December 2, 1853 (4 pages)

. ete ¥ = ' ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE) THE NEVADA JOURNA THE JOURNAL PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY BUDD & SARGENT, ‘Office on Broad street, opposite the Court House. Nevada. ] TERDIS. Far one’ year, th @dVarice, }.25 ie &7 00 Por three t0Gnte, os . oe sg 56s poo shh dot 5 93. 200 : Ba A OLD PGE ES So 23 > Legal Blanks of all kinds for sale at this office. Job Worlrin all tts varietics, promptly and* neatly ‘executed, et reasonable rates. Advertisements inserted at low rates. Z. P. Fisher is our only authorized agent at San ‘rancisco. He may be found at his desk at the Merchanta’ Exchange. & Delano, et Wells, Fargo & Co.'s office, is our authorizedagent at Grass Valley. LTE SEARLE ser, For the Journal. THE MINER, BY QUILLDRIVER. Who boldly left his pleasant home, In a far distant land to roam 2 The Miner. td a Who, cressing o'er the mighty plains, Endured fatigue and suffered pains, All tor the hope of worldly gains 2 The Miner. Whe, when ke reached the land of gold, Confessed himself comyletely sold, With language quick and gestures bold, Declared the half had not b cen told ? The Miner, Who then pros; ected,” day by day, ‘To find where golden treasures lay, And every night would sigh and say, “YT wish that I had «taid away, 3ecause the “diggings” will not pay ?” The Miner, igs ' Who deeply digs in dark ravines, And makes a meal of pork amd beans, znd every night his rocker cleans— And sleeping, dreams of FAIrY scenes— Of maidens Fant, jast in their teens, Tripping across his NATIVE GREENS ? The Miner Who loves, in truth, the tiresome toil Of digging up the golden suil ? Who plays at eucre--studies ‘ Hoyle’ — When hungry tries his boots to boil, And will not let his liquor spoil, Sut cays that ein i3 smooth as of ? The Miner Who, in his daily deal is just, And never asks a man to trust, Unless perhaps he thinks he must, i Because, perchanee, he’s spent his dust ' The night before, while on a bust ? yi The Miner. . Who ever hopes to ‘make a strike,” j And swell above his friends in “Pike,” j And do just as his heart may like? d The Miner. Who is the man that’s bound to try To make a pike—Tve told you why— And works in weather, wet and dry, And rowers? feels when grub is Hien The Miner. ? Furerriciry on Vassers ar Se1.—A curious effect of electricity is mentioned in a letter ‘rom Capt. Tessier, of the ship Austria, to her owners. On her voyage from ChurlestonT: Liverpool, the ship encountered a heavy storm of thunder and lightning, which caused such a commotion among the elements that she fairly trembled in every timber. The lightning was heard to hiss as it struck the water near the . -hip. The chronometer stopped, and, on taking . it to pieces, the balance spring was found to be heavily charged with electricity,and bent ; and ul the rest of the works were more or less inDavaGe in THE Harpor.—We have . deen informed of a number of additional cases of damage to shipping, occasioned b the gale of Friday morning; with a few exceptions, they were of no great moment. to the night some of those vessels which had been started from their moorings, cons . tinued to work further injury. ‘Ine’ sh ip St. Lawrence having inflicted considerable damage upon the Invincible as well as herself, at the turn of the tide last evenin swung into the bark Eliza Tornton, grinding off her bowsprit, tearing away her bowstays, and staving in her cat-heads. The St. Lawrence was also materially injured, as it was found necessary tocut awaya great portion of her rigging andbulwarks. Her anchors are foul, and she is lying in a langerous position. ‘The brig A. D. Wolf, which was sunk on Friday afternoor, ix still lying at Long Wharf, her hull con.pletely submerged.— S. F. Herald, GRizzites.—One of the largest and anest grizzlies ever brought to the city, says the last Sacramento Uxion, was yesterday on exhibition in a cage near the landing ofthe steamer Confidence. It was captured in the mountains of California, and is now en route for the Atlantic States, where it is believed it will excite general astonishment. Although in its youth, it weighs over a thousand pounds. its color is a chestnut, and its power immense, a3 exhibited by its form and movements. Accompanying this monster is a second cage, containing a vouple of fine cubs, with a like destination. The Washington Union says that the articles which lately appeared in the New York Herald animadverting upor. the Cabinet, were penned by Wm. H. Seward.— We hardly believe that possible. Furious Galr.—We learn that a tremendous hurricane swept over Stockton, Sacramento and Marysville, Thursday night. Signs were dashed about at a feavrful rate, windows broken and shingles torn ; from the roofs of houses. ' &>\bia, by the Austrian, (on last Friday. aa < Plain of the Amazon. The last number of Graham’s Magazine contains an interesting article upon the great levels of the earth. The writer thus describes the Valley of the Amazon, which has recently attracted so much attention : The central level of South America bears the local name of Selvas, (woods, ) and extends along both sides o. the river Amazon, from the Andes to the ocean.— {t embraces on area about six times larger than France, and of equal size with European Russia. It is an immense fore®t region, with opén pa‘ches of a similar character to the Llanos, intersected by numerous rivers flowing into the great basin of the Amazon. This district is but little known to Europeans, except on the borders of the stream; and many of those have not been traversed through the whole of their course. The powerful vegetation here conceals ina great measure, the uniform level of the soil. The trees attain a great height, with straight clear stems, the foli/age uniting in a canopy above, and leaving ‘all beneath in perfect shade and quiet.— . This longitudinal development is unfavor‘able to protracted existence, as age and climate soon attack the trees; but others . Very speedily fill up the vacant places — . These primeval woods occupy about 719,. 000 square miles of territory ; and inciuding the waters, enclosed open plains, and some ranges of hills, the whole surface presents an area of 2,320,000. ‘The trees . Vary greatly in species, scarcely any two trees -tanding together being of the same kind. Thirty or forty different species are . found in an area of twenty square yards.— Bushes end creepers fill up the intervals . between them, uniting the whole together, ‘and conatituting a woody fabric which deihes the intrusion of man. “The industry of man,” says a recent writer, “has in all \other countries succeeded in subjecting 'the productive power of nature to his sway, and to direct its operation to his ends. In ithe Sahara it has taken complete posses‘sion of all the resources of the entire . country till it has arrived at the very lim‘its which nature herself has fixed. No . further improvement can here take place. In some countries situated within the polar cirele, a course of improvement has been . adopted, and is pursued with suceess. Its . progress is slow, but certain. The ungrateful and almost barren soil of the . Falkland Islands has even fallen under the fertilizing hand of man, and will doubtless . be converted into fruitful fields in the iress of time. But thore is :such will ever be the case the Ainazon. The produetive powers of . this country, it appears . tooactive to be subdued. If its soil was ‘but half as fertile, its air halfas moist, and . its vegetation half as vigorous as it iv, mar . would easily master