Nevada Daily Gazette (April 1865) (46 pages)

! { pot a re ee: Mevaday Daily Gazette, Nevada Citv. SATURDAY MORNING APRIL 1. Tue Eastern telegraph linois again reported down, somewhere to tho eastward. Grorox NcConn, a miner, bad his leg fractured by a cave near Auburn n few days ago, Tux people of Sonoma county proposa to huild a railroad between Petaluma and Healdsburg. Tur cardinal bishop of Toledo, in Spain, has prohibited women from singing in the churches. es James F. Lawson Is the Commissioner to survey and establish the western boundary line of Nevada., Tur steamer Sacramento hag arrived’ at San Francisco from Panama. She brings no Eastern mail. A Corx paper says that Irish emigration in ponring out of the country with an increased volume and accelerated speed, Tue Confederate dollar is worth just two cents in apecio down in Dixie, and it isn’t worth a continental—pond anywhere else. e Dean Noranirs.—George Munday, “ the Hatless Philosopher,” and ‘Crazy Norah,” notable characters of Philadelphia, diced lately, A Pamapenrnuta Court bas decided that when « man marries he assumos all the debts of his wife contracted before matrimony. Look out, Bachelors! Dorisa the year 1864, there were 6,752 marriages in Philadelphia, or an ayerago of 18 daily. Of births there were 15,591, nn average of 42 daily. Correr.—Meader’s smelting works at Copperopolis are turning out copper, nearly pure, in pigs. The smelting process seems to be a perfect success. Tris rumored in Franco that Juarez has granted letters of marque to certain Yankees, and the report creates some sensation, and not a little alarm, We fear it is not true. Pairapetriis may be the “City of Brotherly Love,” but it is not particularly noted for eonnubial affection. Two hundred and forty-three divorce suits were commenced there last year. Tu rebel General Price says he “ might have brought an army of 60,000 men ont of Missonri, if be had had arms for them.” Price’s soldiers generally stand more in need of legs.Genera. Burier, while in command at Norfolk. organized a free schoo! system for white children, and made it obligatory on them to attend. About 1,000 pupils ore in attendance, Extna Srsstos.—The yoice of the Union press of the State is almost unanimous against an extra session of the Legislature. There is no particular necissity for urging reasons against it,as no good reason has yet been given for it. : Arcanisuop Ponce. of Cincinnati, 2 Catholic divine eminent for his loyalty. learning and liberality. purposes soon to pnblish his views at length of the Pope’s Encyclical Letter. The production, is looked for with a great deal of interest. Aut Ricut.—General McDowell has officially notified Senor Godoy, Consul at San Francisco of the Mexican Republic, that he is acknowledged as the only rightful representative of Mexico, Maximilfan’s appointment being unrecognized. Erxven boys were lately turned out of one of the district schools in Cleveland, Ohio, for drunkenness in school ; and, according tothe Plaindealer, nearly half the boys in the city between the ages of ten and eighteen are habitual patrons of liquor saloons, and occasional drunkards. -&-—-——-—Dr, Scorr.—This divine. so famons in San Francisco, as pastor of Calvary Church, a few years since, is now stationed in New York, and {is there a fashionable pulpit attraction. In nrecent sermon he caused an excitement by boldly averring that the churches of tho city were “ dying of respectability.” Great efforts are making in Limerick, Ireland, to develope the cultivation of flax. From time immemorial this plant has been grown in Munster, and the soil is known to be particularly well-suited to it. Of late, however, the cultivation has dwindled away and it would very probably have entirely died out had not the cotton famine stimuluted the demand for and raised the price of Jinen. --° Camiite.—-The original of this doubtful character, Virginie Gauticr, is now forty-one years old, and still plies her miserable vocation. A recent writer says *‘ehe never was a beauty, but only passably good-looking. She never was nor ever will be anything but & coarse, inonoy-loving, gripping, violent woman, who, to show his power as a writer, the youvuger Alexander Dumas wrote into fasbion soine years since, and who has managed to pluck few wealthy men whom sho gat into ber bands. The whole appearanco of this womuo Sndigutgs great vulgarity; and ber manvers, solce and avcont betray her origin and ways of fife.” Think of that when next you ece o “star” actrow doing Camille! TRUE AS GOSPEL. The Sacramento Beo, one of the best informed and most reliable journals in the State, in speaking of the disposition of a part of the public press to encourage emigration to Idaho and other far-off localities reported to bo rich in placers and lodes of gold and silver, has the following remarks, which are ns true as gospel: In tho counties of Mariposa, Sierra, Novada, Plncor, Shasta, Plumas, Trinity, thore aro moro rich mines, and better chances for “rich strikes’” on tho part of industrious and porsovering miners than thoro aro in all Idaho and Montana. Thoro counties aro noar by, easy of nocess, cost of living is chonp, and to reach them one has not to run Indian or other risks which beret tho emigrant to tho northern mines. Nu matter how cheap and short the routo to Idaho, it is five times ns Jong, and four times as dear, and ten times ns dangorous as tho routo to cither of tho countios named, and tho prizo held out nt the end of tho long, dangerous and expensive road is really not ns grent as thnt displayed in