April 3, 1861 (4 pages)

itig te his priest ‘affinities, Pata tncdead : ipoli ‘secession “ded to submit its propriety WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3d, 1861. ‘ASTERN AFFAIRS IN A NUT‘SHELL. p oritiquesonthe’ slowly-developing y of the Lincoln adininistration. Itisvery. it to us that noite of hein know exactly . ib they are. writing about. ‘The best way 48 <a to the bettom—or sornewhere near the, ‘bottom—of the’ disturbing’ circumstances, tow absorbing the attention of the American } le; "is to take up the'ponderous doutilea “weaid it patiently and thoughtfully through. In “it is to be found a very impartial showing of ‘what each party, clique, faction, and,.‘seetion. hag to tay for’ iteelf. By carefully consider. ting and comparing ‘these multitudious con-: ~ flieting opinions, statements, and assertions, one ean, manage . to arrive ata, tolerably clear ‘view of the whole matter, and form a dispas‘lolita judgment upon it, “Ae well as we can, we ate about, to make ‘the attempt of compressing all the imbroglios bri eat into the smallest . ‘possible of nutoie Dorder Slave states, ‘especially. Vir-. igitta, mieke. their adhesion to the Union deqpendent, on the policy of the new admidistra{io toward the seceded states.” If pacific, ‘they-will remain in'the Union’: if belligerent, they) will'leave: it. In some of ‘the seceded ‘atates, particularly ‘Louisiana, Alabama, and » aresolate Union party is rapidly . gtowing j and’ thiné ‘paity implores: the fed-. ‘éxil government to leave the tion of seeeasion or ‘tion seoeasion to ‘it, ‘This, party werful journals ‘to: wustain and lead it. ey point is that ‘the, leaders.of the movement have never condescen-. to.& vote ‘of the people. "Ths ‘people, thése journals, assert, \ atecawaliing to two: important’ facte Tat, they have been trested with contempt by secession ‘lenders, and, Qdly, that the se“mevement, so far, has overwhelmed ‘thein’ ‘with’ in Ocean of evils. ‘These-journals pr ‘that, ‘if not disturbed by. of the federal ‘governagency of ‘their own’ ballot Cardlina, disappointed and offended-at the aetion of the provisional government sor cotton confederacy, will secede from the consel Without free trade and the epeniofthe African slave trade, she wif treat s government at Montgomery as she treated that at Washington. Here will bea rupture which must addimmensely to the growth Of thie’ Union party in ‘those cotton states where it is already making head. All these circumstances, no doubt, are Well understood by Mr. Seward, Mr. Lincoln's Secretary of State and confidential adviser, the whd He has weighed and compared them with acumen of a practiced and finished statesman. He is a Unionist—emphiatically so—and, Whatever'he may have. heretofore said or done tis'a partisan politiéian, he now finds himeelf in a \ position in in which his obligations, to his country rise infinitely above those , he ‘owes to purty. “Béiig a Unionist, he is bro’t inte conflict with the Disunionists of the Republican party, with Horace Greeley at their head, who are as anxious for a dismemberment of the Union as is any one of the secessjon leaders of South Carolina. However fx tiie events may shape themselves, one tact is clear; and that is thatthe Lincoln administration is determined to reconstruct the Union ; andthe only question for its consideration is, the most certain way of accomplishitig the task. — “Phe evacwation of Fort Sumter jis no longer 9, question to be solved by politieal ‘partisans. Tnflexible circumstances, beyond the power of Mr. Lincoln to control, must settle that.question. Mr. Douglas,who ought te be good suthority, ‘advocated the evacuation because there was but a month's wer provisions in " oe and there no possible r supplying ict "with mannan 9 reinforcing it witb men. The. of the ‘means of relieving the fort must not be set down te the Paxinos? te ‘ne that ta arene ee ‘wstend of ‘. an egsy Sacramento Union; of Monday, and} that neither the vee i nor the sees id relieve the fort, could be co for £. 3 undek thre , the ‘Auestiong / when” m strate ry. then, to bear onit, instead of ignorant impulse. _ That neither ships nor troops could be instantly rendered available is not the fault of Mr. Lincoln ; but it would be cruél, névettiieldss, to let the brave garrison of Fort Sumter A corinne rmnge Ae seco 6 Souttr ‘Ciirblingj oh that aceoant, = 3 any more matter into our nutshell. Wh the existing. state-of things east! of the Rocky” Mountains, ;It.is, candid and: impartial, as ought to be the'charge of a, judge to's Jary)} and.ia untainted by a single: me of veer, partisanship, Oty te. _—o JERUSALEM. i catteapontett of the Liverpool Mercury; writing from Rome, states fat French officers have lately been very busy in obtaining information respeeting Jerusalem and the state of things in that quairter,’ ‘He adds'thit they had been taking measurements i in.several localities, particul. ary-on the ground that lies about the Mosque ‘From Jvrasalam . p they had gone to Hebron, Gaza and other of Omar or,Mount Moriah, points, for the Tike purpose. It is also cutrently reported that a body of French troops wag shortly to come to Jerusalem, while another would be stationed-at—Jaffa;and-a third on Mount Carmel. At Beyrout, he says, the’ French officers: openly affirmed that their Government ‘had no intention of withdrawing the force. sent, out,; but were about to employ them shortly on a new and very different’ errand to that. for which they ostensibly, came. ~~ Arizona.