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Many Physicians in our large cities, have
recommended and used the Rock Rose, with
great success. DR.. ]. II. Thompson, of Phil.
adelphia, used It in several bad cases Of
Scrofula. In one case, of three years stand
ing, where the patient had large opening
upon the hip, leading to the bone, containing
twelve ulcers, he ordered Q decoctiou Of
The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1853-06-30

Court, or the person acting as clerk
thereof, at the time of entering such case
and no action shall be considered as en-.
tertained, nor shall it be received by
said Court until said entry fee shall be
= paid and no fee shall be taxed by said
Court for the rendition of judgment in
any civil case ; there shall also be taxed
in such civil case that shall be entered
in said Court, on which judgment shall
be rendered, the sum of fifty cents for
the attendance of the party recovering
judgment; but the said sum of fifty
cents so taxed for attendance as afore-
said, shall not be received by the clerk
OF said Court, or person acting as clerk
thereof, but shall be taxed in the bill of
costs to and for the use Of the party re-
covering judgment. PrOrided alaoays,
that when an appeal shall be taken from
said Court in any civil cause, the clerk,
or person acting as clerk thereof, shall
receive all the taxed costs that are paid
upon such appeal, and shall account for
the said attendance fee of fifty cents
with the party recovering judgment in
said Court, or his attorney of record, and
shall pay over all the other costs in such
case so appealed as aforesaid, to the per-
sons by law entitled to the same.
Sec. 6. Nothing in this act contained,
or in the act to which this is in amend
ment, shall be taken, to prevent the re-
moval of either member of said Court of
Magistrates and the supplying of the
vacancy or vacancies thereby OCCASION
ed by new election in Grand Commit
tee, at any session of the General AS
sembly.
Sec. 7, This act shall 90 into opera
ton from and after its passage.
Sec. s. All acts and parts of acts in
any way inconsistent herewith are here
by repealed
True copy-witness,
A. POTTER, Sec'ry.
An ACT in amendment of an act enti-
tied I" An Act in amendment of an
Act in relation to Jurors"
1t is enacted by the General assembly as
tOilOtcs:
Section l. Said act is hereby amend
ed so that the number of petit jurors to
be drawn by the city of Newport shall
be nine, by the town of jamestown one,
and by the town of Middletown four.
True copy-attest,
A. POTTER, Sec'ry.
An ACT constituting the Board of AL
dermen of the city of Newport Board
of Canvassers for said city.
1t is enacted by the General assembly as
follO,cs:
Section /. The Board of Aldermen of
the city of Newport are hereby consti.
tuted a Board of Canvassers for said city,
to be subject to all the duties and La
bilities to which other Boards of Can
vassers are now by law subjected.
True witness,
A. POTTER, Sec'ry.
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In General assembly, June Session,
II. ID. 1858.
An ACT in addition to an Act recon.
mending Convention of the People
of the State to form a Constitution for
the State.
1t as enacted by the General assembly as
f0iiOuS:
Section l. In the City of Newport
one delegate shall be chosen by the
voters in each ward, and one delegate by
the voters of said city; and the ballots
deposited shall designate the person vot-
ed for as the delegate from the ward,
and the person voted for as the delegate
from the city at large.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect i'm
mediately after its passage.
True copy-witness,
A. POTTER, Sec'ry.
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Eaws Of RHODE 1slano.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PRO
NlDENCE PLANTATIONS.

