March 23, 1859 (4 pages)

ee a Ta, ik ahs 3 VOL. VI, NO. NEVADA DEMOCRAT, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, BY I. J. ROLFE & CO. T. H. ROLFE, ~~ 5. I. J.ROLFE, A. P. CHURCH. ats ~~ eee OFFICE—CORNER BROAD AND PINE STREETS. TERMS: For ane year, in advance, $5 00 Six months, 3 00 Three months, 2 00 BUSINESS CARDS. @. €. BIRNSEYE, Ne J.C. BIRDSEYE & CO., BANIEERS. No. 30 MAIN STREET, NEVADA. PURCHASE GOLD DUST AND BULLION, AT THE HIGHEST MARKET RAPES. Advances made on Gold Dust for Assay, or Coinage at the U.S. Mint. Sell CHECKS on San Francisco, Sacramento, and Marysville, B@ Deposites received, Collections made, and transact a general Banking business. Nevada, March 9th 1858.—23-tf CHARLES W. MULFORD, BANE EF: At his Old Stand, Main St., Newada. GOLD DUST BOUGHT at the highest market rates. SIGHT CHECKS on Sacramento and San Francisso AT PAR. DUST forwarded to the U. 8. Branch Mint for Assay or Coinage, aud advances made on the same if required. Nevada Dec. 1st 1857.—9-tf MORRIS ROSENHEIM, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, AND DEALER IN Watches, Jewelry, Diamonds, &e. MAIN STREET. NEVADA. CHAS. W. YOUNG, MANUFACTURER OF CALIFORNIA JEWELRY, WATCHMAKER, —AND— DEALER IN FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY, DIAMOND WORK, éc. Junction of Main and Commercial Streets, Nevada. GEORGE H. LORING, MANUFACTURING JEWELER, ext door below C. W. Young's, Main Street. N. B.—All work pertaining to the Jewelry business neatly performed. Nevada, Jan. 8th 1858.—16-tf F, MANSELL, Sign and Ornamental Painter, All work promptly attended to, and in the best style of the art. Commercial street, above Pine, Nevada. 46-tf STANTON BUCKNER, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office—Kelsey’s Brick Building, Commercial street. At the office lately occupied by Messrs. Buckner & Hill. Nevada, Dec. 1558. 10-tf C. WILSON HILL, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Orrick—Second story of Abbott's Brick Building, Com mercial Strect, Nevada, Nevada, Dec, 6th 1858, 10-tf i. R. M'CONNELL, . a. C. NILES, McCONNELL & NILES, ATTORNEYS & COUSELLORS AT LAW, Will practice in all the Courts of the 14th Judicial Distret, and in the Supreme Court. Orrick—Kidd’s Brick Building, up stairs. : JAMES CHURCHMAN, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Will hereafter confine himselt solely to the practice of his profession—and will be foutid always at his office, except when absent on professional business. Orrice—Corner of Broad and Pine Streets, Nevada, 40-tf DAVID BELDEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Particular attention given to procuring U. 8, Land Warrants for persons by Military service entitled to the same, Orrick.—Second story of Flagg’s Brick Building, Corner Broad and Vine Strects, Nevada. tf WM. F. ANDERSON, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. District Attorney. Orrice—At the Court House, Nevada. “id 46 tf wa. J. KNOX, C. T. OVERTON. KNOX & OVERTON, PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS, Orrice—On Pine Street, opposite Kidd & Knox’s Brick Building. Nevada Jan. 12th 1858.—14-tf J. M. HAMILTON & CO., General Dealers in Hardware, Iron, Steel, Glass, Paints Oils, Anvils, Glass, Paints, Linseeed, Lard, Sperm and Polar Oils, Leather and Rubber Belting, Powder, Fuse, cordage, Tackle Blocks, Duck, Rubber Hose, Hydraulic Pipes, Quicksilver, Lead Pipe, Plows, Straw Cutters, ete., etc., At their old Stand, 27 Main street. J. M. HAMILTON, i. L. COYE. POWDER! Powder!! POWDER!!! KEGS of Blasting Powder now on hand and for 44 Sale Cheap for Cash, in quantities to suit. ishing to purchase will do well to give us a call, a J. M. HAMILTON & CO. Nevada, Nov. 1st.--5 6m 27 Main street, Nevada. D. & B. LACHMAN, NO. 24 COMMERCIAL STREET, NEVADA. —DBALERS IX— Harware, Btovenin-W n-Ware Crockery, &e. &e. 1 kinds of Tin Ware made to order. “@® PR Toh D. & B, LACHMAN. G. E. WITHINGTON, DEALER IN French and American Paper Hangings, i 3 ldingr, W NDOW SHADES, Brass cornice, Gold Mou , ‘paints, ke. Painting of all kinds, and paper hangin the best style, at shost notice. — a apnany efit “No. 7 Broad Street, Nevada. 7. EF. HOOK, DEALER IN BOOTS AND SHOES !!) IN LANDECKR’S BRICK BUILDING, COMMERCIAL STREET, ~ NEVADA. full asortment of LADIES and CHILDREN’S SHOES and GAITERS. Also— Leonard Benkerts Quuilted-Bottom Boots Censtantly on hand, and for sale at Reasonable rates. ag BOOTS MADE TO ORDER, -G& f And REPAIRING done on the SHORTEST NOTICE. J. F. HOOK. Nevada, Jan. 4th 1859.—14-tf SELECT SCHOOL. ae s SCHOOL will be opened at Public Sechoe A eens Nevada, on MONDAY the 6th inst., TERMS—for Read By J.A.JENNING, A. M., For Arithmetic, Grammar and Geography, ing, Spelli d Writing, $4,00 ing, Spelling an a Oe « Higher Mathematics or Natural SeienP ees, Latin, Greek &c., (per month) f Payment will be expected invariably at the middle of . each month. 10-tf Nevada Dec. 6th 1858. " U. 8. SHAVING SALOON. South nde of Broad street, 2d Door Below Pind St. HE UNDERSIGNED Maviog Purchased this well known and popular establishment, take this method of thanking their many friends and patrons for the liberal support heretofore received, and respectfully SIM solicit a continnance of the sare. THEO. LAMPE & BRO. THE ST.LOUIS HOTEL, . Commercial Street, Nevada. KASPERHAUPT, . = Proprictor. . Good Fire-Proof Building!!. In the Centre of the City. HE ABOVE NEW HOTEL, is furnished throughout in . a good style, and is open for the ACCOMMODATION OF THE PUBLIG. The Table will be furnished with EVERY DELICACY . To be procured in the Markets. THE SLEEPING APARTMENTS, Are well ventilated, and furnished in Good Style. Families, will bo furnished with suitable rooms, and every attention paid to their accommodation, The Bar is supplied with Good Liquors, WINES, ALES, CIGARS, é&c. } Nevada, Nov. 234, 1858.—8-1f NEV NATIONAL EXCHANGE, No. 32 & 34 Broad St. Nevada, GEO. R. LANCASTER, Proprietor. . THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECTgm j m fully anounce to the citizens of Nevada and 9 am vicinity, and the Traveling public, that he has em leased the well-known anc POPULAR HOTEL, known as the NATIONAL EXCHANGE, on Broad Street, Nevada. . The Building is of Brick, three stories high, and THOROUGHLY FIRE-PROOF, (Having stood two Fires,) The several apartments have recently been fitted up in a Style that cannot be Surpassed, The Beds and Furniture are New, And for comfort, cannot be execlled. THE TABLE will at all times be supplied with ali . the VARIETIES the Market affords. ) and bones. GAME SUPPERS, GOT UP TO ORDER. Particular attention will be paid to the accommodation of LADIES AND FAMILIES. THE STAGES, running in oll directions from Nevada, have their Offices at, and take their departure from the NATIONAL EXCHANGE, 7% OPEN ALL NIGHT. SR . THE BAR, is now under the mavagement of Geo, Lewis, who will keep constantly on hand the very best . quality of . Wines, Liquors and Cigars. He earnestly requests his old friends and custemers to give him a call at the Nationa! Exchange. Having had long experience in the business, Iam _ confident of being able to make the NATIONAL the best Hotel in the Mountains, and a comfortable home for Travelers. Charges will be moderate, to Suit the Times. A LIVERY STABLE, IS CONNECTED WITH THE HOUSE, AND particular attention will be given to taking care of Horses, Cariages, &e. Horses and Carriages can at all times be proocured, by application at the Bar. GEO. R. LANCASTER, Proprietor. Nevada Sept, 21, 1858.—51-tf ~NEW YORK HOTEL!! © Broad St., Nevada. MES. ADAMS, Proprietross. THE ABOVE HOTEL HAS BEEN i Z rebuilt since the fire, and fitted up in good style. Ml without regard to cost, The ROOMS are well fftee ventilated, and provided with New Beds & Bedding Throughout. The Table is well supplied with the best in the market, and no pains shall be spared to render the guests at home. Those who visit Nevada by Stages or otherwise, are invited to call, where they will find a quiet place of resort daring their sojourn in the city. Nevada, Sept. Ist 1858.—48-tf ~ UNITED STATES HOTEL!! On Broad St. Nevada, a few doors below Pine st. PA THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE REfitted and renovated the building formerly known as the Democrat Building” for the purpose of i Ee on the Hotel business, They are now prepared to accommodate travelers in as good style any other % HOTEL IN THE MOUNTAINS. . guest of that county. Their Rooms are well ventilated, and are furnished with the best of Beds and Bedding. ’ The Table will be bountifully supplied with the best the Market affords. Meals, = Fifty Cents, LODGINGS, per night,.+.+++++60 and 75 cents, ~ GRUSH & PARKER, Propri’rs, Formerly of the Monumental Hotel. Nevada, September let 1858 —48-4n WrOLESALE C.H. MEYER & Co., Importers and Wholesale LIQUOR MERCHANTS, . Fire-Proof Brick, 76, Broad Street, NEVADA CITY. AVE again received Ex French Ships, ‘Jean Bart” . and ‘‘Parmentier,’’ from Bordeaux, France, their new Supplies of FINE FRENCH COGNACS, In all their Varieties, and ofthe gar BEST VINTAGES. . ALSO, Ex Ships Stambool, Turgot, and other late arrivals, Sevral Puncheons of Superior OLD TOM, AROMATIC GIN, OLD BOURBON, MONONGAHELA WHISKEY, . CLARETS & SAUTERNS, In Wood and Glass. ; } Hock Wine, Champagne, etc. etc. ete. . And also a complete Assortment ef Fine es =e apa = BE = = eee . All of which are Genuine, and superior to anything in the Market, and for sale at at San Francisco aay WHOLESALE PRICES, -@s adding freight, aecording to quantity taken. C. H. MEYER & CO., 76 Broad St. Nevada. . Nevada, Feb. 7th, 1859,—tf rim: BOOTS & SHOES, . Simon Mayers, . Corner of Main & Commercial streets, . he Largest Stock, and most exten. Journal, AS just received t H sive assortment of BOOTS & SHOES, ever brought to this city. Consisting principally of Goods for Fall and Winter Trade. . . Men’s Heavy Kip and Calf Boots, Double sole and double upper pegged Boots, Water-Proof Sewed Boots, Men’s Gaiters, Oxford Ties and Brogans, Also Boy’s Kip and Calf Boots, and Bregans. Miners’ heavy nailed boots, ioe and short Rubber boots, single and double sole, . Benkert's fine stich, pump sole quilted bottom boots, Also, A large assortment of Gents, Ladies’, Misses, and . Childrens’ Rubber Over Shoes. bet jes, Misses and Children’s Goods Se a They are mostly from the . sed in the country. 