April 16, 1858 (4 pages)

VOL. 7. NO. 47. Sea ra a TE a en SEEN senses Sidlionoreamanerserccascase—llllie we HE NEVADA JOURN Che Nevada Journal. N.P. BROWN & Co. EG. WAITE. OFFICE—MAIN SLREET, over J. M. Hamilton & Co,’s, opposite Langton’s and Wells, Fargo & Co's Ex press OfficesFrom our Extra of Tuesday. By Telegraph to the Nevada Journal. . tion of Gov. Denver. Arrival of the Golden AgeThe attention of Congress was still Shawnee precinct in Kansas, were preN. P. BROWN . engrossed to a great extent by the ev-. Paring a certificate under oath stating erlasting Kansas question. On Monday, March 15th the friends the NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1858. Legislature and agaiust the proclamaendipeter. It was reported that several Chinamen were washed away by the St. Louis, March 9th—The Republi. flood.can learns that the election clerks of the tnat they gave their testimony before investigating committee under of Lecompton constitution determined . threats of death. to remain in permanent session until the A letter from Fort Scott says that that TERMS vote on the admission of Kansas should . Place has been taken by a company of ES SOL SR a ARE ce eet oer $7,00 be taken or until the opponents of the Lane's men who were robbing stores and FOR SIX MONTHS. ..0.-2200 ee eene ee ceeeee scenes 4,00 . Bill should agree to take the vote somestealing horses. No lives lost. Wien Woemee MOCHA. <._< 602-2 <2 9-3 =n 2 sd time during the week. The Leader learns from a gentleman SINGLE COPmEs.--.-.2---2-202 --0ee ee eee esr = hive opposition resisted and the result from Kansas that the Topekaites and TEAL TUE ES SE TT BUSINESS CARDS. % HENRY MEREDITH. THomas P. HAWLEY ' Meredith & Hawley, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Office—Kidd & Knox’s Brick Bnilding janls KNOX, Knox & Overton, wn. J. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, . sylvania. Each gentleman apologised report is not credited here. OFFICE—On Broad street, 2d door ahove Pine. jan22 DR. CLEBURNE'S MEDICAL OFFICE, CoMMERciIAL STREET Nevada, January 29th, . s5~ A. A. SARGENT, At orney and Counsellor at Law, Orrick. Kidd & Knox's Buildirg CHARLES W. WULTFORD, BANE =m. At his O'd Stand, Main Nevada. Gold Dust Bought at the highest market rates. street, Sight Checks on Sacramento and <:an Francisco AT PAR. Dust forwarded to the U.S. Braned Mint Coinage, aid advances made uentle sane Nevada, Dec. 4th. 1857 for Assay or ifreq ired. J.C. BIRDSEVE & Co. BANKERS. Wo. 30 MAIN STREET NEVADA. URCHASE GOLD DUST and BULETON—Advan ces made on Gold Dust for Assay or ('« re U. 8 Mint. Sell checks on San Francise,, Sacraments and Marysville Deposites r Neral Bankin Nevada, Mare and transact ived, Collections ma! STANTON BUCKNER ‘ Buckner & Hill, ILDING. SECOND FLOOR Spt t treet, Nevala } AVING a te . ther in the prac tice of the i tend p » all business contide counties Iron, Steel, eneral Dealers in Hardware, Window Glass, Oils dage, Tackle, B d Wo. 27 MAIN STREET, Nevad. Nevada. Ang 15 ey GARDINER B.M A AND GARDINER & McFARLAND, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. Office—Riley’ und Broad Streets uilding Corner Pine J. KR. M’CONNELI A. € NILES. McCONNELL & NILES, Attorneys and Councellors at Law, Will practice in allt trict, and in the Supre John Ande:son, Justice of the Peace, Cisse Sew ducts below T Fllard Beans & Co., no JAMES CHURCHMAN, Attorney at Law. j TILL hereafter devs Ifsolely to the tice of his prof at his office, Corner of I except when about on profe Thomas Marsh, SIGN & ORNAMENTAL PAINTER MAINSTREET, ABOVE (OMMERCIAL, rte himse , ve Streets, Nevada ess. july1l0 C. W. Young, MANUFACTURING JEWELER, WATCHMAKER AND PDFALER IN my All kines of Fine Watches, o » Was DIAMOND WORK & CUTLERY, Qe att Old stand—Commercial street. Nevada —Ang. I. WILLIAMSON, AUCTIONEER, OFFiIce—At the old stand, Main Street NEVADA. nitl-tt GEO. H. LORING, MANUFACTURING JEWELER, No. 23 Commercial street. N. B.—AI work pertaining to the Jewelrv neatly perfor ned Nevada, Jan 8th. 1°58, business ee zs Physician and At EF. F. =penee’s Drug Store Comme G. E. Withington, FAALER in French and A Window Shad Br Paints &c Pa exec lin the! street, Nevasia rurgeon, cin est Sign and Ornineatal Painter, All work prom tly attended to, and theart. Commercial street. Nevala in the be +t style of JLR. WHEN Y & 00. Fo: warding sto Shaw & Whitaey.] > ’ be Se . & Cemmissivn Merchints. SaCRAMENT?O.H. P. White. Acent. J. R. Whitney, 79 Front street, an Franciseo Co Sac. Mark Packages ‘Care W GEORSE THACHER & C9. Wholest'» Dealers in . PINE WINGS, BA ANBIES, Liquors, &c. at the . e M4th Judicial Dis. NEVADA CITY. feb 90-tf . 1 . ted that the vote might be taken on the following Monday. . Green of Missouri and Cameron of Penn; to the Senate the following day and the . belligerent Senators made up. . ‘There seems to be no doubt of the pas. sage of Lecompton through the Senate, On the 17th }of Marci, Mr. Crittenden made a great when it comes to a vote. . speech in opposition to Lecompton. . Senator Toombs replied to it the next . day and was followed by Bell of Tenn., 'who took decided ground against the bill . The fate of the bill in the Honse is j}somewhat doubtful, the friends of the . measure having recently been beatenon . several questions which were regarded jastests. The opposition in the House have recently lost some Northern Demloeratic members who had been relied . upon to oppose Lecompton, but the loss }is believed to be more than made good . by the accession of strength from Amer. jeans representirg southern constituen. cies. In the Senate, Mr. Foster ef Coun., spoke against the Lecompton Constitution and Mr. Clay of Ala. against pure . Demoeracy and in favor of disunion in ease the Republican party should take the of . were criticized by Mr. Houston. / reins government. His views The House of Representatives deci. ded by the strong vote of 143 to 43 }agvinst any increase of our standing . army and in faver of allowing the President to accept the services of five regi. ments of volunteers to be employed in . settling our Mormon and Indian troubiles. The army billin this shape passed . the House by a vote of 127 to 73. From . there were many able speeches made on both sides of the Kansas question— amongst which that of Senator Crittenden against is said to have veen the most able. . Senator Donglas is sick but intends to speak on the 22d, when Kansas matters l are expected to come to a final vote in the Senate. . Mareh 13th, quite a flare-up occurred between Senators Bigler and Broderick . #bout some remarks made by the former ‘gentleman, in which the name of Mr. Me Donegal was introduced. The dispute . was rather personal and seemed to in. volve a question of veracity, but the . matter was finally dropped. Pacific Railroad.—In the House of Representatives, Mr. Phelps of Mo., ithe chairman of the committee on the Pacifie Railroad introduced a bill which was referred to that committee to aid in St. It proposes to the construction of a Railroad from . Louis to San Francisco. pass through Albuquerque theSemie vil. one-half of the } road is to be built by the State «f Caliages and Tejon pass ; ~ . fornia and the half by the State of Missjou, the U.S. to grant money and lands . to aid In building it. After ninety miles lare built U.S. thirty years bond to be j issued to the State building it at rate of . $7,500 per mile and so on as it is finish. ed two hundred miles west from St Louis F. then for two hun. died miles further bounds to be issued at { the rate of $310,000 per mile and east from §S, Then for one handred miles further at the rate $12,000 per mile and for remainder of way at the rate of $15,000 Road to 10 The U.S. isto have as a conper mile. be finished in . years. sideration for its aida legal right to priority of use for all goverument purposes. St Louis and ‘California at San Francisco and pro. Mi-souri isto begin at Cor r Kand 2d sts. Sacramento. fe Agency for the sale of California Wine lebrated vinevard of Dr White dee i ceed coutinuously. They are to meet on the 18th meridian of Longitude. Kinsis —While these things were go‘The session wasa stormy one and the. It is reported that Lane has issued a oppose paceed Serie) thie adhe hedwoan proclamation calling on the free State the 13th to the 20th of Mareh . hs ~) R — . was that the Senate remained in session . #"ti-T'opekaites had quarrelled concernuntil six o'clock on Tuesday morning, . "8 the policy to be pursned, and that March 16th, when the opposition consen. tW° Sets of candidates had been nominated to the Constitutional Convention. The Democrats made no nominations. militia to attack Western Missouri. This Salt Lake —A Mr. Wingate who left Salt Lake on 25th of January, recently arrived at Council Bluffs by a new route through the mountains only known to the