April 14, 1860 (4 pages)

BY AVERY & WATERS. Che Hydraulic Press, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING RB Office on Main strect, adjoining the Drug Store.G& . Terms for the Paper. One Year, invariably in advance ...sscccceesose -.$5 00 ix Months, € * “ ee * “ 6“ “c Se eeeresenserecsseeesees Se eeceeerseenescceseeeee OO a eee ferms for Advertising. One Square, (12 lines) first insertion h subsequent insertion, ....0+.s0000 23> Business cards not exceeding four lines of this type, will be inserted fur $6 00 a quarter. SALOONS & RESTAURANTS BILLIARDS, 25 CTS. AGAME! SAN JUAN 1 C. SCHARDIN & CO., OULD respectfully inform their old friends and the public generally that they have recently made many improvements to the above-named popular resort, and are better prepared than ever to please all tastes. Three Billiard Tables, Tn first-rate order—two of them new Marble Beds NORTH SAN JUAN, NEVADA CO, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1860. BUSINESS CARDS. R. H. FARQUHAR, Justice of the Peace, Bridgeport Township. Office, in the old Masonic Hall Main s;reet,San Juan. 1 tt 0. P. STIDGER, Attorney at Law, Notary Public, een And Conveyancer. Office on the north side ef Main street, one door west of E V. Hatfield's store, oppositethe Pioneer, NORTH SAN JUAN. Nov. 13, 1857. 1 C. WILSON HILL, Attorney at Law, Wiilattend promptly toall businessconfided to his care in Nevada and adjoining counties, Office —In Abbott’s Building, NEVADA. JAMES CARPENTER, House, Sign and Decorative Painter, AND PAPER HANGER. tf16 EXCHANGE. ¥3_SHOP—Foot of Main street, NORTH SAN JUAN. All work warranted to give satisfaction. TEETH! DR. E. FELLERS, DENTIST, SS North San Juan Hs an office in the Post Office Building, on Main Street, where he is prapared to perform jan 28 and equal toany in the State. The wood bed is the fa. #!! operations upon TEETH, on the latest and most apvorite of the place. BOWLING. Two splendid Ten-Pin Alleys are attached to the es tablishment, well supplied with the perquisites of such an institution. It isthe intention of the ptoprietor to use every exertien to make the Exchange the favorite resort of all seckers of healthy pleasurable exercise. THE BAR Will be furnished with the very best WINES AND LIQUORS To be had in the San Francisco Market, and no pains will be spared to make everything pleasant and attractive. 10 The Bank Exchange BROWN & REESE proved principles. By request, families will be waited on at their residences, Office hours—from 7 o’clock A. M., to 5 o'clock P. 48-3m JOHN A. SEELY, : Agent for The New Idria Quicksilver, The Best and Purest Article in the State! Post Office Building, North San Juan, Nevada ccunty. Oak Tree Market. cm Mr.J.W GUTHRIE having become a partner in the 9ak Tree Market, bus vy iness will hereafter be conducted under the hame of J. W. GUTHRIE & CO. ESPECTFULLY inform their ota friends . FRESH AND PICKLED MEATS, and the public generally, that they still hold forth at the corner of Main and Flame streets, where they keep the very best Wines and Liquors, Ale, Porter, and Lager Beer. Also, the finest Cigars and Tobacco. The establishment will be under the care of Mr. BROWN, formerly of Philadelphia, who understands equally well the art of dispensing and of pleasing. North San Juan, June 11, 1859. (stt C. SCHARDIN & CO., B, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in =) Wines, Liquors, Cigarsand Toa bacco. Also— a general assortment of FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS, And Confectionery. SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET. North San Juan, Nov. 17, 1857. {1 tf] = — J i Fresh Beef. Pork, Mutton and Veal, killed every day. The Best Corned Becf. Also— Beef Caitle for Sale. Enqtire as jabove. N. B. All persons knowing themselves indebted to me, will callat the Oak Tree Market and settle up immediately. N. F. BROWN. North xan Juan, Feb’y 1st. 1860. feb4 J. W. SULLIVAN’S GREAT PACIFIC EMPORIUM, And General Agency of Periodical Literature, And sole Agent for the California True Delta, California Boston Journal, Missouri Republican, Cincinnattt Commercial. N. ¥. Courier des Etats Unis, New York Herald, Tribune and Times. &e., &e., &e. Washington street, next door to the Post Office, SAN FRANCISCO. GEORGE THEALL, Expressman and General Agent. Runs a Daily Express from W as h i ng ton R estaurant. Forest City to Alleghanytown, Chips’ Main Street, North San Juan. GEORGE CULLODI Yaforms the public that he cmtinnes to keep a first-class Restaurant and Boarding House _at the above stand, serving up in . his best style all the dainties and luxuries of the market MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Clean Rooms and Clean Beds For regular and transient lodgers, have been fitted up fin connection with the Restaurant. They will be found inferior to none. Flat and Minnesota. £3-California and Atlantic Newspapers and Magazines on hand and delivered to order.<@& Ye Agent fur TIE HYDRAULIC PRESS. J. E. FULLER, EXPRESSMAN AND GENERAL AGENT, Runs a Daily Express from Camptonville to Galena Hill, Young's Hill, Indian Hill, Indian Valley, and Railroad Hill. California Dailies and Weeklies, and Atlantic papers amd periodieals delivered promptly. Agent for the Hydraulic Press. &g-Collections made. SAM. ABBEY, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PARTIES . wews agent and Expressman, Furnished with Dinners or Suppers to order, in the most satisfactory manner. Gwe George a Call. aug 1352tf Runs a Daily Express from North San Juan to Sebastopol, Sweetland, Birchville and French Corral. California and Atlantic papers for sale. WINE & LIQUOR STORES. . San Juan Feed Stable & Corral Iw I YY YY T. SAXBY has openeda Feed Stable and 2 / a Tvcocia wes ‘r end of Main street, North &: Fine Old Brandies i ca thatenkia. aeuinbobel. “on wha sacananeeee C. E. HELFRICH, Soda Water Manufacturer. FF DEALER IN FINE BRANDIES, == : Wines, Ale, Porter &c. melstk Brandies, of the following brands : Old Sazerac, Otard, Jules, Robin & Co., United Vineyards, Martelle, Champaigne, Otard, &c., &c. git tion of Teamsters and the traveling public generally. Ile keeps on hand and for sale, Hay, Barley and Ground Feed. The Corral is large, conveniently situated and well watered. and admirably mects the wants of Drovers. There isalso a large and good stable on the premies. 53m SMITH’S EXPRESS, Philadelphia and Holland Gin, Runs Daily from North San Juan to Shady Creek, Old Tom, Santa Cruz and Jamaica Rum, Monongahela, Bourbon, Trish and Scotch Whiskey: Heidsick, Schreider and Morizette Champaigne; Port, Sherry, Ginger, Hock, Sauterne Claret Wines. Assorted Case Liquors, and SYRUPS. His extensive stock is now complete in every department, and will be offered at SACRAMENTO PRICES. San Juan North, Nov. 17, 1857. {1 3m] SAN JUAN BREWERY. ; This well-known establishment, owned by Stoffier £ Koch, is now under the control of (ieee: junior member, Mr. Koch, and will so remain uatil the settlement of the estate of Mr. Stoffler Aately deceased. The business of manufacturing Inaser Beer ‘will be continued as heretofore, and the old reputation ‘of the article fully maintained. jan21 SAN JUAN MEAT MARKET. Cc. E. POWERS HAVING become sole proprietor of the market heretofore kept by Crawford & Co., ia Peck & Coley’s Brick Building, on Main 1 Street, informs the public that he hasalways ‘on hand, ¥resh Beef, Pork and Mutton Killed every day. Home Cured Hams, ‘sweet and delicious, Corned Beef and Pork, And Fresh Sausages and Sausage Meat. aSe-TRY THE NEW MAREET !