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NEVADA JOURNAL JANUARY 1, 1858 9
five dollars admission fee and the monthly payment of one dollar. A good library is one of the necessities
of a community. It attaches people to a spot and makes them loth [sic] to leave, giving a character of
permanence to a population, which is the surest guarantee of prosperity. Our citizens who are interested in
the present social and intellectual welfare of the community, and future well being of society are invited
and enjoined to add their names and influence to the Association. Many can do more than a few, the
burthen will be lighter, and the benefits larger. It is the determination of those already interested to make
the Library Association a permanent institution of the place, useful, and honorable because useful. The
organization already embraces near fifty names representing will, means and influence sufficient to insure
success. A room will be procured in good time and the books arranged therein subject to the use of the
members.
A meeting of the Association on Wednesday evening resulted in the addition of a large number of
names to the already respectable list. A good deal of interest is manifested in the movement. Tonight
another meeting is appointed at the Court House which doubtless will be largely attended.
APPORTIONMENT OF THE SCHOOL FUND.—Nevada ranks with counties of the second class.
She is, however, the eighteenth in the apportionment of the School Fund. Her share according to a late
semi-annual report of the State Board of Education is $675 for the half year.
THE LOSS OF THE CENTRAL AMERICA.—A committee appointed in New York to investigate
the causes of the loss of the Central America, report that the ship was not found and equipped as she
should have been; that her crew was too small; that she was without a carpenter or suitable carpenter’s
tools; and, what seemed to the committee a serious defect, and which, is feared is common with many
passenger steamers, there was a want of proper organization in regard to the relative authority and duties
of the officers and crew of the vessel; each department being independent of the others, instead of being
subordinate to the captain.
THE COUNTY DEBT.—We have read attentively a very long article in the Democrat by Senator
Chase, on the county debt and the proper mode of liquidating it. There is a multitude of statistical facts
embraced in the communication which are valuable. Mr. Chase exhibits a commendable zeal in
examining into the finances of the county. His suggestions are worthy the attention of every tax-payer.
The county is far gone in debt and it behooves every good citizen to seek some mode of extricating it
from embarrassments that thicken and threaten. Prompt action should immediately be taken to check the
increase of the county indebtedness as it is sufficiently large already. Whether the people representing the
wealth of the county will decide in favor of the funding measure proposed by Mr. Chase, or whether they
will make any decision at all in the matter we are unable to say, but the urgent need of action of some
kind is obvious. We shall offer no opposition to getting the county out of debt... .
OLIVE OATMAN.—This young lady whose sufferings among the Apache and Mohave Indians
from 1851 to 1856, have created an intense sympathy in the breasts of all who have read her narrative, is
now at Santa Clara attending school. A number of kind hearted ladies of that place have undertaken to
raise money enough to insure her a fair education. She is in destitute circumstances, has already suffered
too greatly in the loss of her relatives and at the hands of savages, and it is proposed to extend to her the
benefits of an education as some consolation for the sacrifices she has endured.
A copy of her book will be sent to any person who will donate $2.50. Address Whitton, Towne &
Co. 151 Clay street, San Francisco.