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Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 185?-1859, 1855-03-10

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Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 185?-1859, 1855-03-10
INDEPENDENCE TO SANTA FE.
NEW ARRANGEMENT.

SANTA FE TRADERS, and those dcsirous Of
crossing the plains TO New Mexico, are informed
that the undersigned will cary the United States
Mail from Independence 10 Santa Fc for four
years, commenting on the FIRST day of July next,
in stages drawn by SIX mules
Their stages will leave Independence and Santa
Fc on the first of each month They will be eut.
rely new, and comfortable for passengers; wall
guarded and running thr ugh, ca,h V, in from.
twenty 10 twenty-five days Travellers to and from
New Mexico viii doubtless find this the safest.
most expeditions and comfortable, as well as the
cheapest mode # crossing plans.
Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 185?-1859, 1855-03-10

LOUIS T. BARTELS, PROPRIETOR.

LOUIS T. BARTELS, PROPRIETOR.
The above named establishment is now open
for the accommodation of travellers and others,
in Albuquerque New Mexico. The table will
be supplied with the best the market affords,
and the bar with the choicest liquors The house
contains comfortable rooms for the nccommo.
dation Of strangers, and attached, arc good
stables for animals,
Albuquerque NM
january 2Sth lSjj.-G.m
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TERMS.

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Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 185?-1859, 1855-03-10
W. H. Chick
Joel Walker.
WALKER AND CHICK.

Commission Merchants, Kansas Mo-
REFER TO
Col Robert Campbell, Mrssrs Riley & Chrlsly
Saint Louis Mo. Saint Louis NO.
Santa Fe New Mexico October 7, lS5l-t f.
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01

THE Prospect. Tunnel Companies and miners
generally have large quantities of rich earth ready
for washing. Thousands of men have spent the
just past in piling up pay dirt from their
ravine and tunnel claims, having no water, and
depending on the rain to fill bitches and reservoirs
already prepared but destitute of water in summer.
Meantime every man who can obtain supply of
water from canals is busily employed, and prepara-
items made for work at thousands of places as
the rain drenehes the earth. The experience which
miners have had has taught them many valuable
lessons and improvements in finding, washing and
saving gold. This experience is now being turned
to practical account 1t is safe to rely confidently
larger product of gold in the next four months
ever before in the same period of time in Calfor-
mia. True, the labor of thousands for year past
will be realized but the mines are not exhausted,
and will not be for the next thousand years there
fore we may expect an annual repetition of riches
equal to any year preceding the present, for cen
tury at least
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01

We recommend the following we'll timed, sensible
article to the careful perusal Of all that class Of
readers who, from the clustering bragadocio style
of some politicians, have been led to believe that
Southern men are generally of the dsunion stamp:
DIssoLvING THE UNION. 1t is funny to hear the
complacent and dogmatc manner in which sundry
politicians of the North and the South talk of dis
solving the Union. They speak of the matter as if
it were one of the easiest things in the world and
as if they could do it, That is the grand mistake
of these malcontent political agitators. They i'm
agine that they hold the destnes of this vast re-
public in the hollow of their hand They have
but to open their mouth in nullifying congress
sional harrangue or an elaborate revolutionary
newspaper article, and, presto, the Union is blown
into a thousand fragments They take no account
of any other moral forces and clements in this
great country than those of omnibus load of
Catalines, who, even if each had power for ruin
as strong as his WILL would not be able to displace
the smallest stone in the vast temple of the Amer
ican confederacy.
Outside of this knot of discontented and aspiring
men, lies the immense body of the American peo-
pie as unmoved and Indifferent to the mimic whirl-
winds which rage in the contracted minds Of few
nullifiers, the is to tempest in q teapot.
Before one solitary link can be broken in the golden
chain which unites our glorious band of Repub-
lican States, the American people must be consult
ed the mighty millions OF farmers. mechanics and
tradesmen, the aboring and producing classes, the
men who have interests to be affected by change
of government, and who have not the most remote
intention of permitting those interests to be tam
pered with, without their knowledge and consent.
Whenever the Union is dissolved, it will not be
dissolved by Congress. The people will unmake,
as they made, the government. 1t was their work
they built it up; it is consecrated by their blood;
all their earthly treasures are deposited in it. De-
rap MN, fhou ho,a IL
of men, either in Congress or out of it, either di-
recty or indirectly, to pull down that structure.
That is a work they reserve to themselves.
mond Dispatch.
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01
Sheriff Sale

