The Nevada Democrat., 1859-01-19
WHOLE NO. 276.
NEWS ITEMS.


sons during the week who have returned, and
they speak in q most despairing manner of the
who'll az air. Those fond Of packing dirt and
washing it for So, or $3 a day, can have plenty
of employment That about pays expenses
Large invoices of goods have been shipped to
the river by the Gulf, but the owners were glad
to sell them to the resident storekeepers. rath-
er than have to stay aud dispose Of them BY
retaiLn ala y teI adI 5000 a1
The Territorial Enterprise, published Carson
valley, says that hot springs are very common
on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevadas and
also N the valley near Genoa. The latter
issue from the earth directly on the margin Of
Carson river, and discharge such quantities Of
hot water as to greatly moderate the tempera.
ture at that point 1t Is q great resort for
ducks and geese during cold weather, and while
other bodies of water are frozen over they va
~ in temperature from that Of summer heat .
10 boiling water. ldi Bla -
The act passed by the Legislature last winter,
to prohibit the immigration Of Asiatics, has
been decided unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court. Capt. Hossack. of the British ship Cy-
clone, was arrested in San Francisco, last week,
for landing Chinese passengers. writ OF
habeas corpus was sued out, and he was taken
before Justices Field and Baldwin, who ordered
that he be discharged, on the ground that the
act is unconstitutional. They have not yet
given written opinion. H
According to the California Register. there
are in the State 5,T26 miles Of artificial water
courses, for mining purposes, constructed at
an aggregate cost of $l3,575,400 In addition
! to these are numerous subsidiary branches
amounting, probably to an aggregate length
of 1000 miles. The two most costly are the
Columbia and Stanislaus, aud the Mokelumne
d. Hill Canal. st.e
Daniel Barry, jr., aged "a, formerly Of New
Orleans. while at work in the tunnel of the
Spring Hill mill, Amador, on Thursday week,
was struck on the head with rock weighing
about three hundred pounds, and which had
/ fallen, six feet. 1t OF course crushed him to the
earth, forced his right elbow into his side so as
to injure him internally and cause his death,
He lived two days after the accident
On the morning of Jan. 10th, Deputy Sheriff
Paul, Of Calaveras county, arrested at Forest
Hill, Chieno named Jose Louis Cortes. who
is charged with the murder of several persons
in Calaveras county. An accomplice of Cortes
was arrested at the same time, but he managed
to make his escape. Cortes was taken to Sac.
ramento, and from thence to Mokelumne Hill.
The citizens of Mattole Valley. and through.
out Humboldt comfy In general, are signing
petitions, to he forwarded to Gen. Denver, pray.
ing him to obtain from government an aban-
donment Of the Mattole Reservation 1t ap-
pears that portion of the la nd had been taken
up By settlers long before the Reservation was
established. y
Coleman H. Collier was killed on Christmas
day, at Uptonville, Del Norte county, by q tree
falling upon him. He was cutting the tree for
the purpose OF bridging stream, and as be
cut through, it bounded from the stump and
killed him almost instantly. He was from Ca.-
Isle, Illinois, and about thrty-fve years old.
The stage running from Forest Hill to Au.
burn was stopped on Tuesday morning, Jan.
11th, by eight or ten men. and the express box
of Wells, Fargo d Co., containing about 81, 900.
forcibly taken from the driver There wero
only two or three passengers in the stage at
the time of the robbery.
The Daily Register states that the Forest
Theatcr at Sacramento is insecure The walls
are cracked, bulged, and in spots the plaster
and loose bricks have fallen down. The cost
of erecting the building is said to have been
Sl07 600.
AT Mule Town, Amador, two boys, brothers,
named Clayes, were badly injured on New
Years day by the explosion of canister of
powder. The face Of one was much burned,
aud the arms of the other severely cut.
The Los Angeles Vineyard says that emf
grants are arriving in that town almost daily
from Salt Lake. A train of twenty-five wagons
WHQOu9
arrived the week before. ss
The National Theater at Sacramento has
been sold to the Methodist Church of that cty
for the sum of $20, 1905 900 Of which was
paid down and the balance is secured by mort
gage.
An immense bald eagle was recently killed
at Oregon Gulch, Bate county, while in the
act of carrying Off good sized shoat When
spread out, its wings measurd ten feet, from
tip to tip. r.. .,...... ny -E
During the year 1858, there were 81 suits fer
divorce commenced iH San Francisco; 64 by
wives and 23 by husbands. There are now 95
divorce suits pending Ia that city. During the
year 62 divorces were granted.
The total number Of deaths in San Francisco
during the year 1858 was OPS. The greatest
monthly mortality was l27--in July. During
the year there were IS inquests held by the
Coroner.
The Pacific Quartz Co, of FL Dorado, have
run their mill night and day for the past year,
Sundays excepted, and took out $s3,385 n.
Their expenses were $42,774 Sc, leaving
profit Of $40,6lo Al.
Eight Chinese, and about 500 in dust, were
the proceeds Of descent made one night last
week by Butte county deputy Sheriff into
Chinese gaming-house in Oroville.
The entire amount of the State and county
taxes assessed for Del Norte county, for 1858,
has been collected with the exception of about
fifty dollars; this is pretty close work.
A man named ]. N. Phillips, fruit vender,
was accidentally killed at Sacramento, last
Wednesday. by falling down the stairway CT
the Court House.
| The mining area In California is estimated
at about fifteen thousand square miles. The
yield Of goldfor 1858 will not fall short Of s7O,-
900, 900.
The Crescent City Herald says that the miners
are making half an ounce day on an average,
in the immediate vicinity of that place.
Rich specimens of copper ore, found in large
0uantitiea within n few miles of Shasta have