February 4, 1863 (4 pages)

cet rt Saha Oy jf aeegapets “THat CANAL.—Much has been said and awvitten-about the utility und~ precticability of.aShip Channel, connecting the waters of the Mississippi river with Lake Michigan.— This is a work second ouly to the great enterprize of unrting the Atlantic and Pacific ‘States -by-railroad. Aside from ita commercial advantages, which nre almost incalcula< ble, the military necessity of such a work— connecting these two great systems of water, must be patent to every thinking man. On the lakes we have a coast of 3,500° miles almost entirely unprotected. We have only one arnied vessel to protect our extensive lake commerce. These shores are almost ‘entirely undefended by fortifications. A fi-reign power haa access'to these waters. Who gan estimate. the disaster and ruin that this: portion of our country would suffer in cxse ofa-war with England?! Since the beginwing of the rebellion the relations. between the United States and that ‘country have aroused our statesmen to the importance of placing the Inke coast in a state of defense. We havea large number of vessels—in-our navy that are suitable both for ocean -and river navigation. These could in case of necessity, by means of the-praposed canal, be taken into the lakes, giving usa fleet in those waters that it would require years to build, ata cost infinitely greater than this work. Col Webster has-madea report to the Secretary of War, io which .he estimates the cost of such a canal, by improving the navigatien of the Hilinois river and enlarging the Illinois and Michigan canal, at $13,346,824. He says, “If we could transfer the fleet of guns ~poats now doing such good service in the Galf, to the lakes, we might then, io com‘itive safety from anxiety. set about those ther meéatis of defense which the lake region so much needs.” Speeches and reports innumerable have héen made. Sewird hat written letters on the subject and its impertance is urged on every occasion, but still). cur territory bordering on the great lakes is _ anprotected. The claims of the States thus exposed by their proximity of English territory, and the temptation which the exposed country offers to the English government, ‘which has ever looked upen our progress . with jealousy, demands that this pertion of our territéry shoyld have every possible weans of defense. : PrThat chap who gorresponds fdr the Appeal at Sacramento’ is a ‘mighty smart _ fallow, that.is, wo should say so if we had. no regard for the truth. He says ‘‘Sargent’s friends have cohcluded to withdraw him while they could.do so with credit, and the Park men have positively declined to vote. any more for Sargent.” This is all stuff manufactured in order to create a falae sen timent in favor of John Conness, who should never be permitted to represent California in the United States Senate. The correspondent 4s evidently in favor of Conness or he would not write such trash, As far off “from Sacramento” as we are, we know: that under no consideration will Mr. Sargent be withdrawn, aad the Park men have not declined to vote for bim, That correspondent is a good gulhble subject and probably never was in Sacramento before when an election of Senator was about to take place Don’t take much to pull the wool over his eyes. i EF” The Marysville Appeal says :—“Whr¢ is the reason that our Nevada and Grass Val~ Jey exchanges seldoin teach te till they are» day old.” The TRANSCRIPT is put in the Marysville mail bag every night by 11 o'clock. The Postmaster assuves us that it leaves his office regularly and it should reach there the ~pame day it is published. Who is to blaine? <i -Tre Nicaragua route can now be traveled with safety. The People’s opposition line of steamers announce the fact, stating that all}. nmpedimente have been rethove® and that , the road—twelve mites of lind carrtyge—is well stecked. The Moses Taylor will leave San Francisco on the 11th of March, to conMICHELET’s book on-“‘Soreery"” has incurred the displeasure of the French Government—-a second edition having been for-. bidden. Whereupon the author proposes to bring out an enlarged edition beyond the limee PRENTICE saya two members of Jeff. Davie’ Cabinet are dying sick at Montgomery, —_ editors are lying like the devil, evorya re. : a, from the Democrat extra of yesterday: Gen. za Butlef bashad interviews with the Presi« dent Secretary of War. He has beene . offered thé erinmand ‘of the department of + . the Galf and Texas, with additional powers and fesponsibilities, ineludirig those of organizing au African regiment on the Missis~ Vippi Tete wid that Botier hesitates ve— cepting fhe command fearing that the means. given him, will be disproportionate to the’ fend to be accomplished: In the late engagemeént near the Blaékwater, the ‘rebels were driven from the field. Our