August 15, 1860 (4 pages)

a “VOL. VII, NO. 46. NEVADA DEMOCRAT, BY I. J. ROLFE & CO. Re een Tt. H. ROLFE, L 3. ROLFE, A. P. CHURCH. OFFICE—CORNER BROAD AND PINE STREETS. TERMS: advance, CHAS. W. YOUNG, Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, CUTLERY, “ILVER WA: E & FANCY GOODS. Kelsey's Bleck, Commercial st., near Pine, Nevapa Crrv articles Guaranteed. ‘evada Jane 1660. B. W. c#owntor, Guo. B. LORING . come Sweeter ee @aWatches Repaired and Cleaned at Short Notice. -@e F. MANSELL, S008 4ND ORNAMENTAL PAINTER. STREET, ABOVE PINE, NEVADA. All work promptly attended to, at the shortest notice and in the best style of the Art. ra. Cas, DUNK, IR. DUNN & DUNK, & COUNSELLORS AT LAW, wn in all the Courts of the 14th and 17th Judicial and ip the Supreme Court. ™ Ornca—Downieville, Sierra County, Cal. C. WILSON HILL, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Osrica—-Second story of Abbott's Brick Building, Com mercial street, Nevada. Nevada, Dec. 6th 1858. 10-tf JONN GARBER. 7 eT CONNELL & GARBER, ATTORNEYS & COUNSELORS AT LAW, wi in all the Courts of the 14th Judicial! District, and in the Supreme Court. Office, Kidd's Brick Building, Broad Street, Nevada, Nov. 14, 1859. 7-f THOMAS P. HAWLEY, Attorney & Counsellor at Law, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Ornica—Up Stairs, in Kidd & Knox's Brick Building, Cerner of Pine and Broad Streets, Nevade. Nevada July 26, 1859. 43-t£ DAVID BELDEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Masticular attention given to procuring United States Land Warrants for persons entitled to the same by Military Service. Orrice—At the Court House, Nevada. DR. R. M. HUNT, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, 31-tf ee Wickes & Co’s. Drug Store, or gy GEO. W. KIDD, Banker. In the Granite Building BROAD STREET, NEVADA. AVING OPENED A BANKING HOUSE IN NEVADA, in building erected expressty for that purpose, would inform bie friends and the public that heis repared to receive deposite, General and Special, and traavact a generel Banking Business. GOLD DUST PURCHASED AT THE HIGHEST MARKET RATES, And liberal advances made on Dust forwarded fer Aesay or for Coinage at the U.S Mint. Sight Checks on San Francisca and Saramente at PAR. DRAFTS on the Eastern Cities at the Lowest Rates. Collections made, and state and Connty Securities pur ehased at the highest Market Value. Nevada Feb. 14th 1860,—20 tf 4. @. BIRDSETE, Cc. N. FELTON. BIRDSEYE & CO., BANE ERS, No. 30 MAIN STREET, NEVADA. PURCHASE GOLD DUSi AND BULLION AT THB HIGHEST MARKET RATES. Advances made on GOLD DUST for Assay or Coinege atthe U.S. Branch Mint, CHECKS AT P AR, on San Francisco, Sacramento, and Marysville. our SIGHT EXCHANGE on METROPOLITAN BANK, New York, For Salein sums to suit. Purchase State and County Securities at the Highest a ie te ceceived. Collections made, and transact a Banking Business. evade, Apri! ist, 1859. NEVADA ASSAY OFFICE, JAMES J. OTT, [Suceessor of F. Schotte.} NO. 30 MAIN STREET, NEVADA. a .u.e «& 2P ECO OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Melted, Refined and Asssyed at San Franciseo Rates, and Returns made in Bare or Coin, within a few hours. My assays are Guaranteed. Bars discounted at the Lowest Market Price. ga Leaded Gold and Black Sandlots bought at the highest prices. Jas. OTT. CuAs. ¥. MULFORD, 4.3. maGaporr. cC. W. MULFORD & CO., BANKERS, At his Old Stand, Main Street, Nevada. GOLD DUST BOUGHT st the Highest Market tes. “saa? CHECKS on Sacramento and San Frana the U.S. Braech Mint, for Asse 5 réedte the U.S. ae! at. for y atin ata made on the same ifrequired. Highest Brice peid for County Serip. G. E. WITHINGTON, PEALER IF French and American Paper Hangings, {NDOW SHADES, Brass Cornice Gold Mouldings, Paints, &c. Painting ofell » gare ga hangJ. F. HOOK. DEALER IN BOOTS AND SHOES! ! BRICK BUILDING, OPPOSITE St. LOUIS HOTEL Commercial > sz A fall assortment of LADIES and CHILDREN’S SHOES, wand GAITERS, Leonard Benkert's Quilted-Bottom Boots -Coustantly on hand and for sale at Reasonable Rates. Jez Boots Made to Order.7 Repairing done at sil times and 5.e. HOOs 9 AVE SOLD MY ENTIRE WOOD BUSIat oy . M. HIXSON & CO., and recommend them to my customers. SIMON =, ee v LD entire Lot of Wood, near Bf Neto Wood Ranch . to J. M. BISON &09., who is ready to All all orders s 4 Vy + s00CORDS of Dry Oak ‘Wood, Wits more being Fes ag if ae are t. 08 4 “e014 send to No. 77 Broad et., 90 "ey ae ee enon. er 3 — NATIONAL EXCHANGE, NU. $2 & 34, BROAD STREET, NEVADA. GEORGE R. LANCASTER, Proprietor. THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECTFULLY announce to the Citizens of Nevada and vicinSos ae Sones Pu; Bg tA he endl nowa HOTEL, known . whe NATIONAL EXCHA on Brood stres’. . The Building Is of Briek, three stories high, and THOROUGHLY FIRE-PROOF, (Having stood two Fires.) The several apartments have recently been fitted up in @ Style that cannot be surpassed. The Beds and Furniture are New, And for Comfort cannot be excelled. THE TABLE will at all times be supplied with all the VARIETIES the Market affords GAME SUPT PYTERS, GOT UP TO ORDER. Particular sttention will be paid to the accommodation of LADIBS AND FAMILIES wee SFL S RS, coun not govt om from the NATION AL EXCHANGE. une ea OPEN ALL NIGHT. -@ EB . wi Choicest Wines, Liquors, and Cigars. Having had experience at the b lam con: ates of being able to make the NATIONAL the best Hotel in the Mountains. and a comfortable Home for Travelers. CHARGES WILL BE MODERATE, TO SUIT THE TIMES. SI A LIVERY STABLE 18 CONNECTED WITH THE HOUSE, AND = attention will ry ao to the care of Horses, triages, &c. Horses and Carriages can at all times be procured, by application at the Bar. GEO. R. LANCASTER, Proprietor. FASHION RESTAURANT! Commercial, ag yy St. Nevada. (Opposite Tallman & Turners’s Store.) HE UNDERSIGNED WOULD INFORM the citizens of Nevada, and al] those wishing a Good Square Meal, That be has opened, and is now keeping a FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT On Commercial street, under the above name, which will be conducted in the best style, and in a manner that can— fail to please all who may favor him with their cusom. Having had many years experience in the business the proprietor is determined to keep the Ris t inthe Mountains. me ee + will be suplied with all ae varieties . to be found in the Market, and Meals Served up at All Hours. Always on band, and cooked to order, Chickens, Quail and Hare, And particular attention will be paid t getting up 4am GAME SUPPERS TO ORDER. -ya OYSTERS SERVED UP IN EVERY 8TYLE. I have employed the best Cooks to be found fn the State Bar Give mea trial and satiafy yourselves that you can asgooda meal ascan be bad at Sacramento or San Francisco. C.B Nevada, April 34 1860.—27-tf . IRISH, Pro'r. North side of Broad street, three doors above Pine, Nevada. HE UNDERSIGNED BEGS LEAVE TO. announee to the citizens of this place and vicinity, . that he is now keeping a FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT, And has fitted it up in a atyle unsurpassed by avy in Ne. . vads. Ap experienced Cook has been employed, and Game Suppers, Will be prepared in the Lest style, te order. The best. and pothing but the best the Market effords, will at ali tames be provided The proprietor himself that the ESTABLISHMENT shall be conducted to the ENTIRE SATIS® ACTION OF ALL Who may favor bim with their patronage, JYorims,Meals Fifty Cents, AND SERVED UP AT ALL HOURS. A. BERNARDI, Pro’r. Nevada, July 9th 1860.—41-tf UNITED STATES HOTEL. BROAD S8T., A FEW DOURS BELOW PINE, NEVAIA, THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE REfitted and completely renovated the building formerly known as the ‘‘lemocrat re poe ‘for the purpose of carrying op the Hotel susiness ‘Lbey are pow prepared to accommodate Travelers in as good style as any other HOTEL IN THE MOUNTAINS, THE ROOMS are well ventilated, and are furnished with the best of beds and bedding. THE TABLE will be bountifully supplied with all the varieties found in the Market. Fifty Cents, Leagt ae. pee nih, . © een bbete rn bad 5 WG) Perv fustl & PARKER. Proprietors. Dentistry! Dentistry!! iss SURGICAL AND MECHANICAL. DCocToOR IBVABONW CALLS ATTENTION TO HIS OFFICE, (Oven Broce & Co’s CLrotHuinG StoRz,) Corner of Pine and Commercial Streets, NEVADA, WHERE GENTLE TREATMENT AND RELIABLE OPERATIONS Will Induce the Nervous to Submit with CONFIDENCE TO HIS MODE OF PRACTICE. TEE DOCTOR'S Artificial Teeth. ARE A PERFECT COUNTERFEIT OF NATURE, AND FIXED FROM ONE TO A COMPLETE SET. His Terme for Stopping, Cleaning, Extracting, and Other Operations, Each, gar TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS. “se Dr. Levason’s Powders, Tinctures and Brushes to be had at bis Office Ur Srams. mt Kmasy’s New Batce, over Block & Co’s Clothing Store, His Permanent Resi. dence, or, at E. F. Spence’s Drug Store, Broad Street, Nevads, Nevada, Mareb 26th 1860.