3 n c host manuteetarers ot New York and Philadelphia, and . embrace nearly every variety and style manufactured in the Atlantic States. I intend hereafter to sell ean afford to sell cheap, and persons certain that when they are paying themeelves purchase—and not at same pay for those of their neighbor. PB I ict ' i ant 0 ; respeetfully solicit all who are in Ww , PR ayy tne, to call and examine my immense Stock f Goods, before purchasing els! that I can give Entire Satisfaction to all. for cash only, consequently I purchasing may be . for the goods they . time helping to . Nevada. Nor, 50th, 1858.—2-1! . are enid to make excellent wives; neat and tidy eed SERN CFEC SN California News Items, A child, some seven or eight years old, was taken to Marysville the fore part of last week, for surgical treatment, its neck having been . partially dislocated by a sudden wrench in playing “hide and seck."’ Several physicians examined the dislocation and found it a very . critical case. The danger was that in forcing the joint back into its place the spinal. marrow would be severed, thus causing instant death, The effort was made, however, and successfully. The head flew into its proper position, aod the . child laughed with joy at the sadden relief afforded. Tba spinal column received no injary. A case like this—that is one where the dislocation was nearly complete—is rare indeed, unattended by death in the effort at replacement. A fatal casualty occurred at Michigan City, Placer county, March 11th. Capt. 6. Tt Hal. sey and Geo. Verrit were opening a eut in their claims, and were supplied with water from o small resavoir and ditch above, The water accumulated faster than they supposed, the reservoir gave way, the unfortunate men were swept from their feet, and carried some threequarters of a mile below, before their lifeless bodies dould be recovered. When found their bodies presented a horrid mass of mangled flesh Capt. Halsey was a native of New Bedford, Mass., and leaves a family. Merrit was a single man, and formerly from New York. . A shocking tragedy was perpetrated in a house of ill-fame, at San Francisco, on Tuesday, the 15th inst. The bouse had remained closed all day, until suspicion was roused and an entrance forced, when the dead body of a . woman was found, and near ber a man with bis throat cut so that the windpipe severed, but he was still Jiving. The woman had evidently been strangled, and had been dead for over twenty-four hours, and the indications are that the man first strangled her and then cut his own throat. The woman was of ill repute, named Louisa Forrman, and the murderer was her paramour pamed Vattner, Joseph Shelley, an old offender and convict, who escaped from the Marysville jail some two years ago, was arrested in Colusi county, a} few days since, on a charge of murder, The jail in that county being unsafe, the Sheriff took him to Marysville for safe keeping, when the officers there recognized him as an old Shelley was an old part . ner of Jim Webster, and was arrested two years . ago, at Marysville, for counterfeiting. He is . well known to the detective police of the State as one of the worst men ia the country, \ An atrocious murder was committer at Genoa, . Carson Valley, on Tuesday, the 8th inst. John Herring, a young man about twenty years of . age, shot Mr. BE. H. Knott, killing him instant. ly. Herriog was arrested, and as there was no legally organized court to try him, tbe case wus handed over te the people. A court was organized and a jury empanncled on the 9th, but the investigation had not closed up to the 12th, In the Los Angeles Star, of the 12th instant, it is stated, under the bead of ‘ News from Sonora,” that the notorious Jack Powers is stopping around at Hermosillo, He represents himself as having had to leave California for interfering to protect some unoffendin Sonorians from the code of Judge Lynch, an is, of course, a great favorite with the lower classes. The Wisconsin Tunnel, near Smith’s Flat, El Dorado county, has been opened entirely through the hill. The tunnel is nearly 1,200 . feet in length, and was dug fer the purpose of dreaning a gold bed which promises to be exceedingly rich. Four hundred feet of the bed, . or placer, has been thoroughly prospeeted, . and the dirt yields from one bit to $3 to the pan. The Placerville Observer thus illustrates the danger of puffing: ‘Some days since we made mention of the fact that certain mining claims ov Red Hill, in this vicinity, were yielding unusnally good wages. Mr. Patterson informs us that, on Friday night last, the sluice boxes in the aforesaid claims were robbed of five or six hundred dollars worth of gold dust,” Two distinguished individuals—or rather, DA a a a ee Bre eg I The Great Iron Mountain in Oregon, The Portland. Zimes, referring to the recent important discovery of a rock iron mountain in that State, says: Tt was found in aspur of the Chehalem mountains, about thirteen miles to the south. east of the city of Portland, aud about three miles from the Williamette river, which is navigable at all seasons of the year. The portage, from the deposit to the river, is over graduall descending ground, which can, without difficulty and with but little expense, be made a thorougbfare for carrying any amount desired ; upon the hill terminates the immense forests of fir, pine and cedar, which stretches away from the Columbia, furnishing an inexhaustible sapply of fuel. There have been a great number of prospects over a space of half mile square, aud the altitude of the mountain for more than two hundred feet, which in each case, has met the most sanguine wishes of those that were engaged, which bas established a conviction in their minds of a deposit of mineral which will be inexhaustible, e ore is of the brown and red oxyde of fron, found in a bed of red ochre, the thick ness of which is not known, It bas been prospected to the depth of twelve feet ; from this ochre has been manufactured iron of a fine quality, This ore will assay from sixtyfive to seventy ae eent.; fromthe ore, in a common forge, has been manufactured different articles, some of which we have seen ; they show metal of superior quality for deuseness and malltability. The Oregon Statesman has the following in regard to the prospective value of the mine; Judge Terry bas shown us a specimen of the ore from the Chehalem Iron Mountain. It is . very rich ore; bat we apprehend it will bea loug time before it ean be made of any praetical use. The freight on iron from the States to California and Oregon is merely a nominal expense, every vesse] bringing greater or less . quantities as ballast. With the present high rates of labor, the eost of furnaces, machinery, &e., it will be seen that the manufacture of iron in this country could only be carried on at an immense logs, Tax CotLectors.—The present Legislature passed a bill, which is now a Jaw—it having been approved on the 24th of February—giving the Supervisors of Oalaveras county the power to appoint tax collectors for that county, and taking from the Sheriff, who is ex officio tax collector, the power to collect taxes after the first of the present month. Under this law the Supervisors last week appoiated collectors for the several townships, who will, of course, go on in the performance of the duty thus assigned them. But will their acts be legal, or, rather, constitutional? The constitution explicitly declares that “collectors of town, county and State taxes shall be eleeted by the qualified clectors of the district, county or town, in which the property taxed for State, courty or town purpeses is situated.” The present Legislature is composed of many ver wise anen, but if the citizeus of Calaveras shall refuse to pay taxes to these new collectors, these Solons have not, so far as we can see, provided ways and means for foreing them to “fork over.’ VPerbaps they may yet pass a . a supplemental or explanatory bill to meet this emergency !—Sac. Bee. A Geroroatoar, Wonper.—In the bydraulie . claim of Bush, Dixon & Co., near Newtown, in this county, the miners have washed out a portion of the body of a petrified tree, which is not only a curiosity on account of its petrifaction, but also serves to upset all the recognized theories in relation to the formation of quartz rocks, This log is the stump end of the tree, 24 feet long and 32 inchesin diameter. The roots, fibres, and even the bark of the tree are perfectly developed. The log was found about 20 feet below the surface lyiog in a horizontal position. The greatest marvel] about it is, that . the whole log is a solid mass of genuine quartz rock. Mr. Dixon himeelf assures us of this fact, so there can be no mistake about it, Now the query is, how did this oceur ? or, in other words, if trees have been changed into quartz, may not quartz be a secondary instead of primitive formation? Weare not overly profoand in the science of geology, and should like exeeedingly to be enlightened upon this quartz tree mystery.