The hydraulic press., 1861-01-26
MOUNT BONITA. Jan. Dist. 1861.


MEssRs. EDITORS Your scribe would inform
you this is an absolute-in fact, an uncondition-
al region Of winter. More rain more snow, and
more cold and frosty weather has stayed with
us for the past six weeks than before within
the sojournment here of white men. Our stores
are nearly empty; nor is there even a slight
prospect of their being soon replenished. Such
a thing as team has not visited these parts for
two months past. Flour is So per hundred, po-
tatoes Sc, cabbage IS, onions So, corn-meal
81, barley Sc, hay 800 per ton; and owing to
the frequency of balls and birthday cotilion par
ties, soap and candles have advanced each to one
dollar per pound. Yet, Notwithstanding the
great rise in the various necessaries of life, every
body looks cheerful, save one or two who have
lately experienced revolution in their domestic
affairs, and quite goodly quantity of brandy is
daily consumed whilst even that spirit
ing liquid has advanced. For quite an inferior
article, Sc 30 per gallon is immoderately. demand
ed. But so far as your scribe, individually, may
speak, he would be equally prosperous and hap
py if the above liquid commanded $50 per gal
lon; for whisky is more wholesome drink, and
California wine unintoxicating
The bitches as yet are running no water, and
all the mining that is being done is confined to
operations in Humbug Creek. Even there, the
labor is prosecuted only by few Cinnamon, who
clean up to the hand per day from % cents to
81, and which is about enough to supply them
with rice and roast pig.
The order of Mormonism has been in these
parts reversed, and two more happy and content
ed husbands to one wife, dwelt never under the
same roof. This is a country in which your
scribe may wonder why an order of the above ma
ture should not be prosperous?
One of our most respectable citizens here is
suspected of matrimonial designs, from the fact
of his having purchased double bedstead-an-
other, from having bought nine yards Of calico
with trimmings, together with pair Of skirt
hoops. However just the suspicion may be, CT
ardent the suit of those gentlemen, your scribe
will hold himself responsible in prognosticating
that they will each receive "mitten for neither
bedsteads, hoops nor calico have potency to pre-
vail in their case.
In the mention of roast-pig, as above, it might
be well to have stated-and it is not yet too late
that owing to the scarcity of rootable territory
and the high price of feed, pork has greatly de-
clined This may be regarded fully reliable
from the following statement A neighbor, few
days ago, butchered hog and was obliged, at a
cost equal to the value of the swine, to purchase
a can of lard with which to fry it
Professor skidmorc is doing spirited bust
ness. His late conversion to the Republican
party, through the influence of Father Carter,
has greatly extended his trade The man who
was injured last week by an explosion of ten
gallon keg of lager beer, in the Professors estab
blishment, is again able to be about. =. . =. :.
A large pack-train from Nevada, bound fer
Washoe, laden with flour, and not being able to
proceed further, sold ont fn this place, and re-
turned yesterday. Yours, HENRY JACOBS.