November 24, 1858 (5 pages)

The New Almaden Mine Suit. NEVADA DEMOGRAT. agement ro atte . thorized in endeavoring to get possession of the New wiser i deliver the Danoceat 1044 : vandal Almaden quicksilver mines bas excited considmulioriaad ved receipt for the » “. erable interest among miners. The proeeedvian Hoogs is our for San Francisco. . iags before the U. S. District Court at San He is authorised to receive ad ts, and collect and . Francisee thus far, cannot be regarded in any ag egple other light than asa hint to the miners tbat the general government intends to Assert its J thorised agus ht geeramen to tevsve tvrioomente aa collect for the same. ownership to, and exercise control over, the gold and other mines of the State. How else NNN NEVADA, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24, 1868. can we aceount for the aetion of the governooo Lecourron Quartz Leap.—Two hundred tons . ment officials? Congress has not passed any of rock taken from this lead, the crushing of . act making it the duty of the administration to which was completed at the Oriental Mill, last . take possession of the quicksilver mines located week, turned out @ little over thirty dollars a . upon government land; and admitting that the ton. This, we believe isthe lowest rate real. New Almaden Mine is upon land owned by goized from any one lot of rock out of that lead. . vernment, the claimants of that mine stand in There are several quartz leads in this county . the same relation towards the government as which pay better than the Lecompton, but the . do the claimants of quartz leads. Itis nota latter, in consequence of its size and location, . dispute between individuals as to the owneris one of the most valuable. It is so situated . ship of the mine, nor is it the land upon which that five tunnels have been run to the vein, one . the mine is located for whica the government over the other, and all are above the water lev. has commenced suit; but the mineral itself is el. From these tunnels the workmen are ena-. claimed on the ground that the soil belongs to bled to quarry from ten to fifteen tons daily. the government. The Judges of the District The cost of quarrying, hauling and crushing . Court have already decided that the mine bethe rock, is thirteen dolJarsa ton; and if we . longs to the United States. The case will, of estimate the yield at thirty dollars, and the . course, be taken to the U. 8S. Supreme Court, amount taken out daily at ten tons, the lead is and the further working of the mine hus been paying its proprietors a net profit of $170 aday. . enjoined by order of the Court, on the applicaThere is every reason to believe that for the . tion of the U.S. District Attorney. next few years the profits from the working of. Itissaid that the New Almaden Mine is this lead will exceed rather than fall below the . worth ten millions of dollars. This is probably amount above stated. an extravagant estimate of its value; but whether it ia worth ten millions or one thousand Surprisx Party.—The ‘institutions’ recently dollars, the principle is the same. That the U. invented in the fashionable world, known as. 5. Supreme Court will confirm the decision of ‘“gurprise parties,” bave been inaugurated at . the District Court, there can be but little doubt. Nevada. OnSaturday evening last, lady. What security will quartz miners then have concluded to spend the evening with a friend. . that suits will not be immediately commenced She returned home at an early hour, and the . by the government for possession of the more reader can imagine that she was somewhat as-. valuable quartz veins? The suit would not tonished to find her honse filled with uninvited . certainly bave been commenced by the U. S guests, a table “loaded with all the varieties of . ufficials in California unless they had received the market,’ and a band in waiting to dis-. jostructions to tbat effect from the authorities coutee sweet music. It is needless to say that. at Washington. The vbject of those instructhe intrusive guests soon succeeded in making . tions we can only conjecture, but as far as we the lady and gentleman of the house feel per-. are now able to judge the proceedings look like fectly at home, and that the evening passed off . an entering wedge for the government to get pleasantly. Asa first attempt to introduce & . possession of the mines of the State. Should a new fasbion, the party, is considered a decided . guit be commenced by the government for the success, R possession of a valuable quartz vein, the deCirr Orprwances.—The ordinances of the cision of the Court in the New Almaden case city have recently been published in pamphlet would at once be cited in support of the govform, and parties desirous of making themernment ¢laim; and in fact no other authority selves acquainted with their provisions, can . Would be needed to dispossess the claimants. procure copies by calling on Mr. Hanson, the _—_—_— Clerk of the Board of Trustees. We notice} Frazer River Go.p.—The 8. F. Prices Ourrent, that a number of buildings bave recently been . ® paper very correct in its statistics, says that erected, without chimneys, and probably many . the deposites at the Mint of Fraser river gold, new comers are not aware of the existance of . from May 19th to November 15th were, before an ordinance requiring brick chimneys to be . melting, 9,092 86 ounces; after melting, 8,333 built in houses where stoves are used. The or-. 56; loss in melting, 750.30 ounces, being 8.35 dinance requiring the proprietor cr occupant . per cent., which is 5.14 per cent. more than the of each house to keep on hand a barrel of wa-. losson California gold. The total value of ter, to be used in case of fire, we believe is also . the gold deposited was $146,380.35. The Bs very generally neglected. Herald eaye that from the information obtaina. OF ble, the amount of gold that has reached San Mixstrets.—The Lyceum Minstrels will make . Francisco from Fraser river is $425,000. This their apperance at the theater to-morrow even. must include the coin, which, as it necessarily ing, and will aleo perform on Friday evening. . went from California, should not be included. They play to-night and Saturday night at Grass} The Call says that the receipts of gold from Valley. This is one of the best companies of . Fraser will not exceed $150,000 at most. SupEthiopian delineators that has ever visited our . posing there were 30,000 gold seekers, this place, inclading as it does some of the most . would give $5 to the man, from which, if we talented artists in that line, Charley Backus} deduct probable expenses, say $100 to the adand Master M. Lewis are alone worth going to. venturer, we should have a net loss of $95 “7 each, or an aggregate loss of $2,850,000, Important Surr.—Some forty or fifty of our ne ee citizens, composing the Nevada Rifle Company, Liwantour Ciaim Resectep.-—The cclebrated have been summoned to appear before E. W. claim of Jose Y. Limantour to some 15,000 Smith, J. P., at 9 o’clock this morning, to show . *¢re# of land in the city and county of Sao cause, if any they can, why they should not Francisco, together with several ielands in the pay to H. A. Lonus the sum of forty dollars. Bay, wae rejected by the U.S. Distriet Court The plaintiff and defendants have employed last week. The decision of Judge Hoffman oceminent counsel to conduct the case. The . ¢upied two hours and fifteen minutes in its decounsel of the latter were engaged yesterday livery, The document contained a full review in preparing an elaborate anewer to the comof all the evidence in the case, and the effect plaint. of testimony of the various witnesses. The judge concluded by expressing his indignation that such # stupendous fraud should have been attempted, supported as it was by perjury, and it was no elight satisfaction that the proofs of fraud were as conclusive and irresistible as the attempted fraud had been flagrant and audacious. The fraudulent character of the claim has been fo fully established that it is not probable the cage will be appealed. Tue Devinquent Tax List.—In consequence of adisagreeable accident which occurred on Monday evening, in the office of our Main street cotemporary, the publication of the delinquent tax list for this county was delayed for one day; it was issued, however, yesterday evening. A printer, in arranging the forms on the press, managed to let one of them fall on the floor, by which accident some five columns of the tax list were knocked into “pi.”. — Escarg or Ratriesnaxe Dicx.—Dick Woods, better known as “Rattlesnake Dick,’’ made his escape from the Auburn jail last Friday, as we learn from the Press. It seems that a lawyer had gone into the jail to see a prisoner whom he was employed to defend, when the Deputy Sheriff leaving the door slightly ajar, left the place. On returning, Dick, who had a few minutes before been brought down from the Court room, bis irons not having been replaced, Cox. O. H. P. Wutre, for several years a res-. bad escaped. Pursuit was immediately made, ident of Nevada county, has recently opened a. but Dick having had some ten minutes start, forwarding and commission house at Sacramen. 804 the eboice of tracks, his re-capture is very to. Col. White is well known here as an ac-. problematical. Dick isthe same fellow who complished business man, and merchants and. escaped from the Nevada jail, about two others entrusting business to his care, can reet. years ago, with Jim Webster. He has been assured that it will be attended to with prompt. confined for some time in the Auburn jail, ona ness and fidelity. charge, we believe, of resisting, and shooting at officers. Jempinc.