February 21, 1857 (4 pages)

a, ae ce : y. : matters with regard to which there i t Grass Valen Celegrayh. . much diversity euinton: fan Sve dete. GRASS VALLEY, FEB. 21, 1857. first and third suppositions, but with regard Shade and Ornamental Trees, Now is the time to set out trees and shrub. contrast of temperature between the Pacific however, that serious loss arises from both the bery. A few dollars in money, anda few TEMPERATURE OF THE PaciFic Coast.—Th and Atlantic coasts is certainly most re markable. Sacramento Ciy and W. B. EWER, EDITOR. AGENTS. J. E. HAMLIN, Bookseller, corner of Broad and Pine streets, is our authorised Agent to transact business for this Office in Nevada and throughout all the upper portions of the County. Garptner © Kirk are our Agents in Sacramento.— They may be found at the Post Office LiteraryDepot, Third St., next door to the Post Office. Mr. L. P. Fisner is our sole Agent in San Francisco. He ls empowered to receive advertisements, and receipt for the same. He may be found at his desk in the Iron Building, opposite the Pacific Express Offiee, up Stairs, A. C. Kran is authorised to act as our agent in Rough and Ready—to receive and receipt for subscriptions, job work or advertising. Collections, All Collections due this Office, of whatever nature, both thoseincurred previous and during the time i moa mnblichea ad tha (fence Wallon. YL 4 +1 3 i n trost © ho de@*:re t Paper in Grass Vallev, will give hir < til 1h Ge by . reception. WB EWR? . OO ge ne ene ee peste a Soe ae memematintin V2 Of extraordinary rishnes@, he canaot’, to the “oxydization,” much'doubt exists—although there is much probability that such a chemical change may take place to a limited extent. Whatever difference of upinion may exist with regard to the causes of loss, the practical question of the economy of roasting is now very definitely settled among European operators in gold ores, and it should be considered a conceded fact among our own miners, that gold or silver ores roasted. either in hours of time spent in beautifying and improving your grounds, will repay the entire investment every year. There are but very a small piece of ground which, if they will” Oregon is warmer ia winter than Washingthey may enclose and beautify so as to ren. ton. It is necessary to travel. by an air line, der it, in the course of three or four years, a 1250 miles north of that parallel, to find the desirable spot, an ornament to the town, and . 8#™e temperature on the Pacific coast as is vary but a few seconds in latitude; yet the region of country bordering on Voncouver’s few families in Grass Valley who do not own Island, at the very extreme northern limit of withal, a source of pecuniary advantage qs well as of social pleasure to the owner. There is nothing about a place so attracting and home-like as a well laid out garden. and an opem heaps or reverberatory furnaces, or in. abundance of fruit and ornamental treek to any other manner, will not yield as much . improve the prospect, and to delight the palore as a similar portion of the same ore taken . ate with their annual gifts. Sucha home, from the same heap, and equally rich, will . pe it ever so humble, is never dreary. . do without being roasted. requires muebh experience, ; constant scratiny, and quite as close aiten. “went . tion as any other branch of industry. \ wv } Unless the adventnrer succeeds in locating a ~~ SE Oe 5 OFS oo Sys th at ~—eeepetommoverssksithout giving his individ. . important and nicary ments fer the thorough and ecenomical exztion of gola from { its ores, have recently hinth MULL rope. Theresults of these enquiries are now before the world, and are exciting no little degree of interest on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among those engaged in gold quartz mining. These researches and experiments have been principally confined to two leading objects :—Ist. the utility, or economy of roast. . ing the ores in bulk, before crushing ; and 2d, to an enquiry into the nature of the auriferous pyrites, and the best mode of treating them with reference to the extraction of the gold which they contain. It is our present purpose to lay before our readers some . account of these experiments, and the con. clusions arrived at among trans-montane and trans-atlauntic miners. We propose to consider first the ROASTING OF GOLD ORES. The economy of this process is a matter . which has attracted the attention of both the . scientific and practical miner for upwards of . two centuries. As long ago as 1629 Lazarus Erckern, the Assayer General of Germany, published a work on gold ores and . metallurgy, in which he took ground against the practice of “roasting” gold or silver . ores, for the reason, that careful experiments had satisfied him thata large per centage of the metal was lost by the operation. Since that time much has been written upon the subject, and, until recently, a very great diversity of 2 « . : ” alu practical Micers, iii VailUus pai te ® ae. Mtcestiag experi-y SSS vas oe New methods i # © , , of operation and new theories should be adapted with the greatest caution. There are wib0 Have Means at ineir dis1 Has experiments, and who should ever be consid. ered as public benefactors, for the interest . they take in advancing the knowledge of that . particular branch of industry in which they . are engaged—but it is worse than folly for the great mass of operators, without any of . the peculiar qualifications necessary for such . enquiries, to devote their time to such experiments, to the consequent neglect and ruin of their legitimate routine of duties. It is enough for such to attend diligently to the established practice, and watch with intelligent interest the experimental progress of those who may legitimately become pioneers . in their peculiar branch of iudustry. It will be our endeavor henceforward, . more even than heretofore, to note the pro. gress of practical improvements in mining, as well as other scientific researches into everything which pertains to the business, . and inso doing we hope to make our Jour. nal a source of profit as well as of interest to our readers. The length of the present article renders it . proper that we should defer the considera. tion of the nature and treatment of auriferous pyrites until our next issue. Breaking of a Reservoir--Great Damage. A serious calamity involving a heavy loss of property occurred at Nevada, on Sunday morning last, caused by the breaking of a . Our citizens are even now exhibiting®a Gold mining, legitimately practiced. to be. commendable spirit in the in : i 4 j i) . Come profitable, ready undertaken. One thing, howe ¥ would remark, in passing, and that is, Uist but little attention is paid to improviog the streets outside of our enclosures. This shou! not be: The.2 are many kinds of trees, s onWont for ehada and Arnoemoentoal nee? Ss which cas be had fora mere song. ‘Io vu. aothing ofeur own forest trees—we heve the cotton wood in particular, which isboth . thrifty and hardy, that can be purchased for is uouiars per Gg or eve 6S8 UY Loe quantity. Then there is the locust and chest: nut, and many others which can be purchased very low at this time. Would it uot be a good idea for neighbors, say on the same street, to join together and purchase a nutober sufficient to line both sides of the way. Such improvement would add treble its cost to the value of real estate on any such street. There is also another consideration in fa favor of planting trees which may be considered of very great importance— that is the protection which they afford against the spread of fires. A building encircled with trees, at a moderate distance from neighbors, will be but little endangered from the progres of fire, The trees are even better than wet blankets to keep off the sparks and heat.