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Year: 1870

THE New LAND DIsTEIoT.-The Nevada
Daily Transcript, after quoting portion OF
our article urging the formation of new
Land District says:


"These figures may be correct, but if another
Land Office is to be created why not locate IT
near the geographical centre of the district by
selecting Grass Valley or Nevada? Nevada county
will have larger number of claims to obtain
titles to than the entire balance of the district
II central location and the accommodation OF
the largest numper of persons is desirable the
new Land Office ought to be in Nevada county


We do not propose to discuss, at present,
the question of the location of the Office, and
if the editor of the Transcript will lay the
map before him and look at the routes of
travel, the time of arrival and departures,
the area of territory, etc, he will see that
Auburn is the centre, all these facts con-
eidered and thus save each of us the trouble
of discussing that question. Nevada is a
large and wealthy county containing 1877 $50
acres, but Placer has 992, 900 acres, and
leads Nevada in quantity of land 254, ,72O
acres, while Sierra about equals that portion
of Ell Dorado doing business at Auburn.
But this matter will be easily settled; and
what we want first is the Land District and
she Office at the point that will best suit the
whole people having business with it. The
National Gazette of Wednesday last makes,
without intending it, weighty argument in
favor Of the new office, officers and district.
This would be one of the best Land Districts
in the State and the positions of Register
and Receiver, honestly conducted, would
more than reach the extreme figures allowed
by law which is high salary for the duties
required.
Year: 1870

The Grass Valley Union, one of the best
independent dailies in the State, and one that
always labors intelligently for the local inter-
est of all, came to hand yesterday
with a full endorsement of our ar
ticles favoring and urging the establish
ment of new Land District. The Union's
article gives many strong and urgent reasons
for the establishment of the District, not
named by us, which we would give to the
public but for the lato hour of receiving the
paper,
Year: 1870

Nor ACCEPTED. semi-oficial an
nouncement by the Grass Valley Union that
Hon. VIM. Watt declines to allow his name
to be used in connection with the future
Govenorship of this State is not accepted by
the Democracy of Placer as final or conclu-
sive in the premises. Haight being out of
the field, Watt was our man, and the man
of the people of this county, and we believe
of the honest portion of the party all over the
State, and we shall not now treat his name
and claims as being absolutely out of the
contest. That Mr.. Watt did say that he
was not a candidate, must be so understood
previous to or in the Convention, that his
business matters and private nclinations all
tended in another direction and that all these
were the utterances and outgivings of an
honest and sincere heart we are bound to
believe; and yet these expressed desires con-
tain no uHimatum, and leaves the question
Just where we desire it should be. Mr..
Watt, who is the soul of honor, the true
type of an honest gentlemen with predomi-
nant executive ability, is within the call Of
the people of California and cannot be deal
to their demands should the emergency, in
their opinion, arise, and the demand be un-
doubted This places Mr.. Watt where al
his true friends desire him to be, and where
we intend to insist he is, and be governed ii
our actions accordingly.
Year: 1870

WELL PUT-In speaking of the foolish
report put in circulation that Governor
Haight had said if majority of the Senators
would pledge themselves to him in writing
that they would do no other business but
district the State he would call al extra ses-
sion of the Legislature, the Grass Valley
Union pertincntly remarks:


"'rhe fact of asking Senators to make any
agreement of the kind spoken Of would be
an imputation on the honesty of such Sena-
tors which we hope not man in that body
would brook. The Governor, by such a
proceeding, would say, in effect, you are
needed at the capital to make what | consid-
er necessary alterations in the law Of the
land. | would be glad if You were to make
such alterations as conceive to be necessary
| know you too well to trust Your honesty
and discretion in making only such alterations
as | think proper. Your instincts are so
bad that you will do more than tell you to
do. If YOU will, however, give me a writ
ten pledge verbal pledges not taken at this
otfce) not to do more than | tell you, you
may come together, in legislative capacity -
We are sure that Governor IIaight has made
no such suggestion. Written pledgess or
any other sort of pledges, asked in Such
connection, would be an insult to Senators.
The assertion that two-thirds of the Senators
would sign such a pledge argues the entire
want of self respect ON the part of Senators.
The men who would submit to such an
imputation on their honesty or cafacty, for
the sake of getting chance at a few days
pay, would surely violate any pledge Aey
could make"
Year: 1870

