April 15, 1870 (4 pages)

Pi ous and oppressive law exempting .0f, affixed his signature to the iniquity. The Effect bf the Law. _ The real estate broker of San Fran-4 cisco boasts that money expended by himself, secured the passage of the odimortgages from taxation, and the Haminer defends the law on principle. Governor Haight, while claiming great credit for the exercise of the veto. powIt was twice defeated, but its friends rallied and it is now a law. An examisonable man of ‘its inju banks, and every: corporation of the State, and the ready cash of all -capitalists, many escape taxation, while the property of ~“poor-men,; and’ of widows ‘and _orphans,and—even the-churches, : hor that the land shall be owned by _ bank having $100,000 capital stock, for _of capital in this way, and the whole _ fair to estimate the additional amount added to the amount already so secured “Will miake a million of dollars exempt --loaned-and-sedured—by-mortgage upon _.eal estate, shall_beexempt.fromas‘lends money will take a mortgage upcn course is plain; simply by increasing ~that-the Merchants’ Trading Company _& total capacity of 56,000 tons, will emschools and institutions of charity, are under law taxable for the full cash value. The law provides that all moneys Sessment or taxation. It does not even require that the mortgage shall be upon real estate of a value equal to the loan, the party giving the lien. A lot not worth a cent may be mortgaged to a the full amount, and the assessor is by law probibited from taxing that amount of money. The result of this will be the investment of ‘every dollar cash capital of the State, in every ave. nue of business may be covered up, and millions of dollars will be unjustly tak. en from the assessable property of thé State. Even as matters stood last year, when mortgages were taxed for their face, and men had no ebjeet in investing money, except as security, Nevada county had considerably more than half @ million Of dollars invested in this way, and from which revenue was derived. No man will pay taxes if he can lawfully avoid it, and under the premium offered by this law, every man, who some real estate, if the borrower has to locate a mining claim or buy a lotina grave yard to mortgage, and it isbut. that will be covered up from taxation at $500,000 in Nevada county, which ftém taxes, in a single county. The revenue necessary to pay large salaries, recently raised by the Legislature, the payment of the large number of newly appointed ‘officers, must be made in addition to the regular expenses of State and County governments ; 80 must the large donations tosectarian schools and charitable institutions, and since capital is virtually exempt from taxation, how must it be done? The the rate on the homesteads of poor men who can’t lend money and take mortSages fot security, by adding to the tax of those who have farms and cattle, and taxing the labor of those who are striving to develop the resources of the State. These effects of this monstrous iniquity of Democratic legislation cannot be denied, and this Jaw ‘is an evidence the party gives of its friendship for the laborer and the welfare of the State, so generally professed in the last campaign. How long will these classes be duped and deceived into the support of the Democracy? ~~” Tue Memphis Appeal announces ‘of Liverpool, worth millions of pounds sterling, having 38—sgiling vessels, of bark in the undertaking of supplying Chinese laborers to! the South. The agent of the company represents them a8 capable of delivering at-Charleston; Savannah, Pensacola, Mobile, or New Orleans, 100,000 Chinese laborers at $250 apiece, payable in gold in certain. installmepts. «The regulations are said to be almost identical with those of Koopmanschap, and strictly in accord. ance with the treaty between China ' QUICKSILVER MonoProLy.—This sigA Mon item igrtele ed . Ba neigeo tothe Saet noni bien! . under dateof the 11th of Aprify The ‘New. Almaden, New Idria and . Redingtog Quicksilver Companies contracted with D. O. Mills for the entire product of their mines for two'years, froni“April Ist, at $31 per flask. This makes the new combination more powtain that there will be no reduction in This quickeilver will be sold, says the Grass Valley Union, as we understand it, to any-parties on the Pacifie coast for the“‘sum of $45 90 per flask, and to~parties who wish to use it in }any. place not on the Pacific coast for $45 00% per flask. Quicksilver is, in~Ration of its effects will satisfy any rea 'diepensibie in siining operations, and erful than the olf and rendérs it cer} 7 REGISTRATION ON THE PoLL List.