nature, and compel it to administer to his wants, or to supply }him with riches. But he finds here that all the oiforts of his industry are in vain; he is overwhelmed by the bounties of najture. His mind sinks into despair when jhe contemplates the immense work before he him, whilst his body feels the exhaustion produced by that climate which imparts to the soil its never-eeasing power ot reproduction. He finds himself reluctantly compelled to abanden his plans, and to leave to nature that portion of the globe which she seems to have reserved for her exclusive property, and for her unfettered operations. ‘The plain of the Amazon is, perhaps, destined to remain forever a wilderness.” A Prussian, named Henry Von Pensche, who has been in the jail of Leignitz, in Hamburg, since 1850, claims to be a naturalized American citizen, and calls upon During the whole of Friday, extending in. . the United States to interfere on his behalf. Kossuth, the renowned Hungarian. patriot, has offered his services to the Sublime go in the event of a war with Russia. John Parrot who was stabbed at ColumPeter Nicolas, died , A conductor of anew paper, speaking of a cotemporary,says: “He was formerly a member of Congress, but rapidly arose till he obtained a respectable pesition as an editor. A noble example of perseverjance under depressing circumstances.” —Hrodigeit-els-ie-siehies. “Here, you little raseal give an account of yeursel you been ?” “A fter the girls, father.” “Did you ever know me to do s I was a boy ?” “No, sit ; but mother did.” , walk up and f. Where have 0, when The Boston Post says: “Naomi, the daughter of Enoch, was five hundred and eighty years old when she was married. — Courage, ladies !” A FOS sect Sele i Extent or Lonpon.—The capital of the British Kingdom, it is said, extends over an area of seventy-cight thousand and twenty-nine acres, or one hundred and twenty-two square miles ; and the number of its inhabitants rapidly increasing, was two millions three hundred and sixty-two thousand two-hurdred and thirty-six, on the day of the last census. : A notorious California thief, known as Tom Mitchell, alias Jack Carter, was arrested, at Marysville, on last Thursday night. Hon. P. A. Morse, J. B. Devoe, Esq., and Dr. P. M. O’Brien, have been appointed Commissioners of Common Schools, in AR iSan Francisco ( prog-} sacred to them—for the sole purpose of the little hope that. unrestrained indulgence of a particular with the plain of! passion, continuing for a week or more, NEVADA, CALIFORN IA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMB per—The London Times.—¥or our part we sometimes think the advertisemeiits the most interesting part of a paper, and for curious hap-hazard reading, . greatly prefer the suppliment of the London Times to the Times itselt. The advertising columns are in our matter-of-fact days, what the magic wand was in fairy times—the accomplishment of every wish, from’ the most positive necessity of life to the realization of the most refined and luxurious imaginings. Ina morning's perusal of the advertisements in the Tribune, you can get a house, furniture, servants, horses a husband or wife, as the case may be—and even children au chotz, if you like to adopt somebody else’s “healthy male or female infant.” You can be dressed as quickly as by Cinderella’s godmother—learn the titles of all the new works, (so often the best part of them)—know the prosperity of the people by .the announcement of . their meetings to demand higher wages— the foreign news by the imperial or repub. lican names of the latest Parisian bonnet . —and best of all, where you may get the fifty thousand dollars you want,—if you can only give security for a hundred thotsand ! Inexplicable Peculiarity of Indian Customs.—A gentleman whose widely extens ded perigrinations throughout this State, and the adjacent terriiory, in the course of which he has frequently come in contact with various tribes of Indians, including those called diggers, and marked with an curious and speculative eye many of the customs and habits peculiar te them having had his attention drawn to this subject by some recent articles in the Journal, informs us that the diggers have a custom of observing one habit or custom annually, the origin or objects of which scem entitely inexplicable. He says all sections of the digger Indians, have the most rigid idea of female chastity, and that a female found guilty of any violation thereof, is freguently subjected to as severe a punishment as death, He himself is acquainted with many instances, where fine, well formed athletic white men stimulated by a curiosity and a disposition to test the truth of this statement, have brought all their blandishment of gold and personal influence ; the former the strongest possible temptation to them—to bear upon some squalid filthy female of the digger tribe, without effect; and yet a certain season a whole tribe will assemble, at a selected locality—possibly These Indians are not polygamists and ,are too great and . adultery isthe worst crime known to them, and is in every case barbarously punished. The Stocktonians claim that their city 'is now the most orderly in the State. . Frost.—The Yreka Herald of the 19h \iust., says:—We have had some very heavy frosts during the past week. Terecraru Wires.—It is estimated that there are over 85,000 miles of telegraph wire stretched and employed in the United States. A wag recently appended to the list of market tegulations in Cincinnati. “No whistling near the sausage stalls.” The Boston Post tells of a young man, ‘“amember of an evangelical church,” who advertised for board “in a pious family where his Christian example would be considered a tompensation.” Mrs. Partington, says, after dissélving the matter over and over in her mind, she has come to the conclusion to seek out some quiet country retreat, in order to prevade the expressive heat of the season, and to hereafter lead a more dysentary life. A German, named Henry Garras, died very suddenly, in Coloma, on last Wednesday. A Mr. Chapiiiati was killed in Yreki, last week, by Mr. Ross Alcott. A man was killed in a row at Los Angeles a short time since by order of the City Marshall. A Chinaman was drowned at the foot of Jackson street, in San Francisco, on the 21st inst. A man named H. Slay, a. native of E}mira, N. Y., died suddenly in San. Francisco, on the 19th inst. It is said that Mr. H. B. Evans, M. R. C., of Biackfriars road, London, has made the important discovery that chloroform is a remedy for cholera. A Polander named Joseph Nowitzky, aged 18 years, committed suicide in New York by shooting himselfthrough the head, in consequence of an uncontrollable love for his brether’s wife. Marine Sraristics.—Since the discovety of gold in California, six hundred ships, it is said, have gone round Cape Horn into the Pacific, which have not returned. — Some were broken up at San Francisco, and some found employment in the Pacific. The abstraction of this large fleet from the Atlantic Ocean is one of the causes of the activity which has prevailed in the Eastern ship yards during the last few years. Punch suggests as an infallable remedy against damp houses, that the walls be papered with Parliamentary speeches, the usual dryness of which he considers a _sufficient guarantee against all moisture The Advertising Coluwns of a Newspa————— The Councilmen of Marysville recently passed an ordinance requiring the removal of outside stairs in the eity, whereupon the citizens tore away the stairs leading to the Council Charnter while the dignified members were in session, who, in consequence, had to ‘shin’ down the fosts of the building as best they might. DrowneD.