question, whether with the lack of improved weapons, she will be able to make a stand against the Prussians. She has some things in her favor. Paris, if resistance is made, can hold out against.a.siege for many months, and this will give southern France time to manufacture weapons and ammunition, and organize new armies. Besides this, her old Generals, who have risen to command by rotation instead of merit, aré prisoners, and she has now . the best opportunity ever afforded a nation to advance meritorious officers as they develop, and displace the incompetent. A two years struggle, such as was made in 1793-4 might change the aspect Of affairs; though it must be confessed that the odds are largely against her. , a EXCITEMENT IN Paris.—A dispatch receive By the Gazette yesterday evening, says the most intense excitement existed in Paris. Rochefort has been liberated; the Imperial flag has-been torn down from the Tuilleries and other public buildings; Deputy Gambetti is addressing the people;-advising them to maintain order; shouts of “ Vive la . Republique!” are heard in every quarter; and notices are posted in many places, “Death to Thiers!” Therepablican fevling is evidently in the ascendant in Paris. ANNUAL ADDREss. — Congressman Sargent has accepted an invitation to deliver the. annual address before the State Agricultural Society, during the _ comming Fair, 4 of the 3d instant. LOCAL ITEMS. ae ‘thray poe. . 08 Valley Saturday evening, for the benefit of the Library Association, in accordance with announcement. We are informed thatthe attendance was not large, probably on account of the war news. The Union, we presume, will give a report of the lecture, so that the public wil! have the benefit of Mr. Oates’ views, Scientific Press. This paper comes to us thia week with a full double sheet extra. It contains a map of California, a map of the San Joaquin valley, with ae brief description and statement of the productions’ of each county, besides the usual_mining, agricultural and scientifié intelligence. It is a paper that should be in the hands of every farmer, miner and manufacturer on this coast, Gravel Location. The Great’ Western Company have located twenty-two. gravel claims of one hundred feet each on Cement Hill, situated about two miles west of Ne‘vada. Adjourned for the Term. The County Court adjourned yesterday for the term. Unjust Laws. In her outdoor speech at .Nevada, on Saturday evening, Mrs.De Force. Gordon referred at some length to the unjust: and discriminating laws against married women, in regard to property and other rights, which she held would be removed when women were endowed with the right of suffrage. Among others; she said that in two-thirds of the States of the Union, the father could, by will, leave the care and guardianship of his minor children to a stranger, though the mother might be the statement, but we presume it is corréct ;and there are doubtless many other unjust laws in many of the States, which we have ifberited from the com>; mon law of England. There is a comparatively easy way to procure the abrogation or modification of any law which is calculated to ‘work a palpable injustice. If the women in any State would take up the subject of a law that discriminated unjustly against. them, and either by petitions or agitation make their wishes known; they could very easily procure a change. There isnot a Legislature in the Union but would be more likely to grant the prayer of a petition signed generally by the ladies of tho State, especially where no partisan question was involved,than though it was signed by an equal number of their own sex. In framing laws regulating the social relations, and in all matters relating to bequests and inheritance, and property rights generally, the opinion of the women would always receive respectful attention, if they would but make them known, The advocates of woman suffrage would do well to take some practical steps, by petition or otherwise, for the modification of the unjust laws of which they complain. This they could do by way of variety, without ceasing the agitation of the suffrage question. : Reso1crnes.—The Germans in every partof the State recéived the news of the surrender.of McMahon's army with the wildest demonstrations of delight, They were not expecting so important a victory to the Prussian arms, hence their joy was the more’ intense. Impromptu celebratious were had in most. of the towns, which were conductedin a decorous manner. At Columbia, in had collected ina brewery, the estabThe most of-the lager had been drank, and therefore:saved: Stoten ProrertY Recoverrp.