September 24, 1852 (4 pages)

kLZ LIEV ac ern N VOL. II.—NO. 23. rr THEJOURNAI PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY BUDD & SARGENT. A. A. SARGENT, EDITOR. Othee on Broad street, opposite the Place Hotel. TERMS, for one yer, in advance $7 00 Six months 4 00 Three months 2 00 Single copies, 20 cts. San Francisco Agency, J. M. Parken, of San Frane seo, snecessor to Ocravian Looes, is our authorized agent for that city, who is dulv authorized to reeciva and receipt for moneys for advertising or subscription, All communications directed to the “Nevada Jonrnal,” and forwarded through Adams & Co’s er Gregory’s Express, will be attended to without delay. WEDNESDAY, SEP TEMBER 22, 1852. REGULAR WHIG NOMINATIONS, FOR PRESIDENT, FOR VICE PRESIDENT. WILLIAM. A. GRAHAM OF N, C. For Presidential Electors : D. W. HASKELL. of San Franciseo; JOUN C. FALL, of Yuba; J. 1. HALE, of Placer; THOMAS D JOINS, of San Diego. For Congress ¢ GEO. B, TINGLEY, of Santa Clara; PHILLIP L. EDWARDS.of Sacramento. For Judges of the Supreme Court: STANTON BUCKNER, of Nevada ; Vacancy to be filled. For Clerk ef the Sepreme Court: W. \W. HAWKS, of Klamath. Por Distriet Judge. ITenry P. Watkins, of Yuba. Por Senator of Nevada County. John Anderson, of Nevada, For Assemblymen. Iesoph R. Beard, of Wood's Rayine, N. A. Watson, of Deer Creek, A. A. Sargent, of Nevada. For Sheriff, N. C. Warrison, of Bridgeport. For County Clerk, Theodore Miller, of Grass Valley. For Trensnrer, II. T. Collins, of Rough & Ready. For Assessor, . S. Fields, of Sweetland’s. Coroner, NR. W. Foulkes, of Bear River. Publie Administrator, G. W. Dickinson, of Little York. County Attorney, C. Wilson Hill, of Nevada. County Surveyor, John Day, of Grass Valley. 2] Gen. Pierce’s Positicn. “ Coartrani‘.—The Nevada Journal reiterates the foul slander against Gen Pisree in relation to a report of a speech made by him at New Boston.* The charge has alroady been refuted to the salisfaction of every one who is disposed . to act fairly and honestly, but that is not . enough.+ It is asked if this abolition Roorback is not true. why Gen. Pierce does not come out and deny it.t By reference to our columns to-day, it will be seen that Gen. Pieree has most emphatically and unqualifiedly giyen the iie to the charge. . . We have published every Ictter Gen. Scott has written on politics, in order that the peeple might understand his political opinions. We will now sce if any one of the Whig press will hava the fairness and manliness sufficient to publish Gen. Pierce’s refutation of the slander they have published against him "@ . Thus discourseth the State Journal in reference to the remark in our last that Gen. Pierce had said that ‘slavery . was introduced against the moral sense of mankind,’ and therefore should be . ‘extirnated,” and that he “loathed” ine its ideas in detail. *Calling a statement put forth by responsible mena slander does not dis. . Two democratic papers, either . prove it. of them as good authority as the State Journal, simultaneously published a report of Pierce’s specch, before his nomination, and ascribed to him this language. The reporter, who is said to be an estimable man, has made oath to the truthfulness of the report. V VD, URN NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER, 24 1852. . struck by lightning was as great as beGreat Whig Meeting. sng nominated to the Presidency, he. The whigs of this city and vicinity had not the motive as a village politi. turned out in force on Friday evening cian that he now has in his inflated po-. last, to welcome our nominee for Consition, to disguise his sentiments. His . gress, Col. Edwards, and to listen to an letter is received since our last, and wo . ¢xposition of sterling old whig doctrines shall see by and by how that bears on ; from this long-time champion of the parthe question. ty. {The matter was befere the people. The mecting was called to order by and was working Pierce serious injury . Col. Wood, as chairman of the county in the minds of compromise men. We . committee, and he then in a few approasked for something definite from his . priate remarks, introduced Col. Edwards, pen, in his own justification, and the . the war-horse of Pike. State Journal says we have got it. We} Col. Edwards was laboring under the shall see. effects of severe cold and hoarseness, Per Adams § Co. Tue Frise War.—-Interesting Statistics. — The following statistics of one ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. . <ase of Dr. Geo. A. Gardner until ey Fifteen Days Later from New Yorkbranch of our fisheries, shows the importance of the interest which Massachusetts has at stake. Theseestimates are) The steamer Pacific, Vanderbilt's line, jfrom Mr. Mayo, Inspector-General of /arriyed at San Francisco, 13 days from . Massachusetts : San Juan, on the 16th inst. Gregory's ir ey being pei vessels, naviga-. Kxpress is creditod exclusively by the ed by 9,174 men and boys. 1 :Value of phe and marlin $3,532,000 es ae ty “ ss = ti I . Annual value of catch, 2,400,000 . POU oe) Bows Is, Intoreshing,. “A . The value for the rest of New \Towa, the whigs liave elected two memEngland may be considered bers of Congress. as ep se oe —_ In Missouri, two whig and two demoMy Te Sie ; 5 . cratic members of Congress are elected, wid slag sean 1300, 000 and T. H. Benton, doubtful. Value of catch, . . We wish the reader to bear in mind the nature of the specifications against Gen. Pierce. The statements were not general, they were pointed and direct, and to be denied in such a manner as “to give the lie to the charge,” it was necessary that Gen. Pierce should spe~ which made the task of speaking extremely difficult; but as he proceedod his voice became clearer, and his speech fully sustained the high reputation he has elsewhere obtained. He made an able vindication of the great principles of the whig party, and proved their ne30,000 tons—6000 men and boys. But only an approximation can be “made, as many vessels are employed in both cod and mackerel. The Massachusetts mackerelmen in 1851 caught fares as follows: In American waters, bbls., 188,336 ln waters. the exclusive right In North Carolina, Read, democrat, is elected Governor, the House whig and . Senate democratic. . Stephens, of Georgia, one of the bolters with Toombs, has declared his in. tention to support Scott and Graham. We take the following summary of The bluff . cifically state that he did not say he . cessity to California interests. He exi“slayery was introduced against the . Benecia resolution requesting our repremoral sense of mankind” and “should . sentatives in Congress to use their influ. be extirpated.” . would have denied the charge, and as} when by