April 2, 1858 (4 pages)

Sournal. The Dedada FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 2th, 1858. Pe, . City GovERNMENT.—Some time since 4 petitiou was circulated and numerously signed by the major portion of the. property holders of the city, praying for a repeal of the act of Incorporation of the city. The citizens who took part in . that movement acted under a prevailing impression that no gcvernment at all was better than one poorly administered and without stopping to count the cost, appended their names to the petition. Since that time, on reflecting upon the evils that have hitherto resulted when the place has been deprived of the local power of protection, the same citizens have concluded that a modified form of the present government would be preferable to the reign of riot. Accordingly a bill has been drawn expre: ;ly to meet the views of citizens, and we learn it has been popularly approved ind sent to our legislators to be enacted intoalaw. There can scarcely be a doubt but a protective town organiza. tion of some kind is indispensible. The amendments.proposed to the old law will, perhaps, meet the requirements of the town for the present as well as any. We would like to see a further modification of the city charter so as to make the Marshal an appointee of the Board of Trustees. Those who have seen the ill effects we have experienced from the disabilities of that officer at times, must, we think, see the object of the change proposed. The Trustees receive no pay for their services. There is no seramble for the position and good men are liable to be elected to that office, real tax payers, who have a personal as well as . high public interest to subserve. The . Marshal’s. office isa desirable one to those who would haveit. It is sought after and is made the object of delectable log-rolling which does not always result in the cho’ce of the best man for the place. It seemsto us that by making the Marshal an appointee of the! Board of Trustees, we would be liable to get a better officer, and perhaps much political and private jugglery be avoided. In this opinion many prominent citizens concur. It is, however, difficult to remove power from the people when onee it has been exercised by them.— The tendency of things, under Demoeratic rule, is the other way. NicaraGcua Steamers Haviep Orr. —The telegraph informs us that the Ni. saragua line is abandoned and thesteamers for that route laid up. This isa The ow price of passage eharged by these steamers recently has created a furor most extraordinary proceeding. for “going home,” and thousands have . . members of the Masonic order to which gone to San Francisco with little meney, inexpectation of cheap fare to the Atlantic States. It seems probable they are doomed to bitter disappointment. Many hare scraped together, to ‘he utmost but an insignificant sum, and . anless the Pacific Mail Steamship Comvany makes a bold stroke for populari. ty under the guise of humanity and takes the poor fellows off, many of them will . doubtless return heart broken to their old haunts to struggle on a while longer. . The wires do not inform us of the in. fluences that have been brought to bear upon the proprietors of the Nicaragua line to induce them to lay up their steamers. The eurrent and popular opinion will be that they have been subsidized oy the mammoth company in opposition. Whatever may be the cause it will be hard to divest the public of this belief. It is to be regretted that a cheaper . communication cannot be opened with the Atlantic side. A powerful company that would refuse to be purchased, in opposition to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, would be a national blessing. Competition is necessary to check extortion. Encovracrep.-—We learn that Judze Searls, after getting the alphabet from the Representative from Mariposa in the Assembly, succeeded most admirably in deciphering the brief of counsel for Hollerman, “all alone, by himself.” Counsel for Hollerman says the Judge s somnch elated with his success that ive entertains a serious intent to decipher . an idea from the Democrat, one of these rainy days when he canfind nothing else to do. . CELESTIALS IN TrovuBLE.—Two rep. resentatives of the Flowery Kingdom . were before Justice Anderson last week, . charged with sundry thefts committed in Grass Valley on some of their credu. lous brethren. Before committing them, the Justice enquired if they had any ihing to say ; whereupon Ah Cut, on his own behalf and for his suffering comrade, assured the Court in very exceltent Chinese that he had no confidence in the interpreter, the Court, or the institutions of the country, and that he was particularly disgusted with the administration of justice. John’s speech . was not ineffective, and he was escorted by one of our public officers to a room in the Hotel de Lenhart. Steam Wagon.—The steam wagon so iong talked of will be publicly exhibited ibe, to Mr. . whom he felt under obligations. . tleman SHOCKING SUICIDE. John H. Montgomery, a well known citizen of this county, committed suicide at a ranch owned by himself and Asa Goodwin, about sixteen miles below this place, between the Globe Ranch and the McCourtney road, at half-past ; ten o’clock on Wednesday morning last. The act was committed with a rifle, and deliberately done. We learn from Coroner Bazley who held an inquest on the body a few hours . after the deed was committed, the shocking particulars. Montgomery was alone {in the house at the time, his partner, Goodwin, being at work in the barn at ashort distance. Goodwin heard the report of a rifle and hurried to learn the cause. The body of Montgomery was found exhibiting a horrid spectazle on the floor. The was completely lay in a mass whole top cf the head blown off. The brains about six feet from the body on one side and the top of the skull on the bed about the same distance on the other side. The floor was covered with blood and pieces of flesh and bone. The deceased held in his hand a piece of wire having a crook or shoulder at one end evidently formed for the purpose and used to push the trigger of the The muzzle of the rifle was doubtless placed in the mouth of the deceasgun. ed, although the head was so badly mutilated that the truth could not be exactly determined. Montgomery had not long since lost an unimportant suit at law, since which time he had been morose and gloomy. It was his ill fortune to lose in the course of his life a large fortune, and to be constantly embroiled in the law. He was sensitively alive to his honor, generous and just. yet firm and unyielding when once decided upon a course to pursue. . His motto was most emphatically, ‘“millions for defense, not a cent for tribute,” which he lived up to to his cost. For a few days previous to his death, Mr. Montgomery was engaged in countThe idea of suicide seems to have been entertained by him for some time before the comdeed. He left in writing the cause of the rash act; said he had once possessed $40,000, but that it was all gone and he was old and did not feel like commencing life anew ; that ing up his affairs and writing. mission of the fatal he had been wronged by lawyers and others; that perjury had been employed successfully against him in more than one case; that the Coroner’s jury in their wisdom would doubtless return a verdict of suicide while laboring under a fit of temporary insanity, but that they were fools, and had better attribute his death to the injustice of man. He was particularly severe upon several members of the legal fraternity, who he im. agined, had conspired to defraud him of his rights. THe stated that some of the ,he belonged were scoundrels and re quested that he be not buried with Masonic honors. After the payment of his debts he left the residue of his property, if any there Goodwin his partner, to The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts elicited. We have been Mr. Montgomery during five years past. He was a determined, straight-forward, thorough-going man, and in his death intimate with we mourn the loss of an honorable gen and a true friend. He was a native of Kentucky, emigrated to this State from Missouri, and was near fifty . years of age. He leaves no family. OurraGeous TASTE, says a suffering horticulturist of our acquaintance, is the cutting off, rooting up and carrying away . : ° 5 = . from your neighbor’s garden every green thing which you are impudent enough to ask and he is too cowardly to refuse. Pesuic Beneractor.—A friend of ours has turned public benefactor and devotes a large share of his time to the He boasts of furnish} ing his neighbors’ hens with a fine mess of “lettuee—large drum head’*—every benefit of others. morning, gratis. Thinks his crop too small to supply the increasing demand. Biessixnes.—The fine rain of the last few days has gladdened the heart and replenished the purse of many an expecting miner, and the seventh and last lecture of the series at the Congregational Church was not read. Sacer oF a Quartz Leap.—Mr. Beach sold a few days since his interest—fiveeighths—of the lead of Beach & Randolph, to Messrs. Richards & Adams, of Grass Valley, for $6,000. ny has contracted for the erection of a The compamill in the vicinity. The machinery is already engaged and the whole thing is to be put in successful operation in the course of eight weeks. The mill is to have six stamps and the most approved grinding and amalgamating apparatus. = Ridgley, alias “Emigrant,” who was shot by Tyree at Gold Hill, on the 9th ult., died at that place on Tuesday morning last. The wounds of themFor the Nevada Journal. LeGIsLativeE.