tho counties to which wo have alluded. There are #thousands of acres of mining gronnd in this county whivh the foot of the prospector has never yet rested upon ; and other thousands of acres which have been passed over carelessly for years, in which diligent seekers are daily discovering quartz ledges enormously rich in the precious metals. There is in this and the other counties In the foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada, 1 field for prospectors and mines ample enough to accommodate the entire working popnlation of the Pacific const, and the experience of every day proves that the mines are richer as well as more generally diffused. than anywhere to the north of this State. They have tich diggings in Idaho, Montana, Washington and British Columbian, and occasionally strikes are made the relation of which fills hearers with wonder ; but there are plenty of better diggings about Nevada. Grass Valley, North San Juan, Dutch Flat, Aubnrn, and other localities in this section of California. A few days ago a Chinese company pnid $12,000 for a claim near Grass Valley. Last week the Irish-American company at Birchville cleaned up over $15,000 after an cight days’ run. The Golden Gate, American, Union, San Joaquin and other companies on the “Ridge ” get returns from their claims which wonld make the eyes of miners in Idaho stick out with astonishment, if obtained in that country ; but here they have become an old story, and nobody thinks anything of them. We trust that California papers will take some pains to induce our citizens to stay at home, by stating simple facts in relation to our own mineral resources. Here a certain reward awaits the industrious miner who is content to persevere for a reasonable length of time ; and occasionally fortunes are made with remarkable suddenness. In the northern mines the diggings are, so far as is yet known, limiled in extent; they can be worked for only a few months in the year; prices are high; owing to the vigorous climate and scarcity of accommodations miners are more liable to many diseases ; and altogether the advantages are greatly in favor of the California mines, . J Uncanpin.—The graceful epithet which we havo sclected for caption, was numerously applied to us in a late issue of the Nevada Gazette, on the strength of an extract from a recent article of ours concerning the O’Byrno investigation. Hd our neighbor read our articlo as a whole, instead of confining himself to tho fragment which the Union complimented us by quoting, ho would have found no ground for the animadversions in which he has indulged. Wo will forward an additional copy of our paper containing the articlo referred to; leaving him to modify his strictures or otherwiso, as his better judgment and senso of justice may dictato.—[Stars and Stripes. If the Sacramento Union's garbled extract from your article misrepresented you it is not our fault, neighbor. It is not our intention purposely to misrepresent any one. Send slong that extra copy (we haven't seen it yet), and we will proceed to analyze it. If we find it as n whole different in tone from the garbled extract, wo will take great pleasure in saying so. If we find that the epithet “uncandid * is the proper one to characterize it, we will say so. That’s fair, isn’t it, Selkirk? . Tue Insane AsyLum Murpen.—The Stock. ton Record publishes a statement—derived, however, from hearsay—which implicates Dr. Tilden in the concealment of the murder of a young woman at the Insane Asylum. It says that the Visiting Physician stated in a private conversation that he never heard of the matter until he saw it in print; and that the record of the woman’s death by “ congestion of the Inngs”’ was made by Dr. Tilden himself. It is further stated that the two attendants who committed the crime are now living in this State, and may be readily arrested, if the husband of the murdered woman, or any one else in the interest of justice, desires {o prosecnte them. The matter is being pretty thoroughly ventilated, and we hope the result will be an investigation which will fix the guilt where it properly belongs. eee Tue French are introducing a liquid nmazingly puffed by the Chinese, who seem to excel Turk, American, or Frenchmen—the Englisbman being nowhere in the race of puffers, This liquid is called po *ho, (menthe) and is sold ata fabulous price. There are three stories in the one cleverly-contrived bottle ; the first story contains a green, the second a brown, and the third a red liquid. The use of these cures mortals of every ill. Wittarn Saurspery, the whisky-drinking, pro-slavery Democrat, of Delaware, was on the 7tb of Febraary, re-elected to the United States Senate for six years. Fortunately he has beon excluded from all the Committees, and that extracts his fangs. — H+ +0 Oo -_— Hox. Hexny Encenron is quite ill with typhold fever, ) San Francisco, fa alsy reported ick. District Attorney Porter, of Auscasment of Incomes. The United States Assessor of the Fourth District, California, John M. Avery, hns 13sued the following instructions to tho Agsistant Assessors In his district : Sacramento, March 20, 1865. S Smn—That there may be uniformity In the application of the law In reference to the nssessment of incomes for 1864, the following rules will govern the action of Assistunt Assesgors in the Fourth Assessment District : 1. Net profits realized by sales of property, real or personal, or stocks purchased within the year, are chargeable a8 income, Appreciation or increnso of Frepente area not chargeable as income until the sale determines the gain or profit. 