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The Nevada Democrat., 1861-11-23
The Fight near New Orleans.

The New York Tribune gives the annexed
account of the naval engagement in the
Mississippi. below New Orleans, in which
the rebels claimed to have sunk the sloop
Preble and gained great victory:
An attack was made on the night of Oct.
18th on the United States feet lying at an-
chor near the Southwest Pass, by the rebel
feet, consisting of six gunboats, the batter
ingram Manassas, aud large number OF
fiIe-ships, which filled the river from shore
10 shore.
The United States feet consisted of the
United States steamers Richmond. Hunts
vile, Water Witch, sloops.ofwar Preble
aud VincennCs, and etoreship (late slavery
Nightingale. The fleet, when attacked, was
at anchor inside of Southwest Pass, to pro-
tect the batteries in process of erection 10
command The mouths of the Mississippi. The
ram Manassas came down aud drifted foul
Of the Richmond, starting a couple Of
planks in her quarter and stern, doing but
little damage. To avoid the fre-ships the
squadron Immediately got under weigh and
drifted down the river.
The Richmond, Preble and Vinceunes got
ashore on the bar, the Nightingale also
went ashore, and while ashore were attack
ed by the rebels, but without doing any
damage to the vessels or life in any respect.
But one shot took effect and that struck the
Richmond on the quarter. They were beaten
off by the Vincennes with two guns, she
having hove over board the rest of her ar
mament, with her chains, anchors, etc, to
tighten her. she being very much exposed
to the rebel fire.
The squadron has no one wounded or
killed. The Richmond, Preble and Vim
cennes were tOwed off the next day. by the
steamship Mcclellan, which opportunely
arrived. The Mcclellan received consider.
able damage to her stern frame in getting
them off. The Nightingale remained ashore
when the Mcclellan left. and would prob.
ably be got off the next day by the aid Of
the steamers connected with the feet. The
Uniled States steam frigate Niagara ar.
rived at the Southwest pass on the 14th.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-11-23

Is connected with the house and particular attention
viii be given TO the care Of horses carriages, &c
Horses and Carriages at all times be procured by
application ct the Offee.
GEO. R. LANCASTER, Prs'r.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-11-23

The FIGHTING McCOoKs.-The Washing
ton correspondent of the New York Post,
writing October 10Th says
Col. McCook, of this city, was in the af-
fair Of Bolivar Heights this week. lie was
knocked down by spent ball, but sustain
cd no serious injury. lie is GO years Of age.
lIis son was killed at the battle Of Stone
Bridge. The McCook family is beginning
to be known through the newspapers as The
"Fighting McCooks." 1t seems difficult to
have battle anywhere witbuot the brave
old gentleman or one OF bis many sons is
not engaged. lie is the father OF Gen. Nc
Cook, now commanding the Federal forces
on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
and Of Col. r. L. McCook, now attbe head
of a brigade under Gen. Rosenkrans in
Western Virginia Col. George w. McCOok
OF Ohio, is ALEC a son of the old hero. There
are, beside, one or two younger members
OF the family now In arms in The cause Of
the Union.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-11-23

SoIRREL SAVINGS OF CENTURIES AGO.
The San Jose Mercury relates the following:
Mr.. Lathrop felled a large redwood tree near
Lexington few days since. On working the
tree into lumber, he found, some distance from
the ground, a cavity near the heart Of the tree,
containing a small quantity Of hickory oak nuts.
The place was overgrown with sound wood.
The nuts must have been there for more than a
thousand years, as Mr.. Lathrop succeeded in
counting, without the aid of the microscope, a
thousand concentric rings Of wood, that had
overgrown the cavity. The nuts were as perfect
and fresh as though they had been there no
longer than month.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-11-23
Bankers and Assayers.
MARYsVILLE
PIONEER ASSAY OFFICE,
III. HARRIS & co

