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Year: 1860

Fire and Noryoc Escape from Bnyning.-
About O'Clock yesterday morning, the small
frame building on Brooke Avenue, between
Clay and Leigh streets, occupied by Mrs. S
Firth as confectionery store, was discovered
10 be on fire, and the alarm being given 4 few
persons fastened to the scene. Finding that
the doors were closed. and that the occu pam /
was probably in the house, one of the doors
were forced open, when Mrs. FIRTH was dis
covered in the rear room nearly suffocated by
the smoke. She was Immediately removed to
the open air, where she soon revived. The
flames spread with great rapidity over the
house, and in a very short time the building z
and its contents were enveloped in flames.-
Mrs. F.s loss is heavy one for her /; but there
is no doubt that she will receive aid from per-
sons in that section of the city, and thus secure
the means to enable her to make another begin
ming.
Year: 1860

street, near the Exchange Hotel, is to be sold
as soon as the congregation now wOrshipping
there can complete their new church, TO be
built At the corner Of 10Th and Broad streets,
the foundation OF which is now being pre-
pared. When a sale is effected, the proceeds
are 20 ne equally divided between the Broad
street church congregation, of which Mr.. Dun
can Is pastor, and the Trinity congregation, Of
which Mr.. Blackwell is pastor. When di.
vision in the congregation first took place.
several mon his since, a resolution was adopted
in church meeting to sell the property and
congregations. Worship will be commenced
in the new Broad street church during the
summer, as that edifce is now being has tened
TO completion.
Year: 1860

Tricks in oil Tradss.-Yesterday morning a
thinly clad. and apparently modest woman,
about thirty years OF age, called on two ladies
living in Jefferson Ward, and representing he
situation of her family To he deplorably bad,
asked immediate assistance She stated that
her husband had been bed ridden for the pas
four months, scarcely able TO urn himself
over-that her two daua ters, aged ten and
twelve years, were dangerously i'll with pneu-
monla-tha, her little boy, not quite six years
old. had fallen in the fire the night before and
been terribly burned-and that, to cap the eli
max of misery, she had not an ounce Of meat
or dust OF flour in the house, no money to
get medicines, and scarcely clothes enough to
keep herself comfortable. She also gave the
location Of her residence, and after asking aid,
invited the ladies to call and witness her dis
1ress. Deeply sympathiZing with the poor
creature in her afflictiOn, both ladies will
ingly gave her all the pin money they had,
their own apparel, and supply of pro-
visions, bid her return to her charge
and assuring her OF other aid. The
tale of suffering had such an effect upon
the kind hearts To whom it was told that I'm.
mediately after breakfast they stare to visit
the distressed family. Taking the direction
given them, they soon came TO the house de.
suffering whites, they found the inmates to be
fire.. blacks, mostly washer women, all OF them
in perfect health, and none of them knowing
of any such woman or family as they were in
search Of. After nquiring about the neighbor-
hood with no better effect, they came to the
conclusion that they had been awfully swim
died by vile impostOr and that it was NO
charity to give to beggars in city where the
laws make ample provisions for their necessi-
ties and where visitors of benevolent sOcia-
ties are constantly on the alert to relieve the
wants of the deserving poor.
Year: 1860

PRACTICAL ANAL0ANATlON IN CANADA
The Whin (iiisenx Resort to Mob Law.-We
learn from the DetroieFree Press, Of the Sd
inst, that the locality known as Chatham, G.
w.. the scene Of numerous negro disturbances
Of late, and the object Of much unenviable no.
toriety abroad, has again distinguished itself
in its own peculiar way. The Press says:


About two years since the Exeter Hall Abo-
lttion Society sent out here from England,
among other missionaries, a young woman
named King, whose mistaken philanthropy
had induced her to devote herself to the thank
less task of improving and reforming our fu-
gitive Africans. She is at this time nineteen
or twenty years of age an intelligent and re-
fined lady, and possessed of an annuity of sew
eral hundred dollars year, accruing from her
property at home. Her a1fectionate interest t
in the negroes eliminated day or two since
In her marriage to an old darkey preacher
named Pinckney, at Chatham, an event which
took the community by surprise, and excited
the most intense disgust and Indignation as
she was very well known, and, from her edu-
cation and attainments, much respected.