—The jumping match which had been made up between Soda Bill and Kitchin, came off at the foot-race track last Saturday. Soda Bill was declared winner by twenty inches; the distance made by himin three jumps was thirty-five feet and seven inches. Some $300 or $400 changed hands on the reault, the most of which was won by Dave Ashmore. Tuanxsarvine Day.—Services appropriate for Thanksgiving, will be held in the M. E. Church, Tae Sorrer Trrie.— <A decision was rendered on Thursday evening, the 25th inst. A dis. . by the Sapreme Court last week, confirming the course will be delivered by Rev. Mr. Fish of Sutter title to the land on which Sacramento is Grass Valley. Services commence at seven built. The title has now been confirmed by all o'clock, P. M. the Courts of California, by the Land Commissioners, and by the U. S. District Court. The Tue Ladies Party, at Grass Valley, held last . case is now before the Supreme Court of the Thureday evening, for the benefit of the Epis-. United States for final adjudication, and there copal Church, we learn was largely attended, . is not much doubt but that Sutter's title will and went off in fine style. A large number of. also be confirmed by that tribunal. The dethe guests were from Nevada, and the dancing . cision of our Supreme Court was rendered by was kept up until near daylight. Judge Field and concurred in by Judge Baldwin, The arguments in support of the Sutter gives a Thankegiving party at the Nevada. ‘itle are presented in a strong and convincing Brewery to-morrow evening. Every necessary light, arrangement has been made toinsure an agree-/ Hianwar Roppery.—The Sierra Democrat, able time. relates that a Chinaman was robbed by two white men in that county on Monday week, of a forty-dollar gold watob, two revolvers, and six bowie knives—the only valuables and arme he had on his person. This case will serve to warn travelers of going imperfectly armed. — Taanxsaiving Party —Mrs. E. C. Weiss Avotion.—We call attention to the auction sale of French brandies, advertised in another column. The sale takes place at 10 o’clock, a. u., at the foot of Main street. Wes are indebted to Geo. Welch, of the Pioneer Book Store, Main street, for favorsin the @ paper, with the above title, was issued at newspaper line. . Cachvilie, the county seat of Yolo county, on Jno. Parrison, of Langton’s Express, bas our. Wednesday last. Mr. M. P. Ferguson is the thanke for Downioville papers publieher and editer. Cacavitte Srectator.—The firet number of lumne, The Elections in 1854 and 1658. The Lecompton press are are comparing the defeats of the Democratie party in 1864, with the defeats which bave taken place this year, and argue therefrom, that the party must again be successful in 1860, as it wasin 1856. The passage of the Kansas Nebraska bill, for which the Democracy became mainly responsible, is assumed to be the canse of the downfall of the party four years ago, and it is not denied that the action of the administration in endeavoring to force an obnoxious Constitution upon the people of Kansas, was the sole cause of the disasters to the party this year. Were it necessary, we believe it could be shown that the novelty of Know Nothingism, was a more potent lever in the hands of the opponents of Democracy in 1854, than the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Republicans were not then organized, and the Know Nothings did not, during that year at least, make any issue with the Democrats in regard to the Kansas Nebraeka bill; this they would scarcely failed to have done, had that measure been so very unpopular in the North. But even admitting that the Democracy were defeated in 1854, in consequence of the principle which the party had inaugurated as a settlement of the slavery question, there is little similarity between the causes which resulted in the defeat of the party that year and this. Then, the matses of the party resolutely adhered to the Kansas Nebraska bill, contended that it was equitable and just, and were willing to stand or fall by the principle. The defeat this year was occasioned solely by the fact, that the administration which the Democracy had placed in power, attempted to nullify a leading principle of the party creed ; and notwithstanding the masses of the Democracy repudiated this attempt, yet the party in many cases was held responsible for the acts of the administration. In the Northwestern States in particular, the party in a body, bas repudiated the Kansas policy of the administration, and a reference to a few leading facts, will show how deep was the feeling in those States against Lecomptonism. Io Ohio, notwithstanding a large majority of the delegates to the State Convention were . anti-Lecumpton, they were induced, for tear of losing the votes of « few office-holders, to pass . over without notice, the treachery of the administration, although their nomiuees were all friends of Douglas. This temporising policy occasioned a loss of from 10,000 to 15,000 votes to the party, as compared with the vote of last year. In Indiana, the State Convention declared for Popular Sovereignty, while the Lecomptonites got control of a number of the Congressional Conventions, and nominated for . re-election, some of the present members. The result showed a loss on the Congressional ticket of over 15,000 votes as compared with the State ticket, the candidates on the latter being elected by a majority of from two to three thousand votes. Itis within bounds to say that three-fourths of the Democrats of both of these By Telesr aph. Arrival of tle Southern Overiand Mail. Saw Franetsco, Nov. 23d, 1858. ‘The overland mail stage arrived at half-past seven o’clo¢k this motning, with dates te Oct. 28th. fhe Governor of Texas has commissioned J. Bourtand to raise four hundred Rangers to fight the Indians on the northern frontier.— They will cooperate with Major Van Doren’s Cavalry. The news from the Western Kansas gold mines is still encouraging anda depopulation of the surrounding country is feared in the spring. Horace Bell, who forcibly released a father and brother, charged with running off Negroes from Brandenburg jail, in Kentucky and escaped to New Albany, Indiana, was captured in the latter place by Kentucky policemen and taken across the river by intimidation of the ferrymen. When the people of New Albany, who had been attending a fair, beard it, they rung the city bells, had the ferrymen arrested as kidnappers, seized the ferry boat, proposed rescuing them from Brandenburg, and at last accounts had broken into the arsenal to procure arms for that purpose. The Philadelphia police are on the lookout for a Freneb woman, Emile De Gazino, aud a man, who have been swindling through the Southern States and California, by raising money on drafts—William Franklin, lumber merchant of San Francisco, was victimized five thousand dollars. Luella Kentry, daughter of Capt. Kentry, of the Steamer City of Memphis, died from eating arsenic in mistake for cream of tartar. Gen. Finley, of Patterson, has been put forward by the people of Kansas for Governor. Geo. Dunson was hung in Uralde county Texas, by lynch law, for horse stealing. There is much excitement in the east about . the prize fight. Heenan has challenged Morris sy to another fight for $5,000 a side or upwards; to take place in four or six mouths. Morrissy is giving sparring exhibitions in Buffalo. Tom down, and the hearth-stones lifted a Hyer, to make up for losses on Henan, challen. ges Morrissy, or the world, to fight for $10,000 a side. Tue November Ex.ecrions.—lIno our next issue we hope to be enabled to chronicle the result of the elections held in Illinois, New York, and other States, on the 2d of this month, . There is good reason to believe that the November elections were less disastrous to the Democratic party than the elections held in October, In New York, the opposition being divided into three parties, the Democracy calculate on an easy victory, so far as the State ticket is concerned; but in most of the districts the opposition having urited on candidates for Congress; it is not probable that the Democrats will make any gains in the Congressioual delegation—which in the present Congress stands 12 Democrats to 21 Republicans. In Illinois, States, are friends of Douglas, and regard his construction of the Kansas Nebraska bill as the true Democratic doctrine. In 1854, many voted the Democratic ticket, in preference to the Know Nothing, who disapproved of the Kansas Nebraska bill, but the most of these went over to the Republicans, on the organization of that party. It is folly to speculase upon the probable reault of the next Presidential contest. The course of events between now and the time appointed for the assembling of the Charleston Convention, will have so much to do with determining that contest, that the most far-seeing political calculator, cannot with any degree of certainty, predict the result, Every year brings forth new issues and new combinations, and the events of the two years succeeding the fall of 1854, are no criterion by which to judge of what may happen for the two years to come. Tue New York Pourricirans.