October 2, 1858 (4 pages)

I oe meee: MAEM % a 2 Sa OL ete ene ene NORTH SAN JUAN, NEVADA CO., CA THE HYDRAULIC PRESS,. SALOONS & LIQUOR STORES. Is Published every Saturday, ~ Bv AVERY & WATERS. B. P. AVERY, .--c0seesreeseres soosoee TH. W. WATERS. 4gy-All papers will be stopped at the end of the term paid, unless renewed by the subscriber. Advertising. One square of twelve lines, one insertion... $3 00 Bach subsequent insertion..c.ceresceserereescreeere 150 A liberal deduction made to regular monthly and quarterly advertisers. Advertisements may be changed once a month without extra charge. Sap All advertising must be paid for in Advance. Fob Frintine. We haveiz connection with the Newspaper, a Job Office, complete in all its departments, and capable of executing every description of Job Work with neatness accuracy and dispatch, upon the most reasonable terms. S@-NO WORK DELIVERED UNTIL PAID FOR ~~. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. RAR AARAARAA AAS R. H. FARQUHAR, USTICE OF THE PEACE, BRIDGEPORT Township. Office, next door to Weiss’ Billiard Seloon, Majn street, 8an Juan. 1 tt J. B. JOHNSON, USTICE OF THE PEACE, OFFICE, IN Indge Stidger’s Law Office, Main street, North San Juan. 1tf O. P. STIDGER, TTORNEY AT LAW. NOTARY PUBLIC and Conveyancer. Office on the north side of Main #treet, one door west of Seawell & Son's store, opposite the Pioneer, NORTH SAN JUAN. Nov. 13, 1857. 11m Wm. F. ANDERSON, Attermey and Counsellor at Law, @rrice.In Alban’s Brick Building, corner of Broad and Pine streets, Nevada. 213m HENRY MEREDITH.. 000000 covesee+e-eveceneeTHOMAS P. HAWLEY MEREDITH & HAWLEY, Attermeys NEVADA CITY, CAL. 153m GRO. W. VANT.ccccccercccrenscceeseccenevesoeee eeeeese DAVID BELDEN BELDEN & YANT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, articular attention given to procuring U. S. Land Warrants for persons by Military service entitled to the same. ‘Orvice.:No. 4, seconil-story of Alban’s Brick Building, Coraer Broad and Pine streets, NEVADA. 21 STANTON BUCKNET,..--++0seeeT. WILSIN HILL . BUCBNER & HILL, ’ AVING associated themielves together in the practice of the Law, will attend promptly to all tbusiness confided to their care in Nevada and adjoining counties. Orrice—In Kelsey's Brick Building, Commercial street, Nevada. April 8, 1855 213m oo MeCONNELL & NILES, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Will practice in all the Courts of the 14th Judicial District, and in the Sipreme Court. @retce—Kidd’s Brick Building, up stairs. B.S. OLDS, M. D., fp pis AND SURGEON.---OFFICE, at Moore’s Hotel, Moore’s Fuat. 4tf 21 3m BUSINESS CARDS. ATTENTION, EVERYBODY! BARNEY LEVISON Yas just received from below a choice stock of Cigars and Tobacco, Which he is prepared to dispose of at wholesale or retail at very low rates. ‘Pipes, Tobacco and Snuff Boxes, And FANCY GOODS in an endless variety. Confectionery, Fruits &c. Received weekly, and sold cheap for the ore. CHEAP PUBLICATIONS, Beautiful Prihts, Playing Cards, Stationery, &c., &c. CUTLERY. ‘The ‘keenest kind konstantly kept on sale for kash. Stere on Main street, next to Pest Office my21 J. W. SULLIV AN’S GREAT PACIFIC EMPORIUM, AND General Agency of Periodical Literature, ‘ ' . AND SOLR AGENT FOR ; “THE CATAFORNIA TRUE DELTA” palifornia. Bost 1 : bli Cia: cinnatti Commercial, N. Y. Courier eh Etats Unis, § 0 New York Herald, Tribune and Times. -» &e. WASHINGTON STRET, NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE, ~ Sean Francisco. ~« JEWELLERS. JEWELRY. aR. VANDERLOOY, YING assumed the ptoprictorship of the estabios jent of Mr. Schwartz, respectfully informs his old friends that he is prepared to 2 e Jewelry, ofall descriptions in the neatest and best possible manV. has long had Laeeetion of s, a comsperentand fai W er, and w ve good in all kinds of i “Watch and Clock Repairing, warrants all his work.ant ‘Aar-Give hima trial “Ga Main streat, opposite C. Schardin's. 29tf maten een gene: ates SO CHARLES W. YOUNG. MANUFACTURER OF California Jecvwelry; wATCHMAKER, ee agg oo ~ couens Watches, Jewelry, age Work, &c. :Junction of Main and Commercial stree unction °" NEVADA. Nevada, April 5th, 1858, 213m Diamondat La W ;)¢e BILLIARDS, 25 CTS. AGAME! San Juan Exchange C. SCHARDIN & CO., AVING ‘purchased the interest of John Woods iti the above San Juan Exchange.and made large additions and improvements, the Saleon now compares favorably with any in the Mountains. Three Billiard Tables, In first-rate order—two of them new Marble Beds and equal toany in the State. The wood bedis the favorite of the place. _it isthe intention ofthe proprietor to tse every exertion to make the Exchange the favorite resort of all seckers of healthy pleasurable exercise. THE BAR will be furnished with the very best WINES AND LIQUORS To be had in the San Francisco Market, and no pains will be spared to make everything pleasant and attractive. 10 Largest Stock in the Mountains. Pioneer Liquor Store. WHOLESALE and RETAIL. OPPOSITE FRANK SMITH’S TIN SHOP, MAIN STREET. HE subscriber having refi ted and refurnished the above store, is now prepared with alarge and complete stock of Wines, Liquors, Ale and Porter of the best quality, and at as Low Prices, Wholesale or Retail,as they can be bought below, bothin Quantity and Quality. All orders promptly attended to, and @ = Goods delivered free of charge. ; CALIFORNIA WINE, OREGON CIDER, and a variety of choice beverages, always on hand and for sale by the case, bottle or glass. The Pioneer Liquor Store is one of the oldest establishments of the kind in this vicinity, and the proprietor expects by close attention to business, to create for it an increased popularity. D. KRAFT. North San Juan, April 2d, 1858. 20mytf Fine Old Brandies C. E. HELFRICH, Soda Water Manufacturer, DEALER IN FINE BRANDIES, fr 4 Wines, Ale, Porter &e. Set 3randies, of the following brands: Old Sazerac, Otard, Jules, Robin & Co., United Vineyards, Martelle, Champaigne, Otard, &c., &c. Philadelphia and Holland Gin, Old Tom, Santa Cruz and Jamaica Rum, Monongahela, Bourbon, Irish and Scotch Whiskey: Heidsick, Schreider and Morizette Champaigne ; Port, Sherry, Ginger, Hock, Sauterne Claret Wines. 