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The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20
TurnDike Road Notice.

NE, THE Undersigned make this dclnrn.
w ration of intention to organize a Joint Stock
Company for the construction of Turnpike Road
The general route of said Turnpike Road to be
as follows, viz; Comnentipg at stake in the city
street leading westerly from the Nevada Foundry.
thence down said Street to the bank of Deer creek
and along the same as staked and bl&zed q Spruce
tree, thence aero.s said Deer creek to a Cedar.
thence along the lef bank III line to cross sEic
stresm twice ,tothe head of Stockings Flat thence
down said Flat and to an oak bazed from which it
crosses said Deer creek to Pleasant Flat and along
said Fiat passing dwellings aud bazed trees Beck
wells Flat following road across the same. thence
dverging to the left around point opposite Bowers
Dam, to the mouth CT slate. CREEK. opposite II w,
McCoy's mill. thence up sgid McCoy's road To the
intersection of the same with the road leading ffoh
Nevada city - sacramento city and Marysvile, the
same being 5! miles m6re or less and from thepce
parallel with said road down crossing ravine to the
right and terminating at the west end of bridge
In the town of Rough & Ready We intend to thor
oughly to macadamiic the same.
Notice is hereby given to all Wnoiti it NAV corccr
ma. s we the undersigned " i'll meet the United
states Hotel i'll the city and county of Nevad8 and
state OF California, Oh Saturday the 22st day of April
A. y: lehO, at O'clock P NJ of said day for tn o pnr
pose of preliminary organization of our COMPANY
Tor the purposes aforesaid The said organization
70 oe pursuant to an entitled an act to authorize
of Plank or Turnpike Roads passed NAV l9tb Issa
A. J. DOQDITTLE, q w tIrE
II. II. FLAGG I ? JiSNIfv
WIN. HEUGH, :; u T1rbSrH;
J II HELM, l. J. ROLFE, CHARLES MAR,U
state Of California, County of Nevada -on the eti
day OF April A. D 1860, personally appeared before
me Thomas r Hawley, Notary Public in and for
SAID county A. j. Ooolittle, II. H. Fiagg VIM
Itengh' j. H. Helm Chas Marsh e. G.. Waite J.
N, Turner, and l. J, Rolfe, personally known to me
to be the persons described in and who executed the
foregoing instrument. and severaly aeknowl lodged
SO me that they executed the freely and vo un.
tarly for the uses anG purposes therein mentioned
/ g In witness whereo have he cunt. set
L. ~ my hand md affixed the official Sc al. the
the day and year first above written
aprl3 THOS. =. HAWLEY. Notary Pub
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20
NEW TODAY.
A, No. l, Span Work Horses,
Wagon and Harness. for Sale. Apply to
j. M. HIXSON,
April 2Vth--w2 No n Broad street.
Sherif's Sale,

DY VIRTUE ofan Execution to me direct
- ed and delivered. issued out of the IL III.
District Court of the i4th judicial District, i'll
and fer the County ,f Nevada, State of Cali
fornia, on the sd day Of April A. u. 1860. in fa
vor OF CHARLES MARSH and ayaiust AMOS
+. LAIRD for the sum Of Twenty-fsur Humid
red and Eighty -one dollars with interest on she
said sum oil S2Iol from the l4th day of NAV
1897, at the rate of three per ceat per month
till Naid. together with S32 5U-l0O costs of srit
have leviet upon property which was herto-
fore attached March 2yth 156U, and by virtue
OF the attachment and execution | will sell all
the right, title and interest Of the above named
defendant A. 1. baird, of, in and to a certain
Water Ditch, known as Laird & Cos Geld Fiat
Ditch, taking water froM the south side of Deer
Greek and conveying the Same to Geld Flat,
with the appurtenances. Also the water ditch
known as tho Cascade Water Ditch, on the soath
81 g of the south fork of Deer Greek, with the
appurtenances. Also the short ditch, intersect-
ing with Deer Creek on the south side, about a
half mile above Scotch Fiat, being about three
fourths OF a mile in lsHgth !; with all the ap-
purtenances All the above described property
being located in Nevada County, State of Cali
fornis.
Notice is hereby given that on TUESDAY
the 18th day of May, A. D. Is6s, between the
hours of o'clock A. NJ, and O'Clock p. NJ. l
VIII SELL all right, title, interest and claim of
the said Amos T. Laird, to the above described
property at the Court House door, in Nevada
city, at public auction, for cash in hand to the
highest and best bidder, to satisfy said exscu-
ton and all costs.
J. B. VAN HAGEN, Sheriff n. C.
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20
Sherif's Salei

