March 29, 1862 (4 pages)

i he gus tot at te has, however, changed his mind, thinkupon reflection, that a full statement of the causes which led to this extraordinary rumpus was due by him to the public. Happening to see the Sheriff on the day after the publication of the number of the Democrat containing an aspersion upon him, What the edi-. inquiring, whether he intended to take any notice of it, the Sheriff replied that he did sane made senioct not think-he would do so, beyond calling on , by Democrat itself in an editorial, 4 rd in its columns, as mean as it® d that is saying a great deal, in whieh he would’ charge the editor of this pa. er with rasenlity for » transaction it calle _ ' In-relation to the charge against the editor of the Demoorat; we deom it right to call at_ tention to the magnanimity displayed by one individual in not wishing to see the charge er who bad but juat pubished. gy thdst wantonly dafamatory card against him, — by one of the most werth; wings inthe eomniunity, and that too directed to worthy and prominent citizens ~"¢0 obtain the facts before publishing the false ~ and libellous card, Perhaps the editor of yet learn’ there are some men in the world ~maanty” th oFize their conduct, but.it isto be seriously questioned if they omer arrive ats proper appreciation of the x hah oan iter Ae tar the petener vow ‘Jul at that place for stealing.a couple of ‘mtules (rom Mr. Walker, at Salt Lake. is a two hundred pounds, and has made his residence-at Provo, in Utah Territory. He has fe wife and child.in Ruby Valley. The mules. _ fort, when the arrested him. He is now. under to serve five years in “Fuller has made a tion for the prisoner, aijd the authorities of Utah will ‘a Teward Gfthree hundred dollars on bis , Wilhanie has the reputation of be‘ing & desperate fellow, and has more than ‘They, notagreoing aa to what hia crime was, Williams gathered his pistol and put them to flight. This time, however, he had men to Weal with that don’t finch from duty, "Nevada, to-get the California Legislature to lish the claims of this State to a strip land, ‘from five to fifteen iniles wide and = and the inhabitants theteof wish to be F * . thing of this “ combination among Mechan". Was not putin by the Democrat. This is 1, . terday to the Democrat, their following . there is no use * Rolfe” and making him correct his false and malicious insinuations. On his meeting . him again the following day, he told him that “Rolfe” had promised to make the amende honorable, and that he, Rolfe, had besides, in the course of their conversation innocently told him that he had given the other two offices $100 apiece to keep out of tis way in the matter of the county printing. We confess, we were somewhat astounded at this ‘announcement of the Sheriff. Was it stup: idity, or eyniciem that prompted him to make this unnecessary and uncalled for announcement, we leave our readers to judge. The promised retraction, however, proved to be an aggravation of the first eharge, and the Sheriff called on us with a card, whieh he desired we should insert in the TkaNscripT, refuting the charge made against him by the Democrat,and at the same time charging the proprietors of that paper, with the.transaction in regard to the eounty printing, the knowledge‘ of which had—beenimparted to him by I. J Rolfe himself. The editor of the Traxscrirr endeavored to dissuade the Sheriff from his purpose so far ‘te~bringing any charges against Rolfe was concerned, but he, the Sheriff, insisted on their being kept iw the card, and it being a personal matter between himself and the Democrat, we thought that we could not do otherwise than to allow him to defend himself. in his owa way. The card which has called forth such « paroxism of rage on the part of the Democrat, was therefore published in our advertising columns, This was, so for, & personal matter between Mr. Kaowltun and the Democrat, and so it was our wish that it should remain. Whilst the editor of the Democrat has ‘kept himself to his subject a card appears in ,. that paper over the signature of I. J. Rolfe in which an uncalled for attack is made on the editor and publisher of the TRaNscHIPT, neither of whom had or wished to have anything to do.with this muss. Were it not for this card the flagrant misstutements which appear in the Democrat's editorial, would have passed unnoticed by us. es We shall not discuss the point as to wheth. er it 1s right or wrong for Mechanics to combine eo as to get a fair compensation for their labor.’ Mr. Knowlten’s card did not touch this question, it merely referred to the fact that T. H. Rolfe, as a member of the Board of Supervisors had violated his oath im makng & party to this transaction. The Supervisor denies not only that he knew apyies to get a fair compensation for their labor," and that he has any interest in the contract, but he actually affirms that the bid what we call “ cheek,"' considering that the Democrat's proposition is un file in the Clerk's office, a copy of which we here subjuin : : Democrat Orricr, NevaDA, Aug. Sth 136). Rolfe & Co., I. J. Rolfe, G. I. Lammon, T. 4, Rolfe, & A. P. Church. In the Democrat of Aug. 6th, the following announcement was made : “The County Printing. was awarded yes: bid the lowest. The wee Geta Journal, ze : wun wae Taanscairr 9600 ; DemIf this is not proof sufficient that Sup ervisor Rolfe had a “ finger in that pie,” then for records or written docu960s, Angular of Mote F all such contracts at $200 and consider forming the large portion of the gravel have aravel pits, shows a succession of ical and somewhat spiral, deep depressions shaped pits bored by any strong, swiftly-eddying current in a yielding bottom of mad or sand is a brown brick earth, or iron mixed sandy clay or loam, intermixed with numerous very remote, considered geologically, because the greater part of the sedimentary rocks. -” An estuary, either by the drifting up of its mouth, or a change of level, may be sup~ posed to have become an inland sheet of wakind, it may be supposed to have become an appear to have undergone oftener than once: for, first, we have there » fresh water formation of clay and limestone beds ; then a fresh water formation, in which the material of the plaster of Paris (gypsum) is included, then. a segggd marine formation of sandy and time beds ; and finally, a third series of fresh water strata. The tertiary beds present al most an entirely new set of animals, and as we ascend in the series, we find more and more of these identical with the species still @xisting upon earth aos if we had reached the dawn of the present state of the animale of our world. The strata that imbeds these implements, geologically considered, is a rudely deposited, irregularly strewn bed of fragmentary chalk flint, containing some flint sand, a little pulverised chalk, and uccasional large bluck a or boulders, of a hard quartzose Eocene (eos dawn. and kainos, recent) sandstone. This evidently diluvial matrix, the repository, also, Of the bones of gigantic mammalian quadrupeds, rests directly on a somewhat uneven and eroded floor of chalk, out of the upper beds of which stratum the nodules of flint been formed. _ Itis overlaid by three strata of aqueous formation, but all formed under dissimilar conditions. First above the bone and hntchet entombing gravel lies a greyish white and brownish sand, imbedding several species of fresh water and land shella, identical sith-. species now living in this part of the globe. These sands bear the marks of a brief process of deposition ; portions of them very en. . gular,or uneven. Single epecimens of the flints, are, on rare ocessions, met with in the lower part of these sands, and also, as rarely the bones*of the fossil elephant. Third, in ascending order. above the chalk occtits a second gravel, consisting entirely of chalk flints in a rolled and more or less fractured condition. This bed, varying. in thickness from 2 to 5 feet, exhibits the marks very clearly of having been deposited or pushed along in very turbulent waters : for its lower boundary, beheld in sections in the in the upper surface of the sand beneath it, identical in every feature with the funnel The uppermost in the series of lecee beds claiming: “Mr. Speaker, I stall have the occupation. Editors, reporters, printers and so as to keep*them out of mischief. nureeryman haa recently filled a considerable order from Japan for fruit trees of various kinds. Several cases, containing 100 varieties of California-grown garden ce wean Pd ‘Livery SraB.e Honses.—The Santa Cruz Sentinel says that « trial wf more than usual interest came off st that place in a. Justice’s court. The-ease was an action brought for damages sustained by an alleged mususage of plaintiff's horse, in over-mding him te thatextent that he was unfit for servier? ‘The case was tried by a jury, and the plain. tiff lost—either from want of proof or other cause we are not informed. reaya iat the “body of Mr. Thomas Russ+l was found on the morning of the 21st inst. ia a little ravine near that place. Upon examinatien it was found that he had been killed by shot from a rifle or large pistol. The ballentered just below the right eye, ranging upward, and Indged in the head: oi Parent InisiMAN.