—18-3m DENTISTRY. : DR. A. CHAPMAN, DENTIS , CALLS a clar attention to his Tooth Anodyne, minet “gad Fae Hy an. ova ome hie minulidition to be filled without eausing pein, where it . entions performed in & peat sod substan: . tal bint a senet, abd satiehection guarantesd im all cases. ‘g Brick corner of Ormca—In Kidd & Knox's m Bey.” hon Cash. mein permanently. January, 1860.—tf H. W. GALVIN, . ville, bas in bie employ 28 men. engaged in ma . the Joux Nvexst’s Vaiepicroxr.—-We anuounced last week, that Joba Nugent, for man) yeare editor of the San Franciseo Herald, had retired from that paper on account of the dilferences of opinion between bimself and the controlliag proprietors. He closes bis valedic tory as follows; To the press of the interior of the State i have been indebted, during wy editorial career for a thousand kioduesses, 1 bave met at thei baude with a manly opposition whew they oppored me, and with a geveroua appreciation When agreeing with thme the in opinion, . may add that between the preseut proprietors of the Herald aud my»elf the most courteous telutions have obtained trom the beginning. We part with mutual good will aad esteem. Betore closing this card 1 deem it my duty t+ correct sume erroneous etatements as to th: motives which bave hitherto prompted me to a non intervention policy in regurd to the Presidential election. Up to the present morning the editorial control of the San Francirco Hrald has never passed out of my haud« I had the right at any time to declare for either can didate and I alone am responsible for the si lence the paper bas maintained. I deemed it my duty, as the editor of a Democratic jourval, to permit all means of conciliation to be ex hausted before driving this auhappy coutreverey to extremities, f hed hoped the Central Committee, composed as it is of worthy and patriotic gentlemen, could bave devised some measure of compromise ; and until all hope of euch a hapoy result of their deliberations should be at an eud, I deemed it unwise to take a position that must have embittered, more aud more, a large portion of the Demuvcracy of the State. But there ie no longer any hope of cv operation or affiliation between the two sections of the party ; and if I bad remained in coutrel of the Herald I would bave felt it incombens upon me to declare now for that candidate who I betieve received whatever there was of regu lar nomination bestowed by the Democracy ot the Union. That man is Mr. Dougias. Of the reasous which guide me in supporting that gentleman, it may not become me now to sp: ak at length in these columns, I hope to bave fre quent opportanities to explain them in person te the Democracy of California in the course of the present canvasa, Deata FRoM a Ratrixsyakk Bits.—On Thuisday, August 2d, at Koight’e Lauding. William Cox, who wae playing with a rattlesnake which had recently been caught, was bitten by the suake on the forefinger of the right hand. He thought but little of it; but in half an bour be began to suffer great pain, aud applied to a physician but too late. He died in four or five hours, The deceared was about twenty years of age, avd formerly from Miesouri, A Hit.—At a Demoeratio ratification meet ing, recently held at Clarksville, El Dorado county, one of the speakers aunounced that Dr. Gwiu bad arrived at San Francisco, with Latham in one pocket and the Pacifie Railroad avd Overland Mail Bills in the other, It has heen suggested that be ought to bave put Charley Scott into the Latham pocket in order to make it balavce the bill pocket, Straws, etc.—Ex-Mayor Swan, of Placer king a road to the summit. A vote for Presi deut was taken among them. a few days since without any reference to, or kuowledge ot, their political prefereuces. Bancrort’s Histrory,—The eighth volume of Ba croft’s History, embracing the period immediately after the battle of Banker Hill down ' to the Declaration of Independence, bas been published, The time is but littl over a year but is one of the most interesting and stirring . epochs in American bistory. Sace or a Virarsta Goto Ming.—Col. J. B. Morgan has sold recently the “Old Eayle”’ gold mine in Stafford couuty, Va., to a com pany of Boston and New York gentlemen for $25 000. Col. M. it said to have purchased it three yeare age for $9 000, . Evex Spiits.-The Sacramento Democratic . Committee stood eight for Douglas and eigh for Breckinridge; the San Joaquin Committee stood five and five. Two Conventions were called in both counties, An Empenor’s Girt.—Mr. J. W. Tooker, a jeweler of San Francisco, bar received from the Emperor of Russia a eplendid ring. valued at . $2.000. in retarn for some specimens of gold . bearing quartz be bad sent to the Emperor. Ay Oup Batt.—The post mortem examina-. from Mr. Jacob Smith, a note stating that the lead of Prince Jerome Bonaparte . known as the Great Western, assayed $2,750 to tion of the body led to the discovery of a ball which had remain. *. however, that the fire had melted which resulted as follows: Douglas, 26; Breck. crust, and that the fire and all had “drap inridy, 1s Lineolu, 1. The men were employed . Sbout thirty feet, . per ton; and as . Stockton City Cemetery on Saturday week. . pali . for blasting the rock, for breaking and ha . of a gold excitement in that place: and are assured by ate Ray het gold has un. doubtedly been disco , but whether in paying uantities, is yet to be ascertained. The auriferous irt is found on the beach, at the foot of the bluffs, in deposits or drifts, of black sand, and is udoubt. edly of the same character as the cers of Gold . Bluff, which created such an excitement in San Francisco and elsewhere, in 1851, and which, we believe, has been worked ever since, although the miners have always found it very difficult to sepa. tate the gold from the sand, the of the! ious metal being so remarkably ne. The same ity is to be apprehended here, but we are informed that some of our citizens to test the hly. About twenty-five claims were y, anda meeting on adopted mining laws, and elected a Recorder of claims. The laws as adopted, allows . one hundred Dig to each claim, and requires each . man to record his claim within four days. The excitement was unabated this morning, and at an early hour, large numbers of “‘gold seekers” were on their way to the newly discovered mines. We learn from parties who have just returned, that about ten miles ofthe beach has been staked off. Some of the dirt has been t to town, In which very fine particles of gold could be seen—too fine, we fear, to be easily separated from the sand. Owzn’'s Laxz.—The Stockton Republican tells us of the locality, sise and peculiarity of this body water: On the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, lies . Owens’ Lake, a body of water forty miles long by five to tenin width. Itis of great, though unknown,.depth ; has none but subterranean outlets, and receives several considerable mountain streams, Its watera are still and clear, but brackish and unfit for use. The Indians fish along ite banks, but were not seen to have any canoes. On the western side there are tracts of fine timber, and in the valleys making into the mountains the Indians cultivate fine grass and clover. These Indians have little villages in the more fertile valleys. On the eastern ofthe lake the country is barren and profitless—torn up by volcanic agencies. The climate in all this region is represented as being sueed to that of Washoe—snow only falling on the ill-tops even in winter. The mines can be worked at all seasons of the year, and the roads are never impassable, except, as in all new countries, during or after a lo’ ntinued rain. The moat inviting portion is in the immediate vicinity of the mines, where, for someten mules square about Silver Mountain, there is a wees pews ofthe pinon (a species of pine) tree, which, though small, can be uaed to construct houses, and makes the very best of firewood. Water is scarce in the mining region, exce Y digging for it, when it is easily reached, and in abundance. Mowuntarn Meteoro.vocy.—Dr. Kibb, contributes to the Sierra Citizen a table of the meteoro! of Downieville for nine months, ending with July past. The observations were made under the direction of the Smithsonian Institute. The amount of rain and melted snow forthe period named was 68.59 inches, which is extraordinary. It will be remembered that rain and snow storms continued in that vicinity until July. The greatest amount in one month was 20.51 inchesin Novemberlast. The mean temperature per month ranged from about 26 1-2 degrees above zero, in January, to 67 6.37 in July. The coldest day was December 6th, when the mercury sunk to 1 above zero ; and the warmest day was July , when it reached 91 degrees. Very Provoxine.