—A New York dispatch gays the property stolen from the Methodist Book Concern was returned on the morning The plunder was sent in a package strongly made up,and by. a messenger who was unable to state where it came from ; all he knew was that he had been instructed to deliver it. % = Hon. 8. T. Oates lectured at Grass jiving: ~We -hiveno means of-verifying=> Tuolumne county, where a large crowd. lishment was set on fire and destroyed. . wil France do? ave, at the time of writing this, or thrée brief items relating tot e effect produced in France by the stgrender of MeMahon’s army, and probably, also, that of Bazaine. A London dispatch of Saturday morning, says telegrams from” Paris report the utmost agitation and excitement; that rumors of the disastrous close of the terrible fighting were current; that the peoplé were gloomy and depressed; that the last hopes of the Napoleon dynasty had faded away, and Trochu is daily growing stronger in the confidence and sympathies of the people. Another dispatch says the Committee of Defense are working steadily for an obstinate resistance, and that Paris is determined to make astrong defense should the eneniy invest it; while anWhat. Paris will not suffer a siege. Rumors are current that a Republic will be proclaimed, and more ample powers given the Committee of Defense, thus con-, stituting a provisional Government. Thochu is spoken of for President. 'The Moniteur, of the 8d, announces that volunteering is general in the south of France; that a large body of sharpshooters had just left Lyons for the frontier, and that throughout the country, the same sentiment. was expressed—that.peace is impossible while a single Prussian stands on Frencli soil. In Berlin, it was the universal belief that the war was at an end. Cor-respondents.telegraphing from Belgium are divided in opinion. GENERAL PAILLy Snor.—A Bruesels dispatch says General Failly has been shot; one account says by McMahon’s orders,and others by his own soldiers. Another dispatch says the French soldiers are massacreing their own officers, If these statements are true, it shows the general belief of the “French ‘soldiérs, that their “disasters . .are due.to the incompetency.of-the-officers. .One of the first defeats of the campaign was owing to the failure of General Failly to bring up his corps to the relief of McMahon at Sauverne. He arrived with one or two divisions just in time.tocover a retreat. Shooting officers on accouut of incompetency is rather severe punishment; but the penalty of the “guillotine once before had a remarkable effect in sharpening the wits of the French Generals, and urged them to feats of heroism and daring that proved successful. GREAT FIRE 1N CHicaGo.— A dispatch to the Gazette says a‘disastrous fire occurred in Chicago on the evening of the 4th. One of the finest blocks in the city,on Wabash avenue, was destroyed, and the loss of property is stated at three to four million dollars. A large number of employes in Farwell & Co.’s dry goods store were at work getting ‘out goods, when the walls fell in, and many perished. Some assert that fifty lives were lost, but the number is generally believed not to exceed ten or twelve. Mutua ScarE.—A Visalia dispatch says the Indian. excitement on King River proves to be altogether without foundation, The committee of settlers have retufhed, and: report finding the Indians much more frightened than the whites. They had heard the whites were arming, with the intention of exterminating them, Soldiers, alarmed at the unusual number of Indians collected, had proceeded to arm, which the Indians. supposed meant war on them. Nodamage seems to have +-heen done, other than thoroughly scar. ing both parties. CALIFORNIA WINES.—B. N. Bugbey, of Natoma vineyard, started East on Saturday, whither he has sent five car loads of wine and brandy, which he designs persoually to introduce in the Chicago, New York and Boston marpossible the source of the adulteration in those markets of California wines, and arrange for future shipments being placed in market pure as they are sent hence. : THERE are two hundred Chinese in Vallejo. A Mongolian restaurant opened but had to suspend. kets. He designs, also, to ascertain if Tre StfvATioN “IN “France.