December 25, 1857 (4 pages)

vo~ Sly, . Fin BOs 39-6 THE NEVADA JOURNA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1857. @ ms Bs WHOLE NUMBER 396 ad v be ANebada Journal. PUBLISHED BY N.P. BROWN & Co. B. G. WAITE. N. P, BROWN OFFICE—No, 46 MAIN STREET. TERMS: For ONT TSin. Sih Acs bes dbieoenee ee For SIX MONTHS.. ebbtinnghss teende eetntaeuneke 4,00 For THRER MONTHS. .. 02-202 200 cc ccen cn cccces 2,00 Since Corigs.. estas Rey ea or eee, 25 . SS Business Cards. ~— are! A. A. SARGENT, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Orrirce—Kidd & Knox's Building, Broad Street. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Office—Kelsey’s brick, Commercial street, Nevada. “S. SPEAR H. L. THORNTON. Spear & Thornton, ‘ounsellors and Attorneys at Law DOWNIEVILLE, CALIFORNIA. \ JILL PR ACTICE inthe Courts of the Fourteenth Downieville, Feb. 27, 1857 Judicial District and the Supreme Court. THOMAS P. HAWLEY, Notary Public, Office with Buckner & Hill, Kelsey’s building, Commercial street, Nevada, W'S @. GARDINER. T.B. MCPARLAND GARDINER & McFARLAND, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. OMice—Riley’s Brick building Corner Pine and Broad Btreets H. TANTON BUCKNER. Cc. WILSON HILL Buckner & Hill, \F FICE IN KELSEY’S BUILDING, SECOND FLOOR Commercial street, Nevada. AVING associated themselves together in the practice of the Law, will attend promptly to all business confided to their care in Nevada and adjoining counties. Nevada, July 18, 1856-tf R. M'CONNELL. A. C. NILES, McCONNELL & NILES, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Will practice in all the Courts of the 14th Judiciol Dis riect, andin the Supreme Court. Office in Kidd’s Block, up stairs. John Anderson, Justice of the Peace, Ofice—A few doors below T. Ellard Beans & Co., on Broad street. Nevada JAMES CHURCHMAN, Attorney at Law. TILL hereafter devote himselfsolely to the prac W tice of his profession, and will be found always t his ofice. Corner of Broad and Pine Streets, Nevada, yn professional business. july 10 when avoat MEDICAL NOTICE. E.S.: ALDRIGH, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Ss the 4 , teniers his profes vada aad vicinity. Building, Main Hotel, Broad ational SIGN & ORNAMENTAL PAINTER, MAINSTREL Cc. W. MANUFACTURING J tt) J 4 ANI 7 m All kincs of Fine Watehes, ee Bows DIAMOND WOKK & CUTLERY, tas: Nevada —Aug, ?.-tf AREY minereral street 43/4 «tand—Cor McRoberts, M. Hi, FuNsToON. McRoberts & Funston, Pealersia Groceries, Liquors WINES & MINERS’ SUPPLIES. Have’ removed to . 39 Broad Street, Nevada. NEXT DOOR TO THE POST OFPICE, and see us. wa.s Come Charles H. Bain, al + r ~ ARCHITECT AND BUILDER, ARPENTERING done in the best style and with desJ patch. Billiard Tables repaired and all kinds of Fan eyWork. Reasonable thankful for past favors and solic ts continuance of thesame. i : Shop in the rear of Williamson & Dawley's Banking Honse. 16-tf Z. P. DAVIS, Gunsmith, v survived the fire, the subscriber has again eapoe himselfon SPRING STREET, in the rear of the United States Hotel, where he will prosecute his business for the present iu the Gunsmith line. Rifles and Shot Guns kept constantly on hand for sale. Pistols, Powder, Shot, Lead, Balls, Caps, Wadding, Flasks, Powder Horns, &e. &c. Guns and Pistols repaired and putin order at the shortest Notice. Having a superior Lathe, he can manufacture any part of machinery which may be desired. New Rifles made to order. 4 ROBERT HOMFRAY, Civil Engineer and Surveyor, Office opposite the Court House. LL work entrusted to my care will be properly attend ded to. My surveys warranted to be good testimony in “any Court within this State.’? All persons are cautioned against believing garbled quotations from the statutes, inserted in the advertisement of envious officials. : ; oe Best Europeanand American references given. jylo County Surveyor's Office. COURT HOUSE, NEVADA. Joun &. Gamere, } = F. DERTKEN. County Surveyor.) Deputy. LL persons are hereby cautioned against employing A other Surveyors than such as may be deputized from this offic (Extract from Laws of California.) Cap. 20, Sec.3. Nosurvey or re survey hereafter made by any person except the County Surveyor or his deputy shallbe consideredlegal evidence in any Court within this State. JOHN L. GAMBLE. Nevada, June 26th, 1857 o24-tf NEW BILLIARD SALOON Harrington & Patterson, YO long and favorably known on Broad street, have re ‘3 movedand opened the finest Billiard Saloon to be foundin the mountains, tn the new Brick builing, on the eorner of Broad and Pine Street, opposite Kidd & Knox's prick building. They hereby tender an invitation to all their old patrons and friends to pay them frequen’ visits and they hereby pledge themselves to give as good satisfaction as formerly The Saloon will be furnished with new and magnificent Billiard Tablesand every appendage compicte, The Bar Is fitted up in the finest style and supplied with the choicest and most costly Liquors and Cigars. Nevada, Janvary 16, 1857.—tf aug 29 SHAW & WHITNEY, (Successors to Shaw & Jones,) FORWARDING MERCHANTS, SACRAMENTO. C. J SHAW, No. 38 Front St SACRAMENTO J. R. WHITNEY, No. 79 Front St San FRANCISCO. e aw) > Mark Packaces (Care S. DID YOU KNOW THAT JAMES S. CURTIS, il AS opened his Fine Saloon next door to the Amer can Exchange s ner expense in making it he mountain: e finest Liquors in the State + finest brands. Give mea call,one and that the above is true. JAMES S. CURTIS. The Baris s and Cigars siland satisfy yourselves Nera is, Sept. 25, 1857, en eee ee 5 F. MANSELL. Sign and Ornamental Painter, Au i, oa attended to, aud ip the best style yo art. Commer tal strest, Borede CHEAP! CHEAP! CHEAP! Sol. Kohlman’s HAS REMOVED To the old and popular corner, in Kidd & Knox's Building Cor. of Broad and Pine Sts. Vy HERE can be found every variety of Fashionable Clothing and Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods, con. sisting in part of— Black and Blue Cloth Frock Coats ; Beaver, Pilot and Cassimere Busincss Coats ; Heavy Pilot, Beaver and Petersham Baglans ; Black and Blue Broadcloth Talmas ; Black, Blue and Fancy Cassimere Pants; Blue, Grey, Black ane Satinet Pants ; Fancy and Black Silk Velvet Vests ; A large assortment of Shirts, Drawers, Handkerchiefs, Cravats, and Gloves : A good stock of the latest styles of Hats and Caps ; Trunks, Valises and Carpet Bags ; _ . Also a large and well selected stock of Boy’s & Youth's Clothing. A large stock of heavy Grey, Blue, Red and the finest of White Blankets ; RUSISA GOODS. Goodyear's best White and Black India Rubber Coats and Jackets , India Rubber Pants, Overvalls, Leggings and Gloves. Best kind ot Goodyear’s Long Legged and Knee Top India Rubber Boots. I invite my friends and the public in general to call and examine my stock before purcha ing elsewhere. Remember the Corner of Broad and Pine streets, formerly occupied by Rosenheim & Bro. SOL. KOHLMAN. Nevada, November 6th, 1857.—tf Insolvent Notice. In the District Court, 14th Judicial District OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. N the matter of the Petition of WM. A. SIMPSON, an Insolve: t Debtor. Pursuant to an order of the Hon. T. H. Caswell, Judge of the said County Court, noticeis hereby given to all the creditors of the said Insolvent, tobe and appear before the Hon. T. H. Caswell aforesaid, in open Court, at the Court Room of said Court, in the city and county of Nevada on the 3rd day of Jan. 1858, at 10 0’clock, A M, of that day, then and there to show cause, if any they can, why the prayer of said Insolvent should not be granted, and an assignment ot his Estate be made, and he be discharged from his debts and liabilities, in pursuance ot the Statnte in such case made and provided ; and in the mean time all proceedings against said Insolvent be stayed, Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court, this 14th (L. S.J day of November, A.D. 1857. RUFUS SHOEMAKER, Clerk. n20-4w By Wo. SmiTH, Deputy. A. A. Sargent Atty for Petitioner. Insolvent Notice. N the County Court of Nevada County, of the State o California. In the matter of the Petition of JOSEPH WORRELL, an Insolvent debtor. Pursuant toan order of the Hon. Thos. H. Caswell, Judge of the said County Court, notice is hereby given to allthe creditors of the said Insolvent, Joseph Worrell, to be and appear before the Hon. Thomas H. Caswell, af-resaid. in open Court, at the Court Room of said Court in the said County of Nevada, on the 4th day of January A. D.1858 at 10 0’elock, A. M. of that day, then and there to show canse. if any they can why the prayer of said Insolvent should not be granted, And an assignment ! ofhis Estate be made, and he be discharged from his debts and liabilities, in pursuance of the Statute in such case made and provided ; andin the mean time all proceedings against said Insolvent be stayed. I S . ] Witness my band and the “eal of said Court [ 4e WO Ithis 5th day of November, A. DP. 1857. RUFUS SHOEMAKER, Clerk. nov6 A. A Sargent, Attorney for Petitioner. sy Wo. SmitH, Deputy. A. BLOCK & CO. . Corner of Pine and Commercial Streets. ! . ] AND Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods. Of every desirable description. AT.SO India Rubber Coats, Jackets, Pants, Leggings, and Gloves of the best quality. All of which will be sold at the mast reasonable prices. ( Please call and judge for yourself. A. BLOCK & CO. evada, October 30th, 1857. Notice to Liquor Dealers and Merchants. complete assortment of the Oils necessary for maJA king and flavoring every variety of Liquor, anda package of the articles used or giving Artificial strengthto Liquors, (converting 70 gallons of Whiskey to 100 gallons) and every article necessary to commence a Liqvor Srore will be furnished for $20. And all the information necessary to conduct such an establishment, thus enabling the new beginner to successfully comgste with the oldest liquor dealers. Address thro’ the Post Office P. LACOUR, New Orleans. Lacour’s Concentrated Aeid for making Vinegar, is put up in 2 gallon packages at $5 per package—in good shipping ordar. feb6-ly McROBERTS & FUNSTON, Have just received the Largest and Best Selected Stock of Wines, Fine Brandies, Liquors, Cordials, —AND CASE GO0ODS— EVER BROUGHT TO NEVADA. Their stock of Family Groceries and Miners’ Supplies, is unsurpassed in Variety, Quality, and Low Prices, by any house this side of the Bay, ~ Call and see us, and we will guarantee 3 bogeys “ey ie ‘ ‘ ° Entire Satisfaction in Price and Quality N.B. Goods celivered free of charge. We always deliver the same quality of goods which we sell to our customers. McROBERTS & FUNSTON No. 34, Broad street, 2 doors above the Post Office . May29 NEW BOOT AND SHOE STORE, On Commercial St, 4 door to George Keeney’s Hardware Store. S MAYERS having pnrehased an entirely new \ stock of Boots, Shoes, Brogans, Rubbers, &c. &c.