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A. A. SARGENT, EDITOR.
FRIDAY MOUSING. DECE MHKK 23.
San Francisco Election. —The elec
tion of Mr. Mai oney to the Senate in the
place of Samuel Brannan resigned, is an
uniquivocal proof that the people of that
city favor the election of United States
Senator at the next session of the Legis
lature, and that they prefer Mr. Broderick
to any other 4spirant. Mr. Mahoney
stated in the convention that nominated
him that he was in favor of both these
propositions. Mr, Farwell, his whig op
ponent, on tlic contrary expressed himself,
in a communication in the Evening Nev.s,
opposed to the election this winter. Mr.
Mahoney received a majority 0 f nearly
•1000, while Mr. FarweU’s vote was short
of 2000 all told. We believe this com
munication of Mr. Far well drew off from
him considerable 'whig strength, of those
no way open for the election of a whig,
and who prefer Mr. Broderick to any other
democrat, but who think his chances
depend in considerable measure on the
election taking place this year. Mr, Far
well is a gentleman of excellent character,
but is quite young, and had hardly the
prestige of leadership necessary for success.
This election will net with force upon
the Legislature, and is probably the most
fortunate thing for Mr. Broderick that
could have happened. We consider his
chances growing better.
EQf‘ A Rough &. Ready corrcsjKmdeut of
the Telegraph says iu reference to the School
fund :
“ From the movements at Nevada, it would
cecin that the citizens of that place are about
to obtain for themselves the use of nil the school
fund due this county from the State. I may be
mistaken in my understanding of the matter;
but no less should the i>cople of Gross Valley
and Hough & Ready attend to their business,
and by so doing secure their snare. We have
children enough, within a reasonable distance,
to employ one teacher the year round, who are
now running nt large, and progressing rapidly
in street and bar-room education, according to
California stylo, celerity and celebrity, (live
ns a stir-on the subject, anyhow. Our people
may l>o “Rough" enough, but I know they
arc always “ Ready. "
Wc will inform all parties that the census of
the children of Nevada township was taken
and the returns forwarded according to law,—
No claim has been made, or can be made, for
more than that proportion of the fund that we
have children to represent. Some three months
ago wc particularly urged upon Grass Valley
and Rough & Ready the necessity of taking a
census of their children, and applying for their
jKirtion of the School fund. We have several
times since adverted to it. If these towns have
neglected their duty, it is now too lute to repent.
Those townships which have compiled with the
tow do aot get more or less money by the neg
lect of others to take the proper course. All
the returns were required to be handed in to the
Superintendent of Public Instruction by the
15tli of December.
Rencontre.—A difficulty occurred on
Saturday night last, on Commercial street,
between H, Davidge and L. Davidson, in
which the former received a shot in the
back passing through the cavity of the
shoulder. The ball was taken out in front.
The latter received several blows with a
cane. Davidson gave himself up a short
lime after the encounter, and was discharg
ed without examination the following
morning. Davidge is recovering.
The officers elected in Nevada
Lodge, N0.,13, F. & A. M. # for the ensuing
year, are as follows: u
J. Fitz James, W. M.
C. H. Seymour, S. W.
W. Mailman, J. W.
N. A. Hicks, S. D.
G-M. Saul, J. D.
C. H. Patchin, Sec’y.
I. Williamson, Treas.
R. Little, and S. Boring, r Stewards.
C. C. Green, Tyler. , '
Theatre. —The Chapman family hare
returned to this city after playing to crow
ded houses at Grass and Rough $
Ready,and open to-mcrrow night in two new
pieces—“ Day in Paris,” and “Love in Liv
ery” besides dancing by Miss Chapraan>
singing, &c. Mr. C. B. Lovell is manager.
The family have been very successful in
their visit to this county, and have brought
out many novelties.
The Prizes drawn in Porter's Raf
fle, and so far claimed are as follows ;
No. Iti poo held by Robinson, prize No. 7, blgh.
No. 10 108 “ John Little, “ “ 6, “
So. 1! 133 “£ L. Woodwacd “ N* B, lo\r.
