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The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

OPENING THEIR EYEs.-The people of the
lower country are just becoming alive to
the fact that the foot hills and mountains
are worth something to the culturist.
Amongst other indications of this tardy re-
cognition of most important fact, we quote
this paragraph from the Bee:
"The mountains, too, which it was once
supposed were only available for their auri-
ferrous treasures, are beginning to prove SUI
perior to the valleys for peach and grape
raising. The Coloma peaches on exhibition
at the late Fair were far superior to those
grown in the valley or on the coast, and
grape culturists hold that for wine making
purposes the grapes raised in the foot hills
are by many per cent. preferable to those
grown in other localities in the State. Sew
eral of those who intend to make grape
growing and wine making their business,
have secured vineyard sites in the noun
tains, and will enter in the now fast-ap-
preaching season to cultivate and plant
them"
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

A CALIFORNIA AurHoR.-California is not
rich enough in men of letters to allow any
of them to remain unappreciated. 1t could
hardly be expected that State so young, so
busy in obtaining supplies for her material
wants and so deeply involved in the whirl of
speculation, should have much of litera-
ture yet we have the beginnings of one
beginnings very creditable for our circum-
stances and the small number of inhabitants.
With these first symptoms of growing lit
erature the name of Mr.. Hittell is intimately
connected. Mr. Hittell has contributed
many articles of permanent value to the Pc
riodlcal press of this city, is the author of
several articles in Riply's and Dana's CycIo-
ped;a and has published several original
works, besides the translstions from Reich
enbach and Madame de Grandfort, which
appeared in the Home Journal" Many Of
the best articles, which have appeared in re-
gard to the history and resources of Califor-
MIA are from his pen and we understand
that he has carefully collected and arranged
everything that has appeared connected with
this subject for the last six years, being thus
in possession of the most important mate
rial for the future history of our coast
Cal. Home Journal.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

QUAIL SHoorrNa.-A writer in the Spirit Of
the Times waxes enthusiastic on this theme.
Hear him:
Of all cunning sports of this country, mo-
thing can come up to quail shooting. 1t is
the poetry Of sport. The beautiful noun
tain scenery, the rippling streams, the roll
ing hills, the cunning of the birds, the sa-
gacity of the dogs, the strong exercise, the
perseverance of the sportsman, the trial of
reason against instinct, and then when you
are out of wind, and struggling up q stee,.
hill, whnr, Uhtyr, up get couple of q.all
and to bring them down is the perfection OF
= y = y
Then the mountain camp, the crystal
spring, the blazing fire, the glorious appe.
tite, the steak or bird cooked on the Goals,
the calumet of peace, the dogs doing
around you, and dreaming of the hunt, the
beautiful spread on the turf, with heaven for
canopy, and the quietness of the scene,
away from the hum of the world"
So much for quail shooting as relates to
the sportsman. Now read the poor birds'
side of the story as told by correspondent
of the Mariposa Gazette:
81 shot quail the other day. 1t was An
old cock, and had charge of the first brood,
hatched this season. not half grown, while
his mate was sitting on the eggs for the se-
cond brood. He got upon rock on hearing
my approach, and was fearlessly giving the
alarm to the fledglings of his charge which
he induced to fly in all directions, when
discovered him, and at a short distance /
fired at him with most miserable gun. Tho
poor bird was not killed but tumbled off the
stone with his legs and wing broken, and
with his bill split to pieces. picked him
up, and as he wasn't injured in any vital
part he wouldn't die and had to be killed.
was callous and hardened, but was sick
of my inhuman deed, and would have giv-
en-, / know not what, to have been able to
fix his bill and his manglsd limbs, and set
him at liberty. But could not, and must
put him out of misery, and tried like a
sportsman, by biting of his neck to kill him,
which only hurt the bird and filled my mouth
with feathers. He couldn't complain, except
by futtering. l never undertook such
task. Finally, through my efforts his bright
eye glazed and he died. put him in the
crevice of rock near where his mate was
sitting, and where his brood was scattered
in the chapparel with no one to call them,
and tsok my way homeward with enough to
think Of for long time to come. shall
kill no more quail"
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