1 5 Assorted Case Liquors, and SYRUPS. Tis extensive stock is now complete in every department, and will be offered at the most Reasonable Prices. San Juan North, Nov. 17, 1857. {1 3m] C. SCHARDIN & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Also— a general assortment of FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS, And Confectionery. LGB CBBAUW. This cool and delicious beverage is képt on hand during the summer 101ThiD, bal SOUTH SIDE OF MA.N STREET. North San Juan, Nov. 17, 1857. [1 tf ] BOOKS? BOOKS FOR THE MILLION. —_—_— J. E. HAMLIN, jNo GSB Broad street, corner Pine, NEVADA. Has just received the largest and best as“4 sorted stock of Books and Stationery, Musical Instruments, CUTLERY. GOLD PENS, FANCY GOODS, TOYS &c., ever brought to the city of Nevada, which will be sold at Wholesale and Retail Cheaper than the Cheapest! My stock consists in part of a good assortment of Law Medical, Historical, Poetical, Miscellaneous, Masonic . Works, Catholic Piety, and School Books of every variety. Any quantity cf QVWIT BLO, Christmas Presents, Valentines, &c., for the Holidays. New and improved Diaries, and Daily Journals, for 1858. A variety of sizes for the pocket and Counting "CHEAP PUBLICATIONS. Acirculating Library of 1,000 volumes, new, and in good order, and I am constantly receiving the latest and most desirable works published, direct from New York and Philadelphia. Magazines, Periodicals, Newspapers, &c from all parts of the Globe. Steamer papers and California Weeklies, neatly put up for mailing—Postage Free. It is useless for me to try to enumerate the endless variety of everything. And I will say I have as good an assortment as can be found this side of San Francisco. Persons wishing anythingin my line ef ‘business will save money by calling on me before purchasing elsewhere. S Our Motto is We Strive to Please. 21 3m J. E. HAMLIN. GALVANIZED IRON HOSE. HE subscriber ie now prepared to manufacture Galvanized Iron Hose, for miners’ use, of superior quality and manufacture, at the lowest rates. He has a quantity of Iron and Bands on hand, and can fill orders at short notice. Call, or send orders to the Tin & Hardware store, Main street. F. SMITH. North San Juan, March 5, “58. 16tf To Miners. E are prepared furnish any articles not usually kept in the stores in this place at Two DAYS NOTICES such as Anvils, Blocks, Ropes, Pu H and every article wanted. i ~ PECK & COLEYes a UST RECEIVED—A LARGE LOT OF 0) POWDER, 3 PECK & COLEY. HAIRS, Bedsteads, Bedding &c., Cc {i tf} For saleby PECK & COLEY. NEW LOT of HARD WARE, &c. just received. 16 ¥. SMITH. REGON and CALIFORNIA HAMS and Bacon, at 26 PECK & COLEVYs ‘ORIGINAE. THE LATEST TELEGRAM. —_—_—_ BY QUILP of Iousatonic. King Neptune sat in council grave, His train about him stood— Bold Tritons from the ocean caves— Bright sea-nymphs of the floods. Dolphins above, like stars of night, Flashed down their silver sheen; Mermaids below in amber light Bathed all the cliffs between. His foamy locks the sea-god shook— He fiercely gazed around— His trident on his throne he struck— Earth trembled at the sound: “Tear! treasurers of mighty winds} Hear! marshals of the waves ; Whose manors are the ocean glens— Whose castles are her caves! « StilPpany man pursues bis way O’er all our ancient seas ; His sails still droop with every spray And swell with every breeze. «“? Tis base for gods to war with men, Else had we stayed his arm— Wild, wasting winds, loosed from their chains, Had roused a world-wide storm. . “Yet here behold his deep design— Behold what man hath wrought— Behold this railway for the mind— This giant train of thought! Shall we not reign in this our home? Shall we not rule the deep? Vain man would till the ocean foam And ocean harvests reap! “Tear from his grasp the fiery charm ; Toss back each snaky fold ;— Cowards! why shrinks each trembling arm! Are ye of earthly mould?” Replied tha gods: “Most ancient sire! Man rules below—above: Death rides unseen amid these fires ; These are the darts of Jove! ” Cherokee, Sept. 27, 1888. eae ar LT I [ Origtinal.] LOG CABIN INKLIXGS. No. Vil. The next story that I shall repeat is a simple narrative of mining chances and mischances, such as thous~ ands who have toiled in the gold fields of this State might claim as their own experience. It was told by a dapper little man who had been a banking clerk in one of the eastern cities, and whomI shall call by the name of Frank—the only one he ever gave me. The whole of his early life had been figured away on a longlegged stool behind a high desk, and . his light blue eyes had acquired a certain staring protrusion as if they . were yet fixed on a column of dollars and cents. Until the gold excitement woke him to nobler possibilities in himself, he had slaved away with his pen resignedly if not cheerfully, ens joying no recreation but an occasional visit to the theater or concert room, the perusal of Scott’s and James’ novels, and the compilation of a poetical serap-book. ‘This last was a literary curiosity—its contents being gleaned from the poet’s corner of innumerable newspapers, though most largely from Frank’s favorite, the “Flag of Our Union,” and adorned with wood cuts of questionable ex~ cellence which were supposed to ils lustrate the poems; the whole pasted upon tinted paper, very neatly to be sure, and prefaced by a beautifully written title page—for Frank was a capital scribe. This wonderful production he christened—“ My Poetical Omnium gatherum, or, Fountain of the Muses,” and he designed some day presenting it to acertain young lady of his acquaintance, of whom more anon. I have not done full justiee to Frank’s abilities, for he was a bit of a musician and rhymster.— He was the happy owner of a wheezy accordeon, upon which he used to perform, every night, with great pathos, the air of “‘Bonny Doon,” to the infinite misery of the somnolent music-haters in the adjoining rooms. He was also in the habit of inditing valentines, and other very modest anonymous rhymes of love to the aforesaid young lady, who, ignorant of the real author, attributed them to a gocd looking barkeeper around the corner, and under that agreeable impression surrendered him her heart and hand. The first intimation Frank received cf this interesting event was a letter from the lucky barkeeper advising him on penalty of broken bones not to send any more verses to bis wife! The poor fellow told me he didn’t care whether he lived or died after this. The ‘Fountain of the Muses” was neglected,and the neighbors growled more than ever at that infernal accordcon. L., SATURDAY, OCT. 2. 