The weekly Placer herald., 1853-12-31

of the Treasury. The Secretary says:
"Our whole number Of ~tenmhoat> amount
70 800; tonnage, 417,236 tons; manned
% 277 men; and carrying, besides freight
400 VI, 900 passengers in the year 1852 "
In this t>t travel only $50 lives were lost
If this he true, and we hive no reason TO
doubt il, then the risk Of steanboat travel
lug amounts to one traveller blown up in
So, ,2O5.-.S. F. Courier.
SHOOTING II he harkepppr Of the Ore
gon 5 SIloon, last evening, shot at n Mr.
Brown, who was making himself dis
agreeab q, narrow Y grazing the left side
of the said Mr. Brown. The affair was
investigated before his Honor, the Mayor,
at il o'clork to-day, when Mr., Brown
was done broDn by hei"g sentenced 10
short acqunintqnre with our friend, MIR.
Show. w.-.MarysuiNe Herald.
ia VANARD This woman, acquitted
by the jury on Tuesday evening on the
charge of numbering Mary Lee, was
taken before Judge MonSon, in the Dis
trict Court, on Wedne,day morning, W no
gave her some Wholesome advice as to
the regulation Of her future conduct, and
dismissed her with warning to he gov
eraed accordingly. Union.
SURVIVING NoBLE's PAss.-Dr. Wo-
Zencraft informs the shasta Courier that
he is rapidly completing the outfit of his
party, and will in Il trw days he prepared
to starr out on his Surveying and cxplor-
ing expedition through NohIr'S Pass. He
has not yet, however, secured the com.
pany of rs many men he desires.
A DIT is said that n
steamship nenry one eighth of Il mile
long is buiIline at Liverpool She is to
h Ave side whee and propeller."
The State of California is over seven
hundred miles in rngth, from mort Invest
to southeast, averaging three hundred in
width, with an estimated pnpulation of
about 95O,OOO Her gold fields cover
about oup-Six,h of her whole extent, and
her agricultural vaIies contain the most
productive sol, in the world.
Pictorial Union.
AIsburga I0 Ok &. ladder Co. No
he regul ,r semi monthly meetings of this
Company W Ill be held on the lst an 81 Tues
lay of every month. at the Temple, at I
o'clock, p VI
The members of the Company will meet OIL
Tues lay, tnnurry 3 |, rs particular business
Will come before the meeting.
f. !, BROOKS, Secretary.
I. w. CREDIT, Foreman.
EIrs. NVpaycr-returns thanks for the
liberal p,trunnge Extended to the 'Exccls or
she would inform her friends and the public
that she has opened her house as Il Resttu-
rant, and tn t meals can be had at all hours.
Auburn, Dec. II. iS53.-lf
Mrs. FlaYaaaOGa-wo would inform her nu.
merous friends lhst she viii give Cotilion
tnrty mt the "iIomestead," two miles below
Auburn on Mon lay, 9th January, 1884 1t
Eureka Ledge No Is, og L & A.
MaSOns.
III EET the first and third Mondays in ever,
VI month, Transient brethren in good
standing are invited to communicates
II I HDENES, Secretury
independent Order Of Odd Fel-
lows.
4 vgDuTn Lodge, NO. Z, meets very
IA aturday evening. brethren in good
standing are invited to visit
JA> ANDERSON, Secretnru.
Nf fountain Lodge No. II, meets at
VI Mad anon, on the Middle ork of ihe
American river, every saturday evening -
Brothers in good tanding are invited to visit
DleH.--- n tins place on saturday last
Mr. JOHN SMITH aged 80 years. late of Wa
tertord, saratoga county, New York.
ITO ALL WHOM 1T MAY con-
l. Germ: Know ye, that [ athprine
Lyons, of the State of California P Parer
county. on the 9Th day of November, ii.
d., 1853, flied my declaration, for record,
and the same is recorded in the county
Recorders office, TO carr, on the business
of keeping Boarding House, in my own
name, and for my own Use and benefit,
amt that the capital invested does not ex
reed the sum of five thousand dollars.
CATHERINE LYONS.
December 22d, 1853.
I ISr OF LETTERS remaining in the
IL Post Office at Auburn, w ednesday,
Dec. 28th, 1853.
scrnln LOUIS 2 Jessen Henry French
iohnson james jr2 Junies John
II p Je ney J0hn
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