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"Not dangerous to the Human Family"
"Rats come out of their holes to die"
y! Death to all Vermin

y! Death to all Vermin !! !!
No housekeeper, farmer, planter, or family
should be without an ample supply.
Destroys-Rats, Reaches,
Destroys-Mice, Moles, &c.
Destroys-Bed. Bugs.
Destroys-Moths, fleas, Ants.
Dcstroys-lnsects on plants and fowls.
Destroys-Insects on Animals, &C., &C., &c, &c.
"Costar's" Raj, Roach, &c Exterminator.
"Costar's" Bod. bug Exterminator.
"Costar's" Electric Pow der for Insects, &c.
In 25c. SOC. and 81 90 boxes. Bottles aud
Flasks. 80 90 and So 90 sizes for
Plantations, Ships, Boats, Hotels, &c.
10 years established in N. Y. City.
Used blythe city postoffice.
Used blythe city prisons and station houses.
Used blythe city hospitals and public institu-
tons.
Used blythe city steamers, ships in port, &c.
Used by y-The city hotels-Astor, st. Nicholas, &c
Used by-More than 2o,OO9 private families.
What the Press Says.
Housekeepers. troubled with vcrmin need
be so no longer, If they use "Costar's" Exter-
minators. We have used it to our satisfaction
and box cost S5, we would have it. We had
tried poisons, but they affected nothing but
Costar's article knocks the breath out of Rats,
it. Ii is in great demand all over the country.
-Kedidd (O) Gazette.
j. G. Covci, ed. "Herald" Lancaster Vis
1--WE highly recommend the determination.
More grain and provisions are destroyed annu-
ally in Grant County by vermin, than would
pay for tons of this Rat and Insect Killer.
'lowA TINES" McGregor, Aug l4th, 1859.
II. K. CosrAR, Esq.-Your Exterminator is
received, used, and pronounced decided sue
cess. We used box of it, and the way the
Rats aud Mice around our premises "raised
Ned" that night was a caution to sleepers'--
Since then not Rat or Mouse has been heard
in kitchen or cellar.
THESE INFALLIBLE REMEDIES.
Are now being rapidly introduced and sold in
every City, Town and Village in the
United States-the Canadss-
West Indies and South
America.
s4s- Druggists, Merchants, Grocers, &c. sell
them.
az Wholesale Agents in n. Y. and all the
Large Cities.
- Beware ~ OF Spurious limitations
Examine each Box, Bottle and Flask, and take
nothing but "Costar's."
81 90 Boxes sent by Mail.
SO and So Plantation Boxes, by Express.
Address HENRY r. COSTAR
Principal Depot, 4l0 Broadway N. Y
=. S.-For Agcnciesto sell, send for Whole
sale) Circular.
SoLD ny I!assc.tinc & Cureton Lancaster
Z. II.
Dec. 81 -i5-3m 2tam Ct.
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New Advertisements.

FOR SALE, Cheap, small Stove,
WIN pipe attached, nearly new. Enquire
at this Office.
Jan'y 18th 1860, A7tf
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NEGRO HrRISGs.--ln this community
for the present wear unusually high. Prime
field hands, fellows, range from $3.50, TO
l75. Women from $50, to Sl2O.
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MAJ. B. +. fsaRY.--'rhis energetic pub.
lie servant aud distinguished politician has
announced his determination to retire from
public life, and says that he will never again
occupy seat in either branch of the Leg
islature,
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FoR CoNGREss. -JosepA GIllu,hat, E.q b.,
OF Clarendon, is nominated la the Ch les.
ton Mercury for II sort in Congress from
the 9th Congressional District.
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Mn. EDIroR /: BY announcing Capt A..
). NlSBETa candidate for Tax Collector
at the next election you will oblige.
HIS FRIENDS.
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Announcements.
FOR CLERK.

