The weekly Placer herald., 1855-08-11

cient to impart to the purchaser the title of
the Slate. S. c. HASTINGS.
Attorney General.
The opinion. it will he seen, fully meets and
clearly explains the only point attempted to
he made by the redoubtabe editor of the 7'ri-
dune. The Attorney General regards the
failure of the Legislature to prescribe the
form of the patent as a matter Of no import
ance. and points to the decisions of Courts in
support of the opinion given by him.
We say, in view of all the facts in the case.
above candidly stated. that the Governor has
only discharged his duty.
If the locations were improperly made--if
they interfere with the rights of others. the
proper officers = the County Surveyor, the
State Surveyor General the U. S. Surveyor
General or the Registrar of the Land Office
if aware of the fact should have so informed
the Governor. No Information showing that
the warrants were improperly located, was
ever presented. thus leading the Governor to
believe and understand that there existed no
objection to the locations made We do not
know that the warrants are improperly loca-
mentioned possessed further information than
is given in their certificates: but we do say
that if apprsed of any error in the locations.
they should have informed the Governor As
to the delay in recording. we have only to
say that the Governor had nothing whatever
to do with that matter: and we are authorized
to declare the statement that he had anything
to do with it, unequivocally false.
As to Attorney General Hastings being in
terested in the land. we leave him to answer
for HIMSELF but we are authorized to say that
if interested in the land located the Governor
was not informed of the fact
WAsHINGToNs LETTER. George Washing.
ton wrote the following letter soon after the
Constitution was made, and addressed it to the
General Committee of the United Baptis,
Churches in Virginia."
Gentlemen-Tf could have entertained the
.liehtest apprehension that the Constitution
framed by the convention where I had the
honor to preside might possibly endanger the
religious rights Of any ecclesiastical society
certainly ! would never have placed my sig
nature to it, and if could not conceive that
the general government mi ght even be so ad
m'nistered as to render the liberty Of con
science insecure. beg you will he persuaded
that no one would he more Jealous than my
self to establish effectual barriers against the
horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every spe-
cies of religious persecution. For you doubt
less remember have often expressed my sen
timents that any man conducting himself as
good citizen, and being accountable to Goo
alone for his religious opinions, ought to b.
protected in worshippng the Deity accordin!
to the dictates of his own conscience.
COHDEMNING THE "WILD HUNT"-The Sac
ramnnto Union of Wednes lay last. speaks o
the Know Nothings assembled at their Stat
Council as folows:-
The American party is not by any means
free from the hliohtng influences Of profcsset
office-seekers 1t seems TO have been favored
with an supply Of this pestferons class
from both the old political parties and il i
does not rid itself Of them in some wav he
sides giving them nominal ons, they will efftc
its ruin. In the past two DAYS we have seer
too much button-holing. sidc-taIking and elec
tioneering to suit onr views of proprety Of
parity. and the only cure we can see for the
! threatening evil is for the Convention to re-
iect every man who has been gu ltv of resor
to such means to secure a nomination. anf
take mp and nominate men who are free from
such practices
A NEW ROUTE.-The surveying party under
Mr.. Marlette. on their recent examination O
the proposed wagon road from Placervile tc
Carson Valley. discovered a new and better
route than any of those heretofore spoken of
On their return they came through new pass
which they found several hundred feet lowe,
than the oil Carson and which would brine
the line down the North Fork of the South
Fork of the American river at an easy grade
ADAMS 4 Co.-Mr. Lockwood stated on Sat
urday in the 4th judicial District Court that
the number of attachments taken ont against
Adams & Co., in the local courts of the city
,p,ouptod 70 o,o b,oJroI onJ .;rbtoo., nj