—Mr. Editor :~I have been watching with some interest and . more disgust the progress of.the present . Legislature, and particularly of our) members. IfT understand the meaning . of the term representative, our agents in the Legislature have grossly disregard. ed their duties, and deserve to be rebuk. ed if they even apply again to the people for office. In this I except Mr. Hill . of this county, who has labored with sincere purpose, apparently, for those he . represents. Who did Young and War. field, &c., represent when they urged . Congress to foree an anti-republican . Did they . not know that we swept this county by an unprecedented majority in favor of . syuatter sovereignty—that they hold . constitutisn upon Kansas ? their seats by their pledged support of a . principle they have betrayed? Do they . t” the people when they vote “represent for every stealing scheme that comes up? . Do they “represent” the people when, after long petitions have been sent to them to remove disabilities from negroes, they pile more disabilities upon them? Do they “represent” the people when they in effect repeal the late admirable gambling law, which had driven gambling out of sight, and turned the unwary from temptation? Do they represent the “people” when aiming to help speculators to still further oppose settlers? Do they “represent” the people by keeping the Sunday law in abeyance by putting in impracticable amendments, Do they “represent” the people by prolonging a disgraceful session by voting down or and thus hazard its passage ? postponing all motions for an adjournment sine die? Do they “represent” the peoyle by expelling reporters who aim to put the people on their guard . against the suspicious operations of a leading member of a committee? they think they can thus stifle public investigation ? We believe the Democratic have Lad enough of such representatives, . and will aim hereafter to send men with . honor enough to resist lobby pressure, and represent their constituents. A Democrat. Letrer oF Gov. Wist.—We are indebted to Congressman McKibben fora . copy of the great letter of Henry A Wise, written in answer to an invitation to attend an anti-Lecompton mass meeting which assembled at Philadelphia on the 8th of February. the Douglasiies. argument, and having asmuch a _pen. bill—indorsing the Lecompten constitution and intimates that it is his duty to . resign. . sons for not complying with the suggesDo} party . It is decidedly a . big letter; emphatically covering the . whole ground in the Kansas controver. sy, and may be taken as a text book for . Wise is great at letter . writing,—great and mighty in fact and . Arrival of the J. L. Stephems. Abandonment of the Nicaragua Route— Debates on the Kansas Question, &c. Congressicnal.-—On the 23d February the Senate passed a bill to amend the act of March 3d, 1851, limiting the liability of ship owners. Mr. Bell presented the resolutions of the legislature of Tennessee, which advert to his opposition to the Nebraska He proceeded to state his reation, and said in reply toa question from his colleague, Mr. Johnson, that he should not vote for the Lecompton constitution in consequence of instructions. This provoked a little personal retort . from Mr. J., in response to which Mr. Bell intimated that he was ready for any Senator who should attempt to browbeat him. Mr. Bell had the floor when the Senate adjourned. The House went into committee of the whole on the Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Burroughs of N. Y, made a strong anti-slavery speech in. the course of which he was twice called to order for denouncing Pieree and Buchanan, by . Mr Smith of Virginia, Mr. [Here the d—d thing cove in . OPERATOR. Now, “‘in the name ofall the gods at once,” what is the use of a line of tele. graph, or slothograph, when nine times out of ten it is wholly unfit for nse. The line between this place and Sacramento has been a consummate nuisanee ever since the rainy season commenced. Half the time the wires are down, and all the time there is and has been a waste of fluid owing to imperfect insulation which asmall comparative outlay would remedy and make the institution an effective land useful one. The operator here has dore all in his power to make the telegraph of soine service ‘to the people, and is entitled to all credit that anything at . all has been accomplished with the im. perfect machinery in his hands. The . wires, when down on his section are not . allowed to lic,but are hoisted and repaired . in spite of wind or weather fear, is not the case with some of his . brother operators, and no great wonder. They, probably, excuse themselves in. when up. We hope to be able to record a differThe steamer arrived at San Francisco at one ent state of things very soon. o’clock P. M. on Wednesday, and up toe this time nothing of importance has been ment, chant for the business, and being as vo. luminous, as Mr. Micawber. The letter . is perhaps the ablest document that has . yet emanated from the principle side of the Kansas contest. from the standard defects of Democratic politicians. The demagogue will appear, . Cover himself as he may with a lion’s skin the ears will protrude and betray the real beast. Gov. Wise, in closing his letter says: “For my part, gentlemen, I address you as the friend of Mr. Buchanan and his administration. They have my best wishes and warmest friendship, and I would save both from danger and defeat. I trust in their pure and patriotic motives,” And yet in another part of the letter, . oe . speaking of the pretended submission of the Lecompton Constitution to the people of Kansas, he says: “Sueh monstrous injustice and inequality never offended the moral sense of freemen before in this country. I cannot, therefore, agree with the Fresi. dent when he says: ‘It is impossible that any people could have proceeded with more regularity in the formation of a Constitution than the people of Kansas . 299 have done. it is worth while to stop and enquire how a man who professes to be governed chanan whose mental and moral obliquities are such that he cannot see the most “monstrous injustice” that ever offended the moral sense of freemen in this country, or seeing it, lends himself and his high authority to carry out and continue that “monstrous injustice.” How can a man of correct thinking “trust in the pure and patriotic motives” of a President who prostitutes himself Mr Buchanan, it will not be denied, has intellect enough and a power to discrimito such “monstrous” purposes ? nate between right and wrong suflicient to discover in a measure the most monmoral sense of freemen in this eountry— or is he mentally and morally below the standard? If he cannot seea palpable wrong he is unfit to receive the “warm. est friendship” of Henry A. Wise, and if he does see it and persists in upholding it with the weight of his power he . deserves the execrationinstead of warm . friendship of every honest man in the Union. selves, physicians concur in saying were not sufficient to produce death. The system of the deceased was destroyed by disease. = Maine Aueap.—During the last fiseal year, Maine actually built nearly double +m running order on Monday or Tuesday aext in Sacramento, it is supposed. the amount of shipping, in tonnage, of any other State in the Union. Hutchings’ California Magazine.— The April No. is before us. It contains a number of wood cuts purporting to be . likenesses of State Senators and Treasurer of State. We recognize the mortal . phizes of Sam. Merritt and Sam. Bell. . The others we disremember ever having . seen. Yet it is not free . in this matter by principle and right as . Wise does, can be the friend of Mr. Bu. strous injustice that ever offended the . j ation of the Archy case on Monday.— . Mr. Hardy, counsel for Stovall filed an . affidavit asking for a continuance on the . ground that Stovall had departed for . the state of Mississippi to obtain eviThe quest for continuance was denied. . dence applicable to the case. re. } THEATRICAL.—We learn from the Bee i that the Graves & Duret troupe are in . Placer county, . . and intend visiting Nevada this week, thence Marysville, Oro. ville, and so on to the Great North. . der an engagement to Thomas McGuire. The report that one of them married in Australia is not true. . Yankee Addams and troupe did not take at all in Amador county. The people are sick of such trash. . New Parers—We have received the first numbers of two new papers pub. lished at Sacramento—the Evening Viswor and Merceury—both dailies. Sacramento produces the nicest papers typographically speaking, save and ex;ecpt always the State Journal, of any place on this coast. The new papers are not behind their predecessors in this respeet. The Evening Visitor is fornenst Lecompton and the Mercury in favor. Frost.—The late severe cold weather which played sad havoc with the fruit in these parts, seems to have been general over the State, or, at least, the greater part of it. Nearly all our mountain exchanges speak of it, andthe Tribune of San Jose, says that it is supposed three-fourtks of the peach crop in that vicinity is destroyed. The prospect of an abundance of fruit this year may be . counted rather uncertain. Tue Superintendent of Public Instruction has addressed a letter to the Goy. ernor, in which he claims that the State . of California is entitled to five per cent. . of the sale of all public lands within her limits. The sales to come off in May . hext embrace some 2,500,000 acres, the . State’s per centage on which would amount to some $100,000. Were all the United States as densely inhabited as Massachusetts, it would have a population of 446,000,000 souls, of which Texas would have 50,000,000. An “Old Salt.’—A salted man is among the curiosities in Illinois. Miller ounty, aged 86, who died a few days Such, we} the fact that the line is good for nothing . received in the shape of news, while the . public mind has been in a state of fer-. Arcuy Cast.