The weekly Placer herald., 1853-12-24
NUMBER Is.

pFtfiliufn. ne uent was DHVADIe on an
average of six years; hut as both principal
and interest are payable in forms, now
worth six and half per cent premiums
the purchase is a very good one, being
equal to about six per cent. only for the
debt running ak years; while for the
United States stocks, payable in 1867 and
1868, the treasury is paying twenty one
per cent, or about one and third per
cent. per annulns
The total amount Of California goId
deposited at the Philadelphia mint and its
branches since the first discovery IN TO
November lst, is two hundred and four
mil ions of dollars.
We find a curious story in the N. Y.
Journal of Commerce, regarding the rob.
berry of some gold dust on the lsthmus.-
That paper says: "Thirty boxes repre-
sented to contain gold dust were recently
shipped from San Francisco for this CITY
vim Panaina, consigned to the American
Exchange Bank On arriving here thev
were forwarded to the Mint for coinnpe..
where it was ascertained thar two Of tho
boxes were filed with bu lets and shot,
nm adroit robbery having been effected,
probably while the boxes were in transiiu,
All of the thirty were originally Of the
same size and shape, and similarly brand
ed; but It !s supposed that two Of them
were abStracted, and Others of similar ex-
terror substituted in their paces. Upon
close examination it was ascertHined that
the spurious boxes were 4 trifie larger,
and that the brand was not perfect
imitation of the genuine The properly
was all insured. 1t was shipped by Page,
Bacon & Co.
THE PAcIFIc RAILROAD ScHeMe.-
This is, says the N. Y. Herald, nothing
hut the old scheme Of Mr.. Whitney--a
land speculation, organized and equipped
by n number Of fresh sperulators, who
have more power and influence, az they
suppose, on Congress, thnn single in-
divldnal cou'd have. They deserve
watching.
Washington correspondent Of tho
Tribune says that a contract has been
made with hrHvy English railroad firm
to construct plank road across the 18th.
mus of Tehuantepec, which is IN he com
pleted within one year, TO he followed by
n railroad to he finished within three
years.
SENATOR GwIN's RAILROAD SCHEMEs.
"Asmodeus," the N. Y. Hera'd's corres-
pondent at Washington, under date Of
November 10th, writes that Senator Gwin
had an interview with the President, upon
the subject of the Pacific Raj road project
"a very different affair, however, from
the scheme in which Robert J. Walker 10
interested. 1t is exceedingly doubtful
,ub haitian n fs,As,, lao ~. -
away the rregulations which the Presi-
dent sees in all the Pacific Railroad
schemes yet presented and unless soma
p an can he hit upon by which nothing
will be asked at the hands of the govern
ment, think the executive will come out
fiat footed against it.
A letter 10 the Boston Traveller, dated
Gloucester, Nov 9th, says: The fishing
fleet from the north east coast are now
fast returning home; some twenty sail
ha g arrived during the last ten days, and
we have news up TO the lst of November.
The weather was very bad, and mackerel
Rs scarce as ever.
REvALUATioN OF REAL Estate IN ONO.
Every six years by law there is revalu
alton of the real estate of Ohio for taxa
ton. The last valuation was in l847,
when the entire taxable property of the
State, at cash value, amounted TO about
$475, 100000. The returns for the new
valuation are nearly complete, and the
Auditor Of the State estimates that they
will not vary but lightly from 100000
600; showing an increase Of taxabes In
six years of 1896, 200, 900 or nearly 10 per
cent.