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Year: 1859

The most casual observer cannot fail in
noticing the disposition of the citizens of
Auburn to make valuable improvements in
and about their town; and although the
place is not increasing in size with the won
derful rapidity that generally characterizes
the building up of a new mining town, yet
the structures now made are very dii-
ferent from the hastily constructed edices
of former days. Taste is more consulted
that heretofore in the architecture of private
residences, and the desire to ornament the
grounds surrounding. Fruit and orDamen-
tai trees, and shrubbery are planted in Won
derful quantity, giving the promise of town
enriched and beautifed by orchards and
flower gardens in the course of two or three
years.


The number of fruit trees set out the pres
ent spring far exceed the efforts of previous
seasons, and some are planting quite eXten-
sively. Messrs. Bishop u Long, alone, have
set out an orchard of fifteen hundred trees,
embracing a large and choice variety Of
fruits, and will further extend their operations
next and succeeding years. In private
gardens the aggregate of trees will reach
several thousands and we also notice several
vineyards in course of preparation.


The location of Auburn has proven favor
ab.a for the cultivation Of fruit, and the fact
clearly demonstrated that handsome profits
are to be derived therefrom, paying largely
upon the investments that may be made
Improvements of this character are also an
evidence of a permanent population, of those
who are doing their share toward building
up the State.
Year: 1859

Social DANoE.-Mr. Galley, Proprietor
Of the Junction House, notifies the public
in another column Of Social Dance to be
given at his hotel on next Thursday evening.
The dancing hall at the Junction" is in
high favor with dancers, and the long ex-
perience of the proprietor as public caterer
is sufficient guarantee that the music and
COLLATION. will be all RIGHT.
Year: 1859

n Dill Is now DelOTe the Assembly lOl Vie
establishment Of Branch Insane Asylum at
Marysylle. If a fact it is very strange and
and startling one, that the increase of insani-
ty so soon requires two Asylums in the
State. 1t is sufficient to call out the warm
est sympathies of our nature in behalf OF the
afflicted ones; but we don't believe it is fact.
We have no idea that the people of this ten
year old State are SO predisposed to insanity,
that Branch Asylum is called for. The
present one at Stockton has so far proven
sufficient and we think will be for some
years to come; and its maintenance is GER
tainly costing the State an amount that
should warn legislators not to double the
dose only as last necessity.


We have no objection to the handsome
city of MarysviIIe being the seat of an
other Asylum when required, but at present
the only demand for it seems to be desire
to have the State undertake a useless eypcndi-
ture in ornamenting that city with a fire
building.


P S.-The bill has received its quictus.
The final vote upon it stood, ayes 26; nays
81. Killed by one vote-quontun1 sut.


The CAPITOL REMovAL.-The subject of
locating the Capitol comes up in the As
sembly as the special order on next Tuesday.
For consideration there will be a bill provd-
ing for the building of Capitol at Sacra-
mcnto, and a substitute naming Oakland as
the point. The reports of the majority and
minority committees that visited Oakland,
will also be considered. 1t is to he hoped
the house will be governed by the dictates OF
reason and at once end this senseless aoita-
ton by passing a bill making an appropria-
ton to commence the building at Sacra-
meno. Why these annual attempts, to re-
move the seat of government to an insigniti-
cant village on the Bay of San Francisco,
are made and seriously thought of we can
not understand. 1t is not alone buncombe
but ridiculous legislation, and unworthy the
important mission legislators have undertake,
in behalf of the people. And what does al
this boys play originate from? Nothing
more than that some sensitive gentlemen be
como displeased with something Sacramen
tans may do, and forthwith they foolshy at
tempt to place the Capitol on wheels. Thi


is sheer nonsense and argues little for th


scope of intellect that legislators shoul'


possess.


