December 16, 1857 (4 pages)

be a ee ee . . a aa cee sata et ar oe cd = than and fees of officers? We propose N EVADA DEMOCR A i ; in anil ectiesak this cones, poi to ye calculations, on both propositions eveneions i ¢ we took. “to submit . with the view of presenting the relative merits pomearinn Moos to ow Agr fe eae och . sade Zsa tion of the tax payers of the . ef the two plans, and to elicit the approval of aco. H. Lovegrove is our fathorised Agent r. county some tics, showing the present in. that, which all thing# considered, shall be deemSacramento, to receive advertisements and for the . aehtedness of the county—the period of time it . ed most consonant to justice and good policy. oo would require with our present revenue to reWe will on that “ scezgnie oheiom tax . NESD. : ts on the general fund already . upon real and personal property should not exeval OS be: So ss Si, cn aabianip one the debt wheh ceed two dollars in the one hundred. For the we eer ere must necessarily accrue during the time we . past year in this county it has been 1 80 in the A very bitter feeling has been aroused 4 shall be engaged in collecting revenue to pay . $100. As somo excuse for alluding to the poserra county in consequence of the act of the the existing debt. In our estimates of the pro. sibility of an increase of taxation, lest we should Governor in granting ® respite to Butler. A bable annaal revenue for the next four years, . be deemed heretical, it may perbaps be not immeeting was held in Downieville «few days we placed the aggregate assessment roll at . pertinent to mention that in the adjoining counago, and resolutions passed, in one of which it $4,000,000, which is about 20 per cent more. ty of Placer, the property tax was last year is stated that they have reason to believe that) 11 1 1. scseesment roll of the present year— . $2 25 in the $100 00. Gov. Johnson designs granting Butler anun-) . ) a nothing for the delinquent list,. We will further assume that the law of 1857 conditional pardon previous to the eee which must always be considerable—we added . which divides the monies arising from merof his term of office. We scarcely believe the. 11, cont or in other words doubled therev. chants licenses of the two lowest classes, beGovernor has any such intention. The respite enue from the poll tax, compared with either of . tween the State and county should be repealed, was extendtd beyond his term of office, evidentthe past two years—we estimated the revenue . and that the law as it stood under the aet of ly with the object of placing the responsibility . Foreiga Miners’ Licenses at the bigh-. 1854 should be revived, so as to give all the of granting or refusing # pardon upon his suc-. . figure, justified by our collections during the . monies arising from these classes of licenses to cossor. For this reason we have been satisfied past twe years—ndded a considerable sum to the . the counties, We do not advocate the restorathat the ends of justice would at length be atreceipts from merchante licenses on account of . tion of the old law, because it was the law, but tained, for the same influences which might the more thorough system of collection em. because it is manifestly just and right, that the induce Gov. Johnson to grants parden would ployed by the present Treasurer, and found . monies arising from these classes should go exhave no effect upon Col. Weller. It is very that with all our hypothetical additions our . Clusively to the counties. As it rests upon probable, too, that naPoasyiel the et rat annual revenue would amount only to $29,600. . g00d reason we canuot but believe, that if it is esented to Gov. Johnson. Ahemen ed to the attention of the next ped roe the mont active in endeavoring . 1° ‘hls estimate an omission was made of the . properly presented to procure Butler's pardon were all vigilance 888, leaving . through—and in support of it we have to offer sympathisers, and have heretofore delighted in tore od we abenaned he about 928 the following considerations. holding forth to the people on the inadequacy . 719, The law of 1854 made ten classes of merof the Jaws to punish crime, and the only object) From data furnished by the Auditor, it ap-. chants licenses. The first eight classes included they can have in thus endeavoring to dofeat. .4.4 that under the present system, our an-. all whose sales exceeded $5000 per month, aud the ends of justice, in by far the worst murder . 14) expenditures will amount to $37,400 in. the revenue from these was given to the State. case ever tried in this county, is to give them scrip, bearing’ 10 per cent interest; and from. The two lower classes which embraced the an excuse to denounce the legal authorities . tnog9 reliable figures, drew the result, that . smaller traders making sales of less than $5000 hereafter. Men who set themselves up 28 pat-. while paying off the existing debt we must ne-. per month, and were subject to a license which terns of morality, and are the most fierce in cessarily contract a new debt, exceeding the . went to the counties, their denunciatians of the faults of others, will present by at least 50, or 60,000 dollars. We take it to be a well established political generally bear watching. We are no advocate of capital punishment in the abstract, and beleive that society should prudence, by aresort to some better system, if . articles of consumption, are paid by the consusuch be practicable, to provide some plan by} mer. It will scarcely be disputed that the same provide means for the confinement of such of-. wnigh our expenditures may be kept within our . goods which are disposed of to the consumer by fenders as have by their crimes rendered them. revenues, and if possible, in the future, to ex. the retafl trader, have first been taxed with the selves unfit to associate with their fellows. The) tinguish the debt altogether. This is desirable . license paid by the importer or wholesale mercertainty of punishment whichfollows, has more . ¢,,, many reasons, amongst which maybe men-. chant. Having once been taxed en masse in effect in preventing crime, than the severity of . tioned, that ultimately we may escape from that . the cities of San Francisco, or Sacrament, is it the punishment ; and when crime is clearly . (.4,ou5 taxation, which is the inevitable atten-. right that these same goods should be followed made out, whatever penalty the laws decree, . gant of a large public debt. As we have here-. into the bands of the retail trader as they are should invariably be meted out to the offender. . t,fere promised to furnish some information as . dispersed over the State and again taxed for i Hatake. mie he to the manner in which the debt of the county . State purpeses. It seems tous that the State has grown up we give below all the items of/having once collected an impost upon all the expenditure since the fire of 1856 on account of . commodities of trafic in the great cmporiums of extraordinary objects, trade through which they must necessarily pass, Rebuilding and furnishing Court any further tax upon them shoull go to the Prosrect or A Famrvs.—Several of the Bay papers have been endeavoring to create the impression that the stock of wheat and flour now on hand in the State is sufficient to last the inhabitants only about three months, and that out of this amount the wheat used for seed by the farmers will have to be deducted. These papers, itis thought, are under tho control of Rent of court rooms and offices. 3,218 50 aaa Building Recorders office, after fire 1,009 00 to, the. coneumer, Books for Clerks office... 8,055 60} The practical working of this is fair and the flour speculators at the Bay. The San Fran+ entit Treasurer.. 263 00 . equitable. For instance, in the city of San : : oundy Sears HFT ETS. T : ahs li abe : eiiger ey ; cisco Herald, of Friday, contains a table comTegi Bervices "Meliinat wane a 1,200 00 Francisco, ~ coo sph ane a oaeean piled from the Assessors’ reports of the several) Building gallows.... 370 00 . $100,000 per month, pays a Iccense of $50. counties, setting forth the agricultural products. Referee’s fee. County vs. sureties This license tax he charges upon the price of of thirty counties, leaving sixteen yet to be . of Wright...eeeeee eee eee ees 150 00 . his goods, ultimately to be paid by the consuadded, from which reports had not been receivBry pre mer. He sells one half of his goods to the retail $44,478 80 i 7 ; ed. From the thirty counties heard from the The above sum it will be seen is composed of merchants in the same city; the other half to the retail merchants in the interior. The counyield of wheat is 2,212,026 bushels, which is items, not of ordinary expenditure, and which : : 938,640 bushels less than the amount raised in. 4.9 ostly occasioned by the destruction of ty of San Ek rancisco collects for county purposes the same counties last year. The 2,212,015 . 4), county property in the fire. The total the license falling upon the class of retail merbushels of wheat, when redaced to flour, would amount of warrants drawn on the general fund chants, and the interior counties do the same. amount to 442,405 barrels, and estimating the . since the 19th July 1856, is.. $104,545 92 Thus each eounty derives from this source of consumption at 40,000 barrels : ecitone Deduct the amount above.. 44,478 80 ves * ee “adn Yan we torn rrels,) would be —— . sumption of its inhabitants. Bu is the ioe tor “i nda fy fli eleyen. Ordinary expe’s since July 19, 56 $60,067 12 . pegult of the change made in the law of last H heard from . This covers a period of: about one year and 4 . session? ~Nine-tenths or more of the population sobasit Twiant tlie prions 1856. half; making the ordinary county expenditures . of the State, receiving their stores from these Add to the probable yield of these counties the per year about $40,000, By reference to our . two cities, are thus taxed for the support of the amount to be received from Oregon, and some former article, it will be seen that our estimate county governments of these two favored counidea may be formed of the legitimacy of flour of expenditures per annum is $37,400, hetag ties. The law of 1857, providing that “all licoduulaiions, $2,600 less than those of the last year. Tho . conse moneys shall hereafter be paid into rhe v's . lows of the entire property tax of 1856, was. county Treasury, one half for State purposes, “Last or tas Ficipusters.’’