EEY virtue of order of sale issued out of the Clerks
Office of the Honorable District Court of lei Dorado
County on Judgment rendered the goth day of No
vember A. d. 1885, in favor of Edward Downs and against
A. Hbbard for the of 779 l2l00 dollars for his debt
with interest the of $4,000 the rate of three
per cent per month"; and the sum of S673 - at the
legal rate from the Goth day of November A. d. 1856 to-
geher with the of II 7000 dollars costs of suit and
accruing costs,
| have levied upon seized, and will expose to public
sale at the Court House in Cooma the 10Th dav Of De-
cember A. d 1855, at o'clock p NJ, all the right title,
interest and claim of the said A. Hbbard of in and to the
following described mortgage property, lying and being
in El Dorado county, and State OF California; wit All
that certain piece parcel of land situated to and
the north Eide of the South Fork of the American Rv
er nearly opposite the town Of Coloma and bounded as
follows, to wt-beginnng at live oak tree standing on
the bank of said river nearly opposite the old MILL
and marked Corner No Is e. thence norheasterly
to white oak tree, marked Corner No. 2-n. e.
thence northwcsterly to white oak tree marked
corner No. 3-n. W.. thence TO large oak tree standing
the bank of the river opposite the mouth of the un-
ne thence following the of the aforesaid river to
the place of beginning with the improvements
thereon.
Sherlfs Office, Coloma, Nov Soh, A. D. 1856.
i. B. CARSON,
Sheriff of El Dorado County, CAL
nj by M. X. ELSTNER, Und. Shift.
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01
Rates of Advertising.
Coloma. Saturday Morning, December l, 1856
Allied Demons stration.

The demonstration in honor of the success of the
allies in capturing one half Of Sebastopol took place
in San Francisco, Monday last. The 1e Deum was
sung prayers said, and priestly speeches made ac-
cording to programme. The multitude about ten
thousand strong, then entered the pavilion and
made attack upon the viands, and champagne
in particular, provided for the occasion. About this
time having drank freely patriotic enthusiasm be-
gan to be uproarously manifested The first thing
demolished was the Maakoff when the English and
French flags were displayed, and general uproar
cnsued. The Fete commenced in earnest the Anne
rican flag made its appearance and then the fight
began in good earnest fists bottles clubs and every
thing available being freely used, many had their
clothes torn off, and bloody noses were as thick as
blackberries party of British sailors defended
the Union Jack bravely, dealing destruction from
the shoulder throughout the day.
AS the battle waxed hot and heavy, the British
and French flags torn in pieces, the stars and
stripes, after delectable row, elevated above
the heads of the belligerents.
When all hands were tired out order was in
measure restored, when the multitude adjourned.
At night the sympathisers with Russia assembled
and formed procession five thousand strong; led
by the music of single drum, they marched to the
residence of the Russian consul and gave him
round of cheers, then listened to speech from the
Cousuls son and the Consul himself, and from
Messrs. McDougall and Hydenfeldt then with nine
cheers given parting look taken at the Consul and
family, the crowd adjourned. Thus the demonstra-
ton ended. as things generally end in San Fran
CISCO in complete farce.
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01

