April 4, 1852 (4 pages)

beer Ae ee ee ee Ye ' _ NEVADA JOURN a VOI. 1. are —— = JOUR PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AND SUNDAY MORNING BY SARGENT & ALBAN. AL. NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1852. San Francisco Advertis ements, VAL. away, for I felt the enchantment of the . place, and did not wish to meet a Spi-; i XTRACT rit in the Sierra Nevada, that might . ” rom the Nicaragua Corresgon introduce me to some such orgery as me S. F. Picayune. the German poets tell us are the sports; —_I do not suppose that in any q of the spirits of the Rhine. . boasting of free institutions, t “Ringlet Hall, 30 fect.” This ought. 8ystem_ isso miserably defecti to have been called boudorr or whatever . this. There are three civil cou English word expresses the same thing, . court of conciliation, the court fan Francisco Adverments. JAMES B. RAY’S GRAND RAFFLE! NO HUMBUG! or German, English, French, and China FANCY GOODS, JEWELRY, AND PAINTINGS; Imported especially for the occasion, COMPRISING NATURAL CURIOSITY. Zhe following sketch of a cavern, {though published over a year ago in an Atlantic paper, will be found interesting, as giving an account of ono of California’s Natural Curiosities. It ‘is situated near San Antonio in Cala. { qi’ FRANCISCO AGENCY.—Wa Jew. eur, Jr. isthe Agent for thir prper for San Francisco, andis authorized to reeeive noney, . sign receipts for the sane, and transact other business relating to newer and job print. ing as the representative o sis : SARGENT & ALBAN. San Francisco Advertisements. Ofmce on Broad street, opposite the Placer Hotel. TERMS, The Patrons of the ‘‘Nevapa JourNnat,”” . veras county ; and the author was one . It is delicate “place, finished and fit-. instance, and the cowrt of ap t 3 2 alife > e a ’ Pr) s ‘ ° honda Sug Pi hsecthata 300 . also at Bonnestell & Williams’ Buok and Sta-} fancy jewelry of every kind and quality, It is situated at a place known as . /U% sanetorum. Lt is all of virgin white peng hen apt oe yoy to the Giaets cop Ib-ote. . Honaey Store, on Clay, near Kearney sireet— Amounting to $20,000 ! . McKennie’s Diggings, on one of the . " Pure a8 marble, and beautiful as cision OF the third iy’ Soa sity ella hl ‘. andoneat the Despatch Printing Office, on 65'"'5"? the rainbow. The roof is hung with In the court of Coneiliation, ftyNo subscriptions received for less time thanene mouth. ISCONSIN HOUSE anno Ten Pin Alley, in Newtown, for sale’ The undersigned offers the above property forsale on the most favorable terms. The situation is one of the most favorable. will do well to call on the premises and learn further particulars, The Alley is in complete order. !OHN SMITH. Feb , fat 2. 1952.m NOR SALE OR b icNT—The house situ% ated on Wood's Ravine, known ag the Quartzyille [Stel and Store, together with the furniture. bur fixtures, lot and adjoining farm fenced in, ready for cultivation. This house is doing a large business at the present lime, being in the centre of the quartz region. It will be disposed of Jow as the proprietore are clocing up their business to return to the States. Kor further particulars enquire von the premises of BEAUCLERK & BUTSCH. Feb. 7th 1852. 83-1m* Nevada Hotel & Stage Office. Main street, Nevada City. subscribers have WANE Any person wish . ing to engage in tie boarding house business, . the pleasure of an. . pouncing to the public generally that they , have leased the above well known hotel, for th period of six months. The Nevada is the largest public house in the city, and is situated in Phe most business part ef the town, and of‘fers inducements (o travellers seeking a temporary home, that ean perhaps 4¢ found ia no ‘other hotel in thé mines. ‘The sieeping apartwents are wei! vent! tated and will be furnished at times with clean and corifurtable bedding. ‘Tho table will be sanplied with all the variety of the season, and all the substartials the market affords. The bar is always supplied with the choicest segars and liquors. In proprietors bey leave to assure the publie that ne effort shall be wanting on their pert to make the Nevada, in every respect, the MorRL OF THE PLACER. Moard and lodging per week, all ahort, t $17.00 in ad’ee hoard without lodging 14,09 Roard and ledging per day 2.00 ‘Roard withant lodging a Stiges for Saeramento cily, every morniugy . Montgomery street, and at the Mechanics and Traders’ Exchange, Rox No. 1, Montgomery street, where all advertisements intended for that paper mav be leit, and will be promptly forwarded. WM. JEWELL, Jr., Agent. UTTER —100 firkins prime table butter, 45 casks of 33 lb kegs in pickle, i0 do 15 lb do de, 25 do 10 lb do do, The above is of superior quality, for sale by , B, WEIR, Sansome st, near Jackson. “Neue MERCANTILE HOTEL, and ug Restaurant, Front street, one door He north of the Pacific Wharf, San Francisco. This establishment is now open for the reception of permanent and transient boarders. The house being centrally located in the business part of the city, and convenient to the landing of the Sacramento boats, render this to the country merchants one of the most desirable houses in the city. Rooms furnished or unfurnished, can be had at reasonable rates, by the day, week or month, and meals evn be obtained at any hour in the Restaurant, where will be tound at all times the best the market attords. 75-3in GEO, BROWN. on 753m Sutter [ron Works, Rincon Point, San Francisco. ey 4 ENGINES and boilers, machinery for crushing and pulverizing quartz rock, castings in iron and brass, wrought iron work, water wheel castings, and all kinds of machinery made to order. ‘ Being largely engaged in manufacturing quartz rock machinery, and — an extensive assortment of patterns on hand, are prepared to receive and execnte orders with. dispatch. Parties wishing further information, or to contract for machinery, by addressing Geo. . K Gluyas, Superintendant, as above, or Jas. Blair, Esq., Agent, San Francisco, will be pootee attended to. Aug. 30—3m* DANIEL OKESON, JOUN DENNIE. AINTS, Oils, Window Giass, ete. The Among which will be found 1 Splendid German Barbadore, with four large mirrors, beautifully finished, and the richest thing in California. Valued at $1500. A MaayiFicent Rosewoop Piano, laid with Pearl, Valued at $750; Together with many other Rare and Valuable Articles, ranging in price from Five to Five Hundred Dollars. 10,000 TVickets---$2 each. Eight Hundred Prizes—Twelve Blanks to one Prize. To be decided under the management of . Sides, running parallet with tle moun-. resembling a frozen waterfall. a Committee of Gentlemen selected by the holders of Tickets. fa” This is one of the most extensive Invoices ever offered in a Ratlie to the public Catalogues of the Prizes can be procured at his store, on Sansome street, between California and Pine, over the stores of J. A McCrea & Co. and B. C. Horn & Co. = Deeming it unnecessary to mention all the articles in the Catalogue, the proprietor respectfully invites the ladies and gentlemen of San Francisco to an examination of his extensive assortment of Goods. His articles will be on exhibition until the 15th of Marck Tickers may be procured at the Umon and Times & Transcript offices Sacramento City. (> Chances to be Rafiled for every evening at the store. James B. Ray. 89«td OTICE.