September 17, 1859 (4 pages)

em estat siete — ae — BY AVERY & WATERS. N ORTH SAN JUAN, NEV ADA CO., SATURDAY, SEPT. 17, 1859. THE HYDRAULIC PRESS. PUBLISHED EVERYS ar RD AY r MORNING BZOffice on Main street, adjoining the Drug Store.~EX . Terms for the Paper. “One Year, invariably in advance 3Six Months, “. « wit “Three “ “ “ “ : Terms for Advertising. ‘One Square, (12 lines) first insertion,...000.06 $3 00 ‘Each subsetftient insertion, ....:.-seceeeeseeeeeees 1 00 Sa Business ‘tards not exceeding four lines of this ‘type, will be insevted fr 36 00 a quarter. Garis. R. WH. FARQUHAR, Justice of the Peacdy ‘Bridgeport Township. Office, on Flume street, two doors from Main s reet, San Juan. 1 tt O. P. STIDGER, _ Attorney at Law, Notary Public, “And Conveyancer. street. one door west of E V. Hatfield's store, oppositethe Pioncer, NORTH SAN JUAN. Nov. 13, 1857. 1 G. C. HARVEY, Attorney and Counstlior at Law, “Office up stairs, over Cheap John’s store, North San Juan. Nevada county YR. Practices in all or aby of the courts in this State. All business appertaining to the Legal profession strictly and faithfully attended to. 32 3m a s ANDERSON, WM. If. M: (ntry. ANDERSON & MARTIN, Attorneys at Lawy ‘Office, corner of Commercial and Pine strects, Theat the Court Llousg, Nev: ada City. y. 16tf Ss, SiN Nanas iaisciireciaichcnclnseocesticonkacaee’ .¢N McCONNELL & NILES, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Will practice in all the Courts of the 14th Judicial District.and in the Sapieme Conrt. Orrice—Kidd's Brick Building. up stairs. 2 C. WILSON HILL, Attorney at Lawy ‘Wiil attend promptly toall business confided tohis care in Nevada and adjoining connties, NEVADA, Office — In Abbott's Building, SAM. ABBEY, News Agent and Expressman, Raursa Daily Express from ‘North San Juan to Sehastopal, Sweetland, ‘and French Corral. Culiforiia and Atlantic papers for spate. Birchville J. E. FULEER, EXPRESSMAN AND GENERAL Ruas a Daily Express from Cam ptorville to Gilena Hill, Young's Hill, Tndian Hill, ladian Valley. and Railroad Hill. California Dailiesand Weeklies. and Atlantic papers ind periodicals delivered promptly. Agent for the ~~ draamneosia Press. saad Colle ctions mi: ade. AGENT, SEORGE THEA te Expressman and General Agent, Runs a Daily Express from ¥orest City to Alleghanytown, Chips’ Flat and Minnesota. : Saliforniaand Atlantic Newspapers and Magazines on handand delivered to order.cee Bias Agent for TUE IYDRAULIC PRESS. ~ J. W. SULLIVAN'S . . Great Pacific Emporium, Sind General Agenty of Periodical Literature, And sole Agent for the California Trae Dea, Guifornia Boston Journal. Missouri Republive an. Cin. cinnatti Commercial, N.Y, Courier des Etats Unis, New York Lierald, Pribtine and Times. ke., &e. &e. Washington strect, hext door to the Post Office, SAN FRANCISCO. ~ @USTAVE. HANSEN, JEWELLER, WATCHMAKER, AND SNERAY BR. AS located in this place, and opened his shop on Main street, next door to Cheap John’s, where he will always be fownd, ready to give prompt at‘tention to all business entrasted to his ¢are.— Every kind of Jewelry mantiactired, and all Ax kinds of Engraving, plain and Orname ontal. done in the neatest style. Watches carefully repaired, and warran ted. March 29th, °59. 3stf County Surveyor’s Office. Court Howse, Nevada. SOUN L. GAMBLE J. OSTROM, ‘County Surveyor. Deputy. LL persens are hereby catitioned against employing other Surveyors than such as May be deputized from this office. Loy wg ‘om the Laws of California. Crap. 20, Sec. 3.—No survey or re-survey hereafter Ymade by any person except the County Surveyor or his Deputy, shall be considered legal ev idence in any court within this State. JOHN L. GAMBLE. 28tf Couty Surveyor. NEW MARKET. HE subscribershave opened a New Market in the store occupsed by PECK & COLEY, where they will offer for sate the best of Beef, Pork, Mutton &c. #ap-A share of patronage is solicited. CRAWFORD & CO. Norh San Juan, Dec'r.22d, *58. lott Tin and Hardware Store. Stoves, Hardware, Cook Steves 5%, Parlor Stoves, Hose Pipes, Box Stoves, A General assortpea Hardware, Si ment of Tinware, ; Cutlery, buildoré Hardwire, Carpenters Tools, Butis kd Screws, : ron and Steel, Galvanized Iron Pipe, Water Bozes &c., On hand and made to order. FRANK SMITH, Brick Row, Main vaik, North San Juan, Nov. 17,1857. 1tf & TEETH! DR. E. FELLERS, Dentist, NORTH SAN JUAN, AS an office in the Post Office Building, on Main Street, where he is prapared to perform ‘all operations upon TEETH, on the latest and most approved priaciples. By request, families will be waited on at their residences. Oflice hours+-from 7 o'clock A. M., to 5 o'clock P. ism . . forth at the corner of Maiti and . BROWN. formerly of Philadelphia, tf16 . Wines and Liquors, PR rere rere re rere re rere rare re rere re ren A BILLIARDS, C. SCHARDIN & CO., OULD respectfully inform their old friends andthe public generally that they have recently made many improvements to the above named popular resort, and are better prepared than ever to please all tastes. Three Billiard Tables, In first-rate order—two of them ‘new Marble Beds and equal toany in the State. The wood bed is the favorite of the place. BOWLING. Two splendid Ten-Pin Alleys are attached to the es tablishmeft, wel supplied with the perquisites of gach an institution. It isthe intention of the proprietor to use 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 Office on the north side of Main . will be spared to make everything pleasatit a attractive. 0 The Bank Exchange BROWN & REESE ESPECTFULULY inform their old friends . that they still hold . where . and the public generally. Yhiine streets, they keep th: very best Wimes and Liquers, Ale, Porter, and Lager Beer. Also, the finest Cigars and Tobacce, The establishment will be under the care of Mr. who understands equally well the art of dispensing and of pleasing. North San Juan, June 11, 1839. 43tf ". Fore oid Brandies C. E. HELFRICH, Soda Water Mannfactarer. DEALER IN FINE BRANDIES, Wines. Ale, Porter &e. Srandies. of the following brands: 1 Old s Sazerac. Otard. Jules. Robin & Co., United Vineyards, Martelle, Champaigne, Otard, &c., &e. Philadelphia and Holland Gin, ; . Od Tom. Santa Cruz and Jamaica Rum. Monongahela, Jourbon. Trish and Scotch Whiskey: Ticidsick, Schreider and Mori izette Champaigne: Port. Sherry, Ginger, Hock, Sauterne Claret Wines Assorted Case Liquors, and SYRUPS. Tis extensive stock is now complete in every department, and will be offereT at SACRAMENTO PRI CES. San Juan North, Nov. (7, 1857. mel Pioneer a tkna. SPERO ANDERSON, HAVING RETURNED from Frazer river siand purchased the above establishment. reispectfully infortis his friends and the public . that he intends to kee pa fine i Wholesale and Retail Stock Winosand Lig uors; Ale, Portor Beas, Cider, Champaign, Syrups, Cordials, Bitters, Pure California Wine, CIGARS AND TOBACCO. lis BAR will be supplied with the choicest kinds of the above articles, and he trus ts ton wintain his old reputation as the keeper of a first-rate saloon. North San Jean, Nov 6th, 1855. 