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Year: 1859

QUARTZ M1NING.-Henson's mill, on Sc
cret Ravne having been fitted to work under
the process of Judge Chambers, commenced
operations on Monday last. The machinery
is said to work beautifully. The proprietors
are now working over tailings, that have
once been washed and all the gold extracted
that was possible to be obtained by the old
plan. As there will not be cleaning up
for some days, it is impossible to state the
success of the new mode of operating. We
have a confidence that it is the plan of all
others for quartz working.
Year: 1859

New BATHING SALooN.-The pleasure to
be experienced by frequent indulgence in
warm and cold baths is too we'll understood
by those who are not afraid of water, to be
largely dscanted upon, but from want of
we'll kept saloon of the kind, in town,
the public have been deprived ofthese desira-
be luxuries for some time We are glad
to know that Bradford, of the Tonsorial
Saloon, adjoining the American has supplied
this want by the fitting up Of spacious and
elegant bath rooms, where, during day and
night, hot and cold, and shower baths can
be taken. The rooms are the finest we
have seen-they have been made and fur
nished at heavy expense, and must, in their
arrangement be satisfactory to customers.


These rooms are now open to the public,
and the proprietor is ready to render due
attention to his customers. Remember the
Placer County Bathing Saloon, adjoining
the American Hotel
Year: 1859

with each other, and the ball man soon in- troduced his game, which so pleased the gentlemen from Arkansas, that they in- vested to the tune of $500 in gold, which they shrewdly informed their guide they had around them in belts.

 After stalking their gold against counter felt bills pulled out by the ball man, they soon lost all without even once guessing the correct situation of that ubiquitous individual yclept the Little Joker" The ball man and the guide, walking off to the corner to consult, turned it suddenly. and although the Arkansas travellers followed and even jumped upon the cemetery walls and cried aloud for assistance, made good their escape.-New Orleans Delta.
Year: 1859

Gs- A new illustrator of Shakpseare, says the London Athenaum, has entered the field in the person of the Lord Chief Justice of the Queens Bench, Lord Camp bell During a recent vacation in Scotland he turned his attention again to our great dramatic poet, and reading over his plays consecutively, he was struck by the vast number of legal phrases and allusions they contain, and by the extreme appropriateness and accuracy of their application. He be- gan by noting and remarking upon them, giving them such explanations and elucida tions as his vast experience and knowledge of the law enabled him readily to furnish He has since put them into more regular form and order, and is printing them in the shape of a familiar letter to Mir. Payne Collier, who, in his recent biography O Shakespeare, states that there are more in dications in Shakespeare that he had, in some way, early in life, been connected with the legal profession, than are to be met witt in all the works of contemporary dramatist, put together
Year: 1859

II The work Of putting the new iron roof
on the Custom House is far advanced. Early
tha coming summer will see the splendid build
opened for its destined uses. The widening Of
Dearborn street will not be commenced until
next Spring.
Year: 1859

e We are in earnest in the matter Of that
timber monstrosity in the Like Shore basin,
erected by some strollipg swimming professors
and By permission Of the Common Council for
tbnte1hibition only. 1t should be pulled down
beforc the Fair week. Whose business is it to
soc II done
Year: 1859

- The new rails used for the double track
on State street, are Of somewhat different pat
tern from that formerly used, though equally
well calculated to gre the least possible trouble
to the wheels Of vehicles
Year: 1859

q The main Of the Water Works has been
extended On Cottage Grove Are. to the city lin
its. or within q few hundred yards Of the Fair
Grounds. This will ensure an abundant supply
Of water for stock and other uses.
Year: 1859

Immigrants are well advised by the Pla-
cerville Observer that in the mountains and
foot hills they can find numerous eligible
spots for planting vineyards and orchards,
from which in Il few years fortunes can be
realized:


g There are many other occupations which
the new conner with a small capital can pur-
sue with profit that we have not time to
point out. The advantages of an agricultural
over a mining occupation is apparent to all.
Years of the sevcrest toll and privation may
be spent in the mines without its adequate
reward, while if the same amount of labor
were spent in improving an agricultural
homestead it would make Il property which
would place the owner far above want with
a valuable heritage for his children"
Year: 1859

