Republican, 16th] There is a great deal of sickne rain, Peuokee‘at present. ‘ There _ is; not. eye snow on ; the rain soaked as to be soft and slushy. Capt. ‘Avery’ and his ” party suc ceeded in breaking the road’ to Talia last Sunday. ‘They also repaired the e aod. placed ,.skin, per, 18 ‘onder. The Truckee and its tributaries are flooded, booming, rampant, Prosser creek overflows the Prostur me@udove,’ and forms an average sized lake: Mayrtin’ Valley ‘and’ the ‘ Twenty five candidates. (Celestial) were initiated into the ‘ystebion of Chinese Free Masonry at the old Schaffer house across the river, We nessay night. The ceremonioa lasted all night and notil joing. o'olnok Chureday morning.A ‘grand: seint, a horrible noise, intense exthugiarm, were the prominent, characteristica of the performance.