—Geo. Pen Jolinson, U. . S. Commissioner, resumed the cousider. The sisters Gougenheim are expected . back from Australia in a few days, un. ago, left orders that he should be salted . down like a barrel of pork, before being buried, and he was salted down accordingly. Dr. Warfield, Hon. James Buchanan Warfield, the exeeedinely astute member of the Assembly from Nevada has immortalized himself by the introduction . of a bill to haul “niggers out of the fence” “and send them,” in the chaste language of another of the lights of Nevada, “where course.” they come from, of The latter gentleman we believe is a pious professor of christianity in some form, and has an anxious desire to have the poor negroes “born again.” The church to which heis an attache, has in all ages advocated law and force to gainits ends, and it is not surprising that he should be found the zealous advoeate of a law to drive negroes back to where they come from—the “terterrima causa of all belli” Mr. Shepard made the following appropriate remarks in the discussion of the nigger bill, on Monday last: “This is not like the China question. This is not a great measure of public policy. From the empire on our west, the immigration into our midst may _become a great and growing evil. ‘There are four or five hundred millions of people there, and they could flood us with their hordes in one year, and eat out the subsistance of our land. But all this present troublous legislation is about . four or five thousand peaceable black men, who are now kept beneath our race by statutes preventing their voting and testifying. Now it is proposed to still further degrade them, by licensing them to live amongst us and pay their taxes. Now, sir, in this connection. allow me to say that J am no particular sympathizer with the negro; I am by! no means an Abolitionist—nothing of . tke sort. I have a personal prejudice against a nigger. But when it comes to this process of legislation, which contradicts the great foundation principles of . humanity and right, . would sooner have my right arm withered than I would en. age in the commission of such injustice. I can look at this Chinese question calmly and fairly; I would pass no eruel . laws, lay down no disproportionate penalties. Now, sir. J must confess that I} have pecuhar views in regard to human nature. But I will say this, sir, that if. the spirit of Almighty God should hover over this hall now, in an intangible essence, and each man should be put on aj pivot a hundred miles from here, removed one foot above the level of the eart and the question was pre poun’ed to him . whether he would vote tor these bills, . with all the influences of a lheaitly edu. . cation, of rent love of humanity, . jand of good operating upon him, he . would turn and answer «N he the voice of ten th an inhe No:” and had} usand trumpet he would answer so that the world mi jhear, “Nol? But the polities ! why. complication of . . tit all through the . . a avi lor OM Vir-. } . ROW . 111 y would . r "em; Ss tiese. But feeble, nkee linitatoi ' obedient. ile Hered Hex ho rever o > Want j to out yned able to ow1 rht to—these . : san ] wh toadying dirt eaters strive zealously to imitate what tl to be, what actnaliv is n r] ous Int . it, the tyranny of the} suppose slave masters. ‘Fhese,too,are the crea . tures who world make invidious distine. tions to my prejudice, beeause L am from the North, and still retain in my bosom faith in humanity, decent respect { t for its wants, and an ordinary sympathy for those ofmy fellow men w ho are my inferiors, or who are in degradation and . misery. J am not ashamed of my explanations, or afraid to assert my rights. rant it so; butthen, . made us men. rever Wron ct oa . t ‘neath the all beholding . . t . end they are slaves most love of right is for tt their race.” remselyes, and not for ali Tre Necro Race. writing from Nubia, —Bayard Taylor in Upper Egypt, . says: “Those friends of the African race . } who point to Egypt as a proof of what . that race has aceomplished, are wholly mistaken. The only negro features represented in Egyptian Seulpture,are those of slaves and captives taken in Ethiopiopian wars of the Pharaohs. The temples and pyramids throughout Nubia, as far as the Darefand Abyssinia, all bear the hiecroglyphy of monarehs,and_ there is no evidence in all the valley of the Nile that the negro race ever attained a higher degree of civilization than is at present exhibited at Congo and Ashantee.” Bayard Taylor is a great traveller, but as a historian or an archeologist there are hundreds whose names stand Tue Niceer Bitn.—Mr. Warfield, Br), Mariposa Mining Case—The lator from Yuba, has resigned his . £ . jing representative, and the State & Tey late has lost ene of j simple eomy of polities! The. . } : ' jreal, old f Southerner, who. -> owns a lot « would never vote . . piece . entered. Telegraph. Union says a petition has been filed by Judge Heydenfeldt, the counsel for Biddle Boggs vs. the Merced Mining Company, for a rehearing, and that it is probable the case will be reargued and taken again under the advisement of the Supreme Court. Tue Leaisnarure has been doing characteristic work of late. The gambler’s bill has passed, the special committee to whem was referred the subject of paying the law and order troops of Gov. Johnson, have reported in favor of disbursing $50.00 to the “bloody” soldiers, and the negro banishment bill is getting along swimmingly. The Tulare Canal swindle, however, gets its quietus 2 for a wonder. Minirary Cxiaim.—The claim of Law and Order troops called out by Governor Johnson to suppress the Vigilance movement in San Francisco, has been reported favorably upon by a select committee of the House. The claim is a trifling one of $50,000. PrintinG.—The Union says the printing this session bids fair to costa great deal more than was expended last session, though the price is considerably lower than last year. The quantity of printing ordered is much larger than last year ; infact very little attention has been paid to the item of printing since the first month of the session has passed. The appropriation of sixty thovsand dollars for official printing the present fiscal year will soon be exhausted at the present rate of going on. (= De Witt C. Henderson who was accidentally killed in a shooting affray between two other persons, at Sacramento on Monday last, was formerly from Mount Morris, Livingston ceunty, ee Louis Napoleon—has acknowledged his paternity inthe matter of one of Rachel’s children. The other two belong to Count Walewski, who owns them. Goon Pay.--The claims of J. F. Stone, at Alpha, paid at one clean up $1,300, a few davs since. Resignep.—Hion. R. 8. Mesick, seat, Mr. Mesick is a gentleman and a sterSenits most industrious, ; conscientious and able members, and Yuba county a faithful -ervant. He was elected an American and we have . yet to learn thathe goes out of office . . anything else. Senator Garter to rise to a question of . privilege beeause the Butte Record ealls him “Myr. Steckingstrap.” I orpPprPr, “re Rospery.—The Lael <4 r hington on Mill street, was robbed on ‘Tnesday night of last week. lost $20 in coin and a breast pin worth 220. and The and valuables were taken from The thiet is supposed to have been a fellow who came along and solicited fice lodgings, representing himself as out of money. Mr. Blackford eave him a bed. He probably got up inthe night, committed the robbery, and took the plunder outside, and concealed it, as the outer door to whieh he might have easily had access was unlocked. some small change. money their clothing in their reoms. Another.—Vhe Aurora House broken into on Thursday night last every room in the hotse not locked, was and was The robber stole a Colt’s revolver (No. 89,569) from a Mr. William Nute, and a $10 gold piece from his room-mate. Ten dollars, some. silver anda small specimen were also taken from the pantaloons of Mr. Savage. Several other inmates lest small amounts. In several cases clothes were taken from pnder @e pillows of the sleeping inmates, xed of their valuables and thrown upon the floor. A suitable reward will be paid for the return of the pistol, which, it is hoped may lead to the detection of the robber.—G. V. —< Sash Married. At Dutch Flat, Placer Co,, March 22d, D. G. Turney, M.D.,to Tweed. At Rongh and Ready, March 23d, Stephen Cowin to Rosetta Smith. At Cherokee March 18th, by Rev. John Dickinson, Mr. John Me Graw to Mrs Ellen C. Red both of Cherokee. At the same time and place Mr. Aloy A. Bloss te Miss Harviet BE. Neavilel both of Cherokee. before his, whose opinions on the point . treated of above, will be taken in preference by the learned. The aceuracy of Herod’tus will not be disputed by scholars, and Ze uses the following significant language in relation to the Af. rican race ; “The Egyptians were lack, and had short, crisped hair, and the skulls of the Egyptians were by far thicker than those of the Persians ; they could scarcely be broken by a big stone, while a Persian skull could be broken by a pebble.” No better description of the negro is wanted than this. The account is given by the most reliable writer of antiquity. It is conceded that the statues of Tutmes III. and Amenophis JIL. in the British Museum have a decided negro type, proof that negro kings have ruled in Egypt in ages long agone. Stone in the Pool.—Vhe man who fears to express his opinions is contemptible You will find this sort of men in political parties ; they are not the creat . teaders, nor those without command, but they are the captains of squads, are little in every resouree but servility and instability. The best time to see them is now ; there is a commotion with them and they wriggle magnificently.— Age. Born. The wife of Solomon Rosenthal. on the 22d ult, of a Son. Constable's Sale. — TATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Nevada. s*.