—The Mariposa Gazette, whose editor is continually on the ‘prospect’ for humor, sayaa yof three coming over from Mono to Yosemite, a few days ago, stopped on the deep snow to make some coffee and warm some . } beans. Wood was handy and they built up a rous~. ing fire. About the time the aforesaid coffee and beans were ready for consumption the whole arIt appeared, the firm snow down where it was boiling, sizzling and stewing, and still sin . Asit was impossible to get at it, the party sorowfully shouldered their packs and marched. rangement suddenly disappeared. Sort SueLL CLams.—The great discovery of the century, says the Alta, was made not long ago by some industrious Mongolians, followers of the calling of Peter and Andrew, who were casting their nets in the turbid waters of Mission Bay. This discovery consisted of an apparently inexhaustible bed of the most delicious bivalves that have ever tickled the palate of a and, known as “‘soft-shelled clams.” These clams are now sold in the market at fifty cents per hundred, and are eagerly sought after by such of the lovers of shell fish as have been made acquainted with the discovery. Tus Fremont Mines—In king of these mines, the Mariposa Gazette says at the expenses ng it, the gold, will not exceed now $5 clone] Fremont is crushing ninety tonsa day, with an average yield of from $25 to $50, there will be left a large balance in his favor, and for extracti t . which will soon enable him to surmount all the dif. ficulties that are still in his way, and enable him to come out all right. Fine 1n a Cemuteny.—A fire occurred in * t raged fiercely in the ass. By strenuous exerdo. the fence pod + lot = saved, but the around many of the graves, together with the shrubbery, were consumed, Many beutiful tombs and grave stones were also ruined by the fire, Coso Minze.—The Visalia Delta has received the ton, and that the Pioneer lead assayed $2,862 to the ton. All the assays that have made ed in his chest after a duel which he fought in . are from or very near the surface. bie youth with a brother of Marshal Davoust. Escarze or a Mvunperer.—A man named . Masonic Syusots.—The Grand Lodge of Free . Elijah Lee, under indictment in E] Dorado county . and accepted Masons, which met recently n. New York. adopted a resolution condemning . the 27th of June, and bronght down as far as the practice of patting Masonic symbols on . signs and business cards, — Sreciat Post Orrice Agent.—The Alte learns . .1114 of Mr, Keller, who that John Fergason, formerly Deputy Postmarter at San Francisco. has been asppwinted epecial agent for the Department on this coart. A Rice Max.Wm. B. Astor. son of the late John Jacoh Astor, is eaid to be worth at Ly least $25.000.000. He is, andoubtedly, the wealthiest man on the American continent. Ixeayrry.— During the year ending Jane 30th forty insane persona were sent from San Francisco to the Stockton Asylum, Joux G. Saxe, the poet, has been nominated Democratic Convention of Vermont, asa didate for Governor. The Convention was held Montpelier, July 26th and the delegates were Soot fee thoudhes and Mibtasn. . { for the murder of a miner named Miller, was arrest. ed near Round Valley, in Mendocino county, Se } Valley in Napa county, w he broke loose last Friday night and escaped. Drix~xino Kexosexz.—On Monday « little keeps the Eureka Ho in Marysville, got hold of a can of kerosine oil an drank a large quantity. An emetic was administer ed in good time, and the child was soon past any danger. Avrora Bonzarts.—A fine exhibition of this henomenon was noticed at Sacramento early on uesday morning of last week. It crimsoned the nomhern heavens like the reflection of tules on fire, and was without radiating lines. as thet eetheslage snd Lane aze tee regulat claims i a are the regu nominees of the Democratic party; while the Plumas Standard, another Breckinridge organ, seys they . are not. in the town portion of The Great Desert of Pinacate. Five leagues to the northward of Sonoita, a border town on the line of Sonora and ew Mexico, commences a desert which extends for twenty to the Gulf of California, A correspondent of the Bulletin thus describes it ; aap to yourself all of the shifting sande of desert, or the great dunes of the English coast re ona more colossal scale, while over all towers the vast volcanic cone of the extinet crater of Pinacate, which, from its eighty-seven mouths, (Humboldt gives it ninety-four.) has poured destruction over hundreds of miles of country-—— color the pictures as bighly as you will, it falle far short ef the reality. Over this trackless waste our guide led us with unerring step, beguiling the time with etrange traditions and wilder legends of his ancestry, chiming well with the desolation around us. The ground is crossed by innumerable atreams of lava, fresh aud sharp aw if cooled but yesterday, though thousauds of years have paae agen sinee their production, while piled up oa band, are vast blocks of ecoria, pumice, obsidian and other voleauio stones strangely intermixed with metamorphic rocks of every stage of transition. The temptation to the geologist was great, but we dared uot stop even to view at leisure a curious cavero, of gigantlo dimedeiona, eaid to communicate with the sea, and strewn with the rude offeriugs of the votaries of the Papago faith. The failing state of our mules warned us to burry on to reach that wa ter which alone would be their and our salva. tion, In these boundless arid wastes, the sileuce of desolation perpetually reigns; no tree is seen except here and therea straggling, stuuted mezquite; the vegetation is limited to the fetid hediondilla, the monotonous artemisia, the salicorms annua and other alkaline plants; a solitary rabbit, a lonely quail, or an occasioual rattlesnake, give the ooly evidence of animal lite, while the eayote, the vulture and the carion-crow avoid them as a spot under ban. The mules’ boofs sink deep as be toll wearily over the treacherous sand or crash through the decvittul saliue crust which covers the surface; the sun glares red and lurid through the driving sleet, anu hia rays reverberate In the esandswirls like in the foous of a burning-glass; while above all, atera and pitiless, towers the peak of Pinacate, black and grimy from the hell fires which have left its sidvs rifted and lava-seamed —the very incarnation in stone of God’s judgments against an impeniteut world, The steppes of the Pinacate are rarely visited by civilized belugs, and I was told that none hed penetrated to the crater, as the Papagos obetinately refuse to act as guides, under the impression that some evil would inevitably befall them, The great gulf of the crater ie intimately connected with all thelr superstitions, Mectezuma, whom they identify with the Sun aud the Spirit of Evil,eft them, they say, thousande of moons ago, with an tnfesotion to await his return, and descended into the central abyss, The moon, or good goddess, formerly his spouse, has ber seat in the Sierra Blancha, a mountain chaia to the westward; and these divinities, like many ® muodane palr, are engaged in constant conflict. have seen or read Douglas in the Country: Under the above bead the Washington States and Union says : Nearly every Democratic paper in the State of New York supports Douglas aud Johason, aud repudiaics Bivckluvidge and Laue. Every Democratic paper in Indiana supports Doug!ds and Johuson, and repudiates the disunion candidates, Lane and Breckinridge. Every Democratic paper in Wisconsin supporte Douglas aud Johnson, and repudiates the disunion tieket. Every Democratic paper in Illinois that did not support Linceln in 1851, now arene Douglas and Jobnson, and repudiates the dis union ticket of Lane and Breckinride. Iv Missouri four fifths of the Democratic papra eipport Douglas and Joboson, and repudinte the disanion ticket, In M chigan every Democratic paper supporte Douglas and Johnson, Iu Obio every Democratic paper, except the Danite paper at Cleveland, owned by the United States Marebal, supporte Douglas aod Johnson, and repudiates the disunion ticket, The leading Democratic paper io Kaniaehy, the Louisville Democrat, uniter with many others in the support of Douglas, The Memphis Appeal, aud other Democratic papers in Teunessee, support Douglas. The New Orleans True Delta, and other Louisiana papers eupport Douglas, and assure us that the Democratio masses are, two to one, eurnest io bis support. The Mobile Register, Athens Herald, and other leadiog papers of Alabama, support Douglas, A‘l the Democratic papers of Iowa support Douglas. All the Democratio papers of Maine, with a single exeption, support Douglas, All the reliable Democratic papore in New H mye! fre support Douglas. Te D -mocratic papers of Massachusetts, not controlled by office holders, and three which are controlled by them, support Douglas. A'\l th» Democratic papers of Vermont supprt Douglas. In Virginia some of the most influential of the Democratic papers, including Governor Letcber’s home organ, suppert Douglas. It ie undeniable that nineteen of every twenty Democrate in the North and West support Douglas, and that bie friends in the South are every day gaining strength Tue Came Expuniment.