—The Raffie of James B. Ray will be postponed until the 5th of March. Mr. Ray feels under obligations to the publie for their liberal patronage, and asks the indulgence of ticket holders ten days longer. His goods are on exhibition at his store, to which he respectfully invites the attention of the ladies and gentlemen. 91-td 30 FIRKINS Gosuen Butrer, in Brine; 15 casks butter, in kegs; 75 kegs lard; 30 cases lard in tins; 150 hf and qr bbls mackerel; 400 bales Manila sugar; 15 600 Ibs China : ugar; 100 bbls and hf bbls crushed sugar; about forty five degrees, the path forks of the Calaveras river, and about . . 60 miles from Stockton. Any one ac. quainted with the Geography of Cali. thousands of stalactities, not massive, but delicate as a gossamer. A rough hand might sweep away the whole at a . is about midway between the base and . damage. It issuch a place as begets ‘the summit of the Sierra Nevada. . £004 humor, and brings smiles upon the ‘have, at different times, crossed the beholder, but as indescribable as the ‘branches of the Calaveras in about this odeere : ane Fountaiu a pagal say Riga at Nee dre tee ° . feet. The chief peculiarity of this room range of country, aud observed a stra-. is a continuous calcareous petrifaction, ta of limestone crop) ing out at the hill . from the top to the bottom, on one side ‘tainchain. At MeKovnie’s, this stra. about thirty feet high, and halfias many . ta forms the base of ihe soil, and in. bread. If any one of your readers will over . Magine acascade of about these dimen. sions suddenly changed to marble, they will have a pretty good idea of the iFountain,” which gave the room its jname. “Furnace reom, 30 feet.” This was discovered during our exploration. if did not myself see it, but the discoverer informed me there was nothing to be seen in it worth going out of my way for. The above description applies te what . places appears in rough masses . considerable distance over the surface. In October last, Mv. Joseph W. Vayjlor, formerly of Hollidaysburg, Va., while looking among the rocks that . Ser out of the hill side near his camp, discovered a small opening, and clear. ing away a few loose fragments, found . it led 10 a large cavern. This, he and . his Companions have SINCE explored to . we saw during our exploration of nearthe distance of 12 or 15 hundred feel. . ly halfa day, the termination of which When 1 visited Taylor's Cave, as it . brought us back io the place whence is called, my companions and myself . Wwe started. In order that Mr. Taylor provided ourselves with candles, and . Might avail himself of the information He willingly consented, and the party exploration was deferred to the next were conducted to the mouth of the morning. cavern, when lighting our candles, we. Our second underground research was entered singly through an aperture in. by no means so extensive as the first; the rock not more than two feet and a . but entering as before, we took another half broad. Our first performance . passage from the Entrance Hall, and then, was to scramble down, as best . found ourselves in the “Devil's Supper as Room.” The room was not unlike mawe could, a plane inclined at an angle ny of the others, except there was in it , a petrifaction resembling a table, and covered with loose earth and fiagments . jn the floor a place worn so that it someof rock, a distance of one hundred feet. . what resembled a foot-print. People Here we found a level spot of a few . are apt to associate the idea of his SaIt. is. which the Alcalde presides, the are brought together, and an ‘made by the magistrate, or by infornia, will understand that the point . blow, but art could never repair the appointed by him, to settle matt ‘icubly and without further procd \Ifa settlement cannot be effect: . case is sent on tothe court of stumce, where it is tried; a feasted party can then, if he sees Ki the case to Leon, and lay it . the eourt of appeals. The exp tending this latter move, howe . tere many from it. The whole system of practic . completely different from ours, . Appears, at first sight, to an An . nlmost incomprehensible how it ‘made to work at all. The ju isoon as elected, appoints a “Direc i his court, and the person so ap _ becomes in reality, the jndge, th . referring every thing to him, and . guided altogether by whut his D lsays. Thus, ifa motion be ma . judge turns to the other with an . ring eye-——“Overruled,” says the . tor; “overruled,” echoes the Judg /soon to the end of the chapter. , The jury law was repealed som ‘ago, so that all cases are tried nd . ply before the judge. The wi are all examined separately. but allowed to be cross-examined; ar principals in the aetion, togethe their lawyers, are turned out o not unfrequently, while the wit examined by the Judge! The ey is all written down, and then—st of all!—imstead of a decision bein en, the evidence, briefs, &c., &c., sent to some lawyer in Granada o with a request that he give his op As he gets a fee for this, he does his opinion is confirmed by the tor,and announced by the Judge; . . ! . od 50 bbls brown sugar; fur Marysville, every other moraing. subscriber offers for s-le a full assortment 900 sucka Rio.cofee: 160 sacks Chill beana: . feet, and turned to survey this En. tanic majesty with caverns and pluces upon the farce is ended, unless ick (NDERSON SBLENS. of sizes of English and Brench window glass! 5-4 Say Fing. walnuts: 60 cases ground coffee; (trance Hall, as Mr. Trylor has named . "9dergrotnd, and this mnemotechnic . peal be made—or, as happens on : . : from 10 * 12 to 30 by nee * ese Maieanitns . 300 pkgs blk and green teas: 10 cases chocolate; . jt— our candles lighted up the scene sympathy, I suppose, gave the title of. very rare occasions, where p Lodging House. racket Gath om =, ete, ete, Feeling . 200 tine cheese, 10 1b ea; 20 bbis Carolina rie? . and 9 ay ae ‘ . ~.’. Devil’s Supper Room to this place, A . friendship or interest steps in,the THE undars { having leased the Bar . ‘aatahil ra past taunts from & generous pub400 kegs and hf bbls syrup; " a Bee See ie) aber ue te place called the “Ball Room.” because . on his own responsibility, and d .artments of the Gregory Viause , mmodate allthose whe y wieh lodwing by tie night of The Deda and raeme hive been thorongbly renevat d, acdtie pledges Rimaeif to keep them in a Kootn and lod, uA is read tu week good order at Gti teins TH tf rEQY O KILBOURN See WANG HOTEL, * ront ~stenmbou har :, rents te fepu tation 297 qiiet. order, Clean bert Prater dk Lienvas Quartavide Horel & Store. BY BEAUCLERK AND ROYSCH N Weod's Ravine. formerly. James Store. We would inforin our friends nuilt a new house at the are HOW prepared to accomNic with Beard and Lodging t we have late to stand, and 1 i date the; an the most: Provisions and Liquors, of ail kinds for 69 easonable terms sale 3in ‘ itn ey e¢ California Hotel, (Rongh and Ready,) (PNA subseriber havieg purchased and ‘lie, he would still solicit a share of patronage. . ly Importing, Wholesale and Jobbing business. . refitted the above house, formerly kept . by D. W. Auldridy: tetrain the traveling public onstant aim of ike preprieter of the Califurnia Hotel to render it a quict and cemfortuble #toppiug » ace for the traveler, and « home for the revular boarder The bar and table are furnished with the », ls now prepared te enIt will ke the , best the country affords, and in all the ap. oGin de given to neatness and gooe order. LE Rt eee B. CRABTREE. C. F. SMITH. Justice of the Peace ATTORNEY AT LAW. § § VA bh its Nevada County, GRA STATE OF CALIFORNIA, connty 0 W) Nevada, ss. District court, 10th judicia district. Jonathan L. Peters vs. Wendell Buck, Robert S. Sinclair, Thomas J. Pyatt, Bergen H. Low, and G W Reemer. Tho people of the state of California to Wendell Buck, Rohert S Sinclair, Thomas J Pyatt, Bergen H Low, Randolph Low, . Rene Pardesus, and G@ W Reemer, greeting You are hereby notified that on the 25th day of December, a 1851, suit was com. menced against you by the plaintiff in said court to recover the sum of seven hundred thirteen dollars and thirty five cents, now Randolph Low, Rene Pardesus . j its brane : . tured from native California silver; also Calrents of the house every attention will . . pri Ror. Marss, Jackson st, 8 doors above Sansome, 69-31 San Francisce . Pp. COGSWELL, Destisr--Of. E « fice on the Plaza, next door north of . the Cahfornia Exchange. ‘Teeth filled with pare gold, and warranted for ten years. Op-/} erations ow tevins the most reasonable for . cash only 49-3m } DRUGS! DRUGS !