The weekly Placer herald., 1854-01-07
A CoRREcrroN National Intel

A CoRREcrIoN The National Intel
ligencer published the fol owing note from
an subrcriher At Lonisvle
l notice in Il communication in your
paper an inaccuracy, which beg you will
allow ME 10 correct. Gen. Lee, of Vlr
ginia, is the author Of that ininitah dps
criptIOn Of Gen. Washington, emb 'died
in those striking and emphatic words,
"frst in war, firse in peace and first IN the
hearts of his countrymen Chief Justice
Marshall offered the resolutions TO the
House Of Representatives.. upon the death
of Gen. Washington, and pretartd th"m
with remarks worthy of himself and the
illustrious OCCASION. The words between
the inverted commas will be found in the
resolutions Gen. Lee was the author of
those resolutions, and the late venerable
and 'amented Chief Justice, in his Life
Of Washington, expressly admits the facr.
A lunatic in the Chicago Jail, who calls
himself Lord Frazer, sent out for b b1ttle
Of wine the other day to treat his fellow
prisoners. On beinr furnished with a
bott Of pop, he declared it the best wine
he had ever drank, and in grandiloquent
manner, exclaimed snow, gentlemen, for
q toast-nay we ever steal, swear and
cheat:-steal away from bad company,
swear to the truth, and cheat the devil of
his prey.''
TIDAL THEORY ExpLAINED.-As scien-
tifc gentleman of Washington, gives the
fol owing explanation of the tidal theory:
'lf there are such deep, wide cavern<,
many miles in length, and some of them
Of unknown extent, on the dry portions
Of the earth'S surface, and if there are
doubtless other cavern- quite as extensive
in the submerged mountains, plains, and
valleys of the ocean, it is our belief, that
there are, and hence that in these huge
reeesses Ofthe oceanic globe are The source
Of The rise and fall of the tides. Into
and out of the internal depths of the
oceans the waters are regularly flowing
as the earth regularly revoIves, and neI-
ther the moon nor the stars, nor the sun,
nor the winds, nor the clouds, can pro-
duce any sensible effect upon them"
A GENrLEMAN.-Mr Justice Talfourd
wrote "lon," edited the life of witty and
pathetic Chares Lamb, and has done
other good things, but hardly can have
ever said truer words than these, with
which he summed up ii s'case:''
"Gentleman is term which does nor
apply to any station, hut to the mind and
the feelings Of every station. The man
Of rank, who depOrtS himself with dignity
and candnr, the trahpsnan who dis
charges the dute> Of life with honor and
integrity, are alike entitled to it, nay, the
humble artisan, who fulfl> the oh, ga
tiOnS cast upon him with virtue and with
honor, is more entitled to the name of
gent e,ran than the man who can indulge
in offensive and ribald remarks, however
high his station"
A WARNING TO BAD WRrrERs.-The
Toledo Blade te Is good story of q man
who. owned Il building which was situated
on land belonging to the Michigan Central
Railroad. The superintendent, who
writes very bad hand, sent short let
ter to Mr.. s., ordering him to remove the
building at once. But the house was not
removed, and three months afterwards
the, superintendent met S and began to
scold him for not removing the nuisance
as desired, when it appeared that the man
had received the note, and not being able
to make out its contents, had supposed it
to be Il pass over the road, and had been
riding back and forth all summer on the
strength Of it!
ExTRAoRDINARY SITE OF TREE-
At the vii age of Witherley, in leicester
shire. seven miles from NJ arket BosNorth.
goosberry tree, with a stalk as thick as
4 stout mans thumb, and the bush from
four to five feet in diameter, may he seen
springing OFT Of the joint in the stone wall
OF the church tower, at Il height of 81 feet
from the ground. 1t has grown there
tor century or more, thriving greatly
in most seasons, and dwind ing and pining
during the drought. The seed was pro
bahly dropped by Bird where it has
germinattd.
TIE PoEr Burns. Chambers, in his
life of this poet, says: "It is a remarka-
hle fact, that the 'naSs Of the poetry " hirh
has given this extranrdIna,y man his prn-
cipal fame. burst from him in compara-
lively smali space cf tirne-certainly not
exceeding fifteen months. 1t began to
flow of sudden. and it ran in one i'm
petuous brilliant stream, I'LL it seemed to
have become, comparatively speaking,
exhausted"
Sir Walter Scott used to tell IA story Of
woman IN Fife, who summing up the
misfortunes of IA black year in her history,
said, "Let me see, sir; first we lost our
wee Gallant; and then Jenny; and then
the guaeman himself died; and then the