The couple were married by an Episcopal
of their domicil. The night had hardly closed
around them before the house was assaulted by
a gathering of about one hundred white citi.
Zens, who first smashed the window then
kicked the door in, and, without ceremony,
proceeded in a demonstration to the house
which threatened to demolish it over the heads
OF the bridal pair No harm was offered to
them, but the efforts of the crowd did not
cease until unmstakable evidence of their
disgust had been furnished, when the aspiring
negro and his super elegant piece of house.
hold furniture were informed that the opera
ton would be repeated so often as an ex xpres.
sion of sentiment on the part of the white
citizens was needed. The party who took the
law into their own hands in this case were
respectable and responsible citizens. that were
unable to restrain their indignation at such
outrages upon decency.
Year: 1860

EIeetionser,ng is now the order Of the day. in
the city, and candidates for public favor are to
be met mt every corner Of the streets. all ex.
tremely anxious to serve the people. Our read
ers will find the names Of ali who are in the
ring, in another column, and can make their
selections from the batch .t
Year: 1860

The Annual Financial and Commercial State
ments Of the Crescent appear on our inside pages
this morning the FIRST making eleven, the last
eight columns.


on the merits CT these Statements, we have no
thing at present to say they are before the
reader, and viii speak their own best eulogy.
Year: 1860

Finally, our correspondent calls upon US to sink
the partisan, and advocate combination Of the
friends of Equal Rights, the Constitution AMI the
Union, without making it a sine qua non that they
shall abandon the candidates of their choice and
vote for Bell and Everett"


We don'tthin we are much Of o partisan. We
announced, before the Charleston Convention met,
that we were prepared to support its nominee, #
it gave us conservative and reliable man. We
did this because we wanted TO see the South
united, even as we want to see the same thing
now. That Convention, instead of giving us such
d man, broke to pieces, and gave us nobody. Nor
are we partisan enough to attack daily the candi-
dates of the Democracy, as some of their orators
and presses are constantly doing with regard to
Mr.. Bell We had much rather see candidate for
the Presidency elected upon his own merits than
upon the real or faucied demerits of his opponent


This much may be said, at east--that in our par
tisan'-ship of Mr.. Bell, we have said nothing de-
rogatory of the personal or political character of
the other candidates. In regard to the g sire qa
nom spoken of, it is not who make it, but it is
made by the political circumstances and necessi-
ties of the times. We cannot control events.
What we have to do is wisely to shape our con-
duet in the light of those events, and take things
as they come. We think the best interests of the
country, in the present state of affairs require the
election of Mr.. Bell. Ii our correspondent thinks
differently, or any one else honestly thinks differ
emily we have no cause of complaint against him,
because we know there is scarcely any subject,
political or otherwise, upon which honest men
may not honestly and eonscientiously differ.
Year: 1860

PEDRO YBARRA's CASE This case which
has been before the Supreme Court for more
than year, has at length been passed upon,
and new trial ordered. The Union thus
sums up the decision of the Supreme Judges /:


We adhere to the views expressed by US
upon the questions considered in our former
opinion in this case, but point is now made
which we think is fatal to the judgment. On
the trial the prosecution gave in evidence the
dying declarations of the deceased, and the
Court instructed the jury that if these decla-
rations were true they should find the defend
ant guilty. The witness who testified on the
subject stated that the deceased told him that
Pedro, the man with whom she had been liv-
ing, had shot her. and he identified the defen-
dant as the man with whom she had been liv-
ing The evidence connecting the defendant
with the commission of the offense was prin-
cipally circumstantial, and the only direct and
positive testimony to that effect was the testi-
mony of this witness The instruction given
assumed the existence of every fact necessa-
ry to convict except the truth of the decara-
tions made by deceased, and the effect was TO
compel the jury to render verdict in accor-
dance with their opinion upon that question
We see no difference between such an inStruc-
ton and an instruction directly upon the facts.
We think the Judgment should be reversed
and the case remanded for new trial and
1t is so ordered
Year: 1860

