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February 25, 1862 (4 pages)

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Tho old law provides for , 12 Brigadiere and « comtobe divided into six, brigades, ‘Sacramento, Yolo, Sutter, Ej or, Placer, Nevada, Yuba and nt! Brigade—' e~ Mendocino, fumboldt, Trinity, When, if ever, the troops of the State ate called into service the expenses will be _ greatly lesdened by the néw law, INDIGENOUS Corron.— Alexander Taylor law: ®anervies of articles on the Indianology of California forthe Farmer, He spouks of & species Of indigenvts cotton in this wise: “Indigenous cotton, Bartlett says, was found by Alarcon in 1542, on the Colorado, of which the Indians made garments, This native cat: ton is atill grown on the Gila, in Chihuahua, and in many warm river bottoms of the up_lands-of the:northern States of Mexico, and during the ante-Columbian times, doubtless, was cultivated in many parts of Mexico, as it ish Conquistadores and in many parts of Cen~~ Skee asp Vove PLaxmne.—-The common Advice of nursery men is to plant trees 7 perrst TPES, . ; to brought-suit, as ‘provided of this Act, in p ion to the amount. of . their respective te. The said Court may make distril of all 8 from of the writ-of attachment with said C shall have expired. reser so much thereof shylecks in San Francisco who sometimes Sonora, on the Texas Rio Grande bottoms, . . to unpringipled merchants. We hope the . ed into « law at as early a date as pussible. HGP ff dnt ing andgelling said property, and in collec an money due the defendant, shall be vided usally among tho severat~ eredi who as may be required to when no judgments have be ; ie as The principal feature of the bill of Mr. Van Dyke is that of allowing all creditors. in case of an attachment by one, to come in pro-rata. Such a provision of law would put an end to the heartless machinations of and send on an attachment and close him out before the goods have scarcely reached . their point of destination, In this way, the first attaching crediter under the preseut law is enabled to get his own goods byck again, wnd-at a forced sale the prices’ are generally so low that he gets in addition & large quantity of goods just sold to the country merchant by honeat wholesale dealers in Sun Francisco. By placing all creditors. on the same footing there ia no inducement for The law_is not designed to benefit the San Francisco merehant exclusively; but it is protective to thé interior trader as well.— It is tothe interest of the San Francisco dealera thyt every honest trader in the country should be kept going at his business ond ‘a custower of the wholesale houses. The law proposed by Mr. Van Dyke allpwe tothe honest desler a chance to extricate himseit, pute hin on terms of business intimacy with all his debtors, and at the same tune offers nu premium over the present law amendments of Mr. Van Dyke may be enact[4 The Stockton Argus saye that the beaver in that vicinity are causing some dam1 can ty. guuming: tin. bette: eh peach teeee, Tae Sx id into bemg on Sunday, and was comi the Priday followrate at iments ia now deposited in different ’ the beds of coal, sandstone, shale snd ironSouth Wales occupied five hundred f formation ; a data on a large sea a ee es a ta, except the . to be curious spots of nature, but after acurate researches, are now recognized as -vestages of the innumerable vegetable and and animal tri which oeeupied land and water protracted term of their npr tthe abode of man. New reies of hitherto unknown species are almost digcovered, and the whole so seientifically glassed and arranged, that the nature and habits of these mostly extinct races are as Clearly discer “aa though they were now living and moving before us. Lega Tenpen.—Congress has fixed by law what amount of silver and copper coin is hereafter to constitute a legai tender in piyment of debte : —1. All gold coins at their reapective values, are a legal tender for debts of any amount; 2. The half dollar, quarter, . dime and half dime, at their readective valued, for debts of any amount under five dollars ; 3. Fhree cent.pieces for-dests ef any amourt under thirty cents; and~ 4. One cent peices for any amount under ten cents. A Lawyer's Trick.—A shrewd trick to identify the handwriting ofa party ina suit was resorted to in case tried in the Supreme Court, New York, on Wednesday. A man, his wife and son, made a joint note, all these signing their names. Whro the uote came due it was repudiated, and the holders eomtnenced suit. No difficulty was found in regard to the identity of the signatures of the husband and son, but ne one hould be obtained to identify the handwriting of the wife. In this dilemma the counsel for the holder of the note got an Express monied envelope in which he puta : A boy wae sent with this envelope receipt in the boy's took. When the eame on the lady did not appear; th snags opin nok gy many ah same, and a rendered E z g t ne “. ry 5 ois 4H, sats diab “3 ery wr Days or CREATION-—Areh. ” years.
