January 3, 1861 (4 pages)

ee ee ey ae atom at steed anmeee oS animate ocr ' i Hf . ; ee EO A Ne NI RTE I OE RENE ie Nn eentrenmasa ye VOLUME VIII. AE ETT A eA tte ANN orem NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, T A eR ht evada Democrat, sn ene tO PA EO OED TEE LE AA TEC RN AI Ti a NUMBER 403. Aevada Democrat. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY, On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. otels and Restaurants. FASHION RESTAURANT. BY I. J. ROLFE & CO. CHAS. B. IRISH, Proprietor. 1.J.ROLFE, A.P.CHURCH, G.1. LAMMON, . T. He ROLFE. j Paar nt Sone Se Nm . Horie purchased the above Restau. OFFICE—CORNER BROAD AND PINE STREETS, rant, Twould inform the people of this place ‘ and the county at large, that I design keeping it as a First Class Restaurant. The Table will be supphed with everything in the market, and none but good cooks will be employed. . notice, Game Suppers served upto order, on the Meals at all hours. nov27-tf COMMERCIAL STREET, NEVADA. LY Democrat will be delivered to town . subseribers at 75 cents per month, payable to the . Carrier; single copies 10 cents. Mail subseribers, . $6 per annuin, in advance; for six months, $3,50; . three months, $2. Tur Tri We Rates or ApvEriisinc—For one square of ten lines, first insertion, $2; each subsequent insertion, $1. One hundred words on an average make a square. Meals furnished at all hours—and on short 1 Jon Printina, of all kinds, neatly executed. shortest notice. CALENDAR FOR 1861, UNITED STATES HOTEL. BROAD ST., BELOW PINE, NEVADA, Ae ay sidiwr . 3/4 . GRUSH & PARKER, Proprictors. Si 4 BiSisi eis S. 2) 2! q . E ES) 4)F/ Fle aa . HE UNDERSIGNED HAVE RE FITTED AND I) 2/813): = Me Gog Gee ee completely renovated the building oceupied by f ih BS) Bae he hit moh fees Ran —_. __. __ . them for the past few years, and will continue to 5 \July./.1 1. 2! 3! 4] 6} @ . Carry on the Hotel Business, Jan. , s gltoliiie!13 They aré now prepared to accommodate Travelers 6\16117/18/19190 in as good a style as any other 2/23) 24/25 26) 27 HOTEL IN THE MOUNTAINS, — wameleig . She Rooms are well ventilated, and are furFeb el ah 8 1 . Dished with the best of beds and bedding. dD. 2 3} . hha! PM atthe ive he Firtty Cents. 10/20/9} 99/9; Lodgings pernight,.50and 75 cents. 24/25'26'27/28). «. . . 28} 31) The Table will be bountitully supplied with all . bal teu: ace seles{ee{eefeese{. . the varieties found in the Market. Mar.) 3) 4) 6) 6. 7 8) 9 . Sept.; 1) 2) 3) 41 5) 6) 7) GRUSH & PARKER, Proprietors. 10/11 12/13/14 15/16 By OPROUET TZ 1G . icictcieed tae OR PP MUI Sed HER My 7 1} 21 22 26 15/16/17} 18/19)20)2 Wisi 20212228, 13) 15/1819 2021 NATIONAL EXCHANGE HOTEL. (ths) slectovti tae 01B0).).fs-4.a}. . NO, 82 & 34, BROAD ST., NEVADA, . -;. 12) 3] 4) 5) 6 Oct,.). -./ 1) 2} 3) 4,5) GEO. R. LANCASTER, Proprtetor. Apr.! 7) 8} 9/10/11/12/13 6) 7) §} 9:10/11/12 » Sarnemortin = amare . laa'a5laeli7lisiio _ 13. 14,15/16)17/18119 HE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECTFULLY “ ve 16 a4lor ad 20121 2el23)24 95109 . announce to the citizens of Nevada and vicinity, aalogian. . red Nahe tl 27 og lag 30) oT jand the traveling public, that he still has charge of sid la wireits "al a lNov ase! ted baa! hl‘ . the well known and Popular Hotel, known as the Na= May. 5! 6/3! 8! 9l1ola. chai fe 4) 5) 6 7) gi q . Uonal Exchange, on Broa st., Nevada, AY.) 5 yi «. 8 ! = be . . v . . eee: . > . 5 12/13'14/15/16/17/18 . 10 11/12 18/14/15/16. The Building is of Frick, three stories high, and 19 20) 21/22] 23) 24) 25 . 4 lees 21/22/23 THOROUGHLY FIRF-PROOP, 6/97 98/99) 380 3 24/25) 26) 27/28/29) 30 . P ' ' Fone 26 27) 28/29/80 31) . ' : sates, 0 Having stood two fires, The several apartments have " Sr eter ees } y sity “al 5 P. 2] ecently been fitted up in a style that cannot be sure 4; o. 4 “. ¢ Ped . } . Pt 91011112 8] 910] 17/12/13! 14 . Passe. 16,17) 18} 1S j 15} 16 17} 18) 19/20 21 The Beds and Furniture are New, 23) 24) 25 . 22123 24) 25) 26/27/28 } And for comfort cannot be excelled, eel BS TS Tn 29/50 BLl.).).'. . Mhe Table will at all times be supplied with all . the Varieties the Market affords, Game Suppers, Got upto Order. Particular attention will be paid to accommodating J. ix CALDWELL LADIES AND FAMILIES. b : 1 a aati ., i The Stages, running in all directions from NeAttorney and Counselor a 4 awe vada, have their Offices at, and take their departures Notary Public and Commissioner for fm the National Exchange, the Atlantic States. sy OPEN ALL NIGHT. -¢ Orrice—On Broad street, over Harrington’s Saloon, The Bar, and Billiard Saloon, under the charge Nevada, California. oct2-tf ofan experienced man, adjoins the office, where ‘i games and drinks can be had, Having had long experience at the business,:-] am confident of being able to make the National, the best Hotel in the Mountains, and a comfortable home for Travelers. CHARGES MODERATE, TO SUITTHE TIMES, A LIVERY STABLE, McCONNELL & GARBER, Te connected with the house and particular attention will be given tothe care of horses, carriages, Kc. Attorneys and Counselors at La ' Horses and Carriages can at all times be procured by Will practice in all the Courts of the 14th Judi"! . application at the office. District, and in the Supreme Court, GEO. R. LANCASTER, Pro'r. Orrice—Kidd & Knox’s Brick Building, Broad st., Nevada, THOMAS P. HAWLEY, Attorney and Counselor at Law, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Orrice—Up Stairs, in Kidd & Knox’s Brick Build. ing, Corner of Broad and Pine ats., Nevada. ° . DAVID BELDEN, . Attorney and Counselor at Law. . AVERY PERSON WHO WILL prine Particatar attention given to procuring United . [4 me some work to do in the Jewelry or WatchStates Land Warrants for persons entitled to the making line, will receiveas many ‘Tickets in my came by & ve Coot N le Great Distribution, as they expend Dollars for work, Orrice—At the Cour ouse, Nevada, c.M. BATES, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. CS et ee City Business Cards. €. WILSON HILL, GEO. 8S. HUPP. HILL & HUPP, Attorneys and Counselors at Law. Orvrice—Orver G. W. Welch’s Book Store, in Wil. Nams’ Brick Building, Commercial st., Nevada. ¢. R. M’CONNELL, JOUN GARBER, . . LOUIS CELARIE, ‘JEWELLER & WATCH MAKER, COMMERCIAL STREET, NEVADA. Watches Carefully Repaired and Warranted. } PHOTOGRAPHIC LINE. The best Photographic Pictures and Ambrotypes . are taken at LOUIS CELARIE’S Daguerreotype & Ambrotype Gallery, Commercial St., opposite St. Louis Hotel. OFFICE—AT THE BAILEY dec20-tf HOUSE, NEVADA. DR. R. M. HUNT, Physician and Surgeon. Office—Room No, 4, Flagg’s Brick, } Corner of Broad and Pine streets, over Harriagton’s ay ee 25 Nevada street, On the Old Washington Road. EK. B. TAYLOR, Homeopathic Physician, Office and Residence adjoining G. E, Withington’s . the last State Fair says: store, at the foot of Broad street. “On the opposite wall