—On Thursday night, two men, supposed to be mariners, who expressed a desire ta go off to some ship in the stream, endeavoring to enter a row boat at the foot of Clay street wharf, but owing to the Egyptian darkness prevailing . at the time, missed their footing, fell into the dock and were drowned. Another person, who attempted their réscue, also fell in, but was providentially saved.— Their bodies have not yet been peceveret un. Treecrariic.— Marysville, Saturday, 1 o'clock, P. M.—The recent heavy raine have been productive of much damage to the mining interests of this section of country. Nearly all the fuming companies on the Yuba river have experienced heavy losses by the sudden rise of the river; and in some instances the products of the claims this season will hardly cover expenses. The stream has risen several feet since yesterday morning. Stasrinc.—On the evening of the 18th inst., the Empire County Argus, says that an affray occurred at American Flat, about a woman, in a house of prostitution kept by E. Williams, between Edward Turner and a man known as Kentuck.— Turner, being intoxicated, assaulted Kentuck, when the latter drew a knife and stabbed him in the left breast. On the morning of the 20th Turner died. Kentuck was artested, examined and acquitted. The Argus adds that this is the second violent death that has been occasioned in the same house within the last three weeks, and intimates that the evil should be speedily remedied. yea. Nearly one thousand tons of freight per day, are now sent from San Francisco to Sacramento and Marysville. The brig E. D. Wolf, while being loaded with shot and shell for the government stores of Benicia, sunk at her dock in Sar Francisco. Wild cattle and horses have become a source of much annoyance to the settlers in some parts of San Joaquin Valley. [ is now a common practice to shoot them down as they make their appearance. Odd Fellows’ Burying Ground.—Mr. Samuel Brannan has presen‘ed the I OQ. QO. F. of San Francisco with a lot of ground near the Yerba Buena Cemetery, to be used as « burying ground. Crarenpon Hovse.—This hotel at San Francisco, lately under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Robb, has been leased to the State, at a rent of $1,200 per month, for a hospital. There were 691 books published in the United States during the six months ending June 30, of which 169 were reprints of English books, and 17 original translations from the German and French. Thanksgiving Day was pretty generally observed throughout the city. Most of the banking houses, and many of the principal business establishments remained closed, and the aspect of the town was similar to that of the Sabbath day. Divine service was performed in several of the churches, and the atttendance of worshippers was large. One portion of the community passed the hours in social visiting, while another killed care by enjoying themselves in the thousand and one ways that present themselves for the opportunity of devil-may-care people. The principal restaurants and hotels were distingufshed by the sumptuous dinners spread out upon their tables for the gratification of the epicurean appetite, and the plentitude of tarkey was so striking that the question arose, “ Have we s turkey among us?”-We suspect that many a poor fodse suffered decapitation for the occasion, with the understanding that he was-to be dignified into Thanksgiving Turkey.— Ledger. Fetchin’ ’Em.—A California miner having received no letters from home for many months, although writing by every mail, resolved within himself that he would fetch ’em, if there was any power in goose quill and ink. He accordingly sat down and wrote some half dozen letters to different persons dt home, inquiring the price of land and steck, what he could buy a handsome farm of 200 or 300 acres for, &c., §c., intimating that he had large sums to invest, and was very rich, generally.— By return mail he received no Jess than seven letters, all anxiously inquiring after his health, when he was coming home, &c, and has received three or four every mail since; including some very warm ones from an oldand very cold sweetheart. That’s what we call going it-~,Strong. Tut Berra Unton.—The furniture of this old established gambling saloon on Washington street, opposite the Plaza, was sold Friday at public auction, preparatory to the closing of the house—which is shortly to be opened as a restaurant. The closing of this once popular establishment is another evidence of the decline of gambling in our city, which it gives us pleasure to record.—Sun. Pleasure Exeursion.---& small party of gentlemen is forming to sail on the propeller Peytona for the Sandwich Islands, ito recruit their health French metropolis is undoubtedly the finest monumental city in the world, with this advantage, that it can always be seen. from an elevated point, while London is usually enveloped in smokeand mist, and presents a gigantic outline, dim and undefined. Ascend the column in the Place Vendome, the towers of Notre Dame, the heights of Montmartre, or Belleville, or ihe artifcia] mound in the Jardin des Plantes. On every side you have a bright stereotyped view. Look down on London from the dome of St. Paul’s, the Monument, the . keeper of the Tower, or Primrose-hil!. and /you can seldom distinguish snything beyond the circuit inscribed within & radius ‘of halfa mile. Nay, even on a summer’s day, you may post yourself on Waterloobridge, and Westminister or Blackfriars is . scarcely distinguishable. . e&ect of climate than of the dense, tangible . vapor, engendered by an unlimited con-. sumption of coal. Our public buildings of Portland stone turn dingy and black be. fore the scaffoldings are removed. The new ‘colonuade of the British Museum is . already grievous to behold. In Paris, the . while gypseous freestone defies time and weather, and looks as brilliant and as clear . to-day as it did two hundred years ago. . The original Louvre is scarcely more_discolored than the recent additions, and the . gates of St. Dennis and St. Martin are as 'Tresh as when they’ were erected. Let us do justice to the beauties of the French capital. We canshow nothing to compete with the palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, the Place de la Concorde, the line of the Rue de Rivoli, the quays, the statues, the fountains, and the extended semicircle of the Boulevards, even in the absence of the trees. But we can producc good specimens of architecture in our bridges, in Westminister Abbey and St. Pauls, in Somerset-house, in many churches, and in the Houses of Parliament, supposing they are finished before they begin to decay.— Dublin University Magazine. . . } Origin of the word “ Blackguards.”—In all great houses, but particularly in reyal residences, there were a number of men and dirty dependents, whose office it was to attend the wood yard, sculleries, §c-— Of these, (for in the lowest depth there was a lower still,) the most forlorn wretches seem to have been selected to . carry coals to the kitchen, halls, &e. To this smutty regiment, who attended the progress and rode the carts with the pots and kettles, which, with every other article of furniture were then removed from palace to palace, the people in derision gave them the name of blackguards—a term since becomesufficiently familiar, and never before properly explained.-Gifford’s Notes to Ben Johnson’s Plays. Reasons for keeping the Teeth Clean.