—The experiments thus far with the camels introduced in Texas, aud other parte of the South, may be said to be euceesrful. At first it was supposed, they could only be useful in traversing the great desert on plains in the interior of the continent, where there isa deficiency of water. They c-ald cross a derert of 100 miles without water and without stopping, This of iteelf would be accomplishing much. But it now appears that tiie useful anima! has been fotroduced on plantatious with advantage, baving double the strength of the mult or the borse, Whether hitched to a plough or a wagon he does equally well, ad cau carry ou bis back as mush graia a+ can be conveniently packed jn a two horse wagon. Aplanterin Alabama bas written a letter to the N. Y. Journal of Commeree, wherein he enters into particulare as to the advantages and disadvantages uf the camel. The animal does well where the goil is sandy, stony or firm. whi re he can get @ good footing. On wet and muddy soil hv moves slowly and cautiously even with a moderate load. He is used on plasitatione te draw wagons, plough, gin cotton and carry it to market, but the present bigh price of the animal will prevent ite introduction. The camel thrives on the poorest food, and being ogelly reared may yet be introduced more extensively in the Southern States, oe eee Rega omniny !—Gor. Weller jen a fe bie r ‘or not iy yee gias, qutes bad fallen into s San Fravciseo for whom be never bad any rpect; yet at the same peor voted for candidates positions w were blers of thirty years and with oe be could not cenociate og oe could not recognise them as gentlemen! Now he bas become fastidious.—Sre. DOUGLAS IN BOSTON. gives a lengthy account of enator Douglas at Boston, rooms at the the rash was so Revere House, great that the police were obliged to be called in to assistin restoring order. About nine o’clock in the evening, the appearance of Bowdoin Square was particularly fae, and since the reception of Webster, eo large a crowd had not by Oliver Stephens, and as #o6n as the tumultuous applause had subsided, he spoke as follows from the hotel baleony : ree oa vast sea of human faces warns me that it is impossible forvoice to make feet beard o by thi vast assemblage, Iam . med with the honor that you bave conferred by this spontaneous assem of countless thousands to pay homage, not to me individually, but to great principle of constitutional liberty, selfpocuanay which eae gr all our free instiTam i that T now have the boner te speak from the same baleony from which your a Webster, in 1850 [great cheering,} deended his action in support of the principle of non-tntervention by y ae with slavery io the Territories, as in the legislation of that year, [Renewed ae he koowledge of the fact that I speak from the same. balcony, in defense of the same priociple that the immortal Massachusetts statesman vindicated as the crowning act of his life, is sufficient to account for this unparalleled assemblage of the national men of Massachusetts. [Applause. The history of Massachusetts is the history constitutional liberty. In Massachusetts, have free institutions bad their birth, The battles of the Revolution were all fought in defense of the right of the people, of colonies, and provinces and territories, as well of sovereign States, to manage their own affairs and to establish their owa institutions. [Loud burrabe,] It ia natural, therefore, that the people of New England, the descendants of those revolutionary sages and patriots who establiehed our form of government, should now stand ayne in defense of the principle upon which our eatire political system reate, The liberties of this country are now put in peril by sectional prejudice ned. Bec: tional ambition against the peace and harmony of the whole country, Qn the one hand you find a great Northern seetional party appealing to the North against the South. On the other hand you find a sectional party southward appealing to the po of the South against the North, The Republican party demands possession of the Federal Government, in order that its power may be wielded for the prohibition of 8 pire’ . where the people wantit, Tho Southern sectional party demand possession of the Federal Government in order that the power of the government may be wielded for the defense and maintenance of slavery where the ple don’t want it, [Laughter and cheering.) hese two acctional parties are in direct conflict with each other, and are producing that “irrepressible conflict”’ which can never be reconeiled until you reour to the doctrine that Congress sball not interfere with the domestic {oatitutions of the people anywhere. [Kathusiastic applause.] or the last few years the whole time of Congress has been employed in the discussion of the slavery question, to Lhe exclusion of . tant business effecting the whole country.— Whenever you ask your representatives why they did not revise the revenue system in order to defray the expenses of the Government without borrowing meny millions of dollars a year, they tell you they bad not time. {Laughter} The whole time was occupied in the discussion of slavery, and there was no time to raise money to pay your honest debts. When you ask your representatives why it was that the Pacific Railroad had not been made you were told that there was no time, because the slavery question absorbed the cotire session of Congress, When you ask your representatives why it is that the mail system bas not been reformed and carried on with vigor throughout the country, you are told that the bill was lost for want of time, oom ate When you ask why it is that you ve no overland mai! route to the Pacific, and no steam lines, you are told that the slavery question occupied the whole session, and the bills wore lost for want of time. [Renewed laughter.) Thus you find that all the great measures Which affect the commercial interests, the shipping laterests, the manufaeturing interests, the industrial interests of the country have been lost for want of time, My fellow-citizens, there never will be time to perform the duatics for which the Government was made unless you banish forever the slavery question from ‘the halls of Oongress and remand it to the people of each State and Territory, according to the platform of the Democratic party, [Prolonged and vociferous cheering.) This great principle of non-inteference by the Federal Government aod popaine Sovereignty in the States and Territories is not peculiar to the Democratic party. It was affirmed in the Compromise Measures of 1850; it was affirmed in the Whig platform of 1852, as well as that of the Democrats ; it was affirmed by all national men in those days, and sbould be sustained by all national, conservative, Union loving men in the present day. {Loud a My fellow-oitizens, I return to you my profound acknowledgments for the kindness which has assembled you together, and for the respectful attention with which this vast assemblage has listened to my desultory remarks, [loud cries of “Go on,’’ “go on;”’] and again renewing to you my thanks I beg to take my leave of ou, bidding you a good-night. (Loud and ong continued cheering,} MASTIOATION BY MecuaNIOAL Means,—A rare instance of a perfect recovery from a desperate wound was recently brought under the notice of the Paris Academy of Medicine by Mr. Larrey, whe at the eame time presented to them ao American, Mr. Preterre, to whose mechanical skill the attainment of the full result wae due. At the battle of Magenta, a seargent of the 85th of the line was struck by s musket ball, which, after completely shattering the lower jaw, came out behiad from under the skall, close to the cervical vertebra, which had they been injared would have rendered the case hopeless, It ia barely credible that so extensive an injury, inflicted in so important a region Of the haman frame, could bave admitted of cure; and it refiects high credit on the army surgeons who attended him. To restore the power of mastication by mechanical meas, Mr. Preterre was called in, and suceeeded in the accomplishment of his task by an ingenious contrivance, which has poen, Greeny admired by the first surgeons of Fravom anp Esoisnp.—A writer in a number of the Edinburg Review, esti the commerce of de gers ty that of late that Eogland