DYVIRTCE of an Execution to me direct
Dcd and delivered, issued out of the Hon.
District Court of the 14th Judicial District in
and for the County of Nevada State of Califor-
mia, on the 10th day of April A. D. 1860 in favor
CHARLES FOSTER and against NATHAN
HAWK, for the SUM Of Two Hun Ired ard one
95I00 dollars principal debt, with interest on the
principal at the ra'e Of ten per cent per annum
from the rendition Of Judgment until paid. to-
gether with all costs Of suit, for the sale of the
fol,0$ing described property, to-wit; One large
Zee House, si.rated about six miles above Ne
Fada, near Scott's Flat, with two reservoirs and
all the privileges, franchises, tools and appur.
tenances connected Herewith. One Ice House
about one mile above Nevada on Deer Creek
near tie Eigle Saw Mill, and all the rights fran
chises; and privileges connected Herewith, all
the Ice in the two houses, above described con-
sisting OF aboiit Two H1ndred and seventy five
tons. Three small lee Houses near the Sugar
Loaf, or Whartehby's Reservoir.
Notice is hereby given that on THURSDAY
the 26th day If April A. D 1850, between the
hours of O'Clock A. NJ, and 5 O'Clock P. NJ,
will sell all the right. title, interest and
claim Of said CHARLES FOSTER to the
above described property at the Court House
door in Nevada city at Public suction for cash
IN hand to the highest and best bidder, to satis
fly said execution and all costs.
Given Under my ha Id this 18th day of April
A. D. 1860.
J. B. VANHAGEN, Sheriff, I. c.
Per d. Burrell, Under Sheriff.
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20

County HospITAL.-In company with Dr.
R. NJ. Hunt, county physician, we took a
look at the new County Hospital building
on yesterday. AS we said on former oc-
casion, the building is situated on rising
ground about half mile from town in an
easterly direction. 1t is a plain structure,
seventy feet in .ength by thirty wide with
a pertico at the front end Behind is an
addition of four rooms to the main building,
used as dining hall, kitchen, wash and
bath room, and pantry. A wood house and
other necessary appendages to a hospital
are hard by.
The main building presents neat ap-
pearance on the outside and is painted. A
wide hall runs the entire length of the build
ing. The whole interior is plastered. The
walls are fourteen feet high and furnished
with a skylight ventilator. AS you enter
the front, on the right is a room for an office
and apothecary shop. On the left is a room
of similar proportions to be used as circum-
stances may require. The heremainder of the
interior is devoted to two apartments sepa-
rated from the hall on each side by wooden
partitions eight feet high. In each of these
apartments is q row of beds, some of which
were occupied by the inmates. The remain
der of the county patients were engaged in
conversation about a stove in one end of
room, mending garments in another, or
reading the "Scottish Chiefs" The pa
tients had been removed to their new quar-
ters but three days. The hospital, of course,
presented very clean and comfortable ap-
pearance, and barring a smell of paint was
as good place as the most fastidious pa
tient could expect. The Doctor has had the
hospital supplied with new furniture, and
we were surprised to see things in so good
a shape generally. The whole institution,
lot and all, cost the county about S2,SOO,
and, we are assured it will compare favora-
bly, with any similar institution in the
State.
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20
FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL Goth, 1850.

