September 4, 1857 (4 pages)

\ . Che Aedada Journal. Ww (G. Robertsie the authorised Agent for the “Jour NAL”? inthis county. L. P. Fisher is our only authorised Agent to receive Advertisements, &c. collect and receipt forthe same at San Francisco. Gardner & Kirk are our Agents at Sacramento. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 4th, 1857, ty A FOR SALE. ig¢7 One of the proprietors of this paper about toleave ne State, offers for sale an undivided half of the JOURNAL Office, If required toc ffect a bargain, the en. ire concern will be disposed of. Address the Proprieors. N. P. BROWN & CO. Fire and Water. A propositionis to be submitted to the people of the city on the 16th instant to supply the streets with water as a protection against fires. Itis proposed to grant exclusive privileges for a term of twenty years toacompany which will accomplish the object. The city, in consideration of water in times of fires, is bound to pay the company the sum of $1,500 per annum in monthly insta'lments. This is all very well, and if the contract between the parties is sufficiently specific, and if ample obligations are imposed we may indulge a hope that a day will come when the city will not be . exposed, powerless, to the mercy of the devouring element. The special election for the purpose . of voting upon the contract is more im. portant than anyin which we have been called upon to exercise the elective franchise, ‘alled upon to meet. Water we must have, or another general conflagration It is will overwhelm the place in ruin. impossible for the present population of . another fire.— vefore the necessity of taking immecity to withstand +a + ste stens to obtain protection. But he utmost cizeumspceetion should be us‘ or portant an occasion. jee¢ wevote away a privilege of the -atest value to the city, it behooves us he sacrifice. nsthata bona fide contract with resible parties be completed at the rHest moment. It should be so drawn 1s to secure a perfectand durable work, equal to any emergen:y. We cail the attention of citizens to the contract on which they are to vote on . the 16th instant, and we offer a few suggestions thereon. Willa reservoir of three hundred thousand gallons be of . sufficient capacity in timeof need? Intelligent persons familiar with hydraulic mining inform us that such a supply would be exhausted in about an hour by the use cf only one hydrant. Should the town be ignited in various places from sparks or otherwise the reservoir might, if our informants are correct n their estimate, be empty before a fire f had fairly commeneed. Perhaps it is intended to havea stream at hand to. keep the reservoir filled. stated in the contract. The protection of our property is of too much impor. tance to be committed to a loose contract in which we are bound irrevocably to pay $30,000. Would it not be well to have an understanding that the iron pipe spoken of in the coutract should not be sheet iron, and that said prpe shall be continuous all over the city and cornected with the reservoir in such a manner as to be conprovides for no water in the pipe. reasons formaking these suggestions are, that the contract is not specific in this regard, and because we are credibly informed that the water companies now supplying the city receive from its inhabitants in the neighborhood of $1,500 per month for the supply furnished. It is to the pecuniary interest of such com. panies to defeat the introduction of more water into the town. The contract now before the people allows tillnext June for the completion of the proposed works. A failure on the part of the company to perform their obligations by that time must prevent the erection of the works . by another company for a year longer. We sug investment for the p gest, would it not be a politic rese construct a reservoir posed, and lay dowa sheet iron pipes in which no water isto enter 2 in the place proThe whole ° exnens ‘ e of such an affair, we are assur. } will not exceed four or five thousand lit would enable the present npanies to draw fifteen hunlars a month from the people . a of not less than eighteen yoaths longer, or in the aggregate, the ivf little sum of twenty seven thousWe do not suppose sich ise is designedly to be pursued by water companies, but it is well to rrd against it while it ean be done as “oll as not. It is suggested that in the event of a Are, if the water works are out of repair, or from some cause attributable to the carelessness or negligence of the company a supply of water cannot be obtained, the works should be held liable for damages to some extent at least. We offer the foregoing suggestions that the attention of the people may be awakened to a question of much import on which they will soon be ealled upon to decide. For the benefit of all concerned we append the contract: SreciaL Evsection.—In accordance An exigency exists we are} ee if an adequate return is to be had . Tt is of vital import . Tt should be! stantly filled with water ? The contract . The nt companies to } with the provisions of an act, to “supply the city of Nevada with water, and to protect the city against fires,” passed April 9th, 1857, a special election will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 16th, 1857, for the approval or rejection of the following proposition. Those wishing to vote for the proposition, will deposit a ballot with the words “For the Contract,” written or printed upon it; those wishing to vote against it, will deposit a ballet with the words “Against the Contract” written or printed upon it. The polls will be opened in Riley's Brick Building, corner of Broad and Pine streets, at 8 o’clock A. M. and remain open till 6 o’clock P.M. Patrick Henry, is appointed Inspector, and Geo. I. Lammon and Geo. Keeney, Judges of the election. By order of the Board ef Trustees, Tracy Srrovp, Pres’t. T. H. Rolfe, Clerk. Under the act “to supply the City of City against fires’’ passed April 29th, 1857, the undersigned will undertake . the construction of water works in said City according to the following specifications, which they respectfully present to the Hon. Board of T'rustees of Nevada City, pursuant to resolution of the . Board adopted on the 20th of August. 1. The undersigned will construct a reservoir on or near Lost Hill of three . hundred thousand gallens capacity, of good material and well ¢overed. 2. Will lay iron pipe from Reservoir to Methodist Church on Broad street . Sinch diameter. 3. Will lay iron pipe 6 inch diameter from Methodist Church down Broad . street to bridge—through Pine from 3road to Commercial street--down Commercial to Main and Gown Main street . to bridge. 4. Willlay iron pipe 4 inch diameter . from a point near Nevada Foundry on Spring street up to Broad and across 3road street running by New York Hotel on to Commercial street, from Baptist Church on Spring street to corner ; of Pine and Broad, from junetion of ‘or near Dr. Overton’s residence, from the junction of Pine and Commercial up Pine toa point due west of the Court House, from the junction of Main and street. fect deep. . 6. Will construct hydrants or fire. plugs of suitable size, iron mold, distribj uted along the line of pipe as above mentioned, and at the termini of the 4 . ineh lateral pipe, so that the same will . be from 200 feet to 300 feet apart and . so as to furnish every portion of the a. bove described sections and streets of . the city with an abundant supply of . water at all times when required, the . first plug being at Womack’s. . 7%. The whole to be complete and in . good working order on or before the Ist . day of June, 1858, and the same to be kept in good condition and repair by . the undersigned and their grantees and representatives, and said reservoir to be filled and kept filled with, or furnished with water at all times for extinguish. ing fires, and all extension necessary to . the public included in the contract. . &. In consideration of the foregoing, . Nevada City is required to grant to the dersigned and their successors in inthe sole aud exclusive right of supplying said city or its inhabitants . terest . others remaining undisturbed.) for the j term of twenty years from the said 1st day of June, 1S58S—to exempt the afore. said water works from taxation for city purposes, and for the abundant and constant supply of water in and for extinguishing fires in any portion of said city i + the undersigned shall 1¢ paid m monthy instalments annually from the Treasdred dollars. spectfully submit and in due time will tender the Hon. Board ample and satisfactory znarantees for the timely and . proper performance on their part. McRoseris & Co. Tue Evectrion.