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Topics or Hu* Day.
Several of the down river journals
have discovered a “mare’s uest,” and
liave again revived the vigilance corn -
mittee question. It is now stated
by the journals who have abandoned
principles and forms of government,
and who arc the op{>onents of the
progress of civilization and human
advancement, sufficiently so to sup
port the barbaric and illegal acts of
the committee, that an armed organ
ization has been formed in San Fran
cisco for the purpose of operating
against their pet institution. They
say that the object is to persecute
and ruin the members individually,
or to provoke them into an open col
lision with the authorities, hoping
thus to annihilate them. This is, of
course, all vigilance gammon. There
is no such organization of those who
have opposed that defunct and dis
graceful institution. They prefer to
see the monster die by the law they
have outraged. Members of the
committee begin now to sec and feel
the result of their folly and wicked
ness. With a credit ruined abroad
and at home, those who remain here
are fast becoming applicants for the
benefit of the insolvent laws. They
thus show that they favor, at least,
one law. '1 hose of them who visit
the east on business or pleasure, find
themselves compelled to give bail to
an.-wer the complaint of those they
I avc illegally imprisoned and ban
idled. Thus are the members of the
e mmittee being gradually but surely
ruined, by the natural and legal re
ult of their own acts, and removed
from a law-abiding community, in
vliose nostrils their acts of blood and
violence have become *‘a stench.” It
needs no second committee to exter
minate the first. The law and correct
public opinion are fast doing it. The
i iw should be permitted to take its
course, and all good citizens will ac
quiesce, even if it exterminates those
who have violated its sacred provis
ions. Hud the committee heeded
the Divine precept, “Judge not, that
ae be not judged,” their gulty con
seiences would not now be conjuring
imaginary fears from opposition vigi
lance committees.
We rather suspect the true reason
«-»f the continued agitation of this
abject may lie found in the fact that
the vigilante organs are losing a por
tion of the support they enjoyed du
ffing the reign of the committee, and
’ eir own existence depends upon
■ ■•oping up the agitation, and keep
ii g the fact prominently before the
’oil »lic that they are in favor of \ ig
i inceism. As many severe epithets
. s the organs of the committee have
ipph 1 to their opponents, they will
not find men enough among them, so
' to all patriotism, respect for the
ni" nations of their country and
w own honor, so blood thirsty and
’ p\i.ed,to forma vigilance coin
■ duee.
As is the Case in almost every
:uwu in the State, there is scarcely
lot of ground apart from the busi
ne > portion of Orovillc, that is not
claimed by two or more different par
ties. S,platters have taken up land,
some of them in good faith, and have
line improvements thereon, and
spec, la tors have bought large tracts
of occupied and vacant lands from
persons who set up a cl* m to them,
thus bringing about litigations and
and disputes innumerable.
Many speculators have bought
claims cheap from persons who de
fied to avoid law suits, and others
have bought from the occupants of
lots supposing they were buying in
disputable titles, but have had proved
to their sorrow the uncertainly at
tending the purchase of land in these
days of Spanish grants and squatter
sovereignty. It is to be hoped that
the question of title to the ground on
which Oroville stands, may be con
clusively settled by decision of the
Supreme Court at as early a period
as possible. Let it be finally decided
who is, or who was the original right
ful ow ner of these lands, and those
desirous to cast their lot in Oroville,
can then do so without being con
stant! v harrassed with law suits- and
v *
many would come and make this
their home who are now unwilling to
risk investing their means in what
they consider as a great uncertainty.
Actual settlers, such as make a town
permanent and wealthy, are timid
about venturing within the possibility
of a law suit, and thus many who
would otherwise come here w ith the
intention of remaining, are kept away
and waiting fur a final settlement of
the question of title.
The State Catitoi,. —Mr. Nougues Ims
filed ii bond for the fulfilment of his contract
to build the capital, and some of the papers
are finding a deal of fault with it. The
American cxprc-scs the opinion that it is
“of no earthly account,” and yet it says
that the bondsmen arc each worth more
than the amount set opposite their names
If men are worth the amount they become
responsible lor, the bond they sign ought
certainly to be good if drawn up with any
degree of care. We hope some definite con
clusion may be arrived at speedily. We have
been without a capital too long already, and
it is time we had one built.
JK-iS" At the urgent solicitation of his con
gregation the Uev. Dr. Scott has consented
to remain as pastor of Calvary Church, and
has been regularly installed as such. We
believe he never was formally installed, but
has heretofore been acting under leave of
absence from his church in New Orleans.
pi)" Maguire’s Opera House in San Fran
cisco, has been completed at a cost of about
thirty thousand dollars The building, says
the Herat (I, is one hundred and thirty seven
feet deep, by fifty-five feet wide, and is fifty
feet high, from parquet to dome.