Mr.. EDITOR The many friend, Of Mr..
u. }. HANCOCK, announce hun candi-
date for Clerk Of th. Court for the ensuing
term.
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e-9- Persons having claims or business
in Chesterfield District, are referred to the
cara Of Mcssrs. Moore g. iough, in this
paper.
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Ma EDITOR announce Mr.. WIN.
RoREkTsos, a Candidate for Tax Collector
ut the ensuing election and oblige his
friends w.,
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VIII II be so Z

The following paragraph We clip from
the Wilmington Herad There is much
truth in il. and We insert it for tho benefit
"t those whom We hear, occasionally, preach
ing one thing and, then p-ncticc another
We verH often hear the :ry, among our fell
low citizens. that this Union must be dissol.
we'd that our rights have BEEN trampled
unde! foot that there are no Necessary el.
emrntS in existence, why We should cling
to the Union. Read the extract:
III i-'"itv Tor US of the South to preach
commcrclnl Independence of the North nm.
! less Ne practice what we preach. w. all
admit that it is very dr,irabie for i.s To- buy
a. little a. possible from the North-to
! trade more with our friends at HON. and
less with our enemies abroad. We nIl ad
! NIT this freely. yet do We act up To il. or
! viii we act mp 10 it, when time sVftens the
feeling which we all more or less now cx
! perirnce We fer not. Men will 20
back into the same old way Of doing things
! and in II few months orders will 90 North
| Ter goods 10 just as great m extent as ever
thev did Men will buy there and sell here
aud scarcely give thought TO their once
well formed resolutions for the encourage.
!
! not be so. What il the use or where is
the sense. of our forming resolutions at
one moment il We are To break them the
! next
The South has, for years, been preach
ing nonintercourse with the North. She
has threatened 10 sever the ties which link
our friendship TO the Northern brethren, and
| hearScned TO the sentiments of dissol u,iOn
fire eaters. Public meetings have been con.
vened and long preamLles and resolutions
haze been adopted only TO give vent to
feelings on IN excited occasion. and then
are to be forgotten. Is it not perfect folly
! II preach home manufacture, aud the very
next day seud orders North for goods. that
can lie had in Charleston upon the same
terms. Commercial Intercourse with the
North will have its sway, as long ~ this
Union is perpetnatcd, and this Union will
he perpctualed NJ long as the South heeds
not to her most important inlerest-dii &c I
importation.
The very identical persons, who seem
most rampant upon the subject, arJ the lar
gcst pntronzcrs of Northern markets.
We believe, and have good cause to, that
there are men in this District who would
rather pay II 40 pair for negro shoes in
! New York City. than 3 90 ut their own
doors, home made. And not only this, but
Carriages, Buggies, WAGONS end other
vehicles are imported from Noi thern cities.
Is IL not, then, preposterous to cry South
ern ConIederacy and home institutions,
/ when they are not patronized by Southern
| people We think so. Still, believe that
the South is blessed with sufficient ingenni.
( ~ aud skill in mechanism and all the yari-
Gus arts, essential To her welfare and indie.
| pendence. Unless home manufactures are
sustained by the slave holders OF the South
they must necessarily suffer.
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RELIGIOUS NoTICE-Rev Mr.. Mason,
we are requested to say, will preach here
on next Sabbath, at the residence of Mr.
Hammond.
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FOR SHERIFF..

MR. EDITOR Please announce Ma.
ANUS NcMANUS, u candidate for the
ofhce OF Sheriff for Lancaster District, for
the ensuing term aud obiige his
MHrY FRIENDS.
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The friends Of Capt. ]. b. CoUSART,
announce him candidate for Sheriff for
Lancaster District, at the ensuing term.
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TO CORN SELLERS.

The Cash will be paid on delivery for
fliy Bushels Of good white Corn. En.
quire at this Office.
Jan'y Ath 1860, 47tf
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FOR TAX COLLECTOR

MIR; EDIroR.-By announci ing Mr.. r. C.
POTTS. candidate for Tax.Coiiec,or at
the next election you will obIige hi.
MANY FRIENDS.
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FATAL ACCIDENT We arc informed
that " negro man, Ice, the property of Da-
vii NJ Crockett, Of This District. was killed
on "Wednesday last, the 2s,h nit, by the
accidental discharge of gun in the hands
Of u sm Ill negro boy. The particulars, as
far ~ We learn. are us fu!ows: the boz
in passing through one nf The negro houses.
where aa old muskct had been left, pics cd
/, mp and threw il across his arm, and in
Ia" a,t OF cooking the gun, the hummer
slipped, disaharging the contrntr in the boy
Lee. The whole load took effect in the
loft "h"~k srverinr the chin from the faso.
killing him instantly.
\ C"ronrCs inquest wa- summoned on
t.a day following, and verdi,t ia accord.
"ncc wiki the above facts rendered.
The Nevada Democrat., 1860-02-01