1853. miner, working ever with an unflinching courage that surprised his back~ woods companions, one of whom was ‘“‘Kentuck,”’ who never could understand the phenomenon of a ‘‘counterjumping Yankee”’ taking so easily to hard labor. Such transformations of city weaklings into sturdy,persevering workers have not been rare in California, and perhaps this change of habits has been more valuable to thousands than the discovery of gold. It was about the cnly benefit which accrued to Frank, who was often quite melancholy over his bad luck, and talk2d mournfully of “the old folks at home.” But he retained some traces of his early habits, in spite of ridicule and the opposing difficulties of an out-door migratory existence. He always wore a wrinkled white shirt on the seventh day, and went on a lonely stro#’ through the woods, bringing back wild flowers and different colored leaves, which he presented for our admiration. Occasionally he would obtain a newspaper, and I have often seen him tearing from one—for he had no scissors—some gem of youthful poesy, which he would stow away in his pocket. His pointed nose blossomed with eternal red, but, although I joked him about strong potations, I believe he never imbibed them. He had a certain fluency and correctness of speech which made his personal reminiscences always enter‘taining, and rendered him quite a general favorite at the evening fire. One night when we had all been talking over our mining haps, Frank gaye the following chapter from his own experience: I had been mining at the Honecut for several weeks with moderate suc-~ cess, and had got a few hundred dolilars onhand, when my claim gave ;out and I fellinto a streak of bad luck. This continued so long that,in spite of my resolution never to get discouraged, my heart began to sick~ en of the diggings and I almost concluded to leave them forever. Provisions were very high, and my daily . expenses, while living on the coarsest food common to miners, were not less ‘than three dollars; and you know . boys that prospecting is hard work on 'elothes; so my money was getting pretty low. At this critical time a ‘mining acquaintance—a tall, good looking fellow from Maine, who had made $5,000 that summer—offered to sell me his claim, as he wished to go home. After consulting my part/ner we came to the conclusion that it . was better to buy a claim that would . pay small wages than to prospect for a fortune, and struck a bargain with ‘our tall friend for $2,000. After . we had paid him the money, and were . feeling very indigent all at once, he . said—‘‘Now boys, you just stick to . mining and you’ll come out all right.”’ . We then shook hands; he turned towards home and we to our new hopes in our new claim. Well, we worked hard for three ‘months, and only made twenty two . dollars, and that was in one piece— for the gold in those diggings is all coarse. This was dreadful. Our money, hard earned and badly need-~ ed, all gone, and our prospects not a whit better than before our purchase. ‘Tcould not help imagining our tall friend enjoying himself on our money in the pine woods of Maine, and am afraid my wishes in his behalf were ‘anything but benevolent: a red haired ‘Tartar fora wife, was the mildest blessing I invoked for bim. One afternoon in an ungovernable fit of rage against my iafernal, but not unusual Inck, I threw down my pick on the edge of the claim, and danced wildly around like a Dervish. cursing furiously the while everything within sight. Finally my own excess cooled me down to a dull despair, somewhat tinctured with a sense of foolishness. IT left the claim, crawled into an adjoining coyote hole, and settled down inthe damp earth ond darkness to brood sullenly over my condition. A more listless mood succeeded to this, presently; I began to feel ashamed of myself, too, and drawing my sheath knife turned indolently onone side as I lay prone, and amused myself by He had now been several years a . picking at the crevice—wondering absent mindedly what the folks at home would say if they-could see me now? All at once my knife struck on something that felt like a piece of gold. I struck the object again and my first impression was confirmed. In a flash home was forgotten, with my own wretch~ edness, and I felt only the fierce, gambling like excitement which moves the gold hunter. Crouching to one side so as to decrease my ownshadow, yet with my head still obscuring the dim light of the drift, I tried to see the cause of my metamorphosis, but could distinguish nothing; soI proceeded to pick around the sides of the supposed precious object, without however loosening it for some time. This caused me to think it must be a large chunk indeed, and my hopes rose higher every minute. The sweat rolled from every pore, from the eag~ erness with which I toiled, and my heart beat so that I could hardly breathe. At last—up it turned!— Very small, indeed, but not smaller than my anticipations had become in one minute. However, I took it to the light and it was really gold'—a specimen of about four ounces. Forth I bounded, actuated by a new revul~ sion of feeling, and tore down the hill to my partner, shouting eagerly: Oh Joe! We've struck it at last!— Look aé this! The boys generally, hearing of our good luck, gathered around us and wished us a “pile.” They had been very kind to us while we were working our worthless claim; every day asking us how it prospected, and offering us some other claim where they thought we could make wages. Highly elated, Joe and I went to work, but we never found another piece,and finally gbandoned the claim and the vicinity with disgust. A short time afterwards, as we subsequently ascertained, a miner fresh from the Atlantic States, being told of my adventure, went to the same old crevice which I thought we had worked out, and commenced picking up the soft bed rock; and he actually found in it after a few minutes of labor, a lump of gold worth $1,500! He ran down to the store half crazy with excitement, holding the precious lump above his head with both hands, until he reached the counter, upon which he struck it violently down, to the terror of the barkeeper, and shouted out from the doorway in a wild stentorian voice— “Hilloa, everybody! Come here— come here! I’ve struck it—I’ve struck it! I’ve got the world by the heels! Come here and take a drink —EVERYBOpY . ” The long, low canvas store was soon crowded by an excited and noisy multitude, eagerly pressing forward to see the “big specimen,’ and to wish the finder ‘‘good luck, old fel,”’ in a glass of “whiskey straight!” Next day, the fortunate man, finding nothing more in our old claim, started with his prize for San Francisco to take the next steamer for the East. Very few are so easily satisfied with California. 