April 23, 1859 (4 pages)

eee -J. BR. M’CONNELL,.20000 “Will practice in all the Courts of the 14th Judicial Dis-Orrice—Kidd’s Brick Building, up stairs. pero <a ED RTE et aniline ae myst a stan THE_WYDRATHAC ——___________BY AVERY & WATERS. THE HYDRAULIC PRESS. . Is PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY AVERY & WATERS. ‘Rae Office on Main street, adjoining the Drug Store.“@a Wines and Liquors. BILLIARDS, 25 CTS. AGAME! San Juan Exchange TERMS: Bits C. SCHARDIN & CO., YNVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. AVING purchased the interest of 12 Months, $5 00; 6 Months, $3 00; 3 Months, $2 00. Hin Woods in the above San Juan Exchange.and made large additions and improvements, the Saloon ‘ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the follow. now compares favorably with any in the Mountains. “ing rates: One square (ten lines) $3 00; each subseThree Billiard Tables, quent insertion, half price. A liberal deduction will Ib firstste order—two of them new Marble Beds be made to thore who advertise regularly. and eqiai to any th the State. Whe wood bed is the fa. : vorite of theplace. _. F TroB PRIN TIN Gc. It isthe intention ofthe proprietor to ‘use every exerSecceeebe tion to make the Exchaige the favorite resort of all In'conhnection with the Newspaper is a complete Job . seckers of healthy pleasurable exeréise. Office, and ah experience of 20 years in the various branches of the business, is a sufficient guarantee. . : THE BAR will be furnished with the very best that all work entrusted to us will be WELL DONE. aa~ NO WORK DELIVERED UNTIL PAID FOR. WINES AND LIQUORS To be had in the San Francisco Market, and no pains Agents: will be spared to make everything pleasant and attracThe following gentlemen are authorized agents for tive. 1 this paper : « Thomas Hannah,... wiedvdeses sobesedecsceseoedsCNODOKOS P ioneer S a l oon. J. E. Fuller.Camptonville, Galena Ilill, Young's Hill, Indian Hill, Indian Valley and Railroad iil, SPERO ANDERSON, George Theall.Forest City, Alleghanytown, Chips’ . A-A-Se_ HAVING RETURNED from Frazer river Flat and Minnessota. tog) and purchaset the above establishment, reMr. Drake, .. sengeeecsseinapehaapnnseroineaboserss Sweetland spectfully informs his friends and the public @urdy & Co..< ers ae ee = that he intends to Keepa fine TeiP, Fisher Rav Francisco . Wholesale and Retail Stock WRandal & Lassiter....-sssrcssessssceee : sarees wesOP ace M. Samuelson... ebSsdcboneisoscessbencnesskrench Corral . aron on Wines and Liquors; Ale, Per; pkg ter, Beer, Cider. Professional, CHAMPAIGN, ee ————Eeeeeeeeeeeeee ee SYRUPS, CORDIALS, BITTERS, Pure California Wine, CIGARS AND TOBACCO. His BAR will be supplied with the choicest kinds of the abuve articles, and he trusts to maintain his old reputation as the keeper of a first-rate saloon. North San Juan, Nov 6th, 1858. 12tf Fine Old Brandies C. E. HELFRICH, Soda Water Manufacturer, DEALER IN FINE BRANDIES, Wines, Alle, Porter &c. wet San We Brandies, of the following brands: . Old Sazerac, Otard) Jules, Robin & Co., United Vineyards, Martelle,Champatgne, Otard, &c., &c. Philadelphia and Holland Gin, Old Tom, Santa Cruz and Jamaica Rum, Monongahela, Bourbon, Irish and Scotch Whiskey: Heidsick, Schreider and Morizette Champaigne; Port, Sherry, Gingor, Hock, Sauterne Claret Wines. Assorted Case Liquors, and SYRUPS. Ilis extensive stock is now complete in every department, and will be offered at the most R H. FARQUHAR, JUSTICE OF THE e Peace, Bridgeport Township. Office, on Flume :st., 2 doors from Main s_reet, San Juan. 1 tt — O P. STIDGER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, e Notary Public, and Conveyancer. Office on the north side of Main street, one door west of EV. Hatfield's store, oppositethe Pioneer, NORTH SANJUAN Nov. 13, 1857. 1 C. HARVEY, ATTORNEY & COUNe sellor at Law. Office’ at the Union Metel, North San Juan. Nevada county. All business appertaining to the Legal profession strictly and faithfully attended to. 32 3m WM. F. ANDERSON, WM. H. MARTIN. ANDERSON & MARTIN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, => Office, corner of Commercial and Pine streets, near the Court House, NEVADA CITY. 1otf teweee eeeereccseree ciiideaisemmenwbindne cecceentell t+ Maumee “\McCONNELL & NILES, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, trict, and in the Supreme Court. 21 3m A Card. Reasonable Prices. .o° WM. RANDALL, San Juan North, Nov. 17, 1857. [1 Sm] SURGEON, = =e 5 CG. SCHARDIN & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Wines, Liquors, Cigarsand To= bacco. Also— a general assortment of FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS, Main “street, North San Juan. North San Juan, March 4th, *59. 29ti M. VROOMAN, M. D., ‘Physician, Surgeon Accoucheur. Office at the San Juan Drug Store, Main street, North San Juan, Nevada county. And Confectionery. March 17, 757. 31 qy : SOUTH SIDE OF MA.N STREET. C. WILSON HILL, North San Juan, Nov. 17, 1857. fi tf] Attorney at Law, “WILL attend promptly to all business confided to his care in Nevada and adjoining counties. Office — In Abbott's Building, NEVADA. tf16 WM. EICHELROTH, German Physician and Accoucheur, (Deutscher Arst.) ER Residence, corner Flume and San Francisco strats, 105m* North San Juan, W. A. KITTREDGE, M. D. MWéore’s Flat, Nevada Co., Cal. OFFERS his services to the public as a Physician and Surgeon. : “re 4a Special attention given to all dietanes requiring surgical aid. FE Business Garis. "SAM. ABBEY, News Agent and Expressman. Runs a Daily Express from North San Juan to Sebastopal, Sweetviakéd, Birch ville and French Corral. California and Atlantic Papers for Sale. J. E. FULLER, EXPRESSMAN AND GENERAL AGENT, Runs a Daily Express from amptonville to Galena Hill, Young’s Hill, Indiwoe till, Indéan Valley, and Railroad Hill. California Dailies and Weeklies, and Atlantic papers and periodicals delivered promptly. Agent for the Hydraulic Press. &gp-Cvilections made. eiioidiiinin noma ggh gh — a ——lerkegh et GEORGE THEALL, Expressman and General Agent. Runs a Daily Express from t City to Alleghanytown, Chips’ wawe ‘4 Fiat and Minnesota. ai as @e-Californiaand Atlantic Newspapers and Magazines on hand and delivered th order. -@& wr Agent for THE HYDRAULIC PRESS. J. W. SULLIVAN'S GREAT PACIFIC EMPORIUM, AND General Agency of Periodical Literature, AND SOLE AGENT FOR ma “THE CALIFORNIA TRUE DELTA : California Boston Journal, Missouri Republican, Cincinnaiti Commercial, N. ¥. Courier des Etats Unis, New York Herald, Tribune and Times. e &c., &., &c. WASHINGTON STRET, NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE, San Francisco. GUSTAVE HANSEN, ° SEWELLER, WATCHMAKER, AND BUWSESRBAVBSR. : . located in th and ned his shop on he a Cheap John’s, where he will always be found, ready to give rompt attention to all business entrusted to care.