NEVADA RoAD LAw.--Mr Chase has intro.
ducsd bill into the Senate, repeating the
special act passed last winter, concerning roads
and highways in Nevada county. The bill has
already passed the Senate and we trust il will
pass the Assembly without delay, as the act of
last winter takes effect on the first Monday OF
this month. When the special act was passed
last winter, we expressed the opinion that it
would be found impracticable to carry out the
provisions of the law in the manner contcm-
plated. We believe the general road law Of
the State might be greatly simpliaed and i'm
proved, and whatever would be found advan-
tagsous to the other counties would be equally
advantageous to Nevada.
The Nevada Democrat., 1860-02-01
NEVADA, WEDNESDAY, FEB. /, 1860
Nevada Quartz Mining Company,


On Saturday last, in esmpany with aumber
OF residents Of the city, we took walk over to
the American Hill, for the purpose Of sxamin-
ing the quartz mill and lead Of the Nevada
Quartz Mining Company. This company Is
usually known in Nevada as the "American"
Company, from the fact that their mill is loca-
ted on the hill Of that name. The ledge was
formerly known as the Bunker Hill Lead, and Is
now worked by means Of tunnels run into the
hill above the old Bunker Hill MILL One Of
these tunnels has been run in along the ledge
for distance Of two thousand feet, and in the
lower tunnel the ledge has been cut at o depth
of two hundred and forty feet below the surface.
Under the guidance Of Mr.. sOggs the superin-
tendent of the company, our party undertook
the task Of exploring the long tunnel; bat after
getting in about a thousand feet, and examin-
Ing some OF the sids-drifts and ''shoots," the
party bad seen enough Of the ledge and made
tracks for the mouth OF the tunnel. The task
OF exploring quartz tunnel two thousand feet
In length, is not very light one to persons un-
accustomed to working underground, and then
the thought Of being two hundred feet below
the earth's surface has tendency to create
rather disagreeable sensations to the nervously
inclined.
The company have been crushing rock from
this ledge since the summer Of 1857, and the
size of the ledge has continued to increase as
they have gone down, while there Is no dimi-
mutton in the yield Of the rock. Near the sur
face tho ledge was from six 10 eighteen inches
in thickness, but at depth OF two hundred
feet 1t is seldom less than four and in some pla-
ces twelve feet thick. At this depth the rock is
less decomposed than that taken from near the
surface, requiring more care in crushing and
extracting the gold; but the richest rock they
have crushed was taken from depth of two
hundred feet, where the ledge was eight feet in
thickness. This rock was crushed during the
past month Of January, and paid about seventy
dollars ton. Since the company commenced
operations we presume they have crushed not
less than 5000 tons OF rock from their own
ledge which has paid all the way from five to
immense expense in running tunnels, but the
ledge is now opened in such manner that
5000 or 5000 tons moro can be taken out at
comparatively small cost.
Mr.. Soggs informs us that the company de-
sign removing the machinery OF their mill to
the old Bunker Hill mill, and run 1t by water
power instead Of steam engine. By this
means they will save at least q thousand dollars
Q month in running expenses. ga
The Nevada Democrat., 1860-02-01

DEATH OF A PRINrzR.--Ws are under the
painful necessity Of recording the death of an
old and valued friend, John DsMott, printer
by profession, who died at Orovillo on Wednes.
day last Of consumption. We became acquaint-
ed with DeMott in the fall Of 1850, while Of
work In the same ONCE at Sacramento. For
many months we were on terms Of closest init.
macy, and have never known truer or more
unselnsh friend He went to Narysville in the
summer of 1851, and for some years was con-
nsc.ed as printer and proprietor, With the pa
psrs Of that city, and since 1856 has been con-
neeted with his brother-in-lAw, Geo. II. Cros-
settc, in the publication of the Butte Record, OF
Orovle. He was a good and true man, OF
kind and generous impulses, and most beloved
by those who knew him best.
The Nevada Democrat., 1860-02-01

THosE Iron MrNHs,-The Hydraulic Press, in
alluding to the iron mines lately discovered on
the railroad survey, noticed in our last issue,
says:
II they really exist the fact is immensely i'm
portant, not only to the prospects Of the read
but to the interests OF the whole State. Should
any Of the various coal discoveries that have
been made in the kmining counties amount to
anything extensive, these iron beds would be-
come most prolific sources of wealth, and
wealth Of permanent home-abiding character.
Several years ago 1t was announced that on
Auburn blacksmith was manufacturing native
iron which he procured few miles from that
town. The matter is worthy special invOstiga-
tion.
In regard to the iron mine, discovered some
years ago near Auburn, we are informed thai
the discoverer still holds the claim and is salts
fed that il will eventually be of immense value
Iron is the most useful but cheapest of metals
and good iron mine, if well located for work.
ing is worth more than a gold mine. There il
no doubt that iron ore exists in considerable
quantities on the line of the railroad survey, in
this county, but in consequence Of the high
rates Of transportation, the mines will never be
Of much value until the railroad is built.
The Nevada Democrat., 1860-02-01
uorrlhIe INDIAN rIassaere.

