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The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15

ABOUT A MILLIoNAIRE.-The vanity
ofriches is seldom illustrated so striking
ly as in the case of the great English
millionaire, Morrison, who died worth
S20,000,00O. 1t seems to be one of the
conditions of the accumulation of enor-
nous wealth in a single generation that
the possessor shall first disqualify him.
self from enjoying it, and in some cases,
even from appreciating the fact that he
holds it. Mr.. Morrison accumulated this
almost fabulous amount himself, and in
the regular course of his business, with
out any extraordinary turn of fortune !;
yet the following extract from a letter
in the Boston Post shows how little ben
eft he permitted himself to receive from
his wealth. What a satire it is upon the
exclusive devotion of all the faculties
to the mere accumulation of property:
"Mr. Morrison retired from active
business several years since, without
Withdrawing his capital from the mer-
camille house, and though managing his
vast funds himself up to the time of his
death, with all the sagacity of earlier
days, he has for the last three years
been possessed with the idea that he
should come to want. More than two
years ago he commenced doing day
labor upon a farm held by one of his
tenants, for which he received twelve
shillings week, and this he continued
up to the time of his illness. For the
last eighteen months he has been reg
ular applicant for relief to the parish, as
sembling twice a week with the town
paupers at the door of the 'Union,' and
receiving with each one of them his two
shillings and quartern loaf. His
friends have indulged him in these fam
cies on the ground that it was the best
choice of two evils. The truth is, mon
ey was his god. and the idea became at
last too great for him and broke him
down. And yet he is said to have
made most judicious will, and his in
vestments up to the last are character
lied by great good sense. The probate
duty on his will exceeds 100000"
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15

The following anecdote is as good
now as when it was new: A traveller
called at night fall at farmers house.
The owner being from home, and the
mother and daughters being alone, they
refused to lodge the wayfarer. Glow
far, then" said he, ''to house where
preacher can get lodged p ooh, if
you are preacher said the good lady,
"you can stay here" Accordingly he
dismounted, deposited his saddle-bags,
and led his horse to the stable. Mean
while, the mother and daughter were
debating as to what kind of preacher
he was 'He cannot be Presbvteri
an" said the one, ''for he is not well
dressed enough" "He is not Metho-
dist" said the other, "for his coat is not
the right cut for a Methodist" "If |
could find his hymn-book," said the
daughter, 81 could tell what kind of a
preacher he is" And with that she put
her hand into the sadlle-bags, and pull
ing out flask of liquor, she exclaimed,
ala ! mother, he's a Hard-ShelI Ban
tist."
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15
EnSOIVent Notice.
In the District Court, 18th Judicial District

0ASSA ASo
OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
T y the matter of the Petition of WIN. 4. SIMPSON,
/ Insolvelt Debtor.
Pursuant to an order of the Hon. T. H. Caswel Judge
the said County Court notccis hereby given to all the
creditors of the said nsovent to be and appear before
the Hon T. II. taswcll aforesaid in open Court at the
Court Room of said Court in the city and county of Ne
vaa the }rl day of Jan. 1858 at 10 O'Clock. NJ of
that day then and there To show if they
why the PRAYER of said nsovent should not be granted
and asSgnmen OF his Estate be made and he be dis
charged from his debts and liabilities in pursuance
the Statute in such made and provided and In the
time all proceedings against said lnsoYent be
stayed.
Witness hand and the Seal of said Court, this l4th
IL. s. day of November. \. D. 1851
RUFUS SHOEMAKER. Clerk.
n204w BY VIM SMITH Deputy.
A A. Sargent Atty for Petitioner
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15
SilcriHrS Sale.