-@ North San Juan, February 18, 1860. tf ‘HOOKS AND STATIONERY REDUCED PRICES!!! E will sell for CASH as CHEAP as the ‘CHEAPEST. asf FRANCHERE & BUTLER. * Cherokee. Little Grass Valley and Columbia Hill.— Also. Weekly to Arnold's Ranch, Bloomfield and Urisko, #XS-California and Atlantic Newspapers for sale. Letters and Packages carried, commissions attended to and collections made. Agent for the Hydraulic Press J. B. PAINTER, (LATE O’MEARA & PAINTER,) Dealer in TYPE, PRESSES, PRINTING MATERIAL, Paper, Cards,and Printer’s Stock generally, 132 Clay street, near Sansome, SAN FRANCISCO. jan 21 ly DR. F. C. CLARK, DENTIST, Cherokee. AS an Office in the Turney Hotel, on Main Street, where he is prepared to perform all operations on the TEETH, on the latest and most improved principles. mar2i—3m ABERSHAW’S HEADACHE Elixe iree For sale by T. & L. McGUIRE. marl7 J. N. MYERS, DENTIST, Office at the Union Hotel, North San Juan. All operations performed on the most approved principles. Particular attention paid to Plate Work. mar 24tf. URNITURE & BEDDING! at REAMER’S. DOW SASH! at wre REAMER’S. Hydraulic Duck ! Nos. 0, 00, 000, 0000, 00000, 000000 & 0000000, For sale in any quantity by jan 28 PECK & COLEY. Fresh Petaluma Butter! . ieee pe at jan 28 PECK & COLEYS. R. REAMER E Teceiving and opening achoice selection of Goods and offers them to the citizens of San Juan and vicinity cheap for cash. jan 21 ai TRAVEL. LIVERY STABLE. Corner Main and Reservoir streets, North San Juan. T. G. SMITH, BARNEY CLOW er acs . 2. i OULD respectfully inform the trav ling public that they can be accommodated at a moment’s notice, with the best Saddle and Buggy Horses In the Mountains. LADIES, wishing to take a horseback ride, will find at ourstable, easy. gentle and spirited animals, with excellent side-saddles, é&c. Elegant Top Buggies! And well matched horses for the ~ “lo desire them. Horses kept by the day or week—w ll fed and carefully groomed. Exchanges With Campton ville, Forest City and Nevada. _ Their large, new, and commodious stables enable them to accommodate a very large number of Horses, and the public can depend upon finding every convenience and care thatcan be found in any first-classs establishment of the kind. North San Juan, Dec.15th, 1858, 1%tf AEC RSS SEARS “VARIETY. Tin and Hardware Store. Stoves, Hardware, Cook Stoves ws Parlor Stoves, Lose Pipes, Box Stoves, mee. A General assortShelf Hardware, _— ment of Tinware, Nails, SEH Cutlery, Builders’ Hardware, Carpenters’ Tools, Butts and Screws, Iron and Steel, Galvanized Iron Pipe, Water Boxes &c., On hand and made to order. FRANK ‘SMITH, Brick Row, Main street. North San Juan, Nov. 17,1857. 1tf CENTRAL RANCH SAW-MILL. CLARK & CO. IRECT the attention of the public to their splendid steam saw-mill, which is now turning out the very best of YELLOW AND SUGAR PINE LUMBER, of every kind for building and mining purposes, fand delivering it promptly wherever ordered. 3 They have unrivalled facilities for filling’ orders immediately, and always sell the best material at the lowest prices. They also furnish every kind of SLUICE BLOCKS, as directed, and can supply the citizens of North San Juan with the Best of Fire Wood Orders can be left at the mill, or at the office in San Juan, on Main street, under the flume. J. F.CLARK, J. B. JOHNSON. Nov. 19th, 1859. tf Wood and Lumber Yard. LARK & CO. have an extensive Wood and Lumber Yard at the corner of Cherokee and Reservoir streets, by the terminus of the railway. Every kind of sawed lumber is kept always on hand, and large or small demands can be instantly supplied. Fire Wood, either oak, pine or manzanita, green or dry, for sale in any quantity, and will be delivered at short notice. Orders can be left at the Yard, or at the office on Main street. J.F. CLARK, Nov. 19, 1859. tf J. B. JOHNSON. PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY!!! Live Yankee Blacksmith AND WAGON SExror. On Main St., air can Reamer’s Store, NOR SAN JUAN. eae Proprietors have every facility for doing as good Blacksmith and Iron work as can be done anywhere, at as short notice and as reasonable prices. Car Wheels, Ox Yokes& Wheelbarrows, of our own manufacture, always on hand. Light and Heavy Wagons, made to order, as cheap and as well as they can be made below. Repairing Done with Dispatch. ¥%_All work waranted. mar24—tf JOY, WEYMOUTH & CROSS. Furniture! Furniture! Cheaper than the Cheapest! = NEW Furniture always on hand and con # stantly arriving at PECK & COUEY’S. 43>Prices to suit the most economical. CALL AND SEE. jan7 COLUMBIA HIZL STORE! W. C. COLEY AS opened a Cash Store at Columbia Hill, where he offers ‘to the public a choice assortment of Goods, consisting of Groceries and Provisions, Miners’ Implements, &c., &c., A share of patronage is respectfully solicited. jan 28tf W. C. COLEY. If You Want FRESH BEEF KILLED EVERY DAY, CALL ON GUTHRIE & CO., Oak Tree Market. NOTICE. OLDIERS, TEAMSTERS, SAILORS, (or their widows or orphan children.) who served in any Wars or Battles, either in California or elsewhere, prior to Maroh 3d, 1855, or their children who were under 21 years at that date, or sailors who served on the ccast of California in the Mexican war, will do wel! to address us. Claims that have been rejected in the hands of other agents, have been successfully obtained by us. Agents acting for us, liberally paid. Land warrants bought and sold to order, and all business requiring an agent at Washington. attended to. R. B. LLOY< CO., Attorneys for Claims, Pensions, Bou Land, &c. Reference to any of the heads of Departments. jan 28 10w Camphene and Coal Oil A” reduced prices, at jan21 REAMER'’S. A ORONO assortment of BOOTS, te iaig GON HAMS and SHOULDERS, or jan 21 REAMER’S, —— a TTT THE HYDRAULIC PRESS. The Aydraulic Press, B. P. AVERY, EDITOR. Assemblyman Fairchild’s byfalutin Union resolutions have at last got themselves ventilated through the public prints, by the kindness of waggish members who voted to have them printed because they did not wish to keep a good thing from their constituents. We thought before reading Mr. Fairchild’s elaborate effort, that there could ba nothing new in the way of political resolutions ; but these are decidedly original, since they not only promulgate political opinions but give a lengthy description of the physical characteristics of Califernia, a flying history (play on spread eagle) of the country at large, and embrace an invitation to all the world to pay us a visit, bring their knitting along and stay to tea. This liberal invitation is couched in the somnambulic words of Lady Macbeth, uttered as she beckoned with her incarnadined little hand— “Come! Come! Come !” oo The Legislature has followed up its excellent action in passing a law consolidating the proceeds of the sale of the school land sections, by adopting a joint resolution requesting our delegation in Congress to pro» cure the passage of an act By Congress, providing for the floating of the sixteenth and thirty-second sections of land donated to the State for school purposes, and providing tor the selection of two additional sections for the mining townships. An act of this kind is rendered necessary by the uniform action of the General Government, exempting all mineral lands from sale or pre-emption. The Legislature has deserved the thanks of the people by its wise attention to the interests of education. ob me Two Picrures.