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PRO
VlDENCE PLANTATIONS.
In General .Asscmbiy, May Session, 1853
An ACT in relation to the Election O
Mayor Of the city of Providence.
IL is enacted by the general assembly a
.foilo,c:
Section /. The Mayor of the city oi
Providence shall hereafter be elected by
majority of the votes of the electors in
said city, qualified to gate in the elec-
tion of General Officers.
Sec. 2. Every person voting for May
or shall enclose his written or printed
ballot, containing no name but that of
the candidate for said office, in a self
sealing envelope of the same description,
as is used in the election of General Of
fcers, to be sealed and deposited, and in
other respects dealt with, as is required
by law in the election of Civil Officers.
Sec g. The City Clerk shall procure
from the Secretary of State, keep on
hand and furnish to the electors, a sufli-
cient number of envelopes, for the pur-
pose of said election, in the same man
ner as is required by law in other cases.
Sec. 4. For the purposes of the first
election of said Mayor, following the
passage of this Act, the Board of Can
vassers of said city shall forthwith cause
lists of all the voters in the several wards
to be posted up in the mode prescribed
at other elections and shall give at least
two days public notice of the time and
place appointed by them for canvassing
said lists; and shall meet and canvass
the same at such time and place, within
two days prior to said election, as they
may so appoint /; and having corrected
said lists, cause copies thereof to be
transmitted to the respective clerks of
the wards on the day of such election,
before the hour Of opening the polls. In
all subsequent elections for Mayor, the
aforesaid lists shall be posted up at the
same time and in the same manner as is
provided by law in relation to the lists
of voters for members of the City Coun-
Gil.
Sec. s. In canvassing said lists and
conducting said elections, the several
officers Of said city shall be bound by
the requirements and subject to the pen
alties provided in the act entitled an act
to revise and amend the several acts in
relation to the election of Civil Officers.
Sec. 6. All parts of acts inconsistent
herewith are hereby repealed.
Sec 7. This act shall take effect from
and after its passage.
True copy-attest:
A. POTTER, Sec'ry.
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24
PLACER COUNTY BRANCH
!, ss,''NlaR OF g. go
wA7lssslzezssEsSl ~
Wells, Fargo s. Co.'S Express.
PRINCIPAL OFFICES,
0phir, Auburn and Yankee Jim'S

4 II these Offices Daily Express is
N received from, and dispatched to
acramento-thence to all parts of Cali
'ornia, America and Europe.
Our routes extend to all parts of the
County.
We are prepared to continue an Ex-
press. Exchange and Banking business on
the most liberal scale.
Our facilities for obtaining Post Office
Letters continue, as the public has hither-
to found them to be, unequaled and unap-
proachable in Placer County.
Gold Dust bought at the highest, and
forwarded at the lowest rates. [o23.
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24
SECOND VOL U M 3
OF THE '...
WyRSRRKy, PLACER EahhRRAAD

WnhMhKKAY PAAGMn AhRAAD
ON the eleventh day of September IS
~ under many difficulties, the first No.
of the "Herald" was issued, since then
the Editor has faithfully endeavored to
carry out the intention set forth at the
start through evil and good report, thro'
"sunshine and storm'' this has been his
earnest endeavor. The firm that started
the paper was Messrs. Mitchell, Rust Il
McElrov. The two last named gentle
men Withdrew from the firm in few
weeks, having disposed Of their interest
in the office, and the publication of the
"Herald" was continued by Il. Mitchell.
and for the last nine months the Herald
has been issued by II & c. II. Mitchell.
With the close of the present Volume the
latter gentleman withdrawS from the pub
lcation of the Herald.
And the undersigned in entering upon
the publication Of the second Volume.
would inform those who are the patrons
of the Herald, that it is his intention to
make it Democratic paper This In-
formation it is but proper should be COM
muncated to those who have interested
themselves in the paper during the last
twelve months.
In entering upon the second volume the
undersigned does it without promise or
q favor from any man-tree and untraIn-
melled. He expects to enter upon his
task free to contend for right and free to
condemn wrong.
aAuburn. September ,3rd, 1853.
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24
THE BELLS.

The morning bells of life are ringing
All around the smiling earth.
And gentle music they are flinging
On glad hearts that love its mirth.
They tell the tale of childhood, dreaming
OF its youthful merry plays,
While fexile fancy's ever teeming
Full of happy, bright hey-days'
The noon day bells of life are pealing
Round the globe busy song;
Their stirring, giant notes are stealing
Der a care-worn, dusty throng.
They tell of sturdy manhood toiling
On the bustling stage of life.
With thousand fears forever foiling
Him in all his toll and strife.
The evening bells # life are rolling
Round the world their sad refrain,
With slow and solemn measure tolling
Human life's depar ting train.
They sadly tell US all are going
To the narrow, silent grave.
That common home of deaths bestowing
All the same, on prince or slave.
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24
Time brings about some queer rev

Time brings about some queer revolu-
tons. A writer in Putnam's says that
the man who will be President of the
United States in 900 is, in all likelihood
running barefoot at this very momen,
among the huckleberry bushes Of Oregon,
while the leader of the next war of inva
sion is not the son of an ex-Congressman,
but the youth that will be corrected next
week, for giving pair of black-eyes to
an apple vender, in the vicinity of the
Five Points. ..-r U
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

