The Nevada journal., 1857-05-08

Observation-Disclosures morning
dawned upon us with sky overcast with
clouds prognostic of rain. About one
o'clock the heavens began to distill the
grateful drops, which was literally con-
tinued during the afternoon with slight
intermissions. The air became cold and
chilly in the evening, exciting serious
apprehensions for the safety of peaches
and garden vegetables of the less hardy
kinds. Holding our first born, we toas-
ted our shins by the fire with a great
deal of satisfaction. Afterwards the
night proved capital one for snoozing
under the blankets The morning of
yesterday opened upon wintry scene.
Large flakes of snow were descending
slowly and deliberately, and the earth
was covered with mantle of white. We
looked out upon loaded branches of pine,
and roofs of houses, saw tracks of earlier
risers than ourself, and fowl cautious
ly stepping rpon the new carpet nature
had spread during the night.
AS the day wore on apace, the snow
disappeared, leaving the streets in that
nondescript condition, neither good or
bad. A few drops fell now and then
during the day, doing no good but scar
ing the women folks within doors to the
benefit of their husbands purses. The
upper regions are not yet clear, neither
are ours, what is to come of this spell
of weather" Miners will be glad to
have the heavens great hydraulic works
continue to squirt the liquid, and every
department of business is filled with in
dividuals in a similar frame of mind.
DISTRICT CoURT.-The Executive Of
ficers of the county complain that the
Legislature just adjourned did not limit
by statute enactment the daily sessions
of the District Court to certain num-
Der of hours. Judge Searls we are told,
averages from ten to twelve hours per
day upon the BENCH
The Court has been engaged several
days trying cases arising from damages
sustained by the flood of February last.
In the case of Boswell & Hanson vs.
Laird, Chambers, Moore & Foss, ver-
dict of $4,000 was rendered in favor of
plaintiff, for damages caused by the
breaking of a reservoir. Wiman & Nc
Elroy, similar case, verdict against same
defendants, 81, 900.
The trial of Slate Greek Co. VS.. Laird
ct al, involving rights to water is in
progress,
The most important suit of the Sess-
ion involving the right to nearly all the
water of Deer Greek commences on Mon
day next. 1t is similar suit to others
before named, the Consolidation Ditch
Co. plaintiffs and Laird ct al. defend
ants.
STAGE CoACHES.-There was once ro-
nance in stage coaches. At least old
musty black-letter tones We were wont
to peruse in times agone say so, and we
believe every word written before the
present degenerated generation got to
lying in books and newspapers so wretch
edly. But there is no romance about the
institution now 1t is all the hardest kind
Of reality. There isn't a spice of poetry,
love, or comfort about it. The most i'm
aginative youth has never been able to
sever and divide one smallest conceiva-
bic measure Of time from the continual
dragging hours of comming!ing of the
various organs of the inner man. which
could be pronounced pleasant. Dust,and
heat - Cinnamon, niggers and snobs,
crowded in thick on this side and that, be-
hind and before, remind one of quota
ton from Shelly.
"This is hell, and in this smother
All are damnable and damned
Each one damning damns the other
They are damned by another,
While they damnably jammed"
Shelly never experienced the exeru4
ciating anguish of ride from Saera-
mento to Nevada in one of the vehicles
of the California Stage Company. Had
he, his"Double Damnationf would have
been manufac ctured into a different ar
ticle.
A California Stage coach is a ieveller
of all distinctions. Were it not a pro-
fame allusion, we would add, "it is no re-
specter of persons" The bruised and