Mormons, aad passable only in single file for a long distance. He reports no snow in Salt Lake Valley, and very little in the mountains. ‘The Mo:mons are busi'y engaged in the manufacture of arms and powder. A skirmish is said to have taken place between a picket guard of U.S. troops anda party of Mormons, in which four of the troops and two Mormons were killed. ing that civil cffleers may enter Salt . Itissaid that Brigham is willLake to commence upon the discharge of their duties, but he will oppo. e the euMr. Bartnett, Sec. retary of Utah, has arrived at St. Louis . with dates from camp Scott to Jan. 26. trance of the troops. He reports the troops comfortable and n good health. It was reported that on account of the . fortification of certain canyons by the . Mormons, that entrance of the army to Sak Lake Valley would be made by a . new route, one hundred miles further, but offering no obstacle. Miscellaneous —Col. Sumner of the a eae = has been on trial before a court martial at Carlisle, Pa., on charge . army J of having sent a challenge to a brother oticer. ‘Thetrial has been concluded and Col. S. acquitted. Rear Admiral Mahommed Pasha of the Turkish navy recently arrived at New York., when the city made its musicipal Soluns show the Pasha to the public, and the public works to the Pasha, and the Turk betook himse!f to robbed twenty minutes after reaching his hotel. Washington and was within Our dispatches from Wash ngton mention the probable withdrawal at an early day of Lord Napier, partly on aczount of recent changes in the British ministry, and partly owing to the ill health of Lady Napier. . The steamboat Empire State, of the . Fall River line, was lost in a fog, March 17th. and sunk in ten or twelve feet of water. She ran ashore on Long Island No one lost. Several other boats were damaged but not seriously. The democrats of Pennsylvania recently held a State Convenion and nominated A. Potter for Supreme Court Wesley Frost for Canal ; Commissioner. Judge and The zonvention adopted resolutions endorsing the President’s course on Kansas question. European news of uo importance. Nevapba Rittes.—The Nevada Rifles made a fine appearance in public on Saturday afternoon last, on the occasion of a target shooting. were awarded ; First prize, gold medal, given by the Captain, R. Shoemaker, vained 350, to J.B. Van Hagan, he making the besi The following prizes shot. Secoud prize, silver medal, giveu vy Heury Mevedith, valued $28, to W. f. Auderson, he making the second best shot. Third Prize. Leather Medel, given vy David Beideu—Value unknown, to Win. Sinith. We have not heard of the extent of the loss. Great Fire at Forest City!! FULL PARTICULARS, The following communication received by “Pat,” Agent of Langton’s Pioneer Express at this place, will give the particulars of the fire at Forest City, ana may be relied on as entirely correct: Orrice LANGTON’S PIONEER EXPRERS Forest Crry, April 11th, 1858. } Dear Par:—A fire broke out here KaawaLoa is a deep bay, the two sides being low and formed of little more than naked lava, while the toe of this giant horse-shoe is tipt with a cliff of between four and five hundred feet of perpendicular height. There is plenty of water and you can anchor where you please. On your 1ight, as you look towards the cliff, lies the irregular village of Kealakeakua, where there is no need to dig for a foundation and the paths require no paving. It is here that Captain Cummings carries on business, and supplies such whaleships as reeruit there. I heard a good deal of talk about the road thence into the district of Kau, where goats do much abound, and where now, influenced ty the advice and example of the resident Protestant missionaries and Roman Catholic priests, last night a few minutes past midnight, in a house owned and occupied by John Lannen, and in a few hours consumed the entire business portion of the village. 1 enclose you a statement of the sufferFortunately but little wind prevailed, and consequently most ers and losses. of the merchandize was saved, but in a damaged condition. T arrived here this afternoon with the Downieville express, accompanied by Col. Musser, who brought six hundred the inhabitants are beginning to plant wheat, and otherwise to court the favors ot old mother Earth. A good road, or a road as good as the nature of the coun. try will admit of, and so laid out as to . suit the general convenience, would be an additional stimulus to their activity by opening up a market; for the coast of Kan is barren and inhospitable, and it is only now and then that schooners can take in cargo in that neighborhood, whereas Kealakeakua is a fine place for the purpose I believe that the Approand thirty dollars, the contribution of Downieville, for the relief of the sufferIn haste. yours truly. J.E AGER. MGS. Of QI ere ee ao $2,000 Davis Hotel.-. acisaees --. 3,000 L micore i RIOONE cic =e ce 2,000 Hughes & Co.’s drug store.. 1,200 ers. hLand & Co. . hipaa tart Lok Paitin. 2,500 Mrs" Sheehan 2! 26-294 2.222 3,000 S. Lewis, barber shop..-.-si 3500 W. Grosse, billiard saloon .-. . 3,000 SG ROSGRNSMERG oon ald getcints 4,000 Ww. Henry ey hire ee ere 6,000 ibe Drwaeston. ct te 4,500 Bily Weodss. 25 8 ae he uk -1,000 Seaton! & Ges «a5 2eice eek 2G 250 Magnolia Saloon ..te oe 3,000 Lee ty Pempcing.o>. 2 se 1.200 Atkinson & Smith... oot 2000 . Ricd a AbWee 622202 5.% S225. 250 Huntsman & Philips..---. 2.500 Dri Wayman .:_, Gennes ame 500 PAIS sce oe 1,000 Pe IOS AMNEOT 255 ise on ckeiioe 1,500 GW Nee oo sas goes 1,500 Parerwsnop,. 225.2 ese ITS 1.200 Vacant Store .. Rie. SERA S 1,000 ide cag atts ees sh Fees 2,500 De Detever. oo ss oe See crate ance ate 1,500 Vacant Dwelime: —.-. 2. =. 500 [Sinn wer patrick =. .2<. ae se 800 Orlears Restaurant. ... 2,000 . ORIN DUR POND a ciao ahs sitar Simcoe 2,500 Lee & Pottercssncss<nescce~ es 2.000 LCS ge 800 Vacant TIOUGe . .-5. 6 0s se sis 8600 Live Yankee Co.’s Office. .-. 1,000 Pf Behe@r 22 Fee 1,500 Walcant Beene 255252 2088s Beak 600 Hazelton é& Ca. 5.44: Pree 1,500 Th AROURE sa <iile cipire Societe ade Bom 2,000 lirosd ae Prarie. =<. 2.2. soar 6 000 . Bleisharker-& Co —. 22.2. 2-25: 2,500 . S. W. Langton, express office. 2,000 W. L. Gibson, banking office. 500 KB . Game. occ: cee a ear ts 1,500 Janes Whitcomb: .< -. 5.4. 2,000 Fred Miller .. Siar gieta ron Sma 4,000 Dre M o ee oo a ee 500 —— McGork.... 1,500 Clana Wash House. .. =. 400 Wie INOMONOE Sects Ss oa Seeces, DUe 2 eT Seen Selene a etre i 1,500 center. ee Paha gc: J tae Hs 1,500 PRBS OOG eG. Asia sass 1,200 fashion Saloon...-. pe 9: MCW ONSIEE os 2 ee kao 1,500 MAME IE awe sis cose Srl cheese 800 mics S2 Abb6 =. 2 Pagel cai 1.000 A. Rosenvaam.2s. 33. 2 atcha OO) — Fitzgerald... wow ag0Go Dutch Co.’s Office. . Sosa eee 600 Piatt Clare. ws pie aa 600 Thornton & Woodrofe..-300 French Bar Room.. ahs SSS 1,000 L. Sinsheimer.. Sar geebe tee 1,500 Tot. its.3 2 oon ties oO Persecutiontn Madagascar.—The lat est intelligence from this ill-governed and miserably oppressed island is eminently sad and disheartening. A perseeution followed the expulsion of the French in July last, which has proved to be uncommonly severe. ‘Thirteen Christians have been put to death ; more than fifty have been subjected to the ordeal of their “tangues,” (poison water,) with fatal results in the cases of eight; more than fifty have been bound in chains, two having died; and many others are reduced to slavery. There seems to be no hope, therefore, that those who have embraced the doctrines of the Bible will be tolerated during the reign of the present Queen. Whether her son will escape a death of violence, as he is known to be friendly to “the new way,” is quite doubtful. Rumored Resignation of the Pope.—— ibe first prize was presented with a neat little speech by A. C. Niles Esq. Phe second by George S. Hupp Esq. iu nis usual happy style. Vhe Leather Meda! could not have been presented more appropriately than was done by WV. Beldeu Esy. who is the orator desigued expressly for all such occasions. By the Africa we learn that a rumor has been afloat in Paris of an anticipated change in the temporal government of Rome, which will create surprise in the mind of every peoplein Europe. Some talk of the approaching abdication of the Pope as a certain thing, and already has Father Ventura been spoken of as _ his suecessor. The nomination of the latter to a cardinalate in preparation for this he atiair passed off in excellent style. A Fresh suppiy oi ling on at Washington a convention orGroceries and Previsions, dered by the present territorial Legislature of Kansas has been elected to form Reservoir Broke.— Immense Loss.