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Year: 1860

RAILRoADs.-At a meeting held in Plscerville,
on Saturday evening Jan. nth, a resolution was
adopted, requesting the members OF the Legislature
from FL Dorado to secure the passage Of an act
authorisng that county-if the people shall so elect
to subscribe 100000 in bonds to the proposed
railroad from Folsom to Paceryille. In noticing
the efforts being made in that county to construct
the road to Placeryille, the Sacramento Bee says:


We are pleased to chronicle these evidences of an
awakening among the people relative to the bless.
ings to be derived from railroad communication to
and from every important and approachable point.
We hope to see these roads constructed wherever
the population and commerce will Justify the outlay
of capital; for not only will they add to the wealth
Of their immediate localities but they will directly
benefit this city. Sacramento is so located that
every railroad in the State must run TO her doors
its benefits must flow in this directions and be felt
in all the channels of trade. Thus do we desire to
see the Central road extended to Auburn TO Neya-
da to Marysvile, to Shasta TO Placervie, to Gala
veras, Amador and wherever else it can be stretched
to. II those cities only knew the great advantage
the present twenty-five miles Of road has been to
Sacramento, they would not hesitate to put forth
their best efforts and found for themselves the basis
OF a lasting prosperity.
Year: 1860

THE DEATH PENALTY-A number of petitions
in circulation all over the State for signatures,
intended to influence the Legislature to pass law
afixing the death penalty 10 Of highway rob-
berry. We think 1t indicates a retrogade movement
in civilization to see this measure advocated, and
we confess to the feeling Of some surprise to
see many intelligent edi tors of interior papers
giving II a countenance. The opponents OF this
measure, very properly urge, that we shall hear OF
no robbery after this, without attendant murder;
as the hghwayman will, in self-defense, dispatch
his victim rather than the risk Of his being a
witness against him. Besides all this, history has
proved that severity Of punishment does not operate
to diminish crime and public sentiment in civilized
countries, has undergone change for the better,
and the death penalty is being superseded by others
less revolving. II the full need Of punishment was
left to the Court to decide few jurors at the present
day, under our ideas Of advancing civilization, would
be apt to find verdict that would oonsign prisoner
to ignominious DEATH except for murder or
crimes OF like magnitude.-Plaoer Courier.
Year: 1860

Ex-PREsIBENT VAN BUREN completed his 77th
year on the 9th of December last. He lives in
great retirement is seldom away from home,
and never seems to covet attentions of any
kind. His health continues remarkably good.
He is said TO be writing a memoir Of his life
aud times" It will. If truthful, reveal many
curious chapters in the political history Of this
country; but the work will possess merely u
historical interest, as the political questions
which agitated the country during his day have
long since been settled
Year: 1860

WAGON ROAD ACROSS THE NORTH FoRK.-We
understand that parties have been engaged for some
days past in making preliminary survey Of road
to be constructed across the North Fork at this
place, with view Of building turnpike thence to
Nevada, in case Mr.. Elliott-now engaged in max.
ing survey from Auburn to the latter place-shoud
burn and Nevada Railroad Company be successful,
we shall then be within four hours ride Of Sacra-
mento Thus, per turnpike fifteen miles to Nevada;
thence, per railroad about sixty miles. The new
turnpike will also connect with the Ilhnoistown and
Dutch Flat road, making good road to the latter
place Of not more than ten miles. .Iotoa Hill Patriot
Year: 1860

writing from Carson Valley says: "Even the In
dans are beginning to know the value of the coun-
try in mineral point Of view, Every now and
then they come in with a handful Of ores. They
refuse TO part with information as to localities with
out consideration. The other day an old fellow
brought piece of quartz very rich in gold, offering
to show large quantities Of it for four horses. His
offer has been accepted, and fair weather is all he
now requires"
Year: 1860

RUSSIAN OFFICIAL CRITIcs.-A St. Petersburg
correspondent says that one of the police CEN
sors lately struck out Of g manual Of chemistry
by -the-way, the FIRST book Of the kind printed
in Russia-the name Of prussc acid, alleging
as bis reason for so doing that it Was an insult
poison to bear the name of country governed
by the uncle OF bis majesty.
Year: 1860

scAHdrr OF coRS.-Gev Gist Of South Carolina, in his
late message 10 the Legislature states that there is
great scarcity Of corn the norhern part Of the state
caused by the dseriss in operaon, which have used
Up the sia Of life into poisonous drink He recommends
that the tax stills should amount to prohibition
Of their use or At least high enough to raise increase
sufficient support the pauPers they manufacture"
Year: 1860

