November 13, 1858 (4 pages)

SRE aa a CL ASANO LNA ee ERIN SEAR GE BF, The Ladies Festival, CHEROKEE ScHooL.—In an article . Sanwan.—The Hydraulic Press . r the bencfit~of jthe Methodist headed < School Statistics’’ which Sys that the name of the town where: . . A Ne — HYDRAULIC PRESS! . B. P. AVERY, EDITOR . Church in this place came off accord-. was published in our last issue, we inge jing to advertisement on Wednesday . advertently committed the blunder of . re ee ‘Mad Ri T Tiger ISDS. . . J the writingtto the .pronunciation, and “Jad Itiver. The red devils had de-. The following items are gathered PE levening last, ond was very numer . saying that Bridgeport Township con. : 6 = . ously attended: Whenever the ladies try it; observe, Nurthsanwhan. Quite . stroyed Pardee’s ranch and driven off . from the Nevada Democrat : yw . stitutes School District No. 2, forget. —— '¢an be induced to attempt any thing 8 pretty name might be made without the'stock. They were punished by . The town of Omega is growing The Bloomer Cut boys made five . of this sort they always carry it thro’ ting in the hurry of writing that the . encountering the inconvenience of a} Capt. Messec’s company, who killed quite rapidly. days ran with sixty inches of water . with a zeal and success peculiar to! township is divided into two school . °bange or similarity—thus, Sanwa. . eight, wounded several, and took five . " Mr. Withers, foreman for Capt. : : iti, Paes The Press can elaborate the suges-. prisoners. The Journal boasts that. 1: i . . ith lves. On th th pate ° 62 . 2“ sal ) Kidd & Co., has been busily and sue last week, and cleaner: up sixty ounPor sovn a Bote ® 07) et am ir . districts, No. 1 being called Cherokee . tion without feeling restraint from any . Weaverville is well supplied with . cessfully washing hell forty peas od ces of gold, worth $1,110 at the us. The fio of ace ee anes District, and having had an excellent . impression derived in contemplating . schools, and has no little idlers about . Secmeet: nied stmainiten Gon past.six. ual’ratepaid'here for the “best dust, . school for several years past. t a The State at Large. rior quality of alabaster is found in large deposits in Monterey county. . THE . . : . ’ “3 rt cae ° % it residess-Notth San Juan—isan . The Trinity Journal gives an ac abominable. name to write. Adapt count of a battle with the Indians on County Items. SATURDAY, -NOV. ‘efficiently assisted by those residing . our transcendent ingenuity. —The Tchama Gaztte. weeks or two months. which is°$18.50 per ounce. tells a big hunting yarn about ex~Assemblyman Lewis. During a three days’ chase in the coast range, he succeeded in killing 31 deer! The Butte Record says Mr. Geo. Tyrrel has been engaged during the past year in taking sketches of California water and labor cost them about $150 . which would leave them a net profit . their united exertions the church w . tastefully though not elaborately dec‘orated with evergreens, and the sup~: . per tables abundantly provided with ja variety of tempting edibles. ever made.on the hill. aed . of $960. For the quantity of water used, and amount of time and labor, this is said to be the best clean up “Mr. J. B. Alexander has sold his interest in the Wyoming Company for $7,000—cash down. . This company Their . in Sebastopol, Sweetland, French Corral and Freeman’s Crossing. By . signs himself “Paul Purl,” sends us aS . the following interesting particulars : “This district is called Cherokee! Very many people already adopt it— Messrs. Samuelson, Kraft, Prior and Davis, who had generously of. fered their services as musicians, oc. cupied a rostrum at one end of the . room, and delighted every one with . 5 are now down with their shaft 52 ft. . their exquisite strains. They have many years of profitable labor before them. The Ohio Company, who lately ran up a shaft from their tunnel and are now washing; unfortunately had their sluices robbed on Thursday night.— The amount of their loss cannot, of course, be known. The Deadman Cut used to be robbed frequently untilthe proprietors employed a night watchman. The other claims that are paying will have to follow their example. Error.—In noticing, last week, a novel mining experiment on the part of some Badger Hill miners, we placed that hill on the South Yuba instead of on the Middle Yuba where it really belongs. % Tf the boys experienced any alarm from the sudden lift we gave them from one stream to another, this explanation will serve to allay it. Wat an Imaarnation !—The Nevada Democrat, in noticing ‘the: recent sweeping charges of “Henry Jacob” in regard to the immoralities of certain mining communities, uses the following language : ‘His charges of drunkenness and rowdyism in the mines have no existence . foundation? ] except in his imagiuation.” If this is not intended for a stroke of irony, we are at a loss how to understand it. We have lived in the mining regions of California for about nine years, and really thought drunkenness at least was-a very common vice, under which delusion several thousand earnest temperance workers have also labored. Certainly, society is no where so demoralized now as formerly; but drunkennegs is still a prevalent vice, and cannot be removed by ignoring its existence. North San. Juan is a very respectable, quiet town, comparatively speak ing, and so no doubt is La Porte ; yet we apprehend ‘neither place is free from occasional drunkenness and rowdyism, nor are we afraid of being mobbed for making the admission. If itis the duty of the press, as it has At the supper hour about seventy~ five persons were seated at the tables at one time, a large proportion being ladies. The scene at this moment was a-véry beautiful one, especially to an old. Californian who had never thought to witness such a pleasant spectacle in the mining regions. The tables were several times re~ set, until every visitor had been accommodated. During the evening Mrs. Caswell of French Corral lent to the occasion the unexpected charm of fine singing, accompanying herself skillfully on the melodeon. There is no musie can touch the