—We have received a copy of the above work, which ie @. depreciation of the county scrip. The conse. are forced, therefore, to believe that these conpamphlet of eighty-five pages, written by Wm. . quence of which has been that the cost to the siderations, induced the distribution of license Frank Stewart, a Captain in Walker's army . county of rebuilding and furnishing the Court . moneys made by the act of 1854, and which during the siege of Rivas, The author seems . House, and also of every other class of expenses . .ontinued down to last year; and that the . to have a personal spite towards Walker and Heaningsen, and complains of hardships en. been greatly augmented. It is safe to say that . .ommercial ities, which have thus been enabldured, which it was not possible for the com{had the county had the cash to pay, instead of . .4 ty givide with the State government, a tax mianders to foresee or avoid. We have not yet . $104,000, the sum of $65,000 would have cov-. aig by the people of the whole State, had time to read the work attentively. It was) ered every expense, i Having thus indicated some additional sourprinted at the State Journal office, and got upin. If it isdesirable to devise some plan to ex-. . of revenue for the supply of the county creditable style. The pamphlet can be had at . tinguish the present debt, it may be assumed treasury, we sball hereafter take occasion to Welch’s book store, Main street. as a self evident proposition, that the annual . speak of the arount they are likely to furnish, revenue must be sufficient to pay—lst the ordi. and also of the manner of appropriating it so as nary annual expenses of the county govern. '° Promote the public interests. A. ment—2d the interest annually accruing upon} Horrmre Murper.—We learn from the Marithe outstanding debt—and after meeting these . posa Democrat that a most horrible murder ocexpenses, there must be, surplus of some . curred in the town of Snelling, Merced county, amount to apply as a sinking fund towards the . on the 5th inst. Mr. Wm, S. Snelling was shot payment of the principal debt. by Wm. C. Edwards under the following cirImportant Decision.—Judge Howell, of El Dorado, recently decided that mining claims are not subject to seizure and sale under execution, The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court on this point alone, and we may therefore expect that this question will soon be settled, as the case will be presented in sucha manner that the Court cannot dodgo the issue. he The decisions of the District Courts upon this question have been conflicting. raise such an amount, and the best manner . the evening, Snelling camo out of the supper in which to apply it, in order to discharge the . room in the hotel and approached the bar where debt in the shortest time, two plans present . Edwards was standing. Edwards then addressthemselves, and to putin operation either of . ed some epithets to Snelling, when he drew a them resort must be had to legislative action. . revolver and struck Snelling on the head; as The statutes of the last two or three sessions, . he staggered back, Edwards fired, the ball pasbear abundant evidence that many of the coun-. sing through Suelling’s body. He then made ties are troubled with the same disease which . his way out of the door, and fired at Edwards afflicts the body politic of Nevada, viz, a deple. but missed him; he walked a few steps when he ted treasury anda plethoric debt, To restore . fel], aud died in about an hour. Edwards was a more healthy action, some bave resorted to . immediately arrested by the Sheriff, but sucthe funding system with increased taxation, and . ceeded in making his escape. Measures had others to increased taxation without the fund-. been taken to follow and arrest him, and the ing system, but no financial ingenuity has dis. friends of Snelling have offered a reward of covered a plan which promises te work off the . $1,200 for the apprehension of the murderer. without increased . Mr. Snelling leaves a wife and five children. It is said that Edwards had settled up his business before committing the deed, and purchased two mules for the purpose of leaving the country. a A Criinat Escarep.—On Thursday morning. last, a fellow named Alexis Orlinski, a Pole, made his escape from the San Francisco station house, by knocking down the officer on watch with a bar of iron, and taking from his pecket the key of the door. Orlinski it seems has carried on a regular system of robbing in that city for several years past, and some seven charges were pending against him. The officer whom he koncked down was seriously, though not fatally injured. The police of the city have offered a reward of $700 for the apprehension radical cause of the disease ski, but thus far he has escaped detec, Aa Scie : : , taxation, saving and excepting the Sangrado treatment of repudiation. Ir is reported that Mr. Ten Broeck, the owner! At the same time that we are disposed to reof Prioress, won a quarter of a million of dol-. pel a resort to the plan of funding the debt, as Executions at Sonora.—On Friday, Dec. lars at the Newmarket races. Before the race, . in violation of vested rights, and as impairing . 11th, three men, C, C. Lyons, R. Poore, and D. bets againts Prioress were freely offered at the . the obligation of contracts, we can conceive of . McCauley, convicted of murder and condemned rate of $100 to $1, so that in order to win the . case where it may be excusable on the ground . ‘© be hanged, suffered the extreme penalty of amount reported, Mr. Ten Broeck would have . which justifies all extreme measures, that of ne-. f the law at Sonora. All three made confesto risk only twenty-five hundred dollars. cessity. Asan alternative it is better than re-. 8ionsand long speached. While they were pudiation, and is admitted to be less obnoxious, speaking, a ery of fire was given, which caused San Francisco Finances.—The city authoriWith this prospect in view itis the part of. maxim that whatever taxes are imposed upor Hemee pe ee e $35,139 30 . revenues of the countics in which they are sold . excepting the salaries and fees of officers, has change was effected by those representing the lands in the State of Sonora. aw oe Later from Utah—Hostilities Commenced, A party of immigrants arrived at Los AngeJes on the 4 8th instant, direct from Salt Lake, bringing intelligence from that place to November 11th. By an extra of the Los Angeles Star, we learn that they left Salt Lake city, November 8th, and after traveling two days, stopped for a day or two. While encamped, an express arrived from the city, from whom they learned that Col. Johnson had arrived at Ham’s Fork and taken command; that communications, short but expressive, had passed between the Colonel and Brigham Young, and that Col. Johnson had given orders for bis men to advance on Salt Lake city, where he intended to winter. Seventy-six wagons, containing provisions and clothing for the troops, the property of the government contractors, had been burned by the Mormons, and their cattle and horses, twelve hundred head in all, driven into Salt Lake. A body of armed mounted men came at night to the camp, told the wagon master what they intended to do; gave him time to awake his men and remove their baggage and bedding; allowed him to select one wagon to take his party back to the States; when they set fire to the train, About fifty of the teamsters had returned. Ham’s Fork is said to be about one hundred miles from Salt Lake city; the Mormons were stationed at Echo Canon, about half the troops were expected to pass. A march of two or three days would bring the opposing forces together, anda collision is thought to be inevitable. The Mormon force is represented as having been greatly over-estimated, Almost every available mao has been enrolled, and yet the number fell far short of 10,000 men, . who were in very poor condition, being bedly clad, poorly armed, and with very little provisions. The winter had set in with severity. The snow at Salt Lake was two inches deep and in the mountains where the Mormons were encamped it must have been from six to twelve inches deep. The families in the Territory are lrepresented as being ina suffering condition, for the want of provisions and wood. The above is the substance of the intelligence from Utah, and may be regarded as reliable. It was brought through by parties who were formerly “gentile”? traders at Salt Lake, and who were compelled to sell their goods at such prices as were offered by the Mormons, after which, with their clerks and employees, they left for California, being furnished with a “pass”? from Brigham Young. They confirm the report that was circulated at the time, regarding the company which was massacred on hands of the Indians, in reverge for the criminalacts of some of their members. Small bags, eontaining poison, were found in spriugs, the waterg of which caused sickness and death among the Indians, They mustered their forces, followed and massacred the whole compajny. This would seem to relieve the Mormons of the accusation made against them, that they instigated the Indians to massacre the company. The intelligence which was received some time since, that Col. Alexander had left Ham’s Oregon, in regard to a battle having been fought; for if aconflict really occurred, it must have happened subsequent to the 10th of Nov., which was about the time Col. Johnson had determined to take up his march for Salt Lake.