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The Territorial Enterprise, of December 18th.
contains the following interesting items of in
telligence from the respective mining towns in
Washoe:


MINES AT GENOA Quite number of companies arc
engaged running tunnels into different veins of quartz
back of the town. The different companies at work
there, appear sngune of obtaining rich returns their
labor, when the leads struck at sufficient DEPTH


VIRGINIA CITY.-Eyery week brings US information of
discoveries and rich strikes being made in our vicn-
ity thus showing that the rich deposits of gold and sill
bearing are not confined to one lode as MANY
have heretofore supposed. This week have chron-
icle the finding of rich silver in the claim of Captain
Smith, Goodschal and others at Gold Hill which they
have struck at the depth of seyentyve feet The rock
assays seven hundred dollars per ton in silver.


CARSON City Some of the mines around Carson City
are beginning to attract much attention. The Hatfield
ciam situated the east side of Carson river is prov
ing quite rich. Several companies owning ground in the
vicinity have commenced work upon their claims.


EsMERALDAT This mining district continues TO excite
much attention. Regular means of communication ap
pear to be established between that point and Carson
City and this place. Access to it is much easier now,
than month ago from the fact that the road has been
considerably shortened and the easiest passages the
mountains selected. Rich discoveries, understand
continue to be made the Volcano Ledge, Mountain
Company Crystal Ledge, Great Eastern Company; the
Princeton, Maine Emmett and other lodges have been
asayed in this city and San Francisco and appear to be
rich. Not only have these and many other valuable
ledges been found in the el dorado but others equal
neighborhood.


PAINFUL RUMoR.- A rumor has been current around
town the past few days. that three of well known
citizens were murdered the trail between here and
the Esmeralda district party of citizens is about
to start and investigate the matter.


THE WEATHER.-The mdness of the thus far
the Eastern Slope, is the subject of universal
ment among citizens The unusual severity of last
winter had prepared all who have arrived here since
then, well older settlers to expect at least four
months winter But up the present time the
'1Winter of our discomfort" has been like glorious
summer. The older settlers of these valleys that
snow has never lain for any length of time during the
winter until the last nclement The beneficial
effect OF the mild weather is daily becoming apparent.
Many persons and companies who had resolved to
pend operotons for the winter have reconsdered their
resolution, and begin to think that the best plan viii be
to go ahead with work
Year: 1860

GLOOMY PICTURE OF TUoLUMNE.-T The So
nora Age gives the following unfavorable con-
dition of affairs in that county, consequent
upon the destruction of water bitches


Many of our towns are calculated to re-
mind one forcibly of Godsmith's Deserted
Village the streets are without life, save the
occasional appearance of some lean, hungry
hog or yelling cur. AT times some disconso-
late store or saloon keeper drags his weary
length to the door of his place of business,
looking wistfully to all points of the compass
for that boon which seldom comes-a custom
er then, with yawn, a grow, and a curse,
he drags himself back again to some dark
nook and cogitates. A fearful silence reigns
over gulch, creek and canon; the music of
falling waters, the sharp click of pick and
shovel, and the sound of moving rock and
gravel is heard no more. flushed are the vol
ces of the miners; they have retired to their
cabins, from which they seldom emerge, but
sit with chins resting on cenched hands, seek
ing solace from short pipes and rumination.
Year: 1860

TCALL SPECIAL ATTENTION ~ Issft LAhdh


stock of Goods not usually brought INTO this markets
70 enumerate which would be Impossible All are IN
yite to cali and inspect my stock at the San Andreas
Drug Book and Variety Store.
Year: 1860

T AN NOW OPENING A LARGE SELECTION OF
i Bound Books all late works. many OF which were re-
ceived by last steamer Call and examine-my stock IS
very desirable in this lineat the San Andreas Drug
and Book Store
Year: 1860

