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WEEKLY LEDGER.
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erRIS'i EK A PAI MiF.KFIEI.D.
VOLCANO,
SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 22, 1855
Mr. 1,. P. Fliker
Is our authorized agent in Sun Francisco, for
procuring advertisements, ami transacting other
business.
IJiirdincr A Kirlc
Are our authorized Agents in Sacramento, lor
procuring advertisements. Ac.
Mr. Henry S, It} a in.
Is our authorized agent at Fiddlelown. for pro.
curing subscriptions, advertising and Job Work.
afl'llANKomi A Wii.hman are ngenta at Sutler
for procuring subscribers, advertising and job work.
Orders left with them, will be promply attended to.
"ttsi Mu. Gkokuk Eovtl.AMl. of tile News Depot
Indian Diggings; is our Agent for that camp.
Times in California.
Tlic subject in which men arc most uuiver
snllj- and most deeply interested, is perhaps
the prosperity or money-making facilities o
the country in which they live. Money is the
great regulator, talk ns we may about this,
that, or other feature that may go to make
up a country’s importance. Almost ail tem
poral or mundane things arc measured by n
money standard; and above nil other coun
tries in the world, California perhaps conics
most emphatically under this rule. We may
talk ns we please about our truly delightful
climate, our beautiful scenery, our health-pre
serving atmosphere, and all that sort of
thing; they are all very well in their way, but
the desire to possess gold is the one great ob
ject that has peopled California.
Mining, monetary and business affairs in
California arc the subjects of deepest interest.
Where can you find (lie man who will not
tell you (hat he removed to this El Dorado
of the western world for the purpose of bet
tering his pecuniary condition? All, all
came for the self-same object; and nil are in
terested alike in the develnpcment of our
Sta'c’s resource'.
Tlie past year in California has discouraged
many; prosperity has been less general than
in former years. Those who have anything
like a distinct recollection of’49, ’6O, ’6l and
’52, can readily discern the difference between
those years and 1866. Then, every man, or
almost every man, laid money in his pocket;
now there arc probably as many "broke”
men in California, according to her popula
tion, as in any otiier part of the world. Then,
the precious metal was to be picked up al
most without labor in every ravine and gulch;
now it is not so easily obtained. We arc of
those who have no thought that the mines
are worked out; we believe they are scarcely
prospected; yet it would he nonsense to con
tend that the gold easiest obtained has not
been skimmed off. The gulches have been
“gutted,” surface diggings strip[ied off—in
short, as was perfectly natural, the earliest
miners appropriated the claims that were
easiest worked, and left for those who should
come after them the task of going deeper
into the bowels of the earth. They had but
few difficulties to overcome in the pursuit of
their avocation; the miner of to-day has
many. Hut little of energy, industry or skill
were then required; now all of these quali
fications must he brought into requisition;
This marked and decided change in the
character of the country has not been with
out its depressing effect on monetary and
business affairs. How could it ho other
wise? For the past year wc have been us it
were in a transition state pn-sing from early
times in California, to the more staid and
permanent condition of affairs now to he es
tablished. As it by common consent, this
transition state is universally acknowledged
and appreciated. The hundreds, nay thou
sands of men and women who in times gone
by obtained their living by disreputable
means— whose livelihood was drawn from the
superabundance of wealth in tlie country,
have mostly abandoned their respective call
ings, from sheer necessity. The miner has
no longer “more money than hi l knows what
to do with;” he has no longer dust enough
for himself and to spare—he can no longer
afford to throw it away on tlie gambling ta
ble, dedicate it to tlie support of tlie vile, or
" loan" it to a lazy, loafing friend who has
not the energy to support himself. He can
not spend two or three ounces to-night, and
he sure of replenishing his purse with an equal
sura to-morrow.
1 here is perhaps no better evidence of the
change that has taken place in the country
than is to be observed in and about saloons.
It is shown that California is a reality—not
a mere fancy bower, where, with the aid of 1
accommodating genii, golden treasures are
picked up for the mere asking; and we would
respectfully submit that the period now
dawning upon us is really the most t 0
be desired of any that has yet been shadowed
forth in the history of the State. We have
hud a dry season—a dry year—unpropitions
for mining, ns if to help along the transition
we hat e been passing through; and we firmly
believe that with tlie dawning 0 f the year
1860, the permanent actual prosperity of the
Eureka Stale may he dated to commence.—
There are evidences that wc arc to have rain,
the one thing most needed in mining opera
ions; and the people arc now convinced that
gold must he naught after with the same
preseverance ami patience that animates the
farmer of the Atlantic States, ami that al
though a fortune may be made quicker in the
mines, it cannot he picked up without labor
and economy.
