The hydraulic press., 1860-02-25
Tl,e Avdranlie 2ress.
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papers published in the mountains appreci-
ate the importance to the welfare of the min
ing regions of a variety of Industrial par
cultural and genealogical capacity Of the
upper country. Even so far towards the
summit of the Sierra Nevada as Downieyilie,
the local press raises its voice for the deyel-
opment of home resources The Sierra Dem
Ocrat says:
'sThese little plots along the river banks
would produce vegetables equal to any in
the world, and the hllsides facing the sun
cannot be surpassed in adaptability to grape
growing. These lands will at some time all
be cultivated. Their day of usefulness is,
to use hackneyed phrase, "a mere question
of time-but it is the interest of all who wish
TO see a happy snd settled population in these
latitudes, that. the day be FASTENED when
our little valleys and great hiisdcs shall
blossom like the rose. If our prospecting
miner would give little of his time and
trifie of his money TO nclosng and cultiyat-
ing garden that would make his cabin seem
like home, he would soon find himself sur
rounded by such cheer as he now sees only
in dreams"
DR.. Veateh recently delivered an original
lecture before the S. F. Mechanics Institute,
on the "Poetry of Invention and the True
Social Position of the Mechanic" He COM
pared seamsireSses to beautiful ladies of the
old time oppressed by an old soreerer, pow
erty, and relieved by those modern knights
the inventors and the mechanics. He thinks
there is enough poetry and romance in the
realities of to day, and says "there is more
poetry in the clicking of a sewing machine
than in the armor clang of thousand
mailed knights engaged in a brutal conflict
for brutal triumph"
An exchange relates that the uninjured
photograph of one of the victims of the
steamer Northnner's wreck was washed
ashore to his bereaved wife, who had es-
capped with her life from the same catastro-
ply.
From the Amador Ledger we learn that
one hundred and fifty men at Volcano were
prevented from getting a sight of the fat
woman as she alighted from her carriage by
vas. They must have thought she was
uduck ola woman, of the canvas back kind.
A chap observes that she canvassed Volcano
shoroughly. In the same lively town some
Dutch dancing girls were frightened away
by tremendous explosion of fre-crackers
in the saloon where they danced.
A Savings Bank has been established by
the French residents of San Francisco un-
der the supervision of their Mutual Benevo-
tence Society. Deposits ranging from one
dollar to two thousand dollars will be re-
zion is, that all depositors of sums not less
than ten dollars are entitled to pro rata
share in the surplus funds remaining after
The regular payments of interest.
The action of the State Agricultural Soci-
ETY., in deciding to hold its next annual fair
at Sacramento, where the last one was held,
has enraged several of the agricultural coun-
ties and led to preliminary steps for the or
ganization of District Societies which are
intended to take the place of the State So
ciety. 1t is to be regretted that these peace
full agriculturists cannot avoid quarreling,
but if multiplication ef local societies re-
suits from it the effect will be vastly bene-
fetal, for we believe local societies are the
most efficient stimulators, and that the ag-
more practical usefulness.
The mineral discoveries in Kapa county
now include silver, copper, tin and quick
silver. If the COW counties continue their
present eager search for rich mines with sue
cessful results, we may expect to see a-rnore
cordial feeling exhibited towards the mining
counties proper, and perhaps the idea of not
taxing diggings will appear less odious than
heretofore.
Rev. w. S. Kellogg, late Of Grass Valley,
is lecturing in the lower part of the State on
an interest in the California College, in which
Institution he holds professorship.
The Pitt river Indians VINO were taken to
the Mendeeino Reservation after the capture
by Gen. Kibbe, are reported to be at large
with arms in their hands, which were fur
nished them by officers of the Reservation
10 hunt with, because there was no food for
hem. They are said to be committing dep
relations on stock. A correspondent of the
Retaluma Journal furnishes these facts, and
thus sums up the whole matter of Indian
troubles:
The Indians are in a starving condition
they kill stock to live. The whites canno,
afford horses and cattle for theirsustenance
and will not. Ergo, unless Government pro
sides for the Indians, the settlers mustaex.
terminate them.
At Union, Humboldt county, a large sized