heart like that of a woman’s voice, and the eager audience that crowded to hear Mrs. C. proved the remark. The young ladies amused. themselves and made money for the church by opening a post office, which was attended by a charming postmistress who received the mails and distributed the letters with infinite activity and cheerfulness. As her position was not the gift of the Administration at Washington, she was very independent and we could not learn her politics, but Ler motto was—‘‘cash down.” A bevy of damsels in another place had a pair of scales on which they weighed the gentleman before and after ‘supper, receiving for their weighty services the sum of two bits from each person. The wonder of the evening is said to have been the*‘museum,”’ but as we had not the courage to enter this institution its mysteries must remain forever unrevealed. Taken altogether the Festival was a very pleasant affair, and has netted . the church upward of $500. Some of the ladies and geptlemen, at a late hour in the evening, proceeded to Guthrie’s brick building and had a lively dance on their own account. Boarp oF -SupERVIsoRS.—From the Nevada Journal of yesterday we ilearn that the new Board met on Monday the 8th inst., and elected John Grier, of Nevada, President. The rates of toll on certain turnpikes were fixed, and licenses granted to various toll bridges and roads. Scrip was ordered issued by the Board, on different funds, amounting in the aggregate to $10, 760.46. . A new township, called Bloomfield, . has been created, making the eighth . township in the county. The follow~ing are the officers appointed: J. W. Denison and Samuel McBrown, Jusbeen its custom, to wink at popular. tices; and Patrick Burns and Henry vices ‘because they are popular, hea-. Kinney, Constables. wen help the State! THANKSGIVING.—Out of respeet The Board approved the bonds of Justices and Constables throughout the county, and then adjourned to the to immemorial custom’ and’ the sup-. 1st of February, 1£59. posed wishes of the people, Governor Weller has appointed Thursday, Nov. 25th, as a day of thanksgiving andjdenthal gives a German Ball in his‘. gay~The Ball season has commenced very vigorously. Henry Freuprayer on the part of men, and of /8¢w brick house on Thursday evegreat gobbling, cackling and tribulation on the part of turkeys and chickens. Indémuch as most folks seldom ning, the 18th inst. Our dancing citizens ought to. remember the San Juan Bakery on the occasion. On the same evening a Social Ball makeexhibitions of thankfulness on . will be given at the Indian Springs _ any other day, the annual recurrence . House. ‘The proprietor has recently of this festival gives them an excellent fitted up bis house, after being burnt opportunity'to do up their piety for /OUt Some time ago, and has made evthe:whole year, on the same economical-principle that the boy wanted his father to say grace over a whole bar. rel of pork, instead of breaking up his . gratitude into small pieces to be used . at each meal.’ It: is a strange fact that the measure of man’s satisfaction is never full but when bie stomach is ery arrangement for.a good time. Mr. Geo. W. Patshley announces a Thankegiving Ball for the evening of Thursday, Nov. 25th, to come off at the French Corral House. There will doubtless be a good attendance from this vicinity. ' Rico. Prospect.—The Bloomer . the Sacramento Union has in ‘ths same condition; henee the. Company have’ dirt where they wisdom of. stimulating the sentiment . are now washing which prospects from of thankfulness by # bountiful feast fifty. cents to one.dgllar to the pan, on turkey'and other uncommon-dain-. / For Hydraulic diggings, where the tieswo"het us‘be'thankfal. 2° <° 4“eolor’’ is usually considered satisfacto ee ol tory, this prospect is very rich. Mr. . Weiskittle lately bought a share in . the above claim for $4,200, and says ‘he would not now take double the . money. irate iets tried ona charge-of murdering W: I. Ferguson, found not: guilty and disharged.ei3 eyoiec ot = Boomers Si9ate} ' waeaerrrh ise. ¢ ie An obliging correspondent, who District, “No. 1. Total number of children in the district, 83. Of this number 63 are between 4 and 18 years, and 20 under 4 years ; 35 boys and 28 girls—33 born in California. Number attending school during past year, 36; daily average attendance. “Total amount of expenditures during past year—including present quarter—$758 ; of which $738 was paid the teacher, and $20 expended for repairs and wood. “Our little School House is situated in the most pleasant and agreeable location of the entire neighborhood—on a gentle eminence on the north-east side of the town, just sufficiently high and clear to invite each pleasant summer breeze as it floats along to stop for a moment to toy with the curly locks of the little urchins who there docongregate. Within doors all is cheerful and happy, neat and trim; emblematic of the amiable Preceptress who there sways (not with “Iron Rule” or “Blasted Switch,”) but by love and kindness. I have often thought, when looking at that little School House sitting in quiet dignity with its surroundings of noble oaks, that it might be compared to a Light House, its beacon warning the little wanderers to beware of the shoals of ignorance and vice, and inviting them to step within its portals to partake of that living stream of intelligence which lifts the clouds of error and darkness from the mind and opens new and lasting pleasures from which we may freely sip while gliding o’er ‘Life’s troubled ocean.’ ‘Considerable interest is manifested in the school by the citizens gen-~ erally, and daring the long evenings in the winter the ‘Spelling School’— held one evening in each week—becomes one of the most popular and interesting ‘Institutions’ of the place. Everybody goes—everybody is pleas ed; and it 1s truly pleasant to drop in of an evening and see the ‘hardy sons of toil,’ the ‘stately matron,’ the . maiden and the scholars, all mingled together and forming lines on either side of the room preparatory to entering on the contest. Then to see, as a word has been mis-spelled on the North side, how quick it is taken up. on the South, and if properly spelled and a ‘mark’ given against the North, the triumph is as apparent in the eye of the strong miner as in that of the little school-boy, who sits by his side. All enter into the spirit of the occas sion, and in spirit, at least, become children again. On such: occasions as this, while memory, freighted with recollections of the past, comes float: ing o’er our minds, however bright the future may dawn upon us the heart instinctively turns to the past and we fully realize ‘How dear to our hearts are the scenes of our child« hood.” Long live the Spelling School ! Res A San Francisco Telegram to the following :‘Joey Gougenheim has libeled the bark Glinpse, to recover $5,000 for non-fulfillment of contract as to food and disrespectful language of cap~ tain.” : If the gallant captain contracted to use disrespectful language to Joey, he should have kept his word and not held her in suspense wondering when tho disrespectful Janguage would commence. Be-A geatleman of color, upon applying to a druggist in this place for some court-plaster, was asked by the knight of ‘the pestle whether he . would have flesh color or black. The , Beg-The late rains ave so improved the times—made the dusty road to wealth so mach easier—that it is. confidently expected the young men will not only be enabled to settle their accounts, but: also to pay their adserves those of our readers. in favor of the defendant. ”’ Our rea“Sierra Citizen. The editor of that paper is right ; the suggestion is not-a bad one. . through ignorance, which always’ spells words phonetically, thus pro. ving the superiority of common sense without learning to learning without . common sense. Franklin tells an. anecdote about his wife, we think it . was, encountering these letters in an epistle—“ yf,” and being unable to understand their meaning until a servant maid tuld her they spelt wife, which much amused the pondering philosopher, who said the girl was correct. But the citizens of Naveru Sann Hwan will never adopt any suggestion looking to improvement in the name of the town, whether it be baged on phonetic reasous or euphonious ones. ‘They are not of “Henry Jacob’s” opinion that “a town by any other name would sound as well, and, in many cases, a great deal better.” More than two years ago an attempt was made to change the name of the . place altogether. A public meeting was called, and several euphonious and appropriate names proposed ; but as the majority of the crowd lacked musical ears, and thought the old name would forever stick in spite of all efforts to wipe it out, the conciusiou was come to that the. word ‘-North”’ should be added as a distinctive pre. fix. We have been en-jaw-ing our mess of harsh consonants ever since. Nortu San Juan By Lamp Licur. —A correspondent sends us a com~ munication under the above caption. We decline publishing it fur two reagons—it is anonymous, and North San Juan has an efficient protector and conservator of the morais of the place in the Press. If triend Avery does not complain of his neighbors we are not going to toot the horn of unknown person against them. Nevada Journal. Our courteous and considerate cc« temporary has our thanks aud dee If any person in this town is aware of the existence of matters requtring, and proper for public exposure, he need not send anonymous communications to another place for publication. The columns of the Press will always be: open for truthful, brief, and decent comments on all matters of public concernment, More Stuvuice Ropsixe.—The sluice boxes of James H. Peterson & Co., en Moonshine, near Freeman’s Crossing, which were ‘robbed some time ago, were again robbed last week of perhaps $400 or $500. S. Howe’s ssluices on Yellow Jacket were also visited by thieves, and about $40 obtained. If this: mode of stealing continues . the thieves may look’for a fearful retribution ere long. — Founpry.—We have been told that a foundry and machine shop is about to be established in San Juan. The engine and lathes are already on . the way. Farther particulars here. after. Soap of an excellent quality is made in this town by Mr. John Finn. . The piece we.saw was a, small bar of rosin soap, almost as clear as amber, and much superior for domestic use to most of that which is brought into . the market. ge iis If Mr. Finn meets with sufficient encouragement he will manufactore soap as a regular business, Patron. ize him by all means. We are informed that the case of the People vs. James H. Moore, has . been decided by the Supreme Court . ders will remember that this ‘case . grew out of proceedings instituted by . . the streets. . Scenery, customs, peculiarities, mines, cities and towns, with a view to painting an extensive panorama for exhibition in the Atlantic States. Col. Andrews’ 6th Reg’t of Infantry has arrived at Vosburgh’s ranch, six miles east of Placerville, and the cit~ zens are flocking out to ‘see the soldiers.—Dentocrat. Wells, Fargo & Co’s Express has been robbed again. The Rattiesnake Bar stage was stopped by three highwaymen, who took the. treasure box which contained $4,488. The Coloma Lapublican says that town contains five churches. The neighboring town of Union has three. The Courier says a dis~ tracted meeting is being held at Yankee Jim’s. New diggings have been found two miles below Auburn and are christened by the original name of Mush Flat District. Au amateur dramatic company is performing at. Columbia with considerable ability and success, says the News. Some difficulties have recently occurred near Columbia between the miners and ranclimen on account of the former helping themselves to timber growing on enclosed lands. ‘Ihe miners have been exasperated by several suits brought against them in consequence, and lately held a meet~ ing at which they resolved to protect themselves in the enjoyment of privi leges conceded to them by the General Government. The Cclumbia Courier tells of a miner who hid over $3,000 worth of gold dust in the earth, went to Fraser, returned broke, and now caunot