The PACIFIC RAILKoAD.--The follow
ing letter on this important subject, ad-
dressed to citizen of San Diego, APP
pears in the San Diego Herald;
SAN Francisco, August 9th, 1853.
Dear Sir:-I was very much surprised
to learn from your letter of the Cd inst,
that it had been stated in public meet
| ing at San Diego, that was "opposed
to the interests of that part of the State,
and would not advocate our (your) rail
way." pronounce the charge false, and
call for the proof. That haye endea-
vored to promote the prosperity of your
section of the State, my Legislative acts
prove: and no man in the State would
be more reioiced at the success of your
railway NV duty on this occasion is
plain, to have railroad from the M'ssls-
sippi Valley or Atlantic seabCard, lnciud-
ing the Gulf of Mexico, to the racine.
We all know that railroad can be made
to San Diego, passing through portIoh
of Sonora; but until the Northern sec
tion of the Union is satisfied that no route
for the North is practicable, the San
DIEGO route, cannot, in my opinion, com
mana nlaJOIity VI eh0 'o'oo w '"S Wv "
houses of Congress.
| am FOR satisfying the North at the
earliest possib'e moment, and IT north
ern route is found practicable, am tor 1t
if it pass Congress, while will always
urge and maintain that your route is
practicable, and advocate it when there is
the least prospect of its success. am
for that route that can command success
in Congress-being firmly impressed with
the belief that the existence of the con-
federacy with our present boundary, de-
pends on the building of railroad unit
ing the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans.
1t has been my purpose to leave this
place about the lst of October, and pro
ceed with my family to San Diego, and
leaving my family there, form party to
make an excursion to the Desert and
there examine the mountain passes, and
see what difficulties there are in the way
of building a railroad. If can so ar
range nv affairs to make this excursion,
shall be greatly rejoiced, so that can
speak from personal knowledge of the
practicability of your route. If can
get off, will advise you in advance,
under the hope that | can get your assist
ance in fitting me out with transportation,
and also have the pleasure of your COM
pany. have just returned from SINH
lar reconnaissance of the route to IeJOn
Pass in company with Captain Jordan,
and we planned the above stated tour
froa, San Diago. hope to be able to
make it. Very truly yours,
..... VIM. M. GwIN.
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

A gentleman who had neither voice nor
skill, once attempted to sing in company,
when he had come to conclusion, Ban
mister id:-"Your song, sir, is like the
small pox" ssHow is that" asked the
company; "explain, explain" "Why,"
said the wit, Ga devilish good thing when
it is over"
Gen. Jackson, when President, refus-
ed to remove Gen. Soloman Van Rensse-
laer from the Albany post Office, because
he had been wounded in his c0untry's
service, and had an unextracted ball IN
his body. A wag speaking of this, writes
that jackson made up his official pro-
gramme as the foreman of newspaper
does his daily form-leaGed articles first
"First class in sacred music, stand up.
How many kinds of metres are there?"
"Three, sir-long metre, short metre,
and meet her by moonlight alone! !"
"Who told you that, you booby9"
"Bill Jones, STRIP
$50 to your seat. When school is
over, we will try and establish the key
note of picked COW hide"
A man who marries nova days mar
rics great deal He not only weds him
self to woman, but laboratory of pre-
pared chalk, quinta of whalebone, eight
coffee bags, four baskets of novels, one
poodle dog, and set of weak nerves that
will keep four servant girls and three
doctors around the house the whole bles-
sed time. Whether the fun pays for the
powder is a matter for debate.
ABOVE PAR.-State stocks and spoiled
boys. The latter are not Only above par,
but above grand par and the whole family.
Everybody is ambitious Of fame, and
yet what does it amount to? Six libels
week in our leading newspapers? With
IN month after General Scott conquered
Mexico, he was charged with purl0ininS
small things from his soldiers. If you
would go to the grave with white repu-
tation, have as little to do with glory and
gunpowder as possible.
There are many people II, the world
who are afraid even of beautiful and
sublime idea, because it happened to be
at variance with some idea to which they
have long been habituated Such people
by way of doing good, as they imagine,
in checking the liberty Of thinking, do
much harm; for thought restrained make
men head-strong and reckless, but thought
encouraged makes men disposed to do all
things orderly. .....
The blindnes of pride is seen in this,
that those are proudest who have nothing
to be proud of. Such pride is the essen
tial self-ove-of that love of self which
exists where self is most vile and unlovely.
They have got pig in Ohio so thorough
ly educated, that he has taken to music.
They regulate his time by twisting his
tail-the greater the twist, the greater the
noise.
While party Of twelve ladies were in
bathing at Newport the other day ,lthe
horse ran away with the wagon contain
ing all their clothes. A very vicious
horse
What is the difference between girls
and lemons9 The latter get the most Of
their squeezing in the dog-days, and the
former don't.
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