the Baltimore platform of the . affeeting his credit would stand the tes. same party, such works were not in the 'timony of the two papers, and the cath . power of the general government. He ‘of the reporter. But Gen. Pierce con-. vindicated the soundness of Scott upon . tents himself with saying in diffuse . the compromises, and paid a just tribute . . terms: /to his character. He spoke for over an . ST do not remember ever to have seen . hour with much warmth and force, plea, What purports to be a report of a speech . sing whigs by his able exposition of their . delivered by me at New Boston in this principles, and democrats by his fairness . state, ia January Jast, until my atten. YS EL ee Gat a its ; tion was called to it as re-published in ae ayes bedale's Mae 7 rer ome say ‘the Republic. The pretended report is,. ™ade a good impression in this neighjand I presume was designed to be, an) herhcod. and we doubt not the result of . entire misrepresentation, Itis not mere-. jig yisit will tell favorably at the polls. jly untruthful, bat is so grossly and abt ‘ . surdly false as to render. in this vicini. At the conclusion of his remarks, the ty, any deninl of its authenticity entire. . meeting was further addressed by Theo. . ly unnecessary.” . And again: . “Tam not surprised to know that the British Toryism anp Gen. Prerce.— . attempt to prove me an abolitionist pro. The San Francisco Herald publishes /vokes much merriment among men of/ another article from the London Times, all parties here; and this weak and un. ie ’ ; tah 3 trathful sketch of what purports to be . the British tory paper, in which it man. my epeech, is rcally too ridicu ‘ous to be . fests a warm interest in the election of considered in any serious light.” Here is every shadow of denial that is . indulges in inuendoes at Scott and the to be found in his letter. The denial is. whig party. Such advocacy is not liketoo broad to be definite or conclusive.— . ly to help Pierce in the minds of the It involves the subject in a mist. In-. American people—nor is Scott likely to . deed it is hardly possible to discover by be hurt by the opposition of British inthis denial whether he made any speech . fluence. Jefferson once said it would be or not. An entire miarepresentaticn . better for the United States if they were . would imply he made no speech. Yet! separated from the old world by an the fact is as well established that be ocean of fire. He looked with suspicion . made a speech, and in it spoke of slave. upon the tools of foreign power interry, as that he ever went to Mexico, or. meddling with cur elections. The Lonever fell fiom his horse. Itis very well, don Times is renowned for upholding . to say that it “is really too ridiculous to . every scheme of selfish aggrandizement . be considered in a@ serious light,’ but. that England has ever indulged in. It the matter is too serious to ve ridieu. holds as justifiable the oppressions of lous. Ireland, of India, of China, of South Af. term, or that he ever acted with that! republic should take that would conduce . party. But his speech shows his sympa. to itsinjury. Its inuendoes against eve. thirs are that wey. If his majority . ry thing American are as common as clique were opposed to thove whu held . proverbs. We challange denial that lto * political abolitionism,” selfish aspi. this isthe character of the London Times. ' rations would keep him near the track. . This paper, with all its anti-American . But his New Boston sp-ech was the op. prejudice, spiteful and jealous, supports portunity for an unwitting display of his Gen. Pierce. Make note of that! . sentiments, apart, as he supposed, from! The Herald says: political effect, and thus we find him as. “In another column we publish a yery . much an abolitionist as those he politiwell written article from the London ;eally opposed. He may have never Times, on the subject of the Presiden: . tiol election in the United States. The used slavery as a “subject of sectional coming contest for the-Chief Magistracy appeal,” as he says, but it was because . between the whigs and the democrats is political associations restrained him: not apparently creating more interest on because he did not “loathe” fugitive i the other side of the Atlantic than any . This is . tirpated.”. We should have held Gen, . because he , the sondinais of the party . Prercé’s w . , which has alwnys opposed a protective . Pierce's word of much value even in oppo~. riff, The English press rae a lish people always look at every thing ina mercantile and business point of view. Napoleon was not much out of the way when he termed them a nation . sition to the mass of rebutting testimony, if he had been specific and pointed in . his dental ; but as it is, we can only honesily look upon the whole letter as + : F iy 4 it A 4 TR ee lat shopkeepers. We insert this article sion, callec out to decetve the friends of not because it Jeans towards General the compromises, by the desperate state of . Pierce, but because it shows the interest . his prospects. which the people of that country take in aThe State Journal has not published . elections. Asa general thing, the : . London 7imes has displayed more ignoevery letter Gen. Scott has written on . rance of America-and American institu. oe eame of the State Journal will not over . pelities,” and in thoso it hos published, . tions than any other English paper.— bear such testimony. +The charge has not been refuted—it . js not even denied. His friends have undertaken to qualify the langunge above, which they admit, by ascribing to him the additional words, ‘‘ our fathers made the contract,and we must abide by it.” But such obedience he ‘“Joathes,” and is not the man to engage romptly, cheerfully ,in it, as the friends . BA f 4 of promptly . not writing letters, &c., which did not d cata: tear ther tadk allt ba wal cisek. . of the eompromises expect. No doubt his sentiments are shared by many in his section—they are native to the meridian of Concord. Ashe uttered them when to him the probabilty of being _its aim has not been “that the people The article we publish to-day shows that . might understand his political opinions,” . }* peial} ie YOLY. BRD, AG SHINM at but to twist his opinions into impeachGen lenrne dis sacha ms sly . ments upon his credit and honor. The Mr. Isaac Underhill, of Peoria, has a . State Journal can publish what it pleas. farm at Henry, Ill., consisting of 2,200 es. We defy it to prove we have, in our . acres, ina body, all under cultivation. ; quotations from Pierce's letter, injured . Six hundred acres of it are set out in We have sim-. fruit trees. . its epirit, or garbled it. . ply left ont the mass of matter in referAn infallible criterion, eo fat as it ence to other snbjects, as his reasons for . g0¢8; Of a good inn, is a clean mustard If that is in proper order, you may ffect th i issue, Acetone ee re the sheets clean, and all the ct ceteras lish a daily paper, and cannot find inproperly looked after. leresting matter, we may make copious. PLAT PR RY ET 1 . extracts from such sources as the State The weather here is cool and plea. Journal recommends. sant, . “loathed the fugitive s!ave law”—that . hibited the absurlity of the democratic . Gen, WINFIELD SCOTT of N. J. If he had said this, he . ence to construct a National Railway, . Miller, R. N. Woed, and A. A. Sargent. . . Pierce, as safe on English interests, and . No one charges that Gen. Pierce is an . rica, of its own population—and would . ; abolitionist.in the extrome sense of the ‘chuckle over any misstep the American . ] , ‘ . which preceded it. Gen. Pierce is evi. the fagitive slave law. We shall exam. *!