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The Sierra citizen., 1854-08-26
CTATE OF CALIFORNIA, County Of

~ Sierra, 81.
The People Of the State of California,
to John S. Woods, greeting:-You are here
by commanded to be and appear before me,
the Undersigned Justice of the Peace ia
and for Sierra county, on the goth day Of
October, 1854, at my Office in Poker Flat,
township No. 4, at II o'clock NJ, to answer
the complaint Of Paul Serand, in plea Of
debt for one hundred ard four dollars, and
in default Of Your appearing, Judgment
will be rendered against you for that
amount, together with costs and damagea' !.
Witness my hand as Justice of the Peace
MS aforesaid, this 5th day of July. 1854.
4. r. JOHNSON, J. p.
The Sierra citizen., 1854-08-26
Cnn ROLLS OF WALL PAPER,
wv just received by
may 6-tf WRIGHT & HAYWARD.

p RANDY-A few Eighth Casks of the
- best brands of French Brandy--Ber-
nard, and J. J. Dupuy, in the original pack
ages, for sale by
may 6-tf WRIGHT 4 HAYWARD.
The Sierra citizen., 1854-08-26
Business Caros.

NRIEDLANDER, NJ, ladies' and gen
IL tleman's furnishing store, Main street,
next to Sierra Drug Store, Downieville.
aug 5-tf
The Sierra citizen., 1854-08-26

nnrla-3t' Sheriff Of Sierra County.
The Sierra citizen., 1854-08-26

1 NARPENTER'S TOOLS-Consisting of
~ planes. chisels, augurs, squares, hand
saws, tenant saws, draw knives, compasses.
hammers, hatchets, broadaxes, together
with knob-locks, door hangings, and every
thing necessary for builders For sale by
may eff WRIGHT & HAYWARD.
The Sierra citizen., 1854-08-26
'CTATE OF CALIFORNIA, County Of

Oak Valley, August 10, 1854. augl2-4t'
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

over the damnable devices whereby the vif.
tuous and the pure gre dragged down, to the
ruin Of body and soul-those revelations---ah,
too truthful, no doubt--are not to be read by
any one without more or less injury.
OF the former portions Of this work we pub.
lished "Little Katie" and the 1.-TWO Penny
Marriage"-narratives equalling in depth Of
pathos and pure, delicate feeling, the most
celebrated of our literary productions. Had
the author confined his writings to such mar.
ratives we would have gladly joined in the
universal acclaim with which he would have
been greeted; but the latter portions will con.
denim IL, and send 1t to its proper place--a.
mong the demoralizing works of various
French writers, too numerous and loathesoms
to mention.
We do not suspect Mr.. Robinson of tn,
least impure motives in thus writng--thei
is too much heart in the book for that;-w,
only say that he has probed the fostering
gangrenous, sores of the City of New York
too deeply, and has thereby laid open tina
which should never appear in the light @
Heaven.
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10
FARMERS, CLJTR.

Remember, that the next meeting of this
society will be held in the Court House, on
Saturday next, llth inst, at 121 O'Clock.
We do most sincerely hope that there will be
a larger number of Farmers in attendance.
Do not let the meeting be so dscourapngly
small, as the former was. We cannot be-
lieve that the Farmers thus slight this organi-
cation, knowing the advantages that must re-
suit from its successful progress. The de-
sign OF the Club-or Lyceum, would probably
convey a better idea of its object and aim
is to bring the Farmers together for the
purpose of discussing questions, the settle
ment Of which is of the first Importance to
their pecuniary interests, inasmuch as it
will lead them to the production of larger
crops by less labor, and on a less a,ea.
AT our Annual Fairs we come up and see the
products of the enterprise and ingenuity of our
neighbors-we listen to addresses from men
who know nothing practically of a thousand
and one things which farmer should know,
and know correctly. These addresses, are
all good enough in their place, and productive
Of numerous benefits to the industrial classes; :;
but what is sought to be brought about BY the
Club is just this: We want Farmers to
come up there, feeling the nobility and i'm
portance their avocation, actuated by de-.
sire TO improve their Agricultural fund of in
formation, eand to contribute their portion,
small or great, to the general stock. Come
up and tell from the heart of your experience,
what you do knop. This is what is required
No laboree orations are locked for-none are
desred--the farmer must talk, or write; the
professional man has been looked up to long
enough to instruct the Farmer. Let it be
otherwise in this organization, if no where
else!
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

