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144 AUGUST 22, 1856 NEVADA JOURNAL
upon the happiness he experiences in his last change. There are hundreds of good moral and upright men
in our party, who will rejoice at this riddance. A prominent Democrat said to us the other day, that a curse
was falling upon the party to which he belonged, for all the scallowags, traitors, and rascals were
abandoning the Know-Nothings for Democracy. “They help us” said he “with their votes, but they damn
us with their company.”
In consequence of the failure of the Assessor to complete his assessment roll, the Board of
Equalization will not meet, in accordance with the advertisement in another column, till Saturday, the 23
inst., (to-morrow.)
TOM BELL THE HIGHWAY MAN.—This notorious individual is not a myth as we supposed.
There is a band of robbers scouring the country which is headed by Tom Bell, or somebody known by the
appellation. The depredations of the robber band appear to be confined to the ridge between the South and
Middle Yubas, and a belt of country lying below Grass Valley and Rough & Ready. The latest account of
them, we received from a gentleman who came from San Juan a day or two since, which is substantially
as follows:
In Monday morning last, a party of three horsemen crossed the bridge near the mouth of the South
Yuba. Mr. Woods [David I. Wood], the toll gatherer, went out to receive the toll. The horsemen said the
times were hard, and they belonged to Tom Bell’s company, and did not pay toll. They then rode on. Mr.
Woods fired at them several times, and pursued them to French Corral. A company started in pursuit, and
followed the gang so closely, that one became separated from the rest, and was obliged to dismount and
take to the bushes. His horse was secured and taken to San Juan, where it was recognized and given up to
the owner who lives below Grass Valley. The horse had been stolen but a few days previous. The gang
stopped over night at the Mountain Cottage, on Shady Creek, not far from Cherokee, but took the
precaution to camp out. The course of the robbers next morning was up the ridge.
Correspondence of Nevada Journal.
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, Nevada co., August 16th, 1856.
At a meeting of the citizens of Mississippi Valley called for the purpose of taking into
consideration the necessity of choosing a permanent name for that place, The meeting being
called to order Mr. Samuel Clifford was chosen Chairman, and Mr. Robert B. Paton elected
Secretary. The following resolutions were then adopted:
Resolved, Whereas this place has been designated heretofore by the several names of Mississippi
Valley, Sweetland’s, and Manzanita City. We the citizens, by a unanimous vote, adopt MANZANITA
CiTy as the future name of this place. . . .
SAML. O. CLIFFORD, Chm/’n., Robert B. Paton Sec’y.
GRASS VALLEY VS. NEVADA.—If any more words were needed to settle the pretensions of
Grass Valley, we would adduce the fact that the whole assessed valuation of the County last year was
about $2,400,000. Of this sum, nearly one half was found in Nevada township. This year the valuation of
the entire property in Grass Valley township is $476,500, while the property of Nevada city alone
amounts to $900,000. Quite an appreciable difference, and yet, Grass Valley wants to get the County Seat,
and Nevada to pay for it. What impudence!
FIRST CLASS HOTEL.—The first brick Hotel ever opened in this city, commenced operations on
Wednesday. The “National Exchange” promises to fill the great desideratum felt by travelers heretofore in