July 1, 1853 (5 pages)

NEVA —— oe —_ — VOL. 3.--NO. 10. THE JOURNAL, 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 content with the high seas, have boldly 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, at this office. women and children live as on land, JOB WORK of all kinds speedily and} 4nq most of them seldom go ashore PUBLISHED EVERY BUDD & SARGENT, Ofice on Broad street, upposite the Court House. FRIDAY MORNING BY TERMS. Sor one year, in advance Six months Three months Single copies, 27 00 400 2 08 25 c:s. LEGAL BLANKS of all kinds for sale ADVERTISEMENTS, to insure insertion, should be banded in as early as Thurs. said to come from the northward, and Rates moderate. 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 day noon. A. DELANO & Co. are our agents at Grass Valie;, at Wells, Fargo & Co.'s. 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 & 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. Eating rice is one of the most important functions of their lives ; and the Chinese sa!utation “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 that mast injurious Democratic State Convention. The Demoeratic Convention at Beni~ cia nominated the following persons as their ticket for the ensuing campaign: For Governor, Joun Bicier, of Sacramento. For Lieut. Governor, Samvet Purpy, of San Joaquin. Vor Judge of Supreme Court, ALexANDER WELLS, of San Francisco. Attorney General, Joun R. McConNELL of Nevada. Comptroller. Sam. Bert of Mariposa. Treasurer, S. 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 mal-administration of the last two years. The people now un—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 article which are near the foreign “fac~ tories.” The streets themselves,which are not mere than seven or eight feet Siam and the adjaceiut islands, and re. wide, are crowded by buyers and sellturn when the wind changes, loaded . 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 sizns posted on the walls. aninferior race, and tyrannize over The quack doctors employ advertisethem with Asiatic severity and haugh. ments to as great an extent as_elsewhere, 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, 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 $80,000 are thus lodged on the river oppo. ete. Pickpockets are not uncommon, site to the city of Canton. Arrived /and ply their vocation with oriental at the city, the travuller lands at the . dexterity. Bankers and money-chanfactories of the foreign merchants. In . gers are frequent,occupying little stalls, the street are to be seen multitudes of . with sums of money and scales—the Chinese, dressed similarly to those we . Chinese having only one coin (of copsee here, only more neatly; most of! per, with a square hole in the middle.) those who are here belonging to the laboring classes. Their dress is generally of an uniform color, and is well adapted to the climate and to the comderstand the policy of that party fully, and will go into the canvass with their eyes open. Weoeshall see if they will endorse state prison contracts, water lot fort ofthe wearer. <A slight commospeculation, notarial laws, legal publica-. tion in the crowd may indicate the aption laws, &c., or will reject them andj proach of an officer of government, to their authors. I$ 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 /nine ranks, easily distinguishable by nee Petra except to sell their fish. They are tion of economy. and for the hands of} 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 robbers to be kept from the treasury.— By the re-nomination of Bigler, the last hope is gone that this can be expected of the party that has been dominant the past two years. Let the people reflect for themselves on this subject. They ean come to but one conclusion. Alex. Wells isalso put forward for reelection. Does it follow because a man gets the sanction of a nomination that he must be supported and cleeted !— have the democrats no man of moral purity—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 pewerful clique, elevated to the high judicial stations of the state. The nomination of Mr. McConnell we esteem 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 jn the hands of his party, if he ie elected. Paul K. Hubbs of Tuolumne, is a heavy-thoughted, siow, well-meaning man, who may be denominated the old fogy of the ticket. His office is more ornamental than useful in 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 net prominent enough to have excited 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 to a 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 attached to their prows, they sweep the seas In innumerable numbers; and notu ently, when from a scarcity of fish their labors are’ Ins short time it is ready But we suppose he isan. veniently use. honest man, and hope he will not carry . Mr. S., are seldom seen in the streets, politics into his gepartment, if elected. . except the lower classes ; and when . ladies are seen at all, it is in Sedans. 