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Year: 1859

The END OF THE VoLUME.-This number of
the HYDRAULIC Press completes its first vol
ume of fifty two weeks We have no reason
to suppose the public takes any interest in
our own personal reflections upon the occa'


sion, and only allude to it as local item.
If our twelve months of hard labor had been
rewarded by substantial tokens of popular
appreciation, we might be egotstical enough
TO indulge in few such remarks as are usual
upon the termination of a newspaporial year.
In the absence of such tokens the publishers
have frequently feared their enterprise was
not needed and useful one, and at such
times their only encouragement to persever-
ance has been derived from the kindly words
of contemporaries. Many of these have er-
tended to US, strangers though we are per-
sonally, the heartiest and most cheering
commentator, which we assure them all
was none the less appreciated because un-
acknowledged in the offensive way of direct
puffs. On beginning another volume we
have no pledges to make nor fayors to ask.
We shall continue to do all in our power to
make the HYDRAULIC PRESS worthy of sup
port and if it fails to receive it more liberal
ily than heretofore, shall conclude that we
have mistaken our vocation and abandon as
useless an enterprise that under the circum-
stances could only result in private disaster.
Year: 1859

II is neutral in politics. but frank and independent
in everything else being especially devoted to the So
ca moral and material advancement of the sectio CT
which aims to be the exponent and representative.


Particular attention is paid tc the
Year: 1859

that being the prominent industrial feature of tile
county. OF the State atiarge; but believing that the
stability and genuine prosperity of mountain commu-
mites depend upon the successful development of other
pursuits, which less dangerous and uncertain for
labor without capital tlian gold hunting is known to
be- have sought to exhibit the adatability of the
mountains totke important interests OF farming gar
dening. fruit growing and many kindred ayocations
We have tried to make the HYDRAULIC PRESS always
representative of what is best in California and to
of those unjust rrejddces s!raihst her
people which obtain abroad. In short it has been our
constant endcavor to make the paper useful decent
and respectable.


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AVERY & WATERS.
Year: 1859

AS the bed of Hangtown Creek fills with
tailings, the waters spread towards the town
and give an inkling cf the inconvenience it
will create during the Winter. Efforts are
now making, says the Observer, to levee it
in and thus prevent an inundation.
Year: 1859

Having just completed its first year, the Publishers
feel warranted i'll claiming for it wider circulation
and more liberal patronage


1t is printed from new type on clear white paper and
its typographical appearance is acknowledged to be
finished and elegant.


1t contains large amount of original miscellaneous
matter and home news full record nf local events,
with brief reference the current history of the world
abroad, every issue giving the latest intelligence for
eign and domestic.
Year: 1859

The waters have gone over me. But out
of the black depths, could be heard, !
would cry out to all those who have not set
foot in the perilous food. Could the youth
to whom the favor of bis first wine is as de.
licious as the opening scenes Of life, or the
entering apon some newly. discovered paradise
look into my desolation and be made to un.
derstand what dreary thing it is when man
shall find himself going down precipice with
open eyes and passive will-to see his de.
struction and have no power to stop it, and yet
feel it emanatirg from himself; to see all good
ness emptied out of him, and yet not able to
forget q time when it was otherwise to bear
about the piteous spectacle of his own ruin
could he see my fevered eye, feverish with the
last nights drinking, and feverishly looking fol
to nights repetition of the folly; could he bui
feel the body OF the death out of which cry
hourly with feebler outcry, to be delivered
it were enough to make him dash the spsrk
ling beverage to the earth in all the pride ol
its mantling temptations
Year: 1859

The writer of a pleasing paper in the Omar
terly Review, on the life and writings OF john
son does Justice TO some features 10 the char
ter of that extraordinary man which are not
generally appreciated - .H