-—Placerville Observer. individuals with distinguished pames—got into a fist-fight, recently, at Marysville, and were taken to the station house. One of them gave . his name as Wm. M. Gwin, and the other, withe . out collosion with his adversary, swore his. name was Broderick. They were fined $10 each. An insane man is in custody at Shasta, who imagines he is Almighty God! To what unac. countable notions will not the immortal mind . become subject? Strangely, indeed, and fearfolly are we made. The poor fellow was sticking up posters around town, announcing the destraction of the world, The Almighty had turned bill poster ! The Mariposa Gazette says that Indian wo. men have been married to white men, in nu. merous instances, in Mariposa county. They and industrious; and soon learn to discharge domestic duties, properly and ereditably. The Chinese of Shasta county have paid for mining licenses, during the year ending February 28, 1859, the sum of $21,215. The half of this, after deducting the pro rata collecting . expenses, went toward paying off the debt of . that county. William Willett, a resident of Saeramento since 1852, and a much respected citizen, died in that city, on Wednesday last. He was a) native of Edgar county, Illinois, and aged . about forty-five years. The steamer Santa Cruz sailed for Gaymas . on the 13th inst. She was heavily Jaden with freight, and carried quite a crowd of pagsen-. gers. Ex-Lieut. Governor Pardy was one of . them. Edward H. Nolan, convicted in San Francisco of attempting to vote a second time, at the last election, was sentenced last week to pay @ fine of $300, or be imprisoned sixty days. Calvin B. McDonald, editor of the Trinity will deliver a lecture in April next, InpiANs Kituep py Serriers.—The Northern Californian, published at Union, Humboldt county, in its issue of March 2d, snys: On Wednesday last, Messrs. Lawrence and Rich, saw an Indian and squaw near Koeeland’s Prairie—they took the squaw prisoner, and on the next day, accompanied by three other white men, obliged the squaw to pilot them to the ranches where her friends were living on the head waters of Elk river. They told the Indians they must come with them to town, and be sent with others to a reservation, This they refused to do and one of them made an. effort to wrest « rifle from one of the white men, and others started to run. The white men gave chase and killed eight—seven men and one aquaw. The squaw that acted as their guide, and some three or four others escaped. If the settlers generally should adopt this course. Capt. Mesrick’s Company of volunteers might soon be disbanded. eee A Goop Hit.—The Stockton Demoerat thus refers to the Sacramento Standard, which declined any farther acquaintance with, aud dropped its exchange : It declines an acquaintance with the Democrat. This is to be regretted, as the Democrat bas been compelled by the Legielature to pay taxes to furnish that paper with a reporter, and . there is a right appertaining to see how the reporting is done. Orxecon Winters.—An Oregon paper, of March 9th, says: “We sre informed, by a gentleman who declares that he has kept strict watch ef the weather since Winter opened, that during the last ninety-five days there has not been any consecutive twenty-four hours in which it has neither rained nor snowed,” Mcrver at San Lers Onrsro.—Lats Oaviosa, . in the capacity of State Prison Directore. Jsewhere, as I pm confident . } ON MAYERS. . 4 erected at the U.S. Arsenel, ob Benicia, at Shasta, on the “ Landmarks of Existence.”’ . a Californian, was killed at San Luis Obiepo on It will, no doubt, be interesting. . the 2d instant, by another native of the counAt a fire in San Francisco, on Sunday, March . iry, named Francisco Alviso, who went up be13th, a Mr. aud Mra. Turner were severely, . ping him, and drove a knife through him at one though not dangerously, burned. blow. Alviso then tried to kill » woman, ramThe Tebama Gazette learns that the Coast . ed Francesca Morano, but she escaped, after th of that place, is covered . having her hand severely cut. The murderer me pl srentp test deep. att was arrested ten minutes afterwards, and is in : tody, A meeting of the Administration Democratic eget. 5 Central Committee bas been called to assemble at Sacramento on the 2d proximo, A Dreaprci Loss !—A correspondent of the Bulletin writing from New Orleans, says that Both Governor Weller and Attorney General f Thos. 8. King had been there, but that his stay Williams ask to be excused from serving longer ange eaoiithas tie people of Mew Orleans . “had not much time to enjoy his society!” How The Humboldt Times announces that the . intense must have been tie grief of the people Indian war, in that county, is very nearly at . of the Crescent City over their loss, an end. ‘eB NO aid — At Gibsonville, in Sierra eounty, the enow is Rewarp ror 4 Mervexer.—Sheriff Wood, of said to be twenty feet deep. Yuba, offers a reward of $1,000 for the appre: : i i ho murdered SamLe ‘ven that @ storebouse will . ¥¢8%i0n of G. W. Dobbios, w Hotien bas Gove, a" . uel Jones at Timbucktoo on the 27th ult, : Baloo ie bee sis alec 3s bss Zz NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY. MORNING, M HOTELS. ARCH 23, TS ES NES SD. SS et cenenngnencliad asia atetmeeenerenenettcamlitseerecaieriesiaensen ttt Gi EEE ETE TC SE ET Teaches NRE eet Re a a a a a TI a a aa eee a REE SC ET se ae ne Tee: See, RIDE RG gl A A Rk RRR a a a oe a — 1859. —— The President’s Central American Policy. On the 18th of February, the President transmitted a message to Congress, The following is a synopsis of the document: To the Senate and House of Representatives :-——The brief period which remains of your present ses. sion, and the great urgency and importance of . legislative action before its termination for the . protection of American citizens and their pro pony whilst in transit across the Isthmus routes tween your Atlantic and Pacific possessions, render it my duty again to reoall the subject to your notice. The President, after reviewing the case, recommends to Congress the passage of an Act authorizing the Presideut, ander such restric. tio as it may deem oo to employ the land and naval forces.of . 8. in preventing the transit from being obstructed or closed, by lawess violence, and in protecting the lives and property of American citizens traveling thereupon, uiring atthe same time that’ these forces shall be withdrawn the nroment the danger shall bave pee away. A similar neces. sity exists for the passage of an act for the protection of the Panama and Thhuantepec routes, Another subject, equally important, is broach ed, relating to the Republies south of the United States, on the Continent, He states that they have been fn a state of revolution and civil war ever since they achicved their independence; have» seized and confisdated Ameriéan vessels and their cargoes in a lawless manner, and exacted money from American citizens, ete,; goes on to state that no redress has ever been obtained, and citizens are deprived of the same protection under the flag of their country which the subjects of other nations enjoy. The remedy can only be applied by Congress, After setting forth the whole matter at length, he therefore earnestly recommends to Congress to pass a law conferring on the President the power to protect the p net and property of American citizens in the cases indicated. He concludes by saying: Having thus reeommended to Congress a measure which he deems necessary. and expedient for the interests and honor of the country, he leaves the whole subject to their wisdom and discretion. The President tramsmitted to the House a similar message to that sent tothe Senate, It took the Senate generally by surprise. Seward’s Argument, We copy below one of the arguments advanced by Senator Seward, in support of the bill for the construction of the Pacific Railroad. With the exception of the suggestion that Mexico city would become the capital of the Pacific States, it contains nothing from which any thinking mind will dissent. If an independent republic is ever established on the Pacific Slope San Francisco will be its political capital, as it is now and must always remain the commercial emporium of the Pacific States: “Ambition, Mr, President, is not exclusively a plant of eastern growth, It springs up and is as vigorous on the Pacific as upon the Atlantic; and our Pacific States will, if they are not allowed to connect themselves directly aud totimately with the Bastern States, do just exactly what the older Atlantic States did. They will colonize the Pacific coast of the continent and set up for themselves, It is only a question of time, if there be no change of policy. They can be no more loyal to us and entcriain ne more affection for us than our forefatbera cherished towards the country from which they emigrated to this continent, Then, I think, the Pacific Railroad involves this question; whether this capital, cudeared to us by so many attractions and exciting 80 much hope, and pride and promise, shall, by the improvement of facilities for intercourse, commerce and communication between us and the Pacific coast, . remain the capital of the whole Unite] States of America; or whether it shall dwarf and sink, and become the capital of the United States of the Atlantic only: and Mexico, invested as it is with so many ancient and heroic traditions alrea(ly, shall become a rival capital—the capital of the Pagific States of America.’’ ConoressmMen.