loss was 24 killed and 80wounded:-~The rebels—retired across the Blackwater. The Columbia from Havana, brings intel ligence of -a-ramor of the destruction of the pirate Florida. The rumor is also con-firmed by the arrival of the Creole, at New York: The Creole arrived at Havana, with news thatshe had spoken the Federal gunboat Cayuga, which reported she had seen a steamer on fire, and. supposed her to be’ the Florida, and that three other vessels. were firing into her. with great rapidity. It was in the vicinity of the capes off Gardenas an Matanzas,” ; ; Horace Greely, denies emphatically that he has gnt'cited any intervention by France in our affairs. The British steamer Prineess Royal, was captured while attempting to run the blockade at Charleston. She had on board our arms, amunition. ete. A party of workmen skil ed in the manufacture of projectile., were also eaptured aboard ofher, _At a bombardment of Fort MeAllister on the Oqucha river, South of Savannah river, Georgia. Only one Federal boat was engaged. She was compelled-to haul off, her turret being injured, An impression pre~ vails that it is the intention of the. rebels to transfer the theatre of war from before ‘the eapital to the Southwest. te” We learn that a new kind of Derrick has lately been introduced into the diggings of Maltman & Co., on Manzanita Hill It is enid to surpass anything of the kind in use. ce We acknowledge the receipt of an ins vitation, to'attend the first annual ball <of Protection Engine Co. No. 2,0f Marysville: ‘Thanks gents, but times area little too hard to go that distance, to have a good tine.” C8" Tho District Court has adjourned for two weeks, : ) POTATOES are sel'ing at the ranches in Washoe county,_N.-T., for five cents per pound. “Tue Chicago Tribune is printed on paper which is one quarter sorghum. Two sor. ghum paper mills are already running in TIlinois. a ; Pierre Sovie is stil at Havana. By the terms of his release he is not to go to New Orleans until the war is over, unless allowed by the Government. Amassa BARTLETT, of Orrington, Maine, 73-yeais of age, with his basket on his arm, skates five miles upon the ice to Bangor to do errands. In Order to possess the Experience requis site for the transaction of a safe and proefitable business, it ia necessary to fail about twice. : Gen. Kirby Smith, the rebel: general, has taken possession. of the residence of Parson Brownlow, at Kooxville;as his headqnarters. ee a » Ten tons of prairie chickens and quail were shipped from -Chieago to-New York by . one of the express companies afew nighta before Christmas. PETROLEUM gas has been introduced ine to the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York With 1 crude petroleum at 50 cents a gallon, the proprietors estimate that they will inake a saving of $16,000 per annum in th-ir ge . bill, The Manhattan company charged them nearly $34 000 a year. THE PLACERS AT CHIMNEY PEAK.—Itis stated that duringa shower of rain at the above named point, Southern California, a pool of water was secured ina quantity suffix cient te-run a small sluice in the midst of }some very rich dry digg tas; in which mane ner about one huntred ounces of gold was obtained in one day's sluicing. : —_—_——————— ‘ia GeNeRAL FREMONT'S coaches, which he purchase1 last year at an expense of about tion at St:ALéujs,on the 19th st January, ee es J.C. McLeod hes boon elected to Congress by the, voteta.of the Norfolk District, Va. , mee se aie: SS nine hundred dollars each? were gold at aucs . ‘. was upward of two hundred millions. =m: eS ~ ForTRESS MONROE, Feb: Ist. lowing is an extract from aletter from Acting ‘Paymaster Fallon: ~§ %& oe Steamer New London, Jan. 20.—We ar-} rived off Galveston at.nod@ todsy. Orders were issued to prepare for action. —TheBrooklyn stepped about two miles from, the fort, while the New London and Scotia went close in to draw, if possible the fire of the . batteries which might have been erected.by. -thegebels. _Strrounding the forts .could.bé ‘keen tents, and towards them our fire was lyn, the Scofia following with her 11-inch and” our Parrots; but-no reply was elicited; we then advanced to with n a mile and a half and opened on the encampment. We were roll» ing tremendously. and had to fire as we were rising. Qur starboard thirty pounder fired one shell which exploded inside of the fort and brought down the rebel flug, the haliards heiwg-cut._After firing several shots the aconus with a field -batterys we gave them a broadside and. the Scutia seat three shells, all of which explodeil in the battery. Oursquadcarrying sixteen guns. To-morrow being Sunday nothing, will be done. . When the bombardment is resumed it will.bwe: terrific. Galveston isa doonied tows, “Monday” we shall try to pags the fort te reich the harbor. TREASURE FOR SHIPMENT. —The Pacific