a “VOL. VII, NO. 46. NEVADA DEMOCRAT, BY I. J. ROLFE & CO. Re een Tt. H. ROLFE, L 3. ROLFE, A. P. CHURCH. OFFICE—CORNER BROAD AND PINE STREETS. TERMS: advance, CHAS. W. YOUNG, Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, CUTLERY, “ILVER WA: E & FANCY GOODS. Kelsey's Bleck, Commercial st., near Pine, Nevapa Crrv articles Guaranteed. ‘evada Jane 1660. B. W. c#owntor, Guo. B. LORING . come Sweeter ee @aWatches Repaired and Cleaned at Short Notice. -@e F. MANSELL, S008 4ND ORNAMENTAL PAINTER. STREET, ABOVE PINE, NEVADA. All work promptly attended to, at the shortest notice and in the best style of the Art. ra. Cas, DUNK, IR. DUNN & DUNK, & COUNSELLORS AT LAW, wn in all the Courts of the 14th and 17th Judicial and ip the Supreme Court. ™ Ornca—Downieville, Sierra County, Cal. C. WILSON HILL, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Osrica—-Second story of Abbott's Brick Building, Com mercial street, Nevada. Nevada, Dec. 6th 1858. 10-tf JONN GARBER. 7 eT CONNELL & GARBER, ATTORNEYS & COUNSELORS AT LAW, wi in all the Courts of the 14th Judicial! District, and in the Supreme Court. Office, Kidd's Brick Building, Broad Street, Nevada, Nov. 14, 1859. 7-f THOMAS P. HAWLEY, Attorney & Counsellor at Law, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Ornica—Up Stairs, in Kidd & Knox's Brick Building, Cerner of Pine and Broad Streets, Nevade. Nevada July 26, 1859. 43-t£ DAVID BELDEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Masticular attention given to procuring United States Land Warrants for persons entitled to the same by Military Service. Orrice—At the Court House, Nevada. DR. R. M. HUNT, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, 31-tf ee Wickes & Co’s. Drug Store, or gy GEO. W. KIDD, Banker. In the Granite Building BROAD STREET, NEVADA. AVING OPENED A BANKING HOUSE IN NEVADA, in building erected expressty for that purpose, would inform bie friends and the public that heis repared to receive deposite, General and Special, and traavact a generel Banking Business. GOLD DUST PURCHASED AT THE HIGHEST MARKET RATES, And liberal advances made on Dust forwarded fer Aesay or for Coinage at the U.S Mint. Sight Checks on San Francisca and Saramente at PAR. DRAFTS on the Eastern Cities at the Lowest Rates. Collections made, and state and Connty Securities pur ehased at the highest Market Value. Nevada Feb. 14th 1860,—20 tf 4. @. BIRDSETE, Cc. N. FELTON. BIRDSEYE & CO., BANE ERS, No. 30 MAIN STREET, NEVADA. PURCHASE GOLD DUSi AND BULLION AT THB HIGHEST MARKET RATES. Advances made on GOLD DUST for Assay or Coinege atthe U.S. Branch Mint, CHECKS AT P AR, on San Francisco, Sacramento, and Marysville. our SIGHT EXCHANGE on METROPOLITAN BANK, New York, For Salein sums to suit. Purchase State and County Securities at the Highest a ie te ceceived. Collections made, and transact a Banking Business. evade, Apri! ist, 1859. NEVADA ASSAY OFFICE, JAMES J. OTT, [Suceessor of F. Schotte.} NO. 30 MAIN STREET, NEVADA. a .u.e «& 2P ECO OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Melted, Refined and Asssyed at San Franciseo Rates, and Returns made in Bare or Coin, within a few hours. My assays are Guaranteed. Bars discounted at the Lowest Market Price. ga Leaded Gold and Black Sandlots bought at the highest prices. Jas. OTT. CuAs. ¥. MULFORD, 4.3. maGaporr. cC. W. MULFORD & CO., BANKERS, At his Old Stand, Main Street, Nevada. GOLD DUST BOUGHT st the Highest Market tes. “saa? CHECKS on Sacramento and San Frana the U.S. Braech Mint, for Asse 5 réedte the U.S. ae! at. for y atin ata made on the same ifrequired. Highest Brice peid for County Serip. G. E. WITHINGTON, PEALER IF French and American Paper Hangings, {NDOW SHADES, Brass Cornice Gold Mouldings, Paints, &c. Painting ofell » gare ga hangJ. F. HOOK. DEALER IN BOOTS AND SHOES! ! BRICK BUILDING, OPPOSITE St. LOUIS HOTEL Commercial > sz A fall assortment of LADIES and CHILDREN’S SHOES, wand GAITERS, Leonard Benkert's Quilted-Bottom Boots -Coustantly on hand and for sale at Reasonable Rates. Jez Boots Made to Order.7 Repairing done at sil times and 5.e. HOOs 9 AVE SOLD MY ENTIRE WOOD BUSIat oy . M. HIXSON & CO., and recommend them to my customers. SIMON =, ee v LD entire Lot of Wood, near Bf Neto Wood Ranch . to J. M. BISON &09., who is ready to All all orders s 4 Vy + s00CORDS of Dry Oak ‘Wood, Wits more being Fes ag if ae are t. 08 4 “e014 send to No. 77 Broad et., 90 "ey ae ee enon. er 3 — NATIONAL EXCHANGE, NU. $2 & 34, BROAD STREET, NEVADA. GEORGE R. LANCASTER, Proprietor. THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECTFULLY announce to the Citizens of Nevada and vicinSos ae Sones Pu; Bg tA he endl nowa HOTEL, known . whe NATIONAL EXCHA on Brood stres’. . The Building Is of Briek, three stories high, and THOROUGHLY FIRE-PROOF, (Having stood two Fires.) The several apartments have recently been fitted up in @ Style that cannot be surpassed. The Beds and Furniture are New, And for Comfort cannot be excelled. THE TABLE will at all times be supplied with all the VARIETIES the Market affords GAME SUPT PYTERS, GOT UP TO ORDER. Particular sttention will be paid to the accommodation of LADIBS AND FAMILIES wee SFL S RS, coun not govt om from the NATION AL EXCHANGE. une ea OPEN ALL NIGHT. -@ EB . wi Choicest Wines, Liquors, and Cigars. Having had experience at the b lam con: ates of being able to make the NATIONAL the best Hotel in the Mountains. and a comfortable Home for Travelers. CHARGES WILL BE MODERATE, TO SUIT THE TIMES. SI A LIVERY STABLE 18 CONNECTED WITH THE HOUSE, AND = attention will ry ao to the care of Horses, triages, &c. Horses and Carriages can at all times be procured, by application at the Bar. GEO. R. LANCASTER, Proprietor. FASHION RESTAURANT! Commercial, ag yy St. Nevada. (Opposite Tallman & Turners’s Store.) HE UNDERSIGNED WOULD INFORM the citizens of Nevada, and al] those wishing a Good Square Meal, That be has opened, and is now keeping a FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT On Commercial street, under the above name, which will be conducted in the best style, and in a manner that can— fail to please all who may favor him with their cusom. Having had many years experience in the business the proprietor is determined to keep the Ris t inthe Mountains. me ee + will be suplied with all ae varieties . to be found in the Market, and Meals Served up at All Hours. Always on band, and cooked to order, Chickens, Quail and Hare, And particular attention will be paid t getting up 4am GAME SUPPERS TO ORDER. -ya OYSTERS SERVED UP IN EVERY 8TYLE. I have employed the best Cooks to be found fn the State Bar Give mea trial and satiafy yourselves that you can asgooda meal ascan be bad at Sacramento or San Francisco. C.B Nevada, April 34 1860.—27-tf . IRISH, Pro'r. North side of Broad street, three doors above Pine, Nevada. HE UNDERSIGNED BEGS LEAVE TO. announee to the citizens of this place and vicinity, . that he is now keeping a FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT, And has fitted it up in a atyle unsurpassed by avy in Ne. . vads. Ap experienced Cook has been employed, and Game Suppers, Will be prepared in the Lest style, te order. The best. and pothing but the best the Market effords, will at ali tames be provided The proprietor himself that the ESTABLISHMENT shall be conducted to the ENTIRE SATIS® ACTION OF ALL Who may favor bim with their patronage, JYorims,Meals Fifty Cents, AND SERVED UP AT ALL HOURS. A. BERNARDI, Pro’r. Nevada, July 9th 1860.—41-tf UNITED STATES HOTEL. BROAD S8T., A FEW DOURS BELOW PINE, NEVAIA, THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE REfitted and completely renovated the building formerly known as the ‘‘lemocrat re poe ‘for the purpose of carrying op the Hotel susiness ‘Lbey are pow prepared to accommodate Travelers in as good style as any other HOTEL IN THE MOUNTAINS, THE ROOMS are well ventilated, and are furnished with the best of beds and bedding. THE TABLE will be bountifully supplied with all the varieties found in the Market. Fifty Cents, Leagt ae. pee nih, . © een bbete rn bad 5 WG) Perv fustl & PARKER. Proprietors. Dentistry! Dentistry!! iss SURGICAL AND MECHANICAL. DCocToOR IBVABONW CALLS ATTENTION TO HIS OFFICE, (Oven Broce & Co’s CLrotHuinG StoRz,) Corner of Pine and Commercial Streets, NEVADA, WHERE GENTLE TREATMENT AND RELIABLE OPERATIONS Will Induce the Nervous to Submit with CONFIDENCE TO HIS MODE OF PRACTICE. TEE DOCTOR'S Artificial Teeth. ARE A PERFECT COUNTERFEIT OF NATURE, AND FIXED FROM ONE TO A COMPLETE SET. His Terme for Stopping, Cleaning, Extracting, and Other Operations, Each, gar TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS. “se Dr. Levason’s Powders, Tinctures and Brushes to be had at bis Office Ur Srams. mt Kmasy’s New Batce, over Block & Co’s Clothing Store, His Permanent Resi. dence, or, at E. F. Spence’s Drug Store, Broad Street, Nevads, Nevada, Mareb 26th 1860.