February 11, 1860 (4 pages)

BY AVERY & WATERS. $$ NORTH SAN JUAN, NEVADA CO., SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1860. BUSINESS CARDS. R. H. FARQUHAR, Justice of the Peace, Bridgeport Township. Office, in the old Masonic Hall Main s:reet, San Juan. 1 tt O. P. STIDGER, Attorney at Law, Netary Public, And Conveyancer. Office on the north side of Main street, one door west of E V. Hattield’s store, oppositethe Pioneer, NORTH SAN JUAN. Noy. 13, 1857. 1 C. WILSON HILL, Attorney at Law, Witlattend promptly toall businessconfided to his care in Nevada and adjoining counties, Office — In Abbott’s Building, NEVADA. She Aydrautic Leese, PUBLISHEDEVERY SATURDAY MORNING aay Office on Main street, adjoining the Drug Store.-G& Terms for the Paper. ‘One Year, invariably in advance ‘Six Month, “° «© « . Three ry “ “ce “ Terms for Advertising. ‘One Square, (12 lines) first insertion,...000++00+ $3 00 Each subsequent insertion,...:.cccrseccceererees 1 00 44 Business cards not exceeding four lines of this *type, will be ifiserted for $6 00 a quarter. SALOONS & RESTAURANTS rere tf16 rare BILLIARDS, 25 CTS. AGAME! SAN JUAN EXCHANGE. C. SCHARDIN & CO., OULD respectfully inform their old ‘riends a and the public generally that they have recentty hade many improvements to the above-named pop‘ular resort, and are better prepared than ever to please all tastes. Three Billiard Tables, Tn first-rate order—two of them new Marble Beds ‘and equal toany in the State. The wood bedis the favorite of the place. wurasrurie House, Signand Decorative Painter, AND PAPER HANGER. te_SHOP—Foot of Main street, NORTH SAN JUAN, All work warranted to give satisfaction. jan 28 TEETH! DR. E. FELLERS, DENTIST, See North S22 Juan His an office inthe Post Office Building, on Main Street. where be is prapared 2o perform all operations upon TEETH, on the latest and most approved principles. By request, families will be waited on at their resiBOWLING. dences. Two splendid Ten-Pin Alleys are attached tothe es Oflice hours—from 7 o’clock A. M., to 5 o'clock P. “tablishment, well supplied with the perquisites of such 48-3m an institution. : SEPT RERROE: It isthe intention 0° the proprictor to use every exerJOHN . oe SE ELY ‘ tion to make the Exchange the favorite resort of all Avent for mi rte “oc seekers of healthy pleasurable exercise. N léri icksil " The New aria UuICKStiver THE BAR a @ ver, The Best ind Purest Article in the State! Post Office Building, North San Juan, Nevada ecunty. will be furnished with the very best WINES AND LIQUORS To be had fn the San Francisco Market, and no pains will be spared to make everything pleasant and attractive. 10 The Bank Exchange BROWN & REESE ESPECTFEFULLY inform their old friends and the wablic generally. that they still hold DRS. MYERS & CLARK, DENTISTS, Office, Union Hotel, North San Juan. = Mechanical Dentistry done onall new and +. most improved principles. n26 tf Watch and Jewelry Store. x ATCTIES, CLOCKS & JEWELRY REPAIRED forth at tho corner of Main and Flume streets, Where wh Cees warranted to give satisfaction or no charge ‘they keep the very best — af ~ . r = V. rel Wines and Liquors, D. W. BAYLIKS, Shop in Clark & Co's. Gijice, corner of Mainand Reservoir streets, North Sun Juan. WL All jobs left with the subscriber will be put in a fire-proof safe at night. An experience of twenty-five years enables me to do all kinds of work in my line. As Good as the Best. D. W. BAYLIES. m3 J. W. SULLIVAN’S GREAT PACIFIC EMPORIUM, And General Agency of Periodical Literature, And sole Agent for the California True Delta, Catifornia Boston Journal, Missouri Republican, Cinccnnatli Commercial, N. Y. Courier des Etats Unis, New York Herald, Tribune and Times. &e., &., &e. Washington street, next door to the Post Office, SAN FRANCISCO. NEW MARKET. ge subscribers have opened a New Market in Ale, Porter, and Lager Beer. Also, the finest Cigars and Tobacco. The establishment will be under the care of Mr. BROWN, formerly of Philadelphia, who understands ‘equally well the art of dispensing and of pleasing. North San Juan, June 11, 1859. 45tf CG. SCHARDIN & CO., Wholesate and Retail Dealersin iWines, Liquors, Cigarsand Tobacco. Also— a general assortment of FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS, And Confectionery. SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET. North San Juan, Nov. 17, 1857. [1 tf] Washington Restaurant Nov. 5th, 1859, Main Street, North San Juan. the store occupsed by GEORGE CULLODI PECK & COLEY, where they will offer for sale the best of Beef, Pork, Mutton &c. ABSA share of patronage issolicited. CRAWFORD & CO. Norh San Juan. Dee’r.22d. 758. 19tf GEORGE THEALL, Expressman and General Agent. Informs the public that he continues to keep a first-class Restaurant and Boarding House é _. at the above stand. serving up in en weS& his best style all the dainties and luxuries ‘of the market MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Clean Roems and Clean Beds For regular and transient lodgers, have hem fitted up in connection with the Restaurant. They wit be found inferior to none. PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PARTIES Furnished with Dinners or Suppers to order, in the most satisfactory manner. Give George a Call. Runs a Daily Express from Forest City to AlNleghanytown, Chips’ Flat and Minnesota. 4@-Californiaand Atlantic Newspapers and Magazines on hand and delivered to order.ou Wo_Agent for THE HYDRAULIC PRESS. 3. E. FULLER, EXPRESSMAN AND GENERAL AGENT, Runs a Daily Express from Camptonville to Galena Hill, Young's Hill, Indian Hill, Indian Valley, and Pailroad Hill. California Dailies and Weeklies, and Atlantic papers and periodicals delivered promptly. Agent for the Hydraulic Press. 4 -Collections made. ang 13 52tf WINE & LIQUOR STORES. . Fine Ofd Brandies C. E. HELFRICH, Soda Water Manufacturer. DEALER IN FINE BRANDIES, FEB wines Ale, Porter &c. Brandies, of the following brands: Old Sazerac, Otard, Jules, Robin & Co., United Vineyards, Martelle, Champaigne, Otard, &., &c. Philadelphia and Holland Gin, ‘Old Tom, Santa Cruz and Jamaica Rum, Monongahela, Bourbon, Irish and Seotch Whiskey: Heidsick, Schreider and Morizette Champaigne: Port, Sherry, Ginger, Hock, Sauterne Claret Wines. Assorted Case Liquors, and SYRUPS. His extensive stock is now complete in every departauent, and will be offered at SACRAMENTO PRICES. San Juan North, Nov. 17, 1857. {1 3m] SAN JUAN BREWERY. £= This well-known establishment, owaed by i 2 /Stoffier & Koch, is now under the control of \z KR the junior member, Mr. Koch, and will 80 remain uotil the seitlement of the estate of Mr. Stoffler ately deceased. The business of manufacturing Izaser Beer will be continued as heretofore, and the old reputation ‘of the article fully maintained. jan2l G. CLARK & CO., IMPORTERS 4And PDealersin LIQUORS, WINES &€C., SAM. ABBEY, News Agent and Expressman, Runs a Daily Express from North San Juan to Sebastopol, Sweetland, Birchville and French Corral. California and Atlantic papers for sale, San Juan Feed Stable & Corral T. SAXBY has opereda Feed Stable and e@ Corral at the lower end of Main street, North San Juan, on theroad to Sebastopol, for the accommodation of Teamsters and the traveling public generally. He keeps on hand and for sale, Hay, Barley and Ground Feed. The Corral is large, conveniently situated and well watered, and admirably meets the wants of Drovers. There isalso a large and good stable on the premies. 