1 ' ously colored. , their various dresses and certain ornaamong his fellow countrymen. Gambmental aiticles peculiar to each rank. ling is very common among them, and The higher ranks wear silk dresses, . js carried on in innumerat!e ways. beautifully embroidered with figures . Even children going to purchase fruit of animals, &c., on the fronts and . at the stalls, frequently throw dice to backs. On the topcf their caps. which . determine whether they are to have a are also profusely ornamented, the . double quantity or none at all. mandarirs wear balls of various colois, ‘ Ps ‘ as indicative of theirrank, Of these, the highest is of red coral—others of gold, Mr. Spear then proceeded to speak green glass and other materials, vari. of the great rebe'lion at present going The lowest rank is in. on in China, which he characterized 1. Persons as one of the most important political d in sedan . and religious movements of the age. He said that this rebellion had been ee mn Se dicated by a plain gilt bal of conseqiience are carrie chairs by coolies, and hold in their . ; hands for occasional use beautiful fans, . going on for more than three years in richly carved and painted--usually the . the north of China. it had _ its origin cifts of friends. One of these fans,. in bands of men going through the Mr. S. said, had been shown him,which country breaking idols and driving had been executed with the tips of the . away their priests. Some said these fingers, and was of excessive richness . men were Roman Catholics ; but there and beauty. They also wear rings of ; are no Roman Catholice in that part On their banners are various kinds, for the thumb, wrist, . of the Empire. &c., of gold and other materials. Satin incribed the name of Gop —the Suboots, decorated very handsomly, com; preme, the Uncreated. i Their progplete the costume. Boots are never . Tess has been rapid, irresistible. They worn except by gentlemen, which, have spread from city to city and from said, Mr. S., accounts for the earger. province to province; and have shaness which the Chinaman usually manken the Jmperial throne to its centre ifests on his arrival here to get possThe present dynasty 18 @ foreign dyessiou of as large a pair as he can con. Nas'y, erected by the Manchous after Females, continued . 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 fervent exhortation that we should leave nothing in our power undoneto 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! 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 better days. Tnose of the Chinese who can afford it, employ means to cramp 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 menti ned, 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. ‘heir salutations remind one of those we read of ih 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 cup and pour, hot water upon them. for use, a JOU Items from Europe. The Second Chamber (lower house) of Prussia has voted for an appropriation of $58.00, to pay the foreign press. A biil to authorize the government. to prohibit the entrance of foreign publications, before the rendition of a judicial decision against them, was lost. 9 ts 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 muh to the popular veneration for the memory of the great Napoleon and to the popularity of the family generally, has become a violent political enemy of Louis Napoleon. Shou!d he turn his wit and sarcasm 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 <uddenl, stopped. The travel-rs ran out to see what might be the matter, and saw that the rails had been taken up before the cars, and workmen were ‘ikewise busy in taking up the rails . behind the cars. Here the company ' were in an interesting situation, three miles from a village, with a keen cold wind blowing and the snow falling in great flakes. Jt was a trick of Mr. Pickering, the builder of the road, who, having been unfairly used by the directors of the road, had taken this . plan to be revenged. The travelers, wet and forced to walk a long distance through the snow, arrived in the greatest exasperation and immediately entered a complaint before the police. Bogus Gold Specimens.— We were shown on Thurs‘tay a massive specimen 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 counterfeit. The metal attached to the quartz is lead, coated with silver, and that again covered with a solution of gold. Not one in ten could dete: t the cheat. We understand the same rascal 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. Mananks OF THE URKS.— snereonre appeared in Punch,» picture which eet forth, as we then thought. the very extreme of conlness—in warm weather. A cabman is lolling back with elevated heels on hiv vehicle. An elderly gentleman coming by. exclaims, © ‘How much to Vauxhall ?” “ Six shillin s.” “ 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 Sclavonia.” by Nachbar a Germun traveller, occurs the following description ofan incident in real life. which for -take-it-coolativenes.’ 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 front of the tavern. sat several Turkish porters smoking their pipes. The doctor doubtless looked helpless enough, standing beside his portmanteau, but no one rose to offerfhis services. “Will no one earn a piece of money?” 1 at last called out to the smokers, as I observed that my waiting was likely to lead to no other result than carrying my own beggage: “Ail of us willingly!” 