December 26, 1857 (4 pages)

Tian eprene teen ek Meet a re we GR ‘VOL. 5, THE TELEGRPH, WNBELY PAPER, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MOR ING, IN GRASS VALLEY,TERMS: For one year, in advance,... »» -$7,00 Por six months, .caidsiscy oc csce sees 4,00 For threemonthis, . os ..0s PURO i hats AGENTS. J. E. HAMLIN, Bookseller, corner of Broad and Pine streets, is our authorised Agent to transact busness for this Office in Nevada and throughout all the upper portions of the County. Gro. A: Lovecrove is our duly authorised Agent or Sacramento. He may be found at 67 J st. Mr. L. P. FisHEer is our sole Agent in San Francisco, He ls empowered to receive advertisements, and reeeipt for the same. He may be found at his desk n the Iron Building, opposite the Pacific Express Of2 2 . “Polynesian, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. SUMMONS. STATE OF CALIFORNIA. }ss County of Nevada, District Court of the 14th Judicial District of said State. The People of the state of California— To CHAS. E. SANDERS, Greeting, You are hereby Summoned to appaar and answer to the Complaint of J. 5. CROSSMAN, filed against ou, within Ten days from the service of this Writ, if served on pou in this County, within twen y days if served on you in this District and out of this County, and wtthin forty days if sered on youin this State and out of this District. inan action commenced on the Second day of JANUARY, 1857, in said Court for the recovery of Two Hundred and Seventy-five Dol. lars, together with interest thereon, at the rate of three per cent pér, month from the 10th day of January, A. D. 1854, till paid, as set out in plaintiil’s bill of eomplaint, now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Court aforesaid, a certilfled copy of which accompanies {kis writ; And you are hereby notified that if you fail to answer said complaint as herein direct el, Plaintiff will take Judgment against you therefor, by default, tozether with all costs of, suit, and also demand of the court such ether reliei asis prayed for in his said Complaint. In testimony whereof I, Rures SHormaker, Clerk of the District Court aforesaid, do hereunto set my hand and impress the seal of the said Court, this 22nd day of October, A. D., 1857. A eae RUFUS SHOEMAKER, Clerk. By WM. Suita, Deputy. on ee Upon reading and filing the affidavit of Plaintiff, it is ordered that service of Summons and Complaint ue had on said Defendent by Publication in the Grass . Valley Telegraph,ta weekly newspaper, published in Grass Valey, Nevada county, for tle peried of three months, at 1east once im each week. Witness— NILES SEARLS, Listriet Judge. Attest—Rufus Shoemaker, Clerk, ng . + 2 By Wa. Suiru, Deputy. ; 2-3m SUMMONS. State of California, Cornnty of Nevada, ss. District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District’ of said State The people of the State of California, to Wm. T. Fall, Greeting: You are hereby Summoned to appear and apswer the complaint of Ceorge A. Mentgomery, filedagainst vou, within tea days from tie xeryide ofthis Writ, if served on you in this‘county, within twenty daysif served on you in this District and out ef this sednty, and within forty da) if ser‘ VEO OT yuu tar ttt hve wert wet oO Liste Diwteiwty t= an action commenced on the twenty-fourth day of August, 1857, in said Court for the recovery of Eightee hundred and eighty-one Dollars and Fifty cents, {SISS1 50) together with interest thereon at the rate ofthree per cent per montli from the 22d day of August, A. D. 1857 until paid, as prayed for in plain tiffs complaint, aow on file in the office of the € lerk of the District Court aforesaid, a certified’ copy of ot which accompanies this Writ. And you are hereby notiied that if you fail to answer said complaint aa herein. directed, Plaintiff will take judgment egainst you therefor by Gefault, together with all costs of suit and also demand of the Court such other relief as is prayed for in his said complaint. In testimouy whereof I, Rufus Shoemaker, Clerk of the Distridt Court aforesaid, do hereunto set_ my hand and impress the seal of said Court, this 24th y : st, A. D. 1857. Bt aac RUFUS SHOPMAKER, Clerk. By Wa. Saatu, Deputy. Upon reading and filing the affidavit of George A. Montgomery, Plaintiff above named: Itis ordered that service of Sammons be had upon said Defends nt, W. T. Fali, by ,publication in the Grass Valley Telegraph once a week for the period of three months. NILES SEARLS, District Judge. Aitest, RUFUS SHOR MAKER, Clerk D. €. By AVM. Sarg, Deputy. Dibble & Lansing, Att’ys for Plaintiff. August 29, 1857.—J3m. ASSAY OFFICE. JUSTH & HUNTER ASSAYERS OF Gold and Cres! OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, ist St. Srd door from BD, WARYSVEILLE Returns Made Within Twelve Hours! OR the convenience of our customers in the interi or, we have established a Branch of our Assay Office in this City. The reputation of our Pars being well established in San Francisco and New York, they can always be cashed on the most advantageous terms. We shall be prepared to furnish our customers with coin for their bars at rates but liitle in advance of those of San Francisco. Parties sending us dust from the interior can have returns fm Coin by the Express which leaves the following morning. Bae Rates of charges as in San Francisco. 8. HILLEN HUNTER, Marysville. 38-3m. E. JUST: Sen Francisco. PREFER BLVGINGS AND CARPETS! UST RECEIVED—Per late ‘arrivals, by FRANK BAKER, 110 and 112 Clay street, San Francisco— 800 cases Paper Hangings, French and American ( every variety : 6000 rolls French’ and American Borders300 ps Tapestry Velvet Carpet ; : 625: ps Tapestry Brussels Carpet: 239 psThree-ply Carpet 5-" : 300 ps Superfine Ingrain Carpet ; 350 ps Extra Fine Ingrain Carpet ; 200 ps Cotton and Wool Carpets ; 125 ps Stairs Carpets, assorted ; 275 ps Bay State Druggets ; 860 ps Oil Cloth, assorted; . + fy 125 ps Silk Damakk and Brocatelle; > , 7300 pe Cotton and Worsted Damask ; 4009 pair Window Shades ; 876 pair Lace Curtains ; 750 pair Musling Curtain Bands ‘ $000 Cornices and Bands ; 325 dozen Mats, —— ; . us», estair Rods, Table Covers, Gimps, Frings, &c., ‘Wholesaléand retail, by’’ Pes ae uo? t #e0t® FRANK BAKER, 26-8 110 and 112 Clay St. 1 Now is The Time to Get. our Money Back! Yeu Proprietor offers ior sale the well known pro-. perty know as the EMPIRE BATH HOUSE, near the foot of Main Street, with or without Bath: fixtures. Being desirous of returning to the Atlantic Btates, I will sell the above cheapsor Cush. Callan, see. ~ ; . Geass Valley, July Mth, 1857. ‘JAMES €. MEEDS.GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, —_— eee L. P. FISHER’S DVERTISING AGENCY, (Up Stairs.) CISCO—No. 171 Washington Street, SAN FRANNearly oposite Maguires’s Opera. House. L. P. Fisher is the authorised Agent of. the Sacramento Union—Marysyille Herald, San Joaquin Republican—Pacific Methodist, Sonora Herald—Red Bluff Beacon, California Mining Jonrnal, Grass Valley Telegraph—Nevada Journal, Columbia Gazette—Tuolumne Courier, Mountain Democrat, Placerville—Shasta Courier, Calaveras Chronicle—Mariposa Gazette, Yereka Union—Trinity Journal, Weaverville, Towa Hill News—Weekly Ledger, Jackson, San Jose Telegraph—Sonoma Co. J>urnal, Flsom Dispatech—Los Angeles Star, Santa Barbara Gazette—“an Diego Herald, Alameda Co. Gazette, Placer Courier, Yankee Jims, Napa Co. Reporter, Sierra Democrat, Downeiville: Humboldt Times, Union, Oregonian,, Portland, Oregon Teritory. Oregon-Weekly-Times, Portland, 0. T. Oregon Statesman, Salem, O. T. Pacific Christian Advocate, Salem, O. T. Jacksonville Herald, Jacksonyille 0. Riemennod Hepuoiican, Stellacoon, W. T. Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu, S.1. Mexican Extraordinary, City of Mexico, Hong Kong Kegister. ADVERTISING IN THE ATLANTIC STATES, L. P. F. has now completed his arrangements for the forwarding of Advertisements to all the princi. pal largest eirculating Journals and Newspapers published in the Atlantic States, A fine opportunity is here offered to those who wish,to advertise in any partof the Union of doing so at the lowest rates, and in a prompt and satisfactory manner. 