--Srory, REDIN ron & C Importers, and Wholesale Denlers in Lr . Chemicals Perfumery, Fancy Articles, “Surgival Instruments, §&¢. nts for Wistar’s Balsam ot Wild Cherry Osroud’s Indian Cholig CorbettUs Shaker’a Si lla, ( Company's Medicin r Hunt's Life Kuixir, and tlyart’s balsam; building, corner of Sansome and Merchant sts, San Francisco. Having respectively disposed of our retail stocks and stands, we have this day associated . ourselves together for the transaction ofa stricturge, Werdic mes. Ay ule, raetonherg Mhank{ul for the past liberal patronage at our} friends and the public, we solicit a continuance of the same, trusting we shall be enabled, by thus uniting, and by the residence of one of the partnere in the Atlantic States, to answer their orders more promptiy and satisfactorilly . than ever before. Cc. R. STORY & CO. REDINGTON §& CO, fcjWe are constantly receiving, per clippor ships, and efter for sale, ices, for cash ONLY, large invoices of deCHEMICALS, etc sirable, Drues, Mepicines, 82-3m 1275 cases pepper sau . 69 bxs macearoni; . 9 in store and for sale by WM. T. COLEMAN & CO, Cor. California and Fronts sts. 86-Iimn e Hams; 58 bbls Kilburn’s hams; 51 bbls mess pork; 15U hf bbisand kegs dried apples and peaches 250 bxs soap Lblb ea; 30 cases white soap; 100 bxs chemical! olive soap; 20 bbls tapioca; 173 cases hf gal pickles; 300 kgs pickles,5 gal100 cases tomato catsup 25 bxs adamantine candles (uf oxs Fr spm candles; 60 doz 2 hhds buckets; 87 doz 8 hhas buckets; 20 nests tubs; Forsaleby ‘Vu. T,. COLEMAN & CO: S6-Im cor, California and Front sts. sBeb4 DOZEN “Wrient's’’ Banrimoak epe Cove Oysters ; GO cases sardines, 1-2 1-3 1-4 and 4-4 boxes; 3H eases fresh peache doz asparagus; 150 doz preserved meats; 24 doz tomato sauce; ens and corn; doz Orange marmalade; loz ase’d Eng sauces; 60 doz Eng mustard; 25 cases yround pepper, in glass; 50 cases pie fruits: 50 cases brandy fruits; 12 cases of gal brandy peaches; 15 bales gunny bags; 70 cases salt, in sacks; Forsaleby Wa. Tl. COLEMAN ¢ CO. 86-lm eor Califotnia and Front sts, mm CASES Necrar Tosacco; eD 30 cases Saunders and choice of the west tobacco; 150 1-8 casks and kegs Cognac brandy ; 100 kegs cherry brandy; 25 1-4casks port wine; 50 kegs Malaga wine: 30 kegs Stoughton bitters; 20 kgs br’y peaches NiGERSON’S Sve@ar-Curep © = at the lowest market . 250 cases claret wine; 30 cases Hock wine; 25 cases absynthe; 200 cases champaign cider 20 M La Norma cigars; 15 M La Nacional do; 23 M Upman’s cigars; 50 M Paraguay cigars; . 50 doz axes; 75 doz helves; 9Q7 ad Washington and Merchant sts., PRESH JEWELRY--JACKS a] Forstle by ) and Jewelry, WOODRUFF, importers of Watches . 4 Montgomery st., between . San Fran-. Wa. T. COLEMA Nand CO 86-Tin cor, California and Front sts AX TRACTING GOLD FROM QUARTZ 4 slessrs. Crirrenpen & Newtanp have . cisco, have just received per steamer Pana-. had in successful operation, for the last three Ina, a lary items in watches and jewelry ever landed in . this port, consisting of diamend, ruby, emerdue and unpaid. You are therefore required . to appear and answer the complaint of said . plaintiff within three months from this date or said plaintiff will take judgment against vou by defanit for said snm, with damages, latercst, and costs, according to law. Witness, Theodore Miller, clerk of the district court for the 10th judicial SEAS. district, Nevada county, with the seal affixed, this 29th day of November, a p 1851. 42.3 Turo. MIvver. Lumber of all kinds for Sale. TING purchased an interest in the Histon aly Mil! on eet Creek, i » owned by Reden ¢ McBane, any di og be furnished with bills of lumber at ‘he shortest notice, by calling. on meat Daie f Hirst’s Store orat the \ apar 135 Ser } 1th heh : ald, and opal pins, riugs and earrings, fine London, Duplex and lever watches, cased in California gold (by one of their firm in New Yerk,) tea sets, solid gold charms, &c. Silver ware in all its branches. manufacifornia gold specimen and other jewelry made to order, at short notice and reasonable advance, Chronometers rated by transit accurately; chronometer and watch repairing executed in the most thorough manner and warranted Feb. 12th 1852 84-1m WRENCE and SWORD ER ST. LA FISH. Threshing machines, Horse powers; Fanning mills; Platform and store tracks; Cylinder straw cutters; Hay knives; scythes and handles; Grain cradles, etc. ete., for sale by Bryant & Co. corner Sansome and Clay sts. 86-1m San Francisco. HE ENTERPRISE HOTEL—Long Wharf, near Sansome strect—Has just been opened for the reception of boarders and travellers, and can accommodate one hundred lodgers with comfortable and pleasant quarters The attention of citizens and travellers is respectfelly directed to this new establishment. The proprietors promise the best fare of the market at the nost reasonable rates. Gire theiw a call SO-3in invoice of the most recherche} months anew process for the extraction of Gold from Quartz, and are now ready io treat with parties tor the same on liberal tei The process isthe cheapest, the must rapid, and the most complete ever employed, and can be attached to stampers. or any ether method vot crushing the rock. Apply te WM. H. STEVENS, Agent for the proprietors, Battery st, bet. Clay and Washinton. 80-Ir Information VV ANTED of Stephen C. Stanley. who left Cincinnati March 1850. ‘The last time heard from, he was mining on Steamboat Bar, North Fork of North Yuba river. He wos about six feet high, isa sheet iron worker by trade--has been reported that he left the above place to return horse, and was murderedon the road to Downieville, or between Downieville and the Negro Tent. Any information will be thank/ully received by addressing Wa. T. GARRETT, Of the firm of Garrett & Moore. RAO w Hallet st. San Franciseo. r F. ARGENTI and Co, BANKERS, Montgomery st, bet. Ciay and Commercial, —ftefer to and draw on— Brown, Bros & Co. New York, Brown, Shipley and Co. Liverpool, Yamuel Nicholson and Co, New Orleans, Browns and Bowen, Philadelphia, James Adger and Co, Charleston, Morrell and Dickey, Mobile, T B Curtis Esq, Boston, Geo B Cumming, Savannah, Alex Brown and Son, Baltimore Good clean Gold dust bought at $27, per oz. and forwarded, covered by insurance, tothe Unnited States 76-3 . room about fifty feet broad at the base, ~“> . the floor was very smooth, and the ‘Cayd and roofed . ote Graveyard’ finished our exploration. and thirty in height, walle ler in sport, accidentally leaving this . broad aperture. A passage, about . A L ot ‘five feet high and thirty in length, . 