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Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-08-14
SIleriH'S Sale.


DY virtue Of an execution issued out Of tho Clerk :
ID office Of the Hon. District Court of the 9Th Judi.
cial District in and for Sacramento County, on judg
mcnt rendered. the 9Th day Of July, 4. D. 1879, IN
favor Of JOHN DrGGlN and against the EAGLE
COMPANY, for the sum Of Fifteen Hundred and Fifty
Three Dollars with interest thereon at the Of
per cent per month from the 9th day II July A. D.
lH, together with the Of Fifty Four sj-lO0 Dol
lars costs Of suit, and accruing COSTS have levied up
and will CxpOsc to public sale, ut the Court IousOin
the City Of Pacervile,
On the 23d Day of August, A. D. 1858.
At ten O'Clock 4. NJ all the right, title interest and
claim Of the said Eagle Company, Of in and to the fol-
lowing described property, lying and being Mountain
Township, County Of Fl Dorado, and State Of Califor
mia, to wit: certain Quartz Mill known the SEA
gle Quartz M situated mile west Of the village
Of Grizzly Flat 'Strng Cannon - also, all the i'm
prOvcmentS and machinery belonging to said mill also,
the Quarts Lode known the "Eaglr COmpanys Quartz
Lode, with all the rights and privileges belonging
the same.
SheriG's Office, Placcrvillc, July 3lst, A. D. 1858.
T.. BOGARDUS,
Sheriff Of ii Dorado County, Cal,
ttS) by W. }. BrRwELL, Under Sheriff.
Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-08-14
PAY UP! PAY UP! PAY up!

TNIOsE INDEBTRD to me will confer favor on me by
who have been in for months pnst l would
say, PAY UT IMMEDIATELY, and save unnecessary OF.
penses. D. NEWBAUER
June 18th, 1858.
Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-08-14
Window Glass /!

or ALL SIZES, for sale CHEAP, by the packasc, a
~ ApOTIIECARYN HALL,
Diamond Springs.
Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-08-14

SlLK HATE, Of the latest styles for sale rs
10 MARX LEvISoN.
Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-08-14
Sewing Machines,

Superintendent by experienced Ladies', where all kinds oil
Sewing Dress Making and Millinery will he done, Ladies
hours notice.
Placervlle, April list, 1s55.
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In
Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-08-14

Again All Orders by Stage,
TNOR DRUGS, Pants, Oils, Seeds etc, addressed to
l. q. u. MORRILL,, or ArOTIIECARY'S HALL, Dia.
mon'I Springs, will be attended to usua-promptly
and faithfully.
diamond SPRINGS, Jannary 12th, 1858.
Freeman's champion., 1858-02-25
AKanzas Portrait Painter.

"H.," the Kanzas correspondent
of the st, Louis Democrat, has lat ely
given the following description OF
Of those Rulfian notabilities, Oal-
houn, Mclean aud Cato. The pictures
are accurately portrayed. We can
testify to this fact, from personal
knowledge -
Kanzas politics and troubles have
kept the nation in state Of turmoil
for years. At present there appears
to be no solution Of the problem, but
the difficulties seem to be complicated
--the wicked pertinacity with which
this and the former administration
have endeavored to force obnoxious
institutions on free people, calls
forth our sympathics, and arouses
our Indignation. The leading idea Of
the government to make Kanzas a
democratic slave state, having been
so signally rebukod in the failure Of
the policy Of the several incumbonts
Of the gubernatorial Office, ought to
bo q warning to desist from this dis
astrous policy. But "whom the gods
wish to destroy, they first make mad"
and now we find the President Of the
United States in the teeth Of his own
explicit declaration on assuming Of
fee, and with that insincerity which
has characterized all his public acts,
exerting oil the Influence and power
of his high office to yubvert the great
and fundamental principle which has
upheld our government. The opin.
ions and dicta Of q few reckless and
unprincipled men are made to out
weigh the potent voice Of the ballot
box, and did we not see in their ne
larious policy the utter disruption and
dissolution Of the party, there would
be serious cause for every treemen to
mourn. A few desperate and wicked
men upheld by the government, have
brought things to this deplorable is
sue, not one possessing any quality OF
the statesman; but by low cunning
and unprincipled management arriving
at their unholy ends. Calhoun is
generally recognized as the head Of
this clique ho il well knownhy name
now Throughout the Union for his
daring etfrontery and holiness at
home he is the terror Of his own po-
litical partisans (for ho allows no 'di-
vided empire) and the abhoroncc Of
Freeman's champion., 1858-02-25
Terms---$2 Per Annum.
right. W