THE CHINESE. The condition of this people
among us is the subject of anxious thought to the
politician and serious commiseration to the phlan
thropist. While we boast of our country being
the asylum of the oppressed we are not willing to
allow the populous Kingdoms of Eastern Asia to
pour their surplus hordes upon US. The country
we conquer Or acquire we design to Amerlcanize
We murmur against the exclusiveness Of China
and Japan, and send an armament to break it down
in the latter empire, and yet we contemplate the
same line Of policy towards them. The passage
of law by the last legislature, imposing per
capita of $50 on Asiatics landing on our shores
looks to this end. But this is not the only act on
our part designed to commence q system of worse
than Chinese or Japanese exclusiveness By the
payment of fifty dollars the Asiatic if not invited
to participate on the the advantages which Cali
fornia offers, is at least supposed to be guaranteed
the protection of life and property. But such is
not the case. No sooner here than a monthly tax
is exacted from him in the mineral districts, but
worse than all he is robbed of all power to obtain
protection from our laws by being deprived OF his
evidence before court Of justice. He is thus left
at the mercy of every thief and cut-throat who
chooses to extort from him his hard-camed gains.
And such is the prejudice existing in the minds Of
Americans against the race, that the two do not
labor generally in the same locality. If a Chinese
discover rich deposit, the whites on some pretext
drive him from the fruit of his enterprise and in
dustry and he is faln to take up his abode In some
poor or abandoned district, away from his oppres-
sors where he is the prey of every vagabond who
prefers life of punder to one of honest toll. No
whites being near there is no competent evidence,
robbery is practsed and there is no redress in the
courts. But there is species of semi-legalized
robbery perpetrated upon them. Many of the col
lectors are gentlemen in every sense of the word,
but there are others who take advantage of their
position to extort the last dollar from the poverty
trynl Is4, 41,o hoOly
exact pay in some instances for extra trouble in
hunting up the terrified and flying Cinnamon, and
by various devices fatten themselves upon the
spoils thus obtained. The complaints of the in
jured and oppressed find no open ear, for is it not
declared by the Supreme Court, the highest tribu-
nal of the land, that their oahs are not to be re-
garded? Of what avail are their complaints ut
tered not with the solemnites Of an oath. Under
this state of things the life of the Chinese in Cal
ifornia is one of hardship and oppression. For the
honor and reputation Of the national character,
let us either adopt the rigid excusiveness of the
japanese, treat them with the consideration due
to ourselves, and the kindness of humans-Nerada
Journal.
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01

UTILITY OF THE TELEGRAPH, A peasant received
lately by mail letter from his son Joseph a SOU
ave before Sebastopol. The young man mentioned
the fact that his legs yet whole but that his
boots were the worse for wear. The affectionate
father having purchased a pair of nine-and-a-half,
was perplexed as to the means of forwarding them.
At last he thought of the telegraph; the line to
Marseilles ran through his village. lie put the
address on one of the soles and slung the boots
over the wire. pedlar passing by, struck by the
solidity of their workmanship, appropriated them,
and placed his used-up trampers in their place.
The next morning the old daddy returned to the
spot to if the telegraph had executed his COM
mission. He saw the substitution which had been
effected 81 vow," he exclaimed 4" If Joseph has
not sent back his old ones! p"
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01

NATIONAL CONVENTION. The Democracy of this
State are beginning to talk about electing delegates
to the National Convention The State is entitled
to four delegates at large and two from each con-
gressonal district. California has never been di-
vided into districts; and therefore the whole dele
cation will be at large as the party has been
since September last We hear that Democratic
State Convention is in contemplation, to be held
about the Sth day of January next, when ground
and lofty tumbling may be expected.
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01
Wagon ROad.--NoT1cE TO CONTRACTORS