2. Interest over and ahove the nmount paid on notes, bonds. mortgages or other forms of indebtedness bearing interest, whether dne and paid or not,if good and collectable. is chargeable as income. 3. Solvent debts are chargeable as income. 4. All productions of farm or estate sold within the year, (no matter when produced,) and the incrensed yalue of live stock, whether sold or on hand, are chargeable as income. 5. When a person receives wages ond honrd, the value of the board is chargeable as income, ‘ 6. Undivided gains of any company or corporation other than those paying under Sections 120, 121, 122, will be assessed to the person entitled to the same when divisible ; otherwise, to the company or corporation. The rate of tax is fixed before the exemption is deducted. The exemption is from the firat $5,000 income, 7. The deductions—expenses of business, losses, etc.—nre to be deducted from each particular source of income, and not from the aggregate gain or income, & From the profits or gain of exch source of income will be deducted national State and local taxes paid upou the property. business or capital from which the income is or should be derived ; none other, 9, Salary of any person in the service of the United States. 10. Incomes derived from dividends or shares in any company or corporation and the interest upon the bonds or indebtedness of the snine, the tax upon which has been assessed nnd paid under Sections 120, 121, 99 * ‘ 11. Actual rent paid; but rental value of any homestead occupied and used in one’s own right is not allowed, 12. Rent of rooms used as Jadging, as in hotels and boarding houses, and not nsed for housekeeping purposes, is not allowed. 13. Interest or incumbrances of property, business or capital from which income is or should be derived. None other. 14, Amonnt paid for ordinary repairs upon property from which income is or should be derived, not exceeding the average paid for tha preceding five years ; thatis, actual wear and tear. None other, 15. Improvements made. upon property from gains of the year are not allowed us deduction. 3 16. Losses on. sales of property. real or personul, or stocks purchased within the year, are deductable; but depreciation of property on hand is not allowed—the sale only can ‘determine the loss, 17. Property used in business and furnishing profits when destroyed by fire, may be restored nut the expense of those profits to the condition when destroyed ; if insnred, tho difference between the insurance received and amount expended in restoration will be allowed. 18. Debts considered lopelessly lost on the 31st of December, 1864, may be deducted from the profits ot business ; if subsequeutly paid, they must be included in the return for the year in which they are paid. 19. It is the duty of euch person, on or before the 1st of May, to report or return the amount of gross income, gain or profit recovered froin each particular source of the same ; expenses of business, losses, taxes and insurance paid, and the Assistant Assessor will made the proper deduction or offsets. Each returo must be verified by oath or affirmation. Any person feeling aggrieved by the decision or assessment made by the Assistant Assessor, way appeal to the Asscssor—suid appeal being made in writing and filed with the Assessor nt any time before the lists are passed to the Collector for collection. It is the duty of the Assistant Assessor, after dne notice given, to enter into and upon tho premises (if necessary) of any person refusing or neglecting to make returns, or rendering a false or fraudulent list or return, and make, according to the best information he can obtain, such list or return according to the forms prescribed ; and in case of the return of a false or fraudulent list, he will add 100 per cent, penalty ; in case of those refusing or neglecting to make return, after due notice given, he will add (in case of sickness or absence) 50 per cent. penalty to the amount of said estimated list or return, and the lists or returns so made and subscribed by the Assistant Assessor, will be taken as good and sufficient lists or returns, for all legal purposes. See section _ When penalties are incnrred they must be added. 4 20. It there shall be any property liable to be taxed not owned or possessed by or under the care or management of any person in the district, the Assistant Assessor will make lists or returns of the same, according to the best information he can obtain, and said list will be good for all legal purposes. Provided the said Assistant Assessor shall recvive from the Assessor or Assistant Assessor of the district wherein such owner or person owner or other person—he will examine it. approve if proper, and return the same to the Assessor or Assistant Assessor from whom it was received, that the return of said property may be entered in the district wherein the said owner or other person resides, 21, Assistant Assessors will assess all persons or property which may have escaped assessment for the year 1863. Any person who, by ignorance or misunderstanding of the law, may have rendered under-statements of income for the year 1863, are reqttested to call at once on the Assessor or Assistant Assessor and amend the same, Failing or refusing to do so subjects the party to investi gation and penalties noderSection 14. When errors are believed to exist, it is not necessary to assume in the first place that they have been committed willfully, but rather undera misapprehension of thelaw. Insuch cases the parties shonld