53m SMITH’S EXPRESS, Runs Daily from North San Juan to Shady Creek, Cherokee. Little Grass Valley and Columbia Hill— Also. Weekly to Arnold’s Ranch, Bloomfield and Urisko. 43>-California and Atlantic Newspapers for sale. Letters and Packages carried, commissions attended to and collections made. Agent for the Hydraulic Press Marysville PIONEER CROCKERY STORE! Established in 1851, by S. HOBLITZELL, Successor to Joseph Genella, Tmporter and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Crockery, Glassware, Lamps CHANDELIERS, Britannia and Silver Plated Goods, Mirrors, &c., NO. 104 FIRST STREET, (SOUTH SIDE,) Between D street and the Plaza, SIGN OF THE BIG WHITE PITCHER, Marysville. n5 Sm H. Hravana Cigars! SUCCESSORS TO M. COHN § CO. _ Corner of Main and Flume sts. ~ th NORTH SAN JUAN. ““) Sanuary 28, 1800. Ro at J. B. PAINTER, (LATE-O’MEARA & PAINTER,) in TYPE, PRESSES, PRINTING MATERIAL, Paper, Cards,and Printer’s Stock generally, 132 Clay street, near Sansome, SAN FRANCISCO. 3m REAMER’S. jan 2lly TRAVEL. LIVERY STABLE. Corner Main and Reservoir streets, North San Juan. T. G. SMITH, BARNEY CLOW SMITH & CLOW, Proprietors. win respectfully inform the traveling public that they can be accommodated at a moment’s notice, with the best Saddle and Buggy Horses In the Mountains. LADTES, wishing to take a horseback ride, will find at ourstable, easy, gentle and spirited animals, with excellent side-saddles, &e. Elegant Top Buggies! And well matched horses for the © “lo desire them. Iforses kept by the day or week—w Il fed and care. fully groomed. Exchanges With Camptonville, Forest City and Nevada. Their large, new, and commodious stables enable them to accommodate a very large number of Horses, and the public can depend upon finding every convenience and care that can be found in any first-classs establishment of the kind. North San Juan, Dec.15th, 1858, 17tf VARIETY v . ‘ 2 aan = CLARK & CO. Troy +4) 1g oes steam saw-mill, which is now turning out the very best of of every kind for building and mining purposes, rand delivering, “¢ promptly wherever ordered. mediately. and always sellthe best material at the lowest pr They also furnish every kind of CENTRAL RANCH SAW-MILL. IRECT the attention of the public to their YELLOW AND SUGAR PINE LUMBER, They have Gnrivaliod tariiitied sor ailins wanes ba: SLUICE BLOCKS, as diretted, and can supply the citizens of North San . Juz with the Best of Fire Wood Orders can be left at the mill, or at the office Mm San Juan, on Main street, under the flume. J. FLCOLARK, J. B. JOUNSON, Noy. 19th, 1859, tf “Wood and Lumber Yard. MLARE & CO. have an extensive Wood and _/ Lumber Yard at the corner of Cherokee and Reservoir streets, by the terminus of the ailway. Every kindof sawed lumber is kept always on hand, and large or small demands can be instantly supplied. Fire Wood, either oak, pine or manzanita, green or dry, for sale in any quantity, and will be delivered at short notice. Orders can be left at the Yard, or at the office on Main street. J. ¥. CLARK, Noy. 19, .859. J. B. JOHNSON, LUMBER?! tf LUMBER! § phen PROPRIETORS OF THE Nerth 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 ave now vrepaved to furnish , Siwice and ESuilding Lumber, And Blecks of all kinds, on short notice. All orders satisfactorily filled and promptly delivered. N. BF. All persons indebted to SAN JUAN MILL COMPANY fo: Lumber, will please take notice, that payments must be made to tue andersigned alone. If made to any other party they will not be recognized as A. S. WADLEIGH, Agent San Juan Mill Co. legitimate. July 28, 1859. Tif Furniture! Furniture! Cheaper than the Cheapest! NEW Furniture always on hand and con stantly arriving at ss PECK & COMEY’S. #S-Prices to suit the most economical. CALL AND SEE, jan7 VOLUMBIA HILL STORE! W. C. COLEY E AS opened a Cash Store at Columbia Till, where Hie offers to the public a choice assortment of Goods. consisting of Groceries and Provisions, Miners’ Implements, &Cs, &cey A share of patronage is respectfully solicited. jan 2Stf W. C. COLEY. if You Want FRESH BEEF KILLED EVERY DAY, CALL ON “GUTHRIE & CO., Oak Tree Market. NOTICE. OLDIERS, TEAMSTERS, SAILORS, (or their widows or orphan children.) who served in any Wars or Battles, either in California or elsewhere, prior to Maroh 3d, 1855, or their children who were under 21 years at that date, or sailors who served on the coast of California in the Mexican war, will do well to address us. Claims that have been rejected in the hands of other agents, have been success.ully obtained by us. Agents acting for as, liberally pr‘d. Land wa:rants bought and .old to order, add all business requiring an agent at Washington. attended to. R. B. LLOYD & CO., Attorneys for Claims, Pensions, Bounty Land, &c. Reference to any of the heads of Departments. jan 28 10w Camphene and Coal Oil T reduced prices, at A jan21 CHLOICE assortment of BOOTS, at A jan 21 REAMER’S. REGON HAMS and SHOULDERS, at jan 21 REAMER'S. REAMER'S. TIN & HARDWARE. Tin and Hardware Store. Stoves, Hardware, Cook Stoves Parlor Stoves, Hose Pipes, Box Stoves, A General assortShelf Hardware, amg ment of Tinware, Nails, Cutlery, Builders’ Hardware, Carpenters’ Tools, Butts and Serevs, Iron and Steel, Galvanized Iron Pipe, Water Boxes &c., On hand and made to order. FRANK SMITH, Brick Row, Main street. North San Juan. Nov. 17,1887. lf Che Liydranlic Dress, B. P. AVERY, EDITOR. No Tax on Young Vineyards. Some of our readers may be encouraged to plant grape vines if we remind them that, by an act passed last April, newly planted vines and olive trees are exempted from taxation until the vine shall have attained the age of four years and the olive seven years. It would be better had the exemption been extended to young fruit trees, but let us be grateful for this mach. In three years from the cuttings grape vines attain profitable fruitage, and among the foothills and mountains, where land can be procured for the labor of fencing it, a vineyard four years old 1s sure to produce a handsome amount above its cost. There are hundreds—yes, thousands of young men, now toiling at the precarious pursuit of gold digging with very mean success, who might be independent of . such slavery in half a dozen years, or less, . if they would enclose a few acres of wild land, invest a small portion of their billiard, card and liquor money in grape cuttings at ten dollars a thousand, more or less, set them out properly, and devote