—The life of a member of Congress is getting to be one of gentlemanly ease and elegant leisure. Kven petty committees, vow-a-days, must have their clerks, and these functionaries are generally entrusted with drawing up the bills which are reported for legislative cousideration, The members seem to have but little other care than to look after their salaries. The system of clerk committees is all wrong, and canuot be too soon abolished. . The men of the early days of this republic—the men who thought it an honor to work for their country—would have felt humiliated if a proposition had been made to furnish them with clerks todo their writing and thinking, and thus make imperfect laws sufficieut to keep a dozen Attorney Generals employed to give them anything ofa correct construction, A Congressman of the 36th Congress is no more like a Congressman of the 1st, 10th or 20th Congress, as coucerns usefulness to their constitu. ents and to.the nation, than a cod-fish aristocrat is like his sturdy ancestor, wlio underwent all the hardships incident to the camp of the of the Revolution, The sigos of the times, as indicated from a Washington point of view, ure anything but encouraging for an honest observance of fundamental principles. If things grow worse, God knows what is to become of the country.— Wash. States. Lossy at Wasstxncrox.—The Evening Post’s correspondent says : The report of the intention. on the part of Mr. Hunter’s friends, to cut off certain branches of the public service, will have the injarious tendency to pour into Washington a lobby, more powerful than Congress itself, to prevent the very thing proposed. The mail contractors on sea and land employ an army of hangers-on. It is understood that one steamship compan alone affords to pay all the expenses of an official, who occupies a high position in this government. That official lives in this city in the most extravagant style, He keeps open honse, rides in his private carriage with liveried servante, has is private box at the theatre, at. tends all levees, and gives the most expensive dinners and levees himeelf, His expenses at the Jast session of Congress are estimated at He is not WHOLE NO. 285. » THE SLAVE TRADE. It fg evident to every person Who has given any attention to the debates in Congtess for the past few years, that there is a growing Opposition athong the Southern metmbers to’tlie laws of Congress for the euppréssion of tie slave trade. Three years ago, a resolution Wits adopted by the House of Representatives, With otily three or four dissenting votes, declaring that the re-opening of the slave trade was cottrary to the settled policy of this government, At the late session of Congress, ten and twenty-fire Representatives voted a, the appropriation to defray the expense of Gafrying back to Aftica the negroes captured 6h the Echo, which was strictly in accordance with the Federal laws for suppressing this inhamah trafic. These ten Senators and twentyive Representatives do not include all the meth bers of the present Congress that are in fOr of re-opening the trade; but such only a8 fe in favor of nullifying the Inw declaring the trade piracy. A Washington correspondent . of the Philadelphia Aiquirer writes as follows th regard to the feeling upon this subject in the South: , “A gentleman lately from Mobile, Infotnis me that it is not the large planters of the South who are in favor of mete the slave trade for they have, generally, as mauy hegroes ae they desire; but it is the people—-those who from the high price negroes have attained, are unas ble to purchase or hire them; and who hav consequently to do their own plantation nd house work, since no white laborers ean “be hired, when labor itself is considered degrad ing, and only to be performed by the ayy He said that be found the utmost unanimity o feeling on this subject. Every one enid, negroes they would bave, and would importa spite of all the laws declaring it piracy, and in spite of all the power of the United States, reat Britain, France and the whole world. — And when be suggested that were puring @ course calculated to unite the North against them, the prompt and uniform answer was, ‘What need we care; we intend to go out of the Union anyhow, and we care not how parties may be formed at the North, or bow soon they drive us out.’ But suppose, said he, Maryland, Virginia, Nurth fomien Tennes see, Kentuckey and Missouri should refuse to join you? ‘We care not,’ was the reply, “we sball go out at all hazards, and, with uve, we shall have the most splendid country on the globe, as it will include the whole cotton, sugar, and rice producing region of this continent, to wit—South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Mexico and Central America. And if the slave States that you have named do not choose te join us, they will form a slave cordon between us and the d—— Abolitionists of the North and prevent them from stealing our negroes,’ ” A Suptime Ipka,—The closing passage in one of Professor Mitchell’s recent lectures in New York, on Astronomy, after speaking of the unfathomable distances which no telescope can penetrate, lying far beyond the system fn which the earth revolves, and yet filled with indépendent systems of worlds of infinite numbers, wat as follows: , Light traverses space at the rate of ten million miles a minute, yer the light from the wearest star requires teu years to reach the earth, and Ilerchel’s telescope revealed stars two thousand three hundred times farther distant. The great telescope of Lord Ross pursued these ereations of God still deeper into space, and baying resolved the nebulwe of the Milky Way itto stars, discovered other systems of stars—beautifal diamond pointe glittering through the black darkness beyond. Wheu he beheld this amazing abyss—when he saw these systems scattered profusely throughout space—when he reflected upon their immense distance, their enormous tnagnitude, and the countless millions of worlds that belonged to them, it seemed to him as though the wild dream of the German poet was more than realized, “God called man io dreams into the veatibule of Heaven, saying, ‘come up hither, and I will show thee the glory of my house.’ And to his angels who stood about his throne he said ‘take him, strip him of his robes of flesh ; cleanse him of his affections; put a new breath into his nostrils ; but toueh not his buman heart’—the heart that fears, and hopes, and trembles. moment, and it was done, and the man at ready for his unknown voyage. Under the guidance of a mighty angel, with sounds of = es t ing pinioos, they sped sway fromthe batt ments of heaven, Some time on the mighi angel’s wings they fled throughSaharas ofdarkness, wilderness of death, At length from a distance not counted save in the arithmetic of Heaven, and light beamed upon them—a sleepy flame as seen through a bazy cloud. In a moment the blazing of suns around them—a momept the wheeling of planets; then came long eternities of twilight; then again on the right hand and the left, appeared more constellations, At last the man gank down, orying, ‘Angel, I can go no further, let me lie down in the grave and hide myself from the infinitude of the uol+ verse, for end there is none.’ ‘End is thera none? demanded the angel. And from the glittering stars that shone around, there canie a choral shout, ‘End there is none!’ *End, is there none?’ demanded the angel again ; ‘and is it this that awes the soul? I answer, end there is none to the universe of God!’’ CenresNaRIANs.—An ancient couple, Bakeman by name, reside in the town of Freedom, Cattaraugus county,N. Y. The man Danie} Frederick Bakeman, is 100 years old, and hia wife is 101 years old, He was a Revelotionary soldier. He is quick and epry, can walk twa or three miles, chop wood &c. She can see to thread her needle aud sew as well as qny one, and can walk off half a mile visiting and back, She has good health. They were formerly from the Mohawk country, and were married whey quite young, Dearu or AN InpIAN Oarxr.—Sam Jones, the about twenty-five thousand dollars! : ’ reckoned a siah man, and bis salary is only . Celebrated Seminole chief, whose life has cost $3,000 per annum. If one steamship company . the United States more lives and treasyre thag can afford to support an agent like the one de-. any tribe of Indians upon this continent is scribed, please consider the social and financial . dead, and has been succeeded by Tiger Tail power which all the companies on sea and land . the uext chief in seniority. It ts supposed that can throw into this city to impede the progress . Jones was upwards of a hundred years old. of any economical legislation, Mount Vesuvive.—Phie voleano is said to be M. Goruni, a distinguished German professor, . cracking and epening at gl! parts from the base has, it is stated, originated an interesting ex. to the summit, Small craters are formiag all periment in illustration of the moantains. He . over jt, gud it is feared that another such oatass melts certain substances of diferent specific . trophe 9s that which engulphed Pompeii aad gravity in a vessel, allowing them to cool grad. pferculgneum may at any moment oceur. ually. At first tuere isan even surface, but it soon cracks open, and pornos “ fhe lower strata ooze up and form graduat elevations, anZ . ; til ranges abh chains of Fitts are formed, éxact-. *epports a famiiy of eight ohildron and two ly corresponding in shape with those which are . dogs on dollar a day. displays more true found on the earth. Even to the stratification, . heroism than.is required to effect & conquest the resewblance is said to be surprisingly com. on a battle field. So says an exchange, Ia this Hops axp Herows.— The hod-carrier wng plete, and Goruni also produces, on 9 small . view it is consoling to know that the of scale, in a similar manner, the phenomenon of cbivalry will never die until architects find g volcanoes and earthquakes, ; substityte for bricks aud mortar, SO ee aS A nid sites fg oda hat ablinmailgt e oey