—A gentleman representing the commercial emporium of the United States in Congress, esteemed and applauded by thousands, shoots down a defenceless man like a dog, in the street, for criminal. ity with his wife, is tried, triumphantly acquitted and retains his honorable position. A poor unknown wretch in the mountains of California murders a man for the same reason, though he Joes the bloody job less handsomely with a knife, is arrested, seized bya moband hung. That’s the even-handed justice of the world. °° The Hesperian for April contains another chromo-lithograph of the flora of Cerros Island—a sketch of Veatch’s sumach, or elephant tree. The best literary features are “Notes on Napa Valley,” by Hittél, anda continuation of papers on Early English Literature. The handsome thing is done for Mr. Ridge’s poem on Humboldt river, by republication with correction of prior typographical blunders. te ernest sessment noinssiinentesinnsincteitnnncinescnesnnremtiiGeiatnninsn SE ; A man married a Yreka girl without the consent of her mother, and was subsequently “walloped” by the enraged dame until he succeeded in wresting from her hands the cowhide she wielded so well. Moral: Ch Lord, what perils dire circumvent The bach’ who weds without mama’s consent! -—-____ oo One thousand sheep started from Sacramento to Washoe last week. They are intended for mutton. Thousands of other sheep are flocking to the same region to be sold, but not for mutton. eee Sige: A plan for the Pacific Methodist College has been adopted. The buildiag is to be of brick, three stories high, eighty feet long and fifty wide. The centract for the work is to be let to the lowest bidder, and the edifice must be completed for occupation by next December. The grand ball given at Sacramento on Thursday, in commemoration of the present location of the State Capital, was free to all the members of the Legislature, their elected . attaches, and the State officers. On that “proud occasion” Sacramentans literally danced for joy. Wales cae 2 ee ae ee eee Dr. Hayes proposes to sail in search of the open Polar sea during the month of May. If he succeeds in reaching open water where he expects it, and where it was seen in 1854, he will make at once for the North Pole.— How strange that sounds, even at this day! The Daily Evening Gazette is the name of a compact and promising new journal published at the Bay by H. Wheelock & Co., at ane bit a week. 8 At Columbia, says the Courier, the citizens are about to get up a regular old fashioned “bee,” for the purpose of planting ornamental trees and shrubs in the school house grounds. A pretty idea. UE oan aes Calvin B. McDonald has returned to Downieville and is again in charge of the Citizen, as editor of which he won his first repute.— We wish him and the paper success. _ OO At Roseburg, Oregon, there are a baker’s dozen of Chinese, and the local paper calls . for their expulsion, and says it is impossible for them to make an honest living. A MOUNTAIN BOAST. Complaints of hard times are not confined to the mining regions. If the miner often fails in his arduous search for metallic wealth, so does the culturist of the lower country in his more legitimate pursuit.— While the one complains of scarcity of gold, the otber laments over drouth, or smut, or is poor in the midst of abundance for want of a market at remunerative prices. The people who inhabit the agricultural portions of the State have been wont to think they alone enjoy true prosperity, and contribute to the genuine progress of the country ; but experience has demevstrated that uncertainty of title and unprofitable grain crops are quite as disastrous to individual hopes as reverses in the gold fields. It is not even true that discontent and a preneness to wander are characteristics peculiar to the mining population, for the prevailing silver excitement has its victims everywhere alike, and did not St. Helena humbug the calm plowmen of Napa and Senoma as thoroughly as if they had been knights of the pick? When there is no craze whatever about new diggings, the settlers of the valleys, the listless, unambitious, unthrifty squatters on Spanish grants, weary of their location as of that they abandoned in the East, and start up or down the coast, since they can go no farther west, in search of a new place to“settle”.— Hence it is that we see in a Los Angeles pa-+ per such a paragraph as the following, urging efforts for the development of the mineral resources of Southern California as a pressing necessity : “We are, upon general principles, opposed to anything that partakes of excitement on the subject of minerals and mining; but as the chief occupation of the mass of the tormer California population has become nearly obsolete, namely stock raising, and the numerous herds, which were once as the leaves of the forest, having been disposed of, and the adverse seasons having destroyed thousands upon thousands, rendering it almost impossible for the business ever to resume its former standard, and the condition of the title to real estate being such as to preclude anything like a general engaging in the pur. suit of agriculture, something must be done which will furnish the masses with constant employment, and keep up and encourage all classes of trade and business.” There is no dodging the truth, that while insecurity of title, ruinous attempts to cultivate big farms, and exclusive attaehment to stock raising as a pursuit have combined to keep the great valleys thinly populated and their denizens unprosperous, the mining population bas been gradually sloughing off its worst features, developing new resources, increasing the diversity of pursuits, and fitting the mountains for permanent occupation. The mines, instead of being a curse, as some small philosophers have contended, are proving to be a blessing. They are even coveted by the agriculturist, because they create a near market for his produce and increase the number of consumers. But for them, one half of the State would be lying vacant. The deep cafions of the Sierra Nevada would not now be ringing with the sounds of varied labor, nor their rugged slopes blooming and fractifying in prophecy of the years to come. Gold was the magnet that drew men past the smiling domains of . . VOL. 2. NO. 34 U. 8. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. Hon. C. L. Scott has our thanks fora copy of the last agricultural report of the U.S. Patent Office. Some folks think these reports are of no value, and we have seen them kicked about in the dust like last year’s almanac; but they have a positive worth, embody a vast amount of original information, otherwise unattainable, and will amply repay careful reading. The present report has an engraving of the U.S. Propagating garden at Washington, With an account of the success attending the experiments at acclimating various foreign plants, including the tea plant. Prof. Bache contributes a list of 1710 interrogatories, which is intended as a guide for vensus agents in obtaining agricultural statistics. Following this are condensed reports from a large num ber of agricultural societies throughout the Union; tables showing the growth of onr foreign commerce, resulting from agriculture; papers on aninials, embracing ene on sheep-rearing in California, one on the domestication of the wild elk, and another on the proposed introduction of the Yak-ox from Tartary to our great Western plains.— An article on the improvement of land embraces a history of draining and chemical analyses of various soils: There are other papers on forage and other crops, and on grape and wine culture; notes on fruit culture in different States, and an elaborate es say and table on the meteorology of the United States. Frequent allusion is made to California, and many facts given going to prove the fertility of her soil and the mildness of her climate. The subjoined note in this connection is well worthy of quotation: “To the efforts of the Agricultural Division of the Patent Office, California is indebted for the introduction of most valuable vines . of the Zante grape, which produces the celebrated dried currants of commerce. These are growing and thriving exceedingly well; a most siguificant fact, when it is said that this variety of grape is rapidly failing, and great fears are entertained of its total loss in the country where it bas hitherto been grown, the islands of Zante, Cephalonia, &c. Should those fears be realized, and this grape reproduced and brought to its pristine quality in California, it is believed that the result to this State alone will tenfold reimburse the entire appropriations for that office. Six hundred and forty-three vessels annually leave the Mediterranean for the Atlantic ports, loaded with figs, lemons, oranges, limes, almonds and products of the vine, to the amount of $7,250,000, the total yield of the Mediterranean for all countries, being over $200,000,000. It is merely a question of time, when California will supply her sister States with the above-named articles and stili have more to spare.” The Agricultural Division of the Patent Office has done much to multiply the products of the nation, to improve the modes of cultivating, and to enlighten the minds of cultivators, learned as well as unlearned, on various important points. Hereafter, the origin of numeroas profitable branches of agriculture will be traced tu its enlightened exertions. Especially will it prove beneficent by reducing the number of imports, and hastening the day when the different sections of our common country shall produce all that is produced anywhere on earth, thus multiplying the avenues for labor with the multiplication of laborers, and strengthening Ceres—past the broad plains of the Sacrathe bond of national unity by the necessity mento and San Joaquin—to the apparently sterile hights of the Sierra. But if Ceres reigns in the valleys, so does Pomona in the hills, where she shares the sway of King Gold and is working out for these lofty, breezy, health-inspiring regions a new and better era. ee ee Desien in ALL Tuincs.—The discovery of the mineral wealth of California, Australia and Utah, is naturally considered providential by our religious cotemporary of the Pacific, who says that none of those mines of gold and silver are forgotten in the glorious plans of God, and that he unlocked them for the benefit of the nations at the very crisis when needed: The Spaniards for long, long years were denied the golden keys that in our hands have unlocked the hills and placers; and the Mormons, God kept them near the bitter waters of Salt Lake and concealed from their unballowed avarice the inexhaustible mines of silver and gold in their own promised land of Utah, reserving the great wealth for the people and the time that would best develop by it. Just as soon as Washoe begins to give ore to the smelter, Japan throws its gates open to America. It has hitherto refused any commercial medium but silver, and the demands of China and Japan for it, were beginning to make the scarctty of sil ver a detriment to commerce. NEEL ae Ce RET Ie On the 27th of April, the Sons of .Temperance in the upper portion of Placer county will have a procession, oration, dinner and dance. ee ee nT Mirabeau thus wrote to a young lady who had fallen in love with his genius, and wished to know how he looked—“Fancy his satanic majesty, after having the small pox —and such am I.” ee eee The Northern California Telegraph Company will extend their line frem Yreka to Jacksonville, Oregon, during the coming summer. The wire has been ordered from New York, and is now on its way to San Franciseo.— Yreka Union. for peaceful interchange of products. It has already demonstrated its value, and grown so far beyond its original proportions that its erection into an independent department has become a recognised necessity. When it shall have been separated, as proposed, an confided to the charge of aspecially qualified superintendent, it will be the grand agricultural bureau of the confederacy, and will establish with the thousands of State and county agricultural societies such intim«te relations as will immensely increase its utility and theirs, and bear an apt resemblance to the form of our civil government. —_——---+ Tue Fiona or Carirornia.—A. S. Taylor writes thus to the Cal, Farmer : The scientific botanists affirm that there are as many as twenty-five speeies of conebearing trees in our State, of which twelve are pines, and of these pines at least eight species produce edible nuts, always extensively used by the Indians, from one end o! the State to the other. There are also ten different oaks, the acorns of which continue to be a favorite food of the Indians. The Flora of California is said indeed to include the wonderful number of five thousand diiferent species of plants, and is one of the most abundant, celebrated, curious and in teresting, of any country on the earth’s surface, and continues to excite che admiration and interest of the florists, arboriculturists and botanists of the first schools of America and Europe. ———__—___—_ + e+ --A drunken fellow was leaning against a post on the sidewalk at Napa, and a very pompous, petty dignitary happened to pass by. The “tight” chap leaned back against an awning post, and pointing at the official swell, exclaimed—“Just look at ! How big he feels! Why God Almighty’s overcoat wouldn't make him a vest !” There are 7,000 statues of Catholic saints in the great Cathedral at Milan. Some 8,000 more are to be added to this congrega~tion of stone. a Landlords say there is now so mueh poison infased into their liquors that it dont give a customer time to pay for his drink!

