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San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

INSTRUCTIONS TO A JURY.-The fol-
lowing funny instructions is said to have
been given by judge to a jury-well,
we wont say in what State. 1t runs in
this way:
"If the jury believe, from the evidence,
that the plaintiff and defendant were
partner in the grocery, and that the plain
tiff bought out the defendant and gave his
note for the interest, and the defendant
paid for the note by delivering to the
plaintiff COW, which he warranted mot
breachy,' and the warranty was broken by
reason of the breachiness of the COW, and
the plaintiff drove the COW back and ten
dered her to the defendant, but the de-
fendant refused to receive her, and the
plaintiff took her home again, and put a
heavy yoke or poke upon her, to prevent
her from jumping the fence, and the COW
in attempting to jump the fence, by rea-
son of the poke or yoke, broke her neck
and died, and if the jury further believe
that the defendants interest in the gro
Gerry was not worth anything, the plain
tiff's note was worthless, and the cow
good for nothing, either for milk or beef,
or for green hide then the jury must
find out for themselves how they will de-
eide the case-for the court, if she under
stands herself, and she thinks she do,
don't know how such case should be
decided"
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

FROM SoNoRA-By the arrival of the
schooner Alerta at San Francisco, twenty
five days from Guymas, the Herald learns
that Gen. Pesquari had sent out l20 men
to fight Gen. Gandera, who captured
them, took all their arms from them, and
then set them free We are also in
formed that Gen. Gandera was at Argos
Caliente with 500 Indians and 200 Mex
leans, and was about to march upon Quay
mas. The inhabitants of that place were
making every preparation toreceive them,
such as fortifying the town, raising COM
panies, etc.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16
/" e Pluribus Unun-
By G. W. CUTTER.

Though many and bright are the stars that appear
In the flag by our country unfurled;
And the stripes that are swelling in majesty there,
Like rainbow adorning the world;
Their light is unsuled as those in the sky,
BY deed that our fathers have done;
And they're leagued in as true and as holy tie,
In their motto of Many in One"
From the hour when those patriots fearlessly flung
That banner of starlight abroad,
Ever true to themselves, to that motto they clung,
AS they cling to the promise of God. -
BY the bayonet traced at the midnight of war,
On the fields where glory was won,
o, perish the heart or the hand that would mar,
Our motto of Many in One"
Mid the smoke of the contest the deep cannons roar
How oft has it gathered renown;
While those stars were reflected in rivers of gore,
When the Cross and the Lion went down;
And tho few the lights in the gloom OF that hour
Yet the hearts that were striking below
Had God for their buwark and truth for their power,
And they stopped not to number the foe.
From where Green Mountain tops blend with the sky
And the giant st. Lawrence is rolled.
To the waves where the balmy Hesperides lie,
Like the dream of some prophet of old,
They conquered; and dying beqneath'd to our care.
Not this boundess dominion alone, Gs
But that banner, whose loveliness halows the air,
And their motto of Many in One"
We are @Many in One" while there glitters star
i the blue of the heavens above;
And tyrants shall quail mid their dungeons afar
When they gaze that motto of love-
1t shall gcam DER the mid the bolts of the storm,
Over tempest, and battle, and wreck
And flame where guns with their thunder grow
Meath the blood on the slppery deck
The oppressed of the earth to that standard shall y
Wherever its folds shall be spread
And the exile slall feel that It's his native sky
Where its stars shall float lis head;
And those stars shall increase till the fulness of time
Its millions of cycles has run
Till the world shall have welcomed its mission sublime
And the nations of earth shall be one.
Though the old Allegheny may tower to heaven
And the Father of Waters divide,
The links of our destiny cannot be riven
While the truth of those words shall abide,
Then, o! let them glow each helmet and brand,
Though our blood like our rivers shall run;
Divide may in native land,
To the rest of the world we are one.
Then up with our flag, Let It stream on the air;
Though our fathers are cold in their graves,
They had hands could strike they had souls that
could dare
And their sons were not born to be slaves.
Up, up with the banner! Whereer it may call,
Our millions shall rally around;
And nation Of freernen that moment shall fall,
When its stars shall be traied on the ground
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