— ) By virtue of an execution to me delivered: issued out of ‘he court of John Anderson; Esq. an acting Justice of the Peace ii and for the couu’y aforesaid, betring date 28th of March AD 1832, to satisfy a judgment rendered by said Justice on the 26th day of March, A D 1858, in faver of Alston, Newman & Co. and against Nebraska Mining Company for the sum of $182.95 debts, interest, damages and cost of suit, I wil’ sell to the highest bidder for ea owing described property, to wit: The N aftand all mining fixtures thereunto belonging same having heretoforo been attached by me for this debt. I will sell the above described proverty atthe Court House door in said county on SATURDAY, the 24th day of April, between the hours of 9 o'cloek A. M. and5 P.M. ofsa:dday. Sold as the property of the Nebraska Mning Company to satisfy the above demands and accruing costs. U.GREGORY, Constable. onstabie’s Sale. Y virtue of an Execution, issued ont of Justice john ) Anderson's (ourt, of Nevada Township, County of Nevada, te me directed in favor of E. C. Prettyman and against F, R, Budd, I have seized and shall expose for sale at Publie Anctiod«t 10 o'clock, AM, ou TUESDAY the 20th day ot April, I858, in front of the Union * toon, in the villazeot Rough and Ready, the following deserib ed property, to-wit: Two quarter sections of land, situated sbout two miles south of the Zine Honse, on the Sacramento road, inthe township of ci and Ready—also the Frame Building ons iand. 2 Dated Rongh and Ready the 3ist day of March A. D. 1852. J. . LONG, Constable, april? of Rough and Ready Towiship. Dissolution. HE copartnership heretefore existing between IT. H. gand A W. Riley, er ti vle of H. H. Fila ‘o. in the Stable, } y busi’ ess, in the city of Nevada,is this ‘ ved by mutual consent’ Either party will sienin the settlement of the business of the firm. All parties indebted are requested to make immediate payment, H, WH. FLAGG, A. W. RILEY. Nevada, April 24, I858. Sen. = The Red Bluff Beacon advises} Hotel . One of the lodgers . Anciher lost a ten dolar gold . acific Mail Steatiiship Company's Line FOR PANAMA. Connecting via Panama Railroad, With the steamers of the U, S. Mail Steamship Company at Aspinwall. FOR NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS. Departure from Vallejo Street Whar The Magnificent Steamship J. iL. Stephens. Will leave Vallejo street wharf for Panama, with U. §. Mails, Passengers, and Treasure, MONDAY, April 5th, at 9 o’clock. Passengers by the P. M. S. Co’s Line are landed on their arrivals at Panama upon the wharfat the railroad jerminus, by the Company’s steam ferry boat, and proceedimmediately by Railroad across the Isthmus. To Aspinwall, where the steamers of the U.S. Mail S. S. Co. are alwaysin readiness toconvey them to New York or New Orleans. Passengers for New Orleans proceed by direct steamer from Aspinwall. Through tickets are furnished, including the transit of the Isthinus, Passengers are notified that all tickets for the steam ers of the U. S. Mail S. 8. Co, must be presented to their agent at Aspinwall for registry and exchange, as they will not otherwise be available. For Freight or passage apply to FORBES & BABCOCK, Agents. Cor, Sacramento and Leidesdorff street. Achoice of berth on the Atlantic steamers is secured by the early purchase of tickets in San Francisco. DAT Y’S AROMATIC VALLEY WHISKY. NHIS Whisky is manufactured exelusively for us, by one of the oldest distilleries m the Valley of the Monongahela, from the finest quality of Rye, prepared by a process known orly to him. Consumers can depend upen getting a pure article, when they buy the VALLEY WHISKY. It is put up in cases containing 1 doz bottles each. It is recommended by the tirst Physicians, for its Medicinal qualities. JEW WH DALY. SOLE PROPRIETORS, New YORK. t= For sale by all the principal Liquor Houses in San Francisco. april 2-3m NOTICE. ie hereby given that a Special Meeting of the Stockholders of the Eureka Lake Company will be held at Orleans Flat, on Saturday the Ist day of May, AD, 1858, between the honrs of 10 o'clock, A.M. and4P. M. for the following purposes : 1. To increase the capital stock of the Company to Three hundred thonsand dollars. ll. ‘To strike out so much of the Bye-Laws of the Company as requires that notices and publications relz te the affairs ofthe Company shall be given and published in the French langnage. And to transact such business as may be neeessary for these ends. Witness our hands this twenty-ninth day of March A. D. 1858. . R. B MOYES, Solicitor for Company. ae April 2-Im Tru tees of Eureka Lake Co, Eurcka Cempasnie des Lacs, AVIS, ES interesses sont prevenns qu'une rernion speciale, L des actionnaires, de l'Eureka Lake Company, aura lieu a Orleans’ Flot, le samedi, ler MailSik; entre dix heures du matin, et qnartre henrs dn soir, aleffet de: lo Angmenter le capital de la dite cempagnie, jusqu’ a concurrence de trois cents mille dollars, 20. Retrancher, des reglements de la compacnie, tons articles, om passages, prescrivant l'emploi dela largue Francaise pour tous avis et publications releves et pablies And pour tortes transactions qni pourront etre jugees saires por venir a fins n foide quoi avons signe ce 2Wieme jour de M ats R. B. MOYES, Avecat. I. U., HALL, JAS, CREEGAN, Jd. B. HENRY Depo April 2nd, 1858—4w Conastabie’s Sale. RATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Nevada, ss — ‘ By virtne of adecree of sate te from the court of John Anderson E of the Peace, in and for the date January the l4th, AD, 185 “ bearing a judgment rendered by said Justi¢e on the 30th day of March, AD, 1857 in favor of Winslow Hall and Artemas Rogers, and 4 and “mith Lydia Smith, his wife. for amd , to-wit— “ity of Nevad r ed } ling and known by the Hote!, the same property the defen } willsell at the Court Hor DAY t 19th day of Febr two me of the Union nt now lives in. I » door in sai on FRI AT) . said day. . W. Smith and wife to rning ensts U.S GREGORY, Constable. Nevada city, January 14, 1958. . To be soldas the property of . satisfy the above demands and ac . } The abore eale is postponed, by order ef plaintiffs, to \ Saturday February 27th, 1x58, U.S. GREGORY, Constable. The above sale is postponed by order of plaintiff WEDNESDAY the 3lst day of March U.S. GREGORY, Constable. te The ahove saleis postponed, by order of plaintiff, tc SATURDAY, May Ist. U. S. GREGORY, Constable. Insolvent Notice. California In the maftetT of SAMUEL ROGERS, an Insolrert Debtor. Pxrsnant to an order of the Hon. Thomas H. Caswell, Judge of the said County Conrt, notice is he by given to all the creditors of the said Insolvent, Ss nel Koger: to be and appear hefore the Hon. Thomas } Caswell aforesaid, in open Court, at the Conrt Room of {sai? Conrt, in the city aud county of Nevada on the 3rd day of Mav, AD., 1858, at 1M a'cloek. A M. of that day then ard there to show cause. if any theycan, why the prayer of said Insolvent should not be graated, and an assignment of his Estate he made. and he be discharged from his debts and liabillties, in pursnance of the Statnte in sich ease made and provided ; andin the mean time all proceedings against said Inso vent be stayed, Witness my haftd and thelseal of said County Court . Ls . this 31st day of March A. D, 1858. . Raum eee Attest: RUFUS SHOEMAKER. Clerk. C.F. Wood, Atty for Petit By William “mith, Deputy Clerk. ner, april 2insolvent Notice. Nthe County Court of the Connty of Nevada, State of California Inthe matter of the petition of G. 2B DEN-MORE an Insolvent debtor. Pursuant to an order ofthe Hon. Thomas H. Casweil, Jndge ot the said Connty Cour’. n tice is hereby given to all the ereditors of the said Insolvent. of GB Densmore to be and appear before the Hon Thomas H Caswell aforesaip, in open Court atthe Court Room of said Court, in the city and county of Nevada,on the third day of May, AD,1858, at 10 o’eleck, AM, of that day, thenand there to show ezatse, if any they ean, why the prayer of said Insolvent should not be granted, and an assignment ofhis F te be made , and he be discharged from his debts and liabiities, in pursuance of the Statute in such case made and provided; andin the mean time all proceedings against said Insolvent be staved. Witness my hand and the seal of said Conrt, this thirty-first day of March, A D. 1858 RUFUS SHOEMAKER, Clerk, 3y Wm Smith, Deputy. C.F. Wood, Atty for Petitioners. april2 Constable’s Sale. TATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Nevada, Nevada \ Township, ss —By vir ue of an execution to me delivered issued from the Conrt of John Anderson Esq. an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, bearing date 23d dayof March A. D. 1858. to sat. is y a jndgment rendered by said conrt on the 26th day of March, A D. 1858, in favor of Alston, Newman & Co. and against HARVEY MILLS, fer the sum of forty-five dollars and ten cents, debt, interest, damages and costs of snit. [have taken in Exeention and will sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following property, to-wit:— His entire interest in and to acertain mining claim called the Allison Claims situated at Selby Hill and adjoining the Nebraska Mining Company. 1 have levied upon and will sell the same at the Ceurt House door in Nevada, on SATURDAY the 24th day Apri, A.D. 1858, betweem the hours of 9 o'clock. A. M. and 5 o'clock, P. M. of said day. Taken as the property of Harxy. Mills to satisfy , the bove de ds and aceruing costs, r pte ree U.S GREGORY, Constable. $500 WANTED! ERSONS having money to loan are offered a fine investment with good seeurity for $5). for the term oftwomonths. Seenred by mortgage on paying ditch property and fair interest paid. quire of E. G. WAITE, At this Offices Nevada, April 2, 18538.—tf Dissolution. N the Sth day of April next,the copartnership heretofore existing between GREGORY & SPARKS will, Cease (Mr. Sparks withdrawing from the coneern } All Persons knowing themselves indebted to us wili please call aud settle their accounts immediately. at the old stand iunetion of Main and Commereial streets. A.B. GREGORY, GEO. P. SPARKS. Nevada, April 2 MRS. ADA CLARK y JILL GIVE ONE OF TER FASHIONABLE y and pleasant Soirees on MONDAY EVENING, April 5th, at Temperance Hall foot of Main street, in which she will introduce ali the new aud elegant quadrilles she has heretofore taught in her Schools. Mrs. Clark will be happy to meet all her patrons and friends on the occasion, Dancing to commence at 8 o'clock apd close at 12, N the Connty Court of the County of Nevada, State of . j 4 Fi y : t "7 Bove ey * p ¥