right. % oi og snsmH lnt.p9l o1i
| could not have believed it possi-
ble that SO many human beings could
be slowed in such space. When 1
visited them, they of course were not
in irons, nor confined in their origi.
nal positions for the deck was alive
with them. | cannot find language
in which to paint the filth and dis
gusting stencil Of this prison-bouse
of miserable, wretched sufferers
The naked bodies, filth of person,
emaciated limbs, to almost skeletons,
wan and pitiable faces upturned,
arms, legs, or persons still sore from
the slaVe-stealers fiery marking brand,
all presented a scene most sickening.
| thought wasit possible that man
could steel his heart 30 fercely, and
quench out his soul so utterly as to
look on such a scene, with the dead
and dying piling around him, and yet
gloat over his gains as he pressed
over the waters beneath Gods pure
sky and witnessing stars, on an err
randSo diabolical =? Yet it is even so.
Soon after the poor wretcheS were
landed, clothing, blankets, &C., were
furnished them, and as cold water or
bread was given them, they mutely
claSped their hands in gratitude be-
fore they drank. We learn that about
fifteen or twenty slavers have recent
ly been captured on the South coast,
some with their living freight, but
most just prepared to receive them,
and some with a large amount of spe-
Gle on board. 1t is thought by Off
GERS Of the men-of-war, that check
has been given the traffic by the Sc
we're losses lately met with--bu. | fear
not. Such losses only make more
grasping the avarce that takes the
very life blood. The American squad
ron on the Coast is too small for ef-
fective action, and they should be
steamers, for all the work has been
done under the American flag, to its
disgrace; but learn that the present
Commodore on the station has fresh
instructions, giving greater encour-
agement AMI less restrictions than
formerly, and consequently the Cum
berland and Dale are now on the South
Coast, actively employed" .,
Freeman's champion., 1858-02-25
On motion, adjourned, subject to
the call of the proper officers.
p. @. SCHUYLER Chn.

p. @. SCHUYLER Ch'n.
WV, HgTcHlSsoN' .secre,oy;e,
d. H. WEIR, "'" ''"'"''
TO every Free State man, this
Union will be source Of qualification,
as it gives sure indication of united
action and a harmonious result. Itis
urgently requested that the same
liberal spirit which has characterized
the several committees will prevail
with the people, and that laying aside
all personal considerations, they unite
as one man in securing great moral
and political triumph for the Free
State cause. tits expected that every
man will do his whole duty; that to
make the work successful, as large
vote as possible will be polled for
delegates, and that care be taken in
the selection of those delegates, that
they faithfully reflect the popular will.
10 this end, let county, township and
precinct organizations be made by
the people with the least possible de-
lay. Where those organizations have
been thus perfected, they are expect
ed to lose no time in presenting the
issues in their true character to their
constituents,
The act calling for the Convention
will be published in the papers of the
Territory, and generally circulated
in circular form, copy of which you
are expected to secure and study with
care, and see that elections are held
in strict conformity with law.
BY the organic act, members Of the
late Territorial Legislature are believ-
ed by legal gentlemen to be prohibited
from holding any Offices under the
Convention law. To prevent vacan-
cies on this account, or the introduc-
tion Of question in regard to it,
other reliable Free State men should
be sele cted as delegates. a.
One copy of the returns from the
various precincts should be directed
to MesSrs. Babcock d Deitzler, at
Lawrence, who are authorized by law
to receive them--the other to Hon.
j. w. Denver, at Lecompton,
Again we urge our friends to asuni-
ted effort, and trust that the result will
be such as to reflect credit upon the
individual actors in the movement,
as we'll as to advance the cause of
Freedom in KsnzaS, and the princi-
pies of civil liberty throughout the
world. G, w. SMITH, l
w. F. M. Army,
WM, HUTCHINSON, .o
G. w. BnowN, ia
s, N. Woop.
Freeman's champion., 1858-02-25
The Slave Trade Horrible Details

A correspondent Of the New York
Journal Of Commerce, writing from
St. Helena, records tho arrival at that
port of prize schooner, captured
while engaged in the Slave trado.--
The writer visited the schooner and
furnishes the following in relation
thereto. He says: s'tR1, i.
"Ifound a small schooner whose
deck and hold swarmed with the poor
creatures 40 thick as they could sit,
most Of them young mcn---yory many
boys, and about eighty girls and
young women. They had been slowed
in sitting posturcs in tho hold, and
then over their heads slave deck
laid, whereupon were crowded the
women and hoys, in 0 space barely
high enough TO admit Of citing up.
Freeman's champion., 1858-02-25
Facts for Emigrants to Kanzas.