— consisting of every necessary to form @ First Class Boot and Shoe Store ! ’ Begs leave to inform the public generally thathe will on the most favorable terms possible. As he has necessary artangements to receive new supplies weekly, he expects tobe able at ail timesto furnish his customers with the best and most fashionable articies to be undin this or any othermarket. Boots and Shoes made and repaired to order. Allwork coming from this shop giving way without doing reasonable amount of service, wiil be mended free of charge. Nevada, April I7th, 1857.-tf FISKE, SATHER & CHURCH, BANKERS, Corner of 3a and J Streets, Sacramento, Buy and sell Exchanges on the Atlantic Europe. PAY THE HIGHEST PRICES FOR GOLD pUst And transact a General Banking Business. ’ THOMAS =. FI=KE, Sacramento. P. SATHER, : Wk . E.W.CHUREH, }san Francisco, September 4, 1857 PULU. PULU: JACOB SCHREIDER, 176 Fackson street, San Francisco. AS just reeeived 12,000 Ibs of this superior article of Bediing,ex “Fanny Major,” pa is ready , ply trae and customers generally, at the lowest market rates. Itis unnecessary to comment onthe decided advantages which this article possesses over Moss Cotton, Wool, or even Hair, as an article of Bedding, as its popularity is unbounded throughout the Sate. Its chief qualifications are that it is Soft, Elastic, Durable, and Remarkably Healthy. A person using it is not an. noyed by insects. on hand; Moss, Hair, Wool, Feathers. a General assortment of Bedding, Comforters, Sheets, &-,&c 9m «> ? Henry & Moses Hirschman. ARE ON THE COURSE AGAIN! HEY have opened at the Corner of Commercial and Ma‘n strects, and offer for sale a well selected and excellent stock of HAVANA CIGARS. Allkinds of Tobacco, smoking. chewing, Cards, Matches, Pipes, and every article pertaining to the trade. They beg the public to call on them, as they flatter themselves that entire satisfaction willbe given. Their motto is “Quick Sales and Smal! Profits,” H. & M. HIRSCHMAN.WHOLESALE anp RETAIL LIQUOR STORE. HE undersigned would inform the public that they have now on hand a most extensive assortment of The Best Liquors Ever brought to this market. Having a good Fire Proof Building with an excellent cellar under it, they have every facility for keeping any amount of goods. They have and willalways keep a good supply of WHISKEY, BRANDY, GIN, WINES, PORTER, ALE, CIDER, &e. &e. AlsomAll kinds of Case Liquors, Cor dials, Syrups, &c. Which have been selected with the greatest care by competent judges, and which will be sold as low or lower than any other establishment in the place. They will continue the manufacture of SODA at the lod place (Flurshutz’s Soda Factory,) which is an article too well known to require recommendation Dealers and others wishing to purchase, are respectfully iuvited to call and examine our stock. May 1 FRED. W. MAY & CO. & May & Co. are agents for the sale of pure Califormia Port, Claret, Angelica and White Wines: NEW GOODS. JESSE §. WALL & (Co. \ J OULD respectfully inform the citizens of Nevada and vicinity thatthey have received during the past week the Largest and best stock of Goods, Ever before brought into Nevada. They are always on hand, at the Fire-proof Brick Building, Broad Street, Nearly opposite their old stand, nextdoor above J. E Hanilin’s Bookstore, where can be found every article kept in a weill-regulated Grocery and Provision Store. We shall always keep the very best quality of Flour, Sugar, Butter, Coffee, Coffee, Tea, Hams, Bacon, Rice, Lard, Candles, Syrups, We wouldinvite particular attention to these Goods purchased expressly for the Nevada county trade, and satisfy yourselves that they will compare favorably with any other stock of Goods to be found in this place. WALL & CO., Broad Street. March 27, 1857—tf BOOTS & SHOES. P She Old Stand, Corner of Main and Commercial Streets. The undersigned having purchased the . entire interestof S Mayers in the above establishinent, would respectfully inform the citizens of Nevada and surrounding country that they intend to keep a large and good assortment of EOS ESS 3 And all kinds and varieties of Shoes. . They have made arrangements to get their Stock direct from the best manufacturers in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, they will be ableto seli as cheap as they can be sold at any s er establishment in the State, assortment of Misses, and Children’s Shoes. CONSTANTLY ON HAND. tinnarnce ofthe liberal patronage from their for nd the publie are respeetinily solicited PJ ESPY NSCHEID WM. R.COE Nevada, April 84, 1857 “Ea. HH. Wickes & Co., sto Dr WmG Alban. Broad street. Nevada Wholesale and Retail Dealers in DRUGS, Drugs MEDICINES, PAINTS, Por in White, Chemicals, Sherry Wine, Turpentine, Holland Gin, Litharge, OILS, Medieimes, Port Wine. Pamts, Tine Brandy. Red Lead, Lara Oil, &C, Sperm Oil, Aleotrol, Polar Oii Starch, Fish Oil, Pearl Barley. Castor Oil, Tapioca, Patent Meditines, Copal Varnish, Neats Foot Oil, Canary Seed, Linseed Oil, Perfumery, Cooking Extracts, Japan Varnish, Bay Rum, Coach Varnish, Sarsaparilla, Dansar Varnish, Patty, Webber's Cordial, Cherry Pectoral, Zine Paint, Wistar’s Balsam, Together with a general and complete assortment of all articles in our line. which will be sold at prices as low as they can be afforded in the mountains. DR. H. H. WICKES & CO. Corner of Broad and Pine streets. Nevada, July 4, 1856.—tf New Store! New Goods!! BOSWELL & HANSON. JOULD respeetfully inform their friends and old patrons that they have opened their New Store and filled it with a large and choice stock of GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, §c., which they are prepared to sell as cheap as can be bonght in this city. Give usa calland satisfy yourselves that we have the First Quality of Goods, which can be bought at reasonable rate. Foot of Main Street, Nevada. June, 12, 1857.—tf. REMOVAL. GREGORY & SPARKS Wee respectfully inform their friends and te public in general that they have removed to he Brick Building, on Main Street, Under the Nevada Journal Office, Where they have on hand, and will constantly keep, well selected stock, embracing every article belonging to their line of business, of the best quality to be had in the market below. They give a general invitation to all to eallrnd see them. To their old friends and customers they return their thanks for past favors, and solicit a con tinuance of thesame. They have Groceries, Provisions, Crockery, Preserved Fruits, Mining Tools, Can Fruits. &c. Allof which will be sold as low as the lowest, and delivered free of charge any reasonable distance from town. Come and see us, everybody ! Nevada, March 20, 1857. PROCLAMATION, $50.00 Reward, R a Dose of Epsom Salts and Castor Oil. I will pay the latter reward for the apprehension or convic tion of the person or persons who have maliciously tore down my advertising bills, headed Look ovuT FoR THE Comet, wherein the people are informed that Ihave the largest stock and finest assortment of DrucGs and MepIcrNES, Perfumery, Toilet and Fancy Articles; also, Paints, Oils and (amphene in Nevada County. Come and see them at Geo. O. KILBOURN’S No. I8, Brick Store,Commercial St. Nevada. May 29, 1857. For Sale r to Rent at a Bargain ! HE fine frame two story House known as the Monumental Hotel situated at the lower end of Main st., togejher with all the fixtures and appurtenances necessary for keeping a first class Hotel. The above Hotel is situated in a good locality for business. Possession given immediately ifrequired. For particulars enquire on the premises. Nevada, October 2nd, 1857.—tf TTENTION! Saloon and Barkeepers. BAR 4% BIER’S EXTRA RASPBERRY SYRUP. This Syrup, carefuily prepared, is equally as good as Gordon’s—i: put up inlarger bottles, and is sold at a cheaper rate. One trialis all that A. BARBIER de mands. Manufactory, 123 Washtmgton street, San Fran cisco. N.B.—Pure Raspberry Juice for sale. mayl-lm SIMS & FRASER, Oregon Street, nearFront, San Francisco MANUFACTURERS OF Fire Proof Doors and Shutters, Bank Vaults, Gratings, Balconies, Railing, §c. §c: (oe All kinds of BLACKSMITHING done to order Second hand SHUTTERS constantly on hand, and for sale AT LOW RaTES £9 Particular attention paid to Country Orde's. 9 N. B.—Oregon street is _& front of the CustomsueHo north side of *“Merchant’s Exchange.” uglS3wa Tue Law or Ratny SEASons IN CaLirorNiA.