Sournal. The Dedada FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 2th, 1858. Pe, . City GovERNMENT.—Some time since 4 petitiou was circulated and numerously signed by the major portion of the. property holders of the city, praying for a repeal of the act of Incorporation of the city. The citizens who took part in . that movement acted under a prevailing impression that no gcvernment at all was better than one poorly administered and without stopping to count the cost, appended their names to the petition. Since that time, on reflecting upon the evils that have hitherto resulted when the place has been deprived of the local power of protection, the same citizens have concluded that a modified form of the present government would be preferable to the reign of riot. Accordingly a bill has been drawn expre: ;ly to meet the views of citizens, and we learn it has been popularly approved ind sent to our legislators to be enacted intoalaw. There can scarcely be a doubt but a protective town organiza. tion of some kind is indispensible. The amendments.proposed to the old law will, perhaps, meet the requirements of the town for the present as well as any. We would like to see a further modification of the city charter so as to make the Marshal an appointee of the Board of Trustees. Those who have seen the ill effects we have experienced from the disabilities of that officer at times, must, we think, see the object of the change proposed. The Trustees receive no pay for their services. There is no seramble for the position and good men are liable to be elected to that office, real tax payers, who have a personal as well as . high public interest to subserve. The . Marshal’s. office isa desirable one to those who would haveit. It is sought after and is made the object of delectable log-rolling which does not always result in the cho’ce of the best man for the place. It seemsto us that by making the Marshal an appointee of the! Board of Trustees, we would be liable to get a better officer, and perhaps much political and private jugglery be avoided. In this opinion many prominent citizens concur. It is, however, difficult to remove power from the people when onee it has been exercised by them.— The tendency of things, under Demoeratic rule, is the other way. NicaraGcua Steamers Haviep Orr. —The telegraph informs us that the Ni. saragua line is abandoned and thesteamers for that route laid up. This isa The ow price of passage eharged by these steamers recently has created a furor most extraordinary proceeding. for “going home,” and thousands have . . members of the Masonic order to which gone to San Francisco with little meney, inexpectation of cheap fare to the Atlantic States. It seems probable they are doomed to bitter disappointment. Many hare scraped together, to ‘he utmost but an insignificant sum, and . anless the Pacific Mail Steamship Comvany makes a bold stroke for populari. ty under the guise of humanity and takes the poor fellows off, many of them will . doubtless return heart broken to their old haunts to struggle on a while longer. . The wires do not inform us of the in. fluences that have been brought to bear upon the proprietors of the Nicaragua line to induce them to lay up their steamers. The eurrent and popular opinion will be that they have been subsidized oy the mammoth company in opposition. Whatever may be the cause it will be hard to divest the public of this belief. It is to be regretted that a cheaper . communication cannot be opened with the Atlantic side. A powerful company that would refuse to be purchased, in opposition to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, would be a national blessing. Competition is necessary to check extortion. Encovracrep.-—We learn that Judze Searls, after getting the alphabet from the Representative from Mariposa in the Assembly, succeeded most admirably in deciphering the brief of counsel for Hollerman, “all alone, by himself.” Counsel for Hollerman says the Judge s somnch elated with his success that ive entertains a serious intent to decipher . an idea from the Democrat, one of these rainy days when he canfind nothing else to do. . CELESTIALS IN TrovuBLE.—Two rep. resentatives of the Flowery Kingdom . were before Justice Anderson last week, . charged with sundry thefts committed in Grass Valley on some of their credu. lous brethren. Before committing them, the Justice enquired if they had any ihing to say ; whereupon Ah Cut, on his own behalf and for his suffering comrade, assured the Court in very exceltent Chinese that he had no confidence in the interpreter, the Court, or the institutions of the country, and that he was particularly disgusted with the administration of justice. John’s speech . was not ineffective, and he was escorted by one of our public officers to a room in the Hotel de Lenhart. Steam Wagon.—The steam wagon so iong talked of will be publicly exhibited ibe, to Mr. . whom he felt under obligations. . tleman SHOCKING SUICIDE. John H. Montgomery, a well known citizen of this county, committed suicide at a ranch owned by himself and Asa Goodwin, about sixteen miles below this place, between the Globe Ranch and the McCourtney road, at half-past ; ten o’clock on Wednesday morning last. The act was committed with a rifle, and deliberately done. We learn from Coroner Bazley who held an inquest on the body a few hours . after the deed was committed, the shocking particulars. Montgomery was alone {in the house at the time, his partner, Goodwin, being at work in the barn at ashort distance. Goodwin heard the report of a rifle and hurried to learn the cause. The body of Montgomery was found exhibiting a horrid spectazle on the floor. The was completely lay in a mass whole top cf the head blown off. The brains about six feet from the body on one side and the top of the skull on the bed about the same distance on the other side. The floor was covered with blood and pieces of flesh and bone. The deceased held in his hand a piece of wire having a crook or shoulder at one end evidently formed for the purpose and used to push the trigger of the The muzzle of the rifle was doubtless placed in the mouth of the deceasgun. ed, although the head was so badly mutilated that the truth could not be exactly determined. Montgomery had not long since lost an unimportant suit at law, since which time he had been morose and gloomy. It was his ill fortune to lose in the course of his life a large fortune, and to be constantly embroiled in the law. He was sensitively alive to his honor, generous and just. yet firm and unyielding when once decided upon a course to pursue. . His motto was most emphatically, ‘“millions for defense, not a cent for tribute,” which he lived up to to his cost. For a few days previous to his death, Mr. Montgomery was engaged in countThe idea of suicide seems to have been entertained by him for some time before the comdeed. He left in writing the cause of the rash act; said he had once possessed $40,000, but that it was all gone and he was old and did not feel like commencing life anew ; that ing up his affairs and writing. mission of the fatal he had been wronged by lawyers and others; that perjury had been employed successfully against him in more than one case; that the Coroner’s jury in their wisdom would doubtless return a verdict of suicide while laboring under a fit of temporary insanity, but that they were fools, and had better attribute his death to the injustice of man. He was particularly severe upon several members of the legal fraternity, who he im. agined, had conspired to defraud him of his rights. THe stated that some of the ,he belonged were scoundrels and re quested that he be not buried with Masonic honors. After the payment of his debts he left the residue of his property, if any there Goodwin his partner, to The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts elicited. We have been Mr. Montgomery during five years past. He was a determined, straight-forward, thorough-going man, and in his death intimate with we mourn the loss of an honorable gen and a true friend. He was a native of Kentucky, emigrated to this State from Missouri, and was near fifty . years of age. He leaves no family. OurraGeous TASTE, says a suffering horticulturist of our acquaintance, is the cutting off, rooting up and carrying away . : ° 5 = . from your neighbor’s garden every green thing which you are impudent enough to ask and he is too cowardly to refuse. Pesuic Beneractor.—A friend of ours has turned public benefactor and devotes a large share of his time to the He boasts of furnish} ing his neighbors’ hens with a fine mess of “lettuee—large drum head’*—every benefit of others. morning, gratis. Thinks his crop too small to supply the increasing demand. Biessixnes.—The fine rain of the last few days has gladdened the heart and replenished the purse of many an expecting miner, and the seventh and last lecture of the series at the Congregational Church was not read. Sacer oF a Quartz Leap.—Mr. Beach sold a few days since his interest—fiveeighths—of the lead of Beach & Randolph, to Messrs. Richards & Adams, of Grass Valley, for $6,000. ny has contracted for the erection of a The compamill in the vicinity. The machinery is already engaged and the whole thing is to be put in successful operation in the course of eight weeks. The mill is to have six stamps and the most approved grinding and amalgamating apparatus. = Ridgley, alias “Emigrant,” who was shot by Tyree at Gold Hill, on the 9th ult., died at that place on Tuesday morning last. The wounds of themFor the Nevada Journal. LeGIsLativeE.