to their cultivation occasionally a few hours of the leisure that is now utterly wasted. They need . not, of course, confine themselves to grape vines. Let them add the hop vine, the various fruit-bearing bushes and trees, and raise vegetables. Letthem have, also, a few . rose buskes and flowering shrubs, and transplant some of our beautiful native shade trees, and sow alfalfa seed about their doorways. The mining ditches afford abundant means for artificial irrigation on hundreds of hill-sides, even if there were no springmoistened flats and ravines lying unoccupied. Fencing timber can be had exactly where it is wanted, for the mere chopping, and every mining settlement is a market for all the produce you wish to sell. Such laboras we advise would not be thrown away. Every piece of land reclaimed and intelligently cultivated in the mountains, is just that much more added to the permanent wealth of the country and the happiness, at least, of the owner. We have a firm faith in the permanence of mountain settlements. Every year a larger number of mountaineers are making fixed and beautiful homes, and every year the condition of society is assimilating to that which characterizes older countries. We ask our homeless friends if this is not so, and urge them to obey the law which else will leave them isolated, aimless and hopeless. Sek Se aes et Wasnmincron Monument.—The Secretary of the National Washington Monument Society has addressed to the S. F. Herald a request for that journal to appeal to the press and people of California, for further contribution in aid of the unfinished structure which now serves as a monument of national apathy. Although we are opposed to the general idea of monuments, and would pre+ fer to see them utilized for some noble purpose, and although we think California has already done more than her share of pecuniary honor to Washington’s memory; still, that monument should be finished, and as our mite of influence towards that end we suggest thus: Let every postmaster and expressman in California select the 22d of this month, Washington’s birthday, as an appropriate occasion to solicit contributions for the Monument. Let a contribution box be conspiculously posted in each post and express office, and over it the words, in large bold letters, printed upon white cloth: “Tuts 1s WasHINGTON’s Birtupay; Hetp THE MonUMENT’—or @ similar inscription. Such an appeal would certainly have a great effect. What say our cotemporaries to the plan? Senator Latham started for Washington on the Sonora, after being attended to that vessel by a host of friends. The hopes of the State go with him. He is now the representative of the whole people, not merely of a triumphant party. If he proves mindful of this fact he will be as deserving as he is fortunate. He is only thirty-three years old, yet he has acquired a handsome fortune, served as Congressman for two years, been Collector of the port of San Francisco and Governor of California, and is now on his way to take an influential position among the Senators of the nation. Mr. Johnson, of Amador, has introduced a bill providing that unsealed bills of sale of mining claims, properly witnessed, shall be valid and sufficient evidence of purchase. We hope the bill may become a law. It will be remembered that the Supreme Court decided all conveyances. made without a seal to be illegal. Otis L. Brett, the insane man whose feet were frozen while he was being conveyed to Stockton last winter and subsequently amputated, isagain deranged. The Legislature has had under consideration a bill appropriating $10,000 for his relief. If dull weather affects you, marry a warm. hearted girl, and make sunshine for yourself. Bachelors will find this preferable te pilliards or burgundy, An Important Subject for Legislation. We are indebted to A. J. Moulder, Esq., State Superintendent of Public Instruction, for a copy of his annual report. We have heretofore noticed this able document, not as it deserved but as our limited space would allow, and have expressed our sense of the value of Mr. Moulder’s services to the cause of public education. It is not too much to say, that his persistent and earnest efforts have quickened and informed the whole public sentiment of the State with regard to this most important subject. He is particularly entitled to the thanks of the mining counties for his impartial endeavors to secure the consolidation of the proceeds of the sate of the township school lands inte a common fund, for the equal benefit of all the children in the State. Our readers know that Congress donated to this State, as to others, the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of public land in every township of six miles square, for school purposes; and that this donation would amount in the aggregate to nearly six million acres —constituting a fund amply snfficient, with other resources for the same purpose, to maintain our free schools forever. With a total lack of appreciation of the consequences of its own action, the Legislature of 1858 provided for the sale of the sections named, at a rate not lower than two dollars per acre, the proceeds of such sale to be employed for the support of schools ia the particular township in which ihe lands are located. Now as the . policy and practice of the General Government has invariably been to reserve from sale or pre-emption all mineral lands, and as the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Secretary of the Interior have decided in accordance with this practice, as have also some of our own Courts, it is evident that no school land sections can be located in most of the mining counties of California, and that under the law of 1858 one great portion of the State, to which the extraordinarily rapid development of the entire commonwealth is due, must be prevented from sharing the munificent bequest of Congress, and left to provide by special taxation for the support of its public schools. The injustice and impol‘cy of this are apparent on the slightest impartial reflection, and the present Legislaiure should hasten to inaugurate the wise and equitable system urged repeatedly by the State Superiatendent We do not sympathise with that feeling of antagonism between the agricultural and mining interests which has so often affected or prevented legislation, and which every year appears to be growing stronger and more troublesome. We consider them interdependent, as equally conducive to the welfare of the State, and as deserving equal protection. Precisely for this reason we wish to see the public schools of the whole State put upon an equal footing, thus removing what must else become with the mining communities a just cause of complaint. These communities have shown as much appreciation of the importance of education as their agricultural brethren. In proportion to the aggregate number of their children old enough to attend school, they have built as many school