2 ealdetheniistge nitenaieeisicimmnpeasiaaal THE HYDRAULIC PRESS A Philosopher’s Estimate of Napoleon. Perhaps not less than two hundred thousand persons in America have read, with more or less care and thoroughness, Abbot’s Life of Napo~ leon Bonaparte—a work which has been condemned by all intelligent students of history as unfaithful and partial, and which has had the effect to make an egotistic subverter of republicanism a popular hero with republicans. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is the deepest thinker this nation has yet produced, thus accounts for Napoleon’s American popularity, which was great enough before Abbot’s day. After defining the conservative and the democratic classes, into which he affirms our society is divided, and describing the selfish struggle which is goiug on “* between those who have made their fortunes RE NET ANE RIOT NUMBER 7: “soft sides of an old land the young and the poor whe have fortunes to make,” he pronounces Navoleon the representative of the dzmocratic, or the poor, struggling class ; ** the class of business men in America, in England, in France, and throughout Europe—the class of industry and skill.”’ “ The instinct of active, brave, able men, throughout the middle classes everywhere; has pointed ont Napoleon as the incarnate democrat. He had their virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is miaterial, pointing at a sensual success, and employing the richest and most various means to that end; conversant with mechanical powers, highly intellectual, widely and accurately learned and skillful, but subordinating all intelectual and spirital forces into means to a material aid. Tobe thé rich man, is the end. ‘Gog has granted,’ says the Koran, ‘ to every people a prophet in its own tongue.’ Paris, and London, and New York, the spirit of commerce, of money and material power, were also to héve their prophet; and Bonaparte was qualified and sent. Every one of the million readers of anecdotes, or memories, or lives of Napoleon, delights in the page, because he studies in it his own history. Napoleon is thoroughly modern, and, at the highest point of his fortunes, has the very spirit of the newspapers. He was the agitator, the destroyer of prescription, the internal improver, the liberal, the radical, the inventor of means, the opener of doors and mar-— kets, the subverter of monopoly and abuse.”? Emerson does full justice to the gigantic ability of Napoleon, to his versatility, his wisdom and his courage ; but also paints his vices with a terrible hand. The admirers of Abbot’s Napoleon wiil hardly take the following to be a portrait of their hero: “Bonaparte was singularly destitute of generous sentiments. The highest-placed individual in the most cultivated age an population of the world—he has not the merit of common truth and honesty. He is unjust to his generals; egotistic, and monopolizing } meanly stealing the credit of their great actions from Kellermann, from Bernadotté ; intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy, in order to drive him to a distance from Paris, because the familiarity of bis manners offends the new pride of his throne. Heisa boundless liar. The official paper, his ‘ Moniteurs,’ and all his bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed ; and worse—he sat; in his premature old age, in his lonély island; coldly falsifying facts, and dates, and char+ acters, and giving to history a theatrical eclat. Like all Frenchmen, he has 4 passion for stage effect. Every action that breathes, of generosity is poisoned by this calculation. His star, his love of glory, his doctrine of thé immortality of the soul, are all French. ‘I must dazzle and astonish. IfI were to give the liberty of the press, my power could not last three days.” To make a great noise is his favorite design. ‘ A great reputation is & great noise: the more there is made, the farther off it is heard. Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall; but the noise continues, and resounds in after ages.’ His doctrine of immortality is simply fame: His theory of influence is not flattering. ‘There are two levers for moving men,— interest and fear. Love is a silly infatuation, depend upon it. Friendship is but a name. I love nobody. Ido not even love my brothers? perhaps Joseph, a little, from habit, and because he is my elder; and Duroc, I love him too; but why ?—because his character pleases me: he isstern and resolute, and I believe the fellow never shed a tear. For my part; I know very well that I have no true friends: As long as I continue to be what Iam, I may have as many pretended friends as I pledse: Leave sensibility to women: but men should be firm in heart and purpose, or they should have nothing to do with war and governnient.’ He was thoroughly unscrupulous. He would steal, slander, dssassiaaté, drown, and poison; as his interest dictated. He had no generosity; but mere vulgar hatred: he was ins tensely selfish: he was perfidious: he cheated at cards: he was @ prodigious gossip ; and. opened letters; and delighted in his infamous police ; and rubbed his hards with joy when he had intercepted some moréel of intelligence concerning the men and women about him, boasting that ‘he knew everything; and interfered with the cutting the dresses of the women; and listened after the hurrahs and the compliments of the street, incognito. His manners were coarse. [2 treated women with low familiarty. H2 had the habit of pulling their ears, and pinching their cheeks, when ke wasin good humor, and of pulling the ears and whiskers of men; and of striking and horse-play with them to his last days. It does not appear that he listened at keyholes, or; at least, that he was caught at.it. In short, when you have penetrated throughall the circles of power and splendor, you were not dealing with a gextleman, at last ; but with an imposter and rogue: and he fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Scapin; or a sort of Seamp Jupiter.” AN eastern paper thinks Cyras W. Field ought to be rewarded by being elected to the Presidency of the U. or reward it would be to: subject a man to all the abuse our. 8S. A po Presidents receive. i 5

