The Hickman Courier, 1868-10-31

at Santa. Cruz. Monterey and atsou atsou-ville - ville atsou-ville suffered little loss. In the State of Nevada thc earthquake was scarcely felt. In San Francisco the committee of architects, appointed by the Board of Su Supervisors, - pervisors, Supervisors, report the city hall unsafe. The building will be taken down. Mean Meanwhile - while Meanwhile the city officials aud courts will find other buildings. Other city build buildings - ings buildings not injured to any great exteut, aud ofiicers will find temporary quarters else elsewhere. - where. elsewhere. The damage to school ho'uses is trifling. The schools open as usual on Monday next. The United States Marine Hospital building is condemned by the proper au authorities, - thorities, authorities, and will be demolished. Tho patients are at present encamped on tho grounds adjoining the hospital, no proper accommodations as yet having been pro provided. - vided. provided. The Custom House is wrecked to such an extent that it probably will , not be occupiedagain. The officials havo removed, temporarily, to Haywood'a building on California street. An army of laborers are at work to---' day on the shattered buildiugs, and re.', moving debris from strectf. Thc iner- K chants are showing no disposition ti f abandon their property or location. v Som structures are being taken down, andTithers repaired. The vicinity of tho wrecked buil.dings presents a busy scene. The shock at 2:lo this morning hna done more damage to the injured buiid buiid-uigs. - uigs. buiid-uigs. puimi ciiuuueys ui trier cnTri'icn- .r " - manufactories, which suffered considera- - - bly by the first shock, now have to ha 1 demolished and rebuilt. , - . ' definite estimate of damaged prop

husking a vigilant lookout should he kept that no unripe, unsound ear or half-made "nubbin" roes in with the pile that is to go intthe crib. The pig pen is tlie better place for all such mate material. - rial. material. One unsound ear may, aud often does, damage a bushel of sound com. Next, wherever you are going to put corn to keep, put coal or gas tar about the premises pretty liberally first. It is au utter abomination to rats aud mice. They will not board in a corn crib flavor ed pretty strongly with gas tar. Half a dollar's worth will likely save tea dol dollars' - lars' dollars' worth of corn. Very many peoplo seem to suppose that corn may be kept in any sort of a crib, a3 open as Jack Straw's house neither wind nor water tight so that it ia housed undar a toler tolerable - able tolerable ro.of. - So it can, but never long in a marketable condition. While corn cribs ought always afford free ventilla ventilla-ticwi, - ticwi, ventilla-ticwi, they should b-3 so constructed as to shut otit all storms, either rain or snow. Better grow less corn and keep it sound than prize crops and-sell it spoiled. Broom corn W8S introduced into our country by'Dr. Franklin. " While exam examining - ining examining cora whisk, (imported,) he acci accidentally - dentally accidentally discovered a single seed, which he planted in his garden, and from which th? corn was propagated.

many princes, from which the Bonapartes are not excepted. Napoleon III, as Louis Bonaparte, professed sentiments s liber liberal - al liberal that Henri Rochefort is now banished for reprinting them. The present King of Prussia, who doe9 not oropose to let a "sheet of paper" stand in his way, was one of the most advanced liberals as Crown Prince. French Republicans be believe - lieve believe that Prince Napoleon is liberal be because - cause because liberalism seems to him tha surest way to the throne. It is proble that Spanish Liberals will not think differ differently. - ently. differently. Ax order of Queen Victoria's Privy Council has been issued to prevent the introduction into England of the cattle disease now prevailing ia thc United States, decreeing that hay imported from the United States iuto Great Britain shall not be removed from the ships or vessels in which the Bame had been trans transported - ported transported from the United States, or landed in any place ia the United Kingdom. The order took effect September 25. Provision Is made for landing hay im imported - ported imported from, the United States for the use of horses, only ou obtainirg a li license - cense license from, the Lords of the Privy Council,