houses and sent to them as many pupils, doing this under more discouragements and with less public assistance. The State needs to have ail her children educaied, and the agricultural and commercial counties will find it to their advantage not to aid in perpetuating the alleged social inferiority of those hardy mountain communities to which is largely owing their own prosperity. This is a question above all local and sectional rivalry, and in this spirit we hope to see the Legislature treat it. First do justice to the children of the whole State, into whose hands the destiny of California must soon be given, and then endeavour to secure justice from Congress by appealing to it to permit us to select elsewhere within our borders those sections of land, estimated to reach three millions of acres, which we are deprived of by its policy in regard to the mineral lands. —_— A good reason against secession is afforded to the six southern counties of California, by the lucky circumstance that the Governor of the State is one of their own citizens, with whom they profess to be well pleased. Although they have voted themselves favorable to immediate secession, it is probable they will be content to remain in the State for two years longer. Even should Congress endorse the action of our Legislature in the premises, we do not expect the malcontents would be in haste to retire. Some Amador county Sunday law petitioners thus addressed one of their representatives: “Please read the petition carefully and then shove it through, or be d—d careful how you travel round through Am-. ador county.” An exchange remarks on this, that it is to be presumed the petitioners require a day for recreation—unot a Sunday . . law. The Mayor and Council of Salt Lake City solicit a copy of the revised ordinances of San Francisco. A deserved compliment is here implied. cents per pound; daily ranging from HYDRAULIC PRESS. VOL. 2. NO. 25 THE DITCH DISPUTE. The following communication is published because its appearance seems demanded by fairness and courtesy; but we hope it will be the last on the subject. A newspaper is not the proper medium for ventilating the disputes of rival water companies, even if such disputes were matter of public interest. We have the kindest feelings towards all ditch enterprises, and do not wish to aid in stirring up new animosities or keeping alive old ones: 4 Mr. Editor:+Some two weeks since I addressed a communication to you, which was written in a hasty manner, and in which { endeavored to give my views of certain statements which appeared in your paper in regard to the Eureka Lake Co’s ability to furnish water. You decided that a large portion of my communication was “personal and uncalled for.’ If such was the cases and I will not question the correctness of your decision, I deem it but proper for me to thank you for so suppressing it; but allow me here to give my earnest, honest disclaimer of any such intention. In your last week’s issue you gave the answer of Messrs. Fauchery and Poquillon, and I now hope you will allow me to review that answer as briefly as possible. In the first place, they thank me for not disputing the correctness of their figures, which they have no occasion to do as I have simply reserved that privilege for future occasions, if necessary. They next attempt to answer my first question by asserting that the two Grizzly ditches are of sufficient capacity to run 1,500 inches of water. Who has disputed that, or does dispute it? I have not—do not. Iasserted that the Grizzly right or claim would not furnish water from July to January, and I now reassert that statement in the most positive manner, and if you call upon me for proof I refer you to any candid man who has a personal knowledge of the matter. It is a fixed fact that these lower rights do fail in the summer and fall, and my deducting the amount set to their credit will be decided to be perfectly correct and proper by every impartial judge. But they may claim that the Magenta is to supply any deficiency which may occur, and in that event the same deduction must be made from it. I care not on which horn of the dilemma they may choose to hang. I next asserted, that when the Magenta was full there was no water left to run in the old Irwin; and how have they met ¢hat states ment? They knew they could not deny it, and so they fly off on a tangent and talk about “business men, large debts, high flumes”, and other clap-trap which I think unworthy of gentlemen occupying their position in society. They think it will be an easy task to vindicate the validity of their title. The Poorman’s Co. thought the same, but where are they now? Bursted up and exploded—among the things that were. The Merced Mining Co. thought the same—but what remains of them save the history of their deeds and doings? Iam clearly of the opinion, after full examination of the ruling of our District Court, the findings of the juries, the decisions of the Supreme Bench in all the past litigation in regard to these rights, that if ever they (the Lake Co.) are forced into a square stand up fight upon the merits of the case with the Weaver and Pioneer Co.’s title, they will come out of the contest with their banners equally torn, their colors trailing equally low in the dust. I would answer their query, but if certain “fresh rumors” are correct, and I do not doubt them, it is unnecessary. That thing will not be done. JUSTICE: Columbia Hili, Jan. 28, 1860. —_—_——— Tur San Francisco Wooten Facrory.—= The following items are condensed from the Herald: The amount of ¢apital invested in the manufactory is $100,000, and the owners and proprietors are Hyneman, Peck & Co., L. Haskell & Co., and David S. Turner. Sixty operatives are constantly employed, and about $2,500 are paid out monthly for wages. From $20 to $30 per month are paid for green hands; regular hands (women) receive $45 per month; men, from $2 to $3 per day. From 2,500 to 3,000 pairs of blankets are turned out monthly, the average prices of which range from $4 to $5 per pair. The proprietors do not propose to compete with the manufacturers of a cheap article, finding, as they do, ready sale for the really excellent work which they turn ont. They have on file an order from Col. Whitney, the President of the Steam Navigation Company, for a complete set of blankets for the new steamer now building for the company. The wool used is strictly confined to California production, and, with the exception of such small quantities as are purchased from tanners, is generally obtained at first hands from the producers. The prices paid average from ten to twelve and a half and fifteen the amount consumed one thousand to twelve hundred pounds, and all of which is brought into market unwashed. oo “The Legislature has adopted resolutions asking Congress to donate 160 acres of land to actual settlers. A bill for this purpose, emanating from the Republican party, has been heretofore defeated in Congress.