Let nil fake courage. Anew era is upon
us; we are getting rid of our ’4!) notions, and
are settling down into the realities of life.
Let the old miner, who Las made and lost
his fortune, take courage—there is yet as
much money as ever to he made, with this
difference that patience and economy must he
used, instead of demoralising prodigality of
time and money. Let the new comer take
courage—he can, with the same industry and
economy, make five times the money that
he could in any other State of the Union.—
Let the loafer take courage: let him stir his
lazy bones, bring himself to realize that he
can no longer live without work, arm himself
with pick and shovel, and make a descent upon
the rich yellow treasure that is hidden in
mother earth. There is room enough and
money enough for all, if we will only work,
and discard our prodigal notions and habits.
The close of the year 18. r );'» shows n les< de
gree of prosperity in California than nny
other period of her history; hut we verily
and confidently believe that the close of the
year 1856 will present a condition of wealth
and steady, sure prosperity never before at
tained. We have passed through the un
steady excitement; wo are entering upon the
settled reality.
Sitter Ciujkk Turnpike Co. —This Corn'
pany was permanently organized Inst Thurs
day, at Sutter Creek, by the election of S. S.
llartram, President; C. I>. Burleson, Scc’y,
and O. P. Southwell, Treasurer.
Messrs. Southwell, llartram ami Aldrich
were appointed a committee to make a survey
of the road, and to report at a meeting of (lie
company to be held in Volcano at an early
day.
We have not time this week to say more.
Next week we will speak at length of the
benefits, Ac., to be derived from the comple
tion of their road.
Crater City.— The Volcano Ledger wants
its cotemporaries to cnli Volcano “Crater
City,” or the city containing “Thirty-one
Stars.” The Sacramento Union thinks it is
a very prclli/ little name, and hereafter will
call it by that jiame.— Amador Sentinel.
If yon will explain to your renders what
you mean by “Thirty-one Stars,”pre-haps
they will be able to understand your wit.
Perils uy Snows. —Mr. Eli Lcester, of
Habit Creek, informs the I tuunger that fotiM
men in his employ left Yankee Hill, aboifl
two and a half miles east of Habit Creek, otr
Sunday last, to transact some business at the
latter place, which being finished, they com
menced returning, when three of the party
became so much exhausted that they could
not proceed through the snow. The one who
was able to travel succeeded in reaching their
cabin, a short distance, where he procured as
sistance and got the unfortunates in. One
of them, however,by the name of Farland,was
so completely exhausted that lie died immedi
ately after reaching the cabin. The others
have entirely recovered.
“Fourteen Buildings.”— The Editor of
the Jackson Sentinel seems to be surprised
that “ fourteen” new buildings should be in
process of erection in Volcano at one time
\\ e can show him more than “ fourteen” build
ings going up, any day he will visit our town
and take a walk with us; and if Jackson is
the flourishing place we hear and believe it
to be, more than likely an equal number of
new buildings going up might be found there.
Perhaps he has not taken a walk around his
own town lately.
U-~£T \\ c have received a .series of resolu
tions passed by the gentlemen who are en
gaged on the Volcano Ditch, reflecting on
the “grub,” Ac., they are supplied with.—
They arc rather humorously worded, but we
think no good can be done by their publica
tion. We will look out for that “ dinner,”
however, and should it come off, we will try
to be one of the party.
('.u.ironsia Minstrels.— This band of Sere
naders gave three concerts in this place the
fore part of this week, and were welcomed
each night by a good audience. Their per
formances were all given in good style and
good taste, and were received by the audi
ence with much npplan.se. .Many of their
acts are entirely new, which renders their
concerts more attractive than any given in
this place fur a longtime. May they receiv e
a liberal patronage wherever they go.
AVuem: i- 11k? — A lady living in the in
terior ol Indiana, advertises in the papers of
her neighborhood, for information concerning
her absent husband who in California
She describes him as being six feet two inches
high, red hair, and whiskers of the same col
or, and lame in the right leg—his name is
Timothy V. Hager. She intimates that un
less he returns soon she will apply to the
proper authorities for permission to obtaiu
another husband.