—It seems there ism emull quantity of consistency yet left among the New York politicians. At a meetthe central portion of the State, where the two of news from Lower California : ing of the Tammany Gencral Committee, recently, a Mr. May introduced a series of resolutions denouncing Douglas, and expressing an . Will determine the politics! character of the . days ago. approval of the acts of the administration, The resolutions were laid on the table. The New . ity is that the Democrats will have a small ma-. He was one of the old and wealthy citizens of York News, the principal administration organ of the city, in commenting on the action of the Committee, says : “Itis estimated that the ene hundsed and mittee are in receipt of official salaries and compensation equal to from seven hundred and fifty thousand to one million of dollars per annum! And yet, even as well paid as this by the Democratic party, they will not stand up in an emergency like the present, to denounce the treason aud detection of Stephen A. Douglas aud sustain James Buchanan!” Taking the lowest of the above estimates, and the members of that Committee ure each ia receipt of a salary of about $6,800 per annum from the goverument; and strange to say, politicians.as they are prefer to run the risk of losing their salaries rather than adopt a reries of res olutions which they do not approve! We have fallen upon evil times, surely, when the administration is nut able to control one hundred and ten politicians, with euch solid inducements to back its arguments. It is barely possible, however, that those politicians are not quite so disinterested as their acts would make them appear. They have no idea of releasing their hold of the public teat at the close of MrBuchanan’s term; and such being tae case, it would be the height of folly in them to denouce Douglas, who of all men, stands the best chauce of being Mr. Buchanan’s successor, They are altogether too shrewd not to see that the star of Douglas wil! soon be in the zenith, ae Tae Mais to tue East.—C. L. Weller, the Postmaster at San Francisco, publishes the following communication in the Bay papers ; As a matter of public information and general interest, will you please announce iu your paper that hereafter I dispatch from this office, ou the 5th aud 20th of each month, a mail via Tehuantepec to New Orleans, I am directed by the Postmaster-General to request writers of letters, destined to plages in the Atlantic States, to direct thereon the royte by which they wish them sent, to wit: * Via Los Angeles, Overland” “ Via Salt Lake, Overs land,” * Via LA ieaued $90 Letters with no such indorsement upan them, and all newspapers, will be sent * Vie Panama.” Three cents will pay the postage on a single letter via overland as far as Chicago, Jll., and Cincinnati, Ohio. Beyond those points the postage will be ten cents. Newspapers throughout the State will do the public a favor by inserting this in their celthe agents of the administration have put forward candidates in five of the Congressional districts, for the purpose of defeating the Democratic candidates. One ef these puppets, Leroy of the 3d district, had withdrawn, and possibly the others withdrew a day or two before the election, If they remained in the field until the day of election the Democracy will be likely to lose two or three Congressmen from that State. The greatest interest, however, bas been excited in regard to the political complexion of the Legislature, as upon that depends the election of a U.S. Senator. It has been stated on good authority that every Democratic member who can possibly be elected will be a friend of Douglas; but the administration men have been instructed to vote for the Republican candidates where they are not strong enough to run candidates of their own, and should any considerable number of them follow this instruction they will without doubt succeed in defeating Douglas. The maino contest, where the greatest exertion was being made, was iu parties were nearly equally divided. The elec tions in New York, Illiagis and New Jersey, next House of Representatives, The probabiljority in that body. SacraAMENTO Union.—The daily edition of the Union, of Wednesday last. was issued in quarto closely printed reading matter—more than was ever before “set up’’ for auy daily in the State. The large amount of news received by the mail steamer compelled the proprietors to issue a double sheet in order to give their readers the intelligence at the earlirst period. There is not a paper in the State that can compete with San Jean Itews.—In the Press, of the 20th, we tind the following items: The cabin of Andrew Smith was entered by thieves on Thursday night, the window tora in search of treasure. Mr. Smith he nan — diggin but was too sensible pae oF gt it, where thieves could break thcongh and steal. H. J. McKinley, Esq., the “Henry Jacob” of . , the newspapers, visited San Juan last Saturday aud gave « Sbakeperian rebeureal tos email audience. The Middle Yuba Canal Company have lately constructed a substantial flume which leads from their ditch to Manzanita Hill. It is 2,400 feet in length, greatest height from the round 53 feet, aud the box is two feet eight uches wide, by two feet deep. Feldspar is found in considerable quantities in the vicinity of San Juan. It isa mineral mitted suicide in a fit of temporary His age was about seventeen years, CuarterY Batpwin.—We mentioned last week the disappearance of Charley Baldwin, who has resided at Petaluma the past year, under cip. cumstances leading to the supposition that be had been drowned. We have since learned tha: his body wasfound in Petaluma creek, last Wednesday. A rope was around the body, ang a stone weighing about a hundred pounds, at. ached to the rope: It is supposed that he com. Tue Cextrat Rovre.—We have received g petition from Placerville, asking of Congress an increased mail service and more dispateh on the central mail ronte, ‘from Placerville tg St. Joseph. Mo. We shall take pleasure in pro. curing signatures to the petition and forward much used in porcelain and pottery manufache same to Washington. Parties wishing to tures, and is also used in the manufacture of . attach their names to the petition can do go by artificial teeth. The Bloomer Company cleaved up $900 last week. Another interest bas been sold in these claims for $6.0U0. The majority of the miners on San : P being engaged in cutting the granite, laying . sluices, d&c. 1 conducted the San Juan Star, has struck ravine diggings in this vicinity which prospect four bits to the pan. The cabin of Mr. J. G. Alexander, a miner on this bill, was visited some time last week by thieves, who overhauled a trauk for valua. bies—found none, and helped themselves to . what blankets they needed. As Mr, Alexander . had just been paid several thousand dollars for his diggings, the thieves no doubt expected a. good haul, but were disappointed. Lynxcuine Inpians.—We gave an account last week of an affray on the Sacramento between three white men and some Indians, resulting in the death of one of the former named McGowan. From the Shasta papers of Saturday, we learn that two of the Indians accused of be. ing engaged in the affray, were bung by a mob. . It seems that the Indian boy who shot NeGowan . had delivered himself up to the Sheriff, and is now in the Shasta jail; he says he shot McGowan to save his own life, The Republican gives the following account of the banging: The accused were Nep, who formerly lived with a citizen of our town, and bis partially . blind and decrepid old father. Of course the . accusation was conviction, and they were sen. tenced to be hung to the first tree that could be . reached ‘The tree was soon found and a table was placed under one of its limbs, On reaching the fatal spot, Nep addressed the Diggers who were present (about one hundred and fifty) and asked them if they intended to let the whites . . hang him and his father. They seconded the verdict of the whites. Nep then denounced . them as cowards and stated that he bad no wish to live longer. He then led bis sisters to the table and bestowed them upon those of bis tribe (his father was a chief aud be was acting ip h's . stead) who promised to protect them. At the same time he distributed all that he possessed among those who sympatbised with him. Then . mounting the table he called for water, which . he presented to ‘his father. The whites were . then called. to whom he bid farewell. Nep called for a handkerchief to bandage his . . . . eyes, and, when all was annonneed as ready. he . jumped from the table. The rope was too long . and bls feet touched the ground. He immediately raised his feet. A draw was made upon . the rope and the limb broke--the Indian falling . to the ground half dead. He was again drawn ap and strangled, and vengeence (or jealousy?) was satisfied. Destructive Fire at Texas Sprixes.-—Wednesday morning a tire was discovered in the cellar of a large frame building of John Gilson, on the south side of Wm. Wells & Bros,’ store, and occupied by Peter Chada as a billiard saloon and boarding honse. The fire extended south and burned the family residence of Wes. ton, and the residences of Thos. Hart and Wm, Sutton, and the blacksmith shop of Thos. Hart, with nearly all their contents, Hart saved his bellows, and Weston two beds and a gun. Chada lost everything. The inmates were nearly all left without any clothing except their night clothes. There was a pony belonging to Newton Dale tied to the house, which was burned to death, together with two dogs belonging to Chnada. His losses are reckoned at two thousand dollars. No insurance.