Mail Steamship Company, have received directions from New York to require every shipper of treasure to furnish their agent at San Francisco; with duplicate invoices which shal! specify the number of bars, marks, fineness, value and other particulars in regard to the same. These duplicate invoices are not ships more treasure than he states in hig bill of lading. A THE body of Otis L. Pratt, a native of Missachusetts, aged thirty-four years, was discovered floating in the bay, on Thursday, deceased was a sailor, and-igsupposed to have fallen from North Point dock some three* weeks ago. cS) Wha language Christ usedis again the mooted question among Engjish’ divines. Some say Greek, others Syra Chaldaic, and others Aramaic, but none seem to know certainly anything about it: Neither is thera any certainty about the language in_ which the gospels were written, as the originals were long sinee lnat. OFFICFRS relate that.on the Fredericksburg battle field they saw an officer on horseback waving his sword. A shell came and took, his head off smeoth, but the headless officer still rode along for some distance, the hand waving his eword. ¥ THE Pope has decided that the ten thoas. sand Italian priests who signed the memorial requvsting him to resign the temporal power and rescore Rome to Italy, are subject to the penalties of excommunication. Tue thirty-eight Indians condemned to death at Maukato, Minnesota, otr’Priday, Dec. 26, were hung on that day by a gallows which dispatched them all at the same time. PROSPERITY OF THE NORTHWEST.— The Chicago correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, under date of the 13th writes: * The season closes with a prosperous and rofitable busines: throughout the West. A Siindbad wad Fweity taillina bisstoake of grain, . and grain in flour, will enter into the exports of the Luke region in the year 1863. Of this amount Chicago will contribute 57,000,000, er nearly one halfot the whole. What other country ean make an exhibit of this kind, especially when engaged in the most gigantic civil war the Pit gia saw. But this is not all. Our beef and eur pork business was never heavier than it hag been thie season. In Chicago, the figures stand thua from October 1 to December 10 — 1862. 1861. Hoge received, 2. 421,800 210,410 * Hogs shipped. . 168.381 81,246 Heys packed.. 253.419 129,126 This increase is unparalleld, and should it continue at thia ratio during the entire season, we ehall pack over a million-hogs: But this cannot be expected. though the prospects are “that we shalt reach 750,000“ 806.000, ~~ ALL kinds of business in the southern counties is dreadfully depressed—no gale for any kind of steck aninnsls, Sales of several thousand head of cattle were made on the Geadalupe rancha, in Santa Barbara county, for from $1 50 to $3 a head. CaPTatIn OLDFIELD, of the British steam sloop Ariel. who has been cruising off the -Weat conat of Africa, has succerded in cape . turiug no lesa than twenty-six slave visaels these vessels had slaves on board—one, fifty. four ; one, eighty-two, and two others one . A CHINESE infant was found in the bar on ‘Wednesday. It was wra up in clothin and some bricks were ti gary y: ——Tne number of separate postage atamps issued during the year ending June 30th, 1861, directed. ‘The ball was opened by the Brook. } . Parrot.guns at one extremity we opened with . tion ceused. As we retired the rebels opened . ren was reinforced to-night by two gunboats, . to be made public but will be used-hy the . , Company. te detect hereafter any person who . Wire Suspension Bridg» Builders, within the last twelve months. Several of . . Exchang Broad Street, Nevada. ix Sel es ee &% oo Ms GEO. §. LANCASTER, PROPRIETOR . . FEBRUARY. 2. 1863." J Wallas, Bloomfield CF Macy, You Bet Cc Mcklyey, ‘eity) «J Pet son, do. J Weorriill, “do M ¥orx, BR Molder;~ — do W J Bradéiiaw, San J R SBenton, do SF Clark. flo 2eW. Knowlton, do AG Dennnett. Col H 5S Bowers, do © Holmes. Mesysville T H Daniels. do J Campbell, _ “do W Bennett, _do © Fred Drew; San Iran f do PJeffries,—_Meores’ W Dowe, do J C Wolf,San Fraucisco O fi P Sheets: VT Wosteil, — do sGrase W McDonald, Col f LD Rathburn, do J Daniels, Alpha‘J Ostrom, Washington N H Travis. Q@ Hill S Bright. Red Dog — J 1, Bastow, Alle shany H McElvéy, do J Deughetty. K House BRothoimar, Auburn k Colenran, G Valley AH Mallary, do G Foster, Sac G H Rogers, .Omega A Sutherland, beer C P H Doud, B Tent J Hibbard, do. J Leonard, Washoe J Aawk. do == a; ‘do—_ -pP-fubivan. « -Moores —— G_E-Stam, Marysville R Lawrance, South Y G A Wilkinson, Alpha > re J Brimson. Sacramento . MONTGOMERY “door from main ALCS. entrance jn . BLOCK, SAN FRAN Cr Sco = “IMPORTERS OP—— Silks, Velvets, Fancy Diéess —_{,Cleoaks, Mantillag, Shawls, PRS Embrolderi¢s, Hosiery, and Gloves! New and Fashionable Goods recived fren PARIS gtd NEWYORK, by ceery Steany All ofders entrusted to us by cur LADY FRIENDS in NEVADA COUNTY del 2m will be promptly attended to: / nia, county of Nevaca, township of Epfcka, ss. By virtueof an execution to me detivered, . issued from the court uf Ira ‘Stanley, Esq., an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, bearing date. January. 