Coon. —Three miners of our acquaintance,
who have been proqx'eting, returned to town
on Thursday, and inform ns that they have
discovered very good diggings on the hue of
the new canal, a few miles east of fids place.
For the Weekly Mger.
A Retrospect.
It is a frequent occurrence to hear miners
lament their former inexperience in the art of
mining. If they had been acquainted years
ago with (lie hydraulic or even ground sluice,
they believe their ‘ piles” would have long
since been made. It seems to me that this
lamentation arises from a too limited view of
the .subject. !am disposed to believe —not
precisely that “whatever is. is right”—‘bat
something very neurit, that “ all things in the
end, generally turn out for the best.” But
let me illustrate by a train of thought that
passed through my mind yesterday.
I was standing at the foot of one of our
huge hvdraulics, when I observed at its base
an old, rust-oaten pan, which had probably
done good sen ice in 4b and 00. I lie strong
contrast between the two mining implements
suggested very forcibly the great improve
ment which had taken place in onr milling
operations. Each was a symbol of the mining
art during one stage of its progress. In fact
the pan may be considered the germ from
which the hydraulic has sprung. The aiudo
<>gy is tolerably perfect between the acorn
seedling, shrub, sapling and “ tall oak,” and
the pan, cradle, tom, sluice and majestic hy
draulic. Each series illustrates equally well
the great law of progressive development.—
This reflection led me to make another ; that
the law of progress permits nothing to be de
veloped before its time, or until it is actually
needed. The seedling docs not produce blos
soms, for it can not bear fruit. We had no
hydraulics in ’4l), nor would we have used them
had they been in existence. At that time
we were engaged in “cleaning up” the crevi
ces, those ingenious riffles which were long ago
patented by somebody of more ancient date
than the philosopher, who, according to San
cho, invented the blessed art of sleep. Of
what use were a hydraulic in cleaning up a
riffle ? For this purpose, do we not still use
the pan, ns we did in '49 ?
But let us come down to the time when
cradles were in use. We were then mining
in the deltas at the mouths of precipitous
gulches, or along tlie liars of our auriferous
streams. In other words, we were “cleaning
up the boxes” which lay nt the foot of .Na
ture's long-toms. What article is better
adapted to such work than the cradle 1 The
cradle is still in demand when a -iniilar end i
to be accomplished. Next in order came file
tom and box-slnice. We were then occupied
in working what is called leads, that is to say,
we wi re cleaning up the great “ tail-races,”
into which nature had sluiced for whole geo
logical periods. In cleaning up our own Lili
putian races, do we not use the same imple
ments that wc used then? After this came a
time when the country was supposed to bo on
the verge of rain. There were loads in abun
dance still left, but their dirt was too sparsely
sow n with the golden seed to allow of its In -
worked. At tins crisis the
was l 1 ,"0 ht <4 mid 1 lie > nullify
- 1.11111■! lln! b\ i■ i»ll,|
< which nature had begun a new
Wlif labor was opened to which no limits
can be assigned.
But there were hills ami mountains through
which the precious metal was so generally dif
fused, that (lie bare “color” could be found.
Nature had been sluicing them down fur am
but ages more must pass away before her
work would lie done. Could no means be de
vised by which the present generation could
reap the benefit of these inexhaustible store
houses of wealth ? To meet this exigence,
we have the hydraulic and its serpentine hose.
This is tlie crowning instrument of the mining
art. Here all tlit* appliances made use of hv
Nature in her mining operations, are united
and individualized. The beating rain, the
mountain torrent, and the land slide are here
reproduced in an intensified form. Not (ill
onr mountains are washed us bald as Sinai or
Ararat, will the labors of the hydraulic be
ended.
In tins retrospect 1 think that wc may dis
cover that Providence disposes of things to
“pretty good advantage.” With every dilii
culty, the means for its removal are provided,
and not before. We may also learn to be
hopeful in regard to the future. If a distant
generation shall find our placer diggings ex
hausted, it will at the same lime develop ma
chinery for working profitably our immense
quartz ledges; and the historian of that day
will wonder that the opinion was ever enter
tained that Volcano could grow too rapidly
for her resources.
SI LEX.