ee a Ta, ik ahs 3 VOL. VI, NO. NEVADA DEMOCRAT, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, BY I. J. ROLFE & CO. T. H. ROLFE, ~~ 5. I. J.ROLFE, A. P. CHURCH. ats ~~ eee OFFICE—CORNER BROAD AND PINE STREETS. TERMS: For ane year, in advance, $5 00 Six months, 3 00 Three months, 2 00 BUSINESS CARDS. @. €. BIRNSEYE, Ne J.C. BIRDSEYE & CO., BANIEERS. No. 30 MAIN STREET, NEVADA. PURCHASE GOLD DUST AND BULLION, AT THE HIGHEST MARKET RAPES. Advances made on Gold Dust for Assay, or Coinage at the U.S. Mint. Sell CHECKS on San Francisco, Sacramento, and Marysville, B@ Deposites received, Collections made, and transact a general Banking business. Nevada, March 9th 1858.—23-tf CHARLES W. MULFORD, BANE EF: At his Old Stand, Main St., Newada. GOLD DUST BOUGHT at the highest market rates. SIGHT CHECKS on Sacramento and San Francisso AT PAR. DUST forwarded to the U. 8. Branch Mint for Assay or Coinage, aud advances made on the same if required. Nevada Dec. 1st 1857.—9-tf MORRIS ROSENHEIM, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, AND DEALER IN Watches, Jewelry, Diamonds, &e. MAIN STREET. NEVADA. CHAS. W. YOUNG, MANUFACTURER OF CALIFORNIA JEWELRY, WATCHMAKER, —AND— DEALER IN FINE WATCHES, JEWELRY, DIAMOND WORK, éc. Junction of Main and Commercial Streets, Nevada. GEORGE H. LORING, MANUFACTURING JEWELER, ext door below C. W. Young's, Main Street. N. B.—All work pertaining to the Jewelry business neatly performed. Nevada, Jan. 8th 1858.—16-tf F, MANSELL, Sign and Ornamental Painter, All work promptly attended to, and in the best style of the art. Commercial street, above Pine, Nevada. 46-tf STANTON BUCKNER, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office—Kelsey’s Brick Building, Commercial street. At the office lately occupied by Messrs. Buckner & Hill. Nevada, Dec. 1558. 10-tf C. WILSON HILL, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Orrick—Second story of Abbott's Brick Building, Com mercial Strect, Nevada, Nevada, Dec, 6th 1858, 10-tf i. R. M'CONNELL, . a. C. NILES, McCONNELL & NILES, ATTORNEYS & COUSELLORS AT LAW, Will practice in all the Courts of the 14th Judicial Distret, and in the Supreme Court. Orrick—Kidd’s Brick Building, up stairs. : JAMES CHURCHMAN, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Will hereafter confine himselt solely to the practice of his profession—and will be foutid always at his office, except when absent on professional business. Orrice—Corner of Broad and Pine Streets, Nevada, 40-tf DAVID BELDEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Particular attention given to procuring U. 8, Land Warrants for persons by Military service entitled to the same, Orrick.—Second story of Flagg’s Brick Building, Corner Broad and Vine Strects, Nevada. tf WM. F. ANDERSON, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. District Attorney. Orrice—At the Court House, Nevada. “id 46 tf wa. J. KNOX, C. T. OVERTON. KNOX & OVERTON, PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS, Orrice—On Pine Street, opposite Kidd & Knox’s Brick Building. Nevada Jan. 12th 1858.—14-tf J. M. HAMILTON & CO., General Dealers in Hardware, Iron, Steel, Glass, Paints Oils, Anvils, Glass, Paints, Linseeed, Lard, Sperm and Polar Oils, Leather and Rubber Belting, Powder, Fuse, cordage, Tackle Blocks, Duck, Rubber Hose, Hydraulic Pipes, Quicksilver, Lead Pipe, Plows, Straw Cutters, ete., etc., At their old Stand, 27 Main street. J. M. HAMILTON, i. L. COYE. POWDER! Powder!! POWDER!!! KEGS of Blasting Powder now on hand and for 44 Sale Cheap for Cash, in quantities to suit. ishing to purchase will do well to give us a call, a J. M. HAMILTON & CO. Nevada, Nov. 1st.--5 6m 27 Main street, Nevada. D. & B. LACHMAN, NO. 24 COMMERCIAL STREET, NEVADA. —DBALERS IX— Harware, Btovenin-W n-Ware Crockery, &e. &e. 1 kinds of Tin Ware made to order. “@® PR Toh D. & B, LACHMAN. G. E. WITHINGTON, DEALER IN French and American Paper Hangings, i 3 ldingr, W NDOW SHADES, Brass cornice, Gold Mou , ‘paints, ke. Painting of all kinds, and paper hangin the best style, at shost notice. — a apnany efit “No. 7 Broad Street, Nevada. 7. EF. HOOK, DEALER IN BOOTS AND SHOES !!) IN LANDECKR’S BRICK BUILDING, COMMERCIAL STREET, ~ NEVADA. full asortment of LADIES and CHILDREN’S SHOES and GAITERS. Also— Leonard Benkerts Quuilted-Bottom Boots Censtantly on hand, and for sale at Reasonable rates. ag BOOTS MADE TO ORDER, -G& f And REPAIRING done on the SHORTEST NOTICE. J. F. HOOK. Nevada, Jan. 4th 1859.—14-tf SELECT SCHOOL. ae s SCHOOL will be opened at Public Sechoe A eens Nevada, on MONDAY the 6th inst., TERMS—for Read By J.A.JENNING, A. M., For Arithmetic, Grammar and Geography, ing, Spelli d Writing, $4,00 ing, Spelling an a Oe « Higher Mathematics or Natural SeienP ees, Latin, Greek &c., (per month) f Payment will be expected invariably at the middle of . each month. 10-tf Nevada Dec. 6th 1858. " U. 8. SHAVING SALOON. South nde of Broad street, 2d Door Below Pind St. HE UNDERSIGNED Maviog Purchased this well known and popular establishment, take this method of thanking their many friends and patrons for the liberal support heretofore received, and respectfully SIM solicit a continnance of the sare. THEO. LAMPE & BRO. THE ST.LOUIS HOTEL, . Commercial Street, Nevada. KASPERHAUPT, . = Proprictor. . Good Fire-Proof Building!!. In the Centre of the City. HE ABOVE NEW HOTEL, is furnished throughout in . a good style, and is open for the ACCOMMODATION OF THE PUBLIG. The Table will be furnished with EVERY DELICACY . To be procured in the Markets. THE SLEEPING APARTMENTS, Are well ventilated, and furnished in Good Style. Families, will bo furnished with suitable rooms, and every attention paid to their accommodation, The Bar is supplied with Good Liquors, WINES, ALES, CIGARS, é&c. } Nevada, Nov. 234, 1858.—8-1f NEV NATIONAL EXCHANGE, No. 32 & 34 Broad St. Nevada, GEO. R. LANCASTER, Proprietor. . THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECTgm j m fully anounce to the citizens of Nevada and 9 am vicinity, and the Traveling public, that he has em leased the well-known anc POPULAR HOTEL, known as the NATIONAL EXCHANGE, on Broad Street, Nevada. . The Building is of Brick, three stories high, and THOROUGHLY FIRE-PROOF, (Having stood two Fires,) The several apartments have recently been fitted up in a Style that cannot be Surpassed, The Beds and Furniture are New, And for comfort, cannot be execlled. THE TABLE will at all times be supplied with ali . the VARIETIES the Market affords. ) and bones. GAME SUPPERS, GOT UP TO ORDER. Particular attention will be paid to the accommodation of LADIES AND FAMILIES. THE STAGES, running in oll directions from Nevada, have their Offices at, and take their departure from the NATIONAL EXCHANGE, 7% OPEN ALL NIGHT. SR . THE BAR, is now under the mavagement of Geo, Lewis, who will keep constantly on hand the very best . quality of . Wines, Liquors and Cigars. He earnestly requests his old friends and custemers to give him a call at the Nationa! Exchange. Having had long experience in the business, Iam _ confident of being able to make the NATIONAL the best Hotel in the Mountains, and a comfortable home for Travelers. Charges will be moderate, to Suit the Times. A LIVERY STABLE, IS CONNECTED WITH THE HOUSE, AND particular attention will be given to taking care of Horses, Cariages, &e. Horses and Carriages can at all times be proocured, by application at the Bar. GEO. R. LANCASTER, Proprietor. Nevada Sept, 21, 1858.—51-tf ~NEW YORK HOTEL!! © Broad St., Nevada. MES. ADAMS, Proprietross. THE ABOVE HOTEL HAS BEEN i Z rebuilt since the fire, and fitted up in good style. Ml without regard to cost, The ROOMS are well fftee ventilated, and provided with New Beds & Bedding Throughout. The Table is well supplied with the best in the market, and no pains shall be spared to render the guests at home. Those who visit Nevada by Stages or otherwise, are invited to call, where they will find a quiet place of resort daring their sojourn in the city. Nevada, Sept. Ist 1858.—48-tf ~ UNITED STATES HOTEL!! On Broad St. Nevada, a few doors below Pine st. PA THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE REfitted and renovated the building formerly known as the Democrat Building” for the purpose of i Ee on the Hotel business, They are now prepared to accommodate travelers in as good style any other % HOTEL IN THE MOUNTAINS. . guest of that county. Their Rooms are well ventilated, and are furnished with the best of Beds and Bedding. ’ The Table will be bountifully supplied with the best the Market affords. Meals, = Fifty Cents, LODGINGS, per night,..+.+++++60 and 75 cents, ~ GRUSH & PARKER, Propri’rs, Formerly of the Monumental Hotel. Nevada, September let 1858 —48-4n WrOLESALE C.H. MEYER & Co., Importers and Wholesale LIQUOR MERCHANTS, . Fire-Proof Brick, 76, Broad Street, NEVADA CITY. AVE again received Ex French Ships, ‘Jean Bart” . and ‘‘Parmentier,’’ from Bordeaux, France, their new Supplies of FINE FRENCH COGNACS, In all their Varieties, and ofthe gar BEST VINTAGES. . ALSO, Ex Ships Stambool, Turgot, and other late arrivals, Sevral Puncheons of Superior OLD TOM, AROMATIC GIN, OLD BOURBON, MONONGAHELA WHISKEY, . CLARETS & SAUTERNS, In Wood and Glass. ; } Hock Wine, Champagne, etc. etc. ete. . And also a complete Assortment ef Fine es =e apa = BE = = eee . All of which are Genuine, and superior to anything in the Market, and for sale at at San Francisco aay WHOLESALE PRICES, -@s adding freight, aecording to quantity taken. C. H. MEYER & CO., 76 Broad St. Nevada. . Nevada, Feb. 7th, 1859,—tf rim: BOOTS & SHOES, . Simon Mayers, . Corner of Main & Commercial streets, . he Largest Stock, and most exten. Journal, AS just received t H sive assortment of BOOTS & SHOES, ever brought to this city. Consisting principally of Goods for Fall and Winter Trade. . . Men’s Heavy Kip and Calf Boots, Double sole and double upper pegged Boots, Water-Proof Sewed Boots, Men’s Gaiters, Oxford Ties and Brogans, Also Boy’s Kip and Calf Boots, and Bregans. Miners’ heavy nailed boots, ioe and short Rubber boots, single and double sole, . Benkert's fine stich, pump sole quilted bottom boots, Also, A large assortment of Gents, Ladies’, Misses, and . Childrens’ Rubber Over Shoes. bet jes, Misses and Children’s Goods Se a They are mostly from the . sed in the country. 