—The following i‘from a New York dispatch, dated Saturday afternoon; Paris spe cials just received say that there is no prospect of a cessation of the war— that aJl the people and soldiers in and about the city insist on carrying on the war, and that a epublic will be proclaimed immedfitely, with General Trochu at the head of the Government. King William, say the London dispatches, will at once be proclaimed Emperorof Germany. The entire army demands that he should be. The wildest excitement continues in Paris. army is now ready of 250,000 Frenchmen, to resist the Prussian invaders. MeMahon is reported dying of his ‘wounds. The Orleans family , has been informed that there is no hope of aw . their_restoration. France must be a Republic or nothing. Palikao is re-. ported by Paris dispatches to have reof the people. Iondon dispatches say advices have just been. received from the Prussian army that Napoleon will be sent to Berlin. He resolutely refuses to abdicate except in favor of his son. The extremely precarious state of Napoleon’s health is confirmed. SEVEN MEN DrowNED AT. MazatTLAN.—A private Jetter was recently received in San Francisco,from Mazatlan, dated August 21st, in which two marine disasters-are described. During a storm which lasted thirty-six hours, the schooner Antonetti,from San Francisco, with a load of timber, was driven. ashore and became a total‘wreck. The first mate and four of the crew were drowned, The schooner Minerva, a Mexican vessel, was also wrecked, and two of her crew were drowned. A boat from the American brig Schilikoff, saved four.men from the wreck of the .Minerva, after all the Mexican boats had failed to reach them. The mer. “Chants of Mazatlan attested their ap. preciation of this act of heroism, by making upa purse of $300 for the crew. The Captain of the San Francisco vessel, a passenger named Coffey, the second mate and two sailors were saved. ARRESTED oN SUSPICION.—T wo men, named John Murray and Andrew McDonald, were arrested at Auburn on Wednesday, on suspicion of attempting to burn the trestle work of the railroad near that place. They had been put off the train just below Auburn the evening before.and had been seen by various parties wandering around in the vicinity of the attempted incendiarism during the night of the firing of the trestle work. On Thursday the prisoners gave voluntarily a full detailed statement of their whereabets and occupations which was corroborative of what was known of them while in that vicinity. They had been kept.separate, and their statements agreed throughout, which goes far in inducing the belief that they were innocent of the charge. THE State Fairn.—The Record says from present indications the approaching Fair will be in every respect a brilliant success. The applications for space at the Pavilion already made are more numerous. than they have ever been at soearly aday. The State Agricultural Society are taking judicious practical measures to. make the occasion a pleasant one for visitors from other parts of the State, and to obviate certain inconveniences that have been the subject of complaint in former years. The proposed boat race between the Undine Boat Club” of Sacramento, and the Pioneer Rowing Club of San Francisco, will, if the arrangements for it are perfected, prove a novel and attractive feature. THE Prince Imperial,at last accounts, was at the town of Ching, in Belgium, some twenty miles north-east of Sedan. anne . CHURCH BENEFIT! (ne A. M, E. CHURCH, ANT, Commercial Street, on THURSDAY EVENING, Sept, 8th. Admission One Dollar, e4 Strasbourg still holds out, and a new . . signed in consequence of the demand . A SUPPER for the BENEFIT Of THE Will be given at HAMILTON'S RESTAUSCOTT'S FLAT SAW MILL Co. G.W.SMITH. H.L.GOVE, A.C. Foor, ‘P\HE SCOTT’S FLAT SAW MILL COMPa. WY would. inform the, itizens of andvicinity that they have. 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4"UESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 6. : ood The German Invasion. It is related by the Army and Navy Gazette, that a distinguished American soldier called upon General Von Moltke, two years-‘agojat Betlin,where he foand tlie great Prussian strategist pouring over his maps of the Rhine frontier. “If you will permit me, General Von Moltke,” said our friend, “I should like to ask you ‘an impertinent question, which you must answer or not as you think best.’ “Certainly,” replied the General ; “ask. it.” Laying his hand upon the open map with significant gesture, he inquired: ‘Are you.ready?” . “Yes,” was the answer: “only we cannot, in case of a war with France, hope for such good fortune as attended us —in the campaign against Austria. The great difficulty is that our King cannot be pursuaded to declare war, and thus give us the benefit of the initiative.” France took the initiative in the war, but the result of the first month’s fighting has shown that Prussia was thoroughly prepared, while the French have awakened from their dreams to find how deeply imperial corruption had eaten into th very heart of her military administration, The one million-of chassepots, and the ammunition for which she has paid, are not forthcoming ; and it is asserted that some of the battalions on which she has depended have an existence only on pa per. There shonld have been some 450,000 men in her regular army, but no suck number has yet been accounted for in thé campaign.” Three years ago, General Trochu published a pamphlet “on the French Army, in which he criti_ elzed severely the French system of the Empire; -and~pointed -out=its--defecte: For this it is-said be lost favor in impe“tial-civcles, but itis now-appreciatedhow just and timely were his warnings. The nation’ has been swindled to on ~ enormeus extent by contractors, peculators, and imperial favorites, and to this her present disasters are mainly at» tributable. We have no doubt that the French, under popular leaders, will make the ‘most superhuman exertions to recover their lost prestige,‘ and roll back the tide of invasion. It they do not, they have degenerated since 1793, when their situation was more desperate than now, and when almost at the tapof the drum they brought into the field and organized a million of men. Her borders were then invaded by the armies of all Europe, but as one of her armies »Melted away another was ready to take its placeyand in less than two years the invaders were turned back. It isa question, whether with the lack of improved weapons, she will be able to make a stand against the Prussians. She has some things in her favor. Paris, if resistance is made, can hold out against.a.siege for many months, and this will give southern France time to manufacture weapons and ammunition, and organize new armies. Besides this, her old Generals, who have risen to command by rotation instead of merit, aré prisoners, and she has now . the best opportunity ever afforded a nation to advance meritorious officers as they develop, and displace the incompetent. A two years struggle, such as was made in 1793-4 might change the aspect Of affairs; though it must be confessed that the odds are largely against her. , a EXCITEMENT IN Paris.—A dispatch receive By the Gazette yesterday evening, says the most intense excitement existed in Paris. Rochefort has been liberated; the Imperial flag has-been torn down from the Tuilleries and other public buildings; Deputy Gambetti is addressing the people;-advising them to maintain order; shouts of “ Vive la . Republique!” are heard in every quarter; and notices are posted in many places, “Death to Thiers!” Therepablican fevling is evidently in the ascendant in Paris. ANNUAL ADDREss. — Congressman Sargent has accepted an invitation to deliver the. annual address before the State Agricultural Society, during the _ comming Fair, 4 of the 3d instant. LOCAL ITEMS. ae ‘thray poe. . 08 Valley Saturday evening, for the benefit of the Library Association, in accordance with announcement. We are informed thatthe attendance was not large, probably on account of the war news. The Union, we presume, will give a report of the lecture, so that the public wil! have the benefit of Mr. Oates’ views, Scientific Press. This paper comes to us thia week with a full double sheet extra. It contains a map of California, a map of the San Joaquin valley, with ae brief description and statement of the productions’ of each county, besides the usual_mining, agricultural and scientifié intelligence. It is a paper that should be in the hands of every farmer, miner and manufacturer on this coast, Gravel Location. The Great’ Western Company have located twenty-two. gravel claims of one hundred feet each on Cement Hill, situated about two miles west of Ne‘vada. Adjourned for the Term. The County Court adjourned yesterday for the term. Unjust Laws. In her outdoor speech at .Nevada, on Saturday evening, Mrs.De Force. Gordon referred at some length to the unjust: and discriminating laws against married women, in regard to property and other rights, which she held would be removed when women were endowed with the right of suffrage. Among others; she said that in two-thirds of the States of the Union, the father could, by will, leave the care and guardianship of his minor children to a stranger, though the mother might be the statement, but we presume it is corréct ;and there are doubtless many other unjust laws in many of the States, which we have ifberited from the com>; mon law of England. There is a comparatively easy way to procure the abrogation or modification of any law which is calculated to ‘work a palpable injustice. If the women in