— The election of Wednesday was the most quiet and orderly one the city has yet witnessed. A part of the time during the Jast hours of the day a few noisy ones were huddled . about the polls pulling and hauling each . other, but generally sobriety and order . were observed. Inthe morning a few dry knocks were exchanged between a couple of belligerants, and some excitement created inconsequence. It passed off, however, without evil effects, and . good humor seemed to reign among the . crowd after the event, generally, to the closing of the polls. A more quiet election is rarely to be witnessed in a counj . try town of the East. As an indication of the want of interest manifested on the oceasion we may ; mention the dispreportion between the . voteof Jest year and this. A wonderful falling off is discovered. Last year the vote of the city was 2,085. It only The Pres. idential contest, doubtless, however, in. amounted to 1,293 this year. creased the vote of last year somewhat, and the candidates for Sheriff, County Clerk-and other valuable offices, bent their effortsto bring out the voting population. into . . Teams were not called requisition this year as last, and very little money, if any, was used. In fact the ouly interest shown at the polls on . Wednesday was in the election of Burton. A great deal of scratching was done»,but in a silent wav. Piumeé?’s Ee was extensively erased but no . open opposition to him like thatto Judge Walsh was to be observed. The day c long be remembered as a quiet one in the annals of the city. Rick Quartz.—Fietcher & Co. struck a rich lead of quartz on Pike Flat, Grass Valley, on election day. They had been prospecting about two weeks in the vicinity. A panof dirt yielded upwards of four hundred dollars. The lead is decomposed to a great extent and is . about twelve inches in thickness, Nevada with water and to protect the . Commercial and Main up Main street to . Cayote streets, up Cayote to Church . 5. All pipe to be laid not less than two . with water (the already vested rights of ! ury of said city the sum of fifteen hun. The foregoing, the undersigned re. Representative Rerorm in Enc. LAN b.—What our forefathers contended . for while subjects of the British crown is being seriously agitated in Great Britain—the representation of the colonies in the British Parliament. A late numa of Blackwood has an excellent artiThe i . cle on the [proposition. reasons . urged for a Federative Union are nu. merous and convincing. It is shown that the emigration from the mother country is of astartling character—more than four millions of persons having left the United Kingdom in forty years.— These, it is said, have been drawn from the industrious classes whose loss Brilittle afford to She has a deep interest ia fostering the loy. tain can sustain. alty of all these in whatever portion of the Dritish possessions they may be found. They manufactures, are consumers of English and will, as such, if tencontinue to contribute to Great Britain from her cireumscribed limits is derly treated, the wealth of the parent country. obliged to resort to colonial extension. Colonies are indispensible to receive a . surplus population. Otherwise emigration would seek a home with peoples inimical to the British government, and . whose interests are antegonistic and detThe duty of the home goyrimental. }ernment is to keep alive a British spirit the To do so, it is contended that representatives jinthe hearts of colonists. jin the House of Commons is almost indispensible. Distance is at the present time no obstacle in the way of representation.—}. ; The mammoth Steamship about tomake its trial trip, it is claimed, will cross the} Atlantic from the westermost point of. . Ireland to the eastermost headland of Newforndland, in three days—less time than it formerly took a Scottish peer to The British Colonies of North America are therefore find his way to London. . as near in point of time to the capital of . of the British Empire, as in the days of . the American revolution, some of the. remote beroughs of England were.— pi Even Australia and India are aot so far . removed from the seat of power as not In order that the House of Commons \ . . . to be conveniently represented there. ‘need not be too large and cumbersome lit is suggested that many boroughs havy‘ing a small population but entitled under existing regulations to return mem. bers, be disfranchised, and the places . supplied by representatives from the collonies. The plan of disfranchisement . was proposed several years since by . Lord John Russell, but being now advo. eated by the tory party it may be more liable to receive a favorable considera. . Blackwood has much to say of the . justice of the plan of colonial representation. It may be suspected, that other . motives than a desire to render exact . justice, He at the bottom of the move. The late war with Russia has imposed ! . burthens of taxation upon the people of . . Great Britain in addition to former de. mands upon their pockets for the sup . jportof government. ‘To lighten these . burthens it may be a cheap way to ob-} {tain money from the colonies, to allow ; them representation that taxation may . follow. While the colonies are not represented they consider themselves as but dependencies of the British crown, toreceive assistance from rather than render i assistance toit. But make them integral parts of the empire, equal in all re. gards to the home government and the burthens of government of right must Men for} the army and navy, subsidies for war, and every other levy upon the inhabi. fall alike upon all the parts. tants of the colony, legally made on the home island, will be demanded and collected of the newly represented coun. itry. Thus the policy of the crown may be to grant representation to colonies, if . the abstract principle of right has not its influence—it is likely to be only a pretext. Prrsonat.—We regret to learn that C. F. Wood. Esq., late Deputy Sheriff of this county, intends to leave here fox . Oregon in a few days, perhaps to take up his residence there. A host of friends jein with us in wishes for his success in his future course. He is one of our oldest residents, and has made his mark as an energetic and reliable man, both as a public officer and citizen. Such qualities will ensure prosperity for him any where—though we trust he may find on comparison of Nevada with the em. no foundation in fact, and scarce merit . Journal appeared articles containing the . issued leaves no doubt of it. } broyo State, that his interests call him back egain. To George W. Welch of the Pioneer Book Store we are indebted for an innumerable quantity of Atlantie papers the names of which can be seen by glancing over his well loaded counter. CLosING oN THE SapBatTu.—A paper circulated among the merchants a few days since agrecing to close onthe Sabbath, met with a favorable reception from all parties with a single exception. The sole refusal of Cheap John tls destroys the good purposes of many of our merehants. It were desirable that Ee general aequiescence in a reform so salutary might be obtained. Of this, . for the present there is little hope. 1S The September numberof Hutching’s California Magazine has come to] of hand. Very readable and well illac-! trated. ELECTIONEERINS DOCUMENTS. The following Cireulars, which were dilligently distributed a day or two before the election, by the friends of the candidates for Senator, we give as a part of the history of the times: A Carv.— To the Citizens of Nevada County: As falsehood, uncontrodicted, is often mistaken for truth, I feel it a duty which 1 owe, not only to myself and friends, but to the Democracy of this county, whose nominee Iam, that I distinctly and unequivocally define my position upon those local questions which so vitally interests the miners of this county. Myself a miner, I have ever found those laws and regulations by which the miners govern themselves fully adequate tomy protection, and neither have nor do ask the intervention of the Fed. eral or State Governments in our mining districts. I ain opposed to any change or alteration in our mining policy, which does not emanate direetly from, and meet the full approbation of the laboring miners. Receiving myself wages for my services as a miuer, my intexests are identical with those of the laboring community of which would injure them must ruin me. our mountains. That policy If priuciple did not control my actions, personal interest would compel me to make common cause with the miners in procuring for us the broadest license and . the most extensive privileges in the pub. lie lands of this State. If elected, it must be asa miner, and by the votes of miners. As their representative, I shall make the mining interests my first duty, and shall deprecete and oppose all legislative interfer. ence which is not based upon the prin. ciple, that miners should rule the mines of California. As to the charges preferred against me through the Nevada Journal, and . those circulated by the enemies of our party throughout the county, they have This those views which I have ever deemed, a denial. statement embodies and now regard, as the true policy for our mining interests and community. JAMES WALSH. . ust 29th, 1857. . Au o Fn] NevaDa, Sept 1,1857.