I oe meee: MAEM % a 2 Sa OL ete ene ene NORTH SAN JUAN, NEVADA CO., CA THE HYDRAULIC PRESS,. SALOONS & LIQUOR STORES. Is Published every Saturday, ~ Bv AVERY & WATERS. B. P. AVERY, .--c0seesreeseres soosoee TH. W. WATERS. 4gy-All papers will be stopped at the end of the term paid, unless renewed by the subscriber. Advertising. One square of twelve lines, one insertion..... $3 00 Bach subsequent insertion...c..ceresceserereescreeere 150 A liberal deduction made to regular monthly and quarterly advertisers. Advertisements may be changed once a month without extra charge. Sap All advertising must be paid for in Advance. Fob Frintine. We haveiz connection with the Newspaper, a Job Office, complete in all its departments, and capable of executing every description of Job Work with neatness accuracy and dispatch, upon the most reasonable terms. S@-NO WORK DELIVERED UNTIL PAID FOR ~~. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. RAR AARAARAA AAS R. H. FARQUHAR, USTICE OF THE PEACE, BRIDGEPORT Township. Office, next door to Weiss’ Billiard Seloon, Majn street, 8an Juan. 1 tt J. B. JOHNSON, USTICE OF THE PEACE, OFFICE, IN Indge Stidger’s Law Office, Main street, North San Juan. 1tf O. P. STIDGER, TTORNEY AT LAW. NOTARY PUBLIC and Conveyancer. Office on the north side of Main #treet, one door west of Seawell & Son's store, opposite the Pioneer, NORTH SAN JUAN. Nov. 13, 1857. 11m Wm. F. ANDERSON, Attermey and Counsellor at Law, @rrice..In Alban’s Brick Building, corner of Broad and Pine streets, Nevada. 213m HENRY MEREDITH... 000000 covesee+e-eveceneeTHOMAS P. HAWLEY MEREDITH & HAWLEY, Attermeys NEVADA CITY, CAL. 153m GRO. W. VANT..ccccccercccrenscceeseccenevesoeee eeeeese DAVID BELDEN BELDEN & YANT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, articular attention given to procuring U. S. Land Warrants for persons by Military service entitled to the same. ‘Orvice.:No. 4, seconil-story of Alban’s Brick Building, Coraer Broad and Pine streets, NEVADA. 21 STANTON BUCKNET,....--++0seeeT. WILSIN HILL . BUCBNER & HILL, ’ AVING associated themielves together in the practice of the Law, will attend promptly to all tbusiness confided to their care in Nevada and adjoining counties. Orrice—In Kelsey's Brick Building, Commercial street, Nevada. April 8, 1855 213m oo MeCONNELL & NILES, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Will practice in all the Courts of the 14th Judicial District, and in the Sipreme Court. @retce—Kidd’s Brick Building, up stairs. B.S. OLDS, M. D., fp pis AND SURGEON.---OFFICE, at Moore’s Hotel, Moore’s Fuat. 4tf 21 3m BUSINESS CARDS. ATTENTION, EVERYBODY! BARNEY LEVISON Yas just received from below a choice stock of Cigars and Tobacco, Which he is prepared to dispose of at wholesale or retail at very low rates. ‘Pipes, Tobacco and Snuff Boxes, And FANCY GOODS in an endless variety. Confectionery, Fruits &c. Received weekly, and sold cheap for the ore. CHEAP PUBLICATIONS, Beautiful Prihts, Playing Cards, Stationery, &c., &c. CUTLERY. ‘The ‘keenest kind konstantly kept on sale for kash. Stere on Main street, next to Pest Office my21 J. W. SULLIV AN’S GREAT PACIFIC EMPORIUM, AND General Agency of Periodical Literature, ‘ ' . AND SOLR AGENT FOR ; “THE CATAFORNIA TRUE DELTA” palifornia. Bost 1 : bli Cia: cinnatti Commercial, N. Y. Courier eh Etats Unis, § 0 New York Herald, Tribune and Times. -» &e. WASHINGTON STRET, NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE, ~ Sean Francisco. ~« JEWELLERS. JEWELRY. aR. VANDERLOOY, YING assumed the ptoprictorship of the estabios jent of Mr. Schwartz, respectfully informs his old friends that he is prepared to 2 e Jewelry, ofall descriptions in the neatest and best possible manV. has long had Laeeetion of s, a comsperentand fai W er, and w ve good in all kinds of i “Watch and Clock Repairing, warrants all his work.ant ‘Aar-Give hima trial “Ga Main streat, opposite C. Schardin's. 29tf maten een gene: ates SO CHARLES W. YOUNG. MANUFACTURER OF California Jecvwelry; wATCHMAKER, ee agg oo ~ couens Watches, Jewelry, age Work, &c. :Junction of Main and Commercial stree unction °" NEVADA. Nevada, April 5th, 1858, 213m Diamondat La W ;)¢e BILLIARDS, 25 CTS. AGAME! San Juan Exchange C. SCHARDIN & CO., AVING ‘purchased the interest of John Woods iti the above San Juan Exchange.and made large additions and improvements, the Saleon now compares favorably with any in the Mountains. Three Billiard Tables, In first-rate order—two of them new Marble Beds and equal toany in the State. The wood bedis the favorite of the place. _it isthe intention ofthe proprietor to tse every exertion to make the Exchange the favorite resort of all seckers of healthy pleasurable exercise. THE BAR will be furnished with the very best WINES AND LIQUORS To be had in the San Francisco Market, and no pains will be spared to make everything pleasant and attractive. 10 Largest Stock in the Mountains. Pioneer Liquor Store. WHOLESALE and RETAIL. OPPOSITE FRANK SMITH’S TIN SHOP, MAIN STREET. HE subscriber having refi ted and refurnished the above store, is now prepared with alarge and complete stock of Wines, Liquors, Ale and Porter of the best quality, and at as Low Prices, Wholesale or Retail,as they can be bought below, bothin Quantity and Quality. All orders promptly attended to, and @ = Goods delivered free of charge. ; CALIFORNIA WINE, OREGON CIDER, and a variety of choice beverages, always on hand and for sale by the case, bottle or glass. The Pioneer Liquor Store is one of the oldest establishments of the kind in this vicinity, and the proprietor expects by close attention to business, to create for it an increased popularity. D. KRAFT. North San Juan, April 2d, 1858. 20mytf Fine Old Brandies C. E. HELFRICH, Soda Water Manufacturer, DEALER IN FINE BRANDIES, fr 4 Wines, Ale, Porter &e. Set 3randies, of the following brands: Old Sazerac, Otard, Jules, Robin & Co., United Vineyards, Martelle, Champaigne, Otard, &c., &c. Philadelphia and Holland Gin, Old Tom, Santa Cruz and Jamaica Rum, Monongahela, Bourbon, Irish and Scotch Whiskey: Heidsick, Schreider and Morizette Champaigne ; Port, Sherry, Ginger, Hock, Sauterne Claret Wines. 