8¢ the light of day. The floor was covthrough the rock, led us te another . ge the bones of the cayote (prailarge room, of a circular form, about found an entrance near where we saw fifty feet in diameter, with a high roof. AN, i h *, the light, and once in the cavern, were his had been named “The Bishop’s . unable to find their way out, and 80 per. Palace,” and being ealled upon to do . ished of hunger. so, I dedieated the place to ‘The! There wasone room we did not enChurch in Boston ’—not the Church . tt; #8 water had obstructed the pasmentioaed by the Puritan fathers as . Shee pent is probable others may be situated there, but our Church. The . "Theme written this description with title given to the room had been sugy view to give your readers as good an gested by its fancied resemblance to a) jdea as I am capable of imparting, of Catholic Chapel. Zhis room is inthis wonderful place, and have measur;deed a most singular place. In the . ed topographically only so faras I deem‘centre, formed by droppings from the . ed necessary to aid the imagination. — . roof, is a huge petrifaction, not unlike ah ba rp in Europe, would be o 'a pulpit in shape, suspended from the . wien tie f yah andi but situated we aL) , , few of your readers will proroot are numerous stalactites, some bably ever visit it. I walked ten miles large, some small, all as white aS . over the mountains and slept on the snow, and one very much resembling . ground of a cold night in December, to a chandelier. Around the sides are . see it, and am well repaid. It is one of , yards from the main entrance, through } an orifice in the roof of which we could The animals had probably . calcareous substances in many fantas. . . . . tic and indescribable forms; but one . petrifaction very much resembles a vase, and in its centre falls continually the water, dripping from a huge stalactite above. A gentleman who accompanied me, measured with a stick, as well as he; could, the distance we traversed in this wonderful labyrinth, and has furnishe . ed me with a copy of his notes. Concerning the room we entered after written “Arch hamber and Flat Pass, 40 feet. Chen “Door way entrance to Water Room, 30 feet.’ The Water Room, is a room where water stands in pools upon the floor. Moody Entrance and Vault, 25 feet. This entrance is a passage so small that we were obliged to force ourselves through it,as a weasel goes through a cranny in a wall, and the bottom being covered with soft, moist clay, it was no easy or pleasant underiaking. It led us to a Vault with black walle, muddy floor and craggy roof—a sombic place, eceming a fit receptacle for the dead. It produced no pleasing sensation, and we passe from it, through an opening in the rock, to Oriental Hall. This room is about forty-five feet in diame. ter, and so covered, roof and sides, . with calcareous petrifaction,'that it ap. pears to have been chiseled out of solid marble by a most cunning work. man. ‘There are draperies and fountains, candelabra and lounges, and a thousand delicate petrifactions having no similarity in art. ‘wonder, and walked lightly as I went ving ea ¢ . . prejudicial to our neutrality I beheld with . bou those bye places in which Nature often performs her most wonderful acts, as if . seeking for her choicest spots unprefun. ed by human eyes. Mexican News.—-Our dates from . own risk, differs from the lawyer’ jion, and decides fur himself; in . with eraggy rocks, as if thrown togeth. This last was an apartment about 150)\case, if the Court of Appeals d support his decision, he is liable for . ages. Wretched as is the conduct of \il case, however, that of a crimina is infinitely worse. The good old ciple, that a man must be consid innocent until he is proved guilty, i actly reversed. The party arraig (always supposing him to be a poor . il.) is set down as guilty, and then . whole labor of the court is to prove . s0. He is firwt examined at length, . not only is intimidation made use . force a confession from him, but hi . plies to the questions proposed, are quently garbled and mutilated. A instance, a man accused for murde asked, “were you not at such a plac such a day? “I passed there earl the morning.” “Write down,” says judge “that he confesses he was the This is no exaggeration, I assure but a case which happened to my . knowledge. You may see what cha of fair play the prisoner has. But protection lies in the delay. After the evidence, &c., has b sent to the Granadian lawyer, as i {civil case, it frequently sleepg fo year or more ; for as the lawyer g no fee for his opinion ina crim . Mexico are as late as the 28th February. . case, he will not interrupt his busin . The news contained in our files of Mex-. to give one. . ico city papers is of but little importance. . de Mexico,” which sailed from Tampico . for Matamoras with munitions of war for . . the garrison there, returned to port on the 15th of Feb., without landing there. . . #es-—among others, to the opposition of . the American authorities at Brownsville, who allege their inability (in case the steamer should enter the river) to prevent the adventurers encainped on . our territory. from taking possession of her. Also to the opposition of the American quarter master at Brownsville, who . objected to the disembarkation of the, /munilions on American crafts, a8 being . A correspondent of the Trait d’Union, . writing from Acapulco, dilates upon the advantages accruing to the States of Central America and New Granada, for . their liberal policy towards the Ame-. ricans, and bitterly laments the unfounded jealousy of Mexico, which deprives itself and the world of the benfits which would result from the opening of the Tehuantepec route. A route, he says, which had Mexico chosen, might have annihilated the others, and cen~ tralized the commerce of the Pacific, of China, and the Indies He recommends the construction of a good read to the capital, and the extenston to the steampe! now running between California and Panama, of all possible facilities, in. order to induce some of the homeward nd passengers to take ths route by, Mexico en tend of the twoothers. --.4/!4. The Mexican war steamer, “ Estado . Before his decision declared, the prisoner escapes, 0 revolution frees him, or someth turns up to keep him from being s iand so he goes “unwhipped of justic There are not more than twenty Bishop’s Palace, he has . This has been imputed to several cau. thirty lawyers in the State, but that after all, only a doubtful blessing. Distincursnep Arrival-~-Tue Du or York.---The brig Franklin Ada brought down from Puget’s Sound, Indian chief, called the “Duke of Yo He is one of the finest and most int ligent leoking men of the Indian He has a very fine large head and fad jand a piercing eye, and speaks Engli a little, and seems very desirous of ii formation about ‘‘ America,” as he ¢ the United States. He is certainl remarkable man, and may be consid ed the Humboldt of his tribe. So an ious is he to acquire knowledge, that . set out without being able to induce a iof hia people te accompany him inh ladventuref. The Duke is literally on !of nature's noblemen, fresh from his n tive land. He dresses neatly but plai 'ly, and appears to be very medest }unassuming. He would doubtless fe grateful for some attention and faci . ties for information.--Picayune. ‘ Litthy,’ said lisping Bill Smut, ‘ you wont love me, thay tho; and you love me, and dont like to thay th thqueethe ny. hand,’