3 n c host manuteetarers ot New York and Philadelphia, and . embrace nearly every variety and style manufactured in the Atlantic States. I intend hereafter to sell ean afford to sell cheap, and persons certain that when they are paying themeelves purchase—and not at same pay for those of their neighbor. PB I ict ' i ant 0 ; respeetfully solicit all who are in Ww , PR ayy tne, to call and examine my immense Stock f Goods, before purchasing els! that I can give Entire Satisfaction to all. for cash only, consequently I purchasing may be . for the goods they . time helping to . Nevada. Nor, 50th, 1858.—2-1! . are enid to make excellent wives; neat and tidy eed SERN CFEC SN California News Items, A child, some seven or eight years old, was taken to Marysville the fore part of last week, for surgical treatment, its neck having been . partially dislocated by a sudden wrench in playing “hide and seck."’ Several physicians examined the dislocation and found it a very . critical case. The danger was that in forcing the joint back into its place the spinal. marrow would be severed, thus causing instant death, The effort was made, however, and successfully. The head flew into its proper position, aod the . child laughed with joy at the sadden relief afforded. Tba spinal column received no injary. A case like this—that is one where the dislocation was nearly complete—is rare indeed, unattended by death in the effort at replacement. A fatal casualty occurred at Michigan City, Placer county, March 11th. Capt. 6. Tt Hal. sey and Geo. Verrit were opening a eut in their claims, and were supplied with water from o small resavoir and ditch above, The water accumulated faster than they supposed, the reservoir gave way, the unfortunate men were swept from their feet, and carried some threequarters of a mile below, before their lifeless bodies dould be recovered. When found their bodies presented a horrid mass of mangled flesh Capt. Halsey was a native of New Bedford, Mass., and leaves a family. Merrit was a single man, and formerly from New York. . A shocking tragedy was perpetrated in a house of ill-fame, at San Francisco, on Tuesday, the 15th inst. The bouse had remained closed all day, until suspicion was roused and an entrance forced, when the dead body of a . woman was found, and near ber a man with bis throat cut so that the windpipe severed, but he was still Jiving. The woman had evidently been strangled, and had been dead for over twenty-four hours, and the indications are that the man first strangled her and then cut his own throat. The woman was of ill repute, named Louisa Forrman, and the murderer was her paramour pamed Vattner, Joseph Shelley, an old offender and convict, who escaped from the Marysville jail some two years ago, was arrested in Colusi county, a} few days since, on a charge of murder, The jail in that county being unsafe, the Sheriff took him to Marysville for safe keeping, when the officers there recognized him as an old Shelley was an old part . ner of Jim Webster, and was arrested two years . ago, at Marysville, for counterfeiting. He is . well known to the detective police of the State as one of the worst men ia the country, \ An atrocious murder was committer at Genoa, . Carson Valley, on Tuesday, the 8th inst. John Herring, a young man about twenty years of . age, shot Mr. BE. H. Knott, killing him instant. ly. Herriog was arrested, and as there was no legally organized court to try him, tbe case wus handed over te the people. A court was organized and a jury empanncled on the 9th, but the investigation had not closed up to the 12th, In the Los Angeles Star, of the 12th instant, it is stated, under the bead of ‘ News from Sonora,” that the notorious Jack Powers is stopping around at Hermosillo, He represents himself as having had to leave California for interfering to protect some unoffendin Sonorians from the code of Judge Lynch, an is, of course, a great favorite with the lower classes. The Wisconsin Tunnel, near Smith’s Flat, El Dorado county, has been opened entirely through the hill. The tunnel is nearly 1,200 . feet in length, and was dug fer the purpose of dreaning a gold bed which promises to be exceedingly rich. Four hundred feet of the bed, . or placer, has been thoroughly prospeeted, . and the dirt yields from one bit to $3 to the pan. The Placerville Observer thus illustrates the danger of puffing: ‘Some days since we made mention of the fact that certain mining claims ov Red Hill, in this vicinity, were yielding unusnally good wages. Mr. Patterson informs us that, on Friday night last, the sluice boxes in the aforesaid claims were robbed of five or six hundred dollars worth of gold dust,” Two distinguished individuals—or rather, DA a a a ee Bre eg I The Great Iron Mountain in Oregon, The Portland. Zimes, referring to the recent important discovery of a rock iron mountain in that State, says: Tt was found in aspur of the Chehalem mountains, about thirteen miles to the south. east of the city of Portland, aud about three miles from the Williamette river, which is navigable at all seasons of the year. The portage, from the deposit to the river, is over graduall descending ground, which can, without difficulty and with but little expense, be made a thorougbfare for carrying any amount desired ; upon the hill terminates the immense forests of fir, pine and cedar, which stretches away from the Columbia, furnishing an inexhaustible sapply of fuel. There have been a great number of prospects over a space of half mile square, aud the altitude of the mountain for more than two hundred feet, which in each case, has met

the most sanguine wishes of those that were engaged, which bas established a conviction in their minds of a deposit of mineral which will be inexhaustible, e ore is of the brown and red oxyde of fron, found in a bed of red ochre, the thick ness of which is not known, It bas been prospected to the depth of twelve feet ; from this ochre has been manufactured iron of a fine quality, This ore will assay from sixtyfive to seventy ae eent.; fromthe ore, in a common forge, has been manufactured different articles, some of which we have seen ; they show metal of superior quality for deuseness and malltability. The Oregon Statesman has the following in regard to the prospective value of the mine; Judge Terry bas shown us a specimen of the ore from the Chehalem Iron Mountain. It is . very rich ore; bat we apprehend it will bea loug time before it ean be made of any praetical use. The freight on iron from the States to California and Oregon is merely a nominal expense, every vesse] bringing greater or less . quantities as ballast. With the present high rates of labor, the eost of furnaces, machinery, &e., it will be seen that the manufacture of iron in this country could only be carried on at an immense logs, Tax CotLectors.—The present Legislature passed a bill, which is now a Jaw—it having been approved on the 24th of February—giving the Supervisors of Oalaveras county the power to appoint tax collectors for that county, and taking from the Sheriff, who is ex officio tax collector, the power to collect taxes after the first of the present month. Under this law the Supervisors last week appoiated collectors for the several townships, who will, of course, go on in the performance of the duty thus assigned them. But will their acts be legal, or, rather, constitutional? The constitution explicitly declares that “collectors of town, county and State taxes shall be eleeted by the qualified clectors of the district, county or town, in which the property taxed for State, courty or town purpeses is situated.” The present Legislature is composed of many ver wise anen, but if the citizeus of Calaveras shall refuse to pay taxes to these new collectors, these Solons have not, so far as we can see, provided ways and means for foreing them to “fork over.’ VPerbaps they may yet pass a . a supplemental or explanatory bill to meet this emergency !—Sac. Bee. A Geroroatoar, Wonper.—In the bydraulie . claim of Bush, Dixon & Co., near Newtown, in this county, the miners have washed out a portion of the body of a petrified tree, which is not only a curiosity on account of its petrifaction, but also serves to upset all the recognized theories in relation to the formation of quartz rocks, This log is the stump end of the tree, 24 feet long and 32 inchesin diameter. The roots, fibres, and even the bark of the tree are perfectly developed. The log was found about 20 feet below the surface lyiog in a horizontal position. The greatest marvel] about it is, that . the whole log is a solid mass of genuine quartz rock. Mr. Dixon himeelf assures us of this fact, so there can be no mistake about it, Now the query is, how did this oceur ? or, in other words, if trees have been changed into quartz, may not quartz be a secondary instead of primitive formation? Weare not overly profoand in the science of geology, and should like exeeedingly to be enlightened upon this quartz tree mystery.