1 5 Assorted Case Liquors, and SYRUPS. Tis extensive stock is now complete in every department, and will be offered at the most Reasonable Prices. San Juan North, Nov. 17, 1857. {1 3m] C. SCHARDIN & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Also— a general assortment of FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS, And Confectionery. LGB CBBAUW. This cool and delicious beverage is képt on hand during the summer 101ThiD, bal SOUTH SIDE OF MA.N STREET. North San Juan, Nov. 17, 1857. [1 tf ] BOOKS? BOOKS FOR THE MILLION. —_—_— J. E. HAMLIN, jNo GSB Broad street, corner Pine, NEVADA. Has just received the largest and best as“4 sorted stock of Books and Stationery, Musical Instruments, CUTLERY. GOLD PENS, FANCY GOODS, TOYS &c., ever brought to the city of Nevada, which will be sold at Wholesale and Retail Cheaper than the Cheapest! My stock consists in part of a good assortment of Law Medical, Historical, Poetical, Miscellaneous, Masonic . Works, Catholic Piety, and School Books of every variety. Any quantity cf QVWIT BLO, Christmas Presents, Valentines, &c., for the Holidays. New and improved Diaries, and Daily Journals, for 1858. A variety of sizes for the pocket and Counting "CHEAP PUBLICATIONS. Acirculating Library of 1,000 volumes, new, and in good order, and I am constantly receiving the latest and most desirable works published, direct from New York and Philadelphia. Magazines, Periodicals, Newspapers, &c from all parts of the Globe. Steamer papers and California Weeklies, neatly put up for mailing—Postage Free. It is useless for me to try to enumerate the endless variety of everything. And I will say I have as good an assortment as can be found this side of San Francisco. Persons wishing anythingin my line ef ‘business will save money by calling on me before purchasing elsewhere. S Our Motto is We Strive to Please. 21 3m J. E. HAMLIN. GALVANIZED IRON HOSE. HE subscriber ie now prepared to manufacture Galvanized Iron Hose, for miners’ use, of superior quality and manufacture, at the lowest rates. He has a quantity of Iron and Bands on hand, and can fill orders at short notice. Call, or send orders to the Tin & Hardware store, Main street. F. SMITH. North San Juan, March 5, “58. 16tf To Miners. E are prepared furnish any articles not usually kept in the stores in this place at Two DAYS NOTICES such as Anvils, Blocks, Ropes, Pu H and every article wanted. i ~ PECK & COLEYes a UST RECEIVED—A LARGE LOT OF 0) POWDER, 3 PECK & COLEY. HAIRS, Bedsteads, Bedding &c., Cc {i tf} For saleby PECK & COLEY. NEW LOT of HARD WARE, &c. just received. 16 ¥. SMITH. REGON and CALIFORNIA HAMS and Bacon, at 26 PECK & COLEVYs ‘ORIGINAE. THE LATEST TELEGRAM. —_—_—_ BY QUILP of Iousatonic. King Neptune sat in council grave, His train about him stood— Bold Tritons from the ocean caves— Bright sea-nymphs of the floods. Dolphins above, like stars of night, Flashed down their silver sheen; Mermaids below in amber light Bathed all the cliffs between. His foamy locks the sea-god shook— He fiercely gazed around— His trident on his throne he struck— Earth trembled at the sound: “Tear! treasurers of mighty winds} Hear! marshals of the waves ; Whose manors are the ocean glens— Whose castles are her caves! « StilPpany man pursues bis way O’er all our ancient seas ; His sails still droop with every spray And swell with every breeze. «“? Tis base for gods to war with men, Else had we stayed his arm— Wild, wasting winds, loosed from their chains, Had roused a world-wide storm. . “Yet here behold his deep design— Behold what man hath wrought— Behold this railway for the mind— This giant train of thought! Shall we not reign in this our home? Shall we not rule the deep? Vain man would till the ocean foam And ocean harvests reap! “Tear from his grasp the fiery charm ; Toss back each snaky fold ;— Cowards! why shrinks each trembling arm! Are ye of earthly mould?” Replied tha gods: “Most ancient sire! Man rules below—above: Death rides unseen amid these fires ; These are the darts of Jove! ” Cherokee, Sept. 27, 1888. eae ar LT I [ Origtinal.] LOG CABIN INKLIXGS. No. Vil. The next story that I shall repeat is a simple narrative of mining chances and mischances, such as thous~ ands who have toiled in the gold fields of this State might claim as their own experience. It was told by a dapper little man who had been a banking clerk in one of the eastern cities, and whomI shall call by the name of Frank—the only one he ever gave me. The whole of his early life had been figured away on a longlegged stool behind a high desk, and . his light blue eyes had acquired a certain staring protrusion as if they . were yet fixed on a column of dollars and cents. Until the gold excitement woke him to nobler possibilities in himself, he had slaved away with his pen resignedly if not cheerfully, ens joying no recreation but an occasional visit to the theater or concert room, the perusal of Scott’s and James’ novels, and the compilation of a poetical serap-book. ‘This last was a literary curiosity—its contents being gleaned from the poet’s corner of innumerable newspapers, though most largely from Frank’s favorite, the “Flag of Our Union,” and adorned with wood cuts of questionable ex~ cellence which were supposed to ils lustrate the poems; the whole pasted upon tinted paper, very neatly to be sure, and prefaced by a beautifully written title page—for Frank was a capital scribe. This wonderful production he christened—“ My Poetical Omnium gatherum, or, Fountain of the Muses,” and he designed some day presenting it to acertain young lady of his acquaintance, of whom more anon. I have not done full justiee to Frank’s abilities, for he was a bit of a musician and rhymster.— He was the happy owner of a wheezy accordeon, upon which he used to perform, every night, with great pathos, the air of “‘Bonny Doon,” to the infinite misery of the somnolent music-haters in the adjoining rooms.