find his treasure. The Courier observes that there are over 500 children roaming at large in the streets. ‘The citizens are subscribing to build a public schoolhouse. The Sonora Democrat records the success of five Frenchmen who have converted a barren waste into one of the most beautiful and flourish~ ing ranches in the mountains. ‘There are now on the ranch between 20,000 and 30,000 grape vines, which have produced this season upward of sixty tons of the most delicious grapes. The proprietors began with nothing six or seven years ago and are now wealthy. Col. D. S. Turner has gone east for the purpose of obtaining al} the machinery necessary to put in operation a large woolen manufaetory, whicli' will turn out between one hundred and fifty and two hundred pairs of blankets per day. ‘The manutaetory is to be at San Francisco. A correspondent of the San. Andreas Independent, writing from San Jose —‘the garden of California,” gives the most luscious descriptions of orchards, vineyards and gardens, flowers, trees and fruits; and mentions a Gloria Mundi apple which weighed 334 ounces. Grapes are now selling down there at eight cents a~pound, and are a drug at that. One Capt. Arom will. have for this year’s market 100,000 trees, many of them nut bearing, such as Hickory, Walnut, and Butternut. If California is the garden of the Pacific, San Jose must be its very creme de la creme. The taxable property of Sonoma coun. ty is valued at $6,000,000. Number of fruit trees upward of 130,000; of berry bushes and vines, over 2,000,000; of grape vines, 87,621, which yie‘ded 439 tons of grapes. The steamboats running between Sacra~ mento and San Francisco carry passengers for 40 and 25 cents. Price has been elected to the Senate to fill Ferguson’s® vacancy. The total passenger receipts on the Sacramento Valley Railroad for the year ending September 30th, amounted to $123,681.80 ; total freight receipts, $60,896.28. Total number of tray~ elers over the road, 84,242. Nett receipts, $87,101.09. Express Company has ceased to exist. The taxes on the New Almaden . The Alta . The Omega Ditch, under contract of A. Swart, is being pushed ahead at arapid rate. It will be completed early next year, if not this. A fodt-race comes off between “Johnny Gildereleeve”’ and the ‘*Mountain Buck,” for $50 a-side, this afternoon at‘*Uncle Natty’s” race track, one fourth of a mile from Nevada on the old Washington road. Dr. Harvey Hunt has returned to Nevada. p For the annexed particulars of matters about Grass Valley, we are indebted to the Nevada National: Within the last few weeks the population of Grass Valley is thought to have increased more than five hundred able-bodied men. Business is very brisk and money easy. The National advocates the institution of a town library. Daniel S. Morgan, an Irishman, and one of **Walker’s men,” committed suicide by stabbing himself te. the heart with a large carving knife. In the garden of Mr. Staples, Boston Ravine, there is a. pear tree which is only five feet high that has borne three crops of fruit this season. It has blossomed seven times.* The total number of children in (irass Valley Townsbip ts 412 ; which is 79 more than there are in Nevada. Tne Best Rovre.—Under this head the Marysville National Democrat remarks as follows : Aetaal survey has demonstrated that, if there is to bea Pacific railroad any where else than. on the extreme Southern route, the Noble and Henness passes afford the very best entrance through the Sierra Nevada of any other point inthe whole line of the mountain barrier. No digging down of mountains required-nor tunneling through solid rock! Nature.it has been well said, has done more for these passes than all the labor, skill and capital of the nation could do for the Johnson Pass or any other Pass leading into the Sacramento Valley, in any given number of years. They afford, in connection with the grada~ tions reaching them from either side of the Sierra, a natural grade fora railroad. . . . A railroad can be constructed without difficulty either from Marysville through the Henness Pass, into the Salt Lake Basin, or from Fort Readng, on the Sacramento river,in Shasta county, through Noble’s Pass, into the Salt Lake Basm. The Henness Pass is probably the better one of the two, if we coasider the advantage of amore direct route into the main body of the Sacramento Valley. We believe it has been demonstrated also by the azcomplished Engineer, D. B. Scott, that it wil! require less grading for a railroad through the Henness than through the Noble Pass. Be that as it may, either one of the Pass ges' is 80 infinitely superior to all others through the Sierra Nevada range, that it is ridiculous presumption to attempt to bring the latter. into. any , comparison with them, whatever. Ba A correspondent of the Marysville Hxpress informs that paper that, at Sucker Flat, the Excelsior Water Company, have an iron pi near three thousand feet in length, and twenty inches in diameter, conducting the water from Temperance Hill, across a depression of one hundred feet, on to the Timbuctoo Hill. This pipe was. manufactured in New York, at quite a heavy expense. The iron is three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness. The discharging end is forty feet below the receiving .end; greatest depression one hundred feet — —discharges in twenty-four hours, six hundred inches for ten hours miner’s use, or under six inch! pressare. Sax Joan’ Bakery.—Mr:! H+ Freudenthal moves into his new brick ina few,days, and will. havea grand house-warming 1n the shape of a social ball. He advertises his Boardmines amount to $15,000 per annum, . ing House and. Bakery in another and as @ suspension of work will re-. column. : ' sult injuriously to the county and State, an effort is being made to HATFIELD is paving the street in the Collector of taxes of this county. have the operations continued as if! front of Sam’s cigar store, with broto recover taxes on money: invested . in mining. there were no suit. The S. F./ken granite, in the same manner as Herald is informed that a very. supe. before described. : KA. *< mm = e

