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The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

nfsA- The following atfectionate re-
membrancer from an old friend has been
handed us by the very TENcH in ques-
ton. As to the matters of fact in rela-
tion to his California experience, the in
dividual says he is worth enough to come
to Cazenovia village, buy the "Madison
County Wing" and office and put in a
JW-Sieed Editor, AS to his playing at
st. Marysville, the spot is not jotted
down in his geography, and as to his
playing subordinate parts. he has al
ways taken leading ones-hs not only
don't lecture on temperance, ne don't
even practice it.
TENcH s. FAIRenLD --Who in this
region did not know, and does not re-
member with a sigh the extraordinary
combination Of brilliant talent wit sem
timent, misdirected impulses, assurance.
grace and good nature. called tench,
who was successfully, and ere he reach,
ed his majority, printers devil, law stu
dent lecturer on temperance. agent OF
the linois State Temperance Society
speaking before the Legislature with
great applause, editor of the State tenn
perance organ, State Delegate to n
worlds temperance convention at Lon
don, clerk in village post Office, and
crier at auctions
He ran brief and splendid career !;
more successful in avoiding fame than
notoriety, he was master of a fervid elo-
quence, and the slave of his senses
Having fewer dimes than needs, be sail
ed to California two years ago. His
course has been as erratic there as it
was here. Immediately on his arrival,
he was shut out of employment by for
midable attack of constitutional weari-
ness, which continued several weeks
He then fled to the Stage for relief and
was successful, formed company Of his
own and failed.
Six weeks since he was playing subor-
dinate parts at little theatre in st.
Marysville, and lecturing in the dig.
gings on temperance Madison County
Whig.
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

Of Providence, his two daughters, two
Misses Potter, Of Providence Island, and
two other persons, names not nscer'aAed
was upset in gale, near Bristol on Sun
day The four young women were
drowned. Mr.. Reed sustained himself
by swimming, and the other two by
clinging to portion Of the mast which
remained above water, until they were
rescued by the crew of another boat.
John M. Cookson, was arrested on Fri
day Aug. Sth, at New York, on the
charge of numbering his wife, and was
examined at Pautucket, on the 10Th and
committed to prison.
New York.
A tribe Of Oibeway Indians have ia
ken possession Of the Island opposite Al
bany
Robert f Witlock lad sixteen years
of age, hung himself in his bedroom, at
Albany, on the Sth inst.
The potato rst has commenced, and
the fields in the agricultural counties
look as if they were froSt-bitten; it has
commenced earlier than usual, and will
prove more disastrous than usual for
some of the earlier varietie>--never
known to have been affected before-are
rotting,
The foreign news is scanty From the
New York Herald of the 10Th, we clir
the following items
According to appointment. the French
Assembly, we presume, closed it's session
on the 10th inst, to meet again in No
vember, unless the Assembly select com
miitees Of twenty-five should conclude
that the movements Of Louis Napoleon
may demand an earlier re-assembling
After the settlement Of the constitution
nj question against the revision, the AS
! sembly had proceeded quietly to dispose
/ Of its regular business, preparatory to
/ the prorogation.
! From Spain we have the grateful in
telligence tha the Queen was out upon
pious pilgrimage, for the safe delivery
of the expected heir or heiress to the
throne. The country was infested by
thieves and robbers.
In the Austrian provinces of Italy and
Hungary, martial law and its cruelties
are supreme The smouldering elements
upon the surface indicate another erup-
ton to be not far waiting per-
haps, only the signal from France; for
upon France sill depends the liberation
Of Europe.
Kossuth still fingers the prisoner Of
the Sultan, while the representatives of
h n prnot r. powers rnn tinue oh n ffnrin p over
the question of his release. The chan
ces aIe about equal that he will be re-
leased by his sufferings and the climate,
before his liberation is otherwise achie-
we'd.
The paltry question of the Danish sue
cession is reported to have been settled
by the joint consent Of the continental
powers
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

