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Year: 1860

THE BLACK Rock CouNTRY-A correspondent
of the Maryyille Democrat writing from near Black
Rock, where he has been prospecting, says


This region of country is one of the worst burned
up by volcanic heat that have ever seen, and on
the whole presents aspect cheerloss and un-
inviting as the eye Of man is wont to rest upon.
But even here there are curiosites Of Nature that
absorb the interest Of the traveller, and serve in
measure to draw his thoughts from the sombre
gloom that the general face of Nature around him
wears. With no standing timber within n hundred
miles Of this place, we find petTifed logs Of wood
some three or four feet in diameter, while waters,
hot and cold, gush almost from the same fountain.
There have been several leads discovered here that
said to contain silver, but whether in sufficient
quantities to justify working is unknown yet, as
the country has been but slightly prospected. There
also said to be places where gold is found near
here; but thelfuture must determine the amount OF
the mineral resources Of this region.
Year: 1860

STAMPEDE AT LANcHA PLANA.-On the 18th
Of May there was general stampede from portion
Of the town Of Lancha Pana, in Amador county,
to blow up a number Of houses standing above an
old abandoned drift. Large volumes Of smoke were
seen issuing from well near the drift, and it was
also discovered that fuse had been laid running
into the shaft. After two hours in suspense,
in which the citizens momentarily expected
to see their houses 60 down, they returned to
to their places Of business II is believed that the
powder exploded, but no report was heard. The
Dispatch says that the object doubt was to plum
der and steal during the excitement and confusion
which would ensue from the blowing up Of the
houses and also that there is a set Of escaped con-
victs, prowling around who would sacrifice life to
get chance to bag few dollars or yaluablesv
Year: 1860

HENRY MEREDITH. We find in the Sierra
Citizen the following feeling tribute to the memory
of Henry Meredith:


One who knew Henry Meredith well, and loved
him very dearly, would like TO give short sketch Of
his life and death. Henry Meredith came cf an old
Virginia family. His father was Doctor Reuben
Meredith, Of Hanover county. His mothers maiden
name was Mary Clarkson. On both sides he
near akin to many Of the most distinguished men
OF the Old Dominion. He was born on the l4th Of
August 1895, and was reared and educated in Mis-
souri. All his life, he student; at college he
stood highest in his class and graduated with all the
honors his alma Mater had to give. In the spring
of 1850, having just passed the threshold of man
hood, full Of hope and ambition, his mind enriched
by the labors Of youth devoted 70 study, he came
to California. With his career here, all are familiar
From the first, he took high position, among the
young and talented men Of the State; and at the
time Of his death, all acknowledged that, Of the
young men Of California, he stood the foremost and
the chief All who ever met Henry Meredith, knew
his character. He was generous, high spirited and
truei no man lives who can point to any thing in
his life, which does not reflect that noble honor and
truth, which was peculiarly his characteristic. Had
he lived in the old knightly times, his name would
have come to us with those Of CGw de Lion and
Bayard. OF the manner OF his death, the writer of
this hurried notice cannot yet speak calmly. He
fell fighting against hundred foes. The war-hoop
OF the savage was his only requiem. VIXEN others
rembled and Aed at the terrible peril which encom-
passed them, he stood firm and undaunted Henry
Meredith knew no fear. His last words were 81
will not suffer you to hazard your life to save mine"
This he said TO a comrade who offered to bear him
in which he met his death, is the sole consolation
left his friends for the great loss they have sustained
Brave heart Gallant gentleman, honor 20 thy
memory A. w. b.
Year: 1860

THE Sheriff Of Los Angeles recently brought
up on the Senator five eonvicts, who were sent
TO the PsnitentiAry. Three Of them had been
convicted Of grand larceny and the other two
for an assault with intent to kill.
Year: 1860

FATAL BURN.-Mrs. David Skinner died at her
residence in Santa Cruz county, eight miles from
San Jose on the 24th Of May, from the effects Of a
burn. Her clothing caught FIRE while she was burn
ing coffee over q stove; and her whole body was
burned, save the upper part Of her breast.
Year: 1860

A New CLUB.-Some twenty or thirty gentle
men of San Frsacisco have organized club
to train themselves in fencing, boxing. and
gymnastics generally. They call themselves
the San Francisco Olympic Club.
Year: 1860

