Daily national Democrat., 1860-12-19

vile, also on Thursday night; ana on FRIDAY
evening will give a benefit in this city to tn
Free Bridge, on which occasion they vii
l!ay, 10y request, the Octoroon
New YEARS BALL.-The Warren Engin
Co. No. 4, will give a grand ball at the Wate
Works Hall, on New Years Eve Decembe
3lst We have been honored with an invi.
tation, for which we return our hearty ac-
acknowledgements. The Wawens are making
preparations for jolly good time.
Pictorial ALMANAC FOR lS6l.-This Alma
nae, published by Randall d Co, D street
Marysville is perfectly accurate and is illus
trated with some very fine cuts A striking
one is that of the Overland Mail Stage and
Pony Express.
HANDSOME REsuLr-The Mirror under
stands that at the ball recently given in Sar
Francisco, for the benefit of the Deaf Dumt
and blind Asylum, nearly $1,000 was netted
and that the clear profits of the series of en-
tertainments given will probably reach tn,
handsome sum of 81 900.
A new steamboat is being built at the bay
for the purpose of running between San
Francisco and Sacramento. The boat is
owned by Mr. Kidd of Nevada and Capt w.
L. Phillips an experienced Mississippi steam
boat man.
captive Apache boy, aged about y ears
was brought to Tucson, Arizona, on the 4th
inst, by party of Pimos. He was sold for
a horse and gun, the price asked by his cap
tors. The purchaser was VIM AXE, who in
tends to eiviize and raise him to manhood.
MORE SnvER-The Yreka Journal of the
18th inst, says that a silver mine which
promises to be rich, has been discovered on
the east fork of Deadwood Creek, about nine
miles west of Yreka. The ore assays at the
rate Of $4,000 to the ton.
HENNEss PAss-The Transcript learns
from some gentlemen who arrived in Neva-
da on Saturday from Washoe via Henness
Pass, that the road is in good travelling con-
dition, and from the continued steady travel
the route will be kept open all winter.
The other day, on board ship at San
Francisco, a French sailor named Charles
Smith, was stabbed with knife by an Ital-
ian sailor named James Jerro. Smith, at last
accounts, was reported to be dying of his
wound. Jerro is in prison.
A COLLEGE has been founded at Mazatlan,
in which the children of the people of all
countries are taught the English, French
and Spanish languages. It is in flourish.
ing condition and promises TO be entirely
successful
FoRr CHuRcnlL1.-The Alta learns from a
gentleman just returned from Washoe, that
the barracks at Fort Churchill have been
completed, and there are now some two hun.
dred and fifty troops, with their officers
comfortably quartered there. The buildings
are all of adobe, and cover space Of about
eight hundred feet square.
WANTS CONSOLATION. The editor of the
La Cross (Wis) Union, who staked his print
ing office on Douglas carrying Illinois and
Wisconsin, appends this paragraph to the an
nouucement of the result of the November
elections:
"Wanted-A large Bible, with very coarse
print Any person having such a work,
with few consoling passages, marked, will
get a good bargain. Inquire at the editors
room all day"
TINS MORNINGS FIRE.-Abo bout o'clock this
morning fire broke out in house on the
north side Of Clay street, between Stockton,
owned by Mrs, DAGGER, aud soon eommuni-
Gated to the adjoining houses. In one of
them-Alrs Smiths boarding g-house-were
two knights of the quill-Ned Knight and
George Edward Barnes-both Of whom leap
ed from their blazing appointments into the
arms Of the crowd assembled beneath their
windows. About $1,000 damage was suffer-
eds. T. Mirror, .HoHday.
THE RETIREMENT or JUDGE NoRTov.-Ed-
ward Norton, Judge Of the Twelfth Judicial
District of the State, comprising pert of San
Francisco and all ofSan Mateo counties, with.
drew from the bench, after having filled that
office for six years. is rumored that Gov.
DOwney offered to Judge Norton the seat in
the Supreme Court of the State. soon to be-
come vacant by the resignation of Judge
Baldwin, and that the office was declined.
Judge Norton desiring to visit Eurepe.--S.
r. AHG.