San Andreas independent., 1857-04-11

The STATE FA1R.-We are indebted
to Mr. George Fl. Sanderson, for a copy
of the official report of the California State
Agricultural Society's Third Annual Fair,
held at San Jose, in October, of last year
The next State Fair will be held at Stock
ton. Extensive arrangements are already
progressing to make this Fair equal, if not
superior to any yet held in this State
The Courthouse Square is being graded
and improved, the Artesian well is going
down rapidly, the Board of Supervisors and
the City Council have each appropriated
Sl,Oo0 to meet the current expenses of the
Committee of Arrangements, and a large
amount will be raised by private subscrip-
ton; the mechanics of Stockton have re-
solved to give their time and labor free to
erect the suitable buildings and booths
necessary for the exhibition of everything
competing for premium. We are not
informed correctly the entire programme,
but heard that the exhibition of stock,
plowing match, agricultural implements,
and equestrian exercises will take place at
the circular race track, near town. The
exhibition of manufactured goods, mechan-
ical inventions, works of art, fruits, flow
ers, and vegetables samples of grain, flour,
natural curiosities and needlc-work, will of
course be exhibited in the Courthouse
Building and Public Square adjacent
The officers of the next State Fair are at
work, and from their well known energy
especially that of Mr. Garrard, the Presi
dent-we vouch for the next State Fair
being equal to the best ever held in the
State. We know that in fruits and flow
ers, Stockton is in its infancy; vet she
will this year as last, get her share of pre-
mlums, and we also know that large pro-
portion of the citizens will give no visitor
cause to regret his having attended the
State Fair on account Of an uncourteous
reception or want of liberality We
vote the whole city Especially the ladies,
a premium on that score 1t Is intended
that every family will keep open house
during the Fair, for the ladies, (and gen.
tlemen under the protection of ladies-wc
intend to go protccteR,) SO that none will
suffer for want of accommodations. We
bespeak for Calaveras county large dele
cation, and hope she will compete for the
premium in minerals The exhibitor who
can produce the richest specimen of gold
bearing quartz ought to have a premium;
it would prompt greater activity in that
important branch of our country's wealth,
and give marked superiority to the sec
tion of mines from whence it came.
NEW LINE OF STEAMERs-W are In
debted to Mr. James Harris, for a copy of
the prospectus of the California and New
York Steamship Company. 1t is believed
the enterprise will prove highly profitable
to the stockholders, as we'll as beneficial to
this State. 1t is proposed to establish but
two prices of passage, and at the follow
ing rates, viz: First cabin $50; second
cabin, $50. Each stockholder will, in adj
dition to the ordinary dividends of the
Company, have the privilege of using or
selling one ticket for passage each year,
for every share Of stock-thus, while it
creates each shareholder, to some extent,
an agent of the company, it secures to all
dividend of at least twenty per cent.
upon the investment. The prospectus
says:
1t is proposed to organize Joint Stock
Company, and incorporate the same under the
Constitution and Laws of the State of Califor-
MIA, by the name and style of the California and
New York Steamship Company, with capital
stock of One Million Dollars, to be divided into
Four Thousand Shares of Two Hundred and
Fifty Dollars each.
''The object contemplated by the organiza-
ton is, to establish Peoples Line of first class
Steamships on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,
for the transportation of passengers, freight,
express and mail matter, between San Fran
cisco and New York, and New Orleans, via
Panama unless future developments should rem
der change to Tchuantepec or Honduras, or
some other route desirable"
MExIcANs CoMING.-A large number
of the more respectable class of Mexlcans
are emigrating into this State from Sonora,