July 1, 1853 (5 pages)

} NEVAD re — VOL. 3.--NO. 10. NA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1853. WHOLE NO., 166. THE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY BUDD & SARGENT, ill rewarded, form piratical fleets, consisting of from fifty to a hundred vessels. Their numbers are very great ; and as many as sixty thousand have banded together as pirates, and not Ofice on Broad street, vpposite the Court! content with the high seas, have boldHouse. TERMS. Sor one vear, in advance $7 00 Six months 400 Three months 200 Single copies, 25 c:8. LEGAL BLANKS of all kinds for sale at this office. JOB WORK of all kinds speedily and neatly executed. 1 ADVERTISEMENTS, to insure inser} tion, should be banded in as early as Thursday noon. Rates moderate. A. DELANO & Co. are our agents at Grass Valie;, at Wells, Fargo & Co.’s. Democratic State Convention. The Demoeratie Convention at Benicia nominated the following persons as their ticket for the ensuing campaign: For Governor, Joun Bicier, of Sacramento. For Lieut. Governor, Samven Purpy, of San Joaquin. Vor Judge of Supreme Court, ALexANDER WELLs, of San Francisco. Attorney General, Joun R. McConNELL of Nevada. Comptroller. Sam. Bex of Mariposa. Treasurer, 8S. A. McMeans of El Dorado. Superintendent of Public Instruction, P. K. Husss, of Tuolumne. Surveyor General, S. H. Mariette of Calaveras. By the nomination of Bigler they have endorsed all the mai-administration of the last two years. The people now understand the policy of that party fully, and will go into the canvass with their eyes open. Woeshall see if they will ly landed on the coast and carried fire and sword far into the interior. Of late years, the English have destroyed several of these piratical fleets, and . have in a great measure put an end to the practice. On these boats, men, women and children live as on land, and most of them seldom go ashore except to sell their fish, They are said to come from the northward, and are regarded by the Chinese as an inferior people to themselves. Entering the mouths of the rivers, the traveller sees vast fleets of vessels of all kinds —from the stately junk with its gay streamers, to the small panka which contains only a single family. They all sail once a year with the simoon to Siam and the adjaceut islands, and return when the wind changes, loaded and is accompanied with cakes or sweatmeats. ‘Ihe stranger is then, perhaps, shown around the house and premises. The house is most probably of brick, and contains a library, divan for smoking $c., besides the requisite domestic apartments. In the garden are many plants fantastically arranged on frame, a pool for gold fish, and perhaps a pagoda dedicated to the ancestors of the owner. or dinner one is given a plate of rice, which the Chinese eat with chop-sticks, in which they display admirable dexterity. E.ting rice is one of the most important functions of their lives ; and the Chinese salutation “Have you eaten rice ?” is similar to “How are you ?” The vast quantities of opium consumed by them is evinced by the large warehouses full of t hat most injurious tories.” The streets themselves,which are not mere than seven or eight feet wide, are crowded by buyers and sell'ers of every description of article, and with Jarge and valuable cargoes. The there are numerous placards answerChinese regard these people also as jngto our sivns posted on the walls. them with Asiatic severity and haugh. ments to as great an extent as_elseeens SONNE eee tiness. Vast numbers of people live on the rivers in these trading vessels and others of every description; and it is estimated that not less than $80,000 are thus lodged on the river opposite to the city of Canton. Arrived at the city, the traveller lands at the factories of the foreign merchants. In the street are to be seen multitudes of . Chinese, «Iressed similarly to those we see here, only more neatly; most of those wio are here belonging to the laboring classes. Their dress is gen~erally of an uniform color, and is well adapted to the climate and to the comfort of the wearer. endorse state prison contracts, water lot A slight commospeculation, notarial laws, legal publica-! tion in the crowd may indicate the aption laws, &c., or will reject them and. proach of an officer of government, to their authors. It is time for the policy. whom great respect is invariably paid. of the state to take a turn in the diree-; Of these—the mandarins—there are . tion of economy. and for the hands of} robbers to be kept from the treasury.— By the re-nomination of Bigier, the last} nine ranks, easily distinguishable by their various dresses and certain orna. mental aiticles peculiar to each rank. . where, and Mr. S. mentioned various receipts in use among them of a very singular character—such as a decoction of the bones of a tiger as a tonic, ete. Pickpockets are not uncommon, and ply their vocation with oriental dexterity. Bankers and money-chan. gers are frequent,occupying little stalls, with sums of money and scales—the Chinese having only one coin (of copper, with a square hole in the middle.) and the rest of their currency being weighed. Visitors usually send a servant with a placard containing a salutation, and the person's name written at the bottom, ina corner, as a token of his humility. Z’hey are frequently excellent scribes, and this constitutes one of the chief branches of their education. .A Chinese who cannot write 'is a person of very little consequence p y among his fellow countrymen. Gamblingis very common among them, and Items from Europe. The Second Chamber (lower house) of Prussia has voted for an appropriation of $58.0U0, to pay the foreign press. A biilto authorize the government to prohibit the entrance of foreign publications, before the rendition of a judicial decision against them, was lost. Fe Mazzini is at Malta, whither he was carried by the English frigate Retribution. There are 900 political prisoners in Milan. There are 690,000 monks in Italy and 484,000. nuns, about one-fifteenth of the whole population. Beranger, the great lyric poet of France, who has contributed by his songs So murh to the popular veneration for the memory of the great Nafamily generally, has become a violent po'itical enemy of Louis Napoleon. Shou'd he turn his wit and earcasm against the Emperor le will do him more injury among the people than all the exiled generals and red . republican declaimers. English Trick.