47-tf PIONEER MUSIC STORE. No. 155 J. Street, Saeramento. Daie & Co. (Late Dougliss & Dale.) IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Piano Fortes, Melodeons, Guitars, Violincellos, Dou ble Basses, Fife, Flagolets, Flutes, Clarionets, ®Bass, Drums, Banjos, Snare Drums, Triangles, Tamborines, Castinetts, Mutes, Reeds, Bow Hair, Finger Boards, Tuning Hammers, . Bridges, Pers, Resin, Tuniug’Forks, &c. Accordecons and Fiutinas,. We will sell only first class articles, and at greatly reduced prices. Sheet and Book WZusic. New Music received by every steamer Our assortment of Sheet Music is now one of the largest in Cal. ifornia, embracing choice selections frem the cata. logues of eyery publishing house in the United States, as also many European publications. Violin and Guitar Strings. will do well tu send us their orders. Toys and Faucy Goods, Billiard Balls, Cue Tips, Wax and Chalk, Bird Cages, thildren’s Carriages, Boxing Gloves, Police Whistles, Fencing Foils, Masks, Cribbage and Backgammon Boards, Chessmen Ladies’ Work Baskets, &c., &c. £GF> Dealers supptied at the Lowest prices. We import allour goods direct from New York and Boston, and guarantee to sell as low as any similar establishmontim California 4a Instruments Tuned and Repaired by an experienced workman DALE & CO. Successors to DOUGLISS & DALE, J. REGAN’S . STEAM R EFINED Candy MJanufa‘tery. No. 33 Montgomery Street, Between Bush and Sutter Streets, San Francisco. MERE PROPRIETCGR of the ABOVE . named establishment takes this method of informing his numerous friends and customers that he intends following the example of the Gas Company— that is to reduce his prices, whieh he hopes will give . entire satisfaction to all. His Candies are all manufactured from: Stewart’s Double Refined Sugar, which he imports himself, and all the essences used by him are of the finest flayorand the best in. the market, together with a variety of other articles appertaining to the manufacture of Candies too numerous to mention. Having had an eéxperience-of seven years in the business in this eity, and being the FIRST CONFECTIONER on the Pacific coast. he flattets himself that he will be able to give entire satisfaction to all who favor him with their trade. By a new and improved process his Candies are made at a quicker rate and with less expense than formerly, sothat he is enabled to sell at a much lower figure than heretofore. Persons desiring anything in his line will do well to call and examine his splended stock of Candies, as well as his prices, as he feels contident that they cannot fail to pleasé the striciest economist. WHOLESALE PRICES. A beautiful assortment of Sticks, Lumps and Drops selling at the reduced rates. COMFITURES—Including Caraway feed, pearled and smoth ; Clove Buds ; Cassia Buds ; Coriander . Seeds, large and small; at 20 cents per pound.GUM. DROPS—sniovth Almonds, Jujube Paste French Mottoes, Almond Candy, &c., at 30 cents. “ Also—A beautiful assortment of FRENCH CANDIES, varying in prices according to quality. The attention of the trading publie is invited. to examine this immense stock of Candies, comprising everything in the *‘ dulce ”’ line. He leaves it to the “buyers to judge of the superiority of his articles; so call and see for yourselves, for ocular demonstration is proof positive. Remember the number—3%$ MONTGOMEKY STREET, between Bush.and Satter. ' ah 3. REGAN. N. B. All orders from the country promptly attendBANKER. Northwest corner of Montgomery and Jackson streets, San FRaNCIsco. Draws bills of Exchange, at sight or on time, in , sums to suit,on DE RHAM '& ©0.2. 4. -ied. A. &. Mew SYork. MELLY, ROMILLY & CG.*.2.3.4../Liverpool. MORRIS, PREVUST & CO.. eet biked London. pA 2 i ih SOP GIR A BE MATHIEU HENTSCH & CO..2..Paris. G DES ARTS, MUSSARD & CO..2.2.Paris. HENTSCH & CO.25. 200005 00 Geneva, Switzerland. Purchases Certificaies of Deposit and other Exchange at Current Rates, and transacts.a General Banking Business, Receives Deposits. An ASSAY OFFiCk is annexed to the Banking House LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES -ON. GOLD/DUST TO ABMAX82-lm chF Gold Hunting Repeater Watches. UsTf ARRIVED per steamer Golden Age and, fo saleby 00 3) 2 3% BRIGGS, DEY & cd Mon3jomery st. corner Crlifornia. 98 z, RIGGS, DEY & CY. are prepared to import eve descripiion of Goods in their line, on short notice and aslow as any other house in San Francisco. : BRIGGS, DEY & CO., 938 Montgomery, cerner CaliforniaSs ed to. Goods delivered in any: partof the city, or at any of the wharves, free of charge. 30-0omM HENRY HENTSCH, . Lansing & Montgomery. . WINES, . . {nuance of their patronage. He has now on hand, . Large and general assortment of Groceries NOTICE. y Nags undersigned have this day formed.a Law Copartnership under the firm and style of Dibble, DIRBLE & LANSING. Sept. 15, 1856. & SCHENCK GLASS, WATCHMAKER AND t t ASS VALLEY TELEGR = Pex THANKSGIVING DISCOURSE, Delivered at the Cong. Church, Grass eo RE vin REV. MARTIN KELLOGG. CovunTrigzs and States are often personified, Aland may be spoken of as having a life ofitsown. There is now at Washingtoa . a statue representing our young State, embodying the sculptor’s idea of California’s SEWELLER, . dignity and promise. Main Street.. Grass Valley, Two Doors below the Post Office, and opposite Benton’s Exchange Nes KINDS of Jewelry Work done in the neates possible manner. Watch Cleaning and Repair ing done at the shortest notice, We have a Lapidary oonnccted with our es tablishment which enables us to manufacture at kinds of Quartz Jewelry as cheap as the oba~~=de4 . ao. ve WOUFK done’ at. she Establishment “warranted to give entire satisfaction. ~ 24-tf G. C. KING, & CO.,)° Dealers in roceries, Frovisions, Liquors, Miners’ Tools, &c., AT THE New, Iron Front, Fire Proof Store, . Corner of Mili and Neal Sts., Grass Valley. ! . CANDLES, » FLOUR, LIQUORS, BUTTER, PORK, COFFEE, LARD, HAM, TEAS, MOLASSES, SUGARS, PICKELS, BACON, FISH, PRESERVED FRUITS, BRANDY FRUITS . Boois, Shoes, Clothing; Crockery, Wooden & Tin Ware. « B@> The Subscribers would take this method to re” tirn thanks to their friend and the public generally for past favors, and would respectfully solicit a conand intends to keep constantly in store, as Provisions, &c., as can be found in Grass Valley. . G. C. KING, & CO. Grass Valley, August 29, 1857. To Wechanics, Imventors and VWianufacturers. . $150; 5th 100; 6th $90; 7th $80; 8th $70: 9th $70; . LOth $50; 11th 40; 12th $25; 13th $30; Mdth $25; lot ; 20. . Names of subscribers can be sent in at sifferent . times and from different Post Offices. The Casi: yj] . No. 155, J Street, Sacramento. 30-3m } In announcing the Thirteenth annual volume of } the Scientific American the publishers respectfully inform the public that in order to increase and stimulate the formation of Clubs, they propose to offer $1,500 IN CASH PREMIUMS . . . for the fifteen largest liste of Subscribers sent in by Musicians, Dealers, and others, who want good strings . tributed as follows : } } . the Ist of January, 1898 ; ©ata premiums to be disFor the largest List $300; 2d $350; 3d $290: 4th 3 . be paid to the orders of the successful ‘competitors, . immediately after the Ist of January 1858. . Southern Western and Canada money will be tak. } en for subscriptions. Canadian subscribers will . please te remit Twenty-six cents extra on aach years . subscription to pre-pay postage. . ‘TERMS OF SuBscRiITION—Lwe Dollars a year, or One Dollar for six months. . Crtup Rares—Five Copies for six months, $4; Five . Copies for twelve months $8 ; Ten Copies for six mo’s . $8; Ten Copies for twelve months $15 ; Twenty Cop. ies fer twelve months, 828. . For all clubs of 20 and over the yearly subscription . is only $1.40. i The mew volume will be printed upon fine paper with new type. The general character of the ScreNTIFIC AMERICAN, is well known, and, as heretefore will be.chiefly devo. ted to the promulgation of information relating to . the various Hiechanicaland Chemical Arts, Manufac. tures and Agriculiure, Patents, Inventions, Engineer. ing, Mill Work, and all interests which the lights of . Practical Science is calculated to advance. It is issued weekly in form for binding. It contains aunually . from 500 to 500 finely executed Engravings and notices of American and European Improvements, to . gether with an official list of American Patent Claims publiseed weekly in advance of all other papers. *{ is the aim of the editors of the Scientific American to present all subjects discussed in its columns in a practical and popular form. They will also endeavor to maintain a candid fearlessness in combating and exposing false theories and practices in scientifiicand Mechanical matters, and thus preserve the character of the scientific American asa reliable Encyclopédia of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. 