April 2, 1862 (4 pages)

_ ., mode offife. Remove the causes thabenerthe Jeffites have “ began to t po forgotten in the welfare of _ It ia not so with the leaders in where. The councils of the reb-ls are ed and there is not one raling spirit on tueir minds,the flag of y to the old be the james ‘ete he is undoubtedly so, iy life, to be ‘self: nd igacity, Still be is of thea atock, and is mado what he is. by bb wate t @ Southern soldier; train him in he perad p anate and hardship ; give him a match for any foe. Now he is in the wrong, ie not inured to bard service,and he has to give way to Northern discipline and sup. of endurance. But, when this civil war is closed what is to be done to satiate the military spirit of the American people? England may well feat the anger she has provoked by her illand firm must be the President and Congress to resist the impulse to wipe out the insults --that England bas endeavored to heap upon us. If we mistake not, the soldiers in the srate armies would delight to see an sat With Great Britain, and what an army we are ihuch mistaken a al Bates has given an opinion in which the _of California is indicated. He says the Gov‘ernment has really no settled policy in the having been to allow the utmost latitude to nines, or to sell or lease the lands. Ak stahies bs nelly I obtain at ven. { the extinct mommalin, is matter of 0 in at sea in instruments, the question of the time of demas . Tecent creation, and overthrow the deducplan tions of ail experienced geologists of the past. If from their character we ean clearly demonstrate the grest age of the tinnd wrought . eddy’ a 2 third in the order starting with the sandy, he i nourishes the grass aud shelters the Roman graves.” "We then recur to the character of the underlying beds, and the strata, with their condition and contents. = different, determined by his theory in regard to the character of the forces he régatds as having beep st work in the formation. _ Both theorists have some ground 1m the beds themselves and the dilluttum in support of their theory, but whilst each sees some things upon which to support hisposition, neither alune can satisfactorily account for all the phenomena present. ye The preponderence. is greatly upon the side that regards active, powerfal forces aa mainly instrumental in establishing the conditions found, and where they are different, they are not sufficiently so to seriously disturbo the questionef man's antiquity. = The deposit of the relic enclosing stratum, is from ten to seventeen fect thick. This is water rolled. implying prolonged sttrition ia s river current ; but thickness and attrition do not necessarily imply long conUnwed action, “ for brief exposure to severe. rubbing ata high velocity and under a pressure of deep water and the superincumbent mass, may as well effect it ax prolonged a Oblique, irregular, the boulders of from one to three feet, themselves abraded, found water short of that which it derives from the vehement internal heavings of the earth's Against the opinion that they were trans erred by ive is the co-presence of the bones of large tropical animals, showing a warmer climate han France now has. The entire valley of the.Somme, from the meadows to the summit of the plateaus, have this deposit under conditions impyssible by slow, gentle means. A bed of white and brown diately over the gravel 7 to 10Here the conditions are claimed as de ing quiet and protracted deposition. A ‘portio o bed, firm, even regularly lammated with delicate, small, fragile water shells, identicalin species with some now found livmg inthat begion. Let Prof. Whitney only be the arithmetician, and Egypt's sands and that for him wobld tell a similar story. In. stead of giving 44 i for a thousand yearr, he can reduce the i to afraction that will show “that 10,000 y. would be only a small fraction” compared with that of our ancestors. \ Let us submit the stratum to analys's—“ portions of the sand are lies immeform, but in many places disturbed, undulating, with gravel floor of the same character . i __Bhe ridges, treaches, hollows, ia this floor imply ® current that placed the sand there, to have been ewilt, having “velocity that confers the power of eroding and ploughing up already settled or imparted sub-angular matter, and of carrying part of it budyly ovat The thickness therefore of the bed is noferiterion of judgment in regard tostrataof sand. This year’s hard experience in Califoraiais evidence that power and velocity determine more than time ia these The fact is, as already stated, until long years of unwearied research. geolgists will have to be content with the rich treasures of their domain found in this strangely constructed world, as facts demonstrating order, ‘ures that startle, and those hasty to make repast fiuman remains were ever