The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-03-11
ed, the tenant has invariably to "fork over''

ed, the tenant has invariably to "fork over"
in advance.
The state of society is by no means settled.
Hardly day passes but some one Is shot
down or stabbed. Night mikes right, and
will so continue as lorg as 1t has plenty OF
money to back it. His honor, the Recorder,
lay sick three days and then had sixty cases
to attend to. 1t is by no means sale to walk
IL some OF the streets after night. ~
Our Legislature is composed OF very talent
ed men, but they the worst set OF law
makers to be found anywhere. They have
been in session now four weeks without pass
ing a single act for the benefit OF the commu-
nifty. Their time has been occupied IN log
rolling, pipe laying and wire pulling, not to
omit rum drinking, with the exception OF
this last week, during which the Senate has
been very busy in hauling one of their body
over the Goals for bribery. His antagonist
whom be duplicates, is a very wealthy bank
er, and the consequence will be, that the Sem
ator will be elected from his seat and be poll
tically id. They have no idea OF doing
anything Tor their country. A II that's done,
is for the benefit of Il few wealthy indv idu-
ais, who, after taking the lions share OF the
"loaves and fishes" will give them the frag-
ments.
The Temperance Society went up TO BENZ
cia last Tuesday to petition tor the passage
of Maine Liquor Law. The City of San
Francisco alone charges rum sellers tax that
in any other country would amount to pro-
hiDition, from $l2 upto $500 per quarter, and
the state and county tax Is in proportion; so
you may Judge with what success motion
of that kind would be likely to meet.
California is fine agricultural. country -
helped to thrash two hundred acres of
wheat last September in the neighborhood
OF the mission of San Jose, that averaged
seventy-fve bushels to the acre. An aver
age crop is considered to be fifty bushels TO
the acre. Of potatoes it is hard TO tell what
the average is. They frequently raise five
hundred bushels to the acre, and as frequent
| ly do not raise sufficient to pay for the dig
ging, in which case they are left in the
ground. To give you an idea of the extent
of some of the farming operations, John NJ.
Horner, this last season, harvested fifteen
hundred acres of wheat and eleven hundred
acres of potatoes (right smart little 'tater
patch) besides cabbage and other small trash.
BY planting sufficiently early there is seldom
any necessity for irrigation (plant in Deem
Der and J ,nuarv); even the foot hills of the
Sierra Nevada, barren and unproductve as
they look, have been found to raise good
crops of barley and wheat. | have never
seen any attempt at raising any Of the grasses
in this State-there is such an immense guam
THY Of wild grass and wild oats, that it is not
likely the farmers will turn their attention
that way for years to come.
The season has been very dry until recent.
y, which ''clapped stopper" on mining ope-
rations in most of the districts, consequently
produced stagnation in the trade of this
place. There have been only six or seven
failures this last week, amounting altogether
to about six hundred thousand dollars. You
willvery likely hear stories of the mines CIV
ing out-that is all numbug. The mines at
certain periods will not yield as much &c
they have been yielding. but they will last
this hundred years to come, and then con.
tiia plen OF god
By the steamer COrtes, we have had fresh
arrival of Evansvllians. Mrs Davis, Mrs.
Wesley Duncan. and Mr. Philip Ward, who
had been expected by their anxious friends
for some time-al we'll and in fine spirits
Ire Evansville people with whom am init
mateiy acquainted, are most of them doing
pretty well, more partic Ilarly our fellow
townsman, Mr.. VIM. Nicely Johnson, real
estate broker, &C., VIII has in fact been un.
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country.
The Pacific Mail S. S. Co.'S steamer Col.
den g ,te was blown on a reef at he en-
trance OF the harbor OF San Diego in s. E.
gale on her last llp up, nine hundred passen.
gers OH board and the mails-no lives lost
She was finally hauled off by the steamer
Columbia anu will be repaired; she is the fin
est boat owned by The Pacific Company. Up
to the 10Th of last July, being two years, she
had made for her owners, clear eff all expen-
ses, the handsome sum of 100000.
| send you the latitude and longitude ofSan
Francisco as determined by the recent coast
survey, which differs from the old charts con-
sderably.
New surv. lat. SD 42m N, lon. l22d 26m w.
Old surv. lat. SD 49m N, lon. l22d I4m w.
With much consideration | remain,
| Yours,
OLD NOSE, the Miner.
P.S. will send you some more items by
the mail of March LIST, as | shall be here
some time longer-young Nose is at Long
Bar, Yuba River. OLD NOSE.