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The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

RAIL RoAD.-Mr, Alliot, Civil En-
gineer from Auburn, is, in town with
the view of making a preliminary
survey for railroad from Auburn to
this place. He reports the route To-
Gated from Folsom to Auburn an easy.
practicable ore, and that the compa-
ny formed to construct the same are
willing to continue it to this place if
the route is feasible. If our citizens
will take the matter in hand we can
easily convince the most skeptical
that the route is good one. We are
assured that the preliminary survey
can be made in about two weeks, and
at a small expense.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

LAST OF OLD BRowN.-NA COS
sawattamie" Brown expiated his sem
tcnce ON the gallows at Charleston,
Va, onthe Cd inst. His conduct du-
ring. his last hours was characteristic
Of the man, and expected. Firmly
and more calmly than perhaps any of
he vast crowd in attendance, he
walked to his last account. He died
as most enthusiasts die, brayeIy.
We cannot help thinking that much
as John Brown deserved death in the
eyes of the law of Virginia, it would
have been a stroke of policy for that
State, had the old man been permit
ted to end his few remaining days in
prison instead of an ignominious dea tn
on the scafold. His death can do no
good in any sense. twill rejoice the
handful of fanatics, for the opportu-
nifty it affords for capital, and be a
source of regret to the conservative
men of the North, because Of the oil
it pours upon flames in their midst they
have long labored to subdue.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30
THE CUURTS.

DIsrRIcT CouRr, Taturday, Dec. 2ith-+Niles
Searls, Judge.
VIM. C. Ault vs. VIM. Gassaway; motion fol
new trial over-ruled.
Edward Huston vs.. Osmer Darst ct. al; judg-
ment for defendant.
Eureka Lake Co. & George P. Rotchford VS.,
Eugene Lemorie 4 G. Romeo; Verdict for plain
tifs. ~.
Empire Mining Co. VS.. J ohm Judd, ct. al; mo-
ton to re-tax overruled.
Joseph Clark VS.. Duvall, ct. al order to file
amended answer.
osmer Darst VS.. Johu. Bush, ct. al; motion for
new trial submitted. :
Patrick Glennan VS.. The. Tennessee Co.; or
dered that Shawmut Mil Co. be allowed to in
tervene, also 1. W. Wood and J. F. Drake.
Patrick Glennan VS.. Dennis Hennessey, ct.
al, ordered that Shawmut Mill Co. be allowed
to intervene. -.s-...
P. R. Warlick VS.. ]. II, S. Warlick; verdict
for plaintiff, decree of divorce granted.
Court adjourned till Tuesday; Jan'y' Sd, A.
D. 1860. 4sz. J. -.
COUNTY CouRr, Friday, Dec. S3.-Hon. David
Belden, Judge.
Henicken & Bro.vs. Jas. McCambridge;$ dis
missed. .e HHl' go
Court adjourned for the term. : +,
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

DEATH OF WASHINGTON IRVING
The favorite writer Of America is
dead. Washington Irving expired at
his residence at Irvington,. on the
Hudson, Nov. 2Sth, in the nth year
of his age
AS a writer, No American has gone
down to the grave with wider fame
His quaint, mellow style is univer-
sally appreciated wherever the Eng
,Esh language is read There is a
glow of genial, good humored fancy
throughout his writings which warns
up the affections for every object
around. He forces us to look ON the
bright side of human life. He sur
veyed the world with the eyes at once
of a poet and philosopher, and paint
ed it in sunshine. A better heart
never beat in the bosom of man.
Washington Irving will forever re-
main a brilliant star in the armament
of letters. The writings of Died.
rich Knickerbocker," Sketch Book,
Bracebridge Hall. Columbus and his
Discoveries, Conquest of Granada
Mahomet and his Success ors, and Life
of Washington, will live till the last
syllable of recorded time.
Irving once held the important po-
sition of Minister to Spain, but had an
aversion for Office or, indeed, for any
occupation requiring continuous at
tention. He wrote and acted from
the impulse of the moment.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30
NEVADA JOURNAL
FRIDAY MORNING, Dec. 30, 1859