-—Placerville Observer. individuals with distinguished pames—got into a fist-fight, recently, at Marysville, and were taken to the station house. One of them gave . his name as Wm. M. Gwin, and the other, withe . out collosion with his adversary, swore his. name was Broderick. They were fined $10 each. An insane man is in custody at Shasta, who imagines he is Almighty God! To what unac. countable notions will not the immortal mind . become subject? Strangely, indeed, and fearfolly are we made. The poor fellow was sticking up posters around town, announcing the destraction of the world, The Almighty had turned bill poster ! The Mariposa Gazette says that Indian wo. men have been married to white men, in nu. merous instances, in Mariposa county. They and industrious; and soon learn to discharge domestic duties, properly and ereditably. The Chinese of Shasta county have paid for mining licenses, during the year ending February 28, 1859, the sum of $21,215. The half of this, after deducting the pro rata collecting . expenses, went toward paying off the debt of . that county. William Willett, a resident of Saeramento since 1852, and a much respected citizen, died in that city, on Wednesday last. He was a) native of Edgar county, Illinois, and aged . about forty-five years. The steamer Santa Cruz sailed for Gaymas . on the 13th inst. She was heavily Jaden with freight, and carried quite a crowd of pagsen-. gers. Ex-Lieut. Governor Pardy was one of . them. Edward H. Nolan, convicted in San Francisco of attempting to vote a second time, at the last election, was sentenced last week to pay @ fine of $300, or be imprisoned sixty days. Calvin B. McDonald, editor of the Trinity will deliver a lecture in April next, InpiANs Kituep py Serriers.—The Northern Californian, published at Union, Humboldt county, in its issue of March 2d, snys: On Wednesday last, Messrs. Lawrence and Rich, saw an Indian and squaw near Koeeland’s Prairie—they took the squaw prisoner, and on the next day, accompanied by three other white men, obliged the squaw to pilot them to the ranches where her friends were living on the head waters of Elk river. They told the Indians they must come with them to town, and be sent with others to a reservation, This they refused to do and one of them made an. effort to wrest « rifle from one of the white men, and others started to run. The white men gave chase and killed eight—seven men and one aquaw. The squaw that acted as their guide, and some three or four others escaped. If the settlers generally should adopt this course. Capt. Mesrick’s Company of volunteers might soon be disbanded. eee A Goop Hit.—The Stockton Demoerat thus refers to the Sacramento Standard, which declined any farther acquaintance with, aud dropped its exchange : It declines an acquaintance with the Democrat. This is to be regretted, as the Democrat bas been compelled by the Legielature to pay taxes to furnish that paper with a reporter, and . there is a right appertaining to see how the reporting is done. Orxecon Winters.—An Oregon paper, of March 9th, says: “We sre informed, by a gentleman who declares that he has kept strict watch ef the weather since Winter opened, that during the last ninety-five days there has not been any consecutive twenty-four hours in which it has neither rained nor snowed,” Mcrver at San Lers Onrsro.—Lats Oaviosa, . in the capacity of State Prison Directore. Jsewhere, as I pm confident . } ON MAYERS. . 4 erected at the U.S. Arsenel, ob Benicia, at Shasta, on the “ Landmarks of Existence.”’ . a Californian, was killed at San Luis Obiepo on It will, no doubt, be interesting. . the 2d instant, by another native of the counAt a fire in San Francisco, on Sunday, March . iry, named Francisco Alviso, who went up be13th, a Mr. aud Mra. Turner were severely, . ping him, and drove a knife through him at one though not dangerously, burned. blow. Alviso then tried to kill » woman, ramThe Tebama Gazette learns that the Coast . ed Francesca Morano, but she escaped, after th of that place, is covered . having her hand severely cut. The murderer me pl srentp test deep. att was arrested ten minutes afterwards, and is in : tody, A meeting of the Administration Democratic eget. 5 Central Committee bas been called to assemble at Sacramento on the 2d proximo, A Dreaprci Loss !—A correspondent of the Bulletin writing from New Orleans, says that Both Governor Weller and Attorney General f Thos. 8. King had been there, but that his stay Williams ask to be excused from serving longer ange eaoiithas tie people of Mew Orleans . “had not much time to enjoy his society!” How The Humboldt Times announces that the . intense must have been tie grief of the people Indian war, in that county, is very nearly at . of the Crescent City over their loss, an end. ‘eB NO aid — At Gibsonville, in Sierra eounty, the enow is Rewarp ror 4 Mervexer.—Sheriff Wood, of said to be twenty feet deep. Yuba, offers a reward of $1,000 for the appre: : i i ho murdered SamLe ‘ven that @ storebouse will . ¥¢8%i0n of G. W. Dobbios, w Hotien bas Gove, a" . uel Jones at Timbucktoo on the 27th ult, : Baloo ie bee sis alec 3s bss Zz NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY. MORNING, M HOTELS. ARCH 23, TS ES NES SD. SS et cenenngnencliad asia atetmeeenerenenettcamlitseerecaieriesiaensen ttt Gi EEE ETE TC SE ET Teaches NRE eet Re a a a a a TI a a aa eee a REE SC ET se ae ne Tee: See, RIDE RG gl A A Rk RRR a a a oe a — 1859. —— The President’s Central American Policy. On the 18th of February, the President transmitted a message to Congress, The following is a synopsis of the document: To the Senate and House of Representatives :-——The brief period which remains of your present ses. sion, and the great urgency and importance of . legislative action before its termination for the . protection of American citizens and their pro pony whilst in transit across the Isthmus routes tween your Atlantic and Pacific possessions, render it my duty again to reoall the subject to your notice. The President, after reviewing the case, recommends to Congress the passage of an Act authorizing the Presideut, ander such restric. tio as it may deem oo to employ the land and naval forces.of . 8. in preventing the transit from being obstructed or closed, by lawess violence, and in protecting the lives and property of American citizens traveling thereupon, uiring atthe same time that’ these forces shall be withdrawn the nroment the danger shall bave pee away. A similar neces. sity exists for the passage of an act for the protection of the Panama and Thhuantepec routes, Another subject, equally important, is broach ed, relating to the Republies south of the United States, on the Continent, He states that they have been fn a state of revolution and civil war ever since they achicved their independence; have» seized and confisdated Ameriéan vessels and their cargoes in a lawless manner, and exacted money from American citizens, ete,; goes on to state that no redress has ever been obtained, and citizens are deprived of the same protection under the flag of their country which the subjects of other nations enjoy. The remedy can only be applied by Congress, After setting forth the whole matter at length, he therefore earnestly recommends to Congress to pass a law conferring on the President the power to protect the p net and property of American citizens in the cases indicated. He concludes by saying: Having thus reeommended to Congress a measure which he deems necessary. and expedient for the interests and honor of the country, he leaves the whole subject to their wisdom and discretion. The President tramsmitted to the House a similar message to that sent tothe Senate, It took the Senate generally by surprise. Seward’s Argument, We copy below one of the arguments advanced by Senator Seward, in support of the bill for the construction of the Pacific Railroad. With the exception of the suggestion that Mexico city would become the capital of the Pacific States, it contains nothing from which any thinking mind will dissent. If an independent republic is ever established on the Pacific Slope San Francisco will be its political capital, as it is now and must always remain the commercial emporium of the Pacific States: “Ambition, Mr, President, is not exclusively a plant of eastern growth, It springs up and is as vigorous on the Pacific as upon the Atlantic; and our Pacific States will, if they are not allowed to connect themselves directly aud totimately with the Bastern States, do just exactly what the older Atlantic States did. They will colonize the Pacific coast of the continent and set up for themselves, It is only a question of time, if there be no change of policy. They can be no more loyal to us and entcriain ne more affection for us than our forefatbera cherished towards the country from which they emigrated to this continent, Then, I think, the Pacific Railroad involves this question; whether this capital, cudeared to us by so many attractions and exciting 80 much hope, and pride and promise, shall, by the improvement of facilities for intercourse, commerce and communication between us and the Pacific coast, . remain the capital of the whole Unite] States of America; or whether it shall dwarf and sink, and become the capital of the United States of the Atlantic only: and Mexico, invested as it is with so many ancient and heroic traditions alrea(ly, shall become a rival capital—the capital of the Pagific States of America.’’ ConoressmMen.