FLIRTArIoNs OF MARRIED WoMEN.--The in nOcent hlrtatons of married women is one Of the abomnations of modern society. Even q desire for promiscuous admiration is wrong in Q wlie. The love of one, and his approval, should be all that she ought to desire, Let her be ever so beautiful, it is disgusting and appalling sight to see her decorating that beauty for pub lie gaze to see her seeking the attention of senseless fops around her, and rejoicing in the admiration of other eyes than those of her hus- band. Her beauty should be for him alone, not for the gaze of the fools that futter around her. There is always among the sedate and the wise sensation of disgust, when married lady at tempts to ensnare or entrap young men by pro- llse display ot her charms, or an unlicensed out lay of her smiles. Such charms and such smiles are loatlsome to the indifferent beholder; the trail of the serpent is over them-Erchanqe

 We suppose the sapient owl who wrote this precious specimen of cant and consummate hy- pocricies, would have married ladies appear before the public arrayed only in patched, or ragged gar ments, with unwashed faces, ancombed hair, : last years bonnet. and hol(e)y shoes and dirt. stockings. A distinction must be drawn in dc cencys sake between those who have secured leige lords for better or worse, and those wht yet remain in blessed madenhood. It is lik' the old heather custom of separating the mar ried from the unmarried by peculiarity of dress custom which fortunately in better times ant amid better manners, has, if anything, been re versed for simplicity is now the chosen garl of the maiden, and chaste but elegant adornmen that of the matron of maturer years. In the pi ous mouthings of a man who thus moralzes W, read only hypocrisey and deceit, and we sincere ly pity the Socrates who could express such sen timents whose wife must be termegrant d home, and Haunting, foolish. flirting woman abroad, or else wife of wider class who look: in vain for the appreciation of surly spouse and is forced from home for a recognition of he, beauty and goodness of soul
Year: 1860



 We this week resume our Chess Problems, and design to continue them through the winter, Correspondents who have original Chess Prob lens, which they would like to have published, will please communicate them to the " Chess Editor of the ENQUIRER" Correct Solutions to the Problems will he acknowledged each week.
Year: 1860

The ball at the Boston Theater in the evening eclipsed in briancy any similar gathering ill New England. The beautiful as well as the fashionable world of Boston was present, and ip this respect, as in the freedom from accident and the general enjoyabilrty it fur surpassed the New York demonstration, 3,0Go were present.

 Boston has reason to be proud of the orderly. refined, yet warmhcarted and cordial manner n which il has entertained the royal boy
Year: 1860

In an editorial article headed "J0hnSOa- iam hunaJuggery, published in the Old Line Democrat on the 10th day of this month, that paper says we are trying to 'frighten the people from Rector's policy, and as a part of our "scheme denounce Rector's policy of funding the State deM which Rector pro- poses.''

 In a report of Judge Rector's speech de- livered at Clarksville and believed to have been written by himself and published in the Old Line on the 14th of June we find this sentence:

 e-Rector-hougM the bonds, most of them, might be bought with rail road stock, and the State could obtain the rail road stock by new internal Improvement bonds, due twenty.1fce gears hence.

 In an editorial in the Old Line Demo- crat about the same time, the following was declared:

 "Now what Judge Rector proposes is simply to fund her liabilities account of the debts o those two banks-that is, to collect them altogether and place them Tn such cOndluOn as to secure tne ultimate extinction of principal, with provision for the payment of annually accrung interests. He proposes to do this by simply calling in the old bonds, ,rhich aciH De shortly due, and issuing new bonds covering the whole amount of principal and interest due, payable, say 9 or 30 gears ater ddte.

 We might go on and fill our columns with extracts from the Old Line Democrat, showing that Judge Rector is in favor of .funding the debt and issuing new bonds-all of our correspondents have come to the some conclusion. We dare the Old Line Democrat to deny that such is his policy, his late circular is one of the most wishy washy documents we have ever seen; 1t is struggle to creep up to the policy of R. H. Johnson, and yet does not repudiate the heresy oftanding tue debt.