He was also in the habit of inditing valentines, and other very modest anonymous rhymes of love to the aforesaid young lady, who, ignorant of the real author, attributed them to a gocd looking barkeeper around the corner, and under that agreeable impression surrendered him her heart and hand. The first intimation Frank received cf this interesting event was a letter from the lucky barkeeper advising him on penalty of broken bones not to send any more verses to bis wife! The poor fellow told me he didn’t care whether he lived or died after this. The ‘Fountain of the Muses” was neglected,and the neighbors growled more than ever at that infernal accordcon. L., SATURDAY, OCT. 2. 1853. miner, working ever with an unflinching courage that surprised his back~ woods companions, one of whom was ‘“‘Kentuck,”’ who never could understand the phenomenon of a ‘‘counterjumping Yankee”’ taking so easily to hard labor. Such transformations of city weaklings into sturdy,persevering workers have not been rare in California, and perhaps this change of habits has been more valuable to thousands than the discovery of gold. It was about the cnly benefit which accrued to Frank, who was often quite melancholy over his bad luck, and talk2d mournfully of “the old folks at home.” But he retained some traces of his early habits, in spite of ridicule and the opposing difficulties of an out-door migratory existence. He always wore a wrinkled white shirt on the seventh day, and went on a lonely stro#’ through the woods, bringing back wild flowers and different colored leaves, which he presented for our admiration. Occasionally he would obtain a newspaper, and I have often seen him tearing from one—for he had no scissors—some gem of youthful poesy, which he would stow away in his pocket. His pointed nose blossomed with eternal red, but, although I joked him about strong potations, I believe he never imbibed them. He had a certain fluency and correctness of speech which made his personal reminiscences always enter‘taining, and rendered him quite a general favorite at the evening fire. One night when we had all been talking over our mining haps, Frank gaye the following chapter from his own experience: I had been mining at the Honecut for several weeks with moderate suc-~ cess, and had got a few hundred dolilars onhand, when my claim gave ;out and I fellinto a streak of bad luck. This continued so long that,in spite of my resolution never to get discouraged, my heart began to sick~ en of the diggings and I almost concluded to leave them forever. Provisions were very high, and my daily . expenses, while living on the coarsest food common to miners, were not less ‘than three dollars; and you know . boys that prospecting is hard work on 'elothes; so my money was getting pretty low. At this critical time a ‘mining acquaintance—a tall, good looking fellow from Maine, who had made $5,000 that summer—offered to sell me his claim, as he wished to go home. After consulting my part/ner we came to the conclusion that it . was better to buy a claim that would . pay small wages than to prospect for a fortune, and struck a bargain with ‘our tall friend for $2,000. After . we had paid him the money, and were . feeling very indigent all at once, he . said—‘‘Now boys, you just stick to . mining and you’ll come out all right.”’ . We then shook hands; he turned towards home and we to our new hopes in our new claim. Well, we worked hard for three ‘months, and only made twenty two . dollars, and that was in one piece— for the gold in those diggings is all coarse. This was dreadful. Our money, hard earned and badly need-~ ed, all gone, and our prospects not a whit better than before our purchase. ‘Tcould not help imagining our tall friend enjoying himself on our money in the pine woods of Maine, and am afraid my wishes in his behalf were ‘anything but benevolent: a red haired ‘Tartar fora wife, was the mildest blessing I invoked for bim. One afternoon in an ungovernable fit of rage against my iafernal, but not unusual Inck, I threw down my pick on the edge of the claim, and danced wildly around like a Dervish. cursing furiously the while everything within sight. Finally my own excess cooled me down to a dull despair, somewhat tinctured with a sense of foolishness. IT left the claim, crawled into an adjoining coyote hole, and settled down inthe damp earth ond darkness to brood sullenly over my condition. A more listless mood succeeded to this, presently; I began to feel ashamed of myself, too, and drawing my sheath knife turned indolently onone side as I lay prone, and amused myself by He had now been several years a . picking at the crevice—wondering absent mindedly what the folks at home would say if they-could see me now? All at once my knife struck on something that felt like a piece of gold. I struck the object again and my first impression was confirmed. In a flash home was forgotten, with my own wretch~ edness, and I felt only the fierce, gambling like excitement which moves the gold hunter. Crouching to one side so as to decrease my ownshadow, yet with my head still obscuring the dim light of the drift, I tried to see the cause of my metamorphosis, but could distinguish nothing; soI proceeded to pick around the sides of the supposed precious object, without however loosening it for some time. This caused me to think it must be a large chunk indeed, and my hopes rose higher every minute. The sweat rolled from every pore, from the eag~ erness with which I toiled, and my heart beat so that I could hardly breathe. At last—up it turned!— Very small, indeed, but not smaller than my anticipations had become in one minute. However, I took it to the light and it was really gold'—a specimen of about four ounces. Forth I bounded, actuated by a new revul~ sion of feeling, and tore down the hill to my partner, shouting eagerly: Oh Joe! We've struck it at last!— Look aé this! The boys generally, hearing of our good luck, gathered around us and wished us a “pile.” They had been very kind to us while we were working our worthless claim; every day asking us how it prospected, and offering us some other claim where they thought we could make wages. Highly elated, Joe and I went to work, but we never found another piece,and finally gbandoned the claim and the vicinity with disgust. A short time afterwards, as we subsequently ascertained, a miner fresh from the Atlantic States, being told of my adventure, went to the same old crevice which I thought we had worked out, and commenced picking up the soft bed rock; and he actually found in it after a few minutes of labor, a lump of gold worth $1,500! He ran down to the store half crazy with excitement, holding the precious lump above his head with both hands, until he reached the counter, upon which he struck it violently down, to the terror of the barkeeper, and shouted out from the doorway in a wild stentorian voice— “Hilloa, everybody! Come here— come here! I’ve struck it—I’ve struck it! I’ve got the world by the heels! Come here and take a drink —EVERYBOpY . ” The long, low canvas store was soon crowded by an excited and noisy multitude, eagerly pressing forward to see the “big specimen,’ and to wish the finder ‘‘good luck, old fel,”’ in a glass of “whiskey straight!” Next day, the fortunate man, finding nothing more in our old claim, started with his prize for San Francisco to take the next steamer for the East. Very few are so easily satisfied with California. 