— . They shelter us from the scorching rays of the sun in summer, shield us from the wintry blast. and afford a very material barrier against the rapid progress of a fire. Who would begrudge the expenditure of afew dollars to secure Such advantages, and to earn for our beautiful village a still fairer name, and a brighter position among the mountain towns of California. Plant trees—plant them now ; and you never will regret either the money or time so devoted. Hon. W. I. Ferevson, the Sacramento Senator, was arrested by the police of that betel thare } lace stl tie} 3d +: whathigher in Saer fact may every ‘the child. She spoke to him at first, and . found in the parallel of Washington on the Atlantic! The winters of Sitka, even, which is 20 deg. north of Washington, are warmer than that of that city—the mean temperature of Sitka being 364, while that of Washington is 36. While the cold of the winters is so much modified on the Pacific, the heat of the summers here is also greatly tempered, and, although we here find tropical fruits i ing te. the constant see. breeses, the air is less ; 5 , CeO! Ree. a ae got wre cases OF occur sun stroke’ which wmomer in Boston and N. Y.bat whien that horses and ober auimais can eudure wwe summer heat easier here than in latitudes much further north on the Atlantic. The same is true of out-door workmen. There is not a country on the globe which possesses such a uniformity of temperature as California. DisTRESSING aND Fatal. ACCIDENT.—A . resident of Amador county started a few days . since to take his daughter, aged 13 years, to . Ione City to school. His wagon upset, throwing the weight of the body on the person of seemed entirely conscious, but it was impossible for him to extricate her from this dreadful position without aid. After going two miles fur assistance he returned and found her dead. Speep oF RarLroaps.—The New York Journal of Commerce has an article in relation to the speed obtained on railroads, by which it would seem, that there is a serious . thought of reducing the speed on the various . roads throughout the country. From that article, we learn, that the increased speed is destructive to large dividends, as the differerence in expense between 20 and 40 miles . per hour, is fifty per cent in favor of the for. mer. Not So.—The report ef the purchase of Sonora and Lower California is not confirmm a . i ‘. a SP ; Fae we Das — . This range extends from the Yulate Pi Mining Correspondence. A correspondent from Robnd Ten! evada county, writes as follows: x 4 ‘1 Pha at your readers imight/ish to know something the diggingsp this neighborhood, I thought I wagld jokjown a few items for their benefit. “The toggvished for water has at last come, and th¢“oro” begins to show itself. The gold ‘ere is course, and is to be found in Any. of jhe ravines. Informer times, Miners havemade good wages here, even when they) were obliged to pay from seventy-five centgto $1 per inch for water ; now it can be hadfor 25 cents. The water that is used here is from Wolf Creek, and will contitve until e here for miners, and I presume that in a few weeks some large strikes will be heard of in this vicinity. Fea snearamantsat. . 9Towing evan in the latitnde of New York, ! Through the efforts of Mr Cat ak, of di i? ei = : . it a ° hr uber t Palani ; known, of ‘Uncle Billy,’’ (forhe & every come here with the sahety ~ eiticx water. It_is the ipfention of the oy: ee ere ee, P oe a county The Coley CBD be found on sive enough to give employment to tiousands, and it is the opinidn of old miners that these mines are good for from four to ten dollars per day. There is.also plenty of quartz here, and it only requires capital and enterprise to test it. To all that are disposed to work we say cagie; they will be sure to reap a generous reward for their labor. Mine “host” and “‘hostess,”’xof the Round Tent House, are ever ready to minster to the wants of the weary and hungry. More anon. Yours, &e. ALBION. SovrHERN RatLRoaps.—The South is beginning to manifest a very commendable activity in the matter of national improvements, particularly in the construction of Railroads. The road now in process of construction across the northern portion of the Florida peninsula has heen graded for a distance of 50 miles, and the fails laid 10 miles. . The entire workis being ‘pressed forward with energy. This railway is designed to forma part of the line of intereourse and trade between the ports an the Gulf of Mexico and those of the Atlantic coast. It crosses the northern neck of the Peninsnla, and will save the risk and loss of time consequent upon the hazardous .voyage around the Southern reefs. ; ak Z= An English giticial paper gives the opinion has existed among miners and scien. dam on Deer Creek, about seven miles above tific men in England and on the continent. . that town. The dam was forty feet high, Modern discoveries in chemistry have very . and when full would flow 200 acres with an . oreatly facilitated researches of this descrip. average depth of 25 feet. When it.gave way, . tion, and such experiments are now conduct. j¢ was within ten feet of the top. The break. ed in a manner which dispels all doubt as to . ing was so sudden that the water came down the accuracy of the results and conclusions . with a wave, presenting a perpendicular front arrived at. Under these favorable circum. of nearly fifteen feet, and of course sweeping stances an elaborate series of experiments . everything before it, which it encountered. has recently been fairly and fully tried un”) It passed through the town just before dayder the auspices of the Russian Government, light, sweeping in its course all the bridges and the conclusions drawn therefrom are . except that at Pine street, which is seriously very decidedly against the roasting process. . damaged. two stores, about half of a large The official report of these experiments, . hotel, one boarding house, a blacksmith’s which were conducted among the mines at} shop, and several smaller buildings. Passing Ecatharinebury, states that the ore when] on it swept the Gold Tunnel and Wyoming roasted in hermetically sealed crucibles lost . mills entirely away, searce a vestige being 20 per cent of gold, and 4j per cent of sil-/ left, and seriously damaged two others. All ver. Ore roasted on an uncovered hearth! the miner’s cabins on Stocking’s flat were resulted ina loss of forty per cent of gold,. swept away. Itis a great wonder that no and twenty-one per cent of silver! The same . lives were lost. The total amount of damexperiments were repeated at many diiferent age exceeds $80.000. The Journal thus desmining localities, and everywhere with simi-. scribes the scene at the foot of Main street : lar results. They bave also since been re-. “There wag no time to think of property or peated in England, though in a less elaborate clothing, or anything but life. Messrs. Bosmanner, but still with sufficient exactness to. well & Hanson who were sleeping in their satisfy the experimentors of the general cor-. store by the Main street bridge, rushed half rectuess of the results given in the Russian . naked into the street, leaving their watches official report. aod a considerable amonnt of money in their The following are the published opinions} rooms. Others barely escaped with their of several practical miners and metallurgists . lives. The scene is described by eye witnesswho have devoted much attention to this sub-. es as being terrificin the extreme. Large Ject : buildings such as the store of Boswell & “Trehern, at Marmato, roasted the ore in Hanson, and boarding house on the opposite a reverbatory furnace. and though the show. . : : of gold was great, it only yielded about one side of the creek, were carried bodily along, fifth of what was obtained from an equal por. only falling to pieces when they reached the tion of the unroasted pyrites. rapids below. The roaring of the water, the Leay, at Marmato, roasted his ore and} crash of falling houses, the darkness of the found he got less gold than he would have. . . a ‘ obtained by the most ordinary method of the night and the howling of the storm, combinBatea. He roasted his ere to that degree, ; ed to render the scene imposing and magni‘that the color of the slime, which escaped in. ficent—to one who had no property thereabundance from the stamp pits, was deep red . apouts to be effected by the flood.” . “The following’ ss a list of the losses so far brown, or hematite red.’ * : Again. he found one-third of the gold remained after roasting, in some manner asso. 28 known ;— ciated with the sulphuret of silver, and other} Boswell & Hanson... $25,000 products formed by the process of roasting. ' A. T. Laird, reservoirs, &c.. 15,000 Degenhardt has an opinion that the gold. City of Nevada, bridges.. .+.0,000 forms a sulphuret and is perhaps carried off through the chimney, on account of the silver, which formerly was alloyed by the gold having entirely disappeared during the process of roasting. Philips in his ‘Metallurgy,’ says: ‘Gold is not directly attacked by sulphur at any temperature ; but when fused with the alkaline sulphurets, is rapidly acted on with the formation of a double sulphuret, in which S. W. Grush, damage to hotel.5,000 Wait and Co., blacksmith shop, &c 2,000 Niman & McElvoy, house, &.. 1,800 Whitmarsh, wagon shop, tools, &c. 1,500 D. &: Bly, grain. .ccuskeds pik BOO David Belden, house.... 700 Gold Tunnel Quartz Mill..8,000 Eagle Saw Mill, damage.,..5,000 Wyoming Quartz Mill... 5,000 Deer Creek Saw Mill... 2.000 the sulphuret of gold acts the part of an acid.’ ‘I am folly impressed with the belief that the ore if ever roasted will cause you a loss of that gold, which could have been much easier.ascertained by simply stamping it, and causing it to pass over mercury or skins.’ ” —MS, Correspondence. Whether the loss by roasting results from the carrying away of the extremely fine particles of gold by the upward current of air from the burning mass, as a light breath of wiud carries off the leaf gold in a guilder’s room ; or whether some chemical change in the gold occurs by which it is oxydised ; or whether the loss results from sublimation are R. & R. Water Co. dam & flume. . .1,500 AccripENT.—A load of lumber, to which was attached two valuable horses, backed off the high bridge at the foot of Pine st. Nevada, on Thursday. The distance which they fell must have been about fifty feet. The horses were both killed as a matter of course. The team belonged to J. C. Birdseye, and was hauling lumber to the bridge for the purpose of repairing it. E. A. Rowe.—This notorious individual has been athird time sent to jail for contempt, and has again applied to the Supreme Court far releuse. . city on Monday evening, charged with assaulting a Spanish girl. The same Hon. gentleman insulted a member during the de. bates in the Senate Chamber on Monday last. Thefgentleman insulted merely remarked, with much dignity that the “member from Sacramento” was so much intoxicated that he was rot accountable for what he said! The Sergeant at Arms was obliged to take him into duress. How long is California to be disgraced by such men? fa Greeley has sued the editor of the Cleveland Plaindealer, because that paper charged him (Greeley) by name, with selling his political influence during the late Presidential campaign—in other words, with levying “black mail.”?’ Damages laid at $10,000. p= It is reported that the owner of Mt. Vernon has sold the timber upon the estate to be manufactured into canes! The next thing which we shall probably hear is that the bones of the ‘‘Father of his country” have been disposed of to furnish cane heads. The present proprietor of the Mount Vernon estate is almost a millionaire. Te what depth of infamy will not the accursed love for gold drive some men? Lonpon.—London contains 250 more souls than it did yesterday. To-morrow it will contain 250 more than it does to-ddy. The above paragraph is going the rounds of newwspaperdom ; but it is nottrue. London will not contain 250 more souls to-morrow than it doesto-day. That rate of increase will add, within a fraction, one million to the inhabitants of London in ten years. Past statistics do not warran: such a conclusion. AstronomMy.—Said A. to B., the day after they bad both attended a fashionable party, “You seriously disturbed my astronomical observations last evening, wken you called me from my seat on the sofa-by the side of the lovely and fascinating Miss C."* “How so,’ quoth B. “Why, did you not perceive that I was deeply engayed in observing the “ ‘milky way.’”’ B. sloped. TRIBUNE ALMANAC.—We are indebted to Mr. Spencer for a copy of this valuable publication for 1857. It is as replete with information as usual. There is no publication in the country which contains so much valuable reading matter in so small a space. No reading or business man should be without it. It may be had at the Grass Valley Book Store. Our ACKNOWLEDGMENTS are dueto Mr. Spencer, of the G. V. Book Store, for a file of Atlantic papers by the last steamer, and for San Francisco and Sacramento papers during the week. Ja There is still no decision from the Supreme Court at Washington on the Dred Slave case. ed. On the contrary it is now asserted that . ce daaadean, Classificatiot QR the cost to Engthere is less probability than ever of such a . — —— — ee transfer being made. Comonfort is pledged . '* made up for two ‘Tiscal, years. We have not to part with a single inch of Mexican soil. . netqoc’ te amngnte sa Sateen winaey : = . Army Expenses.»./2.,.,.$131.375,000 ja Estell has published a pamphlet, reNavy Rxpenses..7 *£.170,710,000 canting a portion of the charges against T, Ordonance Expenses, aot? ee 79,305,000 S. King, nnd endeavors to fasten them on . my his brothers. The Bulletin publishes several . Total..2. By.$381,390,000 Ss 3 cards from well known citizens of San FranOver, three bandred ae eighty-one milcisco, proving his statements again false. . lions of dollars wrung’ from “the people of . England to pay her share aloue in that most f® Kentucky is the most gallant and baKaanen os re ee: in bol aes chivalric of Statee. Here alone in the world CUnt of loss of life and sufferings is of course is the right of suffrage expressly conceded to . beyond Sempeeian. ; Thag sim would have woman. By the Revised Statute any widow . ™°Fre than built a railroad from the Mediterhaving a child between the age of six and . #2¢an to Calcutta. The ba would have eneighteen years may vote for school trustee. . Tiched and ennobled the nation. The other has impoverished and disgraced her. When Srvxine.—It appears that the New Or-) Will men learn wisdom? . *>. leans Custom House, intended for a magnifiFrance it is said, spent ahout half as much cent pile of granite and marble, is gradually 98 England, and Russia about the same. sinking into the swamp. It has declined 17 . mEORENRGS EO Wee Sitti alan: 1863 THE EMIGRATION OF 1856.—The New York Z Post gives the statistics of the emigrants who Gab Rosa: termi ‘that pastok corrent ax! landed at Castle Garden during the year sue Bee sas . 1856. The whole number of emigrants was significant of secrecy. Its origin is this:— . 141,625, who brought with them $9,643 104 Among the Greeks the rose was consecrated . in cash. The total mber of arrivals is to Hippocrates, the genius of silence, and ei. ®>out 6000 more than in b865. ther the rose orits figure was plaeed upon Ten millions of gold and silver, per year, the ceiling of their rooms, implying that . from Europe, is mo very unimportant item whatever was done therein should be kept . to the increase of our national wealth—to from the public. It was done sub rosa. accompanies it~ The principal part of this SUBTERRANEAN PassaGe.—The Iowa Hill News says that by means of tunnels running 10,000 only remain in New*England, and a from Indian Canon and the slope of the North . few hundreds only go to the entire South. Fork into Iowa Hill, and drifts leading from . “S : shafts sunk in the centre, there is a complete LeGIsLaTive.—An act Pe authorize the susubterranean passage formed through the . pervisors of Nevada ‘eduinty to levy a special hill, a distance of more than half a mile. tax, has passed the Senate—Act introduced into the assembly for funditg the debt of Nevada county—Eleven “articlés \of impeachment have been adop,ed‘against Treasurer Bates-—Acofiinittee pasXtbeen appointed to J On the thirtieth of next June, Uncle Sam’s Treasury will contain thirty millions of dollars above the amount of, public debt. . say nothing of the “bone and sinew” which . emigration goes to the ‘:far west.’ About . Why not have some of this‘in tirculation ? Why not appropriate a moity for the construction of a good road across the plains— and a portion of the balance toward commencing the great continental railroad. It is dead capital, as it is, and so long as it remains in the treasury will be only a source intrigue and corruption among greedy speculators and dishonest politicians. Ja The amount of travel between Brooklyn and New York, is almost incredible, and still rapidly increasing. Sixty thousand people and fifteen hundred wheeled carriages daily cross the seven ferries belonging to this company. Forty per cent. of all this crosses the Fulton ferry. The price for carriages is from five to twenty cents—foot passengers two cents. The ultimate necessity for a br idge or tunnel is looked upon asinevitable. Tae Woopworts Patent.—Reliable news has been received by the last steamer of the failure of the attempt to secure a renewal of the ‘‘Woodworth Patent.” This valuable mechine now belongs to the people. examine the books of thidate treasurer, Dr. McMeans—The,assemk ijt have resolved to impeach controller Whiifhan, and appointed acommittee to conduct tha ,irial—No important bills acted upon—Nearly all business in hands of committees. ae Tur New ConrroLuer.—The Hon-.E, F. Burton of Nevada, has recei¥ed the appointment of State controller,’to #l the vacancy occasioned by the impeaehinent-of Whitman. Mr. Burton is every way worthy df the position. We agree with the ‘Nevada Journal that if the controller’s bookg ‘do not present a clear record at the close of his term, we shall loose our last lingeri ng remnant of confidence in California honesty: S a % wa J. W. Sullivan bas adati placed us under obligation for a huge bundle of Atlantic papers by the last steaméis, Among others we notice the first number of “Harper’s Weekly,” a new publicatioa, Just established by that enterprising firm, Sullivan is agent for California. Prise $4 tha The Fleod. Mach damage has been done in various parts of the State by the floods caused by the recent rains. Besides the damage in our own county, the bridges at Coloma, Bidwéll and Folsom, have also been swept away. The lower portions of Marysville are under watter, and the Sacramento was nearly bank ful} at Nicholas, on Thursday, and rising rapidly. . Inpian Dirricunties in Pirr River VatLeY.—From Capt. Judah, of Fort Jones, Scott Valley. who arrived in town on Wedught . Desday evening last, says the Shasta Courier, we learn that there has been another outJudah informs us that information had come to him that all the houses in the Valley had been burnt, and it is supposed that all the inhabitants beyond the possibility of a doubt, July. A wide field of operation is a open . break among the Pitt River Indian. Captain complaint of oppressive . Grass Valley, or ashe is more ,4miliarly . bave been murdered. Frank Rogers, for merheat here, in summer, than in that city. Ally of the firm of Cram, Rogers & Co., wiih a ‘though the thermometer may range some. body’s uacle,) this long looked fur project smal] party, had left Yreka on snow shoes, : smento.than in Boston . has been accomplished. and miners sa now . for the purpose of finding the body of his lor New York, during the summer, still, ow. . father, Mr. Z. R. Rogerse<:: wae . spouge 2 eee rad =: ie ‘yA Motex Rabiesewtamté — The Weehing® 1 ep ida ot. Baa Seale oalatic gay ° oo ge Pe in * cided t a SA . that “Herbert ha teceatly or $59,090 5 aU 27Gis ; ie tae : . Pendleton’s Faro I eh a eet ee See t . 5 40M DIR WLS Bay hee: ‘opping here. abouts for some time, was arrested ‘a few days since as a fugitive from justice, on a warrant from Nevada. He gave bail, which he has since forfeited, and is probably now on his way to—Nicaragna. === MARRIED, On Sunday Eve. Feb. 15, 1857, at th the Bride in Grass Valley by Rev, Kimeae Betas. er, Mr. Dennis Colby, of Bigham, Maine, and Miss Josephine M.L. Pell, of Ithica N.’Y, (Skowhegan Me., and Ithica N. Y. papers please copy.) ‘ 4apThe printer was duly remembred by a slice of the bridal loaf. eee SPECIAL NOTICES. MADISON LODGE, NO. 23, F. AM OE: EVERY TUESDAY EVENING at the Masonic Hall. By order, Wu. McCORMICK, W M. Sam’L. Bricuam, Sec’y. I. 0. O. F. Grass Valley Lodge, No. 12. INSTITUTED 28th July, 1853, meets every THURS DAY night, at ODD FELLUWS HALL, on Mill St. Brothers in good standing are cordially invited te attend. E. C. WEBSTER, N. G. R SHOEMAKER, R. S. Grass Valley, Jan. 1, 1857. SNOWY MOUNTAIN DIVISION, NO. 8, SONS OF TEMPERANCE, meets every Saturday evening at the Temperance Hall, on Church st All Brothers in good standing are cordially invited to attend. A. CLarK, W. P. L. SanpD ForD, Sec.’y17 6m a a a ic he Bie aac Holloway’s Ointment and Pills,—Lacerations of the flesh, bruises and fractures, occasion comparatively little pain or inconvenience when regularly lubricated or dressed with Holloway’s Ointment. In the nursery it is invaluable as a cooling application for the rashes, excoriations, and scabious sores to which children are liable, and mothers will find it the best prepartion for alleviating the torture of a ‘‘ broken breast, ’’ As a remedy for cutaneous diseases generally, as well as for ulcers, sores boils tumors, and all serofulous eruptious, it is incomparable superior to every other external remedy. The Pills have a reputation for the cure of dyspepsia, liver complaints, and disorders of the bowels, co-extensive with the range of civilization. FOUND! BUCKSKIN PURSE, with contents, which the owner can have br calling at this Office and paying for this advertisement. 20 J. REGAN’S STEAM REFINED Candy Manufactory. No. 33 Montgomery Street, Between Bush and Sutter Streets, San Francisco. geen PROPRIETOR of the ABOVE named establishment takes this method of informing his numerous friends and customers that he intends following the example of t) > Gas Company— that is to veduce his p: ‘ces, whieh he hopes will give entire sa ° ‘action to all. His Candies are all manufactured from Stewart’s Double Refined Sugar, wh'ch he imports himself, and all the essences used by him are of the finest flavor and 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 experience of seven years in the business in this eity, and being the FIRST CONFFCTIONER on the Pacific -oast. he flattets himself that he will be able to give catire 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, so that he is cnabled 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 confident that they @nnot fail to please the strictest economist. = WHOLESALE PRICES. A beautiful assortment of Sticks, Luts Dro selling at the reduced rate of 16 cents oe COMFITURES—Including Carawa ved, pearled’ and smoth ; Clove Buds ; Cassia Buds ; Coriander Seeds, large and small ; at 20 cents per pound, GUM DROPS—Smoocth Almonds, Jujube Paste, French Mottoes, Almond Candy, &e., at 30 cents. Also—A beautiful assortment of FRENCH CAN. DIES, varying in prices according to quality. The sag ges of the trading public is invited to examine this immense stock of Candi i ~~ in the Beg ” line. ne _ He leaves it to the buyers to ju of the superiority of his articles ; so call pe ga seulasiven for ocular demonstration is proof positive. P 4a’ Remember the number—33 MONTG@MER STREET, between Bush and Tyg “4 J. REGAN. N. B. All orders from the country promptly attended to. Goods delivered in any part of the city, or at 20-3m any of the wharves, free of ° REMOVAL. Hawzxhurst & Son, Have Removed their WOODEN-WARE ESTABLIGHMENT FROM No. 112 FRONT STREET TO Between Frontand Davis St, (late Rooms of Vigilance Where they offer f saat OODEN ey Offer for sale all articles of W' WARE, BASKETS, BROOMS, BRUSHES, &c. &c., at less than the general market price. Cell and examine, if you do not want to buy. 39-12