beer Ae ee ee ee Ye ' _ NEVADA JOURN a VOI. 1. are —— = JOUR PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AND SUNDAY MORNING BY SARGENT & ALBAN. AL. NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1852. San Francisco Advertis ements, VAL. away, for I felt the enchantment of the . place, and did not wish to meet a Spi-; i XTRACT rit in the Sierra Nevada, that might . ” rom the Nicaragua Corresgon introduce me to some such orgery as me S. F. Picayune. the German poets tell us are the sports; —_I do not suppose that in any q of the spirits of the Rhine. . boasting of free institutions, t “Ringlet Hall, 30 fect.” This ought. 8ystem_ isso miserably defecti to have been called boudorr or whatever . this. There are three civil cou English word expresses the same thing, . court of conciliation, the court fan Francisco Adverments. JAMES B. RAY’S GRAND RAFFLE! NO HUMBUG! or German, English, French, and China FANCY GOODS, JEWELRY, AND PAINTINGS; Imported especially for the occasion, COMPRISING NATURAL CURIOSITY. Zhe following sketch of a cavern, {though published over a year ago in an Atlantic paper, will be found interesting, as giving an account of ono of California’s Natural Curiosities. It ‘is situated near San Antonio in Cala. { qi’ FRANCISCO AGENCY.—Wa Jew. eur, Jr. isthe Agent for thir prper for San Francisco, andis authorized to reeeive noney, . sign receipts for the sane, and transact other business relating to newer and job print. ing as the representative o sis : SARGENT & ALBAN. San Francisco Advertisements. Ofmce on Broad street, opposite the Placer Hotel. TERMS, The Patrons of the ‘‘Nevapa JourNnat,”” . veras county ; and the author was one . It is delicate “place, finished and fit-. instance, and the cowrt of ap t 3 2 alife > e a ’ Pr) s ‘ ° honda Sug Pi hsecthata 300 . also at Bonnestell & Williams’ Buok and Sta-} fancy jewelry of every kind and quality, It is situated at a place known as . /U% sanetorum. Lt is all of virgin white peng hen apt oe yoy to the Giaets cop Ib-ote. . Honaey Store, on Clay, near Kearney sireet— Amounting to $20,000 ! . McKennie’s Diggings, on one of the . " Pure a8 marble, and beautiful as cision OF the third iy’ Soa sity ella hl ‘. andoneat the Despatch Printing Office, on 65'"'5"? the rainbow. The roof is hung with In the court of Coneiliation, ftyNo subscriptions received for less time thanene mouth. ISCONSIN HOUSE anno Ten Pin Alley, in Newtown, for sale’ The undersigned offers the above property forsale on the most favorable terms. The situation is one of the most favorable. will do well to call on the premises and learn further particulars, The Alley is in complete order. !OHN SMITH. Feb , fat 2. 1952.m NOR SALE OR b icNT—The house situ% ated on Wood's Ravine, known ag the Quartzyille [Stel and Store, together with the furniture. bur fixtures, lot and adjoining farm fenced in, ready for cultivation. This house is doing a large business at the present lime, being in the centre of the quartz region. It will be disposed of Jow as the proprietore are clocing up their business to return to the States. Kor further particulars enquire von the premises of BEAUCLERK & BUTSCH. Feb. 7th 1852. 83-1m* Nevada Hotel & Stage Office. Main street, Nevada City. subscribers have WANE Any person wish . ing to engage in tie boarding house business, . the pleasure of an. . pouncing to the public generally that they , have leased the above well known hotel, for th period of six months. The Nevada is the largest public house in the city, and is situated in Phe most business part ef the town, and of‘fers inducements (o travellers seeking a temporary home, that ean perhaps 4¢ found ia no ‘other hotel in thé mines. ‘The sieeping apartwents are wei! vent! tated and will be furnished at times with clean and corifurtable bedding. ‘Tho table will be sanplied with all the variety of the season, and all the substartials the market affords. The bar is always supplied with the choicest segars and liquors. In proprietors bey leave to assure the publie that ne effort shall be wanting on their pert to make the Nevada, in every respect, the MorRL OF THE PLACER. Moard and lodging per week, all ahort, t $17.00 in ad’ee hoard without lodging 14,09 Roard and ledging per day 2.00 ‘Roard withant lodging a Stiges for Saeramento cily, every morniugy . Montgomery street, and at the Mechanics and Traders’ Exchange, Rox No. 1, Montgomery street, where all advertisements intended for that paper mav be leit, and will be promptly forwarded. WM. JEWELL, Jr., Agent. UTTER —100 firkins prime table butter, 45 casks of 33 lb kegs in pickle, i0 do 15 lb do de, 25 do 10 lb do do, The above is of superior quality, for sale by , B, WEIR, Sansome st, near Jackson. “Neue MERCANTILE HOTEL, and ug Restaurant, Front street, one door He north of the Pacific Wharf, San Francisco. This establishment is now open for the reception of permanent and transient boarders. The house being centrally located in the business part of the city, and convenient to the landing of the Sacramento boats, render this to the country merchants one of the most desirable houses in the city. Rooms furnished or unfurnished, can be had at reasonable rates, by the day, week or month, and meals evn be obtained at any hour in the Restaurant, where will be tound at all times the best the market attords. 75-3in GEO, BROWN. on 753m Sutter [ron Works, Rincon Point, San Francisco. ey 4 ENGINES and boilers, machinery for crushing and pulverizing quartz rock, castings in iron and brass, wrought iron work, water wheel castings, and all kinds of machinery made to order. ‘ Being largely engaged in manufacturing quartz rock machinery, and — an extensive assortment of patterns on hand, are prepared to receive and execnte orders with. dispatch. Parties wishing further information, or to contract for machinery, by addressing Geo. . K Gluyas, Superintendant, as above, or Jas. Blair, Esq., Agent, San Francisco, will be pootee attended to. Aug. 30—3m* DANIEL OKESON, JOUN DENNIE. AINTS, Oils, Window Giass, ete. The Among which will be found 1 Splendid German Barbadore, with four large mirrors, beautifully finished, and the richest thing in California. Valued at $1500. A MaayiFicent Rosewoop Piano, laid with Pearl, Valued at $750; Together with many other Rare and Valuable Articles, ranging in price from Five to Five Hundred Dollars. 10,000 TVickets---$2 each. Eight Hundred Prizes—Twelve Blanks to one Prize. To be decided under the management of . Sides, running parallet with tle moun-. resembling a frozen waterfall. a Committee of Gentlemen selected by the holders of Tickets. fa” This is one of the most extensive Invoices ever offered in a Ratlie to the public Catalogues of the Prizes can be procured at his store, on Sansome street, between California and Pine, over the stores of J. A McCrea & Co. and B. C. Horn & Co. = Deeming it unnecessary to mention all the articles in the Catalogue, the proprietor respectfully invites the ladies and gentlemen of San Francisco to an examination of his extensive assortment of Goods. His articles will be on exhibition until the 15th of Marck Tickers may be procured at the Umon and Times & Transcript offices Sacramento City. (> Chances to be Rafiled for every evening at the store. James B. Ray. 89«td OTICE.—The Raffie of James B. Ray will be postponed until the 5th of March. Mr. Ray feels under obligations to the publie for their liberal patronage, and asks the indulgence of ticket holders ten days longer. His goods are on exhibition at his store, to which he respectfully invites the attention of the ladies and gentlemen. 