29th. ©1865, to satisfy a judgment rendered by said Stanley, on the 19th day of December,/1862. in favor of © KE. Peek, and a:ainst H, Nicolls and John Young, for the sum of Two Hundred and feurteen 51-190 dollars. deljt;.inférest, damages and eos sof suit. 1 hayétsken. in execution and will sell tothe higkest bi der for cash the following described property to-wit :—One Butcher Shop, together with the land upon,-which said Butcher’ Shop’ stands. “Also, one Slaughter House and Corral at Woolsey’s Flat, Nevada county. Said property being situate on Woolsey’s Flat, Nevada county ; on Monday, the 22d ‘day of February, 1863, between the hours of 9 0’clo-‘kA. M., and 4 P. M. of saidday ‘Taken as the property of H. Nicolls and John Young, to satisfy the above demands and accruing costs. te O. D. BABCOCK, constable. A. S. HALLIDIE & C%., AND MANUFACTURERS. OF EATENT WIRE ROPE Bape SUSPENSION BRIDGES ofany span and capacity erected and material furnished. Having been constantly engaged in the erection of wire Suspension Bridges and Aqueducts for some years past, we are fully prepared to do such work satisfactorilywnd at a low fig ure, guararteeing permanency. Parties who are abouterecting bridges will find it greatly to their advantage to give us a call before deciding to build wooden structures. as_ the recent floods throughout the State have proven them to the whoily unsafe and unreliable. ' A number of our Wire Suspentions are now in use iu diffzrent localities throughout the State, no one of which has been in the least affected by the freshets. Wire Rope for Mining and Ferry purposes of. Lany length or size desired, being cheaper than hemp. Seales of weight and strength, with prices annexed, furnished on application tothe man ufacturers, or their m gt? inthe interior towns A.5. HALLIDIE & CO. p23m 412 Clay Street. San Franciaco NOTICE ! ae We take this method ef informing the public that we will sell our large stock of Winter Clothing ! At Reduced Prices!! We have also receiyed an additional stock of Goodyear’s Kubber White and Black !! Also, on hand Gum Boots, al)kinds and sizes. S. HAAS & CO:, ~~ . Cor. uf Pine & Commercial Street} To the Ladies, We have on hand@aiarge assortment of Ladies’ and Children’s Shoes which we will sell at San Francisco cost prices, after this date. S. HAAS & CO., Corner of Pine & Commercial Street. Nevada, Jan. 23d. DIARIES! DIARIES I! FOR THE YEAR 1863! A.P.CHURCH & Co. "BROAD STREET, e : 4% NSTABLE’S SALE.—State of-Califor-}" Grand Social Ball, at = te — a ae ~~ SPENCE & WICKES, Wholesale Druggist: NEVADA CITY, CAL. { if ‘ +. Novada Tron and Brass Foundry And Macliine Shop,’ me Spring Sircet, Nevada Ci: Oren ENGINES AND BOILERS BUIL) to order. Castings and Machinery of ever, description. Quartz Machinery construct titted up or repaired. All kinds of Builds, Castings, Sav, Grist, Malt and Bark Mill; Horse Power andCar Wheels. All orders filled promeeery ane at a& 10W rales as uny estaplis met Sacramento or San Franciacu—freigi, Feb 16-tf HEUGH & THOM. GHO. A. WEAVER, Nevada. WEAVER & CO.,, No. 59: Broad Street.: HOLESALS and retail, dealers in Gki CERLES, PROVISIONS. SHELF GOO MINING TOOLS. &c., &c. Have taken the Stand formerly cecupied by WEAVER & NEV. MAN, and will beim constant receipt of a cow plete Stock of Goods, which will be. sold « most reasonable rates for (ASH. .A portion of he Public Patronage solicited. or Goods delivered free of charge. é WEAVER &C0. Nevada, March, 18th 1862. } J. W. CLARK, ‘ _ San Francine. ‘BATES & McCORMICK, Wholesale Druggists, BROAD STREET, NEVADA, & Prescriptions carefully compoended. tt od ST. PATRICK’S BALL! TUESDAY; ARCH 17th, 186311 B Temperance Hall, ON TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17th ot The public is respectfully sab nid to at “Nevada, Jan. 5th, 1863, CIGAR EMPORIUM! © No, 31 33, 35 and 37, Broad Street, RECEIVED THIS DAY FINE HAVANA 40,000 CIGARS! Of the Most Approuved Brands oe Alse, the best Assortments of HAR D CUT, FINE CUT, And Smoking Tobacco+:: A: R, JENKINS. HT LINE! FAST FR ward _-Packages and Goods of all Kind ! VIRGINIA CITY: Phrough from Nevada in 3 days'! any. THOS, HENRY. Weaver & Co., No. 69 Broad:St., Nevsd® Insteac they W , cer roe ‘tiched fifteen ain Ji not a _ they. < lett th must 3 thieve: brougl down, was at strate oflee. eilled Me p: jullor a brib poster Mo 4 clippe of the Mars! ramet on e@% duck some The! "Chin good what is: this leave try, { ones. Neve in th ever thei muc Sseess . Ze