4asSpecimen copies will be sent gratis to any part of the country. MUNN & CO., Publishers and Patent Agents, No, 128 Fulton Street, New York. Convention of Ditch Owners, The Ditch owners met a second time in Convention, at Sacramento, on the 4th inst. and after some preliminary business adopted the following preamble and form of a Bill to be presented to Congress at its next session: Whereas, the placer mines of California, in the immediate vicinity of natural water courses, are measurably exhausted ; and wheréas, there are «within our borders yery rich and extensive mining grounds, claimed by the General Government, unavailable, except by water in artificial channels, or mining canals, thercitore— tesolved, that we petition our next Legislature to instruct our Seuators, and request our Representatives in‘Congress, by a co1 current Resolution, to use due diligence, and all honorable means to secure the passage of a Bill granting and securing to companies or individuals an easement of the right of way over the public domain in California, for mining canals, or water ditches. far mining purposer, bject. to recognized and established private Tights 5 ‘Rit tira t such right of way shall be so construed as to include all the lands. timber and priviledges neccessary for the practical operation of such canals and ditches as may have been. or shall hereafter be constructed. RKeselved, that the following draft be submitted to our Legistature for approval, and to Congress for adoption, as embracing the priveledges which we desire : A BILL to grant the right of way over the public lands in the state of California for mining purposes. Sre. 1. Ke itenacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled :—That the tight of way for any and every line of Ditch, canal or tiume construc; ted for mining purposes over the public lands of the . state of California, is hereby granted to the party or . parties who have constructed and now own, or who beréafter may construct the same; such grant to include Reservoir privileges, and the use of timber and other materials nesessary for the constructionand carrying on of such works, and to be operative from the date of tite location of the line or route of such ditch, canal, or flume, by actual survey, and the same to become void upon fhe abandonment of the work,or the non-use of such ditch, canal or flame, for the period of one-year. -Provided, always, that it shall appear that such right of way was located in good faith, and thatthe construction of such works shall be prosecuted with due diligence Sec. 2. The United States guarantees not to claim or enforce any riparian rights which she may have by virtue of her ownership of the lan(s, against any owners of ditches, canals or flumes, for mining purposes in the. said State of California. REsoLvEeD, That.a committee of four be appointed by the Chair to ses that the attention of our next Legislature be directed to the objects of this Convention at an early period, and that said committee be empowered to:takeisuch further action ss may be by Hem deemed ReCeHHAry. . to deeds of blood—while the firstyorn of . I wish to personify California, to-day ; to speak of her, as having a life of her own, interests and hopes of her own—apart from the Jife, the hopes and the supposed interests I'pres £0. Speak of California, rather than of Californians, es ‘Our, State has many grounds for being glad-and, rejoicing, in common with other States and other lands. She has enjoyed, during another year, general peace and prosperity. ‘‘No war or batile’s sound ”’ has been heard. From other Continent . have conie tidings of disturbance and bloodshed; especially from the swarming nations . of Asia. The clash of arms has resounded . along the coast of China and startled the . confident Briton in the heart of India. The Americas have not been wholly quiet. The. crude republics to the South, have \ad their . usual quarrels and anarchy. The \azy fac. 1 tions of Central America have been stirred . . of ber indivigaotaighaay’ or Thanksgiving, fillibusterism has beeu throttled injts cra. die. From:across the plains havi come . threats .ef collisions between brethren ;— threats that made our ears to tingle, kcause uttered by Saxon lips, and because tle parties were our brethren. To the Norh, the implacable savage has raised his will war. whoop—and sad tales of Indian and Mirmon . malice have come from our overland high. way. But within the borders of our 5tate, . peace has reigned,—-bounteous, benig, all. blessing peace. i Prosperity has cheered our land. \ The til. ler of she soil has been rewarded. sing has, on the whole, beea successful—raasing streams of gold to flow as freely from our shores, as if another Midas had touched the soil and ledges and rocky river-beds. \ Yercantile interests, less prosperous than in other times, have held their own; and tow, while the ery of financial distress rings from our whole Atlantic coast, and from all the . Vast basin of the Miceiccippi, we hava, at laast . one cause to be thankful for that shameful neglect, which makes us still a foreign State. These . blessings of peace and prosperity ; of exemption from pestilence and death ; of . life continwed and earichedd with number. less joys—demand, this day, our hearty thanksgiving and praise, to Almighty God. But as they are not special blessings, peculiar to this land, I will not dwell on them. I choose, rather, to speak of what I think is 7 California’s special Reason for Siving. I would not slight others; but I would have this one duly recognized. It is this:— The general disappointment of its inhabitants. Not their disappointments during the past year, in smaller things, but the disappointment of the high hopes with which they came to this State. I really esteem this to be Califoruia’s great, special cause for rejoicing and giving thanks to-day. Does it seem hard to draw a State’s gladness frota its people’s scrrows? Nay, let us be thankful, if private disappointments can be shown to have wrought a public blessing. But that must be fairly shown. And I think it can_be, easily and triumphantly. That the State is full of disappoiated people, I presume no one will deny. There are many histories, of those about us, which call for sympathy aud sorrow. The general outlines of such a history, are these. The strong man heard of this bounteous El Dorado, and left his white-haired parents, his Ee wife and little ones, to come and thrust in his sickle and share the rich harvest. Either he thought the supply of gold unbounded, or he reckoned on being one of fortune’s favorites. ; whom gatrine and impatient energies are chafing, feels sure of succeeding In the most daring enterprise. He puts implicit trust in his ability, or in his good fortune, or in both. So men harried to California, fully expecting to get rich, and not to be long about it. They promised the sad hearts from which . they broke away, that they would soon be . back again, to live all the more happily for the brief separation. Some would retarn in a single year ;—how short that would be! Most said “‘two years, and then!’ A few spoke of three, Or even four or five ; but all agreed in this,—they fixed a time, and that one which seemed to them quite short. Before age could sprinkle many more gray hairs.on the heads of the loved parents, before the bloom could fade from the fond wife’s cheek, or the little ones grow half a . head taller, before the last warm kiss of plighted faith could grow cold in the lovers’ memory,—the successful gold-hunter should certainly be back and, all would be gladness and comfort. The stay should be short,— the pain of parting swiftly followet ~« § apts BE Every man, within . SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24 ‘1887. ae joy of welcom. With‘ sugh promises, with such real hop@ men started Te this State. They reach@ the laid of their golden dreams, and sfove tamake them true. A few were ab dantly prospered, and met with no revergs. ‘They went back to cheer waiting heartdand to enjoy with them their new acquisitigs. Enough returned to keep up the fever ofadventure, to induce others to come also.) But the great majority,— how was it wih them? _They seemed to be in sight of tleir hopes, but could never overtake them If gold\was got, it was lost again, slipping throngh the fingers as if it WY MELE solld of metals. Some eohraT got . get it evensthe first tine. Their ‘claims . turned out poorly; their shafts struck no lead ; their rock would not pay for crushing; their flames were swept ~prematurely away. . if they engaged in traffic,everything wentill; ‘their partners swindled them ; their interest money hung, a dead. weight, on their shoulders; sweeping fires turned all their substance into smoke. Never has a land been the theater of such business disappointments, as California in these eight years. The men of the cities have*suéered from fire and flood, from fraud and revulsion. The men of the plains