—All pecuniary interests depend primarily upon the productions of the earth, otherwise upon agriculture ; and this depends prominently upon the relative amount of rain and sunshine during a given year or season. Hence the determination of the natural laws regulating these is of the first importance. But more especially is this the case in California, since here not only our vast agricultural interests, but also our immense mineral interests, depend directly upon the amount of rain we are to receive inagiven year. The following article, therefore, as tending to awaken inquiry upon the law of our seasons, cannot fail of possessing some value, even if it be too early in time to carry with it certainty of truth. That laws obtain in al) departments of nature, is an admitted fact among intelligent men; hence that there are laws governing rain and sunshine, wet and dry seasons, is as much a truth as that there are such governing day and night. The only difference is, that in respect to the first, there prevails greater ignorance, and also mure modifying circumstances exist, than in respect to the last. But to the intelligent the investigation of the one will seem no more worthy of ridicule than the other. Hence, we present these thoughts upon the subject of a law of our wet and dry seasons, tho’ aware we may receive a little of the jeering of old fogy ignorance, and be called weather prognosticators. Within the last twenty years great progress has been made in the collection of data from which to establish through systems of meteorology, embracing all the phenomena of storms and seasons and atmospheric changes. Among the principles determined, is this: that the seasons revolve around the world from east to west, the same as do day and night; but the rapidity of this revolution has not yet been determined. Therefore, if a hard winter prevails in any given region one year; then, some where to the west of it, ata distance yet uncertain, a similar hard winter may be expeeted to prevail the next year, modified by local and other cirecumstanees. So much, scientific men have considered as established. If this be the case then, it is of vast importance to determine the distance of yearly revolution, for then it becomes an easy thing to determine, with much eertainty, the character of any approaching season, for months before its arrival. We could then prepare for the winter according to its coming variations, much ag now we prepare for the winter at all, during the previous summer. Now, so far since the settlement of California by any uumber of Americans in 1846, our seasons, 7. e. our winters, have each year corresponded with remarkable regularity to those of the previous year in the western portion of the great Mississippi valley, or of Kansas and Nebraska. The seasons of New York aud New England seem too far east too reach usin the revolutions of a single year. Hf they did, we ought, a year ago, to have had a severe winter there, for such they had in New England the year before that. But in 1855 and ’56. the year of the first great troubles in Kansas, the winter in the western Mississippi valley was only a moderate one, only an oeeasional snow storm.— Some few, watching the operation of this law, were expecting a hard winter here a year since, because of the severe winter the year before along the whole Atlantic coast. They were disappointed. ‘lhe severe winter which was expected here prevailed no farther west than the Rocky Mountains, and the whole western Mississippi valley, experienced weather of unusual severity.— But this winter, we may look for a season that shall correspond with that of Kansas or Nebraska the last year, one of severity. If this suggestion shall prove true, that our winters are to be the same as those of the previous year in the Western Mississippi valley, so that we can prepare forthem the summer before with tolerable certainty, its advantages in all respects must be immense. It is important that we carf.Jly observe the facts to arrive at the truth, if possible. The western revolutions of seasons is certain: what we need to discover is the law of rapidity for this revolution. Ss. V. A Darkey Turo.tocian.—An old negro, near Victoria, Texas, who was the only Baptist in the neighborhood, always “stuck up for his own faith,” and was ready with reason for it, although he was unable to read a word. This is the way he “put ’em down :” “You kin read, now, keant you ?” Yes.” “Weil.{I s'pose you've read the Bible, haint you ?” “Yes.” “You’ye read about John de Baptist, haint you?” “Yes.” “Well, you never read about John de Methodis, did you ?” “No.” “You see I has de Bible on my side, cen. Yah, ya-a-yah !” A Heavy Blow to the Church at Oroville—The Record says: “The storm of wind and rain. onthe night of Dec. 11th, was too severe for the walls of the brick churéh which is being erected by the Congregationalists, and when the floods beat upon them and the winds assailed them, down they fell, and about fifteen feet was the fall thereof.” The proprietor of a forge, not remarkable for correctness of language, but who, by honest industry, had realized a comfortable independence, being called upon at a social meeting for a toast, gave: ‘Success to forgery.” A man being sympathized with on aecount of his wife’s running away, said, “Don’t pity me till she comes back ” again. Deatu oF CrRawFrordD, THE AMERIcaN Scutpror.—Another great light is extinguished. The eye which flushed with the genius of an art that makes fame eternal is rayless forever, and the hand whieh gave vitality to matter is as cold as the marble from which he chiseled his greatness. All that remains of the sculptor of “Orpheus,’’ pronounced by Thorwaldsen “the most classic statue in the studies of Rome,” is the renown his works bequeath to his country. America, in the death of Crawford, has cause to meurn over his demise, for in distant lands he won her enduring honor, opened to American intellect a pathway to Europe, an appreciation, and by his noble works commanded the admiration of tie most cultivated minds of the age. Mr. Crawford was born in this city in 1813. In youth he gave evidence of a remarkable fondness for art, which his father had the sagacity to comprehend and cultivate. He was a school fellow of Page, the well-known portrait painter, and, like the latter, while at school, preferred to draw animals or trees on a slate rather than be working out the solution of some arithmetical problem. At twenty years of age he was sent to Rome, and was fortunate in making the acquaintance of the celebrated Vhorwaldsen. He executed busts of the late Commodore Hull, Mr. Kenyon, Sir Charles Vaughan, Josiah Quincy, &c. In 1839 he designed “Orpheus,” the finest production of his chisel. Next followed “Cupid and Psyche,” “Sappho,” “Vesta,” “Genius of Mirth,” Adam and Eve,” “Dayid before Saul,” and a number of Scriptural bas reliefs. In 1855 his fame as a sculptor, which was gradually developing shone forth with redoubled lustre inthe production of his noble statue in bronze of Beethoven, which is deposited in the Music Hall of Boston. But his greatest work was destined to be Lis last—the Washington Monument, ordered by the State of Virginia, with which the public are long familiar. Mr. Crawford was married some years ago to Miss Ward, of this city. He has left several children, who are now living with his wife’s sister, Mrs. Milliard, at Bordentown, N. J. For the last year or two he has been the victim of a dreadful disease, which has deprived him almost entirely of sight, and caused him to renounce his art entirely. A malignaut tumor made its appearance in his left eye, and in spite of every effort of his physicians, increased to such an extent that the eye protruded almost out of its socket, while the agony which was intense, seemed beyond the aid of art.— Last Spring he was induced to leave Rome and placed himself under the care of Dr. Fell, of London, a young Amerieau physician, who had acquired some reputation for his treatment of eancers. For a while the sufferer, seemed to obtain relief, but the efforts to remove the cancer at the sacrifice of the eye itself, proved entirely unavailing ; the disease penetrated to the brain and after months of anguish, which he bore with singular patience, he was relieved of his sufferings by death on the 44th year of his age. The body will be sent home in the steamship Arago, or the one immediately sueceeded her. It is Mrs. Crawford’s wish that the funeral services here should be held in St. John’s Church where he statedly worshipped before he left for Rome.—N. Y. Herald. Smart Feminines.—The first paragraph annexed is from the New York Mercury, and the second from a London letter: = “The ladies are becoming dangerously perfect. We really don’t know why they shouldn’t ‘rise im rebellion’ some day, and take away the reigns of government from us poor masculines. There are now two ladies stopping at Barretti, on Cape Island, N. J., who are equal to the best of us on bowling and _ shooting. One of them made twelve ten strikes in succession, and two hundred and eightyseven points on her next game, lately. The other one, in the meanwhile, was shooting a pistol match with two gentlemen from this city. She hit the button six times in eight shots, at ten paces, and the other two shots came within seven-eights of an inch! She then fired twenty-six shots at a swinging block, two and a half inches in diameter, and struck it fourteen times! There would be no necessity for any gentleman’s going into the field to settle this last lady’s quarrels.” “We could name a lady who had nerves, quickness and boldness enough to accomplish the following feats in a single day: She was seen at 11 o’clock in the morning in Hyde Park, in a becoming riding habit, with a handsome Pamela hat on her head; at 2, ata matinee musicale in Hanover Rooms, in a streaky, light silk dress and a_ bonnet of white crape ; at 6, ata grand dinner table, in violet and flounces, with pearls and beads in the hair; at 8, in an evening concert; and at 11 at a ball, in white muslin aad a lovely hair dress of roses.” A Big Boot——Among the boots for the southern market manufactured in the Philadelphia Peniteutiary, is a pair that would have almost answered for the famous legendary giant who were the seven leagued boots. Each one weighs eight and a half pounds, and is nineteen inches in length and six and three quarter inches wide across the soles. They are intended fora slave upon a plantation, who officiates on Sunday as a preacher. An office seeker, in urging his claims, said that his grandfather didn’t fight in the revolutionary war, bunt he guessed he would have liked to, if ke had been in the country at the time. He was appointed. It is said that no fort ever suffered so much from a single battle as has the . piano forte from the Battle of Prague. . dinary deer.— Colusi Adroeate. . A New AGRictLTuRAL WRINKLE.