August 13, 1859 (4 pages)

: 4 Ne ee otc mes es a Pa ey shee enegmermee omy ~anetchineeningpraaneenetiaidane THE en . ag rms eati mane eee HYDRAULIC PRESS. $ BY AVERY & WATERS. THE HYDRAULIC PRESS. . PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING Ra Office on Main street, adjoining the Drug Store.-@& Terms for the Paper. ‘One Year, invariably in advance Six Months, bs Three “ “ “ “ Terms for Advertising. ‘One Square. (12 lines) first insertion,...+.+-+++ subsequent imsertion, ...-.scecsesecneeeeseeeees 1 00 NORTH SAN JUAN, NEVADA CO., SATURDAY, AUG. Wines and Liquors, BILLIARDS, 25 ae eee. AGAME! SAN JUAN EXCHANGE. 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, 4g Business cards not exceeding forr lines of this . tp first-rate order—two of them new Marble Beds ttype, will be inserted four $6 00 a quarter. Garis H. FARQUHAR, JUSTICE OF THE and equal toany in the State. The wood bed is the faWorite of the place. BOWLING. Two splendid Ten-Pin Alleys are attached tothe es tablishment, Well supplied with the perquisites of such an tnstitution. Tt isthe intention of the proprietor to use every exer‘tion to make the Exchange the favorite resort of all R. Peace, Bridgeport Township. Office, a Flume . sockers of healthy pleasurable exercise. ‘st., 2doors from Main 8 reet, San Juan. THE BAR P. STIDGER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, will be furnished with the very best O. Notary Public, aad Conveyancer. Office on the north side of Main street, one door west of EV. HatWINES AND LIQUORS Mield’s store, oppositethe sige NORTH SANJUAN . To be had in the San Francisco Market, and no pains Nov. 13, 1857. C. HARVEY, ATTORNEY & COUN (+ e sellor at Law. Office at the Union Hotel, North San Jnan. Nevada county BR Practices in all or any of the conrts in this State. All business appertaining to the Legal are ‘strictly and faithfally attended to. 2 3m WM. H. MARTIN. WM. F. ANDERSON, NDERSON & MARTIN, at Law. Office, corner of Commercial and Pine streets, near the Court House, NEVADA CITY. 10tf [+ pth aR SEs ES -J. R. M’CONNELL,. .A.C NILES. . that would tempta “Dashaway,’ will be spared to make everything pleasant and attractive. 10 The Corner Cellar. BROWN & REESE HA“ just opened acool retreat in the basement at the corner of Main and Flume streets, especialATTORNEYS ly for the accommodation of thetr friends, and the public generally, during the summer season. if © 14 1D 1) IR I WY I Sy i will be prepared for cCONNELL _ NIL ES. “ATTORNE YS & the thirsty, and for all will be kept a comp'cte assort4 4 > + 4 ‘ Counsellors at Law. will practice in all the Courts of the Mth Judicial District, and in the Supreme Court. Orrice—Kidd’s Brick Building, up stairs. 21 3m WILSON HILL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, e wiilattend promptly toall basiness confided to his. care in Nevada and adjoining counties. Of fice — In Abbott's Building, NEVADA. tf16 VROOMAN, M. D., PHYSICIAN, M eSurgeon, Abcoacleur. Office at the San Juan Drug Store, Main street, Nort’ San — Nevada ee March 17, 759. lqy AM. ABBEY, CAM. ABBEY, NE WS . AG 1D) ENT AND EX— Runs a Daily Express from North San 4uan to Sebastopol, Sweetland, Birchville and French Jorral. Culifornia and Atlantic papers, for sale. EXPRESSMAN AND GENERAL AGENT, Runs a Daily Express from ‘Camptonville to Gudena Hill, Young's TTiN, IndiMill, Indian Vulley. and Railroud Hill. Coltforitietn Mies and Weeklies, and Atlantic papers aud, periodirals delivered promptly Agent for the Hydraulic Presi. &e-Collecti tions made. GEORGE THEA ALL, Expressman and General Agent. Runs a Daily Express from Worest City to Alleghanytown, Chips’ . Flat aud Minnesota. AF CNifornia and Atlantic New=papers and Magazines on hand and delivered to order. @H.-\gent for TIE HYDRAULIC PRESS. J. W. SULLIVAN’S Great Pacific Emporium, And Genval Agency of Periodical Literature, Heraid, Tribune and Times. Mena xt maar to the Post Office, SAN FRANCISCO. GUSTAVE HANSEN, JEW ELLE), WATCHMAKER, AND WHARBA YBBR. HAs: located in this place. and opened his shop on wi And sole Agent for the California True Delta, California Journal, Missouri Republican, Cin: cinnatti Coxmercial. N. ¥. Courier des Etats Unis, New Main street. next dver to Cheap John’s. where he 1 always be found ready to give promptattention to ail business entrusted to his care— ¢ Every kind of Jewelry magufactared, end all s kinds of Engraving, phin ad Ornamental, jenn] in the j neatést style. Watches ea” fully repaired, wad Warran ted. March 29th, "69. 3stf Surveyor’s Office. County . Hivegs Névad da. JOHN L. ater J. —— County Surveyor. A LL pores are aa : Deput Dy cautioned against nie a ing other Surve: usuch as may be depu‘ized from this office.Extrach from the Lang of California. Cuapr. 20, Sec. 3.—No sUry re-sarvey hereafter made by any aunty Surveyor or his ity, shall Levidence in any court within this £ » \JOHN L. GAMBLE. 28tf \County Surveyor. eigen a New aoe ' PECK. & OLE, ee te ‘aud Hardware, Water Boxes be, ‘Ou bend endadet ois ee iM, % %., RANK SMITH, ~ Pete. ee ec FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS, dron and Steel, Galvanized Fron Pipe; ment of the 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 enderstands equally well the art-of dispensing and of pleasing. Drop Down. North San Juan, June 11, 1859. 43tf Fine Old Brandies C. E. HELFRICH, Soda Water Mannfacturer. DEALER IN FINE BRANDIES, Wines, Ale, Porter &c. : Brandivs, of the followmeg brands: : old Sie srac. Otard. Jules. Robin & Co., Tritedt Vineyards, Martelle, Champaigne, Cté ee, &e., &e. Philadelphia and Holland Gin, Old Tom, Santa Cruz and Jamaica Rum, Monougahela, Bourbon, Trish and Scotch Whiskey: Tleidsick, Schreider and Morizette Champaigne: Port, Sherry, Ginger, Wock. Sauterne Claret Wines Assorted Case Liquors, aud SYRUPS. Ilis extensive stock is now complete in every department, and will be offered at SACRAMENTO PRICES. San Juan North, Nov. (7, 1857. fl ol Pioneer Saloon. SPERO ANDERSON, TWAVING RETURNED from Frazer river Sj and purchased the above establishment. TeSe spe ctfully informs his friends and the public that le intends to Keepa fing . Wholesale and Retail Stock Wincsand Liquors. Ale, Porter Beer, Cider, Champaign, Syrups, Cordials, Bitters, Pure California Wine, CIGARS AND TOBACCO. His BAR will be supplied with the choicest kinds of the above articles, and he trusts to maintain his old reputation as the keeper of a first-rate saloon. North Saa _ North Saa Juaa, Nev 6th, 1858. ime _O. ©. SCHARDIN & CO. ’ =5 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 3, Wines, Liqaors, Cigarsand To: cco. Also— a general assortment of And Confectionery. rGCwm PG~@RBAM., During the summer months our friends can obtain the very best Ice Cream. SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET. North San Juan, Nov. ¥7, 1857. fi tf] Alleghany Saloon. BILLIARDS! B M BYLLIA RDS! FORD & Y SPENCER NFORM the lovers of this noble e that the will find at t their Saloon in Alleghaghtown, 4 — Bed BYMiard Tables, nt condition. The Bar yestocked with the best Wines, Liquors and ie proprictors will a'so epreada : NHE Miederaigual take take this opportunity to inform me pudlic that they have recently purchased of b K Sawyer. their new and splendid steam sawted & Central Ranch, near San Juan. where they are now prypared tofurnish on the shortest notice \ Sluice ana Building Lumber, and ‘ks of all kinds. snoaeeopaet filed ‘b pars delivered. ban 7 BI Costtedl Rasch, ‘April th, 1958." 