have’ found qaven agriculture, infected with California caprices, and the net-work of land titles a cobweb, on which only legal spiders could grow fat. The men of the mountains have had their own troubles; too much rain, or too little ;—singlehanded workers, toiling to poor advantage, and companies impoverished by ill-management ;—villages reduced to ashes, and lone cabins plundered ;—villainy clutching the deposits of years ;—the cheapest living still up to what we should once have thought starvation prices. In some way or other, it hag come to pass, that almost every man among us isa disappointed man. The record of hopes thwarted ia this State, of expectations defeated and ambitiotis. crushed, would furnish reading fot a gereration, and tears for @ thousand tragedies. The immediate resutt of all this disappointment, you well know. Men could not, or thought they could fot, redeem their promise of a spedy retura. “Those somewhat successfal,found it’ a-long-winded af\fair to get rich; they could not break up ie leave, without too great Shegzite The . unfo.tuniite Still hoped for -succéss; they gree too proyd 8 go hank naan Slama. even, could not ge back, from sheer poverty. And so, for varios reasons, all centering in the one reason, lisappointment, they are still here. Ofte havé they been urged, when urging seed a mockery of their own beating desires, t go back. News has come of the parent whse bowed form has found its rest in the give,—of the wife or child snatched beyon human gaze,—of another and still anotheinroad in the circle of the Witing bearts grew despondent, and ha fal. ‘ Will you not home, and ségzj’’ has been the oft-repeated question, Butthe-strong chains of disappoinment hay@eld them still to the soil of California, Ithey have visited home, it has not been > stay ; their golden hopes were too far fim, being realized. Such is theommon oytline of a Californian’s history It is by no means true of all. Some came temake the*State their home. Some have stid because.they were not disappointed. . we" But such @ a fraction sof the sum total. It is still truthat the majority of respeciable men in th State, are here to-day through disappointmit. And now ?t as see what recompensing sweet Califia can eXact from all this bitterness. here have been s onsequences. Disappintment has ruined many noble minds. It ks beem"the turning point for evil, when tmptations, were pressing ; when mad mirth nd reckless débauchery offered to cure thedeart’s pairk That is one side of the pictre. But thére is anothcr, far brighter. Patiforuia has been vastly the gainer)byCalifornians’ disappointments. To spet first of negative blessings :— These disdpointments have kept out an intolerable warm of bad people. We have enough no. aA multitude of villains and vagaboudgand strumpets did burst in on the State,nd threatened to carry everything by torm. ‘Society is still reeling under the low. But’suppose the glittering hopes of a these honestSpeople, who came also, had len realized. Suppose this had really protd to be a land where gold could be gathereéat will;—where the great law of labor Yore wealth, was for once set aside. Is jot such a land the Paradise of these who é idle and dishonest and vicious? And what ad would there have been to this influx,—mte disastrous than any Vandal irruption a the ac eg: of Italy? The State woul) have becdme jatolerably burdened withinavery and vice. The self-constituted Bany Bay of the world, it would have reeketwith ¢rime and pollution, and have becom a @tghiful Sodom, which the nations wddwgladly fave seen destroyed by fire frontiesven. It isa comfort, when : d mes, ae . : s" cheer oe We see bow much os wrong, to think how much worse it might have been. If fortunes had been easily and wildly got, honest men must either have grown dishonest, or have fled the State. There would have been too little salt to save it. No dignified self-risings of the people could have restored official purity, when the majority were hope. lessly evil-minded. Life would have been too cheap to value. Robberies and burgla‘ries would have been committed all the while. Blackened ruins would have marked every village aud city. Vice would have been incomparably more shameless. Allthis has our State escaped, by disapPpUtuerers we 3 a nhabitants. geet Sh eae But its positive gain has been great. Here were many thousands of honest and respectable men, who were in a hurry to get away. They did not come to benefit California, but to make her benefit them. They meant to snatch a large bandful from her well-filled pockets, and be off with it,—to grab und ran. They thought it right to plunder this youngest of the United Sisters, to enrich the older ones. She had been admitted into the National coxcern, only to furnish capital,— to be a silent, unresisting partner, though rude hands should snatch all the fruits of her lavished wealth for the Atlantic side, and leave her in gilded poverty. Men’s attachments and interests were all elsewhere; they seemed not to dream of any duty to the Pacific coast. But, in spite of their schemes, they Have been kept here. They have been made to ask whether something must not be done for California. The dictate of self-preservation has bid them lend a helping hand to good order, morality and religion. It needed but half an eye to see that, for security of life and property. for insurance in a business point of view, they must not be careless of California’s social and moral welfare. Common sense bade them make their bome tolerable and safe, even though it should be temporary. And many have risen to broader views. Forced to stay here a series of years, something of amoral attachment has stolen into their hearts, If they do not love the State, they have asked if there was not a duty owing her. They heave begun to see the hand of Providence in their deteation, and to ‘glow with patriotic, if not Christian wishes to do something for this rising’ empire of the PaCific. One of the bes? things they have done, has been to transplant their families, This is a direct result of their disappointment. They staid away till the patient home-partners grew weary. Those little family systema could not bear to be thrown ‘so long out of their orbits; they wanted to revolve again around the central luminaries. And ‘thus refined and home-loving womet, who had lvoked on California as a frightful place to live in, to be reached only by appalling perils of sea and Isthmus, and who had declared a hundred times that they néver would go there,—these same refined and husband-loving women'began to think better of the project. Nerving themselves with a true womanly courage, they came willingly, or even with joy. Quietly, but rapidly, has this stream of families been flowing in; aud we see its blessings to-day. We see purity and virtue restored ‘to their place of honor ; thousands of ianocent vhildren, who, by God’s blessing, may beneficially replace the older and corrupted generation; a healthful social influence, cleansing the curreat of life; schools, which couid not be denied the long parted little ones; churches and Sabbath schools, claimed as a right, and given as a protection. Thus has society begun to be restored to its balance,—socially and moraHy,—and we trust, in God, that the good work is to go on. Whocan estimate the power of California for good,—and therefore the blessing of molding that power aright? What State can do more, in the great world-struggle between light and darkness, between the powers of good and the powers of evil? Her <> a reek cael promise was never greater. The feverish — excitement of the first mad years, has worn away. Gold-getting has assamed the form of a business, and is no longer a game of chance. Traffic is restored to its old sobriety. Vice has become disgusting. and Christian morality asserts its inherent power. No seeds of insurrection or of civil war, are sown on our soil; while, to the North, the recent vote of our young sister, Oregon, guarantees one border, at least, consecrated to freedom, besides that of the sounding ocean,—and seems to secure us anew against the efforts of heartless politicans, to set us again by the ears on the most angry of subjects, and to blight our fair domain with the acknowledged curse of slavery. Let us hope that no serious attempt will again be made to fasten the scourge on us; the scourge of a system which is worse, even, for the dominant than for the subject class,—which feeds panic and fear, aud seems to dictate that anomaly of America,—free speech forbidden in a free land ;—making it unsafe to tread, but with bare and cautious feet, in that powder mill;—uneafe to speak, “except in A te nagar

