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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-10
COL. WALKERS EXPEDITION.
SAN JUAN DEL SUR. Jnlv 70. 1s55.


Since my last there has been quite an ex.
citement here Colonel Walker and his little
party have arrived at Rcalojo, and he was
commissioned by CastilIon to come with his
little party of Ga men, in company with ma
tive command of l30 recruits from Gilman.
dega, and take the Department of Rivas; but
as these people can make no movement se-
cretly, the news Of their coming was received
in Granada before they had fairly sailed from
Realejo, and reinforcement was dispatched
forthwith to oppose their landing. Col.
Walker and his party landed about 25 miles
up the coast from San Juan, and about the
same distance from Rivas, on the 2Sth June,
late in the day, and passed the night about
/ 6 miles from the latter place.
Meantime the people at Rivas received the
news of their coming, and sent courier to
San Juan with it, and this being passenger
day, there were plenty of animals to accom-
rnodate 200 Granadians, who set out at day.
light, and arrived at Rvas just in time to
take Walker in flank at the first fire, when all
the Chinanega recruits broke and fed, leaving
Walker and his little party to conclude the
fight as best they could, which lasted from
o'clock p. NJ. until dark, when, in the night,
the little party made detour and marched to
San Juan del Sur-leaying II Americans
dead, and carrying away 3 wounded with
them. The natives lost 63 killed and 81
wounded, some of whom have since died.
Six of the Americans were killed in house
that they had loopholed, and the other five
were killed outside, but the following day the
house was fired, and the bodies of those
killed outside thrown on top of those that
were killed inside, and all burned together.
This was done by order of the priesthood,
who are the Government here, as the Vandals
of the North (as they call us) are heretcs and
not worthy of burial.
Walker and the remainder of his men en-
barked in their vessels, that were waiting for
them at San Juan! and returned to ReaIeo
quite unmoIested, but rather the worse for
war.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-10
New ORLEANS.

Cotton is easier but not quotably lower.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-10

WELL SAlD-'rhe Home journal thus
closes a short chapter on the necessity Of
autobiography, as a matter of self defence -
"The foul abuse heaped upon the new
made crave Of Daniel Webster, fo- instance,
could not have been done in other days.
Theodore Parker dumped his scavenger cart
where Christian charity and honorng memo
nv Of grateful patriotism would once have
sown flowers"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-10

BY ccnceit, certain red fly hath been
called lady bird aud hidden to fly away
home. The counsel is good eveuto her who
is neither bird norfy. There is no place like
Lu,nn 49,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-10
New ORLEANS, August !.

NEW ORLEANS, august ].
DR.. MeFarlane, n distinguished physician
has written to the Editor of the True Delta,
that the yellow fever has assumed an epdeu-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-10

The deaths in this city during the past
week were 275, Of which 73 were from yellow
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-10

"Que je t'aime-ah, fondly stealing
On thine ear, each low fond word
Tells thee of the depths of the feeling
That within my soul are stirred.
Que je t'aime-ah, que je t'aime
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-10

There has been a complete rupture be-
tween Rome and Spain, and the Pope's
Charge has demanded his passports.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08
The Chinese Method of Treating Cholera

A Chinese Missionary recently wrote home
the following singular account:
"One morning after having said mass,
felt symptoms Of cholera. | had difficulty
OF breathing amounting almost to sutfocation.
A cold so intense took possession of my arms
and legs that | could not feel hot iron ap-
piled to them. Just then Chinese Chris
tian came in to see me- and as soon as be
looked at me he said Father you have the
cholera To be certain however, he looked
under my tongue and observed the peculiar
blackness of the veins there he remarked
that unless l applied remedy speedily,
would not live till night. told him to do
what he could for me- He took an ordinary
pin, and began picking me under the tongue,
until he drew out from ten to twenty Jet
black drops of blood. Then, after rubbing
my arms gently, he tied a string very tightly
about each one of my fingers, and prcked
each one on the outside at the root of the
nails, until he brought drop or two Of the
same kind of blood from each. Then, to see
whether the operation had been successful or
not, he pricked me with the same in the arm,
very near the vein that is usually opened in
blood letting, and seeing no blood issue, he
PioHouHceu IL satisfactory. SUN lelt, HOW
ever, fearful oppression at the lungs. To
relieve this, he ran the pin oblquel y into the
pit Of my stomach about two-thirds of its
length. (This operation the Chinese call
opening the mouth of the heart.) Not a
drop Of blood came out here, but in mo-
ment | felt myself entirely relieved, my
blood began its circulation, my natural
warmth returned, and after an hour of slight
fever, | was about my occupations. This is
the ordinary Chinese remedy. have known
it to be applied to five of our fathers in chol-
era. and it failed only once
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08
NUMBER 13.'
Liability of Banks.