SRE aa a CL ASANO LNA ee ERIN SEAR GE BF, The Ladies Festival, CHEROKEE ScHooL.—In an article . Sanwan.—The Hydraulic Press . r the bencfit~of jthe Methodist headed < School Statistics’’ which Sys that the name of the town where: . . A Ne — HYDRAULIC PRESS! . B. P. AVERY, EDITOR . Church in this place came off accord-. was published in our last issue, we inge jing to advertisement on Wednesday . advertently committed the blunder of . re ee ‘Mad Ri T Tiger ISDS. . . J the writingtto the .pronunciation, and “Jad Itiver. The red devils had de-. The following items are gathered PE levening last, ond was very numer . saying that Bridgeport Township con. : 6 = . ously attended: Whenever the ladies try it; observe, Nurthsanwhan. Quite . stroyed Pardee’s ranch and driven off . from the Nevada Democrat : yw . stitutes School District No. 2, forget. —— '¢an be induced to attempt any thing 8 pretty name might be made without the'stock. They were punished by . The town of Omega is growing The Bloomer Cut boys made five . of this sort they always carry it thro’ ting in the hurry of writing that the . encountering the inconvenience of a} Capt. Messec’s company, who killed quite rapidly. days ran with sixty inches of water . with a zeal and success peculiar to! township is divided into two school . °bange or similarity—thus, Sanwa. . eight, wounded several, and took five . " Mr. Withers, foreman for Capt. : : iti, Paes The Press can elaborate the suges-. prisoners. The Journal boasts that. 1: i . . ith lves. On th th pate ° 62 . 2“ sal ) Kidd & Co., has been busily and sue last week, and cleaner: up sixty ounPor sovn a Bote ® 07) et am ir . districts, No. 1 being called Cherokee . tion without feeling restraint from any . Weaverville is well supplied with . cessfully washing hell forty peas od ces of gold, worth $1,110 at the us. The fio of ace ee anes District, and having had an excellent . impression derived in contemplating . schools, and has no little idlers about . Secmeet: nied stmainiten Gon past.six. ual’ratepaid'here for the “best dust, . school for several years past. t a The State at Large. rior quality of alabaster is found in large deposits in Monterey county. . THE . . : . ’ “3 rt cae ° % it residess-Notth San Juan—isan . The Trinity Journal gives an ac abominable. name to write. Adapt count of a battle with the Indians on County Items. SATURDAY, -NOV. ‘efficiently assisted by those residing . our transcendent ingenuity. —The Tchama Gaztte. weeks or two months. which is°$18.50 per ounce. tells a big hunting yarn about ex~Assemblyman Lewis. During a three days’ chase in the coast range, he succeeded in killing 31 deer! The Butte Record says Mr. Geo. Tyrrel has been engaged during the past year in taking sketches of California water and labor cost them about $150 . which would leave them a net profit . their united exertions the church w . tastefully though not elaborately dec‘orated with evergreens, and the sup~: . per tables abundantly provided with ja variety of tempting edibles. ever made.on the hill. aed . of $960. For the quantity of water used, and amount of time and labor, this is said to be the best clean up “Mr. J. B. Alexander has sold his interest in the Wyoming Company for $7,000—cash down. . This company Their . in Sebastopol, Sweetland, French Corral and Freeman’s Crossing.. By . signs himself “Paul Purl,” sends us aS . the following interesting particulars : “This district is called Cherokee! Very many people already adopt it— Messrs. Samuelson, Kraft, Prior and Davis, who had generously of. fered their services as musicians, oc. cupied a rostrum at one end of the . room, and delighted every one with . 5 are now down with their shaft 52 ft. . their exquisite strains. They have many years of profitable labor before them. The Ohio Company, who lately ran up a shaft from their tunnel and are now washing; unfortunately had their sluices robbed on Thursday night.— The amount of their loss cannot, of course, be known. The Deadman Cut used to be robbed frequently untilthe proprietors employed a night watchman. The other claims that are paying will have to follow their example. Error.—In noticing, last week, a novel mining experiment on the part of some Badger Hill miners, we placed that hill on the South Yuba instead of on the Middle Yuba where it really belongs. % Tf the boys experienced any alarm from the sudden lift we gave them from one stream to another, this explanation will serve to allay it. Wat an Imaarnation !—The Nevada Democrat, in noticing ‘the: recent sweeping charges of “Henry Jacob” in regard to the immoralities of certain mining communities, uses the following language : ‘His charges of drunkenness and rowdyism in the mines have no existence . foundation? ] except in his imagiuation.” If this is not intended for a stroke of irony, we are at a loss how to understand it. We have lived in the mining regions of California for about nine years, and really thought drunkenness at least was-a very common vice, under which delusion several thousand earnest temperance workers have also labored. Certainly, society is no where so demoralized now as formerly; but drunkennegs is still a prevalent vice, and cannot be removed by ignoring its existence. North San. Juan is a very respectable, quiet town, comparatively speak ing, and so no doubt is La Porte ; yet we apprehend ‘neither place is free from occasional drunkenness and rowdyism, nor are we afraid of being mobbed for making the admission. If itis the duty of the press, as it has At the supper hour about seventy~ five persons were seated at the tables at one time, a large proportion being ladies. The scene at this moment was a-véry beautiful one, especially to an old. Californian who had never thought to witness such a pleasant spectacle in the mining regions. The tables were several times re~ set, until every visitor had been accommodated. During the evening Mrs. Caswell of French Corral lent to the occasion the unexpected charm of fine singing, accompanying herself skillfully on the melodeon. There is no musie can touch the heart like