Power OF ELoouENCE.-During Colonel Bakers
speech at the American Theatre, he spoke of
Garibaldi's struggle for liberty that all over the
world every nerve was straining against dcs-
potsm, every heart pulsed for freedom" save
in America-the land Of the free, under the flag
whose shadow is sought by the oppressed of all
the earth--the universal declaration OF man is
for freedom"-and the orator retired from the
audience with gesticulatiOns OF shame aud scOrn,
perfccting the most tremendous dramatic stroke
of oratory that we ever saw exhibited by living
man. Hundreds sprang to their feet and shouted,
and the structure shook with the mighty inquiry
of human passion. The electrician had pene-
tratcd to the human soul, aud, In spite OF all
political preudiccs the common sentiment OF
liberty smote like hand OF iron on the heart
While the storm OF applause was passing, the
speaker stood erect and tall, looking, with eyes
still bright with the inspiration OF the orator,
like q superior intelligence who had launched a
convulsing bolt among the people then the eye
lost its fire aud was dim with tears like the
arcber's who has shot q cruel dart among tender
flesh. A quiet citizen, pale and ghostly looking,
apparently wasting under consumption, sprang
from his chair, gesticulated and cried out indie
corousy: but, while with u stronger frame and
separated from the speaker by different political
belief, we did not restrain exclamation in COM
mon with the vast throng and as the man went
back to his seat, we had no reproof for the in
decorum We pity the person, whether from
Key West or Maine, who could have heard that
tremendous sentence, and seen the full splendors
of perfected oratory, without yielding TO the
mighty Influences which used to make the market
place OF Athens tumultuous, and the forum Of
Rome Notwithstanding Mirror.
Year: 1860

EMPIRE OF TIE WEsT.-In his late speech at
ST. Paul. Hon. Wm II. Seward said " The own
ers Of the workshops and of the banks are in the
East, and the owners of the gold mines are in the
far West but the owners OF the land In the
United States are to be found along the shores of
the Mississippi river, from New Orleans to the
sources of the great rivers and the great lakes
On both sides of this stream are the people
who hold in their hands the destinies OF the re-
public. have been asked by many OF you what
| think of Minnesota | will not enlarge further
than to say that Minnesota must be great State
or mean one, just as her people shall have wis
dom and virtue to decide. That some great
States are to be built up in the Valley of the
Mississippi / know. You will no longer hear
hereafter of the Old Dominion State dominion
has passed away from Virginia long ago. Penn
syvania is no longer the keystone of the
American Union, for the arch has been extended
from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean,
and the centre of the arch is moved westward.
A new keystone is to be built in that arch. New
York will cease to be the Empire State, and a
new Empire State will grow up in another lati-
tude, where the lands are rich, and where the
people who cultivate them are all free and all
equal. That State which shall be truest to the
great fund damenta principle of the Government
that State which shall be most faithful, most
vigorous, in developing and perfectng society
on this principlc--will be at once the new
Dominion State, the new Keystone State, the
new Empire State"
Year: 1860

A STRETCH OF INAGINArIoN.-Some one in this
place wrote letter to the Shasta Herald of last
week, which to persons knowing the facts in the
case, sounds extremely ridiculous lie informed
the editor of that sheet that the Douglas party
here had stampcded-part to Lincoln, the other
part to Breckinridge, of course. He mentioned
the fact that Sheriff Messec had offered to bet
$1,000 that Breckinridge would lead Douglas in
the State, and followed it with postscript to the
effect that the bet had been taken, and that $2,-
600 was on deposit with Greenhood & Newbauer
to bet in the same way. AT the time the Shasta
Herald went to press the S 900 bet had not been
taken, and of the other people here never knew
anything until the information was received
through the Herald A vivid Imagination that
correspondent must be possessed of.
Year: 1860

Is THE Sun GRowISG Cold AND DARK There
are now more spots on the sun ihan have been
visible before for many years some OF these are
visible through smoked glass to the naked eye
Several stars-some Of them of great brlllancy,
which, from their ascertained distance, must have
been as large as our sun-have totally disap-
peared from the sky /; and the question has been
raised among astronomers, whether the light and
heat OF the sun are gradually fading away. AS
this would be the destruction Of all the plants
and animals on the earth, 1t is rather interest
ing question. The suns light and heat are di-
mnished by the dark spots at the present time
about one per cent Scientific american.
Year: 1860