0%rWe clip the following from the Pills
burgh Gazette, Junius is the Washington Cor.
respondent of that paper, and his articles are
always characterized by sterling good sense
and profound judgement.
The reports from the Surveying parties des-
patched last Spring to explore the different
routes for aPacific railroad begin to come in.
A partial report, being cursory description
of the whole route, has been forwarded by
Gov. Stevens, who surveyed the most north
erly Of the explorations. From an abstract
of this preliminary report which have ex-
amined, am satisfied that it is by far the
best of all TIE routes hitherto known, 30 far
as regards feasibility and cheapness of con-
struction, and facility for working the road
when completed. In truth, allowing all the
advantages claimed for any other given route,
and they do not equal those which this one is
proved to possess. From the Mississippi
river to the summit Of the pass in the Rocky
mountains, the country is n level PRAIRIE well,
watered, well supplied with timber all the pav
and with enormous deposits Of coal. Deduc-
ting the expense of transporting the iron, the
rond can be built cheaper than the cheapest
Eastern road. The grades will be no where
over forty feet to the mile, and only one tun-
mel ofhalfa mile will be required. The pro-
posed route begins at Fort Smelling on st,
Pau's, in Minnesota, and runs to Cadotte's
pass in latitude At 30-a distance of, 1900
miles. Thence to Puget's Sound the coun-
try is less adapted to & railroad, but presents
no insuperablc obstacle. The distance from
Cadets pass to Olympia, on the Sound fs
100 miles. The entire cost of this roadf66vld
probably be brought within forty millions of
dollars. JUNIus.
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

For every dollar that Boston spends upon
her city government, she spends dollar and
thirty cents upon her public schools.
Lent begins, this year, on the first of March.
Good Friday will be the fourteenth of April:
Easter Sunday, the sixteenth.
Asparagus seeds are recommended by n
Scotch gardener, as a substitute for coffee.
Asparagus" ne remarks, "contains, accord
ing TO Liebig, in common with tea and cof-
fee, principle which he calls 'taurine,' and
which he considers essential to the health
OF all who do not take strong exercise. Read
ing this led me to think that asparagus mi ght
be made good substitute for coffee. The
young shoots which frs, prepared were not
agreeable, having an alkaline favour. then
tried the ripe seeds; these, roasted and ground,
make full-fiavoured coffee, not easily dis
tlnguishable from the Mocha. The seeds
are easily freed from the berries BY driving
them in cool oven, and then rubbing them
on sieve" Try it, farmers.
| Harvard sustains a signal and irreparable
loss in the resignation of Professor LONG
FELLOW, who has for so many years made
the University iflustrious by his connection
with it.
The death of DR.. BIRD, of the Philadel-
phia North American, is deeply lamented.
DIR. BIRb was born at Newcastle, Delaware,
in 1903, and was educated in Philadelphia,
for the medical profession. He early turned
his attention to literature, and wrote three
tragedies, the Gladiator, Oraloosa, and the
Broker of Bogota, all of which have been
popular upon the stage. In 1894, he pub
lished his first nov,l Caayar-and from
that time to lS4o, he published, in succession
the lnidel, the Hawks of Hawk Hollow,
Nick of the Woods, Peter Pilgrim, and the,
Adventures of Robin Day. Since 1899, when
DR.. BIRD suddenly retired from the field of
letters for home in his native village, he
has not appeared as an author. A few years
ago, he returned to Philadelphia, and became
one of the proprietors and editors of the
North American, contributing largely to its
editorial columns.
A king is in the market, ladies'. We learn
that the young King of Portugal is to be sent
to travel for some months, in order to give
him an opportunity of consulting his own
taste in the choice of a future wife, by taking
, survey of all the manageable princesses to
be disposed of.
There is patriotism in the Harem. The
t Journal de frankfort, in letter from Con-
stantinope, says, an. Baltazz, who, some
time since, made an advance to the Porte of
100000 900 piastres Oh the tribute to be re-
ceived from Egypt, has also furnished 10000
t pieces of cloth, and all the wives of the en-
p!oyes in the war department have been set
to work to convert it into cloaks for the troops.
A large building has been converted into a
workshop for the purpose The women of
, the harem are similarly occupied, although
they are not very expert at needlework."
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From the Cleveland IJer.lJ