The dancing school of Mr. Robin
son takes place next Monday instead of
Tuesday, so as not to interfere with the
ball on the latter evening. The school is
large and insreasing, and the teacher is
perfectly au fait in his art. Tha state
of the weather on Tuesday evening last
prevented the attendance of ladies, but they
are invited to participate at the next meet-
ELECTION RETURNS.
lor Slate Senator, City 4' Co. of San Francisco.
The early hour at which we go to
press precludes a notice of the festivities
of the New Englanders on the 22d. We
shall give a full report in our next
European News Items.
Jenny Lind.— The N. Y. correspondent
of the Charleston Courier learns through a
friend just arrived from Vienna that Muns.
Goldschmidt has retained but $130,000 of
the vast fortune which she made in this
country, and that this comprises her entire
worldly possessions. She will positively
appear on the stage next summer, but in
concerts only. She will visit England
first, but willl not probably favor the “ land
of the West ” again with her matchless
voice.
Low Railroad Fares in England.—
The London Times states that the com
petition between the Northwestern and
the Great Western Railway companies
hr,a risen to such a pitch that in one case,
whore the lines of the two great compa
nies run between the same (owns, the
traveler may ride a distance of CO miles
for sixpence. In another case, the fare for
running ninety miles is Is. Cd.
On the 12th of October four waggons
arrived at the Waterloo road, terminus of
the London and Southampton railway,
each containing two tons’ weight of the
current coin of Englond, the whole weigh
ing eight tons. The packages containing
the money were placed on a special train
and conveyed to Southampton, from which
port the same is to be shipped to Ceylon.
One of the most destructive gales that
has been experienced at St. Petersburg,
for a long period, occurred on the 2d Oct.
last. A letter states that the lower part of
the city was completely inundated, which
destroyed a large amount of property, and
even left quite large vessels high and dry
in the streets of the city.
Faii runs at Hamburg. —The steam
ship Franklin brought intelligence of two
failures at Hamburg, owing to the contin
ued fall in stocks and shares, in which
they are largely interested. Being old
established houses, their failure was much
regretted, and had produced an unfavorable
impression on Hamburg and Berlin.
Trie geneial trade of the manufacturing
districts throughout England remains re
markably healthy, and not only are there
no anneuncements of mercantile failures,
but there is a total absence of uneeasiness
regarding the probability of their occur
rence.
English Strikes. —The long continued
wages strikes had resulted in a fearful riot
at Wigan. The colliers were brought in
contact with the military, blood was shed
in the streets, and the town literally sacked
by the infuriated multitude.
The Belgian Royal family are now on a
visit to cousin Victoria, in England. The
royal party consists of the King of the
Belgians, their royal highnesses the Duke
and Duchess de Brabant, the Count de
Eland res, and the Princes Charlotte of
Belgium.
The British Parliament has been for
mally prorogued until the 29th inst, nor
is it then peremptorily summoned for the
“dispatch of business. ” This does not
indicate any immediate rupture on the
Eastern question.
The Emperor of Austria has remitted
to Count Michael Esterhazy, senior, the
remainder of the term of imprisonment to
which he was sentenced for participation
in the Hungarian insurrection.
It is said that the new Greek Patriarch
at Constantinople, in his circular addressed
to the clergy and people of his faith, had
placed himself in direct opposition to Rus
sia in its pretensions to act in behalf of
the Greeks.
The ancient Britons know only six
primitive ore?, from which metals are
produced ; whereas the present scientific
generation use fifty. The aggregate yield
of minerals is equivalent in value to about
£25,000,000 annually.
There was a report in London that the
Emperor and Empress of France would
visit London during the present month,
but the report was not regarded as well
grounded.
It ia shown by a return just issued that
in the year ending the sth of January last
the duty on tobacco and snuff amounted to
£4,542,572.
From a Parliamentary paper recently
issued, it appears that in the year ending
the sth of Jan. last, the charges of collec
tion on the revenue, amounted to £2,638,-
731.
Advices from Vienna states that Austria
had effected a loan with the Imperial Bank
and other large financial establishments at
St. Petersburg.
There was a slight increase in the num
ber of cholera cases in London,- but the
disease was dying out elsewhere, and there
was little apprehension respecting it.