— Ata meeting of the Ameaican Academy December, 1849, a paper read by H. J. Bowditch, on the animal and vegetable parasites infesting the teeth, with the fects of difierent agents in causing their removal and destruction. Microscopial examinations had been made of the matter depositedon the gums of more than forty individaals, selected from all classes of society, in every variety of bodily condition; and in neaily every case animal.and vegetable parasites in great numbers have been discovered. Of all the animal parasites there were three or four species, and of the vegetable one or two. In fact the only persons whose mouth were found to be completely free from them, cleansed! their teeth four times daily, using soap once.— One cr two of these individuals also passed a thread between the teeth to cleanse them more effectually. In all cases the number of the parasites was greater in proportion to the neglect of cleanliness. The effect of the application of various agents was also noticed. ‘I’obacco smoke and juice did not impair their vitality in the least.— The same was also true of the chlorine tooth wash, of pulverized bark, of soda, ammonia, and various other popular detergents. The application of soap, however, appeared to destroy them instantly. We may hence infer that this is the best and most proper specific for cleansing the teeth. In all cases where it has been tried, it receives unqualified commendatien. It may also be proper to add, that . none but the purest white soap, free from all discoloration, should be used. Fata Accmpenr.—On Wednesday evening last, apo“‘t half past ten o’clock, a young man named Wm. M. Vinton was drowned by falling from a plank leading from the store ship May Flower to the ship Gold Hunter, alongside Market street Wharf. The night was very dark, and it appears that the unfortunate young man had just parted with some friends in the cabin of the M«¥ Flower, and was returning to his lodging on board the other vessel, whea he missed his footing and fell into the water. Every exertion was made to ressue him, but without avail. Mr. V. was recently from Philadelphia, and was about twenty-two years of age.—Sun. Sudden Death.—A miner named H. Sly, from the region of Shasta, complained of being illin San Francisco on Monday morning last, and before he could be taken to the hospitaldied. He was a native of Elmore, New York, where he leavesa wife and family. The substance of a verdict of a recent coroner's jury, on a man who died in a state of inebriation, was, ‘Death by hanging—ronad a rum-shop,”’ ee a a nee tt CL CC COR CL Nt RN CC LC ee ER 2, 1853. . Paris and London Compared.—The This is less the . WHOLE NO. 170. . Brown Down.—We are informed th: . during a severe gale of wind which prevai ed at Auburn on Friday night last, a gran jary belonging to Mr. Walkup was bfow eee. What the extent of the damag was we did not ascertain.Mrs. Waiirr.—This lady designs gis . ing a series at concerts at Musical Hall,Sa . Francisco. She is perhaps the most a . conplished vocalist now in the State. Accipent.—A{man named Julius Hem. while walking in Marmaluke Hill a fe days ago, fell into a shaft 98 feet deep. He miraculousty escaped with only a bre ken leg. Sonora.—Twice aiilicted Sonora : again springing triumphantly from he ashes—more beautifu! and symmetric], j is said, than she ever was before. Cive us Licur.--The Zimes and Tran scripg, of Saturday says that the Gran Jury of San Francisco county have presen ied majority and minority reports, {whic for the time being, have by order of th Court, been withheld from publication. 1 is rumored that they coniain startling rev elations of wrong-doing by some of th members of the'late city and county administration. U.S. D.stricr Courr.— > Inge, U S. Attorney, on Friday of last week, mad before the Board some very strong fargu ments against the confirmation of the Fre mont claim, appealed by the Unfied State from the decision of the old Board of Con missioners. Suicide.—Domingo Silas, an 0 Cali. fornian, committed suicide by cutting hi throat at a house near the Mission ot Sa: Raphael, on Friday night week. He haé the mania potu at the time. He leaves t large estate, a wife and severa’ children ir Marin county. Squatter Dijficulty —A case of forcible entry and detainer, gsncraliy understood as a “squatter difficulty,” took place Saturday afternoon on a lot on Mission, between Green and Vallejo streets. A party of fifteen or twenty men made a descent upon a lot said to have been in the possession of a widcw woman,and in a very short space of time demolisheda fence that the female claimant had erectec around the lot. It was a valiant proceed ing to say the least, and the parties, if the particulars given above are entirely correct should have marched to the attack inspir ited by the sound of a rattling coflee-pot andjwith petticoats for flaunting banners Ledger. Effects of a Land Claim Deci*on, When news reached San Jose of the rejec tion of the Narvaez title by the Board of Land Commissiyners, on Tuesday last, thd Telegraph says that it produced great ex citement, and that hnndreds of men were instantly on the alert io take advantage o it by making locations. Mr. Issac Bran ham had bought six hundred acres of . this claim, and Mr. Bascham had ) becomeg the purchaser of nine hundred acres of thd same claim. The parties in interest tha night, itis said, had the Deputy Recordet in a private toom, busily employed ink ma: king out claims, and filingfthem for record The editor called at the office on Wed nesday morning and found the Reéordet and his Deputy surrounded by a ctowd o people, all eagerly pressing their locations for record. The Niagara Falls Ship Cti##l.---The New York Mirror of the 14th ult., says : This’gigantic scheme, searcely second in magnitude and importance to the grea artificial river which unites the Iudso and the Lakes,fis going ahead iii earh®st Gen. C. B. Stuart, late enginecr-in:chie of the United States Nav) having bee appointed by the Commissioners of the work to make’ the preliminary survey, is on the ground for that purpose, with Mr Edward W. Serreli, his associate engineer It is designed to make this great work commensurate in size with the eanal noy being constructed around the falls of the Sault St. Mary, which is #6 eSnnect Laka Superior with the lower lakes, and capable of passing ships of a thousand tons burth ern, and the largest steamers that float upon these inland seas. When these stu pendous works are complieted,the commerce of the west will be no longer dependent upon the shallow accommodations of Wel land canal, nor subject to the capricious exactions of the Canadian Legislature i discriminating tolls. } The Sub-Marine Telegraph 3% Cuba It was stated in recent accounts from Havana that the privilege for a sub-marine telegraph from the Island of Cuba to the United States, has just been granted t Mr. Samuel A. Kenedy, Don Francisco Noy and Don Felipe Neineg, by his Ex cellency Gen. Canedo, with the unanimous appproval of the Real Junta and Telegraph Committee, for the term of thirteen years and a half. We learn from the New York Journal of Commerce that the line is to be built by a company to be formed in Cuba and the United States. The’ pros posed route for the sub-marine line will be from Punto Ycaaus, pear Cardenas, to Cruz Ore Padre ;from {héXceé t# Double Headed Shot Key; ftom thence to Old Metacumly and from Old Matacumly fo the main land of Florida—the whole dis tance about one hundred and twenty-two miles. Divided into four sections, the longest cable required will only be abou