— . 'The report of the battle was received in Portland, Oregon, on the 26th of November, and it is scarcely possible that intelligenee could be brought to that place, from Ham's Fork, in sixteen days, as the distance between the two amongst the causes which produced the great/and the other half for county purposes.” We . places is near a thousand miles. We have ia. . telligence, however, that some Mormons had been taken prisoners by Col. Alexander, and . this occurrence together with the burning of . the wagons, may have given rise to the rumor of a collision, which reached us by way of Ore. gon. . All accounts seem to agree that Col, Johnson . we* about to attempt to enter Salt Lake valley by the route through Echo Canon, which isa deep mountain gorge some fifteen miles in length, and where a few men could destroy a much snperior force, by rolling rocks upon them from the hills on either side. A large force of Mormons were encamped at that place to resist his passage, and some of-our cotemporaries have expressed the opinion that the gov. ernment troops are doomed to ceriain desiruction. But it is not prebable that Col. Jolnson will lead his forces into a place where the odds In considering the ways and means by which . cumstances: About half past seven o'clock in . would be so fearfully against him, He is an experienced and sagacious military officer, and will not needlessly risk an engagement without a reasonable prospect of success, DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT ANGELS.—We are informed by a gentleman from Angels, Calaveras county, says the Ala, that on Wednesday last a man named David Selkirk was probably most fatally injured while attempting to blast a log. The fuse had been fired and after waiting some little time for it to explode, Selkirk went up to the log, and while his face was directly over the charge it exploded, blowing out both bis eyes, tearing off one side of his face, and literally scalping him. When our informant left on Thursday morning, be was still alive, though scarcely a hope was entertained that he would survive, The unfortunate man has a wife and three children. Survey or Sonora.—A party left Los Angeles ashort time since, under command of Capt. Stone, for the purpose of surveying the public They have a contract with the Mexican Government by which they are to perform the surveys on their own even by those most largely interested as credi. great excitement, and about half the crowd left tors, and who as between two evils, would gladthe ecene of execution and went to town. The ly choose the least. We do not desire to inti-. fire was put out after having burned three or mate that the condition of our affairs are so Peeper ow ie otro maroelswhelnes the bad as to present the question of funding as the or the work of incendiaries. alternative of repudiation. We propose only ‘ “ed : : tovsny that it affords the easiest moans of pay-. sgitra vince ce concer ee American Mrs. Jouta Dean Harn is new playing @. ment to the tax payers, and all objections being . “ nor NO miners having jumped a farewell engagement in San Franciseo. It is. removed the mont desirable, as we shall endea. . “ “hich bad previously been staked off by her intention to leave California on the steamer . yor to show. ~ alomanee ther vn tobe a oe A of the 20th inst. warm despute arose; the men asserting their $$ Whet length of time at s given rate of taxa right on the ground that but for their labor the Earraquaxe at Santa Barbara.—On Tuestion, "will it require to liquidate the present) is oss of the claim would not have been deday, Nov. 24th, at 2} o’clock, P.M, an earthdebt, on the basis of the estimates before given veloped; the women adhering to their right of quake shock was felt at Santa Barbara. under a funding system? . And what length of . prior possession. At last a mode of settlement time at the same given rate of taxation, on the . was devised, which satisfied all parties, The Ono Hore.—We direct the attention of our . same estimates will it require, if instead of . mea Reopened to give up the claim to the ladies, réaders to the adver'ti at in anoth ylugon . the funding tem, we. raine by ial t prov they were accepted with it—as husof the Oro Hotel, in Sacramento. 'guffigiont money for éurrent expenses. ofker mere PEM AHS EAPOR Te, alld thE Rigperte . ties of San Francisco have failed to send the money to New York for the payment of the interest on the January coupons. The money, it seems, is in the city treasury, but in conse= of some legal quibbles it could not be sen ee charges, receiving a certain proportion of the land surveyed as a recompense. BorG.ary and Ropsery.—On last Thursday, the 3d inst., some heartless scoundrel entered the eabin of Mrs. Petit, and purloined therefrom some $30, in money and jewelry, consisting of rings, specimens, &e. The lady is a widow and one that struggles hard to earn an honest livelihood.—Placer Courier, 19th inst. Tue Lanp Specusators.—An article in the Chicago Tribune informs us that shoals of people from New England and the Middle States are traveling westward to look after the farm lands and building lots, in which they invested so much money last summer and spring, at a time of great inflation, or upon the security of which they lent money to Western men. The Tribane adds that these investments are hopeless now, and will be so for years to come. the 18th of September, that they suffered at the Fork and started for Fort Hall, must be incor. . °° ‘ at rect,—-as well as the report received by way of prisonment in the county jail for one month. a Assessors?’ Rerorts.—The law requires the ssessors of this State to report once @ to the Cont r, the amount of agricultural produets of their respective counties, the quantity of land under cultivation, &c. ~ From most of the counties, the Assessors have already sent in their reports, from which much valuable information of the industrial resources of the State has been obtained. It is much to be regretted that no report can be made by the Assessor of Nevada this year. The term of office of the late Assessor expired on the first of June, Previous to that time he had assessed all the property of the county, for which he has received his pay, and has since gone to the Atlantic States, In order to get the property of the county assessed before his term of office expired, the late Assesaor was compelled to be very expeditious, and was hurried so much that he had no time to collect agricultural or other statistics, as required by law. He evidently omitted a portion of his duty, but as he has already been paid for his work the omission cannot be remedied. By the statute, is is the duty of the Board of Supervisors to see that the Assessor makes his report, before allowing his accounts. The late Supervisors were probably not aware that such a law was en the statute book. Treasurer's per centage for disbursing, which . legislature, the measure will readily be carried . way between the two places, through which . Masonic Exection.—On Saturday evening last, the following gentlemen were elected officers of Nevada Lodge, No, 13, F. & A.M: Thos. P. Hawley, ‘VY. M.; Wm. L. Phillips, S. W.; James . Yolmes, J. W.; I. Williamson, Tr.; J. F. Rudolph, Sec'y.; A. B, Swan, S. D.; H. M. Kilander, J.D; Wm. Smith and T. Ellard Beans, Stewards; J, H. Helm, Marshal; Fred. Burmeister, Tyler. ™ The following officers were elected in Rough & Ready Lodge No. 52, 6n Saturday the 5th linst: E. W. Roberts, W, M.; S. P. Jackson, S. W.; 8. M. Gillham, J. W.; C. Beckman, T’r.; . Wm. Coombs, Sec’y.; W. D. Washburn, 8. D.; . S. Hayden, J, Dy J, Murphy, Tyler; B. Rob. bins and H, Schardin, Stewards; H, Melbourne, ! Marshal, Ata regular meeting of Nevada Royal Arch . Chapter No.6, held on Monday evening, the . following officers were elected: Thos. H. Cas. well, M. E.H.P.; Chas. Marsh, E.K.; S. W. . Boring, E. S.; J. H. Helm, C. H.; Thos. P. Hawley, P.S.; Tallman H. Rolfe, R.A. C.; A.B. a M. 3d V.; A. Chapman, M. 2d V.; 0. Crandall, M, Ist V.; I. Williamson, Treasurer; . . J. F. Rudolph, See’y.; Wm, Smith, Guard, . Cover or Sesstons—On Monday, Jobn L. Dribbelblis, indicted for grand larceny, was . tried and convicted of pettit larceny. On Thursday the grand jury was empanneled, and after a session of two days, found two indictments, one against Henry Nordyke, for assault withintent to commit bodily injury, and one against Thomas Edwards, for burglary, committed at San Juan. Some time was occupied by the grand jury in examining into the financial affairs of the county, but no report was agreed jon, M. L. Barker, convicted on Tuesday of . an assault with a deadly weapon, was, on Monday, sentetced to pay a fine of two hundred dollars, and Dribbelblis was senteneed to imThe case of Wallace Gehr was set for trial yesterday, and the whole day was consumed in empanueling a jury. . et and orderly as the more retired. that the commercial! world 1 ry much surprised by a discoy made a# Lyons, of a work shop for the manufacture of eounterfeit bank bills, thief this establishment is named Dupont, Po grocer, who passed as enjoying a very some fortune. He commenced his business of counterfeiting in 1849, and had been in 1859 the object of grave suspicions, which at that time could not be. veri had been seized at his house 355,000 ($71,000) franes in bank bills;-s0 well imitated as to deceive the. eyes of the most experienced. Drrunor.—The Yolo County Democrat, of the 10th inst., comes. to’ us in mourning, and an. nounces itself as having died of congestion of the brain. Another notice in the same number says its next issue will be as an independent paper. Joshua P. Haven was recently appointed pj. lot Commissioner for the port of San Francisco in G. R. MeMullen’s place, _ : : Exurnrtion.