— event has frequently been announced. Upon an emergency such a measure would be considered indispensable. As Just received bv . T ELLARD BEANS & CO. County Suiveyor's Cfiice. } } COURT HOUSE, NEVADA. Joun L. GAMBLE, / \ G. PF. DEETKEN, . County Surveyor ) ; Deputy . LL persons are hereby cautioned against employing . A other Surveyors than such as may be deputized j from this office. : j (Extract from Laws of Califoruia ) Cuar. 20, Sec. 3. No survey or re survey hereafter made by any person except the County Surveyor or hit deputy shallbe consideredlegal evidence in any C-urs within this State. JOHN L.GAMBLE. , Nevada. June 26th, 1857, i . & new constitution. . decidedly free state. . ave at present apparently quiet but reli-. San Juan, broke its embankment and This convention is . The mammoth Shady Creek Reservoir, Affairs in Kansas . owned by Pollard & Eddy, uear No-th able authority fiom the Territory still . Was hurriedly emptied of its contents on insists that in case the Lecompton ConSaturday last. There was fifty feet of stitution is adopted by Congress the peo. water in depth at the time, and valued ple will rebel against it and resort to} at $40,000. he break was owing to civil war before submitting. the imperfection of the culveits Gen. Lane is organizing the militia which were not strong enough to resist under the authority of the Territorial the pressure of the superincumbent earth — general of the powerful organ of Ignatius, Father Ventura’s position would enable him to accept the papal crown without probation.— Phd. Ing. The Best Place for Babies.—“Mother,” said a little three year old whose nose had been “pnt out of joint” by the recent arrival of a baby brother, “Mother, if the baby should die would it go to heaven?” “Certainly, my child,” responded the parent. “Then I think heaven is the best place for him,” was the affectionate sister’s conclusion. 4 priation Bill for the last three or four years, at least, has granted a sum of . money for this purpose, but it appears that the Treasury has never been able to honor the demand, nor is this to be aud that it is, in point of faet, worth twice as much ashe gave. On the other hand I was sorry to hear this, because the place was sold to partly liquidate a debt, and I could wish that the last owner (a native chief ) had been benefitted by the full value of it. I understand that the gentleman into whose hands it has fallen intends to eultivate it in part and to do some dairying besides. The seller may suffer in the way I have alluded to, but the buyer, and through him the community, can hardly failto reap some benefit from a transaction, gone into on such favorable terms, which will render productive some six or seven thousand acres of superior land that have lately yielded next to nothing. Between the place I am now talking about and Kailua there are several farms and plantations, sueh as the Rev. Mr. Taylovr’s, Mr. Charles Hall’s, Mr. Paris’, Mr. Johnson’s, Mr. Greenwell’s, and I do not know how many besides, but it was not a part of the country to be overlooked, and I believe that those who have up to the present time settled there do not find any reason to regret that step. We left Kaawaloa on Wednesday, January 27th, and steaming past the districts of Kau and Puna anchored in Hilo, or Byron’s Bay, about 8 o’elock on the morning of the 28th. And in honor of this place I must take a new steel pen, for nothing buta sharp-ribbed instrument could do justsce to the peaks and spurs of snow-c¢pped Mauna Kea, which at the distance of some forty or fifty miles in a direct line affords such a wondered at so longas the Minister of Finance is ordered to pay out twice as much money, at least, as he has any expectation of receiving. But I learnt in Hilo that such a thing may happen as an appropriation being paid to very little purpose (of which more anon,) and I would very humbly recommend to those high fanctionaries who are necessitated to razee the inflated bills of proposed expenditure that are squeezed through the Lower House, not only to consider which works are most necessary, but to satisfy themselves before-hand whether the money will be so applied on the spot as to meet the particular necessity. A member who can talk and lobby may get the appropriation demanded by his constituents, but it does not follow that . his constituents made their demand wisely, or that the money will te wisely applied to the object proposed, even if that object be really a desirable one. On the left side of the bay is Kaawaloa, Cook’s death place. It is a bleak voleanic spot, and in approaching it you have to steer your boat between the masses of lava that lie, according to the state of the tide, more or less hidden by the water. Standing on one of these the great navigator is said to have received the wound that killed him. <A g:eat part of that particular rock has been chipped off by those visitors who wished to carry away with them a relic of the scene. On shore there are a few scattered grass houses, some of them surrounded by walls of lava, and one close by the water’s edge is said to occupy the site of a former house where, during the scuffle, the people held up mats to screen themse'ves from the musket balls. Near by is a little grove of cocoa-nut trees, in the trunk of one of which some of the missiles lodged. ‘There are only a tew feet of it now standing, and this fragment is covered with plates of ship’s copper on which are rudely recorded the visits of the men-of-war that have from time to time been attracted to the spot. Capt. Mecham caused to be attached toit a similar record of our own visit, and talked much of the propriety of erecting a more lasting monument in granite or metal upon the very identical place where Cook fell. His idea was that the base of a column could easily be let into the rock, and so preserve, against all but such eruptions as first made it, the spot where a great navigator met his death at the hands of those who shortly before had wished to do him homage as a long absent god come home to them according to prediction. On the high land or plateau above the Bay is another monument marking the place to which Cook’s body is said to have been carried and where he was buried. It was rather amusing to visit the scene of Cook’s death with a gentleman of education and one who has traveled, to whom that Jangaage is most familiar of which the use of ten words, had his forefathers only known them, might have prevented the catastrophe by a simple explanation— and with him one who, like the discoverer, was the Captain of a British ship of war, not repressing the worship due to a heathen deity, but on his part entertaining and honoring with the most marked as well as the minutest sign of courtesy the enlightened sovereign of an independent nation. How few the intervenient years, how great the change ! The country above Kaawalea is very fine—indeed, some of the strangers from the ship who visited it declared that it would be beautiful in any part of the world. It maintains the same character all the way back to Kailua, which distance includes the justly celebrated Kona district. The climate is comparatively temperate and such as to make ye who has been shut up in Honolulu for any considerable time allow a sigh to escape him at the thought of going back to that metropolis. I was glad to see those slopes dotted every here and there with houses which looked, even from our deck, as if they might be respectable. Kealakeakua, a large land, or, as it is here called, ahupnaa, gives its name to the village I have already mentioned, and stretching from that side of the bay runs many miles inland with a gradual ascent. ‘This property has recently been purchased by a gentleman who is reported to be an agriculturist of great experieuce, and I cannot but congratulate him on his bargain, for the people of the neighborhood say that had it only been known that the land was for sale, almost a dozen different purchasers would have been glad to buy it for half as much again as he paid for it, . back ground to the picture as would increase the interest and beauty of any tropical scene. But I will not attempt to describe this fairhaven. You must fancy the “purest of crystal and brightest of green,” clumps of coccanut trees, two or three streams emptying their water into the sea, little rivulets jumping dnciehiniteiaioatiartieinnnstiimilicaianenatisetaee PRS SAT IE A EINER 1 Reet ne ee Seer Renae WE Sis AF SEY RES of the bay, extinct craters overgrown with grass, sombre woods in the farther distance, here and there along the beach a line of white surf, a village half hidden by trees, a bright sky and sunshine glancing on the waves beneath it, and as I said before the snowy peaks of Mauna Kea. I must reserve till next week the few remarks I have to make about matters on shore here. C. GH. No Use For Trovsers.