III. HARRIS s. CO.,
e Street, Near Corner OF ed, MarysvalIe,
Also 70 ] street, Sacramento.
los SACRAMENTO STREET, SAN FRANCISCO,
And Aurora, Esmeralda Mining District.
WILL CONTINUE TO CARRY ON THE BUSINESS
w of Melting, Refining and Assaying
Gold and Ores of Every Description
ADVANCES MADE ON GOLD DUST.
Gotu Bars bought and sold. Returns made ia Bar,
or Coin, IN SIX HOURS.
Shippers of DUST can draw, against consignment
on our houses at MARYSVIILE, SACRAMENTO and
SAN FRANCISCO, and Check Books for that purpose
will be furnished by us.
They would respectfully solicit from the Miners and
Dealers, their patronage. As vouchers for the cor
rectness Of their Assays, they refer with permission
to the following Bankers who for nearly four years
have shipped Bars assa yed by them TO the Eastern
States and Europe:
SAN FRANCISCO: EVANSVILLE:
b. Davidson, Esq, Low Bros. & Co.,
Mess. j. ParrOtt Il Co., Decker Jewett Paxton,
'' Sather & Church. REYNOLDS Bros
q" Reynolds Refs & Co. NEW YORK.
SACRAMENTO: B. Berend Co,
B. F. Hastings h Co., Trevor h Colgate,
d, o. Mills Il Co,
QUICKSILVER AGENCY
OF THE NEW lDRIA MINES.
The best article the State, sold at San Francisco
Agents rates.
August 9, 1861. II. HARRIS co.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-11-23
ALTVERY STABLE.

MODERATE, TO SUIT THE TINES.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-11-23

VIcToRIA-A correspondent, writing to a
San Francisco paper, says the town Of Victoria,
on Vancouver Island, is growing rapidly
Many Improvements Of a substantial character
are being made. There is an increasing conf
becoming more valuable.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-11-23
Hotels and Restaurants.
S It. LO us H Ell,

S It. L % us H % r E l. /,
Commercial ST., Nevada.
WE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECTFULLY Y
l. inform the citizens Of Nevada and vicinity, that
he has leased the above welknown establishment
situated on Commercial street Nevada and will give
his undivided attention to the comfort of guests
The Building is a Fire Proof Brick,
two stories high the Rooms commodious and we'll
ventilated and for convenience not surpassed by an
Hotel in the mountains
HSr THE TABLE "a
Will always be supplied with every luxury TO be OBJ
tanned in the market.
Travellers and others visiting Nevada, will find at
the ST. LOUIS, all the cOnveniences and comforts of
FIRST GLASS HOTEL.
List OF Prices
poJ Pa "a ''.'.So,UO
Doaru ana Lodging 90
Sng'e MeaS'.'. .....,. 90
Lodging, per night. ........,......,........ so
BY constant attention to the wants of bis guests,
the proprietor hopes to merit liberal pa 'ronage
Nevada, July 25, 1861. J. VANDERLIETH.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
FROM WASHINGTON,

At last accounts the feeling between
the members from the North and South
was more bitter than ever. Nothing
would satisfy the Gulf States but a
complete submission to all their unrea-
sonable demands. Even the border
slave states do not feel like doing this
In the House, the course Of Major
Anderson was endorsed by the very de-
cisive vote of 1874 to Sc. The fre-eat
ing traitors denounced his course as a
piece of cowardice. Barksdale, Toonlbs,
aud others, were bold in their treason
and declared that the onl y arbiter in this
case was the sword. They are determ.
ined to p-ecipitate this country into
civil war, and upon their shoulders lei
the responsibility rest.
1t was rumored on the TIN inst. thai
Toombs would probably be arrested fol
treason for having recommended the peo'
pie of Georgia to take possession of the
forts in that State. Such scoundrels
ought to be strung up.
Republican members are quiet but
irm-they are willing to yield everything
that reasonable men ought to ask, but
they contend that the Gulf States ask toe
much.
The prospects Of a peaceable settle
.ment of the difficulties are now more
gloomy than ever-the general govern
ment will soon be compelled to take pos
session Of its property and insist upor
the traitors laying down their arms and
submitting to the execution of the laws,
and it will not suffer them to dictate then
own terms, either.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
GEN. SIMON CAMERON.