Extract from letter to the London
Times from Shanghai:


The Emperor is in a state Of drum
ken, helpless imbecility. Among the
many curious institutions Of China, that
Of the Ceusorate is entitled to a high
place. The Censors are iutrusted with
'the care Of manners and customs, the
investigation of all public Offices within
and without the capital, the discrimina-
ton between the good and bad perform.
auce Of their business, and between the
depravity and uprightness Of the off.
GERS employed in them" These officers
exercise the right of reproof with ex-
traordinary candor and plaiuness, though
it is to be feared that their remOnstran-
ces are frequently unavailing. Some
months ago the Censors protested against
the conduct of the Emperor, against
his drunkenness and dissipation, his at.
tachment to actors, and love of low so.
ciety. This reproof to Majesty was
published in the Pekin Gazette, and
circulated throughout the length and
breadth of the empire.
Year: 1860

That people will do what they ought not to do and leave
done these things which they ought TO have DONE Yet is
melancholy TRUTH and be refued For examplewe
know OF hundreds who have had consumption lurking in their
very vas and drgged themselves nearly to death with
whole host of would be remedies and sorry say, often
gnoranty deceived in getting the proper remedy by similar
purchase none but


Woodman's Cherry Expectorant.
alone the intrinsic medicinal virtues Of the Wild
Cherry in removing each and every of disease and 1t now
stands presmineny distinguished by the medical soc
cites Of Europe and America the one thing needuln
Prepared and sold by the proprietors,


W00DMAN q BEMENT,
And sold by every respectable Druggist the world m2o 2p6
Year: 1860

NoN-INTERcouRsE.-The bill for carrying out-non-
intercourse and discrimination, as far as possible
against all the States whose legislation and course
have been hostile to the South, has passed the n
ginia House Of Delegates by large majority.
Year: 1860

The VARIErIEs.-Trum dot" is the bill
again tonight, the entertainment beginning with
the farce Pleasant Neighbors,h as preliminary
dramatic whet of the appetite for what Is to
follow. - -
Year: 1860

a PoET's OPINION OF DANcING.-I am
an old fellow, says Cooper in one of his letters
to Hurdis, but had once my dancing DAYS
as You have now; yet | never could learn
half as much of a womans character by
dancing with her, rs by Convcrsing with
her at home, when could observe her be
havior at the table, at the freside, and in
all trying circumstances of domestic life
We are all good when we are pleased, but
she is the good woman who wants not the
fiddle to sweetcn her.
Year: 1860

UNwELCoME ADyICE.--The editor of n
California paper thus advises a gambling
correspondent of his Journal:


Find a three story warehouse; climb
along the ridge pole, discover a fiat rock on
direct line from the termination, turn your
moccasins up to the sun, and let yourself
go--the discovery of your brains on the
rock below will be conclusive and crafty
ing evidence that nuisance has been aba
ted"
Year: 1860

CURE FOR RHEUMArIsM.-One raw egg
well beaten, half a pint of vinegar, one
ounce of spirits Of turpentine, quarter Of
an ounce Of camphor. These ingredients
must be well beaten together, then put into
bottle and shaken ten minutes: after
which it should be corked tightly to exclude
the air. 1t will be ready for use in a day.
For rheumatism in the head, it should be
well rubbed in at the back of the ears and
neck ...
Year: 1860

sy-"lienry, you ought to be ashmcd to
throw bread away like that. You may
want it some day


well, mother, would stand any better
chance of getting it then, if should eat
it up now ~
Year: 1860

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Determined to devote hereafter the whole Of his time 10 his
profession always be found at his Office in the Brick
Row Fayetteville Street-uness absent the Circuit
March I, 1893. 2-ly.
Year: 1860