before found with prove the antiquity of man, but only makes questionable the antiquity of those animals and the diluvium in which those relies are found. This doubt becomes doubly strong ded flinte; and then it would not in one iota of those bones. pardeags 2 tmraged velhaniabanarg pes of teachers everywhere from whieh they may another, there isan unsettled dispute between the two classes of geologists that they changes have been going on,some slow, others sth : would effect the work: gentle friction produsible by Fanning . Sashatuect ter Sunt oat ra madi ore sonal motives should cause to be employed delivered in San Francisco, before the Legislature in the Assembly Chamber, to ask: “How longa time must have elapsed since the bones (1) recently found in France and England (indicating this great age) were clothed with flesh and muscles?" (Are not muscles flesh 1) Ten thousand years (leaping lightning) would be a small fraction to it! Nothing at all. It-was only intended to make them gupe and wonder, like the sieve shot and mimmic thunder and lightning in a theatrical thunder storm. ‘ to say as a summing up embracing my original fornia,ie known only from the tradition of its inhabi Henry Gi only reliable scientific record of the weather ia thatof the Jatter, which is invaluable. Dr. Gibbons publishes a very interesting arti, cle un the weather of California ia part of March, and the months of April May since 1850, with anew te make known ; the probabilities of more rain falling during the present season. all the tain that fell each year since 1850 fell _ "Phe idea that rainy winter will be folfrom hie statistics is unfounded. The ramy for should the plow not enter the valley lands The average thickness of the last surfice layer is between three nndfive feet, and shows the most quiet action, but there are ional sizeof fragments of flint that could bot 1 Then admitting the flints; as we do, to be man's work, does then tore co-association with bones of extingt animals prove that they necessarily lived atone time? This cannot possibly be évidence of it. : 2. As the believed antiquity of those Mammalian bones resulted from the fact that no them, the finding of them together does not . historic man with the makers of those imbed remove the doubt, in regard to the antiquity Tn regard to the matter of change in Physwill not determine for a long time. — What then does this discovery determine . The next paper concludes what I have D. G. W. ORE Ratn.—The meteorology of Caliand the Journal kept by Dr. ms, of San Francisco. The In a late number of the Union Jatter From the article we learn that one-fifth of uncul lowed by a dry Spring, Dr. Gibbons shows Winter of 1852-3 was\followed by a very wet Spring. \ April is apt to be rainy. very warm weather Three hot J are apt times extends to four or five. It faile to rein within four or five days ter the last warm day.” ae ‘The above facts drawn from the article of Dr. Gibbons show that the policy of the owners of uplands 4s to put them in cultivation, this season, of which there is some dou bt the State is in danger of a short supply of food uoless the higher grounds are cultivaurday next is to cecur a very impor tant elee . tion, on whieh will depend, in avery great] A-D ‘Trustees ; for they have in their hands the interests of the school. Asa rule, trustees should be educated men ; but it does not folfed, they will be more efficient. Some men. fact of their greater interest, much more useful than the others © Neither education, The great question that ought to be decided next Saturday is, will the candidates think attention tethem? Will they observe their oath, ‘faithfully to discharge the duties of Trustee according to the best of their abiliThere is no pecuniary compensation for these officers; it is a position of bonor and usefulness, not of profit; but where is the man of common respectability whe will not be willing to put himself to some inconven« ience for the benefit of the people among whom he lives? The man who does not desire to do what he can to make the people of his community better and heppier, is unfit to live init. The true citizen is not the careless make good Trustees, especially where there isno pay. of thie county superior to most‘ others, and equal té-auy. select—-one with whom teaching is a mere temporary thing “‘to make a raise;” these are generally poorly qualified in all reapects. The other class embraces those who are qualified, and with whom a good degree of by their own habits and discipline to diseipline others. There is an abundance of either -class for the schovls; and we believe that no the former, while there is -an abundance of the latter. Iteometimes happen that Trustees widh the Beard of Examination to strain @ point in order to testify to abilities which do not exist. It is co be