Wagon ROad.--NoTIcE TO CONTRACTORS
The following resolution passed this 18th day of No
vember, 1885, by the Board of Wagon Road Commission
ers. CHAS. II. HEMPSTEAD,
Secretary of State.
Whereas, Necessary plans and specifications have not
been received by this Board therefore,
Resolved That in order to give the time necessary for
the completion of the location and preparation of the pro-
per plans and specifications of the Immigrant Wagon
Road the Rierra Nevada Mountains and their
animation by persons desrous of bidding for the work.
the time for receiving proposals hereby extended to the
first Wednesday in December, A. d. 1855.
1.-THE Democrat and American, Pacervle; News,
Georgetown; Argus, Cooma; Advocate, Diamond Sp'gs;
and Times Transcript, San Francisco; insert until first
Wednesday in December.
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01

NARROW ESCAPE. On Tuesday last, while Mr..
Robinson and his daughter Sue (now perform
ing at the Forrest Theater,) were out enjoying a
ride into the country, the singetree of the buggy
broke, and falling under the horses feet, they took
fright and started off at the top Of their speed.
Mr.. R. braced himself against the dasher, and
held on until it broke, and he was dragged over
the front of the buggy and thrown at the feet of
the horses At the same time the buggy was up
set, and the young lady thrown with violence to
the ground. Strange to say, neither Mr.. r. nor
his daughter received any serious injury though
the buggy was broken into an hundred pieces
State Tribune
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01

CURIOUS COURSE OF TRADE. An instance Of the
curious course of trade is noted in the fact that
most of the California wheat lately received at N.
York from San Francisco has been sold for export
to Europe. The wheat, before it reaches the con-
sumer, will have travelled long distance. Grown
nally shipped from New York to the Pacific, but
not finding market here it was sent back to N.
York again, and now from New York it goes to
Liverpool and the continent.
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01
KELsEY's. Nov. 25. 1855

Mr.. ARGUS: Our hitherto quiet city has just
been thrown into o state of excitement greater
than has ever before been known, within the recol-
lection of the Oldest white inhabitant We can
now exclaim with honest pride, that we are not be-
hind the 1nineralogsts of ancient Hangtown, in de-
veloping the resources of Ell Dorado.
l will endeavor to give you hasty description
of the cause Of this excitement: About o'clock
this A. NJ, two men were observed Cat the junction
of Dimity street and Potts avenue) to be quarrel
ing. At this time many persons were on their way
to the different places of worship; but their
a prospectof fight, the majority Of them stopped
to see fair play. Finally, the beligerent parties
came to blows. One of them, named Hans Pike,
seeing that he was getting the worst of the fight,
picked up quartz rock from the lode & running
parallel with Slaughter house ST. and Potts ave.
and struck his opponent, w. Patterson the head,
breaking the rock into eighty pieces, and of
course knocking P. down. Patterson was observed,
when he fell, to pick up piece of the rock, and
remark that he had struck a vein.' Hans Pike,
thinking that he had cut the jug-ular vein, imme-
diately fed. Many persons crowded around Pat
terson, to render him assistance; but imagine their
surprise when he showed them piece of the rock,
when it was discovered that our gold has quartz in
it, At this moment the excitement knew no
bounds. In few moments all the quartz lodes in
the vicinity of the city were saked off in claims.
All the quartz gravel in the ravines is claimed
those of our citizens who could not get claims in
the hill lodes having taken the gravel, thinking it
would pay to 1cork out While am writing this,
Mass meeting is being held, in front of McKees
old store. A society, called the 'Quartz-Atic De-
veloping Society has been organized. A quartz
medal has been struck for the man at Hangtown
who has done so much to develope the resources
of Ell Dorado
must conclude, as I am appointed on the COM
mittee on Lakes and Resources More anon.
ILLINOIS.
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01