A correspondent Of the Alta. furnishes an &C
count Of horrid massacre Of Indians By par
ty of twenty-on men known as the "Pitt River
Rangers" near Rolls Ranch, on Pitt river.
Rolf and his two men bad been engaged IN cut
ting hay under contract to supply the gov
ernment station; the Indians had been working
on the ranch, and were encamped about three
hundred yards from the house. The attacking
party surrounded the camp during the night,
and the attack was made about daylight
The party rushed upon the Indians, blowing
ont their brains and splitting open their skulls
with tomabawks. Little children, in baskets,
and even babes, had their heads smashed 70 pie
ces or cut open. Mothers aud infants snared
the common fate. The screams and cries OF
the victims we're frightful to hear, but no sup
plications could avail to avert the work oil dew
ilish butchery. It will scarcely be credited tbat
this horrible scene occurred in Christian Cali.
fornia-within few days travel from the State
Capital. Humanity sickens at the thought.
MANY of the fugitives were chased and shot as
thew ran. Where whole families had been
butchered, was indicated by heaps OF bodies
composed OF the mother and her little ones.
The children, scarcely able to run, toddled to-
ward the squaws for protection, crying WIN
fright, but were overtaken and slaughtered like
wild animals, and thrown into piles. From un-
der the haycocks, where some Of them bad Ia
ken refuge, they were dragged out and slam.
One woman got into pond hole, where sns
hid herself under the grass, with her head above
water, and concealed her pappoose on the bank
in basket She was discovered, and her head
blown to pieces-the muzzle of the gun being
placed against her skull, and the child was
drowned in the pond. The ground was covered
with blood and the brushwood ranches, OF
which there were fifty or sixty, were filed with
the dead bodies Old decrepid squaws, young
girls and infants, none were spared. Guns,
knives aud hatchets were used, but the favorlte
method appears to have been staving in the
head with tomahawks. Tho blush of dawn
shone upon this fearful spectacle, and still the
massacre went on.
When the slaughter was over, the shambles
were examined, and more than sixty squaws
and children, and ten Indian men, were found
dead on the field. The murderers then return
cd to Rolfs house, and remained there week
within a few hundred yards Of the charnel
house, upon which the corpses were allowed to
tester and rot in the blaze Of day.
After the last squaw and child had been kill
ed the brushwood ranches or huts were set on
fire and the bodies burnt. The smell OF burn
ing flesh, the cracking of the flames, and the
black smoke soaring up, was the closing scene
Of this tragedy, of which we cannot recall any
parallel in our country's annals.
The Nevada Democrat., 1860-02-01

LATE Discoveries IN CARSON VALLRy-The
Placervills Observer learns from some gentlemen
lately from Carson Valley, that several quartz veins,
bearing gold and silver have lately been discovered
to the east and northeast of Genoa. One in par
tcular the Pine Nut vein, is of unequaled richness
at its groupings. quantity had been reduced, and
paid at the rate of $500 in silver, and 5000 in gold,
to the ton of rock. Quite an excitement prevails
at Genoa at present, in consequence of the exhib-
ton of rich specimens Of gold bearing quartz found
by an individual who refuses to dvulge the locality
of the vein from which it taken until the arri-
val Of his friends for whom he reserves so much of
the ledge as they can occupy under the local taws
There now five six distinct veins near Genoa
known to contain gold and silver, besides those in
the vicinity Of Virginia City.
The Nevada Democrat., 1860-02-01

REPORTED QUICKSILVER DIscovERY.-In re-
gard to the reported discovery of vein of cnnabar,
near Swcetland, the Hydraulic Press of Saturday
says:
We have visited the ledge of rock near this place,
which was last week reported to contain cinnabar,
but could discover no positive traces Of that mineral
though there is abundance Of red ferruginous rock
somewhat resembling it in external characteristics
The wall Of quartz in which this red rock lies con-
tains iron pyrities and doubtless gold in sufficient
quantities to warrant thorough test of its value
Fourteen claims, of one hundred feet each, have
been taken up in body on the ledge, which is very
wide and might be traced for mile or more. Three
of the claimants rejoice in the name Of Broderick
We do not know if they expect share in the de-
ceased Senator'S estate.
The Nevada Democrat., 1860-02-01

