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The Placer herald., 1855-11-24
JOSEPH RATII.
SONORA. Nav 22. 1855.

SONORA. May 2S, 1855.
DR. L. J. CzAPKAY- DEAR SIE-I very much re-
gret that had not called upon you sooner, for !
had been suffering many months. during which
time / passed a miserable existence. When
called upon you a few wet ks since. had but III
tie hope Of being so speedily recovered. cannot
depict the suffering Of mind which endured
whilst my bodily infrmtics made me a burtben
to my friends. The confusion in my brain. timld'
ity, the nervousness when would get the least
excited or alarmed. the love of solitude the wan!
of appetite and weakness generally. but partcu'
larly of my limbs. have all disappeared, as have
the nocturnal emissions and the r. mains 0l an
old disease that my folly brought on me. For all
this feel truly thankful, Tor to your medicines
and advice | am indebted for the restoration OF m!
health. If you think any one would be bepeh''ea
ny putting this letter in the papers, you ore ~
liberty to do so. Believe me ever gratefully yours
ABRAHAM LORlNG.
SACRAMENTO, May Is. 1855
DEAR SIR-Such is the thankfulness feel loI
the preservation of my health of both body ana ma
mind. and believe of my life that hope Will
not be considered intrusive in rendering my
thankful acknowledgements for restoring me
health and making my life boon worth preserv,
ing. when 1T had become burthen too great w
me to bear. Victim as was to vice that had un
dermined my constitution, and developed tra'n
OF nervous symptoms, such as nervo dep'i'I.
self-dlstrust. dizziness, love of solitude ipss
memory and want of resolution. besides loss o.
strength and energy which had made my waking
moments wretched and my sleep unreiresnps
and was fast bringing me to the grave; but, tbahhs
to your skill, am restored to bealth vigor ana
energy. Hoping to guide others where they may
get relief, you have my permission to make 'n''
public. Yours, respectfully.
LEONARD WAITE.
To DR.. L. j. CzAPKAY, San Francisco.
GF SPERMATORRHEA or Local Weakne%s'
Nervous Debility, Low Spirits. Lassi!aas, aOn
Weakness of the Limbs and Back Indsposuo.D.
and lncapabiity for Labor and Study. Dullpe.,.
of Apprehension. Loss OF Memory Aversion "
Society, Love of Solitude. Timidity. Self Distrus'
Dizziness. Headache, Inyoluntary Difchare,es. ,a.
Pains in the Side, Affections of the Eyes. plmp.e'
on the Face, Sexual and other infrmties in m..1 ms"1
are cured without fail by the Justly celeoraT9;s u.
Physician and Surgeon, L. ]. CZAPKAi. n,o
method Of curing diseases is new, unknown u
otbrs,) and hence his great success. All consu'
tat ons, by letter or otherwise. free.
Address L. J. CZAPKAY, N. D., San Frsne'''"
California.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-06-28