hoped that Boards of Examination will certify te the truth only, so that their certificates of qualification may be taken as evidence of the ability of the teacher in allcases. Any other course, besides being dishonest, is injurious to the school, and to the class of teachers who are qualfied. The corimon plea that “the children are not much advanced, and the candidate will do for the present” will hold good for alltime. A teacher never causes his pu. pils to be advanced many degrees bevond himself. Parents, why are school meetings so poorly attended by yourselves? If any one of you concludes that you may be excused from at~ , may not all others arrive at the same concl 1 Infact, they do seem to come to this result together ; as it frequently ne that not a half dozen persons attend a meeting where im it~ matters are to be attended to; and yet, those whe remain at home think themselves entitled to all the privileges of fault-finding with the a Rip-Van-Wimble sleep to awake ocenly to utter a fow complaints and then who care for their children, and the public good to a school-meetings. May the attendance at the election of Saturday next indicate an i Give te the right sort of men a vote ‘will not only earnest. Cc. Maron, 20th, 1862. : SALOON, E D Dean. = ted to agreater extent than ever before. Tuomas N. NG, a carpenter, has ner the lack of it, are in themselves either a . } the duties of importanee enough to give their . or the selfish man ; the latter sort. will not] The school officers may make the schools . ! ‘There are twe distinet classes}, GEO. R. LANCASTER, PROPRIETOR . juveni! upap citizer cular, sold . which House door. in Nevada, on TUESDAY, April 29, mee onwrem the hours of 9 o'clock, Av My anu 4 0’clock, P.M. ‘ G ven under hand this 24th day of March . 42. as W. KNOWLTON, saci.’ Hill & Hupp, Pitis’ Attys. tne young played we ha’ bogus OHERIFF’s SALE.— Whereas, on the200: day of March, A. D., 1872 a final judgment S aerof was rendered in the District Court of the 14th Judicial District of the State of. Califorat of three-per cent onth from the rendition of judgment until pald. with = _ between the hours of 9o°alock, A, m., Given under m this of March 1862. TW KNOWLTON, bhante Hill & Hupp, Piaintitts : CONCERT AND BALL! At TEMPERANCE HALL, work of those who go. Itisas if they dropped . The PPPOE Meee eeenne —— ne op ta oe RS H. ——. Larry @alobene cee ype : «+ «he James. ‘T. MULCAHY,

_ ., mode offife. Remove the causes thabenerthe Jeffites have “ began to t po forgotten in the welfare of _ It ia not so with the leaders in where. The councils of the reb-ls are ed and there is not one raling spirit on tueir minds,the flag of y to the old be the james ‘ete he is undoubtedly so, iy life, to be ‘self: nd igacity, Still be is of thea atock, and is mado what he is. by bb wate t @ Southern soldier; train him in he perad p anate and hardship ; give him a match for any foe. Now he is in the wrong, ie not inured to bard service,and he has to give way to Northern discipline and sup. of endurance. But, when this civil war is closed what is to be done to satiate the military spirit of the American people? England may well feat the anger she has provoked by her illand firm must be the President and Congress to resist the impulse to wipe out the insults --that England bas endeavored to heap upon us. If we mistake not, the soldiers in the srate armies would delight to see an sat With Great Britain, and what an army we are ihuch mistaken a al Bates has given an opinion in which the _of California is indicated. He says the Gov‘ernment has really no settled policy in the having been to allow the utmost latitude to nines, or to sell or lease the lands. Ak stahies bs nelly I obtain at ven. { the extinct mommalin, is matter of 0 in at sea in instruments, the question of the time of demas . Tecent creation, and overthrow the deducplan tions of ail experienced geologists of the past. If from their character we ean clearly demonstrate the grest age of the tinnd wrought . eddy’ a 2 third in the order starting with the sandy, he i nourishes the grass aud shelters the Roman graves.” "We then recur to the character of the underlying beds, and the strata, with their condition and contents. = different, determined by his theory in regard to the character of the forces he régatds as having beep st work in the formation. _ Both theorists have some ground 1m the beds themselves and the dilluttum in support of their theory, but whilst each sees some things upon which to support hisposition, neither alune can satisfactorily account for all the phenomena present. ye The preponderence. is greatly upon the side that regards active, powerfal forces aa mainly instrumental in establishing the conditions found, and where they are different, they are not sufficiently so to seriously disturbo