124 C. SCHARDIN & CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in (<=) wines, Liquors, Cigars and Towae Baceo. Also— a general assortment of FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS, And Confectionery. Daring the summer months our friends can obtain the very best Ice Cream. SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET. North San Juan, Nov. 17, 1857. {1 tf] Lumber, £ Lumber? HE undersigned take take this opportunity to inform thé public that they have recertly purchased of French & Sawyer. their new and splendid steam sawmill, situated at Central Ranch. near San Juan. where they are noW prepared tofarnish ou the shortest notice Sluice and Building Lumber, and Blocksof all kinds. All Orders satisfactorily filled and promptly delivered. J. F.CLARK, J. B. JOHNSON. Coutral Rs Ranch. April Sth, 1858. 2 tf LUMBER! LUMBER!! HE PROPRIE TORS OF THE North San Juan Saw-Mill take this opportunity to inform the public that they have recently putchased the above-named property, which has been refitted at great expense, and that they are now prepared to furnish Siuice and Building Lumber, And Blocks of all kinds, on short notice. All orders satisfactorily filled and promptly delivered. N. B. Ali persons indebted to SAN JUAN MILL COMPANY for Lumber, will please take notice, that payments must be made to the undersigned algne. If made to any other party they will not be recognized as legitimate. A. S. WADLEIGH, Agent San Juan Mill Co. July 28, 1859. tf L. P. FISHER’S Advertizing Agency San Francisco. Oy 17114 Washington street, up stairs, nearly op posite Maguire's Opera House. L. P. Fisher is the authorized Agent of the Hydraulic Press, And California Newspapers generally. Advertizing in the Atlantic States. L. P. F. has now completed his arrangements for the forwarding of advertizements to all the prince ipal largest circulating Jourials aiid NeWspapers published in the Atlantic States. A fine opportunity is here offered to those Who wish to advertize in any part of the Union, of doing so at the howest rates, and in a prompt and satisfactory manner gi RAHAM FLOUR: at jan. 8. PECK & COLEY’S. 25 CTS. AGAME!: SAN JUAN EXCHANGE. . ‘aceite bile eich soomnaeecanitghterfocennhcisseteintngytdanaeineeeninaraedanindtncanivicinaehittieeindnaactivetieniniininaiananatitiitiiies aa a a a cae Le at A aR ice damnable cl Albin nscale insistent endnotes The Hydraulic Press, B. P. AVERY, EDITOR. The following (ocneilnen was tather long coming to hand and is'rather long now it has come, but contains some facts of interest and is therefore published. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. ON TR River, Sept.3, 1959. After spending three delightful days at Marysville—the city of broad streets, of cleanlines and order, of ‘enterprise, hospitality and great promise=amonegst friends whom I seem to have known afd loved for years, although a week has not passed since We first met; after photographing upon my memery through my eyes, the détails and general affect of the beautiful spectacle presented by the Northern District Fair; listening to “ Caxton’s” after elegant apostrophe he made the plow to agriculture, wherein mightier than the pen; and to the shrewd utilitarian suggestions of uncomplimentary, . ¢ unaffected Greeley, who preferred the schoolhouse to the unthinking plow ; after enjoying the dashing and effective performance of the operas of “ The Child of the Regiment,” the “Barber of Sevike”’ and tte “ Bohemian Girl,” by the talented New Orleans troupe. —after all this, here I am sailing down the Sacramento, whose tide is not near so full and flowing as its name. Steaming down Feather river and the upper Sacramento is no longer an Xperience to be coveted. by reason of the immense atcumulations of peers earth sent down by the minets, and from the diminution of its volume occasioned by the subtractions of a hundred ftches. Feather river will soon be in the same condition. The once charming El Rio de las Plumas, over whose broad, placid surface, like a mirror between graceful banks of willow, sentimental youths were wont to grow poectic—this stream of beauty has become a current of muddy impurity, checolate-colored, narrow and shallow. The Yuba is not navigable, glittering sand are formed and forming, against which the waves that roll and roar after our boat break in filthy melanchely ripples. In some places the ‘channel is so narrow that a ves= sel can barely pass. In others it is so near the bank that a boat runs its nose into the earth while forcing a passage. Frequently our little steamer has scratched the backs of sandy monsters, invisible under the slab flood, and once she was detained half an hour by sech an incident when within sight of Fremont. This last named place is the miserable reminiscence of a town that once stood on the right bank of the Sacramento . at the mouth of Feather river. Here the water becomes telerably clear, and one sails along without fear of shoals and quicksands. . The banks are verdurous, curving and graceful as ever. Rounded ranks of alder, willow, cottonwood and the all enveloping wild grape bend te kiss their own shadows as of yore; but one misses and sighs for the noble sycamores and oaks that once soared above them. These have nearly afi fallen before the axe and been consumed by the god Fire. The traveilem sees but few improvements to compensate for this loss; no long lines of excellent fence, nor even well enclosed gardens and houses. The few settlers on Feather river mostly tenant dilapidated, clover beds stretch their cooling verdure, no flowers bloom, and no shade trees are planted. The cultivated ground does not amount to many acres, and it would bea matter of wonder how the settlers make a living did we not know the extreme fertility of the soil, which only needs to be tickled with a hoe, as Jerold said, to laugh with an abundant harvest. A few women were vis« ible at doorways occasionally, withoat hoops or cleanliness, and looking languid and aguNothing appeared well but the herds of fat cattle, drinking and feeding happily. if what I saw on the banks of Feather river were a fair criterion, which it cannot be, of the farming population of the great valleys, they would have to be called an unthrifty, indolent, unintelligible people, quite unworthy of their Yankee origin. I could not but think with pride of our energetic mountaineers, who, in spite of so many obstacles which are unknown elsewhere, have founded well ordered communities and built up beautiful homes. After reaching the Sacramento there are evidences of more industry, prosperity and contentment, and one¢ begins to speculate with some enthusiasm upon the magnificent destiny reserved for such a lovely country. unpainted shanties, around which no ish. No one can steam down Feather river without perceiving the urgent necessity for the speedy construction of the Marysville and San Francisco railroad. In ashort time the stream will cease to be navigable. The constquent increase in the cost of Jand tran sit will prevent interior merchants from buying at Marysville, unless the city can cheapen goods in her own stores by means of a This is well understood, railway to Vallejo. . which is . . All along its course great bars of . 