— A funny story is told of an old friend of ours—one who, sick and tired of the care and bustle of a city life, has retired into the country, and ‘gone to farming,” as the saying is. His land, albeit well situated and commanding sundry . fine prospects, is not so particularly ferA Home wirnout a Dateutar— Boys may not lack affection, but they may lack tenderness ; they may not be wanting in inclination to contribute their quota to the Paradise of home, but they may b Wanting in the ability to carry out tHeir inclinations, ° The son of a household is like a young and vigorous tile as some we have seen—requiring saplin —the daughter is like a fragile scientific culture and a liberal system of } V"¢manuring to induce an abundant yield. So far by way of explanations Once upon a time as the story-books say, our friend being on a short visit to New Orleans, was attending an auction sale down town, and as it so happened, they were selling damaged sausages at the time ‘There were some eight or ten barrels of them, and they were ‘just going at 50 cents a barrel,” when the auctioneer, with all apparent seriousness, remarked that they were worth more than that to manure land wit). Here was an idea. “Sixty-two anda ha'f eents—third and last calli—gone !” retorted the auetioneer. “Cash takes them at sixty-two and a half cents per barrel !” To have them shipped to his country seat was the immediate work of om friend, and as it was then, planting time, and the sausages, to use€ a common phrase, “were getting no better very fast,” to have them safe under ground and out of the way wes his next movement. He was about to plant a field of several acres of corn—the soil of the piney woods species—so, here was just the spot for this new experiment in agriculture, this new wrinkle in the seierce of geopines. One “link” of sausage being deemed amply suilicient, that amount placed in cach hill, accompanied by the usual number of kernels of corn and an occasional pumkin seed, and all were nicely covered over in the usual style. Now, after promising that several days have occurred since the corn was planted, the sequel of the story shall be toldin a dialogue between! our friend and one of his neighbors. Neighbor—Well, friend, have you planted your corn ? Friend—Yes, several days since. Neighbor—Is it up yet ? Friend—Up ! yes ; up and gone. the most of it. Neighbor—How is that ? Friend-—Well, you see, I bought a lot of damaged sausages the other day in New Orleans a smooth tongue of an auctioneer saying they would make excellent manure, if nothing else. I bro’t the lot over, commenced planting my corn at once, as it was time, planted a sausage in each hill,, and— Neighbor—Well, and what ? Friend—And felt satisfied that I had made a good job of it. Some days afterwards I went out te the field to see how the eorn was coming on, and a pretty piece of business I have made of tryiug agricultural experiments. Neizhbor—Why, what was ter !” Friend—Matter! the first thing I saw . before reaching the field, was the great. est lot of dogs digging and scratching allover it! There were my dogs, and your dogs, and all the neighbor’s dogs, besides about three hundred strange . dogs I never set my eyes on before, and every one was hard at it mining after} the buried sausages. Somehow or oth er the rascally whelps had scented out the business, and they have dug up every hill hy thistime If I could set every dog of them on the auctioneer, I'd be satisfied. the mat. Dersticks.—The famous “Doesticks”’ has been to Boston and furnishes the New York Picayune with a humorous sketch, from which these extracts are made : Ninety-nine extra-sized anglo-worms, locomoting at high pressure speed about a garden walk of a showery afternoon, and being perpetually turned back when they get to the edge, and compelled to cross each other’s trail in innumerable directions, would, if the ground were soft and their every footstep plainly visible, draw on the garden walk aforesai a tolerably accurate map of the ciry of Boston. It is crookeder than nive acre of rams’ horns, and has got more eorners than a cord of cross-cut saws. You see your friend, and you call out, «Jones, wait a minute!” and you start to see Jones, thinking he is just across the stieet. Misguided mau ! far distant Jones ! You elimb nine hills and turn ninety corners before you get within hailing distance of Jones again ! The streets look as if they had been made somewhere’else and damped here in a huge tangle, and nobody had ever taken the trouble to straighten them out again. It looks as if somebody had been building a lot of cities on contract and the job had’nt come out even, and he had thrown down his remnants cf streets and odd ends of alleys, and litti snipped off bits of lanes, and called it Boston. If any street in the town shoult be cut a straight mile in any direction, it would go through a dozen private parlors and forty-five public musical halls. In fact, Boston looks as if first rete material foran excellert city had been poured through a seive on a side hill and left to cool. . Speaking of the merits of a watch, Abel says he had one once that gained enough in three weeks to pay for itself. Wuire Deer.—A Deer as white as snow, was killed last Wednesday near McCumber’s mill, which is located on Battle Creek in the foot hills on the East side of the Sacramento River.— We are told that one of these white deer was captured last fall by some hunters on Antelope Creek. The animal last named was of enormous size, being nearly twice the weight of an orWe know a home which rejoiced in the sunny smiles and the musical accents of an only daughter. She was a lovely child womanly beyond her years, “Fall of gentleness, of calmest hope, Of sweet and quiet joy.” The child never breathed who evinced amore affectionate reverence, or a more reverpntial affection for her parents thar she did. Instead of waiting for their commands, she anticipated them; instead of lingering until they made known their wishes, she studied their bt out. Morning broke not in that household until she awoke; the night was not dark until she closed her eyes. How they loved her!—did her father and mcther; andof } y many blessed pictures of the future was she the subject. “It isa fearful thing that Love and Death dweli*in the same world,” says Mrs. Hemans. “Fea fal?” It is maddening—it is a truth is linked with cespair. Suddenly, like a thief in the night, there came a messeneer ¢ Heaven for the child, saying t} a he Lord had need of her.” She meekly bowed -her head—hreathed out her little life—and at midnig “went forth t 2 ne 3 wees fom gfe oe the g 4 as ninnte of the last hour of the last day of the month was hallowed by her death. She went, and came back no more. Years have wore a way since then, but still there is egony in the household whose sun went down when she departed. The family circle is inecomplete— there is no daughter there! The form that once was here reposes among the congenial charms of nature and art; they have made the place of her rest beautiful ; if the grass grows rank upon her grave, it is because it is kept wet with tears. Of a truth, a home without a zirl in it is only half blest ; it is an orchard without blossoms, and a Spring without a song. <A house full of sons is like Lebanon with its cedars, but daughters b the fireside are like roses in Sharon. LEGISLATION FOR THE MinES.—This subject is being discussed by several of our cotemporaries ofthe mining counties. Whilst some propose a specific character of legislation, and urge that absolute necessity exists for some law making in the mines, others most strenuously oppose any change whatever im regard to them. Hitherto, we have thought it unnecessary to take part in this controverey, believing that nofseriols attempt would he made to interfere with the mines by the Legislature. . It is an old adage, and we think worthy of repetition on this subject, to “Let well enough alone.” Our. people are daily becoming more and more prosperous, and happy and contented under the tried system of the miners themselves Yeing their law-makers for their different mining Inecalities. Their rights, privileges and liabilities are far better defined, and more easily understood now than they would be were the Legislaie to attempt to simplify and define 1em. The Legislature is composed of men of various trades and professions, a large majority of whom know as little of mining as astronomers did of the coming of the comet last June. It would bea curious and not uninteresting volume, were all the mining laws, rules and customs in force and in prosperous operation in the various mining localities, or even in this county, colleeted together. One would hardly imagine, upon reading them, that they applied to the same business, unless he had some practical knowledge of the necessity that exists for the various rules in ditterent places. But so itis, and we venture the assertion that, througout the whole mineral region of the State; there a not two places where the rules rulations and customs in force, in respect similar. opposed to legis} I : rega ining, are in every fience, we are totally 7 : ard to mining claims o1 his. Trinity Journal. Mountain FASTNESS Young, in one of his war sey that he has secret means of the Americans without any part of the Mormous. ening that they will bu take to the hills, he say “Read the history of the world, says Brigham from the time that Cain killed Abel to this day, and see whether you ean find an instance when in a mountain country fifty resolute, united men have been overcome by five hundred. Did their enemies ever overeome the: small band of Waldenses in the moun tains of Piedmont ? No, they slaugh tered army after army sent against them and maintained their position, notwitbstanding toreach them was only like: sending an army here from San Pete. or from here to San Pete ; they were in easy reach of their enemies. Would Scotland ever have beer so: far overcome by England as to unite with that power, if her chiefs had not: indulged in petty feuds with each other! No, it never would. But the chief: were like our Indians, some were in fa— vor of this one and others of that one being crowned chief, and by contending: with each other they lost the advantage of their position, or to this day Seotlanu might have been an independent nation even though surrounded by water on all sides except the one joining England. —Brighem destroying loss on the And after threatrn their city and § f Samuel Harrison, of Pittsylvania county is the richest man in Virginia.— He owns 1,790 slaves, and they inerease at the rate of one hundred @ year: He is estimated to be worth $5,00@000. eee