A few rude speeches sink into insigni6cance
when compared with charity which was only
bounded by his means { He loved the poor,
writes Mrs Thrale, as never saw any one
else do AS he said of Levett, he was of
every friendless name the friend Besides his
in door pensioners he had number OF out
door dependants; and when his own funds
we're exhausted, be wrote innumerable letters
to solicit the contributions of bis accquaintan-
ces He frequently bestowed all the silver in
his pocket upon the miserable beiogs who way
laid HIM on his passage from his house to the
tavern where he dined. He one night found
woman of abandoned character lying ex.
hausted in the street, and. lifting her up, he
conveyed her on his back to his own house,
had her nursed till she recovered her health,
and then obtained her situation,
Year: 1859

nifty for the expenses Of tho war. Sir, il
we desire to acquire Cuba by negotiation,
let us negotiate. The President discaims
and disdains to seek it by war directly
Are we to understand him and a majority
of the Committee here that they ask us to
bring Spainindirectly into war in order that
we may conquer Cuba? That would be to
impute to the President and tho committee
bad faith, which l must utterly disclaim.


These considerations satisfy my mind
that it is not expected, that it is not intend
ed, that Cuba shall be acquired in conse-
quence of this proceeding; but that it is
supposed that some other advantage, some
domestic and local benefit will bo secured
TO tho President of the United States, by
provoking debate on this subject in Con
gress. SO | do not so much undervalue
the intelligence of tho American people as
To apprehcnd any such result. The propo.
sition seems to be an empty one, an idle
one, q ludicrous one, and il it were not for
violating the respect due to the President
of the United States and the majority Of
the Committee who sanction it, | should
say a ridiculous one.


There is play which we have some
times seen at the theatre, in which the he
roine is an honest housewife, who has
propensity for buyiug everything at auc-
ton, aud she is always able to assign at
least one good reason for it, namoly, chat,
though tho article bought is not wanted at
the time, yet it is cheap, and it will be so
handy to have it if it shall ever be wanted.
So, one day she bonght huge dosr-pate,
sold at an auction of neighbors furniture,
on which was inscribed in largo letters tho
name of "Thompson," spelled with a "p,"
although her own name as well as her hus
bands was Tooile. When the indignant
Mr.. Toodle called her to account for the ex-
pcnsc, "why," she said, show do you
know, y dear, that we shall not ono day
have child, and that that child may not
be daughter, and that that daughter may
not be married to somebody, and just as
likely as not that somebody will be man
named Thompson and his name may be
spelled with 'p' daughter, so it will then
just fit exactly. 1 could not help buying
it, because it was so cheap, and it will be
so handy, you krow,..to have it lin the
house." That, Sir, is exactly the value Of
this great Presidential demonstration, made
think, to retrieve the sinking and wasting
fortunes of an Administration that has dis
appointed its own immoderste desires not
more than the less sanguine expectations of
the American people,
Year: 1859

The question whether United States At
torncvs are entitled to more than one per diem
ON the same day, even if the Attorney may
have attended upon the Circuit or the District
Court and appeared before United States
Commissioner, on the examination Of per.
son charged with crime" has been decided
by Attorney General Black in the negative
He says, in answer to an Official inquiry by
the Secretary of the Interior: I'm the Act
of the 26th of February, 1853, there is no
provision authorizing the payment ofmorc
than one per diem on the same day, and
think its spirit clearly intends that no Dis
trict Attorney shall receive, on any one day.
more than one per diem for the services Of
that dnv."
Year: 1859

In letter from the Berlin correspondent
of the London Daily News, we are told that
the Prussian Cabinet has now cast off its hab
itual vacillaton, and made up its mind as to
the course it will pursue in the event Of war.
On the evening of the l1lh instant the
Prince Regent declared in the hearing OF
the whole Court that Prussia was determin-
ed to support Austria through thick and
thin.
Year: 1859

PEACH BRANDY.-The present proprietor
of the brick distillery near the Cunningham
Mills, on Feather river, are grinding W
peaches at their establishment ior the pur-
pose of making peach brandy. No doubt
they will realize handsome fortune from
the experiment, Peaches are plentiful, and
the demand for good brandy ample. We
venture to say that genuine article of peach
brandy has never yet been seen in this State
The manufactures of the pure stuff would b,
entitled to an Apotheosis when he died.
Year: 1859

TlMBuoToo, July 7th, 1859.