#v¢ laws, or desire slavery to be “ex~ . dently the favorite in England. to which is now claimed. by Uihapieas : Karl Derby, bble., 140,906; news from the Evening Journal. Allof them following the movements} The free soil democratie convention, . of the fish and fishing part of the time q¢ Pittsburg, has nominated J. P. Hale. in each waters. as its candidate fer President, and Geo One-half of all the mackerelmen are. \yv. Julian, of Indiana, (late free soi} . now in the waters where Karl Derby. member of Congress) for Vice President . proposes to oust them by an armed force.! The Union Convention of Georgia, has . The successful voyage of each vessel de-. »ominated Daniel Webster and Charles . pends on her ability to fish out the sea-. J, Jenkins for President and Vice Presi. som by following the fish till they are full.) gent. It nominated an electoral ticket Probably 2000 vessels and 30,000 men . T},¢ Seott Convention tried to harmonize and boys are now exposed to the cannon! with the Union Convention, but that of the British fleet, and the cruelties. qjq not suit the views of the democrats. . and horrors of British prisons, for doing! and the Scott Convention also nomina. just what they have for thirty-four year>. teqan electoral ticket. Senator Daw. been accustomed to do without molesta-. s5n jg stumping the State in favor of ition. The anxiety and distress amongst . Soott and Graham, and the whig pros' the families of all our seaboard people pects in that State are much improved. ‘can easily be eonceived—their tradi. " ype Hon. Robert Rantoul, jr, mem. tionary recollections of British prisons. y¢y of Congress from Massachusetts. ‘and courts not being very happy. idiedon Sunday morning, Aug. 8th, of The Gloucester Telegraph, in refer-. malignant erysipelas. [le was not con. : i angerously ill until within a ence to the controversy, remarks: sidered dangeror sy til wet British Pinte not far frome ay epee has reported adversely upon tke homeis fe of lthateiles: inipartence'te the wel. stead bill, upon Bennett's bill’ grunting Lawrence, for it is upon the fishing Ha hen lta ie ty sl: ia si 9 that bay during the months of Sonten. . Pe agli pao gucoinge Me Bal ; ". Merriweather, loco, of Kentucky, eallwo rey: steph Went tins cal jing for a statement of moneys paid out culate to P q ; lof the treasury to Generals Scott and . Almost every seaport town from Cape. Pierce, but refused to incorporate in the . Cod to Eastport is in like manner more same resolution a call for the causes of i ‘ F . medical attendance on each, ond of the if — out in the fisheries at the services other than. military performed. . Bay of St. Lawrence. A resolution has heen offered by Mr. ‘ i ; ia Seward proposing to send a commissioner Justice to California.—The follow-. +9 negooiate for the acquisition. of the . ing eloquent remarks were made by . Sandwich Islands. but has not yet been ey : 4 hee acted upon.—A Dill has passed the SenSenator Seward, of New York, in a ate granting 750.000 acres of public speech made in Congress upon areso-. lands in aid of the constrastion of the ilution introduced by Senator Gwin,. canal round the Saut St. Maric.—In oF aa aE ; hd the House of Representatives but little providing for the reconnaisance ANd) hos heen done except to make specclies exploration of the China and South. for huncombe. A bill had passed ip the Seas of the Pacific. The sentiments . ouse granting 10,000,000 acres of pubi : . {lic lands for the support of the insane. ean be justly appreciated by the citi-) Matthias Skupinski was executed at zens of California: Philadelphia, for the murder of the boy Mr. President, we now see how Lehman, on the 6th of August. It will . conspicuous a part in the great move-. . be remembered that he made a confes: as i sion some time ago that he and other . ment of the age California and Oreparties whom he named, had been engon are to sustain, and that, as yet,. gaced ina large number of murders— . they are separated from us and isola-. some eighty—and cnses of arson to conited. Thoy will adhere to us so long. ceal crime.—Mrs, General Taylor, relict . a3 our government over them is conof the late President, died at Hast Pasducted not for our benefit but for their. °#seule, on Saiurday night, Aug. 14.— . pad ag i A :,. The inhabitants of the British Nortb jown. Their loyalty is great, but itt sv erican Colonies appear to be very cannot exceed that of the thirteen an-. unfriendly to the American fishing boats, icient American colonies to Greatico that they have compelled vessels . Britain ; and yet the neglect and op-. which bad put in for water, &e., to leave . pression of their commerce under-. port without procuring the necessary . mined that loyalty, and resulted in. supplies, eren when the officers eomtheir independence. I hear often of. nding the British armed vessels had . dangers to the Union, and ece lines of given them parmission to remain. It is ie b reported that the American‘vessels have . threatened separation drawn by pas-. eon ali cleared out of the Bay of nndy, . sionate men or alarmists, on parallels! ay act which if perpetrated, cannot be jof lattitude; but in my judgment,. justified, and must be disavowed and . there is only one danger of severance . apologised for. Several fishing vessels . —and that is involved in the possibil-{are also reported as having been seized, . ity of criminal neglect of the new com-. #nd the conduct of the British oficers . munities on the Pacific coast, while generally, is said to be very insulting. phe AUER InAEe of she Rocky Mountains, and Halifax, and was received very coror of the Sierra Nevada, mark the on-. gin}ty, a ball being given in his honor. ly possible line of disyemberment. Mr. Crampton, the