21 tf LUMBER! LUMBER!! HE PROPRIETORS OF — North San Juan Saw-Mili take this inform the publicthat they pa Arg pear.’ 08 above-named property, which has been . infancy. at Berlin. has just ferreted out the manuscript journals ir generally the inclination, like that of all the ef two Genoese navigators, Teodosia Doria . gravel beds, is towards the great valleys, as The Ziydraulic Press, B. P. AVERY, EDITOR. New Use rok Bavzooxs.—Russell, tire fa mous correspondent of the London Times, writes that Godard, the aeronaut, has made a balloon ascension at Castenedolo, for the purpose of exploring the position of the enemy at Chiese. He rose to a height of 500 or 700 yards, stopped a minute ofr so, and then descended again with as much regularity asin ascending. It isthoughf the bal« loon may be made available for extensive military observation, and the Godard brothers are to make further experiments. At tempts were made dwring the time of.the first Napoleom, but no successful results attained as acronautic Science was then in its Somre eastern papers delight to sacrifice their respectability for the pitiful sport ef gulling the public, thus bringing the whole press into disrepute. Very lately a “sell,” to use their own elegant phrase, was perpetrated by a New York paper on a large number of persons by the publication of particulars of the fall of an aerolite, or meteoric stone. Nowa Kentucky journal tells impossible things of one James Steavens, whe is said to have thrast pins, knives and awls into and thromgh his feet, arms, legs and checks, in the presence of most respectable witnesses, and yet exhibited on his person the next morning no marks of these extra ordinary mutilations. -_—_—_-_-_-2-2 Tue OverLanp MaiL.—Statistics given in the St. Louis Republican show that the great overland mail via Los Angeles is rapidly increasing in importance. The whole number of letters sent to California by it for the months of April, May and June, was 39,667 ; whole number received at St. Louis ‘tating the same period, 33,226. The total postage on these letters amounted to $3,649. 36. a The Golden Era, the pioneer of literary papers on the Pacific, still wmakes its regelar weekly appearance and maintains its popularity. We do not find timeto read much of its’splid columns, but occasional glimpses at them show that it keeps up its old character. ted description of the death of Pizarro, from the pen of Dr. Wooster. a Printers.—The typographers of New Jersey boast that there is nota single member of their craft in the penitentiary of that State, and but one in the State legislature. We believe there are some printers in both houses of Congress, who got there, no doubt, . by necHog bad company. a dip It is proposed to unite New York and /! Brooklyn under a consolidated metropolitan . county government, the separate municipal governments of the two cities not to be disturbed, nor any question affecting their separate taxation to be raised. The Herald pronounces the plan feasible, advantageous and of probable accomplishment. “Tae NewspaPer.—in his sermon on Ministerial Education, before the Arkansas Baptist State Cenvention, Elder Watson says: i . . . The last number contains az amima{ . ' , except that the boulders and largest stones “In the*bill of family expenses,’ the newspaper . occupies a place by the side of such indispensables as coffee, Smith's Tonic Syrup, Godfrey's Cordial, McLane's Pills, and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress!” A surprising discovery has just keen made Dr. Pertz, of the royal library, and Ugolino Vivaldi, who succeeded in sailing cound the Cape of Good Hope in 1290— that is, 207 years be‘ore Vasco de Gama. PREIS SS ‘It is reported that the Pacific Mail Steamship Company have purchased the Covilins steamers Baltic, Adriatic and Atlantic, and that after the lst of October the service on the Atlantic side will be performed by the Panama Railroad Company with the Adriatic and Baltic. —-+-—++ The Quincy Argus says that about twelve hour’s work will finish the Plumas Court S. House, So it is safe to predict that the work will be done within the aext sixty days— providence permitting. SOS ae W. F. Stewart has given up the editorial charge of the Placerville Obseruer, and that paper has been transmogrified iato 2 Demecratic partizan sheet. a oe The government of Japan refuses to send ambassadors to England, but -will maintain its promise to send them to the United States. “The price-of real estate at Vallejo has gone up lately, in consequence of* the prospect of = abet place becoming a railroad terminus. e rine an kinds, of short notice. satisfactorily filled and lv gers 4 ‘indebted to BAN JUAN MILL , Will please take Lp iad that mo iy ieee If. Ci tizens of Piumas county are about organizing an Agricultural, Mechanical and Mining Association. Oe Oo The Northern and State Telegraph Companies at Marysville have greatly reduced tariff of charges. . identical causes. THE BLUE LEAD. Everybody in California has heard, ot read, of the famous “blue Tead,” which all miners who delve for gold far up im the mountains hdpe to find, and think themselves lucky when they have found it, and which they pronounce tobe the channel of an antient river. -This lead is always found resting on or near the bed-rock, beneath diluvial strata of different colors, such as shades of red, yellow and gray, and is itself more of a deep slate color than a blue. It is gen= erally richer in auriferous particles than the gravel lying above it, and forms the productive drift diggimes for which the vicinity of Forest City is noted, as well as those of many other localities. The theory of its origin alluded to above is predicated upon these facts: spad.assamptions : that it has been traced ina continuous line at a certain altitude throwgh several counties, from ridge to ridge, at a right angle to present Water courses, across ca®ons thousands of feet deep ;. that the stratification of the lead is uniform and different from that of adjoining gravel deposits ; that tree trunks, both in the ligneous and petrified ‘state, are found lying in it as though borne there-.by freshets; and that the gold found in it is everywhere of the same character as to appearance and quality. This crade theory conforms to the general one which is popularly employed te xccount for the extensive alluvial deposits constituting our placer diggings. Itis remarkable that the majority of our miners, who are commonly men of intelligence and practical knowledge in their pursuit, should have discarded entirely, if they ever entertained, when speculating upon the origin of our gold fields, the more rational theory of marine inflwence, for one of purely local causes. They overlook all the facts which go to prove atotal submergence ef this coast at some remote period, and settle down upon the narrow idea that the immense gravel beds which contain so large a portion of our mineral wealth, and which extend at least four hundred miles north and south, having an average breadth of probably not less than sixty miles, were deposited by rivers which anciently ran here and changed their chan-~ nels from time to time until they had paved the whole country with cobble stones !