1s atelectasis canberra sane RL AALS RASPES SAE TST EASON Rena it is gratifying to be hg te: be necuued that the that the important enterprise referred to Will be rap idly prosecuted to completion. About eight hundred men are at work, pushing the grade on to the Sacramento, to which pofat the iron horse will run by the first of hext April. The road thereafter will be vigorously extended. Late surveys have demonstrated, (as I learn from Mr. Scott, the very able engineer), that the route can be considerably shortened beyond the Sacramento, and that the grading through the tules will not prove near so difficult as was originally feared. The tule land is composed of a stratum of clay impervious to water and which rests upon a substratum of gravel and sand: thus affording a solid feundation for the iron rail and requitirg little if any filling in. The contemplated projects for draimiag these tale. lands, if carried into effect, as they ought to be and doubtless Will be ere long, must further facilitate the construction of the road, or at least render it more valuable by increasing along its course the amount of cultivated Jand. 3ut while I write there is a rush of pasThe pilot's bell tinkles, the steamer slackens her pace, T hear other steamers impatiently snorting, and see Sacramento, thé levee tity, spreading gayiy over the prarie and sending &p a loud hum eloquent of human industry, and of all the hopes and anxieties ‘éf human life. But there is no time to speculate. The Apn. ’ telope is waiting for us—we hutry on shore and aboard—gaze at the levee lined with crowds of people—wonder what attracts such an unusually large number of spectators—look for a chair and find that the boat is under way, amid cheers from the bank Some one says Horace Greeley is in number nine, and so he is. Presently he comes forth, this time actually cladim that same old white coat, thins its buttons} on his head a drabcolored slouch. His linen shows the effects of a stage ride from Marysville. He is without his spectacles and gazes about him with a half blank, half pleased expression of countenance, looking altogether like an unsophisticated old farmer. Where a knot of men are talking and laughing he goes with his peculiar one-sided gait, and listens with sengers forward. ® good-natured smile on his broad face, o¢casionally offering a low-toned remark. Not many seemed to know whe he was. He addressed a few words to me in admiration of our native Californian and Spanish names for places, and ridiculing the absurd repetition of such names as those ef Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, &¢. The evening Bes are blowing up now, and bring wMn them en odot of the sea. We are at the mouth of the Sacramento, gazing at the green tules and at the brown rolling hills covered with cattle, “a thoucand feeding like one.” The sky gtpws grey, the far mountains blue, the waters leaden hued. Night is around ts, and the Antelope bounds between silate-colored water, leaving a wake of gleaming phosphorescence that seems Another milky way on another firmament. <A ringing of bells, a call of many voices, a rush of people, a jar of the boat, a flash of lights on shore, another rush, and we have touched and passed Be= Far before us, close to the water's As we apnecia. edge, lies a luminous cloud. . proach against a strong breeze it enlatges ; blood red lights break through it and go fly. ing dizzily to one side as though they were meteors; an ill-defined shore whirls tapidly . by us; the boat appears to be swimming giddily around in the darkness, yet goes straight ahead, towards a firmameut of red lights. There isa ringing of bells, a tumultuous storm of human voices, a slackened motion, a jolt, a rattling of wheels, and we . are in San Francisco=the New York of the Pacific San Franetsco, Sept. 7th, 1859. Last Sunday morning I stood on a sandy point overlooking the city. The heavens were hid, and the air was misty and chill. The waters of the bay looked grey and melancholy, the distant mountains that are so dreamy and lovely on clear days were scarcely discernible, and “the clouds rolled in through the Golden Gate,” as poor Pollock had often seen them. The metropolis lay in its Sabbath stillness below me, not the slightest hum coming up to my vapory seclusion. Nearly seven years had elapsed since my last view of the Bay City, and its enormous growth during that long. interval now broke upon me like a revelation. The once faniiliar landmarks were no longer visible or could not be identified. Where formerly rose rounded hills clad in evergreens, my wondering eyes could only see graded avenues and blocks of buildings. The graceful crescent of yellow sand that swept from Rincon’s to Clark’s Point, forming the city front, was broken by square lines df warehouses and projecting docks; the intermediate valleys where early adventurers pitched their tents and lighted their camp-fires, being solidly built up with edifices dedicated to the needs of commerce. The hills rising from these valleys kave also been cut’ into streets and built upon nearly to their sum$i" en es Pe Ae ee ee mits, While numerous slopes and vales be. yond them contain clustersof edifices which . forta ‘the outposts of the fast advancing 'the. tropolis. Y observed’ cottages clinging to ‘the . ‘Tar Dieze ix Pesric Schodts.=This question is again brought prominently before the readiag people of California by the publication of a pamphlet froth the ‘waited pens of I. . flights of Wwoodeh steps. Others were al-. of San Francisco, in teply to Dr. Scott's able most overivhelmed ‘by drifts ef sand, and work ‘entitled “The Bible and Politics.” seemed desolate ehouth externrally, shoagh . . The lattér work we noticed at the time of its within merry childrén wetetomping, women appearance, and had fréqwently before exWere flitting ‘by the windows and the Whole . “pressed ‘opitions identical With ‘those of its drama of life went‘on as elsewhere. distingtished author. We regarded Dr. Less than eleven years ago the drifting . Scott’s arguments agaihst the use of the Bisand tumuli of Yérba Buena Cove were dot. ‘ble ‘i our public schools as ‘arianswerable, ted by the fluttering tents of the first eager end ‘do not ‘think the pamphlet of Messrs. gold seekers. The greatest portion of these . Anderson and Haight at all meets them, alsailed tp the Sacramento in quest of El . though it presents the best possible arguDorado, & few sagacious men remaining behind to reap ‘the fruits of their discoveriés and hardships ana to erect a gitat commer cial emporiuih. Yet these ‘too had thet hardships. Passing through one fiery ordeal , after another, and through the more unrélenting and destructive trials of political corruption, partizan misrule and popular fury, their progress to the goal they have reachéd'at last Was not easy and delightful. Thereis now here atity whose limits embrace abont 2,000 acres ¢f land, traversed by nearly . 