The weekly ledger., 1857-07-04
Amador, July lst, 1851.
QuI VIvE.

Gulch" from Slabtown sends us the following
items. We would give his letter in full if he
had given us his name Send us your name
next time
The ditch company are building a large
reservoir at the head of Sailors Guch
Smith & Co. at the head Of Sailors Gulch
have claim that pays as high as 50 to the
pan.
Philip Kahall & Co. last week took out
seventeen and half ounces of gold.
There are three stores, two taverns bill
lard saloon, ten pin alley and several saloons
in Slabtown-in fact nourishing town, CON
tanning q round dozen of ladies
IMPORTANT Decision. Our readers have
doubtless heard of the case Of the Marced
Mining Company rs John c Fremont, invol-
wing the right of the plaintiffs to work their
mining claims, which is located on the Mari
posa grant, for which Col. Fremont has a
patent. A majority Of the Court-Chief
Justice Murry dissenting the opin-
ion of the Court below, making perpetual the
Injunction restraining Fremont from inter
fering with the Company in their mining
claim
STRIcHNrNE, in these days OF rascality, is
used in manufacturing whiskey, and in giving
strength to tobacco. In Ohio it has been
made penitentiary offence to use it in ma
king wbiskey-because, we suppose, it was
ascertained that the hogs eating the grain
after it had been distilled, were poisoned =
A man who drinks liquor nowadays should
provide himself with sheet-iron throat and
have it always in his pocket, ready for use.
PHmADELnHA-The Republican shrek
ers" seem to have lost their grit" in the
Quaker City. The following was the vote at
the recent municipal eection--the Democ-
racy being largely triumphant over all oppo
sition:
democrats, 70, $40
Know Nothings, .................ls Is, 1913
Republicans, ................... A., AGA
ExToRroN- State Journal says that
as high as one hundred and .ffty dollars was
charged for steerage tickets on the last steam
er for the Atlantic. This is at least double
what it shonld be, it is strange indeed that
capitalists do not put on line in opposition
20 the P. NJ S. Co.
DAILY SuN-F. A. Bonnard, Esq, is now
the sole proprietor of the San Francisco Sun,
paper which did gallant and effective ser
vice for the Democracy during the last cam
paign 1t will continue to battle for the
good cause.
The Sieera Democrat has been removed
from Forest City to Downievill, the county
seat We understand that the Caisea, Gan
excellent paper published at Downieville, J
comedies the right Of the Democrat to locate
at the seat of justice.
The Taolumne Courier is the name of a
new paper at Columbia, edited by Messrs.
Duehow and Urmy There are no less than
four newspapers in Tuolumne county
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AMADoR-Is improving the most rapidly Of
any of the towns in our vicinity. Six new
dwelling houses have been recently erected,
and Others are in process Of construction We
have heretofore foretold the prosperity of this
place. 1t is bound to become one of the
main-stOys of Amador county.
New STEAM QUARrz MIIL.-The old Ran.
! cheria Mill near Lower Rancheria, has been
torn down and new steam mill erected in its
place that is to be classed as one of the per
manent Improvements OF our county. only
twenty-sx hundred dollars in amalgam was
found in the crevices of the old mortar bed
when it was taken up
ENEReEuc.-Thc sprightly little City Item
says: "T The Know Nothings of Amador
county are organizing with considerable ener-
gy" Guess the Item made up the item from
the Ledger-but we never said energy" once.
That has not been developed yet.
The Quartz Mining Convention at Sacra-
mento formed permanent association.
The Sky High House is the name of a
hotel in Butte county
TNntAN tronhlae ara antininotad In eon4b