91-td 30 FIRKINS Gosuen Butrer, in Brine; 15 casks butter, in kegs; 75 kegs lard; 30 cases lard in tins; 150 hf and qr bbls mackerel; 400 bales Manila sugar; 15 600 Ibs China : ugar; 100 bbls and hf bbls crushed sugar; about forty five degrees, the path forks of the Calaveras river, and about . . 60 miles from Stockton. Any one ac. quainted with the Geography of Cali. thousands of stalactities, not massive, but delicate as a gossamer. A rough hand might sweep away the whole at a . is about midway between the base and . damage. It issuch a place as begets ‘the summit of the Sierra Nevada. . £004 humor, and brings smiles upon the ‘have, at different times, crossed the beholder, but as indescribable as the ‘branches of the Calaveras in about this odeere : ane Fountaiu a pagal say Riga at Nee dre tee ° . feet. The chief peculiarity of this room range of country, aud observed a stra-. is a continuous calcareous petrifaction, ta of limestone crop) ing out at the hill . from the top to the bottom, on one side ‘tainchain. At MeKovnie’s, this stra. about thirty feet high, and halfias many . ta forms the base of ihe soil, and in. bread. If any one of your readers will over . Magine acascade of about these dimen. sions suddenly changed to marble, they will have a pretty good idea of the iFountain,” which gave the room its jname. “Furnace reom, 30 feet.” This was discovered during our exploration. if did not myself see it, but the discoverer informed me there was nothing to be seen in it worth going out of my way for. The above description applies te what . places appears in rough masses . considerable distance over the surface. In October last, Mv. Joseph W. Vayjlor, formerly of Hollidaysburg, Va., while looking among the rocks that . Ser out of the hill side near his camp, discovered a small opening, and clear. ing away a few loose fragments, found . it led 10 a large cavern. This, he and . his Companions have SINCE explored to . we saw during our exploration of nearthe distance of 12 or 15 hundred feel. . ly halfa day, the termination of which When 1 visited Taylor's Cave, as it . brought us back io the place whence is called, my companions and myself . Wwe started. In order that Mr. Taylor provided ourselves with candles, and . Might avail himself of the information He willingly consented, and the party exploration was deferred to the next were conducted to the mouth of the morning. cavern, when lighting our candles, we. Our second underground research was entered singly through an aperture in. by no means so extensive as the first; the rock not more than two feet and a . but entering as before, we took another half broad. Our first performance . passage from the Entrance Hall, and then, was to scramble down, as best . found ourselves in the “Devil's Supper as Room.” The room was not unlike mawe could, a plane inclined at an angle ny of the others, except there was in it , a petrifaction resembling a table, and covered with loose earth and fiagments . jn the floor a place worn so that it someof rock, a distance of one hundred feet. . what resembled a foot-print. People Here we found a level spot of a few . are apt to associate the idea of his SaIt. is. which the Alcalde presides, the are brought together, and an ‘made by the magistrate, or by infornia, will understand that the point . blow, but art could never repair the appointed by him, to settle matt ‘icubly and without further procd \Ifa settlement cannot be effect: . case is sent on tothe court of stumce, where it is tried; a feasted party can then, if he sees Ki the case to Leon, and lay it . the eourt of appeals. The exp tending this latter move, howe . tere many from it. The whole system of practic . completely different from ours, . Appears, at first sight, to an An . nlmost incomprehensible how it ‘made to work at all. The ju isoon as elected, appoints a “Direc i his court, and the person so ap _ becomes in reality, the jndge, th . referring every thing to him, and . guided altogether by whut his D lsays. Thus, ifa motion be ma . judge turns to the other with an . ring eye-——“Overruled,” says the . tor; “overruled,” echoes the Judg /soon to the end of the chapter. , The jury law was repealed som ‘ago, so that all cases are tried nd . ply before the judge. The wi are all examined separately. but allowed to be cross-examined; ar principals in the aetion, togethe their lawyers, are turned out o not unfrequently, while the wit examined by the Judge! The ey is all written down, and then—st of all!—imstead of a decision bein en, the evidence, briefs, &c., &c., sent to some lawyer in Granada o with a request that he give his op As he gets a fee for this, he does his opinion is confirmed by the tor,and announced by the Judge; . . ! . od 50 bbls brown sugar; fur Marysville, every other moraing. subscriber offers for s-le a full assortment 900 sucka Rio.cofee: 160 sacks Chill beana: . feet, and turned to survey this En. tanic majesty with caverns and pluces upon the farce is ended, unless ick (NDERSON SBLENS. of sizes of English and Brench window glass! 5-4 Say Fing. walnuts: 60 cases ground coffee; (trance Hall, as Mr. Trylor has named . "9dergrotnd, and this mnemotechnic . peal be made—or, as happens on : . : from 10 * 12 to 30 by nee * ese Maieanitns . 300 pkgs blk and green teas: 10 cases chocolate; . jt— our candles lighted up the scene sympathy, I suppose, gave the title of. very rare occasions, where p Lodging House. racket Gath om =, ete, ete, Feeling . 200 tine cheese, 10 1b ea; 20 bbis Carolina rie? . and 9 ay ae ‘ . ~.’. Devil’s Supper Room to this place, A . friendship or interest steps in,the THE undars { having leased the Bar . ‘aatahil ra past taunts from & generous pub400 kegs and hf bbls syrup; " a Bee See ie) aber ue te place called the “Ball Room.” because . on his own responsibility, and d .artments of the Gregory Viause , mmodate allthose whe y wieh lodwing by tie night of The Deda and raeme hive been thorongbly renevat d, acdtie pledges Rimaeif to keep them in a Kootn and lod, uA is read tu week good order at Gti teins TH tf rEQY O KILBOURN See WANG HOTEL, * ront ~stenmbou har :, rents te fepu tation 297 qiiet. order, Clean bert Prater dk Lienvas Quartavide Horel & Store. BY BEAUCLERK AND ROYSCH N Weod's Ravine. formerly. James Store. We would inforin our friends nuilt a new house at the are HOW prepared to accomNic with Beard and Lodging t we have late to stand, and 1 i date the; an the most: Provisions and Liquors, of ail kinds for 69 easonable terms sale 3in ‘ itn ey e¢ California Hotel, (Rongh and Ready,) (PNA subseriber havieg purchased and ‘lie, he would still solicit a share of patronage. . ly Importing, Wholesale and Jobbing business. . refitted the above house, formerly kept . by D. W. Auldridy: tetrain the traveling public onstant aim of ike preprieter of the Califurnia Hotel to render it a quict and cemfortuble #toppiug » ace for the traveler, and « home for the revular boarder The bar and table are furnished with the », ls now prepared te enIt will ke the , best the country affords, and in all the ap. oGin de given to neatness and gooe order. LE Rt eee B. CRABTREE. C. F. SMITH. Justice of the Peace ATTORNEY AT LAW. § § VA bh its Nevada County, GRA STATE OF CALIFORNIA, connty 0 W) Nevada, ss. District court, 10th judicia district. Jonathan L. Peters vs. Wendell Buck, Robert S. Sinclair, Thomas J. Pyatt, Bergen H. Low, and G W Reemer. Tho people of the state of California to Wendell Buck, Rohert S Sinclair, Thomas J Pyatt, Bergen H Low, Randolph Low, . Rene Pardesus, and G@ W Reemer, greeting You are hereby notified that on the 25th day of December, a 1851, suit was com. menced against you by the plaintiff in said court to recover the sum of seven hundred thirteen dollars and thirty five cents, now Randolph Low, Rene Pardesus . j its brane : . tured from native California silver; also Calrents of the house every attention will .