—By a telegram in the eee ville Appeal, it seems that a convention of the Arizono folks was held at Mesilla; ou the 16thof March. It, was addressed by P. T. ‘Herbert, once. a California) Congressman, who killed an Irish waiter in Washington. . The result: was that the convention declared: . the tecritory of Arizona out of Uncle Sam's Union and attached it: to the cotton: confed-; eracy. So, Arizona has seceded; and how will Uricle Sam like that 7 CALIFORNIA NON PRODUCERS.—The Coloma Times saya : ed why Californians,.as a people, are poor 1 To the inquiry an exchange makes the reply that there are fewer producers in Calfornia than any other State to the number of its inhabitanta. ‘Every village; town, and city in the State swarm with idlers, and’ avery large proportion of them ‘have never thought of doing. anything, unless the magnanimity of the legislators may be aroused in their favor and make an office for them to fill, with grace and ease.” Sueer DesTRoYeD.—A flock of sheep belonging to Mr. Taylor, resident on the Cos'sumnes, in Sacramento county, were drowned on Wednesday !ast, by the flood. There were four hundredin the flock. They cated. = NEW INSURANCE CoMPANY.—The “San Francisco Insurance Company” has just been incorporated. The corporaters are thirteen in number, among who) we notice the names of Hi. W. Burr, C. 0. Gerberding, shares 300; the Company to go inte operaton as scon as $125,000 are subscribed. =~ A person from ‘Vesasilda informs the San Francisco Journal that four-fifths of the inhabitants of that district would prefer a political connection with Utah, in preference to California, and a much larger -majority* would be given in favor of Nevada Territory. tit is stated that Rarey, the horse-ta_mer, is coming to California, for better security. poeds to be redressedi®* gente Our limits will not permit us © comproye ty wé have here set forth presenits, most briefly, . “We are sometimes ask. were ina corral atthe time, and the water rose so rapidly that wey could not be extri_ O, L, Shafter, and others. The amount of the’ capital stock is $150,000; number of te A prisoner named John Coulter broke out-of the Tehama county jail and made good‘his escape. The Beacon suggests the erection of a high beard fence around the jail X47 It is oRewer woman than her ‘Wrongs that Have You Sucenen!=Not & single Ma__4 rysville newspaper, by yesterday's mail for beautiful women appeared. RN, Sieh Ht mtu} ‘r-maid. He a asleep soon after he was in bed, to dream of her beauty, when he waa awoke by the girl herself, standing at his hedwith #:candle in her hand, and semewhat of an embarrassed air. #8: would you object to a~bed-fellow wy cs a with d tiesitating voice. apposing* she alluded to lierself.he deket “how he should be defighted*”” ° « 0, sit,’ 1 am.-so. glad,”. she replied ; ‘there is’ a drunken ‘Brummagen rider be-4 low who waute.a bed, and I have, been so bold as to.ask whether you. would let him turnin with you, for nobody have I yet aehed will hear of the: man." THE MASSACRES AT 7 Dationtey. — Another . of those horrible massacres which are a dismey. The West African Herald publishes, statements from eye witnesses.of the barbaric . “custom” just perpetrated at Dahomey. From this fearful narrative we learn that the recent “grand custom’’ .of Badahang; King ‘of Dahomey, was one of the most LiMn ¢ ‘which had ever: i Pg taken place. ; Several persons agree in's that the number of ; s-slain_on‘Seen oceasivn: was estimated at two thousand, but another correspondent gives the number at seven thousand. He says he was present:-by compulsion, and that the blood amen Lid sit him like a floed into a reservoir. er gentieanan,, referring to ld sin > “f T-aseure you it made me quite sick, me at the same time I felt stunned. ae Bari peenee met death with perfect. indi Herald, which gave rote or gate’ rough its columns several months since, of the in: tention of the King of Dahomey to hold an unusual ‘grand custom,” in remembrance of the death of the late King, concludes. the recital of these butcheries by, sayi ying that Consul Foote has come out with full powers to treat with the King of. Dahomey as to the meaning of these human sacrifices.” ad DrowNED.—Peter Harkins, a miner, resident of Sebastopol, in Sacramento county,. while returning home on Wednesday la st, in-companywith another, on’ horgeback, at-: tempted to ford the ‘Cosumnes river near thewire bridge, and was drowned, his companion escaping. Deceased was twenty-eight years of age, a. native of Boston, Mass.,, and was formerly, for several years, steamboatting on the Sacramento34 The count de Morny is the illegitimate son of Hortense Beauharnais the; mother of Louis Napoleon ; and consequently Hz is a lefthanded half brother of the Emperor. The great superiority of the mother eonsisted principally in delicate little flirtations outside ef wedlock.