THB NEW YEAR.--The year of our
Lord one thousand eight Hundred and
fifty-nine is passing away forever
The last sands ia its dial are almost
un. As we watch the last grains
passing irredeemably away, and see
she vacuity left, we can not but be
Ieminded of the fulncss Of our hopes
atwelvemonth ago and the enptyness
of them now On the morning of the
year whose evening is about to close.
how bright were our visions and how
illusory have they proved to most of
US Pew, indeed, are our realiza,
tions to the prizes hope places xithin
our grasp. Thus is it ever. Yet With
how much dissatisfaction soever we
may retrospect the past, the bright
crown we would win still gIstens and
resedcs in the future and bids us not
despair. We chase the phantom over
the boundaries of years and decades
and leave it for the pursuit of millions
yet to be.
Unsuitable as are our desires and
tr;Aing as may appear all that we ac-
complish as we glance backward upon
It; vain and mocking as the world
may seem to be, we find but few wko
are quite willing to exchange it for
another, from whieh fact it is fair to
conclude it is not so bad a world after
all. We are not sure, even the most
sanguine, that to shuttle off this NOR
tai coil would be gain, and therefore,
endeavor 10 WOO sweet contentment
to make ear lot more tolerable, and
console ourselves with the reflection
if not all our hopes are realized, we
are growing wiser If not better as life
wears away. That
The souls dark cottage battered and decayed
lets in new light through chinks which time has
made.
1t is we'll to begin the new year with
good resolutions, even if the weak
ness of the flesh will cause us to fall
far short of the object aimed at. An
arrow aimed at the sun will 60 higher
and farther :han when discharged at
the horizon. Let us begin the new
wear, then, with TO less firm resolves
than before. BY trying, something
may be d,ne valuable to ourselves
aua to mankind. Bright hopes and
firm purposes are necessary to the
achievement of ordinary purposes as
well as great deeds. Let the future
then be unclouded, and our hearts
stout; let our objects be worthy, and
go ahead"
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

CALIFORNIA Tobacco. "A Mr..
Classen of Los Angeles, says the
Southern Vineyard, has succeeded in
producing an excellent article cf CT
gars from tobacco of his own raising
BY an examination of tobacco lands
in Cuba, he has made a selection of
kinds which will suit the soil of Los
Angeles. Yhe Vineyard is sanguine
that the home cigars made from Cal
ifornia tobacco will soon drive all
others from the market, as the soil
andrelimate of the lower part of the
State are supposed to be inferior in
no respect to Cuba for the production
of the best varieties of tobacco.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

Tie Anahei,n Viaeyards.-A few
days since we made a short visit to
the vineyards of Anaheim, which are
worthy of more extended notice
than our space will suffer us to give
at present. The enclosure contains
1855 acres. Forty acres, subdivi-
ded into GA lots. one for each propri-
etor and IA for school and other pub
lie buildings, squares, &c. Roads,
alleys, &c, occupy 25 acres. The
balance of the tract is divided into
fifty, 20 acre, vineyard lots. of which
5000 vines (eight acres) were planted
in 1858.
The expenses up to Sept. 13-two
years-have amounted to 100000.
Cost of the land S2,33O. For field
laborers wages $4,000; grave cut
tipgs $780,; job work a., ,I56; tran
portatisn LBS; provisions Sl45OO;-
stable, hosiery &c.. S2l9; smiths
shop 1850; kitchen $50; horses L.
200; fence poles S3,353; carpenters
shop S205; lumber and buildings
$4,000; agricultural tools $4,000;
blankets, furniture, forage, arms, fuel,
legal services, medicines, stationery
&C., $5,459.
There has been 22,7S0 days labor
in the field, at a cost of SIS to $35
per month. RS
The vineyards have been valued
at their present relative worth, and a
division made. From the 18th of
December each proprietor will as
snme the control of his own vineyard.
-iSoathern Yineyard.x
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

THE Shasta Courier predicts that a
Yankee preacher, whom it names, will
abscond with somebody's wife in less
than a year. and. charges the world
to remember the prediction. The
preacher has been expressing sympa-
thy with Old Brown.
The prediction of the Courier is
based on the natural tendencies of
psalm singers to initiate the psalmist in
his dealings with Uriah. We go still
farther and prophesy that the said
minister, after giving US a practical
demonstration of popular sovereignty
will become prominent Administra-
ton man soon after. We hazard moth
ing in the prediction sinceIthe princi-
pal North Star men are known to be
leaders in that same party.
While our hand is in we will try a
tilt with the Courier In the art pro-
phetic. We prophesy that one-eighth
Of all the nigger babies born South in
the year 1860 will be Of the color of
a new saddle or "chaw of toback-
er," and we will do southern preach
ers the justice to say they will not be
entirely responsible for the astonish-
ing phenomena. 4
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