The New York Tribune of Saturday
evening, the I'd instant thus coutradicts
rumcrs respecting Jenny's alleged
marriage &c:
For week or two past the papers
have been swarming with all kinds Of
absurd rumors respecting the marriage
of Jenny Lind and Belliui, and one
notorious Journal in this city has even
stated positively that the ceremony
was to take place in Canada in a few
days All this is the merest gossip.
jenny Lind and Signor Belletti are
not and do not intend to be married
The latter will probably leave in the
Atlantic on Wednesday next, unaccom.
panied by Jenny Lind, who. we I'm.
derstand from good authority, contem-
plates spending the winter in this ceun~
try, though it is not likely that she
will give any more concerts, Mr. Ben
edict arrived in the city last evening,
and will leave in the Atlantic on We'd.
nesday. He is now staying at The Irv-
ing House.
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20
Arrival of the Oregon.

The Mail Steam Ship Oregon arrived
at San Francisco on the 18th, fifteen days
and three hours from Panama. remar-
kable run.
We are indebted to Bowers & Co for the
Panama Echo, from which we clip some
highly important news from Cuba, also
for New York papers, also to Hoffman &
Co for files of States, and State pa
pers,
In Cuba, matters have reached q eli
max, and the sanguinary event of the
massacre in cold blood of fifty Ameri-
cans, will excite spirit of retaliation
and revenge which will sweep Spanish
rule from the Island. The Echo gives
the following account of this affair:
1t seems that some four hundred OF
those who had enlisted in the United
States, on receipt of the news of the Gu
ban Declaration of Independence, sue
cecded in landing on the Island, a few
days previous to the arrival of the Fal-
con A portion Of the party were un-
! fortunately so DELAYED as to land right
in the teeth of large force of govern
ment troops, part Of whom encompassed
them by land and part by sea. Being
unarmed, they surrendered with the
promise that their lives should be spar.
ed. Notwithstanding this promise, they
were all executed, in accordance with
the following
HAVANA, Aug. II, 1851.
His Excellency, the Captain General
has ordered the publication of the sen.
tence:issued against the fifty pirates ta.
ken by his Excellency and the Com.
mandant-General of Marines, and whom
he has placed at the disposal of the su.
perior authority of the Island
DEcREE.--lt having been disposed in
the general order of the Goth of April
last, and subsequently reproduced, what
,jshould be the fate of the pirates whe
would dare to profane the soil of this Is.
laad' and having heard the declaration:
of the said fifty individuals by which
they have been found to belong to the
band commanded by the traitor Lopez
! have disposed, in accordance with the
Royal Ordinances, the General Laws oI
| the Kingdom, and more especially, the
Royal Order Of the 18th June ultimo
which was issued for this particular case
that the said individuals, whose name,
appear hereafter, should suffer the pen,
atty of death, by fire arms. The execu-
/ tion Of the said sentence being entrust-
ed to the Commander-in.C Chief OF this
City.
JOSE DE la CoScHL.
The Echo gives very clear and con-
sistent narrative of the operations of the
Patriots, as fellows
A resume of the operations of the Pa
triots, since the beginning of the revolt,
shows that the first pronunciamento took
place on the 4th ult, in the partcdos of
GuaymCro and Gibanica, where $50 me "A
assembled. The next day they MAJ ched
on Los TunaS, but mistaking a party of
Patriots from Holguin fer Governm ant
troops fight ensund in which, before
the error vas discovered Ave men were
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

FATAL ACCIDENT. In our issue oC the
18th instant, we gave an account Of an
accident to John Shrineir, German, at
Grass Valley, by which his leg was bad
ly broken, in consequence of his falling
forty feet down shaft, on Gold Hill
We regret to learn that he died on the
fifth day afterwards from eisypelas,
which set in--upon the broken limb.
Shrineir was hard working man, of
good habits, and has left family in
illinois
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