Personae. —Mortimer Fuller, Esq., as
semblyman elect from Yuba county, togeth
er with 0. M. Evans, Esq., of Marysville,
prsscd through our city on their way to
Spanish town, on Saturday last. They re
port themselves well, and still happy in the
democratic faith.
“ Literary Piracy.”—Under the above
caption the California American contains
a very truthful, sensible i.rticlc on the too
general custom of certain editors (o appro
priate other people’s thunder and publish it
to the world as original with themselves. It
is to be hoped the American will live up to
the doctrine it advocates, and that others
may follow its example.
Architecture. —Mr. Oliver Woods,Esq.,
of Marysville, called on us yesterday, and
informed us that he had completed Ids pla i
for the new Catholic Church, ami that it,
together with other architectural designs,
could be seen at the office of the California
Stage Co. Mr. Woods will remain in town a
few days, and any of our good people who
have notions of building, will do well to call
and examine these drawings
The New York Bakery folks sent ns a
beautiful specimen of their handiwork on
Saturday evening, in the shape of a highly
ornamented, frosted cake, about as big in
circumference as a water bucket. We ten
der our thanks, and confess to an unusual
degree of great-fullness.
Cheap Cigars.—Mr. Zadig, Montgomery
street, above Wells. Fargo & Co's Express
office, oll'ets his entire stock of choice cigars
for sale by the box at ban Francisco auction
prices.
Oca Village. —Business to be in a
flourishing condition, loafers are plenty
without cash, and miners are numerous with
cash. Whiskey is plenty for cash, ami there
arc many drinkers that would indulge more
freely it they had »he ca-di t.) bey it with. —
Jumping lots, and slicing and being sued oc
cupy the Attention of some folks, and fight
ing and horscradng arc favorite amusements
with others. Loafers seem busy loafing, and
men ot business seem busy in their several
vocations. Women an I children ore tolerably
plenty, and mud, mules, and miners great
ly abound. Chill wintry winds Mow fierce
ly through our streets, and soggy saw-dust
has been strewn all around the 15. ink Ex
change. Floors that were laid in hot weath
er let in great quantities of cohl Mr, and the
wood wc burn in our stove makes great
quantities of ashes. Everybody seems to
have a cold in their heads, and chilblains are
becoming the order of the day. Stages come
and go crowded, and boarding houses and
beds are crowded all the time. Shoemakers
and lawyers arc busy attending to gentle
men’s boots and cases : sports ntrl doctors
continue to deal out cards and physic, and
great gangs of worthless dogs disturb the
rest of quiet citizens who want to sleep.—
The theatre is closed and amusements are
scarce ; a musical hall is being built on the
corner of Bird and Lincoln streets, by ex
coroner Whaling of San Francisco. All
sorts of things arc continually occurring in
private circles that oughtn't to be publisded,
and very few things happen that ought to be
put in the papers, and items tire consequent
ly scarce, but for the information of man
kind a at large, we bog leave to state that
to-day is the first day of winter and tlie
commencement of the last twelfth of old ’SO.
Sharp Shooting.— In the Chrysler con
spiracy case, during the trial on Thursday,
Mr. Hcslcp (the witness) was interrogated,
and made answer as follows :
Q. Did you ever practice medicine ?
A. 1 decline answering.
Q, Was you not engaged once as a s b
doctor ?
A. I decline answering.
(J. Did you ever study anatomy ?
A. If it is any satisfaction to the gentle
man. 1 will answer. I have Htlulled anato
my, physiology and physiognomy, and the
result of that study leads me to the convic
tion that I have never (addressing himself
to the defendants) in my life seen three
worse fuces than yours. (Loud laughter.;
— Cal. American.
Chinatown. —We understand that the
above named place, situated just below Oro
ville, lias been seized upon by certain land
speculators who design ousting the defcncc
les Chinamen therefrom and appropriating
it to themselves. Wc believe that under our
laws the Chinamen have a right to protec
tion in holding their properties, and that
they justly own the land they have take n up
for building purposes,there is nut the slight
est doubt, they being the original settlers,
and holding the best of all titles, a possess
ory one.
Marcus D. Bohuck, editor of tho Fire
man's Journal, has resigned his office of
clerk of the Board of Delegates of the San
Francisco Fire Department, and lias been
presented with a splendid gold pen in ac
knowledgment of his ellicient services while
in office. Editors do have a streak of good
luck now and then,—mighty seldom, though.