vo~ Sly, . Fin BOs 39-6 THE NEVADA JOURNA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1857. @ ms Bs WHOLE NUMBER 396 ad v be ANebada Journal. PUBLISHED BY N.P. BROWN & Co. B. G. WAITE. N. P, BROWN OFFICE—No, 46 MAIN STREET. TERMS: For ONT TSin. Sih Acs bes dbieoenee ee For SIX MONTHS.... ebbtinnghss teende eetntaeuneke 4,00 For THRER MONTHS.. ... 02-202 200 cc ccen cn cccces 2,00 Since Corigs... estas Rey ea or eee, 25 . SS Business Cards. ~— are! A. A. SARGENT, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Orrirce—Kidd & Knox's Building, Broad Street. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Office—Kelsey’s brick, Commercial street, Nevada. “S. SPEAR H. L. THORNTON. Spear & Thornton, ‘ounsellors and Attorneys at Law DOWNIEVILLE, CALIFORNIA. \ JILL PR ACTICE inthe Courts of the Fourteenth Downieville, Feb. 27, 1857 Judicial District and the Supreme Court. THOMAS P. HAWLEY, Notary Public, Office with Buckner & Hill, Kelsey’s building, Commercial street, Nevada, W'S @. GARDINER. T.B. MCPARLAND GARDINER & McFARLAND, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. OMice—Riley’s Brick building Corner Pine and Broad Btreets H. TANTON BUCKNER. Cc. WILSON HILL Buckner & Hill, \F FICE IN KELSEY’S BUILDING, SECOND FLOOR Commercial street, Nevada. AVING associated themselves together in the practice of the Law, will attend promptly to all business confided to their care in Nevada and adjoining counties. Nevada, July 18, 1856-tf R. M'CONNELL. A. C. NILES, McCONNELL & NILES, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Will practice in all the Courts of the 14th Judiciol Dis riect, andin the Supreme Court. Office in Kidd’s Block, up stairs. John Anderson, Justice of the Peace, Ofice—A few doors below T. Ellard Beans & Co., on Broad street. Nevada JAMES CHURCHMAN, Attorney at Law. TILL hereafter devote himselfsolely to the prac W tice of his profession, and will be found always t his ofice. Corner of Broad and Pine Streets, Nevada, yn professional business. july 10 when avoat MEDICAL NOTICE. E.S.: ALDRIGH, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Ss the 4 , teniers his profes vada aad vicinity. Building, Main Hotel, Broad ational SIGN & ORNAMENTAL PAINTER, MAINSTREL Cc. W. MANUFACTURING J tt) J 4 ANI 7 m All kincs of Fine Watehes, ee Bows DIAMOND WOKK & CUTLERY, tas: Nevada —Aug, ?.-tf AREY minereral street 43/4 «tand—Cor McRoberts, M. Hi, FuNsToON. McRoberts & Funston, Pealersia Groceries, Liquors WINES & MINERS’ SUPPLIES. Have’ removed to . 39 Broad Street, Nevada. NEXT DOOR TO THE POST OFPICE, and see us. wa.s Come Charles H. Bain, al + r ~ ARCHITECT AND BUILDER, ARPENTERING done in the best style and with desJ patch. Billiard Tables repaired and all kinds of Fan eyWork. Reasonable thankful for past favors and solic ts continuance of thesame. i : Shop in the rear of Williamson & Dawley's Banking Honse. 16-tf Z. P. DAVIS, Gunsmith, v survived the fire, the subscriber has again eapoe himselfon SPRING STREET, in the rear of the United States Hotel, where he will prosecute his business for the present iu the Gunsmith line. Rifles and Shot Guns kept constantly on hand for sale. Pistols, Powder, Shot, Lead, Balls, Caps, Wadding, Flasks, Powder Horns, &e. &c. Guns and Pistols repaired and putin order at the shortest Notice. Having a superior Lathe, he can manufacture any part of machinery which may be desired. New Rifles made to order. 4 ROBERT HOMFRAY, Civil Engineer and Surveyor, Office opposite the Court House. LL work entrusted to my care will be properly attend ded to. My surveys warranted to be good testimony in “any Court within this State.’? All persons are cautioned against believing garbled quotations from the statutes, inserted in the advertisement of envious officials. : ; oe Best Europeanand American references given. jylo County Surveyor's Office. COURT HOUSE, NEVADA. Joun &. Gamere, } = F. DERTKEN. County Surveyor.) Deputy. LL persons are hereby cautioned against employing A other Surveyors than such as may be deputized from this offic (Extract from Laws of California.) Cap. 20, Sec.3. Nosurvey or re survey hereafter made by any person except the County Surveyor or his deputy shallbe consideredlegal evidence in any Court within this State. JOHN L. GAMBLE. Nevada, June 26th, 1857 o24-tf NEW BILLIARD SALOON Harrington & Patterson, YO long and favorably known on Broad street, have re ‘3 movedand opened the finest Billiard Saloon to be foundin the mountains, tn the new Brick builing, on the eorner of Broad and Pine Street, opposite Kidd & Knox's prick building. They hereby tender an invitation to all their old patrons and friends to pay them frequen’ visits and they hereby pledge themselves to give as good satisfaction as formerly The Saloon will be furnished with new and magnificent Billiard Tablesand every appendage compicte, The Bar Is fitted up in the finest style and supplied with the choicest and most costly Liquors and Cigars. Nevada, Janvary 16, 1857.—tf aug 29 SHAW & WHITNEY, (Successors to Shaw & Jones,) FORWARDING MERCHANTS, SACRAMENTO. C. J SHAW, No. 38 Front St SACRAMENTO J. R. WHITNEY, No. 79 Front St San FRANCISCO. e aw) > Mark Packaces (Care S. DID YOU KNOW THAT JAMES S. CURTIS, il AS opened his Fine Saloon next door to the Amer can Exchange s ner expense in making it he mountain: e finest Liquors in the State + finest brands. Give mea call,one and that the above is true. JAMES S. CURTIS. The Baris s and Cigars siland satisfy yourselves Nera is, Sept. 25, 1857, en eee ee 5 F. MANSELL. Sign and Ornamental Painter, Au i, oa attended to, aud ip the best style yo art. Commer tal strest, Borede CHEAP! CHEAP! CHEAP! Sol. Kohlman’s HAS REMOVED To the old and popular corner, in Kidd & Knox's Building Cor. of Broad and Pine Sts. Vy HERE can be found every variety of Fashionable Clothing and Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods, con. sisting in part of— Black and Blue Cloth Frock Coats ; Beaver, Pilot and Cassimere Busincss Coats ; Heavy Pilot, Beaver and Petersham Baglans ; Black and Blue Broadcloth Talmas ; Black, Blue and Fancy Cassimere Pants; Blue, Grey, Black ane Satinet Pants ; Fancy and Black Silk Velvet Vests ; A large assortment of Shirts, Drawers, Handkerchiefs, Cravats, and Gloves : A good stock of the latest styles of Hats and Caps ; Trunks, Valises and Carpet Bags ; _ . Also a large and well selected stock of Boy’s & Youth's Clothing. A large stock of heavy Grey, Blue, Red and the finest of White Blankets ; RUSISA GOODS. Goodyear's best White and Black India Rubber Coats and Jackets , India Rubber Pants, Overvalls, Leggings and Gloves. Best kind ot Goodyear’s Long Legged and Knee Top India Rubber Boots. I invite my friends and the public in general to call and examine my stock before purcha ing elsewhere. Remember the Corner of Broad and Pine streets, formerly occupied by Rosenheim & Bro. SOL. KOHLMAN. Nevada, November 6th, 1857.—tf Insolvent Notice. In the District Court, 14th Judicial District OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. N the matter of the Petition of WM. A. SIMPSON, an Insolve: t Debtor. Pursuant to an order of the Hon. T. H. Caswell, Judge of the said County Court, noticeis hereby given to all the creditors of the said Insolvent, tobe and appear before the Hon. T. H. Caswell aforesaid, in open Court, at the Court Room of said Court, in the city and county of Nevada on the 3rd day of Jan. 1858, at 10 0’clock, A M, of that day, then and there to show cause, if any they can, why the prayer of said Insolvent should not be granted, and an assignment ot his Estate be made, and he be discharged from his debts and liabilities, in pursuance ot the Statnte in such case made and provided ; and in the mean time all proceedings against said Insolvent be stayed, Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court, this 14th (L. S.J day of November, A.D. 1857. RUFUS SHOEMAKER, Clerk. n20-4w By Wo. SmiTH, Deputy. A. A. Sargent Atty for Petitioner. Insolvent Notice. N the County Court of Nevada County, of the State o California. In the matter of the Petition of JOSEPH WORRELL, an Insolvent debtor. Pursuant toan order of the Hon. Thos. H. Caswell, Judge of the said County Court, notice is hereby given to allthe creditors of the said Insolvent, Joseph Worrell, to be and appear before the Hon. Thomas H. Caswell, af-resaid. in open Court, at the Court Room of said Court in the said County of Nevada, on the 4th day of January A. D.1858 at 10 0’elock, A. M. of that day, then and there to show canse. if any they can why the prayer of said Insolvent should not be granted, And an assignment ! ofhis Estate be made, and he be discharged from his debts and liabilities, in pursuance of the Statute in such case made and provided ; andin the mean time all proceedings against said Insolvent be stayed. I S . ] Witness my band and the “eal of said Court [ 4e WO Ithis 5th day of November, A. DP. 1857. RUFUS SHOEMAKER, Clerk. nov6 A. A Sargent, Attorney for Petitioner. sy Wo. SmitH, Deputy. A. BLOCK & CO. . Corner of Pine and Commercial Streets. ! . ] AND Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods. Of every desirable description. AT.SO India Rubber Coats, Jackets, Pants, Leggings, and Gloves of the best quality. All of which will be sold at the mast reasonable prices. ( Please call and judge for yourself. A. BLOCK & CO. evada, October 30th, 1857. Notice to Liquor Dealers and Merchants. complete assortment of the Oils necessary for maJA king and flavoring every variety of Liquor, anda package of the articles used or giving Artificial strengthto Liquors, (converting 70 gallons of Whiskey to 100 gallons) and every article necessary to commence a Liqvor Srore will be furnished for $20. And all the information necessary to conduct such an establishment, thus enabling the new beginner to successfully comgste with the oldest liquor dealers. Address thro’ the Post Office P. LACOUR, New Orleans. Lacour’s Concentrated Aeid for making Vinegar, is put up in 2 gallon packages at $5 per package—in good shipping ordar. feb6-ly McROBERTS & FUNSTON, Have just received the Largest and Best Selected Stock of Wines, Fine Brandies, Liquors, Cordials, —AND CASE GO0ODS— EVER BROUGHT TO NEVADA. Their stock of Family Groceries and Miners’ Supplies, is unsurpassed in Variety, Quality, and Low Prices, by any house this side of the Bay, ~ Call and see us, and we will guarantee 3 bogeys “ey ie ‘ ‘ ° Entire Satisfaction in Price and Quality N.B. Goods celivered free of charge. We always deliver the same quality of goods which we sell to our customers. McROBERTS & FUNSTON No. 34, Broad street, 2 doors above the Post Office . May29 NEW BOOT AND SHOE STORE, On Commercial St, 4 door to George Keeney’s Hardware Store. S MAYERS having pnrehased an entirely new \ stock of Boots, Shoes, Brogans, Rubbers, &c. &c.