SoHoor LAnps.-A bill has been introduced
into tho Senate, by Mr.. Ballou, Of Plumas, pro-
vidlsg for the sale OF the school lands Of thit
State. It authorizes the Sheriffs OF the several
counties, after giving proper notice, to sell al
auction the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections
in each township, Ia tracts Of not less than forty
nor over one hundred and sixty acres, and for
not less than two dollars an acre. The pro-
ceeds OF these sales are to be consolidated into
q general fund, which is to be invested in State
bonds, and the interest to be divided semi-an-
nually among the several school districts in pro-
portion to the number Of school children in
each. The system OF consolidating the school
fund, we believe to bo good enc, as IL can
thus be managed to much better advantage.
But the people OF the agricultural counties will
undoubtedly object to this plan, for tho reason
that the mineral lands have never been and are
not likely to be brought into market, and the
State cannot as yet give any title to the school
lands in the mining counties. There is, how
ever, in every mining county, moro or less ag-
ricultural and timbcrsd land, and we know of
no valid reason why this land should not be
segregated from the mineral lands proper, and
sold by the government. The township lines
have already been run in most Of the mining
counties If proper persons were appointed to
seotioniEe these townships-loeal surveyors and
practical miners--they might select large guam
titles OF land, valuable for the timber and for
agricultural purposes, but useless for mining,
which might be sold. The people Of the min
ing counties are almost unanimously opposed
to the sale of the mineral lands, but there can
be no reasonable objection to selling all the
lands which are kno,en not to contain mineral.
II would be much better for the counties, too,
If these lands were sold, for it would add great
ly TO tho taxable property.
The Nevada Democrat., 1860-02-01
Taking the Census.

Mr.. Gwinn, of Yolo county, has introduced q
bill into the Assembly To provide for the taking
Of the census Of the State. II the provisions Of
the bill have been correctly reported, II isa
barefaeed attempt TO deplete the State Treas
ury, Of from 100000 to 100000. 1t Isauthori-
yes the Governor to appoint census marshals
for each county in the State, who are to receive
ten dollars day each, for their services. An
indsfnite number Of deputy marshals are also
to be appointed, each Of whom is 10 receive six
dollars day. The taking Of the census in this
manner would cost the State not less than
500. and would be 80 much money squan-
dered, as the returns would be Of no earthly
use.
The advocates Of Mr.. Gwin's bill contend that
the compensation usually allowed the marshals
by Congress is not sufficient to properly remu-
nerate those officers in California; consequent
Iy, unless some special provision is made, the
census will not be more than half taken, and
the State will lose one or more Representatives
in Congress- Admitting the argument to be
correct, the passage Of Mr.. Gwinn's bill would
not help the case particle, for the apportion-
ment, both for members Of Congress and the
State Legislature, mus. be made under the CEN
sus taken by the general government
II has been suggested in some quarters, that
the Legislature should make an appropriation,
allowing some additional compensation to the
census marshals In this State, and II there was
any truth 10 the assertion so frequently made,
that the amount allowed by Congress is insuffi-
cient to insure q correct census being taken,
such an appropriation might not be amiss. But
We believe there will be no difficulty in finding
reliable and competent men to do the work at
the rates now fixed by law. One man can take
the census Of Nevada county, and make out all
the returns, in five months For this work be
would receive about $1,000; and we have no
hesitation in saying that there are hundred
men in the county, in every way qualified, who
would undertake and carry through the work
for that amount of money. In the sparsely set
tied portions Of the State, the census takers
will perhaps not be able to make more than or
dinary wages during the time they are employ
ed at the work, but even at that rate, there will
be ten applicants for every place.
The interests of the State require that the
census to bo taken this year, should be COM
plete and correct in oil its details. But the
duty dsvolves upon Congress Of making the
necessary arrangements for that purpose; and
should special provision be needed for this
State, We have no doubt that our Representa-
tives in Congress will make the want known,
for they have never been accused of too much
modssty in asking for liberal appropriations
particularly when the money was to go into the
pockets of tho federal officers upon this coast