A frightful accident happened on the
river Medway, near Tunbridge, Wells, on
the 21st ult., by which nearly forty per
sons perished.
From Egypt we learn that Abba Pacha
had limited the export of grain from his
dominions to 250,000 quarters.
It was reported that at the desire ot the
French Empress, a general amnesty to
the press would be granted at the occasion
of her fete.
Hudson, the British “ Railway King ” is
said to be worth £250,000, after all the
changes of fortune to which he has been
subjected.
Guano.—The annual consumption-of
Peruvian guano in Britain, it is said, is
now from 190,000 to 200,000 tons per an
num.
Mr. People shows that the railways of
Great Britain have cost £240,000,000; the
canals, £26,000,000 ; and the dock* £30,-
000,971.
John Savill Faucit, a veteran actor,
dramatist and manager, died suddenly in
London recently. He was the father of
Helen Faueit.
| Among the reform to be introduced at
the next session of the British Parliament,
is one for a decimal coinage.
Pope Pious IX, is so corpulent, it is
said, that he plays billiards every day, for
the purpose of teducing his size.
Sonora.- - The Governor General of Sonora,
Ganada, on the 10th of November, issued the
following proclamation to the inhabitants. The
document commences with a preamble denounc
ing severely the filibusters, and then declares :
1. That all strangers who invade this depart
ment without the proper permission of the au
thorities. and form armed bands, will be consid
ered and treated as pirates.
2. That ail Captains of Vessels that bring
armed invaders, all owners of such vessels who
authbrfee such use of their vessels, all who
maintain friendly relations with the invaders,
all who in any way protect, aid, and serve the
piratical expedition, all who conceal or attempt
to save any individual of the invaders, all who
willingly act as guides, and all who give them
information, will be treated as pirates.
3. That all who withdraw from the towns
without permission of the authorities, to avoid
taking up arms, and all who are remiss in the
fulfillment of their duties to their country, will
be considered as “ suspect,’’ and will be tried
by court martial, the least punishment being
enrolment in the standing army.
Urks, November luth.
o entit.tty. —There cannot be a sure proof of
low origin, or an inmate meanness of disposi
tion, than to he always talking and thinking of
being genteel.— llazlrtt.
BOU. “Beware,” said the potter to the clay,
and it became ware.
The Fox girls have rapped a large for
tune out of the pockets of the people, have pur
chased a fine place in Harmonia, N. Y., and
retired to private life. If spiritualism is a hum
bug, they have found it a profitable one, at
least.
M • F. Ward killed W. H. G. Butler,
at Louisville, Ky. A few words passed be
tween them, when Mr. Ward pulled out a pistol
and shot Mr. B. down. The ball benefitted his
left breast, over the heart, and he fell to the
floor, exclaiming hi his agony, “I am killed—
oh, my poor wife and child !”
Thk Tariff. —A Washington dispatch says
it is understood that Secretary Guthrie favors a
reduction of duty on iron of all kinds to twenty
five per cent, ad valorem ; also, that ho will
recommend that salt, dyestuffs, mahogany and
other furniture woods, raw silks, crude drugs
and fruits, be put on the free list.
An affray occurred at Clarkesville,
(Va.) between George B. Ellicott and Edward
Gillespie, in which the latter was killed and the
former was mortally wounded. Both held po
sitions of respectability in the community.
On the sth November, a man by the
name of Stephen Crane, a resident of Vestal,
Broome county, New York, was shot by his
son-in-law, while endeavoring to force an en
trance into his own house. The murderer was
arrested.
BfSJu A case has been on trial in the U. S.
Circuit Court, at Philadelphia, to recover $50,-
000 alleged to be due to the estate of the late
Daniel Webster, for fees in the great case of
Matthias Aspden’s estate.
den. Garibaldi, the Roman patriot,
who arrived in the United States a few weeks
back, in command of the Peruvian bark Car
men, from Callao, sailed on the 4th November,
on his return, for Valparaiso and Callao.
The Sandwich Islands —twelve in number—
embrace a superficial area of about six thous
and and one hundred square miles. Four of
the islands are rocky and uninhabitable.