---The Journal de . Geneve contains the following : The managers of the Turin and, Savigliano railroad were to have a . inaugeration of the road on its completion. They accordingly invited a select company, went out to Savigliano, took dinner and then started back with the expectation of arriving at furin. at five o’clock, but they counted without their host, for when they were about two leagues from Turin the train suddenl, stopped. The travel-rs ran out to see what migh! be the matter, and saw that the rails had been takea up before the cars, and workmen were lof life. apathetic, Allili led the way to the Zdania (literaily the building par excellence,) a hotel which may vie with the beat in Europe ns regards structure and appearance. Immense Propuctivennss.—Maj. N. . man should confine When you say in your letter that you can thrash me, you do an injury to your character for veracity, not to, mention laying yourself liable to a mauling when we meet. You city yourself to your Loring bas raised in Tuolumne. from one . yard measures, and keep behind the seed, a bunch of barley wa ty 120 counter—although a forbearing class well matured headg, ranging from 90 to of people, we miners can’t be over-. 110 grains each. This is an increase of . .-owded too much by puny popinjays, about 11.000 fold. The world cannot show so wonderfully productive a soil as ours. whose pale faces look through the shop windows on J street. Why, thou lean, restaurant-feeding, appetite-lackThe citizens of Coluabia and that. ing, Work-needing, speculation-huntsection of the country, are supplied with . ing, ice and snow from the mountuins. mud-tramping, lemonade-drinking, heat-enduring, dust-swallowirg Sacramentan—what do you know of Tae Morpgrer anv unis Victim.— . health, strength, energy—of life itself, The Californian says of Strible, the. such as the mountain air and mounmurderer, and his brother: We learn from Dr. George W. Williams, who is the attending surgeon in . cake, tain fair produces. Bah! I wouldn’t swep my pot of beans and cold johnnywith the enormous appetite acthe case, that Henry Strible, the hus. companying them, for all your dinners band of the murdered woman, at a late . at the “Orleans,” nor the pure Yuba heur last evening was much worse, and hardly expected to live the night out. Joseph, the murderer, is doing very well, though some fears of his recovery are entertained. water, as the snow itis melted from, for your iced lemonades and 110 deg. inthe shade. When J think of the last summer, I heave a sigh--for my friends in Sacramento, and grin an The cholera hus again broken out at. immense smile for myself, for my es~ Moscow. The pestilence descended over . cape to the hills. the city like a thunder cloud, and de-/torture you, by thus exulting over stroyed upwards of 200 persons in fortyeight hours. The disease is aleo present at St. Petersburg. From Sart Lake Ciry.—By correspondence from Salt Lake City, it napscarcity there of many of the necessaries Gro. eries and provisions of all kinds were very high, and clething of any description not to be obtained. There had left Salt Lake for Carson’s your misery, God give you fertitude to endure your lot with resignation. We can’t all be miners. * * * a * Please write immediately. Don’t . pears that there ix at present a great . scratch three lines, witha “yours &c.” cutting them off short and sweet, but try and spread yourself over a whole sheet-—dou’t confine yourself to sense, ‘or I’ll geta short letter——nonsense is Creek. between the 18th and 25th of. abundant’ with you; you may write a April, about three hundred wagons, in-. quire of it and notexhaust the supply. cluding, among others, the following . As for wit don’t attempt that, for you trains of cattle : Waterhouse, 260 head; article which are near the foreign “fac~. Poleon and to the popularity of the ikewise busy in taking up the rails . Dp. Hulmes, 260 head ; McPherson, 300 behind the cars. Here the company ‘head; Holliday & Warner, 1.800 head; were in an interesting situation, three . Livings‘on, 1 000 head ; and four or five The higher ranks wear silk dresses, . js carried on in innumerak!e ways. miles from a village, with a keen cold wind blowing and the snow falling in . great flv ces, Ji was a trick of Mr. Pickering, the builder of the road, who, having been unfairly used by the trains »veraging 50 to 100 head. Long's train of 1.200 head of sheep, and Mopwill-make a decided faux pas; nor don’t write poetry either, for heaven’s sake, unless you have a machine.— Choose a subject in which neither wit, wisdom, common sense, poetry, polipins train of 2800 head, crossed over . tics (you're a Loco) or religion (you're the mountais about the 28th of May. Mr. Woolsey, one of the Elders of the a heathen) is mixed up. We are so deep in the hills here, it church, who is at Carson’s Creek with . takes until 9 a. M to see the sun rise, hope is gone that this ea x ; . 3 Pi cane that has Seog ents wrguneie f cobaroneeed, eb NGI ° : of animals, &c., on the fronts and . past two years. Let the people reflect} backs, On the topcf their caps. which for themselves on this subject. They! are also profusely ornamented, the ean come to but ene conclusion. mandarirs wear balls of various colois, Alex. Wells isalso put forward for re. indicative of theirrank, Of these, the election. Does it follow because a man. highest is of red coral—others of gold, gets the sanction of a nomination that} #reen glass and other materials, variEven children going to purchase fruit at the stalls, frequently throw dice to dete: mine whether they are to have a double quantity or none at all. ” ° * * « Mr. Spear then proceeded to speak . of the great rebe'lion at present going directors of the road, had taken this . 500 head of the church cattle, and 30 or leah 2 antette dh plan to be revenged. The travelers, . 40 horses, has given our correspondent wet and forced to walk along distance . the following dimensions of the new through the snow, arrived in the great. Temple, the corner stone of which wae . * : : lately lai S Py i . th est exasperation and immediately en. [*'* ly laid oh af aks wight of baseered at comnts Wales ae pom . aus were 26 -cege. tee Sle See oe be of pressed adobes, seven feet thick, and at each corner of the building a tower to be erected, twenty feet square. —Alta. Bogus Gold Specimens.— We were shown on Thurs‘tay a massive specihe must be supported and cleeted ?— . ously colored. . The lowest rank is in. on in China, which he characterized dicated by a plain gilt bal have the democrats no man of moral puaie of conseqience are carried in sedan 1. Persons . 48 one of the most important political and religions movements of the age. rity—of honorable repute in private life to put forward? It seems hard to be compelled to sce the refuse of a party, because backed by ambition and 4 pewchairs by coolies, hands for occasional mo richly carved and painted--usually the . the north of China. and hold in their . He said that this rebellion had been use beautiful fans, . going on for more than three years in It had _ its origin One of these fans, . in bands of men going through the men of quartz and seemingly gold intermixed, which had been pledged at the St Francis Hotel by a Chilean, for $240. The gold proved to be bogus — the specimen a most perfect connterfeit. The metal attached to the SteaMsHirs aT Benicira.—There are lying at the dock of the Pacific Mail Steamship ws 197? at Benicia, the J. L. Stephens, Oregon, Northerner, Fremont, and Constitution The Oregon has been laid up for some weeks, undergoing vacifts of friends. erful clique, elevated to the high judicial stations of the state. The nomination of Mr. McConnell we estcem a good one; but we regret the bad company he is found in. Personally. we have a high respect for him, and know well his integrity asa man. We tlo not believe he will be a facile tool jin the hands of his party, if he ie elected. Paul K. Hubbs of Tuolumne, is 2 heavy-thoughted, siow, well-meaning man. . who may be denominated the old fogy of the ticket. But we suppose he isan. honest man, and hope he will not carry . politics into his gepartment, if elected. . His office is more ornamental than use. fulin any view of the subject, and we . presume will soon be swept from the eonstitution. The other nominations, with the exception of Purdy, against whom no one says any thing, are said to be of a piece with the head of the ticket. They are . ter days. Mr. S. said, had been shown him,which . had been executed with the tips of the . fingers, and was of excessive richness and beauty. ‘They also wear rings Of . various kinds, for the thumb, wrist, . &c., of gold and other materials. Satin . boots, decorated very handsomly, com. plete the costume. Boots are never) worn except by gentlemen, which, . said, Mr. S., accounts for the eargerness which the Chinaman usually manifests on his arrival here to get possessiov of as large a pair as he can conveniently use. Females, continued Mr. S., are seldom seen in the streets, . except the lower classes ; and when ladies are seen at all, it is in Sedans. . The lower orders of females wear shoes of the natural size, with so'es . about half an inch thick: but one sometimes sees women in the streets engaged in mending clothes and other similar occupations, whose diminutive feet indicate that they have seen betTnose of the Chinese who} net prominent enough to have excited . can afford it, employ means to cramp public notice strongly, which we believe is esteemed a striking virtue in a demoeratic candidate. Lectures on China. The Rev. Wm. Spear, some time a resident in China, and now laboring as a missionary among the Chinese at San Francisco, has commenced an interesting series of lectures in that city at the Presbyterien church. We give extracts below from the first lecture, June Qist, as reported by the S. F. Herald : After these prefatory remarks, Mr. S. proceeded to give an account of the country as it would appear toa traveller landing in it for the first time.— Before reaching the shore, said Mr. S. the traveller will be struck by the vast number of fishing vessels along the coast. Sailing in pairs. with the ends of large nets aitacled to their prows, they sweep the seas in innumerable numbers; and notu ently, when from a acercity of fish their labors are the feet of their daughters so as to prevent them from attaining a larger . size than is consistent’ with the well known Chinese notions of beauty.— Mr. S. here exhibited a beautiful little shoe, not more than three inches long, . and hardly large enough for an infant a year old, which had been actually worn by a Chinese lady. (Mr. S., it should be mentioned, in the course of his lectures exhibited numerous articles of Chinese workmanship in illustratian of his remarks ) The Chinese, continued Mr. S.,are very polite to visitors. On entering their houses the guest is received with various marks of respect---varied according to his rank and consequence. ‘Their salutations remind one of those we read of in Scripture. “Peace be with you !” “May your posterity flourish,” &c. No females are to be seen, and the guest is soon invited to drink tea. This is brought by a servant in a cup on a small tray ; the cup itself is very small. Their method of making tea is to put three. or four grains in the wep.end pour hot water upon them, a short time it is ready for use, country breaking idols and driving away their priests. Some said these men were Roman Catholics ; but there are no Roman Catholice in that part of the Empire. On their banners are ineribed the name of Gop—the Supreme, the Uncreated. Their progress has been rapid, irresistible. T’hey have spread from city to city and from province to province; and have shaken the Jmperial throne to its centre The present dyna-ty is a foreign dynasty, erected by the Manchous after their conquest of China; and it is odious to the people. Even their shaved heads is a badge of subjection imposed by the haughty Manchou. The present dynasty has_ now subsisted for nearly two hundred years, the usual period of the duration of Chinese dynasties, and the Chinese confidently believe that these are its last days. But it isas a religious movement that the rebellion commends itself to the heart of the Christian and the Philanthropist. Some years ago a man of great abilities and genius, but whose learning, from thé corruption existing in the Board of Examination, had failed to procure for him the high rank as a magistrate to which it entitled him. became acquainted with the Christian missionaries, and rece'ved from them sone tracts inthe Chinese language. Upon these he meditated, until they produced his conversion. He then received instruction in religion from the missionaries, and returning home spread thé doctrines of Christianity throughout his countay. From this seed God has raised up the ho ts which now bid fair to upturn the present usurping dynasty : and we have reason to hope that it will be the meansof spreading theGospel throughout the Asiatic world. Mr. S. concluded with a jervent exhortation that we should leave nothing in our power undone to forward this glorious work, and expressed the hope that the light of the Gospel was at length breaking through the thick darkness which has heretofore enshrouded half the nations of the earth ! quartz is lead, coated with silver, and that again covered with a solution of zold. Not one in ten could dete: t the cheat. We understand the same fascal who palmed this off had another still larger in his possession, which he will woubt'ess attempt fo impose upon some one else. Look out for him.-S. F. Herald. . Manacks OF THE 1URKS.— there once . appeared in Punch,» picture which set forth, as we then thought. the very extreme of conlness—in warm weather. A eabman is lolling back with elevated heels on his vehicle. An elderly gentleman toming by. exclaims, . ‘How much to Vauxhall ?” “ Six shillin 8.” “That's too much.” “Vel! yotever you like—it's too ‘ot te dispute about trifles.”’ But in a wok recently published in England, enti led * Rambles in Southern Selavonia.” by Nachbar a German trayeller, occurs the following description ofan incident in real life. which for -take-it-coolativenese.” is in no respect inferior to Punch’s cabman. Landing at Belgrade. he found, for the first time in all his travelling experience, no officious hands ready to seize his baggage. A few paces off in the tront of the tavern. sat several Turkish porters emoking their pipes. The doctor doubtless leoked helpless enough, standing beside his portmanteau, but no one rose to offerfhis services. “Will no one earn a piece of money?” . at last called out to the smokers, as I observed thut my waiting was likely to lead to no other result than carryin, my own beggage. ; “Ail of us willingly!” replied the porters, almost with one voice, but witbout starting from their seats. “But which of us shall serve you? Whom do you wish?” “ Comes, who will,” was the reply. The porters puffed hard at their pipes, and luoked at each other in silence. At last one of them, seemingly the eldest. spoke. “Allili,’ he said, ‘have you had a job to-day?” ‘No, was the reply of a slender young Moor. attired in a white turban, with jerkin, and large red trowsers. © ‘Then earry the gentleman's baggage,’ rejoined the other, and the Moor rose from his stone seat to carry my portmanteau. : Asactive now as he before seemed rious repairs and improvements, among which is an additional deck, which will add much to its comforts. The Northerner is also being overhauled, repaired and put in complete order for her next pass ge. The Pacific mammoth steamer J. L. Stephens is advertised for the 16th prox Her last downward trip has more than realized the expectations of her numerous friends, and placed her in the front rink of steam vessels on any ocean.— This superb specimen of naval marine architecture is still commanded by R. H. Pierson. whose recommendations from many who have recently arrived as passengers on the Stephens. render further commendation unnecessary. The Independent Miner, Of all the happy, contented, independent individuals on this earth, the miner of Ca ifornia can justly be classed among the foremost. Whether “striking it rich,” or prospecting nothing to the pan, his spirits are alike buoyart, se!dom disheartened by ill success, never over sanguine, he pursues the even tenor of his way with a freedom from care, and ruddiness of health unknown to the dweller of the vallies. We have in our possession a letter written by a Nevada miner to a friend in this city, which presents a picture of the perfect contentment which is generally the lot of the true bone an sinew of our youthful State. Here is a specimen of its contents. Friend J. —Why in the name of the Gr at Mogul didn’t you answer my last letter, with the money I sent, like an ass as I was, to pay an honest debt. Didn’t you get it? Answer, for heaven’s sake, for a hundred “‘scads” lost at this stage of the game would ruin me. I came here nearly broke, and at this'time am quite so, but who cares? Not I, for I have claims on the Yuba, which three of us located. They may contain a million, and possibly may not b: worth ad three good week’s work on suspicion, prospecting ’’em. If you feel inclined to dig for gold, come up here—any fool may strike it here; 1 have great hopes} j)i4 on that scere myself. n, but I have put in. : I gathered snow on my way hither. Three men can’t see the tops of the hills, without one sighting from where the other left off. The D Uses wear wa uEew ow rc*-they try to sail over, and the angels. have lighthouses on the hill tops, so they can steer clear of breakers when, on their nightly missions. This is a tall country.-Union. GB The pages of Punch rarely furnish better specimens of “sharp correspondence "than the following, which comes to us through the post office, with the assurance that it actually passed between two respectable ladies of this city, the names being the only fictions in the whole : Mrs.’ Jones to Mrs. Smith.—Mrs,. Jones regrets that Mrs. Smith has found it necessary to propagate jhe report that her little boy has “dirt and th'ngs in his head,” and consequently, that she can’t allow her Willie to play with him, which expression came from Mrs. Smith. Such a report is false and malicious; as everybody who knows Mrs. J. and her habits will know to be untrpe. Mrs. J. suggests to Mrs. S. that before making assertions likely to wound a mocher’s feelings, she should be certain that they are just. Mrs. Smith in reply to Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Smith’s compliments to Mrs. Jones ; and in reply to Mrs. J.’s_ polite note, would assure her, that not being aware that there was such a person as Mrs. J., or not knowing she had a tittle boy, nor that he had “dirt and things in his head,” the inference is, that she did not assert that such was the case; and further, not knows ing that there was a Mrs. J. nor what was,her habits, nor that she had a lit-° tle boy, nor what was the condition of his head, she did not propagate the report falsely and maliciously, that. Mrs. J. had a little boy who had “dirt and things in his head.” Mrs. S. denying all malice, admits that she did forbid her Willie playing with the boys in the street, because he was in the habit of getting dirt into his own head; and Mrs. S. would. suggest the probability that a wrong version of this injunction, communicated to Mrs. J., by her “little boy,” has been the means of “wounding a mother’s feelings.” Punch, To Savsace Eaters.—When you te buy 8 lot of sausages, whistle loudly &s you enter the door, and note the ef:fect. If the string of sausages equirms asif trying to get off the nail, buy # ham for breakfast. But, poor devil, I