—Shasta Courier, Nov. 25th. Lower Catirornia.—The Los Angeles Vine. yard, of a recent date, bas the following items General Castro, Governor of Lower Califor. nia, sentenced another outlaw to be shot a few . The crime was the murder of a citi. zen of Santo Tomas. The death of Don Jose Pais is also reported. Santo Tomas, always very much respected, during a long and useful life. The Padre of Santo Tomas bas been doing a ively business in the matrimonial way recently, ; having married fourteen couple in almost as . ten members of this Tammany General Com-/. form, and contained about forty columns of many dapae bd Tue Wine Cror.—The Los Angeles Vineyard says that Don Luis Sainsevain closed his vintage on the 6th instant, The vineyard of Mr. S. covers forty acres of ground, and has 40.000 vines, The product of this vineyard has been, this season, 37.000 gallons of white wine, 3.000 calling at this office. Drixo.—A gentleman who left Sweetiang yesterday afternoon, informs us that Charles Juan bill are not washing at present, . Sweetland, at the time he left, was lying at = Mr. J. P. Olmstead, who formerly . point of death, and was expected to live but » few minutes. He has been sick about a week with the typhoid fever. CuiLpreN IN PLacer.—The number of chil. dren in Placer county, under eighteen years, returned by the schoel census, is 1.569; be. tween the ages of four and eighteen, 960; under four. 609. Of the whole number returned, 723 were born in California. Eprrortrat Cuance.—Mr. E. B. Boust has re. tired from the editorial charge of the Placer Courier, and is succeeded by Robert J. Steele, Suspenston oF AN Orricer.—In San Franeisco, Nov. 19th, officer Horton was suspended from duty by reason of intoxication. Tue steamer Golden Ace, which sailed tor Panama on Saturday last, carried $2,163,603 in treasure, and 410 passengers, Seen te EL SER OR ORCI EE French Brandies, AT AUCTION !! On Thursday next (to-morrow) Nov 25th, Will be sold at the hour of 10 o’clock, in the Store ad. . joining that of John W., Grier, on Main street, 500 GAL. FINE FRENCH BRANDIEs, A Small Jot of GROUND BARLEY, Also Sets of MEAS. URES, &e. &e. aw Without reserve, to the highest bidder. gq TERMS, AT SALE, 8-1t I. WILLIAMSON, Anctioneer, THE LYCRGM BUNSFRELS JOHN WILSON, = = Proprictor. HIS COMPANY comprising the following talented and versatile performers, CHARLEY BACKUS, FRANK HUSSEY, TOM RALEIGH, MASTER M. LEWIS, W. M. BARKER, Cc. D. ABBOTT, FRANK MAY, J. E. JOHNSON, Will havo the honor of giving a eri+s «f pleasing enter tainments, consisting of Songs, Glees, Dance, ete, at the METR POLITAN THEATER, NEVADA, Cn Thursday and Friday Evenings, Nov. V o5th and 6th. ial AND AT GRASS VALLEY, On Wednesday the 24th, and Saturday the 27th of Nov. 1858. A. C. KEYT, Agent. ST.LOUIS HOTEL, Commercial Street, Nevada. KASPER HAUPT, ee Prop ietor. Good Fire-Proof Building!! In the Centre of the City. HE ABOVE NEW HOTEL, ia furnished throughout io a good style, and is open for the ACCOMMODATION OF THE PUBLIG. The Table will be furnished with BVERY DELICACY To be procured in the Markets. THE SLEEPING APARTMENTS, Are well ventilated, and furnished in Good Style. Families, will be furnished with suitable rooms, and every attention paid to their accommodation The Bar is supplied with Good Liquors, WINES, ALES, CIGARS, &c. _ Nevada, Nov. 23d, 1858.—8-tf pe ee sede of Calffornia, County of Nevada, Town<hip of Little York, s#.—Justice’s Court, J. E. Squire J. P. The People of the State of California, to W. C, COURTNEY. You are hereby summoned to appear before the undersigned Justice of the l’eace, at his office ip said township, on Monday the 29th day of Nov. A. D, 1858, at one o'clock P. M. to answer tothe complaint of RICHARD SAVAGE, who sues you for the sum of forty-four dollars and forty-nine cents—$24,10 of said sum, for Goods sold and delivered you, and interest oa said sum, and $20,39, principal and interest on a promissory note given by you to Peters & Co., on the first day of June last, and mow hell and owned by said plaintiff, as will appear by his . said complaint on cath, now On file in my office. On failure so to appear andanswer, judgment will be rendered against you for said sum of forty-four dellars and forty-nine cents, and costs of suit. Given under my hand, this 19th day of Nov. A. D. 1858. J. E. SQUIRE, Justice of the Peace. An affidavit having been filed in my office by Richard Savage, setting forth that he has a good cause of action against W. C. Courtney, and that said Courtney conceals himself to avoid service of Summons. Its therefore ordered that service of the foregoing sumgallons of red wine, 5,000 gallons of angelica, and 3,000 of brandy—in all, 48,000 gallons, To make one gallon of brandy, requires five the Union for news; it comes up precisely to Jonathan Slick’s idea of a good paper, by publishing every thing worth reading from all the . gallons of wine; and for each gallon of angelica, other papers. It has, besides, the best location . #bcut fifteen pints of wine. This will make the in the State to obtain a large circulation, as it produce of the vineyard equal to about 65.000 can furnish news to the bulk of the population one day in advance of the San Francisc> papers. wine to the vine. Tue Gra Mines.—The Alia of Friday, has AN Immensk Dewinquest List.—The delinthe following in regard to the Gila mines: quent tax list of San Francisco was issued on PW a a letter received in this city. we learn Saturday last, from the office of the Daily ema reported riches of the Gila gold mines ’ ; : e fabnlons. The highest wages average but Times. It is the largest single advertisement . from three to five dollars per day. Men have ever published on the Pacific coast, containing . left the mines and taken work at thirty dollars as it does sixty-four newspaper columns, in. Pe? Month on the steamers, and many are withJ ‘ isi out employment of any kind. The writer al: fine type, and over half a million of ems, The! remarks that merebanie who ship et to Fort composition alone would keep one man empley-. Yuma or the Gila mines, on the encouragement ed for about three monthe, yet the work was all . of the letters declaring their diggings to have done in four days, It is certainly a creditable a wert lp will find themselves wofully disju to be lesued from a California printing of. PPO" fice. It is stated that over balf of the taxes of San Francisco county are unpaid. Horrisie Déatu.—A dispatch to the Union, from San Francisco, dated Nov. 21st says: ee a ae aE “Chung Wang, aged about forty-two, volun8. P. Srorma.—The Tehama Gazette learns! teered to odion sas belting in the Pacific that S. P. Storms, lately injured by being . Cordage Factory, at noon yesterday, when, his thrown from bis horse near Neal’s ranch, is re— pte in contact with the machinery, covering slowly from the effects of his fall. j. Vo" COrried Gronen me shar guent lives *. times, i i No clue has yet been found to the robbers who pcaiah-erlile a Sie sane bneines fen a 80 cowardly took advantage of his helplessness, on the night in question, CHILDREN IN Exporapo.—According to the Tug Morsine Stan.—A new paper with the} county, 1.736 child : : ri, ren betw above title, made its appearance at Sacramen. and po i een the ages of four to, last Sunday morning. It is edited by Alexander Montgomery, We have not yet received @ copy. ViLLatnous.—The Placer Courier says that a deaf and dumb man was robbed near Yankee Jims, on Tuesday of last week, of all the money he possessed, Passencers Br TenvantePEc.—Seventy-five passengers left San Francisco on the 20th inst., for the East, by the Tehuantepec route. It is believed they will reach New Orleans in fourteen days. Riewt.—A young man living at Oro city, Plaser county, was fined $25 last week, for giving whiekey to Indians, gallons of wine, and more than six quarts of school census of El Dorado, there are in the . . mons be made on said Courtney, by publishing in the Ne. vada Democrat one week. Given under my hand this 19th day of Nov. 1858. 8-1t J. E. SQUIRE, J, P. . STRAYED. FROM THE PREMISES OF THE UNdersigned, at Grizzly Hill, Nevada County, two COWS. One is red and white, with white face, wearing a bell without aclapper. The other is a dark brindle, with brockle face. The cows strayed off last Thursday night, Nov. ll, Any person who will return the Cows to the undersigned will be suitably rewarded. A. J. DOOLITTLE, November 16th, 1858.—7-2w O. H P. WHITE & Ce., . Forwarding and Commission Merchants, OFFICE—At the Wholesale Grocery and Provision Store of P. J, Brogan & Co. 52 Front Street, -Wo have a thorough FIRE PROOF BUILDING in which to Store all Goods Consigned to our care, which we may not be able to Forward on the day they arrive, and 0° . charges made for storage. Bw All Goods coming from San Francisco by Sacra. mento, for your different localities in the interior, par. ticular in having marked, to care of “WHITE, SAC, . they may have prompt attention. November, 15, 1858.—7-tf Sacramento. ——— eg) ~ ROLAND HL SHEA, Surveying, Blectro-Magnetic & Optical ents. SECOND STREET, SACRAMENTO, Two doors South of the Alta Express Office. A All repairs done in the best manner, and at the CHEAPEST Possible Rates. 50 November Ist 1858. Forwarding and Commission WAREHOUSE, FIRE-PROOF BRICK BUILDING, Lower Flaza, Marysville. GOODS HECEIVED, STORED, AND FORWARDED TO ALL PARTS OF THE MINES. sar All Kinds of CALIFORNIA PRODUCE kx constantly on hand, bs Ww. T. ELLIS. Sera Se aR