A Lakue Tuck. —The -Mariposa UiizetU
says that a large tree iti a perpendicular po
sition, was lately met with in a tunnel near
La Grange, in Tuolumne county. The tree
is thirty feet in circumference, but its height
cannot lie told. It is far beneath the sur
face, and was found nearly three hundred and
fifty feet from the month of the tunnel. The
w ood is petrified, though neither ns heavy nor
as hard us stone.
<I • >od \ iku).- The claim of Houseman
A <’o., (three men,) yieldtd fjur hundred and
forty-two dollars last week. I’retty good fur
hard times.
Jterr It is not genetally known, perhaps,
that tearing down and defacing “handbills” is
made an “offence” by the Statutes of this
State.
The lute rain has created considerable
activity among our mining population. We
learn from many that with a little more ruin
they will be enabled to go to work in good
earnest.
Fkee Fights.— There were no less than
four fights in our usually quiet town, lust
Wednesday, and a poor day it was lor light
ing, ut that.
fctf-The weather is rainy,—the streets
muddy, and the town lively.— Sen/incl.
.According to your own showing, there is
another muddy place in Amador county br
ides Volcano,
From the Alla Caleforniu.
Justice in England No Respect for Per
sons.
Wp published yesterday n few extract- in
relation to the trial of Sir John Penn Paul
and his partners, hankers of London, under
the firm of Slralinn A Hates. We have since
received further particulars inrelationto their
conviction, and as it furnishes n singular con
trast to trials in California, we cannot forbear,
to some extent, going over the same ground
again.
Strahan A Bates was one of the oldest
banking firms in England. It bad received
on deposit from various persons large amounts
of public securities, on which interest was
paid annually. These securities were convert
ed to the use of the firm, and ultimately ex
pended in extravagant living and various
-peculations. The partners were then prose
cuted on a charge of felony, and a conviction
obtained, upon which they were sentenced to
transportation for fourteen years. This sen
tence carries with it hard labor for the term
named. Our London correspondent has giv
en an interesting chapter in relation to the
conviction of these men, which we copy be
low, that our renders may compare English
with California law. The extract reads as
follows ;
The claims of justice have been amply sat
isfied by the punishment inflicted on Sir John
Paul and his partners in business and in crime,
Messrs Stratum and Hates. They were con
victed on Saturday last of the charge of felo
ny preferred against them —tlmt of having
fraudulently abstracted and sold certain secu
rities entrusted to their cure. The particular
instance charged against them related to se
curities lodged with them by the Kev. Dr.
Griffith, to the amount of JEM 2,000. Pr,
Griffith has lost by them in this way L 20.000
altogether, bat the remaining or JL9,-
000 belon jml to a different transaction from
the first named 02,000, aril as the ends of
justice were met by a prosecution in a single
ease, it would have been useless to institute
another. The total amount of their embez
zlements in the same way is ascertained to
amount to X 113,000 ; their total liabilities
of all kinds, for which there arc no assets,
amount to five or six times that sum. Well,
these men, reared in the lap of luxury, highly
educated, and moving in the most refined ami
polished circles of this metropolis, were on
Saturday sentenced to transportation for four
teen years -were in one instant thrust forev
er beyond the social pale, their names brand
ed as Infamous, and themselves destined to
drag out the remainder of their miserable ex
istence in the fetters of the convict (for no
one imagines the possibility of their surviving
the expiration of their terrible doom), in toil
some manual labor, hewing wood, or breaking
stones, or digging ditches, or heaving at a
windlass, in the company of felons not more
criminal, though of meaner origin, andguiltv
of more vulgar crimes than themselves. Ev
ery one feels the penalty to to be severe, and
even Pr. Griffith wept on hearing it pronounc
ed ; but then every one is compelled to admit
the justice of the didum of the judge, Baron
Aldersim, once the intimate associate of Sir
J. I). Pan!, that, as ho could not conceive of
the possibility of a worse ease occurring un
der the statute, he felt himself bound to in
flict the heaviest penalty which the statute
empowered him to administer.
The case furnishes no bad illustration of
the Impartiality with which our laws are ad
ministered. W hatever abuses prevail in our
army system, whatever corruptions may exist
in the purely political departments of the
State, (lie administration of justice in our
criminal courts hits always been above sn.-pl
eion, uninfluenced by wealth, or aristocratic
influence, or political prejudices. Napoleon
Bonaparte obtained the verdict of a jury in
his favor in Westminster Hall, in an action
for libel instituted by him against a London
publisher, in one of the brief breathing spa
ces between our long and desolating wars
with the h reiieh ('ousnlate and Empire Pr.