HERo1sM OF A Doc. The following account of
the exploits of dog in the Crimea is translated
from the Gazette of Trieste, and surpasses every
thing heretofore recorded of the devotion and
bravery of this noble animal
"a great sensation has been caused in the camp
of the Allies by the heroic deeds of dog belong
ing to Col Metman, of the 73d Regiment of the
Line. On the 10th of August, during the battle
of the Tchernaya, the quadruped broke his chain,
fought in the ranks of the army saved the life of
sergeant and soldier, and took three Russians
prisoners. ball struck his foot but the wound
only embittered the animal the more He threw
himself upon Russian officer, flung him to the
ground, and dragged him prisoner by his coat col
lar to the French. A physician has bound up the
wound, and the four footed hero is convalescing.
He will probably receive some mark of honor, as
another dog in the English army has been reward
ed with medal. for his devotion to his mastar.,
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01

s'WAYs AND MEANS The State Journal last
week announced that the decline in the revenue
collected from the Chinese already amounts to
thirty per cent. with every prospect Of reaching
fifty per cent, in consequence of the enlorcem ent
of the mpolitic law of the last session of the Leg
islature concerning the Chinese. The Journal be-
walls over this state of things and then excaims
"If the Know Nothings pursue the proscriptive
policy they advocated in the last campaign by sus-
tanning the Chinese law, and enacting other laws
(Which is to be expected) Of like nature the evil
will grow still more alarming, until the rate of tax
alton borne by the American population of Califor-
MIA will be doubled
Unparalleled meanness! The Journal ought to
be indicted for intimating that Know Nothings will
sustain the bunglng legislation of the last Dem
ocratc Legislature. The Democratic party of this
State has been engaged passing odious laws so long
that the Journal in its simplicity expects the Amer
ican party will 60 and do likewise-"enact other
laws of like nature Know Nothings act like
Democrats, sustain laws passed by Democrats, and
enact others like them, (which is to be expected
would be shocking, truly.
When the American party plunges into the trea-
sury to flch $1,000 apiece, then it will do to ex-
pect Know Nothings will thereafter act like Dem
ocrats. Till then, call us Thugs Hindoos, rag-tag-
andbobtails, any thing short of Democratic imita-
tors "The passage of Helot laws and the driving
away of foreigners already in our midst" belongs
exclusively to the. Democracy. In this suicidal
policy Know Nothings have no part or lot whatsv-
er. The American party will extend the hand Of
kindness to every people and nation under the SUM-
1t will not oppress the stranger in midst nei-
ther will it deprive people of redress in courts
of justice, because they are weak, the Democra-
cy have DONE Democratic glory is based on "He-
lot laws" Hear that Democratic sheet, the Shasta
Courier, talk:
"At all events never was greater untruth ut
tered than the intimation that the representatives
from the mining portion of the State, will go to
Sacramento feeling themselves instructed by public
opinion to repeal, or at least greatly modify the
present law in regard to foreign miners license.
If such effort to repeal is made next winter gentle
men, you will hear such a laundering of indigna-
ton from every ravine and gulch, as never before
fell upon your startling ears. Mark our words"
Will the Journal take care of its Shasta brother
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01
Several Democratic journals are greatly troubled

Several Democratic Journals are greatly troubled
because J. Nicely Johnson was formerly Wing.
They fear he will name Whig for Secretary of
State, yet rejoice with exceeding great joy when
they bear that Senator Dixon of Kentucky, dyed
in-the-wool Wing, will support their sinking for
tunes 1t is all very nice for bogus Democrats and
Wings to fraternize lovingly together, but for
Wings and Democrats to cooperate in the Amer
lean party is awful. Sauce for the goose is not
sauce for the gander in these latter days when the
Democracy places in the gubornatorial chair Of
Virginia the traducer Of Jackson.
The Empire County argus., 1855-12-01

The editor of the Shasta Courier gives the fol
lowing as tho first verse Of a lofty poem he ha:
lately been engaged upon:
Imperial, grand old Shasta Butte!
With snow-cad limbs and heart of fire,
Lift up thy head, ay let it shoot
Up through the sky, and-even higher
Pshaw
Suppose it takes those upward 'shoots,"
And upward still should rove
Wen bet ace'ce got pair of "Boots"
"A foot or 50 aboye!!