IMPROVEMENTS Ar Grass VALLEY -
We are always pleased to notice iudica-
tons of the growth AVID prosperity of
this beautiful village not only from the
natural pleasure Of witnessing improve
incnts, but kecause we ina gine we fore
zee o corresponding increase Of our sub
scription list On Main street, we OBJ
serve that tho Farmers Hotel is being
built over tue Grass Valley Hotel and
Illinois House are each receiving a Sc
cond story the Missouri House has re
Gently been enlarged and our cid fricnt
Beatty has added new front and pi
azza, and also q supurb dining room
kitchen, etc, to his we'll known estab
lishment. A number of new stores art
also in the process of erection, and abou
to be commenced. On Mill street Sc
veral new dwelling houses have recent
" gono up: significant fact, wher
taken in connection with the further
circumstance, that three weddings have
taken place in that street within IL short
time past. Query: has the ecker been
superseded by the long tomb
We learn that Mr. DubosQ. of Sar
Francisco, has purchased the lot at tn,
corner Of Main and Mill streets, beloy
Beatty's hotel, with the view of erect
ing store oe il. and furnishing u larc
stock of goods, imported by himself t
be sold by wholesale, at prices less tina
they can be brought from Sacramento
We believe jobbing house possessin
the requisite capital, would do extreme
ly well at julicious location In til
mines.
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20
Concerts.

SNhLCttos
A number of ladies and gentlemen
OF Nevada, amateur singers, have il
IN contemplation to give two concerts
next week, on Friday and Saturday
evenings, for the benefit of the Metho.
dist Church in this city, and to enable
these pioneers in the faith at Nevada.
10 finish their new church, and put il
IN condition to resist the storms of
the coming inclement winter The
object Is precisely identical with that
of the ladies' fair, so generously pat
ronized by our citizens a few weeks
ago, and we trust ample funds will be
raised by these entertainments. Ttoso
who love music should go, for some
mos! excellent instrumental norformers
nave volunteered their services, and
the best yoca. musicians in a circuit of
many miles, rs The Mountain Glee
Nlu5, etc, arc embarked in the enter
prise; and those who have "no music
in their souls" should 60. to encourage
one OF the best causes that could be
presented, The Methodist Church
from lis first inception, has been Il
pioneer society. Wherever tho ring
ing axe first dsturbs the forest echo
"here'er the foot Of man finds a
strange lodgmcnt, thither comes the
Methodist missionary, with his earnes,
devotion, his good tidings, his warm
impulses, TO do the the mission Of his
high Master We remember. MANY
months ago, when we first arrived in
Sevada, the old church we thouol;t q
barn, on Main street, where the Jh.tb-
"dists had already set up their altar.
hey have done much good here, as
conscryators Of morals, at least, and
low friends generally, encourage their
efforts in the future, and help them to
beautify and MAKE comfortable their
church.
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

THE NORTHERN MINEs.-We are con-
Stantly hearing the most successful ac-
counts of the miners through our up
country. At Bartons bar Longs bar,
Ousley's Sicards, Parks and Roses bars,
great success has attended their efforts
this season, SO and SIC being their av-
erage per man. At Union, Indian & Ne
gro bar, not a claim is to be had at any
price. At Missouri bar they are max
ing fair wages at Billiards. Fosters
Slate Range, and Goodyer's, new discov-
cries are being made constantly, and the
prospect, brilliant one ahead
A miner from Condemned bar, on the
Yuba river, thirty-fve miles from this
place, informs us that the "Big Eddy
Company" are dividing. and have been
for some weeks past, s75 per day to the
man. There are twenty-seyen men en-
ployed.
MIR. Balty, just from Rich bar, at the
Forks of Feather river, says, "the mi.
ners are doing exceedingly well" One
company, the name of which we do not
remember, is making large strikes. -
The cry everywhere we hear from is,
Ono BAsTANTE.
WYANDor DIcGlNGs. At these Dig
glngs men are averaging sl2 day and
new leads are being daily discovered.
oPH'R DIGCINGs-- miner Just from
the above region, tells us that within the
last two weeks some new discoveries
have been made, and that should the
rain hold of " for a month longer, sever
al will have made their piles. Sl2, SIC
and $50 per day are being made here -
Herald.
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