a, ae ce : y. : matters with regard to which there i t Grass Valen Celegrayh. . much diversity euinton: fan Sve dete. GRASS VALLEY, FEB. 21, 1857. first and third suppositions, but with regard Shade and Ornamental Trees, Now is the time to set out trees and shrub. contrast of temperature between the Pacific however, that serious loss arises from both the bery. A few dollars in money, anda few TEMPERATURE OF THE PaciFic Coast.—Th and Atlantic coasts is certainly most re markable. Sacramento Ciy and W. B. EWER, EDITOR. AGENTS. J. E. HAMLIN, Bookseller, corner of Broad and Pine streets, is our authorised Agent to transact business for this Office in Nevada and throughout all the upper portions of the County. Garptner © Kirk are our Agents in Sacramento.— They may be found at the Post Office LiteraryDepot, Third St., next door to the Post Office. Mr. L. P. Fisner is our sole Agent in San Francisco. He ls empowered to receive advertisements, and receipt for the same. He may be found at his desk in the Iron Building, opposite the Pacific Express Offiee, up Stairs, A. C. Kran is authorised to act as our agent in Rough and Ready—to receive and receipt for subscriptions, job work or advertising. Collections, All Collections due this Office, of whatever nature, both thoseincurred previous and during the time i moa mnblichea ad tha (fence Wallon. YL 4 +1 3 i n trost © ho de@*:re t Paper in Grass Vallev, will give hir < til 1h Ge by . reception. WB EWR? . OO ge ne ene ee peste a Soe ae memematintin V2 Of extraordinary rishnes@, he canaot’, to the “oxydization,” much'doubt exists—although there is much probability that such a chemical change may take place to a limited extent. Whatever difference of upinion may exist with regard to the causes of loss, the practical question of the economy of roasting is now very definitely settled among European operators in gold ores, and it should be considered a conceded fact among our own miners, that gold or silver ores roasted. either in hours of time spent in beautifying and improving your grounds, will repay the entire investment every year. There are but very a small piece of ground which, if they will” Oregon is warmer ia winter than Washingthey may enclose and beautify so as to ren. ton. It is necessary to travel. by an air line, der it, in the course of three or four years, a 1250 miles north of that parallel, to find the desirable spot, an ornament to the town, and . 8#™e temperature on the Pacific coast as is vary but a few seconds in latitude; yet the region of country bordering on Voncouver’s few families in Grass Valley who do not own Island, at the very extreme northern limit of withal, a source of pecuniary advantage qs well as of social pleasure to the owner. There is nothing about a place so attracting and home-like as a well laid out garden. and an opem heaps or reverberatory furnaces, or in. abundance of fruit and ornamental treek to any other manner, will not yield as much . improve the prospect, and to delight the palore as a similar portion of the same ore taken . ate with their annual gifts. Sucha home, from the same heap, and equally rich, will . pe it ever so humble, is never dreary. . do without being roasted. requires muebh experience, ; constant scratiny, and quite as close aiten. “went . tion as any other branch of industry. \ wv } Unless the adventnrer succeeds in locating a ~~ SE Oe 5 OFS oo Sys th at ~—eeepetommoverssksithout giving his individ. . important and nicary ments fer the thorough and ecenomical exztion of gola from { its ores, have recently hinth MULL rope. Theresults of these enquiries are now before the world, and are exciting no little degree of interest on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among those engaged in gold quartz mining. These researches and experiments have been principally confined to two leading objects :—Ist. the utility, or economy of roast. . ing the ores in bulk, before crushing ; and 2d, to an enquiry into the nature of the auriferous pyrites, and the best mode of treating them with reference to the extraction of the gold which they contain. It is our present purpose to lay before our readers some . account of these experiments, and the con. clusions arrived at among trans-montane and trans-atlauntic miners. We propose to consider first the ROASTING OF GOLD ORES. The economy of this process is a matter . which has attracted the attention of both the . scientific and practical miner for upwards of . two centuries. As long ago as 1629 Lazarus Erckern, the Assayer General of Germany, published a work on gold ores and . metallurgy, in which he took ground against the practice of “roasting” gold or silver . ores, for the reason, that careful experiments had satisfied him thata large per centage of the metal was lost by the operation. Since that time much has been written upon the subject, and, until recently, a very great diversity of 2 « . : ” alu practical Micers, iii VailUus pai te ® ae. Mtcestiag experi-y SSS vas oe New methods i # © , , of operation and new theories should be adapted with the greatest caution. There are wib0 Have Means at ineir dis1 Has experiments, and who should ever be consid. ered as public benefactors, for the interest . they take in advancing the knowledge of that . particular branch of industry in which they . are engaged—but it is worse than folly for the great mass of operators, without any of . the peculiar qualifications necessary for such . enquiries, to devote their time to such experiments, to the consequent neglect and ruin of their legitimate routine of duties. It is enough for such to attend diligently to the established practice, and watch with intelligent interest the experimental progress of those who may legitimately become pioneers . in their peculiar branch of iudustry. It will be our endeavor henceforward, . more even than heretofore, to note the pro. gress of practical improvements in mining, as well as other scientific researches into everything which pertains to the business, . and inso doing we hope to make our Jour. nal a source of profit as well as of interest to our readers. The length of the present article renders it . proper that we should defer the considera. tion of the nature and treatment of auriferous pyrites until our next issue. Breaking of a Reservoir--Great Damage. A serious calamity involving a heavy loss of property occurred at Nevada, on Sunday morning last, caused by the breaking of a . Our citizens are even now exhibiting®a Gold mining, legitimately practiced. to be. commendable spirit in the in : i 4 j i) . Come profitable, ready undertaken. One thing, howe ¥ would remark, in passing, and that is, Uist but little attention is paid to improviog the streets outside of our enclosures. This shou! not be: The.2 are many kinds of trees, s onWont for ehada and Arnoemoentoal nee? Ss which cas be had fora mere song. ‘Io vu. aothing ofeur own forest trees—we heve the cotton wood in particular, which isboth . thrifty and hardy, that can be purchased for is uouiars per Gg or eve 6S8 UY Loe quantity. Then there is the locust and chest: nut, and many others which can be purchased very low at this time. Would it uot be a good idea for neighbors, say on the same street, to join together and purchase a nutober sufficient to line both sides of the way. Such improvement would add treble its cost to the value of real estate on any such street. There is also another consideration in fa favor of planting trees which may be considered of very great importance— that is the protection which they afford against the spread of fires. A building encircled with trees, at a moderate distance from neighbors, will be but little endangered from the progres of fire, The trees are even better than wet blankets to keep off the sparks and heat.