DEATH OF JOHN C. BELL.-Assemblyman
Bell, of Ell Dorado, who was shot at and
stabbed on Wednesday of last week in the
Sergeant-at-Arms' room in the capital, by
DR.. Stone, died on Sunday morning OF
the wounds received. His colleague, John
Conness, delivered an eloquent eulogy and
presented resolutions of respect to the
memory of the deceased on Monday Both
houses adjourned resolution to appro-
pri&te one Thousand dollars for the purpose
of defraying the expenses of burial and to
erect suitable monument TO Mr.. Bell, also
passed the Assembly.
Some OF our contemporaries have taken
occasion to inveigh against the practice of
carrying deadly weapons, in connection
with the sad affair, and call upon the Legis-
lature for q law prohibtingthe same. The
practice is truly a demoralizing one and
ought to be discontinued. The time was
perhaps, when no one was safe in a majority
OF the mining camps of California without
nrus, and every body carried them. That
time has passed. None but the most worth
less, whose lives are not worth the pow der,
are disposed to carry batteries on their per-
sons row. There is no excuse for man to
carry deadly weapons habitually in the
cities and large towns. His life is safe if it
is worth saving. There is no doubt but
. many q man has been safer from assault
from the fear that he had arms concealed
which he might use, and many robber,
and murderer too, has been deferred from
the commission of crime fearing to encoun-
ter an armed man. The same wholesome
fear may still be kept up in some districts
of the State. 4 law to prohibit the carry
ing of concealed weapons would disarm the
law-abiding. peacable citizen and put him
at the mercy of cut-throats who ,cW carry
arms, law or no law. Suppose we have d
law to prohibit carrying concealed weapons
who is TO examine every mans person
day by day to see whether he is infringing
the law or not? You can make him re-
sponsble for using them against the peace
OF society; but no person expects to be ar
raigned for his life for having killed anoth-
er, and besides, he is responsible for such
use now; and in the present state of society
can any one demonstrate that it would go
harder with man before a jury for having
killed another with prohibited arms than
under existing laws and customs? 1t seems
to us that the custom, like many others,
will have to be discountenanced by a strong
public sentiment. When Intoxicating liq-
uors, the fruitful source of crime, shall
have been banished from US, we can Justly
ask for q law to protect ourselves against
the use Of fire arms, if indeed, such law
should then be at all necessary. If one in
ducement TO commit crime is TO be removed,
why not another, and greater?
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20
NEW TO-DAY.
JANSON, BONb eco,

Importers and Jobbers OF
DRY GOODSi BLANKETS, CLOfHING G
Straw Goods, Hosiery, Yanifee Noti8hs, etc
WE have recently, in consequence OF having ar
w rivals of New Goods, been Obliged TO enlarge
cur already large Store, at the
Corner Of Clay and Battery Streets,
Where we are now openi ng the largest and best
sorted Spring Stock ever Imported in San Fran
CISCO eon listing of every article in our line and al
together too numerous to enumerate We are d.
termned
Not to be Undersotd By any one in the Trade.
But win furnish stoek Of goods at less rates than
il be bought auction while the stock to select
from presents far greater ass ortment and facile.
for supply than doz n Auction Sales. We will
grant the usual credit to all responsible buyers and
traders. allow Discount for Cash on all bills
equal 10 the time usually granted.
We are opening one thousand packages of
NEW AND FIRE s HI GOODS!
just landed Great Republic, A. jackson, Sierra
Nevada and other Clipper Ships now in port; and
are receivingby every Steamer large assortment OF
New Dress and Fancy 0oodsi
To which we invite the attention of the Trade.
We only ask the buyers of the Pacific Coast
whether by the Package or the Pec to examine our
large stock before purth hasing elsewhere, and are
satisfied that give satisfaction both in regard
to styles as well as prices Call and see u.s.
JANSON, BOND & Co.,
Corner Battery and Clay SITS,
April 20 'bO 3m San Francisco
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20
The Stat. Prissn-ssa.e arulcsed.