P°dd, oae of (he King's chaplains, was hang
ed at 1 yburn for forgery, despite the unpar
alleled efforts put forth by all parties of the
aristocracy to obtain a commutation of his
sentence, on the clear and undeniable ground
tlmt he had never intended ultimately to de-
I rand. Ibe Earl of Ferrers underwent a
similar degrading death at the same place, for
having shot hi-, steward, under circumstances
which would certainly at the present day not
he held to justify a higher charge than that
of manslaughter, if they did not actually pro
enre the acquittal of the homicide on the
ground of insanity. Vet he was tried, not by
a jury of tradesmen at the Old Hailey, who
might he -nspeeicd of harboring a grudge
against the aristocracy, but by the House of
Lord- at \\ esimmster, he having demanded
to be tried “by a jury of his peers,” a privi
lege to which every man is entitled to in this
country, bauntleroy, the banker, was hanged
at Newgate, in despite of the most strenuous
exertions of numerous and powerful friends in
his behalf. His ease presents the nearest
analogy to that of the unhappy men sentenc
ed on Saturday last, inasmuch as, though his
crime was forgery and theirs embezzlement,
their business of bankers was the same; thev
all occupied a similarly high position in civic
a Hairs and in Metropolitan social life, and
were circumstanced very much alike in many
other respects. Hut the ease of (!upt. Moir,
above almost any other of modern times, ex
hibits the rigid and unbending impartiality
which characterizes the administration of our
criminal code. This unfortunate gentleman,
having served for several years in the army
with much distinction, settled down on a
property which he purchased in Essex, on
the bunks of the Thames, u few miles below
Loudon.
Here he was much annoyed by depredations
on Lis property by fishermen and other tres
passers ; and one day, determined to force
their wav aeross his land, and assailing liim
sell with abusive language and threats of vio
lence, he resisted by force, and in the se.uflie
which ensued, he shot one of them through
the right arm w ith a pistol bullet. The hone
wa- untouched, Mid the surgeon whom ('apt.
-Moir at once procured, pronounced the woun
ded man certain to do well. Ultimately, how
ever, lock-jaw set in, and the man expired a
lew days alter. I njer similar circumstances
at present, no magistrate would think of com
mitting a costermonger for trial on anv more
serious charge than that of manslaughter; yet
Captain Muir was committed and 'convicted
on the capital charge of murder, and paid the
penalty of his lift* for the offence. Not only
were his distinguished military m nice* mui
his aristocratic commotions powerless to pro
cure a mitigation of hi- punishment, hut the
prnver was carried to tho very foot of the
throne, on the ground that the case was the
(ir-t of a capital conviction which had occur
red in his dominions since the acee'Mon of his
Majesty (William I V.J only a few weeks be
fore, was urged in vain. Though po-c-nur
very humble intellectual powers. William bad
a kind heart, and would gladly have granted
such n prayer at the outset of his reign ; hut
the Judge who had tried the case n fused to
recommend it ns one suitable for the exercise
of mercy, and in the absence of -ach recom
mendation the Ministers ul the day were im
movable, the king without their con-cut «;a
powcrless. and poor Moir was hang"d. cl
stern as was the administration ol the law in
all those eases, in none of them, probably,
was the punishment substantially more terrible
than that which lias now cast out from the
bosom of society an entire banking firm one
of the oldest, and until recently, one of the
most respectable in London, with a baronet
at its head, henceforward to labor, to live, and
die amongst branded felons, now the equal
and fellows of themselves. They arc not en
titled, however, to complain of the servile la
bor which will he henceforward exacted of
them, living, as they have been for years, on
the plunder of the widow and the orphan, and
having reduced to the necessity of servile la
bor for life, scores of families bred in allln
cnce, whose property they embezzled, and
spout in guilty luxury.
I’micnnviLLK, I Ice. 13, 1*0.3
Mn. Editor: Having heard that a report
was in circulation in I’lacerville, calculated to
dons injury, and fearing that unless contra
dicted, it would gain public credence, we beg
leave to do so through tho columns of your
paper. The report is to the effect, that we
are about disposing of our line of Opposition
Stage to the California Stage Co. This is
entirely untrue, ns we have never even antic
ipated any such action. We assure the trav
eling public that wo never intend being bought
off, Imt shall continue on the route as long
as we meet with public patronage.