THE MURDER OF CHRIS. L1LLY.--A
correspondent of the BHlletin says, Knote,
commander of the Guatemala "Navy,"
who l wrote you had barbarously caused
Chris. Lilly, an American citizen, to be
murdered in the hold of one of his ves-
sells, the Santiago, has been convicted of
the murder, last winter, of an Italian,
named Antonio, and sentenced to death.
He charged this Antonio with conspiring
to deliver up the vessel under his, Anto-
MOS command, to Walker, and had him
shot. So this william Knote is likely to
get his deserts at last.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

ETERNITY.-" Eternity has no gray
hairs?" The flowers fade, the heart lies
down in the sepulchre of ages, but time
writes no wrinkles on the brow Of eterni-
y!
Eternity. stupendous thought! The
ever present, unborn, undecaying, and
undying; the endless chain, comprising
the life of God-the golden thread, en-
twining the destinies of the universe.
Earth has its beauties but time shrouds
them for the grave; its honors, they are
bur the sunshine of an hour; its palaces,
they are but as the gilded sepulchre; its
possessions, they are toys of changing
fortune; its pleasures, they are but as
burthening bubbles. Not so in the un-
tried bourne.
In the dwelling of the Almighty can
come no footsteps of decay. Its day will
know no darkening eternal splendors
forbid the approach of night. It's foun-
tains will never fail, they are fresh from
the eternal throne Its glories will never
wane, for there is the ever present God
It's harmonies will never cease, exhaust
less love supplies the song.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

THE PREss.-Thc press is the ruling
power of the times. The age of states
men is over, the age of bullets is over,
and the age of the printing press has
come. What the invention of gunpowder
was to the art of war, making any man
who could pull a trigger equal to the most
powerful warrior, the press is in reading
age. We have invented the pamphlet.
We have called into existence the fourth
estate of the realm-it is brains !, Men
sometimes think that the great brows at
Washington control the nation. So the
boy who first sees steamboat thinks that
the walking beam is the propelling power,
but below there is "fanatic' feeding the
fires.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

STRAWBERRIES IN JANUARY.-Just
think of it, reader-strawberries growing
on these barren hills in December and
January. However astonishing it may
appear, it is true. In making one of
our New Years calls, the lady of the
house where we were visiting, showed us
two bouquets of magnificent roses, with
punches of large strawberries in the cen
ter of each. They were raised in a garden
not far from our city Sonora Herald.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

FASHION AND DRESS.-As we are now
in the midst of the gay and festive season,
when the folly of overdress is likely to
manifest itself with more force than usual,
it is, perhaps, good time to say a word
on the subject. We are the more en-
couraged to do this as it is now the Sab
bath, when the mind is presumed to be
open to reason and the heart to conviction
We are not of those who think the
women of California have been more ex-
travagant in the matter of dress, or more
punctilious in following the fashions, than
women elsewhere, yet that they have been
and still are too obsequious to the modes,
too much enamored of rich and gaudy
apparel, is not to be denied. We see the
evidences everywhere-on the promenade,
at church, at the theatre, in the drawing
room, in the kitchen, everywhere, this
abomination is to be seen.
Had we stopped in our love of fnery
at the point of volrptuous elegance, it had
not been so bad but we have carried it
to the extreme of vulgar tawdry, if not to
the verge of absolute indecency. 1t has
been urged that our females should dress
with greater simplicity as a matter of
economy and so they should. Yet there
is a stronger reason why they should do
so than this We object to this extrav-
agance and display more on the ground
of its moral and social than of its physi-
cal effects. 1t hurts the SOUL There is
hardly thing that does more spiritual
harm than this love of gaud-this mean
and miserable vanity of dress. 1t is a
dangerous business this, of woman dec
Grating her person and sailing out On a
privateering cruise for admiration. 1t is
a dangerous experiment for you, young
woman, to make; still more dangerous to
you, wife and mother, and most disastrous
in its consequences to your husband and
father
The love of show, the fondness for at
tention, is the beginning of the spirit S
wanderings-th first of its going out on
unlawful errands-fatal to its purity, de-
structive of its peace. 1t is these ramb-
lings that lead more astray than passion /;
for most frequently does harlotry begin
in the heart Yes, they are plain words,
and pity it is we should have to use them
when speaking of American wives, daugh-
ters and mothers. Let those answer who
have created the necessity for their use,
not we for using them.
We can tell our female population this
folly is depreciating them in the estimation
of all sensible men, and if they wish tc
gain sincere respect they had better dress
more plainly. When they adorn them
salves to the sensation point, aud parade
the streets less for recreation than exhi
bition, they are more apt to excite the
rIdicule than the admiration of even the
/ fop, and when woman comes to be ridi
culed she will soon be despised. We
contend that she has no right to degrade
herself in this manner; she has no right
to make herself an itinerant clothes horse,
"a mere perambulating show window fol
the display of dry goods and millinery
Pray, good women, have done with it
Try the quality of calico, and see if there
is not an intrinsic virtue in it. Come q
little nearer the Quaker style; Quakers
are always objects of attraction.-,S f
Times and Talk.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16
WIVES FOR THE MINERs.-The inte-