—A spading machine has lately been invented in the States, which the proprietor thinks will supersede the plow on large farms. It ists of serfes of steet teeth, set in endless ebtlhis: eptoties aroued cylinders, so ax to affect the ground very much the sume as forking. It has been tried at various localities with success, Ea” Because we ventured last week (says an exchange paper) to introduce a few Latin words into a paragraph. just to make whittle show of our knowledge, a contemporary quotes Latin at us in a most ferocious manner. He says, “Nihil fit.”~Who is Nihil? Who did he fight?—and what did he FE?” Henry Thomas ig manufacturing ault athis springs on Klamath river, and is turning eutabout three liundred pounds per day.— He intends soon to extend his salt manufee turing operations, and will be able to furnish salt at a low price. and do xnway with the necessity of shipping that article from San, Francisco tot.e mines in his part of CalioI AN Illinois Assemblyman, debating a question in much earnestness, moved his chair from its usual place, and fergetting the fact when he had finished, ast down where the chair was not, but ought te have been. Above the roar of laughter, his voice wae heard exfloor.” WOMEN require more sleep than men, and farmers less than those engaged in any ether telegraph operators need no sleep at all — Tue 8. F. Bulletin says that a Santa Clara seeds, go’ Ea” A new game law has been introduced ; ‘Deuble Lightsing, Steam _ Munper sx Sawra CutiZ.—The Sentinel . small splinters of chalk flint. Like the torgravel on which it rests, it is destitute not only of mammalian organic remains, but ot the “ flints associated with them in the lowermost of the four superficial deposits. It coutains numerous Roman graves, or stone coffins of Roman origin, which often enclose well preserved skeletons. The bones a few feet below the grass, rential To the Board of Supervisors : buried nearly a third of the time back in the Yankee wants to know why they don’t raise GENTLEMEN.—We propose to do the . period given as that of man’s existence on . the blockade. County Printing fur one year, includ all . earth, taken in ceaneetion with those instru: areresary Blanks aod ‘dvertining forth sue m ute 19% 16 feet, formed by hands that ‘oume vir Gh he cee reek be 1 y LPE & Co, . knew sst the use of metals, beneath strata preg Sandra sd hole ; : é Th Denna he ines my enn ni etd ln ay rl . e perma yf mapas arena views; but we should not let out emotious. [> A steam digger nat wo tenconfound our logic. We may, with cautious inquiry turn over these pages of natufes’ forming—and if pos. sible decipher her teachings and solve our doubts ; but before we give up the ‘position minds, who have in the light of past géologi cal koawledge, regarded it as confirming the records of history, let us be sure that ourreading is clear and that no mere specula. tions aregaken for reason and no theories formed that will not bear the tests of the severest scrutiny. Let us thea pos entire in the Legislature, making it a crime to net or trap ducke or quail. The game law now in force, if but<partially complied with, af fords sufficient protection for the preservation of game, and no amendments or change is either desired or politic. EF" The Richmond Inquirer says the Southern people can raise any article of Yaning and digging out Petaluma Creek. About one square-yard of soil is lifted at once and is dumped into a scow-tender, which carries it off and dumps it! Am English editor makes the sweeping assertion : “What! a maz rin love! Psbaw ! leas as a corn-cob, the kee industry; whereupon some inquisitive . Press, le of printing ou betnsides ten papers per bour, requir_ ing but three hands, two men and » buy, to operate it, and having built and set up one of said presses, in the office of the Cincinnati them, upon dest uation: Respect: fahy yours,” ete. Geo. 8. Secpen & Co. STOCK QuoTaTioNs.