l.. Kanzas has an area of one hun
dred and fourteen thousand, seven
hundred and ninety eight square
miles. .--...l.
2. II is fourteen times as large as
Massachusetts. '
3, 1t is as large as Maine, YER
mont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachu-
setts, Maryland and South Carolina
combined.
/ A. The land at tpresent open to pre-
emption is large enough to accommo-
date seventy-hve thousand families,
or half a million of individuals, ex-
elusive of the population of cities,
towns and villages.
Z g. When Kanzas is as densely
populated as England, it will contain
a population of thilty.eight million,
one hundred and twelve thousand,
nine hundred and thirty-six souls.
6. Kanzas is the garden Of the
United States. l''on W h'0 'h'
T., It's climate is genial and healthy,
and its soil is ofunsurpasSed fertility. .
8, 1t has wood enough for all prac-
ticable purposes.
8, Coal banks have been disoov-
cred in several districts of this Ter.'
ritory. 80 lo a.p!J. aowN1itaH
10. It is interected in every di' d
rection by running streams pure
water is found at moderate depth,
in every district Of the Territory. '''u.
IL. Every male adult or widow is
entitled, under the laws of Congress,
to pre-empt ono hundred and sixty
acres and they are not required to
pay for it until the day ofpublic land
sale. gov u'H 'nP 'eIF' INou ti
IL. Those men---Free State men
who cannot raise 5000 when their
land falls due, will find no difficulty
in borrowing it, or in mortgaging
their farm.
/ 10. There are at present, at the
lowest calculation, six Free State
men in Kangas as for every friend Of
the domestic iaiquity of tho South
ern States. 1
IA. For the services Of respectable
young women as teachers, domestic
helps and seamstressos, there is a
great demand in every new country.
and especially so in Kanzas. s,fr
Is. Prairie City is tho best point
in central Kanzas for persons Of linn
tied means to locate ia. Tho proprie.
tors ofthe town offer moro liberal In
ducoments to settlers than any ether
town in tho Territoty. ai ,gos i.o
10. The advertisement OF tho Prai-
rie City Ass ociation, on tho fourth
page Of this paper, will give people
In tho East o correct idea Of tho cons
dition Of the country, no., in thu VIZ
cinity Of Prairie City. ~
Freeman's champion., 1858-02-25

Ry- The new phrase Of the Demo-
cracy now is /" The factious MAORI
ty," and that deserves to be put down.
There is an impudent coolneSs in
this which Baraum might have re-
joiced over in his palmiest days. s,
Freeman's champion., 1858-02-25

BENTON ON DouaLAs.-Thc follow
ing good one is told Of "0ld Bull
lion."g Speaking of the Douglas de-
fection, he Temarked a"We hear
much said about the people that
Douglas will take off. He has not
iaken of the people---the people have
'akeaoG Douglas, SIR" ~ 9'o'
Freeman's champion., 1858-02-25

RT- Judge lILaonn, Of 1'ecumseh,
Is in Washington, and is welding
his influence against the passage
through Congress Of the Locompton
swindle. a8eiiigQad9d Mgniar7lei 4
Freeman's champion., 1858-02-25

ScARcR-- Honest politicians - @,
w. Bro,cn. ~ Ioe' VIZ F1lRfyNp,8V
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-11-24
a FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT OF THE
AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST
TABLE.

