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150 JULY 7 & 14, 1858 NEVADA DEMOCRAT
examined before Justice Johnson, and held to bail in the sum of $3,000, to answer to the charge of
involuntary manslaughter.
LEFT FOR FRAZER.—J. B. Ellison, Esq., an old resident of this county, left Nevada last Saturday
morning for Frazer river.
DRUG STORE.—Dr. J. F. Rudolph has again opened a drug store, at his old stand, No. 21
Commercial street.
SAW MILL AND LUMBER BURNED.—The Excelsior saw mill, located about two and a half
miles west of Nevada, together with about 500,000 feet of lumber, was burned on Monday morning. A
little boy, aged about six years, had kindled a fire in a play-house, which had been built among the piles
of lumber, from which the lumber caught. Most of the men at work at the mill had left early in the
morning to celebrate the Fourth, and only three men were at the place when the fire was discovered. The
fire burned very slow for some time, and they worked nearly an hour carrying water to put it out, but
without effect. The most of the machinery in the mill, and parts of the engine, were taken off, and that
portion of the engine which was left in the mill, it is thought, is but little damaged. A portion of the
lumber was of an inferior quality. The loss is estimated at between six and eight thousand dollars.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1858 .
IMPORTATION OF MEXICAN DOLLARS.—The Mexican schooner Genova, which arrived at
San Francisco on the 7th instant, from Mazatlan, brought on freight the sum of $520,575 in Mexican
dollars. This coin is now selling in the San Francisco market at a premium of twelve per cent. The
premium on the importation will amount to upwards of $62,000.
TO FRAZER RIVER VIA PLACERVILLE.—The Placerville Register is informed by an
“intelligent gentleman” that the best way to Frazer river is by way of Placerville to Carson Valley, and
then up on the other side of the Sierra Nevada. We shall next hear that the best way to Heaven is through
Placerville.
The Democratic Convention.
We give in our columns to-day, a pretty full report of the proceedings of the Democratic Convention
of Saturday; following which, are the proceedings of the Mud-sill Convention, as made out by the
Secretary, but which we have taken the liberty of condensing. As near as we could judge, the Convention
was composed of thirty-nine straight-out Douglas Democrats, about the same number of Lecompton’s,
and some seven or eight English-Conference compromisers. It is not surprising, that a Convention
composed of such materials, was boisterous in the extreme; the only thing to be wondered at, is that they
were ever enabled to effect a temporary organization. The immediate cause of the split was a mere
bagatelle, too trifling to have caused even a temporary excitement, had not the Convention been prepared
for a split from the beginning.
So far as the nominations are concerned, we shall support Messrs. Chase and Belden, because they
are the regular nominees of the Democratic party of the county. They were nominated in full Convention,
before the split occurred; each received the votes of a majority of all the delegates elected in the county,
and by ever principle of party usage their nominations are binding upon the Democratic voters. . . .