— These deposits have been cut through by modern streams running a different course, and hence the present canons and ridges! @f these ancient rivers the one that deposited the blue Iead has alone left distinctive marks ofitscourse. Now, unfortunately for the plausibility of this theory, the blue lead is found all the way from the summit of the Sierra Nevada to the foot hills. Instead of being confined to a certain altitude and a . certain line, it exists at every altitude, on the main ridges as well as on spurs of them and even on isolated peaks. Its color is ow ing to the presence of sulphuret of iron in solution, without which the gravel would not be any different from that lying above, would be feund initas they are always found at the bottom of every gravel deposit.— Wherever sulphurous acid or sulphuret of iron is found, there the so-called blue lead will be discovered, just as certainly a3 red earth and gravel will be found where the oxide of iron is present as a coloring agent. It is found at a great elevation in Sierra county, and at alow one in Nevadaand Yuba. It has been struck at San Juan and at points thirty or forty miles above it, leads of other colors intervening. Having such a variety of jecation the blue lead also exhibits a varymg inclination of its strata, though though océasioned by the gradual subsidence of a vast body of water. Tree trunks are found in it to be sure, as they are in other leads, where they were probably borne by Some of them we have seen are completely coated with sulphuret of iron, the material of the wood in some instances being gone and this mineral occupytig its place, presenting the exact appearance as to shape and grain of the old log. The alleged uniform character of the gold taken from the blue lead is another error. The external appearance of gold always depends upon the nature ef the material in which it has been imbedded. if it has been buried in red earth where iron oxide was plentifully present, it will be coated or colered by that mineral and present a uniform appearance whatever its degree of fineness may be. And so if it be found in the blue lead will it look like specimens from the same kind of deposit faraway and of much finer or poorer quality. liis time-we began to have ratienal views on the suliject ef the gold deposits of our wonderful.State. Notions more consistent with the yast:processes of natare would give greater cenfidence te the miner, and lead to mere extensive enterprise with a view to effecting new discoveries. The immense gravel ranges which slope in parallel lines towards the walleys from the summit of the Sierra Nevada, are notwore than prospected and.itis a pity any narrow arbitrary notions about local leads should exist to proxget their thorough development. ST 13, 1859. [For the Press. A SPRING SIGH FOR HOME. IN THE STYLE OF BURNS. Now violets bloom on Berkshire braes, An Berkshire woods are green ; The young May moon now hings her horr O’er ilka wimplin stream. Wee daisies white, the lee Jang night Play bopeep through the grass, An snowdrops sweet annoint the feot Of early skelpin lass. The swallow twitterin’ round the byre -Awakes the merry morn; The lark to sip the early dew Gaes blinkin through the corn. Sweet olover banks perfume the ar, Sweet birds attune the breeze, Sweet bads an flewers are beckonin there To golden kilted bees. Qh! There’s my hame, my dear, dear hame— But hame no mair for me ; Yet when I die oh let me He Beneath some Berkshire tree. HovsaTOonIc. Cherokee, Mr'y 10, 1859. RRL SEATS A EE LT LEAS NE OTS A CouiegeE or THE Rigut Sort.—We learn from the Alameda Herald that there is about to be established at Healdsburg, Sonoma county, an Agricultural and Mechanical University of the State ef California. The institution is undertaken by a joint stock company, with a capital of $24,000, and a building is to be erected, the dimensions of which are 50 by 75 feet, three stories high, with an observatory for the use of astronomical classes. There will be connected with the institution a farm of one thousand acres of excellent arable land. Students will be admitted at the rate of $225 fur a term of forty-four weeks. They will be required to labor four hours each day, for which they will be allowed one half of the scholarship fee. They will be taught a general knowledge of mechanics and the use of toels, so as to prepare them to pursue the various trades known among us, and they will also be instructed in scientific farming. Pupils thus instructed will be fitted to enter at once on @ useful and profitable career; the world will want their services. Fora private institution, the Healdsburg Agricultural amd Mechanical University is very well, and very praiseworthy; but when shall we have one on a similar plan under the care of the State, and to which the mest advanced pupils from our public schools can be admitted? So far as this matter of education goes, the State would do well te imitate ancient Sparta, and take her children under her own charge. EFPny Sea Res ey ee PreMiuMS are offered on the following mining products and implements by the Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanic’s Society of the Northern. District of California, whose first annual fair commences at Marysville on the 30thinst. Specimens of gold quartz, gold quartz amalgam, bullion, coarse, scale ard dust gold, amalgam, silver ore, silver bullion, cinnabar, quicksilver, copperas, copper, copper ore, iron, platina, chromium, gypsum, nikal, antimony, asphaltum, coal, magnetic iron, lead, bismuth, sulphur, bitamen, agates, chalcedony, salt, mineral wategs, marble, granite, bubrstones, petri~ factions, fossils and lignite. Models of quartz amalgamator, quartz crusher, turnneliag max chine, miming pump, water wheel, riffle box, sluice box, sluice rake, sluice fork, mining pick, drilling machine, blasting apparatus, and hydraulic apparatus. Allarticles should be entered at the office in Marysville by the 29th instant. They can be taken from Marysville to the State Fair at Sacramento, which commences on the 13th of September. _—__—oOo OO Blondin has made a second trip across the Niagara on a tight rope, returning with a sack drawn over his head and bedy, and tucning @ summerset when midway. He now proposes to trundle a whielbarrew across the rope, and will probably