any State would take up the subject of a law that discriminated unjustly against. them, and either by petitions or agitation make their wishes known; they could very easily procure a change. There isnot a Legislature in the Union but would be more likely to grant the prayer of a petition signed generally by the ladies of tho State, especially where no partisan question was involved,than though it was signed by an equal number of their own sex. In framing laws regulating the social relations, and in all matters relating to bequests and inheritance, and property rights generally, the opinion of the women would always receive respectful attention, if they would but make them known, The advocates of woman suffrage would do well to take some practical steps, by petition or otherwise, for the modification of the unjust laws of which they complain. This they could do by way of variety, without ceasing the agitation of the suffrage question. : Reso1crnes.—The Germans in every partof the State recéived the news of the surrender.of McMahon's army with the wildest demonstrations of delight, They were not expecting so important a victory to the Prussian arms, hence their joy was the more’ intense. Impromptu celebratious were had in most. of the towns, which were conductedin a decorous manner. At Columbia, in had collected ina brewery, the estabThe most of-the lager had been drank, and therefore:saved: Stoten ProrertY Recoverrp.—A New York dispatch gays the property stolen from the Methodist Book Concern was returned on the morning The plunder was sent in a package strongly made up,and by. a messenger who was unable to state where it came from ; all he knew was that he had been instructed to deliver it. % = Hon. 8. T. Oates lectured at Grass jiving: ~We -hiveno means of-verifying=> Tuolumne county, where a large crowd. lishment was set on fire and destroyed. . wil France do? ave, at the time of writing this, or thrée brief items relating tot e effect produced in France by the stgrender of MeMahon’s army, and probably, also, that of Bazaine. A London dispatch of Saturday morning, says telegrams from” Paris report the utmost agitation and excitement; that rumors of the disastrous close of the terrible fighting were current; that the peoplé were gloomy and depressed; that the last hopes of the Napoleon dynasty had faded away, and Trochu is daily growing stronger in the confidence and sympathies of the people. Another dispatch says the Committee of Defense are working steadily for an obstinate resistance, and that Paris is determined to make astrong defense should the eneniy invest it; while anWhat. Paris will not suffer a siege. Rumors are current that a Republic will be proclaimed, and more ample powers given the Committee of Defense, thus con-, stituting a provisional Government. Thochu is spoken of for President. 'The Moniteur, of the 8d, announces that volunteering is general in the south of France; that a large body of sharpshooters had just left Lyons for the frontier, and that throughout the country, the same sentiment. was expressed—that.peace is impossible while a single Prussian stands on Frencli soil. In Berlin, it was the universal belief that the war was at an end. Cor-respondents..telegraphing from Belgium are divided in opinion. GENERAL PAILLy Snor.—A Bruesels dispatch says General Failly has been shot; one account says by McMahon’s orders,and others by his own soldiers. Another dispatch says the French soldiers are massacreing their own officers, If these statements are true, it shows the general belief of the “French ‘soldiérs, that their “disasters . .are due.to the incompetency.of-the-officers. .One of the first defeats of the campaign was owing to the failure of General Failly to bring up his corps to the relief of McMahon at Sauverne. He arrived with one or two divisions just in time.tocover a retreat. Shooting officers on accouut of incompetency is rather severe punishment; but the penalty of the “guillotine once before had a remarkable effect in sharpening the wits of the French Generals, and urged them to feats of heroism and daring that proved successful. GREAT FIRE 1N CHicaGo.— A dispatch to the Gazette says a‘disastrous fire occurred in Chicago on the evening of the 4th. One of the finest blocks in the city,on Wabash avenue, was destroyed, and the loss of property is stated at three to four million dollars. A large number of employes in Farwell & Co.’s dry goods store were at work getting ‘out goods, when the walls fell in, and many perished. Some assert that fifty lives were lost, but the number is generally believed not to exceed ten or twelve. Mutua ScarE.