The New Almaden Mine Suit. NEVADA DEMOGRAT. agement ro atte . thorized in endeavoring to get possession of the New wiser i deliver the Danoceat 1044 : vandal Almaden quicksilver mines bas excited considmulioriaad ved receipt for the » “. erable interest among miners. The proeeedvian Hoogs is our for San Francisco. . iags before the U. S. District Court at San He is authorised to receive ad ts, and collect and . Francisee thus far, cannot be regarded in any ag egple other light than asa hint to the miners tbat the general government intends to Assert its J thorised agus ht geeramen to tevsve tvrioomente aa collect for the same. ownership to, and exercise control over, the gold and other mines of the State. How else NNN NEVADA, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24, 1868. can we aceount for the aetion of the governooo Lecourron Quartz Leap.—Two hundred tons . ment officials? Congress has not passed any of rock taken from this lead, the crushing of . act making it the duty of the administration to which was completed at the Oriental Mill, last . take possession of the quicksilver mines located week, turned out @ little over thirty dollars a . upon government land; and admitting that the ton. This, we believe isthe lowest rate real. New Almaden Mine is upon land owned by goized from any one lot of rock out of that lead. . vernment, the claimants of that mine stand in There are several quartz leads in this county . the same relation towards the government as which pay better than the Lecompton, but the . do the claimants of quartz leads. Itis nota latter, in consequence of its size and location, . dispute between individuals as to the owneris one of the most valuable. It is so situated . ship of the mine, nor is it the land upon which that five tunnels have been run to the vein, one . the mine is located for whica the government over the other, and all are above the water lev. has commenced suit; but the mineral itself is el. From these tunnels the workmen are ena-. claimed on the ground that the soil belongs to bled to quarry from ten to fifteen tons daily. the government. The Judges of the District The cost of quarrying, hauling and crushing . Court have already decided that the mine bethe rock, is thirteen dolJarsa ton; and if we . longs to the United States. The case will, of estimate the yield at thirty dollars, and the . course, be taken to the U. 8S. Supreme Court, amount taken out daily at ten tons, the lead is and the further working of the mine hus been paying its proprietors a net profit of $170 aday. . enjoined by order of the Court, on the applicaThere is every reason to believe that for the . tion of the U.S. District Attorney. next few years the profits from the working of. Itissaid that the New Almaden Mine is this lead will exceed rather than fall below the . worth ten millions of dollars. This is probably amount above stated. an extravagant estimate of its value; but whether it ia worth ten millions or one thousand Surprisx Party.—The ‘institutions’ recently dollars, the principle is the same. That the U. invented in the fashionable world, known as. 5. Supreme Court will confirm the decision of ‘“gurprise parties,” bave been inaugurated at . the District Court, there can be but little doubt. Nevada. OnSaturday evening last, lady. What security will quartz miners then have concluded to spend the evening with a friend. . that suits will not be immediately commenced She returned home at an early hour, and the . by the government for possession of the more reader can imagine that she was somewhat as-. valuable quartz veins? The suit would not tonished to find her honse filled with uninvited . certainly bave been commenced by the U. S guests, a table “loaded with all the varieties of . ufficials in California unless they had received the market,’ and a band in waiting to dis-. jostructions to tbat effect from the authorities coutee sweet music. It is needless to say that. at Washington. The vbject of those instructhe intrusive guests soon succeeded in making . tions we can only conjecture, but as far as we the lady and gentleman of the house feel per-. are now able to judge the proceedings look like fectly at home, and that the evening passed off . an entering wedge for the government to get pleasantly. Asa first attempt to introduce & . possession of the mines of the State. Should a new fasbion, the party, is considered a decided . guit be commenced by the government for the success, R possession of a valuable quartz vein, the deCirr Orprwances.—The ordinances of the cision of the Court in the New Almaden case city have recently been published in pamphlet would at once be cited in support of the govform, and parties desirous of making themernment ¢laim; and in fact no other authority selves acquainted with their provisions, can . Would be needed to dispossess the claimants. procure copies by calling on Mr. Hanson, the _—_—_— Clerk of the Board of Trustees. We notice} Frazer River Go.p.—The 8. F. Prices Ourrent, that a number of buildings bave recently been . ® paper very correct in its statistics, says that erected, without chimneys, and probably many . the deposites at the Mint of Fraser river gold, new comers are not aware of the existance of . from May 19th to November 15th were, before an ordinance requiring brick chimneys to be . melting, 9,092 86 ounces; after melting, 8,333 built in houses where stoves are used. The or-. 56; loss in melting, 750.30 ounces, being 8.35 dinance requiring the proprietor cr occupant . per cent., which is 5.14 per cent. more than the of each house to keep on hand a barrel of wa-. losson California gold. The total value of ter, to be used in case of fire, we believe is also . the gold deposited was $146,380.35. The Bs very generally neglected. Herald eaye that from the information obtaina. OF ble, the amount of gold that has reached San Mixstrets.—The Lyceum Minstrels will make . Francisco from Fraser river is $425,000. This their apperance at the theater to-morrow even. must include the coin, which, as it necessarily ing, and will aleo perform on Friday evening. . went from California, should not be included. They play to-night and Saturday night at Grass} The Call says that the receipts of gold from Valley. This is one of the best companies of . Fraser will not exceed $150,000 at most. SupEthiopian delineators that has ever visited our . posing there were 30,000 gold seekers, this place, inclading as it does some of the most . would give $5 to the man, from which, if we talented artists in that line, Charley Backus} deduct probable expenses, say $100 to the adand Master M. Lewis are alone worth going to. venturer, we should have a net loss of $95 “7 each, or an aggregate loss of $2,850,000, Important Surr.—Some forty or fifty of our ne ee citizens, composing the Nevada Rifle Company, Liwantour Ciaim Resectep.-—The cclebrated have been summoned to appear before E. W. claim of Jose Y. Limantour to some 15,000 Smith, J. P., at 9 o’clock this morning, to show . *¢re# of land in the city and county of Sao cause, if any they can, why they should not Francisco, together with several ielands in the pay to H. A. Lonus the sum of forty dollars. Bay, wae rejected by the U.S. Distriet Court The plaintiff and defendants have employed last week. The decision of Judge Hoffman oceminent counsel to conduct the case. The . ¢upied two hours and fifteen minutes in its decounsel of the latter were engaged yesterday livery, The document contained a full review in preparing an elaborate anewer to the comof all the evidence in the case, and the effect plaint. of testimony of the various witnesses. The judge concluded by expressing his indignation that such # stupendous fraud should have been attempted, supported as it was by perjury, and it was no elight satisfaction that the proofs of fraud were as conclusive and irresistible as the attempted fraud had been flagrant and audacious. The fraudulent character of the claim has been fo fully established that it is not probable the cage will be appealed. Tue Devinquent Tax List.—In consequence of adisagreeable accident which occurred on Monday evening, in the office of our Main street cotemporary, the publication of the delinquent tax list for this county was delayed for one day; it was issued, however, yesterday evening. A printer, in arranging the forms on the press, managed to let one of them fall on the floor, by which accident some five columns of the tax list were knocked into “pi.”. — Escarg or Ratriesnaxe Dicx.—Dick Woods, better known as “Rattlesnake Dick,’’ made his escape from the Auburn jail last Friday, as we learn from the Press. It seems that a lawyer had gone into the jail to see a prisoner whom he was employed to defend, when the Deputy Sheriff leaving the door slightly ajar, left the place. On returning, Dick, who had a few minutes before been brought down from the Court room, bis irons not having been replaced, Cox. O. H. P. Wutre, for several years a res-. bad escaped. Pursuit was immediately made, ident of Nevada county, has recently opened a. but Dick having had some ten minutes start, forwarding and commission house at Sacramen. 804 the eboice of tracks, his re-capture is very to. Col. White is well known here as an ac-. problematical. Dick isthe same fellow who complished business man, and merchants and. escaped from the Nevada jail, about two others entrusting business to his care, can reet. years ago, with Jim Webster. He has been assured that it will be attended to with prompt. confined for some time in the Auburn jail, ona ness and fidelity. charge, we believe, of resisting, and shooting at officers. Jempinc.