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YOL. 3-NO. 8.
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March 11,’54-70-tf.
JUSTICE’S SUMMONS.
State of California, County af Tuol
umne. The people of the State of
California, to the Sheriff or Constable
in the aforesaid County,—greeting :
We command you, that you summon
Matthew J. Alexander, so that he be
and appear before Joseph Carly, Esq.,
one of the Justices of the Peace for the
County aforesaid, art his office iu Colum
bia, Township No 1, on the 3i’th day of
December, A. D. 1854, at 9 o’elocfe,
A M., to answer the complaint of John
(}. Sparks, wherein $ 150 is demanded
on account.
Herein fail cot And in default of
said appearance and answer, judgment
will he given against said Matthew J.
Alexander, for $l5O and cost of suit.
Witness my hand at Colombia, this
12th day ef September, A. D. 1854.
JOSEPH CARLY.
97-3 m Justice ef the Peace.
RANCH FOR SALE.
The undersigned wishes to dispose of
his fine Ranch, situated near Columbia,
off to tiio right of Gold Springs. Said
Ranch consists of one-half interest of
upwards of three hundred acres. There
is a cabin on the premises. There is
also good woodland, and between 30
and 40 acres is under cultivation.
For particulars, apply to John G.
Sparks, Esq., Columbia.
JAMES BRADLEY,
Columbia, Oct. 14, ’54-101— tf
COLUMBIA DRUG STORE.
For Sale, at the Columbia Drug Store
on State street, a fed! assortment of
Davos, Medicines, Patent Medi
cine*, Brushes, Combs, Per
ruMMtr, lie., lie.
P. 8. Physicians prescriptions care
fully compounded.
Columbia, Dec. 24, 1853.-59-tf.
"Here shall the PRESS, Ths PEOPLE'S RIGHTS maintain Una wed by Influence, And nnbribed by GAIN."
COLUMBIA, TUOLUMNE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, DEC. 30, 1854.
SPRINGFIELD
Mining Laws.
Adopted at a Mass Meeting, April
13th, 1852 ; revised, August llth, 18-
52, by a Mass Meeting ; and again re
vised Dec. 22d, 1854, by a Mass Meet
ing of the Miners of Springfield Mining
District.
Bounds of Springfield Mining District
Commencing at a Spring, above and
near Yancey’s Steam Saw Mills, the
line running from thence, in a westerly
direction, to the north side of McKen
nie’s Old Store, thence to Wm. Cox &
Co a Cabin, on French Gulch ; thence
to a Spring, at the head of Dead Man’s
Gulch; thence following said Gulch,
to the Stanislaus river ; thence down
the River to Horse Shoe Bend ; thence
in an easterly direction, to Mormon
Creek, intersecting it one hundred feet
helow the Illinois House; thence up
the Creek to Saw Pit Gukh ; thence
cp Saw Pit Gulch to the Sullivan Creek
Water Company’s Reservoir; thence
in a straight line to tho Spring, the
place of ■commencement.
Resolved, That California is, and
shall be, governed by American princi
ples ; and as Congress has made no
Rules & Regulations for the government
of the Aiming Districts of the same, and
as the State Legislature of California
has provided by statute, and accorded
to the Miners of the United States, the
right of making all laws, rules and reg
ulations, that do not conflict with the
constitution and laws of California, “ In
all actions respecting ‘ Mining Claims :’
; Resolved, therefore, that we, the Min
ers of Springfield Mining District, do
ordain and establish the following
RULES AND REGULATIONS.
Article 1. A claim for joining
purposes, within this district, shall not
exceed one hundred feet square, to
each man. Provided, that the same be
not more than one hundred feet in
length.
Art. 2. That no man within the
bounds of this District shall bold more
than one workable claim.
Art. 3. That each and every man
within the bounds of this district shall
perform actual labor upon said claim one
day out of every three, or employ a sub
stitute ; otherwise, such shall be for
feited z Provided , that claims on dry
gulches, or other places, that can be
worked advantageously, only by water
brought by water companies, &c., shall
be good till water is brought in: Pro
vided, also , that wet claims and carting
claims, not workable in the rainy season,
shall be good, also, without working,
from the loth of November to the 15th
of May,
Art. 4. The bounds of claimsahall
be established and defined by putting
up good end substantial stakes at each
corner, and recording the description of
the lot in the books of the preeiact reg
istry ; and by putting up one notice at
<each end of a claim, signed by each
person or individual of a company ; and
the names of the several persons bolding
such claim, shall be signed in their own
band writing, in the book of registry.
