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Year: 1859

correspondent of the Visalia Delta wri.
ting from Fresno City, says that among the
most notable of the late dongs in that vicini
ty, is the formation of company under the
name of the "Panoche Turnpike Company"
for the purpose of constructing a new pass
through a lately discovered route in the Coast
Range, between Fresno City and San Juan
or Gilroy
Year: 1859

LEIGH HUNr.-Speaking of the recent death
of this celebrated contemporary of Byron and
Shelley, the San Francisco Times notices one
of his peculorities as follows:


His autobiography is one of the most read
able, candid, gossping books in the English
language. Its honesty is refreshing. When
speaking of anything of his own that had
been assaiIed. he would deal with it as tho


e had no personal concern in it. lie would
speak Of a severe criticism on one of his own
poems as too mild, and say that the poem
was miserable, weak twaddle, that deserve ed
to lie cut up great deal worse. lie would
criiicise himself as freely as he would any
body else, and he would speak approvingIy
OF his own works. that he knew were good,
without any affected modesty.
Year: 1859

MAIL STEAMERS TO THE IsLANDs.-It has
long been a favorite idea with many of our
leading men, to establish line of mail steam
ers between San Francisco and China. At
present, perhaps, it is useless to urge the
establishment of the complete line; but there
are many and weighty reasons why we should
have steamship communication for mail ac-
commoGation between here and the Sand :
wich Islands, a few of which we propose
] briefly to enumera'e:


Perhaps there is no foreign port in the
world with which our people are so much in
terested in having rapid and regular mail
communication as with Hononulu. At least
ten millions of dollars worth of American
marine property visits that port every year.
accompanied by from 10000 to so 000 per-
sons, the greater portion of whom have rela.
iives and friends in the United States. The
ownership Of this property is vested in at
least 25,o00 individuals. aud beside there are
some 5000 who are incidentally interested
III its welfare or the welfare of those accom-.
phnying it. In short the American interests
ut Honolulu, in connection with the Whaling
and commercial fleets which rendezvous there
are at lenst one eighth rs much us they are
in California, and to look ont for and keep
watch of these vast interests it is essential
that a better system of mail accommodation
should be established than now exists


We have no means of computing the
amount of correspondence which takes place
annually between honolulu and the Eastern
cities, but from the nature of things it must
be immense; sufficient ut least. for the post
age to warrant the General Government ia
extending liberal encouragement to line
of mail steamers between this port and the
Sandwich Islands


The establishment of such line as is here
suggested, would be the first step toward
completing the long talked of and much de
sired steam communication between the
United States and China and we trust there
will not be wanting sufficient influence and
generosity to put it in operation.-S. r
Telegram.
Year: 1859

Another destructive fire broke out in the
suburbs of this city early on the morning of
the 10th. At that hour, a case of gunpowder
standing on the counter of a store on the
corner of Twenty second street and Franklin
Avenue, exploded with terrific crash The
building was almost instantaneously wrap
ped in ilames and Mr.. Hortez, proprietor of
the store, together with his family, barely
escaped with their lives. The fire thence
extended to the adjacent buildings, five of
which were burned before the arrival of the
engines could be of any effective SERVICE
The total loss is estimated at $4,000.
Year: 1859

The suppostion in San Francisco, that the
steamer Brother Jonathan has been wrecked,
is believed to be without proper foundation,
as at the time of the departure of the For
wood from Victoria, the Johnathan was alb
sent on trip down the Sound, and she was
not yet due at the former place.
Year: 1859

SHIELDS. the man WIN was advertised to
lump off the bank at Niagara Falls, on Friday
last, was drowned couple of days before
He went down to the water to try it by
swimming at the place he proposed to jump
and was drawn under the water by the sue
tion Of whirlpool The body has not been
recovered
Year: 1859