If gentlemen do not consider the perma


nent Capital of the State as yet fixed fact


instead of waste of time, and an exposition
of their foolish prejudices, why not pass
law that will admit of the people voting


their preferences in the matter. We thin
such vote would be decisive in favor @


Sacramento, save great deal of Legisativ
5 time in future sessions, and shield member
from the odium of ridicule, that many seen
3 now so desirous of earning.
Year: 1859

SENT Up.-A fellow was sent up on Thurs
day, by Justice Grant, for sixty days, and
fined $780, for the crime of petty larceny
He had stolen the blankets and some cloth
ing of miner near the Pine Grove House,
and making his way to Auburn, had disposed
of some of the clothing, and with the mo-
ney procured therefrom was engaged in a
gambling game in a saloon, when the owner
of the stolen articles ferreted him out and
had him arrested.
Year: 1859

ES- The bill introduced by Senator An
derson, securing Homesteands to unmarried
persons, will possibly make little extra
business in the Office of County Recorders,
but so far as Placer county is concerned, any
additional receipts accrung to the office of
Recorder will go to the benefit of the coun-
ty-the office of Recorder being a salaried
one. So much for mean nsinuation, from
mean source.
Year: 1859

N7 f have the largest stock of extra fine Gus


w tom made goods of any house in the State
Everything in the furnishing line for gentlemen
and as we MAJ ufacturc our own goods and n'
port direct from our house 4lG Broadway. New
York, we are able and willing to sell cheaper
than any other house no matter who they are
Remember that we sell for cash. and cash only
and one price. $4,000 worth of goods, whole
sale or retail.


December 25th. 1S5S.-3m
Year: 1859

TUNNELS THROUGH DEsERTs-A French
engineer seriously proposesa plan for turn
ing the sands of the great African Desert
into solid arched blocks for the construction
of a tunnel extending the whole length of
the sandy waste. The method proposed is
to mold the sand by moisture into blocks
of the proper shape, then fuse them by the
heat of the suns concentrated rays by means
Of a huge Archmedean burning mirror.
The object of this tunnel is stated to be the
protection of travellers from the desert si-
moons and sand storms and to make Algeria
the entrepot of the commerce of the Mediter-
ranean with Africa. The scheme is splen-
did one, but its foundation is laid in the
sand, and we are warned thatths is a foolish
way of building:
Year: 1859

| "DIFFERENcES OF OPINIoN."-In reply to
to stating it as a general truth that virtue IN


poor coat would be despsed or neglected


by the world, the Placerville Observer very


courteously maintains its opinion that such


is the case, saying:N W -
| "The world will bend the pregnant hinges
of the knee at the shrine of Mammon, while


honest poverty goes weeping to the grave


with here and there a solitary friend. Wealth


is power-and power is the prerogative of
despots. The chief object in the establish


ment Of our Democratic system of govern
ment, was to weaken as much as possible,
this oppressive attribute of wealth therefore,


when we find plain American citizens, either
on steamboats,, or elsewhere, making invidi-


Gus distinctions among other Americans SIM
ply on account of dollars and cents, we have
a right to denounce those who do it as snobS
and funkies. These kinds of distinctions
are being made continually, both on land


and water, and tits for this very reason that
our whole nation is becoming a sort of


bogus reflex of wealth -worshping Europe"
The honest anger which fires this extract
extorts our admiration, and must come from


one who would never be guilty Of the snob-


bishness he contemns. Still, we are not


converted from our delusion that mean sub
serviency to wealth. amongst Americans, is
only hateful exception and not the rule.


We love to believe, with Emerson, that men
are better than we know and that it is the


best policy in our intercourse with them to
credit them with the best traits until they


prove by their actions that they do not pos
sess them. 1t has been our good fortune
we say it without latent irony-to be always
poor, and our experience has certainly led
| us, even in California, to love human nature
as the very noblest thing on Gods earth we
hope to live and die believing it so.
Year: 1859

Our NATIONAL STARs.-The act of Congress
establishing the forms and character of our
National Flag, passed April A. ls4s, declares
that on the admission of every new State in
the American Union, one star shall be added
to the cluster already grouped on the Union
of the flag, and that such addition shall take
place on the Fourth of July next succeeding
such admission. Let our flag makers take
notice. Thirty-three stars must adorn the
national banner from and after the Fourth of
July next. Till then thirty-two.-S F. Herald.
Year: 1859

THE reckless proiigllity with which in an
clent Egypt upper classes squandered away
the labor and lives of the people is perfectly
startling. In this respect, as the monuments
yet remaining abundantly prove, they stand
alone and without rival. We may form
some idea of the almost incredible waste
when we hear that two thousand men were
occupied for three years in carrying single
stone from Elephantne to Sais; that the
canal of the Red Sea alone cost the lives Of
a hundred and twenty thousand Egyptians ;
and thatto build one of the pyramids required
the labor of three hundred and sixty thous-
and men for twenty years.
Year: 1859

HUME remarks in one of his essays:


81 was never more disposed to see the fa-
vorable than the unfavorable side of things
a turn of mind which it is more happy to
possess, than to be born to an estate of ten
a year."
Year: 1859

FoRGIvENEss.-The feeling in the public
mind which is produced by the ecclesiaStic
dogma, that the consequences of sin can be
avoided, is prolific of evil. Let EcclesiaSticus
put his hand into the fire. Can he est )e
the pain? Would it be desirable for him to
avoid the pain? Is not the resulting pain
necessary to the preservation of his life
Let him precipitate his body from a high
building; will not his bones be crushed and
his flesh be bruised? Natural laws are never
suspended to suit the caprices or the aspira-
tions of either saint or sinner. The laws Of
mind are no more suspended than are those
of the physical world Both are immutable,
acting by eternal principles.


When a man sins, he must suffer, neces-
sarily suffer. The terror would be, if he
could sin and not suffer, in consequence.
The suffering is designed to teach obedience
to law it is discipline vital to morality. We
can not escape the natural effect of sin. Woe
to US if we could. 1t comes to us as bleS-
sing; and instead of deprecating it, we
should fear only the cause which inevitably
insures it.


Let none expect, hope, or wish to elude
the consequences Of SIN. 1t is undesirable
that one iota of the painful results of our
transgressions should be abated. We need
the development and the wisdom given by
all the humiliating and the torturing effects
of our sin. These effects are means of turn
ing us back to truth.


The idea Of punishment inflicted, arbitra-
rily, for sin, never existed, except in the
codes and creeds of man.


Arbitrary punishment was never inflicted,
except by man nor is it possible elsewhere.


When we view questions from a position
of common-sense, we shall be more erect.
When we think correctly, righteousness will
not seem crucixion.-Life Illustrated.
Year: 1859

Cold Thaw.-In our northern latitu-
des persons are apt to remark that GER
tain weather is too cold for thaw, when
ice and snow are disappearing around
them. This sensation of cold is caused
by the absorption of heat in the process
of liquefaction: for the ice, In dissolving
takes all the sensible heat of the al. and
all surrounding objects, and renders it
latent. The atmosphere. and every OBJ
ject in it, may thus, in a thaw. be kept
at the temperature of3e 9 an elevation
above the temperature being prevented
by the liquefaction of the ice.
Year: 1859

Delicate Satire.-'Do l understand
the counsel for defendant" asked very
fat Western judge, "to say that he is
about to read his authorities. as against
the decision just pronounced from the
bench 2" by no means" responded
the counsel aforesaid. Il was merely
going to show to your h onor, BY brief
passage was about to read from the
book, what an internal old fool Black
stone must have been" "Ay, ay I"
said the Judge not little elated, and
there the matter ended.
Year: 1859

The San Francisco Times, the organ
of the Republicans of this State, tells
the Douglas Democracy: They may
as well divest themselves first as last of
the idea that the Republican party is to
be knocked and played about as shut
tlecock by Democratic battled3res.-
The Republican party is this day stron-
ger by far in California than the Doug
las Democracy. 1t is great, a nation
al party; it has bright future before it,
and is bound to be in the ascendant after
the next Presidential election"
Year: 1859

DR.. SMITH having established first class Water
Cure and Motorpathic Institution in this city, and feel
ng great interest in the Of such lnstiu
tion upon natural and rational principles Of the
healing ART have taken charge Of the bus ness depart
ment. DR. Smith is graduate Of regularly chartered
Medical College thorough Physician by nature, well
as education, and those who consult him
and 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 ls-tf late of HILL Wooster & Co
Year: 1859

HAPPINEss.-Now let me tell you a
secret worth knowing, The only true
way to be happy is to take the drops of
happiness as God gives them to us every
day of our lives. The boy must learn
to be happy while he is plodding over
his lessons the apprentice while he is
learning his trade the merchant while
ne is making his fortune. If he fails to
learn this art, he will be sure to miss his
enjoyment when he gains what he sighs
for.
Year: 1859