SUPPORT HoME PApEEs.-Here Is some
thing that touches our feelings, and ough. to
move yours, reader. The Golden Era says of
newspaper editors:


"TEey are the most deserving yet the
worst paid people in the State. They defend
the fire sides of our citizens, paint in glow
ing and eloquent terms the beauties OF onr'
dear California, join heart -and-hand in the
cause of q railroad to connect US with the
+" old folks at home; in word, they do all
in their power-and they are powerful, too
for the good of the masses, STILL like poor
Lazarus. they must subsist upon the meagrc
crumbs that fall from the tables OF the rich,
or starye-actually starve


Truly has it been said that the editor mast
deny himself the pleasure of society and So
ciaI intercourse in order that his talents aud
time may be given entirely to the work of
writing for the good of the community in
which he moves. He must leave the wife of
his bosom upon her sick bed, or the coffin
of friend or relative, and with heart
filled with agony. write, write, write Oh,
if the public but knew with what suffering,
and at what expense of torturing anguish 1t
is sometimes served If the secrets of but
single day of newspaper life in our large
cities could blaze out. in letters of fire, be-
hind the little type, there would be exposed
the most startling revelations of mental tor
ture and physical pain, failing nerves and
wearied eye-sight. and, too often, pecuniary
distress and positive want Callfornians--
San Francscans! Why do We not "see them
we'll bestowed ?" Why do ye allow yo4r ed
itors to starve while the conductors of-swill-
milk publications Of the Atlantic are grow
ing fat and saucy upon your bounty? The
money which you expend upon foreign lit
erary and news publications would sustain
your local papers most munifcently. With
draw, then, yonr patronage from distant en-
emics and bestow it upon your friends at
home y
Year: 1859

AN APT ANECDoTE The Telegram, in the
course of an admonition to those San Fran
cisco editors who are warming their own
virtues over the ashes of the vices, real or
imagined of their contemporaries" tells the
following story:


" Like a tattling schoolmate we once had
they are sly in all their roguish pranks, and
endeavor to ingratiate themselves with the
good graces of their master, the Public, by
parading and exaggeratng all the faults of
their fellows, hoping, thereby, at the same
time, 10 divert the attention of said master,
the Public, from their own peccadilloes
And here, en- passent, we will mention the
fate of said tattling schoolboy, as a warn
ing. He grew to manhood, and is now do
ing penance for his crimes inside the walls
OF an Eastern Penitentiary, while those OF
his schoolmates whose faults he delighted
to expose and aggravate, are respected and
influential members of society In youth.
he adopted the hideous policy OF warming
his virtues over the ashes of the vices OF
others; in manhood he was consumed by
his own vices
Year: 1859

ABOUT THE ROAD We NEED.-The Hy-
draulic Press proposes to convince the peo-
pie of the Ridge that a road connecting San
Juan with the valleys on the eastern slope
of the Sierras is something much needed.
Such is certainly fact; and the connection
can be made by small outlay of capital.
The old emigrant road on the mountain
ridge along the North Yuba, is goon one
for Summer travel, and a little labor would
make it good from San Juan out The OBJ
jections to it here are, that it is not avail
able when the snow is lyng-as it runs
through the deep-snow line and it doesn't
come through Downieville, which latter Is
bound to be the trade center for large secL
tion of country about the divide and for 3
considerable extent on both sides of the Si-
erras. San Juan will divide some of this
trade with US, by making even good Sum-
mer road to the eastern slope.