—The public are respectfally informed that E. F. Spence, Drvacist, will exhibit and sell all kincs of Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Quicksilver and Acids—a} hours of the day and night at his store, No. 21 Commer. cial street, Nevada. Tickets Free. Dry Goops.—Messrs, Steifel & Cohn, No. 64 Broad stroet have just received the largest and most complete assort. ment of Dry Goods ever brought to this place, which they sell at reduced rates. DAGUERREOTYPES.—Those wanting pictures in the high. est style of the art, should call at the Gallery of Mrs. J, p, Rudolp*, in the Democrat building, Broad street, Nevada, Glass Pictures, or Ambrotypes, also made for those who desire them. MARRIED. At the Naticnal Exchange, by John Anderson, Esq, on Thursday evening, Dee. 10th, . Cuas, H, Lawrence, to Miss ConneLia Ketcuv, all of Orleans Flat. In Grass Valley, Dec, 10th, by the Rev. Edmund p, Cooper, Mr. Wittiam H. Srvrr to Mrs. Susan Fovsz, all of Grass Valley. a secre saree NER AR EIR SSSR mt School Exhibition ! . HE SUBSCRIBER WOULD RESPECT. fully inform the citizens of Nevada, and vicinity, that the First Semi-Annual Exhibition of the Nevada Academy, Will be given at the Wevada Theater, ON FRIDAY, THE 18th OF DEC. 1857, Commencing at 7 o’clock P. M. ApMISsION—Boxes, $1,00. Pit, 50 cents. Tickets to be had at Spence’s Drug Store, and at the principal Book stores in the city, and also at the Ticket Office. The Theater will be comfortably warmed. = J. STRATTON : s Principal. Nevada, December 8th 1857. NOTICE TO SCRIP HOLDERS!! ™ owners of the following No’s Scrip drawn on the different Funds are requested to present the same for payment, aa Interest ceases from this date. County General Fund:—No's. 6, 8, 37, 39, 54, 811. hy Road Fund—No's, 10, 11, And all Registered Warrant. on the Indigent Sick Fund, prior to February Ist. 1857. Nevada, Dec. 10th 1857.—11-3t . T. W. SIGOURNEY, Treasurer N. C. NOTICE!! LL PERSONS INDEBTED TO ME, ARE LAX hereby’cautioned against paying the same to ROB. ERT GRAHAM, ashe has no authority to cofect debts due me, All persons are hereby cautioned against negotiating for a note given by the undersigned, to Robert Graham, some time in the summer of 1856, for six hundred dulars, as tha same was fraudulently obtained. 0. B. STONT. Nevada, Dec. 15th 1857.—11-4w7 ORO HOTEL. On K Street, between Second and Third, SACRAMENTO. BS ONE OF THE BEST FAMILY HOTFLS IN THE sj, State, is under the personal supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Hortoy, long favorably known to the public. The ORO is handy to business and amusements, yet qui Every roem in the house has a good window, and is well furnished. Stages leave every day for all parts of the mines, from Scuoot Exurprtiox,—The exhibition by the pupils of Mr, Straiton's school, comes off at the theater on Friday evening. The exercises will . consist of declamations, dialoguer, singing, &.; to which will be added an original farce, written expressly for the occasion. Messrs. Holcomb & Grove’s band of musie will bein ahenlanes: . which will add materially to the interest of the . entertainment, Mr, Stratton has taken much . pains that his seholars may shew off to the best . advantage, and the occasion cannot fail to be interesting. How tann’s Pateyt Rorary Batrery.—This battery for crushing quartz, which many think will supercede all others now in use, arrived on . the ground at the works of the Oriental Quartz Mining Co., about two miles above Nevada, last . week, It was put up by Mr. Howland, who had . only two men to assist him, in a day and a half. . The battery has been examined by many expe. rienced quartz miners, the majority of whom acknowledge it to bea superior invention, We shall endeavor to give a description of the bat. tery in our next issuc. Lectvres.—The first of the course of lectures . for the benefit of the Methodist Parsonage, was delivered by Mr. Sargent last Monday evening, We learn that a large number was in attendance. Mr. Belden holds forth this evening on “Faets and Fancies ;” and the lecture no doubt will be rich and racy. The leeture of Rev. Mr. the house two doers below vs. We Leepa strict night wateh, and admit custcmers at all hours, It shall be our ambition to merit, and we hope fcr a contipuance of public favor. Strangers who rend this, will do well to remember the location, and inquire the character of the ORU Huill, on K street, between Second and Third. While our table and our beds will suit the most particu: lar, our charges are toe low to mention, Farly and late meals to suit all. ll-Im C. HW. HELTON, Pacific Mail Steamship Company's Line, FOR PANAMA Connecting via PANAMA RAILROAD, With the Steamers ofthe U.S. Mail Steamship Company, at Aspinwall. FOR NEW YORK & NEW ORLEANS DIRECT. Departure from Vallejo Street Wharf THE MAGNIFICENT STEAMSHIP SONORA, Will leave Vallejo street Wharf for Panama, wth U.S. Mails, Passengers, and Treasure. SATURDAY, Decemeber 19, at 12 0’cl’k, M. Punctually. Ray~ Passengers by the P. M.S. Co's Line are landed on their arrivals at Panama upon the wharf at the railroad terminus, by the Company’s steam ferry boat, and pro ceed immediately by Railroad Across the Isthmus. To Aspinwall, where the steamers of the U. S. Mail 8.8. Co, are always in readiness to convey them to New York or New Orleans. Passengers for New Orleans proceed by direct steamer from Aspitwall, Through tickets are furnished, including the transit of the Isthmus. Passengers Are notified that all tickets for the steamers of the U. 8. Mail S. 8S. Co. must be presented to their agent at Aspinwall for registry and exchange, as they wil! net Dryden, on “Labor,” will be delivered next Monday evening. Tue Disrricr Covrt met iu regular term on Monday. The evidence in the Kirkpatrick divorce suit was taken and the case argued and submitted to the court. The case of Nicholson, Administrator, against McMahon, was being tried yesterday afternoon. Breach oF Promise.—A suit was commenced last Saturday by Miss Nancy McGrath against Geo. T. McMurray, for breach of promise of marriage. Damages stated at $10,000. The case will be tried sometime during the present term of the District Court. ere a Ratn,—A heavy rain set-in onThursday evening last, and continued without intermission for two daysand nights. During Saturday night it cleared off, and since then we have had pleasent days and cold frosty nights. PersonaL.—Joba A. Clark, formerly 2 Major in the San’Francisao Vigilance Committee, was in town on Monday, and met with a warm reception from John Duane, an old acquaintance. The Major left on Tuesday wording” Tus Amount.—We learn that the profite of the rondo game, got up at San Juan for the benefit of the streets of that town, amounted to sixtyfour dollars. Curistmas Batt.—Mr. and Mrs. Hunerfauth purpose giving a ball on Christmas Eve, at the Central House, on the Washington road. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.—We are under obligations to the Alta Express for the prompt delivery of exchanges; also, to J. E. Mamlin, of Broad street Book Store, for San F r.ucieeo pas . pers. otherwise be available, 4a%Treasure for shipment willbe received on board the steamer until 12 o’clock midnight, Monday May 4th. No merchandise or freight will be received on board af. ter 3 P. M, onthe 4th, anda written order must be procured at the Company’s office for its shipment. For Freight or pereae spoly to FO & BABCOCK, Agents. Cor. Sacramento and Leidesdorff st*. A choice of berths on the Atlantic steamers is secured by the early purchase of tickets in San Francisco. ONSTABLE’S SALE.—State of California, County of Nevada, Township of Eureka,—ss. By virtue of an execution to me delivered issued from the Court of 8, B. Hickman bg an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, bearing date Nov, 19th A. D. 1857 to satisfy a judgment rendered by 8, B, Hickman on the 16th day of Nov, A, D. 1857 in favor of D. RANSOM and against MICrAEL KELLEY and JOSEPH ROBINSON for the sum of one hundred and thirty-six dollars and seventy-seven cents, debt, interest, dam and costs of suit. I have taken in execution, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property to wit: all the right, title and interest of Michael Kelley one of the above named defendants, of, in and te those certain mining claims situated on Moore’s Flat in Nevada county and known as the Buckeye Diggings, and laying north of Moore’s Hotel on said flat, on Saturday the 10th day of January Ai D. 1858, between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M., and 4 o’clock P. M. Sale to take place in front of —oo Moore’s Flat. en as the pro of Michael Kelley to satisty the above demands and peta costs, J 3 Dec, 12th A. D. 1857. JAMES FAY, Constahie. 11-3w HERIFF’'S SALE.—By virtue of a Decree and Order of sale to me directed, aud issued out of the Hon. District Gourt of the 14th Judicial District in and for Nevada County and State of California, on a judgment rendered in said Court on the 15th day of December A. D. 1857, in favor of SAMUEL GRANGER, and against BENJAMIN F. HILL, for the sum of seven hundred dollars, principal debt, and the sum of two hundred and forty-five dollars, interest, iogether with interest on the principal at the rate of five per cent per month from the rendition judgment until paid, together with costs taxed at $20, for the the sale of the following described property, to wit : All of one undivided one-eighth of twenty-seven mining ce in the G Gate M Company, situated in Nouk Ban Juan, in the county an Sate aforecaid, together with all and singular, the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto be! ing. Notice is hereby given, that I will expose to public sale to the highest for cash, all the ae preperty, in front of the Court House door, in the city of Ne jaw on Y, the 5th day of January yy D. 1858, between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M, and 4.0’clock P. M., to satisfy and pay said judgment. Given under my hand this the 5th day of Dec., 1867S. W. BORING, Sheriff Nevada Count? 11-14