—The following is 2 list of the prices per foot of some of the principal mining stocks in Nevada Territory. Ophir, $1225 @ $1250. © Central, $600 @ $625. sas ge $275 = $2300. Gould & Curry, po), im Daney, i $e75 @ ng Chollar, $30 @ $40. Lucerne, $25 @ $30. St. Louis, 10. At the ‘above quotatiuns-these stocks fi ready sale in San Francisco, or ean be hypoth. ecated for money, at from two to two and a half per cent. During the first week in ‘March some three hundred shares of the Ophir changed hands at the above figures, and more business would have heen done “had the stocks been in market. It is said that the Ophir is wut of debt and has a surplus of eleven thousund dollars; and that future earnings will be paid out in dividends. Mrs. Major Roberston, a woman of slight — moke, great beauty, and rewarkable energy, courage. and ‘sense house but a servant girl, in the ground floor —anw a portion of a man’s foot projectin, from er the bed. She gave no ery of alarm, but shut the dooras usual, set down the candle; and begin as if to undress, when she said aloud to herself, with an impatient ‘tone-and gesture, ‘I've forgotten the. key again, I declare ;’ and leaving the candle burning, and the door open, she went down stairs, got the watchman, and secured the this strong record for on ee Jon going up to her bed. ¢ room at night —there being no one in the * a inieh. “How tiahy Women or men could. . \? have done, or rather been all this. abou Escares From T Yuma--Two of aw Showalter’s party, confi in Fort Yuma, tonal made their eseapea few days since, being Aa allowed considerable liberty, had promea ceeded one hundred miles up the > radu Bald river before he wus sore wae f poe roceeding another wa Was ulso ctpag ot gage else, SETTLER TROUBLES.—A house belonging oe men: to Judge Peckham near Santa Cruz, on \ ine what is known as the Refugio ranch wae atOF a ww recently and several vot into re Some settlers pretended t ve a ur title to the land and take this and other an he scandalous measures to dispossess the resipriva dent owner. a shor even E¥" Malmaison, the residence purchased have by Josephine in 1798, and the place to which prea she retired after her divorce, haa been lately po purchased by Napoleon III. In 1812, Napo“ eon the First lived and made his reside nce ‘P ine at Malmaison. In 1826 it was bought by — & Swedish banker, and in 1832 by Queen . és Christiana of Spain. It now returns again ‘f to the Napoleon family. we te” A funny endosement on the back of a Ma letter dropped into the city post office, in St. ie Louis, Mo., addressed to s receatly appoint& ed quartermaster in one of the New Eng“ Harry, Dhear you are commissioned as a Wap aide’ pon ge be WOO ee es

i he gus tot at te has, however, changed his mind, thinkupon reflection, that a full statement of the causes which led to this extraordinary rumpus was due by him to the public. Happening to see the Sheriff on the day after the publication of the number of the Democrat containing an aspersion upon him, What the edi-. inquiring, whether he intended to take any notice of it, the Sheriff replied that he did sane made senioct not think-he would do so, beyond calling on , by Democrat itself in an editorial, 4 rd in its columns, as mean as it® d that is saying a great deal, in whieh he would’ charge the editor of this pa. er with rasenlity for » transaction it calle _ ' In-relation to the charge against the editor of the Demoorat; we deom it right to call at_ tention to the magnanimity displayed by one individual in not wishing to see the charge er who bad but juat pubished. gy thdst wantonly dafamatory card against him, — by one of the most werth; wings inthe eomniunity, and that too directed to worthy and prominent citizens ~"¢0 obtain the facts before publishing the false ~ and libellous card, Perhaps the editor of yet learn’ there are some men in the world ~maanty” th oFize their conduct, but.it isto be seriously questioned if they omer arrive ats proper appreciation of the x hah oan iter Ae tar the petener vow ‘Jul at that place for stealing.a couple of ‘mtules (rom Mr. Walker, at Salt Lake. is a two hundred pounds, and has made his residence-at Provo, in Utah Territory. He has fe wife and child.in Ruby Valley. The mules. _ fort, when the arrested him. He is now. under to serve five years in “Fuller has made a tion for the prisoner, aijd the authorities of Utah will ‘a Teward Gfthree hundred dollars on bis , Wilhanie has the reputation of be‘ing & desperate fellow, and has more than ‘They, notagreoing aa to what hia crime was, Williams gathered his pistol and put them to flight. This time, however, he had men to Weal with that don’t finch from duty, "Nevada, to-get the California Legislature to lish the claims of this State to a strip land, ‘from five to fifteen iniles wide and = and the inhabitants theteof wish to be F * . thing of this “ combination among Mechan". Was not putin by the Democrat. This is 1, . terday to the