that of a woman’s voice, and the eager audience that crowded to hear Mrs. C. proved the remark. The young ladies amused. themselves and made money for the church by opening a post office, which was attended by a charming postmistress who received the mails and distributed the letters with infinite activity and cheerfulness. As her position was not the gift of the Administration at Washington, she was very independent and we could not learn her politics, but Ler motto was—‘‘cash down.” A bevy of damsels in another place had a pair of scales on which they weighed the gentleman before and after ‘supper, receiving for their weighty services the sum of two bits from each person. The wonder of the evening is said to have been the*‘museum,”’ but as we had not the courage to enter this institution its mysteries must remain forever unrevealed. Taken altogether the Festival was a very pleasant affair, and has netted . the church upward of $500. Some of the ladies and geptlemen, at a late hour in the evening, proceeded to Guthrie’s brick building and had a lively dance on their own account. Boarp oF -SupERVIsoRS.—From the Nevada Journal of yesterday we ilearn that the new Board met on Monday the 8th inst., and elected John Grier, of Nevada, President. The rates of toll on certain turnpikes were fixed, and licenses granted to various toll bridges and roads. Scrip was ordered issued by the Board, on different funds, amounting in the aggregate to $10, 760.46. . A new township, called Bloomfield, . has been created, making the eighth . township in the county. The follow~ing are the officers appointed: J. W. Denison and Samuel McBrown, Jusbeen its custom, to wink at popular. tices; and Patrick Burns and Henry vices ‘because they are popular, hea-. Kinney, Constables. wen help the State! THANKSGIVING.—Out of respeet The Board approved the bonds of Justices and Constables throughout the county, and then adjourned to the to immemorial custom’ and’ the sup-. 1st of February, 1£59. posed wishes of the people, Governor Weller has appointed Thursday, Nov. 25th, as a day of thanksgiving andjdenthal gives a German Ball in his‘. gay~The Ball season has commenced very vigorously. Henry Freuprayer on the part of men, and of /8¢w brick house on Thursday evegreat gobbling, cackling and tribulation on the part of turkeys and chickens.. Indémuch as most folks seldom ning, the 18th inst. Our dancing citizens ought to. remember the San Juan Bakery on the occasion. On the same evening a Social Ball makeexhibitions of thankfulness on . will be given at the Indian Springs _ any other day, the annual recurrence . House. ‘The proprietor has recently of this festival gives them an excellent fitted up bis house, after being burnt opportunity'to do up their piety for /OUt Some time ago, and has made evthe:whole year, on the same economical-principle that the boy wanted his father to say grace over a whole bar. rel of pork, instead of breaking up his . gratitude into small pieces to be used . at each meal.’ It: is a strange fact that the measure of man’s satisfaction is never full but when bie stomach is ery arrangement for.a good time. Mr. Geo. W. Patshley announces a Thankegiving Ball for the evening of Thursday, Nov. 25th, to come off at the French Corral House. There will doubtless be a good attendance from this vicinity. ' Rico. Prospect.—The Bloomer . the Sacramento Union has in ‘ths same condition; henee the. Company have’ dirt where they wisdom of. stimulating the sentiment . are now washing which prospects from of thankfulness by # bountiful feast fifty. cents to one.dgllar to the pan, on turkey'and other uncommon-dain-. / For Hydraulic diggings, where the tieswo"het us‘be'thankfal. 2° <° 4“eolor’’ is usually considered satisfacto ee ol tory, this prospect is very rich. Mr. . Weiskittle lately bought a share in . the above claim for $4,200, and says ‘he would not now take double the . money. irate iets tried ona charge-of murdering W: I. Ferguson, found not: guilty and disharged.ei3 eyoiec ot = Boomers Si9ate} ' waeaerrrh ise. ¢ ie An obliging correspondent, who District, “No. 1. Total number of children in the district, 83. Of this number 63 are between 4 and 18 years, and 20 under 4 years ; 35 boys and 28 girls—33 born in California. Number attending school during past year, 36; daily average attendance. “Total amount of expenditures during past year—including present quarter—$758 ; of which $738 was paid the teacher, and $20 expended for repairs and wood. “Our little School House is situated in the most pleasant and agreeable location of the entire neighborhood—on a gentle eminence on the north-east side of the town, just sufficiently high and clear to invite each pleasant summer breeze as it floats along to stop for a moment to toy with the curly locks of the little urchins who there docongregate. Within doors all is cheerful and happy, neat and trim; emblematic of the amiable Preceptress who there sways (not with “Iron Rule” or “Blasted Switch,”) but by love and kindness. I have often thought, when looking at that little School House sitting in quiet dignity with its surroundings of noble oaks, that it might be compared to a Light House, its beacon warning the little wanderers to beware of the shoals of ignorance and vice, and inviting them to step within its portals to partake of that living stream of intelligence which lifts the clouds of error and darkness from the mind and opens new and lasting pleasures from which we may freely sip while gliding o’er ‘Life’s troubled ocean.’ ‘Considerable interest is manifested in the school by the citizens gen-~ erally, and daring the long evenings in the winter the ‘Spelling School’— held one evening in each week—becomes one of the most popular and interesting ‘Institutions’ of the place. Everybody goes—everybody is pleas ed; and it 1s truly pleasant to drop in of an evening and see the ‘hardy sons of toil,’ the ‘stately matron,’ the . maiden and the scholars, all mingled together and forming lines on either side of the room preparatory to entering on the contest. Then to see, as a word has been mis-spelled on the North side, how quick it is taken up. on the South, and if properly spelled and a ‘mark’ given against the North, the triumph is as apparent in the eye of the strong miner as in that of the little school-boy, who sits by his side. All enter into the spirit of the occas sion, and in spirit, at least, become children again. On such: occasions as this, while memory, freighted with recollections of the past, comes float: ing o’er our minds, however bright the future may dawn upon us the heart instinctively turns to the past and we fully realize ‘How dear to our hearts are the scenes of our child« hood.” Long live the Spelling School ! Res A San Francisco Telegram to the following :‘Joey Gougenheim has libeled the bark Glinpse, to recover $5,000 for non-fulfillment of contract as to food and disrespectful language of cap~ tain.” : If the gallant captain contracted to use disrespectful language to Joey, he should have kept his word and not held her in suspense wondering when tho disrespectful Janguage would commence.

Be-A geatleman of color, upon applying to a druggist in this place for some court-plaster, was asked by the knight of ‘the pestle whether he . would have flesh color or black. The , Beg-The late rains ave so improved the times—made the dusty road to wealth so mach easier—that it is. confidently expected the young men will not only be enabled to settle their accounts, but: also to pay their adserves those of our readers. in favor of the defendant. ”’ Our rea“Sierra Citizen. The editor of that paper is right ; the suggestion is not-a bad one. . through ignorance, which always’ spells words phonetically, thus pro. ving the superiority of common sense without learning to learning without . common sense. Franklin tells an. anecdote about his wife, we think it . was, encountering these letters in an epistle—“ yf,” and being unable to understand their meaning until a servant maid tuld her they spelt wife, which much amused the pondering philosopher, who said the girl was correct. But the citizens of Naveru Sann Hwan will never adopt any suggestion looking to improvement in the name of the town, whether it be baged on phonetic reasous or euphonious ones. ‘They are not of “Henry Jacob’s” opinion that “a town by any other name would sound as well, and, in many cases, a great deal better.” More than two years ago an attempt was made to change the name of the . place altogether. A public meeting was called, and several euphonious and appropriate names proposed ; but as the majority of the crowd lacked musical ears, and thought the old name would forever stick in spite of all efforts to wipe it out, the conciusiou was come to that the. word ‘-North”’ should be added as a distinctive pre. fix. We have been en-jaw-ing our mess of harsh consonants ever since. Nortu San Juan By Lamp Licur. —A correspondent sends us a com~ munication under the above caption. We decline publishing it fur two reagons—it is anonymous, and North San Juan has an efficient protector and conservator of the morais of the place in the Press. If triend Avery does not complain of his neighbors we are not going to toot the horn of unknown person against them. Nevada Journal. Our courteous and considerate cc« temporary has our thanks aud dee If any person in this town is aware of the existence of matters requtring, and proper for public exposure, he need not send anonymous communications to another place for publication. The columns of the Press will always be: open for truthful, brief, and decent comments on all matters of public concernment, More Stuvuice Ropsixe.—The sluice boxes of James H. Peterson & Co., en Moonshine, near Freeman’s Crossing, which were ‘robbed some time ago, were again robbed last week of perhaps $400 or $500. S. Howe’s ssluices on Yellow Jacket were also visited by thieves, and about $40 obtained. If this: mode of stealing continues . the thieves may look’for a fearful retribution ere long. — Founpry.—We have been told that a foundry and machine shop is about to be established in San Juan. The engine and lathes are already on . the way. Farther particulars here. after. Soap of an excellent quality is made in this town by Mr. John Finn. . The piece we.saw was a, small bar of rosin soap, almost as clear as amber, and much superior for domestic use to most of that which is brought into . the market. ge iis If Mr. Finn meets with sufficient encouragement he will manufactore soap as a regular business, Patron. ize him by all means. We are informed that the case of the People vs. James H. Moore, has . been decided by the Supreme Court . ders will remember that this ‘case . grew out of proceedings instituted by . . the streets. . Scenery, customs, peculiarities, mines, cities and towns, with a view to painting an extensive panorama for exhibition in the Atlantic States. Col. Andrews’ 6th Reg’t of Infantry has arrived at Vosburgh’s ranch, six miles east of Placerville, and the cit~ zens are flocking out to ‘see the soldiers.—Dentocrat. Wells, Fargo & Co’s Express has been robbed again. The Rattiesnake Bar stage was stopped by three highwaymen, who took the. treasure box which contained $4,488. The Coloma Lapublican says that town contains five churches. The neighboring town of Union has three. The Courier says a dis~ tracted meeting is being held at Yankee Jim’s. New diggings have been found two miles below Auburn and are christened by the original name of Mush Flat District. Au amateur dramatic company is performing at. Columbia with considerable ability and success, says the News. Some difficulties have recently occurred near Columbia between the miners and ranclimen on account of the former helping themselves to timber growing on enclosed lands. ‘Ihe miners have been exasperated by several suits brought against them in consequence, and lately held a meet~ ing at which they resolved to protect themselves in the enjoyment of privi leges conceded to them by the General Government. The Cclumbia Courier tells of a miner who hid over $3,000 worth of gold dust in the earth, went to Fraser, returned broke, and now caunot find his