The liability Of Banks in paying forged
check upon it has been established BY tho
Courts of both England and the United
States. The rule established is to this effect
If Bank pay check with forged sigma
ture, it cannot afterwards recover the amount
from the endorser or from the party to whom
1t may have been paid, although the latter
may be able to sustain the loss. THE Bank
IS bound to know the signature of its own
customers, and cannot recover the amount
paid on forged check unless there be collu-
sion between the parties to the check, or
unless the Bank obtain (as it should) when
ever there is any doubt as to the genuneness'
of the signatures, a guarantee from the payee.
A disputed case, the New York Courier
says, arose in that city last month. A check
on the Sub-1reasury, drawn by disbursing
officer in the West, was presented with
signature so different from that of the drawer
on file, that payment was refused, unless tho
banker here who received it from his corres-
pondent would guarantee the signature to
be genuine This the latter refused to do
(although the demand was perfectly reasona-
ble) and the check was protested for non,
payment. In this case the check turned Qua
to be genuine but the Sub-Treasury officers
pursued the right course under the circum7
stances-knowing that if fraudulent and paid
10y them. the loss would fall upon them ia-
dividually.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08
The Whig PARTY.

S. S. Prentiss once said of the Wing partys
"lhe Wing party, repeat, does not depend.
on any one individual alone. Persons are
mortal, but Wing principles are eternal.-
Nor is it identical with any particular set of
measures The bank, the tariff, and other
temporary issues do not involve the life of
the Wing cause. These are questions of
political policy which may be decided against
us, and yet Wing principles live on in all
their strength and salutary influence 1t is
only by destroying our republican institutions
that those great principles of law and order
and social restraint, which l hold to bo
among the proper principles of the Wing
party, can cease to exist and have power in
this nation. | am not ready to abandon
such party and such principles for the
chimera of Independent no-partvisms."
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08
Mails and Expresses.

We stated yesterday that arrangement
had been made at the Post Office in Sacra
mento, by which hereafter the morning pa
pers of that city would be dispatched toward
their destination in the morning stages, the
same conveyances by which the Express Com
panes carry them. This arrangement will
of course, be satisfactory both to publishers
and subscribers, and is cheering evidence
of the fact the Post Office arrangements o.
California are undergoing a process Of i'm
provement. We learn that throughout the
whole State, the local offices have been en-
amined by the General Agent, Mr.. Fry, and
that greater facilities for the transmission OF
mail matter are now being offered than ever
have been previously.
There is no reason why the Post Office
Department in California, as well as in other
States of the Union, should not be conducted
with the same regularity that express Offices
are no reason why mail matter should not
be transmitted with the same dispatch that
express matter is. There should exist no
reason why the same amount of enterprise
and energy should not be exhibited by the
Post Office authorities that are by the heads
of the Express Companies. And yet,
throughout the entire country, the Post Of
flee has become proverbial as a "slow coach
concern" and on this account, and this
alone, Express Companies have sprung up
and tlourished, until the business of carving
by private enterprise what until late years
was always considered Post Office matter,
has become one of the most important in
this country. The Post Office Department
can carry its matter at cheaper rate than
the Expresses, as the regular mail charge is
to be paid to the government in the form of
stamp in addition to the Express charge.
And yet people will rather pay the differ
ence, sometimes amounting in year to a
considerable sum, for the sake of dispatch.
The Government has taken into its own
hands the business Of transporting letters
and papers. Some ultra, radical men have
proposed that the whole Post Office system
should be abolished and the business now
conducted by it be thrown into the hands of
individuals, subject to the competition of in
dividual enterprise These propositions have
generally been the results of hasty iudg-
ments, and half-formed ideas Under such
pers would only be carried where profit
would be derived from carrying them, so
that large cities and towns would be as well
supplied as now, but the little country vii
lagos and clearings in the western forests,
where the post-office is kept in one corner of
the grocery store, would be overlooked, and
cease to be supplied, as they are now, in
many cases at an actual expense to the Gov
ernment, with letters and newspapers.
The Post Office Department has itself only
to thank for the competition of the Express
Companies. They have grown up naturally
to supply want Of our fast people, which
the Post Office did not-rapidity A little
more life infused through the veins of the
department would make it able to enter into
successful competition with private enter
prise.-ANa
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08
American Compliment to the Irish

