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The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1854-01-07
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TO THE PATRONS OF
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The things which have been may be agan. DEvlLs anu
CARRIERS, since the earliest history OF NewsPapes
been to pay their disrsses on the NEW YEAR
morn to fhe Patrons of the Press Why should the DeUa
of the Aaeus % be denied the privilege of Others
He has no poetry jingle in your ears CalIorha - IL
fast Country and none but lucky Strikers afford the
time for rhyme and words of sound IN sunshine an? tor
he has visited your abodes armed with tne meeh
gence. and may have brought gadness OF sorrow 70 many
heart For every sigh nc has caused, "IeaI Is
offered in recompcnce for every se' lie hopes 10 ee'
The Old Year with its thousand in the drama of
human lfe has passed away its joys and woes arc In inc
past, ID the New has come ,.e 4
early history of your State! Commodore stockton ana
Col Fremont commissioned by the government Sor Pu
and Str;nes on the Pacific Coast, July l0th 046-two
months and two days after the first battle OF the NO
such so far as the Carrier knows the story Of the CON
quest which followed up by possession until the treaty at
Guadalupe Hdago, in l94S comprises the history ot ne
ACQUISITION If his patrons know the facts may come
to light August 18TH 1885, the first California newspaper
made its appearance published by Semrle and Cotton
January 10Th 1913, little eighteen months after
the possession of the Country g" was asa e c pure
shining stuff in the race of the oa oN Mill Me1 inc nov af
in its dilapidaed condition within -oo 9"iu Vi 'A u
the ssARGUs."
The lucky fingers of James w Marshall PICKED the first
specimen which in possession OF hghiy respec,ale
lady of this Town- resident with her husband since lolo
and occupant of the first house erected in Coloma
Marshall to the locality in October io WIN otnerS
for the nnrose of SUPPLYING the market with lumber
How strange it ali! But the purposes of the Govern
ment and the object of American emigration across le
Palms. early 1916, matters OF fact NO eXplana
tion is attempted. - ,,.,. .o,
converted into State of the Union, and added STAR to
the galaxy which the Flag of the Republic The
Eagle has dipped his wing in the Pacific wave ana tee
inc thousands over sea and land have come to pay their
at the shrine of Liberty this region of gold and
promise. ,,: :. :.ooo
and the winged carriers of commerce whlten all the
shore The products Of all the world are at your command
and all tongues spoken in your hearng nearly all re
gons are practced at your doors
Under these the CARRIER can never visit
you in weekly rounds without something with which to
please or instruct He bears in his hand the news from
'many lands and may perchance, in unexpected hours,
tell of home and friends away-of hearts shat love.
all and Joy gadness attend through the vsictudes
" INV re CHARLEY.
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oh! Bury Me in the WIG Wooas'
CHARLEY.

Oh bury me in the wild woods,
Where the birds unfettered sing,
And where in rich luxuriance
The unframed flowers spring.
There let me sleep in silence,
By the blue streams ripping tide,
Whose bright and sparkling waters
In circling wavelets glide.
Then make me soft and grassy grave
Afar from the busy throng.
Where naught is heard but the murmurlng wave,
And the gush of the wild birds song:
Where the orient beams of morning
May rest first upon my bed,
And where the Willows weeping shadow
Bends above my sleeping head.
Where the twilight shades fall soonest,
And the bright stars first appear,
AS cleaning through the forest.
They shine so pure and CLEAR;
Where the winds may sing requiem,
In the lonely autumn hours;
When bending with the rain drops,
Droop low the summer flowers
And even there in winter
The snow shall softly fall,
And cover DER my resting place,
With pure white funeral pail
Then | would sleep in the wild wood,
Alone, but not forgot
For know kind feet will often stray
To that green and lonely spot.
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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAvY.--A
Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia
American says:
The estimate for the expenses of the Navy Depart
ment for the next fiscal year have been prepared,
and learn they do not differ much from those Of
last year, notwithstanding the Secretary will re-
commend very considerable increase of the steam.
This results from the fact that government has
on hand very large proportion of the material
required for ship building and that the estimates of
necessary expenditures have been considerably redu-
ced in many branches of the service.
The Secretary will recommend to Congress the
establishment of number of government mechanic
shops where machinery for national vessels can
be prepared and thoroughly tested before being put
into the ships, as is the practice in the English
navy.
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have been successfully initiated. Byron never; the
reason is because he was untrue to nature. He has
one merit; ne helped to disenchan poetry from the
fetters of Grub street His was part of the mission
of a poet who swan, swore, drank, and was one of
the dandes of the Nineteeth Century.