— consisting of every necessary to form @ First Class Boot and Shoe Store ! ’ Begs leave to inform the public generally thathe will on the most favorable terms possible. As he has necessary artangements to receive new supplies weekly, he expects tobe able at ail timesto furnish his customers with the best and most fashionable articies to be undin this or any othermarket. Boots and Shoes made and repaired to order. Allwork coming from this shop giving way without doing reasonable amount of service, wiil be mended free of charge. Nevada, April I7th, 1857.-tf FISKE, SATHER & CHURCH, BANKERS, Corner of 3a and J Streets, Sacramento, Buy and sell Exchanges on the Atlantic Europe. PAY THE HIGHEST PRICES FOR GOLD pUst And transact a General Banking Business. ’ THOMAS =. FI=KE, Sacramento. P. SATHER, : Wk . E.W.CHUREH, }san Francisco, September 4, 1857 PULU. PULU: JACOB SCHREIDER, 176 Fackson street, San Francisco. AS just reeeived 12,000 Ibs of this superior article of Bediing,ex “Fanny Major,” pa is ready , ply trae and customers generally, at the lowest market rates. Itis unnecessary to comment onthe decided advantages which this article possesses over Moss Cotton, Wool, or even Hair, as an article of Bedding, as its popularity is unbounded throughout the Sate. Its chief qualifications are that it is Soft, Elastic, Durable, and Remarkably Healthy. A person using it is not an. noyed by insects. on hand; Moss, Hair, Wool, Feathers. a General assortment of Bedding, Comforters, Sheets, &-,&c 9m «> ? Henry & Moses Hirschman. ARE ON THE COURSE AGAIN! HEY have opened at the Corner of Commercial and Ma‘n strects, and offer for sale a well selected and excellent stock of HAVANA CIGARS. Allkinds of Tobacco, smoking. chewing, Cards, Matches, Pipes, and every article pertaining to the trade. They beg the public to call on them, as they flatter themselves that entire satisfaction willbe given. Their motto is “Quick Sales and Smal! Profits,” H. & M. HIRSCHMAN.WHOLESALE anp RETAIL LIQUOR STORE. HE undersigned would inform the public that they have now on hand a most extensive assortment of The Best Liquors Ever brought to this market. Having a good Fire Proof Building with an excellent cellar under it, they have every facility for keeping any amount of goods. They have and willalways keep a good supply of WHISKEY, BRANDY, GIN, WINES, PORTER, ALE, CIDER, &e. &e. AlsomAll kinds of Case Liquors, Cor dials, Syrups, &c. Which have been selected with the greatest care by competent judges, and which will be sold as low or lower than any other establishment in the place. They will continue the manufacture of SODA at the lod place (Flurshutz’s Soda Factory,) which is an article too well known to require recommendation Dealers and others wishing to purchase, are respectfully iuvited to call and examine our stock. May 1 FRED. W. MAY & CO. & May & Co. are agents for the sale of pure Califormia Port, Claret, Angelica and White Wines: NEW GOODS. JESSE §. WALL & (Co. \ J OULD respectfully inform the citizens of Nevada and vicinity thatthey have received during the past week the Largest and best stock of Goods, Ever before brought into Nevada. They are always on hand, at the Fire-proof Brick Building, Broad Street, Nearly opposite their old stand, nextdoor above J. E Hanilin’s Bookstore, where can be found every article kept in a weill-regulated Grocery and Provision Store. We shall always keep the very best quality of Flour, Sugar, Butter, Coffee, Coffee, Tea, Hams, Bacon, Rice, Lard, Candles, Syrups, We wouldinvite particular attention to these Goods purchased expressly for the Nevada county trade, and satisfy yourselves that they will compare favorably with any other stock of Goods to be found in this place. WALL & CO., Broad Street. March 27, 1857—tf BOOTS & SHOES. P She Old Stand, Corner of Main and Commercial Streets. The undersigned having purchased the . entire interestof S Mayers in the above establishinent, would respectfully inform the citizens of Nevada and surrounding country that they intend to keep a large and good assortment of EOS ESS 3 And all kinds and varieties of Shoes. . They have made arrangements to get their Stock direct from the best manufacturers in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, they will be ableto seli as cheap as they can be sold at any s er establishment in the State, assortment of Misses, and Children’s Shoes. CONSTANTLY ON HAND. tinnarnce ofthe liberal patronage from their for nd the publie are respeetinily solicited PJ ESPY NSCHEID WM. R.COE Nevada, April 84, 1857 “Ea. HH. Wickes & Co., sto Dr WmG Alban. Broad street. Nevada Wholesale and Retail Dealers in DRUGS, Drugs MEDICINES, PAINTS, Por in White, Chemicals, Sherry Wine, Turpentine, Holland Gin, Litharge, OILS, Medieimes, Port Wine. Pamts, Tine Brandy. Red Lead, Lara Oil, &C, Sperm Oil, Aleotrol, Polar Oii Starch, Fish Oil, Pearl Barley. Castor Oil, Tapioca, Patent Meditines, Copal Varnish, Neats Foot Oil, Canary Seed, Linseed Oil, Perfumery, Cooking Extracts, Japan Varnish, Bay Rum, Coach Varnish, Sarsaparilla, Dansar Varnish, Patty, Webber's Cordial, Cherry Pectoral, Zine Paint, Wistar’s Balsam, Together with a general and complete assortment of all articles in our line. which will be sold at prices as low as they can be afforded in the mountains. DR. H. H. WICKES & CO. Corner of Broad and Pine streets. Nevada, July 4, 1856.—tf New Store! New Goods!! BOSWELL & HANSON. JOULD respeetfully inform their friends and old patrons that they have opened their New Store and filled it with a large and choice stock of GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, §c., which they are prepared to sell as cheap as can be bonght in this city. Give usa calland satisfy yourselves that we have the First Quality of Goods, which can be bought at reasonable rate. Foot of Main Street, Nevada. June, 12, 1857.—tf. REMOVAL. GREGORY & SPARKS Wee respectfully inform their friends and te public in general that they have removed to he Brick Building, on Main Street, Under the Nevada Journal Office, Where they have on hand, and will constantly keep, well selected stock, embracing every article belonging to their line of business, of the best quality to be had in the market below. They give a general invitation to all to eallrnd see them. To their old friends and customers they return their thanks for past favors, and solicit a con tinuance of thesame. They have Groceries, Provisions, Crockery, Preserved Fruits, Mining Tools, Can Fruits. &c. Allof which will be sold as low as the lowest, and delivered free of charge any reasonable distance from town. Come and see us, everybody ! Nevada, March 20, 1857. PROCLAMATION, $50.00 Reward, R a Dose of Epsom Salts and Castor Oil. I will pay the latter reward for the apprehension or convic tion of the person or persons who have maliciously tore down my advertising bills, headed Look ovuT FoR THE Comet, wherein the people are informed that Ihave the largest stock and finest assortment of DrucGs and MepIcrNES, Perfumery, Toilet and Fancy Articles; also, Paints, Oils and (amphene in Nevada County. Come and see them at Geo. O. KILBOURN’S No. I8, Brick Store,Commercial St. Nevada. May 29, 1857. For Sale r to Rent at a Bargain ! HE fine frame two story House known as the Monumental Hotel situated at the lower end of Main st., togejher with all the fixtures and appurtenances necessary for keeping a first class Hotel. The above Hotel is situated in a good locality for business. Possession given immediately ifrequired. For particulars enquire on the premises. Nevada, October 2nd, 1857.—tf TTENTION! Saloon and Barkeepers. BAR 4% BIER’S EXTRA RASPBERRY SYRUP. This Syrup, carefuily prepared, is equally as good as

Gordon’s—i: put up inlarger bottles, and is sold at a cheaper rate. One trialis all that A. BARBIER de mands. Manufactory, 123 Washtmgton street, San Fran cisco. N.B.—Pure Raspberry Juice for sale. mayl-lm SIMS & FRASER, Oregon Street, nearFront, San Francisco MANUFACTURERS OF Fire Proof Doors and Shutters, Bank Vaults, Gratings, Balconies, Railing, §c. §c: (oe All kinds of BLACKSMITHING done to order Second hand SHUTTERS constantly on hand, and for sale AT LOW RaTES £9 Particular attention paid to Country Orde's. 9 N. B.—Oregon street is _& front of the CustomsueHo north side of *“Merchant’s Exchange.” uglS3wa Tue Law or Ratny SEASons IN CaLirorNiA.