— avery kind of Jewelry. manufactured, and all dlieghany Saloon. BILLIARDS! BILLIARDS! FORD & SPENC R NFORM < the lovers of this noble game that they will find at their Saloon ia Alleghanytown, Two Marble Bed Billiard Tables, which are in excellent condition. The Bar Ts always stocked with the ‘best Wines, Liquors and; The proprietors will a'so spreada Free Lunch Every Night! Alleghanytown, Oct. 25, 1858. Gumber Dealers. RRARA Ree Lumber, Lumber? HE undersigned take this opportunity to inform the public that they have recently purchased of French & Sawyer, their new and splendid steam sawmill, situated at Central Ranch, near San Juan, where they are now prepared tofurnish on the shortest notice Sluice and Building Lumber, and Blocks of all kinds. All Orders satisfactorily filled and promptly delivered. i J. F. CLARK, J. B. JOHNSON. Central Ranch, April Sth, 1858. 21 tf LUMBER! LUMBER!! HE PROPRIETORS OF THE North San Juan Saw-Mill take this opportunity to inform the public that they have recently purchased the above-named property, which has been refitted at great expense, and that they are now prepared to furnish Sluice and Building Lumber, And Blocks of all kinds, on short notice. All orders satisfactorily filled and promptly delivered. Wo. H. SEARS.,..Agent. January Ist, 1858. tf NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS! AT Franchere’s Stationery Depot HIE subscriber has just received from New York, direct, a choice. stock of Varieties in his line of business. Amongst other things he hasa lot of Rodgers’ Pocket Cutlery, Dirks, Rodgers’ Scissors, Revolvers, Silver Teaspoons < and Thimbles, Fancy Pipes; Genuine Havana Cigars, which he will warrant as such. A handsome collection of Gift Books, Valentines! Valentines!! Valentines!!! Of every variety, from the broadly comic to the deeply sentimental, from the side-splitting to the heart bursting. : A-fine assortment of French Tinted Studios. @R_ The public are invited to call atthe Post-Office Building and examine fcr themselves. 24tf —~ ninds of Engraving, and Ornamental, done in ALL at 8. \ if you wan Watches carefully and warran . @ ) PICTURESTHAT-ARE. a Sf . 5 ego asta ieeconeed Sacramento Druggists. . The Rydeanlic Press, R. H. McDONALD & CO., IMPORTING And Wholegale Druggists. 3 ! a 2 mH _ e ag vs 53 Diag =s S95 PeMenea = > Cie SACRAMENTO. Que R.A. McDonald&Co. & WHOLESALE Importing Drugsists, Dental and Surgical Instruments, Perfumery, Fancy Articles, Paints and Oils, Brushes, Camphene Lamps, Machine and Pure Lard Oils, Hops, Brewers Materials, &c., &c. 139, J street, Sacramento. PATENT MEDICINES. Eare Agents for California for the following valuable preparations: Jaynes? Alterative, Expectorant, Hair Tonic, Vermifuge and Pills. Sands? Sarsaparilla, Peruvian Febrifuge, Clove Anodyne, and Roman Eye Balsam. Dr. Moffat’s Pills and Bitters. Ayres?’ Pectoraland Pills. Wistar’s Balsam Wild Cherry. Greene’s Oxygenated Bitters—all of which we offer for sale at very near New York Prices. KR. 1. McDONALD &C0., Druggists. Sacramento, Perfumery! Perfumery! Wi are Agents for the celebrated Perfumery House of Jules Hauel & Co., Philadelphia, and have a large stock of their excellent preparations on hand for sale at reasonable prices. R. H. McDONALD & CO., Druggists, No. 139 J Street, Sacramento. HOPS! HOPS! HOPS! Eare now receiving a fine lot of 1858 Hops, to which we invite the attention of Brewers. R. H. McDONALD & CO. Druggists, Sacramento, Radical Cure Trusses. HERE is no longer doubt about the cure of HERNIA by the use of Dr. Marsh’s Radical Cure Truss. We have just received a good supply, the first ever brought to this city and invite all interested to call and examine this new and valuable improvement. R. H. McDONALD & CO, Druggists, Sacramento, Cal. Crucibles and Retorts. E have on hand a large assortment of Black Lead ‘wnd Hessian Sand Crucibles of all sizes. also superior Iron Retorts, which we offer at reasonable prices. R. H. McDONALD & CO., Druggists, Sacramento. Large Iron Mortars. E have &G large Iron Mortars for sale. R. Hi. McDONALD & CO., Druggists, Sacramento. Camphene, Fresh Distilled! LWAYS on hand for sale at the lowest market rates, by R. 1. McDONALD & CO. Druggists, Sacramento, URE LARD OIL, Machine Oil, Sperm Oil, ; and Refine Polar Oil, for sale low, by R. H. McDONALD & CO., Druggists. Chemicals! Chemicals! E have received per last steamer, direct from the Chemical Laboratory of Power & Weightman, Philadelphia, 400 Bottles Strychnine, 7% Ounces Nitra Silver, pure. 25 Ounces Sulphate Morphine, 108 Ounces Iodyne Mercury, Lead, and From. We have also on hand for sale, 200 Ounces Quinine, 7S Pounds Iodide Potassa, 80 Pounds Chloroform, 750 Pounds spts. Nitre, Aq. Ammonia, and sulphuric Eth>r. R. H. McDONALD & CO. Druggists, 159, J street, Sacramento. CORKS! CORKS! CORKS! UST reccived from New York. 100,006 superior Soda Corks. 50,000 superior Wine Corks. 1,000 Gross Vial Corks, assorted sizes. Beer Keg Corks. &c., &c., for sale low, by R. H. McDONALD & Co. 33—3m cpw Druggists, Sacramento. Tin and Hardware Store: . Stoves, Hardware, . COOK STOVES, PARLOR STOVES, BOX STOVES, HOSE PIPES, . A general assortment of. Titnware, SHELF-HAKOWARE, CUTLERY, BUILDERS’ HARDWARE, rgILS, 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 strect. «North San Juan, Nov. 17,1857. 1tf CONSTABLE’S SALE. State of California, ge of Nevada, Township of re t. Y virtue of twoexecutions to me delivered, issued from the Court of R. H. Farquhar, Esq., an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, to satisfy twojudgments rendered by said court, on the 7th day of April, A. D. 1859, one for the sum of $211 and 82 cents, in favor of W. HL. Sears, and against Dennis Hennessey, John Madden, Jas. Ryan, Patrick Dwyer and Wm. Roach, of the Tennessee Company, and the other forthe sum of $76 and 68 cents, in favor of W. If Sears & Co., of the San Juan Mill Co. and against Dennis Iennessey, John Madden, James Ryan Patrick Dwyer and Wm. Roach of the Tennessee Co. I have taken in execution and shall expose for sale at publicauction. between the hours of 10 o’cleck A. M. and 2p M.,on SATURDAY, the 30th day, of April, 4. p. 1859, at North Saa Juan. in Bridgeport Township, in front of the office of R, H. Farquhar, Esq., the following described property. to-wit: All the right, title and interest of Dennis Hennessey, John Madden, Jas. Ryan, Patrick Dwyer and Wm. Roach in and te certain mining claims’ situated in Sweetland Mining District, and known as the Tennessee company’s claims. Also, all the right; title: and interest of said defendants in and fo the pipe, hydraulic, sluites; blocks ‘and quicksilver, one blacksmith bellows and anvil, taken as the property. of said: defendants to sa the'dbove two judgments and costs. Juan, April 9th, A. D, 1859, North San 35 . State, having its headquarters at Los Anges . have sunk seVeral fine wells on the Colorado iY Ecesceascasteecaninamianeaaesameitemet emtamnata B. P. AVERY. EDITOR. _ ‘BRIEF MENTION. ‘Thete is said to be an organization in this les, and acting under the countenance of Gov. Pesqueira, of Sonora, the object of! which is to induce native Californians to remove to Sonora. The silver mines of Arizona are beginning to attract great attention in the Atlantic States, and several new companies are forming to explore and labor throughout