— The eount de Morny, it will be remembered, was born while her husband was alive. a" The effect of climate on the human system is shown iu a striking manner by the inhabitants of Australia, who in the course of two or three generations, lose the corpulent character of the -Englist.men, and become a tall, gaunt, raw-boned race like the inhabitants of the Seuthern States. SS 3 Jacob Faude, one of the gunners who helped in firing the salute in Buffalo in honor of Lincoln's inauguration, was seriously injured by the premature explosion ef the cannon. New DopGe.—A minister in Sacramento, it is-said, is in the habit of baptising a Chinamen every two or three months. The day prior to the ceremony a notice is inserted in & paper, a large crowd is in attendance to see “John ” ducked, after which a collection is taken up. The baptism of a Chinaman being a novely, of course the audience contribute liberally.—Meripose Journal, ——».__— Tue FLAG OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES.—The following is the official description of the design of the Flag recently adopted by the Congress of the Confederate States : , “ Red, white and red in the three equal rts horizontally The white beeen the red, blue union, with seven stars, in the form of acircle reaching down to the lower red:” It was formally hoisted ever the State House at Montgomery. ' ts The Mirror says it is mformed by a Lin California, $12,000. ce” A Western paper announcing the death of a gentleman in Iowa, says: “‘ He wes.a great admirer of Horace Greeley, but othe rwise a very respectable man. " EFA calico party wasgiven at Wyandotte Butte connty,,tive.other day, at mbioh forty a the ee a eS grace to humanity, has taken place at Daho. friend of T. Starr King, that he has. made . , by his lectures, within the last: ten’ months . f° his sole mt —— fn ten enema te sea bi moh pny Woe . b ger Four hundred ‘billions of cigars! Allowing this tobacco, unmanufactured, to-cost on-an average 10 cents a pound, and we have $800,006,000 expended every year in producing a noxious, dele terious weed. At lea st one . dnd’ a half times as much more is ‘required to . manufactute it into.a marketable form, and to dispone of it to the, congumer. ABSCONDED.— The Red Blaff Tadependent says & rumor bas been in.’ ‘éireulation. in thiat piace, that Assessor 8. B. Shaw. of that. county, has left for parts unknown.— How far the rumor is correct, the Indepen-, dent knoweth not, but three or four of the . citizens have been ealled on to assist in making up a deficiency. {3 There.is but one Chinese couple in San’ Frariciseo who are legitimately married, -and these'are-a gardener and his wife. Many.Chinese merchants tre’ living with women whom ‘they. call their wives ; 3 but these are .either concubines. or women they have, taken. to wife @uring the life time of their tze. or first . A plurality of wives 4 is permitted under the Chi _ system; but the issue of the first wife alone can. keep up ‘the legal’ sucgession of the housé, Phe tze, .or first wife is not permitted to leave China, ‘but the ease of the gardener 18°ah ¢xéeption 'to.thie rule, probably.because.of his humble rank. —Ko says the _—s Journal.’ + Lirkoiiia. —A torlouh case of lynching occurred at. Napa.a few days since. A rob< ber attempted to break’ into. the store of ‘Lyneh Brothers. Thé younger. brother acized his pistol-in the darknese,and fired, as he supposed; at the robber, “Ynstead he hit the elder brother, who, ofcourse, was Lynehed instead of the burglar: . ea The'saints at Utah ate. in. high glee over the prospects of disunion and Murmon indepen }, dence. >Brighatn; Youtig préclaims to have pro. phesied the present condition of things Lord woah eter ‘overthrow . the despoilers cud lve his chosen people. . te At the: election . for en ‘of the Tennessee State Convention, . ac the foreign-born citizens of the ci phis voted for the Union candidates. la ning aes: te By «4 transposition of two letters, Punch makes the United ee the Ualied States. é EW" There ts a scoond rumor thet igs Ralston, late of California, has discovered.a silver mine 250 inion. ff this side of Salt Lake. A Lucky Wasmlattnn Ales ‘Kennedy, formerly a resident of Downieville, went, at an early stage of the silver fever, to Washoe. He was one of the fortitnate, and sold steck to Downiéville operators to the amount of $18, 000, and then paid a visit to his former home in the Atlan. tic States. Hehas returned, and after spending two days in Downieville’ has’ gone to Washoe, EXTENDING CouRTESi«es. — Lieut. Slemmer, says the Columbia (8. ©.) Totes, in cOmmand of Fort Pickéns, dined with Col. Tennént Lomax and officers of the Alabama Volunteers, a few days.since, and in the course of a friendly~conversation, said: ‘‘ Col. Lomax, I expected a visit from you at the Fort before this time.” To this kind rebuke of the courage and chivalty, of the State troops, the gallant Cofonel replied: ‘My dear sir, had I been in command you would not not have been disappoin’ _ & Without woman, man would be rude, gross and solitary. Woman spreads aronnd the flowers of existence, as the creepers of the forest-decorate the majestic oak with their odoriferous garlands. ir Mr. Lincoln was fifty-two years of age en prea Feb. 12. . BIRTH. “In this oy, April 2d, the wife of H. BR. FERRE ofa son. ISSOLU TION.