cet rt Saha Oy jf aeegapets “THat CANAL.—Much has been said and awvitten-about the utility und~ precticability of.aShip Channel, connecting the waters of the Mississippi river with Lake Michigan.— This is a work second ouly to the great enterprize of unrting the Atlantic and Pacific ‘States -by-railroad. Aside from ita commercial advantages, which nre almost incalcula< ble, the military necessity of such a work— connecting these two great systems of water, must be patent to every thinking man.. On the lakes we have a coast of 3,500° miles almost entirely unprotected. We have only one arnied vessel to protect our extensive lake commerce. These shores are almost ‘entirely undefended by fortifications. A fi-reign power haa access'to these waters. Who gan estimate. the disaster and ruin that this: portion of our country would suffer in cxse ofa-war with England?! Since the beginwing of the rebellion the relations. between the United States and that ‘country have aroused our statesmen to the importance of placing the Inke coast in a state of defense. We havea large number of vessels—in-our navy that are suitable both for ocean -and river navigation. These could in case of necessity, by means of the-praposed canal, be taken into the lakes, giving usa fleet in those waters that it would require years to build, ata cost infinitely greater than this work. Col Webster has-madea report to the Secretary of War, io which .he estimates the cost of such a canal, by improving the navigatien of the Hilinois river and enlarging the Illinois and Michigan canal, at $13,346,824. He says, “If we could transfer the fleet of guns ~poats now doing such good service in the Galf, to the lakes, we might then, io com‘itive safety from anxiety. set about those ther meéatis of defense which the lake region so much needs.” Speeches and reports innumerable have héen made. Sewird hat written letters on the subject and its impertance is urged on every occasion, but still). cur territory bordering on the great lakes is _ anprotected. The claims of the States thus exposed by their proximity of English territory, and the temptation which the exposed country offers to the English government, ‘which has ever looked upen our progress . with jealousy, demands that this pertion of our territéry shoyld have every possible weans of defense. : PrThat chap who gorresponds fdr the Appeal at Sacramento’ is a ‘mighty smart _ fallow, that.is, wo should say so if we had. no regard for the truth. He says ‘‘Sargent’s friends have cohcluded to withdraw him while they could.do so with credit, and the Park men have positively declined to vote. any more for Sargent.” This is all stuff manufactured in order to create a falae sen timent in favor of John Conness, who should never be permitted to represent California in the United States Senate. The correspondent 4s evidently in favor of Conness or he would not write such trash, As far off “from Sacramento” as we are, we know: that under no consideration will Mr. Sargent be withdrawn, aad the Park men have not declined to vote for bim, That correspondent is a good gulhble subject and probably never was in Sacramento before when an election of Senator was about to take place Don’t take much to pull the wool over his eyes. i EF” The Marysville Appeal says :—“Whr¢ is the reason that our Nevada and Grass Val~ Jey exchanges seldoin teach te till they are» day old.” The TRANSCRIPT is put in the Marysville mail bag every night by 11 o'clock. The Postmaster assuves us that it leaves his office regularly and it should reach there the ~pame day it is published. Who is to blaine? <i -Tre Nicaragua route can now be traveled with safety. The People’s opposition line of steamers announce the fact, stating that all}. nmpedimente have been rethove® and that , the road—twelve mites of lind carrtyge—is well stecked. The Moses Taylor will leave San Francisco on the 11th of March, to conMICHELET’s book on-“‘Soreery"” has incurred the displeasure of the French Government—-a second edition having been for-. bidden. Whereupon the author proposes to bring out an enlarged edition beyond the limee PRENTICE saya two members of Jeff. Davie’ Cabinet are dying sick at Montgomery, —_ editors are lying like the devil, evorya re. : a, from the Democrat extra of yesterday: Gen. za Butlef bashad interviews with the Presi« dent Secretary of War. He has beene . offered thé erinmand ‘of the department of + . the Galf and Texas, with additional powers and fesponsibilities, ineludirig those of organizing au African regiment on the Missis~ Vippi Tete wid that Botier hesitates ve— cepting fhe command fearing that the means. given him, will be disproportionate to the’ fend to be accomplished: In the late engagemeént near the Blaékwater, the ‘rebels were driven from the field. Our loss was 24 