—On the morning of the meteoric shower in 1833, old Peyton Roberts who intended making an early start to his work got up in the midst of the display. On going to his door he saw with amazement the sky lighted up by the falling meteors and he concluded at once that the world was on fire and the day of judgment had come. He stood for a moment gazing in speechless horror sprang out of the door into the midst of the falling stais and here a seriesof ground tumbling that woula have done honor to a rope dancer. His wife being awakened in the meantime and seeing old Peyton jumping and skipping about the yard called out to him t» know what in the name ’o sense he was a doin’ out thar a dancin’ around without his clothes. But Peyton heard not, the judgment and the long black account he would have to settle, made him heedless of all terrestrial things and his wife becoming alarmed at his behavior sprang out of bed and running to the door shrieked out at the ‘op her lungs: “Peyton, I say Peyton what do you mean jumpin’ about out thar? Come in and put your trowsers on.” Old Peyton whose fears had nearly overpowered him faintly answered as he fell sprawling on the earth— “Trowsers, Peggy! what the h— is the use o’ trowsers when the world’s a fire ?” Ispustrriovs Ipteness.-—Curran’s notions of industry were somewhat ludicrous. An hour to him was a day to another man; and in his natural capabilities his idleness found a powerful auxiliary. Asingle glance made him master of the subject; and though imagination could not supply him with facts, stillit very often became a successful substitute for authorities. He once said, in serious refutation of what he called the professional calumnies on this subject, that he was quite as laborious as was necessary for any mist prius advocate to be. “For,’’ said he, with the utmost simplicity, “J always perused my briefs carefully when I was concerned for the plaintiff, and it was not necessary to do it for the defendant, because, you know, [could pick up the facts from the opposite counsel's statements.” This was what Curran considered being laborious; and, to say the truth, it was at best but an industrious idleness, “Wherever I go,” said a gentleman remarkable for nis State pride, “I am sure to find sensible and intelligent men from my own State.” “No wonder,” said the person he was addressing, ‘for every man of that State who has any sense, leaves it as fast as he can.” The equestrian statue of Washington, at Richmond, Va., weighs eighteen tons. Its height is twenty feet; length from nose of horse to end of tail, twenty-two feet. The plinth upon which the horse rests was cast with the animal, is eleven feet long by five and a half wide, and covers the entire capstone of the granite pedestal. The Honeymoon.—Mary.—*Charles, dear, now we are married, you know, we should have no secrets. So do, like a love, hand me that bottle of hair dye; you will find it m my dressing-case.”’ A Wise Decision —Judge Closser, of the Probate Court of Windsor, Vermont, has decided that a good family newspaperis one of the necessary articles for the support of a family during the settlement of an estate, and as such the administrator in insolvent estates is justifiable in paying for one—the widow to make her own selection of what paper she will have. over the cliff which forms the right side . . A Good Joke-—A Washing:on latte, writer tells the following story : “A veidant ventleman from one of the bucolic distriets of the country, of the name of Greene—spelled with an : —came to handa few days since. and put up ata fashionable hotel, He bad been imprudent enovgh in the ears to repeat the opinion of his pastor ‘to home,’ that Washington was a thankless and graceless place, wherein merit such as his (Greene’s) was too often suffered to pive away unrecognized, Next morning, early, certain wags went ‘o the bar, and, depositing two” new half dollars, gave orders to send up a cocktail every ten minutes to number forty-seven mt: the amonnt should be expende d. Green was waked from dreams of hoine at fic minutes past seven A. M., by a hoy wit! the concoction referred to, which Greene imbibed. At fifteen minutes past came another boy and another ‘appendage’ — the latter of which Greene also At twenty-five minutes past came anotli er, and at twenty-five minutes ¢o—the dose wasrepeated. He made inereiment of them all. At fifteen minutes from made a rush for the stair case, é “His ° (drapery)— Streaming like a meteor on the troubled air’™— and called over the ballustrade: «Hold on there, hold on !—does the President think I can contro! ai? tlhe State?” +3 wit Lo» *tOOK Voies of my Willis on Hoops.—11 a reeent Idle wild letter in the Home Journal, the writer, who is reekoned by many an authoritative arbiter elegantiarum, in res} ect to dress, makes fun of females who trundle huge hoops in earriages and in the streets, and concludes with an amusing essay with the following picture of his own situation while swamped under a petticoat—or rather under a couple— during a stage ride in Broadway : “And it was a curious omnibus experience, for my rustic nerves, to be two thirds hidden under a couple of petticoats,as I wasinthe ‘Blue Line’—the skirts (which met across my Jay) leaving my head and chest visible, it is true, but making the remainder most embarrassingly fabulous. As I was entirely a stranger to Loth ladies, it was queer to be wondering (as i found irresistible, on losing sight of my own knees) which of the two petticoats would walk away with me, at parting.” Humevuceine THE Sauire.—A Louis paper tells of a couple of sports jmen who, while on a gunuing expedi tion, wandered into one of the countics of Illinois, and commenced an onslauglit on the game out of season, and agaiis* the statute in such case made an} prov: ded. They were hauled up before a Squire, an old soldier of the war of 1812 aud a strict temperance man to boot—to answer the offence, when one of them thus “pulled the wool over his eyes :"’ “May it please the court, (as the word court was mentioned, the Squire adjust ed his spectacles, crammed his thumbs into the arm-holes of his sLirt, and tried to look dignified,) what are we arrested for? For doing what? Disobeying a foolish and outrageous law, framed by a zang of drunken loafers, who knew noth ing about the Constitution of the United States or the Declaration of Independ ence. ‘That sacred document, revered by every pure patriot, and by every no ble soldier who has fought, bled and died for his country—that is, might have died —guarantees to every citizen life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We were in the pursuit of happiness, within the meaning of the Declaration of Inde pendence, which is higher law, in the estimation of all patriots and soldiers (the Squire’s eyes began to dance wit! excitement, as the speaker continued to allude to old soldiers and the Declara ‘tion of Indepence,) than a few framed by loafers who meet at Springfield every two years, to play poker and drink rot gut.” The Squire interrupts the speaker : “Ken you show me that are passage in the Declaration of Independence, that wat you hev just sed "bout the ‘pursuit of happiness ?” “Certainly I can,” replied the speak: er, picking up acopy of the Revised Statutes, and pointing it out. The Squire examined it and said : “Mr. Constable, discharge the prisouers, kase I don’t believe in the new fashioned laws they make now-a-days. Give me the good old laws of Washington and the revolutioners, for it certaialy is a great happiness to shoot them ‘ere pesky birds that eat up the farmer’s corn,” Qt “My political life has no greater error to atone thau my neglect to crush this reptile of Pennsylvania when I had him inmy power. He was the cause of a bitter war between two men of this Republic, (Clay and Jackson,) who should not have been soestranged. His representations caused the charge of ‘bargair and sale,’ and when brought home to him, he meanly left me alone to face if. Friends interfered then to save him from being exposed, and [ listened to them.” — Gen. Jackson to Moses Dawson, in 1827 “I rejoice at the defeat of Buchanan in the Convention.”—Gen. Jackson to Moses Dawson, in 1844. Brougham’s Power of Endurance.— is related of Lord Brougham that on one occasion, after having practiced all day asa barrister, he went to the House of Commons, where he was engaged in active debate through the night, till three o’clock in the morning; he then return ed home; wrote an article for the Edinburgh Review; spent the next day in court, practicing law, and the suceeeding night in the House of Commons; re~ turned to his lodgings at three o’eclock in the morning, and “retired, simply because he had nothing else to do.” A young man by the name of Jenkins has been arrested in Albany, for perpetrating a new “dodge.” He fistened bristles on the tail of a rat, and then sold him for a squirrel. The person was a eentleman fram Germany. eons ee