A LESSON OF PATIENCE.-The ropes over
the top ofthe Washington monument, which is
more than ITO feet in hight, were raised by
means of pigeon, in this wise: after
trying TO throw over a small thread attached
to stone, and failing to accomplish the
same object with arrows and ramrods, a
pigeon was procured pack Of thread tied
to his leg and the bird induced by various
expedients, such as shouting and discharging
a pistol, to fly to the top of the monument
and thence down on the other side. The
pack of thread was caught, heavier cord
was attached and drawn up, then heavier
and stronger cords yet, one after the other,
until rope of sufficient size was secured
over the top to enable the rigger to proceed
with safety to the work of re6tting the ma
chinery in complete order for future opera
tions. In manner similar to this were the
great cables of the wire suspension bridge
at Niagara conveyed across the stream, a
distance of 800 feet, at hight of 230 feet
above the water. A kite took across the
first slight thread, by means of which larger
and larger cords and ropes were drawn over,
until the wire cables themselves were
stretched from shore to shore. And thus all
enterprises of great pith and moment" are
accomplished; proceeding from the slightest
agencies to the most important, advancing
slowly and by degrees to ultimate compile
ton. Thus all great reforms, once slumbsr-
ing, perhaps, as has been said in a single
brain, progress tardily but surely, until an
evil is removed or a nation born unto free
dom.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

A FIRST CLASS LITERARY PApER.-That is
what we conscientiously call the California
Home Journal. 1t is not only the best liter
ary paper ever published in this State, but
is also equal to any in the Union. Its New
York namesake is brilliant, chatty, gossip
ing, fashionable affair, but contains less or
iginal matter and less solid mental pabulum
Morris Il Willis are living on their reputa-
ton; Duncan and Bowman are nobly de-
serving one. An editor pays cotemporary
the highest possible compliment when he
tells him that he peruses his paper and
that is what we tell the editors of the Home
Journal. If our readers want to maintain
faith in our veracity, let them subscribe for
the Home Journal themselves, now that it
is about to enter on its third volume, and
no longer be deprived of pleasure that is
cheaply purchased at FIVE dollars per annum.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01
The 9ydranlie 9ress.
3. P. AVERY. EDITOR.

CRREDs.-A common error with the pro-
mulgators of new truths, dogmas or theo-
ries with reference to tho moral and spirit
ual wants Of man, is to seek to impose upon
those who accept either an arbitrary creed,
binding them with a new bondage to cause
they would more efficiently serve if free.
Thus Christianity, which in its simple in
tegrity is the noblest religion the world has
ever kao~n, has deprived itself of its most
expansive influence; thus Compte, the pro-
found French positiyist, after making the
strongest of all pleas for intact individuality
proposes to curb it by system full of the
most arbitrary details and thus Spiritual
ism, the latest protest against mental tyr
rany, seeks to establish for its followers
conventional creed. We are told that its
fundamental article IS, of course, a belief
in intercourse with spirits it also proposes
physiological, educational and other re-
forms, the emancipation of womanhood and
the brotherhood of man. But its general
ties are so vague as hardly to answer the
purpose of creed, and it is, as one would
suppose, rather failure. There is nothing
% regret in this fact even with those who
believe in Spiritualism, which we do not fur
ther than giving inevitable credence to some
of its phenomena.
The tyranny of creeds outlives every other
form of despotism, and if the past teaches
anything it surely warns those who have es-
capped the bondage of ono formula not to
impose upon themselves another. The os-
tensible object of a creed is the assertion
and maintenance of truth-just as if that
divine attribute could not maintain itself
Now as the ultimate truth cannot be known
to man, the affirmations of creeds, although
they may embody right principle, must be
mixed with error, which is imposed upon
the enquiring mind as truth. Thus the mind
is cramped, bigotry takes hold of it, and its
progress towards positive knowledge is Ell
ther checked or entirely prevented. The
history of mental progress and scientific re-
frequently the error of tomorrow. This
should induce US to keep our minds open and
receptive. If we must have creeds, we
would do well to initiate the politicians, who
lay down platforms as if for eternity, yet
break and reconstruct, or utterly abandon
them, to suit the exigenties of the times or
the demands of enlightened experience.
Fallibility, equally with mutablity, is writ
ten upon all things human, and our creeds
in philosophy and theology are as liable to
error as the convenient platforms of politi-
clans. Remember this, oh honest soul, and
adopt as thy only creed these wise words
"Do nothing against thy conscience for fear
or love. In all matters of doubt follow the
admonition of the silent monitor within thy
own breast"
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