Kossuth is supposed to bo hidden some
where in Paris, though the probability is that
he is on his way to Turkey, in case, as Mr. Mi
cawber would say, that if “something turns up,”
he can “take a hand.”
BgU The Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Free Dem
ocrat of Nov. 15th, has returns showing a ma
jority for a prohibitory liquor law in the State,
of 250, which will doubtless be increased to
2,000 or more.
The brig Reform, from Bremen, bound to
Galveston, Texas, was wrecked at Nuevitas,
coast of Cuba, on the 25th of October. The
passengers were taken to N. Orleans by steam
ship.
Mcßride’s calico works, near Fair
mount, Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire
IGth Nov. The loss is about $12,000, and 100
operatives are thereby thrown out of employ
ment.
It is the intention of the governor to
call an extra session of the Missouri Legislature
this winter, to devise means to facilitate the
speedy completion of the railroads.
The Washington Star says that Con
gress will be asked to appropriate from three
to five millions of dollars for public buildings
at Washington.
Ex-Governor Williams, of New Hamp
shire, has been appointed to fill the vacancy in
the U. S. Senate, caused by the death of Sena
tor Atherton.
Col. Fremont and lady were in Inde
pendence, (Mo.) on the 25th October, and
would leave in a few days for the Plains.
Martin Koszta arrived in Boston on
the 30th of November.
Col. Wm. Schouler, formerly editor of
! the Boston Allan, has become sole editor of the
Cincinnati Gazette.
There are 176 teachers and 10,354 schol
ars in the Cincinnati public schools.
Indepkxdekce of Pabty. —The Buffalo Cou
rier, Adamantine, contains this paragraph •
“The recent Election has developed one fact
if no more. That is, that the people are fast
declaring themselves independent of mere party
dictation and control. lids, under existing
circumstances, we regard as a favorable sign of
the times.”
A printing press has been shipped to
Lower California, by the celebrated J. Judson
Amos, Esq., who has received from President
Walker, the appointment of State Printer for
the new Republic. “ Boston” thinks his for
tune is made, is quite sanguinary on the sub
ject of JUihlustering, and talks as if he could
swallow up all the Lower Californiahs, and Jo
nah’s to boot. He must have a better
grip than he had of Phoenix’s nose.
The Coloma Argus says that a large
number of the Celestials, who had been engag
ed at mining in the river beds, until driven out
by the rains, have located at Greenwood, where
they have rented eight or ten stores and two of
the principal hotels, the New World and Em-
J)ire, and have opened their gambling saloons a
a American. Some of them fthe buildings)
are quite tastefully furnished. Tne creeks and
ravines in that neighborhood are literally throng
ed with these people.
BgL. The Dublin exhibition is about to bo
closed, after a most successful financial progress.
The number of daily visitors was about 16,000.
A now iron yacht of 600 horse power,
is to be built for the use of Queen Victoria.
JKaT > According to Washington gossip, Mr.
Orr, of South Carolina, will secure the caucus
nomination and the support of the Administra
tion for the speakership.
Mexican Xews. — By the arrival of the Jno.
L. Stephens, we are in possession of full files
of Mexican papers, up to December 3 ; fourteen
days later than last advices. Manuel Gandara,
Governor of Sonora, is making’ vigorous pre
parations to receive the Filibusters with mark
ed attention. A large number of Mexicans
and Yacki Indians, who are his personal de
pendants. were busy at work fortifying the port
of Guaymas, and a considerable body of troops
were in inarch for Sonora, and wore to be com
manded by General Vane/, who had no doubt
arrived in that State ore this,
Santa Anna had offered the grand cross of
the new Order of Guadalu]>c to Scncres .1 nan
B. Ceballosjmd Mafcelino Castenado, Judges
of the Supreme Court; but. those gentlemen
had refused the intended honor under the plea
that their circumstances would not allow them
to bear the necessary expenses accompanying
it. The Dictator, thereupon, deprived them of
their offices, saying, if they were so poor that
they could not accept the honor, they were also
too poor to maintain their posts of Supreme
Judges with dignity.