BY AVERY & WATERS. Che Hydraulic Press, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING RB Office on Main strect, adjoining the Drug Store.G& . Terms for the Paper. One Year, invariably in advance .....sscccceesose -.$5 00 ix Months, € * “ ee * “ 6“ “c Se eeeresenserecsseeesees Se eeceeerseenescceseeeee OO a eee ferms for Advertising. One Square, (12 lines) first insertion h subsequent insertion, .......0+.s0000 23> Business cards not exceeding four lines of this type, will be inserted fur $6 00 a quarter. SALOONS & RESTAURANTS BILLIARDS, 25 CTS. AGAME! SAN JUAN 1 C. SCHARDIN & CO., OULD respectfully inform their old friends and the public generally that they have recently made many improvements to the above-named popular resort, and are better prepared than ever to please all tastes. Three Billiard Tables, Tn first-rate order—two of them new Marble Beds NORTH SAN JUAN, NEVADA CO, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1860. BUSINESS CARDS. R. H. FARQUHAR, Justice of the Peace, Bridgeport Township. Office, in the old Masonic Hall Main s;reet,San Juan. 1 tt 0. P. STIDGER, Attorney at Law, Notary Public, een And Conveyancer. Office on the north side ef Main street, one door west of E V. Hatfield's store, oppositethe Pioneer, NORTH SAN JUAN. Nov. 13, 1857. 1 C. WILSON HILL, Attorney at Law, Wiilattend promptly toall businessconfided to his care in Nevada and adjoining counties, Office —In Abbott’s Building, NEVADA. JAMES CARPENTER, House, Sign and Decorative Painter, AND PAPER HANGER. tf16 EXCHANGE. ¥3_SHOP—Foot of Main street, NORTH SAN JUAN. All work warranted to give satisfaction. TEETH! DR. E. FELLERS, DENTIST, SS North San Juan Hs an office in the Post Office Building, on Main Street, where he is prapared to perform jan 28 and equal toany in the State. The wood bed is the fa. #!! operations upon TEETH, on the latest and most apvorite of the place. BOWLING. Two splendid Ten-Pin Alleys are attached to the es tablishment, well supplied with the perquisites of such an institution. It isthe intention of the ptoprietor to use every exertien to make the Exchange the favorite resort of all seckers of healthy pleasurable exercise. THE BAR Will be furnished with the very best WINES AND LIQUORS To be had in the San Francisco Market, and no pains will be spared to make everything pleasant and attractive. 10 The Bank Exchange BROWN & REESE proved principles. By request, families will be waited on at their residences, Office hours—from 7 o’clock A. M., to 5 o'clock P. 48-3m JOHN A. SEELY, : Agent for The New Idria Quicksilver, The Best and Purest Article in the State! Post Office Building, North San Juan, Nevada ccunty. Oak Tree Market. cm Mr.J.W GUTHRIE having become a partner in the 9ak Tree Market, bus vy iness will hereafter be conducted under the hame of J. W. GUTHRIE & CO. ESPECTFULLY inform their ota friends . FRESH AND PICKLED MEATS, and the public generally, that they still hold forth at the corner of Main and Flame streets, where they keep the very best Wines and Liquors, Ale, Porter, and Lager Beer. Also, the finest Cigars and Tobacco. The establishment will be under the care of Mr. BROWN, formerly of Philadelphia, who understands equally well the art of dispensing and of pleasing. North San Juan, June 11, 1859. (stt C. SCHARDIN & CO., B, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in =) Wines, Liquors, Cigarsand Toa bacco. Also— a general assortment of FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS, And Confectionery. SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET. North San Juan, Nov. 17, 1857. {1 tf] = — J i Fresh Beef. Pork, Mutton and Veal, killed every day. The Best Corned Becf. Also— Beef Caitle for Sale. Enqtire as jabove. N. B. All persons knowing themselves indebted to me, will callat the Oak Tree Market and settle up immediately. N. F. BROWN. North xan Juan, Feb’y 1st. 1860. feb4 J. W. SULLIVAN’S GREAT PACIFIC EMPORIUM, And General Agency of Periodical Literature, And sole Agent for the California True Delta, California Boston Journal, Missouri Republican, Cincinnattt Commercial. N. ¥. Courier des Etats Unis, New York Herald, Tribune and Times. &e., &e., &e. Washington street, next door to the Post Office, SAN FRANCISCO. GEORGE THEALL, Expressman and General Agent. Runs a Daily Express from W as h i ng ton R estaurant. Forest City to Alleghanytown, Chips’ Main Street, North San Juan. GEORGE CULLODI Yaforms the public that he cmtinnes to keep a first-class Restaurant and Boarding House _at the above stand, serving up in . his best style all the dainties and luxuries of the market MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Clean Rooms and Clean Beds For regular and transient lodgers, have been fitted up fin connection with the Restaurant. They will be found inferior to none. Flat and Minnesota. £3-California and Atlantic Newspapers and Magazines on hand and delivered to order.<@& Ye Agent fur TIE HYDRAULIC PRESS. J. E. FULLER, EXPRESSMAN AND GENERAL AGENT, Runs a Daily Express from Camptonville to Galena Hill, Young's Hill, Indian Hill, Indian Valley, and Railroad Hill. California Dailies and Weeklies, and Atlantic papers amd periodieals delivered promptly. Agent for the Hydraulic Press. &g-Collections made. SAM. ABBEY, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PARTIES . wews agent and Expressman, Furnished with Dinners or Suppers to order, in the most satisfactory manner. Gwe George a Call. aug 1352tf Runs a Daily Express from North San Juan to Sebastopol, Sweetland, Birchville and French Corral. California and Atlantic papers for sale. WINE & LIQUOR STORES. . San Juan Feed Stable & Corral Iw I YY YY T. SAXBY has openeda Feed Stable and 2 / a Tvcocia wes ‘r end of Main street, North &: Fine Old Brandies i ca thatenkia. aeuinbobel. “on wha sacananeeee C. E. HELFRICH, Soda Water Manufacturer. FF DEALER IN FINE BRANDIES, == : Wines, Ale, Porter &c. melstk Brandies, of the following brands : Old Sazerac, Otard, Jules, Robin & Co., United Vineyards, Martelle, Champaigne, Otard, &c., &c. git tion of Teamsters and the traveling public generally. Ile keeps on hand and for sale, Hay, Barley and Ground Feed. The Corral is large, conveniently situated and well watered. and admirably mects the wants of Drovers. There isalso a large and good stable on the premies. 53m SMITH’S EXPRESS, Philadelphia and Holland Gin, Runs Daily from North San Juan to Shady Creek, Old Tom, Santa Cruz and Jamaica Rum, Monongahela, Bourbon, Trish and Scotch Whiskey: Heidsick, Schreider and Morizette Champaigne; Port, Sherry, Ginger, Hock, Sauterne Claret Wines. Assorted Case Liquors, and SYRUPS. His extensive stock is now complete in every department, and will be offered at SACRAMENTO PRICES. San Juan North, Nov. 17, 1857. {1 3m] SAN JUAN BREWERY. ; This well-known establishment, owned by Stoffier £ Koch, is now under the control of (ieee: junior member, Mr. Koch, and will so remain uatil the settlement of the estate of Mr. Stoffler Aately deceased. The business of manufacturing Inaser Beer ‘will be continued as heretofore, and the old reputation ‘of the article fully maintained. jan21 SAN JUAN MEAT MARKET. Cc. E. POWERS HAVING become sole proprietor of the market heretofore kept by Crawford & Co., ia Peck & Coley’s Brick Building, on Main 1 Street, informs the public that he hasalways ‘on hand, ¥resh Beef, Pork and Mutton Killed every day. Home Cured Hams, ‘sweet and delicious, Corned Beef and Pork, And Fresh Sausages and Sausage Meat. aSe-TRY THE NEW MAREET !