— iS rolling upon the poll ligt. Ihart élections of Grags-Valley and Nevada” take place the first Monday of May. The Grass Valléy Union of yesterday ". Application was thade to the Election Boatd of Grass Valley by a colored man to-be put on the poll-list. “The Board” here holds the application in abeyence until the opinion of the State Board can be had. a? . Begrion 2 of the Registry Law :pro. vides that “persons duly registered in the Great Register shall be deemed citizens of the State of California.” ‘Phe-onty~other qualification required “$8 a Tesi 3 _—a> re in +4 he -pre— some quarters objection is made! to en-. 3 that thye méi ci : ; Wakes upon ‘tha? Great Ee , in Fi e Obprter tory of District on-account of race,color, . . Shall, acting.in the-capacity ofa diate, ENFORCEMENT OF THE AMENDMEXT. he fojO wii? is a secti from T ; . Congress fot the @pfores Fifteenth Amendment: . . aa C — % imy person shall hindér, delay;-p afk obstruct, or attempt to hinder, delay, prevent or sacar x pf voring. Bt. residential, er onal, State, ieee Town or Municipal election in any State, Terrior previous condition of servitude, or county, township, municipal, territorial or district officer, fail, refuse or neglect / to perform any official act with, intent to prevent, hinder or delay any persons, as aforesaid from voting atany election as aforesaid, such person shall be deened guilty ofa. misdemeanor, and upon conviction theréof shall be iniprisoned OLE TRADER'S NOTICE.—Notice is heregi > t ? oo he wan : ; the Cot or Cou: re nay, 1810, 29 th the bon ties of Sierra and evade, in the State of California, in her own name and on her own account, pane toan Act of.the Leg e of the State of California, passed April 12th 1852, entitled “An Act to anu ze Married, Women to trangact business in their own name as Sole Traders,” and of the Amendatoee thereto, sed pel 58 f keeping a Millinery raed t 7 finy Sure, REBERE HEYMAN. April 14th, 1870, © FOR SALE, (HEAP FOR CASH: One 12-inch Engine, _One 10-inch: Engine, ~tlegsthan sixty days nor more. “~ ~~ one 8-inch Pump ng ay and fined not less} One 6-Inch Pump. thas $500 wor more than $1,000. _. ‘Two Horn’s Atialgamating Pans _ A tiotopoly has laid its heavy hand, through quicksilver, on this resource. Suppose that California now sends off for more immigrants, for more -working-men. Mere men of the -kind are needed to make—these monopolies do well. If the miners do not work; what will become of the quicksilver sales? These. mines. produce more _ mercury than the consumers of it need, and by . Pthe-natural-tlaw of trade the article should be cheap, but by the-combination it willremain high. Let us have more immigrants to help build large fortunes for the monopolies. The re‘tail dealers in Grass Valley make just sixty cents per flask on their sale of quicksilver. ye A — Grass Valley items, We obtain the following from the Grass Valley Union of yesterday morning: : S. : ‘A very strong looking man, with a youth apparently about thirteen years of age; the youth having but one hand, making a begging tour of the ‘town, We suppose they will get some coin from the over sympathetic, We saw them go, yesterday, to the residence of one of .our citizens who has but one hand and yet has to earn his living. Is there nota law to prevent this species of vagrancy ? We have been shown by Mr. Dan Collins speciniens of rock from the “Grass Valley Consolidated mine which appear very rich. Good judyes say that the rock now being taken. from the ledge will yield, by mill process, over $100 perton, + Isaac Sanks is of the opinion that there are between 85 and 40 colored voters within the corporate limits of posed, but our informant is’ well informed on the subject, IN a case decided by the Supreme Court of California, on the 10th inst., the plaintiff Sued to recover a debt, and the defendant proved that he had been released from it ander the Insolvent Act. The plaintiff introduced evidence to.provethat after his--release in insolvency,he made a new promise-to pay the debt. Nothing of this new prom, ise was said in the complaint, which, according to the decision.of the Court, is fatally defective. The legal obligation to pay was not under the old contract, but under the new one, and the latter should have been made the basis of the suit. ‘The same rule applies to suits brought to recover, Born, tothe wife of D. R. Locke, (Rev. Petroleam V. Nasby) in Tuledo, on Friday, March 19, ason, Mr. Locke left a number of lecture committees in the lurch and went home from Illinois to receive in person this accession to his earthly grandeur, excusing himself with the remark that he only hada boy once in eight years, but those com: mittees could find-a lecturer any where, THE New Orleans Times says that ever since the termination of the war the mind of the Hon. Pierre Soule has been unsettled, but during thelast two years it has been completely, unhinged. ‘The ounce great orator, unequalled advocate, accomplished jurist and scholar, dwindled into a hopeless imbecile; and passed the last two years of his life.in the most frivolous and imbecile manifestations of the complete overthrow of his once magnificent powro the town of Grass Valley. The num-}— . ber is much larger than we had Bape . see how the Election. Board can make @ question,-or that-the State Board has anything to do with the matter. 