400 streets; inhabited by about 86,000 souls; paying taxes on property assessed at about . $35,000,000; supporting 28 public schools, for fia ‘cenit of which it pays a tax of 35 ‘cents on each $100 of property valuation, . besides maintaihing many private schools and colleges; dispensing its public charities . through the medium of nearly 50 Benevolent . societies Of various kinds; containing wpwards of forty societies devoted to reTigidts, literary, commercial, protéctive, social and musical objects, ‘Wesides some 50 incorporated Companiés ; boasting of 38 church edifices ‘atd‘congrepations; protected by a Fire De= partment of nearly one thousand members and a system of public water works; issuing; 36 different newspapers and periodical pub. lications, some ®f which have no superiors . anywhere; already manufacturing largely, the number of foundries, machine shops etc. alone amounting to 200 and employing . about 1,000 persons; having its public hospitals, its military organizations, its numerous instrance agencies, its artists, its orators, its eminent lawyers, its merchant prin> ces, its elegant public and private Buildings, its lines of stages and steamboats and ocean . steamers, and all the tea thousand things that go to make up a gieat metropolis. Catch your breath, reader, after that long Statis tical sentence, Which ¢tystalizes into figures the Vague stnsations of the city’s . magnitude that moved the writer’s mind last . Sunday morning. it was a relief to hear the church bells tolling. I hurried down to the now crowded streets, rejoiced that the sun and blue sky were again visible, and pleased with the appearance of the city despite the monotony of its umber and slate colored houses, which look as if they had been built a hundred yearsago. On s¢cular this monotony of color is not observed. The one at times of New York. Montgomery . street is the Broadway of San Francisco, and exhibits many of the characteristics of that famous thoroughfare. I was partic tar ly struck with the great number of fine . looking men lounging along the side walks —tall elegant fellows, who would make your Broadway exquisites die of envy. The comparative plainness with which the ladies dress also attracted attention, and is perhaps . occasioned by the regular daily winds that here cover everything with dust. _ Straying from the main thofoughfares I . was delighted with the appearanne of the private residences. Many of these are elegant cottages, almost hid by climbing: vines whose odorous blossoms arrest thé passer by. Others are pretentious edifices, frown= ing in all the unattrattiveness of brown sandstone ot its imitation, but surrounded by . gardens that would have delighted Downing . or old Bacon, so elaborate and tasteful are . they. Dwellings without gardens have theif fronts adorned with rare plants, which could not bloom in any clime less mild. Boxes of magnolia, and oleander and crysanthum are to be seen at nearly every residttice, amid sweet scented mignivnettés and the aristocratic mad¢ifa Viné. The Tehama Hotel has rows of blooming plants, planted . in boxes; tier above tier for every story of . its hight, whith gives thé house a strange yet pleasing appéarance. This common devotion to flower culture is said to be a characteristic of New Orleans, and to have been inaugurated here by former residents of that city. Be that as it may, it is very charming and commendable. The march of improvement still goés on at San Francisco. Many of the streets are being paved with cobble stones—one con: tribution at least for which the place should thank the mountains—and there are numbers of brick and stone edifices going up in every direction. The tendency seems to be to the erection, 6f none but durable, lofty and elegant buildings, both for trade’ and residence. This will ultimately be one of handsomest cities on the continent, despite the sand, wind and fog. rock, like bird ‘nests, And accessible only by . Rev. W. C. Anderson and Ftdher M. Haight, days, when the stores and shops are all open, . oe . performances. streets are showy and brilliant, and reriina . nietits in opposition, #hd for that reasoh sliould ‘be read by all ftelligent persons. Th ‘our Opinion it is a great thistake for ecclesi‘astical leaders to insist'‘tpon the retention of ' the Bible in schools. They are warring against their own interests, aia belong to the class of men, alluded toby Lotis Napoleon, who do ' not compretrend their‘epoch nor the inevit‘able tendency of moéern opinion. ‘Phe Marysville Bypreds says that on Monday 2,480 ounces of gold, in twenty-three lots, were deposited atthe Assay office of Harris & Marchand, in that city. These gentlemeh have become deservedly popular with the ‘mining ‘and dust-buying people of the north‘ern cotinties. Their ass&ys are always reliable and exact, and their several establishments in Marysville, ‘Sacramento and Sah . Francisce are inodels ‘of systematic arrangethent, Bertie len it. Riri ‘Saya Cruz News= We have neglected ae to notice this new journal, which . deserves kindly ménfion. Tt presents a handsome appeatatce, typographically, is devoted td homie affairs and the prémotioh ‘of home interests, talks frankly and liber‘ally on afi subjects and has the courage td avow épinions which are not popular. Such “journals aré scarce, ahd therefore the moré ‘honor to the News. oe T A Rnd Ixcipewr.—A traveller tells us he . tater y overheard the following dialogue. Ah emigrant from Pike, driving a "team of weary and leah oxen ih the mountains salited @ passer by With the sttange qtestion, “ how fat is ito thar?” The interrogated persoh inatutally enquited © €o Where?”, and only . then learned that his quetist wished’ to leark the distance to Sacramento. Tae Doxttd=-The Amador Ledger says that “some days since Alexander Johnson ught With a man named John Bergman, ‘injuring him so severely that he died sooh . after.” It is presumable the only weapons used were fists, but i& what other respect . does this brutal conflict differ from the duels of honorable gentlemen 7 22k Sime Schnigle Fritz, readihg Of the baré-back ‘riding by female eqtestrians at the Fairs ik this State, is suprised tive journals say nothing about the bate-faced chatatfer ‘of the Our ¢ynical frfehd does not admire such poetry of motiéh as crinoline exhibits whirling in a race etirse amid dust and the vociferous applatse of masculihd spectators. Tak Hesperray. —The September humber of this menthly contains the first of a series of colored plates illustrating California flowers, and a capital lithographic portrait of Capt. John Paty, whose biography by Mrs.’ . Day is quite sateeating, The Hesperian is deservediy poptlar and successful. a The most disgusting vandalism is said ¢d be practiced by the visitors to Mt. Vernon. Hordes of persons go there with a ravenous appetite to despoil the grounds. They utterly desttoy the shrabbery, and steal everything they can lay their hands upoh. The following are givett a8 the names of the last stirviving revolutidtary pensioners } William Cunningham, aged $5 years; Peter Rife, aged 97; Mathew Seay, aged 96; George Estes, aged 96}; Daniel Hicks, aged 97; Wan Oney, aged 984; Williath Stetrart, aged 98; Henry Willoughby, agéd 109. Sons or Temeurince.—This Order appears té be flourishing. The proceedings of the Grand Division inform us tfiat eleven new Divisions have been otgaitized daring the past y d that the réal gain in member= ship o ivisions for the same period; was ti Of four hutidred. Newspapet cotrespondents at Paris have discovered the astounding fact that since the wat the Emperor Napoleon nd longer wears the points of his mistathes turned up and stiffened with Hungarian potiatum, but al= lows théni té curve downward—portentious sign! On Gopher Creek, tweiity-five miles fron Stdckton, there is 4 fine ledge of granite from which Blocks and columns of forty feet in length and four or five feet in diameter are ebtained. On election night snow fell neat Weaver: ville, amd there was a heavy frost at La Porte: These are extreme indicatiéng of early céld: SPATS AAR HARE EO HEI ND Wntireiad ws re fees anne eit gare eee ee ee