A pronunciamento had been issued in Guad
alupe making Santa Anna, Dictator for life,
with the title of Captain General, and the right
to appoint Ids successor. Several other states
had followed the example, and Santa Anna had
been slavored with the most fulsome flattery in
the public prints.
Banishment and summary executions were
numerous, among the victims was Don Luis de
lia Rosa, formerly Minister at Washington,
who was shot without even the form of a trial.
It is rumored that Mr. Gadsden, our Minis
ter, is making terms with the Mexican Gov
ernment for the purchase of Chihuahua and
Sonora, and is likely to succeed in his desire.
Such an event would be of much benefit to
both countries.
The Mexican papers are filled with accounts
of Indian depredations on their northern fron
tier ; but apart from decrees and circulars, the
government seems to be perfectly indifferent
on the subject.
JBfegT* The total amount of California gold
deposited at the Philadelphia mint and its
branches since the first discovery up to Novem
ber Ist., is two hundred and four millions of
dollars.
Georgia Legislature.—A bill to abolish
imprisonment for debt has beenpntroduced into
the lower house of the Georgia Legislature.
The failure of Mr. Lucius 11. Pratt a
large forwarding merchant in Buffalo, is men
tioned. His liabilities are said to amount to
§200,000.
US?* During the progress of the Fair at
Augusta, Georgia, tiic chairman of the Execu
tive Committee authorized the auctioneer to
oiler a silver cup as a premium for the best
looking baby, of native growth, 14 months
old, which should be exhibited. A little daugh
ter of Robert Glover was the only competitor,
and of course took the prize.
The Market House in Philadelphia.—
The probability of the removal of the Mile
Market Houses, which have so long been one
of the characteristics of Philadelphia, grows
stronger daily. In preparation for the event,
the City Council have directed measures to he
taken for the purchase of four suitable sites in
the four sections of the city, for the purpose of
erecting market houses thereon.
8*5%., The Schoharie Republican says: “The
recent fall in the price of butter, together with
present indications of a greater reduction has
somewhat frightened the dealers thereabouts,
who have been holding on for bettor prices, and
consequently they arc now rushing the butter
to market in haste. Ten or fifteen tons of but
ter passed that office on the 13th inst., running
towards Albany. ”
A Washington letter says that a great
combination of patentees is on foot, to obtain
from Congress a renewal of their several grants.
Among them is the Woodworth Planing Ma
chine—the Goodyear India Rubber patents —
the Morse Telegraph patent, and other heavy
interests. It is said that half a million of dol
lars has been pledged to ease the passage of the
various schemes through Congress.
Mr. Steers, builder of the yacht Amer
ica, has constructed a model of a ship of 2,500
tons, for the California and New York trade,
for which he is to bo the owner himself, in part
or exclusively, and which he undertakes will
sail 22 miles an hour—heating any steamer
that has ever yet floated. He will sail her,
when finished, against any ship in the world
for $lO,OOO.
Complimentary and Self-denying. —The
New York Freeman's Journal, in announcing
the election of Mr, Peter Dawson, the demo
cratic member elect of the Assembly for the
twelfth district, says, “We congratulate Mr.
Dawson on his election, though we thereby lose
a most reliable and excellent carrier of our
paper. ”
BQu. The Detroit 'Tribune estimates that a
strip of country at least thirty miles in length
has been burned over by the late fire in the
vicinity, that twenty-seven houses have been
destroyed, and the crops and wood on at least
one hundred farms have been entirely destroyed.
Mrs. Zubah Wheeler dial at Hollis, N.
11. recently, at the age of 102. She was in her
twenty-fourth year when the battle of Bunker
Hill was fought, and retained to the last a lively
recollection of the time and its incidents.
i&g-The S. F. Sun of the 20th relates
the following diabolical case of a rape :
One of the infamous outrages it has ever
been our province to record, took place
yesterday afternoon. A man, or brute, or
demon, named Stenning, formerly an “at
tache” of the American Theatre, commit
ted a rape on the person of a little girl
aged six years, the daughter of a gentle
man named Hall, who keeps a public
house on Pacific street- The police are
on his track, and it is scareely possible
for him to escape, although the villian has
not yet beon apprehended. We have
never, since our existence as a public jour
nal, been obliged to chronicle an event of
equal baseness and of so demoniacal a
type, except the desecration of the dead
bodies in the Verba Buena cemetery.