EDToR NATIONAL DEMocRAT:-We have
been paid a visit here recently by Mr. c. E.
De Long and Mr. G. W. Lawson, and had
the pleasure of listening to speech from
those gentlemen with reference to the various
political issues of the day. Mr.. De Long has
made good point in this part of the county.
There were nearly four hundred persons out
to hear him, and all went away well pleased.


Col Watkins was also here a night or two
ago, and made a speech, if it could be called
by that name. l think that the Col. would
do better not to pretend TO take the stump
against our nominee, for have heard two or
three parties say that they would now vote
for De Long who before said they would
vote the other way. De Longs stock is ris-
ing in this market; that is a certain case.
He will get nearly the entire vote of this
| place and vicinity.


We have also had visit from Judge Lind
ley The Judge had better go home and
save his precious time and money, as he will
not get a corporal's guard in this locality
People have made up their minds as to his
case, not alone of his own party, but all 9th
ers think that the Judge is incapable of
divesting himself of that prejudice which he
has heretofore manifested, to a sufficient ex-
tent to enable him to do anything fairly and
impartially, even in his official capacity, ad-
mitting his professional capacity. This
charge is fully evinced in his late charge to
the grand jury against the California Stage
Company, last winter. Every one knows
that he has been a bitter personal enemy
of the Cal, Stage Co. since the primary
judicial election of last year, and that he was
one of the attorneys of Ames, who killed the
driver, Case in the stage difficulties which
were the subject of the charge The offense
was out of the county and out of his jurisdic.
ton. And he admits there was no law to
punish persons for stage collisions The peo-
pie here cannot look upon it in any other
light than that of public judicial officer
using his position to punish his personal enc
mics. 1t is no wonder that the California
Stage Co., under such circumstances, should
use their utmost endeavors to defeat him
In this they will have the support of the peo
Pile TMBUCroo.
Year: 1859

d. D.-A fue specimen of the Caucasian
race-the Anglo.Saxon species-was found
yesterday in Chinese brothel, disturbing
the peace and quiet of the inmates by loud
and boisterous language and rough cowardly
usage. He was lugged off to the station
house and locked up
Year: 1859

A SEA LION weighing about one thousand
pounds, made his escape on Saturday from
the Pacific Museum in San Francisco. The
Bulletin says;


1t is curious sight to see man in a bag
running race, but hardly so curious as to
see sea lion dragging and showing and
twisting-for he does all when he moves his
immense and unwieldy mass painfully along
on the hard ground The spectacle of course
! attracted a large crowd, and the animal pro
J gressed to their delight and wonder about
200 yards, when person versed in sea-nor
philosophy caught up stick and kept the
monster at bay until several ropes were fast
ened about his body The wagon was ther
driven up, ard, with the aid of large num-
Der Of able bodied men, the fish, "if fish h,
can be called who fish is not" was lifted
bodily back into his cage and he was soon
after safely deposited in the new place of ex-
hibition, where Samson" Lady Washing
ton, " Funny Joe" and the monkeys are now
cutting up their antics.
Year: 1859

PASSED TnRoUGH.-The great Lime Point
er" passed through this city, yesterday, on
his way to Sacramento City. He was from
Forest City, Sierra Co., where he made a
speech, and the presumption is that he was
anxious to hear what Broderick would have
to say about him, last night
Year: 1859