— . They shelter us from the scorching rays of the sun in summer, shield us from the wintry blast. and afford a very material barrier against the rapid progress of a fire. Who would begrudge the expenditure of afew dollars to secure Such advantages, and to earn for our beautiful village a still fairer name, and a brighter position among the mountain towns of California. Plant trees—plant them now ; and you never will regret either the money or time so devoted. Hon. W. I. Ferevson, the Sacramento Senator, was arrested by the police of that betel thare } lace stl tie} 3d +: whathigher in Saer fact may every ‘the child. She spoke to him at first, and . found in the parallel of Washington on the Atlantic! The winters of Sitka, even, which is 20 deg. north of Washington, are warmer than that of that city—the mean temperature of Sitka being 364, while that of Washington is 36. While the cold of the winters is so much modified on the Pacific, the heat of the summers here is also greatly tempered, and, although we here find tropical fruits i ing te. the constant see. breeses, the air is less ; 5 , CeO! Ree. a ae got wre cases OF occur sun stroke’ which wmomer in Boston and N. Y.bat whien that horses and ober auimais can eudure wwe summer heat easier here than in latitudes much further north on the Atlantic. The same is true of out-door workmen. There is not a country on the globe which possesses such a uniformity of temperature as California. DisTRESSING aND Fatal. ACCIDENT.—A . resident of Amador county started a few days . since to take his daughter, aged 13 years, to . Ione City to school. His wagon upset, throwing the weight of the body on the person of seemed entirely conscious, but it was impossible for him to extricate her from this dreadful position without aid. After going two miles fur assistance he returned and found her dead. Speep oF RarLroaps.—The New York Journal of Commerce has an article in relation to the speed obtained on railroads, by which it would seem, that there is a serious . thought of reducing the speed on the various . roads throughout the country. From that article, we learn, that the increased speed is destructive to large dividends, as the differerence in expense between 20 and 40 miles . per hour, is fifty per cent in favor of the for. mer. Not So.—The report ef the purchase of Sonora and Lower California is not confirmm a . i ‘. a SP ; Fae we Das — . This range extends from the Yulate Pi Mining Correspondence. A correspondent from Robnd Ten! evada county, writes as follows: x 4 ‘1 Pha at your readers imight/ish to know something the diggingsp this neighborhood, I thought I wagld jokjown a few items for their benefit. “The toggvished for water has at last come, and th¢“oro” begins to show itself. The gold ‘ere is course, and is to be found in Any. of jhe ravines. Informer times, Miners havemade good wages here, even when they) were obliged to pay from seventy-five centgto $1 per inch for water ; now it can be hadfor 25 cents. The water that is used here is from Wolf Creek, and will contitve until e here for miners, and I presume that in a few weeks some large strikes will be heard of in this vicinity. Fea snearamantsat. . 9Towing evan in the latitnde of New York, ! Through the efforts of Mr Cat ak, of di i? ei = : . it a ° hr uber t Palani ; known, of ‘Uncle Billy,’’ (forhe & every come here with the sahety ~ eiticx water. It_is the ipfention of the oy: ee ere ee, P oe a county The Coley CBD be found on sive enough to give employment to tiousands, and it is the opinidn of old miners that these mines are good for from four to ten dollars per day. There is.also plenty of quartz here, and it only requires capital and enterprise to test it. To all that are disposed to work we say cagie; they will be sure to reap a generous reward for their labor. Mine “host” and “‘hostess,”’xof the Round Tent House, are ever ready to minster to the wants of the weary and hungry. More anon. Yours, &e. ALBION. SovrHERN RatLRoaps.—The South is beginning to manifest a very commendable activity in the matter of national improvements, particularly in the construction of Railroads. The road now in process of construction across the northern portion of the Florida peninsula has heen graded for a distance of 50 miles, and the fails laid 10 miles. . The entire workis being ‘pressed forward with energy. This railway is designed to forma part of the line of intereourse and trade between the ports an the Gulf of Mexico and those of the Atlantic coast. It crosses the northern neck of the Peninsnla, and will save the risk and loss of time consequent upon the hazardous .voyage around the Southern reefs. ; ak Z= An English giticial paper gives the opinion has existed among miners and scien. dam on Deer Creek, about seven miles above tific men in England and on the continent. . that town. The dam was forty feet high, Modern discoveries in chemistry have very . and when full would flow 200 acres with an . oreatly facilitated researches of this descrip. average depth of 25 feet. When it.gave way, . tion, and such experiments are now conduct. j¢ was within ten feet of the top. The break. ed in a manner which dispels all doubt as to . ing was so sudden that the water came down the accuracy of the results and conclusions . with a wave, presenting a perpendicular front arrived at. Under these favorable circum. of nearly fifteen feet, and of course sweeping stances an elaborate series of experiments . everything before it, which it encountered. has recently been fairly and fully tried un”) It passed through the town just before dayder the auspices of the Russian Government, light, sweeping in its course all the bridges and the conclusions drawn therefrom are . except that at Pine street, which is seriously very decidedly against the roasting process. . damaged. two stores, about half of a large The official report of these experiments, . hotel, one boarding house, a blacksmith’s which were conducted among the mines at} shop, and several smaller buildings. Passing Ecatharinebury, states that the ore when] on it swept the Gold Tunnel and Wyoming roasted in hermetically sealed crucibles lost . mills entirely away, searce a vestige being 20 per cent of gold, and 4j per cent of sil-/ left, and seriously damaged two others. All ver. Ore roasted on an uncovered hearth! the miner’s cabins on Stocking’s flat were resulted ina loss of forty per cent of gold,. swept away. Itis a great wonder that no and twenty-one per cent of silver! The same . lives were lost. The total amount of damexperiments were repeated at many diiferent age exceeds $80.000. The Journal thus desmining localities, and everywhere with simi-. scribes the scene at the foot of Main street : lar results. They bave also since been re-. “There wag no time to think of property or peated in England, though in a less elaborate clothing, or anything but life. Messrs. Bosmanner, but still with sufficient exactness to. well & Hanson who were sleeping in their satisfy the experimentors of the general cor-. store by the Main street bridge, rushed half rectuess of the results given in the Russian . naked into the street, leaving their watches official report. aod a considerable amonnt of money in their The following are the published opinions} rooms. Others barely escaped with their of several practical miners and metallurgists . lives. The scene is described by eye witnesswho have devoted much attention to this sub-. es as being terrificin the extreme. Large Ject : buildings such as the store of Boswell & “Trehern, at Marmato, roasted the ore in Hanson, and boarding house on the opposite a reverbatory furnace. and though the show. . : : of gold was great, it only yielded about one side of the creek, were carried bodily along, fifth of what was obtained from an equal por. only falling to pieces when they reached the tion of the unroasted pyrites. rapids below. The roaring of the water, the Leay, at Marmato, roasted his ore and} crash of falling houses, the darkness of the found he got less gold than he would have. . . a ‘ obtained by the most ordinary method of the night and the howling of the storm, combinBatea. He roasted his ere to that degree, ; ed to render the scene imposing and magni‘that the color of the slime, which escaped in. ficent—to one who had no property thereabundance from the stamp pits, was deep red . apouts to be effected by the flood.” . “The following’ ss a list of the losses so far brown, or hematite red.’ * : Again. he found one-third of the gold remained after roasting, in some manner asso. 28 known ;— ciated with the sulphuret of silver, and other} Boswell & Hanson...... $25,000 products formed by the process of roasting. ' A. T. Laird, reservoirs, &c... 15,000 Degenhardt has an opinion that the gold. City of Nevada, bridges... .+.0,000 forms a sulphuret and is perhaps carried off through the chimney, on account of the silver, which formerly was alloyed by the gold having entirely disappeared during the process of roasting. Philips in his ‘Metallurgy,’ says: ‘Gold is not directly attacked by sulphur at any temperature ; but when fused with the alkaline sulphurets, is rapidly acted on with the formation of a double sulphuret, in which