Art. 5. When two or more claims
join together, and are worked by com
panies, such companies can work any
portion of snob claims as they may
deem expedient, complying with art. 3.
Art. 6. Disputes concerning claims
shall be settled by referring the same to
a Standing Committee of five, or by
arbitration, or by jury. The Standing
Committee shall, each member, who
may arbitrate on any case, be paid two
deliars for sych service.
Art. 7. That the foreman of any
jury, or Committee of arbitration, shall
be sworn to do bis duty faithfully and
impartially, by some Justice of the
Peace, Notary Public, or other qualifi
ed officer to do the same; Provided
such officer be hereafter appointed in
this mining district. And shall there
after administer a like oath to each of
his associates in each and every case
tried; and an oath to the witnesses,
who shall be offered to give evidence in
such case ; under like proviso, of such
qualified officer being appointed.
Art. 8. That the decisions in all
such cases shall be conclusive and bind
ing upon the parties thereto ; and he
deemed and considered final in all such
cases. And either party may compel
the other to come to trial, by giving a
written notice to the other, of the time
and place of trial, three days previous
to the same.
Art. 9. That costs to all such cases,
(so far as they are taxed) shall be
paid in the same manner as in magis
trate’s courts.
Art. 10. That all water claims or
privileges for washing, in despnte, shall
be settled according to the above min
ing rules, and be considered good as
long as the aparatus and furniture of tbe
same are kept in good repair; Provided
however, that if such claims be desert
ed in the working season of carting
claims for 30 days, they shall be forfeit
ed.
Art. 11 . That no law passed by tbe
miners of Ibis district shall be consider
ed retro-active.
Art. 12. That in case of sickness, no
miner shall forfeit his claim.
Art. 13. That no person not an
American citizen, or where there is a
reasonable doubt of his being entitled to
the privileges of an American citizen,
shah be competent to act on any arbi
tration, or trial by jury.
Art. 14. That all companies going
to great expense, in running tunnels, in
order io prospect the hills, shall be en
titled to two claims, each person of a
company.
Art. 15. That a Recorder of this
mining district shall be chosen, and
shall be paid 50 cents for recording the
title of each mining claim. The Re
corder shall have the custody of the
hooks, laws, and proceedings of this
mining district.
Art. 16. That nil foreigners suiyeetto
pay a foreign miners 1 tax, when called
upon to show their license, and cannot
or will not do the same, shall not be
permitted to hold a claim in this min
ing district; and any such claim pur
porting to be held by him or them, shall
be forfeited.
JUBAL HARRINGTON, Pres.
J. W. GLASS, Sec’y.
Daguerreotype
LIKENESSES!
The undersigned having established
himself in Columbia, would respectfully
inform bis friends and the public, that
he is prepared to execute in the neatest
manner, and on most reasonable terms,
all orders with which he may be favor
ed. Having been engaged for several
years in the Daguerrean business, be
flatters himself that he can give the ut
most-satisfaction, in taking all manner
of daguerreotype likenesses.
Portraits, Mining Scenes, bo. execut
ed in a manner unsurpassed in the
State.
Daguerreotype# copied on- the most
reasonable terms.
C. A. BUCK.
Daguerreotype Saloon corner of Broad
way b Washington streets.
Columbia, Sept. 16, ’54-97-tf.
JOB FEINTING
Neatly Ercc'rUd <it the Gazette Ojjlt*..
POXIW Y.
Mr Editor :—Th« following stanza, though
old, affords a fine ceauueuUry on tbe late bat
tle of the “Allied Annies” and the Russians,
on the heights of Alma. Perhaps you can
give it a place. U. M.
THE FAMOUS VICTORY
It was a rammer’s evening,
Old Caspar’s work was done.
And he before his cottage door,
Was silting in the sun;
And by him sported on the green,
His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
She saw her b. other Pelerkin
Roll something large and round,
That he beside the rivulet
In playing there had found;
She came to see what he had found
That was so light and large and round.
Old Caspar took it from the boy.
Who stood expectant by,
And then the old man shook bis head,
And heaved a nat’ral sigh,
“’Tis some poor fellow’s skull,” said he,
"Who fell in that great victory.
“I find them in the garden, for
There’s many hereabout;
And often when I go to plough.
The ploughshare turns them out;
For many thousand men” said he,
“Were slain in that great victory.”
“Now tell me what twas all about,”
Young Peterkin, he cries;
And little Wilhelmine looked up.