AdAssIz, it is said, has discovered 10 900
different species of the fly in the last year
If he intends to continue in the business we
advise him to spend next GUNNER in Sacra-
mento, as that place will furnish the most
prolific field of operations We know of in the
world,
Year: 1870

War NEws,-The latest news is that
Grant has declared war on the Gratz Brown
and Carl Shurtz Republicans in Missouri,
and that the Democrats and Germans have
become allies Of Brown and that Grant is
getting whipped
Year: 1870

circulation or materially aid In prcpar.
ing the way toward specie payments, but
would mainly move in brief circle
from the Treasury ia redemption OF tho
grecnbacks through gold brokers and
gamblers, back again to the same in pay
mcnt of customs, OF it would speedily
60 abroad To meet the greater demand
there in payment OF our very large an
nual interest Indebtedness to foreign ma
tons, or of our excess OF imports ovCv
exports.


Our present abnormal relations to tho
FoRcE al excessive proportion of our
gold abroad, whether produced in this
country or not. Nothing but q rcstora-
ton of more equal and prosperous com.
merce by the general means to which L
have referred can prevent such eXporta-
tiOn. No legal enactmcnts can do it,
Every attempt Of the kind in the history
of the world has been signal failure
Spain while importing millions Of the
precious metals from her colonies pro-
hibitcd their exportstioI, and yet they
they were continually exported, and
Spain became poorer and poorer because
it habitually violated the great laws of
political economy, OF production, and
commerce. as the Republican party have
been doing in this country for many
years.


II appears 10 me. therefore, that in
every view for the present and future
welfare of the country, for justice and
Equality between the Government and
the people, for the prevention of inatc-
rial disturbance or huctuation in the VOL
ume of the currency. for the legitimate
saving Of interest and reduction Of the
debt and taxes, sound policy requires
that the Surplus shall be used in the re-
demption of the bonds as I have already
Indicated
Year: 1870

rs HEREBY GIVEN THAT CHAS STEIN
i has Power Of Attorney TO transact my busi-
ness in Hamilton; and, as l intend TO close out
in said place about the LIST day of July, all in
debted will do well by going to Stein and set
Ting their accounts on or before the aforesaid
day. FRANK WHEELER co.


e3- All accounts with the firm of Fra 4
Wheeler Co. unsettled on the LIST day of July
will be left in the hands Of a collector for col
lection. CHARLES STEIN.


jy4 Agent Of Frank Wheeler Co.
Year: 1870

JOHN FOLEY attempted to interview Henry
Smith on the subject of the Supervisorship yes
terday He was backed by a strong letter
recommending Smith to resign that position in
order that Foley could step into it without any
further trouble, and he was accompanied by a
delegation of friends. But Foley's move was
all folly 1t was as impossible to find Henry
Smith "a it would be to tud john Smith.
Year: 1870

TIE MARTIN Cook WHIsKEY CASES are on
trial before Commissioner Belts. The inform
ers portion alone will amount to twenty five
thousand dollars If the property seized is con-
demned--a sum that under some circumstances
would be strong incentive to very hard
swearing.
Year: 1870

THE TRIAL OF REYNOLDS was concluded
yesterday and the jury found him guilty of
murder in the first degree. The plea of
insanity was Of no avail, for the physicians
who examined him testified that he was not
insane. This prompt conviction looks ,as if
the cold-blooded murder was to be expiated
without delay; but we must remember that
Real was tried, convicted and sentenced in
one day, and is yet alive.
Year: 1870

CARPETBAGGERs in Congress must behave
themselves-that is, if they sell appointments
they must not be caught. But is it not a fine
piece of virtue on the part of the House to
visit such tremendous indignation on poor
devil of Yankee from South Carolina for
acts that have not been uncommon in Con-
gressmen who reached their places in more
legitimate MaYs2
Year: 1870

