The weekly Placer herald., 1853-04-02
: VARIETIES.

ed coast containing but few hun
dred Of scattered inhabitants. Now
1t is a city of about forty thousand
people, and is the port for a popula-
ton of three hundred thousand,
while the revenue it yields to the
Federal Government is inferior only
ac to that Of New York, Boston, Phila-
delphia and New Orleans.
The owners of the Ericsson patent
have received three hundred orders
for caloric engines. Capt. Isaac
Gage. of Augusta, has applied to the
Legislature for incorporation for him
self and Associates as "Caloric
Navigation Company" with the in
tention of navigating n as s,achusetts
bay and the coast and i've. s of Maine.
.a The Court dless in France is short
breeches and silk stockings. This is
going back to the old regime.
A company of t,nglishmen are re
crlliting, in France, women to be sent
g to Australia. Nine hundred females
have already gone to Southampton,
to be embarked.
1t is proposed, in the Legislature
of Ohio, to Set apart the earnings of
convlctS in the state prisons for the
support of the families of such con-
victS.
The number Of European sove-
reigns, including the Emperor of
Brazil, who belongs to a European
7 dynasty, and the Prince of Monaco,
amonnts to fory-eight, amongst
whom there arc five emperors, count
ing the Sultan, twelve kings and
three queens, seven grand dukes,
nine, dukes, nine princes, pope, an
ea elector and a landgrave.
There are sixty-eight captains in
Il the American Navy, OF whom thirty
eight have been for several years I'M
. employed.
The pensions paid by the English
government amount to four millions
Of dollars year.
There is railroad enough now in
operation to reach round the world,
and four thousand miles over
Mrs. Tappan, the wife of the late
venerable schoolmaster of Mr. Web
ster, died in Gloucester, Mass, on the
llth uIt., aged II, having survived
her husband but few days
Gen. Pinto, at last accounts, was
governor cf Buenos Ayres for the
third time, making nine governors
since the Sd Of February, 1852.
Sergeant O'Neil, General pierce's
faithful body-guard, who was with
hlm in Mexico, will proceed with the
President elect to Washington.
More Immiglan S "A passenger
train 10 California was advertised to
leave st. Louis on the 18th of March,
and to perform the trip in three and
a half months.
Gentry, of Tennessee, declines to
become a candidate for Congress =
Although he has been an efficient
member, political affairs have taken
such change that his declining sa-
vors more of prudence than anything
else.
A merchant in New York, inquir-
ed of a countryman the character of
a Deacon, his neighbor, who made a
great profession of religion, and had
applied to the merchant for a credit
The cOuntryman replied, that God
ward the deacon was accounted a
very honest, upright man; but man-
ward he was little twistlcal or So.
An excellent description of thousands
of our nelghhors.
The people of the United States
pay as much for imported cigars as
they receive for exported wheat; and
drink, in the form of French brandy,
the whole proceeds of the indian
corn expectation.
The entire assets of recent bank
rupt were nlne small children. The
creditors acted magnanimously, and
let him keep them.
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