—18-3m DENTISTRY. : DR. A. CHAPMAN, DENTIS , CALLS a clar attention to his Tooth Anodyne, minet “gad Fae Hy an. ova ome hie minulidition to be filled without eausing pein, where it . entions performed in & peat sod substan: . tal bint a senet, abd satiehection guarantesd im all cases. ‘g Brick corner of Ormca—In Kidd & Knox's m Bey.” hon Cash. mein permanently. January, 1860.—tf H. W. GALVIN, . ville, bas in bie employ 28 men. engaged in ma . the Joux Nvexst’s Vaiepicroxr.—-We anuounced last week, that Joba Nugent, for man) yeare editor of the San Franciseo Herald, had retired from that paper on account of the dilferences of opinion between bimself and the controlliag proprietors. He closes bis valedic tory as follows; To the press of the interior of the State i have been indebted, during wy editorial career for a thousand kioduesses, 1 bave met at thei baude with a manly opposition whew they oppored me, and with a geveroua appreciation When agreeing with thme the in opinion, . may add that between the preseut proprietors of the Herald aud my»elf the most courteous telutions have obtained trom the beginning. We part with mutual good will aad esteem. Betore closing this card 1 deem it my duty t+ correct sume erroneous etatements as to th: motives which bave hitherto prompted me to a non intervention policy in regurd to the Presidential election. Up to the present morning the editorial control of the San Francirco Hrald has never passed out of my haud« I had the right at any time to declare for either can didate and I alone am responsible for the si lence the paper bas maintained. I deemed it my duty, as the editor of a Democratic jourval, to permit all means of conciliation to be ex hausted before driving this auhappy coutreverey to extremities, f hed hoped the Central Committee, composed as it is of worthy and patriotic gentlemen, could bave devised some measure of compromise ; and until all hope of euch a hapoy result of their deliberations should be at an eud, I deemed it unwise to take a position that must have embittered, more aud more, a large portion of the Demuvcracy of the State. But there ie no longer any hope of cv operation or affiliation between the two sections of the party ; and if I bad remained in coutrel of the Herald I would bave felt it incombens upon me to declare now for that candidate who I betieve received whatever there was of regu lar nomination bestowed by the Democracy ot the Union. That man is Mr. Dougias. Of the reasous which guide me in supporting that gentleman, it may not become me now to sp: ak at length in these columns, I hope to bave fre quent opportanities to explain them in person te the Democracy of California in the course of the present canvasa, Deata FRoM a Ratrixsyakk Bits.—On Thuisday, August 2d, at Koight’e Lauding. William Cox, who wae playing with a rattlesnake which had recently been caught, was bitten by the suake on the forefinger of the right hand. He thought but little of it; but in half an bour be began to suffer great pain, aud applied to a physician but too late. He died in four or five hours, The deceared was about twenty years of age, avd formerly from Miesouri, A Hit.—At a Demoeratio ratification meet ing, recently held at Clarksville, El Dorado county, one of the speakers aunounced that Dr. Gwiu bad arrived at San Francisco, with Latham in one pocket and the Pacifie Railroad avd Overland Mail Bills in the other, It has heen suggested that be ought to bave put Charley Scott into the Latham pocket in order to make it balavce the bill pocket, Straws, etc.—Ex-Mayor Swan, of Placer king a road to the summit. A vote for Presi deut was taken among them. a few days since without any reference to, or kuowledge ot, their political prefereuces. Bancrort’s Histrory,—The eighth volume of Ba croft’s History, embracing the period immediately after the battle of Banker Hill down ' to the Declaration of Independence, bas been published, The time is but littl over a year but is one of the most interesting and stirring . epochs in American bistory. Sace or a Virarsta Goto Ming.—Col. J. B. Morgan has sold recently the “Old Eayle”’ gold mine in Stafford couuty, Va., to a com pany of Boston and New York gentlemen for $25 000. Col. M. it said to have purchased it three yeare age for $9 000, . Evex Spiits.-The Sacramento Democratic . Committee stood eight for Douglas and eigh for Breckinridge; the San Joaquin Committee stood five and five. Two Conventions were called in both counties, An Empenor’s Girt.—Mr. J. W. Tooker, a jeweler of San Francisco, bar received from the Emperor of Russia a eplendid ring. valued at . $2.000. in retarn for some specimens of gold . bearing quartz be bad sent to the Emperor. Ay Oup Batt.—The post mortem examina-. from Mr. Jacob Smith, a note stating that the lead of Prince Jerome Bonaparte . known as the Great Western, assayed $2,750 to tion of the body led to the discovery of a ball which had remain. *. however, that the fire had melted which resulted as follows: Douglas, 26; Breck. crust, and that the fire and all had “drap inridy, 1s Lineolu, 1. The men were employed . Sbout thirty feet, . per ton; and as . Stockton City Cemetery on Saturday week. . pali . for blasting the rock, for breaking and ha . of a gold excitement in that place: and are assured by ate Ray het gold has un. doubtedly been disco , but whether in paying uantities, is yet to be ascertained. The auriferous irt is found on the beach, at the foot of the bluffs, in deposits or drifts, of black sand, and is udoubt. edly of the same character as the cers of Gold . Bluff, which created such an excitement in San Francisco and elsewhere, in 1851, and which, we believe, has been worked ever since, although the miners have always found it very difficult to sepa. tate the gold from the sand, the of the! ious metal being so remarkably ne. The same ity is to be apprehended here, but we are informed that some of our citizens to test the hly. About twenty-five claims were y, anda meeting on adopted mining laws, and elected a Recorder of claims. The laws as adopted, allows . one hundred Dig to each claim, and requires each . man to record his claim within four days. The excitement was unabated this morning, and at an early hour, large numbers of “‘gold seekers” were on their way to the newly discovered mines. We learn from parties who have just returned, that about ten miles ofthe beach has been staked off. Some of the dirt has been t to town, In which

very fine particles of gold could be seen—too fine, we fear, to be easily separated from the sand. Owzn’'s Laxz.—The Stockton Republican tells us of the locality, sise and peculiarity of this body water: On the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, lies . Owens’ Lake, a body of water forty miles long by five to tenin width. Itis of great, though unknown,.depth ; has none but subterranean outlets, and receives several considerable mountain streams, Its watera are still and clear, but brackish and unfit for use. The Indians fish along ite banks, but were not seen to have any canoes. On the western side there are tracts of fine timber, and in the valleys making into the mountains the Indians cultivate fine grass and clover. These Indians have little villages in the more fertile valleys. On the eastern ofthe lake the country is barren and profitless—torn up by volcanic agencies. The climate in all this region is represented as being sueed to that of Washoe—snow only falling on the ill-tops even in winter. The mines can be worked at all seasons of the year, and the roads are never impassable, except, as in all new countries, during or after a lo’ ntinued rain. The moat inviting portion is in the immediate vicinity of the mines, where, for someten mules square about Silver Mountain, there is a wees pews ofthe pinon (a species of pine) tree, which, though small, can be uaed to construct houses, and makes the very best of firewood. Water is scarce in the mining region, exce Y digging for it, when it is easily reached, and in abundance. Mowuntarn Meteoro.vocy.—Dr. Kibb, contributes to the Sierra Citizen a table of the meteoro! of Downieville for nine months, ending with July past. The observations were made under the direction of the Smithsonian Institute. The amount of rain and melted snow forthe period named was 68.59 inches, which is extraordinary. It will be remembered that rain and snow storms continued in that vicinity until July. The greatest amount in one month was 20.51 inchesin Novemberlast. The mean temperature per month ranged from about 26 1-2 degrees above zero, in January, to 67 6.37 in July. The coldest day was December 6th, when the mercury sunk to 1 above zero ; and the warmest day was July , when it reached 91 degrees. Very Provoxine.