be ndyised at once of their auly and required to make @ new statement, that the law may bear equally and justly upon all. May is considered an unfortunate marrying month, A girl was asked to unite berself to un lover, who named May in his proposals. She hinted that May was unlucky. ‘ Mako It June, then? replied the swain, Casting down her cyea, she rejoined with a blush, “wouldn't April do as well?” having the care or management of such prop. erty resides, a list or return, as made by such . That Flexible Nozzlo Agnin,. Mn. Eprror, Sir:—An article appeared In your puper of March 30th concerning my ‘universal water coupling "—very satisfactory. Another appeared on the 31st, probably dictnted by Mr, Rico of your place stating that he had made drawings, some time since, of substuntially the same device by which I accomplish the desired effect. I will state that I am prepared to prove priority, and think it very unreasonable that any practical mechanic or inventor shonld havo abandoned a simple and practical machine for one complicated and Jess effective, which only goes to prove his machine of less worth when exporienco uses and competition offers. Ido not say this to discourage the gentleman, but that he may not assume that right which belongs to another, and beg leave to inform him that I sent caveat papers, kome seven months since, to the Patent office, and am perfectly willing to conteat it in the way of ownership, and also in point of value with his machino, and further suggest, keep the streams together and you will gain considerable now lost by your aparatus in friction. A. E. Repstoxe. Nevada, March 31, 1865. Divivtne THE Srors,—The Shasta Courier complains that while the Collector of the county grows fat the Sheriff gets leaner, and says: As a step in equalizing the profits or emoluments of the county offices as they now exist, we shall advocate the passage of a luw by the next legislature dividing the business of the Tax Collector with the Sheriff; the collection of the property tax, or of the forcign miners’ tax, or some other division ns will in our judgment equalize the profits of the two offices, ‘Nor « Love-Kyor.—Wnm. Farrell was sentenced a few days since in San Francisco to six years imprisonment in the Penitentiary for counterfeiting. Previous to his incarcetation Miss Kate Clark married him—not that she Joved him particularly, but because he had certain valuable properly which she was willing to secure for him in that way. Snootine Arrray.--A dispatch from Aurora states that w: shooting affray between Will Hicks Graham and A. J. MeGuire took place in Montgomery District on Monday. During the shooting August Rodgers, n bystander, was killed, and McGuire received a serions wound. Graham escaped unhurt. Both parties were arrested, Bisnop Crowruer, the black bishop of Niger, bas written to England .a satisfactory account of his first expedition up the Niger, in August lust, He bad obtained a grant of land trom the King of Igara, for the purpose of forming a new missionary station. ° AN inqnest was held in Liverpool in November last, on a boy of seventeen, who was made sick by swallowing tobacco jnice after chewing the plug, and died in a week after, unconscious all the while, and with conyulsive movements of the limbs. * Snerman is as great a joker as Lincolao. He says he blew up the arsenal at Fayetteville because he thought the Government would not need an arsenal in cither of the Carolinas in the future! Cool. ——— Gorxae Fast.—Iforace Greeley’s “ History of the American Conftict ” has attained a sale of seventy thousand copies, and a German edition is in course of preparation. Mews of genius make the best husbands, A fool bas too much opinion of bis own dear self, and too little of women, to bv easily governed. an MARRIED. In Sacramento, March 28, by Rev. E. K. Miller, Mr. Witiram Dantet of Grass Valley to Miss Rnopir Stevens of Yolo county. ‘Special Notices. h AU To ke Nn 175 CELEBRATED GUITARS, TOR BALE BY GEORGE W. WELCH. GAtDEN SEEDS, GARDEN SEEDS, GARDEN SEEDS! GROWTH OF 1864. For sale by XK. ¥¢ SPENCE, Druggist and Apothocary, fo3} Broad street, Nevada. OPE TO THE AFFLICTED, Those deslroua or im need of mevtical aid, will do well to read and follow the adrico of the xdvertisemont nanother part of this paper of the Medical Institute established in 1850 by Dr. J. C. Young, No. 540 Washington street, San Francisco. Tho Institute is too woll and favorably known to need any commendationa from us, for ita merits and groat achicrementa iu healing tho sick are household words. Wo cheerfully recommend it to the afilicted ana nure Asylum of Health. Be sure to direct all Jettors anid remuneration correctly. 4 {fe28m3 mpas FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE Makos four distinct atitehos ; Haa the Reversible Feed ; It Hems; Tt Aralds ; It Tucks; It Fellas Tt Gathers, and sews on band at the same time yf And is so slmplo that the most {nexporienced can earn to operate it iu two hours’ time. Instructlous free. GEO, A, RANDALL, Agent for Nevada county, at Weaver & Co's store, 569 Broad street, Nuvada, Novaoda, July 18, 1864, OAD NOTICE. Notlco ia heroby given that the undersigned will apply to the Hon. [yard of Supervisors of Nevada county, at their next session, for IHeunso to callect toll on tho Forest Hill anit Gres Valloy Turnpike, at a polnt near J. Jenklun’s residence, , MORGAN, Secrotery, Novado, March Ol, 1£€5.~ td a Tena of th stow men Tot pate oni hou: wey the 3 Mac the ST. LI AL 1 pea Bry ofS Bie Ca The Le Wh side Lt E Mu Tog suf hus qui of Tas +} ane exe Na 7 onl age of