\ THRILLING CASE or So,lNAMBULIsM.
The Detroit FIRE. Press relates that
on the night Of the 18th September, Mr.
Israel Noreton. of that city, was awakened
and called out of his house by man who
requested him to walk across the street
and look at the top Of his dwelling. He
at first hesitated, suspectine foul play
but seeing shadow pass along the front
of the house opposite, he crossed oyer, and
ON looking up, beheld female PACING
along the ridgepolc, in her night dress,
her hair hanging in confusion about her
shoulders. Says the Press:


This spectral form paced slowly to and
fro on the narrow ridge-board which coy-
cred the apex Of the roof approaching in
irightiul proximity Of the abrupt termina-
ton at the ends and calmly turning about
TO retrace the distance, The house was a
high one, and a misstcp or % step too far
would have plunged the night walker down
to certain destruction. Thu walker occa,
sionally raised her hand to her head, as
though ENGAGED IN 'houCht or troubled
with pain. The head always maintained
the same position. \ chimney stood dir
ectly in the middle Of the roof, around
which she passed with ease, Placing one
hand upon its top, and WALKING down
the sloping roof to get around. Once in
this spectral walk she paused at the edge
OF the roof and looked straight ahead.


A waiyiug movement of the RIGHT hand
accompanied the act, when the walk was
again renewed. The same spot was
reached again few moments after, when
the figure again paused and again gazed
out into the darkness aud ihen,witb a
slow motion stretched ont hand, and
with outspread fingers clutchcl at some
thing which had no existence except in the
leyered mind of the sleeper The other
hand was then EXTENDED IN like manner
and the body went forward in such way
that the upper portion hung over the
abyss, while the fingers reached out, until
Year: 1859

The IIARvEsT.--We have news from this
county, and from about twenty counties ad-
joining, or in other parts of the State, and
from none do we hear anything but the most
gratifying intelligence of the harrest-
Without exception the wheat is said TO be
heavier and better than in any previous
ysar. Though thin on the ground in many
places the heads are so full and heavy that
more than an average yield is claimed in
most of the plices heard from Indicnap-
oils JoilrudI .5l .t.
Year: 1859

terrupted practice from the beginning, that
they regard the possession by any one child
of the entire property of his deceased ances-
tor as indeed "insolent," subyersive of ma,
tural right utterly inconsistent with the
theory and practice of republicanism, and IN
conflict with all the best principles of trade,
by keeping, in a few privileged hands,
large amount of only partially useful pro-
perfy, of which the value TO the community
would be vastly enhanced by the possibility
of its ready transfer and division amongst
the active and enterprising We know not
whether the people of Great Britain are yet
far enough advanced in their desire for re-
form to wish TO overthrow this unjust, per-
nicious system. They certainly are not,
unless they desire also the overthrow of
their system of hereditary nobility; for the
.ghtofprilnogenitur is essentially necessary
for the Continuance of that system. Abolish
the one, and the other must fall with it,
/ The London Times thinks Mr.. Kings pro-
posed reform is as Objectionable and useless,
and as repugnant to those hom it to ben
eft, as Strengthening the crooked legs
of grasshoppers, that are well content with
their limbs, unsightly, perhaps, to Others,
but agreeable to themselves, and entirely in
accordance with their cherished principles of
action and iocomotion. This is assuming
the whole question as to the wish of those
interested If the "younger brothers " of
British tilted families had not rather have
share of their parental property than see it
monopolized by their fortunate elder broth
ers, they are altogether unlike all the other
younger brothers. at least on this side of the
Atlantic, and give stronger proof of Eng
lish unsel6shness than we could have be-
lieved any part of the world able to furnish.