em estat siete — ae — BY AVERY & WATERS. N ORTH SAN JUAN, NEV ADA CO., SATURDAY, SEPT. 17, 1859. THE HYDRAULIC PRESS. PUBLISHED EVERYS ar RD AY r MORNING BZOffice on Main street, adjoining the Drug Store.~EX . Terms for the Paper. “One Year, invariably in advance 3Six Months, “. « wit “Three “ “ “ “ : Terms for Advertising. ‘One Square, (12 lines) first insertion,......000.06 $3 00 ‘Each subsetftient insertion, .......:.-seceeeeseeeeeees 1 00 Sa Business ‘tards not exceeding four lines of this ‘type, will be insevted fr 36 00 a quarter. Garis. R. WH. FARQUHAR, Justice of the Peacdy ‘Bridgeport Township. Office, on Flume street, two doors from Main s reet, San Juan. 1 tt O. P. STIDGER, _ Attorney at Law, Notary Public, “And Conveyancer. street. one door west of E V. Hatfield's store, oppositethe Pioncer, NORTH SAN JUAN. Nov. 13, 1857. 1 G. C. HARVEY, Attorney and Counstlior at Law, “Office up stairs, over Cheap John’s store, North San Juan. Nevada county YR. Practices in all or aby of the courts in this State. All business appertaining to the Legal profession strictly and faithfully attended to. 32 3m a s ANDERSON, WM. If. M: (ntry. ANDERSON & MARTIN, Attorneys at Lawy ‘Office, corner of Commercial and Pine strects, Theat the Court Llousg, Nev: ada City. y. 16tf Ss, SiN Nanas iaisciireciaichcnclnseocesticonkacaee’ .¢N McCONNELL & NILES, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Will practice in all the Courts of the 14th Judicial District.and in the Sapieme Conrt. Orrice—Kidd's Brick Building. up stairs. 2 C. WILSON HILL, Attorney at Lawy ‘Wiil attend promptly toall business confided tohis care in Nevada and adjoining connties, NEVADA, Office — In Abbott's Building, SAM. ABBEY, News Agent and Expressman, Raursa Daily Express from ‘North San Juan to Sehastopal, Sweetland, ‘and French Corral. Culiforiia and Atlantic papers for spate. Birchville J. E. FULEER, EXPRESSMAN AND GENERAL Ruas a Daily Express from Cam ptorville to Gilena Hill, Young's Hill, Tndian Hill, ladian Valley. and Railroad Hill. California Dailiesand Weeklies. and Atlantic papers ind periodicals delivered promptly. Agent for the ~~ draamneosia Press. saad Colle ctions mi: ade. AGENT, SEORGE THEA te Expressman and General Agent, Runs a Daily Express from ¥orest City to Alleghanytown, Chips’ Flat and Minnesota. : Saliforniaand Atlantic Newspapers and Magazines on handand delivered to order.cee Bias Agent for TUE IYDRAULIC PRESS. ~ J. W. SULLIVAN'S . . Great Pacific Emporium, Sind General Agenty of Periodical Literature, And sole Agent for the California Trae Dea, Guifornia Boston Journal. Missouri Republive an. Cin. cinnatti Commercial, N.Y, Courier des Etats Unis, New York Lierald, Pribtine and Times. ke., &e. &e. Washington strect, hext door to the Post Office, SAN FRANCISCO. ~ @USTAVE. HANSEN, JEWELLER, WATCHMAKER, AND SNERAY BR. AS located in this place, and opened his shop on Main street, next door to Cheap John’s, where he will always be fownd, ready to give prompt at‘tention to all business entrasted to his ¢are.— Every kind of Jewelry mantiactired, and all Ax kinds of Engraving, plain and Orname ontal. done in the neatest style. Watches carefully repaired, and warran ted. March 29th, °59. 3stf County Surveyor’s Office. Court Howse, Nevada. SOUN L. GAMBLE J. OSTROM, ‘County Surveyor. Deputy. LL persens are hereby catitioned against employing other Surveyors than such as May be deputized from this office. Loy wg ‘om the Laws of California. Crap. 20, Sec. 3.—No survey or re-survey hereafter Ymade by any person except the County Surveyor or his Deputy, shall be considered legal ev idence in any court within this State. JOHN L. GAMBLE. 28tf Couty Surveyor. NEW MARKET. HE subscribershave opened a New Market in the store occupsed by PECK & COLEY, where they will offer for sate the best of Beef, Pork, Mutton &c. #ap-A share of patronage is solicited. CRAWFORD & CO. Norh San Juan, Dec'r.22d, *58. lott Tin and Hardware Store. Stoves, Hardware, Cook Steves 5%, Parlor Stoves, Hose Pipes, Box Stoves, A General assortpea Hardware, Si ment of Tinware, ; Cutlery, buildoré Hardwire, Carpenters Tools, Butis kd Screws, : ron and Steel, Galvanized Iron Pipe, Water Bozes &c., On hand and made to order. FRANK SMITH, Brick Row, Main vaik, North San Juan, Nov. 17,1857. 1tf & TEETH! DR. E. FELLERS, Dentist, NORTH SAN JUAN, AS an office in the Post Office Building, on Main Street, where he is prapared to perform ‘all operations upon TEETH, on the latest and most approved priaciples. By request, families will be waited on at their residences. Oflice hours+-from 7 o'clock A. M., to 5 o'clock P. ism . . forth at the corner of Maiti and . BROWN. formerly of Philadelphia, tf16 . Wines and Liquors, PR rere rere re rere re rere rare re rere re ren A BILLIARDS, C. SCHARDIN & CO., OULD respectfully inform their old friends andthe public generally that they have recently made many improvements to the above named popular resort, and are better prepared than ever to please all tastes. Three Billiard Tables, In first-rate order—two of them ‘new Marble Beds and equal toany in the State. The wood bed is the favorite of the place. BOWLING. Two splendid Ten-Pin Alleys are attached to the es tablishmeft, wel supplied with the perquisites of gach an institution. It isthe intention of the proprietor to use 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 Office on the north side of Main . will be spared to make everything pleasatit a attractive. 0 The Bank Exchange BROWN & REESE ESPECTFULULY inform their old friends . that they still hold . where . and the public generally. Yhiine streets, they keep th: very best Wimes and Liquers, Ale, Porter, and Lager Beer. Also, the finest Cigars and Tobacce, The establishment will be under the care of Mr. who understands equally well the art of dispensing and of pleasing. North San Juan, June 11, 1839. 43tf ". Fore oid Brandies C. E. HELFRICH, Soda Water Mannfactarer. DEALER IN FINE BRANDIES, Wines. Ale, Porter &e. Srandies. of the following brands: 1 Old s Sazerac. Otard. Jules. Robin & Co., United Vineyards, Martelle, Champaigne, Otard, &c., &e. Philadelphia and Holland Gin, ; . Od Tom. Santa Cruz and Jamaica Rum. Monongahela, Jourbon. Trish and Scotch Whiskey: Ticidsick, Schreider and Mori izette Champaigne: Port. Sherry, Ginger, Hock, Sauterne Claret Wines Assorted Case Liquors, and SYRUPS. Tis extensive stock is now complete in every department, and will be offereT at SACRAMENTO PRI CES. San Juan North, Nov. (7, 1857. mel Pioneer a tkna. SPERO ANDERSON, HAVING RETURNED from Frazer river siand purchased the above establishment. reispectfully infortis his friends and the public . that he intends to kee pa fine i Wholesale and Retail Stock Winosand Lig uors; Ale, Portor Beas, Cider, Champaign, Syrups, Cordials, Bitters, Pure California Wine, CIGARS AND TOBACCO. lis BAR will be supplied with the choicest kinds of the above articles, and he trus ts ton wintain his old reputation as the keeper of a first-rate saloon. North San Jean, Nov 6th, 1855. 