March 10, 1854 (4 pages)

THE NEVADA JOURN nn ee = oo a ——— _— — VOL. 3.---NO. 40. ae ore ee ———— Se nena NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1954. THE JOURNAL, has nearly tripped the horrified searcher ; Ching, in Ching department. Here Shig . _ AUSTRALIA. . ees there a mass of brains, frozen to the con-. Paon madea stand toprevent their further. Political Agitation— The Proposed New mr pt —— pie werd ns — sistency of stone. On every hand, under; progress, and reports that he obtamed a. Coxstitution—The new Constitution, in-. Punch and Jud exhibitio at nlite 4 PUBLISHED EVERY PRIDAY MORNING BY Jevery timber, on every adjacent building,. great victory over them on the 6th of Oct., . troduced into the New South Wales Leg-! ent rformers a t Mai sis dines 5 BUDD & SKELTON, — in all the shrubbery around, were these . six miles from Kan Ching, The defeated . islature has excited a violent commotion in. boards we dada $ a h sep ay i haga Oil-6 on Broad street, opposite the Court House, Nevads. dreadful evidences of destruction. Y.) army returned and were received by their . the Colory, and the two opposing parties, . jlized world electrified pe delighted at the ite dte Wr comin mica ey ee eer in the Kau Ching. The rebthe Conservatives and Liberals are nghtpeaceful birth and establishment, as well For three monte, ARTS OT INE TREY STS : on Great Fire in Quebee—Parliament House ie eign ben Soa Pe : ap we A oe a % -bvae = fst me as the glorious promise, of one of the mightIN rercsis gig va-cnceinrce ange wie “3 . Destroyed.—The Parliament House and. »P on theirmarch towards . \yaney amp Pposes the . jest empires of the future on the face of the AL. WHOLE NO. 184. Indian Troubles. From the Yolo Co. Correspondence of the Union. On Monday tae 20th ult., quite a commotion was created in our delightful and quiet neighborhood, by the appearance of quite a body of Indians in our midst, whose visible intentions were to get all the “beef” and “horse flesh” they could. They were Paccuted, at reasonable rates Legal Blanks ©f all kinds for sale at this fice. Job Work in all its varieties, promptly aud nently Advertiseménts inseried at low rates. . L. P. Fisher i+ ovr only authorized agent at San; Francisco. He may be found at his desk at the Merchants ‘“Sychange. A. Delano “Wells, Fargo & Co.3 office, 13 our auYhorizechagent at Grass Valley. Per Adams & Co.’s Express. Arrival $f the Siénimer Cortez, The Nicaragua stcamship Cortez arrived at San Francisco Saturday morning last, bringing two weeks later news from the Atlantic} ‘States. t*} News 15 ae eraat irr a re Li fd SOP ne news 1s Not or great imp drianee, Lire Siteeessiul Turks are atill in their war with Russia. The prospect of a general Huropean struggle is thickening, and the general impression in both London and Paris, is that there must be a general war, Austria is said to be quite disaffected to Rus. sia: Spain and Germany reimain quite unset-} tled; and France is very much agitated. A. Polish regiment of 1200 men has been organized by Schamyl, the great Cireassian leader, who is also organizing an army in Daghesfan, ‘The Russians have. erected strong fortificatious at Sebastopol and along the coast of @rimea, gid have extinguished the lights in all the heht houses, The Euglish government have eominenced to] strengthen the coast defenecs, iv preparation fur coming events. In the French Navy Yards the greatest activity prevals in (fitting out shins and preparing armaments and stores. The Sultan essextially modified the last note of the four powers, which was declared satisfactory, and has been forwarded to the Emperor of Russia at St. Petersburg. No answer had yet been received from him, bat it was supposed he would reject it, and recall his ambassadors from Paris and London. The London morning papers say : The de-. tails of the battle of Citale had been reccived/an accident on the road in question. at London, and show the result to have been a} brilliant victory for the Turks. The conflict . lasted five days, endiug with the entire rout of . the Russians, whe lost about 4000 killed. Two! et the Russian generals were wounded. On. the last day the Turks attacked the Russian, reserve, aid dreve it ia couiusien upon Krijuva, with the loss of its artillery. The siaughter on Doth sides was immense. The Turks after-. wards destroyed the Russian fortifications, and returned in triumph to Kalafat. The Cholers. conteeeed very bad at the island ofSt. Thomas. Fifteen hundred people, mostly . blacks, died of the disease between the Ist and! the leth of January. ; Another Horrible Accident! A Factory bewi te Atoms— Children torn! to Fragments—Scventeen Lives Lost! ! Anotlier appalting catastrophe is added to the jong list we have within a few weeks of Cuba for the Coast of Africa, the object . recorded. On Saturday afternoon a ball. being to load and return in Ravenswood, . also, that seven vessels have sailed within . eattridge manufectory ly destroyed by fire on Wednesday, Feb. 1. The flames were not discovered until they . had gained too much headway to be got, under, notwithstanding that a sentinel was . on duty near the spot. The fire origina-, ted in the south portion of buildings from! the furnace. It is believed that part of the . valuable library was saved, but the Historical Society’s Library and apparatus were . almost entirely consumed. The buildings . were insared for £30,000, and the Provin. cial Library for £6,000. It is not yet) known which offices are the heaviest losers. . The manuscripts are all gone, and the . Museum is much injured, No water was to be had, and it is very. fortunate that the night was calm. The insurances are chiefly in Liverpool . ompanies. A part of the records were saved. The. furniture and all the paintings in the} Council aud Assembly Chambers were de-. stroyed ; but the portraits of the Queen! and Sir Allen McNab were saved from) the Speaker’s Chamber. The dome fell at 6 1-2 o’clock this morn. ing. Inspector Wells offered Administra. tor Rowan to save two-thirds of the edi-' fice iflie would blow up the roof, Three . city councilers opposed it, and all is new . destroyed. The west wing might have . been saved but for lack of water, there be. iug ten engines on the spot and a large, concourse of people. The troops rendered . great assistance. Baltimore, Feb. 1.—The Missouri Iron! Works, at Wheeling, were entirely de-. stroyed by fire, yesterday. The loss is in! the neighborhood of $60,000. TTeavy Verdict Against a Railroad.—_. We learn from New Orleans that Mrs. : Landreaux has obtained in one of the courts . there, a verdict of $20,000 against the, New Orleans Railroad Company. The . suit was brought for damages sustained in. the loss of her husband, who was killed by ! Burning of a Steamer— Four Lives Lost.—The steamer Engle, bound from Columb‘a to Apalachicola, was totally de. stroyed by fire on Monday, together with . 1,300 bales of cotton. Four negroes alse . perished in the flames. Kosta and Cuba —Qesolutions have . been introduced into the Louisiana Legis. lature approving the “intervention” of our . Government in the Kosta case; also, de-! claring “uncalled for,” and “un-American,” . and “inexpedient,” any efforts the Federal. Government may think it its duty to make, . with a view to put down movements suspected of having the liberation of Cuba in . view, . We are informed that no less than elev! en vesseis are fitting out in different ports . with negroes ;. *) 4° we: ° “ . } ‘Long Island, blew up; the building was;six or eight weeks from Baltimore, Boston. wiiterly ‘tmfihilated, and sixteen persons—! New York, with the direct intention of be. thirteen of whom were children—were in-;ing emp'oyed as slavers. miles] stantly killed. The houses for aroun . were shaken as if by an eaithquake; «exiuduws were shivered, fences torn down, . trees ewept of thsir limbs, and the ground, ‘form quarter of 2 mile around covered with} ‘Suman limbs, arms, legs. hands, feet, heads, . Srginsand entrails. We do not recollect} in all our experience of pestilence, expio-i sions, wrecks, fires and falling buildines,. any scene so intensely S‘ckening and frightfully horrible as the Que we now at. tempt, so far as words ¢an do it, to describe. . : . Ravenswood is a small village, composed . of citizens of ing from the North China Mail, gives the It is on the shore of the, ‘muinly of cottage residences New York. East River, opposite Blackwell's Island, between Green Point and Astoria. The houses are scattered along the Astoria Turnpike irregularly for about two miles. Se northern portion is called Upper, and the southern (where the explosion occursred,) Lower Ravenswood. The explosion eccurred at 2 o'clock in he afternoon. Some persons on a bozt Sncthe tiver who happened to be looking in shat direction say the building disappeared, a slight smoke rose from the place, and then came the dull stunning shock of the ‘explosion. ; Of course all who could get there at once ran to the spot, among them the narents, brothers and sisters of the killed, ‘all uncertain of their fate, but frantic with fear, calling in the most piteous cries for j i i Over thirty tons of silver coin was, j weighed in the United States Mint, on Feb, 1, and is now ready for distribution. . LATEST FROM CHINA! By the arrival of the Hamburg bark Alster, Piening. 