CALIFORNIA.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVII, Issue 50, 23 June 1858, Page 3

CALIFORNIA.

[From the Melbourne Age."] A bill has been introduced to the Legislature to abolish public executions. There is no doubt the bill will pass into law. A bill is also under consideration for the better observance of Sunday. The bill provides that no goods or merchandize of any sort shall be sold on that day. It does not include drug stores, livery stables, places where provisions are sold, or bar-rooms. The press consider the Act (if passed) would be unconstitutional and unnecessary. The Union Democrat (Sonora) chroniclessome rich strikes in Tuolumne county, of which we select the following: — The old Italian lead on Brown's Flat, which has yielded so immensely for the last year, bids fair to surpass anything heretofore found. On Saturday, 13th February, they took out about 15,000 dollars, and have taken out a large amount since. This deposit is at the depth of sixty feet, and is deeper than any shaft ever before sunk in that famous locality. They intend to j continue to the depth of one hundred feet, or more, as it is a supposition with them that at intervals of thirty feet in depth rich deposits are found. Conner and Co. have discovered a new vein near Saw Mill Flat, which promises to yield immensely. They realized 2,000 dols. for one day's work, and have fine prospects ahead. We were shown specimens from this lead that are as rich as the most exacting could desire. The large steam quartz mill at Big Rock Flat is paying about one thousand dollars per week, clear ot' expenses. A new Act for the prevention of gaming, and to amend present laws, has been introduced in Seriate. The Plncerville Democrat says there is aman working in a small tunnel at Hangtown Hill, who takes out daily one thousand dollars. On Sweetland Creek, Nevada couuty, parties

are manufacturing blocks for sluices out of a granite quarry. They are now at work on a large order from the French Corral Tail Sluice Company. During the past week, the Methodists have been holding a protracted meeting in Jackson, Amador county. Much interest haa been manifested, and many persons have beeu added to the church. Dr. Enrique Freu was attacked, January 24th, in his house, in Monterey county, by twoCalifornians, named Juan Bejon and Pablo N , and killed by blows on the head with a hatchet. The murderers escaped. The Colorado has been ascended by a small steamer for three hundred and fifty miles above Fort Yuma. News from the Gadsden Purchase is to the effect, that the Apaches are desirous of being on friendly terms with the Americans. The Sacramento Union, of February 12th, contained the following : — A Chinaman visited the Fish Market at the foot of I-street, 2£ dollars for the privilege of throwing overboard fifty-five fish. In explanation of this singular notion, he stated, that on one day, a year or two ago, he was wrecked with some eighty of bis countrymen, and thirty white men ; that he was the only Chinaman that survived, and that he then made h tow that he would release fifty-five fish on each succeeding anniversary of the day. Jose Atiastasia was recently hung at Monterey by the under-sheriff of the county, the sheriff declining to officiate because a respite had been received from the governor in the name of Anastasio Jesus. Upwards of seventy murders have occurred near Monterey in the past eight years, and the present is the first legal execution that has taken place. A Good Claim. — The amount taken out of the Pacific Quartz Mill, of Placerville, for the week ending February 20th, was 425 ounces; not quite the usual average. Mormonism. — The New York Tribune says: — Extensive ramifications of organized Mormonism have been discovered in Texas and California, embracing men holdiug responsible official positions. Fire at Sacramento. — A fire broke out in N-street, between Fourth and Fifth, which destroyed the building in which it origiuated, together with three others. The buildings were all frame, and occupied by families. The total damage will amount to 3,500 dollars, and the fire was doubtless the work of an incendiary. Several lengths of hose were cut by some miscreant, causing more damage than would otherwise have ensued. Taxation of Physicians and Lawyers. — The Sacramento correspondent of the Daily Times writes thus on the 23rd February : — A few weeks ago, I mentioned the intention of a member to introduce an Act to tax lawyers and professional gentlemen generally. It has been delayed a long time ; but Dr. Warfield, of Nevada, this' morning introduced the bill, and has kindly furnished me with a synopsis of it as follows : The bill provides that all persons engaged in the practice of medicine shall be declared physicians, and that every physician or copartnership of physicians, shall obtain a license from the County Treasurer before they shall be permitted to pursue the practice of their profession. All practising lawyers are also required to procure a license at the rate of 2 dols. 50 c. for every 500 dollars' worth of cash business they have, and the amount done the year preceding their application for such license shall be taken as a basis to determine the amount such applicant shall pay. All persons receiving a stated salary, either County or Slate officers, shall pay one per cent, upou the amount of salary received ; the tax so collected from State officers shall go into the General Fund of the State ; and of the tax so collected from physicians and lawyers, and from county officers, one-half shall go into the School Fund of the respective counties, and the other half to go into the Indigent Sick Fund of the State. The Herald, in reference to the bill, says :—: — It would appear that our Democratic lawgivers have, at last, discovered that there are other callings besides those of the butcher, the baker, the carman, and persons performing the : more humble and arduous offices of life, that maybe made, like them, the subjects of taxation. Had not our legislative bodies been made up so generally of these professions, this is a discovery they might, perhaps, have made and acted upon many years ago. Over-estimated Men. — California is full of over-estimated men, who took advautage of the time when others of greater capacity were intent on other pursuits, to climb to eminence, from which the competition of genius or talent would have hurled them to inglorious prostration. All professions have of these half-baked mud gods : they are found in Legislative Assemblies ; at the bar ; on the bench ; behind the sacred desk ; in the medicine shop ; and at the tables where editors write, burlesquing statesmen, betraying confidence, misinterpreting law, leading the blind to deeper darkness, poisoning the public health, and beglooming the community with the smoke of gone-out tapers. But one by one they are falling from their perch into obscurity, like worn-out idols in which the people find nothing more of deity. We could mention scores now, the tail-ends of all professions, lopped off for inutility, who wriggled in the early dawn and died in the strengthening light. Political declaimers rivalling the great Roman, lawyers imitating Burke in ferocity of denunciation, judges personating the profundity of Story, and editors wielding the incendiary pen of Marat, as they believed ; all gone out, set aside, forgotten, like machinery superseded by new invention. They have failed in the battle of life, been distanced in the race, trodden under the shoe of latent enterprise and ambition. Like noisy brooks, fed by no certain source, they have run down to the level, and lie in stagnant, useless pools. — Trinity Journal. Friendly Advice.— A tenant, whose ar» rears of rent had been hopelessly longed for, presented himself smilingly to his landlord to pay him ; he thumbed down the notes, and got his receipt. The servant letting him out declared that "it was a sign before death" to see him doing such a thing. "It is," said Mike with a grin ; " there's my receipt, and the bank is broke, and the best thing you can do is to advise the master to give what be got to a charity before "tis found out»"