Party GooD-Tn the Court of Sessions
yesterday, McMurphy alias Fitzpatrick was
was tried for hure-stealing. He had been
tried on the same charge the day before. but
the jury had failed to agree On his second
trial, yesterday, after The testimony had all
been given in, his U'torney, who had been an
pointed by the Court, deemed it to be hone


less case, that the prisoners guilt was too
manifest to allow debate. and he prayed the
Court TO allow the prisoner to speak and
hear what he had to say for himself This
was granted, when the prisoner, McMurphv,
arose, and addressed the jury, himself, in such
II forcible manner, as to convince them that
he was an i'll used individual and the subject
of conspiracy. The prisoner actually talked
himself out of the scrape he was in; and the
jury declared he was mot guilty T-Stockton
ArgWS. We'd
Year: 1859

The frost and The drought are each com
planned of in the East. A dispatch from
Chatauque. New York, Sept 18th, says the
thoroughly in that vicinity. Potatoes and
all the vines are cut to the ground The de-
gree of cold was so great as to form q hard
frost on the ground. Snow and hail also fell
during yesterday.
Year: 1859

IT has been discovered in Sonoma Valley
says an exchange that raccoons are very fond
OF grapes. Every night number of them
come from the hills into Col Haraszthy'.
vineyard and help themselves, taking great
care to pick out the most deleately favored
foreign grapes They would no more touch
vine Of the old California stock than hog
In an orchard would eat sonr apple.
Year: 1859

4 Sagacious Dog.--Not long since,
week, a drove OF hogs were passing
through Montgomery street. General
stieu,ion was attracted to the sagacious
management displayed by a fine large
dog, who assumed the guidance of the
drove and kept them together amonr the
noise of omnibus, cart, dray and carria9e
wheels. which about that time made
affairs rather mixed in that fashionable
thoroughfare. If any member of the
porcine fraternity manifested an erratic
tendency-shonting off from the main
body and threatning to invade the sane
tity of the sidewalk. the dog would
scamper around to that side, and ty dint
of teeth and savage growing. drive the
bolting member back again. His eyes
were everywhere: he rushed about here
and there, and completely bore away
the palm from his master as pig driver.
Probably the animal had been brought
up to tend Sleeps, F. Times.
Year: 1859

DR.. SMITH having established first class Water
Cure and Motor pathic Institution in thi, city, and feel
ing great interest in the of such Iustu
ton based upon natural and rational principles of the
healing ait have taken charge of the bu ncss depart
ment. DR. Smith is graduate Of regularly chartered
Medical College, thorough PLY scian by well
education, and can those who consult him
aud adopt his treatment that they will rejoice in the
inspiration Of returning health and verify all that is
said in his favor


THOMAS HILL,
SacramentO March letf latc of Hill Wooster ( Co
Year: 1859

THE RAILROAD BRIDGE ON FIRE =
From the Rock Island Aryus Of yesterday We
learn, that about l l o'clock, as q Mr. Thomp-
son from Quincy, and John Deere, Of Moline,
Rock Island, they discovered it to be on
fire. The wind was blowing tremendously
at the time, and almost instantly they saw
the flames spread with groat rapidity. The
alarm was given, and had it not been for
two barrels of water standing on the plat
form, nothing would now be left of the great
Rock Island bridge, save mass of sInoulder-
ing ruins. Before water could have been
drawn from the river. the structure would
have been enveloped in flames, and with the
wind blowing as it was, no power on
earth could have prevented its being burned


1t is supposed to have caught fire from
the sparks Of the engine. which had passed
over it but a few minutes previous to its
being discovered.


The burning Of the bridge, for the time
being at least, would have done away with
the necessity Of that investigating commit
tee The destruction Of the bridge would
have been a great pecuniary loss to the
stockholders There is no longer any donlt
about the bridge being serious obstruction
to the navigation of the river, and detri-
ment to the trade Of this entire region
1t is folly to contend that it is great ad-
Year: 1859

EE Excellent board can be had at
o boarding house Of Gillett X Eichelber-
r. We know that no better table is set in
ia town than that presided over by Phin
llett. A splendid suit Of rooms for "a lady
d gentlemen can lie had if applied for soon
Es- \ rough set of customers pass
through town Yesterday on their way to
Peak. We venture To say that their
cks will make the acquaintance of a hemp
tier before they have been in the blessed
al sixty days
Year: 1859