killed and 80wounded:-~The rebels—retired across the Blackwater. The Columbia from Havana, brings intel ligence of -a-ramor of the destruction of the pirate Florida. The rumor is also con-firmed by the arrival of the Creole, at New York: The Creole arrived at Havana, with news thatshe had spoken the Federal gunboat Cayuga, which reported she had seen a steamer on fire, and. supposed her to be’ the Florida, and that three other vessels. were firing into her. with great rapidity. It was in the vicinity of the capes off Gardenas an Matanzas,” ; ; Horace Greely, denies emphatically that he has gnt'cited any intervention by France in our affairs. The British steamer Prineess Royal, was captured while attempting to run the blockade at Charleston. She had on board our arms, amunition. ete. A party of workmen skil ed in the manufacture of projectile., were also eaptured aboard ofher, _At a bombardment of Fort MeAllister on the Oqucha river, South of Savannah river, Georgia. Only one Federal boat was engaged. She was compelled-to haul off, her turret being injured, An impression pre~ vails that it is the intention of the. rebels to transfer the theatre of war from before ‘the eapital to the Southwest. te” We learn that a new kind of Derrick has lately been introduced into the diggings of Maltman & Co., on Manzanita Hill It is enid to surpass anything of the kind in use. ce We acknowledge the receipt of an ins vitation, to'attend the first annual ball <of Protection Engine Co. No. 2,0f Marysville: ‘Thanks gents, but times area little too hard to go that distance, to have a good tine.” C8" Tho District Court has adjourned for two weeks, : ) POTATOES are sel'ing at the ranches in Washoe county,_N.-T., for five cents per pound. “Tue Chicago Tribune is printed on paper which is one quarter sorghum. Two sor. ghum paper mills are already running in TIlinois. a ; Pierre Sovie is stil at Havana. By the terms of his release he is not to go to New Orleans until the war is over, unless allowed by the Government. Amassa BARTLETT, of Orrington, Maine, 73-yeais of age, with his basket on his arm, skates five miles upon the ice to Bangor to do errands. In Order to possess the Experience requis site for the transaction of a safe and proefitable business, it ia necessary to fail about twice. : Gen. Kirby Smith, the rebel: general, has taken possession. of the residence of Parson Brownlow, at Kooxville;as his headqnarters. ee a » Ten tons of prairie chickens and quail were shipped from -Chieago to-New York by . one of the express companies afew nighta before Christmas. PETROLEUM gas has been introduced ine to the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York With 1 crude petroleum at 50 cents a gallon, the proprietors estimate that they will inake a saving of $16,000 per annum in th-ir ge . bill, The Manhattan company charged them nearly $34 000 a year. THE PLACERS AT CHIMNEY PEAK.—Itis stated that duringa shower of rain at the above named point, Southern California, a pool of water was secured ina quantity suffix cient te-run a small sluice in the midst of }some very rich dry digg tas; in which mane ner about one huntred ounces of gold was obtained in one day's sluicing. : —_—_——————— ‘ia GeNeRAL FREMONT'S coaches, which he purchase1 last year at an expense of about tion at St:ALéujs,on the 19th st January, ee es J.C. McLeod hes boon elected to Congress by the, voteta.of the Norfolk District, Va. , mee se aie: SS nine hundred dollars each? were gold at aucs . ‘. was upward of two hundred millions. =m: eS ~ ForTRESS MONROE, Feb: Ist. lowing is an extract from aletter from Acting ‘Paymaster Fallon: ~§ %& oe Steamer New London, Jan. 20.—We ar-} rived off Galveston at.nod@ todsy. Orders were issued to prepare for action. —TheBrooklyn stepped about two miles from, the fort, while the New London and Scotia went close in to draw, if possible the fire of the . batteries which might have been erected.by. -thegebels. _Strrounding the forts .could.bé ‘keen tents, and towards them our fire was lyn, the Scofia following with her 11-inch and” our Parrots; but-no reply was elicited; we then advanced to with n a mile and a half and opened on the encampment. We were roll» ing tremendously. and had to fire as we were rising. Qur starboard thirty pounder fired one shell which exploded inside of the fort and brought down the rebel flug, the haliards heiwg-cut._After firing several shots the aconus with a field -batterys we gave them a broadside and. the Scutia seat three shells, all of which explodeil in the battery. Oursquadcarrying sixteen guns. To-morrow being Sunday nothing, will be done. . When the bombardment is resumed it will.bwe: terrific. Galveston isa doonied tows, “Monday” we shall try to pags the fort te reich the harbor. TREASURE FOR SHIPMENT. —The Pacific Mail Steamship