— To the Voters of Nevada County: In the last Nevada opinions of Judge WALSH upon a question of vital importance to every Miner. . It was declared that he was in favor of of the Mineral Lands! His opinions have been long known in Grass . the sale Valley and Nevada, if not in other parts of the county. The report went abroad soon after his nomination and . wasin everybody's mouth before the substance of it appeared in the columns of . the Journal. His opinions were so well . known, and so often publicly expressed, . that able of . placing himself in a base position by a no one believed him e: denial. But at the latest moment before the election a denial has come! On Monday evening a Secret Cireular was issued from the Democrat office, not . a single copy was allowed to pass out of the hands of Judge Walsh and his satellites, but all were snatched up and carried post haste to the extremities of the county to find a more credulous . market than this city affords, where Judge Walsh's views are too well known. Evidently it was the design of Walsh and his friends to allow no refutation. The late hour at which his Cireular was at Lhe secresy of the document is another proof, and also demonstrates his fear of aflida. vits fastening the faets upon him. Late as the moment is, however, men of unimpeachable veracity have come . forward and solemnly sworn to the facts. . They are desirous that the truth shall be known and that the Miners of the county be not deceived. Dozens are ready to corroborate with their oaths the statements below made, and did time permit would cheerfully do so. Read, Voters of the County, the . sworn statements of men, than whom there are none more reliable! Judge . ye, of a candidate for the Senate who, for the sake of votes on the eve of an election, will deny the oft-repeated opinions of past years! JOSEPIL WOODWORTH, of Grass Valley Township, Nevada county, and State of California, being duly questioned deposes and says:—That he has been acquainted with JAMES WALSH since 1850, up to the present time, that during the said time he has more than once heard the said Walsh declare himsolf in favor of selling or pre-empting the Mineral Lands of California. JOSEPH WOODWORTH. Grass Valley, Aug. 30, 1857. D. SHOEMAKER, of the Township of Giass Valley, the County of Nevada, the State of California, being duly examined, deposes and says:—That he has been acquainted! with J AS. WALSH since 1850, up to tho present time—that during that time he has more than once heard the said Walsh declare himself in favor of selling the Mineral Lands, and has heard him repeat the same as late as the 17th day of August, 1857. D. SHOEMAKER. Grass Valley, Aug. 31st, 1857. L. F. HUMISTON, of the Township Grass Valley, County. of Nevada, and State of California, being duly sworn, deposes and says:—That he has . ; our energy yet. }men who have stuck close to our own jmade, that they can make from $40 to . $50 a day to the hand. . citizens are waiting, with great impa. expense. . when they were without any govern. up his proclamation, he marched at the . Enraged been acquainted with JAMES WALSH since 1850, up to the present time—that during that time he has more than once heard the said Walsh declare himself in favor of selling the Mineral Lands of California. L. F. HUMISTON. Grass Valley, Aug. 30, 1857. Ina conversation, at which I was present, . heard Judge JAMES WALSH assert that it would be necessary that some legal sale of the Mineral Lands should be made in order that such capitalists as entered into mining enterprises should.be more secure in their iuvestments. E. A. TOMPKINS: Grass Valley, Aug. 31, 1857. ‘Pot the Journal. Goup Hinn, August 30, 1857. Epiror Journat: Our once flourishing town of Gold Hill has been almost forsaken this summer. ‘There appears to be a general stagnation in all kinds of business, the cause of which is entirely beyond our control. Owing to the fire that visited us last fall, and the early failure of the water this spring, there appears to be a general depression in the feelings of our citizens, as well as in their purses; but we have net all lost ( A few of our citizens . have fled to the river and are getting well paid for their labor, but we have . afew more enterprising and energetic place through evil as well as good report: they are now beginning to antici. pate a ri¢th reward for their labors. Mr. Finley and MeVicker. of the Mammoth Prospecting Company, of . Spirit Hill, have been running a tunnel . have struck some fiattering prospects. . They appear to be sanguine that they have at last struck their pile, and say, from the prospects they have already . There is several other companies now making preparations to start in the samé hill. I think, from the preset prospects that we are situated in ene of the best Our mining localities in the county. tience, for Kidd & Co. to get their ditch completed from the South Yuba so that we Will be better supplied with the necessary clement for mining. S. M. Kansas Affairs. recent news from The the States . a hows that the Kansa emmbroglio is yet . Walker seems to . have put himself into a foolish position far from a solution. by his advance upon Lawrence, and the people of that town are laughing at his . He issued a proclamation denouncing them as traitors for daring to organize under a charter granted by . the free State Legislature, at a time inent, and the sanitary condition of the . town was totally neglected. Following head of the troops designed for Utah, . and encamped on the sultry plains, to . besiege the town, or reconnoiter for an} assault. As no martial array sallied ont to meet him, and the heaviest train . of artillery crossing his path was certain milk and meat wagons, he thought he would go into the city before making wage of battle, trusting to his official mightiness to save his bacon from the dreadful traitcrs inside. He went into the town. One of the hotel-keepers po. litely invited him to dinner, which he ate in silence, and unnoticed, when he} sallied forth and found the citizens unconcernedly pursuing their ordinary occupations, enterely oblivious to the fact that his little Excellency was in their midst, and displaying none of the ‘pomp and circumstance of war’ whatever.— ——— because the people would not rise In spite of his threats and prophecies,” he went moodily back to his encampment, and has been ever since sulkily . keeping to his tents, with the prospect of gaining that kind of renown acquired by the ancient worthy who marched ten thousand men up a hill, and then— marched them down again. A more serious and palpably unjust . manneuvre of his Excelleicy has been the apportionment just made for dele-! gates to the next territorial Legislature. . Nineteen large free State ccunties have three representatives, while thirteen Walker dodged the responsibility of this job, and laid the task upon the Speaker and president of the last Legislature. The aim seems to be to perpetuate the laws in the territory which men of all parties have joined in declaring infamous. We have never believed that Buchanan or his officials ever designed to carry out pro-slavery have thirty-six. squatter sovereignty, or give a fair show to the people of the territories to ckoose their own institutions; and while the United States government lends itself to furce slavery upon the territories, so long there will be a powerful party in the North in opposition—-whether called Republican, Democratic or American. The only way to kill the Northern sectional party is to give the people of the territories entire freedom to form their own institutions, sceure from government interference. . f= We learn by telegraph that the People’s ticket is victorious in San Francisco. The vigilantes it seems have no notion of leaving their interests in the hands of scoundrels. . & Co. jin the main ridge above Gold Hill, and} ¢.: of Poor Man’s Creek, and bids fair nil] about ready to run. Earruquaks.—A smart shock of an earthquake visited this city and vicimty at about twenty minutes to eight o’clock on Wednesday evening. Thetelegraph gives us the information that the shock was felt from Downieville to Sacramento. How much farther the effects were felt isnot yet ascertained. A shaking of buildings accompanied with a slight rumbling sound was observed in this city. The Court House received a babi froin top to bottom. Mr. Lindsey, the jailor, was sitting upon the granite stepsat the time and was thrown forward with some foree. ‘The lighted candles in the prisoners’ cells fell from their places and the prisoners started up from their bedsinalarm. At the residence of Wm. M. Stewart, Esq., the shock was quite violent. Mr. C. F. Wood, sitting . by one of the pillars of the verandah at the time represents the shake of the house as being severe. In the hardware establishment of G. W. Keeney, the stoves and tinware rattled about in an astonishing manner. At San Juan, bottles fell from apothecary shelves, and the same characteristics observed as at this city. We have heard of no damages sustained. The shock occuring soon after the closing of the polis, a wag suggests that “Natnrre groaning through ail her wer:s Gave signs of woe that all is lost.” Quartz Prosrpect NEAR Evreka.— Through politeness of O. Crandall, Esq., we received a rich specimen of quartz, from the Morris Lead, from the proprietors, Messrs. Morris, Powers, Mitchell The lead is situated on the south. to be celebrated as one of the richest It is from two to eight feet thick, and strange to say, the discoveries yet made. thicker the lead the richer it is in gold. . About two hundred tons of rock have been crushed. We upwards of $16,000 heve been taken froma part of the “riffles.”” It is thought On Saturday last, from two day’s crushing are the rock will average $125 per ton. to four stampers, there was taken out of the upper riffle, 123} ounces of gold. The lead is conveniently located fer . working. ledge 225 feet below the surface. lucky owners are six men, named Wm. P. Morris, Michael Powers, George 5. . Mitchell, M. W. Connally, Owen Carr . /and Michael Quinn. There exists a quartz excitement at Mr. H. UU. Sweet has a mill in process of eompleEureka at the present time. tion with eight stamps. in operation on Tuesday next. It has a 30 horse engine, and, altogether, is . said to be as fine a mill as can be found in the State. ‘he rock it is intended / to crush, will come from a lead from two to six tect in thickness. Our informant says it is extremely rich—gold being . seen in the rock plainly in all parts of the lead. The well known National lead has a) Several er mills are about being completed, and . animpetus has been given to quartz . ' mining in that section by the prospects . held out for crushing. Prospecting and discovering quartz is the order of the day at Eureka. Tue Merperers or Gitpert.