be a ee ee . . a aa cee sata et ar oe cd = than and fees of officers? We propose N EVADA DEMOCR A i ; in anil ectiesak this cones, poi to ye calculations, on both propositions eveneions i ¢ we took. “to submit . with the view of presenting the relative merits pomearinn Moos to ow Agr fe eae och . sade Zsa tion of the tax payers of the . ef the two plans, and to elicit the approval of aco. H. Lovegrove is our fathorised Agent r. county some tics, showing the present in. that, which all thing# considered, shall be deemSacramento, to receive advertisements and for the . aehtedness of the county—the period of time it . ed most consonant to justice and good policy. oo would require with our present revenue to reWe will on that “ scezgnie oheiom tax . NESD. : ts on the general fund already . upon real and personal property should not exeval OS be: So ss Si, cn aabianip one the debt wheh ceed two dollars in the one hundred. For the we eer ere must necessarily accrue during the time we . past year in this county it has been 1 80 in the A very bitter feeling has been aroused 4 shall be engaged in collecting revenue to pay . $100. As somo excuse for alluding to the poserra county in consequence of the act of the the existing debt. In our estimates of the pro. sibility of an increase of taxation, lest we should Governor in granting ® respite to Butler. A bable annaal revenue for the next four years, . be deemed heretical, it may perbaps be not immeeting was held in Downieville «few days we placed the aggregate assessment roll at . pertinent to mention that in the adjoining counago, and resolutions passed, in one of which it $4,000,000, which is about 20 per cent more. ty of Placer, the property tax was last year is stated that they have reason to believe that) 11 1 1. scseesment roll of the present year— . $2 25 in the $100 00. Gov. Johnson designs granting Butler anun-) . ) a nothing for the delinquent list,. We will further assume that the law of 1857 conditional pardon previous to the eee which must always be considerable—we added . which divides the monies arising from merof his term of office. We scarcely believe the. 11, cont or in other words doubled therev. chants licenses of the two lowest classes, beGovernor has any such intention. The respite enue from the poll tax, compared with either of . tween the State and county should be repealed, was extendtd beyond his term of office, evidentthe past two years—we estimated the revenue . and that the law as it stood under the aet of ly with the object of placing the responsibility . Foreiga Miners’ Licenses at the bigh-. 1854 should be revived, so as to give all the of granting or refusing # pardon upon his suc-. . figure, justified by our collections during the . monies arising from these classes of licenses to cossor. For this reason we have been satisfied past twe years—ndded a considerable sum to the . the counties, We do not advocate the restorathat the ends of justice would at length be atreceipts from merchante licenses on account of . tion of the old law, because it was the law, but tained, for the same influences which might the more thorough system of collection em. because it is manifestly just and right, that the induce Gov. Johnson to grants parden would ployed by the present Treasurer, and found . monies arising from these classes should go exhave no effect upon Col. Weller. It is very that with all our hypothetical additions our . Clusively to the counties. As it rests upon probable, too, that naPoasyiel the et rat annual revenue would amount only to $29,600. . g00d reason we canuot but believe, that if it is esented to Gov. Johnson. Ahemen ed to the attention of the next ped roe the mont active in endeavoring . 1° ‘hls estimate an omission was made of the . properly presented to procure Butler's pardon were all vigilance 888, leaving . through—and in support of it we have to offer sympathisers, and have heretofore delighted in tore od we abenaned he about 928 the following considerations. holding forth to the people on the inadequacy . 719, The law of 1854 made ten classes of merof the Jaws to punish crime, and the only object) From data furnished by the Auditor, it ap-. chants licenses. The first eight classes included they can have in thus endeavoring to dofeat. .4.4 that under the present system, our an-. all whose sales exceeded $5000 per month, aud the ends of justice, in by far the worst murder . 14) expenditures will amount to $37,400 in. the revenue from these was given to the State. case ever tried in this county, is to give them scrip, bearing’ 10 per cent interest; and from. The two lower classes which embraced the an excuse to denounce the legal authorities . tnog9 reliable figures, drew the result, that . smaller traders making sales of less than $5000 hereafter. Men who set themselves up 28 pat-. while paying off the existing debt we must ne-. per month, and were subject to a license which terns of morality, and are the most fierce in cessarily contract a new debt, exceeding the . went to the counties, their denunciatians of the faults of others, will present by at least 50, or 60,000 dollars. We take it to be a well established political generally bear watching. We are no advocate of capital punishment in the abstract, and beleive that society should prudence, by aresort to some better system, if . articles of consumption, are paid by the consusuch be practicable, to provide some plan by} mer. It will scarcely be disputed that the same provide means for the confinement of such of-. wnigh our expenditures may be kept within our . goods which are disposed of to the consumer by fenders as have by their crimes rendered them. revenues, and if possible, in the future, to ex. the retafl trader, have first been taxed with the selves unfit to associate with their fellows. The) tinguish the debt altogether. This is desirable . license paid by the importer or wholesale mercertainty of punishment whichfollows, has more . ¢,,, many reasons, amongst which maybe men-. chant. Having once been taxed en masse in effect in preventing crime, than the severity of . tioned, that ultimately we may escape from that . the cities of San Francisco, or Sacrament, is it the punishment ; and when crime is clearly . (.4,ou5 taxation, which is the inevitable atten-. right that these same goods should be followed made out, whatever penalty the laws decree, . gant of a large public debt. As we have here-. into the bands of the retail trader as they are should invariably be meted out to the offender. . t,fere promised to furnish some information as . dispersed over the State and again taxed for i Hatake. mie he to the manner in which the debt of the county . State purpeses. It seems tous that the State has grown up we give below all the items of/having once collected an impost upon all the expenditure since the fire of 1856 on account of . commodities of trafic in the great cmporiums of extraordinary objects, trade through which they must necessarily pass, Rebuilding and furnishing Court any further tax upon them shoull go to the Prosrect or A Famrvs.—Several of the Bay papers have been endeavoring to create the impression that the stock of wheat and flour now on hand in the State is sufficient to last the inhabitants only about three months, and that out of this amount the wheat used for seed by the farmers will have to be deducted. These papers, itis thought, are under tho control of Rent of court rooms and offices. 3,218 50 aaa Building Recorders office, after fire 1,009 00 to, the. coneumer, Books for Clerks office...... 8,055 60} The practical working of this is fair and the flour speculators at the Bay. The San Fran+ entit Treasurer.... 263 00 . equitable. For instance, in the city of San : : oundy Sears HFT ETS. T : ahs li abe : eiiger ey ; cisco Herald, of Friday, contains a table comTegi Bervices "Meliinat wane a 1,200 00 Francisco, ~ coo sph ane a oaeean piled from the Assessors’ reports of the several) Building gallows........ 370 00 . $100,000 per month, pays a Iccense of $50. counties, setting forth the agricultural products. Referee’s fee. County vs. sureties This license tax he charges upon the price of of thirty counties, leaving sixteen yet to be . of Wright.....eeeeee eee eee ees 150 00 . his goods, ultimately to be paid by the consuadded, from which reports had not been receivBry pre mer. He sells one half of his goods to the retail $44,478 80 i 7 ; ed. From the thirty counties heard from the The above sum it will be seen is composed of merchants in the same city; the other half to the retail merchants in the interior. The counyield of wheat is 2,212,026 bushels, which is items, not of ordinary expenditure, and which : : 938,640 bushels less than the amount raised in. 4.9 ostly occasioned by the destruction of ty of San Ek rancisco collects for county purposes the same counties last year. The 2,212,015 . 4), county property in the fire. The total the license falling upon the class of retail merbushels of wheat, when redaced to flour, would amount of warrants drawn on the general fund chants, and the interior counties do the same. amount to 442,405 barrels, and estimating the . since the 19th July 1856, is... $104,545 92 Thus each eounty derives from this source of consumption at 40,000 barrels : ecitone Deduct the amount above.... 44,478 80 ves * ee “adn Yan we torn rrels,) would be —— . sumption of its inhabitants. Bu is the ioe tor “i nda fy fli eleyen. Ordinary expe’s since July 19, 56 $60,067 12 . pegult of the change made in the law of last H heard from . This covers a period of: about one year and 4 . session? ~Nine-tenths or more of the population sobasit Twiant tlie prions 1856. half; making the ordinary county expenditures . of the State, receiving their stores from these Add to the probable yield of these counties the per year about $40,000, By reference to our . two cities, are thus taxed for the support of the amount to be received from Oregon, and some former article, it will be seen that our estimate county governments of these two favored counidea may be formed of the legitimacy of flour of expenditures per annum is $37,400, hetag ties. The law of 1857, providing that “all licoduulaiions, $2,600 less than those of the last year. Tho . conse moneys shall hereafter be paid into rhe v's . lows of the entire property tax of 1856, was. county Treasury, one half for State purposes, “Last or tas Ficipusters.’’