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Upward aud Onward
WILSON'S EXCHANGE.

Opposite the American Theatre and Custom
House, samsomc street, SAN FrRitisco.
VE7 HE above Excelsior establishments which is fire.
4 proof and five stories high (being the only five story
house the Pacifc,) is finished and endidy fur
nshed throughout Although contains one hundred and
seventeen largeroom with facilities accommodate
hundred odgerssuch has been the rush OF
the Exchange since its comp lection, that the proprietors
nave been induced to lease half of the fire proof block just
erected by Lieut. Maynard and adjoining the Exchange.
This Will add seventeen large apartments and afford those
facilities which the increase Of trade requires Our pres
ent Bar WILL in few days, be removed the first floor in
the Maynard block, door north of where the Bar
present.
No pains money will be spared render the Exchange
the Excelsior Hotel of the public and keep pace with the
rapid growth and improvement Of wonderful city and
state.
With the above inducements, the Exchange is confident
ly offered to the million deserving their patronage
and although not disposed to be Wady and trumpet our
praise abroad, hearty thanks cheerfuly ten
dered to the ten thousands that have bestowed upon us
alike their fvors and money. Not unmindfl of the form
shall duly appreciate the latter and recprocae in
future as in times past the smiles OF old and
greet with pleasure ones-who probably will
pose the largest portion of the world
San Francisco, Nov. 70. 2 3m
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SaN ,frantisto advertisements.
Boiler Making by Steam.

At DonahHes UnCn IRON Works Mission g. FIRST SITS.
SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA.
EHSE undersigned having recently imported and erected
IL improved steam liveting machine, and IN other
ways increased his facilities for making boilers conse-
queny enabled materially reduce the cost of the same
and respectfully invites the attention Of those
Gang muey, sash and circular mill IRONS and all 9TH
descriptions of machinery together with castings OF IRON
and brass every kind made to order Steamboat repair
ing blacksmithing, turning aud finishing executed with
dispatch Also steam engines constantly ON hand Tor sale
also circular saws and full assortment OF engineers lind
inrs oct5n2Sm}smp JAMES DONAHUE.
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WINS FOUNTAIN HEAD.

=
The Fountain Head! The Fountain Head,
Wins Fountain is the place,
Where Old and young, the grave and gay,
Join IN liles cheerful race.
They with accord are rushing by,
And for the Fountain haste,
Their Breakfast Dinner, orrpcr too,
Are always to their taste.
IT'S there they find the choicest meals,
Our market Ger affords,
Served up in latest style that's known,
All smoking ON the boards
Steaks and stcwsand vegetables rare,
And batter, sweet cream;
Rolls. doughnuts cakes, and fresh fruit pies,
Well fit for highlands Queen.
The coffee too, clear and hot,
Prepared OF Java best,
Served up with cream and sugar white
is drank with hearty zest.
Wnn's Fountain Head hath vands choice
All that is and good
None can surpass its ample store,
Nor rich and varied board.
This fact our robust Aldermen,
10 every day attest
That at Wins Fountain Head and Branch,
They re always suited best.
Then old and young. both grave and gay,
Let's for the Fountain aim.
The Fountain Head! The Fountain Head,
Aud choicest meals obtain.
Respectfully dedicated to the eating public of California
n general, and san Frnclsco in particular, by
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Notica to Miners.

YHNIE California quartz mining agency and San Francis
n mineral assay Office, has been removed from the
firc-oof building No. lO3 Montgomery street. next door
to adams g. Co.'S Express OGce where every attention
will be given the melting and assayng of gold dust and
other minerals and where the very best price viii be paid
for all kinds of gold dust, according quality. And for
better security and accommodation Of the MINER gold
dust will be received special deposit free of charge and
all moucys left deposit will bear interest OF one per
cent month after the expiration of ten days from the
time of deposit--rcdcemabe at pleasure.
iulv23 nI3mI$xb l. :. WRIGHT. Agent.
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PANT, ONLY! At Wholesale.