VOL. 7. NO. 47. Sea ra a TE a en SEEN senses Sidlionoreamanerserccascase—llllie we HE NEVADA JOURN Che Nevada Journal. N.P. BROWN & Co. EG. WAITE. OFFICE—MAIN SLREET, over J. M. Hamilton & Co,’s, opposite Langton’s and Wells, Fargo & Co's Ex press OfficesFrom our Extra of Tuesday. By Telegraph to the Nevada Journal. . tion of Gov. Denver. Arrival of the Golden AgeThe attention of Congress was still Shawnee precinct in Kansas, were preN. P. BROWN . engrossed to a great extent by the ev-. Paring a certificate under oath stating erlasting Kansas question. On Monday, March 15th the friends the NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1858. Legislature and agaiust the proclamaendipeter. It was reported that several Chinamen were washed away by the St. Louis, March 9th—The Republi. flood.can learns that the election clerks of the tnat they gave their testimony before investigating committee under of Lecompton constitution determined . threats of death. to remain in permanent session until the A letter from Fort Scott says that that TERMS vote on the admission of Kansas should . Place has been taken by a company of ES SOL SR a ARE ce eet oer $7,00 be taken or until the opponents of the Lane's men who were robbing stores and FOR SIX MONTHS. ...0.-2200 ee eene ee ceeeee scenes 4,00 . Bill should agree to take the vote somestealing horses. No lives lost. Wien Woemee MOCHA. <._< 602-2 <2 9-3 =n 2 sd time during the week. The Leader learns from a gentleman SINGLE COPmEs.--.-..2---2-202 --0ee ee eee esr = hive opposition resisted and the result from Kansas that the Topekaites and TEAL TUE ES SE TT BUSINESS CARDS. % HENRY MEREDITH. THomas P. HAWLEY ' Meredith & Hawley, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Office—Kidd & Knox’s Brick Bnilding janls KNOX, Knox & Overton, wn. J. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, . sylvania. Each gentleman apologised report is not credited here. OFFICE—On Broad street, 2d door ahove Pine. jan22 DR. CLEBURNE'S MEDICAL OFFICE, CoMMERciIAL STREET Nevada, January 29th, . s5~ A. A. SARGENT, At orney and Counsellor at Law, Orrick. Kidd & Knox's Buildirg CHARLES W. WULTFORD, BANE =m. At his O'd Stand, Main Nevada. Gold Dust Bought at the highest market rates. street, Sight Checks on Sacramento and <:an Francisco AT PAR. Dust forwarded to the U.S. Braned Mint Coinage, aid advances made uentle sane Nevada, Dec. 4th. 1857 for Assay or ifreq ired. J.C. BIRDSEVE & Co. BANKERS. Wo. 30 MAIN STREET NEVADA. URCHASE GOLD DUST and BULETON—Advan ces made on Gold Dust for Assay or ('« re U. 8 Mint. Sell checks on San Francise,, Sacraments and Marysville Deposites r Neral Bankin Nevada, Mare and transact ived, Collections ma! STANTON BUCKNER ‘ Buckner & Hill, ILDING. SECOND FLOOR Spt t treet, Nevala } AVING a te . ther in the prac tice of the i tend p » all business contide counties Iron, Steel, eneral Dealers in Hardware, Window Glass, Oils dage, Tackle, B d Wo. 27 MAIN STREET, Nevad. Nevada. Ang 15 ey GARDINER B.M A AND GARDINER & McFARLAND, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. Office—Riley’ und Broad Streets uilding Corner Pine J. KR. M’CONNELI A. € NILES. McCONNELL & NILES, Attorneys and Councellors at Law, Will practice in allt trict, and in the Supre John Ande:son, Justice of the Peace, Cisse Sew ducts below T Fllard Beans & Co., no JAMES CHURCHMAN, Attorney at Law. j TILL hereafter devs Ifsolely to the tice of his prof at his office, Corner of I except when about on profe Thomas Marsh, SIGN & ORNAMENTAL PAINTER MAINSTREET, ABOVE (OMMERCIAL, rte himse , ve Streets, Nevada ess. july1l0 C. W. Young, MANUFACTURING JEWELER, WATCHMAKER AND PDFALER IN my All kines of Fine Watches, o » Was DIAMOND WORK & CUTLERY, Qe att Old stand—Commercial street. Nevada —Ang. I. WILLIAMSON, AUCTIONEER, OFFiIce—At the old stand, Main Street NEVADA. nitl-tt GEO. H. LORING, MANUFACTURING JEWELER, No. 23 Commercial street. N. B.—AI work pertaining to the Jewelrv neatly perfor ned Nevada, Jan 8th. 1°58, business ee zs Physician and At EF. F. =penee’s Drug Store Comme G. E. Withington, FAALER in French and A Window Shad Br Paints &c Pa exec lin the! street, Nevasia rurgeon, cin est Sign and Ornineatal Painter, All work prom tly attended to, and theart. Commercial street. Nevala in the be +t style of JLR. WHEN Y & 00. Fo: warding sto Shaw & Whitaey.] > ’ be Se . & Cemmissivn Merchints. SaCRAMENT?O.H. P. White. Acent. J. R. Whitney, 79 Front street, an Franciseo Co Sac. Mark Packages ‘Care W GEORSE THACHER & C9. Wholest'» Dealers in . PINE WINGS, BA ANBIES, Liquors, &c. at the . e M4th Judicial Dis. NEVADA CITY. feb 90-tf . 1 . ted that the vote might be taken on the following Monday. . Green of Missouri and Cameron of Penn; to the Senate the following day and the . belligerent Senators made up. . ‘There seems to be no doubt of the pas. sage of Lecompton through the Senate, On the 17th }of Marci, Mr. Crittenden made a great when it comes to a vote. . speech in opposition to Lecompton. . Senator Toombs replied to it the next . day and was followed by Bell of Tenn., 'who took decided ground against the bill . The fate of the bill in the Honse is j}somewhat doubtful, the friends of the . measure having recently been beatenon . several questions which were regarded jastests. The opposition in the House have recently lost some Northern Demloeratic members who had been relied . upon to oppose Lecompton, but the loss }is believed to be more than made good . by the accession of strength from Amer. jeans representirg southern constituen. cies. In the Senate, Mr. Foster ef Coun., spoke against the Lecompton Constitution and Mr. Clay of Ala. against pure . Demoeracy and in favor of disunion in ease the Republican party should take the of . were criticized by Mr. Houston. / reins government. His views The House of Representatives deci. ded by the strong vote of 143 to 43 }agvinst any increase of our standing . army and in faver of allowing the President to accept the services of five regi. ments of volunteers to be employed in . settling our Mormon and Indian troubiles. The army billin this shape passed . the House by a vote of 127 to 73. From . there were many able speeches made on both sides of the Kansas question— amongst which that of Senator Crittenden against is said to have veen the most able. . Senator Donglas is sick but intends to speak on the 22d, when Kansas matters l are expected to come to a final vote in the Senate. . Mareh 13th, quite a flare-up occurred between Senators Bigler and Broderick . #bout some remarks made by the former ‘gentleman, in which the name of Mr. Me Donegal was introduced. The dispute . was rather personal and seemed to in. volve a question of veracity, but the . matter was finally dropped. Pacific Railroad.—In the House of Representatives, Mr. Phelps of Mo., ithe chairman of the committee on the Pacifie Railroad introduced a bill which was referred to that committee to aid in St. It proposes to the construction of a Railroad from . Louis to San Francisco. pass through Albuquerque theSemie vil. one-half of the } road is to be built by the State «f Caliages and Tejon pass ; ~ . fornia and the half by the State of Missjou, the U.S. to grant money and lands . to aid In building it. After ninety miles lare built U.S. thirty years bond to be j issued to the State building it at rate of . $7,500 per mile and so on as it is finish. ed two hundred miles west from St Louis F. then for two hun. died miles further bounds to be issued at { the rate of $310,000 per mile and east from §S, Then for one handred miles further at the rate $12,000 per mile and for remainder of way at the rate of $15,000 Road to 10 The U.S. isto have as a conper mile. be finished in . years. sideration for its aida legal right to priority of use for all goverument purposes. St Louis and ‘California at San Francisco and pro. Mi-souri isto begin at Cor r Kand 2d sts. Sacramento. fe Agency for the sale of California Wine lebrated vinevard of Dr White dee i ceed coutinuously. They are to meet on the 18th meridian of Longitude. Kinsis —While these things were go‘The session wasa stormy one and the. It is reported that Lane has issued a oppose paceed Serie) thie adhe hedwoan proclamation calling on the free State the 13th to the 20th of Mareh . hs ~) R — . was that the Senate remained in session . #"ti-T'opekaites had quarrelled concernuntil six o'clock on Tuesday morning, . "8 the policy to be pursned, and that March 16th, when the opposition consen. tW° Sets of candidates had been nominated to the Constitutional Convention. The Democrats made no nominations. militia to attack Western Missouri. This Salt Lake —A Mr. Wingate who left Salt Lake on 25th of January, recently arrived at Council Bluffs by a new route through the mountains only known to the Mormons, aad passable only in single