We see it announced as fact that
this gallant and noble son of the o'd
Keystone State has been selected by Mr.
Lincoln to take the position OF Secretary
of the Treasury in his Cabinet. We loos
upon this as being one of the very bes'
selections the President elect could pos
sibly have made. Gen. Cameron pos
sesses the practical business qualifications
so necessary to a proper discharge OF the
arduous duties of that position. and his
well known ability as fnancier gives
him peculiar fitness for the work o
extricating this country from the fnan-
cial difficulties into which she has been
plunged by Buchanan, Cobb. & Co.
Mr.. Cameron is one of our noblest speci-
mems of American greatness, having
worked his way, unaided, from the work
shop to the Senate Chamber. Higher hon.
ors await him.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

In order to give our readers the
Message of Governor Dennlson as early
as possible, we have again gone to the
expense of issuing an extra containin
it.
It is an able document--just such
one as we expected from our worthy
and talented Governor. Itgives clear
and satisfactory exhibit of State insti-
tutions and State affairs generally, and
abounGs with good suggestions and sea
sonable recommendations.
That part of the Message which re-
fers to our national affairs and the un.
fortunate troubles in which our coun.
try is now involved, cannot but mee
the appreciation Of every law abiding
Union loving patriot in the land. We
have not time to say more this week
but may refer to this adm irable S
paper again.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
SHERIFF,S SALE.
State of Ohio, Wyandot county, IS

State OF Ohio, Wyandot county, SIS:
Pursuant to the command of an order of sale in
partition from the Court of Common Pleas, in and
for the county of Wyandot. to directed, l shall
expose to public sale, at the door of the Court
House, in Upper Sandusky, on the 18th day ol
January A d 1861 between the hours of 10 o'clock
m and 4 o'clock, p m of said day, the following
described property, to wit:
The North east quarter of section eleven in
township south of the base line of range four
teen less seventeen acres and seventy seven hund-
dredths of acre out of the south east corner as
follows, to- wit: commencing at the south east cor
ner of said quarter section thence running south
S71ae west eight chains and eighty eight hund-
redths to stake. Thence north 21a0 west twenty
chaina to stake, thence north s. east chains
and eighty eighry hundredth to stake, the east
line of said quarter section, thence south east
the east line of said quarter section to the place
of beginning leaving after deductiug the seven
teen acres and seventy seven hundredth of an acre
one handred and forty two acres and twenty thret
hundredths OF au acre. all situate in Wyandot coun
ty, Ohio. To be sold subject to the dover estate
of Solome Hamman in the two eighths part of the
premises and at the suit of Gearhart Schuetz,
guardian VS. William Green and others.
Terms of Sale-One third cash in hand on Gay
Of sale one third in one year and one third in two
years from day of sale, deferred payments to be
secured by mortgage on the premises. Appraised
at $50 per acre.
JAMES CULBERTSON, Jr, Sheriff
Nov 90 60. Pf-$6
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
Policies in Fort Moultrie.

An officer at Fort Moultrie, having poll
icy of insurance in one of our leading
Life Insurance Companies, wrote to the
Comp any on the 22d instant, stating the
probability that the Fort would soon be
attacked, and the certainty that "it would
he defended to the last extremity" and
inquiring what would be the effect upon
his policy if he should fall He was
promptly answered, that although the
Company was not legally liable where
the insured fell in battle, yet. eff he
should thus fall now, whilst doing his
duty gloriously, and abandoned by the
government, he need have no fears but
that his policy would be paid. " =,
Post. .p- s--. .--- ...
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
SHERIFF'S SALE.
State of Ohio, Wyandot county,

State of Ohio, Wyandot c'unty, ss:
Pursuant to the command of 2nd order of sale
from the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the
county of Wyandot, to me diricted, 1 shall ex-
pose to public sale at the door of the Court House,
in Upper Sandusky, on the 18th day of February A
D 1861, between the hours of 10 o'clock m and
o'clock nj of said day, the following described
property, to wit:
The undivided half of part of the east half
of the north east quarter of section twenty two
of township three of range fifteen commencing
at the north east corner of said quarter section
running thence south 10 post now set for gar
den fence, thence west far enough to make an
acre and a half in 50 uare form out of the north
east corner of said quarter section. Also part
of said quarter section bounded as follows: com j..
meacing at the north west corner of said acre
and half tract and running thence west nine
rods, thence south nine rods thence east nine
rods, thence north nine rods to the place of begin
ming, said premises situate in Wyandot county
Ohio.
The undivided half of said premises.
Appraised at Seven hundred dollars. To be
sold as the property of j. D. Rex ct al, at the suit
of George Kinney.
Terms of Sale, cash
JAMES CULBERTSON, Jr. Sheriff.
Jan 10. 81. Pf-$4,50.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
THE PLOT THICKENs.