GIVE THE DEVIL HIS ENTHUSIASTICALLY
a contemporary journal copies from the first
page of the Press, without proper credit,
matter that is either original or has cost
much editorial labor; and said matter is
sometimes credited subsequently to the pa
per that purloined it. We would not COM
plain of such a trifile but for this reason.
1t is so unusual for editorial to appear on
the first page of a country weekly, that when
contemporaries see it in ours they may think
it is stolen matter loaded, and appropriate
it as such. Now because we have never re-
sorted to this trick, and do not want to be
thought guilty Of it by newspaper men, We
make this appeal for them to "give the devil
his DUE"
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

GREELEY CATECHIsRS BRIGHAM YoUNa.-
Horace Greeley had an interview with the
high priest of Aormonism, while at Salt
Lake, and publishes in the Tribune cate
gorical report of the collequy that ensued.
He directly questioned Brigham as to the
doctrines and polity Of the Mormon Church,
and ELECTED from him responses which ac-
cord with what is already known on those
points, namely; tiat the church holds gen.
orally to the dognas of Christianity and re-
sembles in its organization and government
Catholicism moro, than Professionalism.
Young admitted that the territorial laws
would protect property in slaves, yet de-
clared Utah would be free State because
it was not fitted for slavery. He denied that
the bishops or other church officers receive
a portion of the tithes, or any compensation
for official services; they live by the labor of
their own hands, like the first Apostles, and
frequently provide for the poor of their
charge out of their own pockets. Brigham
accounted for the hatred and aversion with
which his people are regarded by the outside
world, by comparing them with Gods per-
secuted ministers, prophets and saints in all
ages. He affected scornful ignorance of any
such organization as the Danites. On the
delicate subject of polygamy, he asserted
the institution to be of divine revelation and
generally acceptable to his people, some of
whom have one wife and some more, each
determining his individual duty in the mat
ter. He has himself only fifteen wives, and
knows of no one who has more but some
of those sealed to him are old ladies whom
he regards rather as mothers than wives,
and whom he has benevolently provided
with homes. He admitted the Apostle Paul
says that bishop should be "the husband
of one wife," and said that none but mar
ried man was regarded as fit for the Office of
bishop; but was of opinion that Paul does
not forbid plurality of wives. Greeley said
to Young and his chiefs at the close of the
above colloquy, that the degradation, or re-
friction, of women to the single Office of
child bearing and its accessories, was the in
evitable consequence of polygamy, and he
saw nothing at Salt Lake to make him be-
lieve woman was there esteemed tor any
thing more.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

A very beautiful diploma for the Agricul-
tural, Horticultural and Mechanics Society
of the Northern District Of California, has
just been Autographed by Nagel, of San
Francisco, in his superior style. The design
was made by Nahl Brothers. We saw the
original India ink drawing at the Marysville
Fair, and thought it admirable in point of
design and bold effectiveness.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

The road to Carson Valley from Placer
Vile is said by the Mountain Democrat to be
in a most wretched condition, and almost
impossible. The Observer says efforts will
be made to keep it open during the entire
winter, by means of oxen, no matter what
amount of snow may come.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

The richness Of the Walkers river mines
is certified to by the Mariposa Gazette, but
the seasons are said to be unfavorable to
continuous mining operations. From the
middle of November to the first of May lit
tie can be done to advantage. Snow falls to
considerable depth and lasts, and ice forms
to thickness gratifying to New Engiander
engaged in peddling that cool commodity
Besides this, the mining region 10 not known
to be extensive.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

Forbes of the Sierra Democrat, perpstrates
the following:
Mules undoubtedly live to highly res.
pectable age. The bible doesn't say any
thing about them, and there is no reliable
account of their invention ; but we saw one,
on Sunday last, branded on the left hip B.
c."
Semblins thinks the greatest rockers ever
brought out were the Plymouth Rockers.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

One would suppose, from the glowing ac-
counts of letter writers and the assembling
of Congressional conventions in Arizona,
that the territory was plethoric with inhabi-
tants yet an official report puts the entire
American population, west of the Mesilla
Valley, at only one hundred and eighty, in
cluding overland stations. The clowns"
are little clumps of adobe houses inhabited
by Greasers.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01
BIG FARMS.