do it. Amid all the feats of useless daring this stands nearly unparalleled. The enly value of such performances as Blondin’s and Sam Slick’s, aad those of the French athletes who exercised upou arope suspended from an'ascending balleen is to exhibit the varied capabilities of mar, and to prove how little is impossible to firm nerves and a resolute will. Yet persons equal to such deeds of physical boldness may not have the courage to dare moral danger in the performance of right actions. a ene Sie Par The Petaluma Journal beasts ef the Fine new cider, made from applies grown in Sonoma county, which its editor has had presented to him by a Fine fellow who appreciates the value ef the press asa medium fer the expression ef good things. An arrangement has been entered into between Commodores Vauberbiit and Garrison, by which passengers bound to France from California can be ticketed through from Saa Francisco to Havre, via New York. Robert Murray .ef Trinity county goes to San Quentin for one year, for attempting to have an incestu ous:marriage consummated between himself and his niece. . Phil. Moore has been commissioned by Gor. Weller as Brigadier General. ~ ~ VOL. NO. 52 Gurpz Boarps.—It is very possible that the politicians ef Nevada county have nevet thought upon the subject of roads, or guide boards to reads, for politicians are remarkably obliviots to all matters of earthly utility. They prefer to flourish away about the abstract rights of man, and all that sort of thing, and mever condescend to bring their majestic energies down to the level of sub= Yenary considerations; but we, who are poor mortals, without the adventitious aid ef horses and mules, haye a right to reach above our sphere and ask—-“Why have we no guide boards?’ The absence of them im the morntain regions, where there are so many diverging roads, and where dense forests prevent the ebservation of landmarks, is often the catse of extreme annoyance to travelers ignorant of the topography of the country they are traversimg. Frequently the stranger walks or drives several miles in the wrong direction, takes some roundabout way or some finely opening route that terminates in a brush-heap or at the edge of some deep diggings. As rearly all ‘our mountain roads, like these of the lower country, are extremely dusty, these accidental prolongations of a journey are doubly an noying, both to man and brute, and cause a fearfel amount of profanity and physical discomfort. .We can think of no way im which the county Supervisors cowld make themselves so usefal, as ‘by having erected at every crossing or fork of # road plainly lettered guide boards, telling the weary traveler where he is going and how far off is his destination. The expesse ef such public conveniences would be inconsiderable, and we think the Supervisors have a perfect right to provide them. The people would certainly applaud them for doimg it, and’ every dusty wanderer bless them ina manner different from that in which they are sometimes blessed now. ‘The proprietors of toH roads and bridges are generally accomodating ereugh to erect guide boards, and for this they win daily thanks. Willmot our excellent board ef Supervisors take this sabject into consideration, and instruct the different road overseers to comp public wish? or ea Tga PLants. ee ek four tea plants hav just arrived at San Francisce from China, in A growing and healthy condition. They ate the importation of Messrs. L. Clark, of Conn., and J. L. Silver, of Philadelphia, who propose exhibiting them at the State Fair, in order to introduce them to the notice of ag-. riculturists. It is the opinion of these gen~ tlem that tea can be profitably cultivated in this State; and further, that by so doing our people can be furnished with am article de~ serving the name of tea; for be it known that not one-fourth of all the tea prepared in China escapes injury in its curing, while very ’ little of the extra quality ever reaches @ng~ land, America or France. fares better in this tespect, the article being conveyed overland, none but the best quality is sent inte that market. A traveler in Russia, recently asserted that the serfs of that country would refuse, as being unfit to drink, what in America would be denominated a No. larticle 6f tea. That the soil and climate of California are adapted to the growing of the tea plant, we think is very generally conceded. The principal urged to its saccessfal cultivation is, the great amount of labor required in the curing of tea, and the high wages obtained by aH branches of indastry in California. This obstacie, it is very likely, will be overcome by the introduction of machinery. In China every thing is done by hand, while in Amerca this rule is reversed-—everything being done by machinery. Added to this, itis gen~ erally conceded by persons familiar with the" matter, that this staple article of commerce cannot only be cured cheaper by the intro~ duction of mechanical skill, but better cured also. This fact was demonstrated by the Assam Tea Company, of London; this Com~ pany’s factory having for some time been . under the direction of a Philadelphia Quaker , named Spenser Bonsall, and who designed and invented machinery by which the tea was made far superior to the Chinese article. . Unfortunately the Company became involv, ed, and finally insolvent, in consequence of , outside speculations, and failing to provide fands for Mr. B., he abandoned his post and ‘ returned to Philadelphia, where he now is, taking with him the secret of his invention. Petatuma-Jvurnal, _ Spanisa Taxarer.—They have a ‘Spanish theater at San Jose, where good acting and dancing is done, according te the Zribune, which paper thas speaks of the prompter: The feature of a Spanish theater is the. prompter, whose station is under the stage, ia the front part. A hole is cut in the stage, in the center of the foot-light range, through’ which he thrusts his bead and shoulders, and, protected by a smafi sereen, from the view of the awdience, he reads the ‘entire play from the book or manascript, in a. monotoe nous tone, followed by the performers, at the distance of five or six words. In some theaters we have visited (teeugh not im this one) this famctionary speaks as loud as the per formers, and the effect, to the sanccartomet is a strange jangling jargon, disagreable an almost incomprehensible, as the prompter and actor are both speaking at the same eta but not the same words. , pain AS EN a The Placerville Odserver has the following item, which indicates the beginning of 4 gteat trade with Utah: Qn Thursday last 255 head of mules, ‘o. longing to Perry & Co., of Salt Lake, passed through Grizzly Flat en route for the valley. These mules are a portion of a drove of five hundred which were brought through to Salt Lake: last Fall. Webelievethey hare been brought hither for the purpose of packing and hauling sepsis to Utah. Py ith the’ Russia, however, , objectioni GP TEBE SRDS PAE Sn) Uva panpoACEe aA Ra ati RE AE ecstatic ithy