This gentleman warn't no great of q
gentleman to look at Being OF very
moderate dinensioG--fve foot FIVE he
said, but five foot four more likely, and
I've heard him say he didn't weigh
much over hundred and twenty pound.
He was light Completed rather than
darksome, and was one of them smooth.
flced people that keep their baird and
whiskers cut close, JUS as if they'd be
very troublesome it they let 'em grow
instead Of layin' out their face in grass
as nv poor husband that's dead and
gone used to say. He WIS well be.
haved gentleman at table. only talked a
good deal, and pretty loud sometimes,
and had a wav Of turnin' up his nose
when re didn't like what folks said, that
one Of my boarders. whO is very smart
young man, said he couldn't stand. no
how, and used to make faces and poke
fun ut him whenever he see him do it.
He never 5 ii word aginst any Wit
ties that was set before him. bu | mi,.
trusted that he Was more pariickelar in
his eaiin' Than lc wanted folks TO know
of, for I've know'd him make believe 10
eat, and leave The viLlles on his plate
when he didn't seem to fancy en-; but
he was very careful not to hurt my feel
ms, and | don't believe he'd have spoke
ii he hid found tadpole ia a dish Of
chowGer. But nothi,' could hurry him
when he WAS about his Whites. Many S
the time I've seen that gentleman keep
in' two or three OF 'em seliiu' round the
breakfast table after the rest had swal-
Iered their meal. and the things was
cleared off. an Bridget was a waitin' to
get the cloth away-and there that lit.
tie man would set, with lumbler Of su-
gar and water-what he used 10 call o
SukSay-a talkin' and a talkin'--and
sometimes he would laugh. and some
times the tears would come into his eyes
which was kind OF grayish blue eyes
and there he'd set and set, and my
boy Benjamin Franklin hangin' round
geliin' late for school aud wantin' an tx
cuse. and an old gentleman that's one oI
my boarders IA lrsieniu' as il he wan
no older than my Bsnj 'min Franklin
and that SC oolmistress srllin' Jest as i
she'd been bewilched, and you NIGH
stick pins into her without her hOllerin' 4.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-11-24

in, nor bets upon The games permitted in
the rooms occupied.
We admit tia, chess playing may be
abused. What good is there in The
world that may no, be? Seeling aside
lis utility as a mental and moral insiruc
tor, we place it and the associations
which cling around it, in comparison with
any and other pastimes and diversions-
the theaier and billiards, which take The
youth from home into places of various
tendencies, or novel reading, cards. par
ties, and the like; We place it with mu-
sic, which adds to the joys of home, that
haven Of rest known only TO the Saxons,
but whose value is little thought of, and
which thousand circumstances are un-
derminning and threatening 10 exlingush.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-11-24
A Female Forger.

The most extensive forgery Of modern
times has lately been perpetrated by u
woman upon the Turkish Government.
The condensed statement gathered from
proceedings instituted against Mr.. llar-
rison, a job printer in New York, as
found in the Tribune, are these: Mrs.
Sevasti, Moldavian, lately arrived in
Constantinople from England. AS she
was about to leave Constaniinople for
some other field of operation, suspicion
was so much excited al the great size OF
her trunks and the unreasonable breadth
of her hoops, that examination was insii-
tuted, resulting in the finding of an i'm
mense amount of spurious Turkish paper
money, in what we would call bills, and
known as ''caines" in her language, and
also sewed up in her skirts. On being
arrested, she confessed to having put in
circulation $40, 900 worth of the money
in C1n>taniinople. She gave The name
Of the printer who did the job for her in
New York, and stated that the plates
were were still there. Ol affidavit be-
ing made, the printer, Mr.. Harrison. was
arrested, but he was perfectly astonish
ed at The chsrgr, having no idea that the
printing he did for the woman had any
crininla design. Mr.. U.'s statement is
that the womsn came in July last and got
him to print 600 O09 labels from a copy
she produced Of what he supposed was a
tinted label in Arabic characters; iha.
she was very particular about The paper
and he got some made for that par ocular
Job, and wien cDmp'etcd The sheets were
packed in trunks aud carted 10 the A stor
House. So little did the printer dream
that he was printing counterfeit money
that the job was done as openly as any
other work, and that from that time proof
and refuse sheets OF the money have been
constantly lying around the office and
used as waste paper by the boys
Cleveland Herald.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-11-24
Mistfllaneous.
The Game of Chess.