LITERARY TAsrE.-To youug man away
from home, friendiess and fOrl'rn, in great
-;tv. the hours of peril are those between sunset
and bedtime for the moon and stars see more
evil in a single hour than the sun in his whole
davis circuit The poets visions OF evening are
ali compact of tender and soothing images. 1t
brings the wanderer to his home. the child to his
motber's arms, the OK to his stall and the weary
laborer to his rest But to the gentle hearted
youth who is thrown upon the rocks of pitfess
citv. and islands homeless amid thousand
homes" the approach of evening brings with 1t
an aching sense of loneliness and desoiatIon
which comes down on the spiritlike darkness on
the earth. In this mood. his best impulses he
come n snare to him. and he is led astray be
cause he is social. affectionate. sympathetic and
warm hearted If there be young man thus
eircumstanced within the sound of my voice,
LET ME saw to him that hooks the friends to
the friendless, and that library is the home of
the homeless, taste for literary reading Will
always carry you to converse with men who Wal
instruct YOU by their wisdom aud charm You by
their wit, who will soothe you when fretted, re-
fresh you when weary, counsel goa when per-
picked and sympathize with yon at all times
Evil spirits in the middle ages. were exorcisca
and driven away sy bell. book and candle; you
want but two of these agents, the book and the
candle.
Year: 1860

A BOLD and uugallant confidence
game was practiced on a lady in
Natchez, Miss, recently. Mrs. Aylet
Bouckner, of that city, had just drawn
from a banking house the sum Of 49,
900. While crossing the side walk
from her door to her carriage, she was
accosted by person of gentlemanly
exterior, who told her that Mr.. Brit
ton had made mistake in counting
the money, and that he wished to re-
count it. Not distrusting the occur
ience at all, but presuming the stran-
ger to be clerk, she handed him the
money and got into the carriage. The
person of gentlemanly exterior did
not return.
Year: 1860

WAY TO GET RID OF FLEAs,-We
think we SHALL deserve special pre-
MUM for the following excellent plan
which we now give to get rid of tieas
from a sleeping apartment; Set the
night light in a pan of soapsuds up.n
the floor Of the room The feas will
naturally seek the light, and fall in
the soap water and be drowned. This
plan is sure one, any one who.tries
st, will find the plan sure to lid them
of every flea in the room.-Cal Far
mer,
Year: 1860

THERE is Frenchman living in Cincinnati
who has experienced sad reverse of fortune
He was born in the midst of princely lxury,
his father holding high position in tie govern
ment of Napoleon I. His baptism conduct
ed with royal ceremony, Prince Murat standing
as his godfather, and no less a parsonage than
the Empress Josephine as his godmother- In
the changes of government which followed, the
child was banished from France, and in this
country has lived life of extreme poverty. lie
is now hog driver in the vicinity of Brighton.
He is disipated in his habits and drunk most all
of the time The French Government recently
allowed him a small pension, but he spends that
and his trifing earnings for whisky.
Year: 1860

A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. - The following
beautiful verse contains sentiment which many
of our readers will recognize in a feeling they
have no doubt experienced, but never known
how SO touchingly to express; e
sob, never breathe lost ones name


When those who loved that name are nigh;
1t pours a lava through the frame


That chokes the breath and fills the eye;
1t strains chord that yields too much


OF piercing anguish to its breath,


And hands OF mercy should not touch


A string made eloquent by death.'
Year: 1860

A MOVEMENT has been started in
England to encourage young women
to learn the trade of watch -makipg,
with view to qualify them to clean
and repair watches-a branch of
business in which there is constant
employment i'll large towns and cities.
Year: 1860




RIGHT OF SEcEssIoN-FAcTs AND FIGUREs.-
The New York Tribune, which is a believer in
the abstract right of secession, but opposed to
the policy, and yet regards the event as set
tied fact, soon to transpire the part of the
Cotton States, thus reasons on the after dis
tribution of the Federal "plunder," the COM
mon property of all the States:


If the Cotton States unitedly and earnestly with
draw peacefully from the Union think they should
and would be allowed to do Any attempt to compel
them by force to remain would be contrary the pri-
cples enunciated in the immortal Declaration of indie
pendence contrary TO the fundamental ideas which
human liberty is based We trust therefore, that if the
Cotton States should secede they will quietly and nof
fensyey announce their determination to do asking
Congress to call Convention to arrange the of
separation They must be that this is work of
difficulty, that time is required to effect it. and that Mr.
Buchanan, Mr. Lincoln, whoever may be President.
will be constrained by his Inauguration oath to collect
the revenue and enforce the laws throughout the entire
area OF our country until such separation shall have
been duly effected. But if they really desire go out
we shall do what to persuade the North accede
to their wishes We cannot tell what the embryo Cot
ton Conederacy will attempt to claim. As however we
paid hard cash for louisiana 900 600 for
Florida S10000000 to Texasn ALL $50 100000 for ter
ritory that they propose TO carry off, do not
leve they will get much who stand will probably
have to pay the entire debt of the present Union now
S60000000 So that claim administer on the
effects is pretty strong one.'
Year: 1860