file for a long distance. He reports no snow in Salt Lake Valley, and very little in the mountains. ‘The Mo:mons are busi'y engaged in the manufacture of arms and powder. A skirmish is said to have taken place between a picket guard of U.S. troops anda party of Mormons, in which four of the troops and two Mormons were killed. ing that civil cffleers may enter Salt . Itissaid that Brigham is willLake to commence upon the discharge of their duties, but he will oppo. e the euMr. Bartnett, Sec. retary of Utah, has arrived at St. Louis . with dates from camp Scott to Jan. 26. trance of the troops. He reports the troops comfortable and n good health. It was reported that on account of the . fortification of certain canyons by the . Mormons, that entrance of the army to Sak Lake Valley would be made by a . new route, one hundred miles further, but offering no obstacle. Miscellaneous —Col. Sumner of the a eae = has been on trial before a court martial at Carlisle, Pa., on charge . army J of having sent a challenge to a brother oticer. ‘Thetrial has been concluded and Col. S. acquitted. Rear Admiral Mahommed Pasha of the Turkish navy recently arrived at New York., when the city made its musicipal Soluns show the Pasha to the public, and the public works to the Pasha, and the Turk betook himse!f to robbed twenty minutes after reaching his hotel. Washington and was within Our dispatches from Wash ngton mention the probable withdrawal at an early day of Lord Napier, partly on aczount of recent changes in the British ministry, and partly owing to the ill health of Lady Napier. . The steamboat Empire State, of the . Fall River line, was lost in a fog, March 17th. and sunk in ten or twelve feet of water. She ran ashore on Long Island No one lost. Several other boats were damaged but not seriously. The democrats of Pennsylvania recently held a State Convenion and nominated A. Potter for Supreme Court Wesley Frost for Canal ; Commissioner. Judge and The zonvention adopted resolutions endorsing the President’s course on Kansas question. European news of uo importance. Nevapba Rittes.—The Nevada Rifles made a fine appearance in public on Saturday afternoon last, on the occasion of a target shooting. were awarded ; First prize, gold medal, given by the Captain, R. Shoemaker, vained 350, to J.B. Van Hagan, he making the besi The following prizes shot. Secoud prize, silver medal, giveu vy Heury Mevedith, valued $28, to W. f. Auderson, he making the second best shot. Third Prize. Leather Medel, given vy David Beideu—Value unknown, to Win. Sinith. We have not heard of the extent of the loss. Great Fire at Forest City!! FULL PARTICULARS, The following communication received by “Pat,” Agent of Langton’s Pioneer Express at this place, will give the particulars of the fire at Forest City, ana may be relied on as entirely correct: Orrice LANGTON’S PIONEER EXPRERS Forest Crry, April 11th, 1858. } Dear Par:—A fire broke out here KaawaLoa is a deep bay, the two sides being low and formed of little more than naked lava, while the toe of this giant horse-shoe is tipt with a cliff of between four and five hundred feet of perpendicular height. There is plenty of water and you can anchor where you please. On your 1ight, as you look towards the cliff, lies the irregular village of Kealakeakua, where there is no need to dig for a foundation and the paths require no paving. It is here that Captain Cummings carries on business, and supplies such whaleships as reeruit there. I heard a good deal of talk about the road thence into the district of Kau, where goats do much abound, and where now, influenced ty the advice and example of the resident Protestant missionaries and Roman Catholic priests, last night a few minutes past midnight, in a house owned and occupied by John Lannen, and in a few hours consumed the entire business portion of the village. 1 enclose you a statement of the sufferFortunately but little wind prevailed, and consequently most ers and losses. of the merchandize was saved, but in a damaged condition. T arrived here this afternoon with the Downieville express, accompanied by Col. Musser, who brought six hundred the inhabitants are beginning to plant wheat, and otherwise to court the favors ot old mother Earth. A good road, or a road as good as the nature of the coun. try will admit of, and so laid out as to . suit the general convenience, would be an additional stimulus to their activity by opening up a market; for the coast of Kan is barren and inhospitable, and it is only now and then that schooners can take in cargo in that neighborhood, whereas Kealakeakua is a fine place for the purpose I believe that the Approand thirty dollars, the contribution of Downieville, for the relief of the sufferIn haste. yours truly. J.E AGER. MGS. Of QI ere ee ao $2,000 Davis Hotel.-.. acisaees --. 3,000 L micore i RIOONE cic =e ce 2,000 Hughes & Co.’s drug store... 1,200 ers. hLand & Co.. . hipaa tart Lok Paitin. 2,500 Mrs" Sheehan 2! 26-294 2.222 3,000 S. Lewis, barber shop...-.-si 3500 W. Grosse, billiard saloon ..-. . 3,000 SG ROSGRNSMERG oon ald getcints 4,000 Ww. Henry ey hire ee ere 6,000 ibe Drwaeston. ct te 4,500 Bily Weodss. 25 8 ae he uk -1,000 Seaton! & Ges «a5 2eice eek 2G 250 Magnolia Saloon ....te oe 3,000 Lee ty Pempcing.o>. 2 se 1.200 Atkinson & Smith..... oot 2000 . Ricd a AbWee 622202 5..% S225. 250 Huntsman & Philips....---. 2.500 Dri Wayman .:_, Gennes ame 500 PAIS sce oe 1,000 Pe IOS AMNEOT 255 ise on ckeiioe 1,500 GW Nee oo sas goes 1,500 Parerwsnop,.. 225.2 ese ITS 1.200 Vacant Store .... Rie. SERA S 1,000 ide cag atts ees sh Fees 2,500 De Detever. oo ss oe See crate ance ate 1,500 Vacant Dwelime: —.-. 2.. =. 500 [Sinn wer patrick =. .2<. ae se 800 Orlears Restaurant. ..... 2,000 . ORIN DUR POND a ciao ahs sitar Simcoe 2,500 Lee & Pottercssncss<nescce~ es 2.000 LCS ge 800 Vacant TIOUGe . .-5. 6 0s se sis 8600 Live Yankee Co.’s Office. ..-. 1,000 Pf Behe@r 22 Fee 1,500 Walcant Beene 255252 2088s Beak 600 Hazelton é& Ca.. 5.44: Pree 1,500 Th AROURE sa <iile cipire Societe ade Bom 2,000 lirosd ae Prarie. =<. 2.2. soar 6 000 . Bleisharker-& Co —. 22.2. 2-25: 2,500 . S. W. Langton, express office.. 2,000 W. L. Gibson, banking office.. 500 KB . Game. occ: cee a ear ts 1,500 Janes Whitcomb: .< -. 5.4.. 2,000 Fred Miller ... Siar gieta ron Sma 4,000 Dre M o ee oo a ee 500 —— McGork........ 1,500 Clana Wash House. .... =.. 400 Wie INOMONOE Sects Ss oa Seeces, DUe 2 eT Seen Selene a etre i 1,500 center. ee Paha gc: J tae Hs 1,500 PRBS OOG eG.. Asia sass 1,200 fashion Saloon.....-. pe 9: MCW ONSIEE os 2 ee kao 1,500 MAME IE awe sis cose Srl cheese 800 mics S2 Abb6 =.. 2 Pagel cai 1.000 A. Rosenvaam..2s. 33. 2 atcha OO) — Fitzgerald..... wow ag0Go Dutch Co.’s Office.. .. Sosa eee 600 Piatt Clare.. ws pie aa 600 Thornton & Woodrofe....-300 French Bar Room... ahs SSS 1,000 L. Sinsheimer... Sar geebe tee 1,500 Tot. its.3 2 oon ties oO

Persecutiontn Madagascar.—The lat est intelligence from this ill-governed and miserably oppressed island is eminently sad and disheartening. A perseeution followed the expulsion of the French in July last, which has proved to be uncommonly severe. ‘Thirteen Christians have been put to death ; more than fifty have been subjected to the ordeal of their “tangues,” (poison water,) with fatal results in the cases of eight; more than fifty have been bound in chains, two having died; and many others are reduced to slavery. There seems to be no hope, therefore, that those who have embraced the doctrines of the Bible will be tolerated during the reign of the present Queen. Whether her son will escape a death of violence, as he is known to be friendly to “the new way,” is quite doubtful. Rumored Resignation of the Pope.—— ibe first prize was presented with a neat little speech by A. C. Niles Esq. Phe second by George S. Hupp Esq. iu nis usual happy style. Vhe Leather Meda! could not have been presented more appropriately than was done by WV. Beldeu Esy. who is the orator desigued expressly for all such occasions. By the Africa we learn that a rumor has been afloat in Paris of an anticipated change in the temporal government of Rome, which will create surprise in the mind of every peoplein Europe. Some talk of the approaching abdication of the Pope as a certain thing, and already has Father Ventura been spoken of as _ his suecessor. The nomination of the latter to a cardinalate in preparation for this he atiair passed off in excellent style. A Fresh suppiy oi ling on at Washington a convention orGroceries and Previsions, dered by the present territorial Legislature of Kansas has been elected to form Reservoir Broke.— Immense Loss.