68 days from Hong Kong, . heads from & general crash. at San Franciseo, the China Mail to the . The follow} ‘ing items of intelligeace are of mech’ from Nelson Creek to-day about one o'clock . . p. M., being five hours coming six miles. ‘He attempted to go to Gibsonville, four . . miles further, but the fury of the elements . drove him back, after making about one} 15th December was received. interest : royress of the Rebellion —The follow. . progress of the Northern army of the rebels jfrom Ping-yangfu in Shansi to Ching;ting department in Chih-li, as reported to jthe Emperor by the Imperial Commission~ er Shingpaou and Kwei-liang, and pubs lished in the Peking Gazette from 2\st Sept. to 29th October. From previous statements it appears ithat the rebels, having suffered a severe {reverse on the 2d of September. raised the seige of Kwaikingfu in Ho.non, which ithey had been besieging for 54 days, stole ;a march on the Imperialists, and “moving tothe N. W. captured three district cities and the departmental city Ping-yang in Shan-si, as reported in our Overland of the )llth Nov. On the oth of September, Shing-paou marched in pursuit, and got to the north of them in Shansi. Being thus . intercepted in their march in that direction, their children and relatives, and eagerly . the rebel army left Ping yang fu on the examining the mutilated fragments of!12th of September, and marching nearly badies which were strown around. Fora time, it was dangerots to come near the place ; the packages of ball-cartridges were casually exploding, scattering destruction over a field where Death was already trihe calbiend up of the fragments of the dead was a work of extreme danger and labor. The bodies were in a few ins stances nearly whole; but the greater number were torn to shreds. Men were busy ‘all the’day ‘and evening in looking for ‘missing ‘portions of sdtite, half-recovered body. Here an arm, crushéd and black‘ened; there a foot, burned and shriveled; ‘yonder'a strip of flesh impaled upon a 'Bikket; on one side ascalp, the long beau‘Yifal hair scorched and bloody ; under foot, ypartof a skull, whose -slippery convextly due east through Henngtung district in 'Pingyang department, and through the . Changiz and Tunlin districts in Lu-ngan ‘department, on the east side of Shansi, ithey passed into Sheh and Wnungan dis. tricts in Changteh department, on the exttesie north point of Honan. Thence they passed through Linming pass into ‘Chihli and into Shunteh department. All this time Shingpaou appears to have marched in nearly a parallel line to the north of them, but harrassing them by some of his horse. The rebels, after they entered Chihli, marched through Shunteh department in a N. E. direction, and took the district city of Pingbiang ‘in Shunteh department, and the district city of Lung ping in Chanchau fu, and afterwards the district city of Kau ideas a oe eee a Te ee meen ot ASR ae TR RRM ; Wounded, it is thought, will recover. he ik . . Peking. i adjoining buildings at Quebec were entire-. g* The Imperial officers report having obtained another victory over the rebels on the 25th of October, but state them to be thirty miles still nearer Peking on the 28th of October, which is the latest date that had been received at Shanghae, jon the last departure of the Lady Mary Wood. On the 24th of October this daring army was reported to be within a comparatively short distance of the Northern capital, and it will soon be seen whether the Imperial power will be able to crush 8 foe that thus dares to attack its strongold. and the restoration of the constituted au. thorities at the latter place has been a' matter of congratulation to the residents. Lieut. Boyle, commanding the U. S. storeship Southampton, reports the discovery of a new volcano near the Island of Formosa. When discovered it was ina most violent state of erruption, throwing vast columns of vapor to a great height. Lieut. Jno. Matthews and thirteen men . have been lost during the late visit of that vessel to the Banin Islands. Mr. Mat. thews, we are told, had gone off ona shoot: ing excursion to an island about five miles . distant from the anchorage, but observing . the Kohihor coming in, he made for her. appearance, he was advised to return to. the Plymouth, but declined doing so ; and . . & heavy gale, or rather hurricane, having . . Taged towards evening, it is believed the life tenure feature of the proposed bill. The Sydney Morning Herald supports it. seen herding quite a number of animals of the “ domestic kind,” and went so far to . earth. A correspondent of the latter paper, speak-. Brother Jonathan Rules the Waves.—. run a couple of “ hombres, ” who were out ing upon this subject says : Mr. Wentworth, in the great speech by . to Great Britain the privilege to proclaim introduced his statesmanlike . that which he measure, asserted that the people of this .colony wanted “a British and nota Yankee Constitution.’ The conduct of the he time was, when all nations accorded . hunting and stambled on their “retreat,” where they were engaged in the amusing ,exercises of throwing the lasso—seemed On the “ Brittannia rules the waves, ” js be practising for an excursion. . Spon every ocean and every sea, and in. teceipt of this news in the Valley, men aimost every portion of the globe, it has . began to examine and found that quite a opposition has at any rate proved that as-/ been the custom for Admirals and Com-! number of horses, &c, had been carried sertion. posed to Mr. Wentworth’s bill are notoriously republicans, and ardent admirers of ; America and Yankeeism, yet all profess Quict prevails at both Canton and Amoy, . themselves desirous to frame our future, . according to the principles of the British Constitution. The latter is not the Constitution they would have recommended had they reason even to imagine that the . proposal of a Republic would have been . agreeable to the people of this colony.— . The people of this colony knew full well! that no democratic government has yet . ever existed in this world for much mote . than a century. The United States have . . ief the U. S.S. Plymouth, are supposed to . not yet tried that period, and no reasona. ble person can expect the Union to be in. existence one hundred years hence. Its government has belied its own principles already by retaining millions of human . beings in cruel slavery ; it has intermeddled in the affairs of foreign states; it is} As the weather had a very threatening . continually striving to acqnire the territo. ries of its neghbors ; it has tolerated the’ repudiation of state liabilities ; one half of . the Union is arrayed in such hostility of! feeling (from different pecuniary interests) . For most of the few whoare op-. manders to assume that . around the entire globe, and that their! . off. A party of six only were prepared to “Her home was on the mountain wave, follow. They started in pursuit—traveled Her pathway on the deep. ” fonly a short distance and encamped for the Edmund Burke, one of the most es. . Dight. During the night, (Monday,) it trious statesmen, said of her in his day, "ned considerable, which made it rather that the “ Sun never sets upon her terri-. bad travelling sev foot. “They took their tories—that her military posts were dotted . Til iu the morning, however, and after . following for some Cistrance without