Company, have received directions from New York to require every shipper of treasure to furnish their agent at San Francisco; with duplicate invoices which shal! specify the number of bars, marks, fineness, value and other particulars in regard to the same. These duplicate invoices are not ships more treasure than he states in hig bill of lading. A THE body of Otis L. Pratt, a native of Missachusetts, aged thirty-four years, was discovered floating in the bay, on Thursday, deceased was a sailor, and-igsupposed to have fallen from North Point dock some three* weeks ago. cS) Wha language Christ usedis again the mooted question among Engjish’ divines. Some say Greek, others Syra Chaldaic, and others Aramaic, but none seem to know certainly anything about it: Neither is thera any certainty about the language in_ which the gospels were written, as the originals were long sinee lnat. OFFICFRS relate that.on the Fredericksburg battle field they saw an officer on horseback waving his sword. A shell came and took, his head off smeoth, but the headless officer still rode along for some distance, the hand waving his eword. ¥ THE Pope has decided that the ten thoas. sand Italian priests who signed the memorial requvsting him to resign the temporal power and rescore Rome to Italy, are subject to the penalties of excommunication. Tue thirty-eight Indians condemned to death at Maukato, Minnesota, otr’Priday, Dec. 26, were hung on that day by a gallows which dispatched them all at the same time. PROSPERITY OF THE NORTHWEST.— The Chicago correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, under date of the 13th writes: * The season closes with a prosperous and rofitable busines: throughout the West. A Siindbad wad Fweity taillina bisstoake of grain, . and grain in flour, will enter into the exports of the Luke region in the year 1863. Of this amount Chicago will contribute 57,000,000, er nearly one halfot the whole. What other country ean make an exhibit of this kind, especially when engaged in the most gigantic civil war the Pit gia saw. But this is not all. Our beef and eur pork business was never heavier than it hag been thie season. In Chicago, the figures stand thua from October 1 to December 10 — 1862. 1861. Hoge received, 2.. 421,800 210,410

* Hogs shipped. .. 168.381 81,246 Heys packed... 253.419 129,126 This increase is unparalleld, and should it continue at thia ratio during the entire season, we ehall pack over a million-hogs: But this cannot be expected. though the prospects are “that we shalt reach 750,000“ 806.000, ~~ ALL kinds of business in the southern counties is dreadfully depressed—no gale for any kind of steck aninnsls, Sales of several thousand head of cattle were made on the Geadalupe rancha, in Santa Barbara county, for from $1 50 to $3 a head. CaPTatIn OLDFIELD, of the British steam sloop Ariel. who has been cruising off the -Weat conat of Africa, has succerded in cape . turiug no lesa than twenty-six slave visaels these vessels had slaves on board—one, fifty. four ; one, eighty-two, and two others one . A CHINESE infant was found in the bar on ‘Wednesday. It was wra up in clothin and some bricks were ti gary y: ——Tne number of separate postage atamps issued during the year ending June 30th, 1861, directed. ‘The ball was opened by the Brook. } . Parrot.guns at one extremity we opened with . tion ceused. As we retired the rebels opened . ren was reinforced to-night by two gunboats, . to be made public but will be used-hy the . , Company. te detect hereafter any person who . Wire Suspension Bridg» Builders, within the last twelve months. Several of . . Exchang Broad Street, Nevada. ix Sel es ee &% oo Ms GEO. §. LANCASTER, PROPRIETOR . . FEBRUARY. 2. 1863." J Wallas, Bloomfield CF Macy, You Bet Cc Mcklyey, ‘eity) «J Pet son, do. J Weorriill, “do M ¥orx, BR Molder;~ — do W J Bradéiiaw, San J R SBenton, do SF Clark. flo 2eW. Knowlton, do AG Dennnett. Col H 5S Bowers, do © Holmes. Mesysville T H Daniels. do J Campbell, _ “do W Bennett, _do © Fred Drew; San Iran f do PJeffries,—_Meores’ W Dowe, do J C Wolf,San Fraucisco O fi P Sheets: VT Wosteil, — do sGrase W McDonald, Col f LD Rathburn, do J Daniels, Alpha‘J Ostrom, Washington N H Travis. Q@ Hill S Bright. Red Dog — J 1, Bastow, Alle shany H McElvéy, do J Deughetty. K House BRothoimar, Auburn k Colenran, G Valley AH Mallary, do G Foster, Sac G H Rogers, .Omega A Sutherland, beer C P H Doud, B Tent J Hibbard, do. J Leonard, Washoe J Aawk. do == a; ‘do—_ -pP-fubivan. « -Moores —— G_E-Stam, Marysville R Lawrance, South Y G A Wilkinson, Alpha > re J Brimson. Sacramento . MONTGOMERY “door from main ALCS.. entrance jn . BLOCK, SAN FRAN Cr Sco = “IMPORTERS OP—— Silks, Velvets, Fancy Diéess —_{,Cleoaks, Mantillag, Shawls, PRS Embrolderi¢s, Hosiery, and Gloves! New and Fashionable Goods recived fren PARIS gtd NEWYORK, by ceery Steany All ofders entrusted to us by cur LADY FRIENDS in NEVADA COUNTY del 2m will be promptly attended to: / nia, county of Nevaca, township of Epfcka, ss. By virtueof an execution to me detivered, . issued from the court uf Ira ‘Stanley, Esq., an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, bearing date. January. 