British Minister. has Against that danger I would guard as. bad an interview with the Prerident. against the worst calamity that couldjand has informed him that Lord Derby befall, not only my country, at her! has taken the firshing question out of . r anict rovrens. but his hands and referred it it to the Colomost auspicious age of progress, b nial Government. Tho British public { mankind also, in the hour of their! yiame the Derby Ministry for the course . brightest hopes. I would guard against) which has been pursued. It js also said . it by practising impartial justice to-'that the whole affair will be amicubly . ward the new and :emote States and . adj usted. . Territories, whose political power is! The Secretary of the Interior is pre' small, while their wants are great, and . paring certificates to be sent to the se. by pursuing nt the same time, with . veral mag shewing the number of liberality and constancy, the lofty . ener Senge welch they are ikea thar indleata. of an mebleinie et . entive The British Minister has procourse they indicate, be aye prosed, under instructions from his gogenerous and humane national ambi. yernment, to negotiate an International tion. Copyright similar to that recently con—_————— leluded between Kngland and France San Joaquin County. —The whigs of }He desires to secure for British authors . this county have appointed Saturday of the privilege of copyrighting their books ; and thus contreling their publicati this week as the day to hold their nom-. , 9 ainta ie United Seatee a inating convention for county officers.~. dent Fillmore has signified has signified . A grand mass meeting of whigs is adverfois willingness to enter upon such a netised to come off in the evening of that . gotiation, and the subject is now unde: Z . consideration, —Judge Crawford in the day, which will be addressed by some . oyiminal court at Washington, on the of the most distinguished speakers in!16th August, after lengthy arguments the State. jby counsel for and against the motion, land to the States, and upon thesbill to/ Commodore Perry had been at St Johns} WHOLE NO. 127 . decided in favor of a continuation of ; December term, as prayed for b counsel, and seit by the Un States, -—~Mr. Edney, of North Caro a delegate to the Inte Baltimore convention, has heen nominated to Senate as Charge de Affaires to Gu mala, —Judge Conkling has been firmed as Minister to Mexico. —Jo R. Ingersoll, of Philadelphia. has nominated to the Senate, as Minist the Court of St. James. --Mr. Web is making preparations to leave W ington, and it is believed will resig office very soon. --Hon. Humphrey shall, of Kentucky, has been nomina and confirmed as Commissioner to C and the salary of that office has b raised to $9,000 a year. --A disp has been received at Louisville with information that Capt. Marcy and p are safe at Fort Arbuckle. E. A. Bradford, Esq., of La,, has appointed by the President to the preme Bench, to fill the vacancy cay by the death of Judge McKinley. Forricn Irxms.—The news from FE is tothe 7th August. The election terminated, and the result is as ant pated--a House of Commons constity much as the Jast was. The Derby ‘sterial journals; by including some pledged free traders, claim a majo of some forty, but the actual state of ties cannot be known until after meeting of Parliament which is exp ed to take place in October. Only thing is certain, that there is & dee ed and overwhelming prepondere againat any restoration of the Gorn Some deplorabie scenes have taken p at the elections in [reland. At thee tion in County Clare some soldiers on the peoble, killing five. men on, spot, and wounding five or six three mortally. The American Y; Truant, belonging to Mr. Grinnell, a piece of plate ut the Liverpool Yi lace, coming in first. The Koh-in diamond is being cut, preparato: setting, The Cunard Compan . building a steamship larger and of g ‘ter power than any now helongin ithem. . -M. Fauld has been appointed Min of State, by Louis Napoleon, and appointment whieh took every on surprise, caused 2 considerable. ri the funds. louis Napoleon has retu from Strasbourg, and is said to . been well received by the Pari Preparations are making fora jou by the President in the South. Russian and Austrian Emperors Prussian King have made a trea sustain legitimacy, in which they claim their determination not to re nize Louis Napoleon as the successd his uncle, nor to permit him to thin! establishing an Kmpire te be inher by his heirs. They think legitimac their strict anchor, and recognise Count de Chambord as the represe tive of the Bourbons, nnd legitimate to the French monarchy. ; The Kaffir war at the Cape of G Hope colony, still continues. Tho Argo at Capetown, from Manila for ton, in distress, had been condemned The Representatives of the diffe provinces of the Argentine Repub have met and orgariised a confederat Genoral Uiquiza is General-in-Chie the vonfederation. with the title of visional Director of the Argentine federatien. The Duke of Tuscany has dismi his ministry, becnuso they were; pious enough for him, and the polic the Jesuits now prevails there. In Portugal the Cortes has been sclyed because the Ministry were feated on a financial question. The Deaf, Dumb, Blind, MWéostic Insane in the United States ~-F rom tistics which have been published, gather that the total number of pe in the United States who are labo under the deprivation of either spe or hearing, or both, is 9614. Stra . a8 it may appear 567 of the number born in foreign countries, Probs most of them were broughtover in t infancy. Asthe whole free popula ef the United States nambers 23,268 the rate of deaf and dumb perso jthe whole population would be abo to 3,353, "The number of blird per in the United States is not so larg that of the deaf and dumb. The computed to be about 8491, but we see a still further increase of the n her of those who were foreign bory ‘The latter number 797. The propor of blind to the whole population may set down at . for every 4,705 pora The idiots number 14.666, all of.w with the exception of 553 foreign bé and 110 anknown, are natives of An ica. The rate of idiots to the wl) population is 1 in every 2,088 pore The total number of insane person the United States far exceeds any of above elasses of unfortunates. ‘I are computed at 15,477 persons, of wh 2,154 were foreign born. ‘The rat! insane persons to the whole popula: may be ees down at 1 te every 2, persons. One of the men on board the Ui ship Peansylvania, lying in Norfolk 1 bor, intending to desert, jumped o beard a few nights since, toswim to 4. shore. The poor fellow bad. scarci touched the water, when he was sei by a large shark and epeedity dispar ed.