} NEVAD re — VOL. 3.--NO. 10. NA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1853. WHOLE NO., 166. THE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY BUDD & SARGENT, ill rewarded, form piratical fleets, consisting of from fifty to a hundred vessels. Their numbers are very great ; and as many as sixty thousand have banded together as pirates, and not Ofice on Broad street, vpposite the Court! content with the high seas, have boldHouse. TERMS. Sor one vear, in advance $7 00 Six months 400 Three months 200 Single copies, 25 c:8. LEGAL BLANKS of all kinds for sale at this office. JOB WORK of all kinds speedily and neatly executed. 1 ADVERTISEMENTS, to insure inser} tion, should be banded in as early as Thursday noon. Rates moderate. A. DELANO & Co. are our agents at Grass Valie;, at Wells, Fargo & Co.’s. Democratic State Convention. The Demoeratie Convention at Benicia nominated the following persons as their ticket for the ensuing campaign: For Governor, Joun Bicier, of Sacramento. For Lieut. Governor, Samven Purpy, of San Joaquin. Vor Judge of Supreme Court, ALexANDER WELLs, of San Francisco. Attorney General, Joun R. McConNELL of Nevada. Comptroller. Sam. Bex of Mariposa. Treasurer, 8S. A. McMeans of El Dorado. Superintendent of Public Instruction, P. K. Husss, of Tuolumne. Surveyor General, S. H. Mariette of Calaveras. By the nomination of Bigler they have endorsed all the mai-administration of the last two years. The people now understand the policy of that party fully, and will go into the canvass with their eyes open. Woeshall see if they will ly landed on the coast and carried fire and sword far into the interior. Of late years, the English have destroyed several of these piratical fleets, and . have in a great measure put an end to the practice. On these boats, men, women and children live as on land, and most of them seldom go ashore except to sell their fish, They are said to come from the northward, and are regarded by the Chinese as an inferior people to themselves. Entering the mouths of the rivers, the traveller sees vast fleets of vessels of all kinds —from the stately junk with its gay streamers, to the small panka which contains only a single family. They all sail once a year with the simoon to Siam and the adjaceut islands, and return when the wind changes, loaded and is accompanied with cakes or sweatmeats. ‘Ihe stranger is then, perhaps, shown around the house and premises. The house is most probably of brick, and contains a library, divan for smoking $c., besides the requisite domestic apartments. In the garden are many plants fantastically arranged on frame, a pool for gold fish, and perhaps a pagoda dedicated to the ancestors of the owner. or dinner one is given a plate of rice, which the Chinese eat with chop-sticks, in which they display admirable dexterity. E.ting rice is one of the most important functions of their lives ; and the Chinese salutation “Have you eaten rice ?” is similar to “How are you ?” The vast quantities of opium consumed by them is evinced by the large warehouses full of t hat most injurious tories.” The streets themselves,which are not mere than seven or eight feet wide, are crowded by buyers and sell'ers of every description of article, and with Jarge and valuable cargoes. The there are numerous placards answerChinese regard these people also as jngto our sivns posted on the walls. them with Asiatic severity and haugh. ments to as great an extent as_elseeens SONNE eee tiness. Vast numbers of people live on the rivers in these trading vessels and others of every description; and it is estimated that not less than $80,000 are thus lodged on the river opposite to the city of Canton. Arrived at the city, the traveller lands at the factories of the foreign merchants. In the street are to be seen multitudes of . Chinese, «Iressed similarly to those we see here, only more neatly; most of those wio are here belonging to the laboring classes. Their dress is gen~erally of an uniform color, and is well adapted to the climate and to the comfort of the wearer. endorse state prison contracts, water lot A slight commospeculation, notarial laws, legal publica-! tion in the crowd may indicate the aption laws, &c., or will reject them and. proach of an officer of government, to their authors. It is time for the policy. whom great respect is invariably paid. of the state to take a turn in the diree-; Of these—the mandarins—there are . tion of economy. and for the hands of} robbers to be kept from the treasury.— By the re-nomination of Bigier, the last} nine ranks, easily distinguishable by their various dresses and certain orna. mental aiticles peculiar to each rank. . where, and Mr. S. mentioned various receipts in use among them of a very singular character—such as a decoction of the bones of a tiger as a tonic, ete. Pickpockets are not uncommon, and ply their vocation with oriental dexterity. Bankers and money-chan. gers are frequent,occupying little stalls, with sums of money and scales—the Chinese having only one coin (of copper, with a square hole in the middle.) and the rest of their currency being weighed. Visitors usually send a servant with a placard containing a salutation, and the person's name written at the bottom, ina corner, as a token of his humility. Z’hey are frequently excellent scribes, and this constitutes one of the chief branches of their education. .A Chinese who cannot write 'is a person of very little consequence p y among his fellow countrymen. Gamblingis very common among them, and Items from Europe. The Second Chamber (lower house) of Prussia has voted for an appropriation of $58.0U0, to pay the foreign press. A biilto authorize the government to prohibit the entrance of foreign publications, before the rendition of a judicial decision against them, was lost. Fe Mazzini is at Malta, whither he was carried by the English frigate Retribution. There are 900 political prisoners in Milan. There are 690,000 monks in Italy and 484,000. nuns, about one-fifteenth of the whole population. Beranger, the great lyric poet of France, who has contributed by his songs So murh to the popular veneration for the memory of the great Nafamily generally, has become a violent po'itical enemy of Louis Napoleon. Shou'd he turn his wit and earcasm against the Emperor le will do him more injury among the people than all the exiled generals and red . republican declaimers. English Trick.