We have often wondered at tho folly O
men in California who live alone upon vas
tract of uncultivated, though cultivatabl,
land, surrounding themselves by Sahars
OF isolation, the single human speck in the
midst of many dreary acres-or, if they have
companions, none nobler than shock headed
aborigines and wild cattle. If this be
wealth, heaven keep US poor, and give us
no land but a lot in Gods acre
A correspondent of the Santa Cruz Nevs,
while passing over one of these big tracts
lately, thought its owners would exhibit
wisdom by dividing it into small farms and
disposing of it to the many enterprsing fam
lilies who would gladly settle there, put the
soil in high state of cultivation, plant
shade and fruit trees and erect beautiful re-.
sidences. He wondered if its owner ever
reflected, for moment, on the amount of
happiness he could thus confer upon his
fellow men, and the immense wealth these
sales would bring to his possession. He
wondered if he ever listened to the sweet
music Of childish laughter, as the village
school poured forth its romping inmates or
if he ever dreamed Of the thrills of JOY he
might experience in receiving the MANY
greetings of youthful etiquette, the grateful
salutations of those who would live to bless
his declining years and whose hands would
hic a.
his grave. 1t is doubtful whether men of
bis class ever do have such thoughts-mores
the pity.
Here then are thousands of land seeking
emigrants pouring into the State by every
route across the Sierra Nevada, many of them
with their wives and little ones. They all
want homes-permanent homes, where they
can live and die at peace, going no more
westward. Some of them will find homes
in the mountains, but larger number will
wander through the valleys and grow dis
heartened at contemplation of the uncer-
tainty of land titles or at the impossibility
of paying such monstrous prices. Now if
these large grant holders will divide their
property into farming lots, and sell them al
ternately at low prices, as building lots are
sometimes sold by those who would found a
city, the intermediate parcels of land would
soon acquire great value, thousands would
be accommodated with homesteads who
otherwise might never attain them, many
fourishing agricultural villages would spring
up and the whole State be largely benefited.
Are the grant holders wise enough and lib
eral enough to do this easy thing?
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

Rev. Martin Kellogg, acting pastor Of the
Congregational Church in Grass Valley, has
been elected Professor of Mathematics for
the new college Of California, the buildings
for which are soon to be erected near Oak
land.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

The thirty eight Mexican officers who were
sent to this State in exile from Mazatlan,
last spring, says the Times, and returned a
few months since to their native country,
were arrested at San Bias Immediately upon
their arrival, and sentenced to be shot, but
through humane Intervention their lives
were spared and they were pardoned.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

The Times describes venerable locking
book of records of voters in Yerba Buens,
now San Francisco, in 1846. In it are re-
gistered ninety six names. The number ol
voters at the Bay city now is nearly eleven
thousand.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

A waggish fellow wrote to the Golden Era
editors that he had forwarded to them by
Express specimen of gold weighing fifteen
pounds, as slight token of gratitude for
the pleasure he has derived from their paper
within tho past six years. The lump has
not yet come to hand, and that is not all.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

According to q list published in the An
burn Hsrald there arc in Placer county 14e
individuals and companies who pay taxes
upon property amounting to from $4,000 to
&3o,ooe.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

Hunts Merchants Msgasine informs US
that some 100000 women in France gain
employment by the manufacture Of laces.
They are all hand made, that is, with bob
bins, upon q small portable cushion, except
at Alencon, whore the needle is employed
and the work done on parchment.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

A Rochester journal says that Rlondin has
realized 81 500 from his late exhioltion -
Niagara, and that he has probably made
SIS, 900 this season in rope-walking.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