ernment, including the Abyssinian war, the danger of thc Church of England, and the necessity of economy in the pub public - lic public expenditures. M. Gladstone in his address expresses his opposition to a gen general - eral general endowment of the churches in Ire Ire-laud, - laud, Ire-laud, treats the established church there as a mark of past oppression, and urges that the case against it is aggravated by the fact that it is the church of the rich, and ha3 yet accomplished such meagro results. He insists that the true policy policy-is - is policy-is the policy of justice and to apply the revenue to public and social vorks and to religious establishments. The Lib Liberal - eral Liberal organs are emphatic iu their praise of the frank and positive tone of thc ad address. - dress. address. Their own utterances are even more decided than those of their leader, and manj' of them look to the results which he does not peeni to contemplate.

Ilrttln? on lileclioiis. The Court of Appeals of this itate a few days since decided that property de delivered - livered delivered by one on condition that it he wins, the loser must pay for it, is a bet. This whs upon a case from the Shelby Circuit Court. In August, 1800, Todd sold and delivered to Caplioger a horse at $25, to be paid when Hell and Everett should carry the electoral vote of Ken Kentucky, - tucky, Kentucky, they then being candidates for President and Vice Frequent. They did carry the electoral vote of Kentucky at that electjon, and the horse not being paid for, iu 1SC7, sued on said obliga obligation. - tion. obligation. Capiinger set up f defense thai it was a bet on an election within tbu de de-fiuneiations - fiuneiations de-fiuneiations of .' our .State laws ; offer which .Todd-.filed im amended petitiou clalmiag recovery on theimplied promise fo pay a reasonable price for the horse

imSi reached Lower California on one sida of the Pac5 Ocean, and Japan on the other. On t't'e 11th, 15th and lGth of August, as tht telegraph informs us, this same disturbance of tlie ocean was observed at the Sandwich Islands, the sea rising and falling, for those three days, three or four feet every ten minutes. Taking all these facts together, it would seem that the point of greatest intensity iu the commotion of the earth's crust was somewhere in thc Pacific Ocean rnid rnid-xray - xray rnid-xray between South America and , the Sandwhich Islands, since the tidal wave reaclJ those islands sooner than it did Califvr i. and lasted longer, and was ob observed - served observed L the laiter place no sooner than it was at i Japan. That the convulsion was as near the Sandwhich Islands as it was in Soath America, if not nearer, is confirmed by the sinking of the shore of

The steamer Russia brings, later par particulars - ticulars particulars of the revolution in Spain. Mr. llussell writes to the London Times from Madrid, uuder date of Oc October - tober October 7 ; l'rini is in Madrid. If it can no lon longer - ger longer be doubted that the hour for Spain has strdek, it is equally certain that the man is forthcoming. There is nothing more unaccountable than the people's in instincts. - stincts. instincts. Their Jove is always at firt sight. ' The Italians owe their freedom to the French of Selfevino aud the Prus Prussians - sians Prussians of Sadowa ; but they associate it with Garibaldi. It is a series cf blun blunders - ders blunders of. the defeasible Gonzalez Uravo that lias hurled the L'ourbons from the throne of Spaiu ; but tl cry is, .':I)own with the Queen and long live Trim ''n their fallen Kovercisrn and in the fuge

en so many eovereigna to France, Spain, and Italy, is of French origin, deriving its name from the old lords of Bourbon, a Doble family which centuries ago held very large landed possessions in the for former - mer former province of Bonrbannais, situited in the.centre of France. Through the marriage, of a member of the Capet fam family - ily family with a bourbon heiresf, the noble house became allied to royalty in the thirteenth century, and about the middle JZf thepixtcenth we find the first of the race on a throne, in the person of An An-toincde - toincde An-toincde Bourbon, king of Navarre. An An-ttine - ttine An-ttine was the father of the gallaut and renowned Henry of Navarre, who after afterwards - wards afterwards became king of France under the title of Henry IV. Tift establishment" f.f the "Spanish