. ete ¥ = ' ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE) THE NEVADA JOURNA THE JOURNAL PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY BUDD & SARGENT, ‘Office on Broad street, opposite the Court House. Nevada. ] TERDIS. Far one’ year, th @dVarice, }.25 ie &7 00 Por three t0Gnte, os . oe sg 56s poo shh dot 5 93. 200 : Ba A OLD PGE ES So 23 > Legal Blanks of all kinds for sale at this office. Job Worlrin all tts varietics, promptly and* neatly ‘executed, et reasonable rates. Advertisements inserted at low rates. Z. P. Fisher is our only authorized agent at San ‘rancisco. He may be found at his desk at the Merchanta’ Exchange. & Delano, et Wells, Fargo & Co.'s office, is our authorizedagent at Grass Valley. LTE SEARLE ser, For the Journal. THE MINER, BY QUILLDRIVER. Who boldly left his pleasant home, In a far distant land to roam 2 The Miner. td a Who, cressing o'er the mighty plains, Endured fatigue and suffered pains, All tor the hope of worldly gains 2 The Miner. Whe, when ke reached the land of gold, Confessed himself comyletely sold, With language quick and gestures bold, Declared the half had not b cen told ? The Miner, Who then pros; ected,” day by day, ‘To find where golden treasures lay, And every night would sigh and say, “YT wish that I had «taid away, 3ecause the “diggings” will not pay ?” The Miner, igs ' Who deeply digs in dark ravines, And makes a meal of pork amd beans, znd every night his rocker cleans— And sleeping, dreams of FAIrY scenes— Of maidens Fant, jast in their teens, Tripping across his NATIVE GREENS ? The Miner Who loves, in truth, the tiresome toil Of digging up the golden suil ? Who plays at eucre--studies ‘ Hoyle’ — When hungry tries his boots to boil, And will not let his liquor spoil, Sut cays that ein i3 smooth as of ? The Miner Who, in his daily deal is just, And never asks a man to trust, Unless perhaps he thinks he must, i Because, perchanee, he’s spent his dust ' The night before, while on a bust ? yi The Miner. . Who ever hopes to ‘make a strike,” j And swell above his friends in “Pike,” j And do just as his heart may like? d The Miner. Who is the man that’s bound to try To make a pike—Tve told you why— And works in weather, wet and dry, And rowers? feels when grub is Hien The Miner. ? Furerriciry on Vassers ar Se1.—A curious effect of electricity is mentioned in a letter ‘rom Capt. Tessier, of the ship Austria, to her owners. On her voyage from ChurlestonT: Liverpool, the ship encountered a heavy storm of thunder and lightning, which caused such a commotion among the elements that she fairly trembled in every timber. The lightning was heard to hiss as it struck the water near the . -hip. The chronometer stopped, and, on taking . it to pieces, the balance spring was found to be heavily charged with electricity,and bent ; and ul the rest of the works were more or less inDavaGe in THE Harpor.—We have . deen informed of a number of additional cases of damage to shipping, occasioned b the gale of Friday morning; with a few exceptions, they were of no great moment. to the night some of those vessels which had been started from their moorings, cons . tinued to work further injury. ‘Ine’ sh ip St. Lawrence having inflicted considerable damage upon the Invincible as well as herself, at the turn of the tide last evenin swung into the bark Eliza Tornton, grinding off her bowsprit, tearing away her bowstays, and staving in her cat-heads. The St. Lawrence was also materially injured, as it was found necessary tocut awaya great portion of her rigging andbulwarks. Her anchors are foul, and she is lying in a langerous position. ‘The brig A. D. Wolf, which was sunk on Friday afternoor, ix still lying at Long Wharf, her hull con.pletely submerged.— S. F. Herald, GRizzites.—One of the largest and anest grizzlies ever brought to the city, says the last Sacramento Uxion, was yesterday on exhibition in a cage near the landing ofthe steamer Confidence. It was captured in the mountains of California, and is now en route for the Atlantic States, where it is believed it will excite general astonishment. Although in its youth, it weighs over a thousand pounds. its color is a chestnut, and its power immense, a3 exhibited by its form and movements. Accompanying this monster is a second cage, containing a vouple of fine cubs, with a like destination. The Washington Union says that the articles which lately appeared in the New York Herald animadverting upor. the Cabinet, were penned by Wm. H. Seward.— We hardly believe that possible. Furious Galr.—We learn that a tremendous hurricane swept over Stockton, Sacramento and Marysville, Thursday night. Signs were dashed about at a feavrful rate, windows broken and shingles torn ; from the roofs of houses. ' &>\bia, by the Austrian, (on last Friday. aa < Plain of the Amazon. The last number of Graham’s Magazine contains an interesting article upon the great levels of the earth. The writer thus describes the Valley of the Amazon, which has recently attracted so much attention : The central level of South America bears the local name of Selvas, (woods, ) and extends along both sides o. the river Amazon, from the Andes to the ocean.— {t embraces on area about six times larger than France, and of equal size with European Russia. It is an immense fore®t region, with opén pa‘ches of a similar character to the Llanos, intersected by numerous rivers flowing into the great basin of the Amazon. This district is but little known to Europeans, except on the borders of the stream; and many of those have not been traversed through the whole of their course. The powerful vegetation here conceals ina great measure, the uniform level of the soil. The trees attain a great height, with straight clear stems, the foli/age uniting in a canopy above, and leaving ‘all beneath in perfect shade and quiet.— . This longitudinal development is unfavor‘able to protracted existence, as age and climate soon attack the trees; but others . Very speedily fill up the vacant places — . These primeval woods occupy about 719,. 000 square miles of territory ; and inciuding the waters, enclosed open plains, and some ranges of hills, the whole surface presents an area of 2,320,000. ‘The trees . Vary greatly in species, scarcely any two trees -tanding together being of the same kind. Thirty or forty different species are . found in an area of twenty square yards.— Bushes end creepers fill up the intervals . between them, uniting the whole together, ‘and conatituting a woody fabric which deihes the intrusion of man. “The industry of man,” says a recent writer, “has in all \other countries succeeded in subjecting 'the productive power of nature to his sway, and to direct its operation to his ends. In ithe Sahara it has taken complete posses‘sion of all the resources of the entire . country till it has arrived at the very lim‘its which nature herself has fixed. No . further improvement can here take place. In some countries situated within the polar cirele, a course of improvement has been . adopted, and is pursued with suceess. Its . progress is slow, but certain. The ungrateful and almost barren soil of the . Falkland Islands has even fallen under the fertilizing hand of man, and will doubtless . be converted into fruitful fields in the iress of time. But thore is :such will ever be the case the Ainazon. The produetive powers of . this country, it appears . tooactive to be subdued. If its soil was ‘but half as fertile, its air halfas moist, and . its vegetation half as vigorous as it iv, mar . would easily master nature, and