! { pot a re ee: Mevaday Daily Gazette, Nevada Citv. SATURDAY MORNING APRIL 1. Tue Eastern telegraph linois again reported down, somewhere to tho eastward. Grorox NcConn, a miner, bad his leg fractured by a cave near Auburn n few days ago, Tux people of Sonoma county proposa to huild a railroad between Petaluma and Healdsburg. Tur cardinal bishop of Toledo, in Spain, has prohibited women from singing in the churches. es James F. Lawson Is the Commissioner to survey and establish the western boundary line of Nevada., Tur steamer Sacramento hag arrived’ at San Francisco from Panama. She brings no Eastern mail. A Corx paper says that Irish emigration in ponring out of the country with an increased volume and accelerated speed, Tue Confederate dollar is worth just two cents in apecio down in Dixie, and it isn’t worth a continental—pond anywhere else. e Dean Noranirs.—George Munday, “ the Hatless Philosopher,” and ‘Crazy Norah,” notable characters of Philadelphia, diced lately, A Pamapenrnuta Court bas decided that when « man marries he assumos all the debts of his wife contracted before matrimony. Look out, Bachelors! Dorisa the year 1864, there were 6,752 marriages in Philadelphia, or an ayerago of 18 daily. Of births there were 15,591, nn average of 42 daily. Correr.—Meader’s smelting works at Copperopolis are turning out copper, nearly pure, in pigs. The smelting process seems to be a perfect success. Tris rumored in Franco that Juarez has granted letters of marque to certain Yankees, and the report creates some sensation, and not a little alarm, We fear it is not true. Pairapetriis may be the “City of Brotherly Love,” but it is not particularly noted for eonnubial affection. Two hundred and forty-three divorce suits were commenced there last year. Tu rebel General Price says he “ might have brought an army of 60,000 men ont of Missonri, if be had had arms for them.” Price’s soldiers generally stand more in need of legs.Genera. Burier, while in command at Norfolk. organized a free schoo! system for white children, and made it obligatory on them to attend. About 1,000 pupils ore in attendance, Extna Srsstos.—The yoice of the Union press of the State is almost unanimous against an extra session of the Legislature. There is no particular necissity for urging reasons against it,as no good reason has yet been given for it. : Arcanisuop Ponce. of Cincinnati, 2 Catholic divine eminent for his loyalty. learning and liberality. purposes soon to pnblish his views at length of the Pope’s Encyclical Letter. The production, is looked for with a great deal of interest. Aut Ricut.—General McDowell has officially notified Senor Godoy, Consul at San Francisco of the Mexican Republic, that he is acknowledged as the only rightful representative of Mexico, Maximilfan’s appointment being unrecognized. Erxven boys were lately turned out of one of the district schools in Cleveland, Ohio, for drunkenness in school ; and, according tothe Plaindealer, nearly half the boys in the city between the ages of ten and eighteen are habitual patrons of liquor saloons, and occasional drunkards. -&-—-——-—Dr, Scorr.—This divine. so famons in San Francisco, as pastor of Calvary Church, a few years since, is now stationed in New York, and {is there a fashionable pulpit attraction. In nrecent sermon he caused an excitement by boldly averring that the churches of tho city were “ dying of respectability.” Great efforts are making in Limerick, Ireland, to develope the cultivation of flax. From time immemorial this plant has been grown in Munster, and the soil is known to be particularly well-suited to it. Of late, however, the cultivation has dwindled away and it would very probably have entirely died out had not the cotton famine stimuluted the demand for and raised the price of Jinen. --° Camiite.—-The original of this doubtful character, Virginie Gauticr, is now forty-one years old, and still plies her miserable vocation. A recent writer says *‘ehe never was a beauty, but only passably good-looking. She never was nor ever will be anything but & coarse, inonoy-loving, gripping, violent woman, who, to show his power as a writer, the youvuger Alexander Dumas wrote into fasbion soine years since, and who has managed to pluck few wealthy men whom sho gat into ber bands. The whole appearanco of this womuo Sndigutgs great vulgarity; and ber manvers, solce and avcont betray her origin and ways of fife.” Think of that when next you ece o “star” actrow doing Camille! TRUE AS GOSPEL. The Sacramento Beo, one of the best informed and most reliable journals in the State, in speaking of the disposition of a part of the public press to encourage emigration to Idaho and other far-off localities reported to bo rich in placers and lodes of gold and silver, has the following remarks, which are ns true as gospel: In tho counties of Mariposa, Sierra, Novada, Plncor, Shasta, Plumas, Trinity, thore aro moro rich mines, and better chances for “rich strikes’” on tho part of industrious and porsovering miners than thoro aro in all Idaho and Montana. Thoro counties aro noar by, easy of nocess, cost of living is chonp, and to reach them one has not to run Indian or other risks which beret tho emigrant to tho northern mines. Nu matter how cheap and short the routo to Idaho, it is five times ns Jong, and four times as dear, and ten times ns dangorous as tho routo to cither of tho countios named, and tho prizo held out nt the end of tho long, dangerous and expensive road is really not ns grent as thnt displayed in tho counties to which