—Mr. Editor :~I have been watching with some interest and . more disgust the progress of.the present . Legislature, and particularly of our) members. IfT understand the meaning . of the term representative, our agents in the Legislature have grossly disregard. ed their duties, and deserve to be rebuk. ed if they even apply again to the people for office. In this I except Mr. Hill . of this county, who has labored with sincere purpose, apparently, for those he . represents. Who did Young and War. field, &c., represent when they urged . Congress to foree an anti-republican . Did they . not know that we swept this county by an unprecedented majority in favor of . syuatter sovereignty—that they hold . constitutisn upon Kansas ? their seats by their pledged support of a . principle they have betrayed? Do they . t” the people when they vote “represent for every stealing scheme that comes up? . Do they “represent” the people when, after long petitions have been sent to them to remove disabilities from negroes, they pile more disabilities upon them? Do they “represent” the people when they in effect repeal the late admirable gambling law, which had driven gambling out of sight, and turned the unwary from temptation? Do they represent the “people” when aiming to help speculators to still further oppose settlers? Do they “represent” the people by keeping the Sunday law in abeyance by putting in impracticable amendments, Do they “represent” the people by prolonging a disgraceful session by voting down or and thus hazard its passage ? postponing all motions for an adjournment sine die? Do they “represent” the peoyle by expelling reporters who aim to put the people on their guard . against the suspicious operations of a leading member of a committee? they think they can thus stifle public investigation ? We believe the Democratic have Lad enough of such representatives, . and will aim hereafter to send men with . honor enough to resist lobby pressure, and represent their constituents. A Democrat. Letrer oF Gov. Wist.—We are indebted to Congressman McKibben fora . copy of the great letter of Henry A Wise, written in answer to an invitation to attend an anti-Lecompton mass meeting which assembled at Philadelphia on the 8th of February. the Douglasiies. argument, and having asmuch a _pen. bill—indorsing the Lecompten constitution and intimates that it is his duty to . resign. . sons for not complying with the suggesDo} party . It is decidedly a . big letter; emphatically covering the . whole ground in the Kansas controver. sy, and may be taken as a text book for . Wise is great at letter . writing,—great and mighty in fact and . Arrival of the J. L. Stephems. Abandonment of the Nicaragua Route— Debates on the Kansas Question, &c. Congressicnal.-—On the 23d February the Senate passed a bill to amend the act of March 3d, 1851, limiting the liability of ship owners. Mr. Bell presented the resolutions of the legislature of Tennessee, which advert to his opposition to the Nebraska He proceeded to state his reation, and said in reply toa question from his colleague, Mr. Johnson, that he should not vote for the Lecompton constitution in consequence of instructions. This provoked a little personal retort . from Mr. J., in response to which Mr. Bell intimated that he was ready for any Senator who should attempt to browbeat him. Mr. Bell had the floor when the Senate adjourned. The House went into committee of the whole on the Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Burroughs of N. Y, made a strong anti-slavery speech in. the course of which he was twice called to order for denouncing Pieree and Buchanan, by . Mr Smith of Virginia, Mr. [Here the d—d thing cove in . OPERATOR. Now, “‘in the name ofall the gods at once,” what is the use of a line of tele. graph, or slothograph, when nine times out of ten it is wholly unfit for nse. The line between this place and Sacramento has been a consummate nuisanee ever since the rainy season commenced. Half the time the wires are down, and all the time there is and has been a waste of fluid owing to imperfect insulation which asmall comparative outlay would remedy and make the institution an effective land useful one. The operator here has dore all in his power to make the telegraph of soine service ‘to the people, and is entitled to all credit that anything at . all has been accomplished with the im. perfect machinery in his hands. The . wires, when down on his section are not . allowed to lic,but are hoisted and repaired . in spite of wind or weather fear, is not the case with some of his . brother operators, and no great wonder. They, probably, excuse themselves in. when up. We hope to be able to record a differThe steamer arrived at San Francisco at one ent state of things very soon. o’clock P. M. on Wednesday, and up toe this time nothing of importance has been ment, chant for the business, and being as vo. luminous, as Mr. Micawber. The letter . is perhaps the ablest document that has . yet emanated from the principle side of the Kansas contest. from the standard defects of Democratic politicians. The demagogue will appear, . Cover himself as he may with a lion’s skin the ears will protrude and betray the real beast. Gov. Wise, in closing his letter says: “For my part, gentlemen, I address you as the friend of Mr. Buchanan and his administration. They have my best wishes and warmest friendship, and I would save both from danger and defeat. I trust in their pure and patriotic motives,” And yet in another part of the letter, . oe . speaking of the pretended submission of the Lecompton Constitution to the people of Kansas, he says: “Sueh monstrous injustice and inequality never offended the moral sense of freemen before in this country. I cannot, therefore, agree with the Fresi. dent when he says: ‘It is impossible that any people could have proceeded with more regularity in the formation of a Constitution than the people of Kansas . 299 have done. it is worth while to stop and enquire how a man who professes to be governed chanan whose mental and moral obliquities are such that he cannot see the most “monstrous injustice” that ever offended the moral sense of freemen in this country, or seeing it, lends himself and his high authority to carry out and continue that “monstrous injustice.” How can a man of correct thinking “trust in the pure and patriotic motives” of a President who prostitutes himself Mr Buchanan, it will not be denied, has intellect enough and a power to discrimito such “monstrous” purposes ? nate between right and wrong suflicient to discover in a measure the most monmoral sense of freemen in this eountry— or is he mentally and morally below the standard? If he cannot seea palpable wrong he is unfit to receive the “warm. est friendship” of Henry A. Wise, and if he does see it and persists in upholding it with the weight of his power he . deserves the execrationinstead of warm . friendship of every honest man in the Union. selves, physicians concur in saying were not sufficient to produce death. The system of the deceased was destroyed by disease. = Maine Aueap.—During the last fiseal year, Maine actually built nearly double +m running order on Monday or Tuesday aext in Sacramento, it is supposed. the amount of shipping, in tonnage, of any other State in the Union. Hutchings’ California Magazine.— The April No. is before us. It contains a number of wood cuts purporting to be . likenesses of State Senators and Treasurer of State. We recognize the mortal . phizes of Sam. Merritt and Sam. Bell. . The others we disremember ever having . seen. Yet it is not free . in this matter by principle and right as . Wise does, can be the friend of Mr. Bu. strous injustice that ever offended the . j ation of the Archy case on Monday.— . Mr. Hardy, counsel for Stovall filed an . affidavit asking for a continuance on the . ground that Stovall had departed for . the state of Mississippi to obtain eviThe quest for continuance was denied. . dence applicable to the case. re. } THEATRICAL.—We learn from the Bee i that the Graves & Duret troupe are in . Placer county, . . and intend visiting Nevada this week, thence Marysville, Oro. ville, and so on to the Great North. . der an engagement to Thomas McGuire. The report that one of them married in Australia is not true. . Yankee Addams and troupe did not take at all in Amador county. The people are sick of such trash. . New Parers—We have received the first numbers of two new papers pub. lished at Sacramento—the Evening Viswor and Merceury—both dailies. Sacramento produces the nicest papers typographically speaking, save and ex;ecpt always the State Journal, of any place on this coast. The new papers are not behind their predecessors in this respeet. The Evening Visitor is fornenst Lecompton and the Mercury in favor. Frost.—The late severe cold weather which played sad havoc with the fruit in these parts, seems to have been general over the State, or, at least, the greater part of it. Nearly all our mountain exchanges speak of it, andthe Tribune of San Jose, says that it is supposed three-fourtks of the peach crop in that vicinity is destroyed. The prospect of an abundance of fruit this year may be . counted rather uncertain. Tue Superintendent of Public Instruction has addressed a letter to the Goy. ernor, in which he claims that the State . of California is entitled to five per cent. . of the sale of all public lands within her limits. The sales to come off in May . hext embrace some 2,500,000 acres, the . State’s per centage on which would amount to some $100,000. Were all the United States as densely inhabited as Massachusetts, it would have a population of 446,000,000 souls, of which Texas would have 50,000,000. An “Old Salt.’—A salted man is among the curiosities in Illinois. Miller ounty, aged 86, who died a few days Such, we} the fact that the line is good for nothing . received in the shape of news, while the . public mind has been in a state of fer-. Arcuy Cast.—Geo. Pen Jolinson, U. . S. Commissioner, resumed the cousider. The sisters Gougenheim are expected . back from Australia in a few days, un. ago, left orders that he should be salted . down like a barrel of pork, before being buried, and he was salted down accordingly. Dr. Warfield, Hon. James Buchanan Warfield, the exeeedinely astute member of the Assembly from Nevada has immortalized himself by the introduction . of a bill to haul “niggers out of the fence” “and send them,” in the chaste language of another of the lights of Nevada, “where course.” they come from, of The latter gentleman we believe is a pious professor of christianity in some form, and has an anxious desire to have the poor negroes “born again.” The church to which heis an attache, has in all ages advocated law and force to gainits ends, and it is not surprising that he should be found the zealous advoeate of a law to drive negroes back to where they come from—the “terterrima causa of all belli” Mr. Shepard made the following appropriate remarks in the discussion of the nigger bill, on Monday last: “This is not like the China question. This is not a great measure of public policy. From the empire on our west, the immigration into our midst may _become a great and growing evil. ‘There are four or five hundred millions of people there, and they could flood us with their hordes in one year, and eat out the subsistance of our land. But all this present troublous legislation is about . four or five thousand peaceable black men, who are now kept beneath our race by statutes preventing their voting and testifying. Now it is proposed to still further degrade them, by licensing them to live amongst us and pay their taxes. Now, sir, in this connection. allow me to say that J am no particular sympathizer with the negro; I am by!