com§ = 1} “Tow > t ; 2 ; morning drum beat, following the course . '"5 UP: they were on the point of returning when one of the party (who had lost his of the sun, sent forth continued strains o' . ¥"°™ the martial airs of England.” Recent . /#¥Orme horse) end had got a little ahead. events in the inaritime stragzles of tha discovered their encampment ; he informed principal commercial States of the world, the aor he vagereenien soil extioavingpr have led her own statesmen to regard the ‘Y** agreed that they should treat them United States as not only being neck and . peaceably ; get the missing stocl: and fe neck with her in a contest for the com. ,'™5 but as soon as they were discovermetce of the world; tat seme of them ved by the “enemy,” they made demonstrahave had candor enough to acknowledge tions not to be mistaken el the form of a that we have outstripped her. A large shower of marae” Che fight then comportion of her commerce is now carried . Menced on both sides : the Indians were on by the clipper ships of Brother Jona. 5°"° thitty in siember. The fight was than. We have beaten her in our sailing only contested for about twenty minutes, vegsels on the ocean, and our steamers . when the enemy beat a retreat leaving four upon the same element ; and if we mistake Of their party on the ground and some not, we shall be in a few years, so far in . wounded that got off. Fortunately none advance of her as to be regarded, even by j of the whites were injured, though one or her own statesmen, as the most successful . *¥° Were hit, but not hurt much. The boat capsized and all haads were drowned. . towards the ether, that the cohesion must! and flourishing commercial power in the ‘whites afraid to follow, a3 in the rain which Horrible Affray near Johnson's Rancho. We find in the Marysville Express ad following particulars of an affray which took place on Bear river, opposite John-. son’s rancho: It appears that for some months past, a feud . has existed between Thos. Smith and a Frenchman named Joseph Verro. The feud, it is. believed, owed its origin to a jealousy on the . porters, and boldly advocates Republican-' ; part of Verro that Smith sustained improper . i relations towards his wife. On Tuesday last, . Smith went to the house of Verro with the: ostensible purpose of collecting some money . due him. An altercation of words immediately . followed his entrance into the house of his . eneiny, who left the room in which they were sitting to get a pistel. Me returned in a pas; Sion, ayd so blinded with rage that he did not . sepya ci rifis ac . apo,t ha r } 2} ae . . beariug a child in her arms ; buat fired at Smith. . The ball missed his adversary and took effect . upon the persons of his child and wife—passing . through the fleshy portion of the little one’s legs and thenee into the mother’s side. Simith then drew a knife and rushed upon Verro, ; parison with the far higher principles it, States in commerce and ship-building, we . inflicting very serious wounds upon his face . will have to establish, and the monstrous . copy and forebead--when the parties were separated. . The mother and child, though both seriously . —-— j ° . ! Snow in the Mountains.—A correspon. county. l*eb 26th, says : We have now at least twelve feet of snow 3n this valley, on the level, and it is . still sifting down so fast that a man can. not see but a few feet ahead. In many . places within a mile of this village, the. snow is from thirty to seventy-five feet! deep, to jndge from the trees. Some of} the buildings in this village are covered en. tirely, and have four or five feet of snow . on the extreme ridge, and it keeps us con. stantly at work with our shovels to save . We are . compelled te get in and out like the Diggers and woodchucks into their noles. . Everts, Snells §& Co.’s express arrived . . third of the distance, and he is_ now here, under a strict blockade. A man can with . difficulty make a knot per hour without . isnow-shoes, but there is more safety in making a not at all at present. In fact ‘no one attempts to travel without snow. shoes. The following day, [February 27th,j he This morning we arose from our beds, but there was no possibility of getting out; the storm had been so severe during the night that the snow was at least twelve feet deep over our only door. Our only show was t» cayote out, which we have just accomplished, and now are i broad daylight. iment of universal suffrage, vote by ballot, ere long be ruptured. ‘The people of the! colony, therefore, do wisely not to turn to’ America for political instsuction. On the other hand, Dr. John Lang, 2 distinguished advocate of the people and. who has earned the gratitude of the Colo-. nists by his services in their behalf, pub-. lishes in the Lmpztre a most scathing de-. nunciation of the New Bill and _ its sup. i i ism and independence. The passage of. New Constitution by the New South Wales} Legislature should be made the point of departure for an agitation to elicit and de. velope, to unite and combine into one) . . mighty and resistless power, into one har. monious whole, all that is truly liberal and. patriotic, all thit is really elevated, virtue . of New South Wales, Port Philip, and) South Australia—an agitation that will re-. gard with perfect scorn the mere vetoing . of Mr. Wentworth’s Constitution, in com. erievances it will have to redress—an ag-! itation that will insist upon the establish. } equal eiectoral districts, paid members who ; { dent writing from Onion Valley, Sierra . will attend to their public duties, and will ‘countries. It has been felt that frequent . . be pbliged to do it, and no property quali. intercommunication of ideas and _ nels, . fieation—an agitaiion, moreover, that must tends to preserve friendly relations mith ‘never be intermitted till the flag of Freeather countries, and assists te open out dom and Independence is seen to float tri-. u:nphantly over the whole extent of these . three great united colonies, which are evi-. dently destined to form the nucleus of the . commercial ascendency, which is an infuture magnificent empire of Australia.— . ed despotic government of this colony, we . have an amount of Toryism and Toady-' ism, of injustice and oppression, of sycophancy and flunkyism in New Sotth'! Wales, that is perfectly stckening to con-, template, and almost hopeless to struggle; with. . But there is comparatively little of these . worthless elements in Port Philip and . South Australia, where there is much pyjlding the largest, fleetest, and the more fresh blood in society than there is. here. Let us, therefore, originate a great . Australian League here in Sydney, for all the three colonies, and let us steadily pur. sué the object it indicates with perfect in. difierence to the doings in Macquarie street, . which the very announcement Gf its exis. tence will socn fill with disquietude and . dismay. Such a League will, [ am confident, in a few months from its formation, . be a hundred thousand strong, and will be . able with perfect facility to raise a fund of . at least twenty thousand pounds to send 4/ skill evinced by the Americans in sh n'hy solemn vote of that sacred baty. deputation of three perhaps of our best) building, and that defeat has produced a men—not !o her Majesty the Queen—oh ! . : ee revent our younger brother from taking . ; cS rae celia Bie matier<chot'te Downing street—certainly . P Zz 5 lis the Lords and fuluess thereof, not—not even to the Imperial Parliament . no, we won’t trouble her Majesty ia the —no, no, we have been acting that stupid I am writing by candlelight, our . farce long enough for any good we have house being totally covered, and of course jever got by it—but to the people of Eng-!. tween “two well-known professional gen-' dissenting voive. The title was considered in. A Goop Joxe.——-The recent duel . fell fast, it was impossible to load their The settlement of California has prosth _They gs ese in getting all tho duced wonderful changes in the commerce . 