CoNsTABLEs TAKE NoTIcE The Supreme
Court has decided that constable has no
authority to serve a process beyond the lin
its of the township in which he is elected
They have been in the habit of serving pa
pers anywhere within the county, but a case
was recently taken to the Supreme Court and
decided as above.
Year: 1860

THAT DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE The
Declaration of independence sent to Washing
ton from South Carolina and over which so
much gas has been expended, turns out to be
nothing more than mere draft prepared by a
Southern Clerk in Washington, who sent It to
the Constellation. -
Year: 1860

AnureaS, december loLn.


EDITOR Bulletin = Your paper of the 18th instant
contained an item extracted from the Nlariposa NeaUs
charging B. K Thorn, the under-sheriff of Caaveras
county, with acting too rashly because he shot crim-
nal who was trying to escape after arrest Without de-
failing the circumstances and dating upon the notori-
ousy desperate character of the felon appeal your
known impatiaty and love of Justice, to inform the
public-who cognizant Of the affair through your
columns-that not only do all persons acquainted with
the facts of this particular case well the Marposa
Neacs ITSELF clear efficient undersher of all blame
for acting without deliberaon but they and all others
who know Mr.. Thorn WELL are convinced that he is a
man and officer of such discretion, crcumspecton and
tried courage, would dsdain to the full power
placed by the law into his hands, in of ex-
treme emergency z.


We will only add to this truthful statement
that the man shot by Mr. Thorn, in the dis
charge of his duty as an officer, was noted
highway man, who last spring shot with in
tent to murder and rob, two citizens of this
county, at Indian Ladder Bridge, on the Mo-
kelumne. He was arrested shortly afterward
near San Andreas, but successfully played the
same ruse on the officer which he tried with
Thorn, and made his escape. He was ferret
ted out in his hiding place, through the skill
and industry of the under-s sheriff, and at the
IiiHS VI Hio oiACSt, Ist uicW an IA uLu Woo
advancing menacingly, when pistol leveled
at his head brought him to stand. Then,
throwing down the AK he broke and run, at
the same instant drawing large cheese-knife
from its scabbard at his side. He was told to
stop and surrender, but this only increasing
his speed, shot was fred, missing him.
Having reached point within few steps of
dense wilderness of chapparel, another shot
was fred which brought him to a surrender,
when he fell and threw away his knife. We
do not think either the public interest or hu-
manity requires any greater forbearance with
a villain like this, who was armed and in an
attitude of dangerous resistance from first to


last. Had the officer shot him dead the mo-
ment he raised the ak, it would have been a
juStifable homicide; had he been less prompt
the robber would have escaped had he rid
den up to him without shooting him, Thorn
would have been knitted, the Marposa Neacs
would have gained a better sensation article,
and the State would have lost an admirable
citizen and one of her most efficient officers
Year: 1860

trlcC was urSl Setlieu Oy Americans IN the
spring of 1851, by 0. D. Rolf, Cal. Percival


Hyram Boulter, and a company of thirteen
others, who came from Rich Gulch, on pros
pecting tour, and who discovered what they
then supposed to be rich quartz lead, on
what is now known as Boston Flat, some three
miles below the present location of the town.


The company, like many other early adven-
turers of that day, supposed they had " good
thing" and Immediately went to work to con-
struct mill. After surmounting innumerable
obstacles and difficulties-such as crossing
their machinery over rivers on RATS, and haul
ing up steep hills by means of ropes, and blocks
and takles-their mill, which would not now
cost over eighteen hundred dollars, was COM
pleted late in the fall at an expense of as many
thousands. But they had over estimated their
prospects. After running the mill some FIVE
or SIX weeks, they found it would not pay ex-
penses, consequently they had to abandon it.