—A Visalia dispatch says the Indian. excitement on King River proves to be altogether without foundation, The committee of settlers have retufhed, and: report finding the Indians much more frightened than the whites. They had heard the whites were arming, with the intention of exterminating them, Soldiers, alarmed at the unusual number of Indians collected, had proceeded to arm, which the Indians. supposed meant war on them. Nodamage seems to have +-heen done, other than thoroughly scar. ing both parties. CALIFORNIA WINES.—B. N. Bugbey, of Natoma vineyard, started East on Saturday, whither he has sent five car loads of wine and brandy, which he designs persoually to introduce in the Chicago, New York and Boston marpossible the source of the adulteration in those markets of California wines, and arrange for future shipments being placed in market pure as they are sent hence. : THERE are two hundred Chinese in Vallejo. A Mongolian restaurant opened but had to suspend. kets. He designs, also, to ascertain if Tre StfvATioN “IN “France.—The following i‘from a New York dispatch, dated Saturday afternoon; Paris spe cials just received say that there is no prospect of a cessation of the war— that aJl the people and soldiers in and about the city insist on carrying on the war, and that a epublic will be proclaimed immedfitely, with General Trochu at the head of the Government. King William, say the London dispatches, will at once be proclaimed Emperorof Germany. The entire army demands that he should be. The wildest excitement continues in Paris. army is now ready of 250,000 Frenchmen, to resist the Prussian invaders. MeMahon is reported dying of his ‘wounds. The Orleans family , has been informed that there is no hope of

aw . their_restoration. France must be a Republic or nothing. Palikao is re-. ported by Paris dispatches to have reof the people. Iondon dispatches say advices have just been. received from the Prussian army that Napoleon will be sent to Berlin. He resolutely refuses to abdicate except in favor of his son. The extremely precarious state of Napoleon’s health is confirmed. SEVEN MEN DrowNED AT. MazatTLAN.—A private Jetter was recently received in San Francisco,from Mazatlan, dated August 21st, in which two marine disasters-are described. During a storm which lasted thirty-six hours, the schooner Antonetti,from San Francisco, with a load of timber, was driven. ashore and became a total‘wreck. The first mate and four of the crew were drowned, The schooner Minerva, a Mexican vessel, was also wrecked, and two of her crew were drowned. A boat from the American brig Schilikoff, saved four.men from the wreck of the .Minerva, after all the Mexican boats had failed to reach them. The mer. “Chants of Mazatlan attested their ap. preciation of this act of heroism, by making upa purse of $300 for the crew. The Captain of the San Francisco vessel, a passenger named Coffey, the second mate and two sailors were saved. ARRESTED oN SUSPICION.—T wo men, named John Murray and Andrew McDonald, were arrested at Auburn on Wednesday, on suspicion of attempting to burn the trestle work of the railroad near that place. They had been put off the train just below Auburn the evening before.and had been seen by various parties wandering around in the vicinity of the attempted incendiarism during the night of the firing of the trestle work. On Thursday the prisoners gave voluntarily a full detailed statement of their whereabets and occupations which was corroborative of what was known of them while in that vicinity. They had been kept.separate, and their statements agreed throughout, which goes far in inducing the belief that they were innocent of the charge. THE State Fairn.—The Record says from present indications the approaching Fair will be in every respect a brilliant success. The applications for space at the Pavilion already made are more numerous. than they have ever been at soearly aday. The State Agricultural Society are taking judicious practical measures to. make the occasion a pleasant one for visitors from other parts of the State, and to obviate certain inconveniences that have been the subject of complaint in former years. The proposed boat race between the Undine Boat Club” of Sacramento, and the Pioneer Rowing Club of San Francisco, will, if the arrangements for it are perfected, prove a novel and attractive feature. THE Prince Imperial,at last accounts, was at the town of Ching, in Belgium, some twenty miles north-east of Sedan. anne . CHURCH BENEFIT! (ne A. M, E. CHURCH, ANT, Commercial Street, on THURSDAY EVENING, Sept, 8th. Admission