Democrat, their following . there is no use * Rolfe” and making him correct his false and malicious insinuations. On his meeting . him again the following day, he told him that “Rolfe” had promised to make the amende honorable, and that he, Rolfe, had besides, in the course of their conversation innocently told him that he had given the other two offices $100 apiece to keep out of tis way in the matter of the county printing. We confess, we were somewhat astounded at this ‘announcement of the Sheriff. Was it stup: idity, or eyniciem that prompted him to make this unnecessary and uncalled for announcement, we leave our readers to judge. The promised retraction, however, proved to be an aggravation of the first eharge, and the Sheriff called on us with a card, whieh he desired we should insert in the TkaNscripT, refuting the charge made against him by the Democrat,and at the same time charging the proprietors of that paper, with the.transaction in regard to the eounty printing, the knowledge‘ of which had—beenimparted to him by I. J Rolfe himself. The editor of the Traxscrirr endeavored to dissuade the Sheriff from his purpose so far ‘te~bringing any charges against Rolfe was concerned, but he, the Sheriff, insisted on their being kept iw the card, and it being a personal matter between himself and the Democrat, we thought that we could not do otherwise than to allow him to defend himself. in his owa way. The card which has called forth such « paroxism of rage on the part of the Democrat, was therefore published in our advertising columns, This was, so for, & personal matter between Mr. Kaowltun and the Democrat, and so it was our wish that it should remain. Whilst the editor of the Democrat has ‘kept himself to his subject a card appears in ,. that paper over the signature of I. J. Rolfe in which an uncalled for attack is made on the editor and publisher of the TRaNscHIPT, neither of whom had or wished to have anything to do.with this muss. Were it not for this card the flagrant misstutements which appear in the Democrat's editorial, would have passed unnoticed by us. es We shall not discuss the point as to wheth. er it 1s right or wrong for Mechanics to combine eo as to get a fair compensation for their labor.’ Mr. Knowlten’s card did not touch this question, it merely referred to the fact that T. H. Rolfe, as a member of the Board of Supervisors had violated his oath im makng & party to this transaction. The Supervisor denies not only that he knew apyies to get a fair compensation for their labor," and that he has any interest in the contract, but he actually affirms that the bid what we call “ cheek,"' considering that the Democrat's proposition is un file in the Clerk's office, a copy of which we here subjuin : : Democrat Orricr, NevaDA, Aug. Sth 136). Rolfe & Co., I. J. Rolfe, G. I. Lammon, T. 4, Rolfe, & A. P. Church. In the Democrat of Aug. 6th, the following announcement was made : “The County Printing. was awarded yes: bid the lowest. The wee Geta Journal, ze : wun wae Taanscairr 9600 ; DemIf this is not proof sufficient that Sup ervisor Rolfe had a “ finger in that pie,” then for records or written docu960s, Angular of Mote F all such contracts at $200 and consider forming the large portion of the gravel have aravel pits, shows a succession of ical and somewhat spiral, deep depressions shaped pits bored by any strong, swiftly-eddying current in a yielding bottom of mad or sand is a brown brick earth, or iron mixed sandy clay or loam, intermixed with numerous very remote, considered geologically, because the greater part of the sedimentary rocks. -” An estuary, either by the drifting up of its mouth, or a change of level, may be sup~ posed to have become an inland sheet of wakind, it may be supposed to have become an appear to have undergone oftener than once: for, first, we have there » fresh water formation of clay and limestone beds ; then a fresh water formation, in which the material of the plaster of Paris (gypsum) is included, then. a segggd marine formation of sandy and time beds ; and finally, a third series of fresh water strata. The tertiary beds present al most an entirely new set of animals, and as we ascend in the series, we find more and more of these identical with the species still @xisting upon earth aos if we had reached the dawn of the present state of the animale of our world. The strata that imbeds these implements, geologically considered, is a rudely deposited, irregularly strewn bed of fragmentary chalk flint, containing some flint