hang the contributions of a tu! ree . J. Shew of San Francisco. These alsoare most credDR. LEVASON, . itable specimens of the photographic art. Among Surgeon Dentist. . them is a life-size head and bust of Senator Broder. . ick—probably the most perfect which has been made Orrice—Up stairs, next to Chas. Kent’s Meat Mar. of the late Senator. Side by side with these, hang a ket, over Block & Co’s Store, Commercial street, Ne. series of most wretched libels on the art eoutributed vada. . by some one in Nevada. They serve, however, to Wuosr FEr FoR RACH OPERATION Is ONLY $2,50. . set off to better advantege, the productions of more — aan . akilifal competitors. FRE DERICK ™M™ ANSELL, As that paper don’t give the name of the artist who Sign and Ornamental Painter. send such pictures, it must be known, that A, BROAD ST., ABOVE PINF, NEVADA. Come you who wanta Good Picture, and I will . present you as many tickets in my GREAT DISTRIBUTION, As you will expend Dollars for Pictures. j eee eee The Bulletin correspondent of the 6th of October in criticising the different Photographic Pictures at . LIEBERT, the Photographic Artist of Broad street, JOHN . KENDALL published in the papers of Nevada, that he was the . * . . : only one in this city who sent pictures to the State Justice of the Peace. . Fair. Orrice—Kelsey’s Building—Entrance on Pine at., . next door below Kent’s Meat Market, and over A, Block & Co’s Clothing Store. dec6-tf SO hee ga-‘A CHACUN SES GUVRES.”-@% Let every one have Credit for hisown Work. LOUIS CELARIE, HO! FOR MT. ORO! . i A Share In the Black Hawk Co. for Sate. ” HE undersigned offers his interest in the above . TN THE HEAD AND FACE, RELIEVcompany for sale on terms. Said ed instantly, and eventually cured, by Exxcrro claims are located in the Mt. Oro Seg GaLvanisa, at the office of DR. LE? ASON, up Cpe the celebrated Yorty claims. For further . over Block & Co’s Store, corner of Commercial lass enquire at this office, Guo. L Lauuow. . Pine streets, Nevada. novl-3m NEURALGIC PAINS, Bankers and Assayers. ane. ©. Sr6s8: BANKER. GRANITE BUILDING, BROAD ST., NEVADA. OLD DUST Purchased at the Highest Market . T Rates, and liberal advances made on Dust for. warded for Assay or for Coinage at the U.S. Mint. Sight Checks on San Francisco and Sacramen. to,at Pak. DRAFTS onthe Eastern Cities at the . Lowest Rates. . g@ Collections made, and State and County Se. curities purchased at the highest Market valuc. J.C. SRDARYR, C, N. FELTON, -J. C. BIRDSEYE & CO., . BANKERS. NUMBER 30 MAIN STREET, NEVADA. urchase Gold Dust and Bullion, at the . Highest Market Rates. Advances made on Gold Dust for Assay or Coinage at the U. 8. Branch Mint. CHECKS AT PAR, on San Francisco, Sacramento, and Marysville. . Our SIGHT EXCHANGE on METROPOLITAN BANK, . New York, for sale in sums to suit, Purchase State and County Securities at the Highest Rates. Deposits received, Collections made, and a general Banking Business transacted. CHAS. W. MULFORD, A. it. HAGADORN, C. W. MULFORD & CO., BANKERS, AT THE OLD STAND, MAIN STREET, NEVADA. F RATES. SIGHT CHECKS on Sacramento and San Francisco AT PAR. DUST forwarded to the United States Branch Mint, . for Assay or Coinage, and advances made on the same . if required, Highest Price paltd for County Serip. NEVADA ASSAY OFFICE, BY JAMES T. OTT, NUMBER 80, MAIN STREET, NEVADA. . OLD AND ORES, of every description, Melted, F Refined and Assayed at San Francisco Rates, and Returns made in Bars or Coin, within a few hours. My Assays are Guarantied. . BARS discounted at the Lowest Market Price. Leaded Gold and Black Sand lots bought at the Highest Prices. JAS. T. OTL, H. HARRIS & CO., [Successors to Harris & Marchand,]} E STREET, NEAR CORNER OF SECOND STREET, MARYSVILLE, Also—73 J Street, Sacramento, 106 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, Bay Will continue to carry on the business of ee Melting, Refining, and Assaying GOLD AND ORES, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, We guarantee the correctness of our Assays, and bind ourselves to pay the differences that may arise with any of the U. &. Mints. Returns made in from six to twelve hours, IN BARS OR COIN, Specimens of Quartz Assayed and valued, Terms for Assays the same as in San Francisco, H. HARRIS & CO. SN UNS SCA IRS OP # RF AERTS SRR NE AO SMITH’S GARDENS, SACRAMENTO. Between 2d and 3d. Now ready to be mailed to Applicants, our . TREES AND SEED CATALOGUES. ? AS FOLLOWS—TREES. No. 1.—General Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees. No. 2.—Catalocue of Foreign Grape Vines, No. 3.—General Price Catalogue of Garden Seeds, No, 4.~—Wholesale price Catalogue of Garden and Field Seeds, for use of dealers, For particulars and more minute information please address as above, and we will promptly forward any or all of the above catalogues ; which will quire upon each of the subjects treated upon, —— WE OFFER 200,000 OF THE CHOICEST FOREIGN GRAPE VINES. The Largest and Best Selected Stock of Wine and Table Grapes in the State. We are prepared to sell the above in large or small quantities, at Greatly Reduced Prices from previous . years, and lower than the same kinds are sold, as per eastern Catalogues. WRITE US BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE. Also, 150,000 California Grape Vines. And our General Nursery Stock of FRUIT, ORNAMENTAL TREES. SHRUBS, ROSES AND Greenhouse Plants, Are unusually Large and Fine. We invite especial . attention to our Large and Varied Stock of HOME GROWN GARDEN FIELD SEEDS, All of which we guarantee to be of OUR OWN GROWING, and being the crop of the present season are all warranted to be FRESH AND GENUINE. Planters and Dealers in Seeds after reading our Cataarticle in this line at 4a" LESS PBICES THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE-@@ Rap ON THIS COAST. ~@e ae Orders Respectfully Solicited.-@a Pure California White and Red Wines, for sale by . the Gallon or Case, containing nothing but the pure . juice of the Grape. A. P. SMITH & CO., cl-8m Seed Warehouse. 40 J St., Sacramento. ITRIC ACID & CARRIAGE SPONGE Fer eale by E. F. SPENCE, Druggist and Apothecary, 47 Broad st, Nevada. yo ye LIVER INVIGORATOR, . OLD DUST BOUGHT at the HIGHEST MARKET . 'Seed Warehouse, No. 40J Street, . give ovr customers all the information they may re. logues, will find they cam purchase a more reliable . . Aevada Democrat. . . . [From the Boston Transcript.] T. STARR KING’S VISIT TO NEVADA. “Sucker Run,” “Forlorn Hope,” “Grizzly Flat,’? and “Ground Hog Glory.’* Other names there are, also, which your types would not care to renew for yout readers, The inhabitants of “Red Dog’? settlement came together and voted to change to ‘Brooklyn.’ They named their peominent institutions, “Brooklyn Bakery,” “Brooklyn Tron Store,” &e., and resolved aterm “Yankee Jim? “Salt Pork Ridge,”’ . . . Our talk of gold-seeking would not be complete, of . to punish by fines anybody who dated his letters . course, if we did not allude to ‘‘hydraulie mining.’’ The inventor of this process is Mr. Edward Matteson, of Sterling, Conn., and he first applied it in Nevada, . in 1852. Astronomers tell us that there are pits in . . the moon, seventeen thousand feet deep; they say. also, that any object on the moon, two hundred and . fifty feet high, may be detected by the most power. . . from ‘Red Dog,” or called the village so in future But it was of no use, The collar was on the neck of . the settlement, Nobody outside of its limits knows to-day anything of ‘“Brooklyn;’? but every miner from Shasta to Mariposa can tell you about “Red . Dog.’? Tasked my companion how it happened that Nevada was so fortunate in its baptism. He told me . ful glasses new in use, If there are astronomers on . that when it was to be named, several men drew . ‘‘one-horse concerns’* compared with the hydraulic process. Jt is fast changing mountains on the face of the State into pits. It is, too, an invention, which, to the end of time, will defy all competition . for tearing all beauty out of a landscape, and setting ; up the ‘tabomination of desolation’ in its place. . . Connecticut Yaukees have been supposed to possess . . so little septinent, or taste for beauty, that they would not hesitate, for profit, “to whittle the cedars of Lebanon into clothes pins;’’ and perhaps it is in accordance with the eternal fitness of things that a process like hydraulic mining, which so thoroughl¥ its treasury, should issue from a Connecticut brain, (it ought to be said in justice, here, however. that . Connecticut has more beautiful villages and towns, and displays more taste in tuem, than any State in . New England.) : Most of your readers know, undoubtedly, how the tremendous hydraulic power is gained and applied, . It is simply playing water through a pipe like a fire engine, upon the side of a hill, whieh contains gold in its soil, and js to be washed out through sluices But the water is brought from = sueli a height and with such a *head,’’ chat stones a foot in diameter when struck withit, are thrown up ten feet, and a man, if fairly hit by it, might as well have been visited by «a six-pounder in full force, Such a stream three inches in diameter tears into a hill as though it were a light heap of powder; and often to hasten . matters, the ho#iman directs its wrath at the base ofa wallof earth, eats it out quickly and sees the whole upper works tumble in with a frightful crash —perhaps paying the penalty of his boldness with his life. The rivers are already perceptibly atfeeted, not only in color, but insediment, by the wide ravage . which this leveling of the hills and choking of the smaller streams in the upper country is producing By and by the Sacramento may not be navigable, owing to the rapid emigration of the interior hills to settle along its bed. Butso long as the process pays, . the navigation interest may plead and warn in vain. . It is said that earth which yields only a cent’s worth of gold to the pan, retarns good profit to the hy. draulic companies, and that sometimes a thousand dollars a day is obtained out of the mnd that rushes . And—horrors . —there are a . j along a single sluice. hundred millions of acres, from ten to two hundred feet deep, that may be profitably torn up by these . . water batterica. I say—‘‘horrors . ’’—after seeing in Nevada a speetmen of what hydraulic mining does to the landacape. It was a dozen acres that had been washed over, and had produced nearly five hundred thousand dollars, . leaving the land useless for any other purpose, and a plague spot tothe eye. <A dozen acres of good California land, thoroughly tilled by scientific xkill I think it probable, would produce more than the interest on the amount which had been extracted by . & method that leaves the district a ruin forever. If . 80, I do not believe the Creator intends anch ravage as the price of gold, Let the quartz be tunnelled and pounded ad libiium; let enterprise turn the mountain streams from their beds for a time, so that the boulders can be overturned, beneath and around which the precious flakes have been settling for ages; let the wretched looking and barren hilla be washed level with the plains, if they have guld to pay for the water and toil that slaughters them; but . if the hydraulic method is to be indefinitely used withous restraint, upon all the surface that will yield a good return, the California of the future will bea waste, as though demons had inverted the Creator's intention in it,—a waste more repulsive than any denouncea in prophecy as the doom upon a guilty race, One curiosity I saw amid the destruction which this hydraulic force had left in Nevada, that was very interesting. It was an uncovered ledge of granite into which workmen were driving piles as easily as into dock mud. Ata little distance one cannot . trust his senses in seeing this. But it was teue. The . It seemed to the eye . granite was as soft as putty. aa compact as any ledge in Quincy, but it took the impress of our feet easily, and could be hacked or . spaded out like dough. Itis to be hoped that the whole State does not lie on such a basis. If so, there is danger of a slump of the gold region, some day, on a very large scale. The gentleman who is now conducting the hydraulic business I am speaking of in Nevada, soon recognized me as an old acquaintance. He was a Bostonian. He did not seem to think worse of me because my cellar had often been supplied with coal from his wharf; and TI did not think any . the worse of him on learning that he had frequently been a Sunday visitor ina church which I hope stands in Hollis street, Another of the pleasures with which my Nevada visit was crowded, wasadrive upon higher land, nine or ten miles away, to see some of the great peaks of the Sierra Nevada range. The gentleman . who was kind enough to take me in his carriage was . the first inhabitant of the village, July 1849, and miners. He had experienced all the hardships and cages of fortune of the mining life, and does not, I . ar glad to know, like so many of the noble pioneers, stand to-day in the shadow of fortune. A more iastructive and charming companionship fora drive in that region would have been impossible. Every creek, and canon, and ‘‘divide,’’ he ae and had his mining legend to tell in connection with it. Kvery peak, and ridge, aud spur of the mountains in . the landscape he could ‘locate,’ and almost always . had some reminiscense of exploration to detail. . the town and thirty-five hundred over the sea, riding . ina buggy, with spirited horses, throagh » forest and two hundred feet high, we had views which I remember clearly of Table Movatain, Sierra co., fifty too, over Onion Valley, rose, striped lawlessly with seemingly near though quite distant. Aod grander than these, the Downieville