KH7E take this method to announce to buyers the kind
Wv of goods exclusively deal il, vz mems panta-
looms and to get at the point respectfully solicit
the trade Of all cash operators. We are importing and
have i'll for this falls business. the largest stock Of
pants, without any cXceNti ever opened ulon the Pacific
coast. all bound admit who will take the trouble
to look through, and propose to sell them for cash at
very low figures The line comprises every known fabric,
from the docskn the cheapest kcrscyS, all well
made, and trimmed, in the most fashionable and sub
stanHl manner Cur round Of satnct we would in parc-
uar call attention to We located old stand
the of Sacramento and LcdcSdor Streets opposite
the Nicaragua and Pacific mail steamship Offices where,
for three years past have been regular dealers in cloth
ing and boots, but from TIL date forward in pants only
FRENCH x RUGGLES,
Brick store corner of Sacrmcnto and Ledcslorff SITS
San Francisco, Oct g. lSj3-l2imlSzh
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Tobacco Tobacco 4. Tobacco!!!
d THOMAS grape; j. Thomas Jr : nectar;
- {. Worham's square and compass;
J. Thomas Jr.s diadcm pounds;
J. Thomas Jr.'s II Dorado. do;
G. Jamison q Sons;
G. Worthen's cornucopa;
Twin sisters, in fancy boxes;
Chess players, do do;
p in diamond VIM. Myers;
Saunders Indian Queen;
Greaner's sun. J. NJ. Jacksons
Shepard's twist, pressed and unprcssed;
J. Thomas .tr $ diadem twist;
j. Thomas Jr.' virgin;
Watsons grape fine cut, III tin foil cans s. pairs;
Watson virgin do :. do do
Watsous grape, fine cut in II cans, smoking.
Matches in wood boxes, clay pipes etc, for sale by
JAMES PATRICK.
Battery STREET 81 dor from Pacific : T. n2lmlsm ~
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NICHOLS HOTEL.
MAIN STREET. CoLon1A

MAIN STREET, CoLoMA.
This HOTEL under the supervision of its well known
n Proprietor, Mr. s. n. NICHOLS, is always open for
the reception Of ourders and Travellers having every
thing well adapted to the comfort of those who weary
i'll well doing y
THE TABLE
will always be furnished with the BEST the market Affords
and Trouble Expense will be spared render salts
faction to all who may give him call. nov l9--Itf
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Thomas Iennent's

NAMES PATRICK has removed TO his brick build
- lug on Battery street, Pacific San Francisco and
offers for sale the following articles:
700 fikins choice table butter;
200 bbls extra heavy pork;
500 cases extra leaf lard;
$4,000 fb choice sugar cured hams;
Ic00O 10 clear bacon sides;
500 bbls Brandywine ID cornmcal;
500 lib star candles, 6;
800 boxes Colegate'S pearl starch;
200 bbs old M0nongahela whiskey;
50 bhlS Zante curlants:
100 cases fine table salt, u ii Id bags.
n2mlSma XZ
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BANKING HOUsEoF BURGoYNE & CO.,
San Francisco.

EXCHANGE for sale at sight time, in sums t,
suit.
Earring Brothers & Co. London.
iotnger " Co. Paris.
Burgoync X Co. New York.
Phcnx Bank. do.
J. l.. Thaycr & Brother. Boston.
Canal Bank. New Orleans
L. a. Benoist " Co. st. Louis
AGENTS.
HEAE y co. Sacramento.
JOHN v FLl ME co. Marys'llie
noVI9--Itf
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W inns Branch.

" IlN7s EEaNCh.
The Fountain is the ''place of CALI
FOR bachelors both great and small
But dare they e'cr in love to get,
The branch the case has nicely met
And here with swcethcarts with wives,
May feast and happily their lives.
Our city such place could boast
Till Winu became the Ladies' host
Who served such dishes TO the Fair
That Bachelors themselves came there
And wondered what the move could mean,
The Ladies rushing all to Vim.
The wonder having passed away
Now from the Branch they caunot stay;
The spirit Of the age they feel
Aud to the Brunch they often steal,
With those SO lovely, smiling, sweet,
To spend the hour a-tete-a-tete
San Francisco, Nov. 10Th, l553 2 3m
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Henry johnson y Co..