—The Co ‘Partnership h tefore existing between the undersi <i ENHEISER & 2. and is alone authori te Grase Valley April. -7d HEISER. . amor. SV apeits, . Dee v. TJ. Dalton, Pas. ag on Washing tog WS By Brierly, Pastor, ; ‘Church, on Spring strect at 11 A M., and 7% Pp. M. EPIscOPAL SERVICE—Rev. John Chittendey Pastor ; at the Brick Church, at 3 o’clock, p, M eps Seeret & ovters! ~—itevaan Lodge, No. ET acme on Broad ctreet, every Saturday pond Ha, ey hie ications” ~weeond oa coat month: A.C. Niles, Master, J-. Nevads R. A. Chapter, N apter, No. 6—Regular commu wei first Monday ev rening of each. month, Thos. P. Hawley, High. Priest ; J. F. Rudelph, © Neradx Com 1NO.°6, Ke —Stited a semblies first nee md third ie tg: 3 month, Charles: Marsh, Com ee py Recorder. us we cegulat meet every ‘Luesday evening, . at_their Hall, — Broad and Pine streets. D.S. Tallman, N, G,; J. W. Chima, V. Gdent Order of Knighthood, Wednesday a tay 8, at. Temperance H Thompson, C. Kiker r. Bean, Bec? ye Sons of. ‘Tem Saturda rene at Tem) Bean WP rance Mackett, R. S.— ah Ene ty (Cnt Tei ps eve’ wo ev ng ,at Tem a 4% A LYTERARY FEAST. Six Lectures for the Benefit of the M. E. CHURCH, in Nevada, Will be delivered ‘ follows i WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRILI10th Rev. T. Starr King, Subject—*“Washington.” THURSDAY EVENING, , April 18th, Gew Jas. Shields,’ Subject—*‘ Jackgon,?’ THURSDAY. EVENING, April 25th, : Rev. Wm. McClay, Subject—‘ American Ariatocracy.” THURSDAY EVENING, May 2d, Rev. & Thomas, Subject—‘‘Character. THURSDAY EVENING; ‘May Oth, Subjes THURSDAY EVENING, May wes, Rev. Dd Deal, Subject “Heroes.” Xx The Lectures will be given inthe Met» dist Church. Tickets, for. the entire Coursey} each’; Single Lecture, $1. . aas-td RUDOLPH & HUNT, us "Wholesale and Retail _. DRUGGIsSTS, MAIN STREET,Opposite Mulford &. Cai i ‘Baot Drugs, Ohemicals, Paints, Oil, Camphene, Patent Medicines, &o. ‘A full supply always on hand Nevada, Sept. 6.-tf DMINISTRATOR’S WOTiOR Noe A is hereby given to. all reas having de madds or cate again theo tate of of B. YATES, theproper votchiérs, to the wads, within ten months trent. vo ‘same will be barred WILLIAM YAT. dam's Bet & Niles, dete tw tok kale ES, +e se, Coal Oil Lam : D. for or peeling, St . and ing ee Also, Kerose Ceal Oil, for sale by = W. H. CRAWFORD & Co. ‘ No. 27 Main Opposite the Exp THOS. P. HAWLEY, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office—Up owns in Kidd & Knox’s Buildity eorner of Broad and Pine streets, Nevada Nevada, Mar. 6.—tf _E. F. SPENCE, Druggist and Apothecary,. BROAD STREET. RALSR EM IN Drags, Olle Oils, Pataca, Pasay cohol, takpmene ete. oo Cash orders from the country sdlieted: sept-™ JAMES J. OTT, NEVADA ASSAY OFFICE one 30 Main street, Nevada, LD AND ORES, ¢ of every Deserir Otion, Melted, Peg eee As Assa' prices BARS OR’ COIN, in a few Houre: Melting done in’ the presence of Crains and C returned or brought in # count — always guaranteed. Charges nb iug and d aasay ing gold—for lots, below #0! for lot 028~ 3g = denne tionate reduetion for eo quan regular customers ; as! James eA Ott is now prepared wi hi ate AMALGAMATION precious ores, either in the ore or ready to meee Soy ees Pes Tub mee aby » Ce at the lows lta JAMES a iat BAILEY HOUSE, ON BROAD STREST,* woncineryeahitusane ‘ma ee eager New Brick el per WOK. cnn cccinccks eves ore ‘ y Cea Netian Came, No. 39—Regular meetin Bovey dicccn’ avedn Distabene tas: er Ek. The Be prereres Ste HESPt the editress fo lightful and he the fashion pls no doubt, are ing to say, fur of the ladies is to be. physiolo; of Phifip W this néimbex, i an abundance with kindly-ht mother’s Neig instruetive pe . other-eoritent: rendér the. He. California sho -Uuay Ror young man, w Monday—dep by the prem has-notiappea “stincts of the this is far fr money marke dealt with ,by simple tale ha It is said that goods, did ref , ties:; but hei one man who te We y who was 80 b last, and foun expected. D he is, says the proving fatal. shots fired to only took ‘effe perforating h ‘that robbery ‘as one of the out with a”k ‘ehown us, wé attempts toc of his eyes is New Mus: lowing new, 1r Kohler, San I song and eh Moon Serens Taylor; “D song, by J. L tousic we imn of young lads else but prac ranged for th tiful. CurTine } Phillips, exp into a row at ing last, in v One had hia 1 other had an monster,”’. it trouble, ag 1 senorita, whe present at th couraged th Fient.—, into a row o: ing, about a had borrowe three knock parties, whe ties were se AericuL’ included in . trict Agrier nantes! Boe ficers were according te affairs of th