the country. The Sopori Company, of Provi= dence, Rhode Island, Will soon commence operations With a strong force and a capital of one million dollars. The “Southern Overlatd Mail Company Desert, in each case finding water at a depth of about fifty feet. The Overland Mail which arrived at San Francisco on the 12th inst., brought letters from Boston post-marked March 18th, being only twenty-five days—the speediest land conveyance yet. It is reported that Butterfield intends shortly to bring the mail thro’ in fifteen days, on horseback. The California Farmer thinks the delivery of regular lectures on agriculture should be provided for by the State Agricultural Society: Public lectures of that kind would certainly prove very useful. Fredetick Miller has commenced a stercotype and electrotype foundry in Sacramento, and is prepared to ‘do everything in his line, as we learn from the Standard. The Sterra Citizen says that the came will soon be introduced into this State and tried . asa common carrier. A company is being formed for the Purpose, unde? the direction of Jno. FE. Ager, of Downieville, who, during the last few years, has been collecting information respecting the camel, and determining upon a plan of at least trying the renowned animal in California. It might be made available for the transportation of overland mails. cae eaaeenigiineee enamine Gesnenenacgegistaenag initia sssshnseesspnaeepnnemes-svan -spsihinneeesensmnstensanisionent & ste The Chief Engineer of the projected San José railroad, estimates that the total cost of the road when finished will be a®out $1,700,000. The bill for calling a Constitutional Convention has received the Approval of the Governor. The contract for the first section of the great Southern Pacific and Atlantic Tele; graph, from San José to Los Angeles, has been closed, and will be prosecuted with vigor, to completion. Mr. Gordon of Yolo county has nine stands of honey bees. Four or five of the hives had, by the first day of this month, filled 2 surplus box each, containing eight or ten pounds of honey. The Auburn Jerald says the primary steps towards the organization of a railroad at that place have been taken. Garrison’s opposition steamers are still kept running at low rates of passage. Chambers has now in successful operation at Sacramento his apparatus for extracting gold from quartz tailings. He charges $100 per ton for testing. A correspondent of the Marysville Democrat says he saw the chain gang occupying the or. chestra seats at the theater one evening last week, and doesn’t know what to make of it. The Sonoma Journal learns that extensive Indian killing has been, and still is occurring in the vicinity of Round Valley. Witliin the past three weeks frem three to four hundred bucks, squaws and children have been killed by the whites. Cause—stock stealing and resistance to Reservation officials. A mammoth Anaconda, twenty-four feet long, was brought to this State on the last steamer as a curiosity. Gwin, Broderick, Denver and McKibben all arrived on the Sonora. Lively times in the political world are predicted. A rich deposit of coal has been discovered near Crescent City, in Del Norte county, and a cempany has been organized to work it. Good coal mines are a great desideratum in California, and it is really to be hoped they will yet be found. All reports of their discovery heretofore have proved baseless, or sprang from very slight ground of fact. The party of men who started for the Colorado river with supplies for Lieut. Beal, were opposed by the Mojave Indians, and at last accounts had been prevented from crossing the river. The party numbers forty men. They had a conflict with four hundred of the Mojaves, many of whom they killed and The Placer Courier, which paper has been published at Yankee Jims, is to. he removed to the:town of Forest.Hill., (6. cen.) Paul K. Habbs, the former able State Sup. intendent of Public aduciog eae wy me toe Ry Sep . circumstances. GR NORTH SAN JUAN, NEVADA CO., SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1859. A SIGN OF PROSPERITY. It has been customary in California for several years past to deplore the steady flow of gold from our State as the source of great evils. Even in the earliest times, when we had no agriculture and manufactures of our own deserving mention—when, in fact, we produced nothing for exportation but ‘gold, it was ‘tommon to bewail pathetically the constant outflow of the precious metal, as though it were our very life-blood leaving us, and as though we were not receiving as near an equivalent as was possible under the This has formed a chronic complaint of the newspaper press, to believe which it would be supposed all California ; needed to make her prosperous and endow her with a permanent, virtuous population, was the retention of the gold crop in her own midst. In spite of these lamentations, the laws of trade continued to control the matter, and to work their own sure results. So long as mining was the most remunera= tive occupation, the majority of the adventurers wh¢ came hither persevered im it, and the gold they realized was exchanged for such staples of food and clothing as were needed and could only be obtained out of the country. Hence these articles commanded high prices, and as mining became less generally remunerative people began to abandon it for other pursuits More certain to,reward them. Many were induced to cultivate the soil, as the most easy way of realizing fortune, and their labor soon produced at home those articles of food formerly brought at such cost from abroad. As a conseaitence, the gold shipments for the last three or four years show a marked decrease, not because less gold has been extracted from the mines, but chiefly because we are becoming selfsustaining, and the wealth we earn is invested where we earn it. In 1853 the amount ‘of goid shipped from the State as per manifests, was nearly fifty-eight millions. Last year the shipment had decreased more than ten millions. This was partly occasioned by the Fraser river exodus, buta steady decrease is proved by the fact that there was a considerable falling off in the shipments of previous years, amounting in the aggregate to about five per cent. If it were possible to obtain correct statistics of the gold taken home by passengers, no doubt a greater proportionate decrease than this could be exhibited. The majority of those who have succeeded here, after a brief visit to their old homes return contented to their adopted ones, and invest their means in the development of new sources of wealth. The gold that formerly went East to support absent families, now builds fixed homes for those families on the Pacific. The grain fields and vineyards ofthe State are rapidly advancing to rivalry with the mining interest, while that interest itself has acquired more stability and contributes something directly to the welfare of the country. The desideratum so long prayed for is thus being realized. The gold crop is going more and more to out oWnenrichment, tothe development of healthful and vatied forms of industry, and to the consolidation of public and private interests heretofore too widely separated., That the gold will cease leaying the State is not possible nor desirable; but that we shall hereafter be able to retain enough of it to secure our own prosperity is a most encouraging certainty. ImmENSE Liprartes.