The Nevada journal. [volume] (Nevada City, Calif.) 1851-18??, 1857-12-11

chartered the bill holder is secured by
pledge of public stock and real estate
whereas the notes of private persons are
secured only by the honest intentions of
the individuals. 1t is plain that if de-
positors and bill holders are fully secur-
ed by law, an amount of specie required
to be kept on hand to meet liable con-
tingency and the issuance of bills limit
ed to a moderate amount, a bank of is
sue can be made as safe as bank of de-
post. The paper of each depends for
circulation upon the option of the COM
munity, and for the purposes of com
merce are not different in character. If
the checks or certificates of one are a
commercial necessity, we infer that the
bills of the other are also.
Last Of tie Fi1ibusters, or Receucctions
yMe Siege Of Ricas By William
Frank Stel0art.
We have read the volume. Perhaps
it might not stand the test of criticism,
which the author neither challenges or
fears, but it is deeply interesting. Truth is
what the writer aims at in the narrative,
he tells US, and we do not doubt him
He sometimes throws in a moroccan Of
humor which provokes a laugh when the
scenes he pictures seem to call for far
different emotions. In relating how they
lived on mule meat, cats and dogs wait
ing for something to turn mp, or the arri-
val of the NEUROLOGICAL Col. Lockridge,
he says:
"While we were enduring all this in
the city, our well-fed enemies were con-
tinually hooking and haunting us from
their barbados, by shouting "Moola !
NICOLA ''-barking like dogs-squalling
like cats-or braying like distressed
| iackasses." Afterwards some of these
taunters were taken prisoners, when bad
as was the food of the fillibusters it was,
literally "a feast of marrow and fat
things" in comparison to that of the poor
devils. 'They were allowed moder-
ate pittance of tho offal and refuse scraps,
but not a sufficient quantity to satisfy
their cravings, aud it was truly pittable
to see them, with hungry avidity, de-
vouring whatever garbage they could
pick up in the streets"
Again, the author had his feelings re-
morselessly wounded by an official of
the U. S. and expresseth himself thus ::
''He who will wantonly injure the feel
ings of helpless captive is as deeply
stepped in meanness as the ships cap
tain who compelled the sailors to drink
watered grog from a spoon with hole
in it !"
The story of the author may be brief
ly related thus deluded by the false
reports everywhere in circulation in this
State concerning the actual condition of
Gen. Walker, he enlisted in the fllibus-
ter cause, raised company of men and
sailed for Nicaragua. A few days after
joining " walker he with his company
bore the brunt of the attack upon San
George, and when compelled to fall
back upon Rivas performed an impor-
tant part in the siege that followed end
ing in capitulation by the kindly inter-
ference of the L. S. sloop of war st Ma
rvs. The author then marched through
Costa RIGA to Punta Arenas, whence he
sailed in bungo to Panama, was taken
across the Isthmus on his way to New
York, but however, succeeded in recross-
ing the Isthmus and obtaining a passage
for his home in California. The nara
tive is spiced with incidents; the "gray
eyed man of manifest destiny" proven
to be cold blooded ungrateful wretch
as ever went unhung fillibusterism is
presented in anything but an attractive
form aud Central America pronounced
a fit residence for negroes, balloons and
monkeys but the burial ground of white
men born in temperate climate.
The work may be found at G. W.
Welch's Pioneer Bookstore.
KATE HAYS MARRIED.-The Irish
Swan, Kate Hays, has married Mr..
Bushnell, an American, formerly her
agent in this State and Australia. Bush
nell obtained divorce from his former
wife and married Kate and two hundred
thousand dollars. The bride is about
thirty, and her husband considerably
older. The two hundred thousand was
made in California and Australia in five
years.
SIBERIA,-The S. T. Herald is pub
fishing series of articles on the explo-