—The life of a member of Congress is getting to be one of gentlemanly ease and elegant leisure. Kven petty committees, vow-a-days, must have their clerks, and these functionaries are generally entrusted with drawing up the bills which are reported for legislative cousideration, The members seem to have but little other care than to look after their salaries. The system of clerk committees is all wrong, and canuot be too soon abolished. . The men of the early days of this republic—the men who thought it an honor to work for their country—would have felt humiliated if a proposition had been made to furnish them with clerks todo their writing and thinking, and thus make imperfect laws sufficieut to keep a dozen Attorney Generals employed to give them anything ofa correct construction, A Congressman of the 36th Congress is no more like a Congressman of the 1st, 10th or 20th Congress, as coucerns usefulness to their constitu. ents and to.the nation, than a cod-fish aristocrat is like his sturdy ancestor, wlio underwent all the hardships incident to the camp of the of the Revolution, The sigos of the times, as indicated from a Washington point of view, ure anything but encouraging for an honest observance of fundamental principles. If things grow worse, God knows what is to become of the country.— Wash. States. Lossy at Wasstxncrox.—The Evening Post’s correspondent says : The report of the intention. on the part of Mr. Hunter’s friends, to cut off certain branches of the public service, will have the injarious tendency to pour into Washington a lobby, more powerful than Congress itself, to prevent the very thing proposed. The mail contractors on sea and land employ an army of hangers-on. It is understood that one steamship compan alone affords to pay all the expenses of an official, who occupies a high position in this government. That official lives in this city in the most extravagant style, He keeps open honse, rides in his private carriage with liveried servante, has is private box at the theatre, at. tends all levees, and gives the most expensive dinners and levees himeelf, His expenses at the Jast session of Congress are estimated at He is not WHOLE NO. 285. » THE SLAVE TRADE. It fg evident to every person Who has given any attention to the debates in Congtess for the past few years, that there is a growing Opposition athong the Southern metmbers to’tlie laws of Congress for the euppréssion of tie slave trade. Three years ago, a resolution Wits adopted by the House of Representatives, With otily three or four dissenting votes, declaring that the re-opening of the slave trade was cottrary to the settled policy of this government, At the late session of Congress, ten and twenty-fire Representatives voted a, the appropriation to defray the expense of Gafrying back to Aftica the negroes captured 6h the Echo, which was strictly in accordance with the Federal laws for suppressing this inhamah trafic. These ten Senators and twentyive Representatives do not include all the meth bers of the present Congress that are in fOr of re-opening the trade; but such only a8 fe in favor of nullifying the Inw declaring the trade piracy. A Washington correspondent . of the Philadelphia Aiquirer writes as follows th regard to the feeling upon this subject in the South: , “A gentleman lately from Mobile, Infotnis me that it is not the large planters of the South who are in favor of mete the slave trade for they have, generally, as mauy hegroes ae they desire; but it is the people—-those who from the high price negroes have attained, are unas ble to purchase or hire them; and who hav consequently to do their own plantation nd house work, since no white laborers ean “be hired, when labor itself is considered degrad ing, and only to be performed by the ayy He said that be found the utmost unanimity o feeling on this subject. Every one enid, negroes they would bave, and would importa spite of all the laws declaring it piracy, and in spite of all the power of the United States, reat Britain, France and the whole world. — And when be suggested that were puring @ course calculated to unite the North against them, the prompt and uniform answer was, ‘What need we care; we intend to go out of the Union anyhow, and we care not how parties may be formed at the North, or bow soon they drive us out.’ But suppose, said he, Maryland, Virginia, Nurth fomien Tennes see, Kentuckey and Missouri should refuse to join you? ‘We care not,’ was the reply, “we sball go out at all hazards, and, with uve, we shall have the most splendid country on the globe, as it will include the whole cotton, sugar, and rice producing region of this continent, to wit—South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Mexico and Central America. And if the slave States that you have named do not choose te join us, they will form a slave cordon between us and the d—— Abolitionists of the North and prevent them from stealing our negroes,’ ” A Suptime Ipka,—The closing passage in one of Professor Mitchell’s recent lectures in New York, on Astronomy, after speaking of the unfathomable distances which no telescope can penetrate, lying far beyond the system fn which the earth revolves, and yet filled with indépendent systems of worlds of infinite numbers, wat as follows: , Light traverses space at the rate of ten million miles a minute, yer the light from the wearest star requires teu years to reach the earth, and Ilerchel’s telescope revealed stars two thousand three hundred times farther distant. The great telescope of Lord Ross pursued these ereations of God still deeper into space, and baying resolved the nebulwe of the Milky Way itto stars, discovered other systems of stars—beautifal diamond pointe glittering through the black darkness beyond. Wheu he beheld this amazing abyss—when he saw these systems scattered profusely throughout space—when he reflected upon their immense distance, their enormous tnagnitude, and the countless millions of worlds that belonged to them, it seemed to him as though the wild dream of the German poet was more than realized, “God called man io dreams into the veatibule of Heaven, saying, ‘come up hither, and I will show thee the glory of my house.’ And to his angels who stood about his throne he said ‘take him, strip him of his robes of flesh ; cleanse him of his affections; put a new breath into his nostrils ; but toueh not his buman heart’—the heart that fears, and hopes, and trembles. moment, and it was done, and the man at ready for his unknown voyage. Under the guidance of a mighty angel, with sounds of = es t ing pinioos, they sped sway fromthe batt ments of heaven, Some time on the mighi angel’s wings they fled throughSaharas ofdarkness, wilderness of death, At length from a distance not counted save in the arithmetic of Heaven, and light beamed upon them—a sleepy flame as seen through a bazy cloud. In a moment the blazing of suns around them—a momept the wheeling of planets; then came long eternities of twilight; then again on the right hand and the left, appeared more constellations, At last the man gank down, orying, ‘Angel, I can go no further, let me lie down in the grave and hide myself from the infinitude of the uol+ verse, for end there is none.’ ‘End is thera none? demanded the angel. And from the glittering stars that shone around, there canie a choral shout, ‘End there is none!’ *End, is there none?’ demanded the angel again ; ‘and is it this that awes the soul? I answer, end there is none to the universe of God!’’ CenresNaRIANs.—An ancient couple, Bakeman by name, reside in the town of Freedom, Cattaraugus county,N. Y. The man Danie} Frederick Bakeman, is 100 years old, and hia wife is 101 years old, He was a Revelotionary soldier. He is quick and epry, can walk twa or three miles, chop wood &c. She can see to thread her needle aud sew as well as qny one, and can walk off half a mile visiting and back, She has good health. They were formerly from the Mohawk country, and were married whey quite young, Dearu or AN InpIAN Oarxr.—Sam Jones, the about twenty-five thousand dollars! : ’ reckoned a siah man, and bis salary is only . Celebrated Seminole chief, whose life has cost $3,000 per annum. If one steamship company . the United States more lives and treasyre thag can afford to support an agent like the one de-. any tribe of Indians upon this continent is scribed, please consider the social and financial . dead, and has been succeeded by Tiger Tail power which all the companies on sea and land . the uext chief in seniority. It ts supposed that can throw into this city to impede the progress . Jones was upwards of a hundred years old. of any economical legislation, Mount Vesuvive.—Phie voleano is said to be M. Goruni, a distinguished German professor, . cracking and epening at gl! parts from the base has, it is stated, originated an interesting ex. to the summit, Small craters are formiag all periment in illustration of the moantains. He . over jt, gud it is feared that another such oatass melts certain substances of diferent specific . trophe 9s that which engulphed Pompeii aad gravity in a vessel, allowing them to cool grad. pferculgneum may at any moment oceur. ually. At first tuere isan even surface, but it soon cracks open, and pornos “ fhe lower strata ooze up and form graduat elevations, anZ . ; til ranges abh chains of Fitts are formed, éxact-. *epports a famiiy of eight ohildron and two ly corresponding in shape with those which are . dogs on dollar a day. displays more true found on the earth. Even to the stratification, . heroism than.is required to effect & conquest the resewblance is said to be surprisingly com. on a battle field. So says an exchange, Ia this Hops axp Herows.— The hod-carrier wng plete, and Goruni also produces, on 9 small . view it is consoling to know that the of scale, in a similar manner, the phenomenon of cbivalry will never die until architects find g volcanoes and earthquakes, ; substityte for bricks aud mortar, SO ee aS A nid sites fg oda hat ablinmailgt e oey