BY AVERY & WATERS. $$ NORTH SAN JUAN, NEVADA CO., SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1860. BUSINESS CARDS. R. H. FARQUHAR, Justice of the Peace, Bridgeport Township. Office, in the old Masonic Hall Main s:reet, San Juan. 1 tt O. P. STIDGER, Attorney at Law, Netary Public, And Conveyancer. Office on the north side of Main street, one door west of E V. Hattield’s store, oppositethe Pioneer, NORTH SAN JUAN. Noy. 13, 1857. 1 C. WILSON HILL, Attorney at Law, Witlattend promptly toall businessconfided to his care in Nevada and adjoining counties, Office — In Abbott’s Building, NEVADA. She Aydrautic Leese, PUBLISHEDEVERY SATURDAY MORNING aay Office on Main street, adjoining the Drug Store.-G& Terms for the Paper. ‘One Year, invariably in advance ‘Six Month, “° «© « . Three ry “ “ce “ Terms for Advertising. ‘One Square, (12 lines) first insertion,.....000++00+ $3 00 Each subsequent insertion,......:.cccrseccceererees 1 00 44 Business cards not exceeding four lines of this *type, will be ifiserted for $6 00 a quarter. SALOONS & RESTAURANTS rere tf16 rare BILLIARDS, 25 CTS. AGAME! SAN JUAN EXCHANGE. C. SCHARDIN & CO., OULD respectfully inform their old ‘riends a and the public generally that they have recentty hade many improvements to the above-named pop‘ular resort, and are better prepared than ever to please all tastes. Three Billiard Tables, Tn first-rate order—two of them new Marble Beds ‘and equal toany in the State. The wood bedis the favorite of the place. wurasrurie House, Signand Decorative Painter, AND PAPER HANGER. te_SHOP—Foot of Main street, NORTH SAN JUAN, All work warranted to give satisfaction. jan 28 TEETH! DR. E. FELLERS, DENTIST, See North S22 Juan His an office inthe Post Office Building, on Main Street. where be is prapared 2o perform all operations upon TEETH, on the latest and most approved principles. By request, families will be waited on at their resiBOWLING. dences. Two splendid Ten-Pin Alleys are attached tothe es Oflice hours—from 7 o’clock A. M., to 5 o'clock P. “tablishment, well supplied with the perquisites of such 48-3m an institution. : SEPT RERROE: It isthe intention 0° the proprictor to use every exerJOHN . oe SE ELY ‘ tion to make the Exchange the favorite resort of all Avent for mi rte “oc seekers of healthy pleasurable exercise. N léri icksil " The New aria UuICKStiver THE BAR a @ ver, The Best ind Purest Article in the State! Post Office Building, North San Juan, Nevada ecunty. will be furnished with the very best WINES AND LIQUORS To be had fn the San Francisco Market, and no pains will be spared to make everything pleasant and attractive. 10 The Bank Exchange BROWN & REESE ESPECTFEFULLY inform their old friends and the wablic generally. that they still hold DRS. MYERS & CLARK, DENTISTS, Office, Union Hotel, North San Juan. = Mechanical Dentistry done onall new and +. most improved principles. n26 tf Watch and Jewelry Store. x ATCTIES, CLOCKS & JEWELRY REPAIRED forth at tho corner of Main and Flume streets, Where wh Cees warranted to give satisfaction or no charge ‘they keep the very best — af ~ . r = V. rel Wines and Liquors, D. W. BAYLIKS, Shop in Clark & Co's. Gijice, corner of Mainand Reservoir streets, North Sun Juan. WL All jobs left with the subscriber will be put in a fire-proof safe at night. An experience of twenty-five years enables me to do all kinds of work in my line. As Good as the Best. D. W. BAYLIES. m3 J. W. SULLIVAN’S GREAT PACIFIC EMPORIUM, And General Agency of Periodical Literature, And sole Agent for the California True Delta, Catifornia Boston Journal, Missouri Republican, Cinccnnatli Commercial, N. Y. Courier des Etats Unis, New York Herald, Tribune and Times. &e., &., &e. Washington street, next door to the Post Office, SAN FRANCISCO. NEW MARKET. ge subscribers have opened a New Market in Ale, Porter, and Lager Beer. Also, the finest Cigars and Tobacco. The establishment will be under the care of Mr. BROWN, formerly of Philadelphia, who understands ‘equally well the art of dispensing and of pleasing. North San Juan, June 11, 1859. 45tf CG. SCHARDIN & CO., Wholesate and Retail Dealersin iWines, Liquors, Cigarsand Tobacco. Also— a general assortment of FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS, And Confectionery. SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET. North San Juan, Nov. 17, 1857. [1 tf] Washington Restaurant Nov. 5th, 1859, Main Street, North San Juan. the store occupsed by GEORGE CULLODI PECK & COLEY, where they will offer for sale the best of Beef, Pork, Mutton &c. ABSA share of patronage issolicited. CRAWFORD & CO. Norh San Juan. Dee’r.22d. 758. 19tf GEORGE THEALL, Expressman and General Agent. Informs the public that he continues to keep a first-class Restaurant and Boarding House é _. at the above stand. serving up in en weS& his best style all the dainties and luxuries ‘of the market MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Clean Roems and Clean Beds For regular and transient lodgers, have hem fitted up in connection with the Restaurant. They wit be found inferior to none. PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PARTIES Furnished with Dinners or Suppers to order, in the most satisfactory manner. Give George a Call. Runs a Daily Express from Forest City to AlNleghanytown, Chips’ Flat and Minnesota. 4@-Californiaand Atlantic Newspapers and Magazines on hand and delivered to order.ou Wo_Agent for THE HYDRAULIC PRESS. 3. E. FULLER, EXPRESSMAN AND GENERAL AGENT, Runs a Daily Express from Camptonville to Galena Hill, Young's Hill, Indian Hill, Indian Valley, and Pailroad Hill. California Dailies and Weeklies, and Atlantic papers and periodicals delivered promptly. Agent for the Hydraulic Press. 4 -Collections made. ang 13 52tf WINE & LIQUOR STORES. . Fine Ofd Brandies C. E. HELFRICH, Soda Water Manufacturer. DEALER IN FINE BRANDIES, FEB wines Ale, Porter &c. Brandies, of the following brands: Old Sazerac, Otard, Jules, Robin & Co., United Vineyards, Martelle, Champaigne, Otard, &., &c. Philadelphia and Holland Gin, ‘Old Tom, Santa Cruz and Jamaica Rum, Monongahela, Bourbon, Irish and Seotch Whiskey: Heidsick, Schreider and Morizette Champaigne: Port, Sherry, Ginger, Hock, Sauterne Claret Wines. Assorted Case Liquors, and SYRUPS. His extensive stock is now complete in every departauent, and will be offered at SACRAMENTO PRICES. San Juan North, Nov. 17, 1857. {1 3m] SAN JUAN BREWERY. £= This well-known establishment, owaed by i 2 /Stoffier & Koch, is now under the control of \z KR the junior member, Mr. Koch, and will 80 remain uotil the seitlement of the estate of Mr. Stoffler ately deceased. The business of manufacturing Izaser Beer will be continued as heretofore, and the old reputation ‘of the article fully maintained. jan2l G. CLARK & CO., IMPORTERS 4And PDealersin LIQUORS, WINES &€C., SAM. ABBEY, News Agent and Expressman, Runs a Daily Express from North San Juan to Sebastopol, Sweetland, Birchville and French Corral. California and Atlantic papers for sale, San Juan Feed Stable & Corral T. SAXBY has opereda Feed Stable and e@ Corral at the lower end of Main street, North San Juan, on theroad to Sebastopol, for the accommodation of Teamsters and the traveling public generally. He keeps on hand and for sale, Hay, Barley and Ground Feed. The Corral is large, conveniently situated and well watered, and admirably meets the wants of Drovers. There isalso a large and good stable on the premies. 