. pri Ror. Marss, Jackson st, 8 doors above Sansome, 69-31 San Francisce . Pp. COGSWELL, Destisr--Of. E « fice on the Plaza, next door north of . the Cahfornia Exchange. ‘Teeth filled with pare gold, and warranted for ten years. Op-/} erations ow tevins the most reasonable for . cash only 49-3m } DRUGS! DRUGS !--Srory, REDIN ron & C Importers, and Wholesale Denlers in Lr . Chemicals Perfumery, Fancy Articles, “Surgival Instruments, §&¢. nts for Wistar’s Balsam ot Wild Cherry Osroud’s Indian Cholig CorbettUs Shaker’a Si lla, ( Company's Medicin r Hunt's Life Kuixir, and tlyart’s balsam; building, corner of Sansome and Merchant sts, San Francisco. Having respectively disposed of our retail stocks and stands, we have this day associated . ourselves together for the transaction ofa stricturge, Werdic mes. Ay ule, raetonherg Mhank{ul for the past liberal patronage at our} friends and the public, we solicit a continuance of the same, trusting we shall be enabled, by thus uniting, and by the residence of one of the partnere in the Atlantic States, to answer their orders more promptiy and satisfactorilly . than ever before. Cc. R. STORY & CO. REDINGTON §& CO, fcjWe are constantly receiving, per clippor ships, and efter for sale, ices, for cash ONLY, large invoices of deCHEMICALS, etc sirable, Drues, Mepicines, 82-3m 1275 cases pepper sau . 69 bxs macearoni; . 9 in store and for sale by WM. T. COLEMAN & CO, Cor. California and Fronts sts. 86-Iimn e Hams; 58 bbls Kilburn’s hams; 51 bbls mess pork; 15U hf bbisand kegs dried apples and peaches 250 bxs soap Lblb ea; 30 cases white soap; 100 bxs chemical! olive soap; 20 bbls tapioca; 173 cases hf gal pickles; 300 kgs pickles,5 gal100 cases tomato catsup 25 bxs adamantine candles (uf oxs Fr spm candles; 60 doz 2 hhds buckets; 87 doz 8 hhas buckets; 20 nests tubs; Forsaleby ‘Vu. T,. COLEMAN & CO: S6-Im cor, California and Front sts. sBeb4 DOZEN “Wrient's’’ Banrimoak epe Cove Oysters ; GO cases sardines, 1-2 1-3 1-4 and 4-4 boxes; 3H eases fresh peache doz asparagus; 150 doz preserved meats; 24 doz tomato sauce; ens and corn; doz Orange marmalade; loz ase’d Eng sauces; 60 doz Eng mustard; 25 cases yround pepper, in glass; 50 cases pie fruits: 50 cases brandy fruits; 12 cases of gal brandy peaches; 15 bales gunny bags; 70 cases salt, in sacks; Forsaleby Wa. Tl. COLEMAN ¢ CO. 86-lm eor Califotnia and Front sts, mm CASES Necrar Tosacco; eD 30 cases Saunders and choice of the west tobacco; 150 1-8 casks and kegs Cognac brandy ; 100 kegs cherry brandy; 25 1-4casks port wine; 50 kegs Malaga wine: 30 kegs Stoughton bitters; 20 kgs br’y peaches NiGERSON’S Sve@ar-Curep © = at the lowest market . 250 cases claret wine; 30 cases Hock wine; 25 cases absynthe; 200 cases champaign cider 20 M La Norma cigars; 15 M La Nacional do; 23 M Upman’s cigars; 50 M Paraguay cigars; . 50 doz axes; 75 doz helves; 9Q7 ad Washington and Merchant sts., PRESH JEWELRY--JACKS a] Forstle by ) and Jewelry, WOODRUFF, importers of Watches . 4 Montgomery st., between . San Fran-. Wa. T. COLEMA Nand CO 86-Tin cor, California and Front sts AX TRACTING GOLD FROM QUARTZ 4 slessrs. Crirrenpen & Newtanp have . cisco, have just received per steamer Pana-. had in successful operation, for the last three Ina, a lary items in watches and jewelry ever landed in . this port, consisting of diamend, ruby, emerdue and unpaid. You are therefore required . to appear and answer the complaint of said . plaintiff within three months from this date or said plaintiff will take judgment against vou by defanit for said snm, with damages, latercst, and costs, according to law. Witness, Theodore Miller, clerk of the district court for the 10th judicial SEAS. district, Nevada county, with the seal affixed, this 29th day of November, a p 1851. 42.3 Turo. MIvver. Lumber of all kinds for Sale. TING purchased an interest in the Histon aly Mil! on eet Creek, i » owned by Reden ¢ McBane, any di og be furnished with bills of lumber at ‘he shortest notice, by calling. on meat Daie f Hirst’s Store orat the \ apar 135 Ser } 1th heh : ald, and opal pins, riugs and earrings, fine London, Duplex and lever watches, cased in California gold (by one of their firm in New Yerk,) tea sets, solid gold charms, &c. Silver ware in all its branches. manufacifornia gold specimen and other jewelry made to order, at short notice and reasonable advance, Chronometers rated by transit accurately; chronometer and watch repairing executed in the most thorough manner and warranted Feb. 12th 1852 84-1m WRENCE and SWORD ER ST. LA FISH. Threshing machines, Horse powers; Fanning mills; Platform and store tracks; Cylinder straw cutters; Hay knives; scythes and handles; Grain cradles, etc. ete., for sale by Bryant & Co. corner Sansome and Clay sts. 86-1m San Francisco. HE ENTERPRISE HOTEL—Long Wharf, near Sansome strect—Has just been opened for the reception of boarders and travellers, and can accommodate one hundred lodgers with comfortable and pleasant quarters The attention of citizens and travellers is respectfelly directed to this new establishment. The proprietors promise the best fare of the market at the nost reasonable rates. Gire theiw a call SO-3in invoice of the most recherche} months anew process for the extraction of Gold from Quartz, and are now ready io treat with parties tor the same on liberal tei The process isthe cheapest, the must rapid, and the most complete ever employed, and can be attached to stampers. or any ether method vot crushing the rock. Apply te WM. H. STEVENS, Agent for the proprietors, Battery st, bet. Clay and Washinton. 80-Ir Information VV ANTED of Stephen C. Stanley. who left Cincinnati March 1850. ‘The last time heard from, he was mining on Steamboat Bar, North Fork of North Yuba river. He wos about six feet high, isa sheet iron worker by trade--has been reported that he left the above place to return horse, and was murderedon the road to Downieville, or between Downieville and the Negro Tent. Any information will be thank/ully received by addressing Wa. T. GARRETT, Of the firm of Garrett & Moore. RAO w Hallet st. San Franciseo. r F. ARGENTI and Co, BANKERS, Montgomery st, bet. Ciay and Commercial, —ftefer to and draw on— Brown, Bros & Co. New York, Brown, Shipley and Co. Liverpool, Yamuel Nicholson and Co, New Orleans, Browns and Bowen, Philadelphia, James Adger and Co, Charleston, Morrell and Dickey, Mobile, T B Curtis Esq, Boston, Geo B Cumming, Savannah, Alex Brown and Son, Baltimore Good clean Gold dust bought at $27, per oz. and forwarded, covered by insurance, tothe Unnited States 76-3 . room about fifty feet broad at the base, ~“> . the floor was very smooth, and the ‘Cayd and roofed . ote Graveyard’ finished our exploration. and thirty in height, walle ler in sport, accidentally leaving this . broad aperture. A passage, about . A L ot ‘five feet high and thirty in length, . 