-@ North San Juan, February 18, 1860. tf ‘HOOKS AND STATIONERY REDUCED PRICES!!! E will sell for CASH as CHEAP as the ‘CHEAPEST. asf FRANCHERE & BUTLER. * Cherokee. Little Grass Valley and Columbia Hill.— Also. Weekly to Arnold's Ranch, Bloomfield and Urisko, #XS-California and Atlantic Newspapers for sale. Letters and Packages carried, commissions attended to and collections made. Agent for the Hydraulic Press J. B. PAINTER, (LATE O’MEARA & PAINTER,) Dealer in TYPE, PRESSES, PRINTING MATERIAL, Paper, Cards,and Printer’s Stock generally, 132 Clay street, near Sansome, SAN FRANCISCO. jan 21 ly DR. F. C. CLARK, DENTIST, Cherokee. AS an Office in the Turney Hotel, on Main Street, where he is prepared to perform all operations on the TEETH, on the latest and most improved principles. mar2i—3m ABERSHAW’S HEADACHE Elixe iree For sale by T. & L. McGUIRE. marl7 J. N. MYERS, DENTIST, Office at the Union Hotel, North San Juan. All operations performed on the most approved principles. Particular attention paid to Plate Work. mar 24tf. URNITURE & BEDDING! at REAMER’S. DOW SASH! at wre REAMER’S. Hydraulic Duck ! Nos. 0, 00, 000, 0000, 00000, 000000 & 0000000, For sale in any quantity by jan 28 PECK & COLEY. Fresh Petaluma Butter! . ieee pe at jan 28 PECK & COLEYS. R. REAMER E Teceiving and opening achoice selection of Goods and offers them to the citizens of San Juan and vicinity cheap for cash. jan 21 ai TRAVEL. LIVERY STABLE. Corner Main and Reservoir streets, North San Juan. T. G. SMITH, BARNEY CLOW er acs . 2. i OULD respectfully inform the trav ling public that they can be accommodated at a moment’s notice, with the best Saddle and Buggy Horses In the Mountains. LADIES, wishing to take a horseback ride, will find at ourstable, easy. gentle and spirited animals, with excellent side-saddles, é&c. Elegant Top Buggies! And well matched horses for the ~ “lo desire them. Horses kept by the day or week—w ll fed and carefully groomed. Exchanges With Campton ville, Forest City and Nevada. _ Their large, new, and commodious stables enable them to accommodate a very large number of Horses, and the public can depend upon finding every convenience and care thatcan be found in any first-classs establishment of the kind. North San Juan, Dec.15th, 1858, 1%tf AEC RSS SEARS “VARIETY. Tin and Hardware Store. Stoves, Hardware, Cook Stoves ws Parlor Stoves, Lose Pipes, Box Stoves, mee. A General assortShelf Hardware, _— ment of Tinware, Nails, SEH Cutlery, Builders’ Hardware, Carpenters’ Tools, Butts and Screws, Iron and Steel, Galvanized Iron Pipe, Water Boxes &c., On hand and made to order. FRANK ‘SMITH, Brick Row, Main street. North San Juan, Nov. 17,1857. 1tf CENTRAL RANCH SAW-MILL. CLARK & CO. IRECT the attention of the public to their splendid steam saw-mill, which is now turning out the very best of YELLOW AND SUGAR PINE LUMBER, of every kind for building and mining purposes, fand delivering it promptly wherever ordered. 3 They have unrivalled facilities for filling’ orders immediately, and always sell the best material at the lowest prices. They also furnish every kind of SLUICE BLOCKS, as directed, and can supply the citizens of North San Juan with the Best of Fire Wood Orders can be left at the mill, or at the office in San Juan, on Main street, under the flume. J. F.CLARK, J. B. JOHNSON. Nov. 19th, 1859. tf Wood and Lumber Yard. LARK & CO. have an extensive Wood and Lumber Yard at the corner of Cherokee and Reservoir streets, by the terminus of the railway. Every kind of sawed lumber is kept always on hand, and large or small demands can be instantly supplied. Fire Wood, either oak, pine or manzanita, green or dry, for sale in any quantity, and will be delivered at short notice. Orders can be left at the Yard, or at the office on Main street. J.F. CLARK, Nov. 19, 1859. tf J. B. JOHNSON. PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY!!! Live Yankee Blacksmith AND WAGON SExror. On Main St., air can Reamer’s Store, NOR SAN JUAN. eae Proprietors have every facility for doing as good Blacksmith and Iron work as can be done anywhere, at as short notice and as reasonable prices. Car Wheels, Ox Yokes& Wheelbarrows, of our own manufacture, always on hand. Light and Heavy Wagons, made to order, as cheap and as well as they can be made below. Repairing Done with Dispatch. ¥%_All work waranted. mar24—tf JOY, WEYMOUTH & CROSS. Furniture! Furniture! Cheaper than the Cheapest! = NEW Furniture always on hand and con # stantly arriving at PECK & COUEY’S. 43>Prices to suit the most economical. CALL AND SEE. jan7 COLUMBIA HIZL STORE! W. C. COLEY

AS opened a Cash Store at Columbia Hill, where he offers ‘to the public a choice assortment of Goods, consisting of Groceries and Provisions, Miners’ Implements, &c., &c., A share of patronage is respectfully solicited. jan 28tf W. C. COLEY. If You Want FRESH BEEF KILLED EVERY DAY, CALL ON GUTHRIE & CO., Oak Tree Market. NOTICE. OLDIERS, TEAMSTERS, SAILORS, (or their widows or orphan children.) who served in any Wars or Battles, either in California or elsewhere, prior to Maroh 3d, 1855, or their children who were under 21 years at that date, or sailors who served on the ccast of California in the Mexican war, will do wel! to address us. Claims that have been rejected in the hands of other agents, have been successfully obtained by us. Agents acting for us, liberally paid. Land warrants bought and sold to order, and all business requiring an agent at Washington. attended to. R. B. LLOY< CO., Attorneys for Claims, Pensions, Bou Land, &c. Reference to any of the heads of Departments. jan 28 10w Camphene and Coal Oil A” reduced prices, at jan21 REAMER'’S. A ORONO assortment of BOOTS, te iaig GON HAMS and SHOULDERS, or jan 21 REAMER’S, —— a TTT THE HYDRAULIC PRESS. The Aydraulic Press, B. P. AVERY, EDITOR. Assemblyman Fairchild’s byfalutin Union resolutions have at last got themselves ventilated through the public prints, by the kindness of waggish members who voted to have them printed because they did not wish to keep a good thing from their constituents. We thought before reading Mr. Fairchild’s elaborate effort, that there could ba nothing new in the way of political resolutions ; but these are decidedly original, since they not only promulgate political opinions but give a lengthy description of the physical characteristics of Califernia, a flying history (play on spread eagle) of the country at large, and embrace an invitation to all the world to pay us a visit, bring their knitting along and stay to tea. This liberal invitation is couched in the somnambulic words of Lady Macbeth, uttered as she beckoned with her incarnadined little hand— “Come! Come! Come !” oo The Legislature has followed up its excellent action in passing a law consolidating the proceeds of the sale of the school land sections, by adopting a joint resolution requesting our delegation in Congress to pro» cure the passage of an act By Congress, providing for the floating of the sixteenth and thirty-second sections of land donated to the State for school purposes, and providing tor the selection of two additional sections for the mining townships. An act of this kind is rendered necessary by the uniform action of the General Government, exempting all mineral lands from sale or pre-emption. The Legislature has deserved the thanks of the people by its wise attention to the interests of education. ob me Two Picrures.