For Liberia.—The American Coloni
zation Society chartered the ship Banshee,
of 490 tons, to sail for Liberia, from Balti
more, on the Ist pf November, She is tQ
take out 280 emigrants.
The London papers announce the death
of the Bishop of Derry and Kaphoe. He
wss 83 years of age.
According to official returns, Ohio has
averaged thirty millions of bushels of wheat
for the last three years, of whieh sixteen
millions are in surplus, after feeding its
own inhabitants.
A grizzly bear whose depredations had
become frequent and "ruinous among the
miners at French Gulch, was pursued re
cently into the mountaihs and killed. His
slayers subsequently feasted upon his flesh.
Court Dress. —The London Times thinks
England should be flattered when Americans
consider court dress the measure of barbarism.
lIP- Anastasio Makin was arrested
on Wednesday last, and lodged in the Ne
vada jail for kidnapping a child belonging
to a Spanish woman named Gregoria Fa
villo. He and his accomplices took the
child on the night of the 20th, and carried
it to Sacramento, where one of them, Juan
Martinas, now has the child. The object
was to get the mother to go with Martinas,
who formerly kept her, and who refused to
do so. The mother was in much distress
about her child.
Marin was brought on Thursday before
Justice Rolfe,and in default of $5OO bonds,
was committed to jail to await Lis trial in
the court of sessions.
Bs-Bu If anybody don’t believe 0. W.
Mulford has a good article of Knivos,
just let him go and get one and try it.
Henry Hanson was arrested and
brought before Justice Rolfe, on Tuesday last,
on a charge of perjury. The charge not being
sustained he was discharged.
New Books.— We are indebted to Mr. Mul
ford for copies of Harper’s and Graham’s Mag
azines for December. Harper contains its usu
al amount of reading matter, including a con
tinuation of Thackaray’s new story, the “New
comes,” and is well illustrated. Graham has
among other articles one iu reference to Lyce
ums that is worthy reading.
A tree fell across some houses at
the head of Main street on Thursday,
crushing them, and also a fine Concord
coach that was in one of the buildings.—
The tree fell in a different direction from
what the choppers anticipated- No one
was injured.
JESS"* Messrs Goodman & Bro.’s adver
tisements in our paper will be found use
ful to our merchants sending orders below.
They are long established merchants, and
do a heavy business. Their stock embra
ces all variety of provisions, &c.
Milling News*
Little York —We learn from a gen
tleman from Little York tl.at the claims
on the plaza of that place are proving rich.
There are now four or five companies at
work, running cuts to open the face of the
claims. Slater’s company has got in, and
taken out $45 to the pan, on the bed rock.
The gold is coarse and solid, and a lump,
as high as $42 had been found.
Beau River.— The miners have dis-1
covered that the bed of this stream above;
Little York, in the vicinity of Mu’e.
Springs, will pay well. Many companies
are stopping by their claims through the ;
winter. The diggings were opened euffi-'
ciently before the rise of the river to dis
cover their value.
i
‘ The Trarmcript of the 16th says ; Thej
Golden Gate, Urn I; Sam and Cortes,sailed this;
morning, the two first mentioned for Panama.,
and the Cortes for San Juan. The number of
passengers on the three steamers does not ex
ceed six hundred, which is not more than half
the average semi-monthly departure. The rate
of passage per Cork's range from $2OO to 50.
per Golden Gate and Uncle Sam, from $l5O to
$3O.
The specie shipments, cs will be scon by the
statement annexed, are tlsj below the usuil
total.
Shipment rtf Treasure per Cerlcs, Dec. ICth
Page, Bacon & Co $450,000
Burgoyne & Co • .425,000
Drcxell, Sathcr «fe Church 150,000
Adams & Co 160,000
Wells, Fargo & Co 48,750
Tallant & Wilde 60.000
J. Seligman & Co 18,000
Ulmer & Feigcnbaum 17,040
WyckofT i Co, 13,250
Total 81,342.040
Shipment per Steamer Golden Gate , Dec. ICth.!