53m SMITH’S EXPRESS, Runs Daily from North San Juan to Shady Creek, Cherokee. Little Grass Valley and Columbia Hill— Also. Weekly to Arnold’s Ranch, Bloomfield and Urisko. 43>-California and Atlantic Newspapers for sale. Letters and Packages carried, commissions attended to and collections made. Agent for the Hydraulic Press Marysville PIONEER CROCKERY STORE! Established in 1851, by S. HOBLITZELL, Successor to Joseph Genella, Tmporter and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Crockery, Glassware, Lamps CHANDELIERS, Britannia and Silver Plated Goods, Mirrors, &c., NO. 104 FIRST STREET, (SOUTH SIDE,) Between D street and the Plaza, SIGN OF THE BIG WHITE PITCHER, Marysville. n5 Sm H. Hravana Cigars! SUCCESSORS TO M. COHN § CO. _ Corner of Main and Flume sts. ~ th NORTH SAN JUAN. ““) Sanuary 28, 1800. Ro at J. B. PAINTER, (LATE-O’MEARA & PAINTER,) in TYPE, PRESSES, PRINTING MATERIAL, Paper, Cards,and Printer’s Stock generally, 132 Clay street, near Sansome, SAN FRANCISCO. 3m REAMER’S. jan 2lly TRAVEL. LIVERY STABLE. Corner Main and Reservoir streets, North San Juan. T. G. SMITH, BARNEY CLOW SMITH & CLOW, Proprietors. win respectfully inform the traveling public that they can be accommodated at a moment’s notice, with the best Saddle and Buggy Horses In the Mountains. LADTES, wishing to take a horseback ride, will find at ourstable, easy, gentle and spirited animals, with excellent side-saddles, &e. Elegant Top Buggies! And well matched horses for the © “lo desire them. Iforses kept by the day or week—w Il fed and care. fully groomed. Exchanges With Camptonville, Forest City and Nevada. Their large, new, and commodious stables enable them to accommodate a very large number of Horses, and the public can depend upon finding every convenience and care that can be found in any first-classs establishment of the kind. North San Juan, Dec.15th, 1858, 17tf VARIETY v . ‘ 2 aan = CLARK & CO. Troy +4) 1g oes steam saw-mill, which is now turning out the very best of of every kind for building and mining purposes, rand delivering, “¢ promptly wherever ordered. mediately. and always sellthe best material at the lowest pr They also furnish every kind of CENTRAL RANCH SAW-MILL. IRECT the attention of the public to their YELLOW AND SUGAR PINE LUMBER, They have Gnrivaliod tariiitied sor ailins wanes ba: SLUICE BLOCKS, as diretted, and can supply the citizens of North San . Juz with the Best of Fire Wood Orders can be left at the mill, or at the office Mm San Juan, on Main street, under the flume. J. FLCOLARK, J. B. JOUNSON, Noy. 19th, 1859, tf “Wood and Lumber Yard. MLARE & CO. have an extensive Wood and _/ Lumber Yard at the corner of Cherokee and Reservoir streets, by the terminus of the ailway. Every kindof sawed lumber is kept always on hand, and large or small demands can be instantly supplied. Fire Wood, either oak, pine or manzanita, green or dry, for sale in any quantity, and will be delivered at short notice. Orders can be left at the Yard, or at the office on Main street. J. ¥. CLARK, Noy. 19, .859. J. B. JOHNSON, LUMBER?! tf LUMBER! § phen PROPRIETORS OF THE Nerth 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 ave now vrepaved to furnish , Siwice and ESuilding Lumber, And Blecks of all kinds, on short notice. All orders satisfactorily filled and promptly delivered. N. BF. All persons indebted to SAN JUAN MILL COMPANY fo: Lumber, will please take notice, that payments must be made to tue andersigned alone. If made to any other party they will not be recognized as A. S. WADLEIGH, Agent San Juan Mill Co. legitimate. July 28, 1859. Tif Furniture! Furniture! Cheaper than the Cheapest! NEW Furniture always on hand and con stantly arriving at ss PECK & COMEY’S. #S-Prices to suit the most economical. CALL AND SEE, jan7 VOLUMBIA HILL STORE! W. C. COLEY E AS opened a Cash Store at Columbia Till, where Hie offers to the public a choice assortment of Goods. consisting of Groceries and Provisions, Miners’ Implements, &Cs, &cey A share of patronage is respectfully solicited. jan 2Stf W. C. COLEY. if You Want FRESH BEEF KILLED EVERY DAY, CALL ON “GUTHRIE & CO.,

Oak Tree Market. NOTICE. OLDIERS, TEAMSTERS, SAILORS, (or their widows or orphan children.) who served in any Wars or Battles, either in California or elsewhere, prior to Maroh 3d, 1855, or their children who were under 21 years at that date, or sailors who served on the coast of California in the Mexican war, will do well to address us. Claims that have been rejected in the hands of other agents, have been success.ully obtained by us. Agents acting for as, liberally pr‘d. Land wa:rants bought and .old to order, add all business requiring an agent at Washington. attended to. R. B. LLOYD & CO., Attorneys for Claims, Pensions, Bounty Land, &c. Reference to any of the heads of Departments. jan 28 10w Camphene and Coal Oil T reduced prices, at A jan21 CHLOICE assortment of BOOTS, at A jan 21 REAMER’S. REGON HAMS and SHOULDERS, at jan 21 REAMER'S. REAMER'S. TIN & HARDWARE. Tin and Hardware Store. Stoves, Hardware, Cook Stoves Parlor Stoves, Hose Pipes, Box Stoves, A General assortShelf Hardware, amg ment of Tinware, Nails, Cutlery, Builders’ Hardware, Carpenters’ Tools, Butts and Serevs, Iron and Steel, Galvanized Iron Pipe, Water Boxes &c., On hand and made to order. FRANK SMITH, Brick Row, Main street. North San Juan. Nov. 17,1887. lf Che Liydranlic Dress, B. P. AVERY, EDITOR. No Tax on Young Vineyards. Some of our readers may be encouraged to plant grape vines if we remind them that, by an act passed last April, newly planted vines and olive trees are exempted from taxation until the vine shall have attained the age of four years and the olive seven years. It would be better had the exemption been extended to young fruit trees, but let us be grateful for this mach. In three years from the cuttings grape vines attain profitable fruitage, and among the foothills and mountains, where land can be procured for the labor of fencing it, a vineyard four years old 1s sure to produce a handsome amount above its cost. There are hundreds—yes, thousands of young men, now toiling at the precarious pursuit of gold digging with very mean success, who might be independent of . such slavery in half a dozen years, or less, . if they would enclose a few acres of wild land, invest a small portion of their billiard, card and liquor money in grape cuttings at ten dollars a thousand, more or less, set them out properly, and devote to their