 The truth is, the Judge is completely whipped out, in this matter of funding the debt, and is making dying effort to re- recover the ground he has lost; but as long as he does not openly repudiate himself and his friends, we must hold him to the surface and warn the people from the suicidal policy of funding the debt, which must assuredly result in releasing the mort qoqes and throwing the debt upon the people.
Year: 1860

DECIDEDLY CooL.-Judge Rector says he offered the olive branch several times to Col. J Johnson, but he could not get him to accept it; that he proposed if Johnson would throw up his nomination, and agree to the holding of another convention, he would not run. How gracious! How ex- ceedingly generous! How refreshingly cool A man who was not thought of by the people, telling the nominee that if he would acknowledge that his nomination was unfair and undemocratic, and thus stultify himself and insult his friends, he would be so kind and magnanimous as not to run for Governor himself. This pro- position is pleasant to think of these hot sultry days.
Year: 1860

Ter We clip the following from the Old Line Democrat of late date:

 "From reliable authority we learn that the entire northwest will roll up an unpre- cedented majority for Col. J ohnson-a ma iority of seven hundred is claimed for him in Johnson, and one thousand in Washing ton"

 This is an important admission of the strength of Col Johnson in the north west. But we tell our neighbor he must repent in sack cloth and ashes before the people will consent to receive him back into the demo- cratic fold; simple acknowledgement of Johnson's strength is not enough.
Year: 1860

Eg Why don't the editor of the Old Liner answer our question, to-wit: Do you or do you not, NOW indorse the great doc Urine of intervention as defined and ex plained by you in Illinois? Assacer J you I0rof
Year: 1860

KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEoPLE.-Ihat the editor of the Old Line Democrat published a statement which 1t knew to be utterly without foundation, and then refused to dis tribute the paper until Col. Johnson left the cfy
Year: 1860

KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEoPLE.-Ihat the last Old Line Democrat was kept back 50 hours after being printed for no other req con than to wait for Col. Johnson to leave town before making public shameless calumny.
Year: 1860

SWAMP LAND DECIsIoNs.-We call the attention of such of our readers as are in- terested in swamp lands, to the correspon- dence to be found in another part of the paper, between the Solicitor General and the Auditor. It will be seen by the decis- ion of the law officer of the State, that all sales of unconfrmed lands were confirmed by the General Assembly and that pre- emptors must have had existing rights to the land before the sale. Hundreds of per sons have pre-empted lands lately confirm ed to the State, which has been sold by the commissioners or land agents before they were confirmed.

 This decision will quiet titles and is al exposition of the law It Is well 1t shonlc be understood, to prevent persons iron making improvements on lands they car never purchase and which improvements will enure to the benefit of others.
Year: 1860

DEMOCRATIC CLUB MEETING.-The
Douglas and Johnson Club holds its regr lar
meeting in the Armory Hall this evening. The
Clee Club ill be on hand with several new
and soul stirring songs which will be given in
their peculiarly excellent style. Our Giee
Club have won golden opinions. and at every
meeting .ir popularity will increase. We
hope to see rousing meeting this evening
Turn out Democrats


We would suggest to the Dem ocr attic Clubs
throughout the State. the propriety Of f,rm-
ing Glee lubs. They odd greatly to the in
,erest and enihu siam of the meetings
Year: 1860

Tuesday Eve, August elth, 1860.


THE WEATHER for the past week has been warm
and pleasant, With cool nights, ana occasionally a
few drops of rain would fall. ralmers could not
wish for better grew ng weather. The Corn crop
through the county never looked lore promising.
and the yield must be immense. Negreater part
of the grain crop has been safely secured and
those who have threshed inform US that the yield
is far beyond their most sanguine expectations.
Old Scott will clear herself this season.


BUSINESS is steadily improving, and our mer-
chants making preparations for a large Fall
trade. Some few firms already in receipt of
their new goods, but most of them will not get in
their stocks before the first middle of mex.
month. In the meantime, goods are being sold at
a great sacrifice to make room.