LATEST FROM CENTRAL AND SOUTH
AMERIoA.-We are enabled to publish this
morning, in advance Of the regular mails, the
latest news from the Central and South Ameri-
can republics. In Colombia we perceive that
the people are fully awake to the importance
of the undertaking of a ship canal across the
Isthmus of Darien. By next mail we expect
to learn not only Of the signing Of the treaty
for its construction, but of its approval by the
Colombian Congress. A terrible conflagration
destroyed the entire town Of Crete on the 2Ist
of last month. The town of Carmen met
nearly like fate. AS it was, over one hun
dred and fifty houses were burned down. The
news from Peru and Chile is not important.
In the latter republic the political movements
incident to the approaching elections were
the only excitement. The prospects of the
liberals, SO far, look well. The Peruvians are
quietly improving their country and laboring
for its advancement by extending the public
works and pushing forward railroad enter
prises The prospects of the republics re-
ferred to look fair.
Year: 1870

The Proposed Expansion Of the Currency.


1t seems that as the House committee on the
subject has no option under the late resolution,
it will report bill increasing the national cur
rency Gin national bank notes) to the extent OF
fifty millions of dollars. The Senate having
already moved in this direction, we expect
that the House bill will be passed, and that thus
Congress will be brought into conflict with the
financial policy Of the administration, which is
not the policy Of paper imitation. There may
be chance that the scheme proposed will
fail upon hitch between the two houses; but
so general seems to be the desire, South and
West, for more paper money, and in view of an
increased paper money value Of Southern and
Western products, that we conclude the bill
will be carried, that gold will be carried up
with it, and that the gold gamblers will have
another profitable season of bulling and bear
ing to the prejudice of the honest business
classes of the country. We can only say that
if the temptation for fifty millions more to the
national currency cannot be resisted by Con-
gress, we may soon expect another issue of a
hundred millions, and so on, until from infla-
tions and speculations we are brought face to
face with collapse and reputation.
Year: 1870

The great idea Of the democracy that
opposes the new Charter is to carry the doc
trine of State rights and local government a
little further than any fool ever proposed to
carry it before. They would make Of this city
confederacy, of which the several wards
would be the Independent States. A Charter
that gives the government of the city to the
people of the city is not enough for them.
They want Charter that will divide the thing
to nicer point and make the wards the units
of political action; because in a canvass of
the whole city there is chance that intelli-
gence may have some share in the result-there
is probability that property and respecta-
bility may neutralize the slums; but when
the city is disposed of by a series of contests
in the wards from which every decent man is
shut out, the rum shop and the dog pit will
always carry the day. All the evil of such
body as our present Board of Aldermen is
due to the fact that an Alderman is
made in the mud puddle of ward politics, and
that in that puddle decency p not only mi
nority, but dares not show it's face. Because
they know that that is the sphere of
their power the bad elements wish not
only to retain all that the present system
gives them there, but they wish to secure
more. Could they have their way, instead of
the new Charter, that proposes to have the
Aldermen chosen just as the Mayor is now
chosen, and which would give us respectable
men for Aldermen, just as it has always given
us respectable men for Mayor-instead of that
system they would have little Mayor for
every ward, who should be the keeper of the
biggest corner groggery, and a board of ward
Aldermen who should be in the junk trade, or
keep dog pits, or be leaders of cutthroat
gangs or graduates from the prize ring and the
State Prison. Nay, we do not doubt but they
would have system Of ward administration of
'justce," with judges we'll trained in Tombs
tactics, whose principal duty would be to
defeat the operation of every statute that pun
ishes crimes. This is the way the city will be
governed when we are completely under the
thumb of the new democracy, whose leaders
are Sheriff O'Brien and Champion Morrissey,
and whose mouthpiece and organ is the cop
perhead journal.
Year: 1870

4 New York manager tells the fol.
lowing good story:


"I once sent 'on' a young medical
student in the character of a lover who
had to make q declaration, be accepted,
be surprised by rival, challenge him
on the spot, declare that he would not
stir until the green sward was stained
with the blood of one, if not both, order
parenthetically for two at once, and Gof-
fee for two in ten minutes, and in fact,
go through the greatest amount of bonn
bast compressible in short time. OF
course the love making was to be Of the
most high flown character. iOni he
went and at the sight of the audience
and the lady seated at her work table,
subsidized Immediately into an abyss OF
Ttears. Instead of rushing frantically to-
ward the object Of his affection, fling
ing himself upon his knesS and bursting
should have done, he simply stood and
looked at her, twisting his hat freely in
his hands. Not one word could he say,
but in dead silence crept across the stage
slowly, took up chair, set it exactly
chair, offerrd to sit down, looked be-
hind him to be sure if the chair was real
ly in its place, sat down on the extreme
edge of it, looked at the ground, rubbed
his knees slowly, and now and then
glanced up at his intended bride, much
as dog looks when it has stolen sOme-
thing, and knows it is going to be whip
ped.


The audience were in ccstacies. They
all thought twas pure acting, and that
Year: 1870

A CORRESPONDENT of the Vienna
| Frele Presse writing of the immense
facilities and the unlimited means en-
jOyed by English and American cores


pOndents at the seat of war, saws, that


when, after the battle of Sedan, he went


to the telegraph Office at BOuillon to
send off a dispatch of six hundred and


twenty words, all the German reporters


were seized with the utmost astonish-


ment. But had not been there but a


few minutes he goes on, when a cor
respondent of the New York Herald


came in who wished to send cable dis


patch of two thousand words to New


York. Like myself he was refused be-
cause neither of US had enough Of French


coin in his possession to pay for the dis
patch. Then we both rode in q buggy


to the railway at Libramont, and he
started for Brussels and I for Luxem-


burg. On the way to LibramOnt we
were Overtaken by DR.. Russell, of the
london Times, although we drove at a
headlOng speed and my American friend
swOTe like a trooper. When the battle
of Sedan began DR.. Russell had sent
messenger to the agent of the Times at
BOuillOn who was waiting for his orders,
to keep everything in readiness. When
the capitulatiOn had been effected next
morning and Napoleon had surrendered,
DR.. Russell hastened in q light sulky
from Sedan to BouillOn. There he ex-
changed his vehicle for a light chaise,
to which four horses were attached
which were waiting for him. and away
he dashed to LibTamOnt, where an eX-
ira train took him Gin an hour to Brus-
sele. Another extra train took him from
Brussels to Ostend, and extra steamer
waiting for him from there to Dover,
where an extra train was waiting for
him to carry him to London. Arriving
there DR.. Russell found three phOno-
ready for him in his Office, to
take his report, who changing of alter
n8tely, took it down and wrote it out
In this manner, prOmensding up and
down in his Office, he dictated all the
eventful scenes Of the last twenty-f0ur
hours while they were still fresh in his
mind
Year: 1870

have seen Others completely narcotized
by doses of morphine that would only
have quieted a cough in most; and so on
to the end of the chapter.


We are we'll aware that book doctor
ing is held at its proper valuation by the
leaders in the medical profession, and
that to such, the really skilful, even the
slightest popularity Of temperament is
not deemed unworthy Of attention; but
there are too many, far too many, who
put all patients ON the same plane, and
cOnfine themselves rigidly to one rou-
tine of treatment.


No less are idiosyncracies of mind and
disposition to be regarded in imparting
instruction to the young, or in our every
day dealings with our fellow men,
Most mental peculiarities are easily dis
covered by the practiced student Of hui
man nature, and it is as much our duty,
in our attempts to instruct and reform
others, to avoid nauseating them men,
tally as it is that Of the physician to
avoid over dosing those he is attempt
ing to heal.-Scieatifc american.
Year: 1870

of hashful lover. Certainly any one who
could not act half so well ought to make
his fortune. He had been in possession
of the stage some seven or eight min
utes without speaking a word, when he
opened his mouth once or twice, rubbed
his knees again, and at last said, in a
broken and husky voice, "HOw's your
mother~ A perfect shrek of laughter
bursting from the audience, gave the
opportunity of getting him off the stage.
The rival rushed forward, pouncing on
him, hauled him off by the collar; flung
himself on his knees, did. all the rhap-
sody himself, and we had to patch up
the scene as we best could. Although
so complete a failure on the part of the
individual, the scene was the best of the
evening, and is we'll remembered to the
present day."
Year: 1870