See the Figures. —San Francisco with
12,152 votes, has ten daily morning papers,
and two evening; Sacramento with 4,601,
has three morning and two evening ; Marys
ville with 1.880, has three morning; Stock
ton, with 1,308, has two morning; Oroville,
with 1,(588, has one morning; Nevada, with
2,081, has two weeklies but no dailies;
Orass Valley, with 1,208, has one weekly ;
Columbia, with 1.374. has two weeklies; lo
wa Hill, with 1,259, has one weekly; Placer
ville, with 1,015, has two weeklies; Sonora,
with 931, has two weeklies. It will thus be
Been that in proportion to their population,
tlie commercial towns arc much better sup
plied with newspapers than the mining
towns. — Times.
Scene on the Sas Jose lloah—A Stage
Coach Stopped and the Passengers
Searched. —The Passengers by the stage
coach from San Jo*e, last evening, were
surprised, if not alarmed, when within ten
miles of the city, by the sudden appearance
nf a party of men in the road, who ordered
the driver to pull up, so that they might
take a view of the insiders. One or two of
the passengers evidently supposed they were
to be robbed and murdered by highwaymen,
and recalling, probably, tho stories they
had heard of similar adventures in the in
terior of the State, were making up their
minds lor a “ brush.” but the supposed rob
bers turned out to be no other than police
officers from San Francisco, sent to intercept
a fugitive from justice, suptiosed to boon his
way from San Jose. Tho passengers were
ten in number, and all males but one. The
men submitted themselves to the inspection
of the officers, but the person sought for
could not be found.— S. K (Hobt.
S. V Railroad.— A meeting of the stock
holders of this railroad is called at San
Francisco for Not. 271 h at 3p. m.
Theatrical-. —Hugh F McDermott, who
distinguished himself so signally a few
nights since in the character of Richard
111, at the Metropolitan Theatre in San
Francisco, Ims had a “ call ” to commit the
murder over again in Sacramento. Our
citizens shoflld invito him to <lroville.
Showers. —For three or four days past
we have had pleasant we ather during the
daytime and heavy showers at ni ht. A
very considerable quantity of rain has fallen
and the roads are in a miserable condition
from mud and water. When will that
steamer arrive ?
Sick —We learned for the first time yes
terday that Dept. Sheriff Kinmiel is quite ill,
having been confined to his bed for more
than a week by nn attack of fever. We
hope to hear of his convalescence ere many
days.
jp'T - The Marysville Ilrnihl publishes a
report that David Duller, the man who killed
Moffat about a year since at Downieville, lias
been arrested and lodged in the Sierra coun
ty jail, also that there was some threats
made that he would ho taken from the jail
and hung by tho miners.
Prrskhvino Plowi ns (trasses,
mosses, ferns, and dry-leaved plants of
all kinds, are the easiest of manage
ment, and these preserve their beauty
longest. Ferns are especially beauti
ful, and, if dried ijuiekly, retain their
freshness for ten Neat' 1 , looking then,
if carefully kept, as guy as when gath
ered from the hedge row or the shady
coppice. (Itasses scarcely change in
dying, and their elegant silvery and
purple panicles form most heautifl ob
jects, if carefully mounted. Sea weeds
and succulent plants may ho rapidly
diied by placing them between some
folds of d . linen or blotting paper,
and iipplx • • a hot iron. They am* by
this method prepared almost instanta
neously, and lose not the slightest
truce of their original color.
An Indirect way of getting a glass
of water at a watering place, is to call
fur a third cup of tea.
NEW ADVEHTISEM ENTS.
Great Sacrifice of Cigars ! !
CIGAR STORE,
Co.’s Express,
SAN FRANCISCO
Three doors above Weils, Fargo V
Montgomery street.
SN ORDER TO CHANGE BUSINESS, I am going
to sell off my entire muck of cigars, BY THK
If ».\, at Sun Francisco auction prices
Oroville, Nov. bO. I*llll.l* ZA DIO.
NOTICE
PCItMC NOTICE Is HF.DEBV GIVEN—That
the undei-igned forbid nit persons Iron) Ire -
passing upon a certain Iruet ol land, known us the
•* Ituliltliil ES CLAIM.” siieuled in the Township
of Opliir, Untie couniy, Stale of California, nhoni
one-half n ile south we«l iroin Oroville. and descri
bed as follows; Iterinnin" at a live oak slump murk
od wiih three notches on ihe north and west sides, a
pine tree blazed on Ihe ; olh-west side, silmi'ed
S titi® E. one chain from said beginning: running
thence STJO “ W. *i chains to a pine tree in the line
of a brush fence; SOS K. ‘.*;i chums to u slake at the
west edge of Ihe road. N4d *E. 10 chains to a slake
and hig eak; N :id ® K. o 5-1001 bs chains to a slake
N J" s IV. 4 ’i-’nOlhs chains to alive oak; N4ti c W
1375-IOOIbs chains to ihe place of beginning, con
taining 4n acres more or less, as surveyed by .). W.