OUTRAGE IN THE ONO SEsArE.-Eyery
decent man in the State will blush at the in. |
famous act which disgraeed the Ohio Senate
and the State on Saturday last. William H.
Day, editor of the Aliened American, publish
ed in this city, having been admitted by that
body to the privileges of Reporter, was ex-
PEELED by vote of II to 10, for no cause.
Mr.. Day is mulatto, but probably shade
whittier than the miserable hunkies who voted
for his expulsion. He is voter, and endow-
ed by the Constitution and laws of Ohio with
every franchise and immunity enjoyed by
any other private citizen in the Estate.
Mr. Day iss practical printer and literally
educated, having graduated with credit ut
Oberlin College. He has struggled tor years
to qualify himself for an effort to improve the
condition of the colored people. For this
purpose he has established paper. He does
not indentify himself with the abolition party
nor with any other party preferrng to occupy
such grounds as will best enable him to favor
such measures, from whatever quarter as
promise good to his people. His paper thus
far has been conducted with ability, modera-
tion and prudence. Mr.. Day is a man OF
strength, unassuming and gentlemany in his
department and enjoys the respect of this en-.
tire community. Desiring to get his people
in the way of reading the proceedings of the
Ohio General Assembly, he proceeded to Col
umbus and was admitted to the Senate in the
capacity of reporter, He is now summarily
and abruptly expelled!
How will this story read abroad, in other
States, and other countries! twill run thus
In the State of Ohio, one of the fire.,
States of this American Union, a mulattc
citizen and editor, not SO dark as Alexander
Dumas, late member of the French Natona
Assembly, was expelled from the reporters
, desks of the Senate on account of his color
f The aim of his paper is to benefit the fre,
, colored people of the free States. 1t may be
doubted fany other State would nterpos,
obstacles in the way of such cause.
We do not denouDce such wretched, infa
, nous conduct as it deserves, for the reason
, only that the English language is deficient in
suitable terms. We only hope that every re-
spectacle man in Ohio will mark the cringine
nunkies who crawled up in the Senate tc
fling their miserable malice at a man greatly
their superior, and at cause they have moi
souls to appreciate.
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

GTThei" Recorders Notice" that appear
ed in our paper Of last week, we deem it but
justice to say, was not by the Recorders but
by one who evidently attempted paraphrase
of Mr.. Howey's communication of the week
before. This much should have been said
in our last but we inadvertently omitted it.
We do not wonder that Mr.. Howey has Sc
rious objections to fathering the doggerel--
but as for attempting to extort from us the
name of the writer, we inform him, with the
most friendly feeling, that the. name is a Sc
cret, and will be, so far as we are concerned
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10
BIBLE SOCIETY NOTICE,

Smith township b. S. has resolved to sup
ply said township this month, February, 1854,
and solicits donations. Also, Resolved, That
each school district that donates two dollars
or more be entitled to ten testaments. Also,
Resolved, That the district donating the
greatest amour. in proportion to the youth in
said district be entitled to fifteen copies in
addition; the second highest 10 ten copies
and the third highest to five copies, all for
the use of sc ho us in said districts.
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

This last dispatch will be satisfactory to
our business community. The Western Re-
serve Bank has long enjoyed the reputation
Of being one of the most prudently and eau
tiously managed banks of Ohio, and we have
no doubt Of its thorough solvency. The at
tempt to use the press for the purpose Of
discrediting ii, is, under the circumstances,
worthy of the severest condemnation.- Pitts
bur9h Gazette. - trE .E
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10
The Last Calamity.