The correspondent of the Missouri n e.
publican, writing from Paris, July 3D.
says
Lola Montes, the real bona fde Lola,
is now under the instruction of a cele-
brated dancing master, in London, re-
suscitating the performances on the light
fantastic toe, which made her 6istin-
guisbed in her youth, and which brought
her to the notice of her old roval lover,
in whose palace she soon forgot the art
which had before given her her bread.
1t is said that she will accompany Mr..
Barnum to America in the fall, and give
a series of fings and twirls at each of
the principal theatres of The Union
The disgraceful celebrity which she has
acquired WILL doubtless, cause as great
a rush to see her as there has been to
hear the pure, noble minded Jenny Lind.
But so it is with people in general -
They turn frsm gentle Juiei's woe
To count the twills of Fanny Ellsler's toe
And this reminds me that Fanny Ellis
Ter has at last left the stage, never. she
says, to return to it. She gave her last
performance on the 2lst of June, at the
Imperial Theatre of Vienna, md has
now retired to her beautiful Villa Mt
Eschl, with fortune Of nearly two mil
lions of dollars
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

1he press Of States and Greixn news
caused by the arrival almost simultane,
ously OF two Steamers has crowded cut
nearly ali original matter from our to.
days issue
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

n young woman in Providence.
named Mary Rhodes, has been ar,
rested and fined $50 and costs for
appearing in :hc streets in male attire.
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

stzg~ Below we give the official vote
for District Judge in the 10th Judicial
District, by which the democratic candi,
date, Vim. I. Barbour is elected by 10
majority over Stanton Buckner the whig
nominee
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

H"A girl at the Womans Rights Conven-
ton at Akron, Ohio, declared, for her
own part she loved man individually
and collectively, better than woman.
aud so, she was sure, did every one OF
her sex. if they, like her, would utter
their real sentiments She wa more
onxious for mans elevation and improve
,,n,t than for woman's $, and so was every
'rue roman.n-Boston Transcript
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

\ man named CASTOR got into an
alteration this evening, in this city
with another named Sitter Consta-
bic of Nevada township, about some
dogs, which soon came to blows, in
which Castor was severely stabbed
in the hip and left breast before they
were separated. The stab was pro-
badly made with a pocket dirk, infict~
irg a narrow wound The wounds
were examined by DR.. kuoy, and it
is his opinion they are not dangerous
unless internal hemorrhage should SUI
peryene from the wound in the breast
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

E!dridge's Theatrical Company which
has been playing here with considerable
success the past week, leave on Mon.
day for Dow melville.
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

The subject of the division Of the
State excites much discussion.
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20

The weather has been pleasant of late.
The Nevada journal., 1851-09-20
Rhode Island.

A boat, containing Mr.. Rufus Reed,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-05

QUICK IN HER APPLICATION. -" i
amazes me ministers don't write better
sermons am sick Of the dull, pros,
affairs" said lady in the presence of
parson.
But it i, no easy matter, my goo(
woman, to write good sermons" sug.
gested the minister.
Yes" rejoined the lady, "bul you
are SO long about it; / could write one
in half the time, if | only had the text.
ooh, if stext is all you want" SAID
the parson, " | will furnish that. Take
this from Solomon lit is better ia
dwell in corner of house-top, than
with abrawling woman in wide house. -
Do you mean me, sir = inquired the
lady, quickly.
"Oh, my good woman" was the grave
response, "you will never make a good
sermonizer you are too quick in your
appiicatiOn."
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-05