Il Plea for the Beardless.-In the year
1856, the young Constable of CASTLE
was sent by his sovereign to felicitate
Pope Sixtus V. on his exaltation to the
papal throne. The pontiff, displeased
that so young an ambassador had been
deputed to him, could not help saying,
And well, sir, did your master want
men, by sending me an ambassador with
out beard :" "If my sovereign had
thought" replied the proud young Span
lard. "that merit consisted in beard he
would have sent you a buck goat. and
not q gentleman as l am"
Year: 1859

Those MINsTRELs.-We have not
seen for many long day SO appropriate
time to laugh and grow fat asin W.T.
Messing the antics of Lew Rather and
his troupe, on Saturday night last.


As the French dancing master, Rather
is imimitable. Giles Scroggin's ghost
is another most ridiculous exhibition
which would provoke an anchorite to
broad grin if nothing more. Those
Ministries cut into the business Of apoth-
ecaries every time they visit us.
Year: 1859

Gov. WELLER.-Amid the stiffness of
last Sabbath morning, in the broad glare
of day when criroline began to grow
expansive in view Of the approaching
church hour and when bulkhead Z" bel
teazers ever and anon popped out to
glisten in the sun, carriage might have
been seen lazily vending its way up
Broad Street to the National Hotel. A
small knot or two of citizens were seen
lounging about, some of whom on be.
holding the vehicle, with imperturbable
gravity rolled ''bufalo chip" from one
cheek to the other, and remarked who
were approaching many yawned invol-
unfairly IN memoriam ofpast infections.
bat all sleepily kept their places. As
the object drew nearer common place
looking old fellow was discovered to be
in communication with the ribbons which
he handled with the grace of an old wo,
man. By his side sat one as like him as
Telemachus to Ulysses, in the eyes Of
Calypso, when shipwreck cast that
earlier Japheth in search of Father
upon her isle. The younger was ''sick.
lied DER with the pale cast Of thought ~
like an editor escaped for moment
from the drudgery of a country newspa.
per the elder was bronzed as If in hard
conflict with the realities of life; but
both were in goodiy state of preserva.
tion. Both had military air, tinged
we thought, with shade of melancholy
perhaps that there had been failure in
the past probably that they foreboded
defeat in the future. But both seemed
fixed in their purpose to meet whatever
doom was in store, relying on their COIN.
mander in chief for half pay should they
come out second best. The elder Of
the two was somewhat old There was
nothing remarkable in his countenance
Eexcept stain which must have been
purchased and paid for in frequent in
stallments Of one bit each. His eye
was dull, his cheeks fabbergasted. His
whole appearance, in short, indicated a
man who would rise in the world, and
had risen, by the hardest boosting. Al
military genius he might have beer
made Colonel during Folks Administra
tion and allowed to lead foraging par
fty by permission of General Scott. HI
might be brave enough to storm the dool
Of penitentiary when the garrison
ammunition is chained to their legs-we
do not doubt it. We will allow him the
title of colonel and admit him the cred
it Of all these distinguished services
But in admitting all these we do not de-
sign to make invidious distinctions be
tween the two companions, and out Of
Justice will say, if the older is Colonel
the younger should certainly be Captain
Captain Of the peace establishment
at least.


The vehicle which bore the two he
roes stopped in front of the Hotel,
black, and suspicious looking valise ol
| two handed out, tben followed the dis
tinguished personages themselves. Il
is reported reception Of the faithful
was given at the Hotel, a eommunica
tion with the spirits effected and tipping
"meejums" divulged much political wis
dom for the future guidance Of the par
ty.


On Monday morning. the Colonel, 8
Teetle more flushed than usual, was seer
70 climb into the aforesaid carriage again
and take bis departure for the Valley o
Year: 1859

The Journal enters upon its tenth vol
umc today, and upon the ninth year Of
Its existence. For while the paper
was published semi-weekly, which ac-
accounts for their being one more vol
pms than years republication.