s,Esss, IMPORTERS and Tth0lcSQlc Druggists No
l5Mg3s&3 146 Washington street, mar Montgomery San
ii5f1 Francisco offer for sale for cash. at the lowest
N<A wholesale prices large and well selected assort
of East India, Mediterranean and European drugs and
medicines; French English and American chemicals Of all
kinds also extensive assortment of P0fnn0y, FdncY
1irticcS Fancy Soaps, Brushes Paints ind OHs Dye
.Stufs Labe,s Findow GLASS, Ertracs BrOn-cs, IrnS
ses LeacaeS, Surgical Instruments, Druggists Gasma1e
H1ers' Goods Shakers Herbs and Roots etc., together
with every article comprised in the stock Of druggist
physician. Ii. J. " Co. the propieors wholesale
agents for Dr. JppseS FdHl3y MdiciheS SAINTS SarSaI
r!a 1Iafat's and Bramdrcth'S Pills. Dars' PAIN Ki}er
Con gresS Spring mater, etc. Henry Johnson Go. have
made such arrangements in New York, Boston and Phila
depa will enable them purchase their stock at the
lowest rates. and they determined give their custo
iners the benefit of low prices and the same time the
best quality of goods july l2maSwm.M
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NEW plan for preparing Hour Tor family use, miners,
"a sea vessels, steamboats, inland travel, etc
The preparation is compounded by machinery and con
of mixing ingcniousy the component parts Of salt (mur
late Of soda) with the four which requires only cold
prepare the dough for bread biscuits battcrcakes etc
What adds much to the value of the prepared flour is its
preservation by the chemicals, from becoming
nouldy. 1t will keep sweet in common barrels for great
length of time, say trip to Europe and back which has
been repeatedly proven from \. York Therefore every ill.,
ivdua company undertaking long journeys by water
land, will provide themselves with /, as an lTidu"l ac
QUESTION to the culinary department. To miners it is em
nently adapted, well for its economy the simplicity of
preparing it for bread and the apdty with which it
be baked and served for
Give it trial. and you will be thoroughly satisfied
virtues.
Principal Depot, l22 Sansomc street san Francisco.
L. ]. FAIRClIlI4DN co.
Sacramento Depot 14i J street, where it all times
be procured in quantities to suit purchasers.
innc25 n4m;l PITTS N co
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San Francisco, Nov. Sth, 1858,

The Golden Gate FlouAing Mill will be conducted
by the subscribers, under the and style here
tofore and the public may assured that effort
part shall be wanting to fully sustain the high reputation
that the Golden Gate flour has acquired in California
The article manufacture is pure and unadltcracd; it
is made from the choicest native wheat, and is fully equal
to the best Iaxall Gallcgo We tender our sincere
thanks friends and the public generally for their lib
er patronage heretofore extended to and respectfully
solicit Il continuance of the
F. d. CONRO,
w. A. SAMPSON.
San Francisco, Nov. 10Th, 1853. 2-3m
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B. F. Hastings G. Co.,
~ O. 30, corner Of and second street Sacramento Ga
= Exchange for SALE per every steamer, O"
George Peabody u Co. London
VIM HOge " Co, New York,
James Robb Y Co.. New Orleans
G. Macaster, Esq, Philadelphia,
j. L. Thayer " Brother, Boston.
CheckSon San Francisco at par. The highest price paid
for gold dust. Sacramento City, May q, ld33-nin3
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San frantisto advertisements,

~ Opartmcrsiip.-I4e copartnershp heretofore exist
" ing between the subscribers under the and style
of Conlo Sampson Co., is this day dissolved by mutu
al consent. +. ID CONRO,
w. A. SAMPSON
WAI SHARP q CO.
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TIE PEOPLES STORE.

DasuereUtypes.
ED RADLEY'S Cate JohnsonsO Dapurcan Gallery and
ED Stock Depot, street, between Sid and 4h Sacra-
mento Daguercotypes taken this Gallery with all the
pate improvements.
DAGUERREAN ARTISTS
will find, at this establishment large assortment of plates
cases, apparatus chemicals &c, for sale at San FancS-
co PccS All orders, accompanied by the cash. promptly
attended to. H. w BRADLEY
Street, Sacramento, l9--tf
EFT AT THIS OFFICE.-A POCKET BOOK contain
ing valuable papers the have it by calling
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/ territory to New Mexico," can assert on au.
thority Obtained by me in New Mexico and Chi
huahua, that the whole population of the Me
siIla valley consists chiefly of people from New
Mexico and Texas. of Spanish descent, who
failing 10 receive protection from our authori-
ties after the late war with Mexico, coonzed
that place.
Up to the present time nothing official has
been made public by the Government in expla-
nation of the boundary established by me as
commissioner, on the part of the United States,
except what was contained in Mr.. Secretary
Stuart's letter to ;hc President in October last
On my return from the survey in February last
presented to the Department of the Interior
such facts as could hastily bring together in
cucdation Of the question, accompanied by
fine maps, which document was called for by
the Senate and ordered to be printed The
letter contains the facts embraced above in cX-
tense, with many others, and enters largely in
TO the question of what was understood BY Mr..
Secretary Buchanan and Mr.. Trist as the boun-
dary defined in the 9Th article of the treaty of
Guadalupe llidaIgo. When this document ap-
pears, have no hesitation in saying, that it
VIII be conceded by ali that Governor Lanes
prctcn'uns cannot be sustained
joins Il. BARTLETT,
Late United States Commissioner under the
5h article Of the Treaty of Guadalupe
lhdalgo.
Providence, r. l., May 9, 1873.
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Father Taylor, the Sailors Preacher,
From the Musical World and Times.