—All pecuniary interests depend primarily upon the productions of the earth, otherwise upon agriculture ; and this depends prominently upon the relative amount of rain and sunshine during a given year or season. Hence the determination of the natural laws regulating these is of the first importance. But more especially is this the case in California, since here not only our vast agricultural interests, but also our immense mineral interests, depend directly upon the amount of rain we are to receive inagiven year. The following article, therefore, as tending to awaken inquiry upon the law of our seasons, cannot fail of possessing some value, even if it be too early in time to carry with it certainty of truth. That laws obtain in al) departments of nature, is an admitted fact among intelligent men; hence that there are laws governing rain and sunshine, wet and dry seasons, is as much a truth as that there are such governing day and night. The only difference is, that in respect to the first, there prevails greater ignorance, and also mure modifying circumstances exist, than in respect to the last. But to the intelligent the investigation of the one will seem no more worthy of ridicule than the other. Hence, we present these thoughts upon the subject of a law of our wet and dry seasons, tho’ aware we may receive a little of the jeering of old fogy ignorance, and be called weather prognosticators. Within the last twenty years great progress has been made in the collection of data from which to establish through systems of meteorology, embracing all the phenomena of storms and seasons and atmospheric changes. Among the principles determined, is this: that the seasons revolve around the world from east to west, the same as do day and night; but the rapidity of this revolution has not yet been determined. Therefore, if a hard winter prevails in any given region one year; then, some where to the west of it, ata distance yet uncertain, a similar hard winter may be expeeted to prevail the next year, modified by local and other cirecumstanees. So much, scientific men have considered as established. If this be the case then, it is of vast importance to determine the distance of yearly revolution, for then it becomes an easy thing to determine, with much eertainty, the character of any approaching season, for months before its arrival. We could then prepare for the winter according to its coming variations, much ag now we prepare for the winter at all, during the previous summer. Now, so far since the settlement of California by any uumber of Americans in 1846, our seasons, 7. e. our winters, have each year corresponded with remarkable regularity to those of the previous year in the western portion of the great Mississippi valley, or of Kansas and Nebraska. The seasons of New York aud New England seem too far east too reach usin the revolutions of a single year. Hf they did, we ought, a year ago, to have had a severe winter there, for such they had in New England the year before that. But in 1855 and ’56. the year of the first great troubles in Kansas, the winter in the western Mississippi valley was only a moderate one, only an oeeasional snow storm.— Some few, watching the operation of this law, were expecting a hard winter here a year since, because of the severe winter the year before along the whole Atlantic coast. They were disappointed. ‘lhe severe winter which was expected here prevailed no farther west than the Rocky Mountains, and the whole western Mississippi valley, experienced weather of unusual severity.— But this winter, we may look for a season that shall correspond with that of Kansas or Nebraska the last year, one of severity. If this suggestion shall prove true, that our winters are to be the same as those of the previous year in the Western Mississippi valley, so that we can prepare forthem the summer before with tolerable certainty, its advantages in all respects must be immense. It is important that we carf.Jly observe the facts to arrive at the truth, if possible. The western revolutions of seasons is certain: what we need to discover is the law of rapidity for this revolution. Ss. V. A Darkey Turo.tocian.—An old negro, near Victoria, Texas, who was the only Baptist in the neighborhood, always “stuck up for his own faith,” and was ready with reason for it, although he was unable to read a word. This is the way he “put ’em down :” “You kin read, now, keant you ?” Yes.” “Weil.{I s'pose you've read the Bible, haint you ?” “Yes.” “You’ye read about John de Baptist, haint you?” “Yes.” “Well, you never read about John de Methodis, did you ?” “No.” “You see I has de Bible on my side, cen. Yah, ya-a-yah !” A Heavy Blow to the Church at Oroville—The Record says: “The storm of wind and rain. onthe night of Dec. 11th, was too severe for the walls of the brick churéh which is being erected by the Congregationalists, and when the floods beat upon them and the winds assailed them, down they fell, and about fifteen feet was the fall thereof.” The proprietor of a forge, not remarkable for correctness of language, but who, by honest industry, had realized a comfortable independence, being called upon at a social meeting for a toast, gave: ‘Success to forgery.” A man being sympathized with on aecount of his wife’s running away, said, “Don’t pity me till she comes back ” again. Deatu oF CrRawFrordD, THE AMERIcaN Scutpror.—Another great light is extinguished. The eye which flushed with the genius of an art that makes fame eternal is rayless forever, and the hand whieh gave vitality to matter is as cold as the marble from which he chiseled his greatness. All that remains of the sculptor of “Orpheus,’’ pronounced by Thorwaldsen “the most classic statue in the studies of Rome,” is the renown his works bequeath to his country. America, in the death of Crawford, has cause to meurn over his demise, for in distant lands he won her enduring honor, opened to American intellect a pathway to Europe, an appreciation, and by his noble works commanded the admiration of tie most cultivated minds of the age. Mr. Crawford was born in this city in 1813. In youth he gave evidence of a remarkable fondness for art, which his father had the sagacity to comprehend and cultivate. He was a school fellow of Page, the well-known portrait painter, and, like the latter, while at school, preferred to draw animals or trees on a slate rather than be working out the solution of some arithmetical problem. At twenty years of age he was sent to Rome, and was fortunate in making the acquaintance of the celebrated Vhorwaldsen. He executed busts of the late Commodore Hull, Mr. Kenyon, Sir Charles Vaughan, Josiah Quincy, &c. In 1839 he designed “Orpheus,” the finest production of his chisel. Next followed “Cupid and Psyche,” “Sappho,” “Vesta,” “Genius of Mirth,” Adam and Eve,” “Dayid before Saul,” and a number of Scriptural bas reliefs. In 1855 his fame as a sculptor, which was gradually developing shone forth with redoubled lustre inthe production of his noble statue in bronze of Beethoven, which is deposited in the Music Hall of Boston. But his greatest work was destined to be Lis last—the Washington Monument, ordered by the State of Virginia, with which the public are long familiar. Mr. Crawford was married some years ago to Miss Ward, of this city. He has left several children, who are now living with his wife’s sister, Mrs. Milliard, at Bordentown, N. J. For the last year or two he has been the victim of a dreadful disease, which has deprived him almost entirely of sight, and caused him to renounce his art entirely. A malignaut tumor made its appearance in his left eye, and in spite of every effort of his physicians, increased to such an extent that the eye protruded almost out of its socket, while the agony which was intense, seemed beyond the aid of art.— Last Spring he was induced to leave Rome and placed himself under the care of Dr. Fell, of London, a young Amerieau physician, who had acquired some reputation for his treatment of eancers. For a while the sufferer, seemed to obtain relief, but the efforts to remove the cancer at the sacrifice of the eye itself, proved entirely unavailing ; the disease penetrated to the brain and after months of anguish, which he bore with singular patience, he was relieved of his sufferings by death on the 44th year of his age. The body will be sent home in the steamship Arago, or the one immediately sueceeded her. It is Mrs. Crawford’s wish that the funeral services here should be held in St. John’s Church where he statedly worshipped before he left for Rome.—N. Y. Herald. Smart Feminines.—The first paragraph annexed is from the New York Mercury, and the second from a London letter: = “The ladies are becoming dangerously perfect. We really don’t know why they shouldn’t ‘rise im rebellion’ some day, and take away the reigns of government from us poor masculines. There are now two ladies stopping at Barretti, on Cape Island, N. J., who are equal to the best of us on bowling and _ shooting. One of them made twelve ten strikes in succession, and two hundred and eightyseven points on her next game, lately. The other one, in the meanwhile, was shooting a pistol match with two gentlemen from this city. She hit the button six times in eight shots, at ten paces, and the other two shots came within seven-eights of an inch! She then fired twenty-six shots at a swinging block, two and a half inches in diameter, and struck it fourteen times! There would be no necessity for any gentleman’s going into the field to settle this last lady’s quarrels.” “We could name a lady who had nerves, quickness and boldness enough to accomplish the following feats in a single day: She was seen at 11 o’clock in the morning in Hyde Park, in a becoming riding habit, with a handsome Pamela hat on her head; at 2, ata matinee musicale in Hanover Rooms, in a streaky, light silk dress and a_ bonnet of white crape ; at 6, ata grand dinner table, in violet and flounces, with pearls and beads in the hair; at 8, in an evening concert; and at 11 at a ball, in white muslin aad a lovely hair dress of roses.” A Big Boot——Among the boots for the southern market manufactured in the Philadelphia Peniteutiary, is a pair that would have almost answered for the famous legendary giant who were the seven leagued boots. Each one weighs eight and a half pounds, and is nineteen inches in length and six and three quarter inches wide across the soles. They are intended fora slave upon a plantation, who officiates on Sunday as a preacher. An office seeker, in urging his claims, said that his grandfather didn’t fight in the revolutionary war, bunt he guessed he would have liked to, if ke had been in the country at the time. He was appointed. It is said that no fort ever suffered so much from a single battle as has the . piano forte from the Battle of Prague. . dinary deer.— Colusi Adroeate. . A New AGRictLTuRAL WRINKLE.