Daily Developments show that treason
against the UDion lies not solely at the
door of the so called secassionists, but
that the leaders of the Democratic party
are fully implicated. Douglas has "come
down." Pugh succumbs. Vallandingham
never wavered in bis devotion to the trail
tors, and all over the country the Demo
cratic papers--including the Cincinnati
Enquirer and Columbus Statesman--are
giving in their adherence to secession
that is, they repudiate all attempts to stay
it, save by giving the slavery interest all
it asks. Democracy, therefore is devot.
ed to the negro, and tells white labor thai
it has no rights the country is bound te
respect.
Meanwhile the Southern States are
declaring war against the Union by seiz
ing all the forts, and it is rendered even
more than probable that the force is Or
ganized that expects to march from Vir.
ginia and Maryland to take possession o
Washington. s..faa
What now does it behoove the Free
States to do? They must tender thei1
men and their treasure to keep the roae
open for Mr.. Lincoln to Washington, ane
to keep that city from the hands of trai
tors. The masses Of the Democracy vii
sco:n the treachery of tn cir leaders, ane
there will be a united North upon thi:
question.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
SHERIFF'S SALE.
State OF Ohio, Wyandot county,


Pursuant to the command cf an order of sale
from the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the
county of Wyandot. to me directed, shall ex-
pose to public sale, at the door of the Cou 1T House
IN Upper Sandusky, on the 18th day of January
A d 1861, between the hours of 10 occck m
and o'clock p m. of said day, the following de
scribed property, to wit:
The west part of the north west quarter of frac-
tional section ten, in township one south of range
fourteen. containing forty five acres more or less.
Appraised $3s per acre.
Also part of the east part of the north west
quarter of fractional section ten in township ons
south of the base line of range fourteen, begin
ming at the stake on: the section line forty rods
south of the river from thence running north
easterly course sixty four rods to the Perfysburg
road at the stake thirty rods from the river
thence running on the road forty three rods, from
thence across to the section line parallel with the
first line and from thence running on the section
line to the place of beginniog, containing twenty
acres of laud Appraised at $36 per acre.
Also the following premises adjoining, bound
ed as follows: beginning at Biven corners on
the south side of the Sandusky River, thence in =
south easterly direction twenty eight rods to the
section line to stake said line, thence in =
north easterly to the Perrysburg road sixty
four rods, thence with the centre of said road
north eastery thirty rods to the river afore
said, thence with the meanderings of said River
to the place of beginning, containing twelve and
half acres more or less. Appraised at $l6,25.
All of which land is situate in Wyandot county.
Ohio t
To be sold as the property of William Carter,
ct al. at the snit of G. Y. Pierson. sss
Terms of Sale, cash. g. .ss- 1sar
JAMES CULBERTSON Jr. Sheriff:
Dec 6, 60 f PfS675
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
HURRAH FOR SCOTT.

We see it stated that Gen. Scott was
engaged until four o'clock in the morn-
ing few nights since on business con,
nected with the war department. When.
ever his country is in danger from foes
without or traitors within, the noble old
hero is al his post. We had the honor ol
being an humble follower of the brave old
chieitain in his brilliant campaign in Mex.
leo, and we know whereof we speak VIXEN
we say that if we desired to place the in
terests of this country in safe and reliable
hands, we would select Gen. Scott as the
custodian.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
secession-1ts Effect on Lynchins.


There is one luxury that the South will
lose by disunion; that is the luxury of
lynching Northern men. To suppose
that separate nation would allow its ci-
tizens to be treated in the way ours are
now in the South, without retaliation,
would suppose it fit for slavery, and en-
tirely unfit for its own government. Eve
ry honest man knows that the charge
that any Of these men have interfered
with slavery is an after fabrication, to
justify the barbarity. Arc martyrs SO
plenty in this material age that men are
constantly taking their lives in their
hands and rushing into the power of a
ferocious mob for no purpose which cod
be of advantage to them or anybody
else? 1t is totally incredible. Southern
men insult the Intelligence of the public
when they fabricate such impossible the
ories. to justify the brutality Of their
cowardly mobs: and only partisans gone
in hopeless idiocy repeat it at the North.
No such interference is required to make
case for lynching at the South 1t is
sufficient that a man is from the Norlb.-
Or if that is not enough, every Northern
man is put TO the inquisition, and if he
is Republican, OR voted for Lincoln,
that is case for all the atrocity that is
making for the Southern people charac.
ter worse than that of the Fejee island
ers.
No nation ever submitted to such abuse
of its subjects by foreign people, as the
North endures from the South.
No nation would deserve to be indie
pendent which would submit to it, Tb.
cruelties of the British prison ships arr
outdone on our citizens in States wher,
the Constitution guarantees them equa
rights. 1t is the price which we pay 70
the Union. But with disunion it mus
stop.
But one fugitive has escaped the clut
cbes of the Fugitive Slave law in thi
State. And for him thirty citizens suffer
ed Imprisonment. In every respect th
Stale of Ohio has discharged its dutie
to the South, and he is unit 10 reside OF
its soil who says the contrary. But ou
citizens, in the pursuit of their owr
lawful business, would be safer, alone an
defenseless in Dahomey, or in the mos
savage isle of the South Seas, than i
any of the States south of Kentucky
And yet committee is appointed t
soothe the south in order to persuade
not to break up the Union. AS ever
inducement is valuable at this time,
will have Union saving influence to re
mind the South that, after secession, tn
lynching game is one that two can pla
att Gin. Daily Press.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
THE BORDER STATES COMPRO-
MISE.