You have never heard FATHER TNYLon, 1.-The
Boston Seamen' preacher Well--you should
go down to his church some Sunday. Il is
not at the court-end Of the town. The urchins
in the ncighborhood are guiltless of shoes or
b9nnets You will see quite shrinking of
"Pulice' at the corners. Green Erin, too is
we'll represented; with dash of Africa
checked off with 'dough-faces"
Let us 60 into the church ;; there are no
stained glass wdnows-no richly draperied
pupt-no luxurious seats TO suggest a nap to
your sleepy conscience. No odor Of pa,choui,
or n0npGreH or Joqttet de riOLet will be waited
across your patrlcian nose. Your satin and
broadcoth will fail to procure you the highest
seat in the synagogue, they being properly
reserved for the "oId salts
Here they come! one after the other, with
horny palms and bronzed faces. 1t strs my
blood, like the sound of trumpet, to see them.
The seas they have crossed the strging bill
lows they have breasted the lonely, dismal,
weary nights they have kept watch the har-
pies IN port who have assaulted their generous
sympathics! the sullen pash of the sheeted
dead in its vast ocean sepulchre what stir
ring thoughts and emotions do their weather.
beaten faces call into play Cod bless rho
sailor Here they come; sure of a welcome
conscious that they are no intrnders on aris-
t'Ct'..G iann9'iI Ipllr1uIq Una. eaCh added
Of the good old aan, who folds them all, ns
one fanny, to his patriarchal bosom
There he is! How reverenty he drops on
his knee and utters that silent prayer. Now he
T., - on IN iee' w i'n PuIcN "o,lo1 ne ADJUSTS
"t3 StoCIa1IeI; a"u S"y' 10 tir"y TAR douotiuF
VI " o':U', Nop''! "e'ei ototuer pointing 10
q, I' 90 -, "e P"P"i '"cN co'i KNOW aoout
",t, iig ga" G c'i!o Ille IlgglH Wheh boreas
""I,'i9S ms ieICeSI olast' ne can swing into
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.GreenouaHS IFasLiagtoa.
GENTEE HAND.
BY 7. 5. ARTHUR,

bl i. >. An ! III ~
Ibid not hear the maiden's name; but in my
thought have ever since called her "Gentle
Hand" What a ma ric lay in her touch 1t was
wonderful.
When and where, it matters not now TO re-
late but once upon Il time, As | was passing
,brouuh thiuly peopled district of country,
nipht came down upon me, almost unawareS
Being on foot, | could not hope TO gain the
yillare towards which my steps were directed
until a late hour and ,heretnre, preferred
seeking shelter and nj ights lodging at the
first humble dwelling that presented itself.
Dusky twilight was giving place TO deeper
shadows. when | found myself in the vicinity
of a dwelling, from the small uncurtaned wan
,dows of which the light shone with pleasant
promise OF good cheer and comfort The
house stood within an enclosure, and snort
distance from the road along which ! was
moving with weared feet. Turning aside, and
passing through an il hung gate, approached
the dwelling. Slowly the gate swuag ON i's
wooden hinges, and the rattle of its latch, IN
closinJ. did not disturb the air until had near
" reached the little porch in front Of the house
in which a slender gjr!, who had noticed my
entrance, stood awaiting my arrival.
A deep. quick bark, answered almost like an
echo, the sound o! the shutting gate, and, sud-
den AS an apparitol, the form OF an immense
dog loomed in the doorway. | was now near
enough to see the savage aspect OF the ans
NAL, and the gathering motion OF his body :
he urerarcd to bound forward upon M. HIS
wulish gruwl was really fearful. At the in-
stant when he was about to spring. hight hand
was laid upon his shaggy neck, aud low word
spoken.
Don't be afraid. II wont hurt you,' said a
voice that to me sounded very sweet and mu-
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u SSAILs As FooD-IIunts Merchant'>
Magazine for March, introduces the following
delicious morsel to its readers as an item o
Mercantile Miscellany:
We learn from our Partisan contemporaries
that the snail is becoming fashionable article
of diet, and that for several months past. a
particular place has been appropriated for their
sale in the Paris fish market, in the southeast
angle near the Holsters and fresh water fish
Snails, says one OF the French journals, were
highly esteemed by the Romans, our master,
in gastronomy, and are now raised in many OF
the departments with success. In the sixteenth
century the Capuchins of Frbourg recovered
the art of breeding and tattening snatls. an art
which is no; lost IN our day, Tor in Franchc-
, Compte, Lorraine and Burgundy, they raise eX-
cclent snailS which tind sure demand in the
Paris market.
There are now fifty restaurants and more
than twelve hundred private tables in Paris
where snails are accepted as a dellcacy by
from eight thousand TO ten thousand customers.
The monthly consumption Oi this mUuscan IS
estimated at half million. The market price
at the great vineyard snal.s IS from 2t 50c. tu
81. SOC. per hundred, while those of the hedges.
woods and forests, bring only from 2t. to 2i.
SOC. The proprietor OF the snaIIlery IN the
vicinity of ID jon, is said to net over 7OOOl.
annually.
On which the editor of the y. O. Bee re-
marks: "Start not, fair reader, when we add
our editorial imprimaiur to the excellence OF
snais when properly cooked with rich, pep.
perry sauce, we know Of few edbcs more de-
lcous than this unsighty, bat tine favored
reptile. They are almost as fine eating a.
frogs, and the latter is an apcan morsel for
the discriminating gastronomc.'
Some of our readers may not be aware of the
fact that the warmer parts of Europe, snaiIs
OF various Kinds are nearly as abundant as grass
hoppers are with us in their season, and thai
to guard the fruits from their ravages is quite
an object. Instead Of being small as most OF
the species are which lurk around old log,
and beneath stones in our woods, many kind,
are quite large, so that extracted from the shell
one would be as large as fair sized oyster
when taken out of its castings. But "to cut
snails-only think of it-l W 'uld starve first,
or near it," some one may say. Perhaps the
same has been said about eating oysters, by
persons of no experience that way. Doubt
less it becomes as easy in the one case, as in
the other when one has got used to It. But
to get used to ii is the thing. We have no
tear that importations of snails for the table,
will bring down the price of oysters ard clans
in our day. The South Sea islanders like
roast dog qnite as well as roast pig, as has been
long known, but puppy Ioastcrs do not yet
come openly into competition in our City mar
kets with young grunters. What the high
price of meats may bring about bye and bye
we cannot say.
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Adventures of A Lady on the Isthmus.