An American in addressing 'the good peo-
pie of Burke county, Georgia." says of the
lrish:-"1he Irish! why, bless you, they are.
and Arrays have been our best and truest
friends; and, of the old Pennsylvania Line in
the Revolution, half accre Irish, the other
half were English and Scotch This is par
liamentary history in England, in an exami-
nation to ascertain whether the rebellion be
one of the natives or the foreigners and
lower classes Not native in the renown-
ed Pennsylvania Line! 1900 Irish fell in
our Revolution! The Irish. God bless them!
Whenever | read Of their unhappy land |
pity; when | read the CITIZEN | love; and
when remember Montgomery the first mar
tyr blood of the Revolution, idolize them.
Just look, you, this was their country before
it was ours, or before England belonged to
the English. This Countryside very soil we
live on, from Virginia to Florla-was the
home and property Of the Irish over 500 years
before Columbus found, or Vespucci named
it. 1t bore then, and wears to-day in the
sacred Sages of Iceland the name of "Great
Ireland" heiand 1t mihla. Their titles are
older, and their blood has watered moro
acres Of land than any other race among u.s."
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08

The MEXICAN FILLrBUsTERs.-We men,
toned few days since the fact that the
Archibald Oracle had arrived at Acapulco
and been refused permission to enter the
port. By a gentleman who arrived yester-
day morning in the Kate Hill, we learn that
the Archibald Oracle put into Magdalena
Bay on her passage down, short of water
and that while there the whaling bark
H. Adams was chartered to carry por-
ton OF the passengers down to Acapul-
co. The two barks had sailed together, the
Oracle flying Mexican colors They were
spoken by the Kate Hill, and several of
the fillibustering party came aboard her.
Thsy represented their number to be about
$50 men, all well armed and provided with
munitions. The Kate Hill spoke them when
three days out from La Paz, on the Sd or 4th
of November, which would give them plenty
Of time to have reached Acapulco before the
Golden Age left. To'on Talk.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08

PosTAL-OPENING LETTERs.-Postmaster
General Campbell was applied to recently by
the postmaster at York, Pa, to know whether
a letter containing, as was supposed, coun-
terfeit money, could be opened at the request
of the police authorities, in order that the
money contained therein might be identified
as the same as that passed by the prisoner,
and that thus further evidence might be fur
nished to aid in his conviction and punish
ment. The Postmaster-General replied, EN-
phatically, that it could not, that he had no
right, nor any officer under him, to open
any letter until it reached the Dead Letter
Office, and that this principle must be always
acted upon by those in the employment Of
the Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08
A Winter Campaign in the Crimea.

The Paris correspondent of the Nrtiona'
Inteihgencer says:
The preparations for a winter campaign
are making on the most extensive basis.
They are preparing stabing and huts in Eng
land to be sent to the Crimea to an enormous
extent. | am almost afraid to mention the
quantity, but an English officer informs me
that they will cover miles of surface am,
however, assured by officers of both armies
returning from the Crimea that their present
troops are not fit to contend with the rigors,
privatons and sutferngs of a winter cam
paign. They have already suffered so terri
bly,, and their physical strength and constitu-
tons so injured, that the duties of besegng
army, exposed in the trenches and on the
continual qai ripe, would be too much for
them. Even the Paris papers admit that
the French troops are in bad humor, ner-
vous and cxcitable, owing to the climate
sutferngs and constant annoyances. All the
causes will increase with the rainy and winter
season. Where the end will be it is indeed
difficult to toresec, Military pride, prestige
and national honor, both in England and
France forbid retreat unless after distress
ing defeats, which might compel them to
that humiliating step.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08
AGENTS.