Col. Fremont. The Under Sher-
if of Mariposa county recently put
Col. Fremont in possession of all the
Claims in Bear Valley which have
hitherto been held and occupied by
the Merced Mining Company. Col.
Fremont kindly and voluntarily
agreed to pay the company $1,000 for
improvements, which was magnani-
nous, certainly, as he was not oblig-
ed to pay a farthing.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

The FAT WoMAN.-The San An
dreas Independent says of the fat wo-
man on exhibition at San Francisco !:
Her arms are massive as the crank
of an ocean steamer, sticking out from
body huge and squat as Dutch
hay-stack, supported by two immense
pegs, resembling a couple Of Western
Reserve churns.
Pure ina agination, that last remark.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

Irrigation.-The Alameda Gazette
says that an enterprise is in the way
of completion on the Estudillo ranch
in that county, having for its object
tie irrigation of the ranch during the
dry season. The San Leandro creek
is to be damned and tunnel cut
through hill six hundred feet in
length through which the water will
be conducted.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

The total amnunt Of gold shipped
from California for the year 1859 is
$41,226.994. Of course that which
passed out of the country in private
hands is not reckoned,
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

WINE PRoDuCT OF 1S59.-The Los
Angeles Vineyard gives the quantity
Of wine manufactured in that County
the present year at 292, 900 gallons
$4,000 pounds of grapes were ship
ped to San Francisco. The value of
the whole, exclusive Of brandy, pum~
ice, ETC., is estimated at S1S7, no
There are thousands of vines in the
county not yet in bearing, and the
crop this year, owing to well known
causes, was less per vine than since
1882.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

WALKING ON AlR.-The Hydraulic
Press announces an unsuccessful .ex-
pertinent made by Mr.. Joseph Kutz,
of walking on air, few days since at
North San Juan. He walked off a
bank and fell by the force of gravita-
ton a distance of one hundred feet.
Kutz received no dangerous, cuts.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

Mr.. Carlyle is reported to be still
busy on his Life of Frederic the Great.
Volumes 3 and 4 will be published
about May next. The continuation
of Lord Macaulay's History,carnot be
looked for with any certainty at pres
ent, though it is said he has,two addi-
tional volumes ready for the press.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

MORE than one hundred and forty
hives of bees were sold in San Fran
cisco last Saturday at an average
price of $40 per hive.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

Gov. SEWARD was presented in
Alexandria with three superb Ara
bian horses, which will be shipped to
this country. Two of them will be
presented to the New York State Ag-
ricultural Society.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

No FUsIoN.-The New York Her.
aid says that the Republican and
Anti-Lecompton members of the
House of Representatives will not
fuse on the officers. 1t is reported
that the Democrats have made over
lures to the South Americans.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

Hon. Fred Z. Stanton, Secret ary
of the Territory of Kansas during
Walkers Administration has abjured
all connection with the Democratic
party and announces his determine
tion hereafter to act with the Repub-
licans.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30
Notice to Creditors.

Estate of A. T. Jones, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given by the undersigned Ad.
~ mnstrator, of the above named Estate to the
Geditors of and all persons having Claims against
said deceased to exhibit the same with the
ry vouchers within ten months from the first publ.
cation oil this notice to the undersigned the Office
of Casweli& Anderson, corner of Pine and Com :
merciai Streets Nevada, they will be forever bar
red II TUONpSON
Nevada, Dec. J9,-4w Administrator
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

A severe shock of an earthquake
was felt in the Sandwich Islands on
he goth of November. The Hona-
lulu Adrertiser says shocks on that
Island are of rare occurrence.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30
Halls Sarsaparilla Yellow Dock
and IOdide of POtaSS

Is prepared from the fnestr of Jamaica Sarsaparls
and English Iodlde of POtass-admirable as re sto.
ratve and purifier of the Hood it cleanses the rvs.
tenn of all morbid and impur matter-removes pim-
pies boils and eruptions from the Skin cures
rheumatism and pains of all kIlds-All who can af.
ford should it, it tends to give them strength
and proIopg life Sold by Druggists generally at
u 90 per bottle. R.HALL e. co. Proprietor
Wholesale Druggists, l43 &, 145 Clay San Fran
cisco Dec. ,30-3m
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

