The Georgetown news., 1855-11-29
News Items.

An Assay Office has been established in
Sacramento by Messrs. Blake & Agrell.
The miners of Nevada were to meet in
mass convention on the oath inst, for the
purpose of taking measures to reduce the
price of water. Since then the price of
water has been reduced to thirty-three cents
per inch.
The actual debt of Nevada county is
about $4,000.
The Arctic zone is declared by Mr.. E.
Merriam not to be barren waste, but that
in time it will be found to be one of the
richest mineral districts of the globe.
According to the Sacramento Union,
there have been in that city 483 applicants
for licenses since the commencement of the
present quarter, representing in the aggre-
gate monthly business of 81, ,173,7OO.
Books of subscription to the Atlantic and
Pacific Telegraph have been opened in San
Francisco.
The Sacramento Railroad is now COM
pleted a distance of fourteen and a half
miles from that city.
The steamer Georgiana, Capt. Thomp-
son. burst her boiler at San Francisco on
the 23d inst, when starting for Petaluma.
Three persons were badly scalded, and the
captain supposed to be killed.
According to the statement of the last
appointed Referee, the liabilities of Adams
& Co., exceeded the assets by the sum Of
million and half of dollars. The San
Francisco Herald says it is probable that
by the time the courts have fully determined
the rights of the creditors Of Adams & Co.,
there will not be any funds to distribute.
$4,000 have been paid for the support
of ministers and churches at Nevada during
the past year.
The Alta says the U. S. Branch Mint iu
San Francisco, will be closed for three or
four weeks succeeding the first of December
next. This time will be required to make
the usual annual settlements, and no depos-
its of gold dust will be received during the
period named.
Isaac Nickel was shot and instantly
killed on the 23d inst, at Red Bluffs, by
Thos. Stinson. Said to be an act of justi-
fable homicide.
A change of venue has been obtained in
the case Of Kelley, charged with partici-
patton in the Lake Valley murders. He
will be tried in an adjoining county.
The assessed value Of real and personal
property in Solano county, the present year,
amounts to $2,698, 600.
1t appears that an alliance has been form
ed between the northern Indian tribes, ex-
tending from Washington Territory to the
California line, embracing many tribes in
the far interior.
Recent visitors to the State Prison speak
highly Of the present prison discipline, and
are of opinion that continuance of the
same system will prevent any further es-
cape on the part Of the prisoners.
The San Francisco papers speak gloomily
of the present condition of the treasury of
that city. There is no money in the treas
ury, and what is worse, the prospect of there
being any for months to come is very faint.
We learn from the Democrat that the
members of "Mountain Gem Temple of
Honor" together with number of visiting
brethren, had celebration at Placerville
on the 22d inst, which passed off pleasantly
to all concerned.
A ball is to be given by the Masonic
Fraternity of Indian Diggings, at the Union
Hotel in that place, on the 9th of next
month.
The Washington papers say that there
are no fewer than thirty-six distinct politi-
cal organizations in the State of n. York,
"besides lots of small fry"
An old man was sent to the poor-house
in Albany, n. Y, lately, who had spent
fortune of $4,000 in purchasing lottery
tickets.
On Friday last there were cargoes of
lumber landed at San Francisco, from
Humboldt Bay, amounting to $4,000 feet.
The Sacramento Union says that Capt.
Mathews, the diving-bell man, who made
the submarine excursion across the Sacra-
mento, at that city, about a week ago, suf-
focated at San Francisco on Saturday eve
ming. He was endeavoring to recover a