5 a the porters, almost with one voice, but without starting from their seats. “ But which of us shall serve you? Whom do you wish?” “Come, who will,” was the reply. The porters puffed hard at their pipes, and looked 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 carry 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 NA apathetic, Allili led the way to the Zdania (literaily the building par excellence,) @ hotel which may vie with the best in Europe ns regards structure and appearance. NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1853. Immense Propuctivennss.—Maj. N. Loring has raised in Tuolumne. from one seed, a bunch of barley containing 120 well matured heads, ranging from 90 to 110 grains ench. This is an increase of about 11.000 fold. The world cannot show so wonderfully productive @ soil as ours. The citizens of Columbia and that section of the country, are supplied with ice and snow from the mountuins. Tue MurRpERER AND His VICTIM.— The Californian says of Strible, the murderer, and his brother: We learn from Dr. George W. Williams, who is the attending surgeon in the case, that Henry Strible, the husband of the murdered woman, at a late heur last evening was much worse, and hardly expected to live the night out. oseph, the murderer, is doing very well, though some fears of his recovery are entertained. The cholera has again broken out at Moscow. The pestilence descended over the city like a thunder cloud, and destroyed upwards of 200 persons in fortyeight hours. The disease is also present at St. Petersburg. From Satt Laxe Ciry.—By correspondence from Salt Lake City, it appears that there ix at present a great scarcity there of many of the necessaries of life. 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 Creek. between the 18th and 25th of April, about three hundred wagons, including, among others, the following trains of.cattle : Waterhouse, 260 head; Dr. Holmes, 260 head ; McPherson, 300 head; Holliday & Warner, 1.800 head; Livings‘on, 1 000 head ; and four or five trains averaging 50 to 100 head. Long's train of 1.200 head of sheep, and Moppins train of 2.800 head, crossed over the mountains about the 28th of May. Mr. Woolsey, one of the Elders of the church, who is at Carson’s Creek with 500 head of the church cattle, and 30 or 40 horses, has given our correspondent the following dimensions of the new Temple, the corner stone of which was lately laid at Salt Lake City: Length 267 feet, width 170 feet, height of basement sory 16 feet. ‘The walls are to be of pressed adobes, seven feet thick, and at each corner of the building a wtp to be erected, twenty feet square. —Alta. SteamsHivs aT Bentcia.—There are lying at the dock of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company at Benicia, the J. L. Stephens, Oregon, Northerner, Fremont, and Constitution The Oregon has been laid up for some weeks, undergoing various 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 rank 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, seldom 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 and 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 quité 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; I have great hopes on that score myself. n, but I have put in. WHOLE NO., 166. 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 man should confine yourself to your yard measures, and keep behind the counter—although a forbearing class of people, we miners can’t be _overcrowded too much by puny popinjays, whose pale faces look through the shop windows on J street. Why, thou lean, restaurant-feeding, appetite-lacking, work-needing, speculation-hunting, mud-tramping, lemonade-drinking, heat-enduring, dust-swallowirg Sacramentan—what do you know of health, strength, energy—of life itself, such as the mountain air and mountain fair produces. Bah! I wouldn't swap my pot of beans and cold johnnycake, with the enormous appetite accompanying them, for all your dinners at the “Orleans,” nor the pure Yuba 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 immense smile for myself, for my es~ cape to the hills. , torture you, by thus exulting over your misery, God give you fortitude to endure your lot with resignation. We can’t all be miners. * * ae * * Please write immediately. Don’t scratch three lines, with a “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 abundant® with you; you may write a quire of it and notexhaust the supply. As for wit don’t attempt that, for you will-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, polities (you're a Loco) or religion (you're a heathen) is mixed up. We are so deep in the hills here, it takes until 9 a. m to see the sun rise, aud it sets at 5. 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 trees tear the clouds to pieces when 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. @@ 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 the report that her little boy has “dirt and th'ngs ia 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 untrue. Mrs. J. suggests to Mrs. S. that before making assertions likely to wound a moher’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. 8. 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 niother’s feelings.” Punch, To Saveace Eaters.—When you te buy a lot of sausages, whistle loudly Bs you enter the door, and note the effect. Ifthe string of sausages squirms t off the neil, buy # reakfast. asif trying to slide ye el for But, poor devil, J

