The weekly Placer herald., 1853-03-19
RELIGIOUS FREEDoM.--Thc move

RELIGIOUS FREEDoM.--Thc move
=. mept of General Cass in the Senate
: of the United States, in behalf of re-
. ligious freedom for American citizens
travelling or sojouning in the other
nations Of the world, and especially
the Catholic States Of Italy, has re-
$ suited in the reference of the subject
to the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tons, where the subject now remains
for consideration. In the meantime,
- we observe that the unfortunate I'M
d prisonment ofthc Madiai, in Tuscany,
o has given additional impetus to the
movement among our people at large,
, from the number of petitions which
are laid before the Senate from day
6 to day. We do not suppose that the
Senate will do anything on this ques-
tion this session-we expect little or
nothing, indeed, on any other ques-
ton; but this agitation of religious
liberty in Europe, if we ale not mis-
taken, bids fair to lead to a train OF
sive results, either for us or against
us. Still, the rights which we con-
cede to others, we may surely be ex-
cused in asking them to concede to
us. We want the privilege of build
ing as many Protestant churches as
we please, all around the basilica of
st. Peters. That is the starting
point of General Cass. The end is
' vet in future. These are interesting
times. S. F. Herald.
WANTED.-One young married
lady who is willing TO begin house
keeping in the same style in which
4 her parents began. ....
IS Wanted = Twenty fashionable
young ladies who dare to be seen
welding busting brush, or darning
their brothers stockings, if a gentle
man should happen to make an early
morning call. t...
Wanted : Twenty Independent
young ladies of "good families" who
dare to wear their last winters bon
nets to church, on a clear Sunday.
b. Wanted-The same number of
young ladies "who are anybody"
who dare to be seen in Broadway
wearing shoes with soles thick enough
to keep their feet warm. st
Wanted-The same number of
d young ladies of sufficient age ito go
into company" who dare confess they
ever made a loaf Of bread.
The ruins of the Chateau de la
Verrier, on the banks Of the Erdre;
in the department of the Loile In
of the neighboring peasantry, those OF
ferieure, are according to the tradition
the castle of the celebrated Blue
Beard, the hero of the well-known
nursery tale. This formidable per-
sonage, who is not altogether crea-
ture of fancy, was Giles de Retz, who
lived in the reign of Charles VII, and
was vassal of John, Duke of Bre-
tagne. He was tried at Nantes, on
suspicion of having destroyed a
number of children, who had been
seen to enter the castle and were
never heard OF afterwards. he
bodies ofseveral were afterwards
found, he having caused them to be
put to death to make use of their blood
in writing charms and forming incan-
tations to raise Internal spirits, by
whose means he believed, according
to the horid superstitions of the
times, that buried treasures would be
revealed to him. W4
On his trial he confessed the most
= horrid acts of atrocity, and was sen
fenced to be burned alive but the
duke caused him to be strangled be
fore he was tied to the stake. This
execution took place December 25th,
I74O, and a detailed account Of it is
still llpreserved inthe archives Of Nantes
ftI.. Auction Of Ladies.
nu An auction of unmarried ladies
d used to take place annually at Baby
lon. ain every district" says the his
torian, "they assembled on q certain