3 Tue New York Commercial, Advertiser has been intetviewing Frank Blair, whose deliberate opinion is that the next Presidential contest will result in revolution. “Yes, a bloody revolution. I know Grant. better than any man in this country, and I believe that he is going to hold on to power by all and every. means. He has some good points. He has a splendid military capacity. Heis the superior. of Lee, and all his acts demonstrated that he was no ordinary commander, but he is awfully ambitious. The man’ will not be content to retire to private life after his Presidential term expires.He will ‘make -himself dictator of the nation,and bayonets enough will be found to support him in the attempt. Wait and see.” IN A PAPER in Natchez reports that some negroes’ ha¥e dug up near that city a queer looking, dingy, rusty old square box,so bound about with metal as to. almost resemble an iron box, and containing coin and valuable ornaments which, it suggests, was buried by the great Hernando de Soto and his followers about the year 1640. A RESIDENT of Prospect, Connecticut, claims to have the oldest set of Ameritry. They are vest buttons of silver, made in 1767, and he asserts that his grandfather wore out twenty-seven different vests with them, and ‘that they are good for another hundred years at least. Francisco on Wednesday by. steamer. She has come to California for the purpose of satisfying herself as to the authenticity or correctness of the reports, which were published several months since relative to the discovery of a bottle at Santa Barbara, containing a letter from her hasband’s party, and supposed to have drifted out of the Arctic Ocean. THE election for Congress in the To. ledo, Ohio, District last week, resulted in the election of Peck, Republican candidate, by the largest majority yet given for any Republican. This was Ashley’s old District, and it will be remem. bered that two years ago it went Democratic to the intense delight of the Nasbyites, who seemed to have enter. tained a special delight in carrying it for their candidate. ADOLPH BUISLEY, formerly of San cension and once fell in the bay, fell from hig balloon recently in the city of ‘Mexico and was killed. Bio Sauu.—At Sacramento, on the 12th instant, the County Supervisors sold 3,000 shares of stuck in’ the Central Pacific Railroad to-D. 6. Mille & Co., for $210,000 in coin, being , atthe rate of 75 percent. The money has been paid and the stock transterred. At the polls in San Jose, a Democrat approachéd &@ colored voter and said, “Now that you havé got’the ballot, I suppose next you will be Wanting ‘ marry our daughters.” “No,” he re» ours, “4 can manufactured buttons in this coun. . . Lapy . FRANKLIN. arrived -inSan} Franciséo, where he made a balloon-as—}+ied, “and we den’; Wwaat you to warty ; . Paropor® Tiron To THE “AMERIdress of every person in the United States who takes a fifendly interest in Woman’s Enfranchisément. In order request every such person, immediately on reading thisannouncement, without waiting long enough to forget or negname and address legibly, and forward the same to me by mail, postage paid— a trifling cost which you will not begrudge to a good cause. Anybody sending ini one envelope all the names ina family, a-village or association, will render a hopeful: service. Three thousand American ‘newspapers will . oblige a brother* editor. by generously printing this card in theircolumns. The purpose of this registration is to know to whom to send important documents. Friends of the cause are urged to re“spond so sitnultaheously that their letters shall fly hither like a snow storm. Sign at once. The day witli come when will be proud of the record, -Fraternally, «» TareoporE TILTON, Editor of the Independent, Box 2787, New. York City. ALBERT Hart, who was recently re“eenitly Temoved from the position of Deputy State Librarian, has been appointed Librarian of the San Francisco Law ‘Library—a more lucrative position. 3 tae. poison : Tae American Presbyterians in Chi na have seven churches and about four hundred mémbers. THe Romanist: population of the French Empire is 36,800,664 ; the Protestant 1,501,150 ; the Jewish; 158,994. ANDREW J. Houston, son of the old hero of San Jacinto, is to be appointed to a West Point cadetship from Texas, if he will accept it. — acolored woman in Texas, was killed by two men. The woman died of her injuries. THE Fifteenth Amendment was adopted by the United States just sixtythree years after the slave trade was ‘abolished by the British Government. Wa; Jounsen, a lad: of ‘fifteen, has ‘been convicted in New Orleans of manslaughter, in killing Nicholas Ryan, a boy four years of age, Mr. SPURGEON says, “I have 4,200 members.on my church books, and if one of them got tipsey I should know it before the next week wag out,” WomeENn have been nominated as candidates for the School Board ‘in every ward in the city of Lawrence. Among them is Mrs. General Lane, a Brick Pomeroy’s Democrat, March 2ist, has an article urging the aagaseination of the President, .A DEMocRATIO editor mildly remarks that “the Constitution has gone to} hell.” If such is the ease he should not complain--he’ll find it in due time. ONOTEOR. MY ARE NOTICE EVERYBODY, That Let. ters i. on nt of the United 8: of Amer» were oo of December, A. D. Ren te. Seth ‘Maen aa Chas. F. Macey of New: county, California, r 8 new and useful vement in Hydratic Hose Pipes.’ rovemeht consistthe locatién of one or more radial on the inside of hese Pipe, for the eer ts fhe stream of water ejected t ©: that the above mentioned stillin full force and and has {now held aad owned e Caution al 1 ‘Te theres tn =) a Our said Tar funded debi of Eng now wie — 0 thS SH OF Ng vali yale ts ; Nevada, Aprilga isto. J. cRAIG CAN P£oPLE— GREETING.—I-am—com-. } missioned to procure the name and ad. Feet it, to take pen and ink, write the. — your children. and children’s children } ONE FLUE BOILER,CRAIG'S PATENT. — —aT— GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. INQUIRE OF __DAVID_ THOM, Nevada City, March 8th. _**8HOO FLY,”’ Don’t bodder me about ‘Globe Nozzles’ and ‘Goose Necks,’ ——— KNUCKLE JOINT AND NUZZLE is the t Machine for Hydraulic Mining ever in-' vented. 1 4% It works with greater ease, throws more water with less friction and costs less money ” than any other machine. One of these machines may be seen at work at TOWLE BRvs. claims, at the West Gap of: Sugar Loaf, near this city. » For further particulars apply to ,, F. H. FISHER, At the Machine Shop, Stiles’ Mill. Nevada, April 8th, NEVADA DRUG STORE. PRESTON & FAIRCHILD, Successors to E. F, Spence, . Dealers in Drugs and Chemicals. & fall supply of the Standard Patent Medtcines always on hand.Prescriptions aec¢trately compounded at all hours-of the day ornight._Otfice of Dr. k. M. HUNT;:No. 43 Broad Street, Nevada City. 4 Nevada Light Guard. Attention. 4 ‘YOU are hereby ofdered to appear at a j YOUR ARMOR NEVADA CITY, : On MONDAY, April 18th, 1870 G2" THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE OK GANIZATION OF THE COMPANY, for the transaction of importani business, and for. drill. “By order. JNO, A. LANCASTER, Captain Commanding. J. F. Carr, 0. 8. ap10 ‘SPRING OPENING! — FIRST IN THE FIELD ——— PARTICULAR NOTICE <= CURRENCY 5 SEOTAKEN AT PAR. oy JUST RECBIVED é NEW PRINTS, NEW DRESS GOODS, &¢. &e, Ke, ee" PRICES TOSUIT THE TIMES AND. GREENBACKS TAKEN AT PVR. A. GOLDSMITH. Nevada, March 10th, 1970, j THE HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Martterd,, Conn. Incorporated 1810. , SPARKS, Agent. ‘Twenty Feet Long. Diameter ## inches, ONE 30-INCH GLOBE NOZZLE, __ ‘ Castings of Every Description _ 7) NEVADA FOUNDRY, SPRING STREET._-— I esiiash: WniversalHydraulic @® + NEVADA DA ae ~LOOA ‘The Nevada 5 Yesterday Geo E of the Benevyolen in raising $49.00. butions of fifty ce collected from th idea of the good t spe formed fron demands upon it. beneficiaries, an ¢ _are unable to wor the society has gi ' and Summer. I aid the aged and ~ friends to lean up years to keep star ou the eve of chil essaries of life, sh ____ty. A. nurse way wants supplied. make every man tributor to the fur -who-do—not—meet aid in these good the society is incr: as the contributor butions will be re« ~ Jowing gentlemen, President, Rev. F: dent, A. Goldsmit: -urer, Geo. P.:Spai ___—.__N_P.Brdwn, Geo Schmittburg, Jas. and John Burns of Further of 1!) ~Mobbery. It now appears t ged in the robbery at Boston Ravine, the officers claim dence against ther details of thé arr mento. The othe were arrested in’ Se following circumst John Sansome an were arrested in Ss pitiow of Tassoing thé southern part < weapons, masks a found in their poss old offender, hayin terms.in the penit years old, and Birc the Marysville jail. think, has once be On Monday night . Sacramento jail, g account of the rob complicity and me. ties, and upon the ment the Chief of telegraphed: to Chir cisco to hold Dela: also goes by the ali: and an officer went cure them. Specia wassent down fro Dickson, and he y probably arrive toing the prisoners fc after the robbery offered for the arr their conviction, a1 will probably recei A Market for N: A gentleman of 1 from Boston a day . Greene & Rogers 0: devoted exclusively wines, and sayingwas to introduce Ca ket inthe East. T ter recently sent tc tion relative to Cal: published there an attention, and the desirous of procuri ent varieties of Cal ‘ascertain its value market. The wort introduced to Eas name of California tent, hurt the mar houses of reputatic ter quality of wins uses, to insure the . eign article by the ° Brought to the Frank Nash of yesterday admitted He has been sick fc five abcesses in his years of He Justice A. A. Smitt Thanks. of Spencer & Pattis the Transcirpr offi