There is a great deal Of philosophy in
the following:


A boy hearing his father say, Twas a
poor rule that didn't work both ways,
said, IF father applies this rule about
his work, will test it in my play


So setting up row of bricks he tipped
over the first, which striking the second
caused it to fall on the third, which
overturned the fourth, and SO on, until
all the bricks lay PROSTATE.
We'll, said the little boy, each brick
has knocked down his neighbor. I only
tipped one. Now will raise one see
if he will raise his neighbour He looked
in vain to see them rise. Here, father
said the boy, 'tis a poor rule that won't
won't work both ways. They knock
each other down but will not raise each
other up


My son, bricks and mankind are alike
made of clay, active and knocking
down each other, but not disposed to
help each other up


Father said the boy, does the first
brick represent the first Adam q"


The father replied: when men fall
they love company; but when they rise
they love to stand alone, like yonder
brick, and see others PROSTATE before
them
Year: 1870

HOLD ON.-Hold ON to your tongue
when you are just ready to swear, OF to
speak harshly, or use any improper
words.


Hold on to your hand when you are
about to strike, or do anything wrong.


Hold on to your feet when you are on
the point of running away from study,
or pursuing the path of error, shame, or
crime. Hold on to your virtue-it is
above all price-at all times and in all
places.


Hold on to your good character, for it
is now, and ever will be your best
wealth.


Hold on to your good name at all
times, for it is much more valuable TO
you than gold, high places or fashion
able attire.
Hold on to truth, for it will serve
you well and do you good throughout
eternity.
Year: 1870

From this text the Rev. VIM Friend, one
of the ahlest and most eloquent divines of the
Episcopal Church in Virginia. preached
sermon some days since. Hardly had he left
the church before tho summons came-he
fell in the church yard and lived but few
hours, We give below some extracts from
his last appeal to his beloved congregation


q at remains only for me to state the ques.
tion, '1hen should we prepare to meet God
You can readily anticipate what / would say
you know what the Bible demands on this
point. You have often heard the arguments
and commands which call upon You to do it
now-to attend to it to-day-to defer it no
longer. You are familiar with the fact that
the Bible requires it to be done at once and
that it demands that everything else should
give way to this your great coucern-that the
present may end your day of probation, and
that there is small probability that prepara-
tion will be made on dying bed.


81 might content myself with laying this
command across the path you are pursuing
Prepare to meet thy Cod l might go to
the Bible and bring appeals and warnings
without number, all pressing the point, Pre-.
pare to meet thy Cod | might take you to
the sinners death bed, and pointing you to
the sad scene, say TO you, Prepare to meet
thy Cod might ask you to recall the cases
OF sudden death, when some friend or Tela-
tive has been swept in moment from the
land of the living, and while the impression
is still vivid, say to you, Prepare to meet thy
Cod l might ask you TO 90 With me to the
graveyard, and to call to mind as we stand
there the image of some departed relative, or
the warning of a sainted mother, and say to
you in that solemn scene, Prepare to meet
thy Cod Or l might attempt to describe
the scenes of the last day-the rising dead
the descending Judge, the throne of judg-
ment, the terrors of the sinners forced to ap-
pear before the bar of judgment-the sad
doom which awaits them-and, standing by
anticipation amid the solemn scenes, might
say to you, Prepare to meet thy God


"Me;hinks tie simple warning of the text
ought to be sufficient to move you all to at
tend to this thing now. L would therefore
simply warn you as your minister to be ready
for death-were it my last breath / would
spend it in saying to each one of you, Pre-
pare now to meet thy Cod Let not the day
which is now Fastening to its close, pass
without your having done somethiDg-with-
out at least your having uttered one heart.
felt prayer that you may be prepared to meet
your God"