With wonder-waiting eyes:
“Now tell us all about the war.
And what they killed each other for 1”
“It was the English,” Gasper cried,
“That pot the French to rout.
But t chut they kill'd each other for,
I could not well make out.
But every body said,” quoth he,
“it tea* a famous victory !
“They say it was a shocking sight.
After the field was won;
For many thousand bodies here
Lay rotting in the sun ;
But things like these you know must be
After a famous victory.
“Great praise the Duke of Marlboro’ won
And our good Prince Eugine—”
“W'hy twas a very wicked thing !”
Said little Wilhelmine.
“Nay, nay, my little girl,” quoth he,
“it wa» a famous victory
“And every body praised the Duke,
Who such a fight did win.”
“But what good came of it at last 1”
Said little Peterkin.
“Why that I cannot tell,” quoth he;
“it was a famous victory
A New York editor, finding a cab
bage seed in a letter received from a
brother quill, wants to know if his cor
respondent is in the habit of scratching
his head while writing.
Oysters. —The total value of oysters
anually sold in New York is set down
at between five and six millions of dol
lars.
Oas in Sacbamcnto. —The State
Journal says that the works will be in
full operation by the 16th of January.
Rich Cicnibar Mines have been
discovered recently at a point called
Ballacitos, in the coast range of moun
tains, three r.*'’;is from the San Joaquin
plains, at a height of 2000 feet above
the sea. _
Odd Fellows’ Library. —We are
pleased to learn that tbeOdd Fellows of
this city are making a move towards
forming a library for the use of their
members. A committee has been ap
pointed to procure subscription in money
and books. — Sac Statesman.
A Shooting Woman. —During the
present week, in Mud Springs, a char
erari was repeated several evenings for
the benefit of a newly married couple.
The cause which induced the frequent
repetition of the music, we refrain from
stating—it wouldn’t be likely to be of
any particular public benefit. Suffice
it to say, that on Wednesday evening
the patience of the female became ex
hausted ; and, from the house in which
she and her liege lord were domiciled,
she fired a revolver twice in the direc
tion of the crowd. One ball made a
hole in the hat of one of the serenading
party, and both balls passed through a
window of the Oriental Hotel. Nobody
hurt; but the Mud Springs folks say
she nevertheless made a very good snot.
— Miners' Advocate.
JOSO&aiAHY.
TVoaattoka Hears tbs Street PreacUng;.
Got tiicd of New York, although it is
a town of considerable consequence.
Wanted to see the world; so started for
the seven-by-nine State of Rhode Island,
where they shingle the houses all over,
outside and in, and put the windows in
the roof; re they make their rail fen
ces out of cobble stones; where the ducks
roost on the fence, and hatch their young
ones in the tops of the cherry trees;
where the men look se much alike, their
wives often kiss the wrong individual.
(Damphool says it’s a way women have,
the world over.) Went to the city of
Providence, where all the men make jew
elry, and all tbe women believe in spirit
rapping, where they have got a bridge
wider than it is long, and Macadamized
on both sides: where all the plaster busts
of great men have grey wigs on; where
they light the gas in the middle of the
afternoon; where they drive five horses
tandem; where the apples grow as big as
wasbtubs, and the oysters obtain the en
ormous size of three cent pieces.—Went
into the woods after chcsnuts; could’nt
find any, but discovered a magnificent
tree in the distance—rejoiced exeeding
ly thereat—started for it—three quarters
of a mile away; went ahead over stones,
ditches, fences, briars, snakes, and stone
walls, until at last I reached it, and
found it was an elm, no chestnuts on it—
got very mad; walked round tbe State a
couple of times, and took the first train
for home.