Yours Respectfully,
llOLnilllHSK \ KEYSKit,
Proprietors of tin Opposition Line.
We copy the above card fi<'in tho Moun
tain Democrat. Messrs. IL ldridgeA Key-cr
arc gentlemen of the go-ahead-school, and
when they undertake a thing it is hound to
be put through. Me- rs Williams and West
lake arc their agents—the former at Sacra
mento, and the latter at Placerville. This
latter gentlemen is an old stager, having run
a one-horse institution on the Pin Hook and
Hour' on line in Kentucky.
Christmas Ham,.— As Christmas is near at
hand, and all expect to have a merry, happy
time, each to make it a day of amusement
will sci k enjoyment to suit his fancy. Those
who would “ trip the liirht, fantastic toe,”
should not fail to attend the dancing party to
he given by Miss Hallctt and Mrs. Emslie at
the Volcano House. Extensive arrangements
have been made for the accommodation of all
who may grace the occasion with their pre
face. Neither pains nor expense have been
spared, and everything has been done that
could possibly tend to increase the enjoyment
of those who attend, and cause the evening
to puss olf " merry as a marriage bell.” Ma‘
honey Hall has been secured, anil an excellent
band of music engaged for the occasion
Tickets, $6.
We arc requested to state that gentlemen
desiring a carriage (for ladies) will please
leave their names at the house.
We refer our readers to the ear l of the
Committee of Arrangements in another part
of this paper.
New Tiikatrk. C. It. Lovell, acting as
agent for John S. Potter, Esq., has comple
ted a contract with Messrs, Mason A Co
for the erection of a new theatre in this
place. The building is to be )."> feet wide
and HO feet deep, and finished in good style,
and is to be completed by the first day of
February, We w ill then have two theatres;
about us many as one country town can sup
port.
Holiday Puesknts By referring to onr
advertising columns, it will be seen that
Messrs. Kelley A Symonds have on hand a
variety of articles suitable for Christmas and
Kew Year’s Holiday presents. These gentle
men understand how to do business, and are
not afraid to expend a portion of their profits
in judicious advertising. Give them a call.
teu' A bull will be given in this place on
the Eighth of January, for the purpose of
raising funds to pay off the indebtedne*
hanging over the public school house. The
card of the invitation committee will be
found in another column.
teu" By reference to hand-bills posted up
through our town, it will be seen that the
California Stage Company w ill start their
Jackson stage from this place every morning
at 7 o clock, i are, one dollar.
SfaY'\\ e notice that our neighbor of the
Sentinel has commenced issuing a regular
edition of his paper lor the Atlantic Stales.
W e w ish him great success.
Qi t;nr Wonder if the .Sacramento Un
t <ii ow ns any portion of Volcano- Crater
( i/ii. He should lane said? -Sentinel.
1 ; James Anthony, perhaps he will tell
you.
At Davenport, lowa, recently, when some
lots of ground were to lie sold at auction for
non-payment of taxes, the sale, by the direc
tion of the authorities, ini opened trilh
yrnytr!
llkibi'its pm Wai.ker.—Volcano ji
nisiting her quota of Fillibust rs f,, r y
gua. (.'apt Adams, of thi place, h .
a company of soni" twgdiy or thirty
most of Whom have gone to San l r
on their way to the “ gp.it of W; „. •> (
away from town quiet ly, two or tl -
a squad, only informing their most ir !lp ,
friends of their intended departure.
More tii v\ a “ Haklrs Dozen-." -j
gal fraternity in Volcano is beyond <| U ,. 0
extcn-itelV, ami we doubt not ably re-.-,
ted. X c-Urioua hombrr hiw bad the c ,,„
to undertake their enumeration, and 1
their number at tixtecn. That will j, ,
well, we should say, for a new minia.-,
Indeed, the town is about as full 0 f j aff ,
as u certain ploeg "on the other side of j.
don” is said to be.
eat!"-As usual, the Pacific Expr- -1
puny have delivered our papers prompts
the arrival of the stage, during the p.
tret k.
*rry I'fcre A Cameron have placed u
tier many obligations for the bounteous
ply of papers, magazines, Ac., receive!;,
the lust steamer. Their counter is ! ~,
with papers from all parts of the State
ter There are six places in Volcano»
uawspupers and literary publications ar» e
fen d for sale. Who says we ere not a r
ing people?