DY virtue of an Execution to directed and issued
- out OF the Honorable District Court Of the 18th Judi
cial District, Judgment rendered in said Court on
the 22d day of December A. d. 1851 in favor of T. Ell
LARD BEANS and W. J. KNOX and against ZENAS
WHEELER, JAMES WALSH and RICHARD HON.
FRAY for the sum of three hundred and eightyseven
sO-l00 dollars debt. with interest the said of
ee so from the 22d Dec S57 the rate of ten per
per till paid together with costs of suit taxed
sixtyve 40lO0 dollars l have levied upon and seized
the following described property which heretofore
attached the 4th day of Nov. A. D. 1851 All the light
title and interest of said defendants in and certain
Quartz Mill, with all the appurtenances situated on
Mud Flat about one mile south of Nevada city, also
chinery quartz, ledge of quartz, buildings &c. belong
ing said defendants.
Notice is hereby given that Thursday the 18th day
January, d, 1888, between the hours of 10 O'Clock
A. and o'clock NJ in front of the house door
in the city of Nevada will expose for sale all of the
above described property to the highest bidder cash.
to satisfy the Judgment aforesaid.
Given under my hand this 9th day of December 1851
5. W. BORING,
Shnri HnfN
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15

OPEN TO OBJEcTIoN.-General
ID was more distinguished for
gallantry in the field than for the care
he lavished in personal cleanliness
Complaining, on a certain occasion, 10
Chief Justice b, of the SUFFERING
he endured from rheumatism, that learn
ed and humorous Judge undertook to
prescribe a remedy. "You desire your
servant" he said to the General, "to
place every morning by your bed side
tub three parts filed with warm water.
You will then get into the tub, and hay
ing provided yourself with a pound of
yellow soap, you must rub yonr whole
body with it, and at the end of a quar-
ter of an hour, the process concludes bv
wiping yourself dry with towels, and
scrubbing yourself with heshbrush."
Why" said the General, after mo
ment's reflection upon what he had lust
heard, 'this seems to me nothing more
ncr less than washing yourself. well,
reioined the Judge, at is open to Mat
Objecti0a."
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15

DIDN'T KNOW IT-The San Juan
Star says "a few nights ago, couple of
distinguished gentlemen who reside in
Nevada, and who had been on a Chart.
able mission to the unfortunate town of
Dowuieville, were returning, and in or
der to reach home at an early hour, de-
cided to take "cut-off'' in the vicinity
Of Uncle Johnny Bope's, Striking out
on blind trail, the two travellers per-
sued the faint path in its tortuous wind
ings-now descending into a gloomy
canon-and anon ascending the gentle
elevations that do abound in that section.
The shadows of night came "gently
stealing" over their path, and as the
last rays of departing day went out, one
of them was heard to say "Going, Go
ing, GONE !'-They were lost and as
they travelled on, the darkness became
more intense-the bushes on either side
ofthem assumed wonderful lshapes-their
excited imagipations formed every clus-
ter Of trees into the formidable Jim
Webster and his band the twigs that
snapped under the feet of their horses,
were taken for the sharp click of revol-
vers: the judicial gentleman appeared
extremely anxious to reach the "white
settlements that he was fearful Of
his personal safety-but he thought that
seat on the bench was preferable to
one in the saddle, under such circum-
stances. After wandering about for
some time, they discovered, in the dim
distance, the faint flicker of light as
they rode on, another and another "shin.
ing light" greeted their visions, until,
like stars in the heavens, they became
too numerous to count. "Marysville"
by all that's holy !" exclaimed the judi
cial gentleman. He had not been in
San Juan for some time and had no
idea of its present size and growing
Importance.
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE-Thomas Grow,
the murderer of Montgomery, at Yuba
City, and now confined in the county
Jail in Marysville, says the Express. at
tempted to kill himself on Monday NOR
ming. Having been put into cell
without his limbs being pinioned, he
managed to tear off a splinter from one
of the iron bars, with which he cut into
a vein of his left arm, and let out very
large quantity of blood. When found
he had bled so mach thet the floor and
bedding were perfectly saturated, and
his vitality was near exhausted. The
cash was sowed up by DR. iced, aud
the blood. He was also chained down
to the floor to prevent his doing himself
further mischief He will henceforth
be closely watched. We learn that
Crow gashed his right arm also in sew
eral places, and bled profusely from
that as well as the other.
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15

SUICIDE OF PRIEsT.-A Catholic
priest, named Cooper, committed suicide
at Santa Clara on New Years Eve, by
taking strychnine. 1t is supposed he
was laboring under temporary insanity
at the time.
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15