A meeting of the border States was
held at Washington on the 4th inst, for
the purpose Of devising some means by
which the disunionists Of the South can
be quieted. The States represented were,
Maryland, Virginia. Missouri, North Car.
olina, Texas, Kentucky, Ohio. Indiana,
Illinois, Delaware, Arkansas, Pennsylva-
mia, and New Jersey. They adopted a
proposition in which is recommended a
repeal of all Personal Liberty Bills; that
the fugitive slave law be amended for the
preventing Of kidnapping, and so as to
provide for the equalization of the Com
missioners' fec, &C., that the Constitution
be so amended as to prohibit any inter-
ference with slavery in any Of the States
where it now exists; that Congress shall
not abolish slavery in the South dock
yards, arsenals, DE-, nor in the District of
Columbia, without the consent of Mary
land and the consent of the inhabitants
of the District, nor without compensation
that Congress shall not interfere with the
inter State Slave trade: that there shall
be perpetual prohibition Of the African
Slave trade; that the line Of 80 degrees
shall be run through all the existing
Territory of the United States; that in al
north of the line Slavery shall be pro
hibited, and that south of that line neither
Congress nor the Territorial Legislature
shall hereafter pass any law abolishing
prohibiting. nor in any manner interfer
ing with African Slavery, and that wher
any Territory containing sufficient pop
ulation for one member of Congress il
one Of $4,000 square miles shall apply
for admission as State, it shall be ad
mitted with or without Slavery as it
Constitution may determine.
It is thought that this proposition will
not meet with any favor from the mel
who have set their hearts upon dissolu
ton Of the Union-they have determined
to be satisfied with nothing but dissolu
ton and war.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
The President In the Trap.

Mr.. Buchanan, who is prudent
man. invests his money in current securi-
ties; he deals in State stocks, and it is
said that among the stocks which he has
purchased lately are some of the identi.
cal bonds abstracted from the Depart
ment of the Interior. While the gov
ernnent is erjoining banks, and propose.
to compel individuals to deliver up theil
bond, it would be well TO try the question
on the President, q.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
SHERIFF'S SALE.
State Of Ohio, Wyandot county,

State Of Ohio, Wyandot county, SIS:
Pursuant to the command of a Plulius order Of
sale frcm the Court Of Common Pleas, in and for
the county of Wyandot, to me directed, shall
expose to public sale, at the door of the Court
House, in Uppe, Sandusky, on the 26tL day of
January a. d. 1861, between the hours of 10
O'Clock a. m. and o'clock p. M. of said day
the following described property to wit:
The north west quarter of section twenty
three in town two south of range twelve being
one hundred and sixty acres appraised at $l2
per acre.
Also the east half of the north east quarter
OF section thirty six in town two south of range
twelve containing eighty acres appraised at
| $3.50 per acre.
Also the north half of the north east fractional
qua rter of section Thirty in town two range
thirteen east containing eighty thee acres, ap-
praised at $3.50 per acre. { :
! Alsoihe north west quarter of the north east
| quarter of section thirty in town Two range
l3 east containing forty acres appraised: at
$3.50 per acre. ls -s.
To be sold as the property of Peter A. Tyler
at the suit of Thomas j Carson,
Terms of sale, cash.
JAMES CULBERTSON, Jr.
Doc 2 0, 1S6o-PiS4,5O Sheriff