—The jumping match which had been made up between Soda Bill and Kitchin, came off at the foot-race track last Saturday. Soda Bill was declared winner by twenty inches; the distance made by himin three jumps was thirty-five feet and seven inches. Some $300 or $400 changed hands on the reault, the most of which was won by Dave Ashmore. Tuanxsarvine Day.—Services appropriate for Thanksgiving, will be held in the M. E. Church, Tae Sorrer Trrie.— <A decision was rendered on Thursday evening, the 25th inst. A dis. . by the Sapreme Court last week, confirming the course will be delivered by Rev. Mr. Fish of Sutter title to the land on which Sacramento is Grass Valley. Services commence at seven built. The title has now been confirmed by all o'clock, P. M. the Courts of California, by the Land Commissioners, and by the U. S. District Court. The Tue Ladies Party, at Grass Valley, held last . case is now before the Supreme Court of the Thureday evening, for the benefit of the Epis-. United States for final adjudication, and there copal Church, we learn was largely attended, . is not much doubt but that Sutter's title will and went off in fine style. A large number of. also be confirmed by that tribunal. The dethe guests were from Nevada, and the dancing . cision of our Supreme Court was rendered by was kept up until near daylight. Judge Field and concurred in by Judge Baldwin, The arguments in support of the Sutter gives a Thankegiving party at the Nevada. ‘itle are presented in a strong and convincing Brewery to-morrow evening. Every necessary light, arrangement has been made toinsure an agree-/ Hianwar Roppery.—The Sierra Democrat, able time. relates that a Chinaman was robbed by two white men in that county on Monday week, of a forty-dollar gold watob, two revolvers, and six bowie knives—the only valuables and arme he had on his person. This case will serve to warn travelers of going imperfectly armed. — Taanxsaiving Party —Mrs. E. C. Weiss Avotion.—We call attention to the auction sale of French brandies, advertised in another column. The sale takes place at 10 o’clock, a. u., at the foot of Main street. Wes are indebted to Geo. Welch, of the Pioneer Book Store, Main street, for favorsin the @ paper, with the above title, was issued at newspaper line. . Cachvilie, the county seat of Yolo county, on Jno. Parrison, of Langton’s Express, bas our. Wednesday last. Mr. M. P. Ferguson is the thanke for Downioville papers publieher and editer. Cacavitte Srectator.—The firet number of lumne, The Elections in 1854 and 1658. The Lecompton press are are comparing the defeats of the Democratie party in 1864, with the defeats which bave taken place this year, and argue therefrom, that the party must again be successful in 1860, as it wasin 1856. The passage of the Kansas Nebraska bill, for which the Democracy became mainly responsible, is assumed to be the canse of the downfall of the party four years ago, and it is not denied that the action of the administration in endeavoring to force an obnoxious Constitution upon the people of Kansas, was the sole cause of the disasters to the party this year. Were it necessary, we believe it could be shown that the novelty of Know Nothingism, was a more potent lever in the hands of the opponents of Democracy in 1854, than the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Republicans were not then organized, and the Know Nothings did not, during that year at least, make any issue with the Democrats in regard to the Kansas Nebraeka bill; this they would scarcely failed to have done, had that measure been so very unpopular in the North. But even admitting that the Democracy were defeated in 1854, in consequence of the principle which the party had inaugurated as a settlement of the slavery question, there is little similarity between the causes which resulted in the defeat of the party that year and this. Then, the matses of the party resolutely adhered to the Kansas Nebraska bill, contended that it was equitable and just, and were willing to stand or fall by the principle. The defeat this year was occasioned solely by the fact, that the administration which the Democracy had placed in power, attempted to nullify a leading principle of the party creed ; and notwithstanding the masses of the Democracy repudiated this attempt, yet the party in many cases was held responsible for the acts of the administration. In the Northwestern States in particular, the party in a body, bas repudiated the Kansas policy of the administration, and a reference to a few leading facts, will show how deep was the feeling in those States against Lecomptonism. Io Ohio, notwithstanding a large majority of the delegates to the State Convention were . anti-Lecumpton, they were induced, for tear of losing the votes of « few office-holders, to pass . over without notice, the treachery of the administration, although their nomiuees were all friends of Douglas. This temporising policy occasioned a loss of from 10,000 to 15,000 votes to the party, as compared with the vote of last year. In Indiana, the State Convention declared for Popular Sovereignty, while the Lecomptonites got control of a number of the Congressional Conventions, and nominated for . re-election, some of the present members. The result showed a loss on the Congressional ticket of over 15,000 votes as compared with the State ticket, the candidates on the latter being elected by a majority of from two to three thousand votes. Itis within bounds to say that three-fourths of the Democrats of both of these By Telesr aph. Arrival of tle Southern Overiand Mail. Saw Franetsco, Nov. 23d, 1858. ‘The overland mail stage arrived at half-past seven o’clo¢k this motning, with dates te Oct. 28th. fhe Governor of Texas has commissioned J. Bourtand to raise four hundred Rangers to fight the Indians on the northern frontier.— They will cooperate with Major Van Doren’s Cavalry. The news from the Western Kansas gold mines is still encouraging anda depopulation of the surrounding country is feared in the spring. Horace Bell, who forcibly released a father and brother, charged with running off Negroes from Brandenburg jail, in Kentucky and escaped to New Albany, Indiana, was captured in the latter place by Kentucky policemen and taken across the river by intimidation of the ferrymen. When the people of New Albany, who had been attending a fair, beard it, they rung the city bells, had the ferrymen arrested as kidnappers, seized the ferry boat, proposed rescuing them from Brandenburg, and at last accounts had broken into the arsenal to procure arms for that purpose. The Philadelphia police are on the lookout for a Freneb woman, Emile De Gazino, aud a man, who have been swindling through the Southern States and California, by raising money on drafts—William Franklin, lumber merchant of San Francisco, was victimized five thousand dollars. Luella Kentry, daughter of Capt. Kentry, of the Steamer City of Memphis, died from eating arsenic in mistake for cream of tartar. Gen. Finley, of Patterson, has been put forward by the people of Kansas for Governor. Geo. Dunson was hung in Uralde county Texas, by lynch law, for horse stealing. There is much excitement in the east about . the prize fight. Heenan has challenged Morris sy to another fight for $5,000 a side or upwards; to take place in four or six mouths. Morrissy is giving sparring exhibitions in Buffalo. Tom down, and the hearth-stones lifted a Hyer, to make up for losses on Henan, challen. ges Morrissy, or the world, to fight for $10,000 a side. Tue November Ex.ecrions.—lIno our next issue we hope to be enabled to chronicle the result of the elections held in Illinois, New York, and other States, on the 2d of this month, . There is good reason to believe that the November elections were less disastrous to the Democratic party than the elections held in October, In New York, the opposition being divided into three parties, the Democracy calculate on an easy victory, so far as the State ticket is concerned; but in most of the districts the opposition having urited on candidates for Congress; it is not probable that the Democrats will make any gains in the Congressioual delegation—which in the present Congress stands 12 Democrats to 21 Republicans. In Illinois, States, are friends of Douglas, and regard his construction of the Kansas Nebraska bill as the true Democratic doctrine. In 1854, many voted the Democratic ticket, in preference to the Know Nothing, who disapproved of the Kansas Nebraska bill, but the most of these went over to the Republicans, on the organization of that party. It is folly to speculase upon the probable reault of the next Presidential contest. The course of events between now and the time appointed for the assembling of the Charleston Convention, will have so much to do with determining that contest, that the most far-seeing political calculator, cannot with any degree of certainty, predict the result, Every year brings forth new issues and new combinations, and the events of the two years succeeding the fall of 1854, are no criterion by which to judge of what may happen for the two years to come. Tue New York Pourricirans.