lowest, are’re. heavy: being:. asked if they —teid their wives of their intention to escape, replied, “Ne massa, bress your soul, we can't trust’em.” They were asked why they didnot bring their wives with them then, and answered, “ Women are tue seary in a_canoe, massa; dey would raise an alarm.” te The Charlestan Courier vatimates the Joss by the recent fire at $10,000,000, on which the Insurance was comparatively limiton, Augusta, Savannah, and other Southern Companies. many of which will be unable to pay one fourth the amount meured. There is also considerable insurrance in Northern -Companies, whieh, under existing difficulties, is not expected to be paid. CALAvVEnAS Coprer Mines.—The mminy season has checked business at Copperopolis, and put an.end temporarily, to further prospecting, though parcels of ore continue to be exhumed and torwarded for shipment. The Union and Keystone companies are working about fifty men each, taking out as much ere as ever, according to a correspondence in the Calaveras Chronicle. Coat Miyes Discoverep.—Out of evil comes some good. The recent heavy rains have so saturated the earth that land slides are prevailing all over the country. One of these ececurred on the Petaluma valley side of the Senoma mountain, and has revealed to view the lead of a coal mine. Of how extensive a nature it-is, we cannot at present tell. —Sonome County Journal. een Raeniestnes athena &e" The editor of the Red Bluff Beacon has been presented with an excellent s of tabacco raised in Shasta county. The editor says that knowing something about the culture of it, we u itatingly pronounce the Saeramento valley as adapted to raising fine tobacco for smoking purposes, or or wes pers aa any of the Union. The ence‘of dews prevents the leaf fromm attaining that thickness and gumminess which is so much desired by experienced tobacco PRINS Ameer foo Letom Cate cov. ve to believe that up te the . Porr Aucatraz.—Thie fort bas new 7. ees ee pegmees eee" fon of edgient emf pd. And whereas ordered and decreed by the said court that the forth in Piaintiff’s be foreciosed, and the > thereta eporioet to-wit :—All the and yards, together Sete atu village of G Valley’ Nevada vv * . a (¥,; Btate of in the south side of the Main strect and known ss Benhett's’ Mill piaintng including Grist mill, water §wheel, ee ig eee Rh : aa sree ining business necessary and in use in carrying én the of said mill. Also the store honse or barn situated on said premises t “with all etock coe other portions of said prope store house, or oth ons : A her with alt and rthe nereahenkonts appurtenances thereunto belongi or in anywise rtaining be upon and sold to satisfy judgment, interest and eosts. and the proeceds thereof applied to the payment of said sums of money as aforesaid. Notice is hereby given that I will expose to blic sale the abovedescribed property, to the ighest bidder, for cas, in front of the Court House door, in Nevada, on TUESDAY, March 18th 1862, between the hours of 9 o’elock, A. M., and #-0’clock. p.m a Given under my hand this 20th day of Feb. a. Dibbie & Byrne, Pi'fls Attys. HERIFP’? SALE.—DBy virtue of an exi ecution to me directed delivered out of the Hon Dist) ict Court of the i4th Jadicial District, in and for the Conviy of Nev State of California bearing date Feb. 17th, in favor of PL. Weaver & J. B. Newman, doing business under the firm name and — of Weaver & Newman, and inst FP. J. Nolan, Ginnes, + oe *. i = com rm} wn as ** Mammot ~ Company pg of Two Hundred and . Seventy-one and 67-100 Dollars, (4ebt,) with interest. on the said sum of $.71 57 Dollars, from the 5th day ot February. at the rate of ten eent annum till paid, ether with ny conte at suit. I have upon the follo described property which was heretofore attached to-wit: — All the ht, tit of, on ead AG * ining > DAY, March the houreof? o’clock a. um, Given under my hand, this20th day of Feb. a. Poy. W. KNOWLTON, Sheri. fally gaui etreeta of and garb: number r heen mind storme o! teat and the ¢ niove the is simply hend son not. wor' fiet be m ~hiimanit; if you pl it would course \ posing tt mals by . Frnt out in F last, whi the outb Mr. Far ““Francise fire is eu hot coals the outb: