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Year: 1859

THE DRUM DRUMMED OUT.-Mighty
is the drum, raising as 1t does lust OF
glory in the Christians heart, stirring
him to slaughter, and making bloodshed
beautiful; sending him forth terrible
reaper in the fields of carnage, and
smearing him with human gore as earth's
best painting! And yet the drum
though beat by,a destroying angel
sounds not so musical to us as the pant
ing and snorting of the railway engine.
The piston is more noble weapon than
the sword; the whirl and rush and
thunder of the train grinder, more truly
sublime, more suggestive of all that
ennobles man in his purest thoughts and
deepest sympathies towards his fellow,
than the tramp and measured step Of
glistening thousands, shaking the earth
they too soon are about to defle with
fire and sword. ..Jerrold.
Year: 1859

The Swedes have a peculiar mode of
saying grace. The company stand around
the table, and at a considerable distance
from it, the gentlemen, for the most
part, if not always, with their hands
clasped and held ON their breasts Pro-
found silence ensues perhaps for min
ute, OF it may be two, when the ladies
drop curtsey, and the gentlemen make
a bow, and then the company take their
seats. After dinner there is sometimes
an addition, one of the party striking up
verse of some we'll known hymn, when
all join in singing it.
Year: 1859

THs EErAEH were on d ty yesterday
and made . large haul on the canine family,
though most Of them caught we're worthless AMI
mails. At the first market two ugly looking
quNdrupeds belonging to q butcher we're captured
but bought out Of the net at Q cost Of ten doll
lars.
Year: 1859

APPLICATION FOR PARDoN-It is said that
on application is to be made to the Governor
for the pardon of VIM. Sterritt who was con
victed some time ago on various charges of
burglary and grand larceny, and sent t. the
State Prison for eighteen or twenty years.
He is a hard case Union.


AS Eph Horn would say. ais there no one
else who would like to be pardoned."
Year: 1859

VY- An editor up in Minnesota says that
he was never happy but once in his life, and
that was on a warm summer day when he
lay on the laps of two blooming malens,
being famed by third, and kissed by all
three Gosh
Year: 1859

The miners on the South Yuba we're
greatly astonished about the middle of
the day on Tuesday. at beholding solid
column of water of SOME eight feet in
height, rushing down the channel of the
river upon them, boiling and eddying, IA
den with trees, logs and lumber and
sweeping all before it. The torrent ran
three hours it is said without any sensible
diminution, and gradually subsidized in
nine Or ten hours more: The cause of
the food has been found to proceed from
the breaking of a dam to one of the small
lakes owned by the Eureka Lake Com
pany high up in the mountains.


The loss of property along the route
of the food has been slight owing to the
miners not having yet made preparations
to work on the low bars and in the bed
of the river, but the loss of life has been
more serious. Three Germans were
swept away from New York bar and
drowned. The body of one was found
next day and recognized. Coroner
Bazely held an inquest on what was
supposed to be the body of another one
of lost Germans. on Wednesday on
Boston Bar, sixteen miles hel6w the
place of drowning The body aas nude,
a slight tuft of beard of light color was
under the chin, and an anchor pricked
in blue ink on the back of tho right
hand at the Junction of the thumb and
finger. The body was deeently buried
near the place where found: There
may have been more lives lost not yet
reported.
Year: 1859

Sonora HERALD.-We are happy to
meet again the old familiar face of the
Sonora Herald, ons Of the most indapen-
dent as well as oldest papers IN the
State. Mr.. O. Sullivan the Editor tells
us the temporary suspension Of the pa
per, for two or three weeks originated ir
a determination to effect dissolution of
the partnership in the proprietorship of
the paper. We are glad to hear the
Heral2 is a paying concern and bound to
live and be useful
Year: 1859

DIR. SMITH having established first class Water
Cure and Motorpaic Institution in this city, and feel
ng great interest in the of such Institu
on based upon natural and rational principles of the
healing art have taken charge of the bu ness depart
ment Dr.. Smith IS graduate of regularly chartered
Medical College, thorough Physician by nature wei
as education and can assure those who consult him
and adoI his treatment that they will rejoice in the
Inspiration of returning health, and verify all that is
said in his favor.


THOMAS HILL
Sacr amento March letf late of Hill Wooster & c
Year: 1859

The New York State Lunatic Asylum is COM
peted and has been opened to the inspection of the
public. Patients are rapidly filling up the ASYLUM
already, and the probability is that before it has
been year in existence, it will be found too small
to accommodate all who are sent to it.
Year: 1859

TEXAs.-We e have Galveston dates of the 9TH inst
The news of that day contains nothing of local
Importance that is new.


The Dallas Herald states on good authority:


The Lower Reserve Indians killed in December
last, in Palo Pinto county, by citizens of Erath,
some five or six miles below the Reserve were there
by permission of Major Van Dorn herding their
horses, in order to fatten them to undergo the
fatigues of an active campaign against the wild
tribes in the spring, under the Major. The men
killed had been among his guides in his brilliant
fall campaign, and had done good service


The Houston Telegraph, of the 4th inst, says:


Emigration is still coming into the State by every
avenue. We have been pleased to meet lately sew
eral gentlemen of means who are going into the
sheep raising business in Western Texas. This
sheep raising is fast becoming leading interest of
Western Texas, and but year two can elapse
before wool will become one of the staple products
of our Empire State.
Year: 1859




disparaging enemies among the subjects
of those who reign by the Grace of
God" But none more inplacably his
enemiEs are to be found than in the Uni.
ted States. From the frst some of the
leading American journals have devoted
their columns to belittle the man. Even
after the fine account he has given of
himself as military commander. the
American mind is not prepared to do him
justice. lie is an idiotic. unprincipled
tyrant still. After campaign scarcely
without parallel in results as well as in
the masses of men brough: into action,
it seems to be the paid business of some
journalists TO prove that the victories of
Louis Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel
are barren and that the Italians have
been cheated by the treaty of Villafran-
ca. The truth of the matter is that the
war was not carried to that extent OK
pected, but that Napoleon gained the end
he contemplated-the liberation of Italy
in the main from the despotism of
Austria-is not to be denied. And the
results of the war in a moral point Of
view have been beneficial to the people.
The wars and the example of the First
Napoleon inspired the under orders of
the people, taught them to regard them
selves as men and equals with the titled
nobility, and that they might aspire to
positions of honor without drop of noble
blood in their veins. The late bloody
battles in Italy have given confidence
to France, that her raceiof heroes is not
extinct, and that an enduring greatness
shers because prcdicated on the heroism
of her people, without which necessary
virtue no nation can become or remain
truly great. The CORY fields Of Magen-
ia and Solferino attest that the germ of
national greatness still remains with the
Italians despite the disparaging and dis
couraging boasts of their enemies for
more than three hundred years. The
spark of nationality yet remains in Italy
1t showed itselfin the enthusiasm of the
people wherever went the allied army,
and it is an augury that country pre-
eminent in the arts will yet find an hon.
orable place among the most favored
nations of the globe.
Year: 1859

'Flowcd all the Canongate with inky streams


BYRox.
The Democrat attempts to charge the
National with appropriating kes ofink
belonging to the first named institution.
We hope the National wont throw that
ink back-we do hate to see brethren
fall out and blacken each other so. But
Roberts is spunky ,and living at some diff
tance we doubt not the new stock of the
Democrats ink will be poured out, like
blood at Solferino, until the turnpike to
Grass Valley will be scarcely passable'
Stand from under.
Year: 1859

BROTHER AVERY intimated on the
commencement of a new volume, few
weeks since, that the substantial appre-
citation of the public was not as great for
his paper as it ought to be. To read his
last number one would suppose he had a
job before lin to devour tithe of all
the plums, peaches and watermelons on
the Ridge. We are happy to see that
he begins to be properly appreciated and
shat the good things of this world are
being piled up around him by devoted
friends.
Year: 1859

ATLANTIC MoNTHLY.--The August
number ofthis excellent publication came
by the late steamer, and is brim full of
good reading. The Professor at the
Breakfast Table is uuspeakably good.
The leading article.-The Dramatic
element in the Bible-is studied one
and written by master pen. The chap
ter on the Italian War is in time and
able. In short there is nothing but val
liable reading in the Monthly.
Year: 1859

AMBRoTYPEs.-Mons. A Liebert, art
ist of Broad Street, showed us day OF
two since a most beautiful pearl ambro-
type taken by himself, and designed for
exhibition at the State Fair. 1t is ex-
ecuted in the highest style of art and
will be hard to beat. The successful
artist may be found ready to take pic
lures of almost any description, at his
rooms opposite the Hotel de Paris.
Year: 1859

at Jones' Bar are making from two
ounces to forty dollars a day to the
hand. The Company have been at
work three years on the same claims
Lately they have struck rich lead on
tho bed rock and are realizing the per
diem above stated.


The miners at that place held meet,
ing on Monday evening last to take
steps to procure an injunction against
the South Yuba and other ditch com,
panies. More water is needed in tt !,
stream than these companies allow to
run.
Year: 1859

NATURALIZATION Judge Douglas
totally dissents from the Administration
on the Naturalization question, and de-
clares there can be no difference between
foreign born and native citizen so far as
the protection of the government is con-
cerned.
Year: 1859

SIGNS OF GLADNEss.-The Lecomp.
ton press throughout the State publish
Mr. Buchanan's letter declining to be a
candidate for the second term, with a
never failing sign of gladness. The fact
is, they know the old fellow wouldn't do
to tool the people with second time.
Year: 1859

WAR OF GrANTs.-The Democrat
pitched into Riley Armstrong last week
on his legislative record. We under-
stand tho attacked is gathering up his
resources and girding up his loins pre-
paratory TO terrible defense. In this
war of giants. doubtless "the ground
will bc torn up and blood and hair
plenty scattered about
Year: 1859

MAN Shot.-A man apparently a
German, was picked up on the road to
Grass Valley and brough into town yes
terday morning, who has the marks of
foul play ON his person. He has been
shot near one ear. the ball passing arr
ound near the cheek bone. There are
also. marks of a slung shot on his head.
He is at the hospital and will probably
recover.
Year: 1859

The ElepAanfs.-All who have not
yet seen "the Elephant" in California,
had better try and see pair of them
the royal pair Victoria and Albert-will
visit us next week. They are sight
worth seeing.
Year: 1859

Section 4. Upon the settlement with
said company for the enlargement Of
said reservoir, said company rholl be
charged with all water rents by them
collected upon said reservoir and the
Miami and Erie Canal, and with interest
thereon from the time the same we're re-
ceiyed by said company computed at
the rate Of six per cent. per annum; aud
upon payment Of the balance due said
company, after the payment Of Boyle &
Roach and the deduction of the water
rents, as in this act directed, said c0m-
pany shall convey to the State Of Ohio
al lands by them owned and held in
connection with said reservoir; and the
contract between said company and the
board Of public works, made under and
in pursuance Of the act of April Z, 1856,
shall be void and of none effect, and all
leases made and rights acquired there.
under by said company TO all inlents
and purposes, shall vest in and be en-
joycd by the State of Ohio, and the
board Of public works, on being notified
by the attorney general Of the final set
tIement Of all claims as herein provided,
shall take possession Of said reservoir
aud its appUrtenanccs, shall contract for
and collect an water rents arising out
Of the lease of the surplus water of the
same, or Of the Miami and Erie Canal,
the same as [if ] said contract had never
been made, whenever the said company
shall perform the matters aud things in
this section required, the same shall b.
taken and held as a surrender Of the
said reservoir and Of all the rights aud
interests of said company acquired uu-
der the contract for the enlargement
| thereof, and the auditor Of State shall
thereupon draw his warrant for what
/ ever BALANCE may be due them after ma
king the deductions in this act directed


Section g. The capital stock Of said
company negotiated by E S. Hamlin to
| William II Gibson, and shown by the
testimony taken by the treasury inves-
tigating committee to be in the hands
Of G. l.. johnson, is hereby declared
to the property of the State, aud all
! liability Of said company to said Gibson,
| johnson, or any assignoes of them on
either Of them, is hereby declared an
nuled and made void; and the pro rata
dividend due said stock, on settlement
of said company with its stockholders,
is hereby directed to be retained as the
money Of the State Of Ohio, and the
same shall be credited to w. II Gibson
upon whatever amount he may be found
to owe the State on settlement Of his
accounts as treasurer of State


Section 6. The auditor of State and
attorney general are hereby directed
and empowered to settle with said com
pany, under and in accordance with the
provisions Of this act All payments
of money in this act directed shall bo
made on the warrants Of the auditor,
drawn in conformity to law; and all eK-
penses incurred by said auditor and
attorney general in the execution Of
this act shall be reimbursed out of the
treasury; and this act shall be in force
from aud after its passage.


WILLIAM b. WOODS,


Speaker of the House Of Representatives


MARTIN WELKER,


President Of the Senate
March 81, 1859.
Year: 1859

AKO:HER CHATTER OF HOEEORs-A MAN Ar
TEMPTs TO KILL HIS WIFE AND THEN CUTs HIS ewN
THsoAT One of those bloody deeds which oeca-
sioually startle US by their horror, occurred at
late hour Sunday night in that quarter of the city
knovn as Chelsea. A dispute arose between q man
named Sullivan and his wife, who for some time
past have lived very unhsppiy together, when he
seized stick of Ere wood and struck her with such
force as TO knock her senseess to the floor Alarm
ed at what he had done, he made every effort in bis
power to revive her without informing his neigh
b5rs, but, failing in this, and overcome by remOrse
at the thought that he had killed her he seized q
razor and cut his own throat from ear to ear.


Some time afierWsrd, consciousness returned to
his wife, who on reViVing found her husband weller
i?g in his own gore, and life nearly extinct. She
Immediately gave the alarm, and q physician was
called in, whose skill alone prevented Sullivan's
q ekering lamp of life from going out. The gash
in his throat is indeed frightfu but as 1t is not
deep, it is thought he will eventually recover. His
wife was only stunned by the blow she received,
and is already as well as usuSL-AsnPhis EVsHiag
Argus, June IA,
Year: 1859

Mention has been made of the fact thai the pub
fishers of the San Francisco Bulstia hsd been in
dicied under The law against obscene publications,
fer publishing tie confession Of Mrs. sIcKLKs BY
the last overland mil we learn that the justice be-
fore whom the case was tried, sentenced them to
pay foe of SlOO each or Imprisonment for fifty
days. The case was appealed to the County Court,
and the defendants gave bail BY bond in the sum
Of S50e
Year: 1859

Firing Gpas and Pistols about the streets 10
an abomiuable practice, and one that should
gentleman, while passing down Broad street.
was accidentally stra L by q number OF email
shot, thoughtieSsiy fired from gun, but
fortunately he was not near enough 10 be se-
ri0usly. Injured. Had one Of the missiles
struck him in the eye, instead Of on the breast,
he would have lost his sight
Year: 1859

Loss OF AN AUSTRALIAN PACKET -" Err.
RIBIE Loss OF LlFE.-Nem York, Nor. III
The Liverpool Daily Post, Of the 9th ult.,
publishes intelligence received late on the
previous night that a splendid vessel, the
ship Royal Charter, from Australia, was
totally lost in Muffin bay, near Bangor. She
had upwards of four hundred persons on
board, and only ten were said TO have been
saved She had also half a million sterling
in gold Oh board. When the disaster took
place Was not known. as the telegraph line
had ceased 10 work. There was some hope
that the loss of life had been cxaggcra ted. =
Some bodies were being washed ashore when
the account was sent off.
Year: 1859

SroT ON THE Sun. A spot of remarkable
size, it is stated, is now visible on the surface
Of the sun more than 60, ZOO miles in diam
etcr or eight times the diameter Of the Garth
| can be seen without difficulty with the aid
of an opera glass, the eye, Of course, being
protected by a screen. The area occupied by
this disturbance of the sun S sIrlace is about
three thousand millions ofsquare miles, some
fifteen or sixteen times the whole surface OF
the earth. AS the spot was near the III idle
of the sun on Saturday, Goth October, it will
be visible some DAYS yet.
Year: 1859

PAY FOR YoUR TIcKETs.-The printing
Of the tickets for the late election WAS attended
the candidates to settle their bills without
delay. A good opportunity will be afforded
to those who have been elected, to pay when
they come to Elliton to qualify, which they
must do in thirty days after the commissions
are received at the Clerks office, Of which
due notice will be given by the Clerk
Supervisors, Justices the Peace and Con
stables, will please remember that We have
small bills for tickets against them. A word
to prompt men is sufficient.
Year: 1859

SUBSCRlBERS in arrears to this Office
~ can pay their bills with Wood at the
market price. We must have the money.
o. the value OF it. We want Wood during
this month. Who will pay in this way 4!
We shall see
Year: 1859

The original proposition in the Constitu-
tionhl Convention contemplated exemption
of personal property to the amount of $2,-
600, as we'll as of homestead, a choice
being allowed to persons. The personal
property clause was stricken out and not
embodied in any other form. This will
bear most severely upon the class of me-
chanics and day-laborers, whose tools and
household property are thus left TO the mer-
cy of creditors. The well-to-do farmer,
who rarely runs in debt, and has farm OF
100 acres, well improved, or the owner of a
comfortable house in village, has the ben
eft of exemption to the value Of his farm
or lot, but the laborer who commences with
nothing but his muscle and skill, and above
all others should have the aid of law that
he may not be embarrassed in his efforts tC
provide for his family, is overlooked
Such is Republican justicel


"The Legislature will provide for that
Are the people at all more sure that thu
Legislature will not be as recreant to thei
trust as the Constitutional Convention hav'
been? Are they sure that their rights will
not again be sacrificed for the benefit o
party success?
Year: 1859

This carries iron to read heat, and of
course softens it. The temperature rises
often with great rapidity. If the water
becomes low, or if it is let in suddenly,
steam of high tension is generated acting
against weakened boilers. This, he had
no doubt, was the true cause of the explo-
sion of boilers.


Prof Henry said that the amount Of
latent and sensible heat in steam was the
same, according to the law discovered by
Daltun. This would lead to most terrible
results when water was allowed TO become
low in boilers. He coincided with the
view presented.


Prof. Silliman said that he had never
had the subject so wildly brought to his
mind as at the present moment, by the
remark Of Prof. Henry. It was, he hsd
no doubt, the true and only cause Of all
explosions. People resorteG to other sub
'erfuges, but this he was satisfied was the
cause. The relations between latent and
sensible heat were such that it was like
kindling another fire in the boiler, above
the one already kindled. Other gentle
men coincided in the opinion advanced
Proceeiingsof Am. Scientific Association.
Year: 1859

The N. Y. Times, commenting on the re-
cent riotous proceedings at Baltimore, says:


The history is not very heroic, but is a
history of our own day and of our own
country, and it demands our attention. 1t
is not an isolated history, we are sorry to
say, and it is identical in substance with
many other signs of the times. The infa-
nous way in which petty mobs in our coun-
try villages have recently taken the law
into their own hands; the cowardly on
slaughts of small armies of poltroons, dis
guised and blackened as to their faces, upon
obnoxious individuals, with tar and feathers
and all the paraphernalia of the vulgar
Inquisition, these all drift in one direction.
They indicate not merely the relaxation of
public, but the decay of private fairness and
courage. In this respect they are very
dark and disastrous incidents of our nation
al experience, and it becomes all concerned
to make vigorous effort towards ending
them forever.
Year: 1859

Judge Petit has decided that q. S. sol
dier has no right to vote, under the organic
act, in case which came up before him
recently. A soldier named Montgomery
was tried, found guilty and sentenced on a
charge of Illegal voting. In passing SEN
tence, the Judge expatiated at some length
on the propriety of the law which prohib-
tied this class of persons from voting-a
law obtaining universally-showing what
power it would place in the hands of the
President, whose command Of the army is
entire and absolute, and in the hands of
subordinate officers to control elections, if
no such law existed. The Judge charged
the prisoner to carry his words to his COM
rades at she Fort, and wherever he went,
telling them that their reward for honora-
Bile service to their country was to be sought
in other channels,