Tian eprene teen ek Meet a re we GR ‘VOL. 5, THE TELEGRPH, WNBELY PAPER, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MOR ING, IN GRASS VALLEY,TERMS: For one year, in advance,...... »» -$7,00 Por six months, .caidsiscy oc csce sees 4,00 For threemonthis, .. os ....0s PURO i hats AGENTS. J. E. HAMLIN, Bookseller, corner of Broad and Pine streets, is our authorised Agent to transact busness for this Office in Nevada and throughout all the upper portions of the County. Gro. A: Lovecrove is our duly authorised Agent or Sacramento. He may be found at 67 J st. Mr. L. P. FisHEer is our sole Agent in San Francisco, He ls empowered to receive advertisements, and reeeipt for the same. He may be found at his desk n the Iron Building, opposite the Pacific Express Of2 2 . “Polynesian, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. SUMMONS. STATE OF CALIFORNIA. }ss County of Nevada, District Court of the 14th Judicial District of said State. The People of the state of California— To CHAS. E. SANDERS, Greeting, You are hereby Summoned to appaar and answer to the Complaint of J. 5. CROSSMAN, filed against ou, within Ten days from the service of this Writ, if served on pou in this County, within twen y days if served on you in this District and out of this County, and wtthin forty days if sered on youin this State and out of this District. inan action commenced on the Second day of JANUARY, 1857, in said Court for the recovery of Two Hundred and Seventy-five Dol. lars, together with interest thereon, at the rate of three per cent pér, month from the 10th day of January, A. D. 1854, till paid, as set out in plaintiil’s bill of eomplaint, now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Court aforesaid, a certilfled copy of which accompanies {kis writ; And you are hereby notified that if you fail to answer said complaint as herein direct el, Plaintiff will take Judgment against you therefor, by default, tozether with all costs of, suit, and also demand of the court such ether reliei asis prayed for in his said Complaint. In testimony whereof I, Rures SHormaker, Clerk of the District Court aforesaid, do hereunto set my hand and impress the seal of the said Court, this 22nd day of October, A. D., 1857. A eae RUFUS SHOEMAKER, Clerk. By WM. Suita, Deputy. on ee Upon reading and filing the affidavit of Plaintiff, it is ordered that service of Summons and Complaint ue had on said Defendent by Publication in the Grass . Valley Telegraph,ta weekly newspaper, published in Grass Valey, Nevada county, for tle peried of three months, at 1east once im each week. Witness— NILES SEARLS, Listriet Judge. Attest—Rufus Shoemaker, Clerk, ng . + 2 By Wa. Suiru, Deputy. ; 2-3m SUMMONS. State of California, Cornnty of Nevada, ss. District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District’ of said State The people of the State of California, to Wm. T. Fall, Greeting: You are hereby Summoned to appear and apswer the complaint of Ceorge A. Mentgomery, filedagainst vou, within tea days from tie xeryide ofthis Writ, if served on you in this‘county, within twenty daysif served on you in this District and out ef this sednty, and within forty da) if ser‘ VEO OT yuu tar ttt hve wert wet oO Liste Diwteiwty t= an action commenced on the twenty-fourth day of August, 1857, in said Court for the recovery of Eightee hundred and eighty-one Dollars and Fifty cents, {SISS1 50) together with interest thereon at the rate ofthree per cent per montli from the 22d day of August, A. D. 1857 until paid, as prayed for in plain tiffs complaint, aow on file in the office of the € lerk of the District Court aforesaid, a certified’ copy of ot which accompanies this Writ. And you are hereby notiied that if you fail to answer said complaint aa herein. directed, Plaintiff will take judgment egainst you therefor by Gefault, together with all costs of suit and also demand of the Court such other relief as is prayed for in his said complaint. In testimouy whereof I, Rufus Shoemaker, Clerk of the Distridt Court aforesaid, do hereunto set_ my hand and impress the seal of said Court, this 24th y : st, A. D. 1857. Bt aac RUFUS SHOPMAKER, Clerk. By Wa. Saatu, Deputy. Upon reading and filing the affidavit of George A. Montgomery, Plaintiff above named: Itis ordered that service of Sammons be had upon said Defends nt, W. T. Fali, by ,publication in the Grass Valley Telegraph once a week for the period of three months. NILES SEARLS, District Judge. Aitest, RUFUS SHOR MAKER, Clerk D. €. By AVM. Sarg, Deputy. Dibble & Lansing, Att’ys for Plaintiff. August 29, 1857.—J3m. ASSAY OFFICE. JUSTH & HUNTER ASSAYERS OF Gold and Cres! OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, ist St. Srd door from BD, WARYSVEILLE Returns Made Within Twelve Hours! OR the convenience of our customers in the interi or, we have established a Branch of our Assay Office in this City. The reputation of our Pars being well established in San Francisco and New York, they can always be cashed on the most advantageous terms. We shall be prepared to furnish our customers with coin for their bars at rates but liitle in advance of those of San Francisco. Parties sending us dust from the interior can have returns fm Coin by the Express which leaves the following morning. Bae Rates of charges as in San Francisco. 8. HILLEN HUNTER, Marysville. 38-3m. E. JUST: Sen Francisco. PREFER BLVGINGS AND CARPETS! UST RECEIVED—Per late ‘arrivals, by FRANK BAKER, 110 and 112 Clay street, San Francisco— 800 cases Paper Hangings, French and American ( every variety : 6000 rolls French’ and American Borders300 ps Tapestry Velvet Carpet ; : 625: ps Tapestry Brussels Carpet: 239 psThree-ply Carpet 5-" : 300 ps Superfine Ingrain Carpet ; 350 ps Extra Fine Ingrain Carpet ; 200 ps Cotton and Wool Carpets ; 125 ps Stairs Carpets, assorted ; 275 ps Bay State Druggets ; 860 ps Oil Cloth, assorted; . + fy 125 ps Silk Damakk and Brocatelle; > , 7300 pe Cotton and Worsted Damask ; 4009 pair Window Shades ; 876 pair Lace Curtains ; 750 pair Musling Curtain Bands ‘ $000 Cornices and Bands ; 325 dozen Mats, —— ; . us», estair Rods, Table Covers, Gimps, Frings, &c., ‘Wholesaléand retail, by’’ Pes ae uo? t #e0t® FRANK BAKER, 26-8 110 and 112 Clay St. 1 Now is The Time to Get. our Money Back! Yeu Proprietor offers ior sale the well known pro-. perty know as the EMPIRE BATH HOUSE, near the foot of Main Street, with or without Bath: fixtures.. Being desirous of returning to the Atlantic Btates, I will sell the above cheapsor Cush. Callan, see. ~ ; . Geass Valley, July Mth, 1857. ‘JAMES €. MEEDS.GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, —_— eee L. P. FISHER’S DVERTISING AGENCY, (Up Stairs.) CISCO—No. 171 Washington Street, SAN FRANNearly oposite Maguires’s Opera. House. L. P. Fisher is the authorised Agent of. the Sacramento Union—Marysyille Herald, San Joaquin Republican—Pacific Methodist, Sonora Herald—Red Bluff Beacon, California Mining Jonrnal, Grass Valley Telegraph—Nevada Journal, Columbia Gazette—Tuolumne Courier, Mountain Democrat, Placerville—Shasta Courier, Calaveras Chronicle—Mariposa Gazette, Yereka Union—Trinity Journal, Weaverville, Towa Hill News—Weekly Ledger, Jackson, San Jose Telegraph—Sonoma Co. J>urnal, Flsom Dispatech—Los Angeles Star, Santa Barbara Gazette—“an Diego Herald, Alameda Co. Gazette, Placer Courier, Yankee Jims, Napa Co. Reporter, Sierra Democrat, Downeiville: Humboldt Times, Union, Oregonian,, Portland, Oregon Teritory. Oregon-Weekly-Times, Portland, 0. T. Oregon Statesman, Salem, O. T. Pacific Christian Advocate, Salem, O. T. Jacksonville Herald, Jacksonyille 0. Riemennod Hepuoiican, Stellacoon, W. T. Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu, S.1. Mexican Extraordinary, City of Mexico, Hong Kong Kegister. ADVERTISING IN THE ATLANTIC STATES, L. P. F. has now completed his arrangements for the forwarding of Advertisements to all the princi. pal largest eirculating Journals and Newspapers published in the Atlantic States, A fine opportunity is here offered to those who wish,to advertise in any partof the Union of doing so at the lowest rates, and in a prompt and satisfactory manner. 