, 1865-02-17

Legal Tenders at San Francisco, quoted on
the 7th at S5O@5O}. Three millions in green
backs were expected to arrive at San Francisco
from the East, for the Pacific department, about
the 18th inst.
WANTS MORE FREEDoM The San Jose Mer-
eury is tired Of the old and Oppressive order
Of things, and wants more freedom and equali-
ity. 1t urges the mater after this wise:
awe insist on an amendment to our State
Constitutions, whereby the word ''white" shall
be stricken therefrom, and upon the passage of
such laws as will give to Americans of African
descent, full free, and equal privileges with ey
cry Other citizen of the State"
The Sacramento Bee, another Union paper,
though not so far advanced in loyalty" at
tempts to read the Mercury out of the Union
party, as follows
"For our part we are in favor of reading out
of the Union party all radical agitators who can
find nothing better to do than to clamor for ne
gro suffrage
The Mercury responds and shows the utter i'm
practicnbility of such procedure, and says
"You would catch large sized Tartar, if you
attempted to do anything of that kind in this
part of the State, where your style of Union
men, as compared with those who are willing to
accord the same rights to other Americans
which they claim for themselves, is about as
one to ten. When you talk of reading out of
the Union party" all men who think as we do,
you talk like darned fool"
The reading out will very likely stop on the
part of the editor who 'talks like darned
fool, when he learns that the advocates of ne
gro suffrage, in his party, outnumber his kind
ten to one. As the Mercury claims so much ad-
vantage in numbers, It ought 70 turn about and
read the Bee and all the rest of the darned fool
editors out of the Union party, who are not
strong advocates Of negro suffrage ,miscegenation
and kindred monstl osities.
Several Republican papers in California are
advocating the sale of the mineral lands, for the
benefit of the Government, ostensibly, but really
to benefit set of Administration officials. A
Nevada paper, the Gazette makes heavy calcu-
lations on the sale and lays down the following
programme to be observed
HIn the cases of unnaturalized aliens and per-
sons of known disoyalty to the Government,
who shall not be permitted to retain possession
of any mines which they may now hold, or to
take possession of any portion Of the mineral
hands hereafter, upon any consideration what
ever, so long the title to such lands remains
in the Government"
The Democratic papers think part Of tie pro-
gramme is for the "Ioyalists to step in and by
virtue of partisan sale, possess themselves of
the property Of Democrats.
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Two small steamboats, assembled the Yellow
stone river some distance above its mouth, in
October last. 1t was the first attempt ever
made to navigate the stream by steamboat, and
it has demonstrated, says a Minnesota paper,
the practicability of reaching point on the ex-
treme upper Missouri by steamers of light
draught. The same paper also says: "If our
wagon read TO She Missouri river or Big Horn
City were completed, great trade and travel
must flow through our State to that region, as
passengers could reach Fort Rice quicker
through Minnesota by many days than to take
steamer at St. Joseph or Omaha"
AN exchange paper says cit cost $2l7,472 sc
20 place S93 592 Sc worth of supplies at the
disposition of the soldiers, notwithstanding the
large amount of transportation which was per-
formed by the Government" That's the way
the money goes.
The "petroeum" or coal oil fever has broke
out in San Francisco. Some sales of oil lands
to Eastern capitalists have been made by tele-
graph The gold ard silver quartz specula-
tions have about "gin eout" and hence the
discovery ofoL veins.
The latest official reports Of the Agricultural
Bureau in the Department of the Interior, at
Washington show large decrease in the sup
ply of the staple articles.of foed throughout the
country During the last two years the wheat
crop has fallen off about one-eghth, corn and
hay one-tenth, barley one-seyenth, beef more
than one-fftb, and pork more than one-fourth
An Iowa paper of late date says the news
papers out West are rapidly suspending publi-
cation. The high price Of printing material is
given as reason for the suspensions. Many
of them were ne doubt called into existence
partisan sheets to assist in carrying on the Pres
idendat campaign, and the campaign over,
their occupation was gone, and they were
forced to die
The Constitution Of the Stateof Nevada pro
vides that 'in cya cases, if tdree-fourths of the
Jurors agree upon verdict, it shall stand and
have the same force and effect as a verdict of
the whole jury"
New counterfeit half dollars, wei calculated
to deceive, have lately made their appearance
in San Francisco
q. The American Flag" disreputabe sheet,
publishedin San Francisco, has been declared
rat office by the printers association.
UNDER tbe Romans, whole population had
"a vote for the scourgiDg of one man; with US,
on the contrary, one man may oppress whole
vIiIqge.
A suspicious man would search pincushion
f5r treason anG see dagger8 in needIe-case.