NEVA —— oe —_ — VOL. 3.--NO. 10. THE JOURNAL, 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 content with the high seas, have boldly 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, at this office. women and children live as on land, JOB WORK of all kinds speedily and} 4nq most of them seldom go ashore PUBLISHED EVERY BUDD & SARGENT, Ofice on Broad street, upposite the Court House. FRIDAY MORNING BY TERMS. Sor one year, in advance Six months Three months Single copies, 27 00 400 2 08 25 c:s. LEGAL BLANKS of all kinds for sale ADVERTISEMENTS, to insure insertion, should be banded in as early as Thurs. said to come from the northward, and Rates moderate. 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 day noon. A. DELANO & Co. are our agents at Grass Valie;, at Wells, Fargo & Co.'s. 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 & 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. Eating rice is one of the most important functions of their lives ; and the Chinese sa!utation “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 that mast injurious Democratic State Convention. The Demoeratic Convention at Beni~ cia nominated the following persons as their ticket for the ensuing campaign: For Governor, Joun Bicier, of Sacramento. For Lieut. Governor, Samvet Purpy, of San Joaquin. Vor Judge of Supreme Court, ALexANDER WELLS, of San Francisco. Attorney General, Joun R. McConNELL of Nevada. Comptroller. Sam. Bert of Mariposa. Treasurer, S. 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 mal-administration of the last two years. The people now un—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 article which are near the foreign “fac~ tories.” The streets themselves,which are not mere than seven or eight feet Siam and the adjaceiut islands, and re. wide, are crowded by buyers and sellturn when the wind changes, loaded . 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 sizns posted on the walls. aninferior race, and tyrannize over The quack doctors employ advertisethem with Asiatic severity and haugh. ments to as great an extent as_elsewhere, 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, 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 $80,000 are thus lodged on the river oppo. ete. Pickpockets are not uncommon, site to the city of Canton. Arrived /and ply their vocation with oriental at the city, the travuller lands at the . dexterity. Bankers and money-chanfactories of the foreign merchants. In . gers are frequent,occupying little stalls, the street are to be seen multitudes of . with sums of money and scales—the Chinese, dressed similarly to those we . Chinese having only one coin (of copsee here, only more neatly; most of! per, with a square hole in the middle.) those who are here belonging to the laboring classes. Their dress is generally of an uniform color, and is well adapted to the climate and to the comderstand the policy of that party fully, and will go into the canvass with their eyes open. Weoeshall see if they will endorse state prison contracts, water lot fort ofthe wearer. <A slight commospeculation, notarial laws, legal publica-. tion in the crowd may indicate the aption laws, &c., or will reject them andj proach of an officer of government, to their authors. I$ 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 /nine ranks, easily distinguishable by nee Petra except to sell their fish. They are tion of economy. and for the hands of} 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 robbers to be kept from the treasury.— By the re-nomination of Bigler, the last hope is gone that this can be expected of the party that has been dominant the past two years. Let the people reflect for themselves on this subject. They ean come to but one conclusion. Alex. Wells isalso put forward for reelection. Does it follow because a man gets the sanction of a nomination that he must be supported and cleeted !— have the democrats no man of moral purity—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 pewerful clique, elevated to the high judicial stations of the state. The nomination of Mr. McConnell we esteem 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 jn the hands of his party, if he ie elected. Paul K. Hubbs of Tuolumne, is a heavy-thoughted, siow, well-meaning man, who may be denominated the old fogy of the ticket. His office is more ornamental than useful in 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 net prominent enough to have excited 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 to a 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 attached to their prows, they sweep the seas In innumerable numbers; and notu ently, when from a scarcity of fish their labors are’ Ins short time it is ready But we suppose he isan. veniently use. honest man, and hope he will not carry . Mr. S., are seldom seen in the streets, politics into his gepartment, if elected. . except the lower classes ; and when . ladies are seen at all, it is in Sedans. 