MINER G BRo.-We call the attcn.
n Of the public to the advertisement of
ner Il Bro, in another column IL is
tn pleasure that We announce that this
eellent business firm is again under full
and ready TO accommodate their numer-
> customers with the best quality of Dry
.ols at the most reasonable figures AS
fore, this house will confine itself entire
to the wholesale business. Dealers in
and country will find it to their interest
patronize Miner Il Bro. Long may they
We at the corner Of Front and Perry SITS.
Year: 1859

THE LEvIATHAN. -- This mammoth
steamer formerly called the Great
Eastern is nearly equipped for sea,
and the Liverpool Times announces
that within month, she will be on
her way across the Atlantic. When
completed she will have cost halt
million Of dollars.
Year: 1859

There is now confined in the Jail at Cincin-
natl, an old man named Kain, charged with
murder. More than two years ago he killed a
young man named Singleton who had seduced
one OF bis two motherless children, He was
tired and convicted, and after long series of
legal proceedings, the conviction was set aside
and new trial ordered During the interval
he has been in prison. In the meantime, how
ever, the daughter, in revenge or punishment
OF whose wrongs he had committed the hOmi
eide, being without home, parents. or friends,
descended with regular steps the pathway to
shame and crime. Her younger sister also be-
came an outcast, and few months ago both
were arrested upon charge of larceny. For
three months, the father and daughters have
been in adjoining cells. but during that time
and indeed not since he killed the seducer of
the elder, has he spoken to them. A few days
the counsel for Kahn succeeded in producing
reconciliation between the parent and his chill
dren, and the scene that took place is described
by the Enquirer:


By the Kindness Of The jailOr the dau ghters
were allowed to visit their father in the cell,
when a most affecting interview took place; the
girls falling on his neck and weeping like chill
dren, while from the eyes Of the stern, strong
man. who had slain the vile destroyer of his
child 8 honor, and had known her to fall step
by step to degradation and despair, the great
tears ran like rain-the agony Of a heart wrung
by affection and agonized by terrible suffering
tO u WOlnA1l tenderness.


For some minutes no one Of that trio spoke
SObs chOked their utterance, and the memory
of the fearful past awed them into silence.
Their sorrow melted them to sympathy, and
love and grief remOrse and repentance, filled
their hearts to bursting. In that moment they
were purified; in that hour their errors were
blOtted out by the tears of deepest contrition,
and atOnement made to nature and themselves


AT last one of the girls the dishonored and
avenged, fell at her fathers feet, and said,
with still streaming eyes:


80, father, dearest father, can you forgive
me?''


''Yes, yes, my child, with all my hear" ="
was the solemn and impressive answer, "as L
homo to be forgiven ~


Then both his daughters knelt and received
his blessing. and a moment after he was by
their side offering up prayer for strength to
resist temptation and avoid evil in the future
The father embraced them tenderly again and
again, and assured them of his entire forgive
ness, while they promised amendment and re-
form, and resolved to seek comfort and support
In the faith their parent recently had sought


The scene as witnessed was extremely pa
thetic, and such as plain pencil cannot
paint. Several who witnessed the reconciliation
were. in spite of themselves, melted to tears.
and left the cell with better opinion of that
human nature which. however it may err is
always held by golden though invisible thread
to its native Heaven.
Year: 1859

~ Place glass of liquor on the table, put
hat over it, and say, Il will en- rage to drink
every drop Of that liquor, and yet III not touch
the hat. You then get under the table, and
after giving three knocks you make a noise
with your mouth, as if you were swallowing the


liquor. Then getting from under the table.
you say, Now, gentleman, be pleased TO look "
Some one. eager to see if you have drank the
liquor, will raise the hat, when you instantly
take the glass and swallow the contents saving,
"Gentiemen, have fulfilled my promise. You
are all witnesses that / did not touch the hat ~
Year: 1859