—We have received a copy of the above work, which ie @. depreciation of the county scrip. The conse. are forced, therefore, to believe that these conpamphlet of eighty-five pages, written by Wm. . quence of which has been that the cost to the siderations, induced the distribution of license Frank Stewart, a Captain in Walker's army . county of rebuilding and furnishing the Court . moneys made by the act of 1854, and which during the siege of Rivas, The author seems . House, and also of every other class of expenses . .ontinued down to last year; and that the . to have a personal spite towards Walker and Heaningsen, and complains of hardships en. been greatly augmented. It is safe to say that . .ommercial ities, which have thus been enabldured, which it was not possible for the com{had the county had the cash to pay, instead of . .4 ty givide with the State government, a tax mianders to foresee or avoid. We have not yet . $104,000, the sum of $65,000 would have cov-. aig by the people of the whole State, had time to read the work attentively. It was) ered every expense, i Having thus indicated some additional sourprinted at the State Journal office, and got upin. If it isdesirable to devise some plan to ex-. .. of revenue for the supply of the county creditable style. The pamphlet can be had at . tinguish the present debt, it may be assumed treasury, we sball hereafter take occasion to Welch’s book store, Main street. as a self evident proposition, that the annual . speak of the arount they are likely to furnish, revenue must be sufficient to pay—lst the ordi. and also of the manner of appropriating it so as nary annual expenses of the county govern. '° Promote the public interests. A. ment—2d the interest annually accruing upon} Horrmre Murper.—We learn from the Marithe outstanding debt—and after meeting these . posa Democrat that a most horrible murder ocexpenses, there must be, surplus of some . curred in the town of Snelling, Merced county, amount to apply as a sinking fund towards the . on the 5th inst. Mr. Wm, S. Snelling was shot payment of the principal debt. by Wm. C. Edwards under the following cirImportant Decision.—Judge Howell, of El Dorado, recently decided that mining claims are not subject to seizure and sale under execution, The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court on this point alone, and we may therefore expect that this question will soon be settled, as the case will be presented in sucha manner that the Court cannot dodgo the issue. he The decisions of the District Courts upon this question have been conflicting. raise such an amount, and the best manner . the evening, Snelling camo out of the supper in which to apply it, in order to discharge the . room in the hotel and approached the bar where debt in the shortest time, two plans present . Edwards was standing. Edwards then addressthemselves, and to putin operation either of . ed some epithets to Snelling, when he drew a them resort must be had to legislative action. . revolver and struck Snelling on the head; as The statutes of the last two or three sessions, . he staggered back, Edwards fired, the ball pasbear abundant evidence that many of the coun-. sing through Suelling’s body. He then made ties are troubled with the same disease which . his way out of the door, and fired at Edwards afflicts the body politic of Nevada, viz, a deple. but missed him; he walked a few steps when he ted treasury anda plethoric debt, To restore . fel], aud died in about an hour. Edwards was a more healthy action, some bave resorted to . immediately arrested by the Sheriff, but sucthe funding system with increased taxation, and . ceeded in making his escape. Measures had others to increased taxation without the fund-. been taken to follow and arrest him, and the ing system, but no financial ingenuity has dis. friends of Snelling have offered a reward of covered a plan which promises te work off the . $1,200 for the apprehension of the murderer. without increased . Mr. Snelling leaves a wife and five children. It is said that Edwards had settled up his business before committing the deed, and purchased two mules for the purpose of leaving the country. a A Criinat Escarep.—On Thursday morning. last, a fellow named Alexis Orlinski, a Pole, made his escape from the San Francisco station house, by knocking down the officer on watch with a bar of iron, and taking from his pecket the key of the door. Orlinski it seems has carried on a regular system of robbing in that city for several years past, and some seven charges were pending against him. The officer whom he koncked down was seriously, though not fatally injured. The police of the city have offered a reward of $700 for the apprehension radical cause of the disease ski, but thus far he has escaped detec, Aa Scie : : , taxation, saving and excepting the Sangrado treatment of repudiation. Ir is reported that Mr. Ten Broeck, the owner! At the same time that we are disposed to reof Prioress, won a quarter of a million of dol-. pel a resort to the plan of funding the debt, as Executions at Sonora.—On Friday, Dec. lars at the Newmarket races. Before the race, . in violation of vested rights, and as impairing . 11th, three men, C, C. Lyons, R. Poore, and D. bets againts Prioress were freely offered at the . the obligation of contracts, we can conceive of . McCauley, convicted of murder and condemned rate of $100 to $1, so that in order to win the . case where it may be excusable on the ground . ‘© be hanged, suffered the extreme penalty of amount reported, Mr. Ten Broeck would have . which justifies all extreme measures, that of ne-. f the law at Sonora. All three made confesto risk only twenty-five hundred dollars. cessity. Asan alternative it is better than re-. 8ionsand long speached. While they were pudiation, and is admitted to be less obnoxious, speaking, a ery of fire was given, which caused San Francisco Finances.—The city authoriWith this prospect in view itis the part of. maxim that whatever taxes are imposed upor Hemee pe ee e $35,139 30 . revenues of the countics in which they are sold . excepting the salaries and fees of officers, has change was effected by those representing the lands in the State of Sonora. aw oe Later from Utah—Hostilities Commenced, A party of immigrants arrived at Los AngeJes on the 4 8th instant, direct from Salt Lake, bringing intelligence from that place to November 11th. By an extra of the Los Angeles Star, we learn that they left Salt Lake city, November 8th, and after traveling two days, stopped for a day or two. While encamped, an express arrived from the city, from whom they learned that Col. Johnson had arrived at Ham’s Fork and taken command; that communications, short but expressive, had passed between the Colonel and Brigham Young, and that Col. Johnson had given orders for bis men to advance on Salt Lake city, where he intended to winter. Seventy-six wagons, containing provisions and clothing for the troops, the property of the government contractors, had been burned by the Mormons, and their cattle and horses, twelve hundred head in all, driven into Salt Lake. A body of armed mounted men came at night to the camp, told the wagon master what they intended to do; gave him time to awake his men and remove their baggage and bedding; allowed him to select one wagon to take his party back to the States; when they set fire to the train, About fifty of the teamsters had returned. Ham’s Fork is said to be about one hundred miles from Salt Lake city; the Mormons were stationed at Echo Canon, about half the troops were expected to pass. A march of two or three days would bring the opposing forces together, anda collision is thought to be inevitable. The Mormon force is represented as having been greatly over-estimated, Almost every available mao has been enrolled, and yet the number fell far short of 10,000 men, . who were in very poor condition, being bedly clad, poorly armed, and with very little provisions. The winter had set in with severity. The snow at Salt Lake was two inches deep and in the mountains where the Mormons were encamped it must have been from six to twelve inches deep. The families in the Territory are lrepresented as being ina suffering condition, for the want of provisions and wood. The above is the substance of the intelligence from Utah, and may be regarded as reliable. It was brought through by parties who were formerly “gentile”? traders at Salt Lake, and who were compelled to sell their goods at such prices as were offered by the Mormons, after which, with their clerks and employees, they left for California, being furnished with a “pass”? from Brigham Young. They confirm the report that was circulated at the time, regarding the company which was massacred on hands of the Indians, in reverge for the criminalacts of some of their members. Small bags, eontaining poison, were found in spriugs, the waterg of which caused sickness and death among the Indians, They mustered their forces, followed and massacred the whole compajny. This would seem to relieve the Mormons of the accusation made against them, that they instigated the Indians to massacre the company. The intelligence which was received some time since, that Col. Alexander had left Ham’s Oregon, in regard to a battle having been fought; for if aconflict really occurred, it must have happened subsequent to the 10th of Nov., which was about the time Col. Johnson had determined to take up his march for Salt Lake.