The old mill now stands in the lone canon. a
monument to the reckless folly with which
men In those early days rushed into wild en-
terprises. After leaving the mill the company
broke up and scattered in every direction


Some went to work in the placer mines on
Sandy Gulch, which had just been struck


Park Flaxen, and one other of the company,
moved higher up the ridge and mined on Big
Flat, one mile from where the town now stands,
which was the first placer mining done in this
section of country. Water being scarce and
fearing the seventies of hard winter, they
soon left and returned to Sandy Gulch where
by this time there had grown up quite set


Iement There was no more prospecting done
until the following spring, when the Cogswell
Brothers two in number) prospected and
found very rich mines on Soap Root Gulch;
but as there was no water to work with, they
were also compelled to abandon their claims.
In the fall of 50, Benz. Mott and company of
Year: 1860

NoTE ON THE CARs.-On our trip
home last evening on the special train from the
State Fair, We observed gentleman passing
through the coaches with paper and pencil,
s.icitipg the political complexion Of the voters
tn rein. The result stood:
Year: 1860

COUNTY CoNvENrION.-The Democ-
racy meet this afternoon at the Court House to
nominate a candidate for Clerk Of the District
Court The delegates are requested to be on
band at 9 o'c'ock T.
Year: 1860

sHEAKlNe about the cry of dsunion. and
the aching tendency of some people to kick
up muss generally, the Nashville Patriot re-
marks:


The Union of the States is not thing to
he trihed with, and those who advance its
dissolution ought to have their heads broken,
or their necks, it doesn't matter which.
"What burst this glorious country up


Accursed be thy tongue i


Her stars and stripes shall float the skies


Long after yon are hung"
Year: 1860

The Agricultural Convention, called by
the Alameda County Agricultural Society,
met at San Francisco Friday. The main
question before the Convention, will be, says
the Alta, whether the counties bounding on
the bay shall recognize the existence of the
State Agricultural Society as hitherto organ
lied, and continue to give it their counte-
nance and material aid and, if not, whether
new State organization should be formed
and how; whether district societies should
be formed, and of what size, and so forth.
Year: 1860

A GENTLEMAN from Western Utah. informs
the Hydraulic Press, that he saw mass of
rich lead ore of about one hundred pounds
weight, which was taken from the Galena
vein lately found in the hills east of Smiths
Valley
Year: 1860

Pixies PEAK.-The Rocky Mountain News,
judging from the toneof the eastern press, and
private letters, is convinced that there will
be an immense movement towards the Pixies
Peak region, during the coming Spring. 1t
says:


We have barely sufficient provisions in this
country to subsist those already here until
the season of advantageously transporting
new supply-which can hardly be sooner
than the middle Of May, or about the time
that mining operations can be resumed by
the masses. Every man who reaches here
before that time should bring a supply of
provisions and clothing sufficient until the
first of June, and also come with the expee-
tation of doing little or nothing before that
time.
Year: 1860

FIVE of the boys who escaped the other day
from the Industrial School at San Francisco
were captured on Thursday at Benicia. They
refuse to give any intelligence of the other
three boys who are still at large.
Year: 1860

MURDER AND SELF MUrLATIoN.-An old
woman, eighty years of age, residing in De-
Kalb county, Indiana, beat her husband,
who was as old as herself, with an ak and
club till he died.


She was lodged in Jail, and on the following
Sunday she procured common ease knife
and sharpened it on the stove pipe in her
cell, with the intention, she said, of cutting
her throat; but fearing the knife was not
sharp enough for the operation, cut or sawed
a hole through into the cavity of the abdo-
men-tore out portion of the eaul, and
then seized the large intestine-divided that
and cut off piece about five inches long,
throwing the piece into the stove, but it was
secured before it was burnt too much for
Identification. She is now getting well.-
The reason she assigned for the act was that
she wanted to go where her old man was.
So says the Philadelphia Press.
Year: 1860

The Hydraulic Press of Saturday says; The
benevolent face of Gen. James Allen shone in
our dingy sanctum several times this week.
He appears well and hopeful of success In his
mining enterprise at Columbia Hill, near
which place he has been residing the present
winter. All good fortune attend him.
Year: 1860

SHoULD BE PARTICULAR THERE.-In Fresno
county there has been exactly one vote cast
at each election for several years against the
Democratic ticket. If the dominant party
establish liberal test in that county, it may
totally annihilate the opposition. We pro-
pose the following:


"Will you accept lucrative office under
the next Administration P'-S. r. Call.