7OFS€S 19 Camp. Most of them are strange and navigntion of the Pacific. We have i horses, supposed to be stolen, The cattle no donbt that in three or four years we ed had niade or aes They returned. shall have the largest commercial fleet of . The op Eee for a day or so longer. any nation upon this Ocean: Should the . *¢ NiSt ‘air day, (Thursday,) a party of expedition to Japan under Commodore . *¥enty went in pursuit of them. They Perry prove successful, as we have no j came on their encampmont, but the enedoubt it will, we shall add to our commerce . ™Y had Rowe; Ik Sving Many of their traps a Sdn Aten, a: reek: tiaintok sete Om the wayside. The party followed their : : : . egen3! e “ruas Ve which we ate not now in possession of.— . cag — mere Valley, and returnThe Sandwich Islands must soon become . °°’ aphscaabhear et Bidets weteesionus has been created in our midst, and én attack is apan integral part of the American Union; . aad ‘ie while Australia mustina few years be— ee ee Oe come an independent state, whose eom. 22d be ‘prepared. merce, we shall have, perhaps, as much control of as Great Britain. In the meanworld. New Mexico.—Mrs. Wilson who was captured by a party of Camanche Indians, ra : sometime since with her two boys while of the Pacific, the Indian Archipelago and . she was returning from El Paso to this the China seas, must be vastly enlarged. ! State, at a time when she was accidently To show what opinion the people of Ausleft alone and apart from her companions tralia have of the progress of the United . 't,. managéd to escape from the savages, ( vand after undergding many fdangers and the following article from ” late . privations, was finally picked up by a party number of the Hmpzrre published in Siditey. . of traders who conveyed her to the territory “In the age of progressiveness, the . of New Mexico and delivered her to the great want of the age has been speedy . charge of the Commissioner of Indian and safe communication between z distant Affairs, Mrs. Wilson is now cafe after ;many suffering. Her two boys are still In captivity, from which they may never . be reeovered, yet it is to be hoped that \eflorts now making will attain that desira— ; ble odject. Mrs. W. during her captivity, ‘was treated in the mest barbarous manner. i Mrs. Wilson was from Illinois. new and untried channels for commercial enterprise. “'Mhe supremacy of the seas, and the _——————Marina “Snort Work” of Mexico.--The tegral part of it, must inevitably re-¢ with . . . ° . ° _ . _ le bd a . i rom the convict origin and long continus that nation whose ships are the fleetest,/San Joaquin Republ can closes an article on whose intercourse shall be spread widest . W aoe Expedition with the following paraover the world. The Americans have . "sr oo i ciue thats Sesto tick long been considered a terribly aggressive . piv belones to the United States and ito t aac. teak te Wea Ge well bar Gans esd . uliv belongs to the Unites States, and it were people, e ma € CON. foliy te attempt to thwart that which is so mancerned to look at her commercial aggress. jfest. The United States inay ss well make iveness. short work of the matter.” “Ever since the discovery of the Cuali-. We doubt if Santa Anna could be made to fornia treasure, and the addition of the . see this ‘‘ destiny” in the same light with the e i anuhican « *¢) epic ay IePvea i Eureka State to the Union, she has beer . Republican; we really believe that that old ca {sinner would be foand, in ease of the United ” 7] States attemp'i g to make “short work” i seg ange rad 1 ites attemp dg -4ke “shart work” of it, blest ships in the world-; already she has doing all in his power to “thwart that whieh secured, by means of her crack clippers, a . js so manifest” to our cotem yorary, Ba that large trade with China, and now enjoys a . as it imay, the perusal of this parazraph brought considerable share of the carrying trade] to . to our mind the following old aneedote : Europe thence. “Soon after the settlement of the town of Now “Her ships swarm in the Pacific, Her! sagen: aan went over to what is ri 3 F 7, , tne town of Milford, whore, fiadinz the goil ver¢ flag Waves in every sea, and she bids fair, . good they were desirous to effect a s-tilemant. unless we make some gigantic efforts,. to fy. ¢3,. premises wer in the peaceable p yss2sassume the position of the first maritl e€ lion of the Indians, ai] sore ; ciate cyonn coma state of the world. The late triumph of . ples arcsc es te the. propriety of d posing and the yacht America has opened the eyes of expelling them. To test the ease a chars our chief builders at home, to the superior . meeting was called, and the matter determine] After several speeches had baen made in relation tv cre : ‘ . . . ithe subject. they procauded to. pasa votes; the spirit of nautical rivalry which bids fair to) cet wy 55 the following’ : “Voted. that the earth This passed : EA ” is : : ‘ : : away our commercial sceptre. "—S. F. ‘in the affirmative, and “Voted that the cart! 44 Courier. igivea ty the saiuts.” This was also determiried like the form-r--nem. coa. Thirdly, “Voted, # Ithat weare the saints,” waich passed without a ; no light from windows or any other source . land direct—appearing before them per-. tlemen” at‘ Mormon Island,” with rifles, be epee and the Indians were very soon combut candles. It still snows, and when it will stop no one knows. The expressman is abott‘to try it again, and may probably get a milc or two and then return. Thrown into the Dock.— Night -before last a man was, as we understaad, struck with a slungshot, and thrown into the dock at Davis street, San Francisco, from which he was fortunately rescued by one of the boatmen before life was extinct — Before the occurrence he_had a watch and some money, of which he was robbed.— The perpetrator of the deed escaped.— Herald. yes. A man passing through a potato patch, observed an Irishman planting some potatoes. He inquired of him what kind he had there ? “ Raw ones, to be sure,” replied the ‘son of Erin ; “if they were boiled, they would not grow.” . nooo ~~ mn nnn OS Ee sonally in each of the great cities of the! and all that, seems to have been a sham. > tne . The party represented to have been “‘slight. Possessions to their rightful owners.” \ly wounded ” in the affair is a decidedly } . waggish character, and the hostile meeting The St. Lous Democrat has a long article going three kingdoms, telling them that we are sick, tired, and disgusted with this Downing street sham, and its tniform accompaniment of colonial misgovernment, and. was got up for the purpose of feigning a pelled to evacuate the place, and relinquish tho A Seriovs Care aGaNnat tus Morvwoys.— o ~ : : to show that Capt. Gunnison and his party will indur: it no longer; that as full) serious result, and thereby getting ridjof; were not killed by Indians, but by Mormors. grown communities, we have a right from our Creator to govern ourselves, which we are determined to exercise ; that we sincerely honor and respect her Majesty Queen Victoria, and that we love our father-land and its people with all our hearts, and are earnestly desirous to continue ‘in the strictest friendship with them to the end of time’; but that we must be free and independent, whether they will or no, henceforth and for éver. Aftersuch a deputation had done'its duty, if it did it at all, a Declaration of Freedom and Independence would be a matter ‘of course and of perfect. facility, though a spreeing gentleman, whose presence there . “It is no part of the policy of these people,” was irksome. ‘Ihe meeting actually took the Democrat says, to permit au exploration lace as was represented, but with unshot» {°f their country for the parpose of finding a P P ey Gap : route for a rail road, which is to be the.high ted double-barrel fowling-pieces, at thirty . yay of nations, and. if made, would bring them paces. The opponent of the “ wounded” again under the observation of the world.” gentleman stood fire like a veteran, but . This isa serious charge to bring against an ensmelt a mice, on the third discharge, in . tire communicty without exhibiting facta which not-hearing the whizzing of the ball. ‘The . Justify the accusation. sham was only known to a few, and a ROSE buggy was to have been in readiness to hurry off the assassin the moment his adversary was shot. This part of the proceedings was frustrated, however, by the storm and the bid state of the reads.— Union, . ) Earthqzuake.—Yesterday morning about 4 o’clock a very slight shock of an earthquake was felt by a number of persons’ in San. Francisco. It was nothing more than an almost imperceptible trembling of the earth.—Afeold, ©