itig te his priest ‘affinities, Pata tncdead : ipoli ‘secession “ded to submit its propriety WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3d, 1861. ‘ASTERN AFFAIRS IN A NUT‘SHELL. p oritiquesonthe’ slowly-developing y of the Lincoln adininistration. Itisvery. it to us that noite of hein know exactly . ib they are. writing about. ‘The best way 48 <a to the bettom—or sornewhere near the, ‘bottom—of the’ disturbing’ circumstances, tow absorbing the attention of the American } le; "is to take up the'ponderous doutilea “weaid it patiently and thoughtfully through. In “it is to be found a very impartial showing of ‘what each party, clique, faction, and,.‘seetion. hag to tay for’ iteelf. By carefully consider. ting and comparing ‘these multitudious con-: ~ flieting opinions, statements, and assertions, one ean, manage . to arrive ata, tolerably clear ‘view of the whole matter, and form a dispas‘lolita judgment upon it, “Ae well as we can, we ate about, to make ‘the attempt of compressing all the imbroglios bri eat into the smallest . ‘possible of nutoie Dorder Slave states, ‘especially. Vir-. igitta, mieke. their adhesion to the Union deqpendent, on the policy of the new admidistra{io toward the seceded states.” If pacific, ‘they-will remain in'the Union’: if belligerent, they) will'leave: it. In some of ‘the seceded ‘atates, particularly ‘Louisiana, Alabama, and » aresolate Union party is rapidly . gtowing j and’ thiné ‘paity implores: the fed-. ‘éxil government to leave the tion of seeeasion or ‘tion seoeasion to ‘it, ‘This, party werful journals ‘to: wustain and lead it. ey point is that ‘the, leaders.of the movement have never condescen-. to.& vote ‘of the people. "Ths ‘people, thése journals, assert, \ atecawaliing to two: important’ facte Tat, they have been trested with contempt by secession ‘lenders, and, Qdly, that the se“mevement, so far, has overwhelmed ‘thein’ ‘with’ in Ocean of evils. ‘These-journals pr ‘that, ‘if not disturbed by. of the federal ‘governagency of ‘their own’ ballot Cardlina, disappointed and offended-at the aetion of the provisional government sor cotton confederacy, will secede from the consel Without free trade and the epeniofthe African slave trade, she wif treat s government at Montgomery as she treated that at Washington. Here will bea rupture which must addimmensely to the growth Of thie’ Union party in ‘those cotton states where it is already making head. All these circumstances, no doubt, are Well understood by Mr. Seward, Mr. Lincoln's Secretary of State and confidential adviser, the whd He has weighed and compared them with acumen of a practiced and finished statesman. He is a Unionist—emphiatically so—and, Whatever'he may have. heretofore said or done tis'a partisan politiéian, he now finds himeelf in a \ position in in which his obligations, to his country rise infinitely above those , he ‘owes to purty. “Béiig a Unionist, he is bro’t inte conflict with the Disunionists of the Republican party, with Horace Greeley at their head, who are as anxious for a dismemberment of the Union as is any one of the secessjon leaders of South Carolina. However fx tiie events may shape themselves, one tact is clear; and that is thatthe Lincoln administration is determined to reconstruct the Union ; andthe only question for its consideration is, the most certain way of accomplishitig the task. — “Phe evacwation of Fort Sumter jis no longer 9, question to be solved by politieal ‘partisans. Tnflexible circumstances, beyond the power of Mr. Lincoln to control, must settle that.question. Mr. Douglas,who ought te be good suthority, ‘advocated the evacuation because there was but a month's wer provisions in " oe and there no possible r supplying ict "with mannan 9 reinforcing it witb men. The. of the ‘means of relieving the fort must not be set down te the Paxinos? te ‘ne that ta arene ee ‘wstend of ‘. an egsy Sacramento Union; of Monday, and} that neither the vee i nor the sees id relieve the fort, could be co for £. 3 undek thre , the ‘Auestiong / when” m strate ry. then, to bear onit, instead of ignorant impulse. _ That neither ships nor troops could be instantly rendered available is not the fault of Mr. Lincoln ; but it would be cruél, névettiieldss, to let the brave garrison of Fort Sumter A corinne rmnge Ae seco 6 Souttr ‘Ciirblingj oh that aceoant, = 3 any more matter into our nutshell. Wh the existing. state-of things east! of the Rocky” Mountains, ;It.is, candid and: impartial, as ought to be the'charge of a, judge to's Jary)} and.ia untainted by a single: me of veer, partisanship, Oty te. _—o JERUSALEM. i catteapontett of the Liverpool Mercury; writing from Rome, states fat French officers have lately been very busy in obtaining information respeeting Jerusalem and the state of things in that quairter,’ ‘He adds'thit they had been taking measurements i in.several localities, particul. ary-on the ground that lies about the Mosque ‘From Jvrasalam . p they had gone to Hebron, Gaza and other of Omar or,Mount Moriah, points, for the Tike purpose. It is also cutrently reported that a body of French troops wag shortly to come to Jerusalem, while another would be stationed-at—Jaffa;and-a third on Mount Carmel. At Beyrout, he says, the’ French officers: openly affirmed that their Government ‘had no intention of withdrawing the force. sent, out,; but were about to employ them shortly on a new and very different’ errand to that. for which they ostensibly, came. ~~ Arizona.