124 C. SCHARDIN & CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in (<=) wines, Liquors, Cigars and Towae Baceo. Also— a general assortment of FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS, And Confectionery. Daring the summer months our friends can obtain the very best Ice Cream. SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET. North San Juan, Nov. 17, 1857. {1 tf] Lumber, £ Lumber? HE undersigned take take this opportunity to inform thé public that they have recertly purchased of French & Sawyer. their new and splendid steam sawmill, situated at Central Ranch. near San Juan. where they are noW prepared tofarnish ou the shortest notice Sluice and Building Lumber, and Blocksof all kinds. All Orders satisfactorily filled and promptly delivered. J. F.CLARK, J. B. JOHNSON. Coutral Rs Ranch. April Sth, 1858. 2 tf LUMBER! LUMBER!! HE PROPRIE TORS OF THE North San Juan Saw-Mill take this opportunity to inform the public that they have recently putchased the above-named property, which has been refitted at great expense, and that they are now prepared to furnish Siuice and Building Lumber, And Blocks of all kinds, on short notice. All orders satisfactorily filled and promptly delivered. N. B. Ali persons indebted to SAN JUAN MILL COMPANY for Lumber, will please take notice, that payments must be made to the undersigned algne. If made to any other party they will not be recognized as legitimate. A. S. WADLEIGH, Agent San Juan Mill Co. July 28, 1859. tf L. P. FISHER’S Advertizing Agency San Francisco. Oy 17114 Washington street, up stairs, nearly op posite Maguire's Opera House. L. P. Fisher is the authorized Agent of the Hydraulic Press, And California Newspapers generally. Advertizing in the Atlantic States. L. P. F. has now completed his arrangements for the forwarding of advertizements to all the prince ipal largest circulating Jourials aiid NeWspapers published in the Atlantic States. A fine opportunity is here offered to those Who wish to advertize in any part of the Union, of doing so at the howest rates, and in a prompt and satisfactory manner gi RAHAM FLOUR: at jan. 8. PECK & COLEY’S. 25 CTS. AGAME!: SAN JUAN EXCHANGE. . ‘aceite bile eich soomnaeecanitghterfocennhcisseteintngytdanaeineeeninaraedanindtncanivicinaehittieeindnaactivetieniniininaiananatitiitiiies aa a a a cae Le at A aR ice damnable cl Albin nscale insistent endnotes The Hydraulic Press, B. P. AVERY, EDITOR. The following (ocneilnen was tather long coming to hand and is'rather long now it has come, but contains some facts of interest and is therefore published. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. ON TR River, Sept.3, 1959. After spending three delightful days at Marysville—the city of broad streets, of cleanlines and order, of ‘enterprise, hospitality and great promise=amonegst friends whom I seem to have known afd loved for years, although a week has not passed since We first met; after photographing upon my memery through my eyes, the détails and general affect of the beautiful spectacle presented by the Northern District Fair; listening to “ Caxton’s” after elegant apostrophe he made the plow to agriculture, wherein mightier than the pen; and to the shrewd utilitarian suggestions of uncomplimentary, . ¢ unaffected Greeley, who preferred the schoolhouse to the unthinking plow ; after enjoying the dashing and effective performance of the operas of “ The Child of the Regiment,” the “Barber of Sevike”’ and tte “ Bohemian Girl,” by the talented New Orleans troupe. —after all this, here I am sailing down the Sacramento, whose tide is not near so full and flowing as its name. Steaming down Feather river and the upper Sacramento is no longer an Xperience to be coveted. by reason of the immense atcumulations of peers earth sent down by the minets, and from the diminution of its volume occasioned by the subtractions of a hundred ftches. Feather river will soon be in the same condition. The once charming El Rio de las Plumas, over whose broad, placid surface, like a mirror between graceful banks of willow, sentimental youths were wont to grow poectic—this stream of beauty has become a current of muddy impurity, checolate-colored, narrow and shallow. The Yuba is not navigable, glittering sand are formed and forming, against which the waves that roll and roar after our boat break in filthy melanchely ripples. In some places the ‘channel is so narrow that a ves= sel can barely pass. In others it is so near the bank that a boat runs its nose into the earth while forcing a passage. Frequently our little steamer has scratched the backs of sandy monsters, invisible under the slab flood, and once she was detained half an hour by sech an incident when within sight of Fremont. This last named place is the miserable reminiscence of a town that once stood on the right bank of the Sacramento . at the mouth of Feather river. Here the water becomes telerably clear, and one sails along without fear of shoals and quicksands. . The banks are verdurous, curving and graceful as ever. Rounded ranks of alder, willow, cottonwood and the all enveloping wild grape bend te kiss their own shadows as of yore; but one misses and sighs for the noble sycamores and oaks that once soared above them. These have nearly afi fallen before the axe and been consumed by the god Fire. The traveilem sees but few improvements to compensate for this loss; no long lines of excellent fence, nor even well enclosed gardens and houses. The few settlers on Feather river mostly tenant dilapidated, clover beds stretch their cooling verdure, no flowers bloom, and no shade trees are planted. The cultivated ground does not amount to many acres, and it would bea

matter of wonder how the settlers make a living did we not know the extreme fertility of the soil, which only needs to be tickled with a hoe, as Jerold said, to laugh with an abundant harvest. A few women were vis« ible at doorways occasionally, withoat hoops or cleanliness, and looking languid and aguNothing appeared well but the herds of fat cattle, drinking and feeding happily. if what I saw on the banks of Feather river were a fair criterion, which it cannot be, of the farming population of the great valleys, they would have to be called an unthrifty, indolent, unintelligible people, quite unworthy of their Yankee origin. I could not but think with pride of our energetic mountaineers, who, in spite of so many obstacles which are unknown elsewhere, have founded well ordered communities and built up beautiful homes. After reaching the Sacramento there are evidences of more industry, prosperity and contentment, and one¢ begins to speculate with some enthusiasm upon the magnificent destiny reserved for such a lovely country. unpainted shanties, around which no ish. No one can steam down Feather river without perceiving the urgent necessity for the speedy construction of the Marysville and San Francisco railroad. In ashort time the stream will cease to be navigable. The constquent increase in the cost of Jand tran sit will prevent interior merchants from buying at Marysville, unless the city can cheapen goods in her own stores by means of a This is well understood, railway to Vallejo. . which is . . All along its course great bars of . 