THE NEVADA JOURN nn ee = oo a ——— _— — VOL. 3.---NO. 40. ae ore ee ———— Se nena NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1954. THE JOURNAL, has nearly tripped the horrified searcher ; Ching, in Ching department. Here Shig . _ AUSTRALIA. . ees there a mass of brains, frozen to the con-. Paon madea stand toprevent their further. Political Agitation— The Proposed New mr pt —— pie werd ns — sistency of stone. On every hand, under; progress, and reports that he obtamed a. Coxstitution—The new Constitution, in-. Punch and Jud exhibitio at nlite 4 PUBLISHED EVERY PRIDAY MORNING BY Jevery timber, on every adjacent building,. great victory over them on the 6th of Oct., . troduced into the New South Wales Leg-! ent rformers a t Mai sis dines 5 BUDD & SKELTON, — in all the shrubbery around, were these . six miles from Kan Ching, The defeated . islature has excited a violent commotion in. boards we dada $ a h sep ay i haga Oil-6 on Broad street, opposite the Court House, Nevads. dreadful evidences of destruction. Y.) army returned and were received by their . the Colory, and the two opposing parties, . jlized world electrified pe delighted at the ite dte Wr comin mica ey ee eer in the Kau Ching. The rebthe Conservatives and Liberals are nghtpeaceful birth and establishment, as well For three monte, ARTS OT INE TREY STS : on Great Fire in Quebee—Parliament House ie eign ben Soa Pe : ap we A oe a % -bvae = fst me as the glorious promise, of one of the mightIN rercsis gig va-cnceinrce ange wie “3 . Destroyed.—The Parliament House and. »P on theirmarch towards . \yaney amp Pposes the . jest empires of the future on the face of the AL. WHOLE NO. 184. Indian Troubles. From the Yolo Co. Correspondence of the Union. On Monday tae 20th ult., quite a commotion was created in our delightful and quiet neighborhood, by the appearance of quite a body of Indians in our midst, whose visible intentions were to get all the “beef” and “horse flesh” they could. They were Paccuted, at reasonable rates Legal Blanks ©f all kinds for sale at this fice. Job Work in all its varieties, promptly aud nently Advertiseménts inseried at low rates. . L. P. Fisher i+ ovr only authorized agent at San; Francisco. He may be found at his desk at the Merchants ‘“Sychange. A. Delano “Wells, Fargo & Co.3 office, 13 our auYhorizechagent at Grass Valley. Per Adams & Co.’s Express. Arrival $f the Siénimer Cortez, The Nicaragua stcamship Cortez arrived at San Francisco Saturday morning last, bringing two weeks later news from the Atlantic} ‘States. t*} News 15 ae eraat irr a re Li fd SOP ne news 1s Not or great imp drianee, Lire Siteeessiul Turks are atill in their war with Russia. The prospect of a general Huropean struggle is thickening, and the general impression in both London and Paris, is that there must be a general war, Austria is said to be quite disaffected to Rus. sia: Spain and Germany reimain quite unset-} tled; and France is very much agitated. A. Polish regiment of 1200 men has been organized by Schamyl, the great Cireassian leader, who is also organizing an army in Daghesfan, ‘The Russians have. erected strong fortificatious at Sebastopol and along the coast of @rimea, gid have extinguished the lights in all the heht houses, The Euglish government have eominenced to] strengthen the coast defenecs, iv preparation fur coming events. In the French Navy Yards the greatest activity prevals in (fitting out shins and preparing armaments and stores. The Sultan essextially modified the last note of the four powers, which was declared satisfactory, and has been forwarded to the Emperor of Russia at St. Petersburg. No answer had yet been received from him, bat it was supposed he would reject it, and recall his ambassadors from Paris and London. The London morning papers say : The de-. tails of the battle of Citale had been reccived/an accident on the road in question. at London, and show the result to have been a} brilliant victory for the Turks. The conflict . lasted five days, endiug with the entire rout of . the Russians, whe lost about 4000 killed. Two! et the Russian generals were wounded. On. the last day the Turks attacked the Russian, reserve, aid dreve it ia couiusien upon Krijuva, with the loss of its artillery. The siaughter on Doth sides was immense. The Turks after-. wards destroyed the Russian fortifications, and returned in triumph to Kalafat. The Cholers. conteeeed very bad at the island ofSt. Thomas. Fifteen hundred people, mostly . blacks, died of the disease between the Ist and! the leth of January. ; Another Horrible Accident! A Factory bewi te Atoms— Children torn! to Fragments—Scventeen Lives Lost! ! Anotlier appalting catastrophe is added to the jong list we have within a few weeks of Cuba for the Coast of Africa, the object . recorded. On Saturday afternoon a ball. being to load and return in Ravenswood, . also, that seven vessels have sailed within . eattridge manufectory ly destroyed by fire on Wednesday, Feb. 1. The flames were not discovered until they . had gained too much headway to be got, under, notwithstanding that a sentinel was . on duty near the spot. The fire origina-, ted in the south portion of buildings from! the furnace. It is believed that part of the . valuable library was saved, but the Historical Society’s Library and apparatus were . almost entirely consumed. The buildings . were insared for £30,000, and the Provin. cial Library for £6,000. It is not yet) known which offices are the heaviest losers. . The manuscripts are all gone, and the . Museum is much injured, No water was to be had, and it is very. fortunate that the night was calm. The insurances are chiefly in Liverpool . ompanies. A part of the records were saved. The. furniture and all the paintings in the} Council aud Assembly Chambers were de-. stroyed ; but the portraits of the Queen! and Sir Allen McNab were saved from) the Speaker’s Chamber. The dome fell at 6 1-2 o’clock this morn. ing. Inspector Wells offered Administra. tor Rowan to save two-thirds of the edi-' fice iflie would blow up the roof, Three . city councilers opposed it, and all is new . destroyed. The west wing might have . been saved but for lack of water, there be. iug ten engines on the spot and a large, concourse of people. The troops rendered . great assistance. Baltimore, Feb. 1.—The Missouri Iron! Works, at Wheeling, were entirely de-. stroyed by fire, yesterday. The loss is in! the neighborhood of $60,000. TTeavy Verdict Against a Railroad.—_. We learn from New Orleans that Mrs. : Landreaux has obtained in one of the courts . there, a verdict of $20,000 against the, New Orleans Railroad Company. The . suit was brought for damages sustained in. the loss of her husband, who was killed by ! Burning of a Steamer— Four Lives Lost.—The steamer Engle, bound from Columb‘a to Apalachicola, was totally de. stroyed by fire on Monday, together with . 1,300 bales of cotton. Four negroes alse . perished in the flames. Kosta and Cuba —Qesolutions have . been introduced into the Louisiana Legis. lature approving the “intervention” of our . Government in the Kosta case; also, de-! claring “uncalled for,” and “un-American,” . and “inexpedient,” any efforts the Federal. Government may think it its duty to make, . with a view to put down movements suspected of having the liberation of Cuba in . view, . We are informed that no less than elev! en vesseis are fitting out in different ports . with negroes ;. *) 4° we: ° “ . } ‘Long Island, blew up; the building was;six or eight weeks from Baltimore, Boston. wiiterly ‘tmfihilated, and sixteen persons—! New York, with the direct intention of be. thirteen of whom were children—were in-;ing emp'oyed as slavers. miles] stantly killed. The houses for aroun . were shaken as if by an eaithquake; «exiuduws were shivered, fences torn down, . trees ewept of thsir limbs, and the ground, ‘form quarter of 2 mile around covered with} ‘Suman limbs, arms, legs. hands, feet, heads, . Srginsand entrails. We do not recollect} in all our experience of pestilence, expio-i sions, wrecks, fires and falling buildines,. any scene so intensely S‘ckening and frightfully horrible as the Que we now at. tempt, so far as words ¢an do it, to describe. . : . Ravenswood is a small village, composed . of citizens of ing from the North China Mail, gives the It is on the shore of the, ‘muinly of cottage residences New York. East River, opposite Blackwell's Island, between Green Point and Astoria. The houses are scattered along the Astoria Turnpike irregularly for about two miles. Se northern portion is called Upper, and the southern (where the explosion occursred,) Lower Ravenswood. The explosion eccurred at 2 o'clock in he afternoon. Some persons on a bozt Sncthe tiver who happened to be looking in shat direction say the building disappeared, a slight smoke rose from the place, and then came the dull stunning shock of the ‘explosion. ; Of course all who could get there at once ran to the spot, among them the narents, brothers and sisters of the killed, ‘all uncertain of their fate, but frantic with fear, calling in the most piteous cries for j i i Over thirty tons of silver coin was, j weighed in the United States Mint, on Feb, 1, and is now ready for distribution. . LATEST FROM CHINA! By the arrival of the Hamburg bark Alster, Piening. 