The Academic des Sciences at Paris has been
much interested during its last sittings, by
the examination of more singular relic Of
Pompeii than any which has yet been brought
to light. This vestige of ancient days con-
sists of branch of cypress wood proceeding
from the trunk of cypress tree still stand
ing firm upon its roots. II is to Baron Saw
arese we are indebted for this valuable and
unique discovery. The Neapolitan Govern.
ment having commenced digging q canal in
the environs of Pompeii, Baron Savarese
happening to be passing where the workmer
were busy, became attracted by the difficulty
experienced by the men to pull out tht
stumps in the bed of the canal which they
declared must be piles driven in for the
foundation of some building long since per
ished from the surface of the earth. The
savant, however, thought otherwise; he made
the workmen isolate the stumps, and discov-
cred roots of vegetation which had struck
into the soil during the first century of the
Christian era. The savant, upon further ex.
animation, pronounces the trees to have beer
Expresses, the extremity Of the trunk ant
roots of which have been buried in gravel
and has been thereby preserved intact, whil'
every other portion Of the tree has been dc
stroyod.
Year: 1860

A letter from Madrid says: In the triumphal
entrance of the troops here, the heroes of the
day with the exception of General Prim,
who was so greeted that he had to deliver
half dozen speeches rs he went through the
streets, were trumpeter and dog. Their
glory obscured that of all the army, and they
obtained an ovation which will disturb the
repose Of Espartero at Logrono. The trum-
peter belongs to the Bourbon regiment; he is
only fourteen years, and is of short stature.
When in Africa he happened one day, while
in the advanced post with his company, to be
excessively hungry, and he could not get any
food. At last he perceived a number of oak
trees, and said to himself, "Where there are
oak trees there are acorns, and acorns at a
pinch can be eaten.n


He accordingly slipped away, and passing
unobserved by the sentinels, climed up the
tree and began eating. He was suddenly in
terrupted by strange noise, and to his dis
may he perceived that the tree was surrounded
by ferocious-looking Moors. Flight was i'm.
possible and resistance out of the question
but bright idea struck him--he seized his
trumpet aud sounded the charge. The Moors
thinking that they had fallen into an ambush,
took TO flight. This exploit of the trumpe-
ter excited great admiration at the time and
on the entrance of the, troops the crowds not
only greeted him with enthusiasm, but he
was borne in triumph on mems shoulders
and crowned with laufell From time to time,
at the request of the people, he sounded the
charge which had struck terror into the
breasts ofthe Moors.
Year: 1860

The Paris correspondent Of the New Or
leans Delta in his last letter says:


There was disturbance at the Ambigu
Comique, a few nights ago, which has given
rise to great deal of talk. The Duke de
Grammont Caderousse (by the way, the un-
luckiest family in France) was in stage-box
with Mile Schneider the pretty actress of
the Palais Royal She was looking at the
audience-he was reading Regolboche's s
memoirs In the next box to them was an
actress and her mother. As the two boxes
were separated by partition, some four feet
from the floor, they seemed from the body
of the theater to form one box. The actress
and mother were busily engaged munching
candy and their friends and made great
deal of noise both when they were eating
sugar and when they we're biting their
friends. The pit became annoyed at this
constant interruption, and mistaking the
innocent parties for the guilty ones-the way
Of the world-cried out, ITO the door with
the gdndinP You know gdndin is in the
vocabulary of the day the offensive term for
dandy. The popular storm lasted five min
utes, increasing in fury each second. AT
last the Duke de Grammont Caderousse rose
in his seat, leaned over to the pit, and said;
"lf ye wish to put me out, come and do it u
This increased the violence of the storm to
such degree 1t was impossible to hear what
was said on the stage. The police came and
ordered the Duke and actress out of the
house; and they, Of course, made their dis
appearance amid the pits laundering ap-
pause.