sand, a little pulverised chalk, and uccasional large bluck a or boulders, of a hard quartzose Eocene (eos dawn. and kainos, recent) sandstone. This evidently diluvial matrix, the repository, also, Of the bones of gigantic mammalian quadrupeds, rests directly on a somewhat uneven and eroded floor of chalk, out of the upper beds of which stratum the nodules of flint been formed. _ Itis overlaid by three strata of aqueous formation, but all formed under dissimilar conditions. First above the bone and hntchet entombing gravel lies a greyish white and brownish sand, imbedding several species of fresh water and land shella, identical sith-. species now living in this part of the globe. These sands bear the marks of a brief process of deposition ; portions of them very en. . gular,or uneven. Single epecimens of the flints, are, on rare ocessions, met with in the lower part of these sands, and also, as rarely the bones*of the fossil elephant. Third, in ascending order. above the chalk occtits a second gravel, consisting entirely of chalk flints in a rolled and more or less fractured condition. This bed, varying. in thickness from 2 to 5 feet, exhibits the marks very clearly of having been deposited or pushed along in very turbulent waters : for its lower boundary, beheld in sections in the in the upper surface of the sand beneath it, identical in every feature with the funnel The uppermost in the series of lecee beds

claiming: “Mr. Speaker, I stall have the occupation. Editors, reporters, printers and so as to keep*them out of mischief. nureeryman haa recently filled a considerable order from Japan for fruit trees of various kinds. Several cases, containing 100 varieties of California-grown garden ce wean Pd ‘Livery SraB.e Honses.—The Santa Cruz Sentinel says that « trial wf more than usual interest came off st that place in a. Justice’s court. The-ease was an action brought for damages sustained by an alleged mususage of plaintiff's horse, in over-mding him te thatextent that he was unfit for servier? ‘The case was tried by a jury, and the plain. tiff lost—either from want of proof or other cause we are not informed. reaya iat the “body of Mr. Thomas Russ+l was found on the morning of the 21st inst. ia a little ravine near that place. Upon examinatien it was found that he had been killed by shot from a rifle or large pistol. The ballentered just below the right eye, ranging upward, and Indged in the head: oi Parent InisiMAN.—A spading machine has lately been invented in the States, which the proprietor thinks will supersede the plow on large farms. It ists of serfes of steet teeth, set in endless ebtlhis: eptoties aroued cylinders, so ax to affect the ground very much the sume as forking. It has been tried at various localities with success, Ea” Because we ventured last week (says an exchange paper) to introduce a few Latin words into a paragraph. just to make whittle show of our knowledge, a contemporary quotes Latin at us in a most ferocious manner. He says, “Nihil fit.”~Who is Nihil? Who did he fight?—and what did he FE?” Henry Thomas ig manufacturing ault athis springs on Klamath river, and is turning eutabout three liundred pounds per day.— He intends soon to extend his salt manufee turing operations, and will be able to furnish salt at a low price. and do xnway with the necessity of shipping that article from San, Francisco tot.e mines in his part of CalioI AN Illinois Assemblyman, debating a question in much earnestness, moved his chair from its usual place, and fergetting the fact when he had finished, ast down where the chair was not, but ought te have been. Above the roar of laughter, his voice wae heard exfloor.” WOMEN require more sleep than men, and farmers less than those engaged in any ether telegraph operators need no sleep at all — Tue 8. F. Bulletin says that a Santa Clara seeds, go’ Ea” A new game law has been introduced ; ‘Deuble Lightsing, Steam _ Munper sx Sawra CutiZ.—The Sentinel . small splinters of chalk flint. Like the torgravel on which it rests, it is destitute not only of mammalian organic remains, but ot the “ flints associated with them in the lowermost of the four superficial deposits. It coutains numerous Roman graves, or stone coffins of Roman origin, which often enclose well preserved skeletons. The bones a few feet below the grass, rential To the Board of Supervisors : buried nearly a third of the time back in the Yankee wants to know why they don’t raise GENTLEMEN.