68 days from Hong Kong, . heads from & general crash. at San Franciseo, the China Mail to the . The follow} ‘ing items of intelligeace are of mech’ from Nelson Creek to-day about one o'clock . . p. M., being five hours coming six miles. ‘He attempted to go to Gibsonville, four . . miles further, but the fury of the elements . drove him back, after making about one} 15th December was received. interest : royress of the Rebellion —The follow. . progress of the Northern army of the rebels jfrom Ping-yangfu in Shansi to Ching;ting department in Chih-li, as reported to jthe Emperor by the Imperial Commission~ er Shingpaou and Kwei-liang, and pubs lished in the Peking Gazette from 2\st Sept. to 29th October. From previous statements it appears ithat the rebels, having suffered a severe {reverse on the 2d of September. raised the seige of Kwaikingfu in Ho.non, which ithey had been besieging for 54 days, stole ;a march on the Imperialists, and “moving tothe N. W. captured three district cities and the departmental city Ping-yang in Shan-si, as reported in our Overland of the )llth Nov. On the oth of September, Shing-paou marched in pursuit, and got to the north of them in Shansi. Being thus . intercepted in their march in that direction, their children and relatives, and eagerly . the rebel army left Ping yang fu on the examining the mutilated fragments of!12th of September, and marching nearly badies which were strown around. Fora time, it was dangerots to come near the place ; the packages of ball-cartridges were casually exploding, scattering destruction over a field where Death was already trihe calbiend up of the fragments of the dead was a work of extreme danger and labor. The bodies were in a few ins stances nearly whole; but the greater number were torn to shreds. Men were busy ‘all the’day ‘and evening in looking for ‘missing ‘portions of sdtite, half-recovered body. Here an arm, crushéd and black‘ened; there a foot, burned and shriveled; ‘yonder'a strip of flesh impaled upon a 'Bikket; on one side ascalp, the long beau‘Yifal hair scorched and bloody ; under foot, ypartof a skull, whose -slippery convextly due east through Henngtung district in 'Pingyang department, and through the . Changiz and Tunlin districts in Lu-ngan ‘department, on the east side of Shansi, ithey passed into Sheh and Wnungan dis. tricts in Changteh department, on the exttesie north point of Honan. Thence they passed through Linming pass into ‘Chihli and into Shunteh department. All this time Shingpaou appears to have marched in nearly a parallel line to the north of them, but harrassing them by some of his horse. The rebels, after they entered Chihli, marched through Shunteh department in a N. E. direction, and took the district city of Pingbiang ‘in Shunteh department, and the district city of Lung ping in Chanchau fu, and afterwards the district city of Kau ideas a oe eee a Te ee meen ot ASR ae TR RRM ; Wounded, it is thought, will recover. he ik . . Peking. i adjoining buildings at Quebec were entire-. g* The Imperial officers report having obtained another victory over the rebels on the 25th of October, but state them to be thirty miles still nearer Peking on the 28th of October, which is the latest date that had been received at Shanghae, jon the last departure of the Lady Mary Wood. On the 24th of October this daring army was reported to be within a comparatively short distance of the Northern capital, and it will soon be seen whether the Imperial power will be able to crush 8 foe that thus dares to attack its strongold. and the restoration of the constituted au. thorities at the latter place has been a' matter of congratulation to the residents. Lieut. Boyle, commanding the U. S. storeship Southampton, reports the discovery of a new volcano near the Island of Formosa. When discovered it was ina most violent state of erruption, throwing vast columns of vapor to a great height. Lieut. Jno. Matthews and thirteen men . have been lost during the late visit of that vessel to the Banin Islands. Mr. Mat. thews, we are told, had gone off ona shoot: ing excursion to an island about five miles . distant from the anchorage, but observing . the Kohihor coming in, he made for her. appearance, he was advised to return to. the Plymouth, but declined doing so ; and . . & heavy gale, or rather hurricane, having . . Taged towards evening, it is believed the life tenure feature of the proposed bill. The Sydney Morning Herald supports it. seen herding quite a number of animals of the “ domestic kind,” and went so far to . earth. A correspondent of the latter paper, speak-. Brother Jonathan Rules the Waves.—. run a couple of “ hombres, ” who were out ing upon this subject says : Mr. Wentworth, in the great speech by . to Great Britain the privilege to proclaim introduced his statesmanlike . that which he measure, asserted that the people of this .colony wanted “a British and nota Yankee Constitution.’ The conduct of the he time was, when all nations accorded . hunting and stambled on their “retreat,” where they were engaged in the amusing ,exercises of throwing the lasso—seemed On the “ Brittannia rules the waves, ” js be practising for an excursion. . Spon every ocean and every sea, and in. teceipt of this news in the Valley, men aimost every portion of the globe, it has . began to examine and found that quite a opposition has at any rate proved that as-/ been the custom for Admirals and Com-! number of horses, &c, had been carried sertion. posed to Mr. Wentworth’s bill are notoriously republicans, and ardent admirers of ; America and Yankeeism, yet all profess Quict prevails at both Canton and Amoy, . themselves desirous to frame our future, . according to the principles of the British Constitution. The latter is not the Constitution they would have recommended had they reason even to imagine that the . proposal of a Republic would have been . agreeable to the people of this colony.— .

The people of this colony knew full well! that no democratic government has yet . ever existed in this world for much mote . than a century. The United States have . . ief the U. S.S. Plymouth, are supposed to . not yet tried that period, and no reasona. ble person can expect the Union to be in. existence one hundred years hence. Its government has belied its own principles already by retaining millions of human . beings in cruel slavery ; it has intermeddled in the affairs of foreign states; it is} As the weather had a very threatening . continually striving to acqnire the territo. ries of its neghbors ; it has tolerated the’ repudiation of state liabilities ; one half of . the Union is arrayed in such hostility of! feeling (from different pecuniary interests) . For most of the few whoare op-. manders to assume that . around the entire globe, and that their! . off. A party of six only were prepared to “Her home was on the mountain wave, follow. They started in pursuit—traveled Her pathway on the deep. ” fonly a short distance and encamped for the Edmund Burke, one of the most es. . Dight. During the night, (Monday,) it trious statesmen, said of her in his day, "ned considerable, which made it rather that the “ Sun never sets upon her terri-. bad travelling sev foot. “They took their tories—that her military posts were dotted . Til iu the morning, however, and after . following for some Cistrance without com§ = 1} “Tow > t ; 2 ; morning drum beat, following the course . '"5 UP: they were on the point of returning when one of the party (who had lost his of the sun, sent forth continued strains o' . ¥"°™ the martial airs of England.” Recent . /#¥Orme horse) end had got a little ahead. events in the inaritime stragzles of tha discovered their encampment ; he informed principal commercial States of the world, the aor he vagereenien soil extioavingpr have led her own statesmen to regard the ‘Y** agreed that they should treat them United States as not only being neck and . peaceably ; get the missing stocl: and fe neck with her in a contest for the com. ,'™5 but as soon as they were discovermetce of the world; tat seme of them ved by the “enemy,” they made demonstrahave had candor enough to acknowledge tions not to be mistaken el the form of a that we have outstripped her. A large shower of marae” Che fight then comportion of her commerce is now carried . Menced on both sides : the Indians were on by the clipper ships of Brother Jona. 5°"° thitty in siember. The fight was than. We have beaten her in our sailing only contested for about twenty minutes, vegsels on the ocean, and our steamers . when the enemy beat a retreat leaving four upon the same element ; and if we mistake Of their party on the ground and some not, we shall be in a few years, so far in . wounded that got off. Fortunately none advance of her as to be regarded, even by j of the whites were injured, though one or her own statesmen, as the most successful . *¥° Were hit, but not hurt much. The boat capsized and all haads were drowned. . towards the ether, that the cohesion must! and flourishing commercial power in the ‘whites afraid to follow, a3 in the rain which Horrible Affray near Johnson's Rancho. We find in the Marysville Express ad following particulars of an affray which took place on Bear river, opposite John-. son’s rancho: It appears that for some months past, a feud . has existed between Thos. Smith and a Frenchman named Joseph Verro. The feud, it is. believed, owed its origin to a jealousy on the . porters, and boldly advocates Republican-' ; part of Verro that Smith sustained improper . i relations towards his wife. On Tuesday last, . Smith went to the house of Verro with the: ostensible purpose of collecting some money . due him. An altercation of words immediately . followed his entrance into the house of his . eneiny, who left the room in which they were sitting to get a pistel. Me returned in a pas; Sion, ayd so blinded with rage that he did not . sepya ci rifis ac . apo,t ha r } 2} ae . . beariug a child in her arms ; buat fired at Smith. . The ball missed his adversary and took effect . upon the persons of his child and wife—passing . through the fleshy portion of the little one’s legs and thenee into the mother’s side. Simith then drew a knife and rushed upon Verro, ; parison with the far higher principles it, States in commerce and ship-building, we . inflicting very serious wounds upon his face . will have to establish, and the monstrous . copy and forebead--when the parties were separated. . The mother and child, though both seriously . —-— j ° . ! Snow in the Mountains.—A correspon. county. l*eb 26th, says : We have now at least twelve feet of snow 3n this valley, on the level, and it is . still sifting down so fast that a man can. not see but a few feet ahead. In many . places within a mile of this village, the. snow is from thirty to seventy-five feet! deep, to jndge from the trees. Some of} the buildings in this village are covered en. tirely, and have four or five feet of snow . on the extreme ridge, and it keeps us con. stantly at work with our shovels to save . We are . compelled te get in and out like the Diggers and woodchucks into their noles. . Everts, Snells §& Co.’s express arrived . . third of the distance, and he is_ now here, under a strict blockade. A man can with . difficulty make a knot per hour without . isnow-shoes, but there is more safety in making a not at all at present. In fact ‘no one attempts to travel without snow. shoes. The following day, [February 27th,j he This morning we arose from our beds, but there was no possibility of getting out; the storm had been so severe during the night that the snow was at least twelve feet deep over our only door. Our only show was t» cayote out, which we have just accomplished, and now are i broad daylight. iment of universal suffrage, vote by ballot, ere long be ruptured. ‘The people of the! colony, therefore, do wisely not to turn to’ America for political instsuction. On the other hand, Dr. John Lang, 2 distinguished advocate of the people and. who has earned the gratitude of the Colo-. nists by his services in their behalf, pub-. lishes in the Lmpztre a most scathing de-. nunciation of the New Bill and _ its sup. i i ism and independence. The passage of. New Constitution by the New South Wales} Legislature should be made the point of departure for an agitation to elicit and de. velope, to unite and combine into one) . . mighty and resistless power, into one har. monious whole, all that is truly liberal and. patriotic, all thit is really elevated, virtue . of New South Wales, Port Philip, and) South Australia—an agitation that will re-. gard with perfect scorn the mere vetoing . of Mr. Wentworth’s Constitution, in com. erievances it will have to redress—an ag-! itation that will insist upon the establish. } equal eiectoral districts, paid members who ; { dent writing from Onion Valley, Sierra . will attend to their public duties, and will ‘countries. It has been felt that frequent . . be pbliged to do it, and no property quali. intercommunication of ideas and _ nels, . fieation—an agitaiion, moreover, that must tends to preserve friendly relations mith ‘never be intermitted till the flag of Freeather countries, and assists te open out dom and Independence is seen to float tri-. u:nphantly over the whole extent of these . three great united colonies, which are evi-. dently destined to form the nucleus of the . commercial ascendency, which is an infuture magnificent empire of Australia.— . ed despotic government of this colony, we . have an amount of Toryism and Toady-' ism, of injustice and oppression, of sycophancy and flunkyism in New Sotth'! Wales, that is perfectly stckening to con-, template, and almost hopeless to struggle; with. . But there is comparatively little of these . worthless elements in Port Philip and . South Australia, where there is much pyjlding the largest, fleetest, and the more fresh blood in society than there is. here. Let us, therefore, originate a great . Australian League here in Sydney, for all the three colonies, and let us steadily pur. sué the object it indicates with perfect in. difierence to the doings in Macquarie street, . which the very announcement Gf its exis. tence will socn fill with disquietude and . dismay. Such a League will, [ am confident, in a few months from its formation, . be a hundred thousand strong, and will be . able with perfect facility to raise a fund of . at least twenty thousand pounds to send 4/ skill evinced by the Americans in sh n'hy solemn vote of that sacred baty. deputation of three perhaps of our best) building, and that defeat has produced a men—not !o her Majesty the Queen—oh ! . : ee revent our younger brother from taking . ; cS rae celia Bie matier<chot'te Downing street—certainly . P Zz 5 lis the Lords and fuluess thereof, not—not even to the Imperial Parliament . no, we won’t trouble her Majesty ia the —no, no, we have been acting that stupid I am writing by candlelight, our . farce long enough for any good we have house being totally covered, and of course jever got by it—but to the people of Eng-!. tween “two well-known professional gen-' dissenting voive. The title was considered in. A Goop Joxe.——-The recent duel . fell fast, it was impossible to load their The settlement of California has prosth _They gs ese in getting all tho duced wonderful changes in the commerce . 