—We . are indebted to Bruce Garvey for the . following particulars: An attempt was made last Saturday to capture a couple of Indians, who are supposed to have murdered Mr. Gilbert, near Washington, about ten days since. An Indian named Mose came to town on Saturday morning, and informed him that the murderers of Gilbert were at an Indian Camp, about a mile and a half from town, and offered to go with him and point them out. the camp, and saw an Indian calied Jack, who had the powder horn and . shot-pouch which were taken from Gilbert’s cabin in his possession. ‘They im mediately caught hold of Jack, and as they did so, abont a hundred other Indians, the most of them armed with guns and pistols, interfered and compell. ed them to desist. They then returned to town, and got ten or fifteen men to go out with them, but found the camp deserted by all except a few squaws and children. The next morning a marshal’s posse went to the camp, about six miles below Grass Valley, and sueceeded in arresting thirty Indians who were brought to town. The Chiet, Wemeh, and three others, were lodged in jail a short time. Mr. Bovyer was sent for by the Marshal, to talk with thems They were discharged on promising to apprehend and deliver up the murderers.— Wemeh gave his opinion that Jack wag one of the two murderers. Tue Mait—WHBatT is THE MATTER? The John L. Stephens arrived in Sar Francisco on Sunday last but as yet the letter mail has not reached us. It is impossible to learn the cause of its de+ tention. Rumor says, a steamboat i grounded on the hog’s back, the bags were forgotten, and tells several othe wild tales. Mr. Crenshaw, our post master, has made diligent inquiries bu is unable to satisfy himself of the rea cause why the mail does not arrive. Hanlin has our thanks for the T'ribune, Waverly, Harper’s Weekly, Th Citizen, and in short, a complete budgdt of news by the last steamer. assured that . A tunnel, 400 feet in length, . in a horizontal direction, will strike the . The . It will be put . oth. He (Garvey,) . took three men with him and repaired to . Kansas.—When Walker accepted the reins of government in Kansas, it was announced he did so with the mtent to play a game for the next Presidency. His gourse soon brought down upon him the amathemas of the South—he played too strongly for the free-soil votes of the Wnion and the good will of the Free Stat¢ party of Kansas. The title of traitor became familiar to his ears, coming from the section in which he was born, But at the critical moment when the ¢onfidence of the North had begun but slightly to take root; and while the angér of the South was on the rise, Walker returns to the faith of his fathers and blasts the nascent hopes of the North, feeble though they were, by throwing the destinies of the embryo State into the hands of the very men who enacted the Kansas code—a code which Gen. Cass declared would disgrace the statute books of any civilized State, and whose abrogation even John B. Weller is said to have, in one of his Instead of assuming the responsibilities, whicl? more lucid intervals, favored. brave men only dare, and cowards ney. er, and seeing justice meted out to the people of Kansas—iustead of so meet: ing the crisis that thé voité of the people might be heard, he turns ovér the dirty job of disfranéhisemént to a set of men! whose claim to infamy has been estallished by such men as Cass and . other lights of Democracy. made and Walker cried “roll.” The Dracos of disfranchised nineteen counties where Free State men The game was Kansas “do most congregate,” giving but three delegates to the entire nineteen, and allowing thirty-six delegates to thirteen counties where the right stripe exist. . Not content with this stroke of policy, the entire immigration of 18/7 is de. prived of the privilege of voting. . Under the operations of the Kansas. Nebraska act, at the first election in the Territory, all foreigners, whether naturalized or not, were granted the elective At the the earreer of Kansas as an organized franchise. commencement of Territory, any person was competent to ibe }eard at the ballot box, but now a critical time has arrived when educated i native boan citizens—bona fide citizens of the Territory as well as of the United . States—are deprived of the prerogatives of freemen. Iu a game for the Presideney a_pal$s : i pable violation of a principle, said to be at the bottom of the Kansas-Nebraska ; act. namely, that the people of a Territory shall have the right to determine i their own affairs for themselves. is rather too barfaced to win. Let us have an } explanation of this affair from the pro'fessedly “sound”? men of the Democj racy i . 0 RVR a ET Wryskoors Iceu est remedy known, g L.—The be-t andcheapall cases of } Coughs, Colds, Asthn 3 Ke. . ust received and for sale by E. F, SPENCE, Druggist, . 21 Commercial street, Nevada, at reliefin ry affections, Constabie’s Sale. * CALIFORNIA, County of Nevada, ss, f Execution to me ce red. issve l anu acting Justice of aforesaid, bearing date a judgment rendered in A.D. 1857, in favor +. D. Kendall for the sum of age suit. I have lsell to the highest bidder for t One house and lot and known as the and on the south to satisty h day of aken in E h the followit . lot of Kendall, adjoining Mrs Cross lot, side of said street, the same having been heretofore at. tached by ime for; this debt. I will sell the above des. scribed property in front of the Cou: t House, to the higl. est bidder for SATURDAY the 26th day of Sepo’elock, A M, and 5 o’¢ oeck the pr ty of G. D. Kem Lule cruing costs. {EG ORY, Constable, Nevada, Sept. 3d, 1857. CONSTABLE’S SALE. TATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Nevada, ss’__ . Ne) By virtue of two Executions to me i tourt of J. M. Clark, 5 g nand for the county aforesaid, bearing date Ist, A D, 1857, tos fy 2 judgments renderlL court, on the Ist day of September, A D, 1857, me in favorof Boswell & Hanson andone in favor of Bex srts & Funstonand against Kogers, Densmcre and jothers and one ag ! to the highest bidder for cash the follescr bed preperty to wit: all the right, title and interests of Rodgers, Densmore and others; also, ail the right, title and interests of Densmore and others in and j{to a certain lot of mining claims situated on Cement Hill and Knownas the Granite Co. and the Cement Co. and j. the Bay State Co’s, claims with all the sinices and fixtures belonging to said claims; also, the house which Stands over the shaftand engine; also one dwelling . hou lated near to said sh on ‘Thursday the 24th day of September A. D. 1857, between the hours of 9 . o'clock A M, and5o’clock P M. Taken as the property of Rogers Densmore aad others and Densmore and oth. ers, to satisfy the above demands and accruing costs. Nevada, Sept. 3d, A D, 1857. J. B. GRAY, Const. x ‘ r x rr ‘ \¢ 4 Al . ; AMEE RICAN EXCHANGE. Main St., Nevada. VHE subscribers have taken the above Hotel and fit. ted it up ina style, second to no Hotel in Nevada Every attention will be paid to the accommodation of travelers and all others who may favor them with their custom. THE RESTAURANT, . ‘The Tables will alw ays be supplied with the best the markct affords. THE BEDS . Are entirely new, and for c’eanliness and comfort cannot be surpassed. THE BAR . Will always be supplied with the best of Wines, Liquors, Cigars, &c. The proprietors hope by strict attention to business te receive a fulishare of public patronage PIERCE & RICE, Proprietors. Nevala. Aug. 21, 1857. FISKE, SATHER & CHURCH, BANKERS, Corner of 3d and J Streets, Sacramento, Buy and sell Exchanges on the Atlantic Cities and > Europe. PAY THE HIGHEST PRICES FOR GOLD DU-T, And transact a General Banking Business. THOMAS S. FI-KE, Sacramento, P. =ATHER, Te © & F. W. CHURCH $ “an Franeisco. September 4, 1857. : Saw Mill For Sale. ( NE half of the Humbug City Saw with Ranch and Timber, 1s offered for sale on advantageous terms. The Mill is one of the most desirable pieces of property in the mountains, having a home market for all the lumber they can saw, There is as much fine timber coanected with the Mill as can be found the State. The Mill has a 30 horse engine, upper and lower saw, and edger. Bleck saws about to be putin. The average sawing is from 6 to 7 thousand feet per day. L, HANER, STEPHEN ARTZT. Humbug City, Sept. 4, 1857—Im* Notice. OTICE is hereby given that the undersigned in5 tends in due season to apply to the Board of Supervisors, of Nevada county, for a renewal of license to keep atoll bridge at the locality known as Emery’s Crossing, on the Middle Yuba River, Bridgport Town. ship, Nevada county, and that such application will be made at the October scssion or as soon thereafte practicable. Mill, together + T a3 T. €. EMERY. Emery’s Crossing, Sept, 4, 1857—1w* ;