1 ' ously colored. , their various dresses and certain ornaamong his fellow countrymen. Gambmental aiticles peculiar to each rank. ling is very common among them, and The higher ranks wear silk dresses, . js carried on in innumerat!e ways. beautifully embroidered with figures . Even children going to purchase fruit of animals, &c., on the fronts and . at the stalls, frequently throw dice to backs. On the topcf their caps. which . determine whether they are to have a are also profusely ornamented, the . double quantity or none at all. mandarirs wear balls of various colois, ‘ Ps ‘ as indicative of theirrank, Of these, the highest is of red coral—others of gold, Mr. Spear then proceeded to speak green glass and other materials, vari. of the great rebe'lion at present going The lowest rank is in. on in China, which he characterized 1. Persons as one of the most important political d in sedan . and religious movements of the age. He said that this rebellion had been ee mn Se dicated by a plain gilt bal of conseqiience are carrie chairs by coolies, and hold in their . ; hands for occasional use beautiful fans, . going on for more than three years in richly carved and painted--usually the . the north of China. it had _ its origin cifts of friends. One of these fans,. in bands of men going through the Mr. S. said, had been shown him,which country breaking idols and driving had been executed with the tips of the . away their priests. Some said these fingers, and was of excessive richness . men were Roman Catholics ; but there and beauty. They also wear rings of ; are no Roman Catholice in that part On their banners are various kinds, for the thumb, wrist, . of the Empire. &c., of gold and other materials. Satin incribed the name of Gop —the Suboots, decorated very handsomly, com; preme, the Uncreated. i Their progplete the costume. Boots are never . Tess has been rapid, irresistible. They worn except by gentlemen, which, have spread from city to city and from said, Mr. S., accounts for the earger. province to province; and have shaness which the Chinaman usually manken the Jmperial throne to its centre ifests on his arrival here to get possThe present dynasty 18 @ foreign dyessiou of as large a pair as he can con. Nas'y, erected by the Manchous after Females, continued . 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 fervent exhortation that we should leave nothing in our power undoneto 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! 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 better days. Tnose of the Chinese who can afford it, employ means to cramp 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 menti ned, 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. ‘heir salutations remind one of those we read of ih 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 cup and pour, hot water upon them. for use, a JOU Items from Europe. The Second Chamber (lower house) of Prussia has voted for an appropriation of $58.00, to pay the foreign press. A biil to authorize the government. to prohibit the entrance of foreign publications, before the rendition of a judicial decision against them, was lost. 9 ts 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 muh to the popular veneration for the memory of the great Napoleon and to the popularity of the family generally, has become a violent political enemy of Louis Napoleon. Shou!d he turn his wit and sarcasm 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 <uddenl, stopped. The travel-rs ran out to see what might be the matter, and saw that the rails had been taken up before the cars, and workmen were ‘ikewise busy in taking up the rails . behind the cars. Here the company ' were in an interesting situation, three miles from a village, with a keen cold wind blowing and the snow falling in great flakes. Jt was a trick of Mr. Pickering, the builder of the road, who, having been unfairly used by the directors of the road, had taken this . plan to be revenged. The travelers, wet and forced to walk a long distance through the snow, arrived in the greatest exasperation and immediately entered a complaint before the police. Bogus Gold Specimens.— We were shown on Thurs‘tay a massive specimen 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 counterfeit. The metal attached to the quartz is lead, coated with silver, and that again covered with a solution of gold. Not one in ten could dete: t the cheat. We understand the same rascal 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. Mananks OF THE URKS.— snereonre appeared in Punch,» picture which eet forth, as we then thought. the very extreme of conlness—in warm weather. A cabman is lolling back with elevated heels on hiv vehicle. An elderly gentleman coming by. exclaims, © ‘How much to Vauxhall ?” “ Six shillin s.” “ 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 Sclavonia.” by Nachbar a Germun traveller, occurs the following description ofan incident in real life. which for -take-it-coolativenes.’ 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 front of the tavern. sat several Turkish porters smoking their pipes. The doctor doubtless looked helpless enough, standing beside his portmanteau, but no one rose to offerfhis services. “Will no one earn a piece of money?” 1 at last called out to the smokers, as I observed that my waiting was likely to lead to no other result than carrying my own beggage: “Ail of us willingly!” 