SAN FRANCIsCo, Jan. IA, l853.-Speaking o.
the lsthmus, think must tell You tale con-
cerning yonng and blooming Lowell lady
who has Just arrived here, and whose adven-
lures on the Isihmus were somewhat piquant
showing what ladies have sometimes to undergo
who travel to California Miss Twas
well provided with suitable clothing for trip
from Lowell to tho "uttermost parts of the earth,
and had an exceedingly pleasant journey, till
she arrived at Cruces, when, n OF knowing what
know by experience, that it is no. at all neces-
sary tn travel separated from your baggage, she
suffered herself 10 be separated from her own,
thereby committing great error.
She, supposng her baggage woul arrive at
Panama nearly as soon as herself, mounted a
rckey little mule, clad in thin Bioomer, and
started from Cruces to Panama. Now, as | be-
fore observed, the Isthmus and whole Pacific
have had long crying fit, and the consequence
Is, that the road from Cruces to Panama was
never in a more eXecrable condition. Miss
L---being very large and heavy, and her
mule being small and old, they had a good time
Of it, and floundered through the mud in a most
astonishing manner. She told me that at one
place the mule went into mud-hole SO deep
that nothing was visible but his nose and ears,
while she was in up to her chin. The gentle
man who was with her, informed me that he
rescued her from such position four times
during the day, pulling her and her mule out
Of the deep mud by ma force As natural
consequence Of these mud adventures, when
thew had gct through The worst aces, they halt
ed at a convenient native "Ranch." he'd coun.
Gil of war, and concluded that inasmuch as Miss
L--had not change of clothes at hand,
it was eXpedicnt to wash those she had. So
the other ladies' Ohere were several along who
oit thpr had l,,ol,
Miss L. stripped her. washed her OH as
ihev would newborn baby, rolled her no in
blanket and laid her away to be a good baby
and take nap, while they washed and dried
her only suit They washed the suit and hung
it up to drv, and then, very naturally. sat down
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TmE BORROW of LAKE ERrE.-rhe chart of
Lake Erie, giving the aoundings as taken by
the L 5. PoPcgrophcal Engineers, discloses
to the depth of water, besides being Of great
use to narigators.
1t shows Tire lake to We divided into three
sections. One of these extends fIom the head
down to PIT. Pellee island, and th- bottom pre-
sents a general level, with depth of 30 fec-
in the average. The second is Of much larger
extent and stretches to Long Point is also r.
Level, with depth Of 90 to 20 feet. The stardi
section extends to the Niagara river, ard is All
uneven bottom, with various depths of water.
ranging from 60 to 20i feet. 'phe stlaa,,-
steamer lies but a short distance from the great
est dcpih Of wator