—A gentleman representing the commercial emporium of the United States in Congress, esteemed and applauded by thousands, shoots down a defenceless man like a dog, in the street, for criminal. ity with his wife, is tried, triumphantly acquitted and retains his honorable position. A poor unknown wretch in the mountains of California murders a man for the same reason, though he Joes the bloody job less handsomely with a knife, is arrested, seized bya moband hung. That’s the even-handed justice of the world. °° The Hesperian for April contains another chromo-lithograph of the flora of Cerros Island—a sketch of Veatch’s sumach, or elephant tree. The best literary features are “Notes on Napa Valley,” by Hittél, anda continuation of papers on Early English Literature. The handsome thing is done for Mr. Ridge’s poem on Humboldt river, by republication with correction of prior typographical blunders. te ernest sessment noinssiinentesinnsincteitnnncinescnesnnremtiiGeiatnninsn SE ; A man married a Yreka girl without the consent of her mother, and was subsequently “walloped” by the enraged dame until he succeeded in wresting from her hands the cowhide she wielded so well. Moral: Ch Lord, what perils dire circumvent The bach’ who weds without mama’s consent! -—-____ oo One thousand sheep started from Sacramento to Washoe last week. They are intended for mutton. Thousands of other sheep are flocking to the same region to be sold, but not for mutton. eee Sige: A plan for the Pacific Methodist College has been adopted. The buildiag is to be of brick, three stories high, eighty feet long and fifty wide. The centract for the work is to be let to the lowest bidder, and the edifice must be completed for occupation by next December. The grand ball given at Sacramento on Thursday, in commemoration of the present location of the State Capital, was free to all the members of the Legislature, their elected . attaches, and the State officers. On that “proud occasion” Sacramentans literally danced for joy. Wales cae 2 ee ae ee eee Dr. Hayes proposes to sail in search of the open Polar sea during the month of May. If he succeeds in reaching open water where he expects it, and where it was seen in 1854, he will make at once for the North Pole.— How strange that sounds, even at this day! The Daily Evening Gazette is the name of a compact and promising new journal published at the Bay by H. Wheelock & Co., at ane bit a week. 8 At Columbia, says the Courier, the citizens are about to get up a regular old fashioned “bee,” for the purpose of planting ornamental trees and shrubs in the school house grounds. A pretty idea. UE oan aes Calvin B. McDonald has returned to Downieville and is again in charge of the Citizen, as editor of which he won his first repute.— We wish him and the paper success. _ OO At Roseburg, Oregon, there are a baker’s dozen of Chinese, and the local paper calls . for their expulsion, and says it is impossible for them to make an honest living. A MOUNTAIN BOAST. Complaints of hard times are not confined to the mining regions. If the miner often fails in his arduous search for metallic wealth, so does the culturist of the lower country in his more legitimate pursuit.— While the one complains of scarcity of gold, the otber laments over drouth, or smut, or is poor in the midst of abundance for want of a market at remunerative prices. The people who inhabit the agricultural portions of the State have been wont to think they alone enjoy true prosperity, and contribute to the genuine progress of the country ; but experience has demevstrated that uncertainty of title and unprofitable grain crops are quite as disastrous to individual hopes as reverses in the gold fields. It is not even true that discontent and a preneness to wander are characteristics peculiar to the mining population, for the prevailing silver excitement has its victims everywhere alike, and did not St. Helena humbug the calm plowmen of Napa and Senoma as thoroughly as if they had been knights of the pick? When there is no craze whatever about new diggings, the settlers of the valleys, the listless, unambitious, unthrifty squatters on Spanish grants, weary of their location as of that they abandoned in the East, and start up or down the coast, since they can go no farther west, in search of a new place to“settle”.— Hence it is that we see in a Los Angeles pa-+ per such a paragraph as the following, urging efforts for the development of the mineral resources of Southern California as a pressing necessity : “We are, upon general principles, opposed to anything that partakes of excitement on the subject of minerals and mining; but as the chief occupation of the mass of the tormer California population has become nearly obsolete, namely stock raising, and the numerous herds, which were once as the leaves of the forest, having been disposed of, and the adverse seasons having destroyed thousands upon thousands, rendering it almost impossible for the business ever to resume its former standard, and the condition of the title to real estate being such as to preclude anything like a general engaging in the pur. suit of agriculture, something must be done which will furnish the masses with constant employment, and keep up and encourage all classes of trade and business.” There is no dodging the truth, that while insecurity of title, ruinous attempts to cultivate big farms, and exclusive attaehment to stock raising as a pursuit have combined to keep the great valleys thinly populated and their denizens unprosperous, the mining population bas been gradually sloughing off its worst features, developing new resources, increasing the diversity of pursuits, and fitting the mountains for permanent occupation. The mines, instead of being a curse, as some small philosophers have contended, are proving to be a blessing. They are even coveted by the agriculturist, because they create a near market for his produce and increase the number of consumers. But for them, one half of the State would be lying vacant. The deep cafions of the Sierra Nevada would not now be ringing with the sounds of varied labor, nor their rugged slopes blooming and fractifying in prophecy of the years to come. Gold was the magnet that drew men past the smiling domains of . . VOL. 2. NO. 34 U. 8. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. Hon. C. L. Scott has our thanks fora copy of the last agricultural report of the U.S. Patent Office. Some folks think these reports are of no value, and we have seen them kicked about in the dust like last year’s almanac; but they have a positive worth, embody a vast amount of original information, otherwise unattainable, and will amply repay careful reading. The present report has an engraving of the U.S. Propagating garden at Washington, With an account of the success attending the experiments at acclimating various foreign plants, including the tea plant. Prof. Bache contributes a list of 1710 interrogatories, which is intended as a guide for vensus agents in obtaining agricultural statistics. Following this are condensed reports from a large num ber of agricultural societies throughout the Union; tables showing the growth of onr foreign commerce, resulting from agriculture; papers on aninials, embracing ene on sheep-rearing in California, one on the domestication of the wild elk, and another on the proposed introduction of the Yak-ox from Tartary to our great Western plains.— An article on the improvement of land embraces a history of draining and chemical analyses of various soils: There are other papers on forage and other crops, and on grape and wine culture; notes on fruit culture in different States, and an elaborate es say and table on the meteorology of the United States. Frequent allusion is made to California, and many facts given going to prove the fertility of her soil and the mildness of her climate. The subjoined note in this connection is well worthy of quotation: “To the efforts of the Agricultural Division of the Patent Office, California is indebted for the introduction of most valuable vines . of the Zante grape, which produces the celebrated dried currants of commerce. These are growing and thriving exceedingly well; a most siguificant fact, when it is said that this variety of grape is rapidly failing, and great fears are entertained of its total loss in the country where it bas hitherto been grown, the islands of Zante, Cephalonia, &c. Should those fears be realized, and this grape reproduced and brought to its pristine quality in California, it is believed that the result to this State alone will tenfold reimburse the entire appropriations for that office. Six hundred and forty-three vessels annually leave the Mediterranean for the Atlantic ports, loaded with figs, lemons, oranges, limes, almonds and products of the vine, to the amount of $7,250,000, the total yield of the Mediterranean for all countries, being over $200,000,000. It is merely a question of time, when California will supply her sister States with the above-named articles and stili have more to spare.” The Agricultural Division of the Patent Office has done much to multiply the products of the nation, to improve the modes of cultivating, and to enlighten the minds of cultivators, learned as well as unlearned, on various important points. Hereafter, the origin of numeroas profitable branches of agriculture will be traced tu its enlightened exertions. Especially will it prove beneficent by reducing the number of imports, and hastening the day when the different sections of our common country shall produce all that is produced anywhere on earth, thus multiplying the avenues for labor with the multiplication of laborers, and strengthening Ceres—past the broad plains of the Sacrathe bond of national unity by the necessity mento and San Joaquin—to the apparently sterile hights of the Sierra. But if Ceres reigns in the valleys, so does Pomona in the hills, where she shares the sway of King Gold and is working out for these lofty, breezy, health-inspiring regions a new and better era. ee ee Desien in ALL Tuincs.—The discovery of the mineral wealth of California, Australia and Utah, is naturally considered providential by our religious cotemporary of the Pacific, who says that none of those mines of gold and silver are forgotten in the glorious plans of God, and that he unlocked them for the benefit of the nations at the very crisis when needed: The Spaniards for long, long years were denied the golden keys that in our hands have unlocked the hills and placers; and the Mormons, God kept them near the bitter waters of Salt Lake and concealed from their unballowed avarice the inexhaustible mines of silver and gold in their own promised land of Utah, reserving the great wealth for the people and the time that would best develop by it. Just as soon as Washoe begins to give ore to the smelter, Japan throws its gates open to America. It has hitherto refused any commercial medium but silver, and the demands of China and Japan for it, were beginning to make the scarctty of sil ver a detriment to commerce. NEEL ae Ce RET Ie On the 27th of April, the Sons of .Temperance in the upper portion of Placer county will have a procession, oration, dinner and dance. ee ee nT Mirabeau thus wrote to a young lady who had fallen in love with his genius, and wished to know how he looked—“Fancy his satanic majesty, after having the small pox —and such am I.” ee eee The Northern California Telegraph Company will extend their line frem Yreka to Jacksonville, Oregon, during the coming summer. The wire has been ordered from New York, and is now on its way to San Franciseo.— Yreka Union. for peaceful interchange of products. It has already demonstrated its value, and grown so far beyond its original proportions that its erection into an independent department has become a recognised necessity. When it shall have been separated, as proposed, an confided to the charge of aspecially qualified superintendent, it will be the grand agricultural bureau of the confederacy, and will establish with the thousands of State and county agricultural societies such intim«te relations as will immensely increase its utility and theirs, and bear an apt resemblance to the form of our civil government. —_——---+ Tue Fiona or Carirornia.—A. S. Taylor writes thus to the Cal, Farmer : The scientific botanists affirm that there are as many as twenty-five speeies of conebearing trees in our State, of which twelve are pines, and of these pines at least eight species produce edible nuts, always extensively used by the Indians, from one end o! the State to the other. There are also ten different oaks, the acorns of which continue to be a favorite food of the Indians. The Flora of California is said indeed to include the wonderful number of five thousand diiferent species of plants, and is one of the most abundant, celebrated, curious and in teresting, of any country on the earth’s surface, and continues to excite che admiration and interest of the florists, arboriculturists and botanists of the first schools of America and Europe. ———__—___—_ + e+ --A drunken fellow was leaning against a post on the sidewalk at Napa, and a very pompous, petty dignitary happened to pass by. The “tight” chap leaned back against an awning post, and pointing at the official swell, exclaimed—“Just look at ! How big he feels! Why God Almighty’s overcoat wouldn't make him a vest !” There are 7,000 statues of Catholic saints in the great Cathedral at Milan. Some 8,000 more are to be added to this congrega~tion of stone. a Landlords say there is now so mueh poison infased into their liquors that it dont give a customer time to pay for his drink!