In beginning the new volume it at
fords satisfaction to state that the pa
tronage of the past enables the proprie.
tors Of the .Ioxrnal to tender hereafter to
advertising patrons their columns at
much reduced rates. As wages and
prices Of living decrease the rates Of ad
vsrtising should keep pace accordingly.
While, however. the proprietors would
bring tie use Of their columns to price
that the business Of every citizen will
justify paying, they design sparing no
expense ON that account to keep the
Journal at high standard as news
paper aud as the conservater of truth,
moral and political. As heretofore this
paper, will be the fearless e1poser of
wrong, and defender Of what its con-
ductors deem right and polite,


Belonging to no party, no sect, nor
clique, we can and will act independent
of dictation from whatever source it may
come. In politics We will speak, as we
have done in the past. our own senti-
ments. Yet onr opponents will find ouI
columns open to correct any miscon cep
aion into which we may, and are liable
TO fall.


Having thus, once more. stated our
position aud intentions, we enter upon
the new volume with confidence and
hope inspired by the results of past
intercourse with patrons and the public.
Year: 1859

Mess Co desire that their sole attention has
been paid the adaptation and sale Of spectacles


nins teal Inst ia SewYork they have met be
long Il in offering guide TO those who require
tie gmen u god Optcian and solicit The patronage Of be
Year: 1859

The WEATHER-We had regular Summer day
yesterday. Early in the morning there was brief
but violent Thunderstorm with a pouring rain for a
few minutes. The whole day uncomfortably
warm and sultry, with and then shower of rain,
making il a splendid specimen Of fine growing weather.
The evening was showery, thundery, and everything
mdsummery.
Year: 1859

An OFFICER SHANErULLr MIsUsED.-On the lst OF
MAY Officer Thomas Cook Of the Twenty first Ward
WAS called upon, in the exercise of his duty as
guardian of the public peace, to arrest one Annie
Ellison for intemperance. The week previous the
lady charged Mr.. Cook with stealing diamond neck
lace worth 3l25 from her neck. She brought up
friend in support of the charge, who testified that
Cook upon being informed that he was TO be arrested
for the theft, said he you'd be If she should ever
get it the necklsce) again. The officer denied the
charge and asserted that Miss Euisons sister was
first accused of the theft. Gen. Nye retained rs
counsel by the fair proseoutrix, and Gen. Tallmsdse
by the accused policeman. An adjournment was had
from the 9Th to the 10th ut., when the examination
was to take place. but the ith the thief unwilling
that honest should suffer unjusy inserted an
advertisement among The Herald personals, notifying
Miss Ellison that her property might be obtained at


certain pawn shop in First avenue. She went there
aad found that her yauabes had been pawned for 80
cents Miss Ellison did not, therefore, appear against
the unort unate officer and although the ad
journed no less than five times she failed to give him
an opportunity of clearing himself from the stigma
of his charge. Justice Brennan yesterday dismissed
the complaint through her failure to appear.
Year: 1859

Many of our most intelligent farmers are of
opinion that, on lightish land, the practice of
billing potatoes is less benefit than an injury
TO the crop. This opinion is doubtless predica-
ted, in part, upon the fact that, by billing, we
expose larger extent of surface to the air and
sun, and, in consequence, expose the crop to
the effects of drought in greater degree than
when the surface is kept perfectly fiat and lev
el. Where the latter method IS adopt ed, the
dews and rains, if in sufficient quantity, pene-
trate directly to the roots but where hills are
made-and especially if they are high and con-


cal-the fluid is conveyed from them. In
planting potatoes on such lands, we should first
furrow, drawing the rows three feet apart, and


may run both ways. BY adopting ihis plan,
almost the whole labor of dressing the crop may
be performed by the horse-cultivator. II the
soil is light and frable, it is conceded by the
generality ofour most intelligent cultivators,
we believe, that the deposition of fresh, infer
mented manure, in the hill, is an actual detri-
ment to the crop. When such manure is used,
1t should be spread and covered with a light
furrow, previous TO planting or BY means OF a
harrow A small quantity Of old, we'll decom-
posed manure or compost, may be placed under
the potatoes to give them start and to sustain
the plants TIL the iathral roots can extend
themselves sufficiently TO reach the manure con-
tained in the soil. There are few crops more
generally neglected than the potato. Thorough
cultivation is necessary in its management,
however, as in the management OF corn or any
other hoed crop. No weeds should be suffer
ed TO foul the soil, and the surface should be
kept fine and loose.-Germantown Telegraph.