Pi ous and oppressive law exempting ..0f, affixed his signature to the iniquity. The Effect bf the Law. _ The real estate broker of San Fran-4 cisco boasts that money expended by himself, secured the passage of the odimortgages from taxation, and the Haminer defends the law on principle. Governor Haight, while claiming great credit for the exercise of the veto. powIt was twice defeated, but its friends rallied and it is now a law. An examisonable man of ‘its inju banks, and every: corporation of the State, and the ready cash of all -capitalists, many escape taxation, while the property of ~“poor-men,; and’ of widows ‘and _orphans,and—even the-churches, : hor that the land shall be owned by _ bank having $100,000 capital stock, for _of capital in this way, and the whole _ fair to estimate the additional amount added to the amount already so secured “Will miake a million of dollars exempt --loaned-and-sedured—by-mortgage upon _.eal estate, shall_beexempt.fromas‘lends money will take a mortgage upcn course is plain; simply by increasing ~that-the Merchants’ Trading Company _& total capacity of 56,000 tons, will emschools and institutions of charity, are under law taxable for the full cash value. The law provides that all moneys Sessment or taxation. It does not even require that the mortgage shall be upon real estate of a value equal to the loan, the party giving the lien. A lot not worth a cent may be mortgaged to a the full amount, and the assessor is by law probibited from taxing that amount of money. The result of this will be the investment of ‘every dollar cash capital of the State, in every ave. nue of business may be covered up, and millions of dollars will be unjustly tak. en from the assessable property of thé State. Even as matters stood last year, when mortgages were taxed for their face, and men had no ebjeet in investing money, except as security, Nevada county had considerably more than half @ million Of dollars invested in this way, and from which revenue was derived. No man will pay taxes if he can lawfully avoid it, and under the premium offered by this law, every man, who some real estate, if the borrower has to locate a mining claim or buy a lotina grave yard to mortgage, and it isbut. that will be covered up from taxation at $500,000 in Nevada county, which ftém taxes, in a single county. The revenue necessary to pay large salaries, recently raised by the Legislature, the payment of the large number of newly appointed ‘officers, must be made in addition to the regular expenses of State and County governments ; 80 must the large donations tosectarian schools and charitable institutions, and since capital is virtually exempt from taxation, how must it be done? The the rate on the homesteads of poor men who can’t lend money and take mortSages fot security, by adding to the tax of those who have farms and cattle, and taxing the labor of those who are striving to develop the resources of the State. These effects of this monstrous iniquity of Democratic legislation cannot be denied, and this Jaw ‘is an evidence the party gives of its friendship for the laborer and the welfare of the State, so generally professed in the last campaign. How long will these classes be duped and deceived into the support of the Democracy? ~~” Tue Memphis Appeal announces ‘of Liverpool, worth millions of pounds sterling, having 38—sgiling vessels, of bark in the undertaking of supplying Chinese laborers to! the South. The agent of the company represents them a8 capable of delivering at-Charleston; Savannah, Pensacola, Mobile, or New Orleans, 100,000 Chinese laborers at $250 apiece, payable in gold in certain. installmepts. «The regulations are said to be almost identical with those of Koopmanschap, and strictly in accord. ance with the treaty between China ' QUICKSILVER MonoProLy.—This sigA Mon item igrtele ed . Ba neigeo tothe Saet noni bien! . under dateof the 11th of Aprify The ‘New. Almaden, New Idria and . Redingtog Quicksilver Companies contracted with D. O. Mills for the entire product of their mines for two'years, froni“April Ist, at $31 per flask. This makes the new combination more powtain that there will be no reduction in This quickeilver will be sold, says the Grass Valley Union, as we understand it, to any-parties on the Pacifie coast for the“‘sum of $45 90 per flask, and to~parties who wish to use it in }any. place not on the Pacific coast for $45 00% per flask. Quicksilver is, in~Ration of its effects will satisfy any rea 'diepensibie in siining operations, and erful than the olf and rendérs it cer} 7 REGISTRATION ON THE PoLL List.— iS rolling upon the poll ligt. Ihart élections of Grags-Valley and Nevada” take place the first Monday of May. The Grass Valléy Union of yesterday ". Application was thade to the Election Boatd of Grass Valley by a colored man to-be put on the poll-list. “The Board” here holds the application in abeyence until the opinion of the State Board can be had. a? . Begrion 2 of the Registry Law :pro. vides that “persons duly registered in the Great Register shall be deemed citizens of the State of California.” ‘Phe-onty~other qualification required “$8 a Tesi 3 _—a> re in +4 he -pre— some quarters objection is made! to en-. 