compel it to administer to his wants, or to supply }him with riches. But he finds here that all the oiforts of his industry are in vain; he is overwhelmed by the bounties of najture. His mind sinks into despair when jhe contemplates the immense work before he him, whilst his body feels the exhaustion produced by that climate which imparts to the soil its never-eeasing power ot reproduction. He finds himself reluctantly compelled to abanden his plans, and to leave to nature that portion of the globe which she seems to have reserved for her exclusive property, and for her unfettered operations. ‘The plain of the Amazon is, perhaps, destined to remain forever a wilderness.” A Prussian, named Henry Von Pensche, who has been in the jail of Leignitz, in Hamburg, since 1850, claims to be a naturalized American citizen, and calls upon During the whole of Friday, extending in. . the United States to interfere on his behalf. Kossuth, the renowned Hungarian. patriot, has offered his services to the Sublime go in the event of a war with Russia. John Parrot who was stabbed at ColumPeter Nicolas, died , A conductor of anew paper, speaking of a cotemporary,says: “He was formerly a member of Congress, but rapidly arose till he obtained a respectable pesition as an editor. A noble example of perseverjance under depressing circumstances.” —Hrodigeit-els-ie-siehies. “Here, you little raseal give an account of yeursel you been ?” “A fter the girls, father.” “Did you ever know me to do s I was a boy ?” “No, sit ; but mother did.” , walk up and f. Where have 0, when The Boston Post says: “Naomi, the daughter of Enoch, was five hundred and eighty years old when she was married. — Courage, ladies !” A FOS sect Sele i Extent or Lonpon.—The capital of the British Kingdom, it is said, extends over an area of seventy-cight thousand and twenty-nine acres, or one hundred and twenty-two square miles ; and the number of its inhabitants rapidly increasing, was two millions three hundred and sixty-two thousand two-hurdred and thirty-six, on the day of the last census. : A notorious California thief, known as Tom Mitchell, alias Jack Carter, was arrested, at Marysville, on last Thursday night. Hon. P. A. Morse, J. B. Devoe, Esq., and Dr. P. M. O’Brien, have been appointed Commissioners of Common Schools, in AR iSan Francisco ( prog-} sacred to them—for the sole purpose of the little hope that. unrestrained indulgence of a particular with the plain of! passion, continuing for a week or more, NEVADA, CALIFORN IA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMB per—The London Times.—¥or our part we sometimes think the advertisemeiits the most interesting part of a paper, and for curious hap-hazard reading, . greatly prefer the suppliment of the London Times to the Times itselt. The advertising columns are in our matter-of-fact days, what the magic wand was in fairy times—the accomplishment of every wish, from’ the most positive necessity of life to the realization of the most refined and luxurious imaginings. Ina morning's perusal of the advertisements in the Tribune, you can get a house, furniture, servants, horses a husband or wife, as the case may be—and even children au chotz, if you like to adopt somebody else’s “healthy male or female infant.” You can be dressed as quickly as by Cinderella’s godmother—learn the titles of all the new works, (so often the best part of them)—know the prosperity of the people by .the announcement of . their meetings to demand higher wages— the foreign news by the imperial or repub. lican names of the latest Parisian bonnet . —and best of all, where you may get the fifty thousand dollars you want,—if you can only give security for a hundred thotsand ! Inexplicable Peculiarity of Indian Customs.—A gentleman whose widely extens ded perigrinations throughout this State, and the adjacent terriiory, in the course of which he has frequently come in contact with various tribes of Indians, including those called diggers, and marked with an curious and speculative eye many of the customs and habits peculiar te them having had his attention drawn to this subject by some recent articles in the Journal, informs us that the diggers have a custom of observing one habit or custom annually, the origin or objects of which scem entitely inexplicable. He says all sections of the digger Indians, have the most rigid idea of female chastity, and that a female found guilty of any violation thereof, is freguently subjected to as severe a punishment as death, He himself is acquainted with many instances, where fine, well formed athletic white men stimulated by a curiosity and a disposition to test the truth of this statement, have brought all their blandishment of gold and personal influence ; the former the strongest possible temptation to them—to bear upon some squalid filthy female of the digger tribe, without effect; and yet a certain season a whole tribe will assemble, at a selected locality—possibly These Indians are not polygamists and ,are too great and . adultery isthe worst crime known to them, and is in every case barbarously punished. The Stocktonians claim that their city 'is now the most orderly in the State. . Frost.—The Yreka Herald of the 19h \iust., says:—We have had some very heavy frosts during the past week. Terecraru Wires.—It is estimated that there are over 85,000 miles of telegraph wire stretched and employed in the United States. A wag recently appended to the list of market tegulations in Cincinnati. “No whistling near the sausage stalls.” The Boston Post tells of a young man, ‘“amember of an evangelical church,” who advertised for board “in a pious family where his Christian example would be considered a tompensation.” Mrs. Partington, says, after dissélving the matter over and over in her mind, she has come to the conclusion to seek out some quiet country retreat, in order to prevade the expressive heat of the season, and to hereafter lead a more dysentary life. A German, named Henry Garras, died very suddenly, in Coloma, on last Wednesday. A Mr. Chapiiiati was killed in Yreki, last week, by Mr. Ross Alcott. A man was killed in a row at Los Angeles a short time since by order of the City Marshall. A Chinaman was drowned at the foot of Jackson street, in San Francisco, on the 21st inst. A man named H. Slay, a. native of E}mira, N. Y., died suddenly in San. Francisco, on the 19th inst. It is said that Mr. H. B. Evans, M. R. C., of Biackfriars road, London, has made the important discovery that chloroform is a remedy for cholera. A Polander named Joseph Nowitzky, aged 18 years, committed suicide in New York by shooting himselfthrough the head, in consequence of an uncontrollable love for his brether’s wife. Marine Sraristics.—Since the discovety of gold in California, six hundred ships, it is said, have gone round Cape Horn into the Pacific, which have not returned. — Some were broken up at San Francisco, and some found employment in the Pacific. The abstraction of this large fleet from the Atlantic Ocean is one of the causes of the activity which has prevailed in the Eastern ship yards during the last few years. Punch suggests as an infallable remedy against damp houses, that the walls be papered with Parliamentary speeches, the usual dryness of which he considers a _sufficient guarantee against all moisture The Advertising Coluwns of a Newspa————— The Councilmen of Marysville recently passed an ordinance requiring the removal of outside stairs in the eity, whereupon