Wives FOR THE MINERS inte-
rior papers still continue to echo our call
for an augmentation of the women-popu-
lation in California. The Grass Valley
Telegraph Nevada county, says:
|. We are pleased to observe the efforts of
the San Francisco Bulletin to devise
means for the encouragement of that
great dcsideratum to our State-female
immigration. The character of our mi
ming operations is daily becoming more
permanent. Quartz mining and hill
diggings both have a tendency to pro-
duce stability in our mining population.
Miners are not now the wandering people
they were few years back. What they
need, when they reach their cabins, cold,
wet and fatigued. is to find a cheerful
fire, change of clothes, and comforta-
BILE meal ready, which they may enjoy,
instead of, as now, having to cook, wash,
&C., for themselves. That thousands of
women, now out of employment, in the
eastern States, could promote their own
welfare and happiness by emigration to
California, will admit of no doubt
While domestics command from $50 to
$40 per month, washing SO per dozen,
and more than half our miners are with
out wives, good industrious women have
nothing to fear.
A portion of the San Francisco press
appears to think that there are two sides
to this question. Let those who consider
the marketoverstocked take a trip through
the mountains; ascertain how many
women there are idle, and unmarried,
and why. Also the average time allowed
to the right sort of new corners, before
the question is popped Then let them
ascertain whether there are any bachelors
who would like to become Benedicts,
could they do so without an expensive
trip to the Atlantic States. If all this be
too much trouble, let them 90 on board
the departing steamer, and ask the pas
sengers why they are leaving. 1t is a
pity the Bulletin did not instruct its
Travelling Correspondent to collect
statistics in relation to this matter. The
result would. we think, have been favora-
BILE for the immigration of thousands,
with fair chance of immediate employ
ment at good wages, and, if they desired,
husbands. But how can they be brought
out? Is there no "Mrs Chisholm in
San Francisco? The ladies of that city
might form an association having for its
object the encouragement of the immi-
grafton of industrious women, who would
not "object to live in the country"-the
mines. Such an association might per-
haps induce the steamship company to
bring out limited number each trip, fol
their services during the passaee-or at a
reduced rate. The society at San Fran
cisco might arrange with the societies of
the Atlantic cities, Established for the
Encouragement of Faithful Domcstics. .
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

ny The last mail brought instructions
to the Treasurer Of the Mint in San Fran
cisco, to transfer $500, 900 of the bullion
fund in the Mint to the Sub-Treasury
and at the same time drafts came on for
more than $780, 900 of this money These
last heavy drafts were in favor of the Su-
perintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

Ray~ "There are some things which escape
the fangs of criticism while others are pilfered
and destroyed in beauty and harmony by the
plagiarist. We find the following atrocious
parody circulating in the newspapers without
credit. Perhaps it was written by Miss Phebe
Carey, who has talent for such kind of per-
formances at all events, it is ''well DONE
But isn't it rather too bad to parody such a
beautiful poem as is "Annabel Lee" publish
ed in previous paper, Though who can
help laughing at this thing after all:
DEBORAH LEE.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

RISING IN THE WoRLD.-You should
bear constantly in mind that nine-tenths
of us are, from the very nature and neces-
sites of the world, born to gain our live
lihood by the sweat of our brow. What
reason have we, then, to presume that our
children are not to do the same? If they
be, as now and then one would be, endowed
with extraordinary powers of mind, those
extraordinary powers of mind may have
an opportunity Of developing themselves; !;
and if they have not that opportunity, the
harm is not very great. to us or them
Nor does it hence follow that the descen-
dants of laborers are always to be labor
ers. The path upward is steep and long,
to be sure. Industry, care, skill, excel
lence, in the present parent, lay the foun-
dation of a rise under more favorable cir
cumstances, for the children. The chill
dren of these take another rise; and by
and by the descendants of the parent la
borer become gentlemen. This is the nat
ural progress. 1t is by attempting to
reach the top at single leap that so much
misery is produced in the world Society
may aid in making the laborer virtuous
and happy, by bringing children up to
labor with steadiness, with care and with
skill; to show them how to do as many
useful things as possible; to do them all
in the best manner; to set them an exam
pie in industry, sobriety, cleanliness and
neatness to make all these habitual to
them, SO that they never shall be liable
to fall into the contrary; to let them al
ways see a good living proceeding from
labor and thus to remove from them the
temptation to get at the goods of others
by violence and fraudulent means, and to
keep far from their minds all the induce
ments to hypocrisy and deceit Goblet.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16
By FUZZY GUZZY.