Scott. County Surveyor in and for - d I county of
(Suite, said survey being recorded in ihe County
Clerk’s office in said couniy of tin te, in ‘• book I-’’
vol. 111, tinges 117, Ilk. lit*. All per. ens me further
cautioned a gainst purchasing within die above de
scribed Iru«i by virtu'o of Ibe ‘-Carlton Tillo,” or
any other title,as w e are the soleowm r- of the same,
NICOLAS DopKHUJES,
F. M. SM I I 11,
GHAUt.ES G, iII'DBA It D.
Oroville, December 1, IHMi. dltf
DECLARATORY NOTICE
STATE OF CALI FORM A, I
Corrrv ok Burris. j
Mary Jane Walker to Declaration of Sole Trader.
9 MBS. MARY J\AK WALKED, wife of Jabez
• W alker, being desirous of availing berstdl of
111- oenertts of a certain Act of the l.egi-,.;lure of iho
Male of California, and entitled *• An Act to author
iz ■ married women so transact busfnt -s in their own
name as Sole Traders —passed April I'lb, A. 1>
I - Vi,” do hereby declare, that it is my udention to
transact and curry on the business ot keeping a
dairy for the purpose of selling milk, bailer. \c . in
Ibe county oi Unite and Slate of C ddornia. tied I in
tend to carry on said bnsin<-»« in my own name and
will hereafter tie responsible lor any debts contracted
by me, and that tin- amount of properly invested by
me in said business does not exctu d the sum of live
thousand dollars.
MARY JANE WALKED, TE. « ]
Signed, sealed and delivered ill presence of
Frank F. Taylor.
ST tTK OF CALIFORM i
Col STY or IIITTVi I
ON THIS this Ihe ITtli bay of .V veiuLer. A D.
one thousand eight bundred ni dll : v»six, be
fore me. illmtn C. EnglHi, a Notary I'nldn in and
tor the aforesaid county. personally appeared before
me. 'la') Jane Walker, sol trader, pi rsonallv
known to me to be the individual described in and
v» i,o executed the within instrument as the party
thereto, and she acknowledged to me that she exe
cuted the same freely amt voluntarily, for the uses
and pnrjMises Ihereinmei tinned. And It e stud Mary
Jane Walker, w ife of Jabs* C. Walker having been
by me first made acquainted w ith tie* cortleni« of said
in'irnmeat, acknowledged to me, on nn examination
had separate, apart from and » ilhoiu Ihe hearing of
her husband, that she executed the same Ireeiy and
voluntarily, wilhont fear, compulsion, or any undue
in in- iice ot her said husband, ai d that she did noi
wish to retract the execution of the same.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto vt
(L. S.) my hand and affixed my official seal, the day
and year first above written.
n253w ENGLISH, Notary Public.
SPKriAIi NOTICKS.
>-y THF.It F. WII.LIIF. A FTATKD MKKTIN**
w£ *#■,>r i >m\ -ll«- lodge No. J"--of Free and Ac
copied Masons. lieUt lit Masonic Hull, on
Montgomery street, on hntnrdsy even ior,‘.Dili No*,
at which limn officer* for ihn ensiling w ill h» elected.
\!l brethren in good standing are in* to aliend.
It, order l> A. hHUU N, W. M.
1). G. O'f*on!*xtl.. Perrelsry.
IN OTIC I-'•
/1 There will lie a me* mn; of Ihe ‘•Orovlll*
(***#<>3 Light Guard" i.t the I Irle.-m- Hotel, on Mon •
F.Veliillg. I VC. :»>• Mb. Ml, "I 7oVloeh,
lor Ihn organization of said < 'ompany, electing <'(11-
corn am) iion-eoiiiml»sioned oflio r>. anil forming
IIV-Law* i.c„ for the same. Hr ofiler of
I,27—HU M. A. M< LAFGHI.IX, Inspector.
NOTKI..
To the Stockholders in Ibo Freiirhlown famil Mi
ning Company i- her. by given, that an a.hliilonal
nssessmen. of ten per cent on the cnpilnl slock i»
culled in, nml pa* ah If on or lx lore the Moth ol He*
e mber next. ANAS KAKCi>, Seerelury.