kLZ LIEV ac ern N VOL. II.—NO. 23. rr THEJOURNAI PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY BUDD & SARGENT. A. A. SARGENT, EDITOR. Othee on Broad street, opposite the Place Hotel. TERMS, for one yer, in advance $7 00 Six months 4 00 Three months 2 00 Single copies, 20 cts. San Francisco Agency, J. M. Parken, of San Frane seo, snecessor to Ocravian Looes, is our authorized agent for that city, who is dulv authorized to reeciva and receipt for moneys for advertising or subscription, All communications directed to the “Nevada Jonrnal,” and forwarded through Adams & Co’s er Gregory’s Express, will be attended to without delay. WEDNESDAY, SEP TEMBER 22, 1852. REGULAR WHIG NOMINATIONS, FOR PRESIDENT, FOR VICE PRESIDENT. WILLIAM. A. GRAHAM OF N, C. For Presidential Electors : D. W. HASKELL. of San Franciseo; JOUN C. FALL, of Yuba; J. 1. HALE, of Placer; THOMAS D JOINS, of San Diego. For Congress ¢ GEO. B, TINGLEY, of Santa Clara; PHILLIP L. EDWARDS.of Sacramento. For Judges of the Supreme Court: STANTON BUCKNER, of Nevada ; Vacancy to be filled. For Clerk ef the Sepreme Court: W. \W. HAWKS, of Klamath. Por Distriet Judge. ITenry P. Watkins, of Yuba. Por Senator of Nevada County. John Anderson, of Nevada, For Assemblymen. Iesoph R. Beard, of Wood's Rayine, N. A. Watson, of Deer Creek, A. A. Sargent, of Nevada. For Sheriff, N. C. Warrison, of Bridgeport. For County Clerk, Theodore Miller, of Grass Valley. For Trensnrer, II. T. Collins, of Rough & Ready. For Assessor, . S. Fields, of Sweetland’s. Coroner, NR. W. Foulkes, of Bear River. Publie Administrator, G. W. Dickinson, of Little York. County Attorney, C. Wilson Hill, of Nevada. County Surveyor, John Day, of Grass Valley. 2] Gen. Pierce’s Positicn. “ Coartrani‘.—The Nevada Journal reiterates the foul slander against Gen Pisree in relation to a report of a speech made by him at New Boston.* The charge has alroady been refuted to the salisfaction of every one who is disposed . to act fairly and honestly, but that is not . enough.+ It is asked if this abolition Roorback is not true. why Gen. Pierce does not come out and deny it.t By reference to our columns to-day, it will be seen that Gen. Pieree has most emphatically and unqualifiedly giyen the iie to the charge. . . We have published every Ictter Gen. Scott has written on politics, in order that the peeple might understand his political opinions. We will now sce if any one of the Whig press will hava the fairness and manliness sufficient to publish Gen. Pierce’s refutation of the slander they have published against him "@ . Thus discourseth the State Journal in reference to the remark in our last that Gen. Pierce had said that ‘slavery . was introduced against the moral sense of mankind,’ and therefore should be . ‘extirnated,” and that he “loathed” ine its ideas in detail. *Calling a statement put forth by responsible mena slander does not dis. . Two democratic papers, either . prove it. of them as good authority as the State Journal, simultaneously published a report of Pierce’s specch, before his nomination, and ascribed to him this language. The reporter, who is said to be an estimable man, has made oath to the truthfulness of the report. V VD, URN NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER, 24 1852. . struck by lightning was as great as beGreat Whig Meeting. sng nominated to the Presidency, he. The whigs of this city and vicinity had not the motive as a village politi. turned out in force on Friday evening cian that he now has in his inflated po-. last, to welcome our nominee for Consition, to disguise his sentiments. His . gress, Col. Edwards, and to listen to an letter is received since our last, and wo . ¢xposition of sterling old whig doctrines shall see by and by how that bears on ; from this long-time champion of the parthe question. ty. {The matter was befere the people. The mecting was called to order by and was working Pierce serious injury . Col. Wood, as chairman of the county in the minds of compromise men. We . committee, and he then in a few approasked for something definite from his . priate remarks, introduced Col. Edwards, pen, in his own justification, and the . the war-horse of Pike. State Journal says we have got it. We} Col. Edwards was laboring under the shall see. effects of severe cold and hoarseness, Per Adams § Co. Tue Frise War.—-Interesting Statistics. — The following statistics of one ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. . <ase of Dr. Geo. A. Gardner until ey Fifteen Days Later from New Yorkbranch of our fisheries, shows the importance of the interest which Massachusetts has at stake. Theseestimates are) The steamer Pacific, Vanderbilt's line, jfrom Mr. Mayo, Inspector-General of /arriyed at San Francisco, 13 days from . Massachusetts : San Juan, on the 16th inst. Gregory's ir ey being pei vessels, naviga-. Kxpress is creditod exclusively by the ed by 9,174 men and boys. 1 :Value of phe and marlin $3,532,000 es ae ty “ ss = ti I . Annual value of catch, 2,400,000 . POU oe) Bows Is, Intoreshing,. “A . The value for the rest of New \Towa, the whigs liave elected two memEngland may be considered bers of Congress. as ep se oe —_ In Missouri, two whig and two demoMy Te Sie ; 5 . cratic members of Congress are elected, wid slag sean 1300, 000 and T. H. Benton, doubtful. Value of catch, . . We wish the reader to bear in mind the nature of the specifications against Gen. Pierce. The statements were not general, they were pointed and direct, and to be denied in such a manner as “to give the lie to the charge,” it was necessary that Gen. Pierce should spe~ which made the task of speaking extremely difficult; but as he proceedod his voice became clearer, and his speech fully sustained the high reputation he has elsewhere obtained. He made an able vindication of the great principles of the whig party, and proved their ne30,000 tons—6000 men and boys. But only an approximation can be “made, as many vessels are employed in both cod and mackerel. The Massachusetts mackerelmen in 1851 caught fares as follows: In American waters, bbls., 188,336 ln waters. the exclusive right In North Carolina, Read, democrat, is elected Governor, the House whig and . Senate democratic. . Stephens, of Georgia, one of the bolters with Toombs, has declared his in. tention to support Scott and Graham. We take the following summary of The bluff . cifically state that he did not say he . cessity to California interests. He exi“slayery was introduced against the . Benecia resolution requesting our repremoral sense of mankind” and “should . sentatives in Congress to use their influ. be extirpated.” . would have denied the charge, and as} when by the Baltimore