We are happy to say that Downieville ia
fairly awake to its interest in the matter OF
roads, and is going ahead now to prosecute
the river road through the Yuba Gap. This
complete, snow will never block the way
from Marysville TO Utah.-Sierra Democrat.
Year: 1859

1t not unfrequently occurs that men leave
their families in the Atlantic States and
come to California for the purpose of inn
proving their pecuniary condition, thereby
hoping to place themselves and their fami-
lies in more comfortable condition for the
future. The vast gold fields Of this State.
which send regularly and at short intervals
millions of dollars to the Eastern ports, and
the fabulous richness, which they are repre-
sented to possess, has tempted many to tear
themselves from family relations and dear
friends in search Of gold. The true condi-
ton of affairs in California is very imper-
fectly understood and consequently many,
who come amongst us, buoyant with hope,
are doomed to sad disappointment. Men
are very differently constituted. Some bear
disappointment and misfortune with stoi-
cism and resignation, an continue to toll
with an unfinching nerve and indomitable
perseverance to mount the car of fortune
and ride over every obstacle to prosperity.
Others become dsheartened and sink pow
eress beneath the hand of adversely. They
appear to lose all industry or inclination to
improve their condition, and fall into vices,
which destroy the manly virtues they once
possessed, blunt the nice sensibilities of a
noble nature, and perhaps the affections
which were once cherished for an interesting
and devoted family. How often is it the
case that advertisements appear in the jour-
nails of California from some heart broken
wife, inquiring after her absent husband
from wnom she has not heard for years, or
from some aged parent anxiously seeking
information of an absent son, who has
amid the exciting scenes of California life
forgotten the love which he once bore fol-
his fond parents, and perhaps left them to
pine in sorrow until they reached an un-
timely grave. And how often is it that
these same persons are found in our midst
leading the most dissipated and it may be,
lcentious lives, lost to all sense Of shame,
destitute of means and of the respect oil
their fellow men. These things ought not
to be, and cannot be too severely reprehended
by every good citizen.


If the eyes of any, who have been guilty
of the faults depicted in the foregoing, shall
fall on this, we hope it will awaken him to
a sense Of his shame and crime, and will
induce him to set about at once to reform
his course If he be husband, whose neg
lected wife has received no tidings of him
let him reflect upon her condition and re-
solve in future to do better. If a son, let
him remember the tender regard of an aged
parent, and for their sake, if not on his own
account, let him retrace his steps.


Those who have been discouraged by ad-
versity and fallen into vice, should arouse
themselves from their degradations and go
forth into the great battle of life like men,
resolved to win, or die in the harness.
Narysvile Express
Year: 1859

CHOOSING AssoCIaTEs.-The settlement of
our friendships and compinioaships must
not be left wholly to the affinties of nature
and of character. There is a Judgment
conscience-which has the power to control
the outgoings of the soul, and which should
control them. If | find myself attracted to
a bad man, and find him congenial to me,
| am taught at once the nature of my own
heart and life by my intellectual afinities,
and / should conscientiously refuse to yield
to the attraction. | know that the associa-
ton will only make me worse, and that
have no right to subject myself to inf fuences
which will certainly debase and injure me.
| have no right to bind myself in sympathy
to one who will use the bond, consciously
or unconsciously, to keep me from the pur-
suit of life's nobler ends. | have no right
20 add to, and strengthen, the ties that hold
me to an unworthy life. My duty is to avail
myself OF every sympathy that will tend to
lift me into better life.-Tmothy Titcont.
Year: 1859

ssSpoyDENcE' The editor of the San Juan
Press went down the Sacramento slough and
wrote back vonminous observations. This
reminds us of the INDECENT Michigan journal
ist, who, unable to hire a steed, sat on a
saw-horse in the wood-shed and wrote let
ters home to his paper.-Yreka Union


1t is utterly impossible for the editor of
the Press to follow the example of his VOL
VERNE brother; he has great antipathy to
equestrianism; and if the Union man does
not wish to stirrup muss and get curried,
he'd better stop his horse talk Our editor
is very tender on that point.
Year: 1859