its course, and Losurques was executed
After his DEATH man named Bueldi was
arrested as one Of the criminals. This man
confessed his guilt but refused TO declare
that Lcsurqucs was innocent. Previously,
however, another of the criminals had SOL
cmnly, and up to the moment of his cxecu-
| lion, proclaimed the innocence Of Lesuraues
and given the names Of all the murderers
vino were five in number. The number had
been sworn to by all the witnesses, but in
cluding Lesurqucs, six persons were con
victcd OF the crime, and executed, so that
one must have been innocent. The silence
OF Bueldi still left doubts in some minds as
to the innocence Of Lcsurques but six months
after the death Of Rueldi, the priest who had
acted as his conicssor gave up paper which
had been placed in his hands sealed by Bu-
eldi, with an mi ncion that i, should not be
opened until the expiration Of that period.
In this paper Bucldi declared before God
that Lesurques had nothing 10 do with the
crime, and was totally unknown to all the
criminals By the death Of Lesurqucs, his
wife and children were left destitute, TOR the
condscation of all lis property had been or
dered, and it was attached by the govern
mcnt 10 the SenQiorie Of VI. Count de JAG
qucminot, who refused to accept il, observing
that he respected calamity too much to rc.
ceiye property stained with the blood Of an
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-05

New YoRK UNITED STATES SENATOR.
In The New York State Senate, on Mon
day, a motion was made to 20 into COM
mitce to provide for the election of United
States Senator. Mr.. Deekman moved 10
postpone the election until April 2d-losr
Asrcporcd in IheiAlbany Argus
Mr. Beekman addressed the Senate nt
some length in justification Of his course
upon the Senator question, and read The
resolutions which had been passed at tho
various meetings of the General Commit
tee and the Young Mems General Com
:es of the city of New York, and drew the
inference that his course was approved and
sanctioned by his constituents.
The telegraph 10 the Boston papers
states that Mr.. Beekmhn spoke an hour
and half, adding
In the course Of his speech he declared
he never would vote for hill designed TO
elect Hamilton Fish. lie quoted the res
olutions adopted by both Wing General
Committees OF The city Of New York,
sustaining the administration, and called
upon his colleagues to obey The instructions
OF those commlees. or resign al once.
He declared an incorporating hostility
10 the bill, and pledged himself solemnly 10
vote against it, This setles the question
of Senator for this session.
Senator Geddes OF tho 22d district re-
piled to Mr.. Beekman, and insinualed that
lhe city of New York was not The state of
New York. NJ Beekmnn replied, and the
matter was laid over for another day.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-05

The NEw EDITIoN or WEBSTER :
SrEEcmEs.-Thc Cambridge correspon-
dent Of the Springfield Republican says
at will be remembered that some
months since it was stated that new
and very fine edition of Wcbsters works
was to be published. The arrangements
have been completed, and the first vol
ume will shortly be published by Little
g. Brown. The work is to be published
in six volumes, for which the subscrip-
ton price is two dollars each. 1t will
contain, first, a notice Of Webster's life
and works by Edward Everett ;-second,
the speeches and discourses in Congress
third, the orations and addresses; fourth,
the legal arguments and essays, and the
diplomatic papers Many Of these will
be direct copies from Mr.. Websler's own
notes, which have never been published.
Every subscribers copy is to be accom>
panied by an autograph Of the author.
The work will be published from new
type, cast especially for ii, and the whole
of it will be issued during the present
year"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-05

I55- The six members who composed
Gen. Harrison's Cabinet are now all as
sen,bledin. Washington, and in The enjoy
ment o. perfect health. Ten years have
rolled by since they were called 10 tho
CAPITAL to form n Wing Administration,
and vet the lime has made itile,if any, Sc
rous impression upon any one oil nus
number. There are few more remarkable
examples OF any equal number OF men,
who became connected together at tho
same'p.riod OF life, being in such a s,atc
of preservation now.'.Two of the six,
Mr. Webster and Mr.. Crittcnden, are
members Of the present Administration.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-05

70 EuRoPE is full twenty years ahead
Of us in agricultural science and schools.
and the little kingdom Of Denmark sent,
according to the official returns, ,320,-
57l quarters Of wheat to England, in
lSi9--equol to all that went there in
flour and grain from the New World.
The cost Of sending wheat from Dem
mark to London, is bul eleven cents a
bushel. For many years the Emperor
Of Russia, has had 1000 acres under cul-
tivation as model and experimental farms,
and 40 college buildings filled with some
5000 students Of northumberland
Farmer.