: 4 Ne ee otc mes es a Pa ey shee enegmermee omy ~anetchineeningpraaneenetiaidane THE en . ag rms eati mane eee HYDRAULIC PRESS. $ BY AVERY & WATERS. THE HYDRAULIC PRESS. . PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING Ra Office on Main street, adjoining the Drug Store.-@& Terms for the Paper. ‘One Year, invariably in advance Six Months, bs Three “ “ “ “ Terms for Advertising. ‘One Square. (12 lines) first insertion,.....+.+-+++ subsequent imsertion, .....-.scecsesecneeeeseeeees 1 00 NORTH SAN JUAN, NEVADA CO., SATURDAY, AUG. Wines and Liquors, BILLIARDS, 25 ae eee. AGAME! SAN JUAN EXCHANGE. 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, 4g Business cards not exceeding forr lines of this . tp first-rate order—two of them new Marble Beds ttype, will be inserted four $6 00 a quarter. Garis H. FARQUHAR, JUSTICE OF THE and equal toany in the State. The wood bed is the faWorite of the place. BOWLING. Two splendid Ten-Pin Alleys are attached tothe es tablishment, Well supplied with the perquisites of such an tnstitution. Tt isthe intention of the proprietor to use every exer‘tion to make the Exchange the favorite resort of all R. Peace, Bridgeport Township. Office, a Flume . sockers of healthy pleasurable exercise. ‘st., 2doors from Main 8 reet, San Juan. THE BAR P. STIDGER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, will be furnished with the very best O. Notary Public, aad Conveyancer. Office on the north side of Main street, one door west of EV. HatWINES AND LIQUORS Mield’s store, oppositethe sige NORTH SANJUAN . To be had in the San Francisco Market, and no pains Nov. 13, 1857. C. HARVEY, ATTORNEY & COUN (+ e sellor at Law. Office at the Union Hotel, North San Jnan. Nevada county BR Practices in all or any of the conrts in this State. All business appertaining to the Legal are ‘strictly and faithfally attended to. 2 3m WM. H. MARTIN. WM. F. ANDERSON, NDERSON & MARTIN, at Law. Office, corner of Commercial and Pine streets, near the Court House, NEVADA CITY. 10tf [+ pth aR SEs ES -J. R. M’CONNELL,. .A.C NILES. . that would tempta “Dashaway,’ will be spared to make everything pleasant and attractive. 10 The Corner Cellar. BROWN & REESE HA“ just opened acool retreat in the basement at the corner of Main and Flume streets, especialATTORNEYS ly for the accommodation of thetr friends, and the public generally, during the summer season. if © 14 1D 1) IR I WY I Sy i will be prepared for cCONNELL _ NIL ES. “ATTORNE YS & the thirsty, and for all will be kept a comp'cte assort4 4 > + 4 ‘ Counsellors at Law. will practice in all the Courts of the Mth Judicial District, and in the Supreme Court. Orrice—Kidd’s Brick Building, up stairs. 21 3m WILSON HILL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, e wiilattend promptly toall basiness confided to his. care in Nevada and adjoining counties. Of fice — In Abbott's Building, NEVADA. tf16 VROOMAN, M. D., PHYSICIAN, M eSurgeon, Abcoacleur. Office at the San Juan Drug Store, Main street, Nort’ San — Nevada ee March 17, 759. lqy AM. ABBEY, CAM. ABBEY, NE WS . AG 1D) ENT AND EX— Runs a Daily Express from North San 4uan to Sebastopol, Sweetland, Birchville and French Jorral. Culifornia and Atlantic papers, for sale. EXPRESSMAN AND GENERAL AGENT, Runs a Daily Express from ‘Camptonville to Gudena Hill, Young's TTiN, IndiMill, Indian Vulley. and Railroud Hill. Coltforitietn Mies and Weeklies, and Atlantic papers aud, periodirals delivered promptly Agent for the Hydraulic Presi. &e-Collecti tions made. GEORGE THEA ALL, Expressman and General Agent. Runs a Daily Express from Worest City to Alleghanytown, Chips’ . Flat aud Minnesota. AF CNifornia and Atlantic New=papers and Magazines on hand and delivered to order. @H.-\gent for TIE HYDRAULIC PRESS. J. W. SULLIVAN’S Great Pacific Emporium, And Genval Agency of Periodical Literature, Heraid, Tribune and Times. Mena xt maar to the Post Office, SAN FRANCISCO. GUSTAVE HANSEN, JEW ELLE), WATCHMAKER, AND WHARBA YBBR. HAs: located in this place. and opened his shop on wi And sole Agent for the California True Delta, California Journal, Missouri Republican, Cin: cinnatti Coxmercial. N. ¥. Courier des Etats Unis, New Main street. next dver to Cheap John’s. where he 1 always be found ready to give promptattention to ail business entrusted to his care— ¢ Every kind of Jewelry magufactared, end all s kinds of Engraving, phin ad Ornamental, jenn] in the j neatést style. Watches ea” fully repaired, wad Warran ted. March 29th, "69. 3stf Surveyor’s Office. County . Hivegs Névad da. JOHN L. ater J. —— County Surveyor. A LL pores are aa : Deput Dy cautioned against nie a ing other Surve: usuch as may be depu‘ized from this office.Extrach from the Lang of California. Cuapr. 20, Sec. 3.—No sUry re-sarvey hereafter made by any aunty Surveyor or his ity, shall Levidence in any court within this £ » \JOHN L. GAMBLE. 28tf \County Surveyor. eigen a New aoe ' PECK. & OLE, ee te ‘aud Hardware, Water Boxes be, ‘Ou bend endadet ois ee iM, % %., RANK SMITH, ~ Pete. ee ec FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS, dron and Steel, Galvanized Fron Pipe; ment of the 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 enderstands equally well the art-of dispensing and of pleasing. Drop Down. North San Juan, June 11, 1859. 43tf Fine Old Brandies C. E. HELFRICH, Soda Water Mannfacturer. DEALER IN FINE BRANDIES, Wines, Ale, Porter &c. : Brandivs, of the followmeg brands: : old Sie srac. Otard. Jules. Robin & Co., Tritedt Vineyards, Martelle, Champaigne, Cté ee, &e., &e. Philadelphia and Holland Gin, Old Tom, Santa Cruz and Jamaica Rum, Monougahela, Bourbon, Trish and Scotch Whiskey: Tleidsick, Schreider and Morizette Champaigne: Port, Sherry, Ginger, Wock. Sauterne Claret Wines Assorted Case Liquors, aud SYRUPS. Ilis extensive stock is now complete in every department, and will be offered at SACRAMENTO PRICES. San Juan North, Nov. (7, 1857. fl ol Pioneer Saloon. SPERO ANDERSON, TWAVING RETURNED from Frazer river Sj and purchased the above establishment. TeSe spe ctfully informs his friends and the public that le intends to Keepa fing . Wholesale and Retail Stock Wincsand Liquors. Ale, Porter Beer, Cider, Champaign, Syrups, Cordials, Bitters, Pure California Wine, CIGARS AND TOBACCO. His BAR will be supplied with the choicest kinds of the above articles, and he trusts to maintain his old reputation as the keeper of a first-rate saloon. North Saa _ North Saa Juaa, Nev 6th, 1858. ime _O. ©. SCHARDIN & CO. ’ =5 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 3, Wines, Liqaors, Cigarsand To: cco. Also— a general assortment of And Confectionery. rGCwm PG~@RBAM., During the summer months our friends can obtain the very best Ice Cream. SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET. North San Juan, Nov. ¥7, 1857. fi tf] Alleghany Saloon. BILLIARDS! B M BYLLIA RDS! FORD & Y SPENCER NFORM the lovers of this noble e that the will find at t their Saloon in Alleghaghtown, 4 — Bed BYMiard Tables, nt condition. The Bar yestocked with the best Wines, Liquors and ie proprictors will a'so epreada : NHE Miederaigual take take this opportunity to inform me pudlic that they have recently purchased of b K Sawyer. their new and splendid steam sawted & Central Ranch, near San Juan. where they are now prypared tofurnish on the shortest notice \ Sluice ana Building Lumber, and ‘ks of all kinds. snoaeeopaet filed ‘b pars delivered. ban 7 BI Costtedl Rasch, ‘April th, 1958." 