—By a telegram in the eee ville Appeal, it seems that a convention of the Arizono folks was held at Mesilla; ou the 16thof March. It, was addressed by P. T. ‘Herbert, once. a California) Congressman, who killed an Irish waiter in Washington. . The result: was that the convention declared: . the tecritory of Arizona out of Uncle Sam's Union and attached it: to the cotton: confed-; eracy. So, Arizona has seceded; and how will Uricle Sam like that 7 CALIFORNIA NON PRODUCERS.—The Coloma Times saya : ed why Californians,.as a people, are poor 1 To the inquiry an exchange makes the reply that there are fewer producers in Calfornia than any other State to the number of its inhabitanta. ‘Every village; town, and city in the State swarm with idlers, and’ avery large proportion of them ‘have never thought of doing. anything, unless the magnanimity of the legislators may be aroused in their favor and make an office for them to fill, with grace and ease.” Sueer DesTRoYeD.—A flock of sheep belonging to Mr. Taylor, resident on the Cos'sumnes, in Sacramento county, were drowned on Wednesday !ast, by the flood. There were four hundredin the flock. They cated. = NEW INSURANCE CoMPANY.—The “San Francisco Insurance Company” has just been incorporated. The corporaters are thirteen in number, among who) we notice the names of Hi. W. Burr, C. 0. Gerberding, shares 300; the Company to go inte operaton as scon as $125,000 are subscribed. =~ A person from ‘Vesasilda informs the San Francisco Journal that four-fifths of the inhabitants of that district would prefer a political connection with Utah, in preference to California, and a much larger -majority* would be given in favor of Nevada Territory. tit is stated that Rarey, the horse-ta_mer, is coming to California, for better security. poeds to be redressedi®* gente Our limits will not permit us © comproye ty wé have here set forth presenits, most briefly, . “We are sometimes ask. were ina corral atthe time, and the water rose so rapidly that wey could not be extri_ O, L, Shafter, and others. The amount of the’ capital stock is $150,000; number of te A prisoner named John Coulter broke out-of the Tehama county jail and made good‘his escape. The Beacon suggests the erection of a high beard fence around the jail X47 It is oRewer woman than her ‘Wrongs that Have You Sucenen!=Not & single Ma__4 rysville newspaper, by yesterday's mail for beautiful women appeared. RN, Sieh Ht mtu} ‘r-maid. He a asleep soon after he was in bed, to dream of her beauty, when he waa awoke by the girl herself, standing at his hedwith #:candle in her hand, and semewhat of an embarrassed air. #8: would you object to a~bed-fellow wy cs a with d tiesitating voice. apposing* she alluded to lierself.he deket “how he should be defighted*”” ° « 0, sit,’ 1 am.-so. glad,”. she replied ; ‘there is’ a drunken ‘Brummagen rider be-4 low who waute.a bed, and I have, been so bold as to.ask whether you. would let him turnin with you, for nobody have I yet aehed will hear of the: man." THE MASSACRES AT 7 Dationtey. — Another . of those horrible massacres which are a dismey. The West African Herald publishes, statements from eye witnesses.of the barbaric . “custom” just perpetrated at Dahomey. From this fearful narrative we learn that the recent “grand custom’’ .of Badahang; King ‘of Dahomey, was one of the most LiMn ¢ ‘which had ever: i Pg taken place. ; Several persons agree in's that the number of ; s-slain_on‘Seen oceasivn: was estimated at two thousand, but another correspondent gives the number at seven thousand. He says he was present:-by compulsion, and that the blood amen Lid sit him like a floed into a reservoir. er gentieanan,, referring to ld sin > “f T-aseure you it made me quite sick, me at the same time I felt stunned. ae Bari peenee met death with perfect. indi Herald, which gave rote or gate’ rough its columns several months since, of the in: tention of the King of Dahomey to hold an unusual ‘grand custom,” in remembrance of the death of the late King, concludes. the recital of these butcheries by, sayi ying that Consul Foote has come out with full powers to treat with the King of. Dahomey as to the meaning of these human sacrifices.” ad DrowNED.—Peter Harkins, a miner, resident of Sebastopol, in Sacramento county,. while returning home on Wednesday la st, in-companywith another, on’ horgeback, at-: tempted to ford the ‘Cosumnes river near thewire bridge, and was drowned, his companion escaping. Deceased was twenty-eight years of age, a. native of Boston, Mass.,, and was formerly, for several years, steamboatting on the Sacramento34 The count de Morny is the illegitimate son of Hortense Beauharnais the; mother of Louis Napoleon ; and consequently Hz is a lefthanded half brother of the Emperor. The great superiority of the mother eonsisted principally in delicate little flirtations outside ef wedlock.