—The Edinburgh Review gives a list of the largest European libraries, from which it appears that the Imperial Library of Paris contains 800,000 volumes ; the British Museum 560,000 ; Impertiai Pub lic Library of St. Petersburgh 520,000 ; Royal Library at Berlin 500,000; Royal Library at Munich 480,000; Royal Library at Copenhagen 410,000; Imperial Library at Vienna 365,000; University Library at Gottengen’ 360,000; Royal Library at Breslau 350,000; Royal Public Library at Dresden 305,000.— The Library of the British Museum is said to contain a greater proportion of really valuable books than the Paris Imperial Library, to which it is nextin size. The catalogue alone, which is not yet completed, occupies 997 volumes, and will embrace when completed in three or four years more, a million entries, allowing the present rate of increase to continue. These entries will have occupied the entire energies of a large staff of librarians and transcribing clerks, during six hours a day, for just a quarter of a century. The department of American books alone, is said to number 30,000 volumes—a fuller collection than can be found in America. The titles of works by or about Shakespeare or Luther occupy three volumes; Horace'or Erasmus one volume ; and from this fact it is inferred that the proportions of universal printed literature directly occupied by those writers are respectively about one in seven hundred, one in‘a thousand; and one in two thousand. The Museumcontains somewhere about one fourth of extant liter” The latest’ news from the mines’ in British Columbia is of a mére favorable character. The gold dust received at San Francisco by a single arrival amounted to upwards of PRESS, EE EE SL VOL. I. NO. 36 For the Press, Spring-Time Moonlight. There’s a charm in the spring-time moonlight In a fairy land like ours, Where the evening breezes come laden With the breath.of countless flowers. . The tropical heat of the daylight Departs with the sun at eve, And our languid beings a portion Of fire grateful dews receive. Deep is the sky above us, Brightly a few stars shine; Soft in the hazy distance The mountains’ graceful line. The orchard-oaks that offered Their shade the burning day, Now dimly show, yet lovely, Beneath the spring-moon‘s ray.? There’s a charm in the spring-time moonlight When nightly voices are heard, When the blended chirping of crickets Succeéds the song of the bird. The grass-loving streamlets that wander Through blossoms of golden dye, Now break their melodious rippling Through the noisy peepers’ cry. Cool is the air that fans us, Pleasant the sounds we hear,— Musical im their union They fall upon tho ear. : The teeming earth that lavished Its blossoms on the day, Is humid now and silvery, Beneath the spring-moon’s ray. There's a charm ff thé Spring-time moonlight That the soul delighted feels, When the loveliness all aroand her To her purity appeals.— Listen now to the plaintive wailing That comes from the forest’s shade, Where the naked Indians are ¢ircling Their camp fire in the glade — How sad #s that lonely note! All other sounds seem mute, + As if they vere hushed by the spéll Of that simple Indian flute. Now it Wails liké woman’s voice, All eloquent of woe ;— Ob Why should a thing this slight Disturb the spirit so? There’s a charm in the spring-time moonlight That is felt without our Will; That says to all baser emotions Which stir us—“peace, be still!” The soul is sablimed to a feeling Of love for the goud alon®, Exalted to thoughts and desires At other seasons unknown. All that the moonlight falls of, All sounds the ears receive, Ope the soul like a blossom That opens only at eve.— But now ‘tis quiet wholly, The camp fire, quenched in night, Disturbs the rain no longer Of the mellow spring moonlight. —. _. Curious Insurance Schemes, at The nineteenth century has been pronounced an age pre-cminently speculative, but if we mean by speculation a class of visionary schemes built by enthusiasm upon airy hopes resulting in nothing real but disappointment, the last century better deserves the name of speculative than the present one. The nineteenth century has nothing to show like the famous Mississippi scheme, and the South Sea bubble, which are too well known to need more than this mere reference; nor can it exhibit any such wild schemes, receiving so much of public; atten. tion, as the many curious gambling projects. which attended the first establishment of life assurance offices. According to a writer in the Edinburgh Review, a perfect mania prevailed in London, at the beginning of the past century, on the subject of life assurance. Almost every street abounded with insurance offices, where policies might be obtained for short periods on infants three. months old, or every age above that and on every description of persons. The agents, or runners, of these prolific institutions were so plentiful and pertinacious as to prove a public pest and excite the ire of cotemporary satirists. But the people themselves. were infected. “Every conceivable kind of speculation,” says the writer above referred’ to, “was carried on under the title of ‘Insurance Wagers.’ Some of these establish» ments wagered £30 against £100 that King William the Third (who was then carrying on a War with France) would not reduce the city of Namur before a given date ; others wagered on the period of favor to be enjoyed by the mistress ef some former potentate; and wagers were actually laid on the sex ef the notorious Chevalier D’Eon) as to’ whether he was a male, as he pretended to be, or a female,as he was reputed to be. A common stake at hazard was the duration of the lives of persons believed to be upon their death-beds; nor was the author of ‘Every Man his own Brother’ very far wrong when he declared, that the decease of persons was. hastened when they saw themselves insured in the public papers at 90 per cent.” Poli¢ies were openly offered on the lives of public characters, upon the life of even royalty, itself; upon various political contingencies ; upon Jno. Wilkes remaining in prison one year, and upon two of the first peers it Britain losing their heads! There were schemes also “for insuring against honse-. breakers and highwaymen ; against lying,or death by drinking gin; for dealing in hops; for a flying machine, for insuring of. hotisés, &c. Large sums were paid by the underwriters at Lloyd’s, who speculated upon the failare of a young man who had undertaken for a wager to go to Lapland, and bring back within a. gives time two. rein-deer and two’ Lapland females—and he brought them all. But the climax “of impudence was reached! during the era of the South Sea Bubble, by scheme in ’Change Alley for the insurance of female chastity, and by another against ' ee Sn 6 ERA EDT Ee ee ee WMA gREne vile ae