City Jaii-The location recommended to the
Council for the new jail, Is q very good one
being on Broad street near Ross-bnt the SI3,-
OOO required to purchase the grounds will pro-
bably prevent its adoption. The plan of the
enginer for the new building is also costly
one-S55, ,OGG; but the city had better put up a
substantial edifice at once than TO expend half
the amount and get honse not suited to her
wants. If the recommendations of the COM
mttee are adopted, it would be wise policy to
prepare room in the front building Tor the
Mayor's Court, and, If practicable. set apart
rooms for a station-house and for police
rendezvous, and thus do away with the traps
that now disgrace the market houses IL per-
sons arrested by the Night-Watcb, cou!d be
taken Immediately to the jail and locked up,
there would then be no necessity for dragging
them through the streets the next day, and
the sight Of prisoners would De loss common
to the public BY making the Jail the recep-
tacle for all prisoners, and by having the po-
lice rendezvous, for night and day, In the came
building, a heavy expense would ne saved tas In
ed at all times.
Year: 1859

The Sens Of Malta are preparing for n mid
night parade which is to take place in a short
time. If the members appear in white ap-
parel, the procession will attract great atten-
lion even at that hour. They ale also ar
ranging for grand excursion, to come OFF
very soon, and in order to have select COM
pany, the price of tickets will be put at S.
After paying the expenses of the trip, the sur
plus mGhey is to go into the treas ury to be
expended during the winter months on chari-
table purposes. We profess to know nothing
of this new Order, save and except that its
great AHA and end seems to be to dispense true
charity--a feature that should commend itself
to every good citizen. When, in its very in
fancy, call was made for means to erect
suitable building for the Male Orphan Society,
the Sons of Malta were the first to re-
spond, literally, to that call. Other worthy
objects have received their aid, quietly, but ef-
ficiently, and when cold winter sets in, we ex-
pect to see the beneficial effects Of the organi-
zation wherever the poor and needy are to be
found If it has no other object in view but
to relieve the wants of the suffering, that OF
itself is sufficient to give it permanency and
strength.
Year: 1859

MELANCHOLY AFFAIR-At Saint Gall, In
Switzerland, a few days ago, young working
man and working woman having married,
went with their friends to public house to
eat the wedding feast When the mirth and
fun were at their height, the report of gun
was heard, and the young husband was struck
by a ball on the head and fell dead. The same
ball, before hitting him, grazed his wife sneck,
and after passing through his head, lodged in
the shoulder OF one of the guests hitting him
rather severely. The fatal shot was fired by q
workman named Boppart. but quite uninten-
tionaily. He being friend of the newly y.mar-
ried couple, and being about TO join the we'd
ding party, of which his wife was one,
thought fl / to fire his gun in their honor, but
by mis- take he charged it with a ball cartridge
instead of one of simple powder. Boppart was
50 affected that the day after he drowned him
self.
Year: 1859

Lere Of Womdn.-An affecting little incident
occurred in the Mayors Court yesterday
morning, which in itself spoke volumes for
the undying love of a true-hearted woman
Dennis Griffin, son of the Emerald Isle, and
a broth of boy when stirred up, had been
tried ana found guilty of had conduct to a
neighbor, and was required to give bail for his
future good behavior Poor, and apparently
friendless, Dennis could see nothing before
him but iron gratings and a dark CELL and ta-
king his seat in the criminal dock, looked the
very picture of despair. just then his wife,
bearing in her arms her little one, emerged
from the crowd of spectators, and advancing
to the front of the Mayors seat, her eyes suf-
fused with tears, and her countenance the
very picture of heartfelt misery, raised her
hands to his Honor and said, "Please, sir send
us to prison with Dennis. He is our protector,
our supporter, our all, and where he goes there
let MS go. We cannot live without him." This
pathetic appeal was rather too much even for
Judge to stand. and had its effect for, in a
short time after, Dennis was called up repri-
manded for his bad conduct, and then dis
charged, to the infinite delight of that wife and
mother, whose happiness in that single mo-
ment the wealSh of the Indies could not pur-
chase.
Year: 1859

VICTIMS OF THE PREss.-The London Athe-
nRum, in the course of an obituary notice of
the late Bayle ST. John, a young writer oil
great promise, makes the following observa-
tions on his connection with the London daily
press