the questionef man's antiquity. = The deposit of the relic enclosing stratum, is from ten to seventeen fect thick. This is water rolled. implying prolonged sttrition ia s river current ; but thickness and attrition do not necessarily imply long conUnwed action, “ for brief exposure to severe. rubbing ata high velocity and under a pressure of deep water and the superincumbent mass, may as well effect it ax prolonged a Oblique, irregular, the boulders of from one to three feet, themselves abraded, found water short of that which it derives from the vehement internal heavings of the earth's Against the opinion that they were trans erred by ive is the co-presence of the bones of large tropical animals, showing a warmer climate han France now has. The entire valley of the.Somme, from the meadows to the summit of the plateaus, have this deposit under conditions impyssible by slow, gentle means. A bed of white and brown diately over the gravel 7 to 10Here the conditions are claimed as de ing quiet and protracted deposition. A ‘portio o bed, firm, even regularly lammated with delicate, small, fragile water shells, identicalin species with some now found livmg inthat begion. Let Prof. Whitney only be the arithmetician, and Egypt's sands and that for him wobld tell a similar story. In. stead of giving 44 i for a thousand yearr, he can reduce the i to afraction that will show “that 10,000 y. would be only a small fraction” compared with that of our ancestors. \ Let us submit the stratum to analys's—“ portions of the sand are lies immeform, but in many places disturbed, undulating, with gravel floor of the same character . i __Bhe ridges, treaches, hollows, ia this floor imply ® current that placed the sand there, to have been ewilt, having “velocity that confers the power of eroding and ploughing up already settled or imparted sub-angular matter, and of carrying part of it budyly ovat The thickness therefore of the bed is noferiterion of judgment in regard tostrataof sand. This year’s hard experience in Califoraiais evidence that power and velocity determine more than time ia these The fact is, as already stated, until long years of unwearied research. geolgists will have to be content with the rich treasures of their domain found in this strangely constructed world, as facts demonstrating order, ‘ures that startle, and those hasty to make repast fiuman remains were ever before found with prove the antiquity of man, but only makes questionable the antiquity of those animals and the diluvium in which those relies are found. This doubt becomes doubly strong ded flinte; and then it would not in one iota of those bones. pardeags 2 tmraged velhaniabanarg pes of teachers everywhere from whieh they may another, there isan unsettled dispute between the two classes of geologists that they changes have been going on,some slow, others sth : would effect the work: gentle friction produsible by Fanning . Sashatuect ter Sunt oat ra madi ore sonal motives should cause to be employed delivered in San Francisco, before the Legislature in the Assembly Chamber, to ask: “How longa time must have elapsed since the bones (1) recently found in France and England (indicating this great age) were clothed with flesh and muscles?" (Are not muscles flesh 1) Ten thousand years (leaping lightning) would be a small fraction to it! Nothing at all. It-was only intended to make them gupe and wonder, like the sieve shot and mimmic thunder and lightning in a theatrical thunder storm. ‘ to say as a summing up embracing my original fornia,ie known only from the tradition of its inhabi Henry Gi only reliable scientific record of the weather ia thatof the Jatter, which is invaluable. Dr. Gibbons publishes a very interesting arti, cle un the weather of California ia part of March, and the months of April May since 1850, with anew te make known ; the probabilities of more rain falling during the present season. all the tain that fell each year since 1850 fell

_ "Phe idea that rainy winter will be folfrom hie statistics is unfounded. The ramy for should the plow not enter the valley lands The average thickness of the last surfice layer is between three nndfive feet, and shows the most quiet action, but there are ional sizeof fragments of flint that could bot 1 Then admitting the flints; as we do, to be man's work, does then tore co-association with bones of extingt animals prove that they necessarily lived atone time? This cannot possibly be évidence of it. : 2. As the believed antiquity of those Mammalian bones resulted from the fact that no them, the finding of them together does not . historic man with the makers of those imbed remove the doubt, in regard to the antiquity Tn regard to the matter of change in Physwill not determine for a long time. — What then does this discovery determine . The next paper concludes what I have D. G. W. ORE Ratn.