S. W. Grush, damage to hotel..5,000 Wait and Co., blacksmith shop, &c 2,000 Niman & McElvoy, house, &... 1,800 Whitmarsh, wagon shop, tools, &c. 1,500 D. &: Bly, grain.. ..ccuskeds pik BOO David Belden, house....... 700 Gold Tunnel Quartz Mill....8,000 Eagle Saw Mill, damage.,....5,000 Wyoming Quartz Mill...... 5,000 Deer Creek Saw Mill...... 2.000 the sulphuret of gold acts the part of an acid.’ ‘I am folly impressed with the belief that the ore if ever roasted will cause you a loss of that gold, which could have been much easier.ascertained by simply stamping it, and causing it to pass over mercury or skins.’ ” —MS, Correspondence. Whether the loss by roasting results from the carrying away of the extremely fine particles of gold by the upward current of air from the burning mass, as a light breath of wiud carries off the leaf gold in a guilder’s room ; or whether some chemical change in the gold occurs by which it is oxydised ; or whether the loss results from sublimation are R. & R. Water Co. dam & flume. . .1,500 AccripENT.—A load of lumber, to which was attached two valuable horses, backed off the high bridge at the foot of Pine st. Nevada, on Thursday. The distance which they fell must have been about fifty feet. The horses were both killed as a matter of course. The team belonged to J. C. Birdseye, and was hauling lumber to the bridge for the purpose of repairing it. E. A. Rowe.—This notorious individual has been athird time sent to jail for contempt, and has again applied to the Supreme Court far releuse. . city on Monday evening, charged with assaulting a Spanish girl. The same Hon. gentleman insulted a member during the de. bates in the Senate Chamber on Monday last. Thefgentleman insulted merely remarked, with much dignity that the “member from Sacramento” was so much intoxicated that he was rot accountable for what he said! The Sergeant at Arms was obliged to take him into duress. How long is California to be disgraced by such men? fa Greeley has sued the editor of the Cleveland Plaindealer, because that paper charged him (Greeley) by name, with selling his political influence during the late Presidential campaign—in other words, with levying “black mail.”?’ Damages laid at $10,000. p= It is reported that the owner of Mt. Vernon has sold the timber upon the estate to be manufactured into canes! The next thing which we shall probably hear is that the bones of the ‘‘Father of his country” have been disposed of to furnish cane heads. The present proprietor of the Mount Vernon estate is almost a millionaire. Te what depth of infamy will not the accursed love for gold drive some men? Lonpon.—London contains 250 more souls than it did yesterday. To-morrow it will contain 250 more than it does to-ddy. The above paragraph is going the rounds of newwspaperdom ; but it is nottrue. London will not contain 250 more souls to-morrow than it doesto-day. That rate of increase will add, within a fraction, one million to the inhabitants of London in ten years. Past statistics do not warran: such a conclusion. AstronomMy.—Said A. to B., the day after they bad both attended a fashionable party, “You seriously disturbed my astronomical observations last evening, wken you called me from my seat on the sofa-by the side of the lovely and fascinating Miss C."* “How so,’ quoth B. “Why, did you not perceive that I was deeply engayed in observing the “ ‘milky way.’”’ B. sloped. TRIBUNE ALMANAC.—We are indebted to Mr. Spencer for a copy of this valuable publication for 1857. It is as replete with information as usual. There is no publication in the country which contains so much valuable reading matter in so small a space. No reading or business man should be without it. It may be had at the Grass Valley Book Store. Our ACKNOWLEDGMENTS are dueto Mr. Spencer, of the G. V. Book Store, for a file of Atlantic papers by the last steamer, and for San Francisco and Sacramento papers during the week. Ja There is still no decision from the Supreme Court at Washington on the Dred Slave case. ed. On the contrary it is now asserted that . ce daaadean, Classificatiot QR the cost to Engthere is less probability than ever of such a . — —— — ee transfer being made. Comonfort is pledged . '* made up for two ‘Tiscal, years. We have not to part with a single inch of Mexican soil. . netqoc’ te amngnte sa Sateen winaey : = . Army Expenses.»../2.,.,.$131.375,000 ja Estell has published a pamphlet, reNavy Rxpenses...7 *£..170,710,000 canting a portion of the charges against T, Ordonance Expenses, aot? ee 79,305,000 S. King, nnd endeavors to fasten them on . my his brothers. The Bulletin publishes several . Total....2. By.$381,390,000 Ss 3 cards from well known citizens of San FranOver, three bandred ae eighty-one milcisco, proving his statements again false. . lions of dollars wrung’ from “the people of . England to pay her share aloue in that most f® Kentucky is the most gallant and baKaanen os re ee: in bol aes chivalric of Statee. Here alone in the world CUnt of loss of life and sufferings is of course is the right of suffrage expressly conceded to . beyond Sempeeian. ; Thag sim would have woman. By the Revised Statute any widow . ™°Fre than built a railroad from the Mediterhaving a child between the age of six and . #2¢an to Calcutta. The ba would have eneighteen years may vote for school trustee. . Tiched and ennobled the nation. The other has impoverished and disgraced her. When Srvxine.—It appears that the New Or-) Will men learn wisdom? . *>. leans Custom House, intended for a magnifiFrance it is said, spent ahout half as much cent pile of granite and marble, is gradually 98 England, and Russia about the same. sinking into the swamp. It has declined 17 . mEORENRGS EO Wee Sitti alan: 1863 THE EMIGRATION OF 1856.—The New York Z Post gives the statistics of the emigrants who Gab Rosa: termi ‘that pastok corrent ax! landed at Castle Garden during the year sue Bee sas . 1856. The whole number of emigrants was significant of secrecy. Its origin is this:— . 141,625, who brought with them $9,643 104 Among the Greeks the rose was consecrated . in cash. The total mber of arrivals is to Hippocrates, the genius of silence, and ei. ®>out 6000 more than in b865. ther the rose orits figure was plaeed upon Ten millions of gold and silver, per year, the ceiling of their rooms, implying that . from Europe, is mo very unimportant item whatever was done therein should be kept . to the increase of our national wealth—to from the public. It was done sub rosa. accompanies it~ The principal part of this SUBTERRANEAN PassaGe.—The Iowa Hill News says that by means of tunnels running 10,000 only remain in New*England, and a from Indian Canon and the slope of the North . few hundreds only go to the entire South. Fork into Iowa Hill, and drifts leading from . “S : shafts sunk in the centre, there is a complete LeGIsLaTive.—An act Pe authorize the susubterranean passage formed through the . pervisors of Nevada ‘eduinty to levy a special hill, a distance of more than half a mile. tax, has passed the Senate—Act introduced into the assembly for funditg the debt of Nevada county—Eleven “articlés \of impeachment have been adop,ed‘against Treasurer Bates-—Acofiinittee pasXtbeen appointed to J On the thirtieth of next June, Uncle Sam’s Treasury will contain thirty millions of dollars above the amount of, public debt. . say nothing of the “bone and sinew” which . emigration goes to the ‘:far west.’ About . Why not have some of this‘in tirculation ? Why not appropriate a moity for the construction of a good road across the plains— and a portion of the balance toward commencing the great continental railroad. It is dead capital, as it is, and so long as it remains in the treasury will be only a source intrigue and corruption among greedy speculators and dishonest politicians. Ja The amount of travel between Brooklyn and New York, is almost incredible, and still rapidly increasing. Sixty thousand people and fifteen hundred wheeled carriages daily cross the seven ferries belonging to this company. Forty per cent. of all this crosses the Fulton ferry. The price for carriages is from five to twenty cents—foot passengers two cents. The ultimate necessity for a br idge or tunnel is looked upon asinevitable. Tae Woopworts Patent.—Reliable news has been received by the last steamer of the failure of the attempt to secure a renewal of the ‘‘Woodworth Patent.” This valuable mechine now belongs to the people. examine the books of thidate treasurer, Dr. McMeans—The,assemk ijt have resolved to impeach controller Whiifhan, and appointed acommittee to conduct tha ,irial—No important bills acted upon—Nearly all business in hands of committees. ae Tur New ConrroLuer.—The Hon-.E, F. Burton of Nevada, has recei¥ed the appointment of State controller,’to #l the vacancy occasioned by the impeaehinent-of Whitman. Mr. Burton is every way worthy df the position. We agree with the ‘Nevada Journal that if the controller’s bookg ‘do not present a clear record at the close of his term, we shall loose our last lingeri ng remnant of confidence in California honesty: S a % wa J. W. Sullivan bas adati placed us under obligation for a huge bundle of Atlantic papers by the last steaméis, Among others we notice the first number of “Harper’s Weekly,” a new publicatioa, Just established by that enterprising firm, Sullivan is agent for California. Prise $4 tha The Fleod. Mach damage has been done in various parts of the State by the floods caused by the recent rains. Besides the damage in our own county, the bridges at Coloma, Bidwéll and Folsom, have also been swept away. The lower portions of Marysville are under watter, and the Sacramento was nearly bank ful} at Nicholas, on Thursday, and rising rapidly. . Inpian Dirricunties in Pirr River VatLeY.—From Capt. Judah, of Fort Jones, Scott Valley. who arrived in town on Wedught . Desday evening last, says the Shasta Courier, we learn that there has been another outJudah informs us that information had come to him that all the houses in the Valley had been burnt, and it is supposed that all the inhabitants beyond the possibility of a doubt, July. A wide field of operation is a open . break among the Pitt River Indian. Captain complaint of oppressive . Grass Valley, or ashe is more ,4miliarly . bave been murdered. Frank Rogers, for merheat here, in summer, than in that city. Ally of the firm of Cram, Rogers & Co., wiih a ‘though the thermometer may range some. body’s uacle,) this long looked fur project smal] party, had left Yreka on snow shoes, : smento.than in Boston . has been accomplished. and miners sa now . for the purpose of finding the body of his lor New York, during the summer, still, ow. . father, Mr. Z. R. Rogerse<:: wae . spouge 2 eee rad =: ie ‘yA Motex Rabiesewtamté — The Weehing® 1 ep ida ot. Baa Seale oalatic gay ° oo ge Pe in * cided t a SA . that “Herbert ha teceatly or $59,090 5 aU 27Gis ; ie tae : . Pendleton’s Faro I eh a eet ee See t . 5 40M DIR WLS Bay hee: ‘opping here. abouts for some time, was arrested ‘a few days since as a fugitive from justice, on a warrant from Nevada. He gave bail, which he has since forfeited, and is probably now on his way to—Nicaragna. === MARRIED, On Sunday Eve. Feb. 15, 1857, at th the Bride in Grass Valley by Rev, Kimeae Betas. er, Mr. Dennis Colby, of Bigham, Maine, and Miss Josephine M.L. Pell, of Ithica N.’Y, (Skowhegan Me., and Ithica N. Y. papers please copy.) ‘ 4apThe printer was duly remembred by a slice of the bridal loaf. eee SPECIAL NOTICES. MADISON LODGE, NO. 23, F. AM OE: EVERY TUESDAY EVENING at the Masonic Hall. By order, Wu. McCORMICK, W M. Sam’L. Bricuam, Sec’y. I. 0. O. F. Grass Valley Lodge, No. 12. INSTITUTED 28th July, 1853, meets every THURS DAY night, at ODD FELLUWS HALL, on Mill St. Brothers in good standing are cordially invited te attend. E. C. WEBSTER, N. G. R SHOEMAKER, R. S. Grass Valley, Jan. 1, 1857. SNOWY MOUNTAIN DIVISION, NO. 8, SONS OF TEMPERANCE, meets every Saturday evening at the Temperance Hall, on Church st All Brothers in good standing are cordially invited to attend. A. CLarK, W. P. L. SanpD ForD, Sec.’y17 6m a a a ic he Bie aac Holloway’s Ointment and Pills,—Lacerations of the flesh, bruises and fractures, occasion comparatively little pain or inconvenience when regularly lubricated or dressed with Holloway’s Ointment. In the nursery it is invaluable as a cooling application for the rashes, excoriations, and scabious sores to which children are liable, and mothers will find it the best prepartion for alleviating the torture of a ‘‘ broken breast, ’’ As a remedy for cutaneous diseases generally, as well as for ulcers, sores boils tumors, and all serofulous eruptious, it is incomparable superior to every other external remedy. The Pills have a reputation for the cure of dyspepsia, liver complaints, and disorders of the bowels, co-extensive with the range of civilization. FOUND! BUCKSKIN PURSE, with contents, which the owner can have br calling at this Office and paying for this advertisement. 20 J. REGAN’S STEAM REFINED Candy Manufactory. No. 33 Montgomery Street, Between Bush and Sutter Streets, San Francisco. geen PROPRIETOR of the ABOVE named establishment takes this method of informing his numerous friends and customers that he intends following the example of t) > Gas Company— that is to veduce his p: ‘ces, whieh he hopes will give entire sa ° ‘action to all. His Candies are all manufactured from Stewart’s Double Refined Sugar, wh'ch he imports himself, and all the essences used by him are of the finest flavor and 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 experience of seven years in the business in this eity, and being the FIRST CONFFCTIONER on the Pacific -oast. he flattets himself that he will be able to give catire 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, so that he is cnabled 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 confident that they @nnot fail to please the strictest economist. = WHOLESALE PRICES. A beautiful assortment of Sticks, Luts Dro selling at the reduced rate of 16 cents oe COMFITURES—Including Carawa ved, pearled’ and smoth ; Clove Buds ; Cassia Buds ; Coriander Seeds, large and small ; at 20 cents per pound, GUM DROPS—Smoocth Almonds, Jujube Paste, French Mottoes, Almond Candy, &e., at 30 cents. Also—A beautiful assortment of FRENCH CAN. DIES, varying in prices according to quality. The sag ges of the trading public is invited to examine this immense stock of Candi i ~~ in the Beg ” line. ne _ He leaves it to the buyers to ju of the superiority of his articles ; so call pe ga seulasiven for ocular demonstration is proof positive. P 4a’ Remember the number—33 MONTG@MER STREET, between Bush and Tyg “4 J. REGAN. N. B. All orders from the country promptly attended to. Goods delivered in any part of the city, or at 20-3m any of the wharves, free of ° REMOVAL. Hawzxhurst & Son, Have Removed their WOODEN-WARE ESTABLIGHMENT FROM No. 112 FRONT STREET TO Between Frontand Davis St, (late Rooms of Vigilance Where they offer f saat OODEN ey Offer for sale all articles of W' WARE, BASKETS, BROOMS, BRUSHES, &c. &c., at less than the general market price. Cell and examine, if you do not want to buy. 39-12