— . 'The report of the battle was received in Portland, Oregon, on the 26th of November, and it is scarcely possible that intelligenee could be brought to that place, from Ham's Fork, in sixteen days, as the distance between the two amongst the causes which produced the great/and the other half for county purposes.” We . places is near a thousand miles. We have ia. . telligence, however, that some Mormons had been taken prisoners by Col. Alexander, and . this occurrence together with the burning of . the wagons, may have given rise to the rumor of a collision, which reached us by way of Ore. gon. . All accounts seem to agree that Col, Johnson . we* about to attempt to enter Salt Lake valley by the route through Echo Canon, which isa deep mountain gorge some fifteen miles in length, and where a few men could destroy a much snperior force, by rolling rocks upon them from the hills on either side. A large force of Mormons were encamped at that place to resist his passage, and some of-our cotemporaries have expressed the opinion that the gov. ernment troops are doomed to ceriain desiruction. But it is not prebable that Col. Jolnson will lead his forces into a place where the odds In considering the ways and means by which . cumstances: About half past seven o'clock in . would be so fearfully against him, He is an experienced and sagacious military officer, and will not needlessly risk an engagement without a reasonable prospect of success, DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT ANGELS.—We are informed by a gentleman from Angels, Calaveras county, says the Ala, that on Wednesday last a man named David Selkirk was probably most fatally injured while attempting to blast a log. The fuse had been fired and after waiting some little time for it to explode, Selkirk went up to the log, and while his face was directly over the charge it exploded, blowing out both bis eyes, tearing off one side of his face, and literally scalping him. When our informant left on Thursday morning, be was still alive, though scarcely a hope was entertained that he would survive, The unfortunate man has a wife and three children. Survey or Sonora.—A party left Los Angeles ashort time since, under command of Capt. Stone, for the purpose of surveying the public They have a contract with the Mexican Government by which they are to perform the surveys on their own even by those most largely interested as credi. great excitement, and about half the crowd left tors, and who as between two evils, would gladthe ecene of execution and went to town. The ly choose the least. We do not desire to inti-. fire was put out after having burned three or mate that the condition of our affairs are so Peeper ow ie otro maroelswhelnes the bad as to present the question of funding as the or the work of incendiaries. alternative of repudiation. We propose only ‘ “ed : : tovsny that it affords the easiest moans of pay-. sgitra vince ce concer ee American Mrs. Jouta Dean Harn is new playing @. ment to the tax payers, and all objections being . “ nor NO miners having jumped a farewell engagement in San Franciseo. It is. removed the mont desirable, as we shall endea. . “ “hich bad previously been staked off by her intention to leave California on the steamer . yor to show. ~ alomanee ther vn tobe a oe A of the 20th inst. warm despute arose; the men asserting their $$ Whet length of time at s given rate of taxa right on the ground that but for their labor the Earraquaxe at Santa Barbara.—On Tuestion, "will it require to liquidate the present) is oss of the claim would not have been deday, Nov. 24th, at 2} o’clock, P.M, an earthdebt, on the basis of the estimates before given veloped; the women adhering to their right of quake shock was felt at Santa Barbara. under a funding system? . And what length of . prior possession. At last a mode of settlement time at the same given rate of taxation, on the . was devised, which satisfied all parties, The Ono Hore.—We direct the attention of our . same estimates will it require, if instead of . mea Reopened to give up the claim to the ladies, réaders to the adver'ti at in anoth ylugon . the funding tem, we. raine by ial t prov they were accepted with it—as husof the Oro Hotel, in Sacramento. 'guffigiont money for éurrent expenses. ofker mere PEM AHS EAPOR Te, alld thE Rigperte . ties of San Francisco have failed to send the money to New York for the payment of the interest on the January coupons. The money, it seems, is in the city treasury, but in conse= of some legal quibbles it could not be sen ee charges, receiving a certain proportion of the land surveyed as a recompense. BorG.ary and Ropsery.—On last Thursday, the 3d inst., some heartless scoundrel entered the eabin of Mrs. Petit, and purloined therefrom some $30, in money and jewelry, consisting of rings, specimens, &e. The lady is a widow and one that struggles hard to earn an honest livelihood.—Placer Courier, 19th inst. Tue Lanp Specusators.—An article in the Chicago Tribune informs us that shoals of people from New England and the Middle States are traveling westward to look after the farm lands and building lots, in which they invested so much money last summer and spring, at a time of great inflation, or upon the security of which they lent money to Western men. The Tribane adds that these investments are hopeless now, and will be so for years to come. the 18th of September, that they suffered at the Fork and started for Fort Hall, must be incor. . °° ‘ at rect,—-as well as the report received by way of prisonment in the county jail for one month. a Assessors?’ Rerorts.—The law requires the ssessors of this State to report once @ to the Cont r, the amount of agricultural produets of their respective counties, the quantity of land under cultivation, &c. ~ From most of the counties, the Assessors have already sent in their reports, from which much valuable information of the industrial resources of the State

has been obtained. It is much to be regretted that no report can be made by the Assessor of Nevada this year. The term of office of the late Assessor expired on the first of June, Previous to that time he had assessed all the property of the county, for which he has received his pay, and has since gone to the Atlantic States, In order to get the property of the county assessed before his term of office expired, the late Assesaor was compelled to be very expeditious, and was hurried so much that he had no time to collect agricultural or other statistics, as required by law. He evidently omitted a portion of his duty, but as he has already been paid for his work the omission cannot be remedied. By the statute, is is the duty of the Board of Supervisors to see that the Assessor makes his report, before allowing his accounts. The late Supervisors were probably not aware that such a law was en the statute book. Treasurer's per centage for disbursing, which . legislature, the measure will readily be carried . way between the two places, through which . Masonic Exection.—On Saturday evening last, the following gentlemen were elected officers of Nevada Lodge, No, 13, F. & A.M: Thos. P. Hawley, ‘VY. M.; Wm. L. Phillips, S. W.; James . Yolmes, J. W.; I. Williamson, Tr.; J. F. Rudolph, Sec'y.; A. B, Swan, S. D.; H. M. Kilander, J.D; Wm. Smith and T. Ellard Beans, Stewards; J, H. Helm, Marshal; Fred. Burmeister, Tyler. ™ The following officers were elected in Rough & Ready Lodge No. 52, 6n Saturday the 5th linst: E. W. Roberts, W, M.; S. P. Jackson, S. W.; 8. M. Gillham, J. W.; C. Beckman, T’r.; . Wm. Coombs, Sec’y.; W. D. Washburn, 8. D.; . S. Hayden, J, Dy J, Murphy, Tyler; B. Rob. bins and H, Schardin, Stewards; H, Melbourne, ! Marshal, Ata regular meeting of Nevada Royal Arch . Chapter No.6, held on Monday evening, the . following officers were elected: Thos. H. Cas. well, M. E.H.P.; Chas. Marsh, E.K.; S. W. . Boring, E. S.; J. H. Helm, C. H.; Thos. P. Hawley, P.S.; Tallman H. Rolfe, R.A. C.; A.B. a M. 3d V.; A. Chapman, M. 2d V.; 0. Crandall, M, Ist V.; I. Williamson, Treasurer; . . J. F. Rudolph, See’y.; Wm, Smith, Guard, . Cover or Sesstons—On Monday, Jobn L. Dribbelblis, indicted for grand larceny, was . tried and convicted of pettit larceny. On Thursday the grand jury was empanneled, and after a session of two days, found two indictments, one against Henry Nordyke, for assault withintent to commit bodily injury, and one against Thomas Edwards, for burglary, committed at San Juan. Some time was occupied by the grand jury in examining into the financial affairs of the county, but no report was agreed jon, M. L. Barker, convicted on Tuesday of . an assault with a deadly weapon, was, on Monday, sentetced to pay a fine of two hundred dollars, and Dribbelblis was senteneed to imThe case of Wallace Gehr was set for trial yesterday, and the whole day was consumed in empanueling a jury. . et and orderly as the more retired. that the commercial! world 1 ry much surprised by a discoy made a# Lyons, of a work shop for the manufacture of eounterfeit bank bills, thief this establishment is named Dupont, Po grocer, who passed as enjoying a very some fortune. He commenced his business of counterfeiting in 1849, and had been in 1859 the object of grave suspicions, which at that time could not be. veri had been seized at his house 355,000 ($71,000) franes in bank bills;-s0 well imitated as to deceive the. eyes of the most experienced. Drrunor.—The Yolo County Democrat, of the 10th inst., comes. to’ us in mourning, and an. nounces itself as having died of congestion of the brain. Another notice in the same number says its next issue will be as an independent paper. Joshua P. Haven was recently appointed pj. lot Commissioner for the port of San Francisco in G. R. MeMullen’s place, _ : : Exurnrtion.