Buttes, which seemed to heave precipitous walls of purple rock three thousand feet from the plain, which was haeked into the most energetic and barren jaggedness on the summit, and packed in all the crevices with snow. . It was amusing enough to hear the names of the settlements as my friend rattled them off in following with his eye and om os courses of the stream. Tent, “Date Fat fed Dog,” he., to whith we may 7 0 add here, “ iy we ‘Meurderer’s Ber,'’ “ the moon with equally potent instruments, they will soon be able to detect changes in the surface of Cal. ifornia, through the agency of hydraulic raining. All . . other methods of dealing with the soil for gold are blasts the beauty of a State and so largely enriches . built the first ditch which offered ita service to the . . aud the same motion After we had ascended about a thousand feet above . ennobled with pines, four and five feet in diameter . miles from where we stood, which seemed, through . that clear air, not a dozen miles away. Pilot Knob, . glistening white, three thousand feet above us, and . . lots,andthe name drawn was “Manlius.” One modest gentleman suggested that this was ridieulous. and proposed ‘‘Nevada,’’ which was instantly adopted by acclamation, What a pity that the gentle ; Man could not have been sent on a mission among . all the settlements ten years ago! Whata blessing . that the Spaniards had the first naming of the rivers . and mountains, and saved us from such barbarities . as the ‘ Yankee Jims’? would have inflieted! At last we reached the point from which our grandest view was to be gained. It overlooked a wild cannon without a settlement, which looked as though it was as unacquainted with any other visit. ors than bears, as the savage ravine of Mount Adams in New Hampshire, But my friend had traversed . the canon with a gold hunting party in ’49, from end toend, In three months he made $7000 there. as his share, paying two dollars a pound freight tor all provisions brought to them by mules from Sacra. mento, An Oregon party found them in the ravine. One of the party tool a fancy tomy friend's rifle. and wanted to buy it. “I don’t Wish to sell.” . ‘What's your price?’ “Five ounces, but I don’t wish to sell.’? “I'll ¢tve you six, and must have it.” My friend yielded to hi« urgency: but they had no scales, and how could they weigh six ounces of the dust? The purchaser poured outa pile, ealled his friends to witness that there were good six ounces in it, satisfied the other party, and took the rifle My companion kept the pile separate till he could weigh it, and found that it contained seven and 4 halfounces—about a hundred and twenty dollars. The rifle cost twenty, That’s the way business was transacted in the ‘wood old days of 49.’ The min. ers shake their heads, and say that all the spice of California life is gone now. Money was “easy come, easy go.’’ In the eanon where my friend made his $7000 in three months in 49, he sunk $3000 in °60, j and allhis time, ina speculation of damming the stream to rob its bed. The river got back so much of the $7000, _ But the Sierra peaks! Thad a good view of six or eight of them from a tavorable point, The nearer ones were eight thousand feet high, and were spotted with snow, Behind them rose two or three cones that were twelve thousand feet. They seemed to be . mithin ten miles by aur line; they were forty-five Wiles from the eye. The highest’ summit we sat sours very near Fremont’s peak. That gave it some poetry. But there was little of the majesty that ought to belong to a twelve thousand feet mountain. one of the Grand Dukes of the Northern Cordilleras Seen through a powerful glass, which interpreted its wildness and loneliness, and helped you to conceive the enormous muss of its cone, it began to look re . spectable, But the view on the whole lacked the . noblest qualities of great mountain scenery, and wa monotonous and dreary, net sublime, With how much more joy should I have stood on Mt. Hayes te study the lines of care and dignity on the forehead o . Mt. Washington ! I remember “with more delight 23g A. M., WAS We passed through Grass Valley, and hurried by the cottage where Lola Montez lived, the majestic pines and spruces behind us on the hill-tops, were interlacing the curving green of their branches with the amber fire ot the inorning, Is the yold of California likely tobe exhanated soon? The district where it appears is about fir: hundred miles long, and from ten to a hundred and fifty miles wide, It is an area equal to the whole ot New England, and its richness scarcely touched as yet. There is more danger that the wheat product will give out, than that the gold harvest will. The . hydraulic pipes, fed by six thousand miles of aque . duct, may pour opt their wrath without stint: the three hundred quartz mills that cost three and a halt millions may roar day and night, without tear oe! . draining the yellow crop. Itis said by some guolo . gists here, that there are single quarts veins in the State which contain more gold than is at present i: circulation in all the world, If we eould only get into it, and help ourselves ! Kk. . ASan Jose Invention.—The Mereury . } says there is at San Jose a manufactory which has this season turned out thirty plowing machines of bome invention. Set. tle & Cottle are the makers, The machine . not only needs no one to hold it, but ena. bles the plowman to ride at his ease, and with four horses, will not only plow, but . Scatter the seed and barrow itin ; doing the . work better than by the nsual method, and . finishing four acres per day. The machine . consists of a light carriage in which is fas. tened a gang of three plows, with seed sow. er attached, so arranged that any desirable quantity of seed may be spread, from 26 lbs . to 200 Ibs per acre. The plows, by a sim. ple turn of a lever are raised or lowered, . puts out of gear the seeding apparatus, and prevents waste on turning around, A harrow follows behind the machine which just covers the three furrows, and the plow, seeder and harrow are so close together that the soil does not stop moving from the time the plow enters tili the whole work is finished. The machine _ has been thoroughly tested, and gives perfect satisfaction to all who have used it. . We are informed by Mr. Williams, who bas used one of the machines on bis ranch thar it works better than he had supposed possible until he had tried it. The seed is distributed more evenly, buried ata more even depth, and covered more completely than by any other method yet tried in this locality. Three of the machines have been sent to Oregon, and the purchasers are wel! pleased. Messrs. Settle & Cottle have only three or four out of the whole lot manufac. tured this season which are not already en. gaged. The price is two hundred dollars. Tux Sacramento Daily N. entered ite second volume on Christmas day. v9 a Ae cater ngage