The Presidents Son. - A marble
monument, in the obelisk form, has re-
Gently been erected in the ancient burial
place in Concord, over the remains of the
son of President Pierce, killed January
last, bearing this inscription
BENJAMIN PIERCE,
Born April IS, 1S4l:
DIED JANUARY 9TH, 1853.
"Go thy way, thy son livsth."
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

How TO DO UP SHIRT BosoMs.-We
have often heard ladies expressing a de-
sire to know by what process the fine
gloss observable on new linen, shirt
bosoms, ETC., is produced, and in order to
crafty them we subjoin the following re-
cept for making gum arabic starch
Take two ounces of fine white gum
arabic powder, put it into pitcher and
pour on it pin: or more of boiling water
according to the degree of strength you
desire, and then having covered it, let il
set one night. In the morning pour il
carefully from the drugs into clean bot
tie, cork it and keep it for use. A table
spoonful of gum water, stirred into PIN
of starch made in the usual manner, will
give to lawns either white or printed
look of newness when nothing else car
restore them after washing. 1t is also
good [much diluted for thin white mus
lin and bobinet.
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

Should poultry breeders continue in
creasing the size of their stock at the
present rate, the housekeeper will have
occasionally to choose between a leg of
fowl and leg of mutton; we shall have
chicken outlets and capon steaks; and as
to the ''merry thought" it will become so
heavy as to be no Joke.
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

CRED DOG. ."-We have been shown u
lump of pure gold taken from a gulch in
this place Is inches below the bed rock
and which contains by weight S 0S. We
were shown it by Mr. G. b Zaff who in
forms us that prospects for winter diggsns
are fine in that vicinity. Young .4merica
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

"Mary, my dear, have done what
fear will displease you."
"Well what is it," .t..
"Why, have actually joined the tenn
perance pledge"
"Have yon3"
eyes, have, certainly"
Watching his manner as he replie,t, and
reading in it his sincerity, she entwl2ed
her arms around his neck, she laid her
head upon his bosom, and burst into tears.
Her husband was affected deeply by this
conduct of his wife, and said 5it
"Mary, don't weep, did not think it
would afflIct you so, or would not have
done it. | will go and take my name off
Immediately"
"Take your name off," said she, "oh
no. let it he there. shall now have no
more solictude in reference to your be-
coming a drunkard shall spend no
more wakeful midnight hours. shall no
more steep my pillow in tears"
Now for the first time, truth shone
upon his mind, and he folded to his bosom
his young and beautiful wife, and wept
with her.
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24
The time Of holding courts in
Placer county,

for The balance Of The gear 1888.
District Court Term commences Mon
day, October 7th, 1853
ourt of Sessions commences Mon
day, October 3D. 1858, and Monday Decem
Der 5th, 1853 The Court of Sessions transact
all county business Immediately after the
criminal business is disposed of
County Court Term commences, Septem
Der 5th. and November 7th, 1853.
Probate Court-Term commences on the
4th Monday of every month.
WM JOHNSON, Clerk
Auburn, Aug. 3, '53 -4otf
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