ZenS OF the -otate OF California deSl-
rous of seeing her properly represent
ed in the Senate '6f the United States,
we have a'fightttose1press orr pref
erence for Senatorto fill the vacancy
occasioned by the untinely decease
of Brodcricks Not being a Demo-
crat does not debar US from the right
to express our preferences when men
are elevated to office, although the
party in power may arrogate to itself
the right to disregard our choice, and
in fact to do just as it pleases
in ali affairs pertainingto government.
Our advocacy Of this or that man'g
fitness for a position will avail noth-
ing. we are sure. with a Legislature
SO far gone insLecomptopism as the
one about to assemble. Nevertheless
confession is said to be good for the
soul, and considering the prospect Of
damnation ahead-from locofoco rule
in this State-wel are disposedeto oh
tain all athe, consolation possible. by
unbosoming ourself on the enatorial
question. Were we to be shot or
drowned and compelled, to take a
choice, we would toss copper to de-
eide. Tosehoose between Dennver and
Weller would. place us iip equally as
awkward "a dilemma. !. Denver for
Senator 1t is iaughable. Weller
for Senator2 1t would be ridiculous
did not shame, that he has been ele-
vated to the same position before, si-
lence derision. Yet these are two
prominent candidates. Huge thigh
and hollow head-.muscle OF vacuity-
which shall We have? Eblis forbid
that we Should have either. Wash
ington comes next. A man of un-
bounded stomach, speaking metaphor
ically. A case of greatness not yet
discovered except. by himself and
brother, Washington writes good
newspaper leader, There lies his
forte and all the fame he has ever
acquired except in his own fervent
Imagination. He~isa clever gentle
man, and so is Denver. Both have
pretty good Judgment, bnt if their
course on the Kansas question is the
criteri on by which to judge them, as
conscienceless as Vitellus. Give them
both their due. But tell us, ye sapi-
ent Lecomptonites, WHY either should
be sent to the United States Senate.
Is it on account Of superior educa-
ton, profound knowledge, extraordin-
airy eloquenee : Nobody pretends it.
The secret of theirpepularity is, they
have hung like Tin kettle, to the
tail of their party from their youth
up and now are want ing offices as
badly as they have wanted indepen-
dence all their lives.
There certainly ought to be bet-
ter choice for Senator than either Of
these names present. There is a
better one. Joseph G.. Baldwin is
the man. He is gentleman of legal
and literary reputation, not chronic
Office hunter, above party trickery,
his record is clean, and as far as his
political life goes, it is reputable in
any and every sense save and ex-
cept the act of going into the Demo
cratic party. If we must have an
Administration Senator to fill the
seat of Broderick, we hupe there will
be patriotism and State, pride enough
found in the next Legislature to elect
Baldwin.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

The editor Of the Marysville Er-
press has been presented with a pear
grown in japan. He says it was
quite palatable, having a peculiar
flavor partaking somewhat of an
Irish potato!' Boiled, roasted, or
raw?
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30
Richard Randolph's will, wb

Richard Randolph's will, which
dedicated all his property, amounting
to $4,000 to purchasing the freedom
of the living Randolph slaves in Vir-
ginia, has been sustained. Itwas his
own brother who labored to break
the instrument upon the ground that
the testator was crazy.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

The latest papers from the Allan
tic side tell us that Minister McLane
has made treaty with the Liberal
party in Mexico, by which Lower
California. Sonora, &c, have been
ceded to the United States, besides
the righ to march troops across Mex
lean. territory has been conceded.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

3
County HosPITAL.-fhe time is
fast approaching when the contract
for keeping the INDECENT sick for the
coming year is tosbe let. Sometime
during the month of January propo-
sails are to be received by the Board
of Supervisors. As much depends,
in a humanitarian and pecuniary view,
upon the individuals to whom is con-
signed the care of the sick, and in a
great degree the INDECENT sick fund,
we have no doubt the Board of Su-
pervisors will use their usual marked
discretion in seeing that the interests
of the County as well as the sick, are
properly guarded. During the palt
year the County has been fortunate
in obtaining physician andat rea-
sonable price. She has also been for
tunate in having physician whose
aim has been to keep the number of
inmates of the hospital to the lowest
possible point. In some cases he has
subscribed literally to assist friends
in sending old chronic cases, which
promised to be lasting charges on the
County. out of the State, and has in
other instances procured. light work
outside for some. individuals who, had
not the capacity orinclination to take
care Of themselves after the physi-
clans skill had been expended on
them. In this manner has the num-
Der of patients in the County hospi-
tai been kept down to a moderate
number and the hospital fund been
preserved.
DR.. Bunt is deserving of credit fof
attending to theinterests of the Coun-
ty in the way he has done during the
year past. 1t has been done, howev-
er, with little or no sacrifice to him.
self, as we learn that he will realize
not many dollars above expenses for
keeping the County sick. /, We trust
the County will be able to let another
contract for 1860 equally as advanta-
geous to herself and to the destitute
thrown upon her charge.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