—The meteorology of Caliand the Journal kept by Dr. ms, of San Francisco. The In a late number of the Union Jatter From the article we learn that one-fifth of uncul lowed by a dry Spring, Dr. Gibbons shows Winter of 1852-3 was\followed by a very wet Spring. \ April is apt to be rainy. very warm weather Three hot J are apt times extends to four or five. It faile to rein within four or five days ter the last warm day.” ae ‘The above facts drawn from the article of Dr. Gibbons show that the policy of the owners of uplands 4s to put them in cultivation, this season, of which there is some dou bt the State is in danger of a short supply of food uoless the higher grounds are cultivaurday next is to cecur a very impor tant elee . tion, on whieh will depend, in avery great] A-D ‘Trustees ; for they have in their hands the interests of the school. Asa rule, trustees should be educated men ; but it does not folfed, they will be more efficient. Some men. fact of their greater interest, much more useful than the others © Neither education, The great question that ought to be decided next Saturday is, will the candidates think attention tethem? Will they observe their oath, ‘faithfully to discharge the duties of Trustee according to the best of their abiliThere is no pecuniary compensation for these officers; it is a position of bonor and usefulness, not of profit; but where is the man of common respectability whe will not be willing to put himself to some inconven« ience for the benefit of the people among whom he lives? The man who does not desire to do what he can to make the people of his community better and heppier, is unfit to live init. The true citizen is not the careless make good Trustees, especially where there isno pay. of thie county superior to most‘ others, and equal té-auy. select—-one with whom teaching is a mere temporary thing “‘to make a raise;” these are generally poorly qualified in all reapects. The other class embraces those who are qualified, and with whom a good degree of by their own habits and discipline to diseipline others. There is an abundance of either -class for the schovls; and we believe that no the former, while there is -an abundance of the latter. Iteometimes happen that Trustees widh the Beard of Examination to strain @ point in order to testify to abilities which do not exist. It is co be hoped that Boards of Examination will certify te the truth only, so that their certificates of qualification may be taken as evidence of the ability of the teacher in allcases. Any other course, besides being dishonest, is injurious to the school, and to the class of teachers who are qualfied. The corimon plea that “the children are not much advanced, and the candidate will do for the present” will hold good for alltime. A teacher never causes his pu. pils to be advanced many degrees bevond himself. Parents, why are school meetings so poorly attended by yourselves? If any one of you concludes that you may be excused from at~ , may not all others arrive at the same concl 1 Infact, they do seem to come to this result together ; as it frequently ne that not a half dozen persons attend a meeting where im it~ matters are to be attended to; and yet, those whe remain at home think themselves entitled to all the privileges of fault-finding with the a Rip-Van-Wimble sleep to awake ocenly to utter a fow complaints and then who care for their children, and the public good to a school-meetings. May the attendance at the election of Saturday next indicate an i Give te the right sort of men a vote ‘will not only earnest. Cc. Maron, 20th, 1862. : SALOON, E D Dean. = ted to agreater extent than ever before. Tuomas N. NG, a carpenter, has ner the lack of it, are in themselves either a . } the duties of importanee enough to give their . or the selfish man ; the latter sort. will not] The school officers may make the schools . ! ‘There are twe distinet classes}, GEO. R. LANCASTER, PROPRIETOR . juveni! upap citizer cular, sold . which House door. in Nevada, on TUESDAY, April 29, mee onwrem the hours of 9 o'clock, Av My anu 4 0’clock, P.M. ‘ G ven under hand this 24th day of March . 42. as W. KNOWLTON, saci.’ Hill & Hupp, Pitis’ Attys. tne young played we ha’ bogus OHERIFF’s SALE.— Whereas, on the200: day of March, A. D., 1872 a final judgment S aerof was rendered in the District Court of the 14th Judicial District of the State of. Califorat of three-per cent onth from the rendition of judgment until pald. with = _ between the hours of 9o°alock, A, m., Given under m this of March 1862. TW KNOWLTON, bhante Hill & Hupp, Piaintitts : CONCERT AND BALL! At TEMPERANCE HALL, work of those who go. Itisas if they dropped . The PPPOE Meee eeenne —— ne op ta oe RS H. ——. Larry @alobene cee ype : «+ «he James. ‘T. MULCAHY,