ee ee ey ae atom at steed anmeee oS animate ocr ' i Hf . ; ee EO A Ne NI RTE I OE RENE ie Nn eentrenmasa ye VOLUME VIII. AE ETT A eA tte ANN orem NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, T A eR ht evada Democrat, sn ene tO PA EO OED TEE LE AA TEC RN AI Ti a NUMBER 403. Aevada Democrat. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY, On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. otels and Restaurants. FASHION RESTAURANT. BY I. J. ROLFE & CO. CHAS. B. IRISH, Proprietor. 1.J.ROLFE, A.P.CHURCH, G.1. LAMMON, . T. He ROLFE. j Paar nt Sone Se Nm . Horie purchased the above Restau. OFFICE—CORNER BROAD AND PINE STREETS, rant, Twould inform the people of this place ‘ and the county at large, that I design keeping it as a First Class Restaurant. The Table will be supphed with everything in the market, and none but good cooks will be employed. . notice, Game Suppers served upto order, on the Meals at all hours. nov27-tf COMMERCIAL STREET, NEVADA. LY Democrat will be delivered to town . subseribers at 75 cents per month, payable to the . Carrier; single copies 10 cents. Mail subseribers, . $6 per annuin, in advance; for six months, $3,50; . three months, $2. Tur Tri We Rates or ApvEriisinc—For one square of ten lines, first insertion, $2; each subsequent insertion, $1. One hundred words on an average make a square. Meals furnished at all hours—and on short 1 Jon Printina, of all kinds, neatly executed. shortest notice. CALENDAR FOR 1861, UNITED STATES HOTEL. BROAD ST., BELOW PINE, NEVADA, Ae ay sidiwr . 3/4 . GRUSH & PARKER, Proprictors. Si 4 BiSisi eis S. 2) 2! q . E ES) 4)F/ Fle aa . HE UNDERSIGNED HAVE RE FITTED AND I) 2/813): = Me Gog Gee ee completely renovated the building oceupied by f ih BS) Bae he hit moh fees Ran —_. __. __ . them for the past few years, and will continue to 5 \July./.1 1. 2! 3! 4] 6} @ . Carry on the Hotel Business, Jan. , s gltoliiie!13 They aré now prepared to accommodate Travelers 6\16117/18/19190 in as good a style as any other 2/23) 24/25 26) 27 HOTEL IN THE MOUNTAINS, — wameleig . She Rooms are well ventilated, and are furFeb el ah 8 1 . Dished with the best of beds and bedding. dD. 2 3} . hha! PM atthe ive he Firtty Cents. 10/20/9} 99/9; Lodgings pernight,.50and 75 cents. 24/25'26'27/28).. «. . . 28} 31) The Table will be bountitully supplied with all . bal teu: ace seles{ee{eefeese{. . the varieties found in the Market. Mar.) 3) 4) 6) 6. 7 8) 9 . Sept.; 1) 2) 3) 41 5) 6) 7) GRUSH & PARKER, Proprietors. 10/11 12/13/14 15/16 By OPROUET TZ 1G . icictcieed tae OR PP MUI Sed HER My 7 1} 21 22 26 15/16/17} 18/19)20)2 Wisi 20212228, 13) 15/1819 2021 NATIONAL EXCHANGE HOTEL. (ths) slectovti tae 01B0).).fs-4.a}. . NO, 82 & 34, BROAD ST., NEVADA, . -;. 12) 3] 4) 5) 6 Oct,.).. -./ 1) 2} 3) 4,5) GEO. R. LANCASTER, Proprtetor. Apr.! 7) 8} 9/10/11/12/13 6) 7) §} 9:10/11/12 » Sarnemortin = amare . laa'a5laeli7lisiio _ 13. 14,15/16)17/18119 HE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECTFULLY “ ve 16 a4lor ad 20121 2el23)24 95109 . announce to the citizens of Nevada and vicinity, aalogian. . red Nahe tl 27 og lag 30) oT jand the traveling public, that he still has charge of sid la wireits "al a lNov ase! ted baa! hl‘ . the well known and Popular Hotel, known as the Na= May. 5! 6/3! 8! 9l1ola. chai fe 4) 5) 6 7) gi q . Uonal Exchange, on Broa st., Nevada, AY.) 5 yi «. 8 ! = be . . v . . eee: . > . 5 12/13'14/15/16/17/18 . 10 11/12 18/14/15/16. The Building is of Frick, three stories high, and 19 20) 21/22] 23) 24) 25 . 4 lees 21/22/23 THOROUGHLY FIRF-PROOP, 6/97 98/99) 380 3 24/25) 26) 27/28/29) 30 . P ' ' Fone 26 27) 28/29/80 31) . ' : sates, 0 Having stood two fires, The several apartments have " Sr eter ees } y sity “al 5 P. 2] ecently been fitted up in a style that cannot be sure 4; o. 4 “. ¢ Ped . } . Pt 91011112 8] 910] 17/12/13! 14 . Passe. 16,17) 18} 1S j 15} 16 17} 18) 19/20 21 The Beds and Furniture are New, 23) 24) 25 . 22123 24) 25) 26/27/28 } And for comfort cannot be excelled, eel BS TS Tn 29/50 BLl.).).'. . Mhe Table will at all times be supplied with all . the Varieties the Market affords, Game Suppers, Got upto Order. Particular attention will be paid to accommodating J. ix CALDWELL LADIES AND FAMILIES. b : 1 a aati ., i The Stages, running in all directions from NeAttorney and Counselor a 4 awe vada, have their Offices at, and take their departures Notary Public and Commissioner for fm the National Exchange, the Atlantic States. sy OPEN ALL NIGHT. -¢ Orrice—On Broad street, over Harrington’s Saloon, The Bar, and Billiard Saloon, under the charge Nevada, California. oct2-tf ofan experienced man, adjoins the office, where ‘i games and drinks can be had, Having had long experience at the business,:-] am confident of being able to make the National, the best Hotel in the Mountains, and a comfortable home for Travelers. CHARGES MODERATE, TO SUITTHE TIMES, A LIVERY STABLE, McCONNELL & GARBER, Te connected with the house and particular attention will be given tothe care of horses, carriages, Kc. Attorneys and Counselors at La ' Horses and Carriages can at all times be procured by Will practice in all the Courts of the 14th Judi"! . application at the office. District, and in the Supreme Court, GEO. R. LANCASTER, Pro'r. Orrice—Kidd & Knox’s Brick Building, Broad st., Nevada, THOMAS P. HAWLEY, Attorney and Counselor at Law, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Orrice—Up Stairs, in Kidd & Knox’s Brick Build. ing, Corner of Broad and Pine ats., Nevada. ° . DAVID BELDEN, . Attorney and Counselor at Law. . AVERY PERSON WHO WILL prine Particatar attention given to procuring United . [4 me some work to do in the Jewelry or WatchStates Land Warrants for persons entitled to the making line, will receiveas many ‘Tickets in my came by & ve Coot N le Great Distribution, as they expend Dollars for work, Orrice—At the Cour ouse, Nevada, c.M. BATES, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. CS et ee City Business Cards. €. WILSON HILL, GEO. 8S. HUPP. HILL & HUPP, Attorneys and Counselors at Law. Orvrice—Orver G. W. Welch’s Book Store, in Wil. Nams’ Brick Building, Commercial st., Nevada. ¢. R. M’CONNELL, JOUN GARBER, . . LOUIS CELARIE, ‘JEWELLER & WATCH MAKER, COMMERCIAL STREET, NEVADA. Watches Carefully Repaired and Warranted. } PHOTOGRAPHIC LINE. The best Photographic Pictures and Ambrotypes . are taken at LOUIS CELARIE’S Daguerreotype & Ambrotype Gallery, Commercial St., opposite St. Louis Hotel. OFFICE—AT THE BAILEY dec20-tf HOUSE, NEVADA. DR. R. M. HUNT, Physician and Surgeon. Office—Room No, 4, Flagg’s Brick, } Corner of Broad and Pine streets, over Harriagton’s ay ee 25 Nevada street, On the Old Washington Road. EK. B. TAYLOR, Homeopathic Physician, Office and Residence adjoining G. E, Withington’s . the last State Fair says: store, at the foot of Broad street. “On the opposite wall hang the