The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-12-17

BABYLoN.-Itev. \. y. Fisher, State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
of Nevada and Pastor of the Methodist
Church in this city, will this evening
deliver a free lecture on the "Fulfl-
meut of Prophecy" taking for the
base Of his remarks the history of the
rise and fall of Babylon, the most
magnificent city of antiquity. Babylon
founded seventeen centuries before
the Christian era: with its double walls
- feet thick and 80 feet high IncIui-
ing a CITY Of - miles i'll circUmftr-
Cnce and area OF 200 Squar miles, or
nearly five times A. laI &c as that of
London. SuTIuOuuteu 10y 2Ju towers
and penetrated by 100 brass gates with
braZeu Iintii~ and side posts; with lis
Temple OF BeIu> or Tower of Babel;
with NebuchatneZzar'S Palace eight
miles in circumference; with its artlti-
ciaI lake 81 feet deep and 100 miles in
circumference; with its forest and fruit
trees. it, vines and flowers growing in
Il magnificent garden 400 feet square
and suspended IL air nearly 100 feet
shove the ground; with lis 70 Chal-
d:ran Kings who reigned los years,
its nine Arabian Kings whO ruled il
20 wears, and its 40 AsSvrian 0
archs who held dominion tor 526 wears;
its Captureu of CYRUS COR his Field Mar
sinai. Darius the Mede) by surprise, as
jeremiah LI.3IJ had prophe>ied, by
AN army Of Meies and Per>ianS. A. in
timated 40 Years earlier by Isaiah
INNI. 30. and a. jeremiah had also
~foreShOwnt Ii. 3g}-can not fail to form
a subject of deepest interest, when
handled by Il man so able, erudite and
eloquent as the Rev. Mr.. Fisher is
known 10 he.
RoDERIGos. - Eduardo Roderigos,
the Mexican who shot Ben. Ellsworth
in Pine Nut Valley last Spring. ar
rived at the State Prison yesterday,
for a sojOurn of seven Years. The
prisoner is a native OF Mexico, aged
I'll years, but does not look to be over
40. He is covered with scars from
head to toot-having about seventy
marks on his person of gun shot,
lance, knife and arrow wounds. He
says he received sixteen of the wounds
i'll a fight with Indians ONE Years
ago, near TETON Pass, in California.
From FoN.-Peterson's Ladies' Mag
azine, and Godey's Lady Book for
January, containing unusual holiday
attractions. Also, Harper's Weekly,
Frank Leslies, National Gazette, Les
lies Ladies' Journal, New York
Ledger, The Week, EireSide Com
panion, Saturday Night, New York
Weekly, bays Doings, illustrated
Police News, and Pride of the Period.
ORPHANS. - William Hartman,
aged four years, and his sister Amelia,
aged five years six months, half orph-
ans, from Storey county, were yester-
day admitted to the State Orphan
Home. The number of children now
i'll the Home is 39-29 boys and 10
girls.
ILL'-We regret to learn that John
Ulrick, of Ulrick & Wright, proprie-
tors of the Carson and Virginia stage
line, is confined to his bed by sickness I
a Independence, Inyo county, Cali
fOrnia.
STATE LAND S. A. Nichols of
Humboldt county yesterday deposited {
with the State Treasurer $50 in cur t
rency, in part payment for so acres of j
State land. {
PAID IN.-The Treasurer of Washoe
yesterday paid into the State 7
Treasury $1,000, on the June 0S72)
settlement of State taxes. "a