—We propose to do the . period given as that of man’s existence on . the blockade. County Printing fur one year, includ all . earth, taken in ceaneetion with those instru: areresary Blanks aod ‘dvertining forth sue m ute 19% 16 feet, formed by hands that ‘oume vir Gh he cee reek be 1 y LPE & Co, . knew sst the use of metals, beneath strata preg Sandra sd hole ; : é Th Denna he ines my enn ni etd ln ay rl . e perma yf mapas arena views; but we should not let out emotious. [> A steam digger nat wo tenconfound our logic. We may, with cautious inquiry turn over these pages of natufes’ forming—and if pos. sible decipher her teachings and solve our doubts ; but before we give up the ‘position minds, who have in the light of past géologi cal koawledge, regarded it as confirming the records of history, let us be sure that ourreading is clear and that no mere specula. tions aregaken for reason and no theories formed that will not bear the tests of the severest scrutiny. Let us thea pos entire in the Legislature, making it a crime to net or trap ducke or quail. The game law now in force, if but<partially complied with, af fords sufficient protection for the preservation of game, and no amendments or change is either desired or politic. EF" The Richmond Inquirer says the Southern people can raise any article of Yaning and digging out Petaluma Creek. About one square-yard of soil is lifted at once and is dumped into a scow-tender, which carries it off and dumps it! Am English editor makes the sweeping assertion : “What! a maz rin love! Psbaw ! leas as a corn-cob, the kee industry; whereupon some inquisitive . Press, le of printing ou betnsides ten papers per bour, requir_ ing but three hands, two men and » buy, to operate it, and having built and set up one of said presses, in the office of the Cincinnati them, upon dest uation: Respect: fahy yours,” ete. Geo. 8. Secpen & Co. STOCK QuoTaTioNs.—The following is 2 list of the prices per foot of some of the principal mining stocks in Nevada Territory. Ophir, $1225 @ $1250. © Central, $600 @ $625. sas ge $275 = $2300. Gould & Curry, po), im Daney, i $e75 @ ng Chollar, $30 @ $40. Lucerne, $25 @ $30. St. Louis, 10. At the ‘above quotatiuns-these stocks fi ready sale in San Francisco, or ean be hypoth. ecated for money, at from two to two and a half per cent. During the first week in ‘March some three hundred shares of the Ophir changed hands at the above figures, and more business would have heen done “had the stocks been in market. It is said that the Ophir is wut of debt and has a surplus of eleven thousund dollars; and that future earnings will be paid out in dividends. Mrs. Major Roberston, a woman of slight — moke, great beauty, and rewarkable energy, courage. and ‘sense house but a servant girl, in the ground floor —anw a portion of a man’s foot projectin, from er the bed. She gave no ery of alarm, but shut the dooras usual, set down the candle; and begin as if to undress, when she said aloud to herself, with an impatient ‘tone-and gesture, ‘I've forgotten the. key again, I declare ;’ and leaving the candle burning, and the door open, she went down stairs, got the watchman, and secured the this strong record for on ee Jon going up to her bed. ¢ room at night —there being no one in the * a inieh. “How tiahy Women or men could. . \? have done, or rather been all this. abou Escares From T Yuma--Two of aw Showalter’s party, confi in Fort Yuma, tonal made their eseapea few days since, being Aa allowed considerable liberty, had promea ceeded one hundred miles up the > radu Bald river before he wus sore wae f poe roceeding another wa Was ulso ctpag ot gage else, SETTLER TROUBLES.—A house belonging oe men: to Judge Peckham near Santa Cruz, on \ ine what is known as the Refugio ranch wae atOF a ww recently and several vot into re Some settlers pretended t ve a ur title to the land and take this and other an he scandalous measures to dispossess the resipriva dent owner. a shor even E¥" Malmaison, the residence purchased have by Josephine in 1798, and the place to which prea she retired after her divorce, haa been lately po purchased by Napoleon III. In 1812, Napo“ eon the First lived and made his reside nce ‘P ine at Malmaison. In 1826 it was bought by — & Swedish banker, and in 1832 by Queen . és Christiana of Spain. It now returns again ‘f to the Napoleon family. we te” A funny endosement on the back of a Ma letter dropped into the city post office, in St. ie Louis, Mo., addressed to s receatly appoint& ed quartermaster in one of the New Eng“ Harry, Dhear you are commissioned as a Wap aide’ pon ge be WOO ee es