w. B. II. DoDsoN, Sacramento City, at the State
Journal Office, on Street.
THOMAS BoYcE, San Francisco, No. 81, Merchant
street.
WELLS, FARGO & CO., and the PACIFIC
EXPRESS co. are our General Agents for Placer
County,. Advertisements, Job Work or Subscrp-
tions to the Herald left at either of their offices
will be promptly forwarded to us.
MAJOR NJ. +. HEATING, ......... Secret Ravinc.
A. b. BIRD, 80. .Todd's Valley.
PHILIP SToNER, .................Mchig gan Bluff.
JOHN M'NALLY, ,.......-.......... IllnostOwn.
Il. l.. BRADLEY, Dutch Flat.
WILLIAM RILEY, Y,................KentuckyF Flat.
THOMAS WOODS, ---.......... Rattlesnake Bar.
ID. b. CURTIS, .--.........................O Ophr.
L. MANDELL,.. ....... Gold Hill.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08
Important Arrest of Gold Coin Filers.

Yesterday afternoon, (Dec 2d) between
three and four o'clock, the keeper Of pawn
broking establishment on Kearney street,
near Washington, was passing out of his of
flee into the street to get some change, when
he heard a sound as Of the jingling Of gold
coin, apparently, in his own office, and step
ping back quickly, found a Cninaman named
Ah-Lung making off with about $500, which
arrested and taken to the station house, when
officers Lees and Talcott, being informed that
the Chinaman had been in the habit of call
ing at the brokers' office for the purpose of
procuring small coin for large, determined to
find his house. BY little ingenious strata
gem, they persuaded him to show them
where it was, and he took them to a room
in the rear of a grogshop on Bartlett street,
which upon entering the officers found an
other Chinaman engaged in filing at the rim
of twenty-dollar piece, which was placed
in large block of lead. A hand-vicc and
other tools necessary to carry on the business
were found, and several packages containing
gold filings which had evidently come from
coin. The Chinaman, upon the entrance of
the officers, swallowed the piece he was at
work upon. Upon stripping him, a buckskin
bag was found, containing about fifty dollars
in filings. He was taken to the station
house.
From all appearances, this business of re-
ducing coin has been carried on pretty ex-
tensively by these Chinese financers, and
probably considerable of the coin has found
its way into the interior Probably the
"wedged" slugs came from this establish
ment Alta.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08

CHARGES OF DANISH OFFICIALS. - The
London Times, in an article relative to the
Sound Dues, mentions some of the charges
made by the Danish officials, from which it
will be seen that large portion of the mon
ey collected finds its way to the pockets of
those gentlemen. A ferry-boat is employed
to take shippers to the Chamber of Sound
Dues, and although the distance is but few
yards, from seven to nineteen dollars is
charged, according to circumstances. In
bad weather the boatman fixes his own price,
which is often thirty dollars. A pilots fee
for vessel drawing fifteen feet is $36,5o to
SAT, with an increase of 50 a foot after six
teen. The sum total of the perquisites
amounts to 100000 annually. The Drec-
tor of the Sound Dues has, or had in 1850,
a salary of 1900; the clerks from $4,000
to $4,000 each; the cashier $3.50, and the
others in proportion.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08
Possible Variations in Whist.

Our readers have heard of the old lady
who had played cards for twenty years with
out having trump. She had always mis-
dealt when it was her turn to deal We have
met with persons who were afraid to play
whist too often, lest they should exhaust tho
number of possible games.
Mr.. Galloway, however, in his treaties on
Probability, has crumb of comfort for the
old lady, and for all such prudent economists.
1t appears that if 1,0OO,OOO,OOO persons,
which is about the population of the earth,
were to deal the cards necessarily, night and
day. for l00,O00,000 years, at the rate of
deal by each person Il minute and even if
each Of these deals were essentially different,
they would not then have exhausted the
ne-hundred-thousandth part of the number
Of materially different ways in which the
fifty-two cards can be distributed between
four players.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08