---The Journal de . Geneve contains the following : The managers of the Turin and, Savigliano railroad were to have a . inaugeration of the road on its completion. They accordingly invited a select company, went out to Savigliano, took dinner and then started back with the expectation of arriving at furin. at five o’clock, but they counted without their host, for when they were about two leagues from Turin the train suddenl, stopped. The travel-rs ran out to see what migh! be the matter, and saw that the rails had been takea up before the cars, and workmen were lof life. apathetic, Allili led the way to the Zdania (literaily the building par excellence,) a hotel which may vie with the beat in Europe ns regards structure and appearance. Immense Propuctivennss.—Maj. N. . man should confine When you say in your letter that you can thrash me, you do an injury to your character for veracity, not to, mention laying yourself liable to a mauling when we meet. You city yourself to your Loring bas raised in Tuolumne. from one . yard measures, and keep behind the seed, a bunch of barley wa ty 120 counter—although a forbearing class well matured headg, ranging from 90 to of people, we miners can’t be over-. 110 grains each. This is an increase of . .-owded too much by puny popinjays, about 11.000 fold. The world cannot show so wonderfully productive a soil as ours. whose pale faces look through the shop windows on J street. Why, thou lean, restaurant-feeding, appetite-lackThe citizens of Coluabia and that. ing, Work-needing, speculation-huntsection of the country, are supplied with . ing, ice and snow from the mountuins. mud-tramping, lemonade-drinking, heat-enduring, dust-swallowirg Sacramentan—what do you know of Tae Morpgrer anv unis Victim.— . health, strength, energy—of life itself, The Californian says of Strible, the. such as the mountain air and mounmurderer, and his brother: We learn from Dr. George W. Williams, who is the attending surgeon in . cake, tain fair produces. Bah! I wouldn’t swep my pot of beans and cold johnnywith the enormous appetite acthe case, that Henry Strible, the hus. companying them, for all your dinners band of the murdered woman, at a late . at the “Orleans,” nor the pure Yuba heur last evening was much worse, and hardly expected to live the night out. Joseph, the murderer, is doing very well, though some fears of his recovery are entertained. water, as the snow itis melted from, for your iced lemonades and 110 deg. inthe shade. When J think of the last summer, I heave a sigh--for my friends in Sacramento, and grin an The cholera hus again broken out at. immense smile for myself, for my es~ Moscow. The pestilence descended over . cape to the hills. the city like a thunder cloud, and de-/torture you, by thus exulting over stroyed upwards of 200 persons in fortyeight hours. The disease is aleo present at St. Petersburg. From Sart Lake Ciry.—By correspondence from Salt Lake City, it napscarcity there of many of the necessaries Gro. eries and provisions of all kinds were very high, and clething of any description not to be obtained. There had left Salt Lake for Carson’s your misery, God give you fertitude to endure your lot with resignation. We can’t all be miners. * * * a * Please write immediately. Don’t . pears that there ix at present a great . scratch three lines, witha “yours &c.” cutting them off short and sweet, but try and spread yourself over a whole sheet-—dou’t confine yourself to sense, ‘or I’ll geta short letter——nonsense is Creek. between the 18th and 25th of. abundant’ with you; you may write a April, about three hundred wagons, in-. quire of it and notexhaust the supply. cluding, among others, the following . As for wit don’t attempt that, for you trains of cattle : Waterhouse, 260 head; article which are near the foreign “fac~. Poleon and to the popularity of the ikewise busy in taking up the rails . Dp. Hulmes, 260 head ; McPherson, 300 behind the cars. Here the company ‘head; Holliday & Warner, 1.800 head; were in an interesting situation, three . Livings‘on, 1 000 head ; and four or five The higher ranks wear silk dresses, . js carried on in innumerak!e ways. miles from a village, with a keen cold wind blowing and the snow falling in . great flv ces, Ji was a trick of Mr. Pickering, the builder of the road, who, having been unfairly used by the trains »veraging 50 to 100 head. Long's train of 1.200 head of sheep, and Mopwill-make a decided faux pas; nor don’t write poetry either, for heaven’s sake, unless you have a machine.— Choose a subject in which neither wit, wisdom, common sense, poetry, polipins train of 2800 head, crossed over . tics (you're a Loco) or religion (you're the mountais about the 28th of May. Mr. Woolsey, one of the Elders of the a heathen) is mixed up. We are so deep in the hills here, it church, who is at Carson’s Creek with . takes until 9 a. M to see the sun rise, hope is gone that this ea x ; . 3 Pi cane that has Seog ents wrguneie f cobaroneeed, eb NGI ° : of animals, &c., on the fronts and . past two years. Let the people reflect} backs, On the topcf their caps. which for themselves on this subject. They! are also profusely ornamented, the ean come to but ene conclusion. mandarirs wear balls of various colois, Alex. Wells isalso put forward for re. indicative of theirrank, Of these, the election. Does it follow because a man. highest is of red coral—others of gold, gets the sanction of a nomination that} #reen glass and other materials, variEven children going to purchase fruit at the stalls, frequently throw dice to dete: mine whether they are to have a double quantity or none at all. ” ° * * « Mr. Spear then proceeded to speak . of the great rebe'lion at present going directors of the road, had taken this . 500 head of the church cattle, and 30 or leah 2 antette dh plan to be revenged. The travelers, . 40 horses, has given our correspondent wet and forced to walk along distance . the following dimensions of the new through the snow, arrived in the great. Temple, the corner stone of which wae . * : : lately lai S Py i . th est exasperation and immediately en. [*'* ly laid oh af aks wight of baseered at comnts Wales ae pom . aus were 26 -cege. tee Sle See oe be of pressed adobes, seven feet thick, and at each corner of the building a tower to be erected, twenty feet square. —Alta. Bogus Gold Specimens.— We were shown on Thurs‘tay a massive specihe must be supported and cleeted ?— . ously colored. . The lowest rank is in. on in China, which he characterized dicated by a plain gilt bal have the democrats no man of moral puaie of conseqience are carried in sedan 1. Persons . 48 one of the most important political and religions movements of the age. rity—of honorable repute in private life to put forward? It seems hard to be compelled to sce the refuse of a party, because backed by ambition and 4 pewchairs by coolies, hands for occasional mo richly carved and painted--usually the . the north of China. and hold in their . He said that this rebellion had been use beautiful fans, . going on for more than three years in It had _ its origin One of these fans, . in bands of men going through the men of quartz and seemingly gold intermixed, which had been pledged at the St Francis Hotel by a Chilean, for $240. The gold proved to be bogus — the specimen a most perfect connterfeit. The metal attached to the SteaMsHirs aT Benicira.—There are lying at the dock of the Pacific Mail Steamship ws 197? at Benicia, the J. L.