treasure. The Courier observes that there are over 500 children roaming at large in the streets. ‘The citizens are subscribing to build a public schoolhouse. The Sonora Democrat records the success of five Frenchmen who have converted a barren waste into one of the most beautiful and flourish~ ing ranches in the mountains. ‘There are now on the ranch between 20,000 and 30,000 grape vines, which have produced this season upward of sixty tons of the most delicious grapes. The proprietors began with nothing six or seven years ago and are now wealthy. Col. D. S. Turner has gone east for the purpose of obtaining al} the machinery necessary to put in operation a large woolen manufaetory, whicli' will turn out between one hundred and fifty and two hundred pairs of blankets per day. ‘The manutaetory is to be at San Francisco. A correspondent of the San. Andreas Independent, writing from San Jose —‘the garden of California,” gives the most luscious descriptions of orchards, vineyards and gardens, flowers, trees and fruits; and mentions a Gloria Mundi apple which weighed 334 ounces. Grapes are now selling down there at eight cents a~pound, and are a drug at that. One Capt. Arom will. have for this year’s market 100,000 trees, many of them nut bearing, such as Hickory, Walnut, and Butternut. If California is the garden of the Pacific, San Jose must be its very creme de la creme. The taxable property of Sonoma coun. ty is valued at $6,000,000. Number of fruit trees upward of 130,000; of berry bushes and vines, over 2,000,000; of grape vines, 87,621, which yie‘ded 439 tons of grapes. The steamboats running between Sacra~ mento and San Francisco carry passengers for 40 and 25 cents. Price has been elected to the Senate to fill Ferguson’s® vacancy. The total passenger receipts on the Sacramento Valley Railroad for the year ending September 30th, amounted to $123,681.80 ; total freight receipts, $60,896.28. Total number of tray~ elers over the road, 84,242. Nett receipts, $87,101.09. Express Company has ceased to exist. The taxes on the New Almaden . The Alta . The Omega Ditch, under contract of A. Swart, is being pushed ahead at arapid rate. It will be completed early next year, if not this. A fodt-race comes off between “Johnny Gildereleeve”’ and the ‘*Mountain Buck,” for $50 a-side, this afternoon at‘*Uncle Natty’s” race track, one fourth of a mile from Nevada on the old Washington road. Dr. Harvey Hunt has returned to Nevada. p For the annexed particulars of matters about Grass Valley, we are indebted to the Nevada National: Within the last few weeks the population of Grass Valley is thought to have increased more than five hundred able-bodied men. Business is very brisk and money easy. The National advocates the institution of a town library. Daniel S. Morgan, an Irishman, and one of **Walker’s men,” committed suicide by stabbing himself te. the heart with a large carving knife. In the garden of Mr. Staples, Boston Ravine, there is a. pear tree which is only five feet high that has borne three crops of fruit this season. It has blossomed seven times.* The total number of children in (irass Valley Townsbip ts 412 ; which is 79 more than there are in Nevada. Tne Best Rovre.—Under this head the Marysville National Democrat remarks as follows : Aetaal survey has demonstrated that, if there is to bea Pacific railroad any where else than. on the extreme Southern route, the Noble and Henness passes afford the very best entrance through the Sierra Nevada of any other point inthe whole line of the mountain barrier. No digging down of mountains required-nor tunneling through solid rock! Nature.it has been well said, has done more for these passes than all the labor, skill and capital of the nation could do for the Johnson Pass or any other Pass leading into the Sacramento Valley, in any given number of years. They afford, in connection with the grada~ tions reaching them from either side of the Sierra, a natural grade fora railroad. . . . A railroad can be constructed without difficulty either from Marysville through the Henness Pass, into the Salt Lake Basin, or from Fort Readng, on the Sacramento river,in Shasta county, through Noble’s Pass, into the Salt Lake Basm. The Henness Pass is probably the better one of the two, if we coasider the advantage of amore direct route into the main body of the Sacramento Valley. We believe it has been demonstrated also by the azcomplished Engineer, D. B. Scott, that it wil! require less grading for a railroad through the Henness than through the Noble Pass. Be that as it may, either one of the Pass ges' is 80 infinitely superior to all others through the Sierra Nevada range, that it is ridiculous presumption to attempt to bring the latter. into. any , comparison with them, whatever. Ba A correspondent of the Marysville Hxpress informs that paper that, at Sucker Flat, the Excelsior Water Company, have an iron pi near three thousand feet in length, and twenty inches in diameter, conducting the water from Temperance Hill, across a depression of one hundred feet, on to the Timbuctoo Hill. This pipe was. manufactured in New York, at quite a heavy expense. The iron is three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness. The discharging end is forty feet below the receiving .end; greatest depression one hundred feet — —discharges in twenty-four hours, six hundred inches for ten hours miner’s use, or under six inch! pressare. Sax Joan’ Bakery.—Mr:! H+ Freudenthal moves into his new brick ina few,days, and will. havea grand house-warming 1n the shape of a social ball. He advertises his Boardmines amount to $15,000 per annum, . ing House and. Bakery in another and as @ suspension of work will re-. column. : ' sult injuriously to the county and State, an effort is being made to HATFIELD is paving the street in the Collector of taxes of this county. have the operations continued as if! front of Sam’s cigar store, with broto recover taxes on money: invested . in mining. there were no suit. The S. F./ken granite, in the same manner as Herald is informed that a very. supe. before described. : KA. *< mm = e