contributions of a tu! ree . J. Shew of San Francisco. These alsoare most credDR. LEVASON, . itable specimens of the photographic art. Among Surgeon Dentist. . them is a life-size head and bust of Senator Broder. . ick—probably the most perfect which has been made Orrice—Up stairs, next to Chas. Kent’s Meat Mar. of the late Senator. Side by side with these, hang a ket, over Block & Co’s Store, Commercial street, Ne. series of most wretched libels on the art eoutributed vada. . by some one in Nevada. They serve, however, to Wuosr FEr FoR RACH OPERATION Is ONLY $2,50. . set off to better advantege, the productions of more — aan . akilifal competitors. FRE DERICK ™M™ ANSELL, As that paper don’t give the name of the artist who Sign and Ornamental Painter. send such pictures, it must be known, that A, BROAD ST., ABOVE PINF, NEVADA. Come you who wanta Good Picture, and I will . present you as many tickets in my GREAT DISTRIBUTION, As you will expend Dollars for Pictures. j eee eee The Bulletin correspondent of the 6th of October in criticising the different Photographic Pictures at . LIEBERT, the Photographic Artist of Broad street, JOHN . KENDALL published in the papers of Nevada, that he was the . * . . : only one in this city who sent pictures to the State Justice of the Peace. . Fair. Orrice—Kelsey’s Building—Entrance on Pine at., . next door below Kent’s Meat Market, and over A, Block & Co’s Clothing Store. dec6-tf SO hee ga-‘A CHACUN SES GUVRES.”-@% Let every one have Credit for hisown Work. LOUIS CELARIE, HO! FOR MT. ORO! . i A Share In the Black Hawk Co. for Sate. ” HE undersigned offers his interest in the above . TN THE HEAD AND FACE, RELIEVcompany for sale on terms. Said ed instantly, and eventually cured, by Exxcrro claims are located in the Mt. Oro Seg GaLvanisa, at the office of DR. LE? ASON, up Cpe the celebrated Yorty claims. For further . over Block & Co’s Store, corner of Commercial lass enquire at this office, Guo. L Lauuow. . Pine streets, Nevada. novl-3m NEURALGIC PAINS, Bankers and Assayers. ane. ©. Sr6s8: BANKER. GRANITE BUILDING, BROAD ST., NEVADA. OLD DUST Purchased at the Highest Market . T Rates, and liberal advances made on Dust for. warded for Assay or for Coinage at the U.S. Mint. Sight Checks on San Francisco and Sacramen. to,at Pak. DRAFTS onthe Eastern Cities at the . Lowest Rates. . g@ Collections made, and State and County Se. curities purchased at the highest Market valuc. J.C. SRDARYR, C, N. FELTON, -J. C. BIRDSEYE & CO., . BANKERS. NUMBER 30 MAIN STREET, NEVADA. urchase Gold Dust and Bullion, at the . Highest Market Rates. Advances made on Gold Dust for Assay or Coinage at the U. 8. Branch Mint. CHECKS AT PAR, on San Francisco, Sacramento, and Marysville. . Our SIGHT EXCHANGE on METROPOLITAN BANK, . New York, for sale in sums to suit, Purchase State and County Securities at the Highest Rates. Deposits received, Collections made, and a general Banking Business transacted. CHAS. W. MULFORD, A. it. HAGADORN, C. W. MULFORD & CO., BANKERS, AT THE OLD STAND, MAIN STREET, NEVADA. F RATES. SIGHT CHECKS on Sacramento and San Francisco AT PAR. DUST forwarded to the United States Branch Mint, . for Assay or Coinage, and advances made on the same . if required, Highest Price paltd for County Serip. NEVADA ASSAY OFFICE, BY JAMES T. OTT, NUMBER 80, MAIN STREET, NEVADA. . OLD AND ORES, of every description, Melted, F Refined and Assayed at San Francisco Rates, and Returns made in Bars or Coin, within a few hours. My Assays are Guarantied. . BARS discounted at the Lowest Market Price. Leaded Gold and Black Sand lots bought at the Highest Prices. JAS. T. OTL, H. HARRIS & CO., [Successors to Harris & Marchand,]} E STREET, NEAR CORNER OF SECOND STREET, MARYSVILLE, Also—73 J Street, Sacramento, 106 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, Bay Will continue to carry on the business of ee Melting, Refining, and Assaying GOLD AND ORES, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, We guarantee the correctness of our Assays, and bind ourselves to pay the differences that may arise with any of the U. &. Mints. Returns made in from six to twelve hours, IN BARS OR COIN, Specimens of Quartz Assayed and valued, Terms for Assays the same as in San Francisco, H. HARRIS & CO. SN UNS SCA IRS OP # RF AERTS SRR NE AO SMITH’S GARDENS, SACRAMENTO. Between 2d and 3d. Now ready to be mailed to Applicants, our . TREES AND SEED CATALOGUES. ? AS FOLLOWS—TREES. No. 1.—General Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees. No. 2.—Catalocue of Foreign Grape Vines, No. 3.—General Price Catalogue of Garden Seeds, No, 4.~—Wholesale price Catalogue of Garden and Field Seeds, for use of dealers, For particulars and more minute information please address as above, and we will promptly forward any or all of the above catalogues ; which will quire upon each of the subjects treated upon, —— WE OFFER 200,000 OF THE CHOICEST FOREIGN GRAPE VINES. The Largest and Best Selected Stock of Wine and Table Grapes in the State. We are prepared to sell the above in large or small quantities, at Greatly Reduced Prices from previous . years, and lower than the same kinds are sold, as per eastern Catalogues. WRITE US BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE. Also, 150,000 California Grape Vines. And our General Nursery Stock of FRUIT, ORNAMENTAL TREES. SHRUBS, ROSES AND Greenhouse Plants, Are unusually Large and Fine. We invite especial . attention to our Large and Varied Stock of HOME GROWN GARDEN FIELD SEEDS, All of which we guarantee to be of OUR OWN GROWING, and being the crop of the present season are all warranted to be FRESH AND GENUINE. Planters and Dealers in Seeds after reading our Cataarticle in this line at

4a" LESS PBICES THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE-@@ Rap ON THIS COAST. ~@e ae Orders Respectfully Solicited.-@a Pure California White and Red Wines, for sale by . the Gallon or Case, containing nothing but the pure . juice of the Grape. A. P. SMITH & CO., cl-8m Seed Warehouse. 40 J St., Sacramento. ITRIC ACID & CARRIAGE SPONGE Fer eale by E. F. SPENCE, Druggist and Apothecary, 47 Broad st, Nevada. yo ye LIVER INVIGORATOR, . OLD DUST BOUGHT at the HIGHEST MARKET . 'Seed Warehouse, No. 40J Street, . give ovr customers all the information they may re. logues, will find they cam purchase a more reliable . . Aevada Democrat. . . . [From the Boston Transcript.] T. STARR KING’S VISIT TO NEVADA. “Sucker Run,” “Forlorn Hope,” “Grizzly Flat,’? and “Ground Hog Glory.’* Other names there are, also, which your types would not care to renew for yout readers, The inhabitants of “Red Dog’? settlement came together and voted to change to ‘Brooklyn.’ They named their peominent institutions, “Brooklyn Bakery,” “Brooklyn Tron Store,” &e., and resolved aterm “Yankee Jim? “Salt Pork Ridge,”’ . . . Our talk of gold-seeking would not be complete, of . to punish by fines anybody who dated his letters . course, if we did not allude to ‘‘hydraulie mining.’’ The inventor of this process is Mr. Edward Matteson, of Sterling, Conn., and he first applied it in Nevada, . in 1852. Astronomers tell us that there are pits in . . the moon, seventeen thousand feet deep; they say. also, that any object on the moon, two hundred and . fifty feet high, may be detected by the most power. . . from ‘Red Dog,” or called the village so in future But it was of no use, The collar was on the neck of . the settlement, Nobody outside of its limits knows to-day anything of ‘“Brooklyn;’? but every miner from Shasta to Mariposa can tell you about “Red . Dog.’? Tasked my companion how it happened that Nevada was so fortunate in its baptism. He told me . ful glasses new in use, If there are astronomers on . that when it was to be named, several men drew . ‘‘one-horse concerns’* compared with the hydraulic process. Jt is fast changing mountains on the face of the State into pits. It is, too, an invention, which, to the end of time, will defy all competition . for tearing all beauty out of a landscape, and setting ; up the ‘tabomination of desolation’ in its place. . . Connecticut Yaukees have been supposed to possess . . so little septinent, or taste for beauty, that they would not hesitate, for profit, “to whittle the cedars of Lebanon into clothes pins;’’ and perhaps it is in accordance with the eternal fitness of things that a process like hydraulic mining, which so thoroughl¥ its treasury, should issue from a Connecticut brain, (it ought to be said in justice, here, however. that . Connecticut has more beautiful villages and towns, and displays more taste in tuem, than any State in . New England.) : Most of your readers know, undoubtedly, how the tremendous hydraulic power is gained and applied, . It is simply playing water through a pipe like a fire engine, upon the side of a hill, whieh contains gold in its soil, and js to be washed out through sluices But the water is brought from = sueli a height and with such a *head,’’ chat stones a foot in diameter when struck withit, are thrown up ten feet, and a man, if fairly hit by it, might as well have been visited by «a six-pounder in full force, Such a stream three inches in diameter tears into a hill as though it were a light heap of powder; and often to hasten . matters, the ho#iman directs its wrath at the base ofa wallof earth, eats it out quickly and sees the whole upper works tumble in with a frightful crash —perhaps paying the penalty of his boldness with his life. The rivers are already perceptibly atfeeted, not only in color, but insediment, by the wide ravage . which this leveling of the hills and choking of the smaller streams in the upper country is producing By and by the Sacramento may not be navigable, owing to the rapid emigration of the interior hills to settle along its bed. Butso long as the process pays, . the navigation interest may plead and warn in vain. . It is said that earth which yields only a cent’s worth of gold to the pan, retarns good profit to the hy. draulic companies, and that sometimes a thousand dollars a day is obtained out of the mnd that rushes . And—horrors . —there are a . j along a single sluice. hundred millions of acres, from ten to two hundred feet deep, that may be profitably torn up by these . . water batterica. I say—‘‘horrors . ’’—after seeing in Nevada a speetmen of what hydraulic mining does to the landacape. It was a dozen acres that had been washed over, and had produced nearly five hundred thousand dollars, . leaving the land useless for any other purpose, and a plague spot tothe eye. <A dozen acres of good California land, thoroughly tilled by scientific xkill I think it probable, would produce more than the interest on the amount which had been extracted by . & method that leaves the district a ruin forever. If . 80, I do not believe the Creator intends anch ravage as the price of gold, Let the quartz be tunnelled and pounded ad libiium; let enterprise turn the mountain streams from their beds for a time, so that the boulders can be overturned, beneath and around which the precious flakes have been settling for ages; let the wretched looking and barren hilla be washed level with the plains, if they have guld to pay for the water and toil that slaughters them; but . if the hydraulic method is to be indefinitely used withous restraint, upon all the surface that will yield a good return, the California of the future will bea waste, as though demons had inverted the Creator's intention in it,—a waste more repulsive than any denouncea in prophecy as the doom upon a guilty race, One curiosity I saw amid the destruction which this hydraulic force had left in Nevada, that was very interesting. It was an uncovered ledge of granite into which workmen were driving piles as easily as into dock mud. Ata little distance one cannot . trust his senses in seeing this. But it was teue. The . It seemed to the eye . granite was as soft as putty. aa compact as any ledge in Quincy, but it took the impress of our feet easily, and could be hacked or . spaded out like dough. Itis to be hoped that the whole State does not lie on such a basis. If so, there is danger of a slump of the gold region, some day, on a very large scale. The gentleman who is now conducting the hydraulic business I am speaking of in Nevada, soon recognized me as an old acquaintance. He was a Bostonian. He did not seem to think worse of me because my cellar had often been supplied with coal from his wharf; and TI did not think any . the worse of him on learning that he had frequently been a Sunday visitor ina church which I hope stands in Hollis street, Another of the pleasures with which my Nevada visit was crowded, wasadrive upon higher land, nine or ten miles away, to see some of the great peaks of the Sierra Nevada range. The gentleman . who was kind enough to take me in his carriage was . the first inhabitant of the village, July 1849, and miners. He had experienced all the hardships and cages of fortune of the mining life, and does not, I . ar glad to know, like so many of the noble pioneers, stand to-day in the shadow of fortune. A more iastructive and charming companionship fora drive in that region would have been impossible. Every creek, and canon, and ‘‘divide,’’ he ae and had his mining legend to tell in connection with it. Kvery peak, and ridge, aud spur of the mountains in . the landscape he could ‘locate,’ and almost always . had some reminiscense of exploration to detail. . the town and thirty-five hundred over the sea, riding . ina buggy, with spirited horses, throagh » forest and two hundred feet high, we had views which I remember clearly of Table Movatain, Sierra co., fifty too, over Onion Valley, rose, striped lawlessly with seemingly near though quite distant. Aod grander than these, the Downieville Buttes, which