wo have alluded. There are #thousands of acres of mining gronnd in this county whivh the foot of the prospector has never yet rested upon ; and other thousands of acres which have been passed over carelessly for years, in which diligent seekers are daily discovering quartz ledges enormously rich in the precious metals. There is in this and the other counties In the foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada, 1 field for prospectors and mines ample enough to accommodate the entire working popnlation of the Pacific const, and the experience of every day proves that the mines are richer as well as more generally diffused. than anywhere to the north of this State. They have tich diggings in Idaho, Montana, Washington and British Columbian, and occasionally strikes are made the relation of which fills hearers with wonder ; but there are plenty of better diggings about Nevada. Grass Valley, North San Juan, Dutch Flat, Aubnrn, and other localities in this section of California. A few days ago a Chinese company pnid $12,000 for a claim near Grass Valley. Last week the Irish-American company at Birchville cleaned up over $15,000 after an cight days’ run. The Golden Gate, American, Union, San Joaquin and other companies on the “Ridge ” get returns from their claims which wonld make the eyes of miners in Idaho stick out with astonishment, if obtained in that country ; but here they have become an old story, and nobody thinks anything of them. We trust that California papers will take some pains to induce our citizens to stay at home, by stating simple facts in relation to our own mineral resources. Here a certain reward awaits the industrious miner who is content to persevere for a reasonable length of time ; and occasionally fortunes are made with remarkable suddenness. In the northern mines the diggings are, so far as is yet known, limiled in extent; they can be worked for only a few months in the year; prices are high; owing to the vigorous climate and scarcity of accommodations miners are more liable to many diseases ; and altogether the advantages are greatly in favor of the California mines, . J Uncanpin.—The graceful epithet which we havo sclected for caption, was numerously applied to us in a late issue of the Nevada Gazette, on the strength of an extract from a recent article of ours concerning the O’Byrno investigation. Hd our neighbor read our articlo as a whole, instead of confining himself to tho fragment which the Union complimented us by quoting, ho would have found no ground for the animadversions in which he has indulged. Wo will forward an additional copy of our paper containing the articlo referred to; leaving him to modify his strictures or otherwiso, as his better judgment and senso of justice may dictato.—[Stars and Stripes. If the Sacramento Union's garbled extract from your article misrepresented you it is not our fault, neighbor. It is not our intention purposely to misrepresent any one. Send slong that extra copy (we haven't seen it yet), and we will proceed to analyze it. If we find it as n whole different in tone from the garbled extract, wo will take great pleasure in saying so. If we find that the epithet “uncandid * is the proper one to characterize it, we will say so. That’s fair, isn’t it, Selkirk? . Tue Insane AsyLum Murpen.—The Stock. ton Record publishes a statement—derived, however, from hearsay—which implicates Dr. Tilden in the concealment of the murder of a young woman at the Insane Asylum. It says that the Visiting Physician stated in a private conversation that he never heard of the matter until he saw it in print; and that the record of the woman’s death by “ congestion of the Inngs”’ was made by Dr. Tilden himself. It is further stated that the two attendants who committed the crime are now living in this State, and may be readily arrested, if the husband of the murdered woman, or any one else in the interest of justice, desires {o prosecnte them. The matter is being pretty thoroughly ventilated, and we hope the result will be an investigation which will fix the guilt where it properly belongs. eee Tue French are introducing a liquid nmazingly puffed by the Chinese, who seem to excel Turk, American, or Frenchmen—the Englisbman being nowhere in the race of puffers, This liquid is called po *ho, (menthe) and is sold ata fabulous price. There are three stories in the one cleverly-contrived bottle ; the first story contains a green, the second a brown, and the third a red liquid. The use of these cures mortals of every ill. Wittarn Saurspery, the whisky-drinking, pro-slavery Democrat, of Delaware, was on the 7tb of Febraary, re-elected to the United States Senate for six years. Fortunately he has beon excluded from all the Committees, and that extracts his fangs. — H+ +0 Oo -_— Hox. Hexny Encenron is quite ill with typhold fever, ) San Francisco, fa alsy reported ick. District Attorney Porter, of Auscasment of Incomes. The United States Assessor of the Fourth District, California, John M. Avery, hns 13sued the following instructions to tho Agsistant Assessors In his district : Sacramento, March 20, 1865. S Smn—That there may be uniformity In the application of the law In reference to the nssessment of incomes for 1864, the following rules will govern the action of Assistunt Assesgors in the Fourth Assessment District : 1. Net profits realized by sales of property, real or personal, or stocks purchased within the year, are chargeable a8 income, Appreciation or increnso of Frepente area not chargeable as income until the sale determines the gain or profit. 