eee -J. BR. M’CONNELL,..20000 “Will practice in all the Courts of the 14th Judicial Dis-Orrice—Kidd’s Brick Building, up stairs. pero <a ED RTE et aniline ae myst a stan THE_WYDRATHAC ——___________BY AVERY & WATERS. THE HYDRAULIC PRESS. . Is PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY AVERY & WATERS. ‘Rae Office on Main street, adjoining the Drug Store.“@a Wines and Liquors. BILLIARDS, 25 CTS. AGAME! San Juan Exchange TERMS: Bits C. SCHARDIN & CO., YNVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. AVING purchased the interest of 12 Months, $5 00; 6 Months, $3 00; 3 Months, $2 00. Hin Woods in the above San Juan Exchange.and made large additions and improvements, the Saloon ‘ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the follow. now compares favorably with any in the Mountains. “ing rates: One square (ten lines) $3 00; each subseThree Billiard Tables, quent insertion, half price. A liberal deduction will Ib firstste order—two of them new Marble Beds be made to thore who advertise regularly. and eqiai to any th the State. Whe wood bed is the fa. : vorite of theplace. _. F TroB PRIN TIN Gc. It isthe intention ofthe proprietor to ‘use every exerSecceeebe tion to make the Exchaige the favorite resort of all In'conhnection with the Newspaper is a complete Job . seckers of healthy pleasurable exeréise. Office, and ah experience of 20 years in the various branches of the business, is a sufficient guarantee. . : THE BAR will be furnished with the very best that all work entrusted to us will be WELL DONE. aa~ NO WORK DELIVERED UNTIL PAID FOR. WINES AND LIQUORS To be had in the San Francisco Market, and no pains Agents: will be spared to make everything pleasant and attracThe following gentlemen are authorized agents for tive. 1 this paper : « Thomas Hannah,...... wiedvdeses sobesedecsceseoedsCNODOKOS P ioneer S a l oon. J. E. Fuller..Camptonville, Galena Ilill, Young's Hill, Indian Hill, Indian Valley and Railroad iil, SPERO ANDERSON, George Theall..Forest City, Alleghanytown, Chips’ . A-A-Se_ HAVING RETURNED from Frazer river Flat and Minnessota. tog) and purchaset the above establishment, reMr. Drake, .... sengeeecsseinapehaapnnseroineaboserss Sweetland spectfully informs his friends and the public @urdy & Co...< ers ae ee = that he intends to Keepa fine TeiP, Fisher Rav Francisco . Wholesale and Retail Stock WRandal & Lassiter.......-sssrcssessssceee : sarees wesOP ace M. Samuelson..... ebSsdcboneisoscessbencnesskrench Corral . aron on Wines and Liquors; Ale, Per; pkg ter, Beer, Cider. Professional, CHAMPAIGN, ee ————Eeeeeeeeeeeeee ee SYRUPS, CORDIALS, BITTERS, Pure California Wine, CIGARS AND TOBACCO. His BAR will be supplied with the choicest kinds of the abuve articles, and he trusts to maintain his old reputation as the keeper of a first-rate saloon. North San Juan, Nov 6th, 1858. 12tf Fine Old Brandies C. E. HELFRICH, Soda Water Manufacturer, DEALER IN FINE BRANDIES, Wines, Alle, Porter &c. wet San We Brandies, of the following brands: . Old Sazerac, Otard) Jules, Robin & Co., United Vineyards, Martelle,Champatgne, Otard, &c., &c. Philadelphia and Holland Gin, Old Tom, Santa Cruz and Jamaica Rum, Monongahela, Bourbon, Irish and Scotch Whiskey: Heidsick, Schreider and Morizette Champaigne; Port, Sherry, Gingor, Hock, Sauterne Claret Wines. Assorted Case Liquors, and SYRUPS. Ilis extensive stock is now complete in every department, and will be offered at the most R H. FARQUHAR, JUSTICE OF THE e Peace, Bridgeport Township. Office, on Flume :st., 2 doors from Main s_reet, San Juan. 1 tt — O P. STIDGER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, e Notary Public, and Conveyancer. Office on the north side of Main street, one door west of EV. Hatfield's store, oppositethe Pioneer, NORTH SANJUAN Nov. 13, 1857. 1 C. HARVEY, ATTORNEY & COUNe sellor at Law. Office’ at the Union Metel, North San Juan. Nevada county. All business appertaining to the Legal profession strictly and faithfully attended to. 32 3m WM. F. ANDERSON, WM. H. MARTIN. ANDERSON & MARTIN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, => Office, corner of Commercial and Pine streets, near the Court House, NEVADA CITY. 1otf teweee eeeereccseree ciiideaisemmenwbindne cecceentell t+ Maumee “\McCONNELL & NILES, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, trict, and in the Supreme Court. 21 3m A Card. Reasonable Prices. .o° WM. RANDALL, San Juan North, Nov. 17, 1857. [1 Sm] SURGEON, = =e 5 CG. SCHARDIN & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Wines, Liquors, Cigarsand To= bacco. Also— a general assortment of FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS, Main “street, North San Juan. North San Juan, March 4th, *59. 29ti M. VROOMAN, M. D., ‘Physician, Surgeon Accoucheur. Office at the San Juan Drug Store, Main street, North San Juan, Nevada county. And Confectionery. March 17, 757. 31 qy : SOUTH SIDE OF MA.N STREET. C. WILSON HILL, North San Juan, Nov. 17, 1857. fi tf] Attorney at Law, “WILL attend promptly to all business confided to his care in Nevada and adjoining counties. Office — In Abbott's Building, NEVADA. tf16 WM. EICHELROTH, German Physician and Accoucheur, (Deutscher Arst.) ER Residence, corner Flume and San Francisco strats, 105m* North San Juan, W. A. KITTREDGE, M. D. MWéore’s Flat, Nevada Co., Cal. OFFERS his services to the public as a Physician and Surgeon. : “re 4a Special attention given to all dietanes requiring surgical aid. FE Business Garis. "SAM. ABBEY, News Agent and Expressman. Runs a Daily Express from North San Juan to Sebastopal, Sweetviakéd, Birch ville and French Corral. California and Atlantic Papers for Sale. J. E. FULLER, EXPRESSMAN AND GENERAL AGENT, Runs a Daily Express from amptonville to Galena Hill, Young’s Hill, Indiwoe till, Indéan Valley, and Railroad Hill. California Dailies and Weeklies, and Atlantic papers and periodicals delivered promptly. Agent for the Hydraulic Press. &gp-Cvilections made. eiioidiiinin noma ggh gh — a ——lerkegh et GEORGE THEALL, Expressman and General Agent. Runs a Daily Express from t City to Alleghanytown, Chips’ wawe ‘4 Fiat and Minnesota. ai as @e-Californiaand Atlantic Newspapers and Magazines on hand and delivered th order. -@& wr Agent for THE HYDRAULIC PRESS. J. W. SULLIVAN'S GREAT PACIFIC EMPORIUM, AND General Agency of Periodical Literature, AND SOLE AGENT FOR ma “THE CALIFORNIA TRUE DELTA : California Boston Journal, Missouri Republican, Cincinnaiti Commercial, N. ¥. Courier des Etats Unis, New York Herald, Tribune and Times. e &c., &., &c. WASHINGTON STRET, NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE, San Francisco. GUSTAVE HANSEN, ° SEWELLER, WATCHMAKER, AND BUWSESRBAVBSR. : . located in th and ned his shop on he a Cheap John’s, where he will always be found, ready to give rompt attention to all business entrusted to care.