Stephens, Oregon, Northerner, Fremont, and Constitution The Oregon has been laid up for some weeks, undergoing vacifts of friends. erful clique, elevated to the high judicial stations of the state. The nomination of Mr. McConnell we estcem a good one; but we regret the bad company he is found in. Personally. we have a high respect for him, and know well his integrity asa man. We tlo not believe he will be a facile tool jin the hands of his party, if he ie elected. Paul K. Hubbs of Tuolumne, is 2 heavy-thoughted, siow, well-meaning man. . who may be denominated the old fogy of the ticket. But we suppose he isan. honest man, and hope he will not carry . politics into his gepartment, if elected. . His office is more ornamental than use. fulin any view of the subject, and we . presume will soon be swept from the eonstitution. The other nominations, with the exception of Purdy, against whom no one says any thing, are said to be of a piece with the head of the ticket. They are . ter days. Mr. S. said, had been shown him,which . had been executed with the tips of the . fingers, and was of excessive richness and beauty. ‘They also wear rings Of . various kinds, for the thumb, wrist, . &c., of gold and other materials. Satin . boots, decorated very handsomly, com. plete the costume. Boots are never) worn except by gentlemen, which, . said, Mr. S., accounts for the eargerness which the Chinaman usually manifests on his arrival here to get possessiov of as large a pair as he can conveniently use. Females, continued Mr. S., are seldom seen in the streets, . except the lower classes ; and when ladies are seen at all, it is in Sedans. . The lower orders of females wear shoes of the natural size, with so'es . about half an inch thick: but one sometimes sees women in the streets engaged in mending clothes and other similar occupations, whose diminutive feet indicate that they have seen betTnose of the Chinese who} net prominent enough to have excited . can afford it, employ means to cramp public notice strongly, which we believe is esteemed a striking virtue in a demoeratic candidate. Lectures on China. The Rev. Wm. Spear, some time a resident in China, and now laboring as a missionary among the Chinese at San Francisco, has commenced an interesting series of lectures in that city at the Presbyterien church. We give extracts below from the first lecture, June Qist, as reported by the S. F. Herald : After these prefatory remarks, Mr. S. proceeded to give an account of the country as it would appear toa traveller landing in it for the first time.— Before reaching the shore, said Mr. S. the traveller will be struck by the vast number of fishing vessels along the coast. Sailing in pairs. with the ends of large nets aitacled to their prows, they sweep the seas in innumerable numbers; and notu ently, when from a acercity of fish their labors are the feet of their daughters so as to prevent them from attaining a larger . size than is consistent’ with the well known Chinese notions of beauty.— Mr. S. here exhibited a beautiful little shoe, not more than three inches long, . and hardly large enough for an infant a year old, which had been actually worn by a Chinese lady. (Mr. S., it should be mentioned, in the course of his lectures exhibited numerous articles of Chinese workmanship in illustratian of his remarks ) The Chinese, continued Mr. S.,are very polite to visitors. On entering their houses the guest is received with various marks of respect---varied according to his rank and consequence. ‘Their salutations remind one of those we read of in Scripture. “Peace be with you !” “May your posterity flourish,” &c. No females are to be seen, and the guest is soon invited to drink tea. This is brought by a servant in a cup on a small tray ; the cup itself is very small. Their method of making tea is to put three. or four grains in the wep.end pour hot water upon them, a short time it is ready for use, country breaking idols and driving away their priests. Some said these men were Roman Catholics ; but there are no Roman Catholice in that part of the Empire. On their banners are ineribed the name of Gop—the Supreme, the Uncreated. Their progress has been rapid, irresistible. T’hey have spread from city to city and from province to province; and have shaken the Jmperial throne to its centre The present dyna-ty is a foreign dynasty, erected by the Manchous after their conquest of China; and it is odious to the people. Even their shaved heads is a badge of subjection imposed by the haughty Manchou. The present dynasty has_ now subsisted for nearly two hundred years, the usual period of the duration of Chinese dynasties, and the Chinese confidently believe that these are its last days. But it isas a religious movement that the rebellion commends itself to the heart of the Christian and the Philanthropist. Some years ago a man of great abilities and genius, but whose learning, from thé corruption existing in the Board of Examination, had failed to procure for him the high rank as a magistrate to which it entitled him. became acquainted with the Christian missionaries, and rece'ved from them sone tracts inthe Chinese language. Upon these he meditated, until they produced his conversion. He then received instruction in religion from the missionaries, and returning home spread thé doctrines of Christianity throughout his countay. From this seed God has raised up the ho ts which now bid fair to upturn the present usurping dynasty : and we have reason to hope that it will be the meansof spreading theGospel throughout the Asiatic world. Mr. S. concluded with a jervent exhortation that we should leave nothing in our power undone to forward this glorious work, and expressed the hope that the light of the Gospel was at length breaking through the thick darkness which has heretofore enshrouded half the nations of the earth ! quartz is lead, coated with silver, and that again covered with a solution of zold. Not one in ten could dete: t the cheat. We understand the same fascal who palmed this off had another still larger in his possession, which he will woubt'ess attempt fo impose upon some one else. Look out for him.