Frenclilown, N< vein her .T th, IF.* I '. n.li Hu
*9*
ii, iU! itm»i
Pool a Reds for ever* Ihmlv, in 21 • per rent, lew Him,
Marysv ille prices. for h> tiny* only, to make room for
an entire new stock per llrsi sleamer to i in.vllle ut
S,'lt llt lilt's*
Furniture Ware Rooms. Monii)oniery street.
25.01K1 Ihn. I*ool, A In Unles. for sale very low Ur
the trade, at Fi 111 !• I. It F
Fui-ultnru Ware Rooms, Montifoniery si.,threw
doors l«'low Myers si.
,)t:sT UF.t'KIVFH—a large assort incut of Furni
ture. Aho, an Invoice of large Hill 1 rallies, lor sale
In’* ill *'• *** lil-K F
Furniture Ware Rooms, Montgomery at., threw
doors below Myers st, "• l *
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Attention .Miners N. I’ijmilius!
D. TOY ,V OTTKIIFON again request Ihe especial
id tee tion ot all who wish In lay in ihe.r w inter FUnk.
of (M.JTHING, I.ANKKTB. HnolS and Woolen.
Hoods, to the iniigmliceiit assortment <1 goods re
ceived by them during the past ten days. They are
now opening and oiler lor sulo
20U line and hervy Reaver and Pelerslinin Overcoats,
Frocks nnd Sucks;
pill heavy Pilot (Toth Coals, lutes! styles;
;tO superh ••Riigluir’ Coals, superior lo any Talmas;
5 hales. 30 pr in each, heavy gray Rlankels;
■j hales. Pill pr in each tine heavy hlne hlankels ;
1 hale, PHI pr extra “French Super Super’’while
blankets;
30 doz. assorted Cassimere nnd Fait. Pants, late
styles, besides a iniignißceiit ns*.-oi lirieiit ol I uriiishing
Hocn|s, Montgomery si., Opposite Ft. Nicholus. Intis
IliiiiUHin's. 1,111
-♦f
tTrim. a. it a til., otr. ■rs Ins professional ser
viees to the i itizens of (iroville and \ iciniiy, having
had much and long experience in the trealinelil ol
llie various diseases incident lo Ibis climate, tie hopes
to give satisfaction
Special ntienlii.Ti given to diseases of n private me*
tine. Rheumatism, Ac., which be can cure without the
use of mercury.
Office, front room. No. 17, United Stales Hotel,
upstairs—Oroville. ocl-tf
NKW AHVKKTISKMICNTS.
OPENING BALL !
TDK Pf.KAFFUK OF VOl'll COMPANY
r ’\ i, respectfully solicited 111 an
.*>■s Opcmias Ball, to he given
; .A .q tiio \v CFTKIIN HOI HI,, Thompson's Flat,
on IMTISHAV EVENING Deeeiulter -I til,
1 Silft, by THOM AS & PERU! E.
£ jtF'Tlie best Music in the country Is engaged.
Novciiilmt 2411 i, IK>l*»
OPENING BALL'
THK PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY
respectfully solicited al all OPF.MXt*
1., pi he given at WELCH'S RANCH,
miles In.in Marysville, on Wednesday
evening, liKl KMIIF.II '.tlh, ls3e. h\
JOHN WPI.t 11.
. ■ l l r ’ ■ 1
■*V is resin-el
,~*k It ALL. I
LjN eight mile
FOR SALE!
JTIIK FIMtFcniRKR offer* for sale his Flore nml
I Cihhls. or Ins Hoods alone, or Ins l.i.t and Flore,
naied on Montgomery street nenrihe Orleans Hotel,
ri. rms and further information, apply lo
F. MARTIN,
s'ffl-tf on the premise*.
BUY YOUR
•ra r y G- oocla au cl
CLOTHING-!
AT
REIS &EEWIMTS
American Theatre, Montgomery «t ..Oroville-.
lAM BIST ON’S (i R \T r
ConiprisiiiK Acres,
•ITUATE IN
BUTI E JI.YD SVTTEH CIWTJES,
3r*on a a Li e :
100 FARMS,
C»f 10 0, o 2 0, 64 0 Acres each,
IN TOWNSHIPS XVI, XVII, fc XVIII X. K. I W,
Fronting eighteen mile* on the PAPUA MKNTO
KIVKK. ami running bock Four Mile*.
Paid lands will be sold by Section" or tpiarltr FoO
tion*, lo suit purchasers.
Title Confirmed.
A trap oi the Gran, with it« suhdivuiions, can bo
•een at the office of K. UUPUK, F7»q.. Heal Fislule
Agent. Marysville.
Terms made known on application.
nvx-iin ii.ciUßirrroN.