RecorGy Of Gen. w T. HaskeH.-
The Louisville Courier announces the
complete restoration to health and SANITY
of the distinguished Tennessee orator.
Gen. w. I. Haskell, who for some time
past has been an inmate Of tlhe. Lexine-
ton Lunatic Asylum. This announce.
ment will be received with pleasure by
the numerous friends and admirers Of
the gallcnt Haskell, in California.
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15

y Jas. Haworth, Esq, has again
been elected President of the California
Stage Company. There is probably no
other man in California better adapted
to the proper discharge of the duties of
that position than the gentleman named.
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15
Charles H. Balm.
q. p. DAVIS,
Gunsmith,

Having survived the fire, the subscriber has again eS-
tablished himself on SPRING STREET, in the rear
of the United States Hotel where he will prosecute his
business for the present i'll the Gunsmith line
Rifles and Shot Guns kept constantly on hand for sale
Pistols. Powder, Shot, Lead, Balls, Caps, Waddng,
Flasks Powder Horns, &c. &c
and Pistols repaired and put in order at the short
est notice Having superior Lathe, he can manutac-
ture any part of machinery which may be desired
New Rifles made to order. o24tf
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15
SlacriH''S Sale.

DY virtue of :wo Executions directed, and is
ID sued of the District Court of the l4th Judicial
District. two judgments rendered in said Court,
the 3d day of December A. D. 1851 in favor of John
Murphy and William Mccoy and against T. Cochran, j.
Winters, Michael Ruth and $ v Bovce for the sum of
three hundred and fytwo dollars debt with interest
said sum of 1852 from the 2d day of December 1857
the rate eff ten per cent per till paid together with
costs of suit taxed at seventy nine 10 100 dollars and
the 22d day of December A. u. 1851 in favor of n
Mclean and NJ Johbison and against T. ochran, John
Winters. Michael Ruth and s Boyce for the sum of
eight hundred and twenty 54l00 dollas debt, with
interest said of zS2f n at the of ten per
cent per till paid together with of suit taxed
at fftyone $1,000 dollars have levied upon and seiz
ed the following described property which hereto
fore attached the Sh day of Dec 1851 at O'Clock 4S
minutes All the right title and interest ofthe said deen
dants in and to certain lot of mining ground situated in
Eureka Township, at Orleans Flat. and known the
Wech Cos claims also the tunnels aud ground suices
belonging to the said companies taken the property of
the above named defendants
Notice is hereby given that THURSDAY the 4th day
of January, 1853 between the hours of 10 O'Clock, A.
NJ and O'Clock, ?. NJ in front of the Court House door
in the city of Nevada will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, in hand the above described
property to satisfy and pay the aforesaid judgments
Given under my hand office in the city of New ada
this 2ith day of December, 1857.
S w BORING Sheriff
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15

When we see young men spending all
they can make, as fast as they car
make it, and when we consider the in
portance of a little cash capital to then
future prosperity, we are amazed
that their own common sense does not
urge with sufficient importantly, the du.
ty OF trying to save, if it be ever so Ii,
tie, from their present earnings towards
a future capital,
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15
County Surveyors Office.

County Surveyors Office.
COURT HOUSE, NEV VADA.
JoHN L. GAMBLE, ! sc. F. DEETKEN.
County Surveyor. Deputy.
IL persons are hereby cautioned against employing
n other Surveyors than such may be deputized
from this Office.
Extract from Laws of California
CHAR. 20, SEC. 3. No survey survey hereafter
made by anv except the County Surveyor his
deputy hallbe consderedlegal evidence in any Court
within this State JOHN l.. GAMBLE.
Nevada June Goth, 1857.
The Nevada journal., 1858-01-15
For Sale or to Rent at a. Bargain !!

'INHE fine frame two story House known the Monu-
mental Hotel situated the lower end of Main 81
together with all the fixtures and appurtenances neees
ary for keeping first class Hotel. The above Hotel is
sit used in good locality for business Possession Civ
en- Immediately ifrequired For particulars enquire on
th premises.
Nevada, October End, lS57-tf
New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-02
THE LATEST NEWS.
RECEIVED BIZ
MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
From Washington.