the citizens tore away the stairs leading to the Council Charnter while the dignified members were in session, who, in consequence, had to ‘shin’ down the fosts of the building as best they might. DrowneD.—On Thursday night, two men, supposed to be mariners, who expressed a desire ta go off to some ship in the stream, endeavoring to enter a row boat at the foot of Clay street wharf, but owing to the Egyptian darkness prevailing . at the time, missed their footing, fell into the dock and were drowned. Another person, who attempted their réscue, also fell in, but was providentially saved.— Their bodies have not yet been peceveret un. Treecrariic.— Marysville, Saturday, 1 o'clock, P. M.—The recent heavy raine have been productive of much damage to the mining interests of this section of country. Nearly all the fuming companies on the Yuba river have experienced heavy losses by the sudden rise of the river; and in some instances the products of the claims this season will hardly cover expenses. The stream has risen several feet since yesterday morning. Stasrinc.—On the evening of the 18th inst., the Empire County Argus, says that an affray occurred at American Flat, about a woman, in a house of prostitution kept by E. Williams, between Edward Turner and a man known as Kentuck.— Turner, being intoxicated, assaulted Kentuck, when the latter drew a knife and stabbed him in the left breast. On the morning of the 20th Turner died. Kentuck was artested, examined and acquitted. The Argus adds that this is the second violent death that has been occasioned in the same house within the last three weeks, and intimates that the evil should be speedily remedied. yea. Nearly one thousand tons of freight per day, are now sent from San Francisco to Sacramento and Marysville. The brig E. D. Wolf, while being loaded with shot and shell for the government stores of Benicia, sunk at her dock in Sar Francisco. Wild cattle and horses have become a source of much annoyance to the settlers in some parts of San Joaquin Valley. [ is now a common practice to shoot them down as they make their appearance. Odd Fellows’ Burying Ground.—Mr. Samuel Brannan has presen‘ed the I OQ. QO. F. of San Francisco with a lot of ground near the Yerba Buena Cemetery, to be used as « burying ground. Crarenpon Hovse.—This hotel at San Francisco, lately under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Robb, has been leased to the State, at a rent of $1,200 per month, for a hospital. There were 691 books published in the United States during the six months ending June 30, of which 169 were reprints of English books, and 17 original translations from the German and French. Thanksgiving Day was pretty generally observed throughout the city. Most of the banking houses, and many of the principal business establishments remained closed, and the aspect of the town was similar to that of the Sabbath day. Divine service was performed in several of the churches, and the atttendance of worshippers was large. One portion of the community passed the hours in social visiting, while another killed care by enjoying themselves in the thousand and one ways that present themselves for the opportunity of devil-may-care people. The principal restaurants and hotels were distingufshed by the sumptuous dinners spread out upon their tables for the gratification of the epicurean appetite, and the plentitude of tarkey was so striking that the question arose, “ Have we s turkey among us?”-We suspect that many a poor fodse suffered decapitation for the occasion, with the understanding that he was-to be dignified into Thanksgiving Turkey.— Ledger. Fetchin’ ’Em.—A California miner having received no letters from home for many months, although writing by every mail, resolved within himself that he would fetch ’em, if there was any power in goose quill and ink. He accordingly sat down and wrote some half dozen letters to different persons dt home, inquiring the price of land and steck, what he could buy a handsome farm of 200 or 300 acres for, &c., §c., intimating that he had large sums to invest, and was very rich, generally.— By return mail he received no Jess than seven letters, all anxiously inquiring after his health, when he was coming home, &c, and has received three or four every mail since; including some very warm ones from an oldand very cold sweetheart. That’s what we call going it-~,Strong. Tut Berra Unton.—The furniture of this old established gambling saloon on Washington street, opposite the Plaza, was sold Friday at public auction, preparatory to the closing of the house—which is shortly to be opened as a restaurant. The closing of this once popular establishment is another evidence of the decline of gambling in our city, which it gives us pleasure to record.—Sun. Pleasure Exeursion.---& small party of gentlemen is forming to sail on the propeller Peytona for the Sandwich Islands, ito recruit their health French metropolis is undoubtedly the finest monumental city in the world, with this advantage, that it can always be seen. from an elevated point, while London is usually enveloped in smokeand mist, and presents a gigantic outline, dim and undefined. Ascend the column in the Place Vendome, the towers of Notre Dame, the heights of Montmartre, or Belleville, or ihe artifcia] mound in the Jardin des Plantes. On every side you have a bright stereotyped view. Look down on London from the dome of St. Paul’s, the Monument, the . keeper of the Tower, or Primrose-hil!. and /you can seldom distinguish snything beyond the circuit inscribed within & radius ‘of halfa mile. Nay, even on a summer’s day, you may post yourself on Waterloobridge, and Westminister or Blackfriars is . scarcely distinguishable. . e&ect of climate than of the dense, tangible . vapor, engendered by an unlimited con-. sumption of coal. Our public buildings of Portland stone turn dingy and black be. fore the scaffoldings are removed. The new ‘colonuade of the British Museum is . already grievous to behold. In Paris, the . while gypseous freestone defies time and weather, and looks as brilliant and as clear . to-day as it did two hundred years ago. . The original Louvre is scarcely more_discolored than the recent additions, and the . gates of St. Dennis and St. Martin are as 'Tresh as when they’ were erected. Let us do justice to the beauties of the French capital. We canshow nothing to compete with the palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries, the Place de la Concorde, the line of the Rue de Rivoli, the quays, the statues, the fountains, and the extended semicircle of the Boulevards, even in the absence of the trees. But we can producc good specimens of architecture in our bridges, in Westminister Abbey and St. Pauls, in Somerset-house, in many churches, and in the Houses of Parliament, supposing they are finished before they begin to decay.— Dublin University Magazine. . . } Origin of the word “ Blackguards.”—In all great houses, but particularly in reyal residences, there were a number of men and dirty dependents, whose office it was to attend the wood yard, sculleries, §c-— Of these, (for in the lowest depth there was a lower still,) the most forlorn wretches seem to have been selected to . carry coals to the kitchen, halls, &e. To this smutty regiment, who attended the progress and rode the carts with the pots and kettles, which, with every other article of furniture were then removed from palace to palace, the people in derision gave them the name of blackguards—a term since becomesufficiently familiar, and never before properly explained.-Gifford’s Notes to Ben Johnson’s Plays. Reasons for keeping the Teeth Clean.