— avery kind of Jewelry. manufactured, and all dlieghany Saloon. BILLIARDS! BILLIARDS! FORD & SPENC R NFORM < the lovers of this noble game that they will find at their Saloon ia Alleghanytown, Two Marble Bed Billiard Tables, which are in excellent condition. The Bar Ts always stocked with the ‘best Wines, Liquors and; The proprietors will a'so spreada Free Lunch Every Night! Alleghanytown, Oct. 25, 1858. Gumber Dealers. RRARA Ree Lumber, Lumber? HE undersigned take this opportunity to inform the public that they have recently purchased of French & Sawyer, their new and splendid steam sawmill, situated at Central Ranch, near San Juan, where they are now prepared tofurnish on the shortest notice Sluice and Building Lumber, and Blocks of all kinds. All Orders satisfactorily filled and promptly delivered. i J. F. CLARK, J. B. JOHNSON. Central Ranch, April Sth, 1858. 21 tf LUMBER! LUMBER!! HE PROPRIETORS OF THE North San Juan Saw-Mill take this opportunity to inform the public that they have recently purchased the above-named property, which has been refitted at great expense, and that they are now prepared to furnish Sluice and Building Lumber, And Blocks of all kinds, on short notice. All orders satisfactorily filled and promptly delivered. Wo. H. SEARS.,...Agent. January Ist, 1858. tf NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS! AT Franchere’s Stationery Depot HIE subscriber has just received from New York, direct, a choice. stock of Varieties in his line of business. Amongst other things he hasa lot of Rodgers’ Pocket Cutlery, Dirks, Rodgers’ Scissors, Revolvers, Silver Teaspoons < and Thimbles, Fancy Pipes; Genuine Havana Cigars, which he will warrant as such. A handsome collection of Gift Books, Valentines! Valentines!! Valentines!!! Of every variety, from the broadly comic to the deeply sentimental, from the side-splitting to the heart bursting. : A-fine assortment of French Tinted Studios. @R_ The public are invited to call atthe Post-Office Building and examine fcr themselves.. 24tf —~ ninds of Engraving, and Ornamental, done in ALL at 8. \ if you wan Watches carefully and warran . @ ) PICTURESTHAT-ARE. a Sf . 5 ego asta ieeconeed Sacramento Druggists. . The Rydeanlic Press, R. H. McDONALD & CO., IMPORTING And Wholegale Druggists. 3 ! a 2 mH _ e ag vs 53 Diag =s S95 PeMenea = > Cie SACRAMENTO. Que R.A. McDonald&Co. & WHOLESALE Importing Drugsists, Dental and Surgical Instruments, Perfumery, Fancy Articles, Paints and Oils, Brushes, Camphene Lamps, Machine and Pure Lard Oils, Hops, Brewers Materials, &c., &c. 139, J street, Sacramento. PATENT MEDICINES. Eare Agents for California for the following valuable preparations: Jaynes? Alterative, Expectorant, Hair Tonic, Vermifuge and Pills. Sands? Sarsaparilla, Peruvian Febrifuge, Clove Anodyne, and Roman Eye Balsam. Dr. Moffat’s Pills and Bitters. Ayres?’ Pectoraland Pills. Wistar’s Balsam Wild Cherry. Greene’s Oxygenated Bitters—all of which we offer for sale at very near New York Prices. KR. 1. McDONALD &C0., Druggists. Sacramento, Perfumery! Perfumery! Wi are Agents for the celebrated Perfumery House of Jules Hauel & Co., Philadelphia, and have a large stock of their excellent preparations on hand for sale at reasonable prices. R. H. McDONALD & CO., Druggists, No. 139 J Street, Sacramento. HOPS! HOPS! HOPS! Eare now receiving a fine lot of 1858 Hops, to which we invite the attention of Brewers. R. H. McDONALD & CO. Druggists, Sacramento, Radical Cure Trusses. HERE is no longer doubt about the cure of HERNIA by the use of Dr. Marsh’s Radical Cure Truss. We have just received a good supply, the first ever brought to this city and invite all interested to call and examine this new and valuable improvement. R. H. McDONALD & CO, Druggists, Sacramento, Cal. Crucibles and Retorts. E have on hand a large assortment of Black Lead ‘wnd Hessian Sand Crucibles of all sizes. also superior Iron Retorts, which we offer at reasonable prices. R. H. McDONALD & CO., Druggists, Sacramento. Large Iron Mortars. E have &G large Iron Mortars for sale. R. Hi. McDONALD & CO., Druggists, Sacramento. Camphene, Fresh Distilled! LWAYS on hand for sale at the lowest market rates, by R. 1. McDONALD & CO. Druggists, Sacramento, URE LARD OIL, Machine Oil, Sperm Oil, ; and Refine Polar Oil, for sale low, by R. H. McDONALD & CO., Druggists. Chemicals! Chemicals! E have received per last steamer, direct from the Chemical Laboratory of Power & Weightman, Philadelphia, 400 Bottles Strychnine, 7% Ounces Nitra Silver, pure. 25 Ounces Sulphate Morphine, 108 Ounces Iodyne Mercury, Lead, and From. We have also on hand for sale, 200 Ounces Quinine, 7S Pounds Iodide Potassa, 80 Pounds Chloroform, 750 Pounds spts. Nitre, Aq. Ammonia, and sulphuric Eth>r. R. H. McDONALD & CO. Druggists, 159, J street, Sacramento. CORKS! CORKS! CORKS! UST reccived from New York. 100,006 superior Soda Corks. 50,000 superior Wine Corks. 1,000 Gross Vial Corks, assorted sizes. Beer Keg Corks. &c., &c., for sale low, by R. H. McDONALD & Co. 33—3m cpw Druggists, Sacramento. Tin and Hardware Store: . Stoves, Hardware, . COOK STOVES, PARLOR STOVES, BOX STOVES, HOSE PIPES, . A general assortment of.. Titnware, SHELF-HAKOWARE, CUTLERY, BUILDERS’ HARDWARE, rgILS, 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 strect. «North San Juan, Nov. 17,1857. 1tf CONSTABLE’S SALE. State of California, ge of Nevada, Township of re t. Y virtue of twoexecutions to me delivered, issued from the Court of R. H. Farquhar, Esq., an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, to satisfy twojudgments rendered by said court, on the 7th day of April, A. D. 1859, one for the sum of $211 and 82 cents, in favor of W. HL. Sears, and against Dennis Hennessey, John Madden, Jas. Ryan, Patrick Dwyer and Wm. Roach, of the Tennessee Company, and the other forthe sum of $76 and 68 cents, in favor of W. If Sears & Co., of the San Juan Mill Co. and against Dennis Iennessey, John Madden, James Ryan Patrick Dwyer and Wm. Roach of the Tennessee Co. I have taken in execution and shall expose for sale at publicauction. between the hours of 10 o’cleck A. M.

and 2p M.,on SATURDAY, the 30th day, of April, 4. p. 1859, at North Saa Juan. in Bridgeport Township, in front of the office of R, H. Farquhar, Esq., the following described property. to-wit: All the right, title and interest of Dennis Hennessey, John Madden, Jas. Ryan, Patrick Dwyer and Wm. Roach in and te certain mining claims’ situated in Sweetland Mining District, and known as the Tennessee company’s claims. Also, all the right; title: and interest of said defendants in and fo the pipe, hydraulic, sluites; blocks ‘and quicksilver, one blacksmith bellows and anvil, taken as the property. of said: defendants to sa the'dbove two judgments and costs. Juan, April 9th, A. D, 1859, North San 35 . State, having its headquarters at Los Anges . have sunk seVeral fine wells on the Colorado iY Ecesceascasteecaninamianeaaesameitemet emtamnata B. P. AVERY. EDITOR. _ ‘BRIEF MENTION. ‘Thete is said to be an organization in this les, and acting under the countenance of Gov. Pesqueira, of Sonora, the object of! which is to induce native Californians to remove to Sonora. The silver mines of Arizona are beginning to attract great attention in the Atlantic States, and several new companies are forming to explore and labor throughout