seemed to heave precipitous walls of purple rock three thousand feet from the plain, which was haeked into the most energetic and barren jaggedness on the summit, and packed in all the crevices with snow. . It was amusing enough to hear the names of the settlements as my friend rattled them off in following with his eye and om os courses of the stream. Tent, “Date Fat fed Dog,” he., to whith we may 7 0 add here, “ iy we ‘Meurderer’s Ber,'’ “ the moon with equally potent instruments, they will soon be able to detect changes in the surface of Cal. ifornia, through the agency of hydraulic raining. All . . other methods of dealing with the soil for gold are blasts the beauty of a State and so largely enriches . built the first ditch which offered ita service to the . . aud the same motion After we had ascended about a thousand feet above . ennobled with pines, four and five feet in diameter . miles from where we stood, which seemed, through . that clear air, not a dozen miles away. Pilot Knob, . glistening white, three thousand feet above us, and . . lots,andthe name drawn was “Manlius.” One modest gentleman suggested that this was ridieulous. and proposed ‘‘Nevada,’’ which was instantly adopted by acclamation, What a pity that the gentle ; Man could not have been sent on a mission among . all the settlements ten years ago! Whata blessing . that the Spaniards had the first naming of the rivers . and mountains, and saved us from such barbarities . as the ‘ Yankee Jims’? would have inflieted! At last we reached the point from which our grandest view was to be gained. It overlooked a wild cannon without a settlement, which looked as though it was as unacquainted with any other visit. ors than bears, as the savage ravine of Mount Adams in New Hampshire, But my friend had traversed . the canon with a gold hunting party in ’49, from end toend, In three months he made $7000 there. as his share, paying two dollars a pound freight tor all provisions brought to them by mules from Sacra. mento, An Oregon party found them in the ravine. One of the party tool a fancy tomy friend's rifle. and wanted to buy it. “I don’t Wish to sell.” . ‘What's your price?’ “Five ounces, but I don’t wish to sell.’? “I'll ¢tve you six, and must have it.” My friend yielded to hi« urgency: but they had no scales, and how could they weigh six ounces of the dust? The purchaser poured outa pile, ealled his friends to witness that there were good six ounces in it, satisfied the other party, and took the rifle My companion kept the pile separate till he could weigh it, and found that it contained seven and 4 halfounces—about a hundred and twenty dollars. The rifle cost twenty, That’s the way business was transacted in the ‘wood old days of 49.’ The min. ers shake their heads, and say that all the spice of California life is gone now. Money was “easy come, easy go.’’ In the eanon where my friend made his $7000 in three months in 49, he sunk $3000 in °60, j and allhis time, ina speculation of damming the stream to rob its bed. The river got back so much of the $7000, _ But the Sierra peaks! Thad a good view of six or eight of them from a tavorable point, The nearer ones were eight thousand feet high, and were spotted with snow, Behind them rose two or three cones that were twelve thousand feet. They seemed to be . mithin ten miles by aur line; they were forty-five Wiles from the eye. The highest’ summit we sat sours very near Fremont’s peak. That gave it some poetry. But there was little of the majesty that ought to belong to a twelve thousand feet mountain. one of the Grand Dukes of the Northern Cordilleras Seen through a powerful glass, which interpreted its wildness and loneliness, and helped you to conceive the enormous muss of its cone, it began to look re . spectable, But the view on the whole lacked the . noblest qualities of great mountain scenery, and wa monotonous and dreary, net sublime, With how much more joy should I have stood on Mt. Hayes te study the lines of care and dignity on the forehead o . Mt. Washington ! I remember “with more delight 23g A. M., WAS We passed through Grass Valley, and hurried by the cottage where Lola Montez lived, the majestic pines and spruces behind us on the hill-tops, were interlacing the curving green of their branches with the amber fire ot the inorning, Is the yold of California likely tobe exhanated soon? The district where it appears is about fir: hundred miles long, and from ten to a hundred and fifty miles wide, It is an area equal to the whole ot New England, and its richness scarcely touched as yet. There is more danger that the wheat product will give out, than that the gold harvest will. The . hydraulic pipes, fed by six thousand miles of aque . duct, may pour opt their wrath without stint: the three hundred quartz mills that cost three and a halt millions may roar day and night, without tear oe! . draining the yellow crop. Itis said by some guolo . gists here, that there are single quarts veins in the State which contain more gold than is at present i: circulation in all the world, If we eould only get into it, and help ourselves ! Kk. . ASan Jose Invention.—The Mereury . } says there is at San Jose a manufactory which has this season turned out thirty plowing machines of bome invention. Set. tle & Cottle are the makers, The machine . not only needs no one to hold it, but ena. bles the plowman to ride at his ease, and with four horses, will not only plow, but . Scatter the seed and barrow itin ; doing the . work better than by the nsual method, and . finishing four acres per day. The machine . consists of a light carriage in which is fas. tened a gang of three plows, with seed sow. er attached, so arranged that any desirable quantity of seed may be spread, from 26 lbs . to 200 Ibs per acre. The plows, by a sim. ple turn of a lever are raised or lowered, . puts out of gear the seeding apparatus, and prevents waste on turning around, A harrow follows behind the machine which just covers the three furrows, and the plow, seeder and harrow are so close together that the soil does not stop moving from the time the plow enters tili the whole work is finished. The machine _ has been thoroughly tested, and gives perfect satisfaction to all who have used it. . We are informed by Mr. Williams, who bas used one of the machines on bis ranch thar it works better than he had supposed possible until he had tried it. The seed is distributed more evenly, buried ata more even depth, and covered more completely than by any other method yet tried in this locality. Three of the machines have been sent to Oregon, and the purchasers are wel! pleased. Messrs. Settle & Cottle have only three or four out of the whole lot manufac. tured this season which are not already en. gaged. The price is two hundred dollars. Tux Sacramento Daily N. entered ite second volume on Christmas day. v9 a Ae cater ngage