3 that thye méi ci : ; Wakes upon ‘tha? Great Ee , in Fi e Obprter tory of District on-account of race,color, . . Shall, acting.in the-capacity ofa diate, ENFORCEMENT OF THE AMENDMEXT. he fojO wii? is a secti from T ; . Congress fot the @pfores Fifteenth Amendment: . . aa C — % imy person shall hindér, delay;-p afk obstruct, or attempt to hinder, delay, prevent or sacar x pf voring. Bt. residential, er onal, State, ieee Town or Municipal election in any State, Terrior previous condition of servitude, or county, township, municipal, territorial or district officer, fail, refuse or neglect / to perform any official act with, intent to prevent, hinder or delay any persons, as aforesaid from voting atany election as aforesaid, such person shall be deened guilty ofa. misdemeanor, and upon conviction theréof shall be iniprisoned OLE TRADER'S NOTICE.—Notice is heregi > t ? oo he wan : ; the Cot or Cou: re nay, 1810, 29 th the bon ties of Sierra and evade, in the State of California, in her own name and on her own account, pane toan Act of.the Leg e of the State of California, passed April 12th 1852, entitled “An Act to anu ze Married, Women to trangact business in their own name as Sole Traders,” and of the Amendatoee thereto, sed pel 58 f keeping a Millinery raed t 7 finy Sure, REBERE HEYMAN. April 14th, 1870, © FOR SALE, (HEAP FOR CASH: One 12-inch Engine, _One 10-inch: Engine, ~tlegsthan sixty days nor more. “~ ~~ one 8-inch Pump ng ay and fined not less} One 6-Inch Pump. thas $500 wor more than $1,000. _. ‘Two Horn’s Atialgamating Pans _ A tiotopoly has laid its heavy hand, through quicksilver, on this resource. Suppose that California now sends off for more immigrants, for more -working-men. Mere men of the -kind are needed to make—these monopolies do well. If the miners do not work; what will become of the quicksilver sales? These. mines. produce more _ mercury than the consumers of it need, and by . Pthe-natural-tlaw of trade the article should be cheap, but by the-combination it willremain high. Let us have more immigrants to help build large fortunes for the monopolies. The re‘tail dealers in Grass Valley make just sixty cents per flask on their sale of quicksilver. ye A — Grass Valley items, We obtain the following from the Grass Valley Union of yesterday morning: : S. : ‘A very strong looking man, with a youth apparently about thirteen years of age; the youth having but one hand, making a begging tour of the ‘town, We suppose they will get some coin from the over sympathetic, We saw them go, yesterday, to the residence of one of .our citizens who has but one hand and yet has to earn his living. Is there nota law to prevent this species of vagrancy ? We have been shown by Mr. Dan Collins speciniens of rock from the “Grass Valley Consolidated mine which appear very rich. Good judyes say that the rock now being taken. from the ledge will yield, by mill process, over $100 perton, + Isaac Sanks is of the opinion that there are between 85 and 40 colored voters within the corporate limits of posed, but our informant is’ well informed on the subject, IN a case decided by the Supreme Court of California, on the 10th inst., the plaintiff Sued to recover a debt, and the defendant proved that he had been released from it ander the Insolvent Act. The plaintiff introduced evidence to.provethat after his--release in insolvency,he made a new promise-to pay the debt. Nothing of this new prom, ise was said in the complaint, which, according to the decision.of the Court, is fatally defective. The legal obligation to pay was not under the old contract, but under the new one, and the latter should have been made the basis of the suit. ‘The same rule applies to suits brought to recover, Born, tothe wife of D. R. Locke, (Rev. Petroleam V. Nasby) in Tuledo, on Friday, March 19, ason, Mr. Locke left a number of lecture committees in the lurch and went home from Illinois to receive in person this accession to his earthly grandeur, excusing himself with the remark that he only hada boy once in eight years, but those com: mittees could find-a lecturer any where, THE New Orleans Times says that ever since the termination of the war the mind of the Hon. Pierre Soule has been unsettled, but during thelast two years it has been completely, unhinged. ‘The ounce great orator, unequalled advocate, accomplished jurist and scholar, dwindled into a hopeless imbecile; and passed the last two years of his life.in the most frivolous and imbecile manifestations of the complete overthrow of his once magnificent powro the town of Grass Valley. The num-}— . ber is much larger than we had Bape . see how the Election. Board can make @ question,-or that-the State Board has anything to do with the matter. 