the country. The Sopori Company, of Provi= dence, Rhode Island, Will soon commence operations With a strong force and a capital of one million dollars. The “Southern Overlatd Mail Company Desert, in each case finding water at a depth of about fifty feet. The Overland Mail which arrived at San Francisco on the 12th inst., brought letters from Boston post-marked March 18th, being only twenty-five days—the speediest land conveyance yet. It is reported that Butterfield intends shortly to bring the mail thro’ in fifteen days, on horseback. The California Farmer thinks the delivery of regular lectures on agriculture should be provided for by the State Agricultural Society: Public lectures of that kind would certainly prove very useful. Fredetick Miller has commenced a stercotype and electrotype foundry in Sacramento, and is prepared to ‘do everything in his line, as we learn from the Standard. The Sterra Citizen says that the came will soon be introduced into this State and tried . asa common carrier. A company is being formed for the Purpose, unde? the direction of Jno. FE. Ager, of Downieville, who, during the last few years, has been collecting information respecting the camel, and determining upon a plan of at least trying the renowned animal in California. It might be made available for the transportation of overland mails. cae eaaeenigiineee enamine Gesnenenacgegistaenag initia sssshnseesspnaeepnnemes-svan -spsihinneeesensmnstensanisionent & ste The Chief Engineer of the projected San José railroad, estimates that the total cost of the road when finished will be a®out $1,700,000. The bill for calling a Constitutional Convention has received the Approval of the Governor. The contract for the first section of the great Southern Pacific and Atlantic Tele; graph, from San José to Los Angeles, has been closed, and will be prosecuted with vigor, to completion. Mr. Gordon of Yolo county has nine stands of honey bees. Four or five of the hives had, by the first day of this month, filled 2 surplus box each, containing eight or ten pounds of honey. The Auburn Jerald says the primary steps towards the organization of a railroad at that place have been taken. Garrison’s opposition steamers are still kept running at low rates of passage. Chambers has now in successful operation at Sacramento his apparatus for extracting gold from quartz tailings. He charges $100 per ton for testing. A correspondent of the Marysville Democrat says he saw the chain gang occupying the or. chestra seats at the theater one evening last week, and doesn’t know what to make of it. The Sonoma Journal learns that extensive Indian killing has been, and still is occurring in the vicinity of Round Valley. Witliin the past three weeks frem three to four hundred bucks, squaws and children have been killed by the whites. Cause—stock stealing and resistance to Reservation officials. A mammoth Anaconda, twenty-four feet long, was brought to this State on the last steamer as a curiosity. Gwin, Broderick, Denver and McKibben all arrived on the Sonora. Lively times in the political world are predicted. A rich deposit of coal has been discovered near Crescent City, in Del Norte county, and a cempany has been organized to work it. Good coal mines are a great desideratum in California, and it is really to be hoped they will yet be found. All reports of their discovery heretofore have proved baseless, or sprang from very slight ground of fact. The party of men who started for the Colorado river with supplies for Lieut. Beal, were opposed by the Mojave Indians, and at last accounts had been prevented from crossing the river. The party numbers forty men. They had a conflict with four hundred of the Mojaves, many of whom they killed and The Placer Courier, which paper has been published at Yankee Jims, is to. he removed to the:town of Forest.Hill., (6. cen.) Paul K. Habbs, the former able State Sup. intendent of Public aduciog eae wy me toe Ry Sep . circumstances. GR NORTH SAN JUAN, NEVADA CO., SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1859. A SIGN OF PROSPERITY. It has been customary in California for several years past to deplore the steady flow of gold from our State as the source of great evils. Even in the earliest times, when we had no agriculture and manufactures of our own deserving mention—when, in fact, we produced nothing for exportation but ‘gold, it was ‘tommon to bewail pathetically the constant outflow of the precious metal, as though it were our very life-blood leaving us, and as though we were not receiving as near an equivalent as was possible under the This has formed a chronic complaint of the newspaper press, to believe which it would be supposed all California ; needed to make her prosperous and endow her with a permanent, virtuous population, was the retention of the gold crop in her own midst. In spite of these lamentations, the laws of trade continued to control the matter, and to work their own sure results. So long as mining was the most remunera= tive occupation, the majority of the adventurers wh¢ came hither persevered im it, and the gold they realized was exchanged for such staples of food and clothing as were needed and could only be obtained out of the country. Hence these articles commanded high prices, and as mining became less generally remunerative people began to abandon it for other pursuits More certain to,reward them. Many were induced to cultivate the soil, as the most easy way of realizing fortune, and their labor soon produced at home those articles of food formerly brought at such cost from abroad. As a conseaitence, the gold shipments for the last three or four years show a marked decrease, not because less gold has been extracted from the mines, but chiefly because we are becoming selfsustaining, and the wealth we earn is invested where we earn it. In 1853 the amount ‘of goid shipped from the State as per manifests, was nearly fifty-eight millions. Last year the shipment had decreased more than ten millions. This was partly occasioned by the Fraser river exodus, buta steady decrease is proved by the fact that there was a considerable falling off in the shipments of previous years, amounting in the aggregate to about five per cent. If it were possible to obtain correct statistics of the gold taken home by passengers, no doubt a greater proportionate decrease than this could be exhibited. The majority of those who have succeeded here, after a brief visit to their old homes return contented to their adopted ones, and invest their means in the development of new sources of wealth. The gold that formerly went East to support absent families, now builds fixed homes for those families on the Pacific. The grain fields and vineyards ofthe State are rapidly advancing to rivalry with the mining interest, while that interest itself has acquired more stability and contributes something directly to the welfare of the country. The desideratum so long prayed for is thus being realized. The gold crop is going more and more to out oWnenrichment, tothe development of healthful and vatied forms of industry, and to the consolidation of public and private interests heretofore too widely separated., That the gold will cease leaying the State is not possible nor desirable; but that we shall hereafter be able to retain enough of it to secure our own prosperity is a most encouraging certainty. ImmENSE Liprartes.