Who SENT THEM?-Old mother Ben
der was pious, but poor. In the midst
of her want, her trust and confidence was
in God.
1t was late one chilly night in the au-
tumn of the year, when two rather wild
young men were passing her cottage on
their way home. One of them had under
his arm some loaves of bread, which he
had purchased at the village store. A
faint light glinmered from mother Ben
der's easement. Said the one who had
the loaves, to his companion, "Let's have
some fun with the old woman.''
"Agteed," said the other They ap-
preached the house and peepng into the
window, saw the old woman upon her
knees, by the hearth, where few embers
were smoulderng in the ashes. She was
engaged in prayer. They listened and
heard her offering earnest petitions for
bread She was entirely destitute of food
In furtherance of the fun, one of them
with the loaves, climbed softly up the
roof of the cottage, and dropped one loaf
after the other down the chimney. AS
they rolled out upon the hearth they
caught the lady's eye, and in the fulness
of heart she exclaimed
"Thank the Lord--bless the Lord for
his bounty"
"But the Lord didn't send them,"
shouted voice from the chimney. 2
eyes he did," cried she, undauntedly;
ssthe Lord sent them, but the devil brought
them" ..f...
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

Things are so linked together, that DR..
Franklin says, that rise of twenty-five
per cent. in log-wood would run half the
wine dealers in the country.
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

TAXING ToLL.-The St. Louis Reveille
is publishing tale, purporting to give
some adventures in the life of young
physician, from which we take the fol-
lowing extract:
village got up grand sleighing party to
a country tavern, at a short distance, and
the interesting widow Lambkn sat in the
same sleigh, under the same buffalo as
did myself.
ooh oh! oh!-don't!" !" she exclaimed,
as we came to the first bridge, catching
me by the arm, and turning her veiled
face toward me, while her eyes twinkled
in the moonlight.
"Don't what I" | asked, 81 am not doing
anything."
"W ell, but thought you was going to
take TOLL" replied Mrs. Lambkin."
"TolI how is that?"
elbow? Don't you know" exclaim-
ed the widow, her clear laugh ringing out
above the music of the bells. cdr Mea-
dows pretends he don't know what toll is"
"Indeed, but do not them" | said
laughing in turn.
"Don't know that the gentlemen, when
they 60 sleigning claim kiss as toll
when they cross BRIDGE"
"Well, never?"
But shall tell it all! The struggles of
the Widow to hold the veil were not
sufficient TO tear it, and somehow when
the veil was removed her face was turn
ed directly towards mine, and in the gilt
terng of the moonlight, the horse trotting
on himself, toll was taken for the first
=, IN, th ,h,Io ,f nr MnoHo,u,
Soon we came to a long bridge, but the
widow said it was no use to resist, and
she paid up when he reached it.
"But you won't take toll for every span,
will you Doctors" she asked.
Did you ever, dear reader, sleigh ride
with widow, and take toll at the bridges
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

A windy orator once got up and said
"Sir, after much reflection, consideration,
and examination, have calmly, and de-
liberately, and carefully, come to the con-
clusion-that in those cities in which the
population is very large, there are great
er number of men, women, and children,
than III cities where the population is less"
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

The oldest sign painter in the world
lives in Iowa. Among his first works
were the signs Of the Zodiac
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24
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Published every Saturday Morning by
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At the HERALD OFFICE, on Main Street,
,a opposite the National Hotel.
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The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

GALL is FOR THE BEsT."-Dr. john
son used to say that habit of looking at
the best side of every event is better than
thousand pounds year. Bishop Hall
quantity remarks:-"For every bad there
might be worse-and when man breaks
his leg let him be thankful it was not his
neck'' When FeneIon's library was on
fire-"God be praised" he exclaimed !,
''that it is not the dwelling Of some poor
mani This is the true spirit of subinis-
sion-one of the most beautiful traits that
can possess the human heart. Resolve
to see this world on its sunny side, and
you have almost half won the battle of
life at the outset.
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24

1t is better to sit down with honor, than
to attend the changes OF an iDconstant for
tune.
The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-24
CARD.---WILLIAM STEW EN-,


IN HAIRDRESSER, in returning his sim
cere thanks to the public generally, and the
residents of Auburn iu particular, for the
very liberal patronage bestowed on him since
commencing business would respectfully beg
to remind them that he is always on hand to
serve them in his line. The
Genealogical Decorating Department
being his forte gentlemen may depend. on
ae having their
Hair Cut and Sha k6 TOOed
quail to any in the State; and new that the
warm weather renders the latter especially
necessary, he merely asks q trial confident Of
pleasing. In conclusion he would only say
that he acas the first to reduce the prices in
this town, and with him at least they have
not riz Shaving rs cts.
.gs, NEW YORK SHAVING SALOON,
ORES GENT OITY HOTEL,.-
Adjoining the international Block. June5.