IT'S dozen so Of years ago,
Somewhere in the west countree
That a nice girl lived as the Hoosers know,
By the name of Deborah Lee.
Her sister was loved by Edgar Poe,
But Deborah by me! All, me-e-c.
Now was green, and she was green,
As summer squash might be;
But we loved warmly as other folks,
and Deborah Lee! You see?
With love that the lasses of IIoosierdom
Coveted her and me-
But somehow it happened long ago.
In the agueish West countree,
That chill March morning gave the "shakes,"
To my beautiful Deborah Lee
And the grin, Steam Doctor Course him y
And bore her away from me;
The Doctor and Death-old partners they
In the aguesh West countree
The angels wanted her up in Heaven
But they never asked for s'me!"]
And that is the reason, rather guess,
In the agueish West countree,
That the cold March wind and the Doctor and Deatl
go Took off my Deborah Lee,
My beautiful Deborah Lee
TOHi TIE WdrIh suiioEihe lu Tie opening HuWeIs
And hid her away from me.
Our love was as strong as six horse team,
Or the love of folks older than we
But Death, with the aid of the Doctor and steam,
Was rather too many for me; ~
So she closed the peppers and stopped the breath
0fmy sweetheart, Deborah Lee
And her form lies cold in the Prairie mould.
Silent and eold--ah
The foot of the hunter shall press her grave,
And the Prairies wild flowers
In their odorous beauty around 1t wave,
Through all the summer hours,
The still bright summer hours;
And birds shall sing in the tufted grass e
And the nectar-aden bee,
With his dreamy hum, on his gauze wings pass-
She wakes no more to me!
All, never more to mel
Tho the wild birds Sing and the wild flowers spring
She wakes no more to me.
Yet oft in the hush Of the dim, still night
Avision Of beauty see,
Gliding soft to my bedside, phantom Of light
Dear, beautiful Deborah Lee
My bride that was to be;
And wake to mourn that the Doctor and Death,
And the cold March wind should stop the breath
OF my darling Deborah Lee,
Adorable Deborah Lee;
That the angels should want her up in Heaven
Before they wanted me!
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16
ID. ID. VEZEY,
Carpenter, DINER and Undertaken

q Shop on st. Charles street, oppositeM
~ the Willow Creek Lumber Yard "
IN san ANDRE4S I'M
Where Miners can be furnished with Pumps,
Toms, Patent Rifles, Water wheels, Horse
powers, and all other machinery for mining
purposes on short notice.
ALSO-Constantly on hand Sash and Panel
Doors, Window and Window Blinds, Door and
Window Trimmings, Chest, Drawer, Closet and
Wardrobe Trimmings, Bedsteads, Dining Cen
tre, Card and Toilet Tables, Wash-stands, and
all other articles of Furniture made to order
my 23-5m-4 ID. d. VEZEY.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

MoRsEoGRAPH.-A AS substitution for
" telegraphic dispatch" a writer in the
Philadelphia Ledger, gives telegram"
the go-by and suggests morseograph and
morseotype, the latter for a printed dis
patch He cites, as similar case, that
of Paixhan invented the guns called
Paixhan.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

ng 4 grocer having mentioned to one
of his lady customers that the submarine
telegraph was broken, she replied that if
in the next attempt they should grease
the cable with some of his strong butter,
which she had been using for some time,
she thought that it would inpart strength
to it. The grocer smiled family, out Of
compliment, but did mt see the strength
of the joke.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

s9- An inveterate old soaker in this
vicinity was, the other night, telling a
party of friends of an adventure in which
he was implicated on the previous evening.
:" Well were you corned?" inquired one
of the bystanders "Corned ~ replied
the topper, with indignation, mo stree,
not by jug full f"
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16
n.,z. yvouv sa;a L;a -,