— The eount de Morny, it will be remembered, was born while her husband was alive. a" The effect of climate on the human system is shown iu a striking manner by the inhabitants of Australia, who in the course of two or three generations, lose the corpulent character of the -Englist.men, and become a tall, gaunt, raw-boned race like the inhabitants of the Seuthern States. SS 3 Jacob Faude, one of the gunners who helped in firing the salute in Buffalo in honor of Lincoln's inauguration, was seriously injured by the premature explosion ef the cannon. New DopGe.—A minister in Sacramento, it is-said, is in the habit of baptising a Chinamen every two or three months. The day prior to the ceremony a notice is inserted in & paper, a large crowd is in attendance to see “John ” ducked, after which a collection is taken up. The baptism of a Chinaman being a novely, of course the audience contribute liberally.—Meripose Journal, ——».__— Tue FLAG OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES.—The following is the official description of the design of the Flag recently adopted by the Congress of the Confederate States : , “ Red, white and red in the three equal rts horizontally The white beeen the red, blue union, with seven stars, in the form of acircle reaching down to the lower red:” It was formally hoisted ever the State House at Montgomery. ' ts The Mirror says it is mformed by a Lin California, $12,000. ce” A Western paper announcing the death of a gentleman in Iowa, says: “‘ He wes.a great admirer of Horace Greeley, but othe rwise a very respectable man. " EFA calico party wasgiven at Wyandotte Butte connty,,tive.other day, at mbioh forty a the ee a eS grace to humanity, has taken place at Daho. friend of T. Starr King, that he has. made . , by his lectures, within the last: ten’ months . f° his sole mt —— fn ten enema te sea bi moh pny Woe . b ger Four hundred ‘billions of cigars! Allowing this tobacco, unmanufactured, to-cost on-an average 10 cents a pound, and we have $800,006,000 expended every year in producing a noxious, dele terious weed. At lea st one . dnd’ a half times as much more is ‘required to . manufactute it into.a marketable form, and to dispone of it to the, congumer. ABSCONDED.— The Red Blaff Tadependent says & rumor bas been in.’ ‘éireulation. in thiat piace, that Assessor 8. B. Shaw. of that. county, has left for parts unknown.—

How far the rumor is correct, the Indepen-, dent knoweth not, but three or four of the . citizens have been ealled on to assist in making up a deficiency. {3 There.is but one Chinese couple in San’ Frariciseo who are legitimately married, -and these'are-a gardener and his wife. Many.Chinese merchants tre’ living with women whom ‘they. call their wives ; 3 but these are .either concubines. or women they have, taken. to wife @uring the life time of their tze. or first . A plurality of wives 4 is permitted under the Chi _ system; but the issue of the first wife alone can. keep up ‘the legal’ sucgession of the housé, Phe tze, .or first wife is not permitted to leave China, ‘but the ease of the gardener 18°ah ¢xéeption 'to.thie rule, probably.because.of his humble rank. —Ko says the _—s Journal.’ + Lirkoiiia. —A torlouh case of lynching occurred at. Napa.a few days since. A rob< ber attempted to break’ into. the store of ‘Lyneh Brothers. Thé younger. brother acized his pistol-in the darknese,and fired, as he supposed; at the robber, “Ynstead he hit the elder brother, who, ofcourse, was Lynehed instead of the burglar: . ea The'saints at Utah ate. in. high glee over the prospects of disunion and Murmon indepen }, dence. >Brighatn; Youtig préclaims to have pro. phesied the present condition of things Lord woah eter ‘overthrow . the despoilers cud lve his chosen people. . te At the: election . for en ‘of the Tennessee State Convention, . ac the foreign-born citizens of the ci phis voted for the Union candidates. la ning aes: te By «4 transposition of two letters, Punch makes the United ee the Ualied States. é EW" There ts a scoond rumor thet igs Ralston, late of California, has discovered.a silver mine 250 inion. ff this side of Salt Lake. A Lucky Wasmlattnn Ales ‘Kennedy, formerly a resident of Downieville, went, at an early stage of the silver fever, to Washoe. He was one of the fortitnate, and sold steck to Downiéville operators to the amount of $18, 000, and then paid a visit to his former home in the Atlan. tic States. Hehas returned, and after spending two days in Downieville’ has’ gone to Washoe, EXTENDING CouRTESi«es. — Lieut. Slemmer, says the Columbia (8. ©.) Totes, in cOmmand of Fort Pickéns, dined with Col. Tennént Lomax and officers of the Alabama Volunteers, a few days.since, and in the course of a friendly~conversation, said: ‘‘ Col. Lomax, I expected a visit from you at the Fort before this time.” To this kind rebuke of the courage and chivalty, of the State troops, the gallant Cofonel replied: ‘My dear sir, had I been in command you would not not have been disappoin’ _ & Without woman, man would be rude, gross and solitary. Woman spreads aronnd the flowers of existence, as the creepers of the forest-decorate the majestic oak with their odoriferous garlands. ir Mr. Lincoln was fifty-two years of age en prea Feb. 12. . BIRTH. “In this oy, April 2d, the wife of H. BR. FERRE ofa son. ISSOLU TION.