\ . Che Aedada Journal. Ww (G. Robertsie the authorised Agent for the “Jour NAL”? inthis county. L. P. Fisher is our only authorised Agent to receive Advertisements, &c. collect and receipt forthe same at San Francisco. Gardner & Kirk are our Agents at Sacramento. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 4th, 1857, ty A FOR SALE. ig¢7 One of the proprietors of this paper about toleave ne State, offers for sale an undivided half of the JOURNAL Office, If required toc ffect a bargain, the en. ire concern will be disposed of. Address the Proprieors. N. P. BROWN & CO. Fire and Water. A propositionis to be submitted to the people of the city on the 16th instant to supply the streets with water as a protection against fires. Itis proposed to grant exclusive privileges for a term of twenty years toacompany which will accomplish the object. The city, in consideration of water in times of fires, is bound to pay the company the sum of $1,500 per annum in monthly insta'lments. This is all very well, and if the contract between the parties is sufficiently specific, and if ample obligations are imposed we may indulge a hope that a day will come when the city will not be . exposed, powerless, to the mercy of the devouring element. The special election for the purpose . of voting upon the contract is more im. portant than anyin which we have been called upon to exercise the elective franchise, ‘alled upon to meet. Water we must have, or another general conflagration It is will overwhelm the place in ruin. impossible for the present population of . another fire.— vefore the necessity of taking immecity to withstand +a + ste stens to obtain protection. But he utmost cizeumspceetion should be us‘ or portant an occasion. jee¢ wevote away a privilege of the -atest value to the city, it behooves us he sacrifice. nsthata bona fide contract with resible parties be completed at the rHest moment. It should be so drawn 1s to secure a perfectand durable work, equal to any emergen:y. We cail the attention of citizens to the contract on which they are to vote on . the 16th instant, and we offer a few suggestions thereon. Willa reservoir of three hundred thousand gallons be of . sufficient capacity in timeof need? Intelligent persons familiar with hydraulic mining inform us that such a supply would be exhausted in about an hour by the use cf only one hydrant. Should the town be ignited in various places from sparks or otherwise the reservoir might, if our informants are correct n their estimate, be empty before a fire f had fairly commeneed. Perhaps it is intended to havea stream at hand to. keep the reservoir filled. stated in the contract. The protection of our property is of too much impor. tance to be committed to a loose contract in which we are bound irrevocably to pay $30,000. Would it not be well to have an understanding that the iron pipe spoken of in the coutract should not be sheet iron, and that said prpe shall be continuous all over the city and cornected with the reservoir in such a manner as to be conprovides for no water in the pipe. reasons formaking these suggestions are, that the contract is not specific in this regard, and because we are credibly informed that the water companies now supplying the city receive from its inhabitants in the neighborhood of $1,500 per month for the supply furnished. It is to the pecuniary interest of such com. panies to defeat the introduction of more water into the town. The contract now before the people allows tillnext June for the completion of the proposed works. A failure on the part of the company to perform their obligations by that time must prevent the erection of the works . by another company for a year longer. We sug investment for the p gest, would it not be a politic rese construct a reservoir posed, and lay dowa sheet iron pipes in which no water isto enter 2 in the place proThe whole ° exnens ‘ e of such an affair, we are assur. } will not exceed four or five thousand lit would enable the present npanies to draw fifteen hunlars a month from the people . a of not less than eighteen yoaths longer, or in the aggregate, the ivf little sum of twenty seven thousWe do not suppose sich ise is designedly to be pursued by water companies, but it is well to rrd against it while it ean be done as “oll as not. It is suggested that in the event of a Are, if the water works are out of repair, or from some cause attributable to the carelessness or negligence of the company a supply of water cannot be obtained, the works should be held liable for damages to some extent at least. We offer the foregoing suggestions that the attention of the people may be awakened to a question of much import on which they will soon be ealled upon to decide. For the benefit of all concerned we append the contract: SreciaL Evsection.—In accordance An exigency exists we are} ee if an adequate return is to be had . Tt is of vital import . Tt should be! stantly filled with water ? The contract . The nt companies to } with the provisions of an act, to “supply the city of Nevada with water, and to protect the city against fires,” passed April 9th, 1857, a special election will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 16th, 1857, for the approval or rejection of the following proposition. Those wishing to vote for the proposition, will deposit a ballot with the words “For the Contract,” written or printed upon it; those wishing to vote against it, will deposit a ballet with the words “Against the Contract” written or printed upon it. The polls will be opened in Riley's Brick Building, corner of Broad and Pine streets, at 8 o’clock A. M. and remain open till 6 o’clock P.M. Patrick Henry, is appointed Inspector, and Geo. I. Lammon and Geo. Keeney, Judges of the election. By order of the Board ef Trustees, Tracy Srrovp, Pres’t. T. H. Rolfe, Clerk. Under the act “to supply the City of City against fires’’ passed April 29th, 1857, the undersigned will undertake . the construction of water works in said City according to the following specifications, which they respectfully present to the Hon. Board of T'rustees of Nevada City, pursuant to resolution of the . Board adopted on the 20th of August. 1. The undersigned will construct a reservoir on or near Lost Hill of three . hundred thousand gallens capacity, of good material and well ¢overed. 2. Will lay iron pipe from Reservoir to Methodist Church on Broad street . Sinch diameter. 3. Will lay iron pipe 6 inch diameter from Methodist Church down Broad . street to bridge—through Pine from 3road to Commercial street--down Commercial to Main and Gown Main street . to bridge. 4. Willlay iron pipe 4 inch diameter . from a point near Nevada Foundry on Spring street up to Broad and across 3road street running by New York Hotel on to Commercial street, from Baptist Church on Spring street to corner ; of Pine and Broad, from junetion of ‘or near Dr. Overton’s residence, from the junction of Pine and Commercial up Pine toa point due west of the Court House, from the junction of Main and street. fect deep. . 6. Will construct hydrants or fire. plugs of suitable size, iron mold, distribj uted along the line of pipe as above mentioned, and at the termini of the 4 . ineh lateral pipe, so that the same will . be from 200 feet to 300 feet apart and . so as to furnish every portion of the a. bove described sections and streets of . the city with an abundant supply of . water at all times when required, the . first plug being at Womack’s. . 7%. The whole to be complete and in . good working order on or before the Ist . day of June, 1858, and the same to be kept in good condition and repair by . the undersigned and their grantees and representatives, and said reservoir to be filled and kept filled with, or furnished with water at all times for extinguish. ing fires, and all extension necessary to . the public included in the contract. . &. In consideration of the foregoing, . Nevada City is required to grant to the dersigned and their successors in inthe sole aud exclusive right of supplying said city or its inhabitants . terest . others remaining undisturbed.) for the j term of twenty years from the said 1st day of June, 1S58S—to exempt the afore. said water works from taxation for city purposes, and for the abundant and constant supply of water in and for extinguishing fires in any portion of said city i + the undersigned shall 1¢ paid m monthy instalments annually from the Treasdred dollars. spectfully submit and in due time will tender the Hon. Board ample and satisfactory znarantees for the timely and . proper performance on their part. McRoseris & Co. Tue Evectrion.