2. Interest over and ahove the nmount paid on notes, bonds. mortgages or other forms of indebtedness bearing interest, whether dne and paid or not,if good and collectable. is chargeable as income. 3. Solvent debts are chargeable as income. 4. All productions of farm or estate sold within the year, (no matter when produced,) and the incrensed yalue of live stock, whether sold or on hand, are chargeable as income. 5. When a person receives wages ond honrd, the value of the board is chargeable as income, ‘ 6. Undivided gains of any company or corporation other than those paying under Sections 120, 121, 122, will be assessed to the person entitled to the same when divisible ; otherwise, to the company or corporation. The rate of tax is fixed before the exemption is deducted. The exemption is from the firat $5,000 income, 7. The deductions—expenses of business, losses, etc.—nre to be deducted from each particular source of income, and not from the aggregate gain or income,

& From the profits or gain of exch source of income will be deducted national State and local taxes paid upou the property. business or capital from which the income is or should be derived ; none other, 9, Salary of any person in the service of the United States. 10. Incomes derived from dividends or shares in any company or corporation and the interest upon the bonds or indebtedness of the snine, the tax upon which has been assessed nnd paid under Sections 120, 121, 99 * ‘ 11. Actual rent paid; but rental value of any homestead occupied and used in one’s own right is not allowed, 12. Rent of rooms used as Jadging, as in hotels and boarding houses, and not nsed for housekeeping purposes, is not allowed. 13. Interest or incumbrances of property, business or capital from which income is or should be derived. None other. 14, Amonnt paid for ordinary repairs upon property from which income is or should be derived, not exceeding the average paid for tha preceding five years ; thatis, actual wear and tear. None other, 15. Improvements made. upon property from gains of the year are not allowed us deduction. 3 16. Losses on. sales of property. real or personul, or stocks purchased within the year, are deductable; but depreciation of property on hand is not allowed—the sale only can ‘determine the loss, 17. Property used in business and furnishing profits when destroyed by fire, may be restored nut the expense of those profits to the condition when destroyed ; if insnred, tho difference between the insurance received and amount expended in restoration will be allowed. 18. Debts considered lopelessly lost on the 31st of December, 1864, may be deducted from the profits ot business ; if subsequeutly paid, they must be included in the return for the year in which they are paid. 19. It is the duty of euch person, on or before the 1st of May, to report or return the amount of gross income, gain or profit recovered froin each particular source of the same ; expenses of business, losses, taxes and insurance paid, and the Assistant Assessor will made the proper deduction or offsets. Each returo must be verified by oath or affirmation. Any person feeling aggrieved by the decision or assessment made by the Assistant Assessor, way appeal to the Asscssor—suid appeal being made in writing and filed with the Assessor nt any time before the lists are passed to the Collector for collection. It is the duty of the Assistant Assessor, after dne notice given, to enter into and upon tho premises (if necessary) of any person refusing or neglecting to make returns, or rendering a false or fraudulent list or return, and make, according to the best information he can obtain, such list or return according to the forms prescribed ; and in case of the return of a false or fraudulent list, he will add 100 per cent, penalty ; in case of those refusing or neglecting to make return, after due notice given, he will add (in case of sickness or absence) 50 per cent. penalty to the amount of said estimated list or return, and the lists or returns so made and subscribed by the Assistant Assessor, will be taken as good and sufficient lists or returns, for all legal purposes. See section _ When penalties are incnrred they must be added. 4 20. It there shall be any property liable to be taxed not owned or possessed by or under the care or management of any person in the district, the Assistant Assessor will make lists or returns of the same, according to the best information he can obtain, and said list will be good for all legal purposes. Provided the said Assistant Assessor shall recvive from the Assessor or Assistant Assessor of the district wherein such owner or person owner or other person—he will examine it. approve if proper, and return the same to the Assessor or Assistant Assessor from whom it was received, that the return of said property may be entered in the district wherein the said owner or other person resides, 21, Assistant Assessors will assess all persons or property which may have escaped assessment for the year 1863. Any person who, by ignorance or misunderstanding of the law, may have rendered under-statements of income for the year 1863, are reqttested to call at once on the Assessor or Assistant Assessor and amend the same, Failing or refusing to do so subjects the party to investi gation and penalties noderSection 14. When errors are believed to exist, it is not necessary to assume in the first place that they have been committed willfully, but rather undera misapprehension of thelaw. Insuch cases the parties shonld be ndyised at once