The New York Herald of Sunday, con.
tains detailed account of the terrible explo-
sion at Lower Ravenswood, Long Island, on
last Saturday. The building which was
blown up was factory for making ball car
tridges. The explosion shook the houses in
the neighborhood for two s..is niles around, and
shattered the windows of all those buildings
which were within GOO or 800 feet Of the
place. 1t was rented by Mr.. French, who
together with his son, are generally engaged
in the building, but escaped serious injury.
The number of persons employed is about
thirty, being for the most part girls from the
ages of ten to eighteen. The number of
lives lost is twenty-four. One family-the
father Of which is Mr.. RHINE, worthy man,
aud gardener to a gentleman in the place-lost
three girls; and scarcely a laborng family
resides near the place that is not now wall
ing for the loss of some member of it.
The description of the search by mothers
and fathers for their children IN the ruins is
heart-rending. The building is supposed
to have exploded from overheating a stove,
near which were combustible materials. The
Herald gives the names of the sufferers and
the horrors in detail. Some of the unfortunate
victims appeared to have been absolutely torn
into shreds, until all form and likeness of
humanity had deserted, "On one side." said
the informant, "lay head severed from its
trunk, and at little distance lay its mutlat-
ed members. Hands, feet. and scraps of
flesh, were scattered over the lots"
There was danger of mob and great in-
dignation expressed by the Irish, whose
friends were injured or killed, against Mr..
FRENCH, for his carelessness. There was a
situated at short distance from
the main building, which if il had become
ignited, the consequences would have been
still more disastrous. Ths magazine contain
ed between two and three tons Of powder.
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

0STHon. WILSON SHANNON will accept
our thanks for copy of the reply of Mr..
Cutting of N, Y. to the question, "What is
the difference between the Hards g. Softs Of
New York;" Also for copies of the Daily
Globe.
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

The Washington correspondent of the Bal
timore Sun, writes as follows:
"The consideration of the Nebraska bill in
the Senate has been postponed till Friday
next. 1t is thousand pities that it ,pas post
poned.--Hopes were entertained that the bill
would pass the Senate on Saturday nert,
(should the Senate have agreed to sit on that
day. and the previous question nMe House
might haue operated to put 1t at once on its
passage there. Such course would at once
have queted the country; for the fact is not
to be disguised that it is Congress which,
from Washington as centre; stirs up all The
popular connections calculated to interfere
with the possage OF measures for the benefit
of the public"
This is excellent Democratic doctrine.
doubtless-though its democracy is certainly
Of rather a modern stripe. Why not carry
the notion here suggested into full and COM
plete effect!--Why not pass law torJiddino
debate-requiring everything to 60 throuah
Congress under pressure of the previous
question, and converting the Government
into secret, despotic, irresponsible estab-
:; m,n ,;.nment a. once! Would not this still more
effectualy avoid the "populnr commotious"
which sometimes interfere with party and
personal schemes!-N, Y. Times.
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

The Blue Hens Chicken, of Wilmington,
Delaware, lays the following before its rea-
ders:
"There is living in Tatnail street, a color.
cd man aged 6S, who is the father of ffty-
one children, thirty Of them are now living.
He had three wives, the first of whom was
mother of fifteen children, two of whom were
twins. The second was mother of fifteen
having twins three times; the latter who is
still alive, has twenty.one chldren-having
had twins five times. We venture that there
is scarcely such another case on record"
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

0TNext Tuesday is st. Valentines DAY.
Speaking of the 18th of February, reminds
us that there a-e some beautiful Valentines
at the Gazette Office. Our friend GEORGE
Brown also has a supply, as usual.
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10
New oRLEAss, Feb 7.