-S. F. Herald. . Manacks OF THE 1URKS.— there once . appeared in Punch,» picture which set forth, as we then thought. the very extreme of conlness—in warm weather. A eabman is lolling back with elevated heels on his vehicle. An elderly gentleman toming by. exclaims, . ‘How much to Vauxhall ?” “ Six shillin 8.” “That's too much.” “Vel! yotever you like—it's too ‘ot te dispute about trifles.”’ But in a wok recently published in England, enti led * Rambles in Southern Selavonia.” by Nachbar a German trayeller, occurs the following description ofan incident in real life. which for -take-it-coolativenese.” is in no respect inferior to Punch’s cabman. Landing at Belgrade. he found, for the first time in all his travelling experience, no officious hands ready to seize his baggage. A few paces off in the tront of the tavern. sat several Turkish porters emoking their pipes. The doctor doubtless leoked helpless enough, standing beside his portmanteau, but no one rose to offerfhis services. “Will no one earn a piece of money?” . at last called out to the smokers, as I observed thut my waiting was likely to lead to no other result than carryin, my own beggage. ; “Ail of us willingly!” replied the porters, almost with one voice, but witbout starting from their seats. “But which of us shall serve you? Whom do you wish?” “ Comes, who will,” was the reply. The porters puffed hard at their pipes, and luoked at each other in silence. At last one of them, seemingly the eldest. spoke. “Allili,’ he said, ‘have you had a job to-day?” ‘No, was the reply of a slender young Moor. attired in a white turban, with jerkin, and large red trowsers. © ‘Then earry the gentleman's baggage,’ rejoined the other, and the Moor rose from his stone seat to carry my portmanteau. : Asactive now as he before seemed rious repairs and improvements, among which is an additional deck, which will add much to its comforts. The Northerner is also being overhauled, repaired and put in complete order for her next pass ge. The Pacific mammoth steamer J. L. Stephens is advertised for the 16th prox Her last downward trip has more than realized the expectations of her numerous friends, and placed her in the front rink of steam vessels on any ocean.— This superb specimen of naval marine architecture is still commanded by R. H. Pierson. whose recommendations from many who have recently arrived as passengers on the Stephens. render further commendation unnecessary. The Independent Miner, Of all the happy, contented, independent individuals on this earth, the miner of Ca ifornia can justly be classed among the foremost. Whether “striking it rich,” or prospecting nothing to the pan, his spirits are alike buoyart, se!dom disheartened by ill success, never over sanguine, he pursues the even tenor of his way with a freedom from care, and ruddiness of health unknown to the dweller of the vallies. We have in our possession a letter written by a Nevada miner to a friend in this city, which presents a picture of the perfect contentment which is generally the lot of the true bone an sinew of our youthful State. Here is a specimen of its contents. Friend J. —Why in the name of the Gr at Mogul didn’t you answer my last letter, with the money I sent, like an ass as I was, to pay an honest debt. Didn’t you get it? Answer, for heaven’s sake, for a hundred “‘scads” lost at this stage of the game would ruin me. I came here nearly broke, and at this'time am quite so, but who cares? Not I, for I have claims on the Yuba, which three of us located. They may contain a million, and possibly may not b: worth ad three good week’s work on suspicion, prospecting ’’em. If you feel inclined to dig for gold, come up here—any fool may strike it here; 1 have great hopes} j)i4 on that scere myself. n, but I have put in. : I gathered snow on my way hither. Three men can’t see the tops of the hills, without one sighting from where the other left off. The D Uses wear wa uEew ow rc*-they try to sail over, and the angels. have lighthouses on the hill tops, so they can steer clear of breakers when, on their nightly missions. This is a tall country.-Union. GB The pages of Punch rarely furnish better specimens of “sharp correspondence "than the following, which comes to us through the post office, with the assurance that it actually passed between two respectable ladies of this city, the names being the only fictions in the whole : Mrs.’ Jones to Mrs. Smith.—Mrs,. Jones regrets that Mrs. Smith has found it necessary to propagate jhe report that her little boy has “dirt and th'ngs in his head,” and consequently, that she can’t allow her Willie to play with him, which expression came from Mrs. Smith. Such a report is false and malicious; as everybody who knows Mrs. J. and her habits will know to be untrpe. Mrs. J. suggests to Mrs. S. that before making assertions likely to wound a mocher’s feelings, she should be certain that they are just. Mrs. Smith in reply to Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Smith’s compliments to Mrs. Jones ; and in reply to Mrs. J.’s_ polite note, would assure her, that not being aware that there was such a person as Mrs. J., or not knowing she had a tittle boy, nor that he had “dirt and things in his head,” the inference is, that she did not assert that such was the case; and further, not knows ing that there was a Mrs. J. nor what was,her habits, nor that she had a lit-° tle boy, nor what was the condition of his head, she did not propagate the report falsely and maliciously, that. Mrs. J. had a little boy who had “dirt and things in his head.” Mrs. S. denying all malice, admits that she did forbid her Willie playing with the boys in the street, because he was in the habit of getting dirt into his own head; and Mrs. S. would. suggest the probability that a wrong version of this injunction, communicated to Mrs. J., by her “little boy,” has been the means of “wounding a mother’s feelings.” Punch, To Savsace Eaters.—When you te buy 8 lot of sausages, whistle loudly &s you enter the door, and note the ef:fect. If the string of sausages equirms asif trying to get off the nail, buy # ham for breakfast. But, poor devil, I