The unprecedented feats of Morphy in
chess tournaments. says the Cleveland
Herald, have raised the enthusiam Of the
noble game to fever heat, and have add
ed new yotaries by The score. Chess
clubs, the coming winter, bid fair to over
shadow all other amusemenis, and wives
and sweet hearts must expect TO see their
charms eclipsed by the counter charms
OF the chess-board. What devotion 10
that game has once done, it may again
do, end history teaches that Ferrand,
Court of Flanders, had 50 often been
beaten at chess by mis- wife that hate
usurped the place of love, in retaliation
fer which, the wife, on occasion of the
Counl's imprisonment, reirsined from
procuring his release, although she had
the power 10 secure his pardon. Ii is
also said that two Persians played at
chess until one was stripped of his valu-
auicss "ucu Tie StakeQ one OF M> wives,
and would have lost her had she moi, from
a window whence watching the game,
cried out TO him. at the turning move, 10
sacrifice his casile and save his wife.
Chess Notwithstanding the encomiums
lavished upon it, is open to very serious
objections. While its votaries claim
that the game iiseiplines the mimi and
strengthens the judgement, we assert,
that with the mass of ordinary players,
il begeis indecision and doubt. The
study and hesitancy exhibited over a
move proves this, for often The patience
of iysianders 10 exhausted; " hile play
er is revolving 10 his mind the policy of
q move, spectators drop 10 sleep. And
chess is emPhaiically The lazy mans
game. In every country village the
chess players of that village, when not
playing; are found loafng upon the
sheltered side of the hotel. Slow men
make good chess players, while men Of
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-11-24
WE TOO HAVE OUR AUTUMN
NJ ,,xrs RUSSELL LOWELL.

IT JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
We. too, have Autumns when ou- leaves
Drop loosely through the dampened air,
When all our good seems bound in shesyes,
And we stand reapei and bare.
Our seasons have no hxed returns,
Without our will they com. and 60;
At nooa our sudden summer burns,
Ere sunset all is snow.
But each day brings less summer cheer,
crimps more our intellectual spring,
And something earlier every year
Our singing birds take wing.
As less the golden glow abides,
And less the chiIiier heart aspires,
With drift-wood beaehed in past spring-tides
We light our suIlen fires
BY the pinched rushIight's starving bean
We cover and strain our wasted sight,
To stitch youths shroud up, seam by seam,
In the long Arctic night.
h vas not so-xe once we're young
when spring to wouanly sammer turning,
Her dewdrops on each grass-blsde strung,
In the sunrise burning.
We trusted then, aspired. believed
That earth could be re-raade tomorrow:
Al. why be ever undeeeived7
Why give up faith for sorrow7
On. thou whose days are yet all spring,
Trust, blighted once. is past retrieving;
Experience is dumb, dead thing
The vietory's in believing.
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THE HUMAN HAND.


Man is, We suppose, the feeblest ami
nal on earth in proportion 10 his size, yet !
easily walks as sovereign, chains the be- !
hemeth TO his march, tows the leviathan
by his warp, makes the everlasting hills (
bow before him, lays his mandate and
his chain on the giant forces of univer-
sal nature. And it is chiefly by means
of the and.-by the elevation, expan-
sion. and more complex organization of
the very digits, which we trace in less
perfect development in the interior limbs
of every auadruped. The hand, $50
slender and flexible that it might seem
fitted neither for doing nor enduring, but
whose closely knit webwork of nerves
and sinews concentrates the entire
strength of the body, and wields great
er force compared with its magnitude
than is found in the whole world
beside,-combining all mechanical pow
ers in one. the fingers jointed levers. The
sinews pulleys, the wrist joint perpet.
ual screw, without whose ball and socket
movement no screw Of steel could fnd
It's way into its bed, lone moment lifting
heavy weights or striking ponderous
blows and the next subssrving the most
delicate uses, disseclins the microscopic
proportions of flower cup or an insects
wing. marking with the graver air lines
subtitle as sunbeams, copying the vanish
ing hues of clouds and rose-buds and the
human countenance, cmbodying thought
IN forms so ethereal that they might
seem traced by the breath of viewless
. spirits,-this is the machine which rem
ders all other machines possible, this is
the prehensile and shaping agency by
which Nature is put to the torture for
her secrets and to the test for her resour-
ces, this the means and pledge of mans
viceroyally upon the earth. There is no
mechanical operation, whether of ruder
handlcralt or of the highest art. the ca
pacity of which is not inhe rent from the
hand, the direction of which is not one of
the complex movements of which the
+ hand is susceptible, the efficacy Of which
does not depend in the last resort on the
guidance or restraint of the hand. Thus
when we make water or steam take the
place nominally Of the hand, il really
supplies not manual skill, but simply a
substitute for muscular power. With
the living hand We construct the engine
or machine, We copy in it some portion
OF the divinely shaped pair, or rather, as
they are by division and combination,
the countless multitude of instruments
comprehended within our two wrist-ionts
and palms and our ten digits; and then
With our own hands We start, accelerate,
or check the working of these artificial
hands.-barely supplying 10 these last
from the impetus Of falling water or ex-
panding steam the force which accrues
TO human muscles from the economy of
the vital organism.