MUNIFICENT DONATION. - Captain James Magee, a sugar planter, has sent one hundred barrels of molasses here to be sold for the benefit of the Sanitary Commission. They came by the bark Hector, consigned to McKuen & Merrill, and from first to last were subjected to no charges for freight, duty, commission, drayage, gauging, or wharfage. The sale of the molasses realized to the Sanitary Commission the sum of one thousand two hundred and thirty six dollars. Captain Magee has another present of a hundred barrels more on the way here in the bark Yankee. That man can have the freedom of the city whenever he chooses to come over and accept of it.
(transcribed from microfilm, p. 2.)
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SLIDING SCALE OF ASSAULT AND BATTERY. - The little gratification of knocking a man down, or in any manner exercising the flexors and extensors of the arm or leg on the corpus of a fellow being, brings a man to grief in proportion to the amount of indignation which enters into the commission of the act. Thus, Charles Vreidel, for an assault and battery, was fined by Judge Shepheard, yesterday, thirty dollars, or allowed the alternative of serving ten days in the County jail. John Allen, for the same offence slightly modified, twenty dollars, or eight days in jail. While Patrick Flynn, whose angry passion scarcely rose above zero, escaped with a fine of ten dollars. Donald Cramsey, Edward Kane, and William Price -- the latter two colored -- were ordered to appear this morning for sentence. Effinger Burbaker and William Farrell forfeited their bail. These were all assault and battery subjects.
(transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.)
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SINNING IGNORANTLY. - Leonard Granz, a miner, from Washoe, was yesterday convicted in the Police Court of the offence of carrying a concealed weapon. The instrument was a savage-looking bowie knife, which defendant observed was but a specimen of what was worn by all Washoeites. He frankly stated that he had been in the city about three weeks and had carried the weapon in his pocket all the time, without being aware that he was violating any law. He stated that he was a hard-working man, with but few funds, and asked the Judge to let down lightly on him. He was ordered for sentence to-morrow.
(Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.)
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MISDEMEANORS. - Isaac Hinzman, who was in Court yesterday for beating his wife, was fined ten dollars for a misdemeanor. The alternative is five days in jail. Peter Wool, for using bad language, was fined ten dollars or to appear for sentence this morning. John Daniels and Ollavarve Gori, were also ordered to appear this morning for sentence, for violating the fire ordinace. Ah Chow and Ah Fow, charaged with misdemeanors, failed to appear, and their bail was declared forfeited.
(Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.)
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DECLARED A NUISANCE. - J. P. Dyer, who has for a long time past regaled the inhabitants of a certain portion of the city with odorous perfumes, like "odors of Edom," emanating from his soap manufacturing establishment, was tried on Tuesday, in the County Court, on an indictment for erecting and maintaining a nuisance within the city, and found guilty as charged in the indictment. The result will be abatement of that nuisance.
(Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.)
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STOCKS DOWN. - Yesterday Gould & Curry sold in the noon board at $1,480, and Ophir at $475. We are told that the former sold much lower in the afternoon, and that Ophir fell to $440. Although this looks like getting down to the bed-rock, an old Washoe friend of ours finds excuse for cheerfulness and ground for hope in the future in the fact that the Territory was knocked out of time once before by just such a panic as the present one, and recovered from it. He says that early in the Spring of '60, Ophir was worth $1,500 a foot, and Lady Bryan sold readily at $400; (the latter is worth $2 to $3.50 now). The Indian war broke out in May, a report followed that the Ophir mine had gone to seed, or, rather, to base metal, and down came the stock to $250 @ $300 a foot, and all other claims became unsalable at any price. In July of that year, men were ashamed to acknowledge that they had ever thought well of Washoe, or had even been visionary enough to visit it. Stocks lay dormant, in a manner, for more than two years, when the Ophir and the Gould & Curry started up, and in August or September, 1862, the latter reached $1,700 a foot, and the former $3,900! About that time, Joseph D. Winters, Esq., who resides now in San Jose, but who lived in Carson then, received a dispatch from San Francisco, offering him $4,000 a foot for his entire Ophir interest -- eighty-four feet. And very shortly afterwards, W. K. Garrison sprung the Old Virginia lead on the Ophir folks, and the stock tumbled to a level with Gould & Curry - $1,700 -- in a matter of three or four days. It has never been higher than $2,700 or $3,000 since. Gould & Curry steadily advanced until the recent panic tripped it up, and now in its mighty descent it has mashed and flattened out all of the little wild-cats like mice under a deadfall. Our Washoe friend says he has seen silver stocks sicker than they are now, and they get well. Therefore he looks for a similar result in this instance.
(transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.)
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