Glad to sec the old place again.—
Saw a big crowd in the park—inquir
ed about it, and was told the’ usual
Street Screechina was going on—want
ed to see the fun—got a good place cm
a fat Irishman’s toes. Enter Gabriel
—tin horn—hole in his pantaloons—
('Bull Dogge says that if angels have
wings, they are also provided with tails
—hence this last item;) thought it ex
tremely probable. Gabriel mounted
one end of the City Hall steps, and after
a preliminary overture by the faithful,
resulting in four black eyes, a damaged
nose, and a broken leg—the religious
services commenced—(Damphool was
entirely carried away by his sympathies
for this last martyr, but soon discovered
that the fractured member was “ purely
vegetable,” as the patent medicine men
say, and the injury was speedily re
paired by means of a few shingle nails
and a piece of clapboard.) Gabriel
went in to win, but spite of the sanctity
of his name and the holiness of the afore
said breeches, he was not permitted a
clear field. A female, with bosom un
dressed in the latest fashion—petticoats
(Damphool says skirtcoats) not immac
ulate ; stockings, through the texture
of which her delicate ankles were plain
ly visible to the naked eye—whose
hair resembled molasses candy, while a
nose symmetrical and overgrown sweet
potato, and in hue not unlike the mar
tyred lobster; ani whose teeth remind
ed me forcibly of the “ crags and peaks”
mentioned by the man in the play—
took up her station on the other end of
the steps. She, like Gabe, went in
for giving the Church of Rome “Jesse,”
but otherwise did not agree with hint,
did not seem willing to go to Heaven
by his conveyance, but claimed to have
discovered some kind of a northwest
passage—some exclusive path “ cross
lotsand she advocated her right of
way with all her woman’s power of
tongne —in fact, they agreed only tol
erably—‘Arcades ambo”—both Cel
stials, but of a different breed—(B. D.
that sometime since they joined issue
(on the Devil’s head, one averting that
WHOLE HO. 112.
he has horns, and the other maintain
ing that his brimstone friend is a ronley
—but they both pitched into the Pope
—abused all foreigners, denounced the
Church of Rome, walked into the affec
tions of thgjCatholics generally —talked
learuedl/Wpriests, inquisitions, dun
geons, thumbscrews, martyrs, convents,
nunneries, and other luxuries, as being
the only legitimate offspring of the
mother of abominations, the scarlet wo
man ; and in fact, seemed to be Laving
the field entirely to themselves, when
lo ! a change came o’er the spirit of the
gospel show ; for in the midst of the
crowd suddenly appeard, a third com
battant—bis classic dress and intellect
ual face gave unmistakable evidence that
be was from the “Gim of the Ocean.”
With the dignified and majestic bearing
peculiar to some of his countrymen, ha
slowly mounted the steps, and took, a po
sition directly between the two, and in
a voice strongly tinctured with the ‘sweet
brogue,’ announced himself as a cham
pion of that much slandered gentleman,
the Pope of Rome. At this astounding
impudence, the woman, for a single in
stant held her peace. Gabc was so taken
aback that he seemed about to-collapse,
played an “ad libitum” interlude on the
tin horn, and all hands “pitched in” (as
Miss Agnes Robertson Gabriel
commenced the onset by asserting that
the Pope is not strictly a bachelor, but
has seven white wives in hie parlor, thir
teen ditto bonnd in law calf in the libra
ry, a hundred and forty-one golden
haired damsels in his private apartment,
and a perfect harem of jetty beauties in
the coal hole.
Petticoat followed by Faying that he
breakfasts on Protestant babies : ‘drink*
whiskey punch oat of a Protestant cler
gyman's skull; has an abducted Protes
tant virgin to black his boots; fifty-seven
Protestant widows to dig his potatoes and
hoe corn, and that he rolls ten.pios ev
ery afternoon with the heads of Protes
tant orphan children.
Irishman indignant denied all—sail
the country is going to old Knick, and
some fine morning we shall wake up a&d
find that the Pope, unable longer to en
dure our perverseness, has sunk us all
forty miles deeper than ancient Sodom ;
said that his Holiness could send us all
to perdition with one wink of his left
eye; that he is the head of the Church
ou earth ; has all power to save or oth
erwise ; eonld get us all out of Purgato
ry, and send us all “kiting into heaves,’*
by wagging bis little finger ; that he
could, like a Joshua No 2, make the
Sun and Moon stand still: make the
planets dance an astronomical ngadoon ;
cause the hills and mountains to exe
cute a mighty jig, while old ocean
should beat the time against the blue
vault of Heaven, and applauding An
gels encore the huge salutations.
Gahe said he did not believe the
yarn. Petticoats remarked something
about Star Spangled Banner being al
ways right side up.
Irishman proceeded to describe the
future home of the happy in another
world, as a place where there should
be plenty of potatoes, and oceans of
genuine whiskey.
Symptoms of a free fight now rapidly
developed into an uncivil war. Petti
coats gut mixed up with the crowd, and
presently emerged rather the worse for
wear, barefooted,bareheaded, hair down,
nose injured by collision, ey« in mourn
ing, mouth bloody, and her whole ap
pearance reminded me of the “sow that
hath eaten her nine Arrow.” (I for”
got who penned this apposite question,
and asked Bull Dogge, who, being exci
ted by the fray, angrily asserted that it
'js by “Nero ur some d—d oM cuss”