The Supreme Court has at last decided
what is even justice and law in the contest
between the State and McCauley, State
Prison Lessee. AS we predicted long ago,
the State comes out second best on every
point. The State is again mulcted for
large sum of money-some 100000.
To set forth the innumerable and success
sive blunders committed by the Legislatures
and Governors of this State in State Prison
affairs, would be long, tedious and dis
gusting history. We doubt if any other
country, civilised or barbarous, can present
parallel for gross abuse and mismanage-
ment. Every thing, from the establishment
of the prison at Point San Quentin, and be-
fore, down to the present hour, has been
wrong, all wrong. Blunder has followed
blunder, as if blunder was the design of all
engaged in the business of regulating the
prison, and every one on coming to power
was obliged to tread in the footsteps of his
predecessor. John Bigler commenced his
career by a reckless disregard of the inter-
ests of the State in State Prison matters,
awarding contract to Vassault to build a
prison, for more than million dollars
Afterwards he vetoed every thing In the
shape of State Prison bill, except such as
gave him money and patronage to dispense.
He made an outcry against the expenses in
CURED by the State to Estell for keeping the
prisoners, took possession of the prison in
the name of the State, when 10, twas found
under his administration the expense arose.
to $4,000 month. A recurrence to the
Lessee system was had, under Know
Nothing Administration and the keeping
of the prisoners let at $4,000 per month.
It was an outrage, said the Democracy.
They would straighten things out. The
Legislature authorized John B. Weller to
take possession of the prison. He did take
possession. The State kept the prisoners
fourteen months, when the courts returned
them to the charge of the Lessee. The Su-
preme Court has now decided that the State
owes McCauley ten thousand dollars month
for the whole time she kept the prison her
self, besides for about as much more time
that she has refused to pay for. Itis nice
little sum of money now due the Lessee
more than all the money In the General
Fund in the State Treasury. And after ALL
the Lessee system, bad as it is, must con-
tinue unless the State pays the Lessee a bo-
nus of some hundred thousand dollars to
get rid of him.
1t is about time the tar payers Of the Stats
began to realize the actual state of affairs. |
The State is plunging yearly, more and
more in debt in spite of all professions of
economy and reform.
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20

Cosr OF THE HARPER's FEERY AFFI1R.-
The commissioners appointed to audit and set
tie the expense of the Harper's Ferry, or John
Brown affair, have reported to the Virginia
Legislature that they have paid S137;fsO; that
$3l, JOB more has been audited and reported,
and that Sl7.3S3 has been expended by the
Governor out of the civil contingent fund--ag-
gregate SlS5,567 The sum of 81, 140 was paid
to the military. The following amounts were
appropriated to railroads for transportation, viz
Alexandria and Washington, Sl02; Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac, S56l6; Richmond
and Petersburg, S207; Baltimore and Ohio,
s19,313 IS. The Clarke county troops got 49,
O65 70, and the Wise Artillery, of Martinsburg,
$3,6S3.
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20

THE Charleston Convention will vote BY
States, each State casting as many votes as in
the electoral college; but by resolution adopt
ed at Cincinnati, the Convention will be COM
posed of twice as many delegates as voters
Classified into Free and Slave States the former
will send 366 against 240 from the latter Be-
side these, the members of the National Demo-
cratic Executive Committee have seats on the
floor of the Convention, but no votes. They are
SO in number. Moreover, it is customary to ad-
init distinguished members Of the party to the
floor of the house courtesy; so that the
Convention will be composed of about $50 mem-
bers.-T Tribune.
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20
0dda md Ends.