The owner of a mine of bituminous CO al
in the Sonoma mountains bears the appro-
pirate name Of Coleman.
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

The Raw. Henry Wood, now in China,
writes to the Patriot, that . labotine man u
the interior of China can live cpmfortably
on food costinassstsnsP pr ddy
The hydraulic press., 1859-10-01

Ground is broken by the Placer Herald in
faTer of Gov. Weller as the successor of D.
u Brcdsrick in the q. s. SenatA
The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-19

The New York committee from the Board of Ten Gov
ernors upon recent of inspection, found much
neglect and misery apparent the condition of children
put ont by the aims house department. that they
have determined TO henceforth prevent the custom
The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-19

Mr. POLK from the Committee Foreign Relations
reported bill allowing II. George Squer the sum OF
81 500 extra compensatC.a for his services In nego
tatipg treaties with several OF the South American no
pubcs IN addition to his regular services charge jaf
faires
Mr. DIXON asked the immediate consideration al the
bill and no objection being nade, IL was taken up
Mr. POLK explained that it was intended to cover AIr
Sauer extra expenses in travelling, clerk hire &c and
said that there we're several precedent for such allowance
Mr. HALE thought Mr. Squier had already received ain
the salary to which he entitled and il there were
pfeocdents for IL they bad ones and he hoped the
Senate would not add another to them.
Mr. MASON thought should DO equal Justice 10 ali
and not give one man bread and another stone
oapsn nuslSIss.
The hour Of twelve o'cloelS arrived, and Tho pti,afs
calendar being the special order was taken np
hr HUNTER moved TO postpone the ptisate calendar
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-11-16
ulJNIBDB. 23.
From the Cleveland National Democrat.
Who is 0ssawotanie Brown?

AScurrespondent Of The. New York Con.
.aseresal ldeert.sr in speaking Of Brown,
/ the leader of the Instruction at Harpers
Ferry, says that he was personally
iacqnaiilt,d with him in the years 1886
and ls4ethat he was the son Of
wealthy aid esteemed citizen Of Hudson,
IN Portage county, IN this state, named
Owen Brown. Capt. John Brown was
Isborn in Connecticut, bnt. resided for more
than thlrtyysy,afs inHudson Township, on
/ g dairy farm, hut subsequently embarked
III wool growing, sins which business lIe
was quite successful, until he accom-.
EpaVied i large venture Of the finest
qualities Of that article to England. This
speculation resulted in ruilous loss. and
from that time Il, this he has been more Or
| less absorbed in the fnitberance OF
Abolitionsyiews, IN which subject he was
q complete fanatic, .,.,s
The correspondent Of the Commercial
may be right, but we think he is mis-.
taken. Brown himself hailed from tho
East Massachusetts we think, and Il, "a
| long conversation we had with him.
never claimed to have lived in Ohio We
understand that he has a brother living in
Ashtubula County, where he renamed
some time. A family of Browns, the head
Iefwhom, Captain jim Brown, was in
dIeted for counterfeiting and sent to tho
/ Penitentiary, who lived IN Portage County,
may have led to the error, by confomding
one scamp with another.
Since the above was in type we have
received the Summa County Democracy,
whose editor says that Brown formerly
lived two miles west of Akron, Immediately
previous to his going to Kansas. wa, rs
a bolder Or worse man, than that samo
OssaWotamc Brown, the world never
knew. His single virtue, "linked with a
thousand crimes" was bulldog courage.
Fanatic to the highest degrce--a pupil, in
|politics, of the Giddings school, he has
been taught to believe that the killing of
la Shareholder was an act which God
would approve. When in this city last
Ispring, in his lectures, he told Of his
Stealing negroes and running them to
Canada of his stealing hol scs which no
Ithenllad withhim for sale-of his shooting
down shareholders, and Of other acts
equally atrocious. And now, said Brown.
III wish to know if the people of Cleveland
| approve Of what | have done. Those who
| approve OF my acts will say Age" and
more than One-half Of his audnence, COM
posed Of Abolitionists, shouted "Aw,'
while not single Nag was uttered by
any one present