The Nevada journal., 1857-05-29

Tuesday evenings. The first lecture
was commenced to a paying audience
of two, further augmented by the same
number of dcad-t eads. The crowd
subsequently increased to eight, exclu-
sive of the door keeper The lecturer,
nothing daunted, like some earlier ad-
venturers he spoke of, proceeded to
read. He commenced by saying. after
God had created the heavens and the
earth, and after He had established
metes and bounds to the same, He said
"let there be light" Thus the Judge
started out with, to us, new idea. We
have all along labored under the con-
viction that light had to be called in to
see how to file the rough edges off this
earth, which was without form or void
and metes and boundaries undefned.-
The Judge was, however, never guilty
afterward of so great deviation-stick
ing like preacher to good old fashion
ed doctrines, household stories, and Or
thodox language. The subject Of the
lecture was understood to be Giscove
ries in the North Pacific. The JUDGE,
however, fell in with Capt. Noah pretty
soon and froze to him awhile, till the
Tartars and Arabs took him off on an
invasion of Europe, supposed to be sub
sequent to the affair at Ararat Moses
in the bullrushes came in for word OF
two, just to get fairly down to the Arabs
The Phenicians and Mortimer came in
for supposition, when we left and read
more elabroate extension of the sub
juct in Peter Farley.
The second lecture gave us the old
story about the history of the compass,
art of printing, gun powder, &C., forti-
fed by precise dates, as if man would
dispute the first facts impressed upon
his infantile mind. Gallileo, and the
declaration sit does move," were eulo-
gized with JUNCTION. Then we learned
the Portuguese between certain dates
coasted around Niggerland, then Colum-
bus from certain port, the name of
which we disremember, with certain
number of men, and at forgotten date,
set sail for America. We had heard of
Columbus before, but the fellows who
accompanied him, from the Spanish of
the Judges pronunciation we couldn't
make out their names with any degree
of certainty.
Irving, and other old fogies tell the
yarn about Columbus nearly as well as
the Judge, but we dislike to see such
eminent literary men as the Judge and
these disagree on so important point
in Discoveries in the North Pacific, as
the place where the bones of Columbus
lie entombed. Irving is positive on
Havana, while Crane is emphatic for
Seville,
After great deal of backing and fill
ling, cutting and coming again, Sir
Francis Drake, comes fllibustering
along up the coast, but the Judge will
be emphatically and teetotally id if
he ever entered the Bay of San Francis
co-for why the Bay uarnt there or
there ab0uts-all been invented since
that time. Crane thinks the Bav of
San Francisco is not over one hundred
and fifty years Of age. "Lo-the poor
INDIAN" and other untutored minds en-
tertain similar opinion. The lecture
reminded us of the Life of Jack Down
ing, the title page of which reads, "My
life, in which say much more about
my grandfather than myself"
Between hash and rehash of every
| thing from Capt. Noah down to Cant.
Cook three mortal hours and fifty odd
minutes were consumed, leaving Discov-
cries in the North Pacific to be fully
treated in the great work Crane is said
to be preparing for the press-of circum-
stances. A larger audience was in at
tendance on the second evening-the
gross receipts being nearly fifty per
cent greater than on the preceding night.
The same lectures were repeated at
Grass Valley on Wednesday and Thurs
day nights.
We commend the lecturer to the ten
der footed everywhere.
KNOW NoTHTNGs. = Report has it