— The election of Wednesday was the most quiet and orderly one the city has yet witnessed. A part of the time during the Jast hours of the day a few noisy ones were huddled . about the polls pulling and hauling each . other, but generally sobriety and order . were observed. Inthe morning a few dry knocks were exchanged between a couple of belligerants, and some excitement created inconsequence. It passed off, however, without evil effects, and . good humor seemed to reign among the . crowd after the event, generally, to the closing of the polls. A more quiet election is rarely to be witnessed in a counj . try town of the East. As an indication of the want of interest manifested on the oceasion we may ; mention the dispreportion between the . voteof Jest year and this. A wonderful falling off is discovered. Last year the vote of the city was 2,085. It only The Pres. idential contest, doubtless, however, in. amounted to 1,293 this year. creased the vote of last year somewhat, and the candidates for Sheriff, County Clerk-and other valuable offices, bent their effortsto bring out the voting population. into . . Teams were not called requisition this year as last, and very little money, if any, was used. In fact the ouly interest shown at the polls on . Wednesday was in the election of Burton. A great deal of scratching was done»,but in a silent wav. Piumeé?’s Ee was extensively erased but no . open opposition to him like thatto Judge Walsh was to be observed. The day c long be remembered as a quiet one in the annals of the city. Rick Quartz.—Fietcher & Co. struck a rich lead of quartz on Pike Flat, Grass Valley, on election day. They had been prospecting about two weeks in the vicinity. A panof dirt yielded upwards of four hundred dollars. The lead is decomposed to a great extent and is . about twelve inches in thickness, Nevada with water and to protect the . Commercial and Main up Main street to . Cayote streets, up Cayote to Church . 5. All pipe to be laid not less than two . with water (the already vested rights of ! ury of said city the sum of fifteen hun. The foregoing, the undersigned re. Representative Rerorm in Enc. LAN b.—What our forefathers contended . for while subjects of the British crown is being seriously agitated in Great Britain—the representation of the colonies in the British Parliament. A late numa of Blackwood has an excellent artiThe i . cle on the [proposition. reasons . urged for a Federative Union are nu. merous and convincing. It is shown that the emigration from the mother country is of astartling character—more than four millions of persons having left the United Kingdom in forty years.— These, it is said, have been drawn from the industrious classes whose loss Brilittle afford to She has a deep interest ia fostering the loy. tain can sustain. alty of all these in whatever portion of the Dritish possessions they may be found. They manufactures, are consumers of English and will, as such, if tencontinue to contribute to Great Britain from her cireumscribed limits is derly treated, the wealth of the parent country. obliged to resort to colonial extension. Colonies are indispensible to receive a . surplus population. Otherwise emigration would seek a home with peoples inimical to the British government, and . whose interests are antegonistic and detThe duty of the home goyrimental. }ernment is to keep alive a British spirit the To do so, it is contended that representatives jinthe hearts of colonists. jin the House of Commons is almost indispensible. Distance is at the present time no obstacle in the way of representation.—}. ; The mammoth Steamship about tomake its trial trip, it is claimed, will cross the} Atlantic from the westermost point of. . Ireland to the eastermost headland of Newforndland, in three days—less time than it formerly took a Scottish peer to The British Colonies of North America are therefore find his way to London. . as near in point of time to the capital of . of the British Empire, as in the days of . the American revolution, some of the. remote beroughs of England were.— pi Even Australia and India are aot so far . removed from the seat of power as not In order that the House of Commons \ . . . to be conveniently represented there. ‘need not be too large and cumbersome lit is suggested that many boroughs havy‘ing a small population but entitled under existing regulations to return mem. bers, be disfranchised, and the places . supplied by representatives from the collonies. The plan of disfranchisement . was proposed several years since by . Lord John Russell, but being now advo. eated by the tory party it may be more liable to receive a favorable considera. . Blackwood has much to say of the . justice of the plan of colonial representation. It may be suspected, that other . motives than a desire to render exact . justice, He at the bottom of the move. The late war with Russia has imposed ! . burthens of taxation upon the people of . . Great Britain in addition to former de. mands upon their pockets for the sup . jportof government. ‘To lighten these . burthens it may be a cheap way to ob-} {tain money from the colonies, to allow ; them representation that taxation may . follow. While the colonies are not represented they consider themselves as but dependencies of the British crown, toreceive assistance from rather than render i assistance toit. But make them integral parts of the empire, equal in all re. gards to the home government and the burthens of government of right must Men for} the army and navy, subsidies for war, and every other levy upon the inhabi. fall alike upon all the parts. tants of the colony, legally made on the home island, will be demanded and collected of the newly represented coun. itry. Thus the policy of the crown may be to grant representation to colonies, if . the abstract principle of right has not its influence—it is likely to be only a pretext. Prrsonat.—We regret to learn that C. F. Wood. Esq., late Deputy Sheriff of this county, intends to leave here fox . Oregon in a few days, perhaps to take up his residence there. A host of friends jein with us in wishes for his success in his future course. He is one of our oldest residents, and has made his mark as an energetic and reliable man, both as a public officer and citizen. Such qualities will ensure prosperity for him any where—though we trust he may find on comparison of Nevada with the em. no foundation in fact, and scarce merit . Journal appeared articles containing the . issued leaves no doubt of it. } broyo State, that his interests call him back egain. To George W. Welch of the Pioneer Book Store we are indebted for an innumerable quantity of Atlantie papers the names of which can be seen by glancing over his well loaded counter. CLosING oN THE SapBatTu.—A paper circulated among the merchants a few days since agrecing to close onthe Sabbath, met with a favorable reception from all parties with a single exception. The sole refusal of Cheap John tls destroys the good purposes of many of our merehants. It were desirable that Ee general aequiescence in a reform so salutary might be obtained. Of this, . for the present there is little hope. 1S The September numberof Hutching’s California Magazine has come to] of hand. Very readable and well illac-! trated. ELECTIONEERINS DOCUMENTS. The following Cireulars, which were dilligently distributed a day or two before the election, by the friends of the candidates for Senator, we give as a part of the history of the times: A Carv.— To the Citizens of Nevada County: As falsehood, uncontrodicted, is often mistaken for truth, I feel it a duty which 1 owe, not only to myself and friends, but to the Democracy of this county, whose nominee Iam, that I distinctly and unequivocally define my position upon those local questions which so vitally interests the miners of this county. Myself a miner, I have ever found those laws and regulations by which the miners govern themselves fully adequate tomy protection, and neither have nor do ask the intervention of the Fed. eral or State Governments in our mining districts. I ain opposed to any change or alteration in our mining policy, which does not emanate direetly from, and meet the full approbation of the laboring miners. Receiving myself wages for my services as a miuer, my intexests are identical with those of the laboring community of which would injure them must ruin me. our mountains. That policy If priuciple did not control my actions, personal interest would compel me to make common cause with the miners in procuring for us the broadest license and . the most extensive privileges in the pub. lie lands of this State. If elected, it must be asa miner, and by the votes of miners. As their representative, I shall make the mining interests my first duty, and shall deprecete and oppose all legislative interfer. ence which is not based upon the prin. ciple, that miners should rule the mines of California. As to the charges preferred against me through the Nevada Journal, and . those circulated by the enemies of our party throughout the county, they have This those views which I have ever deemed, a denial. statement embodies and now regard, as the true policy for our mining interests and community. JAMES WALSH. . ust 29th, 1857. . Au o Fn] NevaDa, Sept 1,1857.— To the Voters of Nevada County: In the last Nevada opinions of Judge WALSH upon a question of vital importance to every Miner. . It was declared that he was in favor of of the Mineral Lands! His opinions have been long known in Grass . the sale Valley and Nevada, if not in other parts of the county. The report went abroad soon after his nomination and . wasin everybody's mouth before the substance of it appeared in the columns of . the Journal. His opinions were so well . known, and so often publicly expressed, . that able of . placing himself in a base position by a no one believed him e: denial. But at the latest moment before the election a denial has come! On Monday evening a Secret Cireular was issued from the Democrat office, not . a single copy was allowed to pass out of the hands of Judge Walsh and his satellites, but all were snatched up and carried post haste to the extremities of the county to find a more credulous . market than this city affords, where Judge Walsh's views are too well known. Evidently it was the design of Walsh and his friends to allow no refutation. The late hour at which his Cireular was at Lhe secresy of the document is another proof, and also demonstrates his fear of aflida. vits fastening the faets upon him.