21 tf LUMBER! LUMBER!! HE PROPRIETORS OF — North San Juan Saw-Mili take this inform the publicthat they pa Arg pear.’ 08 above-named property, which has been . infancy. at Berlin. has just ferreted out the manuscript journals ir generally the inclination, like that of all the ef two Genoese navigators, Teodosia Doria . gravel beds, is towards the great valleys, as The Ziydraulic Press, B. P. AVERY, EDITOR. New Use rok Bavzooxs.—Russell, tire fa mous correspondent of the London Times, writes that Godard, the aeronaut, has made a balloon ascension at Castenedolo, for the purpose of exploring the position of the enemy at Chiese. He rose to a height of 500 or 700 yards, stopped a minute ofr so, and then descended again with as much regularity asin ascending. It isthoughf the bal« loon may be made available for extensive military observation, and the Godard brothers are to make further experiments. At tempts were made dwring the time of.the first Napoleom, but no successful results attained as acronautic Science was then in its Somre eastern papers delight to sacrifice their respectability for the pitiful sport ef gulling the public, thus bringing the whole press into disrepute. Very lately a “sell,” to use their own elegant phrase, was perpetrated by a New York paper on a large number of persons by the publication of particulars of the fall of an aerolite, or meteoric stone. Nowa Kentucky journal tells impossible things of one James Steavens, whe is said to have thrast pins, knives and awls into and thromgh his feet, arms, legs and checks, in the presence of most respectable witnesses, and yet exhibited on his person the next morning no marks of these extra ordinary mutilations. -_—_—_-_-_-2-2 Tue OverLanp MaiL.—Statistics given in the St. Louis Republican show that the great overland mail via Los Angeles is rapidly increasing in importance. The whole number of letters sent to California by it for the months of April, May and June, was 39,667 ; whole number received at St. Louis ‘tating the same period, 33,226. The total postage on these letters amounted to $3,649. 36. a The Golden Era, the pioneer of literary papers on the Pacific, still wmakes its regelar weekly appearance and maintains its popularity. We do not find timeto read much of its’splid columns, but occasional glimpses at them show that it keeps up its old character. ted description of the death of Pizarro, from the pen of Dr. Wooster. a Printers.—The typographers of New Jersey boast that there is nota single member of their craft in the penitentiary of that State, and but one in the State legislature. We believe there are some printers in both houses of Congress, who got there, no doubt, . by necHog bad company. a dip It is proposed to unite New York and /! Brooklyn under a consolidated metropolitan . county government, the separate municipal governments of the two cities not to be disturbed, nor any question affecting their separate taxation to be raised. The Herald pronounces the plan feasible, advantageous and of probable accomplishment. “Tae NewspaPer.—in his sermon on Ministerial Education, before the Arkansas Baptist State Cenvention, Elder Watson says: i . . . The last number contains az amima{ . ' , except that the boulders and largest stones “In the*bill of family expenses,’ the newspaper . occupies a place by the side of such indispensables as coffee, Smith's Tonic Syrup, Godfrey's Cordial, McLane's Pills, and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress!” A surprising discovery has just keen made Dr. Pertz, of the royal library, and Ugolino Vivaldi, who succeeded in sailing cound the Cape of Good Hope in 1290— that is, 207 years be‘ore Vasco de Gama. PREIS SS ‘It is reported that the Pacific Mail Steamship Company have purchased the Covilins steamers Baltic, Adriatic and Atlantic, and that after the lst of October the service on the Atlantic side will be performed by the Panama Railroad Company with the Adriatic and Baltic. —-+-—++ The Quincy Argus says that about twelve hour’s work will finish the Plumas Court S. House, So it is safe to predict that the work will be done within the aext sixty days— providence permitting. SOS ae W. F. Stewart has given up the editorial charge of the Placerville Obseruer, and that paper has been transmogrified iato 2 Demecratic partizan sheet. a oe The government of Japan refuses to send ambassadors to England, but -will maintain its promise to send them to the United States. “The price-of real estate at Vallejo has gone up lately, in consequence of* the prospect of = abet place becoming a railroad terminus. e rine an kinds, of short notice. satisfactorily filled and lv gers 4 ‘indebted to BAN JUAN MILL , Will please take Lp iad that mo iy ieee If. Ci tizens of Piumas county are about organizing an Agricultural, Mechanical and Mining Association. Oe Oo The Northern and State Telegraph Companies at Marysville have greatly reduced tariff of charges. . identical causes. THE BLUE LEAD. Everybody in California has heard, ot

read, of the famous “blue Tead,” which all miners who delve for gold far up im the mountains hdpe to find, and think themselves lucky when they have found it, and which they pronounce tobe the channel of an antient river. -This lead is always found resting on or near the bed-rock, beneath diluvial strata of different colors, such as shades of red, yellow and gray, and is itself more of a deep slate color than a blue. It is gen= erally richer in auriferous particles than the gravel lying above it, and forms the productive drift diggimes for which the vicinity of Forest City is noted, as well as those of many other localities. The theory of its origin alluded to above is predicated upon these facts: spad.assamptions : that it has been traced ina continuous line at a certain altitude throwgh several counties, from ridge to ridge, at a right angle to present Water courses, across ca®ons thousands of feet deep ;. that the stratification of the lead is uniform and different from that of adjoining gravel deposits ; that tree trunks, both in the ligneous and petrified ‘state, are found lying in it as though borne there-.by freshets; and that the gold found in it is everywhere of the same character as to appearance and quality. This crade theory conforms to the general one which is popularly employed te xccount for the extensive alluvial deposits constituting our placer diggings. Itis remarkable that the majority of our miners, who are commonly men of intelligence and practical knowledge in their pursuit, should have discarded entirely, if they ever entertained, when speculating upon the origin of our gold fields, the more rational theory of marine inflwence, for one of purely local causes. They overlook all the facts which go to prove atotal submergence ef this coast at some remote period, and settle down upon the narrow idea that the immense gravel beds which contain so large a portion of our mineral wealth, and which extend at least four hundred miles north and south, having an average breadth of probably not less than sixty miles, were deposited by rivers which anciently ran here and changed their chan-~ nels from time to time until they had paved the whole country with cobble stones !