—The Co ‘Partnership h tefore existing between the undersi <i ENHEISER & 2. and is alone authori te Grase Valley April. -7d HEISER. . amor. SV apeits, . Dee v. TJ. Dalton, Pas. ag on Washing tog WS By Brierly, Pastor, ; ‘Church, on Spring strect at 11 A M., and 7% Pp. M. EPIscOPAL SERVICE—Rev. John Chittendey Pastor ; at the Brick Church, at 3 o’clock, p, M eps Seeret & ovters! ~—itevaan Lodge, No. ET acme on Broad ctreet, every Saturday pond Ha, ey hie ications” ~weeond oa coat month: A.C. Niles, Master, J-. Nevads R. A. Chapter, N apter, No. 6—Regular commu wei first Monday ev rening of each. month, Thos. P. Hawley, High. Priest ; J. F. Rudelph, © Neradx Com 1NO.°6, Ke —Stited a semblies first nee md third ie tg: 3 month, Charles: Marsh, Com ee py Recorder. us we cegulat meet every ‘Luesday evening, . at_their Hall, — Broad and Pine streets. D.S. Tallman, N, G,; J. W. Chima, V. Gdent Order of Knighthood, Wednesday a tay 8, at. Temperance H Thompson, C. Kiker r. Bean, Bec? ye Sons of. ‘Tem Saturda rene at Tem) Bean WP rance Mackett, R. S.— ah Ene ty (Cnt Tei ps eve’ wo ev ng ,at Tem a 4% A LYTERARY FEAST. Six Lectures for the Benefit of the M. E. CHURCH, in Nevada, Will be delivered ‘ follows i WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRILI10th Rev. T. Starr King, Subject—*“Washington.” THURSDAY EVENING, , April 18th, Gew Jas. Shields,’ Subject—*‘ Jackgon,?’ THURSDAY. EVENING, April 25th, : Rev. Wm. McClay, Subject—‘ American Ariatocracy.” THURSDAY EVENING, May 2d, Rev. & Thomas, Subject—‘‘Character. THURSDAY EVENING; ‘May Oth, Subjes THURSDAY EVENING, May wes, Rev. Dd Deal, Subject “Heroes.” Xx The Lectures will be given inthe Met» dist Church. Tickets, for. the entire Coursey} each’; Single Lecture, $1. . aas-td RUDOLPH & HUNT, us "Wholesale and Retail _. DRUGGIsSTS, MAIN STREET,Opposite Mulford &. Cai i ‘Baot Drugs, Ohemicals, Paints, Oil, Camphene, Patent Medicines, &o. ‘A full supply always on hand Nevada, Sept. 6.-tf DMINISTRATOR’S WOTiOR Noe A is hereby given to. all reas having de madds or cate again theo tate of of B. YATES, theproper votchiérs, to the wads, within ten months trent. vo ‘same will be barred WILLIAM YAT. dam's Bet & Niles, dete tw tok kale ES, +e se, Coal Oil Lam : D. for or peeling, St . and ing ee Also, Kerose Ceal Oil, for sale by = W. H. CRAWFORD & Co. ‘ No. 27 Main Opposite the Exp THOS. P. HAWLEY, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office—Up owns in Kidd & Knox’s Buildity eorner of Broad and Pine streets, Nevada Nevada, Mar. 6.—tf _E. F. SPENCE, Druggist and Apothecary,. BROAD STREET. RALSR EM IN Drags, Olle Oils, Pataca, Pasay cohol, takpmene ete. oo Cash orders from the country sdlieted: sept-™ JAMES J. OTT, NEVADA ASSAY OFFICE one 30 Main street, Nevada, LD AND ORES, ¢ of every Deserir Otion, Melted, Peg eee As Assa' prices BARS OR’ COIN, in a few Houre: Melting done in’ the presence of Crains and C returned or brought in # count — always guaranteed. Charges nb iug and d aasay ing gold—for lots, below #0! for lot 028~ 3g = denne tionate reduetion for eo quan regular customers ; as! James eA Ott is now prepared wi hi ate AMALGAMATION precious ores, either in the ore or ready to meee Soy ees Pes Tub mee aby » Ce at the lows lta JAMES a iat BAILEY HOUSE, ON BROAD STREST,* woncineryeahitusane ‘ma ee eager New Brick el per WOK. cnn cccinccks eves ore ‘ y Cea Netian Came, No. 39—Regular meetin Bovey dicccn’ avedn Distabene tas: er Ek. The Be prereres Ste HESPt the editress fo lightful and he the fashion pls no doubt, are ing to say, fur of the ladies is to be. physiolo; of Phifip W this néimbex, i an abundance with kindly-ht mother’s Neig instruetive pe . other-eoritent: rendér the. He. California sho -Uuay Ror young man, w Monday—dep by the prem has-notiappea “stincts of the this is far fr money marke dealt with ,by simple tale ha It is said that goods, did ref , ties:; but hei one man who te We y who was 80 b last, and foun expected. D he is, says the proving fatal. shots fired to only took ‘effe perforating h ‘that robbery ‘as one of the out with a”k ‘ehown us, wé attempts toc of his eyes is New Mus: lowing new, 1r Kohler, San I song and eh Moon Serens Taylor; “D song, by J. L tousic we imn of young lads else but prac ranged for th tiful. CurTine } Phillips, exp into a row at ing last, in v One had hia 1 other had an monster,”’. it trouble, ag 1 senorita, whe present at th couraged th Fient.—, into a row o: ing, about a had borrowe three knock parties, whe ties were se AericuL’ included in . trict Agrier nantes! Boe ficers were according te affairs of th