Daily national Democrat., 1861-08-20

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I independence of those states
Mr. Richardson rose to personal expara-
/ tion. He presented the point that the st ,ie-
urent he made the other day had been assem-
ted TO- He dil not make any assault upon
the President of the United states. nor was
! that any part of his purpose He wished his
country men to have confidence in some of
oar public men. and that the Tuu!ic mind
should center round some pont, So as to pre-
serve this Government To es-ail tue Chief
Magistrate of the country wuulG have been
in violation Of his purpose and solemn duty
Mr.. Blair again called attention to these
words OF Alr. Richardson: abraham Lincoln
is very honest man if let alone; but he is
surrounded by willy politicians, and he has
not the courage to stand up against them"
Mr. Richardson confessed that his language
was unhappy, and that his idea might have
been better expressed lie had intended to
refer TO that class of politicians, headed by
Greeley, who were urging Forward to
Richmond
Mr.. Bnir-An "General Greeley as he
Is called has had the mnnine<s not to 60
whDnpepng around the country and laying
his tnus on other people
Mr.. Richardson accorded credit to Greeley
for that. If his statement the other day was
not correct, he regretted IT, hut he presumed
that as ii was not disstnted from hy those who
were present it was satisfactory to then all
SAN JUAN NEws-The san Juan Press of
Saturday, has the following items Of interest
in that locality:
SLuIcE RoBBISG-'4ne claims OF Messrs.
sears Buhring were visited by a robber on
npsH of Ia. Ia, ,t i
abstracted gold from the sluice to the amount
of $4o0 Two watchmen were on guard at
the 'me-onr at the upper, and the other at
The lower end Of the sluiue 1t was the lower
end that was robbed. Tweuty-four boxes
were emptied of their contents The watch
man on duty at the time and place mentioned.
WAS discharged and another employed in his
stead The first night of the new watchmnn's
vigil, the alroit roLber made Il second visit
To the lower rud of the sluice and sncrepdrd,
unotsrrvrd, in sconping from the riff IS ANAL
gum to the amount Of perhaps 500 Two
or three nights after, the same loc litv was
third time visited ly the rohhrr. The watch
man this time had his eye about him. He
observed the scoundrel crawling doN the
sluice on his hands and knees, and whep he
arrived within forty PAGES of VIII Re the
Waterman stood, that geltlcman let drive
with his gun, which, unfortunately contained
nothing but small tird-shot The rohber
dropped his theving implements and fled
Theinplruents were picked np subsequently,
and from their peculiar pattern, are believed
to tie of Cl inese manufacture. No cine has
yet been discovered leading to the detection
OF the guilty party.
ATTEMPT AT SLUIcE RoDB'NG. On Thurs
daV night of last week, the Fairchild claims
on san Juan Hill, were visited by one of the
light-fugered gentry Mr.. JOY was on guard
at the time, with gun containing twelve
bucEshot He fired at the robber, who fed.
Nine of the buckshot entered oHc of the
sthnehions Of the sluicr near where the robLer
vas discovered The other three could not
be traced u is supposed he carried them off
in some part of bis worthless body.
MtNINc ACcIDENT-On Monday last, while
engaged in the X Kniokerbock4r cl inns, drilling
out an oid blast that Lad failee TO 20 off, the
powder igniied and shot upwards in col
"mn, wilh"ut sflirterng the rock The
worknen were Messrs Richard Thomas and
Pat oynon The former was drilling, while
the latter poured water in the hole. Aly.
Thomas was considerably powder burned in
the face, and slightly Injured in the left hand
The !tfl hHuG Of Nv Synon was also powder
burned and injured 50 as 20 prevent lis use
for eight or ten days. Fortunately no other
dnrage was done.
McSsrs. Sears and Buhring are just begin
ming t. pierce the rich vein in their claims
On Saturday t,hey took olIt upwards of
5000 On the same day, after an eight
days run with three pipes, the kni .kerbocker
claims yielded 32,206.