Page. Bacon & Co 8255,000
Adams <fe Co 140,000
Wells, Fargo & Co 43,120
W. H. Vincent, 18.700
Hussey, Bond & Hale 12s800
B. Davidson, 129,000
Spatz & New house, 11,300
Cunningham & Brummagcn 11.200
Case, Heiser & Co 8,700
Wyckoff & Co 8.00
Abel Guy, 15,000
Other shippers 13,000
Total 666,370
The steamer California which sailed on the
Bth iust. carried an amount of specie which
may be estimated a part of the regular semi
monthly shipment.
Shipment of Specie per California , Dec. 8.
Page, Bacon & Co 8188,000
Adams & Co 79,693
Drexel, Sather & Church, 25,000
Wells, Fargo & Co 30,272
Burgoyne k Co 40,000
Total 8362,905
The lately elected Governor of Tennes
! see spent the first eight or ten years of his
| ife in an alms house as a charity boy.
A citizen af Pike county, Alabama, has
obtained a verdict of $8,833 against a phy
sician for the seduction of his wife.
Two Common Schools are in successful
operation in Diamond Springs.
Frank M. Pixlex, Esq. —This gentle
man, lately connected with the San Fran
cisco Whig, sailed for the Atlantic states
on the Golden Gate. He designs visiting
Europe with his lady and corresponding
while there with the Commercial Adver
tiser.
The Marysville Herald says that an af
fray occurred in that city on Thursday
evening last, between two Mexicans con
cerning some trivial matter, which led to
blows, when one of the disputants draw
ng a large knife, plunged it into the abdo
men’of his opponent, caasingsuch a homd
gash as to let his bowels drop out. Medi
cal aid was soon called, and everything
done to render the condition of the woun
ded man comfortable, but it is feared that
he stab will prove mortal.
Miners’ Nolice*
At a meeting of the Minors on tltc newly
discovered diggings on the kill north-west of
Wet Hill, inlNevada, on Tuesday the 20th day
of December, inst., A. D. 1853, at 2 o'clock p.
m., agreeably to previous notice, for the purpose
of organizing themselves into a new mining as
sociation— forming a new mining district, and
of adopting bye-laws to govern the same—S.
S. Hussey was called to the chair, and Joseph
Chambers was appointed secretary.
Voted to adjourn this meeting to moot again
at the store of ,S. S. Hussey iu Nevada city,
at 7 o'clock p. M.
Met according to adjournment; when, on
motion,, it was
Resolved, That said hill shall be called Ous
tomah Hill, and said Diggings shall bo called
the Oustomah Mining District, and shall be
bounded as follows :
Beginning at Nickerson's Tunnel and thence
running up the ravine to the top of the hill;
thence westerly along the top of the hill two
thousand feet more or less, to a stake ; thence
southerly along the line of Mr. Beard's claims
to the head of Woods’ Ravine; thcuco easterly,
to the first mentioned bounds.
Resolved, That said company shall be culled
the Oustomah Mining Association.
Resolved, That the discoverer of said new
diggings shall be allowed to hold two claims.
On motion, the following bye-laws were unan
imously adopted in detail, for the due regula
tion of mining in said mining district:
Article I. All hill claims shall be sixty feet
square, and all ravine claims shall be one hun
dred feet in length, up and down the ravine,
and sixty feet wide.
Art. 2. All persons holding hill claims shall
be allowed to run their tailings through the
ravine claims, provided they pay all damage
caused by the same, after having said damage
assessed by a jury of disinterested miners.
Art. 3. All persons holding claims .in said
mining district, shall work on the same, or
cause to he worked, one full day in every ten
days, when said claims are workable, and when
said claims are not workable a notice shall be
posted on the same, and shall be recorded.
Art. 4. All sales and transfers shall be re
corded.
Art. 5. A recorder shall be chosen whose
duty it shall be to record the proceedings of
this meeting, and to record all notices on claims
not workable, and all sales and transfers, when
presented to him, and shall receive as a com
pensation for said service, fifty cents for each
record.