'In his thirty seventh year, after executing
many volumes of sound and lasting works
which showed, however, still more OF hope tor
The future than OF actual service done iur the
past, his health broke down, chiefly, it is
leared, from oYerWork of BRAIN and from the
unwhosome midnight writing OF a London
daily paper; and he has gone 10 his rest fol-
lowed by the sorrowfuI regrets of all who
knew his genius and his worth. Few OF those
who toss the morning journal from hand to
hand over the eggs and toe ST. who eagerly bite
at Its latest news and expect TO find in the ed
Itorlal columns comments on news only born
from the lightning an hour before, have any
conception of the sleepiess care the prompti-
tude of hand the fuIlness OF information. the
rapidlty of wiz. and wear of brain req quired
from those who do them this anonymous and
invisible service


If the Press be the protector of civilization
as OF course we all know and preach up day
ny day, 1t Is often most cold, cruel and un-
grateful tyrant to its own ministers. Like the
revolution, the Press devours it's children,
and with a greedy ferocity proportioned to the
earnestness and success with which it works
for the benefit of the outer world. Year by
year we tell off its victims. As we look back
through the dim light of 4 few years, the forms
of the men who have dropt away from this
contest gather almost into a crowd. Some of
them were persons who might, under other
forms ofliterary activity, have raised for Them
selves great regulations, and all OF them were
gentlemen of excellent culture and good na tu-
raj abilities. They took the task that lay be-
fore them. In the end even the strong hand
and strong brain sucGumbed Late hours, the
draughts cold, noise, and closeness of q print
ing-office, the incessant strain of thought and
toll OF hand, exhausted the physical powers of
endurance. Bayle ST. John is the latest, as he
was one of the best, of these victims of u civ
ilizing and regenerating Press.s
Year: 1859

Fair Erehaage.-A country gentleman In
visiting his watermelon patch, q few days
since. missed a fine melon, and on examining
the tracks in the vines, discovered handsome
cigar case full of good cigars, which had prob.
ably fallen from the pocket Of the In ntruder,
while gathering the forbidden fruit. The ex-
change was probably fair one, though the
owner might recover the case by applying for
it in person, and owning to the trespass.
Year: 1859

The City Council will be compelled to hold q
called meeting in short time, to dispose Of
the unfinished business on its table. At the
last meeting number OF papers, intended for
the action Of the body. was not opened; but -
meme Of them required immediate attention,
they cen wait for q hearing in the future.
Year: 1859

A GAMBLERS WIFE.-One night not great
while ago, married lady of Detroit, who
had long suspected that her husband was a
regular attendant of certain gambling room
and was there spending the money which she
and her children were in pressing need of,
visited the room. Seated at a rough table
she deserted her husband in company with
three companions in iniquity, who were
struck dumb with astoGishment at the appa-
rition. Taking advantage of their trepida-
ton, she seized two or three piles of bank
notes lying upon the table, which she hastily
examined. AS if determining the probable
amount of the pile" and deliberately made
her exit without saying word.


HUMAN Heart IN A PICKLE Bottle An
old chitonjer Ffancais brought curious ar
iele for sale yesterday to a junk and rag
store on Merchant street, below Davis. This
vas human heart, snugly ensconced in a
wide mouthed pickle bottle, which the rag
picker had found in some of his hqunts. How
the heart got into such curious place, or
what was the object of its being placed there


is yet unknown. Probably, however, the
bottle has belonged to the collection of some
anatomist from whom it was stolen, and then
left it in the street The sale was made to
the proprietor of the rag shop for the value
OF the bottle-the heart counting as value
less. What a curious history may be con
nected with this poor shriveled relic of life.
Did its throbbings give animation to limo
cent childhood or decrepid old age, or send
the life blood pulsatiny through the veins of
lusty manhood Did its beatings cease in
the chamber of sickness, or did it outpour its
warm tide in answer to the assassin's knife !?
Who shall tell the varied emotions to which
that heart, once the seat of life, but now
cold and senseless, may have given birth!
Poor heart! Truly said Hamlet, ITO what
base uses may we come at last !"-S. FTSnes
Thursday.
Year: 1859

HOllOWay's 'Pills.-Absolute control over
the disordered stomach and bowels is exercised by
these unapproachabe vegetable curatiyes Their ge-
nia effect upon the system is akin to the miraculous
Sold So Maiden Lane, New York