Francisco Ramirez, editor of Ell
Gamor Publico, a paper published
at Los Angeles, has been invited to
become State printer of Sonora in
Mexico. -
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

PRESIDENTS MEssAGE.-It is re-
ported in case of a probable long
wrangle about the Speakership, that
the President will follow the example
of his predecessor and send in his
Message to the Senate. 1t is also ru-
mored that the. President will make
the Harper's Ferry affair a topic of
his message. The latter report is
probably true, at least it is given cur
rency in the N. Y. Herald, which is
supposed to speak by the card in ref
erence to the doings of james Bu-
chanan. In various ways the Admin
istration party is tanning the slavery
question to the full extent of itslwind.
A gentleman from Virginia has anti
cipated old Buchanan little by intro
ducing into Congress resolutions of in
quiry into the causes &c. of the Har-
per's Ferry affair.
The whole of this ado over that
misguided attempt of Old Brown is
certainly out of place, and will return
like boomerang to the feet of the
operator. The least said about it by
tho South. the better it will be for
that section. The attemptthat is be-
ing made to make the body Of the
Northern people responsible for the
mad acts of Old Brown must surely
end in evil to the South. 1t is enough
to furnish two thirds of the revenue
for the support of the government, to
pay largely for carrying the mail
through the Slaze States, to surren-
der the larger share of the national
offices to the weaker section, without
being taunted after much forbearanee
with being thieves, robbers and cut
hroats-enemies at last.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

A painting of the Charter Oak Of
Hartford, in a frame made of the
wood of that famous tree, is in the
possession. of'the Odd Fellows Libra.
ry Association of San Francisco.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

FUsED.-The Amador Sentinel has
been soldto the Ledger. o. d. Av.
aline retires from the business for
ever.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

"Candor compels the Shasta Her
aid to admit that the recent elections
in the northern States have not been
favorable to the Democratic party.'
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

1t is stated that the. Masonic Fra
ternity of the United StaIes coutem-
plate raising 100000 to build tenn
pie at the scat of government.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

The Mountain Messenge, says the
people of North Sierra are bound to
have a new county if a "cold deck"
is not wrung IN. on them.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30
RAIL Roam TO PLAcEavlLLR-

RAIL RoAD TO PLAcERvILLR.-
Some of the people of Piacerville
and the Sacramento Union arc talk
ing Of a railroad from Folsom to PIa-
cerville. A meeting was held last
week in the latter place to take steps
to procure the road, the proceedings
of which meeting we have seen re-
ported Ill the local aud Sacramento
papers. The road, in advance of the
observations Of civil engineers, is de-
clared practicable, ard the purse Of
ElDorado deemed amply full to build
the road. We do not doubt that all
these opinions and declarations are
true. Where there is will there is
a way. IfEl Dorado county goes to
work in earnest a railroad will be
seen ending at Placerville ina few
months from this date. But if Edo
RADIO can do this, we shall maintain
that Nevada is quite as able. to build
railway from near Auburn to this
city. Unless there was an error in
the report of the assessed valuation
of property in Ell Dorado: the means
of this county exceeds that Of Ell Do~
4rado largely. The distance iss not
longer from Auburn to Nevads than
from Folsom to Placerville, and the
grade and ground more favorable
So far, then, as advantages of wealth
and route are concerned we have the,
per centage in our favor. Add to
these the superiority of our transmon-
tame communication with Western
Utah, and the inducements on the
part of the citizens of Nevada coun-
ty for energetic action are vastly
greater. We have pass lower by
several hundred feet, more accessible
from either side, and smoother by far.
If there can be a motive to inpel
the people of Ell Dorado to build
railroad to Placerville we shall main
tain there is stronger motive TO in~
duce us to construct railroad to Ne
vada. We ask every one of our
readers if this be net SO.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

Hackett the comedian arrived in
San Francisco on the Joh3 L. Ste
phens. He has not yet entered inte
an engagement.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

1t is said the Presidents message
is not near as long as usual. Less
nonsense, then. s~
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

The name of the man shot by L.
j. Andrews, atSierra Valley, is John
Nelson. He is recovering.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

The Alleghaniaus are giving con-
certs in the Sandwich Islands.
The Nevada journal., 1859-12-30

WAsHINGToNiAN-{Reading Well
ler's letter to Fisher)-"The position
of United States Senator is not neces-
arg tony happiness !"-Butte Record.