— event has frequently been announced. Upon an emergency such a measure would be considered indispensable. As Just received bv . T ELLARD BEANS & CO. County Suiveyor's Cfiice. } } COURT HOUSE, NEVADA. Joun L. GAMBLE, / \ G. PF. DEETKEN, . County Surveyor ) ; Deputy . LL persons are hereby cautioned against employing . A other Surveyors than such as may be deputized j from this office. : j (Extract from Laws of Califoruia ) Cuar. 20, Sec. 3. No survey or re survey hereafter made by any person except the County Surveyor or hit deputy shallbe consideredlegal evidence in any C-urs within this State. JOHN L.GAMBLE. , Nevada. June 26th, 1857, i . & new constitution. . decidedly free state. . ave at present apparently quiet but reli-. San Juan, broke its embankment and This convention is . The mammoth Shady Creek Reservoir, Affairs in Kansas . owned by Pollard & Eddy, uear No-th able authority fiom the Territory still . Was hurriedly emptied of its contents on insists that in case the Lecompton ConSaturday last. There was fifty feet of stitution is adopted by Congress the peo. water in depth at the time, and valued ple will rebel against it and resort to} at $40,000. he break was owing to civil war before submitting. the imperfection of the culveits Gen. Lane is organizing the militia which were not strong enough to resist under the authority of the Territorial the pressure of the superincumbent earth — general of the powerful organ of Ignatius, Father Ventura’s position would enable him to accept the papal crown without probation.— Phd. Ing. The Best Place for Babies.—“Mother,” said a little three year old whose nose had been “pnt out of joint” by the recent arrival of a baby brother, “Mother, if the baby should die would it go to heaven?” “Certainly, my child,” responded the parent. “Then I think heaven is the best place for him,” was the affectionate sister’s conclusion. 4 priation Bill for the last three or four years, at least, has granted a sum of . money for this purpose, but it appears that the Treasury has never been able to honor the demand, nor is this to be aud that it is, in point of faet, worth twice as much ashe gave. On the other hand I was sorry to hear this, because the place was sold to partly liquidate a debt, and I could wish that the last owner (a native chief ) had been benefitted by the full value of it. I understand that the gentleman into whose hands it has fallen intends to eultivate it in part and to do some dairying besides. The seller may suffer in the way I have alluded to, but the buyer, and through him the community, can hardly failto reap some benefit from a transaction, gone into on such favorable terms, which will render productive some six or seven thousand acres of superior land that have lately yielded next to nothing. Between the place I am now talking about and Kailua there are several farms and plantations, sueh as the Rev. Mr. Taylovr’s, Mr. Charles Hall’s, Mr. Paris’, Mr. Johnson’s, Mr. Greenwell’s, and I do not know how many besides, but it was not a part of the country to be overlooked, and I believe that those who have up to the present time settled there do not find any reason to regret that step. We left Kaawaloa on Wednesday, January 27th, and steaming past the districts of Kau and Puna anchored in Hilo, or Byron’s Bay, about 8 o’elock on the morning of the 28th. And in honor of this place I must take a new steel pen, for nothing buta sharp-ribbed instrument could do justsce to the peaks and spurs of snow-c¢pped Mauna Kea, which at the distance of some forty or fifty miles in a direct line affords such a wondered at so longas the Minister of Finance is ordered to pay out twice as much money, at least, as he has any expectation of receiving. But I learnt in Hilo that such a thing may happen as an appropriation being paid to very little purpose (of which more anon,) and I would very humbly recommend to those high fanctionaries who are necessitated to razee the inflated bills of proposed expenditure that are squeezed through the Lower House, not only to consider which works are most necessary, but to satisfy themselves before-hand whether the money will be so applied on the spot as to meet the particular necessity. A member who can talk and lobby may get the appropriation demanded by his constituents, but it does not follow that . his constituents made their demand wisely, or that the money will te wisely applied to the object proposed, even if that object be really a desirable one. On the left side of the bay is Kaawaloa, Cook’s death place. It is a bleak voleanic spot, and in approaching it you have to steer your boat between the masses of lava that lie, according to the state of the tide, more or less hidden by the water. Standing on one of these the great navigator is said to have received the wound that killed him. <A g:eat part of that particular rock has been chipped off by those visitors who wished to carry away with them a relic of the scene. On shore there are a few scattered grass houses, some of them surrounded by walls of lava, and one close by the water’s edge is said to occupy the site of a former house where, during the scuffle, the people held up mats to screen themse'ves from the musket balls. Near by is a little grove of cocoa-nut trees, in the trunk of one of which some of the missiles lodged. ‘There are only a tew feet of it now standing, and this fragment is covered with plates of ship’s copper on which are rudely recorded the visits of the men-of-war that have from time to time been attracted to the spot. Capt. Mecham caused to be attached toit a similar record of our own visit, and talked much of the propriety of erecting a more lasting monument in granite or metal upon the very identical place where Cook fell. His idea was that the base of a column could easily be let into the rock, and so preserve, against all but such eruptions as first made it, the spot where a great navigator met his death at the hands of those who shortly before had wished to do him homage as a long absent god come home to them according to prediction. On the high land or plateau above the Bay is another monument marking the place to which Cook’s body is said to have been carried and where he was buried. It was rather amusing to visit the scene of Cook’s death with a gentleman of education and one who has traveled, to whom that Jangaage is most familiar of which the use of ten words, had his forefathers only known them, might have prevented the catastrophe by a simple explanation— and with him one who, like the discoverer, was the Captain of a British ship of war, not repressing the worship due to a heathen deity, but on his part entertaining and honoring with the most marked as well as the minutest sign of courtesy the enlightened sovereign of an independent nation. How few the intervenient years, how great the change ! The country above Kaawalea is very fine—indeed, some of the strangers from the ship who visited it declared that it would be beautiful in any part of the world. It maintains the same character all the way back to Kailua, which distance includes the justly celebrated Kona district. The climate is comparatively temperate and such as to make ye who has been shut up in Honolulu for any considerable time allow a sigh to escape him at the thought of going back to that metropolis. I was glad to see those slopes dotted every here and there with houses which looked, even from our deck, as if they might be respectable. Kealakeakua, a large land, or, as it is here called, ahupnaa, gives its name to the village I have already mentioned, and stretching from that side of the bay runs many miles inland with a gradual ascent. ‘This property has recently been purchased by a gentleman who is reported to be an agriculturist of great experieuce, and I cannot but congratulate him on his bargain, for the people of the neighborhood say that had it only been known that the land was for sale, almost a dozen different purchasers would have been glad to buy it for half as much again as he paid for it, . back ground to the picture as would increase the interest and beauty of any tropical scene. But I will not attempt to describe this fairhaven. You must fancy the “purest of crystal and brightest of green,” clumps of coccanut trees, two or three streams emptying their water into the sea, little rivulets jumping dnciehiniteiaioatiartieinnnstiimilicaianenatisetaee PRS SAT IE A EINER 1 Reet ne ee Seer Renae WE Sis AF SEY RES of the bay, extinct craters overgrown with grass, sombre woods in the farther distance, here and there along the beach a line of white surf, a village half hidden by trees, a bright sky and sunshine glancing on the waves beneath it, and as I said before the snowy peaks of Mauna Kea. I must reserve till next week the few remarks I have to make about matters on shore here. C. GH. No Use For Trovsers.