Late as the moment is, however, men of unimpeachable veracity have come . forward and solemnly sworn to the facts. . They are desirous that the truth shall be known and that the Miners of the county be not deceived. Dozens are ready to corroborate with their oaths the statements below made, and did time permit would cheerfully do so. Read, Voters of the County, the . sworn statements of men, than whom there are none more reliable! Judge . ye, of a candidate for the Senate who, for the sake of votes on the eve of an election, will deny the oft-repeated opinions of past years! JOSEPIL WOODWORTH, of Grass Valley Township, Nevada county, and State of California, being duly questioned deposes and says:—That he has been acquainted with JAMES WALSH since 1850, up to the present time, that during the said time he has more than once heard the said Walsh declare himsolf in favor of selling or pre-empting the Mineral Lands of California. JOSEPH WOODWORTH. Grass Valley, Aug. 30, 1857. D. SHOEMAKER, of the Township of Giass Valley, the County of Nevada, the State of California, being duly examined, deposes and says:—That he has been acquainted! with J AS. WALSH since 1850, up to tho present time—that during that time he has more than once heard the said Walsh declare himself in favor of selling the Mineral Lands, and has heard him repeat the same as late as the 17th day of August, 1857. D. SHOEMAKER. Grass Valley, Aug. 31st, 1857. L. F. HUMISTON, of the Township Grass Valley, County. of Nevada, and State of California, being duly sworn, deposes and says:—That he has . ; our energy yet. }men who have stuck close to our own jmade, that they can make from $40 to . $50 a day to the hand. . citizens are waiting, with great impa. expense. . when they were without any govern. up his proclamation, he marched at the . Enraged been acquainted with JAMES WALSH since 1850, up to the present time—that during that time he has more than once heard the said Walsh declare himself in favor of selling the Mineral Lands of California. L. F. HUMISTON. Grass Valley, Aug. 30, 1857. Ina conversation, at which I was present, . heard Judge JAMES WALSH assert that it would be necessary that some legal sale of the Mineral Lands should be made in order that such capitalists as entered into mining enterprises should.be more secure in their iuvestments. E. A. TOMPKINS: Grass Valley, Aug. 31, 1857. ‘Pot the Journal. Goup Hinn, August 30, 1857. Epiror Journat: Our once flourishing town of Gold Hill has been almost forsaken this summer. ‘There appears to be a general stagnation in all kinds of business, the cause of which is entirely beyond our control. Owing to the fire that visited us last fall, and the early failure of the water this spring, there appears to be a general depression in the feelings of our citizens, as well as in their purses; but we have net all lost ( A few of our citizens . have fled to the river and are getting well paid for their labor, but we have . afew more enterprising and energetic place through evil as well as good report: they are now beginning to antici. pate a ri¢th reward for their labors. Mr. Finley and MeVicker. of the Mammoth Prospecting Company, of . Spirit Hill, have been running a tunnel . have struck some fiattering prospects. . They appear to be sanguine that they have at last struck their pile, and say, from the prospects they have already . There is several other companies now making preparations to start in the samé hill. I think, from the preset prospects that we are situated in ene of the best Our mining localities in the county. tience, for Kidd & Co. to get their ditch completed from the South Yuba so that we Will be better supplied with the necessary clement for mining. S. M. Kansas Affairs. recent news from The the States . a hows that the Kansa emmbroglio is yet . Walker seems to . have put himself into a foolish position far from a solution. by his advance upon Lawrence, and the people of that town are laughing at his . He issued a proclamation denouncing them as traitors for daring to organize under a charter granted by . the free State Legislature, at a time inent, and the sanitary condition of the . town was totally neglected. Following head of the troops designed for Utah, . and encamped on the sultry plains, to . besiege the town, or reconnoiter for an} assault. As no martial array sallied ont to meet him, and the heaviest train . of artillery crossing his path was certain milk and meat wagons, he thought he would go into the city before making wage of battle, trusting to his official mightiness to save his bacon from the dreadful traitcrs inside. He went into the town. One of the hotel-keepers po. litely invited him to dinner, which he ate in silence, and unnoticed, when he} sallied forth and found the citizens unconcernedly pursuing their ordinary occupations, enterely oblivious to the fact that his little Excellency was in their midst, and displaying none of the ‘pomp and circumstance of war’ whatever.— ——— because the people would not rise In spite of his threats and prophecies,” he went moodily back to his encampment, and has been ever since sulkily . keeping to his tents, with the prospect of gaining that kind of renown acquired by the ancient worthy who marched ten thousand men up a hill, and then— marched them down again. A more serious and palpably unjust . manneuvre of his Excelleicy has been the apportionment just made for dele-! gates to the next territorial Legislature. . Nineteen large free State ccunties have three representatives, while thirteen Walker dodged the responsibility of this job, and laid the task upon the Speaker and president of the last Legislature. The aim seems to be to perpetuate the laws in the territory which men of all parties have joined in declaring infamous. We have never believed that Buchanan or his officials ever designed to carry out pro-slavery have thirty-six. squatter sovereignty, or give a fair show to the people of the territories to ckoose their own institutions; and while the United States government lends itself to furce slavery upon the territories, so long there will be a powerful party in the North in opposition—-whether called Republican, Democratic or American. The only way to kill the Northern sectional party is to give the people of the territories entire freedom to form their own institutions, sceure from government interference. . f= We learn by telegraph that the People’s ticket is victorious in San Francisco. The vigilantes it seems have no notion of leaving their interests in the hands of scoundrels. . & Co. jin the main ridge above Gold Hill, and} ¢.: of Poor Man’s Creek, and bids fair nil] about ready to run. Earruquaks.—A smart shock of an earthquake visited this city and vicimty at about twenty minutes to eight o’clock on Wednesday evening. Thetelegraph gives us the information that the shock was felt from Downieville to Sacramento. How much farther the effects were felt isnot yet ascertained. A shaking of buildings accompanied with a slight rumbling sound was observed in this city. The Court House received a babi froin top to bottom. Mr. Lindsey, the jailor, was sitting upon the granite stepsat the time and was thrown forward with some foree. ‘The lighted candles in the prisoners’ cells fell from their places and the prisoners started up from their bedsinalarm. At the residence of Wm. M. Stewart, Esq., the shock was quite violent. Mr. C. F. Wood, sitting . by one of the pillars of the verandah at the time represents the shake of the house as being severe. In the hardware establishment of G. W. Keeney, the stoves and tinware rattled about in an astonishing manner. At San Juan, bottles fell from apothecary shelves, and the same characteristics observed as at this city. We have heard of no damages sustained. The shock occuring soon after the closing of the polis, a wag suggests that “Natnrre groaning through ail her wer:s Gave signs of woe that all is lost.” Quartz Prosrpect NEAR Evreka.— Through politeness of O. Crandall, Esq., we received a rich specimen of quartz, from the Morris Lead, from the proprietors, Messrs. Morris, Powers, Mitchell The lead is situated on the south. to be celebrated as one of the richest It is from two to eight feet thick, and strange to say, the discoveries yet made. thicker the lead the richer it is in gold. . About two hundred tons of rock have been crushed. We upwards of $16,000 heve been taken froma part of the “riffles.”” It is thought On Saturday last, from two day’s crushing are the rock will average $125 per ton. to four stampers, there was taken out of the upper riffle, 123} ounces of gold. The lead is conveniently located fer . working. ledge 225 feet below the surface. lucky owners are six men, named Wm. P. Morris, Michael Powers, George 5. . Mitchell, M. W. Connally, Owen Carr . /and Michael Quinn. There exists a quartz excitement at Mr. H. UU. Sweet has a mill in process of eompleEureka at the present time. tion with eight stamps. in operation on Tuesday next. It has a 30 horse engine, and, altogether, is . said to be as fine a mill as can be found in the State. ‘he rock it is intended / to crush, will come from a lead from two to six tect in thickness. Our informant says it is extremely rich—gold being . seen in the rock plainly in all parts of the lead. The well known National lead has a) Several er mills are about being completed, and . animpetus has been given to quartz . ' mining in that section by the prospects . held out for crushing. Prospecting and discovering quartz is the order of the day at Eureka. Tue Merperers or Gitpert.