of their auly and required to make @ new statement, that the law may bear equally and justly upon all. May is considered an unfortunate marrying month, A girl was asked to unite berself to un lover, who named May in his proposals. She hinted that May was unlucky. ‘ Mako It June, then? replied the swain, Casting down her cyea, she rejoined with a blush, “wouldn't April do as well?” having the care or management of such prop. erty resides, a list or return, as made by such . That Flexible Nozzlo Agnin,. Mn. Eprror, Sir:—An article appeared In your puper of March 30th concerning my ‘universal water coupling "—very satisfactory. Another appeared on the 31st, probably dictnted by Mr, Rico of your place stating that he had made drawings, some time since, of substuntially the same device by which I accomplish the desired effect. I will state that I am prepared to prove priority, and think it very unreasonable that any practical mechanic or inventor shonld havo abandoned a simple and practical machine for one complicated and Jess effective, which only goes to prove his machine of less worth when exporienco uses and competition offers. Ido not say this to discourage the gentleman, but that he may not assume that right which belongs to another, and beg leave to inform him that I sent caveat papers, kome seven months since, to the Patent office, and am perfectly willing to conteat it in the way of ownership, and also in point of value with his machino, and further suggest, keep the streams together and you will gain considerable now lost by your aparatus in friction. A. E. Repstoxe. Nevada, March 31, 1865. Divivtne THE Srors,—The Shasta Courier complains that while the Collector of the county grows fat the Sheriff gets leaner, and says: As a step in equalizing the profits or emoluments of the county offices as they now exist, we shall advocate the passage of a luw by the next legislature dividing the business of the Tax Collector with the Sheriff; the collection of the property tax, or of the forcign miners’ tax, or some other division ns will in our judgment equalize the profits of the two offices, ‘Nor « Love-Kyor.—Wnm. Farrell was sentenced a few days since in San Francisco to six years imprisonment in the Penitentiary for counterfeiting. Previous to his incarcetation Miss Kate Clark married him—not that she Joved him particularly, but because he had certain valuable properly which she was willing to secure for him in that way. Snootine Arrray.--A dispatch from Aurora states that w: shooting affray between Will Hicks Graham and A. J. MeGuire took place in Montgomery District on Monday. During the shooting August Rodgers, n bystander, was killed, and McGuire received a serions wound. Graham escaped unhurt. Both parties were arrested, Bisnop Crowruer, the black bishop of Niger, bas written to England .a satisfactory account of his first expedition up the Niger, in August lust, He bad obtained a grant of land trom the King of Igara, for the purpose of forming a new missionary station. ° AN inqnest was held in Liverpool in November last, on a boy of seventeen, who was made sick by swallowing tobacco jnice after chewing the plug, and died in a week after, unconscious all the while, and with conyulsive movements of the limbs. * Snerman is as great a joker as Lincolao. He says he blew up the arsenal at Fayetteville because he thought the Government would not need an arsenal in cither of the Carolinas in the future! Cool. ——— Gorxae Fast.—Iforace Greeley’s “ History of the American Conftict ” has attained a sale of seventy thousand copies, and a German edition is in course of preparation. Mews of genius make the best husbands, A fool bas too much opinion of bis own dear self, and too little of women, to bv easily governed. an MARRIED. In Sacramento, March 28, by Rev. E. K. Miller, Mr. Witiram Dantet of Grass Valley to Miss Rnopir Stevens of Yolo county. ‘Special Notices. h AU To ke Nn 175 CELEBRATED GUITARS, TOR BALE BY GEORGE W. WELCH. GAtDEN SEEDS, GARDEN SEEDS, GARDEN SEEDS! GROWTH OF 1864. For sale by XK. ¥¢ SPENCE, Druggist and Apothocary, fo3} Broad street, Nevada. OPE TO THE AFFLICTED, Those deslroua or im need of mevtical aid, will do well to read and follow the adrico of the xdvertisemont nanother part of this paper of the Medical Institute established in 1850 by Dr. J. C. Young, No. 540 Washington street, San Francisco. Tho Institute is too woll and favorably known to need any commendationa from us, for ita merits and groat achicrementa iu healing tho sick are household words. Wo cheerfully recommend it to the afilicted ana nure Asylum of Health. Be sure to direct all Jettors anid remuneration correctly. 4 {fe28m3 mpas FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE Makos four distinct atitehos ; Haa the Reversible Feed ; It Hems; Tt Aralds ; It Tucks; It Fellas Tt Gathers, and sews on band at the same time yf And is so slmplo that the most {nexporienced can earn to operate it iu two hours’ time. Instructlous free. GEO, A, RANDALL, Agent for Nevada county, at Weaver & Co's store, 569 Broad street, Nuvada, Novaoda, July 18, 1864, OAD NOTICE. Notlco ia heroby given that the undersigned will apply to the Hon. [yard of Supervisors of Nevada county, at their next session, for IHeunso to callect toll on tho Forest Hill anit Gres Valloy Turnpike, at a polnt near J. Jenklun’s residence, , MORGAN, Secrotery, Novado, March Ol, 1£€5.~ td a Tena of th stow men Tot pate oni hou: wey the 3 Mac the ST. LI AL 1 pea Bry ofS Bie Ca The Le Wh side Lt E Mu Tog suf hus qui of Tas +} ane exe Na 7 onl age of