8¢ the light of day. The floor was covthrough the rock, led us te another . ge the bones of the cayote (prailarge room, of a circular form, about found an entrance near where we saw fifty feet in diameter, with a high roof. AN, i h *, the light, and once in the cavern, were his had been named “The Bishop’s . unable to find their way out, and 80 per. Palace,” and being ealled upon to do . ished of hunger. so, I dedieated the place to ‘The! There wasone room we did not enChurch in Boston ’—not the Church . tt; #8 water had obstructed the pasmentioaed by the Puritan fathers as . Shee pent is probable others may be situated there, but our Church. The . "Theme written this description with title given to the room had been sugy view to give your readers as good an gested by its fancied resemblance to a) jdea as I am capable of imparting, of Catholic Chapel. Zhis room is inthis wonderful place, and have measur;deed a most singular place. In the . ed topographically only so faras I deem‘centre, formed by droppings from the . ed necessary to aid the imagination. — . roof, is a huge petrifaction, not unlike ah ba rp in Europe, would be o 'a pulpit in shape, suspended from the . wien tie f yah andi but situated we aL) , , few of your readers will proroot are numerous stalactites, some bably ever visit it. I walked ten miles large, some small, all as white aS . over the mountains and slept on the snow, and one very much resembling . ground of a cold night in December, to a chandelier. Around the sides are . see it, and am well repaid. It is one of , yards from the main entrance, through } an orifice in the roof of which we could The animals had probably . calcareous substances in many fantas. . . . . tic and indescribable forms; but one . petrifaction very much resembles a vase, and in its centre falls continually the water, dripping from a huge stalactite above. A gentleman who accompanied me, measured with a stick, as well as he; could, the distance we traversed in this wonderful labyrinth, and has furnishe . ed me with a copy of his notes. Concerning the room we entered after written “Arch hamber and Flat Pass, 40 feet. Chen “Door way entrance to Water Room, 30 feet.’ The Water Room, is a room where water stands in pools upon the floor. Moody Entrance and Vault, 25 feet. This entrance is a passage so small that we were obliged to force ourselves through it,as a weasel goes through a cranny in a wall, and the bottom being covered with soft, moist clay, it was no easy or pleasant underiaking. It led us to a Vault with black walle, muddy floor and craggy roof—a sombic place, eceming a fit receptacle for the dead. It produced no pleasing sensation, and we passe from it, through an opening in the rock, to Oriental Hall. This room is about forty-five feet in diame. ter, and so covered, roof and sides, . with calcareous petrifaction,'that it ap. pears to have been chiseled out of solid marble by a most cunning work. man. ‘There are draperies and fountains, candelabra and lounges, and a thousand delicate petrifactions having no similarity in art. ‘wonder, and walked lightly as I went ving ea ¢ . . prejudicial to our neutrality I beheld with . bou those bye places in which Nature often performs her most wonderful acts, as if . seeking for her choicest spots unprefun. ed by human eyes. Mexican News.—-Our dates from . own risk, differs from the lawyer’ jion, and decides fur himself; in . with eraggy rocks, as if thrown togeth. This last was an apartment about 150)\case, if the Court of Appeals d support his decision, he is liable for . ages. Wretched as is the conduct of \il case, however, that of a crimina is infinitely worse. The good old ciple, that a man must be consid innocent until he is proved guilty, i actly reversed. The party arraig (always supposing him to be a poor . il.) is set down as guilty, and then . whole labor of the court is to prove . s0. He is firwt examined at length, . not only is intimidation made use . force a confession from him, but hi . plies to the questions proposed, are quently garbled and mutilated. A instance, a man accused for murde asked, “were you not at such a plac such a day? “I passed there earl the morning.” “Write down,” says judge “that he confesses he was the This is no exaggeration, I assure but a case which happened to my . knowledge. You may see what cha of fair play the prisoner has. But protection lies in the delay. After the evidence, &c., has b sent to the Granadian lawyer, as i {civil case, it frequently sleepg fo year or more ; for as the lawyer g no fee for his opinion ina crim . Mexico are as late as the 28th February. . case, he will not interrupt his busin . The news contained in our files of Mex-. to give one. . ico city papers is of but little importance. . de Mexico,” which sailed from Tampico . for Matamoras with munitions of war for . . the garrison there, returned to port on the 15th of Feb., without landing there. . . #es-—among others, to the opposition of . the American authorities at Brownsville, who allege their inability (in case the steamer should enter the river) to prevent the adventurers encainped on . our territory. from taking possession of her. Also to the opposition of the American quarter master at Brownsville, who . objected to the disembarkation of the, /munilions on American crafts, a8 being . A correspondent of the Trait d’Union, . writing from Acapulco, dilates upon the advantages accruing to the States of Central America and New Granada, for . their liberal policy towards the Ame-. ricans, and bitterly laments the unfounded jealousy of Mexico, which deprives itself and the world of the benfits which would result from the opening of the Tehuantepec route. A route, he says, which had Mexico chosen, might have annihilated the others, and cen~ tralized the commerce of the Pacific, of China, and the Indies He recommends the construction of a good read to the capital, and the extenston to the steampe! now running between California and Panama, of all possible facilities, in. order to induce some of the homeward nd passengers to take ths route by, Mexico en tend of the twoothers. --.4/!4. The Mexican war steamer, “ Estado . Before his decision declared, the prisoner escapes, 0 revolution frees him, or someth turns up to keep him from being s iand so he goes “unwhipped of justic There are not more than twenty Bishop’s Palace, he has . This has been imputed to several cau. thirty lawyers in the State, but that after all, only a doubtful blessing. Distincursnep Arrival-~-Tue Du or York.---The brig Franklin Ada brought down from Puget’s Sound, Indian chief, called the “Duke of Yo He is one of the finest and most int ligent leoking men of the Indian He has a very fine large head and fad jand a piercing eye, and speaks Engli a little, and seems very desirous of ii formation about ‘‘ America,” as he ¢ the United States. He is certainl remarkable man, and may be consid ed the Humboldt of his tribe. So an ious is he to acquire knowledge, that . set out without being able to induce a iof hia people te accompany him inh ladventuref. The Duke is literally on !of nature's noblemen, fresh from his n tive land. He dresses neatly but plai 'ly, and appears to be very medest }unassuming. He would doubtless fe grateful for some attention and faci . ties for information.--Picayune. ‘ Litthy,’ said lisping Bill Smut, ‘ you wont love me, thay tho; and you love me, and dont like to thay th thqueethe ny. hand,’