Kirn Claim. In another part of otg
per will be found the advertisement of
John MITO, who is compile,! to return :
Atlantic Stales immediately, and offers la
intercut in the Keystone Tunnel for
Here is a good chance for a profitable :
ment.
ici'- The miners in aud about Upper Hr
ctu ria art; doing 11 very fair business with ij
small amount of water they have on hami t
this time. Wln n the canal is finished, 1 •
promise to give a good account of that;
tion.
15 AKER A Co.- This mining firm, cum;
of Messrs Halter, Preguell and Wilson ,
doing a very good business in their claim
Shirt Tail Bend, la two days this week il
washed out sl;>4. They are now putting
a flume, and are confident that they cimm
age s2tl per day to the man, during the
ter.
it..;-* \\ e notice that the miners on the IV
are all busily engaged in putting in fl
They will, in the course of a few weeks, L.v
their works completed, and then look outf
“big licks.’’ The basiu in which Volca:;
situated is one of the richest in Califomi.i r
needs only the energy of competent uiiiur,
fully develops it.
Accidext. -We learn that two men w
everely injured on the Cosumuea, last M
day, by l lie premature discharge of a lie
which they were preparing. One of tic....
his right arm badly fractured, aud the
was badly burnt iu the face.
The News.
Hy (he arrival of the Undo Sum at .v.
Fraix iico, says the Tribune, we have f .
■ days’ later intelligence from the Atlai.t
States, one week later from Kiiro[>e, an 1:
weeks later from Central America.
la Mnglaml the ridiculous war panic 1
the U. S.) has subsided, and the uewsp.r
are heartily ashamed of the silly comm
they were the moving and chief cause iti «
uting.
Ur. Beale, the I’liihuielphin tier list ' ,l
was some time since convicted of rape a
whose behalf so much sympathy has
expressed, lias received a pardon from G
Bollock.
There is nothing new from Walker's#
Parker 11. French has resigned his off
Minister of Finance, and goes to Wash; •
as Minister Plenipotentiary of the new .
eminent. The Isthmus was quiet, uevert!
h>ss the indications seem to warrant tie
lief that Walker will have more light -
do before obtaining complete and tm
possession of Central America.
The steamer to leave New Vork on t
sth Iheember, for California, would I"
tained until the 7th, in order, if posslbh
obtain and bring the President’s Messay
Shooting Match. — A shooting match a
Christmas dinner will be given at the 1’
Grove House, next Tuesday,
H un.- -It rained nearly the entire off
terduy, and as we go to press it is pour#
down in good style.
Arrivals at the Empire Hotel, Volcan 1
FRANK TAtUIEU., PK OI'RIKTOR.
For the unit, ending Thursday night
J A Chinn,
Geo Cowling
Henry Vauld,
A Boucher,
I» M Slutirt,
W II Shearman.
Geo Moore,
K IVltihone.
Geo Murdoch,
I. i) Lamoin,
Tim Harris,
W W White,
l> Shepard,
Geo Mnegrove;
L li I pbam,
Mr Miller.
Lew Battler,
Crank lliimuy.
L Moltoii, ’
Jno Heron,
Peter Sterling,
Win (Larry
M Marriuer
Mr Sharp
Geo Dally
II HrV'Uiaa
It Fruncus,
11 Hughes,
Jaa O’Brien,
C 1* Strump.
F W Cocks,
M L Groff,
(' L Hartwell,
J M Hall,
u 11 Denmn,
H (’ Johnson,
II Lockarl,
J K Dollieon,
Deter Kern,
J Kiswell,
A Hunt.
Mr Millington,
Geo Moore.
Mr Harris
l> Shepard,
J 11 Hubbard,
H K -Stow o,
J Gray
I. 1! I'pliam
T W Leighton
.1 Clarion
M'ta Saith
Win Henry.
11 S Perkin .
Wm Smith.
Mr Wetrler,
Mr Dell.
0 I) Avalluc
L K Kov,
Mr Gates.
Mr Rohiueou.
G (tunkcl.
G Danilwi ii
Mr Giraun,
Mr Miller,
Wm P Banda.
H G Crough,
II I' I I
Geo Johnson
L Washburn.
T Hitchcock
Jus Voung
T Costigau
F S Harnes
,1 Head
H Lalhrop
J T Poe
1 String