5 a the porters, almost with one voice, but without starting from their seats. “ But which of us shall serve you? Whom do you wish?” “Come, who will,” was the reply. The porters puffed hard at their pipes, and looked 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 carry 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 NA apathetic, Allili led the way to the Zdania (literaily the building par excellence,) @ hotel which may vie with the best in Europe ns regards structure and appearance. NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1853. Immense Propuctivennss.—Maj. N. Loring has raised in Tuolumne. from one seed, a bunch of barley containing 120 well matured heads, ranging from 90 to 110 grains ench. This is an increase of about 11.000 fold. The world cannot show so wonderfully productive @ soil as ours. The citizens of Columbia and that section of the country, are supplied with ice and snow from the mountuins. Tue MurRpERER AND His VICTIM.— The Californian says of Strible, the murderer, and his brother: We learn from Dr. George W. Williams, who is the attending surgeon in the case, that Henry Strible, the husband of the murdered woman, at a late heur last evening was much worse, and hardly expected to live the night out. oseph, the murderer, is doing very well, though some fears of his recovery are entertained. The cholera has again broken out at Moscow. The pestilence descended over the city like a thunder cloud, and destroyed upwards of 200 persons in fortyeight hours. The disease is also present at St. Petersburg. From Satt Laxe Ciry.—By correspondence from Salt Lake City, it appears that there ix at present a great scarcity there of many of the necessaries of life. 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 Creek. between the 18th and 25th of April, about three hundred wagons, including, among others, the following trains of.cattle : Waterhouse, 260 head; Dr. Holmes, 260 head ; McPherson, 300 head; Holliday & Warner, 1.800 head; Livings‘on, 1 000 head ; and four or five trains averaging 50 to 100 head. Long's train of 1.200 head of sheep, and Moppins train of 2.800 head, crossed over the mountains about the 28th of May. Mr. Woolsey, one of the Elders of the church, who is at Carson’s Creek with 500 head of the church cattle, and 30 or 40 horses, has given our correspondent the following dimensions of the new Temple, the corner stone of which was lately laid at Salt Lake City: Length 267 feet, width 170 feet, height of basement sory 16 feet. ‘The walls are to be of pressed adobes, seven feet thick, and at each corner of the building a wtp to be erected, twenty feet square. —Alta. SteamsHivs aT Bentcia.—There are lying at the dock of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company at Benicia, the J. L. Stephens, Oregon, Northerner, Fremont, and Constitution The Oregon has been laid up for some weeks, undergoing various 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 rank 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, seldom 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 and 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 quité 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; I have great hopes on that score myself. n, but I have put in. WHOLE NO., 166. 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 man should confine yourself to your yard measures, and keep behind the counter—although a forbearing class of people, we miners can’t be _overcrowded too much by puny popinjays, whose pale faces look through the shop windows on J street. Why, thou lean, restaurant-feeding, appetite-lacking, work-needing, speculation-hunting, mud-tramping, lemonade-drinking, heat-enduring, dust-swallowirg Sacramentan—what do you know of health, strength, energy—of life itself, such as the mountain air and mountain fair produces. Bah! I wouldn't swap my pot of beans and cold johnnycake, with the enormous appetite accompanying them, for all your dinners at the “Orleans,” nor the pure Yuba 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 immense smile for myself, for my es~ cape to the hills. , torture you, by thus exulting over your misery, God give you fortitude to endure your lot with resignation. We can’t all be miners. * * ae * * Please write immediately. Don’t scratch three lines, with a “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 abundant® with you; you may write a quire of it and notexhaust the supply. As for wit don’t attempt that, for you will-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, polities (you're a Loco) or religion (you're a heathen) is mixed up. We are so deep in the hills here, it takes until 9 a. m to see the sun rise, aud it sets at 5. 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 trees tear the clouds to pieces when 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. @@ 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 the report that her little boy has “dirt and th'ngs ia 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 untrue. Mrs. J. suggests to Mrs. S. that before making assertions likely to wound a moher’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. 8. 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 niother’s feelings.” Punch, To Saveace Eaters.—When you te buy a lot of sausages, whistle loudly Bs you enter the door, and note the effect. Ifthe string of sausages squirms t off the neil, buy # reakfast. asif trying to slide ye el for But, poor devil, J