— Ata meeting of the Ameaican Academy December, 1849, a paper read by H. J. Bowditch, on the animal and vegetable parasites infesting the teeth, with the fects of difierent agents in causing their removal and destruction. Microscopial examinations had been made of the matter depositedon the gums of more than forty individaals, selected from all classes of society, in every variety of bodily condition; and in neaily every case animal.and vegetable parasites in great numbers have been discovered. Of all the animal parasites there were three or four species, and of the vegetable one or two. In fact the only persons whose mouth were found to be completely free from them, cleansed! their teeth four times daily, using soap once.— One cr two of these individuals also passed a thread between the teeth to cleanse them more effectually. In all cases the number of the parasites was greater in proportion to the neglect of cleanliness. The effect of the application of various agents was also noticed. ‘I’obacco smoke and juice did not impair their vitality in the least.— The same was also true of the chlorine tooth wash, of pulverized bark, of soda, ammonia, and various other popular detergents. The application of soap, however, appeared to destroy them instantly. We may hence infer that this is the best and most proper specific for cleansing the teeth. In all cases where it has been tried, it receives unqualified commendatien. It may also be proper to add, that . none but the purest white soap, free from all discoloration, should be used. Fata Accmpenr.—On Wednesday evening last, apo“‘t half past ten o’clock, a young man named Wm. M. Vinton was drowned by falling from a plank leading from the store ship May Flower to the ship Gold Hunter, alongside Market street Wharf. The night was very dark, and it appears that the unfortunate young man had just parted with some friends in the cabin of the M«¥ Flower, and was returning to his lodging on board the other vessel, whea he missed his footing and fell into the water. Every exertion was made to ressue him, but without avail. Mr. V. was recently from Philadelphia, and was about twenty-two years of age.—Sun. Sudden Death.—A miner named H. Sly, from the region of Shasta, complained of being illin San Francisco on Monday morning last, and before he could be taken to the hospitaldied. He was a native of Elmore, New York, where he leavesa wife and family. The substance of a verdict of a recent coroner's jury, on a man who died in a state of inebriation, was, ‘Death by hanging—ronad a rum-shop,”’ ee a a nee tt CL CC COR CL Nt RN CC LC ee ER 2, 1853. . Paris and London Compared.—The This is less the . WHOLE NO. 170. . Brown Down.—We are informed th: . during a severe gale of wind which prevai ed at Auburn on Friday night last, a gran jary belonging to Mr. Walkup was bfow eee. What the extent of the damag was we did not ascertain.Mrs. Waiirr.—This lady designs gis . ing a series at concerts at Musical Hall,Sa . Francisco. She is perhaps the most a . conplished vocalist now in the State. Accipent.—A{man named Julius Hem. while walking in Marmaluke Hill a fe days ago, fell into a shaft 98 feet deep. He miraculousty escaped with only a bre ken leg. Sonora.—Twice aiilicted Sonora : again springing triumphantly from he ashes—more beautifu! and symmetric], j is said, than she ever was before. Cive us Licur.--The Zimes and Tran scripg, of Saturday says that the Gran Jury of San Francisco county have presen ied majority and minority reports, {whic for the time being, have by order of th Court, been withheld from publication. 1 is rumored that they coniain startling rev elations of wrong-doing by some of th members of the'late city and county administration. U.S. D.stricr Courr.— > Inge, U S. Attorney, on Friday of last week, mad before the Board some very strong fargu ments against the confirmation of the Fre mont claim, appealed by the Unfied State from the decision of the old Board of Con missioners. Suicide.—Domingo Silas, an 0 Cali. fornian, committed suicide by cutting hi throat at a house near the Mission ot Sa: Raphael, on Friday night week. He haé the mania potu at the time. He leaves t large estate, a wife and severa’ children ir Marin county. Squatter Dijficulty —A case of forcible entry and detainer, gsncraliy understood as a “squatter difficulty,” took place Saturday afternoon on a lot on Mission, between Green and Vallejo streets. A party of fifteen or twenty men made a descent upon a lot said to have been in the possession of a widcw woman,and in a very short space of time demolisheda fence that the female claimant had erectec around the lot. It was a valiant proceed ing to say the least, and the parties, if the particulars given above are entirely correct should have marched to the attack inspir ited by the sound of a rattling coflee-pot andjwith petticoats for flaunting banners Ledger. Effects of a Land Claim Deci*on, When news reached San Jose of the rejec tion of the Narvaez title by the Board of Land Commissiyners, on Tuesday last, thd Telegraph says that it produced great ex citement, and that hnndreds of men were instantly on the alert io take advantage o it by making locations. Mr. Issac Bran ham had bought six hundred acres of . this claim, and Mr. Bascham had ) becomeg the purchaser of nine hundred acres of thd same claim. The parties in interest tha night, itis said, had the Deputy Recordet in a private toom, busily employed ink ma: king out claims, and filingfthem for record The editor called at the office on Wed nesday morning and found the Reéordet and his Deputy surrounded by a ctowd o people, all eagerly pressing their locations for record. The Niagara Falls Ship Cti##l.---The New York Mirror of the 14th ult., says : This’gigantic scheme, searcely second in magnitude and importance to the grea artificial river which unites the Iudso and the Lakes,fis going ahead iii earh®st Gen. C. B. Stuart, late enginecr-in:chie of the United States Nav) having bee appointed by the Commissioners of the work to make’ the preliminary survey, is on the ground for that purpose, with Mr Edward W. Serreli, his associate engineer It is designed to make this great work commensurate in size with the eanal noy being constructed around the falls of the Sault St. Mary, which is #6 eSnnect Laka Superior with the lower lakes, and capable of passing ships of a thousand tons burth ern, and the largest steamers that float upon these inland seas. When these stu pendous works are complieted,the commerce of the west will be no longer dependent upon the shallow accommodations of Wel land canal, nor subject to the capricious exactions of the Canadian Legislature i discriminating tolls. } The Sub-Marine Telegraph 3% Cuba It was stated in recent accounts from Havana that the privilege for a sub-marine telegraph from the Island of Cuba to the United States, has just been granted t Mr. Samuel A. Kenedy, Don Francisco Noy and Don Felipe Neineg, by his Ex cellency Gen. Canedo, with the unanimous appproval of the Real Junta and Telegraph Committee, for the term of thirteen years and a half. We learn from the New York Journal of Commerce that the line is to be built by a company to be formed in Cuba and the United States. The’ pros posed route for the sub-marine line will be from Punto Ycaaus, pear Cardenas, to Cruz Ore Padre ;from {héXceé t# Double Headed Shot Key; ftom thence to Old Metacumly and from Old Matacumly fo the main land of Florida—the whole dis tance about one hundred and twenty-two miles. Divided into four sections, the longest cable required will only be abou