The ordinary dandy may be despised; but the
true Species the Brommels, DOrsays and Byrons,
have in them an iron grasp, Of which let the COM
mon dandy beware Alciades was dandy, and 50
was the trumvir who disputed the world with Au-
gustus. Wellington said that the dandies were his
best officers Sir Humphrey Davy and Lord Pal
merston were dandios in their day, and Lord Byron
of all others, shed halo over the dandyism of the
nineteenth century. He says he is not one of them
though they were always very civil to him, and that
he had tinge of the dandy in his minority. He
was always a shrewd business man. His letters to
Murray show this. | do not think that it is going
too far to couple his name with Shakespeare as the
two greatest masters of expression in the English
language. Travellers have noticed that one line of
Byrons exhausts landscape better than pages of a
tourist He lays his hand upon the oceans ''mane;;"
he tells how,
.'From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
Leaps the live thunder
For him the breathing marble
Consents to death and conquers agony
Say what we will, the voices of the world leave
him the first poet of the nineteenth century--the
greatest poet since Milton.
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RHYMES FOR THE TIMEs-Here is fair parody
upon Goldsmiths celebrated stanzas beginning
when lovely woman stoops to folly" &c.
1t is from the n Y. Mirror.
When lovely woman wells her bosom,
With muslin fashonably thin
What man with eyes could e'er refuse em
Cautiously from peeping in!
And when his ardent gaze returning,
The muslin heaves to deep drawn sighs,
Would not his fingers ends be burning
To press-his hat down o'er his ewes
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The total shipment of treasure by the steamers
of Saturday was 1892 702 3S.
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THE BEGINNING OF FoRTUNE-Peruse this, rea-
der, it will do you good
In Norfolk, Va, opposite the National Hotel is
old fashioned, outandish house, with one of its
corners cut down as if storm with straight
edge" in its front had passed along ther and cut it off
In that house once lived poor young man, who
had thought to better his fortunes by marrying a
girl poor as himself. The fast men" of the
present day pronounce all such marriages proofs of
insanity in those that commit them Not so, the
subject of this sketch.
His wife kept little store in that house, while
he used to 60 up in North Carolina after ship tim
ber.
They toiled on, reciprocaly contributing their
savings to the general fund, until at last the aggre
gate enabled him to build ship.
He kept increasing, and finally removed to more
populous part of the world.
Lately he built a mammoth ship, the largest
ever launched, the Great Republic. This mans
name is Mckay.
Farther" said little Teddy, how can the sea
run when it's all tide ?"
SIT don't rum my child" replied the father 't sets
still"
''How can it set when it has no bottom1'
Teddy was led out doors by the hair of his head
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will be sent to the dead
sons calling for letters
January |, 1854.
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Breeze lanson
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Bader frederick
Barvis john
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Barry joseph
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A CITY AsLEEp--A day or two ago. we visited
city, populous city, whose houses will outlast New
York. for they shall endure "tll doomsday"-
Strange to say, 1t is not noted on the best maps ;
stranger to say, though its population is daily in
creasing no colony ever issues from its borders
The golden chime of Pacfc's waves has never
charmed single ear there; the shout of the Pio-
neer in the further West, has never lured them
hence to seek new homes. Indeed, the city we
speak of stands alone like rock bound isle in the
midst of turbulent ocean; the busy world whirls
and roars around but there it remains unmoved.
We visited it in broad day, but the streets were
empty, not familiar voice to greet U.s. not single
footstep to make music to the ear. 1t was indeed
strange, very strange there shone the sun, with the
mild and beautiful radiance of autumn, and yet no
sound of living thing. Marble mansions We're on
every hand but none of the solemn tenantry for it
was a solemn city, came forth to meet and welcome
us. Names were graved on every portal but they
that owned them where were they7 1t was city
of names and not of things; of words and not Of
works.
At length there came train--there was an ar
rival. On it came, noiselessy, slowly. Was it all
a dream! By mansion after mansion it passed, and
stopped. A tenant for another dwelling; homo
for another wanderer rest for another weary.
So it seemed to we stood there, and so, the
shadows thickening over the thought, we hurried
away from Greenwood, and were once more min
ged with the tide Of the living.--N. Y Tribune.