—On the morning of the meteoric shower in 1833, old Peyton Roberts who intended making an early start to his work got up in the midst of the display. On going to his door he saw with amazement the sky lighted up by the falling meteors and he concluded at once that the world was on fire and the day of judgment had come. He stood for a moment gazing in speechless horror sprang out of the door into the midst of the falling stais and here a seriesof ground tumbling that woula have done honor to a rope dancer. His wife being awakened in the meantime and seeing old Peyton jumping and skipping about the yard called out to him t» know what in the name ’o sense he was a doin’ out thar a dancin’ around without his clothes. But Peyton heard not, the judgment and the long black account he would have to settle, made him heedless of all terrestrial things and his wife becoming alarmed at his behavior sprang out of bed and running to the door shrieked out at the ‘op her lungs: “Peyton, I say Peyton what do you mean jumpin’ about out thar? Come in and put your trowsers on.” Old Peyton whose fears had nearly overpowered him faintly answered as he fell sprawling on the earth— “Trowsers, Peggy! what the h— is the use o’ trowsers when the world’s a fire ?” Ispustrriovs Ipteness.-—Curran’s notions of industry were somewhat ludicrous. An hour to him was a day to another man; and in his natural capabilities his idleness found a powerful auxiliary. Asingle glance made him master of the subject; and though imagination could not supply him with facts, stillit very often became a successful substitute for authorities. He once said, in serious refutation of what he called the professional calumnies on this subject, that he was quite as laborious as was necessary for any mist prius advocate to be. “For,’’ said he, with the utmost simplicity, “J always perused my briefs carefully when I was concerned for the plaintiff, and it was not necessary to do it for the defendant, because, you know, [could pick up the facts from the opposite counsel's statements.” This was what Curran considered being laborious; and, to say the truth, it was at best but an industrious idleness, “Wherever I go,” said a gentleman remarkable for nis State pride, “I am sure to find sensible and intelligent men from my own State.” “No wonder,” said the person he was addressing, ‘for every man of that State who has any sense, leaves it as fast as he can.” The equestrian statue of Washington, at Richmond, Va., weighs eighteen tons. Its height is twenty feet; length from nose of horse to end of tail, twenty-two feet. The plinth upon which the horse rests was cast with the animal, is eleven feet long by five and a half wide, and covers the entire capstone of the granite pedestal. The Honeymoon.—Mary.—*Charles, dear, now we are married, you know, we should have no secrets. So do, like a love, hand me that bottle of hair dye; you will find it m my dressing-case.”’ A Wise Decision —Judge Closser, of the Probate Court of Windsor, Vermont, has decided that a good family newspaperis one of the necessary articles for the support of a family during the settlement of an estate, and as such the administrator in insolvent estates is justifiable in paying for one—the widow to make her own selection of what paper she will have. over the cliff which forms the right side . . A Good Joke-—A Washing:on latte, writer tells the following story : “A veidant ventleman from one of the bucolic distriets of the country, of the name of Greene—spelled with an : —came to handa few days since. and put up ata fashionable hotel, He bad been imprudent enovgh in the ears to repeat the opinion of his pastor ‘to home,’ that Washington was a thankless and graceless place, wherein merit such as his (Greene’s) was too often suffered to pive away unrecognized, Next morning, early, certain wags went ‘o the bar, and, depositing two” new half dollars, gave orders to send up a cocktail every ten minutes to number forty-seven mt: the amonnt should be expende d. Green was waked from dreams of hoine at fic minutes past seven A. M., by a hoy wit! the concoction referred to, which Greene imbibed. At fifteen minutes past came another boy and another ‘appendage’ — the latter of which Greene also At twenty-five minutes past came anotli er, and at twenty-five minutes ¢o—the dose wasrepeated. He made inereiment of them all. At fifteen minutes from made a rush for the stair case, é “His ° (drapery)— Streaming like a meteor on the troubled air’™— and called over the ballustrade: «Hold on there, hold on !—does the President think I can contro! ai? tlhe State?” +3 wit Lo» *tOOK Voies of my Willis on Hoops.—11 a reeent Idle wild letter in the Home Journal, the writer, who is reekoned by many an authoritative arbiter elegantiarum, in res} ect to dress, makes fun of females who trundle huge hoops in earriages and in the streets, and concludes with an amusing essay with the following picture of his own situation while swamped under a petticoat—or rather under a couple— during a stage ride in Broadway : “And it was a curious omnibus experience, for my rustic nerves, to be two thirds hidden under a couple of petticoats,as I wasinthe ‘Blue Line’—the skirts (which met across my Jay) leaving my head and chest visible, it is true, but making the remainder most embarrassingly fabulous. As I was entirely a stranger to Loth ladies, it was queer to be wondering (as i found irresistible, on losing sight of my own knees) which of the two petticoats would walk away with me, at parting.” Humevuceine THE Sauire.—A Louis paper tells of a couple of sports jmen who, while on a gunuing expedi tion, wandered into one of the countics of Illinois, and commenced an onslauglit on the game out of season, and agaiis* the statute in such case made an} prov: ded. They were hauled up before a Squire, an old soldier of the war of 1812 aud a strict temperance man to boot—to answer the offence, when one of them thus “pulled the wool over his eyes :"’ “May it please the court, (as the word court was mentioned, the Squire adjust ed his spectacles, crammed his thumbs into the arm-holes of his sLirt, and tried to look dignified,) what are we arrested for? For doing what? Disobeying a foolish and outrageous law, framed by a zang of drunken loafers, who knew noth ing about the Constitution of the United States or the Declaration of Independ ence. ‘That sacred document, revered by every pure patriot, and by every no ble soldier who has fought, bled and died for his country—that is, might have died —guarantees to every citizen life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We were in the pursuit of happiness, within the meaning of the Declaration of Inde pendence, which is higher law, in the estimation of all patriots and soldiers (the Squire’s eyes began to dance wit! excitement, as the speaker continued to allude to old soldiers and the Declara ‘tion of Indepence,) than a few framed by loafers who meet at Springfield every two years, to play poker and drink rot gut.” The Squire interrupts the speaker : “Ken you show me that are passage in the Declaration of Independence, that wat you hev just sed "bout the ‘pursuit of happiness ?” “Certainly I can,” replied the speak: er, picking up acopy of the Revised Statutes, and pointing it out. The Squire examined it and said : “Mr. Constable, discharge the prisouers, kase I don’t believe in the new fashioned laws they make now-a-days. Give me the good old laws of Washington and the revolutioners, for it certaialy is a great happiness to shoot them ‘ere pesky birds that eat up the farmer’s corn,” Qt “My political life has no greater error to atone thau my neglect to crush this reptile of Pennsylvania when I had him inmy power. He was the cause of a bitter war between two men of this Republic, (Clay and Jackson,) who should not have been soestranged. His representations caused the charge of ‘bargair and sale,’ and when brought home to him, he meanly left me alone to face if. Friends interfered then to save him from being exposed, and [ listened to them.” — Gen. Jackson to Moses Dawson, in 1827 “I rejoice at the defeat of Buchanan in the Convention.”—Gen. Jackson to Moses Dawson, in 1844. Brougham’s Power of Endurance.— is related of Lord Brougham that on one occasion, after having practiced all day asa barrister, he went to the House of Commons, where he was engaged in active debate through the night, till three o’clock in the morning; he then return ed home; wrote an article for the Edinburgh Review; spent the next day in court, practicing law, and the suceeeding night in the House of Commons; re~ turned to his lodgings at three o’eclock in the morning, and “retired, simply because he had nothing else to do.” A young man by the name of Jenkins has been arrested in Albany, for perpetrating a new “dodge.” He fistened bristles on the tail of a rat, and then sold him for a squirrel. The person was a eentleman fram Germany. eons ee