—We . are indebted to Bruce Garvey for the . following particulars: An attempt was made last Saturday to capture a couple of Indians, who are supposed to have murdered Mr. Gilbert, near Washington, about ten days since. An Indian named Mose came to town on Saturday morning, and informed him that the murderers of Gilbert were at an Indian Camp, about a mile and a half from town, and offered to go with him and point them out. the camp, and saw an Indian calied Jack, who had the powder horn and . shot-pouch which were taken from Gilbert’s cabin in his possession. ‘They im mediately caught hold of Jack, and as they did so, abont a hundred other Indians, the most of them armed with guns and pistols, interfered and compell. ed them to desist. They then returned to town, and got ten or fifteen men to go out with them, but found the camp deserted by all except a few squaws and children. The next morning a marshal’s posse went to the camp, about six miles below Grass Valley, and sueceeded in arresting thirty Indians who were brought to town. The Chiet, Wemeh, and three others, were lodged in jail a short time. Mr. Bovyer was sent for by the Marshal, to talk with thems They were discharged on promising to apprehend and deliver up the murderers.— Wemeh gave his opinion that Jack wag one of the two murderers. Tue Mait—WHBatT is THE MATTER? The John L. Stephens arrived in Sar Francisco on Sunday last but as yet the letter mail has not reached us. It is impossible to learn the cause of its de+ tention. Rumor says, a steamboat i grounded on the hog’s back, the bags were forgotten, and tells several othe wild tales. Mr. Crenshaw, our post master, has made diligent inquiries bu is unable to satisfy himself of the rea cause why the mail does not arrive. Hanlin has our thanks for the T'ribune, Waverly, Harper’s Weekly, Th Citizen, and in short, a complete budgdt of news by the last steamer. assured that . A tunnel, 400 feet in length, . in a horizontal direction, will strike the . The . It will be put . oth. He (Garvey,) . took three men with him and repaired to . Kansas.—When Walker accepted the reins of government in Kansas, it was announced he did so with the mtent to play a game for the next Presidency. His gourse soon brought down upon him the amathemas of the South—he played too strongly for the free-soil votes of the Wnion and the good will of the Free Stat¢ party of Kansas. The title of traitor became familiar to his ears, coming from the section in which he was born, But at the critical moment when the ¢onfidence of the North had begun but slightly to take root; and while the angér of the South was on the rise, Walker returns to the faith of his fathers and blasts the nascent hopes of the North, feeble though they were, by throwing the destinies of the embryo State into the hands of the very men who enacted the Kansas code—a code which Gen. Cass declared would disgrace the statute books of any civilized State, and whose abrogation even John B. Weller is said to have, in one of his Instead of assuming the responsibilities, whicl? more lucid intervals, favored. brave men only dare, and cowards ney. er, and seeing justice meted out to the people of Kansas—iustead of so meet: ing the crisis that thé voité of the people might be heard, he turns ovér the dirty job of disfranéhisemént to a set of men! whose claim to infamy has been estallished by such men as Cass and . other lights of Democracy. made and Walker cried “roll.” The Dracos of disfranchised nineteen counties where Free State men The game was Kansas “do most congregate,” giving but three delegates to the entire nineteen, and allowing thirty-six delegates to thirteen counties where the right stripe exist. . Not content with this stroke of policy, the entire immigration of 18/7 is de. prived of the privilege of voting. . Under the operations of the Kansas. Nebraska act, at the first election in the Territory, all foreigners, whether naturalized or not, were granted the elective At the the earreer of Kansas as an organized franchise. commencement of Territory, any person was competent to ibe }eard at the ballot box, but now a critical time has arrived when educated i native boan citizens—bona fide citizens of the Territory as well as of the United . States—are deprived of the prerogatives of freemen. Iu a game for the Presideney a_pal$s : i pable violation of a principle, said to be at the bottom of the Kansas-Nebraska ; act. namely, that the people of a Territory shall have the right to determine i their own affairs for themselves. is rather too barfaced to win. Let us have an } explanation of this affair from the pro'fessedly “sound”? men of the Democj racy i . 0 RVR a ET Wryskoors Iceu est remedy known, g L.—The be-t andcheapall cases of } Coughs, Colds, Asthn 3 Ke. . ust received and for sale by E. F, SPENCE, Druggist, . 21 Commercial street, Nevada, at reliefin ry affections, Constabie’s Sale. * CALIFORNIA, County of Nevada, ss, f Execution to me ce red. issve l anu acting Justice of aforesaid, bearing date a judgment rendered in A.D. 1857, in favor +. D. Kendall for the sum of age suit. I have lsell to the highest bidder for t One house and lot and known as the and on the south to satisty h day of aken in E h the followit . lot of Kendall, adjoining Mrs Cross lot, side of said street, the same having been heretofore at. tached by ime for; this debt. I will sell the above des. scribed property in front of the Cou: t House, to the higl. est bidder for SATURDAY the 26th day of Sepo’elock, A M, and 5 o’¢ oeck the pr ty of G. D. Kem Lule cruing costs. {EG ORY, Constable, Nevada, Sept. 3d, 1857. CONSTABLE’S SALE. TATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Nevada, ss’__ . Ne) By virtue of two Executions to me i tourt of J. M. Clark, 5 g nand for the county aforesaid, bearing date Ist, A D, 1857, tos fy 2 judgments renderlL court, on the Ist day of September, A D, 1857, me in favorof Boswell & Hanson andone in favor of Bex srts & Funstonand against Kogers, Densmcre and jothers and one ag ! to the highest bidder for cash the follescr bed preperty to wit: all the right, title and interests of Rodgers, Densmore and others; also, ail the right, title and interests of Densmore and others in and j{to a certain lot of mining claims situated on Cement Hill and Knownas the Granite Co. and the Cement Co. and j. the Bay State Co’s, claims with all the sinices and fixtures belonging to said claims; also, the house which Stands over the shaftand engine; also one dwelling . hou lated near to said sh on ‘Thursday the 24th day of September A. D. 1857, between the hours of 9 . o'clock A M, and5o’clock P M. Taken as the property of Rogers Densmore aad others and Densmore and oth. ers, to satisfy the above demands and accruing costs. Nevada, Sept. 3d, A D, 1857. J. B. GRAY, Const. x ‘ r x rr ‘ \¢ 4 Al . ; AMEE RICAN EXCHANGE. Main St., Nevada. VHE subscribers have taken the above Hotel and fit. ted it up ina style, second to no Hotel in Nevada Every attention will be paid to the accommodation of travelers and all others who may favor them with their custom. THE RESTAURANT, . ‘The Tables will alw ays be supplied with the best the markct affords. THE BEDS . Are entirely new, and for c’eanliness and comfort cannot be surpassed. THE BAR . Will always be supplied with the best of Wines, Liquors, Cigars, &c. The proprietors hope by strict attention to business te receive a fulishare of public patronage PIERCE & RICE, Proprietors. Nevala. Aug. 21, 1857. FISKE, SATHER & CHURCH, BANKERS, Corner of 3d and J Streets, Sacramento, Buy and sell Exchanges on the Atlantic Cities and > Europe. PAY THE HIGHEST PRICES FOR GOLD DU-T, And transact a General Banking Business. THOMAS S. FI-KE, Sacramento, P. =ATHER, Te © & F. W. CHURCH $ “an Franeisco. September 4, 1857. : Saw Mill For Sale. ( NE half of the Humbug City Saw with Ranch and Timber, 1s offered for sale on advantageous terms. The Mill is one of the most desirable pieces of property in the mountains, having a home market for all the lumber they can saw, There is as much fine timber coanected with the Mill as can be found the State. The Mill has a 30 horse engine, upper and lower saw, and edger. Bleck saws about to be putin. The average sawing is from 6 to 7 thousand feet per day. L, HANER, STEPHEN ARTZT. Humbug City, Sept. 4, 1857—Im* Notice. OTICE is hereby given that the undersigned in5 tends in due season to apply to the Board of Supervisors, of Nevada county, for a renewal of license to keep atoll bridge at the locality known as Emery’s Crossing, on the Middle Yuba River, Bridgport Town. ship, Nevada county, and that such application will be made at the October scssion or as soon thereafte practicable. Mill, together + T a3 T. €. EMERY. Emery’s Crossing, Sept, 4, 1857—1w* ;