—It seems there ism emull quantity of consistency yet left among the New York politicians. At a meetthe central portion of the State, where the two of news from Lower California : ing of the Tammany Gencral Committee, recently, a Mr. May introduced a series of resolutions denouncing Douglas, and expressing an . Will determine the politics! character of the . days ago. approval of the acts of the administration, The resolutions were laid on the table. The New . ity is that the Democrats will have a small ma-. He was one of the old and wealthy citizens of York News, the principal administration organ of the city, in commenting on the action of the Committee, says : “Itis estimated that the ene hundsed and mittee are in receipt of official salaries and compensation equal to from seven hundred and fifty thousand to one million of dollars per annum! And yet, even as well paid as this by the Democratic party, they will not stand up in an emergency like the present, to denounce the treason aud detection of Stephen A. Douglas aud sustain James Buchanan!” Taking the lowest of the above estimates, and the members of that Committee ure each ia receipt of a salary of about $6,800 per annum from the goverument; and strange to say, politicians.as they are prefer to run the risk of losing their salaries rather than adopt a reries of res olutions which they do not approve! We have fallen upon evil times, surely, when the administration is nut able to control one hundred and ten politicians, with euch solid inducements to back its arguments. It is barely possible, however, that those politicians are not quite so disinterested as their acts would make them appear. They have no idea of releasing their hold of the public teat at the close of MrBuchanan’s term; and such being tae case, it would be the height of folly in them to denouce Douglas, who of all men, stands the best chauce of being Mr. Buchanan’s successor, They are altogether too shrewd not to see that the star of Douglas wil! soon be in the zenith, ae Tae Mais to tue East.—C. L. Weller, the Postmaster at San Francisco, publishes the following communication in the Bay papers ; As a matter of public information and general interest, will you please announce iu your paper that hereafter I dispatch from this office, ou the 5th aud 20th of each month, a mail via Tehuantepec to New Orleans, I am directed by the Postmaster-General to request writers of letters, destined to plages in the Atlantic States, to direct thereon the royte by which they wish them sent, to wit: * Via Los Angeles, Overland” “ Via Salt Lake, Overs land,” * Via LA ieaued $90 Letters with no such indorsement upan them, and all newspapers, will be sent * Vie Panama.” Three cents will pay the postage on a single letter via overland as far as Chicago, Jll., and Cincinnati, Ohio. Beyond those points the postage will be ten cents. Newspapers throughout the State will do the public a favor by inserting this in their celthe agents of the administration have put forward candidates in five of the Congressional districts, for the purpose of defeating the Democratic candidates. One ef these puppets, Leroy of the 3d district, had withdrawn, and possibly the others withdrew a day or two before the election, If they remained in the field until the day of election the Democracy will be likely to lose two or three Congressmen from that State. The greatest interest, however, bas been excited in regard to the political complexion of the Legislature, as upon that depends the election of a U.S. Senator. It has been

stated on good authority that every Democratic member who can possibly be elected will be a friend of Douglas; but the administration men have been instructed to vote for the Republican candidates where they are not strong enough to run candidates of their own, and should any considerable number of them follow this instruction they will without doubt succeed in defeating Douglas. The maino contest, where the greatest exertion was being made, was iu parties were nearly equally divided. The elec tions in New York, Illiagis and New Jersey, next House of Representatives, The probabiljority in that body. SacraAMENTO Union.—The daily edition of the Union, of Wednesday last. was issued in quarto closely printed reading matter—more than was ever before “set up’’ for auy daily in the State. The large amount of news received by the mail steamer compelled the proprietors to issue a double sheet in order to give their readers the intelligence at the earlirst period. There is not a paper in the State that can compete with San Jean Itews.—In the Press, of the 20th, we tind the following items: The cabin of Andrew Smith was entered by thieves on Thursday night, the window tora in search of treasure. Mr. Smith he nan — diggin but was too sensible pae oF gt it, where thieves could break thcongh and steal. H. J. McKinley, Esq., the “Henry Jacob” of . , the newspapers, visited San Juan last Saturday aud gave « Sbakeperian rebeureal tos email audience. The Middle Yuba Canal Company have lately constructed a substantial flume which leads from their ditch to Manzanita Hill. It is 2,400 feet in length, greatest height from the round 53 feet, aud the box is two feet eight uches wide, by two feet deep. Feldspar is found in considerable quantities in the vicinity of San Juan. It isa mineral mitted suicide in a fit of temporary His age was about seventeen years, CuarterY Batpwin.—We mentioned last week the disappearance of Charley Baldwin, who has resided at Petaluma the past year, under cip. cumstances leading to the supposition that be had been drowned. We have since learned tha: his body wasfound in Petaluma creek, last Wednesday. A rope was around the body, ang a stone weighing about a hundred pounds, at. ached to the rope: It is supposed that he com. Tue Cextrat Rovre.—We have received g petition from Placerville, asking of Congress an increased mail service and more dispateh on the central mail ronte, ‘from Placerville tg St. Joseph. Mo. We shall take pleasure in pro. curing signatures to the petition and forward much used in porcelain and pottery manufache same to Washington. Parties wishing to tures, and is also used in the manufacture of . attach their names to the petition can do go by artificial teeth. The Bloomer Company cleaved up $900 last week. Another interest bas been sold in these claims for $6.0U0. The majority of the miners on San : P being engaged in cutting the granite, laying . sluices, d&c. 1 conducted the San Juan Star, has struck ravine diggings in this vicinity which prospect four bits to the pan. The cabin of Mr. J. G. Alexander, a miner on this bill, was visited some time last week by thieves, who overhauled a trauk for valua. bies—found none, and helped themselves to . what blankets they needed. As Mr, Alexander . had just been paid several thousand dollars for his diggings, the thieves no doubt expected a. good haul, but were disappointed. Lynxcuine Inpians.—We gave an account last week of an affray on the Sacramento between three white men and some Indians, resulting in the death of one of the former named McGowan. From the Shasta papers of Saturday, we learn that two of the Indians accused of be. ing engaged in the affray, were bung by a mob. . It seems that the Indian boy who shot NeGowan . had delivered himself up to the Sheriff, and is now in the Shasta jail; he says he shot McGowan to save his own life, The Republican gives the following account of the banging: The accused were Nep, who formerly lived with a citizen of our town, and bis partially . blind and decrepid old father. Of course the . accusation was conviction, and they were sen. tenced to be hung to the first tree that could be . reached ‘The tree was soon found and a table was placed under one of its limbs, On reaching the fatal spot, Nep addressed the Diggers who were present (about one hundred and fifty) and asked them if they intended to let the whites . . hang him and his father. They seconded the verdict of the whites. Nep then denounced . them as cowards and stated that he bad no wish to live longer. He then led bis sisters to the table and bestowed them upon those of bis tribe (his father was a chief aud be was acting ip h's . stead) who promised to protect them. At the same time he distributed all that he possessed among those who sympatbised with him. Then . mounting the table he called for water, which . he presented to ‘his father. The whites were . then called. to whom he bid farewell. Nep called for a handkerchief to bandage his . . . . eyes, and, when all was annonneed as ready. he . jumped from the table. The rope was too long . and bls feet touched the ground. He immediately raised his feet. A draw was made upon . the rope and the limb broke--the Indian falling . to the ground half dead. He was again drawn ap and strangled, and vengeence (or jealousy?) was satisfied. Destructive Fire at Texas Sprixes.-—Wednesday morning a tire was discovered in the cellar of a large frame building of John Gilson, on the south side of Wm. Wells & Bros,’ store, and occupied by Peter Chada as a billiard saloon and boarding honse. The fire extended south and burned the family residence of Wes. ton, and the residences of Thos. Hart and Wm, Sutton, and the blacksmith shop of Thos. Hart, with nearly all their contents, Hart saved his bellows, and Weston two beds and a gun. Chada lost everything. The inmates were nearly all left without any clothing except their night clothes. There was a pony belonging to Newton Dale tied to the house, which was burned to death, together with two dogs belonging to Chnada. His losses are reckoned at two thousand dollars. No insurance.