no means an Abolitionist—nothing of . tke sort. I have a personal prejudice against a nigger. But when it comes to this process of legislation, which contradicts the great foundation principles of . humanity and right, . would sooner have my right arm withered than I would en. age in the commission of such injustice. I can look at this Chinese question calmly and fairly; I would pass no eruel . laws, lay down no disproportionate penalties. Now, sir. J must confess that I} have pecuhar views in regard to human nature. But I will say this, sir, that if. the spirit of Almighty God should hover over this hall now, in an intangible essence, and each man should be put on aj pivot a hundred miles from here, removed one foot above the level of the eart and the question was pre poun’ed to him . whether he would vote tor these bills, . with all the influences of a lheaitly edu. . cation, of rent love of humanity, . jand of good operating upon him, he . would turn and answer «N he the voice of ten th an inhe No:” and had} usand trumpet he would answer so that the world mi jhear, “Nol? But the polities ! why. complication of . . tit all through the . . a avi lor OM Vir-. } . ROW . 111 y would . r "em; Ss tiese. But feeble, nkee linitatoi ' obedient. ile Hered Hex ho rever o > Want j to out yned able to ow1 rht to—these . : san ] wh toadying dirt eaters strive zealously to imitate what tl to be, what actnaliv is n r] ous Int . it, the tyranny of the} suppose slave masters. ‘Fhese,too,are the crea . tures who world make invidious distine. tions to my prejudice, beeause L am from the North, and still retain in my bosom faith in humanity, decent respect { t for its wants, and an ordinary sympathy for those ofmy fellow men w ho are my inferiors, or who are in degradation and . misery. J am not ashamed of my explanations, or afraid to assert my rights. rant it so; butthen, . made us men. rever Wron ct oa . t ‘neath the all beholding . . t . end they are slaves most love of right is for tt their race.” remselyes, and not for ali Tre Necro Race. writing from Nubia, —Bayard Taylor in Upper Egypt, . says: “Those friends of the African race . } who point to Egypt as a proof of what . that race has aceomplished, are wholly mistaken. The only negro features represented in Egyptian Seulpture,are those of slaves and captives taken in Ethiopiopian wars of the Pharaohs. The temples and pyramids throughout Nubia, as far as the Darefand Abyssinia, all bear the hiecroglyphy of monarehs,and_ there is no evidence in all the valley of the Nile that the negro race ever attained a higher degree of civilization than is at present exhibited at Congo and Ashantee.” Bayard Taylor is a great traveller, but as a historian or an archeologist there are hundreds whose names stand Tue Niceer Bitn.—Mr. Warfield, Br), Mariposa Mining Case—The lator from Yuba, has resigned his . £ . jing representative, and the State & Tey late has lost ene of j simple eomy of polities! The. . } : ' jreal, old f Southerner, who. -> owns a lot « would never vote . . piece . entered. Telegraph. Union says a petition has been filed by Judge Heydenfeldt, the counsel for Biddle Boggs vs. the Merced Mining Company, for a rehearing, and that it is probable the case will be reargued and taken again under the advisement of the Supreme Court. Tue Leaisnarure has been doing characteristic work of late. The gambler’s bill has passed, the special committee to whem was referred the subject of paying the law and order troops of Gov. Johnson, have reported in favor of disbursing $50.00 to the “bloody” soldiers, and the negro banishment bill is getting along swimmingly. The Tulare Canal swindle, however, gets its quietus 2 for a wonder. Minirary Cxiaim.—The claim of Law and Order troops called out by Governor Johnson to suppress the Vigilance movement in San Francisco, has been reported favorably upon by a select committee of the House. The claim is a trifling one of $50,000. PrintinG.—The Union says the printing this session bids fair to costa great deal more than was expended last session, though the price is considerably lower than last year. The quantity of printing ordered is much larger than last year ; infact very little attention has been paid to the item of printing since the first month of the session has passed. The appropriation of sixty thovsand dollars for official printing the present fiscal year will soon be exhausted at the present rate of going on. (= De Witt C. Henderson who was accidentally killed in a shooting affray between two other persons, at Sacramento on Monday last, was formerly from Mount Morris, Livingston ceunty, ee Louis Napoleon—has acknowledged his paternity inthe matter of one of Rachel’s children. The other two belong to Count Walewski, who owns them. Goon Pay.--The claims of J. F. Stone, at Alpha, paid at one clean up $1,300, a few davs since. Resignep.—Hion. R. 8. Mesick, seat, Mr. Mesick is a gentleman and a sterSenits most industrious, ; conscientious and able members, and Yuba county a faithful -ervant. He was elected an American and we have . yet to learn thathe goes out of office . . anything else. Senator Garter to rise to a question of . privilege beeause the Butte Record ealls him “Myr. Steckingstrap.” I orpPprPr, “re Rospery.—The Lael <4 r hington on Mill street, was robbed on ‘Tnesday night of last week. lost $20 in coin and a breast pin worth 220. and The and valuables were taken from The thiet is supposed to have been a fellow who came along and solicited fice lodgings, representing himself as out of money. Mr. Blackford eave him a bed. He probably got up inthe night, committed the robbery, and took the plunder outside, and concealed it, as the outer door to whieh he might have easily had access was unlocked. some small change. money their clothing in their reoms. Another.—Vhe Aurora House broken into on Thursday night last every room in the hotse not locked, was and was The robber stole a Colt’s revolver (No. 89,569) from a Mr. William Nute, and a $10 gold piece from his room-mate. Ten dollars, some. silver anda small specimen were also taken from the pantaloons of Mr. Savage. Several other inmates lest small amounts. In several cases clothes were taken from pnder @e pillows of the sleeping inmates, xed of their valuables and thrown upon the floor. A suitable reward will be paid for the return of the pistol, which, it is hoped may lead to the detection of the robber.—G. V. —< Sash Married. At Dutch Flat, Placer Co,, March 22d, D. G. Turney, M.D.,to Tweed. At Rongh and Ready, March 23d, Stephen Cowin to Rosetta Smith. At Cherokee March 18th, by Rev. John Dickinson, Mr. John Me Graw to Mrs Ellen C. Red both of Cherokee. At the same time and place Mr. Aloy A. Bloss te Miss Harviet BE. Neavilel both of Cherokee. before his, whose opinions on the point . treated of above, will be taken in preference by the learned. The aceuracy of Herod’tus will not be disputed by scholars, and Ze uses the following significant language in relation to the Af. rican race ; “The Egyptians were lack, and had short, crisped hair, and the skulls of the Egyptians were by far thicker than those of the Persians ; they could scarcely be broken by a big stone, while a Persian skull could be broken by a pebble.” No better description of the negro is wanted than this. The account is given by the most reliable writer of antiquity. It is conceded that the statues of Tutmes III. and Amenophis JIL. in the British Museum have a decided negro type, proof that negro kings have ruled in Egypt in ages long agone. Stone in the Pool.—Vhe man who fears to express his opinions is contemptible You will find this sort of men in political parties ; they are not the creat . teaders, nor those without command, but they are the captains of squads, are little in every resouree but servility and instability. The best time to see them is now ; there is a commotion with them and they wriggle magnificently.— Age. Born. The wife of Solomon Rosenthal. on the 22d ult, of a Son. Constable's Sale. — TATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Nevada. s*.