1s atelectasis canberra sane RL AALS RASPES SAE TST EASON Rena it is gratifying to be hg te: be necuued that the that the important enterprise referred to Will be rap idly prosecuted to completion. About eight hundred men are at work, pushing the grade on to the Sacramento, to which pofat the iron horse will run by the first of hext April. The road thereafter will be vigorously extended. Late surveys have demonstrated, (as I learn from Mr. Scott, the very able engineer), that the route can be considerably shortened beyond the Sacramento, and that the grading through the tules will not prove near so difficult as was originally feared. The tule land is composed of a stratum of clay impervious to water and which rests upon a substratum of gravel and sand: thus affording a solid feundation for the iron rail and requitirg little if any filling in. The contemplated projects for draimiag these tale. lands, if carried into effect, as they ought to be and doubtless Will be ere long, must further facilitate the construction of the road, or at least render it more valuable by increasing along its course the amount of cultivated Jand. 3ut while I write there is a rush of pasThe pilot's bell tinkles, the steamer slackens her pace, T hear other steamers impatiently snorting, and see Sacramento, thé levee tity, spreading gayiy over the prarie and sending &p a loud hum eloquent of human industry, and of all the hopes and anxieties ‘éf human life. But there is no time to speculate. The Apn. ’ telope is waiting for us—we hutry on shore and aboard—gaze at the levee lined with crowds of people—wonder what attracts such an unusually large number of spectators—look for a chair and find that the boat is under way, amid cheers from the bank Some one says Horace Greeley is in number nine, and so he is. Presently he comes forth, this time actually cladim that same old white coat, thins its buttons} on his head a drabcolored slouch. His linen shows the effects of a stage ride from Marysville. He is without his spectacles and gazes about him with a half blank, half pleased expression of countenance, looking altogether like an unsophisticated old farmer. Where a knot of men are talking and laughing he goes with his peculiar one-sided gait, and listens with sengers forward. ® good-natured smile on his broad face, o¢casionally offering a low-toned remark. Not many seemed to know whe he was. He addressed a few words to me in admiration of our native Californian and Spanish names for places, and ridiculing the absurd repetition of such names as those ef Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, &¢. The evening Bes are blowing up now, and bring wMn them en odot of the sea. We are at the mouth of the Sacramento, gazing at the green tules and at the brown rolling hills covered with cattle, “a thoucand feeding like one.” The sky gtpws grey, the far mountains blue, the waters leaden hued. Night is around ts, and the Antelope bounds between silate-colored water, leaving a wake of gleaming phosphorescence that seems Another milky way on another firmament. <A ringing of bells, a call of many voices, a rush of people, a jar of the boat, a flash of lights on shore, another rush, and we have touched and passed Be= Far before us, close to the water's As we apnecia. edge, lies a luminous cloud. . proach against a strong breeze it enlatges ; blood red lights break through it and go fly. ing dizzily to one side as though they were meteors; an ill-defined shore whirls tapidly . by us; the boat appears to be swimming giddily around in the darkness, yet goes straight ahead, towards a firmameut of red lights. There isa ringing of bells, a tumultuous storm of human voices, a slackened motion, a jolt, a rattling of wheels, and we . are in San Francisco=the New York of the Pacific San Franetsco, Sept. 7th, 1859. Last Sunday morning I stood on a sandy point overlooking the city. The heavens were hid, and the air was misty and chill. The waters of the bay looked grey and melancholy, the distant mountains that are so dreamy and lovely on clear days were scarcely discernible, and “the clouds rolled in through the Golden Gate,” as poor Pollock had often seen them. The metropolis lay in its Sabbath stillness below me, not the slightest hum coming up to my vapory seclusion. Nearly seven years had elapsed since my last view of the Bay City, and its enormous growth during that long. interval now broke upon me like a revelation. The once faniiliar landmarks were no longer visible or could not be identified. Where formerly rose rounded hills clad in evergreens, my wondering eyes could only see graded avenues and blocks of buildings. The graceful crescent of yellow sand that swept from Rincon’s to Clark’s Point, forming the city front, was broken by square lines df warehouses and projecting docks; the intermediate valleys where early adventurers pitched their tents and lighted their camp-fires, being solidly built up with edifices dedicated to the needs of commerce. The hills rising from these valleys kave also been cut’ into streets and built upon nearly to their sum$i" en es Pe Ae ee ee mits, While numerous slopes and vales be. yond them contain clustersof edifices which . forta ‘the outposts of the fast advancing 'the. tropolis. Y observed’ cottages clinging to ‘the . ‘Tar Dieze ix Pesric Schodts.=This question is again brought prominently before the readiag people of California by the publication of a pamphlet froth the ‘waited pens of I. . flights of Wwoodeh steps. Others were al-. of San Francisco, in teply to Dr. Scott's able most overivhelmed ‘by drifts ef sand, and work ‘entitled “The Bible and Politics.” seemed desolate ehouth externrally, shoagh . . The lattér work we noticed at the time of its within merry childrén wetetomping, women appearance, and had fréqwently before exWere flitting ‘by the windows and the Whole . “pressed ‘opitions identical With ‘those of its drama of life went‘on as elsewhere. distingtished author. We regarded Dr. Less than eleven years ago the drifting . Scott’s arguments agaihst the use of the Bisand tumuli of Yérba Buena Cove were dot. ‘ble ‘i our public schools as ‘arianswerable, ted by the fluttering tents of the first eager end ‘do not ‘think the pamphlet of Messrs. gold seekers. The greatest portion of these . Anderson and Haight at all meets them, alsailed tp the Sacramento in quest of El . though it presents the best possible arguDorado, & few sagacious men remaining behind to reap ‘the fruits of their discoveriés and hardships ana to erect a gitat commer cial emporiuih. Yet these ‘too had thet hardships. Passing through one fiery ordeal , after another, and through the more unrélenting and destructive trials of political corruption, partizan misrule and popular fury, their progress to the goal they have reachéd'at last Was not easy and delightful. Thereis now here atity whose limits embrace abont 2,000 acres ¢f land, traversed by nearly . 