San Andreas independent., 1857-10-17
Items.

the United States, on the oath of August, and
subject to draft, was Sl9,577,223 so. The
principal deposits were, in round numbers, at
the Assistant Treasurer's office, Boston. ST.
$4,000; Assistant Treasurer's Office. New
York, S7,ooo,ooo; Assay office, New York
S2,344,oo0 Mint, Philadelphia, So, 900 900 !;
Branch Mint, New Orleans, 81, 500 900; Branch
Mint, San Francisco, 81. 100000.
The total receipts taken by the State Ag-
ricultural Society at the late Fair at Stockton,
amount to about Sis 900.
"A paper has been started in the town of
Tehama, entitled The Tshama and Colusa
Adrocate," under the editorial management of
Mr.. L. II. Sanborn.
The amount of coinage for the month of
August, at the United States Mint, Philadel-
phia, was $544,63s.
up to the middle of August, 10000 troops
had been sent from England to carry on the
war in India
The population of the State of Iowa in
1856, was 509,4l4.
The great humbug Snowman, P T. Barnum
was arrested for debt, as he was on the eve of
leaving New York to join his family in Eng
land
Judge Curtis, of the United States Su-
preme Court, has sent in his resignation.
The total receipts of the Stamp Tax, in
this State, from July lst to September 27th,
was S25, $40 so.
The Boston five cents Saving Bank, has
Sl.oOO,OOO on deposit
There are eighty-seven clerks employed
in the Chicago post-ofice. The expense of
the Office is $4,000 per annum.
The Foreign Ministerial service, including
Consulships, costs the United States govern
ment over half million dollars per annum.
The exports of specie from the United
States to Europe, for the first eight months of
this year, were upwards of thirty-two million
against twenty-five million dollars for the
same time last year.
Eugene Sue, author of The Wandering
jew" and other works, who died in August
last, was educated to the Medical Profession,
served in the French Navy as Surgeon, made
several cruises, resigned his position, went to
live in Paris, where he soon spent a large for
tune inherited from his father, and in his ne
cessity took to the pen to as means of procur-
ing livelihood, His works have been extern
sively read by all classes in Europe and Amer
lea. He died at the age of forty mine.
Jacob Richardson, late Collector of the
port of 0swego, N. Y, has been discovered to
be defaulter to the amount of Sl30,00O, with
prospect of much larger sum. Hir bonds
were $4,000.
The Home Journal, in describing beauty,
says: Beauty, dear reader, is the woman
you love-whatever she may seem to Others"
$3.50, 100000 worth of foreign merchan-
disc was received at the New York Custom
House during the first seven months of the
present year, being excess of SIS, 100000
over the imports for the same time last year.
The prospects are that there will be a balance
of trade in favor of Europe, at the close of the
year 1857, of 100000, 900, which must be
paid in specie. Granting that the gold fields
of California will produce $50, 900, 900 of the
above sum, how long will the people of the
United States be able to bear such drain
upon the specie of the country, merely to graf
ify an extravagant taste for the luxuries of
Europe? The futnre looks decidedly gloomy
The h0fks, up-river steamboats, aud other
assessable property of the California Steam
Navigation Co., have been assessed on the
city books of Sacramento, at $Sl 900.
A. McNeill, owner of the right of way for
the Mariposa canal has sold it to Col. Fremont
tor $4,000.
Better fall into fortune than into the sea
sometimes.
Looking over the advertisements of a
New York paper, our eye caught the line:
Improved Patent Head, warranted not to get
out Of order" What a head that would be
for an editor
"A man of talent is lost if he docs not join
talent to energy of character. With the lantern
of Diogenes you should also have his stick.
Two mountain editors recently had
fight one damned the other and cleared him
out of town, and recording his departure, the
survivor says: " Peace go ,rith him, d--n him ?"
There are 5000 locomotives running in
the United States-one to every three miles of
railroad.
"A lawyer is compared to sleepless man
he lies first on one spe and then on the other.
1T is estimated that there are 5S7 langua-
ges and general dialects in Europe, 937 in
Asia, 226 in Africa and l,262 in America, in
all nearly 5000.
John K Lovejoy, late of the Old Moun-
ta'neer, was robbed of Sl00 at 0roville The
Plumas 4rgus says he was, at the time, under
the influence of chloroform, but the paper never
heard it called by that name before.
Margaret Pine died at Little Neck. Ny,
recently. She was the last slave owned in
New York.
The reporters of the San Francisco press