Bsg-" Well" said his honor to an old
negro, who had been hauled up for steal
ing pullet, "what have you to say for
yourself?' "Nufin' but dis, boss-I
was crazy as bedbug when I stole dat
ar pullet, cos | might hab stole de big
rooster-and | neber done it. Dat shows
elusive dat | was laboring under delirum
tremendous"
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

For THE WARs.-Orders are expected
by the next mail for the organization of
the. Utah expedition, and it is semi-offi-
cially announced that the Marion Rifles
and the Sutter Rifles corps, of Sacramento
city, will be among the first companies
accepted for that service.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

FIRE AT ORovILLE.-A fire broke
out in Oroville on the Both of December.
on the southwest corner of Myers and
Robinson streets, when several adjoining
buildings were destroyed. Estimated
loss, $4,000.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16
Gfpressrs.
Daily E<proSS
From SAN AndreaS to

Daily E&p pr SIS.
From San AndreaS TO
CALAVERITAS AND OLD GULCH!
WIN. Nh. DENIG informs the public that
he will, from and after this date, continue run
ming Daily Express from San Andreas to CAL
averitas and Old Gulch, starting from San
Andreas Immediately after the arrival of the
Stockton stage, so as to deliver San Francisco
letters and papers, and the Sacramento Union
the same day they arrive at San Andreas.
On the arrival of each Mail Steamer, an
extra Express will be run for the distribution
of Atlantic States papers, touching at Upper
Calavaritas, Old Gulch French Gulch, Noun
tain Ranch, Eldorado Mill and Cave City.
Persons receiving letters or packages, for
warded per Mail or Wells, Fargo Co., can
have them delivered every day by leaving their
orders at Sharp's Store, Upper Calaveritas or
Osborns Store, Old Gulch.
Also-Collections of all kinds attended to,
on reasonable terms.
Office in Wells, Fargo & Co.'S Building, San
Andreas, where may be found San Francisco,
Sacramento and Atlantic papers.
WILLIAM NJ. DENIG.
Aft Pony Expressman.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16
DILLON .& CO.'S
U.S. NAIL DAILY LINE OF
1gs2Es& - n "A q ELS,

Stockton to Murphys, via San Andreas
Angels and vallecito.
The above Line leaves the Company's Office,
corner of Centre street and Levee, Stockton,
eyerv morning at clock, or on the arrival
of the boat from San Francisco
Returning, leaves Sperry's Hotel, Murphys,
nassinp through the above places, and arriving
at Stockton in season to connect with the
steamer for San Francisco same day.
Il R-Tbis is the only direct ronte to Cave
City and the Big Trees leo zo-tf
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

B9r The returns of various County As
SCISSORS, make the present population OF
California amount to 607 ,000- VI these,
there are 332. 200 Americans; 6o,oOO
Indians; 800 Chinese; Il, 600 French;
Is, 900 Mcxicans; 10000 Germans; ~
900 Irish; 1000 English; and nearly
4 600 celored people.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

BH-There was meeting in Spring
field, Tuolumne county, on Saturday last,
to organize company of mounted vol
unteers, to stand in readiness for service
when called upon by the government
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

p9> q You want fogging, that's what
you do,o said parent to his unruly son.
II know it dad, but Z try to get along
without it, replied the brat
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16
WM. MILLER. Constable,
inner Calarerifds,

UPptT- UutHOtT4tuS'
WILL ATTEND to the Collecting of Ac-
counts and all other business pertaining to his
Office. All orders left at Justice freese's
Office, Upper Calaveritas, viii be promptly at
tended to. jy 25:n If
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

B9- The Shasta Republican reports
the snow on the Salmon mountains to he
ten feet deep.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16

H@r If you would not have affiiction
visit you often, listen at once to what it
teaches
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-16
NOTICEi
RsE Bounty Land warrants. ga

>hE undersigned having completed arrange
= ments with his Correspondent in WASH
,ng'on D; T.. is now ready to procure Boun-
y y Land Warrants. granted by an Act of
Congress, r passed March Sd, 1855, giving land
S.oo acres) to all connected with the 4rmp or
Naey OF the United States, In any Of tile wars
- n, wn,cn the United have been engaged.-
Ais1' state Troops, whose services have been
paid by the United States - ''''' : 's'''
Information given gratis.
Ws2-No charge, If said warrants are not ob-
tanned. r.. THONpS0v os oo-
WAoince, Centre street, next door to Stur-
ges Stone Building, Mok. Hill. feb 5-52