3 Tue New York Commercial, Advertiser has been intetviewing Frank Blair, whose deliberate opinion is that the next Presidential contest will result in revolution. “Yes, a bloody revolution. I know Grant. better than any man in this country, and I believe that he is going to hold on to power by all and every. means. He has some good points. He has a splendid military capacity. Heis the superior. of Lee, and all his acts demonstrated that he was no ordinary commander, but he is awfully ambitious. The man’ will not be content to retire to private life after his Presidential term expires.He will ‘make -himself dictator of the nation,and bayonets enough will be found to support him in the attempt. Wait and see.” IN A PAPER in Natchez reports that some negroes’ ha¥e dug up near that city a queer looking, dingy, rusty old square box,so bound about with metal as to. almost resemble an iron box, and containing coin and valuable ornaments which, it suggests, was buried by the great Hernando de Soto and his followers about the year 1640. A RESIDENT of Prospect, Connecticut, claims to have the oldest set of Ameritry. They are vest buttons of silver, made in 1767, and he asserts that his grandfather wore out twenty-seven different vests with them, and ‘that they are good for another hundred years at least. Francisco on Wednesday by. steamer. She has come to California for the purpose of satisfying herself as to the authenticity or correctness of the reports, which were published several months since relative to the discovery of a bottle at Santa Barbara, containing a letter from her hasband’s party, and supposed to have drifted out of the Arctic Ocean. THE election for Congress in the To. ledo, Ohio, District last week, resulted in the election of Peck, Republican candidate, by the largest majority yet given for any Republican. This was Ashley’s old District, and it will be remem. bered that two years ago it went Democratic to the intense delight of the Nasbyites, who seemed to have enter.

tained a special delight in carrying it for their candidate. ADOLPH BUISLEY, formerly of San cension and once fell in the bay, fell from hig balloon recently in the city of ‘Mexico and was killed. Bio Sauu.—At Sacramento, on the 12th instant, the County Supervisors sold 3,000 shares of stuck in’ the Central Pacific Railroad to-D. 6. Mille & Co., for $210,000 in coin, being , atthe rate of 75 percent. The money has been paid and the stock transterred. At the polls in San Jose, a Democrat approachéd &@ colored voter and said, “Now that you havé got’the ballot, I suppose next you will be Wanting ‘ marry our daughters.” “No,” he re» ours, “4 can manufactured buttons in this coun. . . Lapy . FRANKLIN. arrived -inSan} Franciséo, where he made a balloon-as—}+ied, “and we den’; Wwaat you to warty ; . Paropor® Tiron To THE “AMERIdress of every person in the United States who takes a fifendly interest in Woman’s Enfranchisément. In order request every such person, immediately on reading thisannouncement, without waiting long enough to forget or negname and address legibly, and forward the same to me by mail, postage paid— a trifling cost which you will not begrudge to a good cause. Anybody sending ini one envelope all the names ina family, a-village or association, will render a hopeful: service. Three thousand American ‘newspapers will . oblige a brother* editor. by generously printing this card in theircolumns. The purpose of this registration is to know to whom to send important documents. Friends of the cause are urged to re“spond so sitnultaheously that their letters shall fly hither like a snow storm. Sign at once. The day witli come when will be proud of the record, -Fraternally, «» TareoporE TILTON, Editor of the Independent, Box 2787, New. York City. ALBERT Hart, who was recently re“eenitly Temoved from the position of Deputy State Librarian, has been appointed Librarian of the San Francisco Law ‘Library—a more lucrative position. 3 tae. poison : Tae American Presbyterians in Chi na have seven churches and about four hundred mémbers. THe Romanist: population of the French Empire is 36,800,664 ; the Protestant 1,501,150 ; the Jewish; 158,994. ANDREW J. Houston, son of the old hero of San Jacinto, is to be appointed to a West Point cadetship from Texas, if he will accept it. — acolored woman in Texas, was killed by two men. The woman died of her injuries. THE Fifteenth Amendment was adopted by the United States just sixtythree years after the slave trade was ‘abolished by the British Government. Wa; Jounsen, a lad: of ‘fifteen, has ‘been convicted in New Orleans of manslaughter, in killing Nicholas Ryan, a boy four years of age, Mr. SPURGEON says, “I have 4,200 members.on my church books, and if one of them got tipsey I should know it before the next week wag out,” WomeENn have been nominated as candidates for the School Board ‘in every ward in the city of Lawrence. Among them is Mrs. General Lane, a Brick Pomeroy’s Democrat, March 2ist, has an article urging the aagaseination of the President, .A DEMocRATIO editor mildly remarks that “the Constitution has gone to} hell.” If such is the ease he should not complain--he’ll find it in due time. ONOTEOR. MY ARE NOTICE EVERYBODY, That Let. ters i. on nt of the United 8: of Amer» were oo of December, A. D. Ren te. Seth ‘Maen aa Chas. F. Macey of New: county, California, r 8 new and useful vement in Hydratic Hose Pipes.’ rovemeht consistthe locatién of one or more radial on the inside of hese Pipe, for the eer ts fhe stream of water ejected t ©: that the above mentioned stillin full force and and has {now held aad owned e Caution al 1 ‘Te theres tn =) a Our said Tar funded debi of Eng now wie — 0 thS SH OF Ng vali yale ts ; Nevada, Aprilga isto. J. cRAIG CAN P£oPLE— GREETING.—I-am—com-. } missioned to procure the name and ad. Feet it, to take pen and ink, write the. — your children. and children’s children } ONE FLUE BOILER,CRAIG'S PATENT. — —aT— GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. INQUIRE OF __DAVID_ THOM, Nevada City, March 8th. _**8HOO FLY,”’ Don’t bodder me about ‘Globe Nozzles’ and ‘Goose Necks,’ ——— KNUCKLE JOINT AND NUZZLE is the t Machine for Hydraulic Mining ever in-' vented. 1 4% It works with greater ease, throws more water with less friction and costs less money ” than any other machine. One of these machines may be seen at work at TOWLE BRvs. claims, at the West Gap of: Sugar Loaf, near this city. » For further particulars apply to ,, F. H. FISHER, At the Machine Shop, Stiles’ Mill. Nevada, April 8th, NEVADA DRUG STORE. PRESTON & FAIRCHILD, Successors to E. F, Spence, . Dealers in Drugs and Chemicals. & fall supply of the Standard Patent Medtcines always on hand.Prescriptions aec¢trately compounded at all hours-of the day ornight._Otfice of Dr. k. M. HUNT;:No. 43 Broad Street, Nevada City. 4 Nevada Light Guard. Attention. 4 ‘YOU are hereby ofdered to appear at a j YOUR ARMOR NEVADA CITY, : On MONDAY, April 18th, 1870 G2" THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE OK GANIZATION OF THE COMPANY, for the transaction of importani business, and for. drill. “By order. JNO, A. LANCASTER, Captain Commanding. J. F. Carr, 0. 8. ap10 ‘SPRING OPENING! — FIRST IN THE FIELD ——— PARTICULAR NOTICE <= CURRENCY 5 SEOTAKEN AT PAR. oy JUST RECBIVED é NEW PRINTS, NEW DRESS GOODS, &¢. &e, Ke, ee" PRICES TOSUIT THE TIMES AND. GREENBACKS TAKEN AT PVR. A. GOLDSMITH. Nevada, March 10th, 1970, j THE HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Martterd,, Conn. Incorporated 1810. , SPARKS, Agent. ‘Twenty Feet Long. Diameter ## inches, ONE 30-INCH GLOBE NOZZLE, __ ‘ Castings of Every Description _ 7) NEVADA FOUNDRY, SPRING STREET._-— I esiiash: WniversalHydraulic @® + NEVADA DA ae ~LOOA ‘The Nevada 5 Yesterday Geo E of the Benevyolen in raising $49.00. butions of fifty ce collected from th idea of the good t spe formed fron demands upon it. beneficiaries, an ¢ _are unable to wor the society has gi ' and Summer. I aid the aged and ~ friends to lean up years to keep star ou the eve of chil essaries of life, sh ____ty. A. nurse way wants supplied. make every man tributor to the fur -who-do—not—meet aid in these good the society is incr: as the contributor butions will be re« ~ Jowing gentlemen, President, Rev. F: dent, A. Goldsmit: -urer, Geo. P.:Spai ___—.__N_P.Brdwn, Geo Schmittburg, Jas. and John Burns of Further of 1!) ~Mobbery. It now appears t ged in the robbery at Boston Ravine, the officers claim dence against ther details of thé arr mento. The othe were arrested in’ Se following circumst John Sansome an were arrested in Ss pitiow of Tassoing thé southern part < weapons, masks a found in their poss old offender, hayin terms.in the penit years old, and Birc the Marysville jail. think, has once be On Monday night . Sacramento jail, g account of the rob complicity and me. ties, and upon the ment the Chief of telegraphed: to Chir cisco to hold Dela: also goes by the ali: and an officer went cure them. Specia wassent down fro Dickson, and he y probably arrive toing the prisoners fc after the robbery offered for the arr their conviction, a1 will probably recei A Market for N: A gentleman of 1 from Boston a day . Greene & Rogers 0: devoted exclusively wines, and sayingwas to introduce Ca ket inthe East. T ter recently sent tc tion relative to Cal: published there an attention, and the desirous of procuri ent varieties of Cal ‘ascertain its value market. The wort introduced to Eas name of California tent, hurt the mar houses of reputatic ter quality of wins uses, to insure the . eign article by the ° Brought to the Frank Nash of yesterday admitted He has been sick fc five abcesses in his years of He Justice A. A. Smitt Thanks. of Spencer & Pattis the Transcirpr offi