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During the session or the Peace Congress in Edin-
burgh, MIR. Golden addressed a large public meet
ing, in which he alluded to the small military and
naval force of the United States and asked wheth-
er, if quarrel should arise between America and
France, the French government would measure the
resources of the American government by the nun
Der Of its armed men, or by its prodiglous industry
its enormous exports its gigantic mercantile ma
rinc, and the other resources which make this
country great maritime people! A very pertinent
question, though we do not agree with MIR. Golden
that it is wise policy in any great commercial peo-
pie to leave its commerce inadequately guarded,
while other nations are prepared, not only for de-
fensive, but aggressive warfare STILL it is pleasant
to our vanity to hear Mr.. Golden talk in this wise
Look at the Emperor of Austria-the boy En-
peror--who has been wasting his time ever since
he came to the throne in galoping from one review
field to another, to review his troops reviewing
squadrons and regiments Of sometimes $4,000 or
10000 men at time, and surrounded by staff
Of 60 generals. If single frigate were sent from
that plain in black suit of clothes in the Capt.
tol at Washington, to Trieste with hostile mess
age, would not that bov Emperors heart be in his
very jack-boots loud laughter and cheering
Notwithstanding that he commanded 100000 or
100000 men,"
Nevertheless circumstances alter cases." and
while the light taxation expansive industry and
high intellectual and moral force of our people,
make us formidable enemy to provoke, we are de-
voutly thankful that the young gentleman in the
jack boots, and his 100000 men, do not reside on
this continent.-Richmond Dispatch.
COLL ON THE MoHAvE.--Captain Aubrey, in his
letter to the San Joaquin Republican, says that he
found gold in considerable quantities on the Mohave
even on the surface of the sand. He says: son
one occasion, while at rest for a few minutes, in
deep gully, about mile from the crossing on the
west side of the river, Mexican mue-boy discover
ed something glistening upon the ground, which,
examination, proved to be gold. We at once COM
menced washing sand in our tin cups and in every
one discovered particles of gold. This gold was
discovered in dark coarse sand, and black heavy
sand was found in the cup after washing away the
gravel, The sandy soil was so compact that we
could not dig it up with our fingers We washed
sand the east side of the river and found gold in
greater abundance than on any previous occasion.
myself washed tin cup full of yellow clay, and
found about 25 cents worth of the pure metal A
Mexican boy, on washing trying painful of coarse
sand found from 40 to so paIticles of pure gold
some of which were as large as the head of pin
We took the clay and sand from the top of the
ground without digging. The appearance of the
country also indicates gold"
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LIST OF LETTERS.

ND EMAINING in the Office of WELLS, FARGO &
hN CO., Coloma January list, 1854.
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LIST OF LETTERS

D EMAINING in the Post Office at Coloma January
he 1854, which if not called for within three months
will be sent to the dead letter Office dead letters Per-
calling for letters will please say " Advertised y
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United States Circuit Court.

THE CASE OF THE ALLEGED CANADA FORGERrES.
APRIL 2l-In the matter of habeas corpus Of Daniel
W. Van Aernam whose extradtion has been ordered by
the Presidentr Charles Edwards appeared counsel
for the British government and urged that this court
could not revise the decision OF the committing
The Judge said he did not any provision in thu act
Of treaty authorizing the President Secretary Of State
to decide upon the evidence.
Mr.. Edwards-The Commissioner has decided upon the
evidence, and the question here Is whether after the
Commissioner has done his duty and the Secretary of
State having granted the rant of exradon the Judge
will deem it competent for this court to open the matter.
The only question which before the Comms sioner
was whether the accused did this act charged against
him. and it the duty OF the Commissioner that
there evidence to sustain the charge II was hardly
intended by the net that this should disturb the
commitment Of the magistrate, that this court was 20
try case according to the laws Of Canada
The Judge said that the line Of demarkaton was not
very clear. If he understood the law the duty
OF the revising officer goes farther than to ascertain
If the jurisdiction Of the committing magistrate ia
competent
Mr. Edwards contended that all that was necessary
fore the commissioner to establish prinad fdeie
case II this court went into the matter IL would be try
ing 1t without the evidence which may be in the possess
sion OF the authorities in another country, and that
would be doing an injustice TO a friendly power.
MIR. W. O. Morton and Mr.. Romaine, on behalf OF the
accused, conenced considerable length, there
evidence TO bring this within the act of treaty :
that competent for this court to 60 into the tes
mony and If ii appeared that there not sufficient to
hold the accused it would be the duty Of his Honor
discharge him
The was adjourned to this Saturday. morning.
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MEETING OF THE PLUMBrRs.-An adjourned meeting
the plumbers was held last night at the Union ShaS
in Fourth avenue, near Fourteenth street, to take
measures necessary to for themselves an adva
of wages Peter Scott called to the chair, and
Craig elected secretary The main object of the meet
was to receive the report Of the special committee
pointed at the last meeting of the plumbers to cor
with the employers in regard to the strike This reI
presented, which was in substance that a confere
with the employers had been held and the resolution
the meeting demanding So so per day was laid bel
them. The employers at such conference asked for
of the most competent workmen in the trade. This
port was accepted, and the demand Of the employers
a list of the most competent workmen unanimou
refused The meeting then adjourned till Tuesday ne
ut the same time and place, to hear the final action
the employers in regard to the strike. We trust the
ployers will the justice of granting this advance
wages, so righteously deserved
Enthusiastically morning, about / O'Clock, fire br
out in dwelling house belonging to Mr.. Blew, in Fo
sixth street. between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues
completely destroyed it, together with its contents
loss was about s., 500.