We think of emigrating to that small
town in Southern California which had the
irnpudence to call itself San Juan many
years before North San Juan was thought
Of A correspondent of the Santa Cruz Sen
tinel says you can there I" see life, enjoy the
society of the righteous, drink unadulterated
whiskey. and breathe the pure atmosphere
of regular democracy"
Year: 1859

We learn from the Marysville Express that
the people in the neighborhood Of the Ore
gon House, III Yuba county, have organized
a Vigilance Committee in order to rid them
selves of gang of horse thieves in that VI
cinity.
Year: 1859

An American writing from Carrientes. on
February 25th to a friend in San Francisco
land whose letter is published in the Alta)
says that detachment of troops intended
for land service, had been disembarked about
ten miles below the junction of the Parana
with the Paraguay. On the 25th, having
commenced their march across the country
for the purpose of forming a junction with
the steamers at the mouth of the Parona
they were told by their scouts that the enc
my were eneamped but few miles distant
and it was therefore resolved to attack them
that night But we will let the writer de-
scribe the attack and its result in his own
words. Much of the ludicrous and also
little crinoline are mixed up in the affair;


The tents of the enemy were arranged in
a circle. within which were picketed what
appeared to be an innumerable herd of horses
but from the distance and rising mist of the
plain, it was impossible to tell whether they
were accoutred or not Although they ap.
parently outnumbered us, by some hundreds
our commander resolved upon an immediate
attack, and after spirited whispered exhor
tation, the word forward was given. We
proceeded silently until within pistol shot,
and then with shot, the charge was sound
ed; simultaneously we discharged our pieces,
which was answered by the terrified screams
of a hundred female voices as we rushed to
the encounter, and 10 We found ourselves in
the midst of believing cattle which we had
mistaken for horses, in the distance, and our
opponents were some four score naked
sonora herds women, who were rapidly
striking their diminutive tents, which was
accomplished in rather a nov el manner which
cannot fail to be interesting to their more
civilized sex in other countries Upon dis
covering the character of our opponents, we
burst into hearty laugh this covering them
from their surprise, they each lodged be-
meath the skirts of their tents, and head
and shoulders appearing in the opening of
the tent pole, it was displaced, but tinstead of
being struck it became fixture about the
waist And upon closer examination, we
found that what we had supposed to be tents
were nothing less than hooped skirts, which
had been imported by some enterprising
Yankee, serving the guachos senoras as ap.
parel during the day and tents at night. This,
our first encounter with the enemy, was vail
antly achieved and afterwards CALAMITY
maintained, as our foes of the skirts must ad
nit
Year: 1859

AN EXCITED FRENcHMAN.-We published
yesterday among our telegraphic news, a
notice of the arrest at San Francisco, of a
Frenehman named Alfred Moulin, for threat.
ening the life of one of the agents of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company The Bul
letin has the following in relation to the
matter:


The charge was preferred by Leon Chemin,
editor of the French paper Il Union Franco
American In his testimony, Mr.. Cnemin
said that Moulin came to him on the 18th of
March last with a lot of manuscript written
against the agent, which he wished o have
published, but the witness refused to do so.
Moulin then said that he would challenge
the agent. Mr. Chemin replied that no no.
tlee would be taken of the challenge. Moulin
who was getting more and more excited
upon the subject then declared that he
would cowhide and kill the agent that he
was determined to do so, because the agent
would not pay him some $4,000 which he
claimed