platform of the . affeeting his credit would stand the tes. same party, such works were not in the 'timony of the two papers, and the cath . power of the general government. He ‘of the reporter. But Gen. Pierce con-. vindicated the soundness of Scott upon . tents himself with saying in diffuse . the compromises, and paid a just tribute . . terms: /to his character. He spoke for over an . ST do not remember ever to have seen . hour with much warmth and force, plea, What purports to be a report of a speech . sing whigs by his able exposition of their . delivered by me at New Boston in this principles, and democrats by his fairness . state, ia January Jast, until my atten. YS EL ee Gat a its ; tion was called to it as re-published in ae ayes bedale's Mae 7 rer ome say ‘the Republic. The pretended report is,. ™ade a good impression in this neighjand I presume was designed to be, an) herhcod. and we doubt not the result of . entire misrepresentation, Itis not mere-. jig yisit will tell favorably at the polls. jly untruthful, bat is so grossly and abt ‘ . surdly false as to render. in this vicini. At the conclusion of his remarks, the ty, any deninl of its authenticity entire. . meeting was further addressed by Theo. . ly unnecessary.” . And again: . “Tam not surprised to know that the British Toryism anp Gen. Prerce.— . attempt to prove me an abolitionist pro. The San Francisco Herald publishes /vokes much merriment among men of/ another article from the London Times, all parties here; and this weak and un. ie ’ ; tah 3 trathful sketch of what purports to be . the British tory paper, in which it man. my epeech, is rcally too ridicu ‘ous to be . fests a warm interest in the election of considered in any serious light.” Here is every shadow of denial that is . indulges in inuendoes at Scott and the to be found in his letter. The denial is. whig party. Such advocacy is not liketoo broad to be definite or conclusive.— . ly to help Pierce in the minds of the It involves the subject in a mist. In-. American people—nor is Scott likely to . deed it is hardly possible to discover by be hurt by the opposition of British inthis denial whether he made any speech . fluence. Jefferson once said it would be or not. An entire miarepresentaticn . better for the United States if they were . would imply he made no speech. Yet! separated from the old world by an the fact is as well established that be ocean of fire. He looked with suspicion . made a speech, and in it spoke of slave. upon the tools of foreign power interry, as that he ever went to Mexico, or. meddling with cur elections. The Lonever fell fiom his horse. Itis very well, don Times is renowned for upholding . to say that it “is really too ridiculous to . every scheme of selfish aggrandizement . be considered in a@ serious light,’ but. that England has ever indulged in. It the matter is too serious to ve ridieu. holds as justifiable the oppressions of lous. Ireland, of India, of China, of South Af. term, or that he ever acted with that! republic should take that would conduce . party. But his speech shows his sympa. to itsinjury. Its inuendoes against eve. thirs are that wey. If his majority . ry thing American are as common as clique were opposed to thove whu held . proverbs. We challange denial that lto * political abolitionism,” selfish aspi. this isthe character of the London Times. ' rations would keep him near the track. . This paper, with all its anti-American . But his New Boston sp-ech was the op. prejudice, spiteful and jealous, supports portunity for an unwitting display of his Gen. Pierce. Make note of that! . sentiments, apart, as he supposed, from! The Herald says: political effect, and thus we find him as. “In another column we publish a yery . much an abolitionist as those he politiwell written article from the London ;eally opposed. He may have never Times, on the subject of the Presiden: . tiol election in the United States. The used slavery as a “subject of sectional coming contest for the-Chief Magistracy appeal,” as he says, but it was because . between the whigs and the democrats is political associations restrained him: not apparently creating more interest on because he did not “loathe” fugitive i the other side of the Atlantic than any . This is . tirpated.”. We should have held Gen, . because he , the sondinais of the party . Prercé’s w . , which has alwnys opposed a protective . Pierce's word of much value even in oppo~. riff, The English press rae a lish people always look at every thing ina mercantile and business point of view. Napoleon was not much out of the way when he termed them a nation . sition to the mass of rebutting testimony, if he had been specific and pointed in . his dental ; but as it is, we can only honesily look upon the whole letter as + : F iy 4 it A 4 TR ee lat shopkeepers. We insert this article sion, callec out to decetve the friends of not because it Jeans towards General the compromises, by the desperate state of . Pierce, but because it shows the interest . his prospects. which the people of that country take in aThe State Journal has not published . elections. Asa general thing, the : . London 7imes has displayed more ignoevery letter Gen. Scott has written on . rance of America-and American institu. oe eame of the State Journal will not over . pelities,” and in thoso it hos published, . tions than any other English paper.— bear such testimony. +The charge has not been refuted—it . js not even denied. His friends have undertaken to qualify the langunge above, which they admit, by ascribing to him the additional words, ‘‘ our fathers made the contract,and we must abide by it.” But such obedience he ‘“Joathes,” and is not the man to engage romptly, cheerfully ,in it, as the friends . BA f 4 of promptly . not writing letters, &c., which did not d cata: tear ther tadk allt ba wal cisek. . of the eompromises expect. No doubt his sentiments are shared by many in his section—they are native to the meridian of Concord. Ashe uttered them when to him the probabilty of being _its aim has not been “that the people The article we publish to-day shows that . might understand his political opinions,” . }* peial} ie YOLY. BRD, AG SHINM at but to twist his opinions into impeachGen lenrne dis sacha ms sly . ments upon his credit and honor. The Mr. Isaac Underhill, of Peoria, has a . State Journal can publish what it pleas. farm at Henry, Ill., consisting of 2,200 es. We defy it to prove we have, in our . acres, ina body, all under cultivation. ; quotations from Pierce's letter, injured . Six hundred acres of it are set out in We have sim-. fruit trees. . its epirit, or garbled it. . ply left ont the mass of matter in referAn infallible criterion, eo fat as it ence to other snbjects, as his reasons for . g0¢8; Of a good inn, is a clean mustard If that is in proper order, you may ffect th i issue, Acetone ee re the sheets clean, and all the ct ceteras lish a daily paper, and cannot find inproperly looked after.