One Dollar, e4 Strasbourg still holds out, and a new . . signed in consequence of the demand . A SUPPER for the BENEFIT Of THE Will be given at HAMILTON'S RESTAUSCOTT'S FLAT SAW MILL Co. G.W.SMITH. H.L.GOVE, A.C. Foor, ‘P\HE SCOTT’S FLAT SAW MILL COMPa. WY would. inform the, itizens of andvicinity that they have. Nevada ion hand at their Vara, om Sacraramento Street, and at their DEi, Scotws Flat, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF BUILDING & MINING LUMBER Which they will sell at reasonable rates, (ee By prompt attention to orders and giving good satisfaction they hope to receive a share of public patronage. ° Orders may be left at the Office on SAC MENTO SIRERT, or at the MILL: eS Nevada, May 7th, 1870. PACIFIC INSURANCE . COMPANY, 422, California Street, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ~ irre and Marine Insurance } ’ . Capital Stock.. +. s..ees+e006$1,000,000.00 Amount in excess of Capital ue Dividends.cccossevccsssccconce Assets In Gold. Loans on Real Estate and Collaterals worth $2,420,000..+e2eee¢. 1,087,058.61 Cash in Banks..secseescovsesees 177,863.72 United States and other Stocksowned by the Company....+ 226,500.¢0° Real Estate: Company’s property corner California & Leidesdorif Streets «--e..-. OC cccccccccvess Other ASSCIB.. ccoccecess.cce wits 146.000.00 102,642.00 (2 Losses Paid Promptly in Gold on Aé@ustiment. aie aed A. J. Ralston, Sec’y. J. Hunt, Pree’. Ingurance effected on the mort . —BY— PRESTON & FAIRCHILD, y20 Agents for Nevada, Cal. DR. C. HOWE’sS ELECTRIC PAIN RELIEF. RAND MASTER OF PAIN AND DS. EASE! It isthe most wonderful Medicine in the World for all Internal and External Liscares. It is truly that great secret of Nature, Vegetable Electricity. One trial will convince the skeptic of ite Jnagic power for cure. San Francisco, California. One Dollar per Bottle. 81 STEAM ENCINES. BO eeepc BY NONE in Combined Merits of Capacity, Economy, Durability,simplicity and Perfection. Our Portable Engine, monnted on Locomotive Boiler, having firebox and ash pit entirely surrounded by water space, is set upon legs and umbers ; occupies little room ; needs no brick work ; is suitable for use in any place where a power isrequired—in Mills, shops, Foundries or Printing Rooms, or iu Stock Barns, for grinding, cutting, and steam‘ing food fér stock. ‘She Stationary Engine is complete with Governor, Pump and Heater, with connine Auricudeural. ngs lied ‘Khe Agricultu mgime, suppliie with Locomotive Boiler, having fire box and ash pit entirely surrounded by water space ; is mounted on wheels, with pole for attaching horses for moving trom place to place: is suitable tor Grain Threshing, Corn Shelling, Wood aud Shiugle Sawing, &c. Circulars, with description and prices, farnished on_application to WOUD, ‘ABER & MORSE, Eaton, Madison county, N. ¥. s& CRYSTAL SPRING SAW MILL. M. L. & D. MARSH, Prop’rs. ry \SE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that they have On hand at their Mill and Lumber Ward, the Largest and most . complete Stock of BUILDING & MINING LUMBER TO BE FOUND IN NEVADA COUNTY. _ cit consists ofDressed Flooring and Siding, Sugar Pine, Laths, Pickets, Shakes, Shingks, Fencing Posts, &c. &C. i mettre oo or at the Mill, will promptly atten to, ¢ : is M. L. & D. MARSH. Nevada, May 3d, 1870. sabioall WATSON?S HYDRAULIC CHAMPION JOINT AND NOZZLE! HESE: MACHINES ARE THE MOST stmaple in construction, the cheapest and most effective of any yet invented for a draulic mining. Their superiority to all otaers can immediately be appreciated on examination. ‘Hydraulic Miners are invited to call at the Foundry and examine models, before making arrangements for machines of greater cost. ¢2@F"These Machines are manufactured to order, all sizes,at the Nevada Foundry. Nevada, July 19th, 1870. General Office, 423 Wasnrnaron Srurwr, te All orders left at the LUMBER YARD © available to _pay.Losses and. Fires A col the wo for. ove near th by the party, a this sic course winds, : slowly time it road an but on the cree to the 1 already eight 1 sweep t growth as an standin fire, cat every f fort ha conflag ridge \ forts to The be sugar most re Super The ~ *Phirding the field, a Captai can n¢ reka t¢ tereste toward sive m is a mit ress by “noted _ straigl party ~man fc selecte cans of man al port. sional] politics to the zncor The Orlean was fil Clerk corpor of mi from, uated ship 2 $210,0 $100 e Nevad three } Brady. and C, Natur St dames Julius Antoil were { somev what may being to Na nounc thorit; Depa Rev tor of this ci on Su partul to. pe reside to a . . whom Disto Wi Mars! charg _ the p for th Justic wher $15.