In FINANCIAL MATTERS have but little to
note. Our Bankers are doing a very fair discount
business, confning themselves chiefly to produce
bills. First class city paper is done at fair fglres
The Exchange market is quiet, with fair bust
ness doing. We quote:
Year: 1860

Gg- The Richmond Dispatch says that
homespun clothes are becoming so fashion
able with business men in Virginia that the
factories in different parts of the State find
it impossible, with their present facilities, to
fill the numerous orders that pour in upon
them.
Year: 1860

By an act Of Congress, passed N
1916. the choice of Electors Of President
and Vice President must be made in an
the States on the Tuesday succeeding the
first MOndayi in November. I
Year: 1860

BRoDEmcKs GRAvE-Broderick grave is
marked by little mound of sand on the
highest point within the Lone Mountain
Cemetery inclosure. The spot may be known
at distance by the Surveyors mast planted
at the very foot of the grave. A wreath of
withered roses and geraniums, and fresh
calla blossom, broken from the roots and
thrust into the sand, testified that the late
Senators memory is cherished by people who
love flowers. This Is the spot where the
monument is to be erected From it two
gnu pses OF the ocean may be caught, and
the magnificent panorama of the bay, the
city, the hills of Contra Costa and Mount
Dla6lo looming over them, lies before you.-
S. T. Buileita.
Year: 1860

AN ARKANSAS GIRL's RESENTMENT
Giving q Ffllow the Sack Literaly.-A
green awkward girl, the daughter of veal
thy parents in Arkansas, having come TO
--, in Massachusetts. to be educated,
a young dentist, named Brown, conceived
a notion that his shortest road to fortune
would be to marry her. But than she was
the laughing stock Of the seminary, because
she was so gaunt, masculine and ungenteel
in her dress and Brown felt that it would
require all his nerve TO stand the ridicule
of several of the young pupils with whom
he had firted until he was satisfied that
they had no money or expectations of any.
However, he consoled himslf with the refec-
tior that he should speedily obtain infu-
encc enough over her to enable him to be-
come, in measure, her adviser in the
matter of costume, manner &c. The fore
most thought was TO amend her long, lank
form, by the aid of crinoline, which she
had never worn, and his fattery had no
sooner secured him a confidential place in
her good graces before he ventured to make
her present of patent skirt or sack, to-
gether with hint to fix up pretty hand
somely for a ball, to which he had invited
her.


The night arrived, the party were as
sembled, and the Arkansas damsel made
her grand entree form the ladies' dressing
room amid the litter Of laughter from the
school girls and village bellies. The hoop
sack was shoekingly out of shape, project
ing in front Ike the Spouting Horn at Ma
hant; but that was nothing TO the expose it
made Of her some what in congruous black
hose, the fascinaiions Of which were some
what augmented by the yellow roseties of
her white SATIN slippers tmens size) eDcas-
ing her delicate feet. Tocomplete Browns
horror, her fiaxen head and freckled face
were " set of" with a profusion OF green
and yellow bow knots, of formidable size,
intended to do execution as beau caichers.
Madder than sixty, the disappointed dentist
went through the first dance y;iL her, tax
Year: 1860

nara Cincinnati artillery company has
taken the initial steps to erect monument
TO the memory of General Harrison, and
solicits contributions.-Et Exchange.


"Speed the good work, every admirer
of the Hero of Tippecanoe will say. That
graceful hillock on which he sleeps should
be crowned with commanding monument
to mark she last resting place Of him who
rescued our fair soil from the hands of the
savages and gave it to civilization. Indi-
ana should contribute largely to this CRATE
full work, for she, more than any other State,
experiences the benefits resulting from his
bravery aud fortitude.
Year: 1860

Crops IL PENNsYLvANIA.-The Harris
burg TeteyraPh says; The prospect for an
abundant harvest, as we learn from our
farmer friends, is now as fiattering as it has
been in any past year. The grain appears
to have sustained but very little injury dur
ing winter, even i'm low grounds and il
now coming up beautifully while the sunny
days and refreshing rains which will
soon favor US, will set everything all right
Should no accident happen, the omens are
all auspicious for splendid harvest in this
section of the country.
Year: 1860

AGy~Mr f. Merriam suggests that the
Crolon Reservoir in Forty-secOnd street, n.
Y, SHOULD be covered, and five tuns of ice
should be thrown in the reservoir every
day between the first day of April and the
first day of November The expense of the
covering to the reservoirs aud of the ice
would be but a trifle, and the quality of
the water would be improved 10000 per
cent
Year: 1860

BSS~ Yesterday noon this city was visited
with hart storm OF wind and rain The
wind was so hard as to carry the drops
in direction almost horizontal with the
ground. There was some thunder and
lightning.
Year: 1860

aeA.At the opening of the Parliament of
Sardinia recently, King Victor Emanuel was
received with great applause. lie said, in
his opening speech, that tho country must
no longer be left open to foreign ambition,
but must be the Italy of the Italians.
Year: 1860