leresting matter, we may make copious. PLAT PR RY ET 1 . extracts from such sources as the State The weather here is cool and plea. Journal recommends. sant, . “loathed the fugitive s!ave law”—that . hibited the absurlity of the democratic . Gen, WINFIELD SCOTT of N. J. If he had said this, he . ence to construct a National Railway, . Miller, R. N. Woed, and A. A. Sargent. . . Pierce, as safe on English interests, and . No one charges that Gen. Pierce is an . rica, of its own population—and would . ; abolitionist.in the extrome sense of the ‘chuckle over any misstep the American . ] , ‘ . which preceded it. Gen. Pierce is evi. the fagitive slave law. We shall exam. *!#v¢ laws, or desire slavery to be “ex~ . dently the favorite in England. to which is now claimed. by Uihapieas : Karl Derby, bble., 140,906; news from the Evening Journal. Allof them following the movements} The free soil democratie convention, . of the fish and fishing part of the time q¢ Pittsburg, has nominated J. P. Hale. in each waters. as its candidate fer President, and Geo One-half of all the mackerelmen are. \yv. Julian, of Indiana, (late free soi} . now in the waters where Karl Derby. member of Congress) for Vice President . proposes to oust them by an armed force.! The Union Convention of Georgia, has . The successful voyage of each vessel de-. »ominated Daniel Webster and Charles . pends on her ability to fish out the sea-. J, Jenkins for President and Vice Presi. som by following the fish till they are full.) gent. It nominated an electoral ticket Probably 2000 vessels and 30,000 men . T},¢ Seott Convention tried to harmonize and boys are now exposed to the cannon! with the Union Convention, but that of the British fleet, and the cruelties. qjq not suit the views of the democrats. . and horrors of British prisons, for doing! and the Scott Convention also nomina. just what they have for thirty-four year>. teqan electoral ticket. Senator Daw. been accustomed to do without molesta-. s5n jg stumping the State in favor of ition. The anxiety and distress amongst . Soott and Graham, and the whig pros' the families of all our seaboard people pects in that State are much improved. ‘can easily be eonceived—their tradi. " ype Hon. Robert Rantoul, jr, mem. tionary recollections of British prisons. y¢y of Congress from Massachusetts. ‘and courts not being very happy. idiedon Sunday morning, Aug. 8th, of The Gloucester Telegraph, in refer-. malignant erysipelas. [le was not con. : i angerously ill until within a ence to the controversy, remarks: sidered dangeror sy til wet British Pinte not far frome ay epee has reported adversely upon tke homeis fe of lthateiles: inipartence'te the wel. stead bill, upon Bennett's bill’ grunting Lawrence, for it is upon the fishing Ha hen lta ie ty sl: ia si 9 that bay during the months of Sonten. . Pe agli pao gucoinge Me Bal ; ". Merriweather, loco, of Kentucky, eallwo rey: steph Went tins cal jing for a statement of moneys paid out culate to P q ; lof the treasury to Generals Scott and . Almost every seaport town from Cape. Pierce, but refused to incorporate in the . Cod to Eastport is in like manner more same resolution a call for the causes of i ‘ F . medical attendance on each, ond of the if — out in the fisheries at the services other than. military performed. . Bay of St. Lawrence. A resolution has heen offered by Mr. ‘ i ; ia Seward proposing to send a commissioner Justice to California.—The follow-. +9 negooiate for the acquisition. of the . ing eloquent remarks were made by . Sandwich Islands. but has not yet been ey : 4 hee acted upon.—A Dill has passed the SenSenator Seward, of New York, in a ate granting 750.000 acres of public speech made in Congress upon areso-. lands in aid of the constrastion of the ilution introduced by Senator Gwin,. canal round the Saut St. Maric.—In oF aa aE ; hd the House of Representatives but little providing for the reconnaisance ANd) hos heen done except to make specclies exploration of the China and South. for huncombe. A bill had passed ip the Seas of the Pacific. The sentiments . ouse granting 10,000,000 acres of pubi : .. {lic lands for the support of the insane. ean be justly appreciated by the citi-) Matthias Skupinski was executed at zens of California: Philadelphia, for the murder of the boy Mr. President, we now see how Lehman, on the 6th of August. It will . conspicuous a part in the great move-. . be remembered that he made a confes: as i sion some time ago that he and other . ment of the age California and Oreparties whom he named, had been engon are to sustain, and that, as yet,. gaced ina large number of murders— . they are separated from us and isola-. some eighty—and cnses of arson to conited. Thoy will adhere to us so long. ceal crime.—Mrs, General Taylor, relict . a3 our government over them is conof the late President, died at Hast Pasducted not for our benefit but for their. °#seule, on Saiurday night, Aug. 14.— . pad ag i A :,. The inhabitants of the British Nortb jown. Their loyalty is great, but itt sv erican Colonies appear to be very cannot exceed that of the thirteen an-. unfriendly to the American fishing boats, icient American colonies to Greatico that they have compelled vessels . Britain ; and yet the neglect and op-. which bad put in for water, &e., to leave . pression of their commerce under-. port without procuring the necessary . mined that loyalty, and resulted in. supplies, eren when the officers eomtheir independence. I hear often of. nding the British armed vessels had . dangers to the Union, and ece lines of given them parmission to remain. It is ie b reported that the American‘vessels have . threatened separation drawn by pas-. eon ali cleared out of the Bay of nndy, . sionate men or alarmists, on parallels! ay act which if perpetrated, cannot be jof lattitude; but in my judgment,. justified, and must be disavowed and . there is only one danger of severance . apologised for. Several fishing vessels . —and that is involved in the possibil-{are also reported as having been seized, . ity of criminal neglect of the new com-. #nd the conduct of the British oficers . munities on the Pacific coast, while generally, is said to be very insulting. phe AUER InAEe of she Rocky Mountains, and Halifax, and was received very coror of the Sierra Nevada, mark the on-. gin}ty, a ball being given in his honor. ly possible line of disyemberment. Mr. Crampton, the British