ACCIDENT ON 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS P. Swards, a
Of Portugal while attempting to leave the Harlem c.
yesterday morning at Harlem, before they had stopl
was and seriously injured. One Of his legs
crushed.
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Emigrants arrived Mt this Port on Thur stlny.
There arrived at this port on Thursday April 90 5491
Removal Of Catherine and Washington Mar
keta.

Removal Of Catherine and Washington Mar
kets.
The Committee on Markets of the Board of Councilman
composed of Messrs Clinton Cooper Young, Reed and
Wright, met yesterday in the City Hail. to hear parties
interested in the removal of Catherine and Washington
markets
Parties first heard on the removal Of Catherine
market.
Mr.. GEORGE W. FARuY, with few remarks, presented
avery numerously signed petition in favor of removing
Catherine market the foot of Market street IN nrefer
ence to rebuilding It on its present Site for the following
reasons
First That at the foot of Catherine street there il
longer any convenient proper accommodation for
ket boats or Tor fish which in former years render
ca eminent over all other markets for fresh fish,
Second The contiguty Of the market and ferries me-
cessarily the terminus Of more omnibus routes
renders the vicinity dangerous to foot passengers.
Third The narrowness of Catherine street. the princ
pal avenue leading to the market and ferries renders it
at times almost impossible, and lastly the combination
filthy beyond that of any other market in CITY, Mr.
Faruy commended that this removed to the
foot Of Market street. all these objections would OBJ.
waited
Mr.. vANDYKE was opposed to the removal and contra
dcted generally the grounds set forth in the petition Of
was plenty OF room the present site of Catherine
ket for oil the purposes required had been said that
the place was too crowded. He held that a crowded
thoroughfare was the proper site for market.
Mr. BRusIEE opposed the removal; he said that two
thirds Of the business Catherine market came from the
Fourth ward. If this market then was removed the
people from that ward would have to go Fulton mar
ket. He had never seen any person over, or any
other inconvenience arising from the place being too
crowded All ready to concede that there should
be better market there. He not interested in
the question the other but smoke for the
sidents Of the Fourth ward.
Several other gentlemen spoke the subject after
which the committee took the removal OF Washington
market.
The CHAIRMAN said that the committee had in their
possession petitions asking for the removal of
Washington market TO the foot of Fourteenth street.
The arguments Of parties opposed to the removal were
that the people who signed those petitions specula
tors and not residents of the Third ward II they
expense of the inhabitants of the Third ward who paid
their taxes and assessments well others. Washing
ton market they contended, required for shipping
purposes and used for supplying steamships and
vessels and ought not to be removed from its present
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THE FIRST FRUITS OF GENrN's STREET CLEAN
Move understand that the Mayor and Mr..
Glasier have made an humble application to
Mr. Genin, begging him to surrender the
SUPPLEMENTARY Of Broadway into thor hands.
and promising most faithfully to clean it as
well as he has done. They assert that they are
willing 10 do it, shame having taught them at
least this; also that they are able to clean IL,
Mr.. Genin's lesson having been turned to good
account. So, we'presume, ihey are 10 have a
fresh trial. II they fall they VIII stand con
victed otpresumptuous ignorance and incapaci-
~; if they succeed, how comes it that the
other streets Of the city, which arc now under
ileir control, ae not cleaned This is q di-
lcmma from which, we should Ike to see the
Mayo and the Superintendent OF Streets escape.
We give the correspondence on the suhjcc. ii
another column.
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Marine Affairs,

TROUBLE ON BOARD A WHAIEsMP.-Advices from Vas
Western Australia state that the Whaler Iris, Wee
master, of this port arrived at that port the 26th
December 1853 A boat from that ship landed the san
evening, bringing ashore the mate, Mr.. Warren Crap
Of Dartmouth, who had received gunshot wound fro
the hands of the Captain, who had been observed to
very unsettled in his mind for several days previou
Soon after the ship anchored the mate went into Il
cabin. Some conversation took place between him
III will shoot you" The mate endeavored to escape
the companion ladder, hut was shot by the Captain
the wrist of the right hand nearly seyering it from IL
arm, and rendering amputaton necessary. The capita
had been kept in the cabin by the crew. who did not d
to enter and seize him. but prevented him from comir
on deck by pointing barpoons, whaling lances, &C.,
him Capt. Malloy the Government Resident, went
the to go below and bring Capt. Weeks deck b
they declined, saying they guessed the old
himself, and found the man tractable enough He W,
brought on shore, and in safe keeping.-New Be
ford Mercury, April 90