The Nevada Democrat., 1857-04-01
WHOLE NO. 1872.
VARIETIES.

VARIETIES.
NATIONAL. DEBT AND TRADE.-The Washington
Globe, in an article on the growth of the Uni
ted States, says that in the last three years
there has been q reduction in the national debt
of Sal 100000, or 10000 900 more than the
present debt; from $l0,000,00O to $15,0O0,O00,
at premiums of 10 and Is per cent. have been
paid on European claims, and $40, 900 for
the purchase of the Mesilla Valley, which EQUALS
in extent the kingdom Of Belgium. Our trade
with Canada, under the new treaty, has ncreas-
ed from $2O,00O,000 in 1858, to s50,O00,O00
in 1856.
QUARTZ IN CALAvERAss--The CaIaveras Chron.
icle says that two years ago that county only
had two quartz mills; now there are not less
than one hundred. giving profitable employ
ment to over thousand laborers, and paying
immense dividends to the owners. A cores
pondent to the same paper, writing from West
Point, says that the mill of Farras 4 Atwill last
week yielded S2.500 from twenty-six tons of
rock, and most of the mills in that portion of
the county pay at least $40 to the ton, while
much Of 1t has been known to pay as high as
S140 ton,
THE CIVIL WAR IN PERU.-The Peruvian 90.
vernment offers 100000 to any person who
will capture the revolutionary steam frigate
Apurimac, and deliver it to the present author
ties; $4,000 for the Loa, and 100000 for the
Tumbus. The President has offered the Job of
taking them to the Yankees in preference, as
he has no confidence in any other nation, not
even his own. 1t is said the government party
are likely to triumph, though the British and
American ministers are opposed. The govern
ment has the money, and the rebels, at present,
the feet
THE Bro TREE RouTE.-In view that Con-
grcss has passed the wagon road bill, the San
Joaquin Republican thinks there will be a heavy
overland immigration this season; and, to at
tract the travel from Carson Valley to the San
Joaquin Valley, by way of the Big Tree, that
paper proposes that the inhabitants of the min.
ing and agricultural counties south of the Mo-
kelumne river, take immediate steps to further
improve the road. ~
"RErrBIIcANIsM."--T Senate of Ohio. near.
ly unanimously, adopted resolution of inquiry
into the propricty of amending the Constitution
of the State, so as to require that foreigner
shall reside in it one year after obtaining his
final papers Of naturalization, before being quail
ifed to vote. The same day, by the same vote,
the Senate directed an amendment of the Con-
stitution so as to extend the right of suffrage
to free negroes, 7H
TIGERS IN FLoRIDA.-Capt. Samuel Somers
recently killed, near his residence on the St
John river, an old tigress, and two half grown
tigers. He also came in sight of the old male
tiger several times, but was afraid to shoot at
him. The tigress measured eleven feet six in
ches from the tip of the nose to the end of the
tail, and it is supposed would have weighed 800
or 400 pounds.
TAKING THE VEn.-A young lady named Mar
garet Stokes, says Bay paper, was invested
with the veil of the Sisters Of Charity, on Sa-
turday last. Archbishop Aemany presided over
this inpoaino ritp of tho CafhoIic Churoh aoa
the pastor of st. Mary's Cathedral delivered
discourse upon the prascworthy devotion of
this religious order, in relieving and aiding suf-
fcring humanity
DEATH OF PHILIP S. JULIEN.---This individual
who WAS so brutaly attacked aud robbed in his
own house, at Marysville, week before last, died
from the injuries he received, on Sunday even
ing. Three men have been arrested on suspi-
cion of the murder; but the facts weighing
against them have not transpred.
Ice IN THE SoUTH-In nearly all parts of the
South the people are harvesting ice, with the
expectation that no supply will be needed from
the North next summer. 1t has been uncom-
monty cold at the South this season. The ice
in the harbor of Norfolk is represented to be
from eight to ten inches thick.
PANAMA RAu.RoAD-The Panama railroad is
in better condition than ever before, and is pro-
nounced by old railroad men as equal in point
of speed and accommodation, to any similar
work in the United States or Europe.
Doc KILLERs.-The police of San Francisco
are very busy at present at dog killing. The
employment is perhaps little more reputable
than the man-strangling that portion of them
were engaged in some time since.
From SALMON RIvER-The Shasta Republican
learns that the trail over the Salmon Mountains
is still in bad condition, and that it will pro-
baby be two months before the trail is entirely
free from snow.
KIAMATH.-A correspondent of the Shasta
Republican says that rich hill diggIngs have
been discovered on the klamath river, from the
mouth of Scott river to the trading post Of Dick
Murphy, below.
SLAvFRY IN MIssoURT.-Two members of the
Missouri Legislature have openly avowed
themselves to be opposed to the extension Of
slavery, and in favor Of Missouri becoming
free State.
THE STEAM WAGoN.-This interesting little
affair is on exhibition at San Francisco 1t Is
there made to draw man and two or three
children In q vehicle attached to the machine.
THE vTRom. AsE-Margaret Desmond, who
was tried for throwing vitrol in her cousins
face at San Francisco; was not convicted. Two
of the jury were for acquittal. lsg.
HEAVY YERnICr-B. Davidson obtained a
verdict recently of one hundred thousand dol
lars, against A. G. Dallas in the Twelfth Dis
trict Court, San Francisco.
INsANE.--The grand jury of San Francisco
have decided that Ellen Munroe, who recently
cut off the head of her baby with an axe, was
insane.
BEHIND THE AGE.-The '49 custom of smok-
ing in theaters, is still practced in Mariposa, at
which the Gazette enters its solemn protest.
CALIFORNIA REPREsENTED.-A. G, Bradford,
ESQ.,, of this State, is to be one of the deputy
marshals at the Inauguration of Mr.. Buchanan.
A LoAFrNG PLACE Seventeen persons were
examined by Recorder Coon, of San Francisco,
on Thnrsdav last nharred with varrancv.