WAsHoE is a somewhat breezy, ,oindy country,
there is a scarcity of wood for steam WORKS; why
could not arastras and stamping mills be driven
by windmills, or more properly wind-wheels p
There is, nearly every day, a splendid breeze
blowing for such business. No joke intended.
At Pixies Peak, they speak of quartz as we do
of fire wood, reckoning it by the cord as the
following extracts from letter in the Rocky
Mountain Ne,os win show. Speaking of the Fisk
lead
" This is a very rich lead, the crevice four feet
wide, the qdafti paying from $3.50 to 5000 per
cord" The Grihnell lead" A cord of the iron
pyrites yields between five and six hundred dol
| lars"
The Washoe folks might get hint from the
above; it whould sound extensive to speak of
silrer by The cord.
PIKE says he can furnish Thyme to window
"She stumped her toe an down she fell
seed her from the window
You ort 30 hurd the critter yell,
For the eend Off nose were skin d, oh %
[Pike is only second best. sambo sung long
ago
seed her through the window,
She was my dear Lucinda
I'd give my life to been in da,
A Chinese Angler.-The following amusing,
yet somewhat cruel trick was played off on a
Chinaman, at a mining town on the Stanislaus.
John was sitting on bench in front of the meat
market, his tail dangling on the ground behind
him. A fellow belonging about the Meat shop
cTept up silly behind the unconscious John,
whose thoughts were, perhaps; rowing in the
Flowery Kingdom" and tied fast to the end
of his narrative a large fish hook baited
with small slice of beef. 1t was not long be-
fore John, having finished his dream started up
the street. the hook and bait dangling at his
heels Soon there is a string of ten OF dozen
dogs trotting at the Chinamans heels, pointers,
ours, hounds, and dogs of divers breeds and
colors, all anxious to secure the tempting NOR
square. First one then another would reach out
his nose, almost totth the bait, then suddenly
stop, look up at the Cbinaman and fall back
John tried several times to drive the dogs away,
but they were back in moment, and at last a
huge, lank, starved looking cur seized the bait
and bracing his feet gave a tremendous tug
John yelled out and wheeled round, the dog tried
to run away, and there they had it-pull dog
pull John, and oh the outlandish howls and
gibbersh that rolled in continuous torrent from
that Chinaman's throat Sometimes the dog
SEEMED running off with John, then again John,
seizing his tail in both hands and bracing his
feet; turned the tide of battle in his own favor.
At last John drew his knife and Though he
would almost as soon have cut his throat) whack-
ed off his tail near to the ours jaws as the an
imal, which had now become savage, would let
him approach, leaving about ten inches in the
jaws of the enemy.
DAN DEQeILLE:
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20

By the last steamer we sent from tbi. Office to
the Atlantic States 800 copies of tho Hydraulic
Press. That is pretty large shipment for a
little mountain paper and for that reason we
mention it; but it is neutrality-suspicious.
Press.
Glad to hear of your prosperity, editor Avery,
but we can beat that. By the last mail from this
place for the East, we mailed FIVE hundred and
twenty five Journals, postofice count Trinity
Journal.
Come, brothers, allow an old editor to give q
little sage advice. We want you to save all the
circulation you have and get more. But don't
save your journals over too many mails. Your
subscribers east will not ike too many old pa
pcrs.
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20

MONEY FOR THE PLAckRvILLE RoUTE.-Sen-
ator Crittenden introduced into the Senate on
Friday last, a bill apprortiating fifty thousand
dollars for the improvement of the Placerville
route. That bill will be forced upon both houses
and pressed with all speed for final bassage.
1t is a modest bill-very modest. We hope the
friends of other routes will tack on like amounts
for every pass in the State, or kill the monster
outright. 1t is an attempt at damnable swim
die for the benefit Of pampered few.
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20
DISTRICT COURT.