1t seems from Investigations made in regard
to the matter, that this man Moulin came to
TINS country several years ago, and brought
with him on the steamer lot of potatoes,
which were found to be damaged on their
arrival. Moulin claimed indemnity; but the
steamship agents refused to pay anything.
ana desired that he would sue if he felt ag-
gneved Instead of doing so, Moulin seems
for several years to have been brooding
over his wrongs, and has repeatedly tried all
the newspapers in the city to have them
Puohsh articles against the steamship compa-
ny and agents. Several years ago we knew
nun TO have been just as much excited upon
TINS subject as he is now. 1t is said by some
that he is little crazed upon the point of
his real or fancied wrongs. while others say
that he is a sensible man, but having no
means is compelled to do the best he can
without them. If he intends what he
threatens, however it will be seen at once
that he is not sensible.
Year: 1859

q The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR on THE
SLAVE TRADE.--During his visit to North
Carolina, Secretary Thompson thus expressed
himself concerning the idea Of opening the
Gave trade:


s4 SIN my own State class of restless re-
s.hfmers have started movement which de-
aHands the re-opening of the foreign slave
eerade. >I.aws=Mhich-me passed ffty+yeara
ago, at the urgent instance of the Southern
States, prohibiting the slave trade, have been
discovered to be unconstitutional, and their
longer continuance on the statute book, it is
claimed, is destructive of the progress and
prosperity of the South. In the advocacy OF
this new theory some able men have enlisted
but do not believe there is one among them
who believes the ends he aims at can ever be
accomplished while the Union lasts; and
God forbid that movement fraught with
such unnumbered curses upon the South
should ever succeed But suppose the de-
mand is made upon Congress to reopen the
slave trade, and Congress should refuse to
Weld to the demand, shall the South, taking
fire at the refusal, strike for disunion? For
one, shall oppose the re-opening Of the for
eign slave trade, in the Union or out of it !;
and when that movement is made, which
fear not, you may run up the stars and stripes,
I will rally under that flag. In North Caro-
lima, in that day, do not believe there will
he any division"
Year: 1859

A great many men draw wide distinction
between politics and morals-between mora,
honesty and political honesty. It is very
common remark that A is q very good, hon.
est, clever fellow, but that he is unscrupulous
in politics.


We have always been wholly at loss to
know how man can be considered dishonest
and at the same time an honest man how he
can be truthful man, and yet about many
things you cannot rely upon word he says.
1t is no doubt true that there is many man
who will not steal a horse, but will steal a
coat. He might not steal grindstone be-
cause he might have no use for it, or because
he might not be willing to incur the risk Of
detection, who would, without any hesitation,
steal pair of shoes. So man might some
times tell the truth when there was no temp.
tation to tell lie, and yet might lie upon the
smallest inducement. Now it were just as
well to say in the one case that the man who
will not steal a grindStone but steals the shoes
is an honest man, as to say that man who
is dishonest in politics is an honest man.


A man who will wilfully misrepresent and
traduce his neighbor, to affect an election, will
do it at any other time or in any other way, if
he has purpose to accomplish by it. It is
true that men very eften justify themselves By
saying that we must fight the devil with fire !;
but it is very foolish saying and q worse
practice = the only hope that q aman can; have
of sdctess in fighting the devil fire, is TO
become the more case hardened devil of
the two.


The country is suffering very greatly in its
L., T,al
system of politics in which good morals are
dlsregarded, and, indeed, considered an in.
cumbrance. No man can be pure and truth
full man who habitually and Systematically re.
sorts to falsehood and misrepresentation for
any purpose; and it is fearful thing when
the tone of morals Of the country is SO low
and its moral taste so perverted that those
who are considered The best men of the cou,-
try cannot only tolerate it in others, but re-
sort to it themselves.


The cause is bad one which cannot in
good state Of society be better supported by
truth than by ialsehood, and that country and
people are wofuly depraved when falsehood
can effect more than truth.


He would be very bad man who would
never tell the truth at all, Or who would steal
every thing on which he could lay his hands,
Or who would wantonly inaict injury upon
any body and every thing with which lie came
in contact


Lying and fraud and Misrepresentation in
politics, are just as criminal as in any thing
else, and just as degrading and corrupting to
those who engage in them.


it is high time that there should be reform
in these things and reform, like charity, begins
best at home, though there is no necessity that
either shall end there. If every man will
begin there, great deal will soon be effected.
We have no security that we can reform others,
but every man can do something in the way
of reforming himselE-Corner Stone.