47-tf PIONEER MUSIC STORE. No. 155 J. Street, Saeramento. Daie & Co. (Late Dougliss & Dale.) IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Piano Fortes, Melodeons, Guitars, Violincellos, Dou ble Basses, Fife, Flagolets, Flutes, Clarionets, ®Bass, Drums, Banjos, Snare Drums, Triangles, Tamborines, Castinetts, Mutes, Reeds, Bow Hair, Finger Boards, Tuning Hammers, . Bridges, Pers, Resin, Tuniug’Forks, &c. Accordecons and Fiutinas,. We will sell only first class articles, and at greatly reduced prices. Sheet and Book WZusic. New Music received by every steamer Our assortment of Sheet Music is now one of the largest in Cal. ifornia, embracing choice selections frem the cata. logues of eyery publishing house in the United States, as also many European publications. Violin and Guitar Strings. will do well tu send us their orders. Toys and Faucy Goods, Billiard Balls, Cue Tips, Wax and Chalk, Bird Cages, thildren’s Carriages, Boxing Gloves, Police Whistles, Fencing Foils, Masks, Cribbage and Backgammon Boards, Chessmen Ladies’ Work Baskets, &c., &c. £GF> Dealers supptied at the Lowest prices. We import allour goods direct from New York and Boston, and guarantee to sell as low as any similar establishmontim California 4a Instruments Tuned and Repaired by an experienced workman DALE & CO. Successors to DOUGLISS & DALE, J. REGAN’S . STEAM R EFINED Candy MJanufa‘tery. No. 33 Montgomery Street, Between Bush and Sutter Streets, San Francisco. MERE PROPRIETCGR of the ABOVE . named establishment takes this method of informing his numerous friends and customers that he intends following the example of the Gas Company— that is to reduce his prices, whieh he hopes will give . entire satisfaction to all. His Candies are all manufactured from: Stewart’s Double Refined Sugar, which he imports himself, and all the essences used by him are of the finest flayorand the best in. the market, together with a variety of other articles appertaining to the manufacture of Candies too numerous to mention. Having had an eéxperience-of seven years in the business in this eity, and being the FIRST CONFECTIONER on the Pacific coast. he flattets himself that he will be able to give entire satisfaction to all who favor him with their trade. By a new and improved process his Candies are made at a quicker rate and with less expense than formerly, sothat he is enabled to sell at a much lower figure than heretofore. Persons desiring anything in his line will do well to call and examine his splended stock of Candies, as well as his prices, as he feels contident that they cannot fail to pleasé the striciest economist. WHOLESALE PRICES. A beautiful assortment of Sticks, Lumps and Drops selling at the reduced rates. COMFITURES—Including Caraway feed, pearled and smoth ; Clove Buds ; Cassia Buds ; Coriander . Seeds, large and small; at 20 cents per pound.GUM. DROPS—sniovth Almonds, Jujube Paste French Mottoes, Almond Candy, &c., at 30 cents. “ Also—A beautiful assortment of FRENCH CANDIES, varying in prices according to quality. The attention of the trading publie is invited. to examine this immense stock of Candies, comprising everything in the *‘ dulce ”’ line. He leaves it to the “buyers to judge of the superiority of his articles; so call and see for yourselves, for ocular demonstration is proof positive. Remember the number—3%$ MONTGOMEKY STREET, between Bush.and Satter. ' ah 3. REGAN. N. B. All orders from the country promptly attendBANKER. Northwest corner of Montgomery and Jackson streets, San FRaNCIsco. Draws bills of Exchange, at sight or on time, in , sums to suit,on DE RHAM '& ©0.2.. 4. -ied. A. &. Mew SYork. MELLY, ROMILLY & CG..*.2.3.4.../Liverpool. MORRIS, PREVUST & CO.... eet biked London. pA 2 i ih SOP GIR A BE MATHIEU HENTSCH & CO....2...Paris. G DES ARTS, MUSSARD & CO...2.2..Paris. HENTSCH & CO.25. 200005 00 Geneva, Switzerland. Purchases Certificaies of Deposit and other Exchange at Current Rates, and transacts.a General Banking Business, Receives Deposits. An ASSAY OFFiCk is annexed to the Banking House LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES -ON. GOLD/DUST TO ABMAX82-lm chF Gold Hunting Repeater Watches. UsTf ARRIVED per steamer Golden Age and, fo saleby 00 3) 2 3% BRIGGS, DEY & cd Mon3jomery st. corner Crlifornia. 98 z, RIGGS, DEY & CY. are prepared to import eve descripiion of Goods in their line, on short notice and aslow as any other house in San Francisco. : BRIGGS, DEY & CO., 938 Montgomery, cerner CaliforniaSs ed to. Goods delivered in any: partof the city, or at any of the wharves, free of charge. 30-0omM HENRY HENTSCH, . Lansing & Montgomery. . WINES, . . {nuance of their patronage. He has now on hand, . Large and general assortment of Groceries NOTICE. y Nags undersigned have this day formed.a Law Copartnership under the firm and style of Dibble, DIRBLE & LANSING. Sept. 15, 1856. & SCHENCK GLASS, WATCHMAKER AND t t ASS VALLEY TELEGR = Pex THANKSGIVING DISCOURSE, Delivered at the Cong. Church, Grass eo RE vin REV. MARTIN KELLOGG. CovunTrigzs and States are often personified, Aland may be spoken of as having a life ofitsown. There is now at Washingtoa . a statue representing our young State, embodying the sculptor’s idea of California’s SEWELLER, . dignity and promise. Main Street.... Grass Valley, Two Doors below the Post Office, and opposite Benton’s Exchange Nes KINDS of Jewelry Work done in the neates possible manner. Watch Cleaning and Repair ing done at the shortest notice, We have a Lapidary oonnccted with our es tablishment which enables us to manufacture at kinds of Quartz Jewelry as cheap as the oba~~=de4 . ao. ve WOUFK done’ at. she Establishment “warranted to give entire satisfaction. ~ 24-tf G. C. KING, & CO.,)° Dealers in roceries, Frovisions, Liquors, Miners’ Tools, &c., AT THE New, Iron Front, Fire Proof Store, . Corner of Mili and Neal Sts., Grass Valley. ! . CANDLES, » FLOUR, LIQUORS, BUTTER, PORK, COFFEE, LARD, HAM, TEAS, MOLASSES, SUGARS, PICKELS, BACON, FISH, PRESERVED FRUITS, BRANDY FRUITS . Boois, Shoes, Clothing; Crockery, Wooden & Tin Ware. « B@> The Subscribers would take this method to re” tirn thanks to their friend and the public generally for past favors, and would respectfully solicit a conand intends to keep constantly in store, as Provisions, &c., as can be found in Grass Valley. . G. C. KING, & CO. Grass Valley, August 29, 1857. To Wechanics, Imventors and VWianufacturers. . $150; 5th 100; 6th $90; 7th $80; 8th $70: 9th $70; . LOth $50; 11th 40; 12th $25; 13th $30; Mdth $25; lot ; 20. . Names of subscribers can be sent in at sifferent . times and from different Post Offices. The Casi: yj] . No. 155, J Street, Sacramento. 30-3m } In announcing the Thirteenth annual volume of } the Scientific American the publishers respectfully inform the public that in order to increase and stimulate the formation of Clubs, they propose to offer $1,500 IN CASH PREMIUMS . . . for the fifteen largest liste of Subscribers sent in by Musicians, Dealers, and others, who want good strings . tributed as follows : } } . the Ist of January, 1898 ; ©ata premiums to be disFor the largest List $300; 2d $350; 3d $290: 4th 3 . be paid to the orders of the successful ‘competitors, . immediately after the Ist of January 1858.. . Southern Western and Canada money will be tak. } en for subscriptions. Canadian subscribers will . please te remit Twenty-six cents extra on aach years . subscription to pre-pay postage. . ‘TERMS OF SuBscRiITION—Lwe Dollars a year, or One Dollar for six months. . Crtup Rares—Five Copies for six months, $4; Five . Copies for twelve months $8 ; Ten Copies for six mo’s

. $8; Ten Copies for twelve months $15 ; Twenty Cop. ies fer twelve months, 828. . For all clubs of 20 and over the yearly subscription . is only $1.40. i The mew volume will be printed upon fine paper with new type. The general character of the ScreNTIFIC AMERICAN, is well known, and, as heretefore will be.chiefly devo. ted to the promulgation of information relating to . the various Hiechanicaland Chemical Arts, Manufac. tures and Agriculiure, Patents, Inventions, Engineer. ing, Mill Work, and all interests which the lights of . Practical Science is calculated to advance. It is issued weekly in form for binding. It contains aunually . from 500 to 500 finely executed Engravings and notices of American and European Improvements, to . gether with an official list of American Patent Claims publiseed weekly in advance of all other papers. *{ is the aim of the editors of the Scientific American to present all subjects discussed in its columns in a practical and popular form. They will also endeavor to maintain a candid fearlessness in combating and exposing false theories and practices in scientifiicand Mechanical matters, and thus preserve the character of the scientific American asa reliable Encyclopédia of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. 