Minister. has Against that danger I would guard as. bad an interview with the Prerident. against the worst calamity that couldjand has informed him that Lord Derby befall, not only my country, at her! has taken the firshing question out of . r anict rovrens. but his hands and referred it it to the Colomost auspicious age of progress, b nial Government. Tho British public { mankind also, in the hour of their! yiame the Derby Ministry for the course . brightest hopes. I would guard against) which has been pursued. It js also said . it by practising impartial justice to-'that the whole affair will be amicubly . ward the new and :emote States and . adj usted. . Territories, whose political power is! The Secretary of the Interior is pre' small, while their wants are great, and . paring certificates to be sent to the se. by pursuing nt the same time, with . veral mag shewing the number of liberality and constancy, the lofty . ener Senge welch they are ikea thar indleata. of an mebleinie et . entive The British Minister has procourse they indicate, be aye prosed, under instructions from his gogenerous and humane national ambi. yernment, to negotiate an International tion. Copyright similar to that recently con—_————— leluded between Kngland and France San Joaquin County. —The whigs of }He desires to secure for British authors . this county have appointed Saturday of the privilege of copyrighting their books ; and thus contreling their publicati this week as the day to hold their nom-. , 9 ainta ie United Seatee a inating convention for county officers.~. dent Fillmore has signified has signified . A grand mass meeting of whigs is adverfois willingness to enter upon such a netised to come off in the evening of that . gotiation, and the subject is now unde: Z . consideration, —Judge Crawford in the day, which will be addressed by some . oyiminal court at Washington, on the of the most distinguished speakers in!16th August, after lengthy arguments the State. jby counsel for and against the motion, land to the States, and upon thesbill to/ Commodore Perry had been at St Johns} WHOLE NO. 127 . decided in favor of a continuation of ; December term, as prayed for b counsel, and seit by the Un States, -—~Mr. Edney, of North Caro a delegate to the Inte Baltimore convention, has heen nominated to Senate as Charge de Affaires to Gu mala, —Judge Conkling has been firmed as Minister to Mexico. —Jo R. Ingersoll, of Philadelphia. has nominated to the Senate, as Minist the Court of St. James. --Mr. Web is making preparations to leave W ington, and it is believed will resig office very soon. --Hon. Humphrey shall, of Kentucky, has been nomina and confirmed as Commissioner to C and the salary of that office has b raised to $9,000 a year. --A disp has been received at Louisville with information that Capt. Marcy and p are safe at Fort Arbuckle. E. A. Bradford, Esq., of La,, has appointed by the President to the preme Bench, to fill the vacancy cay by the death of Judge McKinley. Forricn Irxms.—The news from FE is tothe 7th August. The election terminated, and the result is as ant pated--a House of Commons constity much as the Jast was. The Derby ‘sterial journals; by including some pledged free traders, claim a majo of some forty, but the actual state of ties cannot be known until after meeting of Parliament which is exp ed to take place in October. Only thing is certain, that there is & dee ed and overwhelming prepondere againat any restoration of the Gorn Some deplorabie scenes have taken p at the elections in [reland. At thee tion in County Clare some soldiers on the peoble, killing five. men on, spot, and wounding five or six three mortally. The American Y; Truant, belonging to Mr. Grinnell, a piece of plate ut the Liverpool Yi lace, coming in first. The Koh-in diamond is being cut, preparato: setting, The Cunard Compan . building a steamship larger and of g ‘ter power than any now helongin ithem. . -M. Fauld has been appointed Min of State, by Louis Napoleon, and appointment whieh took every on surprise, caused 2 considerable. ri the funds. louis Napoleon has retu from Strasbourg, and is said to . been well received by the Pari Preparations are making fora jou by the President in the South. Russian and Austrian Emperors Prussian King have made a trea sustain legitimacy, in which they claim their determination not to re nize Louis Napoleon as the successd his uncle, nor to permit him to thin! establishing an Kmpire te be inher by his heirs. They think legitimac their strict anchor, and recognise Count de Chambord as the represe tive of the Bourbons, nnd legitimate to the French monarchy. ; The Kaffir war at the Cape of G Hope colony, still continues. Tho Argo at Capetown, from Manila for ton, in distress, had been condemned The Representatives of the diffe provinces of the Argentine Repub have met and orgariised a confederat Genoral Uiquiza is General-in-Chie the vonfederation. with the title of visional Director of the Argentine federatien. The Duke of Tuscany has dismi his ministry, becnuso they were; pious enough for him, and the polic the Jesuits now prevails there. In Portugal the Cortes has been sclyed because the Ministry were feated on a financial question. The Deaf, Dumb, Blind, MWéostic Insane in the United States ~-F rom tistics which have been published, gather that the total number of pe in the United States who are labo under the deprivation of either spe or hearing, or both, is 9614. Stra . a8 it may appear 567 of the number born in foreign countries, Probs most of them were broughtover in t infancy. Asthe whole free popula ef the United States nambers 23,268 the rate of deaf and dumb perso jthe whole population would be abo to 3,353, "The number of blird per in the United States is not so larg that of the deaf and dumb. The computed to be about 8491, but we see a still further increase of the n her of those who were foreign bory ‘The latter number 797. The propor of blind to the whole population may set down at . for every 4,705 pora The idiots number 14.666, all of.w with the exception of 553 foreign bé and 110 anknown, are natives of An ica. The rate of idiots to the wl) population is 1 in every 2,088 pore The total number of insane person the United States far exceeds any of above elasses of unfortunates. ‘I are computed at 15,477 persons, of wh 2,154 were foreign born. ‘The rat! insane persons to the whole popula: may be ees down at 1 te every 2, persons. One of the men on board the Ui ship Peansylvania, lying in Norfolk 1 bor, intending to desert, jumped o beard a few nights since, toswim to 4. shore. The poor fellow bad. scarci touched the water, when he was sei by a large shark and epeedity dispar ed.