cultivation occasionally a few hours of the leisure that is now utterly wasted. They need . not, of course, confine themselves to grape vines. Let them add the hop vine, the various fruit-bearing bushes and trees, and raise vegetables. Letthem have, also, a few . rose buskes and flowering shrubs, and transplant some of our beautiful native shade trees, and sow alfalfa seed about their doorways. The mining ditches afford abundant means for artificial irrigation on hundreds of hill-sides, even if there were no springmoistened flats and ravines lying unoccupied. Fencing timber can be had exactly where it is wanted, for the mere chopping, and every mining settlement is a market for all the produce you wish to sell. Such laboras we advise would not be thrown away. Every piece of land reclaimed and intelligently cultivated in the mountains, is just that much more added to the permanent wealth of the country and the happiness, at least, of the owner. We have a firm faith in the permanence of mountain settlements. Every year a larger number of mountaineers are making fixed and beautiful homes, and every year the condition of society is assimilating to that which characterizes older countries. We ask our homeless friends if this is not so, and urge them to obey the law which else will leave them isolated, aimless and hopeless. Sek Se aes et Wasnmincron Monument.—The Secretary of the National Washington Monument Society has addressed to the S. F. Herald a request for that journal to appeal to the press and people of California, for further contribution in aid of the unfinished structure which now serves as a monument of national apathy. Although we are opposed to the general idea of monuments, and would pre+ fer to see them utilized for some noble purpose, and although we think California has already done more than her share of pecuniary honor to Washington’s memory; still, that monument should be finished, and as our mite of influence towards that end we suggest thus: Let every postmaster and expressman in California select the 22d of this month, Washington’s birthday, as an appropriate occasion to solicit contributions for the Monument. Let a contribution box be conspiculously posted in each post and express office, and over it the words, in large bold letters, printed upon white cloth: “Tuts 1s WasHINGTON’s Birtupay; Hetp THE MonUMENT’—or @ similar inscription. Such an appeal would certainly have a great effect. What say our cotemporaries to the plan? Senator Latham started for Washington on the Sonora, after being attended to that vessel by a host of friends. The hopes of the State go with him. He is now the representative of the whole people, not merely of a triumphant party. If he proves mindful of this fact he will be as deserving as he is fortunate. He is only thirty-three years old, yet he has acquired a handsome fortune, served as Congressman for two years, been Collector of the port of San Francisco and Governor of California, and is now on his way to take an influential position among the Senators of the nation. Mr. Johnson, of Amador, has introduced a bill providing that unsealed bills of sale of mining claims, properly witnessed, shall be valid and sufficient evidence of purchase. We hope the bill may become a law. It will be remembered that the Supreme Court decided all conveyances. made without a seal to be illegal. Otis L. Brett, the insane man whose feet were frozen while he was being conveyed to Stockton last winter and subsequently amputated, isagain deranged. The Legislature has had under consideration a bill appropriating $10,000 for his relief. If dull weather affects you, marry a warm. hearted girl, and make sunshine for yourself. Bachelors will find this preferable te pilliards or burgundy, An Important Subject for Legislation. We are indebted to A. J. Moulder, Esq., State Superintendent of Public Instruction, for a copy of his annual report. We have heretofore noticed this able document, not as it deserved but as our limited space would allow, and have expressed our sense of the value of Mr. Moulder’s services to the cause of public education. It is not too much to say, that his persistent and earnest efforts have quickened and informed the whole public sentiment of the State with regard to this most important subject. He is particularly entitled to the thanks of the mining counties for his impartial endeavors to secure the consolidation of the proceeds of the sate of the township school lands inte a common fund, for the equal benefit of all the children in the State. Our readers know that Congress donated to this State, as to others, the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of public land in every township of six miles square, for school purposes; and that this donation would amount in the aggregate to nearly six million acres —constituting a fund amply snfficient, with other resources for the same purpose, to maintain our free schools forever. With a total lack of appreciation of the consequences of its own action, the Legislature of 1858 provided for the sale of the sections named, at a rate not lower than two dollars per acre, the proceeds of such sale to be employed for the support of schools ia the particular township in which ihe lands are located. Now as the . policy and practice of the General Government has invariably been to reserve from sale or pre-emption all mineral lands, and as the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Secretary of the Interior have decided in accordance with this practice, as have also some of our own Courts, it is evident that no school land sections can be located in most of the mining counties of California, and that under the law of 1858 one great portion of the State, to which the extraordinarily rapid development of the entire commonwealth is due, must be prevented from sharing the munificent bequest of Congress, and left to provide by special taxation for the support of its public schools. The injustice and impol‘cy of this are apparent on the slightest impartial reflection, and the present Legislaiure should hasten to inaugurate the wise and equitable system urged repeatedly by the State Superiatendent We do not sympathise with that feeling of antagonism between the agricultural and mining interests which has so often affected or prevented legislation, and which every year appears to be growing stronger and more troublesome. We consider them interdependent, as equally conducive to the welfare of the State, and as deserving equal protection. Precisely for this reason we wish to see the public schools of the whole State put upon an equal footing, thus removing what must else become with the mining communities a just cause of complaint. These communities have shown as much appreciation of the importance of education as their agricultural brethren. In proportion to the aggregate number of their children old enough to attend school, they have built as many school houses and