The abolition of primogeniture is not in
consonanee with the British political sys-
tenn but that, instead of being Fan argu-
ment against it, is, with us, an argument in
its favor. We hope it may succeeds,
eventually, we doubt not it willard thus
give the death blow to British aristocracy
Year: 1859

Accompany is now being organized in Roches-
ter for building and running two steam canal
boats. fur passengers, between that city and
Buffalo. 1t is thought BY those engaged in the
enterprise that all average speed Of ten to
twelve miles an hour can be attained, and that
much slow travc will take their line. The
steamers are to he fitted with side wheels.
Year: 1859

remain in their passive state while the str1lg'
dc between dcspotic power and human free
dom RACES tiercely around them. Standing as
they do between the upper and the neither null
stone, they must speedily change their position
OF he ground to powder. The Republican
party will undoubtedly socuze Il portion Of
them while the rest will unite with the slavery
agcressiyes. But whether it is joined oy more
Or less, or by none Of them, it has within itself
sufficient strength for certain victory, and It
will not imperil the great cause which it has


80 near ut heart by listening to tln'id counsels


or by The adoption Of n temporizing policy
Year: 1859

the second for active and unccasing Resistance
to it; while the third party is in favor Of Il
passive state, which permits the first to 60 on
with its aggression, and opposes all opposition
to it, The last style themselves "Conscrya.
ttves;" and it is for tlc sake Of securing the
cooperation Of this class Of men that moli-
fcatiou Of the Republican platform is insisted
upon in certain quarters. But rs before said,
u modification Of the central aud yitalizing idea
Of Repubhcanism is oquivnlcnt to an utter
abandonment Of tho controversy, and would
leave Slavery not only free to hold all it now
has, but to secure oil TINT remains. 4 plat
form thus modified would undoubtedly secure
the support Of tue third party-thc Consc7va-
tiycs-hut it would retain only such Republi-
cans is have adopted that organization for the
sake Of the spoils. The remaindcr-thoso
who are in the party by reason Of its princi-
plcs-would organize anew, and thus we
would still have three parties in the field, with
the chances Of the Slavery Propaganda greatly
improved Lending Republicans who favor
fusion on modified platform, may he able to
make satisfactory trade with the Conserya-
tires, but they would find themselves going
over alone. They may undertake to sell out
the party, but they would find Themselves un-
able to make the delivery. Men who aro con.
scieutious in their political ideas and relations
are not TO be transferred BY party leaders for
consideration It would be well, therefore, for
those who contemplate such q sale and at
tempted transfer, to consider, first, whether in
30 doing they would not in reality diminish
their chances Of securing the object which they
have chiefly in view


Let us hear no more about compromise or Of
fusion upon the basis Of an e1nasculated plat
form. The middle party who style themselves
Conservatives, must come to US or 20 to the
pro-slave'y Democracy. They cannot long
Year: 1859

LATE accounts from the East state that a
memorial, requesting Hon. D. E. Sickles to
resign his seat in Congress, had received four
teen hundred signatures, and that in the
Eighth Wand of New York movement was
on foot among his late personal sympathizers
to hold public meeting, at which to make
the request openly.
Year: 1859

YESTERDAY afternoon, says the Alta, a
drove of one hundred and thirty young calves
and yearings came over in the Oakland
boat and while being driven up Washin ItoH
street three of them fell through the broken
planking into the water and were lost. No
effort was made to rescue them
Year: 1859

Mr.. GEORGE MEEKER had his hand severely
injured, at his saw mill near Nevada on Mon
day His hand came in contact with the
saw. and was so badly cut that it is feared it
will have to be nmputated.
Year: 1859

HSP The Beacon editor thinks our request
that he should not put us down as an enemy of
Weller, simply ridiculous" In another arti-
Gle the editor evidently dscloses his preference
for Weller for next Governor. Hence accord
ing to his mode of argument, he is an enemy of
Denver and Latham. We, of course, like every
other Democrat in the State, have our first
choice-who that is, is no ones business but
our own. The Courier's preference is public
matter-the nominee of the Convention is its
first choice. The individual choice of the editor,
however, is private matter. We should think
the Beacon man might perceive the business of
such position. If the editor of the Beacon,
however, imagines that we desire to circulate
the idea that Mr.. Weller is our first choice for
Governor, we beg to disabuse his mind of the
impression.