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Title: 1863 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 179 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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NEVADA TRANSCRIPT MARCH 7 & 8, 1863 A1 THE EXHIBITION.—The entertainment given by the pupils of the High School, last evening was a grand affair. The participants in the different exercises acquitted themselves with much credit. The singing was excellent, all of it; but a duett [sic] by Misses Hackett and Van Bergen is deserving of especial mention. . .. Among the tableaux, “Devotion, Pocahontas, Night and Morning, the Four Seasons, Magic Mirror, Army and Navy, the Old Arm Chair, The Spirit of ’76 and the Spirit of 63,” were exceedingly well rendered, although they were all good. . . RIFLE PIT.—The rifle pit about the Court House is rapidly approaching completion. The plan of the pit was devised by some one acquainted with the science of fortification evidently. Not like Gen. Pillow’s ditch, this is dug on the outside. It is suggested that the trench might answer for defensive purposes a year or two and then be used to plant a hedge in. thus two birds would be killed with one stone, and a living fence obtained about the Court House instead of one made of inanimate rocks and iron. The suggestion is worth of consideration. SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1863 NEGRO TESTIMONY BILL.—That California is making sensible progress in civilization, one can see by the late action of the Assembly upon the bill to admit negro testimony in the courts. The last traces of a prejudices and barbarous age are fast fading away. The age demands a recognition of the rights of humanity and the Legislature of California is acting in accordance with t he spirit of progression. Not one man can truthfully say that the black race is less to be believed than the white. They are simple and truthful. Then why should they be debarred from self protection and left at the mercy of the lowest and most abandoned of our own race? The murderer and robber have had their own way in dealing with the colored races. The vilest white men have been encouraged and shielded in the deprivation of innocent blacks of their testimony. Secessionists, and men who have not kept pace with the march of mind can only offer obstacles to the restoration of negroes to the rights that the common feelings of humanity acknowledge to be theirs... . BUT FEW DEPARTING.—The Golden Age did not leave until six o’clock, Monday, and had not quite 100 passengers, and $871,304.81 in treasure. The Bulletin says: “Her departure appeared to excite very little interest, not over 100 persons being on the wharf to witness it, while on board the vessel, the officers and crew seemed to be in excess of passengers departing. The departure for San Juan of the opposition steamship Moses Taylor being advertised for the 11th proximo, and a fear on the part of many of their being liable to be drafted on their arrival in the Atlantic States, had much to do with the small number on the Golden Age.” DISTRICT COURT, March 7th.—Brodie vs Brodie—referred to L. R. Sowers. We understand that the miners in the vicinity of Red Dog, You Bet and the surrounding country have at last obtained sufficient water to commence operations in their claims. In years past they have been enabled to start in their claims during the months of December and January. Preparations on the most extensive scale have been made and all the improvements in mining introduced to work their diggings to better advantage than heretofore, and we shall be disappointed if more gold is not taken out in that section than ever before during the same period of time. CELESTIALS.—Another large invoice of Chinamen arrived in this city a day or two since