—Shasta Courier, Nov. 25th. Lower Catirornia.—The Los Angeles Vine. yard, of a recent date, bas the following items General Castro, Governor of Lower Califor. nia, sentenced another outlaw to be shot a few . The crime was the murder of a citi. zen of Santo Tomas. The death of Don Jose Pais is also reported. Santo Tomas, always very much respected, during a long and useful life. The Padre of Santo Tomas bas been doing a ively business in the matrimonial way recently, ; having married fourteen couple in almost as . ten members of this Tammany General Com-/. form, and contained about forty columns of many dapae bd Tue Wine Cror.—The Los Angeles Vineyard says that Don Luis Sainsevain closed his vintage on the 6th instant, The vineyard of Mr. S. covers forty acres of ground, and has 40.000 vines, The product of this vineyard has been, this season, 37.000 gallons of white wine, 3.000 calling at this office. Drixo.—A gentleman who left Sweetiang yesterday afternoon, informs us that Charles Juan bill are not washing at present, . Sweetland, at the time he left, was lying at = Mr. J. P. Olmstead, who formerly . point of death, and was expected to live but » few minutes. He has been sick about a week with the typhoid fever. CuiLpreN IN PLacer.—The number of chil. dren in Placer county, under eighteen years, returned by the schoel census, is 1.569; be. tween the ages of four and eighteen, 960; under four. 609. Of the whole number returned, 723 were born in California. Eprrortrat Cuance.—Mr. E. B. Boust has re. tired from the editorial charge of the Placer Courier, and is succeeded by Robert J. Steele, Suspenston oF AN Orricer.—In San Franeisco, Nov. 19th, officer Horton was suspended from duty by reason of intoxication. Tue steamer Golden Ace, which sailed tor Panama on Saturday last, carried $2,163,603 in treasure, and 410 passengers, Seen te EL SER OR ORCI EE French Brandies, AT AUCTION !! On Thursday next (to-morrow) Nov 25th, Will be sold at the hour of 10 o’clock, in the Store ad. . joining that of John W., Grier, on Main street, 500 GAL. FINE FRENCH BRANDIEs, A Small Jot of GROUND BARLEY, Also Sets of MEAS. URES, &e. &e. aw Without reserve, to the highest bidder. gq TERMS, AT SALE, 8-1t I. WILLIAMSON, Anctioneer, THE LYCRGM BUNSFRELS JOHN WILSON, = = Proprictor. HIS COMPANY comprising the following talented and versatile performers, CHARLEY BACKUS, FRANK HUSSEY, TOM RALEIGH, MASTER M. LEWIS, W. M. BARKER, Cc. D. ABBOTT, FRANK MAY, J. E. JOHNSON, Will havo the honor of giving a eri+s «f pleasing enter tainments, consisting of Songs, Glees, Dance, ete, at the METR POLITAN THEATER, NEVADA, Cn Thursday and Friday Evenings, Nov. V o5th and 6th. ial AND AT GRASS VALLEY, On Wednesday the 24th, and Saturday the 27th of Nov. 1858. A. C. KEYT, Agent. ST.LOUIS HOTEL, Commercial Street, Nevada. KASPER HAUPT, ee Prop ietor. Good Fire-Proof Building!! In the Centre of the City. HE ABOVE NEW HOTEL, ia furnished throughout io a good style, and is open for the ACCOMMODATION OF THE PUBLIG. The Table will be furnished with BVERY DELICACY To be procured in the Markets. THE SLEEPING APARTMENTS, Are well ventilated, and furnished in Good Style. Families, will be furnished with suitable rooms, and every attention paid to their accommodation The Bar is supplied with Good Liquors, WINES, ALES, CIGARS, &c. _ Nevada, Nov. 23d, 1858.—8-tf pe ee sede of Calffornia, County of Nevada, Town<hip of Little York, s#.—Justice’s Court, J. E. Squire J. P. The People of the State of California, to W. C, COURTNEY. You are hereby summoned to appear before the undersigned Justice of the l’eace, at his office ip said township, on Monday the 29th day of Nov. A. D, 1858, at one o'clock P. M. to answer tothe complaint of RICHARD SAVAGE, who sues you for the sum of forty-four dollars and forty-nine cents—$24,10 of said sum, for Goods sold and delivered you, and interest oa said sum, and $20,39, principal and interest on a promissory note given by you to Peters & Co., on the first day of June last, and mow hell and owned by said plaintiff, as will appear by his . said complaint on cath, now On file in my office. On failure so to appear andanswer, judgment will be rendered against you for said sum of forty-four dellars and forty-nine cents, and costs of suit. Given under my hand, this 19th day of Nov. A. D. 1858. J. E. SQUIRE, Justice of the Peace. An affidavit having been filed in my office by Richard Savage, setting forth that he has a good cause of action against W. C. Courtney, and that said Courtney conceals himself to avoid service of Summons. Its therefore ordered that service of the foregoing sumgallons of red wine, 5,000 gallons of angelica, and 3,000 of brandy—in all, 48,000 gallons, To make one gallon of brandy, requires five the Union for news; it comes up precisely to Jonathan Slick’s idea of a good paper, by publishing every thing worth reading from all the . gallons of wine; and for each gallon of angelica, other papers. It has, besides, the best location . #bcut fifteen pints of wine. This will make the in the State to obtain a large circulation, as it produce of the vineyard equal to about 65.000 can furnish news to the bulk of the population one day in advance of the San Francisc> papers. wine to the vine. Tue Gra Mines.—The Alia of Friday, has AN Immensk Dewinquest List.—The delinthe following in regard to the Gila mines: quent tax list of San Francisco was issued on PW a a letter received in this city. we learn Saturday last, from the office of the Daily ema reported riches of the Gila gold mines ’ ; : e fabnlons. The highest wages average but Times. It is the largest single advertisement . from three to five dollars per day. Men have ever published on the Pacific coast, containing . left the mines and taken work at thirty dollars as it does sixty-four newspaper columns, in. Pe? Month on the steamers, and many are withJ ‘ isi out employment of any kind. The writer al: fine type, and over half a million of ems, The! remarks that merebanie who ship et to Fort composition alone would keep one man empley-. Yuma or the Gila mines, on the encouragement ed for about three monthe, yet the work was all . of the letters declaring their diggings to have done in four days, It is certainly a creditable a wert lp will find themselves wofully disju to be lesued from a California printing of. PPO" fice. It is stated that over balf of the taxes of San Francisco county are unpaid. Horrisie Déatu.—A dispatch to the Union, from San Francisco, dated Nov. 21st says: ee a ae aE “Chung Wang, aged about forty-two, volun8. P. Srorma.—The Tehama Gazette learns! teered to odion sas belting in the Pacific that S. P. Storms, lately injured by being . Cordage Factory, at noon yesterday, when, his thrown from bis horse near Neal’s ranch, is re— pte in contact with the machinery, covering slowly from the effects of his fall. j. Vo" COrried Gronen me shar guent lives *. times, i i No clue has yet been found to the robbers who pcaiah-erlile a Sie sane bneines fen a 80 cowardly took advantage of his helplessness, on the night in question, CHILDREN IN Exporapo.—According to the Tug Morsine Stan.—A new paper with the} county, 1.736 child : : ri, ren betw above title, made its appearance at Sacramen. and po i een the ages of four to, last Sunday morning. It is edited by Alexander Montgomery, We have not yet received @ copy. ViLLatnous.—The Placer Courier says that a deaf and dumb man was robbed near Yankee Jims, on Tuesday of last week, of all the money he possessed, Passencers Br TenvantePEc.—Seventy-five passengers left San Francisco on the 20th inst., for the East, by the Tehuantepec route. It is believed they will reach New Orleans in fourteen days. Riewt.—A young man living at Oro city, Plaser county, was fined $25 last week, for giving whiekey to Indians, gallons of wine, and more than six quarts of school census of El Dorado, there are in the . . mons be made on said Courtney, by publishing in the Ne. vada Democrat one week. Given under my hand this 19th day of Nov. 1858. 8-1t J. E. SQUIRE, J, P. . STRAYED. FROM THE PREMISES OF THE UNdersigned, at Grizzly Hill, Nevada County, two COWS. One is red and white, with white face, wearing a bell without aclapper. The other is a dark brindle, with brockle face. The cows strayed off last Thursday night, Nov. ll, Any person who will return the Cows to the undersigned will be suitably rewarded. A. J. DOOLITTLE, November 16th, 1858.—7-2w O. H P. WHITE & Ce., . Forwarding and Commission Merchants, OFFICE—At the Wholesale Grocery and Provision Store of P. J, Brogan & Co. 52 Front Street, -Wo have a thorough FIRE PROOF BUILDING in which to Store all Goods Consigned to our care, which we may not be able to Forward on the day they arrive, and 0° . charges made for storage. Bw All Goods coming from San Francisco by Sacra. mento, for your different localities in the interior, par. ticular in having marked, to care of “WHITE, SAC, . they may have prompt attention. November, 15, 1858.—7-tf Sacramento. ——— eg) ~ ROLAND HL SHEA, Surveying, Blectro-Magnetic & Optical ents. SECOND STREET, SACRAMENTO, Two doors South of the Alta Express Office. A All repairs done in the best manner, and at the CHEAPEST Possible Rates. 50 November Ist 1858. Forwarding and Commission WAREHOUSE, FIRE-PROOF BRICK BUILDING, Lower Flaza, Marysville. GOODS HECEIVED, STORED, AND FORWARDED TO ALL PARTS OF THE MINES. sar All Kinds of CALIFORNIA PRODUCE kx constantly on hand, bs Ww. T. ELLIS. Sera Se aR