—The Mariposa Gazette, whose editor is continually on the ‘prospect’ for humor, sayaa yof three coming over from Mono to Yosemite, a few days ago, stopped on the deep snow to make some coffee and warm some . } beans. Wood was handy and they built up a rous~. ing fire. About the time the aforesaid coffee and beans were ready for consumption the whole arIt appeared, the firm snow down where it was boiling, sizzling and stewing, and still sin . Asit was impossible to get at it, the party sorowfully shouldered their packs and marched. rangement suddenly disappeared. Sort SueLL CLams.—The great discovery of the century, says the Alta, was made not long ago by some industrious Mongolians, followers of the calling of Peter and Andrew, who were casting their nets in the turbid waters of Mission Bay. This discovery consisted of an apparently inexhaustible bed of the most delicious bivalves that have ever tickled the palate of a and, known as “‘soft-shelled clams.” These clams are now sold in the market at fifty cents per hundred, and are eagerly sought after by such of the lovers of shell fish as have been made acquainted with the discovery. Tus Fremont Mines—In king of these mines, the Mariposa Gazette says at the expenses ng it, the gold, will not exceed now $5 clone] Fremont is crushing ninety tonsa day, with an average yield of from $25 to $50, there will be left a large balance in his favor, and for extracti t . which will soon enable him to surmount all the dif. ficulties that are still in his way, and enable him to come out all right. Fine 1n a Cemuteny.—A fire occurred in * t raged fiercely in the ass. By strenuous exerdo. the fence pod + lot = saved, but the around many of the graves, together with the shrubbery, were consumed, Many beutiful tombs and grave stones were also ruined by the fire, Coso Minze.—The Visalia Delta has received the ton, and that the Pioneer lead assayed $2,862 to the ton. All the assays that have made ed in his chest after a duel which he fought in . are from or very near the surface. bie youth with a brother of Marshal Davoust. Escarze or a Mvunperer.—A man named . Masonic Syusots.—The Grand Lodge of Free . Elijah Lee, under indictment in E] Dorado county . and accepted Masons, which met recently n. New York. adopted a resolution condemning . the 27th of June, and bronght down as far as the practice of patting Masonic symbols on . signs and business cards, — Sreciat Post Orrice Agent.—The Alte learns . .1114 of Mr, Keller, who that John Fergason, formerly Deputy Postmarter at San Francisco. has been asppwinted epecial agent for the Department on this coart. A Rice Max.Wm. B. Astor. son of the late John Jacoh Astor, is eaid to be worth at Ly least $25.000.000. He is, andoubtedly, the wealthiest man on the American continent. Ixeayrry.— During the year ending Jane 30th forty insane persona were sent from San Francisco to the Stockton Asylum, Joux G. Saxe, the poet, has been nominated Democratic Convention of Vermont, asa didate for Governor. The Convention was held Montpelier, July 26th and the delegates were Soot fee thoudhes and Mibtasn. . { for the murder of a miner named Miller, was arrest. ed near Round Valley, in Mendocino county, Se } Valley in Napa county, w he broke loose last Friday night and escaped. Drix~xino Kexosexz.—On Monday « little keeps the Eureka Ho in Marysville, got hold of a can of kerosine oil an drank a large quantity. An emetic was administer ed in good time, and the child was soon past any danger. Avrora Bonzarts.—A fine exhibition of this henomenon was noticed at Sacramento early on uesday morning of last week. It crimsoned the nomhern heavens like the reflection of tules on fire, and was without radiating lines. as thet eetheslage snd Lane aze tee regulat claims i a are the regu nominees of the Democratic party; while the Plumas Standard, another Breckinridge organ, seys they . are not. in the town portion of The Great Desert of Pinacate. Five leagues to the northward of Sonoita, a border town on the line of Sonora and ew Mexico, commences a desert which extends for twenty to the Gulf of California, A correspondent of the Bulletin thus describes it ; aap to yourself all of the shifting sande of desert, or the great dunes of the English coast re ona more colossal scale, while over all towers the vast volcanic cone of the extinet crater of Pinacate, which, from its eighty-seven mouths, (Humboldt gives it ninety-four.) has poured destruction over hundreds of miles of country-—— color the pictures as bighly as you will, it falle far short ef the reality. Over this trackless waste our guide led us with unerring step, beguiling the time with etrange traditions and wilder legends of his ancestry, chiming well with the desolation around us. The ground is crossed by innumerable atreams of lava, fresh aud sharp aw if cooled but yesterday, though thousauds of years have paae agen sinee their production, while piled up oa band, are vast blocks of ecoria, pumice, obsidian and other voleauio stones strangely intermixed with metamorphic rocks of every stage of transition. The temptation to the geologist was great, but we dared uot stop even to view at leisure a curious cavero, of gigantlo dimedeiona, eaid to communicate with the sea, and strewn with the rude offeriugs of the votaries of the Papago faith. The failing state of our mules warned us to burry on to reach that wa ter which alone would be their and our salva. tion, In these boundless arid wastes, the sileuce of desolation perpetually reigns; no tree is seen except here and therea straggling, stuuted mezquite; the vegetation is limited to the fetid hediondilla, the monotonous artemisia, the salicorms annua and other alkaline plants; a solitary rabbit, a lonely quail, or an occasioual rattlesnake, give the ooly evidence of animal lite, while the eayote, the vulture and the carion-crow avoid them as a spot under ban. The mules’ boofs sink deep as be toll wearily over the treacherous sand or crash through the decvittul saliue crust which covers the surface; the sun glares red and lurid through the driving sleet, anu hia rays reverberate In the esandswirls like in the foous of a burning-glass; while above all, atera and pitiless, towers the peak of Pinacate, black and grimy from the hell fires which have left its sidvs rifted and lava-seamed —the very incarnation in stone of God’s judgments against an impeniteut world, The steppes of the Pinacate are rarely visited by civilized belugs, and I was told that none hed penetrated to the crater, as the Papagos obetinately refuse to act as guides, under the impression that some evil would inevitably befall them, The great gulf of the crater ie intimately connected with all thelr superstitions, Mectezuma, whom they identify with the Sun aud the Spirit of Evil,eft them, they say, thousande of moons ago, with an tnfesotion to await his return, and descended into the central abyss, The moon, or good goddess, formerly his spouse, has ber seat in the Sierra Blancha, a mountain chaia to the westward; and these divinities, like many ® muodane palr, are engaged in constant conflict. have seen or read Douglas in the Country: Under the above bead the Washington States and Union says : Nearly every Democratic paper in the State of New York supports Douglas aud Johason, aud repudiaics Bivckluvidge and Laue. Every Democratic paper in Indiana supports Doug!ds and Johuson, and repudiates the disunion candidates, Lane and Breckinridge. Every Democratic paper in Wisconsin supporte Douglas aud Johnson, and repudiates the disunion tieket. Every Democratic paper in Illinois that did not support Linceln in 1851, now arene Douglas and Jobnson, and repudiates the dis union ticket of Lane and Breckinride. Iv Missouri four fifths of the Democratic papra eipport Douglas and Joboson, and repudinte the disanion ticket, In M chigan every Democratic paper supporte Douglas and Johnson, Iu Obio every Democratic paper, except the Danite paper at Cleveland, owned by the United States Marebal, supporte Douglas aod Johnson, and repudiates the disunion ticket, The leading Democratic paper io Kaniaehy, the Louisville Democrat, uniter with many others in the support of Douglas, The Memphis Appeal, aud other Democratic papers in Teunessee, support Douglas. The New Orleans True Delta, and other Louisiana papers eupport Douglas, and assure us that the Democratio masses are, two to one, eurnest io bis support. The Mobile Register, Athens Herald, and other leadiog papers of Alabama, support Douglas, A‘l the Democratic papers of Iowa support Douglas. All the Democratio papers of Maine, with a single exeption, support Douglas, All the reliable Democratic papore in New H mye! fre support Douglas. Te D -mocratic papers of Massachusetts, not controlled by office holders, and three which are controlled by them, support Douglas. A'\l th» Democratic papers of Vermont supprt Douglas. In Virginia some of the most influential of the Democratic papers, including Governor Letcber’s home organ, suppert Douglas. It ie undeniable that nineteen of every twenty Democrate in the North and West support Douglas, and that bie friends in the South are every day gaining strength Tue Came Expuniment.