THURSDAY MORNING, April 18TH 1860.
Court met pursuant to adjournment. Present,
Hon. Niles searls, District Judge.
Excelsior Co. VS.. David Bovyer. Order of
Continuance
Rich Barry; ct ais, rs. Jno. Lyons, ct als-
Order Of continuance.
j. I'll. Heilshorn VS.. His Creditors Order ap-
pointing Sheriff assignee
Saturday, April 14th.
Levi Sandfotd vs.. Hartrey Fuller. Order
for Judgment.
Rich'd Barry, ct al, vs.. Mr.. Lyons, ct ais
Trial of cause.
Mcnday, April 10TH
c. Foster VS.. n. Hawk Motion to act on
referees report overrued.
Turner Il Lemmons VS.. O'Neill Dutt, ct al
Motion for new trial.
Richd Barry, ct ais, vs.: Mr.. Lyons, ct al
Verdict for plaintiffs.
Patrick Donovan native of Ireland admitted
to citizenship:
Tuesday, April 18th:
Chas. G. Rosendale VS.. Loew 1 Brown Sub
mitted and taken under advisement.
Turner Timmops VS.. O'Neill, britt, ct al
Order overriding motion for new trial.
Court adjourned till Saturday morning Arrn
2lst, at 10 o'clock.
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20
For the Nevada Journal.

OCE IN "ASnOEs
On the hills of dreary Washoc-
Washoe, rich in gold and silver;
Where it lays in chunks as big as
Lumps of chalk, and often bigger
On the hills and in the valleys,
On the fats and in the canons,
'Mong the sand hills and the sagc.brush
In their tents and in their shanties,
Are the men that couldn't wait till
Spring had come and SHOWS departed.
Round their fires they sit and shiver,
Shiver, shiver, shake and shiver,
With their toes stuck in the ashes,
With their eyes all smoked and watery,
With their noses swollen and angry,
With their cheeks well cured as baconj
To the blaze their palms extending,
With the ashes falling round them,
Falling, falling oh their hair and
On their yhiskers like to snow-hakesj
Thicker, faster falling, falling,
Till their heads are powdered over,
Till their whiskers well are whitencd.
They'r out of bread, also of patience,
Hope has fed, ditto their bacon;
Sugar gone-an "Injun" with it
Smith isshungry, so is Muggins,
Bowels yearring, yearning, yearning
For the flesh pots left behind them,
For the slap-jacks, for the bean-soup
For the coffee, tea and bacon
Left behind in California.
So they sit and growl and grumble;
Prospects of fortunes getting dim,
Dim, dim! getting daily DINNER.
Smith is heme-sick, so is Muggins,
Young frpopkins,1 too, has got the blaes;
Also, Phelim, son of Erin,
Pike and Posey, all gaze homeward.
All the silvef-precious silver!
Found by them was in their pockets
Alas! the ''lead," too soon it petered,"
Petefed, petered, petered, petered!
Not scad and not "chispa,"
Scrape the "bed-rock mot colorf
Busted, busted, busted, busted
Still they stay and wait and hunger,
Still they sit and growl and grumble,
Afraid to leave, afraid to stay;
Cursing wind and cursing weather,
Cursing this thing, cursing that thing
Cursing, swearing, damning, cursing-
Cursing fires that smoke and sputter;
CuEsing men that tell big stories
And the fools that will believe them;
Coming all the way to Washoe,
Wading through the snow to get there!
Struggling, tugging just to get there.
Braving snow and bfaving weather,
Killing horses, killing mules to
Get to dreary, hungry Washoe,
There to sit and gfowl and shiter.
The Nevada journal., 1860-04-20
Summons,

siefe Of California County of Nevada ss., townshi
OF Nevada before John Anderson J. p. Peoplp
oi the state Of aliforn.a. to j. w. HASTINGS
Nou are hereby summoned TO appear before the
l. undersigned J1stce Of the Peace, at his office,
IN said township, on Wednesday; the 23d day oil
say, A d.. le6O at o'clock A. NJ. to answer to the
sum Of s2l is for goods wares and merchandise sold
and delivered IS per complaint on file. On failure so
10 appear and answer. Judgment will be rendered
against you for the said sum of S2l l5 and coSs ot
suit. Given under my hand this 22d day OF Pebrua'
~, A. D. 1856. JOHN ANDERSON, J.F.
Icb. 2f,h. q Neyads IerHs1ir