The weekly Placer herald., 1853-04-09


interest, and when at last the Indications
that the bill would pass became TOO evi-
dent to he doubted. the long pent emo
tions of her heart were stronger than her
strength, and she tainted and fell insensi-
BILE on the floor. The claim, amounting
to some $4,000, was put through instan-
ter. Never did woman faint in better
time. There was hardly show of op-
position.
A New ENGLAND CUsToM.-Accordngi
to universal custom, in the town Of Marsh
field, on the Sabbath of Mr.. Webster's
death, between the hours of seven and
eight in the morning, the bell Of the
parish church was rung violently, to an
nounce to the startled inhabitants within
hearing, that death had occurred among
them. That it was struck three times
three as a signal, that male person had
died. Next, the bell was struck slowly
and deliberate seventy strokes-to de-
note the age of the dead; and then there
went up a mournful voice from every
house, ''it must be that Daniel Webster
is dead.
The Governor has issued his proclama-
ton ordering a new election to be held on
the l4th inst, to fill the vacancies occa-
stoned by the resignation of Messrs
Flower, Sine, Taylor, Snyder and Hey
denfeldt, of the Assembly, These latter
gentlemen are candidates for reelection.
Union.
PERPETUAL MorIoN.-A Paris letter
of the goth January, mentions that the
necessary papers for taking out patent
for an invention said to realize "perpetual
motion" was to come by the next steamer
to Washington. A locomotive, one-fifth
the size of railroad engines, has, says
the inventor, been working continually
since June. This sounds rather improba-
bile; but if we are to believe in the success
of the Ericsson moter, it does not do to
he incredulous about anything.
The TUNNELLING MACHINE-A direc-
tor of the private company by which the
Hoosac Tunnelling Machine was built,
and has thus far been operated, contra
diets, through the Boston Transcript, the
statement circulated in the newspapers,
that it is failure. He says it is in good
order, and will soon be tested in the pre-
sence of board of engineers, a commit
tee of the Legislature, and other gentle
men.
The number of Steamboats, in the Uni
ted States, according to the just conplet-
ed report of A. Gutheries, Steamboat In
spector, is 1,l95, of which only SAT are
low pressure. The total tonnage Of these
steamers is 491 sos tons. st. Louis takes
The lead in number, having 126 steamers;
Cincinnati, 1O4; and Pittsburgh, lOl.-
New York city has the largest steamer
tonnage, (owing to the ocean marine,)
64,447 tons. San Francisco, New Or
Icons and Buffalo, are next in point of
tonnage.
"John, wish it was as much the fash
ion to trade wives as it is to trade horses" !"
"Why go Pete?'' "i'L cheat somebody
most shocking bad afore night"
"Ma, what is revenge!" "Its when
your daddy SEQ ds me and hit him with
a broomstick."
On Saturday night the Sacramento river,
at its mouth, was higher than at any pre-
vious time during the present season.-
The ranches between Sutter and Cache
Creek, on either side of the river, are all
submerged. Immense damage to newly
sown seed has been caused by this over
flow, and not few of the gardens on the
bank of the stream are totally ruined
Union.
Punch slanderously says:-"The SUMS
called masculine from its supporting and