—The experiments thus far with the camels introduced in Texas, aud other parte of the South, may be said to be euceesrful. At first it was supposed, they could only be useful in traversing the great desert on plains in the interior of the continent, where there isa deficiency of water. They c-ald cross a derert of 100 miles without water and without stopping, This of iteelf would be accomplishing much. But it now appears that tiie useful anima! has been fotroduced on plantatious with advantage, baving double the strength of the mult or the borse, Whether hitched to a plough or a wagon he does equally well, ad cau carry ou bis back as mush graia a+ can be conveniently packed jn a two horse wagon. Aplanterin Alabama bas written a letter to the N. Y. Journal of Commeree, wherein he enters into particulare as to the advantages and disadvantages uf the camel. The animal does well where the goil is sandy, stony or firm. whi re he can get @ good footing. On wet and muddy soil hv moves slowly and cautiously even with a moderate load. He is used on plasitatione te draw wagons, plough, gin cotton and carry it to market, but the present bigh price of the animal will prevent ite introduction. The camel thrives on the poorest food, and being ogelly reared may yet be introduced more extensively in the Southern States, oe eee Rega omniny !—Gor. Weller jen a fe bie r ‘or not iy yee gias, qutes bad fallen into s San Fravciseo for whom be never bad any rpect; yet at the same peor voted for candidates positions w were blers of thirty years and with oe be could not cenociate og oe could not recognise them as gentlemen! Now he bas become fastidious.—Sre. DOUGLAS IN BOSTON. gives a lengthy account of enator Douglas at Boston, rooms at the the rash was so Revere House, great that the police were obliged to be called in to assistin restoring order. About nine o’clock in the evening, the appearance of Bowdoin Square was particularly fae, and since the reception of Webster, eo large a crowd had not by Oliver Stephens, and as #o6n as the tumultuous applause had subsided, he spoke as follows from the hotel baleony : ree oa vast sea of human faces warns me that it is impossible forvoice to make feet beard o by thi vast assemblage, Iam . med with the honor that you bave conferred by this spontaneous assem of countless thousands to pay homage, not to me individually, but to great principle of constitutional liberty, selfpocuanay which eae gr all our free instiTam i that T now have the boner te speak from the same baleony from which your a Webster, in 1850 [great cheering,} deended his action in support of the principle of non-tntervention by y ae with slavery io the Territories, as in the legislation of that year, [Renewed ae he koowledge of the fact that I speak from the same. balcony, in defense of the same priociple that the immortal Massachusetts statesman vindicated as the crowning act of his life, is sufficient to account for this unparalleled assemblage of the national men of Massachusetts. [Applause. The history of Massachusetts is the history constitutional liberty. In Massachusetts, have free institutions bad their birth, The battles of the Revolution were all fought in defense of the right of the people, of colonies, and provinces and territories, as well of sovereign States, to manage their own affairs and to establish their owa institutions. [Loud burrabe,] It ia natural, therefore, that the people of New England, the descendants of those revolutionary sages and patriots who establiehed our form of government, should now stand ayne in defense of the principle upon which our eatire political system reate, The liberties of this country are now put in peril by sectional prejudice ned. Bec: tional ambition against the peace and harmony of the whole country, Qn the one hand you find a great Northern seetional party appealing to the North against the South. On the other hand you find a sectional party southward appealing to the po of the South against the North, The Republican party demands possession of the Federal Government, in order that its power may be wielded for the prohibition of 8 pire’ . where the people wantit, Tho Southern sectional party demand possession of the Federal Government in order that the power of the government may be wielded for the defense and maintenance of slavery where the ple don’t want it, [Laughter and cheering.) hese two acctional parties are in direct conflict with each other, and are producing that “irrepressible conflict”’ which can never be reconeiled until you reour to the doctrine that Congress sball not interfere with the domestic {oatitutions of the people anywhere. [Kathusiastic applause.] or the last few years the whole time of Congress has been employed in the discussion of the slavery question, to Lhe exclusion of . tant business effecting the whole country.— Whenever you ask your representatives why they did not revise the revenue system in order to defray the expenses of the Government without borrowing meny millions of dollars a year, they tell you they bad not time. {Laughter} The whole time was occupied in the discussion of slavery, and there was no time to raise money to pay your honest debts. When you ask your representatives why it was that the Pacific Railroad had not been made you were told that there was no time, because the slavery question absorbed the cotire session of Congress, When you ask your representatives why it is that the mail system bas not been reformed and carried on with vigor throughout the country, you are told that the bill was lost for want of time, oom ate When you ask why it is that you ve no overland mai! route to the Pacific, and no steam lines, you are told that the slavery question occupied the whole session, and the bills wore lost for want of time. [Renewed laughter.) Thus you find that all the great measures Which affect the commercial interests, the shipping laterests, the manufaeturing interests, the industrial interests of the country have been lost for want of time, My fellow-citizens, there never will be time to perform the duatics for which the Government was made unless you banish forever the slavery question from ‘the halls of Oongress and remand it to the people of each State and Territory, according to the platform of the Democratic party, [Prolonged and vociferous cheering.) This great principle of non-inteference by the Federal Government aod popaine Sovereignty in the States and Territories is not peculiar to the Democratic party. It was affirmed in the Compromise Measures of 1850; it was affirmed in the Whig platform of 1852, as well as that of the Democrats ; it was affirmed by all national men in those days, and sbould be sustained by all national, conservative, Union loving men in the present day. {Loud a My fellow-oitizens, I return to you my profound acknowledgments for the kindness which has assembled you together, and for the respectful attention with which this vast assemblage has listened to my desultory remarks, [loud cries of “Go on,’’ “go on;”’] and again renewing to you my thanks I beg to take my leave of ou, bidding you a good-night. (Loud and ong continued cheering,} MASTIOATION BY MecuaNIOAL Means,—A rare instance of a perfect recovery from a desperate wound was recently brought under the notice of the Paris Academy of Medicine by Mr. Larrey, whe at the eame time presented to them ao American, Mr. Preterre, to whose mechanical skill the attainment of the full result wae due. At the battle of Magenta, a seargent of the 85th of the line was struck by s musket ball, which, after completely shattering the lower jaw, came out behiad from under the skall, close to the cervical vertebra, which had they been injared would have rendered the case hopeless, It ia barely credible that so extensive an injury, inflicted in so important a region Of the haman frame, could bave admitted of cure; and it refiects high credit on the army surgeons who attended him. To restore the power of mastication by mechanical meas, Mr. Preterre was called in, and suceeeded in the accomplishment of his task by an ingenious contrivance, which has poen, Greeny admired by the first surgeons of Fravom anp Esoisnp.—A writer in a number of the Edinburg Review, esti the commerce of de gers ty that of late that Eogland