A CURIOUS CIRcuMsTANcE.-On Thursday,
the 22d inst, the steamer Astoria Captain
Harris, l45 days from New York, consigned
to Messrs. Sanders u Brenham, was tefe-
graphed as being outside when a certain
party went to the Sheriff's office and report
ed the fact, and also wished to take one of
the deputies on board who, informing him
at the time that they had deputy, r. s.
Martin looking out for her, with attachments
to the amount of $4,000 upon her. He
left the office. In short time was seen to
ride down on Megg's Wharf when their
boat started off for the steamer. Immedi-
ately after this boat boarded the steamer,
her head was turned seward and she took
her departure in haste, leaving R. S. Martins
boat far astern. After getting outside, she
was boarded by vessel with a letter of in
structions for her to proceed to Sitka; her
passengers, three in number, were brought
ashore, and the vessel came to an anchor
outside the harbor. The steam tug Hercules
was dispatched to supply her with water.
and another vessel supplied her with provi.
sons last evening; and no doubt before this
she is undar way for her port Of destinati4s.
1t is presumed that having thus received i.
formation, she put to sea for the purpusss41
avoiding the attachments Times d 7run.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08
Post Office Department--Lottery Circulars

The frequent and pertinacous attempts of
those who are, or pretend to be, keepers of
lottery offices, to induce postmasters, or their
assistants to act as their agents, and the enor-
nous amounts of the schemes of real or fc-
titious lotteries sent by them through the
mails, and addressed to postmasteS, render
it peculiarly appropriate at this time to in
vite the attention of all postmasters and
their assistants to the 9th section of the act
of Congress approved March I'd, 1927.
That section declares 'that no postmas-
ter, or assistant postmasters, shall act as
agent for lottery Offices or under any color
Of purchase, or otherwise, vend lottery tick
cts; nor shall any postmaster receive free OF
postage, or frank, lottery schemes, circulars
or tickets For violation of this provision,
the person offending shall suffer penalty OF
fifty dollars"
The order of the department is, that "all
such lottery schemes, circulars, or tickets,
addressed either to postmaster or assistant
postmaster, must hereafter be excluded from
the mall together with all other transient
matter of this kind addressed simply to an
office, and not to an individual"
We publish the above for the information
of Postmasters' in this State, having recently
seen scheme of grand Lottery, sent here
from Baltimore, in which Postmasters in
California are requested to act as agents fol
the sale of tickets. 1t will be seen by the
above, that there is a penalty attached tc
this by act of Congress. Besides this, the
sale Of lottery tickets in California is pro
hibited by the State Constitution and legis
lative enactments. Alta
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08
New States.

There are four territories whose population
will, probably, within a year entitle them to
admission as States, The ratio of Congress
sional apportionment is now one representa-
tive to every APO inhabitants. But it has
been customary heretofore to admit territor-
les as States with a single representative
when their population amounted to 10000.
Minnesota, it appears by her recent census,
has population of over $4,000, and is rap
idly growing. Oregon had last year $4,000
and probably now equals Minnesota. New
Mexico had at the time of the formation of
the Territorial Government Gin 1850 81, 500
inhabitants. Her population now must be
near 100000. Kansas falls behind either of
the others in population, but the facilities of
emigration and settlement there are so much
greater that, if the preservation Of law and
order were guaranteed, it would soon over
take them. The Legislature Of Kansas Ter
ritory, in arranging the machinery Of popu-
lar election, has established the yiga coce sys-
TEN Of voting, and allowed but one precinct
in each county. One of these counties is as
large as the whole State of Kentucky.
The Placer herald., 1855-12-08

RELIGIOUS CURIosrIEs.-In the roval H.
brary at Berlin, there is deposited the Bible
and Prayer-book of Charles |. The former
was placed to his lips the moment before his
execution. The Bible is ofa very unpretend-
ing appearance, but the Prayer-book is very
beautifully bound with covers Of tortoise
shell secured by massive gold clasps In the
same department are Luthers Hebrew bible
and his own German translation, and close
by is a sheet from the reiormer's pen; also,
one of Teyel's famous ndugences; letter
from Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the
order of Jesuits; Zwingle's Bible; specimen
of Malancthan's handwriting; a very old copy
of the Koran; and a beautiful series of por-
traits Of the leading retormers. The English
Government has offered $4,000 for Luther's
Old Testament.