RETURN OF jews TO PALEsrrSE.-There are
few current subjects of more absorbing interest
or of deeper significance than the events now
almost daily transpiring which point to the re.
possession by the Jews of their own land The
tide of progress after the lapse of fcentures, may
he said to have fairly turned in that direction, i,
and the prayer long offered by the chosen but
scattered people, that Judah may be saved
and Israel dwell securely. and that the Re.
deemer may to Zion" is undoubtedly
Fastening to fulfllment. The Sultan of Turkey
is encouraging Jewish emigration to Palestine,
and is offering to sell them as much land rs
they choose to buy, and it is said has even ex-
pressed his willingness to dispose of the Mosque
of Omar to th-m which, it viii be remembered,
stands upon the very site of the Jewish Temple
on Mt Moriah. This Mosque is one of the Ma
homedans most celebrated shrines, being scarce


y inferior in national importance to Mecca and
Medina.
Year: 1860

StGsrFrcASr FAcr.-Breckinridge is not the
candidate of the disorganizing seceders of vir-
einia. except upon the contingency that he will
beat Lincoln in the Electoral College What
q party Butte Record
Year: 1860

. More may be learned by devoting few mo-
ments daily to reading, than is commonly sup
posed. Five pages may be read in fifteen min
utes, at which rate one may peruse twenty-six
volumes of two hundred pages each. in a year.
You say you have none to guide you. The
best scholars and men of science VIII tell you
by far the most valuable part of their educa-
tion is that which they have given themselves.
Volumes have been filled with the autobiogra-
ply of self-taught men. Think of Franklin,
the printer; of Lime, the shoemaker; of John
Hunter, the cabinetmaker; of Herschel, the mu-
scian; of Donald the weaver; of Turner, the
printer; of Burritt, the blacksmith. Love
learning, and you will be learned Where
there is will there will be way.


Begin at once, take time by the forelock,
and remember that it is only the first step that
costs, and having begun, resolve to learn some
thing every day. Strike the blow, and avoid
the weakness of those who spend half of life
in thinking what they shall do next. Always
have volume near you which you may catch
up at such odd minutes as are your own. 1t
is incredible, until trial has been made, how
much real knowledge may be acquired in these
broken fragments of time, which are like the
dust of gold and diamonds.
Year: 1860

The strange perversity of the advocates Of


that commercial policy which requires fam


inc in Europe or short crops at home, 10 give


our farmers remunerative prices for their la


Dor, admits of 10 explanation. In all the
/ West the grannd =gEeaps beneath the weight


Of the crops, cut and grow ing. But if


the European harvest is not destroyed by cold


and rain, and if the effects of tue drought in
the Southern States are not as severe as are


now anticpated-what, we ask, will the con-


tents of the Western granaries and cribs be


worth to the men who have toiIed early and


late to keep them up? The object of the
government uuder successive Democratic Ad-


ministrations has been to discourage manuEac-
| lures and stimulate agriculture and commerce.
ibis has been because the South, the ruling
power, has found her gain therein But the
consequences to the North, often forctold, will
soon be seen. There is surplus of food
For the first time in three years the crop is
full, and SO great is the number driven from
manufacturing pursuits to agriculture, by the
press of foreign competition, that the area de-
voted to wheat and corn never was so large
before. The surplus regulates the price; and
if no foreign demand arises, the price will
open the eyes of the West to the imperative
necessity of such an alteration of our CON-
mercal policy as will bring the workshops of
the artisan and the fields of the farmer side by
side-that will afford not only protection to
the infant Industrial enterprises. but home
market for everything that the farmer may
produce-and that will withdraw a part of
the men now engaged in tie cultivation of the
earth, and convert them into lsborers in new
and more profitable field. If the market
price of wheat is but fifty, and of corn but
twenty cents per bushel, let those who raise
and sell these grains remember that the diff.
erence between what they have earned is q
tribute that they pay to the shareholders of the
South for managing the government exclu-
sively for their own benefit and that nothing
but the election of a Republican President
and revision of the tariff, will prevent un-
rempperative prices whenever crops are full
or even fair.-PresS & Tribune