sent to them as many pupils, doing this under more discouragements and with less public assistance. The State needs to have ail her children educaied, and the agricultural and commercial counties will find it to their advantage not to aid in perpetuating the alleged social inferiority of those hardy mountain communities to which is largely owing their own prosperity. This is a question above all local and sectional rivalry, and in this spirit we hope to see the Legislature treat it. First do justice to the children of the whole State, into whose hands the destiny of California must soon be given, and then endeavour to secure justice from Congress by appealing to it to permit us to select elsewhere within our borders those sections of land, estimated to reach three millions of acres, which we are deprived of by its policy in regard to the mineral lands. —_— A good reason against secession is afforded to the six southern counties of California, by the lucky circumstance that the Governor of the State is one of their own citizens, with whom they profess to be well pleased. Although they have voted themselves favorable to immediate secession, it is probable they will be content to remain in the State for two years longer. Even should Congress endorse the action of our Legislature in the premises, we do not expect the malcontents would be in haste to retire. Some Amador county Sunday law petitioners thus addressed one of their representatives: “Please read the petition carefully and then shove it through, or be d—d careful how you travel round through Am-. ador county.” An exchange remarks on this, that it is to be presumed the petitioners require a day for recreation—unot a Sunday . . law. The Mayor and Council of Salt Lake City solicit a copy of the revised ordinances of San Francisco. A deserved compliment is here implied. cents per pound; daily ranging from HYDRAULIC PRESS. VOL. 2. NO. 25 THE DITCH DISPUTE. The following communication is published because its appearance seems demanded by fairness and courtesy; but we hope it will be the last on the subject. A newspaper is not the proper medium for ventilating the disputes of rival water companies, even if such disputes were matter of public interest. We have the kindest feelings towards all ditch enterprises, and do not wish to aid in stirring up new animosities or keeping alive old ones: 4 Mr. Editor:+Some two weeks since I addressed a communication to you, which was written in a hasty manner, and in which { endeavored to give my views of certain statements which appeared in your paper in regard to the Eureka Lake Co’s ability to furnish water. You decided that a large portion of my communication was “personal and uncalled for.’ If such was the cases and I will not question the correctness of your decision, I deem it but proper for me to thank you for so suppressing it; but allow me here to give my earnest, honest disclaimer of any such intention. In your last week’s issue you gave the answer of Messrs. Fauchery and Poquillon, and I now hope you will allow me to review that answer as briefly as possible. In the first place, they thank me for not disputing the correctness of their figures, which they have no occasion to do as I have simply reserved that privilege for future occasions, if necessary. They next attempt to answer my first question by asserting that the two Grizzly ditches are of sufficient capacity to run 1,500 inches of water. Who has disputed that, or does dispute it? I have not—do not. Iasserted that the Grizzly right or claim would not furnish water from July to January, and I now reassert that statement in the most positive manner, and if you call upon me for proof I refer you to any candid man who has a personal knowledge of the matter. It is a fixed fact that these lower rights do fail in the summer and fall, and my deducting the amount set to their credit will be decided to be perfectly correct and proper by every impartial judge. But they may claim that the Magenta is to supply any deficiency which may occur, and in that event the same deduction must be made from it. I care not on which horn of the dilemma they may choose to hang. I next asserted, that when the Magenta was full there was no water left to run in the old Irwin; and how have they met ¢hat states ment? They knew they could not deny it, and so they fly off on a tangent and talk about “business men, large debts, high flumes”, and other clap-trap which I think unworthy of gentlemen occupying their position in society. They think it will be an easy task to vindicate the validity of their title. The Poorman’s Co. thought the same, but where are they now? Bursted up and exploded—among the things that were. The Merced Mining Co. thought the same—but what remains of them save the history of their deeds and doings? Iam clearly of the opinion, after full examination of the ruling of our District Court, the findings of the juries, the decisions of the Supreme Bench in all the past litigation in regard to these rights, that if ever they (the Lake Co.) are forced into a square stand up fight upon the merits of the case with the Weaver and Pioneer Co.’s title, they will come out of the contest with their banners equally torn, their colors trailing equally low in the dust. I would answer their query, but if certain “fresh rumors” are correct, and I do not doubt them, it is unnecessary. That thing will not be done. JUSTICE: Columbia Hili, Jan. 28, 1860. —_—_——— Tur San Francisco Wooten Facrory.—= The following items are condensed from the Herald: The amount of ¢apital invested in the manufactory is $100,000, and the owners and proprietors are Hyneman, Peck & Co., L. Haskell & Co., and David S. Turner. Sixty operatives are constantly employed, and about $2,500 are paid out monthly for wages. From $20 to $30 per month are paid for green hands; regular hands (women) receive $45 per month; men, from $2 to $3 per day. From 2,500 to 3,000 pairs of blankets are turned out monthly, the average prices of which range from $4 to $5 per pair. The proprietors do not propose to compete with the manufacturers of a cheap article, finding, as they do, ready sale for the really excellent work which they turn ont. They have on file an order from Col. Whitney, the President of the Steam Navigation Company, for a complete set of blankets for the new steamer now building for the company. The wool used is strictly confined to California production, and, with the exception of such small quantities as are purchased from tanners, is generally obtained at first hands from the producers. The prices paid average from ten to twelve and a half and fifteen the amount consumed one thousand to twelve hundred pounds, and all of which is brought into market unwashed. oo “The Legislature has adopted resolutions asking Congress to donate 160 acres of land to actual settlers. A bill for this purpose, emanating from the Republican party, has been heretofore defeated in Congress.