—The Edinburgh Review gives a list of the largest European libraries, from which it appears that the Imperial Library of Paris contains 800,000 volumes ; the British Museum 560,000 ; Impertiai Pub lic Library of St. Petersburgh 520,000 ; Royal Library at Berlin 500,000; Royal Library at Munich 480,000; Royal Library at Copenhagen 410,000; Imperial Library at Vienna 365,000; University Library at Gottengen’ 360,000; Royal Library at Breslau 350,000; Royal Public Library at Dresden 305,000.— The Library of the British Museum is said to contain a greater proportion of really valuable books than the Paris Imperial Library, to which it is nextin size. The catalogue alone, which is not yet completed, occupies 997 volumes, and will embrace when completed in three or four years more, a million entries, allowing the present rate of increase to continue. These entries will have occupied the entire energies of a large staff of librarians and transcribing clerks, during six hours a day, for just a quarter of a century. The department of American books alone, is said to number 30,000 volumes—a fuller collection than can be found in America. The titles of works by or about Shakespeare or Luther occupy three volumes; Horace'or Erasmus one volume ; and from this fact it is inferred that the proportions of universal printed literature directly occupied by those writers are respectively about one in seven hundred, one in‘a thousand; and one in two thousand. The Museumcontains somewhere about one fourth of extant liter” The latest’ news from the mines’ in British Columbia is of a mére favorable character. The gold dust received at San Francisco by a single arrival amounted to upwards of PRESS, EE EE SL VOL. I. NO. 36 For the Press, Spring-Time Moonlight. There’s a charm in the spring-time moonlight In a fairy land like ours, Where the evening breezes come laden With the breath.of countless flowers. . The tropical heat of the daylight Departs with the sun at eve, And our languid beings a portion Of fire grateful dews receive. Deep is the sky above us, Brightly a few stars shine; Soft in the hazy distance The mountains’ graceful line. The orchard-oaks that offered Their shade the burning day, Now dimly show, yet lovely, Beneath the spring-moon‘s ray.? There’s a charm in the spring-time moonlight When nightly voices are heard, When the blended chirping of crickets Succeéds the song of the bird. The grass-loving streamlets that wander Through blossoms of golden dye, Now break their melodious rippling Through the noisy peepers’ cry. Cool is the air that fans us, Pleasant the sounds we hear,— Musical im their union They fall upon tho ear. : The teeming earth that lavished Its blossoms on the day, Is humid now and silvery, Beneath the spring-moon’s ray. There's a charm ff thé Spring-time moonlight That the soul delighted feels, When the loveliness all aroand her To her purity appeals.— Listen now to the plaintive wailing That comes from the forest’s shade, Where the naked Indians are ¢ircling Their camp fire in the glade — How sad #s that lonely note! All other sounds seem mute, + As if they vere hushed by the spéll Of that simple Indian flute. Now it Wails liké woman’s voice, All eloquent of woe ;— Ob Why should a thing this slight Disturb the spirit so? There’s a charm in the spring-time moonlight That is felt without our Will; That says to all baser emotions Which stir us—“peace, be still!” The soul is sablimed to a feeling Of love for the goud alon®, Exalted to thoughts and desires At other seasons unknown. All that the moonlight falls of, All sounds the ears receive, Ope the soul like a blossom That opens only at eve.— But now ‘tis quiet wholly, The camp fire, quenched in night, Disturbs the rain no longer Of the mellow spring moonlight. —. _. Curious Insurance Schemes, at The nineteenth century has been pronounced an age pre-cminently speculative, but if we mean by speculation a class of visionary schemes built by enthusiasm upon airy hopes resulting in nothing real but disappointment, the last century better deserves the name of speculative than the present one. The nineteenth century has nothing to show like the famous Mississippi scheme, and the South Sea bubble, which are too well known to need more than this mere reference; nor can it exhibit any such wild schemes, receiving so much of public; atten. tion, as the many curious gambling projects. which attended the first establishment of life assurance offices. According to a writer in the Edinburgh Review, a perfect mania prevailed in London, at the beginning of the past century, on the subject of life assurance. Almost every street abounded with insurance offices, where policies might be obtained for short periods on infants three. months old, or every age above that and on every description of persons. The agents, or runners, of these prolific institutions were so plentiful and pertinacious as to prove a public pest and excite the ire of cotemporary satirists. But the people themselves. were infected. “Every conceivable kind of speculation,” says the writer above referred’ to, “was carried on under the title of ‘Insurance Wagers.’ Some of these establish» ments wagered £30 against £100 that King William the Third (who was then carrying on a War with France) would not reduce the city of Namur before a given date ; others wagered on the period of favor to be enjoyed by the mistress ef some former potentate; and wagers were actually laid on the sex ef the notorious Chevalier D’Eon) as to’ whether he was a male, as he pretended to be, or a female,as he was reputed to be. A common stake at hazard was the duration of the lives of persons believed to be upon their death-beds; nor was the author of ‘Every Man his own Brother’ very far wrong when he declared, that the decease of persons was. hastened when they saw themselves insured in the public papers at 90 per cent.” Poli¢ies were openly offered on the lives of public characters, upon the life of even royalty, itself; upon various political contingencies ; upon Jno. Wilkes remaining in prison one year, and upon two of the first peers it Britain losing their heads! There were schemes also “for insuring against honse-. breakers and highwaymen ; against lying,or death by drinking gin; for dealing in hops; for a flying machine, for insuring of. hotisés, &c. Large sums were paid by the underwriters at Lloyd’s, who speculated upon the failare of a young man who had undertaken for a wager to go to Lapland, and bring back within a. gives time two. rein-deer and two’ Lapland females—and he brought them all. But the climax “of impudence was reached! during the era of the South Sea Bubble, by scheme in ’Change Alley for the insurance of female chastity, and by another against ' ee Sn 6 ERA EDT Ee ee ee WMA gREne vile ae