The Nevada journal., 1852-10-22
SAN FRaNc1sco. Oct. 10. 1859.

l. oIIll lOf Tue EiuTucT Vi u NlCNlCNU, uli
the 18th Of September last, at Pleasant
Valley. The Court room was filed with
an interested and silent audience, as
sembled to see the awful sentence pro-
nounced upon a fellow being the execu-
ton Of which was soon to consign him to
eternity. The prisoner looked careworn
and anxious, and seemed to pay good
heed to the solemn injunction of Judge
Lake, to prepare his soul by repentance
FOR lis transition. The crime commit.
ted had most heiuous features. The
murderer plunged his knife eleven times
into the body of his victim, making by
nearly every plunge o sortnl wound -
well illustrating tNt fendish ferocity
that seems latent in the blood Of the
Spanish race; knowing no bounds even
in the death Of victim, and prompting
stab after stab when life is extinct. -
The sentence is to take effect on the
10th Of December next.
Dolores Martinez was sentenced to
one years Imprisonment for the crime of
granddaughter in killing Servolla Ola, by
Judge Lake, on yesterday.
The Golden Gate should arrive to-day
She has Laen expected for several days
past. as her usual speed generally brings
her in day or two before the usual
time. She will bring important politi
cal news, that must operate strongly up
on the election in this state.
Spiritual rappings are in much vogue
in this city in certain circles Many
men heretofore esteemed Of sound iudg-
ment and considerable intelligence, are
fully persuaded of the veritable nature
Of these revelations; and that spirits are
thus brought in communication with
mundane things Many admit the pro-
daction of singular phenomena by the
mediums but reject the supposition
that spirits produce the eyolutions Of ta-
bles, and spasmodic contortens and
writings Of sub jectsi but give the cred
it of all these wonderful things to mag
netism, electricity, &c. | had an oppor-
tunity last evening 10 witness the per-
formanccs Of somo of the initiated, and
must declare am entirely sceptieal
y ven Of the influence Of magnetism. =
Even if spirits were present, and preduc-
ed the knocking about of the table, the
mediums were actuated by the laudablo
desire of assisting them all in their pow
er by the use of physical muscles, &c,
One professor was so anxious to help the
ghosts that his hands slid over the table
in pressing on it, to cover which unto
ward accident, he put them still further
on, pretending to wish to see if the hands
Of the person opposite were getting cold.
Altogether it seemed rather silly to be
ore of company of half dozen sitting
round table for an hour or two, with
hands en- it, waiting for spiritual revela-
tions, and when such revelations were
produced they TO be so pourile that they
were unworthy of humanity, much less
of the severe dignity of the spiritual
world. The witch of Endor had much
more sensible and effective method Of
invoking tho shades.
A Chinese troupe is performing at the
American Theatre in this city, 10 the
amusement Of large nightly audiences.
The exhibition is made up of terrible
eombats with wooden swords, somersets,
unearthly noises, grotssque professions
without apparent plot or meaning, yet
illustrating, as the knowing ones affirm,
some event in the primitive days of Chi
nese history. The dresses, however, arc
rich; the ''eombnat ations' novel and ex-
traordinary, and on the whole about as
ineligible as the figures of kaleides-
cope.
The Bakers are doing admirably at
the Adelphia Theatre in this city, and
are as fully favoritss as any company as
have ever visited this city noted for its
discrimination in such matters.
The Democrats of this city have re-
nominated Mayor Harris, and have NOM
mated +. Tilford for Recorder. The
Herald says in reference to these nomi-
nations
"The Democratic Convention, true to
its instincts, its nature, its origin, its an
tipathies, its principles ostracised Re-
corder Baker last evening, because he
had fcar!essly and honestly done his
duty. Why should it not! There was
one of its members whom he had SEN
fenced to sixty days imprisonment ard