— ) By virtue of an execution to me delivered: issued out of ‘he court of John Anderson; Esq. an acting Justice of the Peace ii and for the couu’y aforesaid, betring date 28th of March AD 1832, to satisfy a judgment rendered by said Justice on the 26th day of March, A D 1858, in faver of Alston, Newman & Co. and against Nebraska Mining Company for the sum of $182.95 debts, interest, damages and cost of suit, I wil’ sell to the highest bidder for ea owing described property, to wit: The N aftand all mining fixtures thereunto belonging same having heretoforo been attached by me for this debt. I will sell the above described proverty atthe Court House door in said county on SATURDAY, the 24th day of April, between the hours of 9 o'cloek A. M. and5 P.M. ofsa:dday. Sold as the property of the Nebraska Mning Company to satisfy the above demands and accruing costs. U.GREGORY, Constable. onstabie’s Sale. Y virtue of an Execution, issued ont of Justice john ) Anderson's (ourt, of Nevada Township, County of Nevada, te me directed in favor of E. C. Prettyman and against F, R, Budd, I have seized and shall expose for sale at Publie Anctiod«t 10 o'clock, AM, ou TUESDAY the 20th day ot April, I858, in front of the Union * toon, in the villazeot Rough and Ready, the following deserib ed property, to-wit: Two quarter sections of land, situated sbout two miles south of the Zine Honse, on the Sacramento road, inthe township of ci and Ready—also the Frame Building ons iand. 2 Dated Rongh and Ready the 3ist day of March A. D. 1852. J. . LONG, Constable, april? of Rough and Ready Towiship. Dissolution. HE copartnership heretefore existing between IT. H. gand A W. Riley, er ti vle of H. H. Fila ‘o. in the Stable, } y busi’ ess, in the city of Nevada,is this ‘ ved by mutual consent’ Either party will sienin the settlement of the business of the firm. All parties indebted are requested to make immediate payment, H, WH. FLAGG, A. W. RILEY. Nevada, April 24, I858. Sen. = The Red Bluff Beacon advises} Hotel . One of the lodgers . Anciher lost a ten dolar gold . acific Mail Steatiiship Company's Line FOR PANAMA. Connecting via Panama Railroad, With the steamers of the U, S. Mail Steamship Company at Aspinwall. FOR NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS. Departure from Vallejo Street Whar The Magnificent Steamship J. iL. Stephens. Will leave Vallejo street wharf for Panama, with U. §. Mails, Passengers, and Treasure, MONDAY, April 5th, at 9 o’clock. Passengers by the P. M. S. Co’s Line are landed on their arrivals at Panama upon the wharfat the railroad jerminus, by the Company’s steam ferry boat, and proceedimmediately by Railroad across the Isthmus. To Aspinwall, where the steamers of the U.S. Mail S. S. Co. are alwaysin readiness toconvey them to New York or New Orleans. Passengers for New Orleans proceed by direct steamer from Aspinwall. Through tickets are furnished, including the transit of the Isthinus, Passengers are notified that all tickets for the steam ers of the U. S. Mail S. 8. Co, must be presented to their agent at Aspinwall for registry and exchange, as they will not otherwise be available. For Freight or passage apply to FORBES & BABCOCK, Agents. Cor, Sacramento and Leidesdorff street. Achoice of berth on the Atlantic steamers is secured by the early purchase of tickets in San Francisco. DAT Y’S AROMATIC VALLEY WHISKY. NHIS Whisky is manufactured exelusively for us, by one of the oldest distilleries m the Valley of the Monongahela, from the finest quality of Rye, prepared by a process known orly to him. Consumers can depend upen getting a pure article, when they buy the VALLEY WHISKY. It is put up in cases containing 1 doz bottles each. It is recommended by the tirst Physicians, for its Medicinal qualities. JEW WH DALY. SOLE PROPRIETORS, New YORK. t= For sale by all the principal Liquor Houses in San Francisco. april 2-3m NOTICE. ie hereby given that a Special Meeting of the Stockholders of the Eureka Lake Company will be held at Orleans Flat, on Saturday the Ist day of May, AD, 1858, between the honrs of 10 o'clock, A.M. and4P. M. for the following purposes : 1. To increase the capital stock of the Company to Three hundred thonsand dollars. ll. ‘To strike out so much of the Bye-Laws of the Company as requires that notices and publications relz te the affairs ofthe Company shall be given and published in the French langnage. And to transact such business as may be neeessary for these ends. Witness our hands this twenty-ninth day of March A. D. 1858. . R. B MOYES, Solicitor for Company. ae April 2-Im Tru tees of Eureka Lake Co, Eurcka Cempasnie des Lacs, AVIS, ES interesses sont prevenns qu'une rernion speciale, L des actionnaires, de l'Eureka Lake Company, aura lieu a Orleans’ Flot, le samedi, ler MailSik; entre dix heures du matin, et qnartre henrs dn soir, aleffet de: lo Angmenter le capital de la dite cempagnie, jusqu’ a concurrence de trois cents mille dollars, 20. Retrancher, des reglements de la compacnie, tons articles, om passages, prescrivant l'emploi dela largue Francaise pour tous avis et publications releves et pablies And pour tortes transactions qni pourront etre jugees saires por venir a fins n foide quoi avons signe ce 2Wieme jour de M ats R. B. MOYES, Avecat. I. U., HALL, JAS, CREEGAN, Jd. B. HENRY Depo April 2nd, 1858—4w Conastabie’s Sale. RATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Nevada, ss — ‘ By virtne of adecree of sate te from the court of John Anderson E of the Peace, in and for the date January the l4th, AD, 185 “ bearing a judgment rendered by said Justi¢e on the 30th day of March, AD, 1857 in favor of Winslow Hall and Artemas Rogers, and 4 and “mith Lydia Smith, his wife. for amd , to-wit— “ity of Nevad r ed } ling and known by the Hote!, the same property the defen } willsell at the Court Hor DAY t 19th day of Febr two me of the Union nt now lives in. I » door in sai on FRI AT) . said day. . W. Smith and wife to rning ensts U.S GREGORY, Constable. Nevada city, January 14, 1958. . To be soldas the property of . satisfy the above demands and ac . } The abore eale is postponed, by order ef plaintiffs, to \ Saturday February 27th, 1x58, U.S. GREGORY, Constable. The above sale is postponed by order of plaintiff WEDNESDAY the 3lst day of March U.S. GREGORY, Constable. te The ahove saleis postponed, by order of plaintiff, tc SATURDAY, May Ist. U. S. GREGORY, Constable. Insolvent Notice. California In the maftetT of SAMUEL ROGERS, an Insolrert Debtor. Pxrsnant to an order of the Hon. Thomas H. Caswell, Judge of the said County Conrt, notice is he by given to all the creditors of the said Insolvent, Ss nel Koger: to be and appear hefore the Hon. Thomas } Caswell aforesaid, in open Court, at the Conrt Room of {sai? Conrt, in the city aud county of Nevada on the 3rd day of Mav, AD., 1858, at 1M a'cloek. A M. of that day then ard there to show cause. if any theycan, why the prayer of said Insolvent should not be graated, and an assignment of his Estate he made. and he be discharged from his debts and liabillties, in pursnance of the Statnte in sich ease made and provided ; andin the mean time all proceedings against said Inso vent be stayed, Witness my haftd and thelseal of said County Court . Ls . this 31st day of March A. D, 1858. . Raum eee Attest: RUFUS SHOEMAKER. Clerk. C.F. Wood, Atty for Petit By William “mith, Deputy Clerk. ner, april 2insolvent Notice. Nthe County Court of the Connty of Nevada, State of California Inthe matter of the petition of G. 2B DEN-MORE an Insolvent debtor. Pursuant to an order ofthe Hon. Thomas H. Casweil, Jndge ot the said Connty Cour’. n tice is hereby given to all the ereditors of the said Insolvent. of GB Densmore to be and appear before the Hon Thomas H Caswell aforesaip, in open Court atthe Court Room of said Court, in the city and county of Nevada,on the third day of May, AD,1858, at 10 o’eleck, AM, of that day, thenand there to show ezatse, if any they ean, why the prayer of said Insolvent should not be granted, and an assignment ofhis F te be made , and he be discharged from his debts and liabiities, in pursuance of the Statute in such case made and provided; andin the mean time all proceedings against said Insolvent be staved. Witness my hand and the seal of said Conrt, this thirty-first day of March, A D. 1858 RUFUS SHOEMAKER, Clerk, 3y Wm Smith, Deputy. C.F. Wood, Atty for Petitioners. april2 Constable’s Sale. TATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Nevada, Nevada \ Township, ss —By vir ue of an execution to me delivered issued from the Conrt of John Anderson Esq. an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, bearing date 23d dayof March A. D. 1858. to sat. is y a jndgment rendered by said conrt on the 26th day of March, A D. 1858, in favor of Alston, Newman & Co. and against HARVEY MILLS, fer the sum of forty-five dollars and ten cents, debt, interest, damages and costs of snit. [have taken in Exeention and will sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following property, to-wit:— His entire interest in and to acertain mining claim called the Allison Claims situated at Selby Hill and adjoining the Nebraska Mining Company. 1 have levied upon and will sell the same at the Ceurt House door in Nevada, on SATURDAY the 24th day Apri, A.D. 1858, betweem the hours of 9 o'clock. A. M. and 5 o'clock, P. M. of said day. Taken as the property of Harxy. Mills to satisfy , the bove de ds and aceruing costs, r pte ree U.S GREGORY, Constable. $500 WANTED! ERSONS having money to loan are offered a fine investment with good seeurity for $5). for the term oftwomonths. Seenred by mortgage on paying ditch property and fair interest paid. quire of E. G. WAITE, At this Offices Nevada, April 2, 18538.—tf Dissolution. N the Sth day of April next,the copartnership heretofore existing between GREGORY & SPARKS will, Cease (Mr. Sparks withdrawing from the coneern } All Persons knowing themselves indebted to us wili please call aud settle their accounts immediately. at the old stand iunetion of Main and Commereial streets. A.B. GREGORY, GEO. P. SPARKS. Nevada, April 2 MRS. ADA CLARK y JILL GIVE ONE OF TER FASHIONABLE y and pleasant Soirees on MONDAY EVENING, April 5th, at Temperance Hall foot of Main street, in which she will introduce ali the new aud elegant quadrilles she has heretofore taught in her Schools. Mrs. Clark will be happy to meet all her patrons and friends on the occasion, Dancing to commence at 8 o'clock apd close at 12, N the Connty Court of the County of Nevada, State of . j 4 Fi y : t "7 Bove ey * p ¥