Ten steamboats, including the Charles
Belcher, Natchez, Leah Lima, Mohegan g.
Saxon, were burned last night SO seriously,
as to be worthless. The steamer Sultana,
with Mad'lle Sontag on board, was on ire,
but the boat and lady escaped, Five whites
and ~ negroes persisted. All 1.-The freight on
the boats was destroyed. A barge. fully loa.
ded with produce, was destroyed with a large
amount on the Levee. The loss is estimated
at nearly one million dollars.
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

Count BoDIsco.-The Russian Minister
Coun: Bodisco, who has just died at Wash
ington, was the Oldest member of the dipo-
matte corps residing in this country, having
been here some fifteen years. He was about
evenly years of age. His wife was an
American lady, Miss Williams, of George
town, to whom hc was married about ten
years ago. lie died wealthy, being worth
full halfmillion Of dollars,
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

OFWho does not feel mortified almost
every,time they attend any public performance ce
in this place. The horrid din about the
Court House is almost enough to drive one
distracted. If such things are persisted in
our town will become proverbial for disorder.
Who is to blame for this! "The officers
whose duty it is to maintain order, and quiet'
lis the almost universal reply. They may
be partly to blame--but the greater portion
OF the blanc rests with the parent. Do
parents ever reflect that by allowing their
children to roam the streets after nightfall,
they are placing them liable to be thrown in
the worst sort of company' Can they think
that such course, if persisted in, is raising
up men to fill our prisons and our Infrmaries! !!
What parent can vouch for his child's con.
tinued good conduct, if his evenings are
spent on the street-in the Doggery, or a, a
gambling helll
Parents, 1t is your duty to renderyour home
circle attractive to your children by every
means in your power resign your own
s0miortin every instance, before you drive
your child from your fresde to the vicious
influences of the street loafers.
Imprisonment for few hours in the Jail
may do to deter children from disturbance
for short time-but it will finally prove a
iailure.-The child too soon becomes cal
loused in heart-his affections are too soon
estranged, to be treated harshly. =.
We do not reflect on the officers-though
to some extent they may be to bame,-n our
opinion the fault rests alone with the parent.
See that your children are in proper places,
and swayed by proper influences and twill
keep many thorn from your dying pillow.
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10
New ORLEANS, Feb. 6,

The Daniel Webster from San Juan, arri-
we'd at the Balize this morning. with California
dates to the 10Th. 100 passengers and 81 5000.
in specie.
The Webster connected with the Sierra,
Nevada which brought one million in gold.
She brings the passengers in 90& daps.
California markets heavy and overstocked..
Business depressed. .. go
Fiour--goOd brands quotedstlrto I2 dol.
lars.
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Hot COrn-Life Scenes in N. Y. Illustrated

Hot Corn-Lite Scenes in N. Y. Illustrated.
BY Solon Robinson. Dewitt g. Daven-
port, Publishers. l2 mo. PIP. 4Os.
We have been favored (D with copy OF
the above work. We know of no publica-
tion that has drawn from the press, at the
same time such fulsome adulation, and Sc.
we're condemnation. And deseryedly too, for
the style of the book calls for just such re-
ception. Had the first part of the work been
published separate, it would have command.
ed universal admiration; while on the other
hand-had the latter part of the work been
bound separate and apart from the former, il
would, no doubt, have found an immense
sale, and met with myriads of admirers a.
mong the wretched residents of those missr.
able puriieus of vice which they so graph.
cslly delineate. The sensual mind will gloat
The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-02-10

WESTERN RESERVE BANK,-On Saturday
morning we found the following telegraphic
dispatch, by the Pew limo, in our advertise
meht box, having been deposited there by
the telegraphic agent the evening before, after
our office had closed;
WARREN, Ohio, Jan. l2, 1854
To Editors Of Pittsburgh Gasetie:-Wes.
tern Reserve Bank stopped redeeming their
notes this morning at 10 o'clock.
-. II, KBBEs.
Not dreaming thai this was an imposition,
and supposing it lma,ter ofpublic mpor-
tance, we posted the dispatch at our Office
door. A gentleman, formerly Of Warren,
having seen It there, at once dispatched
message to Warren, and received the follow.
ing answer:
WARREN, Jan. IA, 1854.
The Western Reserve Bank ia as sound
and solvent as any bank in the Union, and
we have not been called upon to redeem
$4,000 of our notes for the last sixty days,
and we have more than Sl5o,oOo of availa.
BILE funds on hand, The report of Kibbee is
as false as false can be.
/ GEORGE TAYLOR, Cashier.