— These deposits have been cut through by modern streams running a different course, and hence the present canons and ridges! @f these ancient rivers the one that deposited the blue Iead has alone left distinctive marks ofitscourse. Now, unfortunately for the plausibility of this theory, the blue lead is found all the way from the summit of the Sierra Nevada to the foot hills. Instead of being confined to a certain altitude and a . certain line, it exists at every altitude, on the main ridges as well as on spurs of them and even on isolated peaks. Its color is ow ing to the presence of sulphuret of iron in solution, without which the gravel would not be any different from that lying above, would be feund initas they are always found at the bottom of every gravel deposit.— Wherever sulphurous acid or sulphuret of iron is found, there the so-called blue lead will be discovered, just as certainly a3 red earth and gravel will be found where the oxide of iron is present as a coloring agent. It is found at a great elevation in Sierra county, and at alow one in Nevadaand Yuba. It has been struck at San Juan and at points thirty or forty miles above it, leads of other colors intervening. Having such a variety of jecation the blue lead also exhibits a varymg inclination of its strata, though though océasioned by the gradual subsidence of a vast body of water. Tree trunks are found in it to be sure, as they are in other leads, where they were probably borne by Some of them we have seen are completely coated with sulphuret of iron, the material of the wood in some instances being gone and this mineral occupytig its place, presenting the exact appearance as to shape and grain of the old log. The alleged uniform character of the gold taken from the blue lead is another error. The external appearance of gold always depends upon the nature ef the material in which it has been imbedded. if it has been buried in red earth where iron oxide was plentifully present, it will be coated or colered by that mineral and present a uniform appearance whatever its degree of fineness may be. And so if it be found in the blue lead will it look like specimens from the same kind of deposit faraway and of much finer or poorer quality. liis time-we began to have ratienal views on the suliject ef the gold deposits of our wonderful.State. Notions more consistent with the yast:processes of natare would give greater cenfidence te the miner, and lead to mere extensive enterprise with a view to effecting new discoveries. The immense gravel ranges which slope in parallel lines towards the walleys from the summit of the Sierra Nevada, are notwore than prospected and.itis a pity any narrow arbitrary notions about local leads should exist to proxget their thorough development. ST 13, 1859. [For the Press. A SPRING SIGH FOR HOME. IN THE STYLE OF BURNS. Now violets bloom on Berkshire braes, An Berkshire woods are green ; The young May moon now hings her horr O’er ilka wimplin stream. Wee daisies white, the lee Jang night Play bopeep through the grass, An snowdrops sweet annoint the feot Of early skelpin lass. The swallow twitterin’ round the byre -Awakes the merry morn; The lark to sip the early dew Gaes blinkin through the corn. Sweet olover banks perfume the ar, Sweet birds attune the breeze, Sweet bads an flewers are beckonin there To golden kilted bees. Qh! There’s my hame, my dear, dear hame— But hame no mair for me ; Yet when I die oh let me He Beneath some Berkshire tree. HovsaTOonIc. Cherokee, Mr'y 10, 1859. RRL SEATS A EE LT LEAS NE OTS A CouiegeE or THE Rigut Sort.—We learn from the Alameda Herald that there is about to be established at Healdsburg, Sonoma county, an Agricultural and Mechanical University of the State ef California. The institution is undertaken by a joint stock company, with a capital of $24,000, and a building is to be erected, the dimensions of which are 50 by 75 feet, three stories high, with an observatory for the use of astronomical classes. There will be connected with the institution a farm of one thousand acres of excellent arable land. Students will be admitted at the rate of $225 fur a term of forty-four weeks. They will be required to labor four hours each day, for which they will be allowed one half of the scholarship fee. They will be taught a general knowledge of mechanics and the use of toels, so as to prepare them to pursue the various trades known among us, and they will also be instructed in scientific farming. Pupils thus instructed will be fitted to enter at once on @ useful and profitable career; the world will want their services. Fora private institution, the Healdsburg Agricultural amd Mechanical University is very well, and very praiseworthy; but when shall we have one on a similar plan under the care of the State, and to which the mest advanced pupils from our public schools can be admitted? So far as this matter of education goes, the State would do well te imitate ancient Sparta, and take her children under her own charge. EFPny Sea Res ey ee PreMiuMS are offered on the following mining products and implements by the Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanic’s Society of the Northern. District of California, whose first annual fair commences at Marysville on the 30thinst. Specimens of gold quartz, gold quartz amalgam, bullion, coarse, scale ard dust gold, amalgam, silver ore, silver bullion, cinnabar, quicksilver, copperas, copper, copper ore, iron, platina, chromium, gypsum, nikal, antimony, asphaltum, coal, magnetic iron, lead, bismuth, sulphur, bitamen, agates, chalcedony, salt, mineral wategs, marble, granite, bubrstones, petri~ factions, fossils and lignite. Models of quartz amalgamator, quartz crusher, turnneliag max chine, miming pump, water wheel, riffle box, sluice box, sluice rake, sluice fork, mining pick, drilling machine, blasting apparatus, and hydraulic apparatus. Allarticles should be entered at the office in Marysville by the 29th instant. They can be taken from Marysville to the State Fair at Sacramento, which commences on the 13th of September. _—__—oOo OO Blondin has made a second trip across the Niagara on a tight rope, returning with a sack drawn over his head and bedy, and tucning @ summerset when midway. He now proposes to trundle a whielbarrew across the rope, and will probably do