2 ealdetheniistge nitenaieeisicimmnpeasiaaal THE HYDRAULIC PRESS A Philosopher’s Estimate of Napoleon. Perhaps not less than two hundred thousand persons in America have read, with more or less care and thoroughness, Abbot’s Life of Napo~ leon Bonaparte—a work which has been condemned by all intelligent students of history as unfaithful and partial, and which has had the effect to make an egotistic subverter of republicanism a popular hero with republicans. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is the deepest thinker this nation has yet produced, thus accounts for Napoleon’s American popularity, which was great enough before Abbot’s day. After defining the conservative and the democratic classes, into which he affirms our society is divided, and describing the selfish struggle which is goiug on “* between those who have made their fortunes RE NET ANE RIOT NUMBER 7: “soft sides of an old land the young and the poor whe have fortunes to make,” he pronounces Navoleon the representative of the dzmocratic, or the poor, struggling class ; ** the class of business men in America, in England, in France, and throughout Europe—the class of industry and skill.”’ “ The instinct of active, brave, able men, throughout the middle classes everywhere; has pointed ont Napoleon as the incarnate democrat. He had their virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is miaterial, pointing at a sensual success, and employing the richest and most various means to that end; conversant with mechanical powers, highly intellectual, widely and accurately learned and skillful, but subordinating all intelectual and spirital forces into means to a material aid. Tobe thé rich man, is the end. ‘Gog has granted,’ says the Koran, ‘ to every people a prophet in its own tongue.’ Paris, and London, and New York, the spirit of commerce, of money and material power, were also to héve their prophet; and Bonaparte was qualified and sent. Every one of the million readers of anecdotes, or memories, or lives of Napoleon, delights in the page, because he studies in it his own history. Napoleon is thoroughly modern, and, at the highest point of his fortunes, has the very spirit of the newspapers. He was the agitator, the destroyer of prescription, the internal improver, the liberal, the radical, the inventor of means, the opener of doors and mar-— kets, the subverter of monopoly and abuse.”? Emerson does full justice to the gigantic ability of Napoleon, to his versatility, his wisdom and his courage ; but also paints his vices with a terrible hand. The admirers of Abbot’s Napoleon wiil hardly take the following to be a portrait of their hero: “Bonaparte was singularly destitute of generous sentiments. The highest-placed individual in the most cultivated age an population of the world—he has not the merit of common truth and honesty. He is unjust to his generals; egotistic, and monopolizing } meanly stealing the credit of their great actions from Kellermann, from Bernadotté ; intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy, in order to drive him to a distance from Paris, because the familiarity of bis manners offends the new pride of his throne. Heisa boundless liar. The official paper, his ‘ Moniteurs,’ and all his bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed ; and worse—he sat; in his premature old age, in his lonély island; coldly falsifying facts, and dates, and char+ acters, and giving to history a theatrical eclat. Like all Frenchmen, he has 4 passion for stage effect. Every action that breathes, of generosity is poisoned by this calculation. His star, his love of glory, his doctrine of thé immortality of the soul, are all French. ‘I must dazzle and astonish. IfI were to give the liberty of the press, my power could not last three days.” To make a great noise is his favorite design. ‘ A great reputation is & great noise: the more there is made, the farther off it is heard. Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall; but the noise continues, and resounds in after ages.’ His doctrine of immortality is simply fame: His theory of influence is not flattering. ‘There are two levers for moving men,— interest and fear. Love is a silly infatuation, depend upon it. Friendship is but a name. I love nobody. Ido not even love my brothers? perhaps Joseph, a little, from habit, and because he is my elder; and Duroc, I love him too; but why ?—because his character pleases me: he isstern and resolute, and I believe the fellow never shed a tear. For my part; I know very well that I have no true friends: As long as I continue to be what Iam, I may have as many pretended friends as I pledse: Leave sensibility to women: but men should be firm in heart and purpose, or they should have nothing to do with war and governnient.’ He was thoroughly unscrupulous. He would steal, slander, dssassiaaté, drown, and poison; as his interest dictated. He had no generosity; but mere vulgar hatred: he was ins tensely selfish: he was perfidious: he cheated at cards: he was @ prodigious gossip ; and. opened letters; and delighted in his infamous police ; and rubbed his hards with joy when he had intercepted some moréel of intelligence concerning the men and women about him, boasting that ‘he knew everything; and interfered with the cutting the dresses of the women; and listened after the hurrahs and the compliments of the street, incognito. His manners were coarse. [2 treated women with low familiarty. H2 had the habit of pulling their ears, and pinching their cheeks, when ke wasin good humor, and of pulling the ears and whiskers of men; and of striking and horse-play with them to his last days. It does not appear that he listened at keyholes, or; at least, that he was caught at.it. In short, when you have penetrated throughall the circles of power and splendor, you were not dealing with a gextleman, at last ; but with an imposter and rogue: and he fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Scapin; or a sort of Seamp Jupiter.” AN eastern paper thinks Cyras W. Field ought to be rewarded by being elected to the Presidency of the U.. or reward it would be to: subject a man to all the abuse our. 8S. A po Presidents receive. i 5