29th. ©1865, to satisfy a judgment rendered by said Stanley, on the 19th day of December,/1862. in favor of © KE. Peek, and a:ainst H, Nicolls and John Young, for the sum of Two Hundred and feurteen 51-190 dollars. deljt;.inférest, damages and eos sof suit. 1 hayétsken. in execution and will sell tothe higkest bi der for cash the following described property to-wit :—One Butcher Shop, together with the land upon,-which said Butcher’ Shop’ stands. “Also, one Slaughter House and Corral at Woolsey’s Flat, Nevada county. Said property being situate on Woolsey’s Flat, Nevada county ; on Monday, the 22d ‘day of February, 1863, between the hours of 9 0’clo-‘kA. M., and 4 P. M. of saidday ‘Taken as the property of H. Nicolls and John Young, to satisfy the above demands and accruing costs. te O. D. BABCOCK, constable. A. S. HALLIDIE & C%., AND MANUFACTURERS. OF EATENT WIRE ROPE Bape SUSPENSION BRIDGES ofany span and capacity erected and material furnished. Having been constantly engaged in the erection of wire Suspension Bridges and Aqueducts for some years past, we are fully prepared to do such work satisfactorilywnd at a low fig ure, guararteeing permanency. Parties who are abouterecting bridges will find it greatly to their advantage to give us a call before deciding to build wooden structures. as_ the recent floods throughout the State have proven them to the whoily unsafe and unreliable. ' A number of our Wire Suspentions are now in use iu diffzrent localities throughout the State, no one of which has been in the least affected by the freshets. Wire Rope for Mining and Ferry purposes of. Lany length or size desired, being cheaper than hemp. Seales of weight and strength, with prices annexed, furnished on application tothe man ufacturers, or their m gt? inthe interior towns A.5. HALLIDIE & CO. p23m 412 Clay Street. San Franciaco NOTICE ! ae We take this method ef informing the public that we will sell our large stock of Winter Clothing ! At Reduced Prices!! We have also receiyed an additional stock of Goodyear’s Kubber White and Black !! Also, on hand Gum Boots, al)kinds and sizes. S. HAAS & CO:, ~~ . Cor. uf Pine & Commercial Street} To the Ladies, We have on hand@aiarge assortment of Ladies’ and Children’s Shoes which we will sell at San Francisco cost prices, after this date. S. HAAS & CO., Corner of Pine & Commercial Street. Nevada, Jan. 23d. DIARIES! DIARIES I! FOR THE YEAR 1863! A.P.CHURCH & Co. "BROAD STREET, e : 4% NSTABLE’S SALE.—State of-Califor-}" Grand Social Ball, at = te — a ae ~~ SPENCE & WICKES, Wholesale Druggist: NEVADA CITY, CAL. { if ‘ +. Novada Tron and Brass Foundry And Macliine Shop,’ me Spring Sircet, Nevada Ci: Oren ENGINES AND BOILERS BUIL) to order. Castings and Machinery of ever, description. Quartz Machinery construct titted up or repaired. All kinds of Builds, Castings, Sav, Grist, Malt and Bark Mill; Horse Power andCar Wheels. All orders filled promeeery ane at a& 10W rales as uny estaplis met Sacramento or San Franciacu—freigi, Feb 16-tf HEUGH & THOM. GHO. A. WEAVER, Nevada. WEAVER & CO.,, No. 59: Broad Street.: HOLESALS and retail, dealers in Gki CERLES, PROVISIONS. SHELF GOO MINING TOOLS. &c., &c. Have taken the Stand formerly cecupied by WEAVER & NEV. MAN, and will beim constant receipt of a cow plete Stock of Goods, which will be. sold « most reasonable rates for (ASH. .A portion of he Public Patronage solicited. or Goods delivered free of charge. é WEAVER &C0. Nevada, March, 18th 1862. } J. W. CLARK, ‘ _ San Francine. ‘BATES & McCORMICK, Wholesale Druggists, BROAD STREET, NEVADA, & Prescriptions carefully compoended. tt od ST. PATRICK’S BALL! TUESDAY; ARCH 17th, 186311 B Temperance Hall, ON TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17th ot The public is respectfully sab nid to at “Nevada, Jan. 5th, 1863, CIGAR EMPORIUM! © No, 31 33, 35 and 37, Broad Street, RECEIVED THIS DAY FINE HAVANA 40,000 CIGARS! Of the Most Approuved Brands oe Alse, the best Assortments of HAR D CUT, FINE CUT, And Smoking Tobacco+:: A: R, JENKINS. HT LINE! FAST FR ward _-Packages and Goods of all Kind ! VIRGINIA CITY: Phrough from Nevada in 3 days'! any. THOS, HENRY. Weaver & Co., No. 69 Broad:St., Nevsd® Insteac they W , cer roe ‘tiched fifteen ain Ji not a _ they. < lett th must 3 thieve: brougl down, was at strate oflee. eilled Me p: jullor a brib poster Mo 4 clippe of the Mars! ramet on e@% duck some The! "Chin good what is: this leave try, { ones. Neve in th ever thei muc Sseess . Ze