—The public are respectfally informed that E. F. Spence, Drvacist, will exhibit and sell all kincs of Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Quicksilver and Acids—a} hours of the day and night at his store, No. 21 Commer. cial street, Nevada. Tickets Free. Dry Goops.—Messrs, Steifel & Cohn, No. 64 Broad stroet have just received the largest and most complete assort. ment of Dry Goods ever brought to this place, which they sell at reduced rates. DAGUERREOTYPES.—Those wanting pictures in the high. est style of the art, should call at the Gallery of Mrs. J, p, Rudolp*, in the Democrat building, Broad street, Nevada, Glass Pictures, or Ambrotypes, also made for those who desire them. MARRIED. At the Naticnal Exchange, by John Anderson, Esq, on Thursday evening, Dee. 10th, . Cuas, H, Lawrence, to Miss ConneLia Ketcuv, all of Orleans Flat. In Grass Valley, Dec, 10th, by the Rev. Edmund p, Cooper, Mr. Wittiam H. Srvrr to Mrs. Susan Fovsz, all of Grass Valley. a secre saree NER AR EIR SSSR mt School Exhibition ! . HE SUBSCRIBER WOULD RESPECT. fully inform the citizens of Nevada, and vicinity, that the First Semi-Annual Exhibition of the Nevada Academy, Will be given at the Wevada Theater, ON FRIDAY, THE 18th OF DEC. 1857, Commencing at 7 o’clock P. M. ApMISsION—Boxes, $1,00. Pit, 50 cents. Tickets to be had at Spence’s Drug Store, and at the principal Book stores in the city, and also at the Ticket Office. The Theater will be comfortably warmed. = J. STRATTON : s Principal. Nevada, December 8th 1857. NOTICE TO SCRIP HOLDERS!! ™ owners of the following No’s Scrip drawn on the different Funds are requested to present the same for payment, aa Interest ceases from this date. County General Fund:—No's. 6, 8, 37, 39, 54, 811. hy Road Fund—No's, 10, 11, And all Registered Warrant. on the Indigent Sick Fund, prior to February Ist. 1857. Nevada, Dec. 10th 1857.—11-3t . T. W. SIGOURNEY, Treasurer N. C. NOTICE!! LL PERSONS INDEBTED TO ME, ARE LAX hereby’cautioned against paying the same to ROB. ERT GRAHAM, ashe has no authority to cofect debts due me, All persons are hereby cautioned against negotiating for a note given by the undersigned, to Robert Graham, some time in the summer of 1856, for six hundred dulars, as tha same was fraudulently obtained. 0. B. STONT. Nevada, Dec. 15th 1857.—11-4w7 ORO HOTEL. On K Street, between Second and Third, SACRAMENTO. BS ONE OF THE BEST FAMILY HOTFLS IN THE sj, State, is under the personal supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Hortoy, long favorably known to the public. The ORO is handy to business and amusements, yet qui Every roem in the house has a good window, and is well furnished. Stages leave every day for all parts of the mines, from Scuoot Exurprtiox,—The exhibition by the pupils of Mr, Straiton's school, comes off at the theater on Friday evening. The exercises will . consist of declamations, dialoguer, singing, &.; to which will be added an original farce, written expressly for the occasion. Messrs. Holcomb & Grove’s band of musie will bein ahenlanes: . which will add materially to the interest of the . entertainment, Mr, Stratton has taken much . pains that his seholars may shew off to the best . advantage, and the occasion cannot fail to be interesting. How tann’s Pateyt Rorary Batrery.—This battery for crushing quartz, which many think will supercede all others now in use, arrived on . the ground at the works of the Oriental Quartz Mining Co., about two miles above Nevada, last . week, It was put up by Mr. Howland, who had . only two men to assist him, in a day and a half. . The battery has been examined by many expe. rienced quartz miners, the majority of whom acknowledge it to bea superior invention, We shall endeavor to give a description of the bat. tery in our next issuc. Lectvres.—The first of the course of lectures . for the benefit of the Methodist Parsonage, was delivered by Mr. Sargent last Monday evening, We learn that a large number was in attendance. Mr. Belden holds forth this evening on “Faets and Fancies ;” and the lecture no doubt will be rich and racy. The leeture of Rev. Mr. the house two doers below vs. We Leepa strict night wateh, and admit custcmers at all hours, It shall be our ambition to merit, and we hope fcr a contipuance of public favor. Strangers who rend this, will do well to remember the location, and inquire the character of the ORU Huill, on K street, between Second and Third. While our table and our beds will suit the most particu: lar, our charges are toe low to mention, Farly and late meals to suit all. ll-Im C. HW. HELTON, Pacific Mail Steamship Company's Line, FOR PANAMA Connecting via PANAMA RAILROAD, With the Steamers ofthe U.S. Mail Steamship Company, at Aspinwall. FOR NEW YORK & NEW ORLEANS DIRECT. Departure from Vallejo Street Wharf THE MAGNIFICENT STEAMSHIP SONORA, Will leave Vallejo street Wharf for Panama, wth U.S. Mails, Passengers, and Treasure. SATURDAY, Decemeber 19, at 12 0’cl’k, M. Punctually. Ray~ Passengers by the P. M.S. Co's Line are landed on their arrivals at Panama upon the wharf at the railroad terminus, by the Company’s steam ferry boat, and pro ceed immediately by Railroad Across the Isthmus. To Aspinwall, where the steamers of the U. S. Mail 8.8. Co, are always in readiness to convey them to New York or New Orleans. Passengers for New Orleans proceed by direct steamer from Aspitwall, Through tickets are furnished, including the transit of the Isthmus. Passengers Are notified that all tickets for the steamers of the U. 8. Mail S. 8S. Co. must be presented to their agent at Aspinwall for registry and exchange, as they wil! net Dryden, on “Labor,” will be delivered next Monday evening. Tue Disrricr Covrt met iu regular term on Monday. The evidence in the Kirkpatrick divorce suit was taken and the case argued and submitted to the court. The case of Nicholson, Administrator, against McMahon, was being tried yesterday afternoon. Breach oF Promise.—A suit was commenced last Saturday by Miss Nancy McGrath against Geo. T. McMurray, for breach of promise of marriage. Damages stated at $10,000. The case will be tried sometime during the present term of the District Court. ere a Ratn,—A heavy rain set-in onThursday evening last, and continued without intermission for two daysand nights. During Saturday night it cleared off, and since then we have had pleasent days and cold frosty nights. PersonaL.—Joba A. Clark, formerly 2 Major in the San’Francisao Vigilance Committee, was in town on Monday, and met with a warm reception from John Duane, an old acquaintance. The Major left on Tuesday wording” Tus Amount.—We learn that the profite of the rondo game, got up at San Juan for the benefit of the streets of that town, amounted to sixtyfour dollars. Curistmas Batt.—Mr. and Mrs. Hunerfauth purpose giving a ball on Christmas Eve, at the Central House, on the Washington road. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.—We are under obligations to the Alta Express for the prompt delivery of exchanges; also, to J. E. Mamlin, of Broad street Book Store, for San F r.ucieeo pas . pers. otherwise be available, 4a%Treasure for shipment willbe received on board the steamer until 12 o’clock midnight, Monday May 4th. No merchandise or freight will be received on board af. ter 3 P. M, onthe 4th, anda written order must be procured at the Company’s office for its shipment. For Freight or pereae spoly to FO & BABCOCK, Agents. Cor. Sacramento and Leidesdorff st*. A choice of berths on the Atlantic steamers is secured by the early purchase of tickets in San Francisco. ONSTABLE’S SALE.—State of California, County of Nevada, Township of Eureka,—ss. By virtue of an execution to me delivered issued from the Court of 8, B. Hickman bg an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, bearing date Nov, 19th A. D. 1857 to satisfy a judgment rendered by 8, B, Hickman on the 16th day of Nov, A, D. 1857 in favor of D. RANSOM and against MICrAEL KELLEY and JOSEPH ROBINSON for the sum of one hundred and thirty-six dollars and seventy-seven cents, debt, interest, dam and costs of suit. I have taken in execution, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property to wit: all the right, title and interest of Michael Kelley one of the above named defendants, of, in and te those certain mining claims situated on Moore’s Flat in Nevada county and known as the Buckeye Diggings, and laying north of Moore’s Hotel on said flat, on Saturday the 10th day of January Ai D. 1858, between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M., and 4 o’clock P. M. Sale to take place in front of —oo Moore’s Flat. en as the pro of Michael Kelley to satisty the above demands and peta costs, J 3 Dec, 12th A. D. 1857. JAMES FAY, Constahie. 11-3w HERIFF’'S SALE.—By virtue of a Decree and Order of sale to me directed, aud issued out of the Hon. District Gourt of the 14th Judicial District in and for Nevada County and State of California, on a judgment rendered in said Court on the 15th day of December A. D. 1857, in favor of SAMUEL GRANGER, and against BENJAMIN F. HILL, for the sum of seven hundred dollars, principal debt, and the sum of two hundred and forty-five dollars, interest, iogether with interest on the principal at the rate of five per cent per month from the rendition judgment until paid, together with costs taxed at $20, for the the sale of the following described property, to wit : All of one undivided one-eighth of twenty-seven mining ce in the G Gate M Company, situated in Nouk Ban Juan, in the county an Sate aforecaid, together with all and singular, the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto be! ing. Notice is hereby given, that I will expose to public sale to the highest for cash, all the ae preperty, in front of the Court House door, in the city of Ne jaw on Y, the 5th day of January yy D. 1858, between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M, and 4.0’clock P. M., to satisfy and pay said judgment. Given under my hand this the 5th day of Dec., 1867S. W. BORING, Sheriff Nevada Count? 11-14