James M. Clarke, chosen Recorder.
Voted that the proceedings of this meeting
be published in the Nevada Journal.
Voted to adjourn. S. S. HLFSSKY, pres’t.
Joseph Chambers, sec'y.
A Mexican named Pablo Maea, killed
Jo#e Mader on the llih inst., three miles
west of Fiddleton, El Dorado county. Ma
der survived long enough to givo testimony
against the accused, who was arrested, ex
amined before Justice Phelps, of Fiddle
town, and committed for trial.
fcgr We h ave had one day’s rain this
week, but it is now pleasant again.
CC7 - By a notice in another column it lull'
be seen that an error Ims been made in the An
nouncement of the time for the Masonic ball.
It takes place next Tuesday. A large gather
ing and pleasant time is anticipated.
The State Journal says that Mayor Harden
burg of Sacramento is just recovering from an
attack of billions fever.
C?” We give less than our usual amount of
original matter this time, to make way for news
items from all quarters of tho I ailed States
and this state.
Important Dbcistox. —There was recently
a debate before the Lyceum at Plaeerville, upon
the following question, and decided in the affir
mative: “Are the wicked immortal t"
*. A
State Hokdh. -State prison bonds have
been issued for two hundred and titty thousand
dollars, for the purpose of raising means to fin
ish the present ~tate prison.
Fatai. Casi’amty. — A sailor, named Peter
Williams, fell from a platform near Rincon
Point at San Francisco, a few nights since,
und was injured so that lie died in a short tinv •
after at tho United States Marine Hospital.
Roiuikuy nv a (Juixamax. — A Chinaman
entered the house Captain Quay, at Stockton,
one night last week, and robbed it of money
and property to thj? amount of £»1,000. I lie
fellow was arrested.
The Pacific Mail Company’s new steamer
San Francisco had been chartered by the gov
ernment to carry out troops to San Franc’sco,
and was to have sailed from New \ ork on the
2oth nit. The steanler Sacramento, also of the.
mail line, was nearly l completed, and would sail
under the command of Uapt. R. L. Whiting.
The Stockton Republican says an affray, at
tended by a fatal result, occurred between some
teamsters who were an their way to Fort Mil
ler, on Saturday last. A quarrel arose between
o man named Crosby and another, which grew
into a general melee. A man named Moon
picked up a rock and fractured Crosby’s ehull
who died nlmost instantly.
A New Sect.—A Cincinnati paper gives
an account of n new secret society in thnf
city, under the nomenclature of the “Fam
ily Compact.” The order is open to females
as well as males; is for beneficial and
charitable purposes, and already numbers
about 500 members in that ciiy. Hereto
fore it has been supposed impossible for
females to keep a secret.
Moke Celestials Among Us. —Among
the passengers by the bark Panama, from
Hong Kong, which arrived at this port on
Sunday, were 275 Chinese passengers,
of whom were females.
Hon. E. A. Hanneoan.— This gentle
man, formerly U. S. Senator from Indiana,
will be remembered for his zea\ on the
Oregon question, and his appointment to a
foreign mission by Mr. Polk. Afterwards
in a fit of intoxication he killed his brother
in-law. He has now become a great Tem
perance Reformer and desires the passage
of the Maine Law.
M AKRIED—In Easton of October,
E. MILLS of the former
York city, on to
KK NKWMANor WiUUmshurgh. N. V.
Hurrah for the Nevada Boys !
DIED-AlCompUjn^.^
Temperance Meeting «very Monday evening at
i h flßL^*^lrTa^oy’s Gh u rch. Exercises commencing at
j.RTANBEY.
7 o’clock. Lll i
The MaaonicßaU 1 * to take place on Tuesday
evening, the 271 h Inst., In the place of Thursday evening,
ss stated in the Journal, and Friday as slated in the Young
America. 35
Tickets fer the Masonic Ball con bc had o:
Dr. McCormick Grass Valley; E. W. Roberts, Esq., Rough
and Heady; K. C Wyatt. Cherokee; Williamson Sr Daw ■
U- and at 1., r. Fri»M«’«.