WssHISGroS, sday, July lSS.
A coatsc. has beer concluded by Us Pest Office
and Navy Departments With the Pacific Mail Sean.
slip Company for carry rg the mails between Asors
and Panama at $34s $50 per annuu.
Mr. w. II. Dsv:dge has sl'grspted to the Post
Office Depsi tmeut ths. lie hiss mace sn auaogeneot
with tie Tehusntepec Company, urder Tie extension,
to the lst Of October, 1859.
TIE entire Terri9cIy G: New Mexico hes been con-
st:tuted rev lszG al strict WU. Pelaam las bs sn
appointed Surveyor General, and tee lands viii sooR
he broug GIT into ma ket and opet ed to preenptoo.
The Land Office hos information ssoElug the i'm
ense richness CT the soil in precious metals psriieu
laiy the Meslls Valley.
Baron De Net.eTsedt, Minister from Sweden and
Nora ay, has presented bis creoentils.
Joseph 8. Wilson u Acting Commissioner OF the
Land Office, in the absence Of Commissioner Hen
oiicks who has gone TO Indiana.
Lieuteusot- General Scott has left Washington for
his headquarters.
n. Belly has srIlved.
Christopher Graham has been appointed Receiver
OF the Public Moneys at Heniersou, Mianesoss, ana
Joseph Hopkins to similar office at Marysvle, Cai'
icruia.
Dispatches received at the Mexican Legation to-
day are silent upon the subject of the American
Minister demanding and receiv ng his passports. Sdoa
8 report, however, current 81 the Capitol. Our
Government also received sdvces but tter coasents
have lot yet transpred. Civil proceedings are Con-
lnued foreigners who refused to pay coctribu
ticns on their property aud thtse who resisted the
Federal authorities ordered to leave the capital
Several Russisns and Germans, together with Amsri-
cars had sought protection from M.n!ster Forsyth.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-02

disctarss their duties in connection with the Coun-
c;l, sbsl resign. To which request the Board CO
clipes acce6ing.
Tie presen. position Of the combstsnts IN this
qusdrupgul.r warfare, therefore, DOW is this: The
BeaId disniss the Director, VITO will not Be dis
m.setd, and arpource the dismissal TO the Council.
The Council decline TO do their duty By proxy and
ask for documents ard evidence, which the Board
decline to give. Bu. as II is not the whole Board,
but OILY part of it, who are Responsible for this
action, Mrs. Dudley requests this portion, who
cstno. sct Ei,h those gentleman, the cooperation
Of whom IN the management Of tie Observatory
w.s condition precedent to her donation, TO
resign. AID this they decline TO do. The dead
lock viii be complete when we hear from the
Coorcil that they shall rot recede from the position
they have already taken.
Of the causes Of this unfortunate posture OF
affairs We have ssyet snly an e1 pdrh statement.
The speech Of BIZ. Oicott, in which be sets them
forth On behalf Of the Board, is before US; bu.
DR.. Gould's reply or accusation, whichever it may
Prove TO be, has not yet been nade. The sist
the change against him il extravaganza ineficiency
AID inci7ihty. EItraysgance in expenditure in
the construction of the building, e1srsvagsn,e in
ins.rupeDts, and especially perfect loeseLess in
the matter Of clocks. Inefisiency 10 every par
ticuar, and dilatorness especially in the mount
ipg Of Instruments, accounted for BY Mr. Olcott
on tie hypothesis Of q di.creet unwilling
nes," in Dr. Gould "to test his skiu as .
"przctcsl astronomer "-,n innuendo unkind and
urgeDerous If true, but which we venture nothing
in saying viii seem simply ludcrously illnasured
to those who kuow tie tboroughness and briliancy
of Dr. Goulds scientific requirements. AID fnally,
incivlty in "open ard designed affronts" to seve-
raj members Of the Beard, especially through the
conduct Of his yourg subordinates, to defend whom
LIE addressed the Board in letter so full Of "arro
81 gance, in.oleIce and conceit, that that alone
"would be sufficient justification for terminating
"hs relations with the institution Impeach-
ments Of this character, Of course, are not to go
unanswered, and so long as DIR. Gould's associates
of the Council, and the principal pecuDiary bene-
factor Of the Observatory, show 10 loss Of conf
depce IN him, the public may at least be advised to
held their judgment in suspense before condemnng
him.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-02
The Dudley Observatory Case.