7OFS€S 19 Camp. Most of them are strange and navigntion of the Pacific. We have i horses, supposed to be stolen, The cattle no donbt that in three or four years we ed had niade or aes They returned. shall have the largest commercial fleet of . The op Eee for a day or so longer. any nation upon this Ocean: Should the . *¢ NiSt ‘air day, (Thursday,) a party of expedition to Japan under Commodore . *¥enty went in pursuit of them. They Perry prove successful, as we have no j came on their encampmont, but the enedoubt it will, we shall add to our commerce . ™Y had Rowe; Ik Sving Many of their traps a Sdn Aten, a: reek: tiaintok sete Om the wayside. The party followed their : : : . egen3! e “ruas Ve which we ate not now in possession of.— . cag — mere Valley, and returnThe Sandwich Islands must soon become . °°’ aphscaabhear et Bidets weteesionus has been created in our midst, and én attack is apan integral part of the American Union; . aad ‘ie while Australia mustina few years be— ee ee Oe come an independent state, whose eom. 22d be ‘prepared. merce, we shall have, perhaps, as much control of as Great Britain. In the meanworld. New Mexico.—Mrs. Wilson who was captured by a party of Camanche Indians, ra : sometime since with her two boys while of the Pacific, the Indian Archipelago and . she was returning from El Paso to this the China seas, must be vastly enlarged. ! State, at a time when she was accidently To show what opinion the people of Ausleft alone and apart from her companions tralia have of the progress of the United . 't,. managéd to escape from the savages, ( vand after undergding many fdangers and the following article from ” late . privations, was finally picked up by a party number of the Hmpzrre published in Siditey. . of traders who conveyed her to the territory “In the age of progressiveness, the . of New Mexico and delivered her to the great want of the age has been speedy . charge of the Commissioner of Indian and safe communication between z distant Affairs, Mrs. Wilson is now cafe after ;many suffering. Her two boys are still In captivity, from which they may never . be reeovered, yet it is to be hoped that \eflorts now making will attain that desira— ; ble odject. Mrs. W. during her captivity, ‘was treated in the mest barbarous manner. i Mrs. Wilson was from Illinois. new and untried channels for commercial enterprise. “'Mhe supremacy of the seas, and the _——————Marina “Snort Work” of Mexico.--The tegral part of it, must inevitably re-¢ with . . . ° . ° _ . _ le bd a . i rom the convict origin and long continus that nation whose ships are the fleetest,/San Joaquin Republ can closes an article on whose intercourse shall be spread widest . W aoe Expedition with the following paraover the world. The Americans have . "sr oo i ciue thats Sesto tick long been considered a terribly aggressive . piv belones to the United States and ito t aac. teak te Wea Ge well bar Gans esd . uliv belongs to the Unites States, and it were people, e ma € CON. foliy te attempt to thwart that which is so mancerned to look at her commercial aggress. jfest. The United States inay ss well make iveness. short work of the matter.” “Ever since the discovery of the Cuali-. We doubt if Santa Anna could be made to fornia treasure, and the addition of the . see this ‘‘ destiny” in the same light with the e i anuhican « *¢) epic ay IePvea i Eureka State to the Union, she has beer . Republican; we really believe that that old ca {sinner would be foand, in ease of the United ” 7] States attemp'i g to make “short work” i seg ange rad 1 ites attemp dg -4ke “shart work” of it, blest ships in the world-; already she has doing all in his power to “thwart that whieh secured, by means of her crack clippers, a . js so manifest” to our cotem yorary, Ba that large trade with China, and now enjoys a . as it imay, the perusal of this parazraph brought considerable share of the carrying trade] to . to our mind the following old aneedote : Europe thence. “Soon after the settlement of the town of Now “Her ships swarm in the Pacific, Her! sagen: aan went over to what is ri 3 F 7, , tne town of Milford, whore, fiadinz the goil ver¢ flag Waves in every sea, and she bids fair, . good they were desirous to effect a s-tilemant. unless we make some gigantic efforts,. to fy. ¢3,. premises wer in the peaceable p yss2sassume the position of the first maritl e€ lion of the Indians, ai] sore ; ciate cyonn coma state of the world. The late triumph of . ples arcsc es te the. propriety of d posing and the yacht America has opened the eyes of expelling them. To test the ease a chars our chief builders at home, to the superior . meeting was called, and the matter determine] After several speeches had baen made in relation tv cre : ‘ . . . ithe subject. they procauded to. pasa votes; the spirit of nautical rivalry which bids fair to) cet wy 55 the following’ : “Voted. that the earth This passed : EA ” is : : ‘ : : away our commercial sceptre. "—S. F. ‘in the affirmative, and “Voted that the cart! 44 Courier. igivea ty the saiuts.” This was also determiried like the form-r--nem. coa. Thirdly, “Voted, # Ithat weare the saints,” waich passed without a ; no light from windows or any other source . land direct—appearing before them per-. tlemen” at‘ Mormon Island,” with rifles, be epee and the Indians were very soon combut candles. It still snows, and when it will stop no one knows. The expressman is abott‘to try it again, and may probably get a milc or two and then return. Thrown into the Dock.— Night -before last a man was, as we understaad, struck with a slungshot, and thrown into the dock at Davis street, San Francisco, from which he was fortunately rescued by one of the boatmen before life was extinct — Before the occurrence he_had a watch and some money, of which he was robbed.— The perpetrator of the deed escaped.— Herald. yes. A man passing through a potato patch, observed an Irishman planting some potatoes. He inquired of him what kind he had there ? “ Raw ones, to be sure,” replied the ‘son of Erin ; “if they were boiled, they would not grow.” . nooo ~~ mn nnn OS Ee sonally in each of the great cities of the! and all that, seems to have been a sham. > tne . The party represented to have been “‘slight. Possessions to their rightful owners.” \ly wounded ” in the affair is a decidedly } . waggish character, and the hostile meeting The St. Lous Democrat has a long article going three kingdoms, telling them that we are sick, tired, and disgusted with this Downing street sham, and its tniform accompaniment of colonial misgovernment, and. was got up for the purpose of feigning a pelled to evacuate the place, and relinquish tho A Seriovs Care aGaNnat tus Morvwoys.— o ~ : : to show that Capt. Gunnison and his party will indur: it no longer; that as full) serious result, and thereby getting ridjof; were not killed by Indians, but by Mormors. grown communities, we have a right from our Creator to govern ourselves, which we are determined to exercise ; that we sincerely honor and respect her Majesty Queen Victoria, and that we love our father-land and its people with all our hearts, and are earnestly desirous to continue ‘in the strictest friendship with them to the end of time’; but that we must be free and independent, whether they will or no, henceforth and for éver. Aftersuch a deputation had done'its duty, if it did it at all, a Declaration of Freedom and Independence would be a matter ‘of course and of perfect. facility, though a spreeing gentleman, whose presence there . “It is no part of the policy of these people,” was irksome. ‘Ihe meeting actually took the Democrat says, to permit au exploration lace as was represented, but with unshot» {°f their country for the parpose of finding a P P ey Gap : route for a rail road, which is to be the.high ted double-barrel fowling-pieces, at thirty . yay of nations, and. if made, would bring them paces. The opponent of the “ wounded” again under the observation of the world.” gentleman stood fire like a veteran, but . This isa serious charge to bring against an ensmelt a mice, on the third discharge, in . tire communicty without exhibiting facta which not-hearing the whizzing of the ball. ‘The . Justify the accusation. sham was only known to a few, and a ROSE buggy was to have been in readiness to hurry off the assassin the moment his adversary was shot. This part of the proceedings was frustrated, however, by the storm and the bid state of the reads.— Union, . ) Earthqzuake.—Yesterday morning about 4 o’clock a very slight shock of an earthquake was felt by a number of persons’ in San. Francisco. It was nothing more than an almost imperceptible trembling of the earth.—Afeold, ©