it. Amid all the feats of useless daring this stands nearly unparalleled. The enly value of such performances as Blondin’s and Sam Slick’s, aad those of the French athletes who exercised upou arope suspended from an'ascending balleen is to exhibit the varied capabilities of mar, and to prove how little is impossible to firm nerves and a resolute will. Yet persons equal to such deeds of physical boldness may not have the courage to dare moral danger in the performance of right actions. a ene Sie Par The Petaluma Journal beasts ef the Fine new cider, made from applies grown in Sonoma county, which its editor has had presented to him by a Fine fellow who appreciates the value ef the press asa medium fer the expression ef good things. An arrangement has been entered into between Commodores Vauberbiit and Garrison, by which passengers bound to France from California can be ticketed through from Saa Francisco to Havre, via New York. Robert Murray .ef Trinity county goes to San Quentin for one year, for attempting to have an incestu ous:marriage consummated between himself and his niece. . Phil. Moore has been commissioned by Gor. Weller as Brigadier General. ~ ~ VOL. NO. 52 Gurpz Boarps.—It is very possible that the politicians ef Nevada county have nevet thought upon the subject of roads, or guide boards to reads, for politicians are remarkably obliviots to all matters of earthly utility. They prefer to flourish away about the abstract rights of man, and all that sort of thing, and mever condescend to bring their majestic energies down to the level of sub= Yenary considerations; but we, who are poor mortals, without the adventitious aid ef horses and mules, haye a right to reach above our sphere and ask—-“Why have we no guide boards?’ The absence of them im the morntain regions, where there are so many diverging roads, and where dense forests prevent the ebservation of landmarks, is often the catse of extreme annoyance to travelers ignorant of the topography of the country they are traversimg. Frequently the stranger walks or drives several miles in the wrong direction, takes some roundabout way or some finely opening route that terminates in a brush-heap or at the edge of some deep diggings. As rearly all ‘our mountain roads, like these of the lower country, are extremely dusty, these accidental prolongations of a journey are doubly an noying, both to man and brute, and cause a fearfel amount of profanity and physical discomfort. .We can think of no way im which the county Supervisors cowld make themselves so usefal, as ‘by having erected at every crossing or fork of # road plainly lettered guide boards, telling the weary traveler where he is going and how far off is his destination. The expesse ef such public conveniences would be inconsiderable, and we think the Supervisors have a perfect right to provide them. The people would certainly applaud them for doimg it, and’ every dusty wanderer bless them ina manner different from that in which they are sometimes blessed now. ‘The proprietors of toH roads and bridges are generally accomodating ereugh to erect guide boards, and for this they win daily thanks. Willmot our excellent board ef Supervisors take this sabject into consideration, and instruct the different road overseers to comp public wish? or ea Tga PLants. ee ek four tea plants hav just arrived at San Francisce from China, in A growing and healthy condition. They ate the importation of Messrs. L. Clark, of Conn., and J. L. Silver, of Philadelphia, who propose exhibiting them at the State Fair, in order to introduce them to the notice of ag-. riculturists. It is the opinion of these gen~ tlem that tea can be profitably cultivated in this State; and further, that by so doing our people can be furnished with am article de~ serving the name of tea; for be it known that not one-fourth of all the tea prepared in China escapes injury in its curing, while very ’ little of the extra quality ever reaches @ng~ land, America or France. fares better in this tespect, the article being conveyed overland, none but the best quality is sent inte that market. A traveler in Russia, recently asserted that the serfs of that country would refuse, as being unfit to drink, what in America would be denominated a No. larticle 6f tea. That the soil and climate of California are adapted to the growing of the tea plant, we think is very generally conceded. The principal urged to its saccessfal cultivation is, the great amount of labor required in the curing of tea, and the high wages obtained by aH branches of indastry in California. This obstacie, it is very likely, will be overcome by the introduction of machinery. In China every thing is done by hand, while in Amerca this rule is reversed-—everything being done by machinery. Added to this, itis gen~ erally conceded by persons familiar with the" matter, that this staple article of commerce cannot only be cured cheaper by the intro~ duction of mechanical skill, but better cured also. This fact was demonstrated by the Assam Tea Company, of London; this Com~ pany’s factory having for some time been . under the direction of a Philadelphia Quaker , named Spenser Bonsall, and who designed and invented machinery by which the tea was made far superior to the Chinese article. . Unfortunately the Company became involv, ed, and finally insolvent, in consequence of , outside speculations, and failing to provide fands for Mr. B., he abandoned his post and ‘ returned to Philadelphia, where he now is, taking with him the secret of his invention. Petatuma-Jvurnal, _ Spanisa Taxarer.—They have a ‘Spanish theater at San Jose, where good acting and dancing is done, according te the Zribune, which paper thas speaks of the prompter: The feature of a Spanish theater is the. prompter, whose station is under the stage, ia the front part. A hole is cut in the stage, in the center of the foot-light range, through’ which he thrusts his bead and shoulders, and, protected by a smafi sereen, from the view of the awdience, he reads the ‘entire play from the book or manascript, in a. monotoe nous tone, followed by the performers, at the distance of five or six words. In some theaters we have visited (teeugh not im this one) this famctionary speaks as loud as the per formers, and the effect, to the sanccartomet is a strange jangling jargon, disagreable an almost incomprehensible, as the prompter and actor are both speaking at the same eta but not the same words. , pain AS EN a The Placerville Odserver has the following item, which indicates the beginning of 4 gteat trade with Utah: Qn Thursday last 255 head of mules, ‘o. longing to Perry & Co., of Salt Lake, passed through Grizzly Flat en route for the valley. These mules are a portion of a drove of five hundred which were brought through to Salt Lake: last Fall. Webelievethey hare been brought hither for the purpose of packing and hauling sepsis to Utah. Py ith the’ Russia, however, , objectioni GP TEBE SRDS PAE Sn) Uva panpoACEe aA Ra ati RE AE ecstatic ithy