4asSpecimen copies will be sent gratis to any part of the country. MUNN & CO., Publishers and Patent Agents, No, 128 Fulton Street, New York. Convention of Ditch Owners, The Ditch owners met a second time in Convention, at Sacramento, on the 4th inst. and after some preliminary business adopted the following preamble and form of a Bill to be presented to Congress at its next session: Whereas, the placer mines of California, in the immediate vicinity of natural water courses, are measurably exhausted ; and wheréas, there are «within our borders yery rich and extensive mining grounds, claimed by the General Government, unavailable, except by water in artificial channels, or mining canals, thercitore— tesolved, that we petition our next Legislature to instruct our Seuators, and request our Representatives in‘Congress, by a co1 current Resolution, to use due diligence, and all honorable means to secure the passage of a Bill granting and securing to companies or individuals an easement of the right of way over the public domain in California, for mining canals, or water ditches. far mining purposer, bject. to recognized and established private Tights 5 ‘Rit tira t such right of way shall be so construed as to include all the lands. timber and priviledges neccessary for the practical operation of such canals and ditches as may have been. or shall hereafter be constructed. RKeselved, that the following draft be submitted to our Legistature for approval, and to Congress for adoption, as embracing the priveledges which we desire : A BILL to grant the right of way over the public lands in the state of California for mining purposes. Sre. 1. Ke itenacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled :—That the tight of way for any and every line of Ditch, canal or tiume construc; ted for mining purposes over the public lands of the . state of California, is hereby granted to the party or . parties who have constructed and now own, or who beréafter may construct the same; such grant to include Reservoir privileges, and the use of timber and other materials nesessary for the constructionand carrying on of such works, and to be operative from the date of tite location of the line or route of such ditch, canal, or flume, by actual survey, and the same to become void upon fhe abandonment of the work,or the non-use of such ditch, canal or flame, for the period of one-year. -Provided, always, that it shall appear that such right of way was located in good faith, and thatthe construction of such works shall be prosecuted with due diligence Sec. 2. The United States guarantees not to claim or enforce any riparian rights which she may have by virtue of her ownership of the lan(s, against any owners of ditches, canals or flumes, for mining purposes in the. said State of California. REsoLvEeD, That.a committee of four be appointed by the Chair to ses that the attention of our next Legislature be directed to the objects of this Convention at an early period, and that said committee be empowered to:takeisuch further action ss may be by Hem deemed ReCeHHAry. . to deeds of blood—while the firstyorn of . I wish to personify California, to-day ; to speak of her, as having a life of her own, interests and hopes of her own—apart from the Jife, the hopes and the supposed interests I'pres £0. Speak of California, rather than of Californians, es ‘Our, State has many grounds for being glad-and, rejoicing, in common with other States and other lands. She has enjoyed, during another year, general peace and prosperity. ‘‘No war or batile’s sound ”’ has been heard. From other Continent . have conie tidings of disturbance and bloodshed; especially from the swarming nations . of Asia. The clash of arms has resounded . along the coast of China and startled the . confident Briton in the heart of India. The Americas have not been wholly quiet. The. crude republics to the South, have \ad their . usual quarrels and anarchy. The \azy fac. 1 tions of Central America have been stirred . . of ber indivigaotaighaay’ or Thanksgiving, fillibusterism has beeu throttled injts cra. die. From:across the plains havi come . threats .ef collisions between brethren ;— threats that made our ears to tingle, kcause uttered by Saxon lips, and because tle parties were our brethren. To the Norh, the implacable savage has raised his will war. whoop—and sad tales of Indian and Mirmon . malice have come from our overland high. way. But within the borders of our 5tate, . peace has reigned,—-bounteous, benig, all. blessing peace. i Prosperity has cheered our land. \ The til. ler of she soil has been rewarded. sing has, on the whole, beea successful—raasing streams of gold to flow as freely from our shores, as if another Midas had touched the soil and ledges and rocky river-beds. \ Yercantile interests, less prosperous than in other times, have held their own; and tow, while the ery of financial distress rings from our whole Atlantic coast, and from all the . Vast basin of the Miceiccippi, we hava, at laast . one cause to be thankful for that shameful neglect, which makes us still a foreign State. These . blessings of peace and prosperity ; of exemption from pestilence and death ; of . life continwed and earichedd with number. less joys—demand, this day, our hearty thanksgiving and praise, to Almighty God. But as they are not special blessings, peculiar to this land, I will not dwell on them. I choose, rather, to speak of what I think is 7 California’s special Reason for Siving. I would not slight others; but I would have this one duly recognized. It is this:— The general disappointment of its inhabitants. Not their disappointments during the past year, in smaller things, but the disappointment of the high hopes with which they came to this State. I really esteem this to be Califoruia’s great, special cause for rejoicing and giving thanks to-day. Does it seem hard to draw a State’s gladness frota its people’s scrrows? Nay, let us be thankful, if private disappointments can be shown to have wrought a public blessing. But that must be fairly shown. And I think it can_be, easily and triumphantly. That the State is full of disappoiated people, I presume no one will deny. There are many histories, of those about us, which call for sympathy aud sorrow. The general outlines of such a history, are these. The strong man heard of this bounteous El Dorado, and left his white-haired parents, his Ee wife and little ones, to come and thrust in his sickle and share the rich harvest. Either he thought the supply of gold unbounded, or he reckoned on being one of fortune’s favorites. ; whom gatrine and impatient energies are chafing, feels sure of succeeding In the most daring enterprise. He puts implicit trust in his ability, or in his good fortune, or in both. So men harried to California, fully expecting to get rich, and not to be long about it. They promised the sad hearts from which . they broke away, that they would soon be . back again, to live all the more happily for the brief separation. Some would retarn in a single year ;—how short that would be! Most said “‘two years, and then!’ A few spoke of three, Or even four or five ; but all agreed in this,—they fixed a time, and that one which seemed to them quite short. Before age could sprinkle many more gray hairs.on the heads of the loved parents, before the bloom could fade from the fond wife’s cheek, or the little ones grow half a . head taller, before the last warm kiss of plighted faith could grow cold in the lovers’ memory,—the successful gold-hunter should certainly be back and, all would be gladness and comfort. The stay should be short,— the pain of parting swiftly followet ~« § apts BE Every man, within . SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24 ‘1887. ae joy of welcom. With‘ sugh promises, with such real hop@ men started Te this State. They reach@ the laid of their golden dreams, and sfove tamake them true. A few were ab dantly prospered, and met with no revergs. ‘They went back to cheer waiting heartdand to enjoy with them their new acquisitigs. Enough returned to keep up the fever ofadventure, to induce others to come also.) But the great majority,— how was it wih them? _They seemed to be in sight of tleir hopes, but could never overtake them If gold\was got, it was lost again, slipping throngh the fingers as if it WY MELE solld of metals. Some eohraT got . get it evensthe first tine. Their ‘claims . turned out poorly; their shafts struck no lead ; their rock would not pay for crushing; their flames were swept ~prematurely away. . if they engaged in traffic,everything wentill; ‘their partners swindled them ; their interest money hung, a dead. weight, on their shoulders; sweeping fires turned all their substance into smoke. Never has a land been the theater of such business disappointments, as California in these eight years. The men of the cities have*suéered from fire and flood, from fraud and revulsion. The men of the plains have’ found qaven agriculture, infected with California caprices, and the net-work of land titles a cobweb, on which only legal spiders could grow fat. The men of the mountains have had their own troubles; too much rain, or too little ;—singlehanded workers, toiling to poor advantage, and companies impoverished by ill-management ;—villages reduced to ashes, and lone cabins plundered ;—villainy clutching the deposits of years ;—the cheapest living still up to what we should once have thought starvation prices. In some way or other, it hag come to pass, that almost every man among us isa disappointed man. The record of hopes thwarted ia this State, of expectations defeated and ambitiotis. crushed, would furnish reading fot a gereration, and tears for @ thousand tragedies.. The immediate resutt of all this disappointment, you well know. Men could not, or thought they could fot, redeem their promise of a spedy retura. “Those somewhat successfal,found it’ a-long-winded af\fair to get rich; they could not break up ie leave, without too great Shegzite The . unfo.tuniite Still hoped for -succéss; they gree too proyd 8 go hank naan Slama. even, could not ge back, from sheer poverty. And so, for varios reasons, all centering in the one reason, lisappointment, they are still here. Ofte havé they been urged, when urging seed a mockery of their own beating desires, t go back. News has come of the parent whse bowed form has found its rest in the give,—of the wife or child snatched beyon human gaze,—of another and still anotheinroad in the circle of the Witing bearts grew despondent, and ha fal. ‘ Will you not home, and ségzj’’ has been the oft-repeated question, Butthe-strong chains of disappoinment hay@eld them still to the soil of California, Ithey have visited home, it has not been > stay ; their golden hopes were too far fim, being realized. Such is theommon oytline of a Californian’s history It is by no means true of all. Some came temake the*State their home. Some have stid because.they were not disappointed. . we" But such @ a fraction sof the sum total. It is still truthat the majority of respeciable men in th State, are here to-day through disappointmit. And now ?t as see what recompensing sweet Califia can eXact from all this bitterness. here have been s onsequences. Disappintment has ruined many noble minds. It ks beem"the turning point for evil, when tmptations, were pressing ; when mad mirth nd reckless débauchery offered to cure thedeart’s pairk That is one side of the pictre. But thére is anothcr, far brighter. Patiforuia has been vastly the gainer)byCalifornians’ disappointments. To spet first of negative blessings :— These disdpointments have kept out an intolerable warm of bad people. We have enough no. aA multitude of villains and vagaboudgand strumpets did burst in on the State,nd threatened to carry everything by torm. ‘Society is still reeling under the low. But’suppose the glittering hopes of a these honestSpeople, who came also, had len realized. Suppose this had really protd to be a land where gold could be gathereéat will;—where the great law of labor Yore wealth, was for once set aside. Is jot such a land the Paradise of these who é idle and dishonest and vicious? And what ad would there have been to this influx,—mte disastrous than any Vandal irruption a the ac eg: of Italy? The State woul) have becdme jatolerably burdened withinavery and vice. The self-constituted Bany Bay of the world, it would have reeketwith ¢rime and pollution, and have becom a @tghiful Sodom, which the nations wddwgladly fave seen destroyed by fire frontiesven. It isa comfort, when : d mes, ae . : s" cheer oe We see bow much os wrong, to think how much worse it might have been. If fortunes had been easily and wildly got, honest men must either have grown dishonest, or have fled the State. There would have been too little salt to save it. No dignified self-risings of the people could have restored official purity, when the majority were hope. lessly evil-minded. Life would have been too cheap to value. Robberies and burgla‘ries would have been committed all the while. Blackened ruins would have marked every village aud city. Vice would have been incomparably more shameless. Allthis has our State escaped, by disapPpUtuerers we 3 a nhabitants. geet Sh eae But its positive gain has been great. Here were many thousands of honest and respectable men, who were in a hurry to get away. They did not come to benefit California, but to make her benefit them. They meant to snatch a large bandful from her well-filled pockets, and be off with it,—to grab und ran. They thought it right to plunder this youngest of the United Sisters, to enrich the older ones. She had been admitted into the National coxcern, only to furnish capital,— to be a silent, unresisting partner, though rude hands should snatch all the fruits of her lavished wealth for the Atlantic side, and leave her in gilded poverty. Men’s attachments and interests were all elsewhere; they seemed not to dream of any duty to the Pacific coast. But, in spite of their schemes, they Have been kept here. They have been made to ask whether something must not be done for California. The dictate of self-preservation has bid them lend a helping hand to good order, morality and religion. It needed but half an eye to see that, for security of life and property. for insurance in a business point of view, they must not be careless of California’s social and moral welfare. Common sense bade them make their bome tolerable and safe, even though it should be temporary. And many have risen to broader views. Forced to stay here a series of years, something of amoral attachment has stolen into their hearts, If they do not love the State, they have asked if there was not a duty owing her. They heave begun to see the hand of Providence in their deteation, and to ‘glow with patriotic, if not Christian wishes to do something for this rising’ empire of the PaCific. One of the bes? things they have done, has been to transplant their families, This is a direct result of their disappointment. They staid away till the patient home-partners grew weary. Those little family systema could not bear to be thrown ‘so long out of their orbits; they wanted to revolve again around the central luminaries. And ‘thus refined and home-loving womet, who had lvoked on California as a frightful place to live in, to be reached only by appalling perils of sea and Isthmus, and who had declared a hundred times that they néver would go there,—these same refined and husband-loving women'began to think better of the project. Nerving themselves with a true womanly courage, they came willingly, or even with joy. Quietly, but rapidly, has this stream of families been flowing in; aud we see its blessings to-day. We see purity and virtue restored ‘to their place of honor ; thousands of ianocent vhildren, who, by God’s blessing, may beneficially replace the older and corrupted generation; a healthful social influence, cleansing the curreat of life; schools, which couid not be denied the long parted little ones; churches and Sabbath schools, claimed as a right, and given as a protection. Thus has society begun to be restored to its balance,—socially and moraHy,—and we trust, in God, that the good work is to go on. Whocan estimate the power of California for good,—and therefore the blessing of molding that power aright? What State can do more, in the great world-struggle between light and darkness, between the powers of good and the powers of evil? Her <> a reek cael promise was never greater. The feverish — excitement of the first mad years, has worn away. Gold-getting has assamed the form of a business, and is no longer a game of chance. Traffic is restored to its old sobriety. Vice has become disgusting. and Christian morality asserts its inherent power. No seeds of insurrection or of civil war, are sown on our soil; while, to the North, the recent vote of our young sister, Oregon, guarantees one border, at least, consecrated to freedom, besides that of the sounding ocean,—and seems to secure us anew against the efforts of heartless politicans, to set us again by the ears on the most angry of subjects, and to blight our fair domain with the acknowledged curse of slavery. Let us hope that no serious attempt will again be made to fasten the scourge on us; the scourge of a system which is worse, even, for the dominant than for the subject class,—which feeds panic and fear, aud seems to dictate that anomaly of America,—free speech forbidden in a free land ;—making it unsafe to tread, but with bare and cautious feet, in that powder mill;—uneafe to speak, “except in A te nagar