— A funny story is told of an old friend of ours—one who, sick and tired of the care and bustle of a city life, has retired into the country, and ‘gone to farming,” as the saying is. His land, albeit well situated and commanding sundry . fine prospects, is not so particularly ferA Home wirnout a Dateutar— Boys may not lack affection, but they may lack tenderness ; they may not be wanting in inclination to contribute their quota to the Paradise of home, but they may b Wanting in the ability to carry out tHeir inclinations, ° The son of a household is like a young and vigorous tile as some we have seen—requiring saplin —the daughter is like a fragile scientific culture and a liberal system of } V"¢manuring to induce an abundant yield. So far by way of explanations Once upon a time as the story-books say, our friend being on a short visit to New Orleans, was attending an auction sale down town, and as it so happened, they were selling damaged sausages at the time ‘There were some eight or ten barrels of them, and they were ‘just going at 50 cents a barrel,” when the auctioneer, with all apparent seriousness, remarked that they were worth more than that to manure land wit). Here was an idea. “Sixty-two anda ha'f eents—third and last calli—gone !” retorted the auetioneer. “Cash takes them at sixty-two and a half cents per barrel !” To have them shipped to his country seat was the immediate work of om friend, and as it was then, planting time, and the sausages, to use€ a common phrase, “were getting no better very fast,” to have them safe under ground and out of the way wes his next movement. He was about to plant a field of several acres of corn—the soil of the piney woods species—so, here was just the spot for this new experiment in agriculture, this new wrinkle in the seierce of geopines. One “link” of sausage being deemed amply suilicient, that amount placed in cach hill, accompanied by the usual number of kernels of corn and an occasional pumkin seed, and all were nicely covered over in the usual style. Now, after promising that several days have occurred since the corn was planted, the sequel of the story shall be toldin a dialogue between! our friend and one of his neighbors. Neighbor—Well, friend, have you planted your corn ? Friend—Yes, several days since. Neighbor—Is it up yet ? Friend—Up ! yes ; up and gone. the most of it. Neighbor—How is that ? Friend-—Well, you see, I bought a lot of damaged sausages the other day in New Orleans a smooth tongue of an auctioneer saying they would make excellent manure, if nothing else. I bro’t the lot over, commenced planting my corn at once, as it was time, planted a sausage in each hill,, and— Neighbor—Well, and what ? Friend—And felt satisfied that I had made a good job of it. Some days afterwards I went out te the field to see how the eorn was coming on, and a pretty piece of business I have made of tryiug agricultural experiments. Neizhbor—Why, what was ter !” Friend—Matter! the first thing I saw . before reaching the field, was the great. est lot of dogs digging and scratching allover it! There were my dogs, and your dogs, and all the neighbor’s dogs, besides about three hundred strange . dogs I never set my eyes on before, and every one was hard at it mining after} the buried sausages. Somehow or oth er the rascally whelps had scented out the business, and they have dug up every hill hy thistime If I could set every dog of them on the auctioneer, I'd be satisfied. the mat. Dersticks.—The famous “Doesticks”’ has been to Boston and furnishes the New York Picayune with a humorous sketch, from which these extracts are made : Ninety-nine extra-sized anglo-worms, locomoting at high pressure speed about a garden walk of a showery afternoon, and being perpetually turned back when they get to the edge, and compelled to cross each other’s trail in innumerable directions, would, if the ground were soft and their every footstep plainly visible, draw on the garden walk aforesai a tolerably accurate map of the ciry of Boston. It is crookeder than nive acre of rams’ horns, and has got more eorners than a cord of cross-cut saws. You see your friend, and you call out, «Jones, wait a minute!” and you start to see Jones, thinking he is just across the stieet. Misguided mau ! far distant Jones ! You elimb nine hills and turn ninety corners before you get within hailing distance of Jones again ! The streets look as if they had been made somewhere’else and damped here in a huge tangle, and nobody had ever taken the trouble to straighten them out again. It looks as if somebody had been building a lot of cities on contract and the job had’nt come out even, and he had thrown down his remnants cf streets and odd ends of alleys, and litti snipped off bits of lanes, and called it Boston. If any street in the town shoult be cut a straight mile in any direction, it would go through a dozen private parlors and forty-five public musical halls. In fact, Boston looks as if first rete material foran excellert city had been poured through a seive on a side hill and left to cool. . Speaking of the merits of a watch, Abel says he had one once that gained enough in three weeks to pay for itself. Wuire Deer.—A Deer as white as snow, was killed last Wednesday near McCumber’s mill, which is located on Battle Creek in the foot hills on the East side of the Sacramento River.— We are told that one of these white deer was captured last fall by some hunters on Antelope Creek. The animal last named was of enormous size, being nearly twice the weight of an orWe know a home which rejoiced in the sunny smiles and the musical accents of an only daughter. She was a lovely child womanly beyond her years, “Fall of gentleness, of calmest hope, Of sweet and quiet joy.” The child never breathed who evinced amore affectionate reverence, or a more reverpntial affection for her parents thar she did. Instead of waiting for their commands, she anticipated them; instead of lingering until they made known their wishes, she studied their bt out. Morning broke not in that household until she awoke; the night was not dark until she closed her eyes. How they loved her!—did her father and mcther; andof } y many blessed pictures of the future was she the subject. “It isa fearful thing that Love and Death dweli*in the same world,” says Mrs. Hemans. “Fea fal?” It is maddening—it is a truth is linked with cespair. Suddenly, like a thief in the night, there came a messeneer ¢ Heaven for the child, saying t} a he Lord had need of her.” She meekly bowed -her head—hreathed out her little life—and at midnig “went forth t 2 ne 3 wees fom gfe oe the g 4 as ninnte of the last hour of the last day of the month was hallowed by her death. She went, and came back no more. Years have wore a way since then, but still there is egony in the household whose sun went down when she departed. The family circle is inecomplete— there is no daughter there! The form that once was here reposes among the congenial charms of nature and art; they have made the place of her rest beautiful ; if the grass grows rank upon her grave, it is because it is kept wet with tears. Of a truth, a home without a zirl in it is only half blest ; it is an orchard without blossoms, and a Spring without a song. <A house full of sons is like Lebanon with its cedars, but daughters b the fireside are like roses in Sharon. LEGISLATION FOR THE MinES.—This subject is being discussed by several of our cotemporaries ofthe mining counties. Whilst some propose a specific character of legislation, and urge that absolute necessity exists for some law making in the mines, others most strenuously oppose any change whatever im regard to them. Hitherto, we have thought it unnecessary to take part in this controverey, believing that nofseriols attempt would he made to interfere with the mines by the Legislature. . It is an old adage, and we think worthy of repetition on this subject, to “Let well enough alone.” Our. people are daily becoming more and more prosperous, and happy and contented under the tried system of the miners themselves Yeing their law-makers for their different mining Inecalities. Their rights, privileges and liabilities are far better defined, and more easily understood now than they would be were the Legislaie to attempt to simplify and define 1em. The Legislature is composed of men of various trades and professions, a large majority of whom know as little of mining as astronomers did of the coming of the comet last June. It would bea curious and not uninteresting volume, were all the mining laws, rules and customs in force and in prosperous operation in the various mining localities, or even in this county, colleeted together. One would hardly imagine, upon reading them, that they applied to the same business, unless he had some practical knowledge of the necessity that exists for the various rules in ditterent places. But so itis, and we venture the assertion that, througout the whole mineral region of the State; there a not two places where the rules rulations and customs in force, in respect similar. opposed to legis} I : rega ining, are in every fience, we are totally 7 : ard to mining claims o1 his. Trinity Journal. Mountain FASTNESS Young, in one of his war sey that he has secret means of the Americans without any part of the Mormous. ening that they will bu take to the hills, he say “Read the history of the world, says Brigham from the time that Cain killed Abel to this day, and see whether you ean find an instance when in a mountain country fifty resolute, united men have been overcome by five hundred. Did their enemies ever overeome the: small band of Waldenses in the moun tains of Piedmont ? No, they slaugh tered army after army sent against them and maintained their position, notwitbstanding toreach them was only like: sending an army here from San Pete. or from here to San Pete ; they were in easy reach of their enemies. Would Scotland ever have beer so: far overcome by England as to unite with that power, if her chiefs had not: indulged in petty feuds with each other! No, it never would. But the chief: were like our Indians, some were in fa— vor of this one and others of that one being crowned chief, and by contending: with each other they lost the advantage of their position, or to this day Seotlanu might have been an independent nation even though surrounded by water on all sides except the one joining England. —Brighem destroying loss on the And after threatrn their city and § f Samuel Harrison, of Pittsylvania county is the richest man in Virginia.— He owns 1,790 slaves, and they inerease at the rate of one hundred @ year: He is estimated to be worth $5,00@000. eee