The Nevada Democrat., 1858-04-28
NEWS ITEMS.

Wnlskeyt0Wn, SHASTA county, on tue 1Stn Iust'
He was stabbed eight times with bowie knife,
and q deep cash cut in his skull. Seven or eight
specimens were found in the pockets of bis pam
falcons. An inquest was held and the jury re-
turned a verdict that deceased came to his
death from thirty-six to forty hours previous
to being found, by a blow on the head inflicted
with an axe, and a stab in the chest. An Italian
named Lewes, partner of Feldburg, was sus-
pected of the murder, as he was missing. But
on the evening of the next day, April goth, the
body of Lewes was found in o gulch, about
two hundred yards from the cabin. he was
stabbed several times with knife, and also
had a gun or pistol shot wound in his neck
One of the stabs penetrated the lung and was
mortal. Another stab was put under the eighth
rib, and another under the collar bone. Moth
ing was found on his body, and he had doubt
less been robbed The murders must have been
committed Saturday evening or night There
is no clue to the murderers. seer ss sd S
"A NAN KnLEp.--A very singular and serious
occurrence took place ON Monday night, April
| 18th, at house Oh Farfaxs ranch, three miles
below Marysvilc. From the Marysville papers
we gather the following particulars: man
named Webber and three others, Adam Mains,
Wm Moore, and Thomas Landon have been
employed on the ranch to chop wood. The
last three mentioned conceived q violent dis
like to Webber and threatened to make him
leave Webber, on Monday night, prepared
himself for the worst, by having double bar
relied shot gun ready for action. Sometime
before ten o'clock, the three jumped upon him
and began beating him. He finally got hold
of his gun, which they wrested from him, and
Mains fired off one barrel in the air. The gun
kicked very severely. and Mains concluded TO
break it 10y beating it over stick Of timber.
At the fourth blow, and when the barrel was
much bent, the cap exploded, the gun burst,
and largo piece Of it, together with the charge
of buck-shot, entered his breast, killing him
Instantly.
CARSON vArLEY.-Of this garden spot, a cor
respondent of the S. f. Herald says:
"In view of the establishment of a separate
territorial government over the western part
of Utah. IL large increase of population is ex-
pected here as soon as the passage of the Sierra
Nevada can be safely accomplished nor does
any portion of the Pacific coast offer superior
inducements TO the settler. The lands in all
the numerous valleys on this side Of the noun
| tains are as fertile as the valley of the Sacra-
mento--well watered by innumerable rivulets
and they are unencnmbered with Spanish grants
the curse of California In Carson Valley alone.
| many thousand acres lie idle, Of as good soil as
ever tempted the industry of the husbaudnan.
| Nor is agriculture the only resource of this
country. The little efforts which have been
made to develop its mineral wealth, have been
amply rewarded, and the manufacture OF many
articles out of the native materials, would be
remnnerative, even at the prices sometimes
paid for freight upon them from California"
ADVENTURES OF AN ESCAPED CoNvICT.--In the
summer of 1856, man named Thomas Bowen,
who had been sentenced to the State Prison
from this county, and was serving out his time,
| escaped from the prison sloop Pike County and
shipped as third officer of ship which sailed
Immediately for CallaO. After tending bar
there for some time he shipped again and
reached New York. Thence he passed over to
France, thence to Liverpool, and finally ar
| rived in ireland, where he was married He
landed here again from the Golden Age on the
| 18th inst, aud proceeded to Marysville, where
! he obtained employment in the banking house
of Mark Brumagim Co. A few days ago,
after bis arrival he was recognized by man
named Sullivan, one of the chain gang in that
city, was re-arrestcd. and brought back here
on Saturday evening, ia charge of Sheriff Matt
Woods of Yuba county. and yesterday was con-
signed again to his old residence at San Quen-
tin. Bowen's adventures would serve as the
theme of an exciting yaller kiver novel.-[Alta.
ARREST FOR KIDNArrING.--A man named John
Charles was arrested last week in San Fran
cisco, charged with kidnapping Spanish girl
named Dolores Garcia. aged about l3 years.
He was examined on Tuesday, and officer Rose
testified that he was employed by the mother
OF the girl to look her up. lie went to restau-
rant on Dupont street, where women Of bad
character are supplied with furnished rooms,
and learned that the pair were IN room No. 5.
He knocked at the door, and threatened to
break it open nness admitted, when the girl
opened it, aud he found the prisoner concealed
under the bed The girl herself was then put
on the stand. and she stated that she had gone
voluntarily with John Charles, and that he had
made no improper advances but simply ex-
pressed his fonduess for her. The prisoner was
discharged
EIoPEMENT-T Marysville News states thai
one evening last week, a gentleman in Eureka
Sierra county, took his wife to an exhibition il
that place After the performance was over
he accompanied her to the gate, at bis residence
and bidding her good night. he went to his sa
loon. where his business kept him up till it had
grown so late that, instead Of going home. h'
made one of his sofas answer the purpose Of hi'
wife's couch, where. wrapped in the arms oi
Morpheus. he lay till morning. Shortly after
daylight he repaired to his house to light fire
preparatory to getting breakfast. On going
| into bis kitchen he found to his amazement that
his stove, cooking utensils, and kitchen furni-
ture. of every descripto on had mysteriously dis
appeared. She had taken up with another man
Sich is life!
Rio Bravo GOLD MTXEs.--The Rio Bravo il
about FIVE days travel from Los Angeles, ant
the Clamor Publico thus speaks of its golt
mines: "For some time the gold mines Of th'
RIO Bravo have been much spoken Of; but no
until Tuesday last have we had the pleasure o
seeing pieces Of quartz, incrusted with gold
the product of that quarter. They were brough
by the Mexicans who came to this city to pur
chase provisions We are Informed that new
discoveries are made every day. At one claim
owned by some Americans, thirty dollars to th
hand had been gathered daily, but 10 other
only from three to four dollars to the hand"
EATRAoRDINARY YIELD FROM QUARTZ. Las
I week, Gays the Sonora Herald, twenty tons 0
quartz from the Soulsby claim were crushed il
the mill belonging to the company, situate
, eight miles east of here-seventy hours bein
| occupied in the crushing and the yield wa
twenty-six pounds of gold or little over fv