ALBANY, Thursday, July |, 1853.
Mrs. Dudley having espoused the cause of DR.. Gould
and written q letter requesting the majority OF the
Trustees Of the Observatory to resign, the Trustees
reply expressing their determination to adhere to their
position and declaring ths in the honorable discharge
Of their duties under tho charter they must nsst
the removal Of DR.. Gould.
Meantime tho Scientific Council have addressed
letters TO the Trustees calling for the charges against
DR.. Gould. To this the Trustees rep'y refusing to
recognize the right Of the Council to usrp any sach
powers or suts onty.
A scientific council, consisting Of Professors Henry,
Bsche and Horace, held session this afternoon, at
which address was adopted, proposing to the Tfus-
tees CT the Observatory frat to take unconditional
ard immediate charge and direction Of the Obssrvs-
tory subject orly to thu Beard Of Trustees, thus
occupying themselves TIE place Of Directors. II
this be not agreed to, they then propose CON-
nittee Of five citizens to settle the controversy
with respect to DR.. Gould. The Trustees reject
al propositions peremptoriy, notIecognizng any right
on the part Of tie Ccunc to interfere with the Office
OF the Trustees OF il sry way coItro thsr action. II
seems probable tina. the whole Coes Survey will
sign their place in the Cour Gil they csnnot substau
ste any claim to interfere with the action Of the Tu
tees who derive their power from the act Of incorpo
ration.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-02

erston fully ecncurfed with Lord John RQssdl that
it Vas impossible to ADMIT the naked principle that
the hOisiiSg Of tee flag OF spy particular county
wtsto be taken ~ an utequivocal proof that tho
vessel belonged to the country whose f'g she
hoisted. That would be to give to pirates license
to Foam the sess with iuparity, and would soon
bring about state Of thir "a disastrous TO every
nation possessing mercantile navy. Aud he further
stated if lis understanding that the :1rtrucsions
of 1914 continued in force without modification IS
to the PRINCIPLES embraced in them, but only With
some additional cautions a. to The carrying them
into effect in case Of American vessels.
Mr. Darasli, Oh behalf Of the Government ex
pressiy stated that hey had in no way CONCEDED
the principle that the Gsg Alone was to protect the
vessel hosting il; but they had, on tie contrary
pointed out the abuses which muft spnDg from any
such concession.
1t would thus seem that according to tee view
taken Of this suhject in the Bndst Parliament,
there is ne practical difference between toe brt-
ish instructions to their cruisers and the doctrines
Insisted upon in Mr.. Csss's letter to Lord Napier.
There is, however, il 10 admitted, serious diff
Gully in the application Of these doctrines TO the
blockade OF Cuba, which does not exist, or Only
in much .liehter degree upon the coast OF Afri,a
The blockade Of the Cuban coast bad been uIder-
taken, according to the Usder-Secrstary for For
eign Affairs, sat the suggestion Of tho American
Government" yet in carrying it out there we're
difficulties which reitter party hsd foreseen. 4
SQUADRON on the cosst Of Cuba wss in
the highway of American commerce. There
were vastly fewer means Of forming reasonable
copjectures es to the actual character of vessels
trsnseDty appearing on that coast than in the case
Of the few vessels scattered along tho coast of Afr
ca, and where the opportunity for observing sus-
picous vessel was much mere Protracted. The
cruisers must each day meet multitude OF Ameri-
can vessels. If they acted ut al, they nust act
with promptitude The extent to which the abuse
ofthe American flag had been carried might be said
to excite certain degree Of suspicion ainst every
vessel that bore it. But this principle, or any
thing approaching to it, could Lot be
acted spon without producing, as it had
done, muoh irritation and loud complaints on the
part of the vessels subjected to it. Under these
circumstances, the Britifh Government, it seems,
bas under consdeI alton the question of abandoning
that blockade Of the Cuban coast, originally under
taken, in part at least, at the suggestion Of our
Government, This, TO doubt, would be decisive
gain to the Shareholders, but Il. Tie same time it
would subject Mr.. Cass to new pressure on the part
ofthe British Government, to agree to some means
of putting sn end to this abuse which be might
find it difficult to parry.