400 streets; inhabited by about 86,000 souls; paying taxes on property assessed at about . $35,000,000; supporting 28 public schools, for fia ‘cenit of which it pays a tax of 35 ‘cents on each $100 of property valuation, . besides maintaihing many private schools and colleges; dispensing its public charities . through the medium of nearly 50 Benevolent . societies Of various kinds; containing wpwards of forty societies devoted to reTigidts, literary, commercial, protéctive, social and musical objects, ‘Wesides some 50 incorporated Companiés ; boasting of 38 church edifices ‘atd‘congrepations; protected by a Fire De= partment of nearly one thousand members and a system of public water works; issuing; 36 different newspapers and periodical pub. lications, some ®f which have no superiors . anywhere; already manufacturing largely, the number of foundries, machine shops etc. alone amounting to 200 and employing . about 1,000 persons; having its public hospitals, its military organizations, its numerous instrance agencies, its artists, its orators, its eminent lawyers, its merchant prin> ces, its elegant public and private Buildings, its lines of stages and steamboats and ocean . steamers, and all the tea thousand things that go to make up a gieat metropolis. Catch your breath, reader, after that long Statis tical sentence, Which ¢tystalizes into figures the Vague stnsations of the city’s . magnitude that moved the writer’s mind last . Sunday morning. it was a relief to hear the church bells tolling. I hurried down to the now crowded streets, rejoiced that the sun and blue sky were again visible, and pleased with the appearance of the city despite the monotony of its umber and slate colored houses, which look as if they had been built a hundred yearsago. On s¢cular this monotony of color is not observed. The one at times of New York. Montgomery . street is the Broadway of San Francisco, and exhibits many of the characteristics of that famous thoroughfare. I was partic tar ly struck with the great number of fine . looking men lounging along the side walks —tall elegant fellows, who would make your Broadway exquisites die of envy. The comparative plainness with which the ladies dress also attracted attention, and is perhaps . occasioned by the regular daily winds that here cover everything with dust. _ Straying from the main thofoughfares I . was delighted with the appearanne of the private residences. Many of these are elegant cottages, almost hid by climbing: vines whose odorous blossoms arrest thé passer by. Others are pretentious edifices, frown= ing in all the unattrattiveness of brown sandstone ot its imitation, but surrounded by . gardens that would have delighted Downing . or old Bacon, so elaborate and tasteful are . they. Dwellings without gardens have theif fronts adorned with rare plants, which could not bloom in any clime less mild. Boxes of magnolia, and oleander and crysanthum are to be seen at nearly every residttice, amid sweet scented mignivnettés and the aristocratic mad¢ifa Viné. The Tehama Hotel has rows of blooming plants, planted . in boxes; tier above tier for every story of . its hight, whith gives thé house a strange yet pleasing appéarance. This common devotion to flower culture is said to be a characteristic of New Orleans, and to have been inaugurated here by former residents of that city. Be that as it may, it is very charming and commendable. The march of improvement still goés on at San Francisco. Many of the streets are being paved with cobble stones—one con: tribution at least for which the place should thank the mountains—and there are numbers of brick and stone edifices going up in every direction. The tendency seems to be to the erection, 6f none but durable, lofty and elegant buildings, both for trade’ and residence. This will ultimately be one of handsomest cities on the continent, despite the sand, wind and fog. rock, like bird ‘nests, And accessible only by . Rev. W. C. Anderson and Ftdher M. Haight, days, when the stores and shops are all open, . oe . performances. streets are showy and brilliant, and reriina . nietits in opposition, #hd for that reasoh sliould ‘be read by all ftelligent persons. Th ‘our Opinion it is a great thistake for ecclesi‘astical leaders to insist'‘tpon the retention of ' the Bible in schools. They are warring against their own interests, aia belong to the class of men, alluded toby Lotis Napoleon, who do ' not compretrend their‘epoch nor the inevit‘able tendency of moéern opinion. ‘Phe Marysville Bypreds says that on Monday 2,480 ounces of gold, in twenty-three lots, were deposited atthe Assay office of Harris & Marchand, in that city. These gentlemeh have become deservedly popular with the ‘mining ‘and dust-buying people of the north‘ern cotinties. Their ass&ys are always reliable and exact, and their several establishments in Marysville, ‘Sacramento and Sah . Francisce are inodels ‘of systematic arrangethent, Bertie len it. Riri ‘Saya Cruz News= We have neglected ae to notice this new journal, which . deserves kindly ménfion. Tt presents a handsome appeatatce, typographically, is devoted td homie affairs and the prémotioh ‘of home interests, talks frankly and liber‘ally on afi subjects and has the courage td avow épinions which are not popular. Such “journals aré scarce, ahd therefore the moré ‘honor to the News. oe T A Rnd Ixcipewr.—A traveller tells us he . tater y overheard the following dialogue. Ah emigrant from Pike, driving a "team of weary and leah oxen ih the mountains salited @ passer by With the sttange qtestion, “ how fat is ito thar?” The interrogated persoh inatutally enquited © €o Where?”, and only . then learned that his quetist wished’ to leark the distance to Sacramento. Tae Doxttd=-The Amador Ledger says that “some days since Alexander Johnson ught With a man named John Bergman, ‘injuring him so severely that he died sooh . after.” It is presumable the only weapons used were fists, but i& what other respect . does this brutal conflict differ from the duels of honorable gentlemen 7 22k Sime Schnigle Fritz, readihg Of the baré-back ‘riding by female eqtestrians at the Fairs ik this State, is suprised tive journals say nothing about the bate-faced chatatfer ‘of the Our ¢ynical frfehd does not admire such poetry of motiéh as crinoline exhibits whirling in a race etirse amid dust and the vociferous applatse of masculihd spectators. Tak Hesperray. —The September humber of this menthly contains the first of a series of colored plates illustrating California flowers, and a capital lithographic portrait of Capt. John Paty, whose biography by Mrs.’ . Day is quite sateeating, The Hesperian is deservediy poptlar and successful. a The most disgusting vandalism is said ¢d be practiced by the visitors to Mt. Vernon. Hordes of persons go there with a ravenous appetite to despoil the grounds. They utterly desttoy the shrabbery, and steal everything they can lay their hands upoh. The following are givett a8 the names of the last stirviving revolutidtary pensioners } William Cunningham, aged $5 years; Peter Rife, aged 97; Mathew Seay, aged 96; George Estes, aged 96}; Daniel Hicks, aged 97; Wan Oney, aged 984; Williath Stetrart, aged 98; Henry Willoughby, agéd 109. Sons or Temeurince.—This Order appears té be flourishing. The proceedings of the Grand Division inform us tfiat eleven new Divisions have been otgaitized daring the past y d that the réal gain in member= ship o ivisions for the same period; was ti Of four hutidred. Newspapet cotrespondents at Paris have discovered the astounding fact that since the wat the Emperor Napoleon nd longer wears the points of his mistathes turned up and stiffened with Hungarian potiatum, but al= lows théni té curve downward—portentious sign! On Gopher Creek, tweiity-five miles fron Stdckton, there is 4 fine ledge of granite from which Blocks and columns of forty feet in length and four or five feet in diameter are ebtained. On election night snow fell neat Weaver: ville, amd there was a heavy frost at La Porte: These are extreme indicatiéng of early céld: SPATS AAR HARE EO HEI ND Wntireiad ws re fees anne eit gare eee ee ee