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28 FEBRUARY 4 & 11, 1857 NEVADA DEMOCRAT
BALL.—Mrs. Downey, of the Downey House, Rough & Ready, intends giving a ball at that place
on Tuesday the 23th inst. A pleasant time may be anticipated by those who attend.
IOWA HILL BURNED.—Information was received here through the telegraph that Iowa Hill was
almost entirely destroyed by fire on Sunday night. The news was telegraphed from Auburn. We have not
received any of the particulars, but it is understood that all the business portion of the town was
destroyed.
[List of Letters remaining at Nevada City Post Office on Feb. 1.]
. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1857]
LARGE NUGGET.—We were shown yesterday a piece of pure gold, taken from the claims of
Messrs. Griffith, Hyde & Co., on Rush Creek, near Stokes’ Ranch, weighing something over two pounds.
This, we believe is the largest piece of pure gold ever found in Nevada township. These diggings are
among the richest in the county. On Monday they took out 48-1/2 oz. besides the nugget mentioned
above, the proceeds of one day’s work for six men. What is most remarkable, however, is the fact, that
Mr. J. R. Griffith, a Jour [sic] Printer, is one of the lucky owners.
FOR NICARAGUA.—we learn that a company is being raised in this county, with the intention of
going to Nicaragua, to assist Walker. About thirty able bodied fine looking men have already joined the
company, and it is expected that about fifty will be raised. They design leaving, if they can get off, about
the 20th of this month.
The account of the Democrat of this matter, is colored with the malignity it always evinces
when it can get a chance by misrepresentation, to decry a public officer that differs from it
politically. It is a small souled, envious course, characteristic of the proprietors of that sheet.
The above, which we copy from the Journal of last Friday, is the very appropriate winding-up of an
article endeavoring to excuse the officers, in allowing Gehr to escape. The account which we gave of the
escape, was obtained from Bidwell, the jailer, given almost word for word as he gave it to us; and if it was
in any way inaccurate, it is reasonable to suppose that it was too favorable for those having charge of the
prisoners, as it is natural for men to excuse their own short-comings. It is probable that Gehr went through
the glass door instead of the Sheriff’s office, as stated by us, but the jailer told us he went through the
Sheriff’s office, and it is a matter of no consequence, whether he went through one place or the other; the
carelessness of the jailer in allowing him to have tools to dig through a brick wall, and his neglect in
seeing that the cells were properly fastened, is all the same. The insinuation that we have misrepresented
the acts of the county officers, has not the least foundation. We have on several occasions, exposed the
rascalities of some of them, and brought abundant proof to substantiate our statements. . . .
The Journal goes considerably out of its way to “puff’ Mr. Wood, the Deputy Sheriff, which is
entirely gratuitous. We have good reason to believe that Wood did not, either that night or the next day,
offer any reward for the arrest of Gehr. The jailer offered a reward the next day, of two hundred dollars,
on his own responsibility, and if any other reward was offered the fact was not publicly known.
CLOTHES LINE ROBBED.—On Monday evening a man went to the house of Mr. Monroe, on the
other side of Roger Williams’ Ravine, when there were no men about the premises, and taking a quantity