IMPORTANT DIscovERY.-Mr. Conoyer, a
well known engineer upon the Ohio River,
has accidentally discovered that sulurating his
coal with water, and putting it in the furnace
wet, would cause it to produce from ITO to
100 pounds Of steam with considerable less
quantity of coal than it required to make from
90 to 100 pounds when the coal was dry. He
also finds that by wetting his coal he makes
no clinkers, has no trouble whatever,in keep
ing kis furnace free from choking,''and never
burns or njurs his grate-bars. These are facts
which should claim the attention of all per-
sons interested in steam boats anG steam
engines. Will some of our engineers try it
ON our lake 6cstsl-Bufalo Paper.
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al Church in Burton, Of which he remained
till death useful and valued member. BY
the influence of the political agtations and
excitements, in which it was his lot to
mins'e, and by the cares and distractions OF
public life, the growth and development Of
his religious character may have been some-
what hindered, yet there was ever, on the
whole, manifest progress in the clearness of
his conceptions, and the strength of his con-
victon of divine truth as exhibited in the
Bible, and in his attachment to the great
doctrines OF the cross, and desire to know
their transforming and purifying power.
His heart glowed with lively interest in tho
spiritual welfare Of his fellow men; and as
he laid aside the cares and labors of office,
it was his great desire to employ his efforts
and influence more directly for their pro-
motion. Increased usefulness as, a christian
was the aspiration of his heart. When
disease in the f rm of paralysis arrested him,
just as he had retired from the responsible
ties of official life, and laid its ban on his
hopes and plans of future activity and
usefulness in the service of God and mar,
he was prepared submissively to bow to
the sovereignty Of the divine will; and
during the years of weakness and suffering
which succeeded, his patience and resigna-
ton, his hope and confidence in God fur
nished pleasing evidence that he was child
of. Grace. He met death calmly and fearless
ly. and having, so far as in him lay. set his
house in order,he left the worldt is believed,
at peace with all men and in favor with
G,d.
The Church and State, no less than his
bereaved family, and the circle of personal
intimacy and friendship, in his death, sustain
a grievous loss. Blessed by nature with
vigorous and we'll balanced mind in q sound
body, with an intelec, disciplined and
invgorated by practical education, with u
character and reputation establish by trial,
, and with knowledge of men, and principles
matured by protracted observation and ex-
perience, and at period of life when, in
the ordinary course of things, years of vigor-
Gus activity might be anticipated, he seemed
fitted for continued and increasing usefulness
among his fellow-men; and, they being judi
: ges, lily could he be spared from the sphere
, he was so well qualified to occupy. Blu,
) God has said to his servant, $50 up higher
| BE it the part of those that survive to ac-
quiesce in the wisdom of the behest, and to
emulate the modest unobtrusive virtue and
: the usefulness of the departed. - Cleveland
; Herald.
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Common Schools in Ohio.

We have received from Mr.. II. II. Barney
a copy Of his annual report of the1 common
Schools for the year 1854, made to Gov.
Medill. The Cleveland Herald speaks of it
as follows:--
This is document of more than ordinary
interest, and its pages indicate that great
amount of labof was performed in collecting
ard arranging the various statements. In
addition 10 tabular exhibition of the ccndi.
ton of the school, succinct history of the
progress of common schools ia Ohio is pre-
sented, with occasional reference to the ed.
ucational interests Of other States. This is
written in a clear and pleasing style, and
adds greatly TO the value Of the work. From
the tables presented we learn that thel were
in Ohio, in 1854, the following number of
youth. between the Oges Of o and 81;
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-06-28

Household Words for July offers rare treat
to the literary public. Messrs. Dix g. Ed
wards, the publishers, are determined to keep
it up to the times. The following is its taJle
of contents:-
The Thousand ant One Humbugs. The
Story of Scarl Tapa and the Forty Thieves.
The Story OF the Takative Barber. The
Story Of the Barmecde Feast. Sister Rose
completed. Baby Reatrice, Physc a.
Field. The Rowing Englishman. From
Varna TO Rustchuk. A Bulgarian Post House.
The Muse in Livery. Plaques of Londcn
Gods Gifts. Yadace. Trade. Bread Cas-,
on the Waters. Deaths Cipherng Book
Mother and Step. Mother.-(A new novel, ir
IA Chapters.) Boots and Corns. Embarka
ton. An Old Picture OF Justice. Cognac
Important Rubbish. A First Sorrow. Chips
"A River Picture in Summer. The Seal,
of Promotion. What it is to have Forefa,h
| ers.
TERMs-Three Dollars year, or Twent,
five Cents No. Household Words and Put
nam's Monthly, Five Dollars.
&We are now ready TO supply complete
sets o. Household Words--ten volumes
bound in cloth, or single volumes.
DIX g. EDWARDS, PUBLISHERS,
10 Park Place, New York.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-06-28

BRrNKERHoFF AND MEDARY.-Sam Medary
misses no opportunity ofslandering Hon. Jacob
Brinkerhoff, and if any opportunity does not
offer, he makes one. and then let's fly his poi
son arrows of malignty. The pretert for this
is that Brinkerhoff is Know-Nothing: at
least Sam says so altho ugh that don't make it
so. Amy how this is the pre.ext, but the real
cause is that two or three years ago Brinker-
hoff let out the fact that Medary once pro-
posed to him, whilst the state was in the
hands of the Democracy, that Ohio should
initiate Mississippi and repud,ate her Stale
debt. This revelation was made at meeting
in Ashland county, and SO incensed Medary,
that he swote vengeance and is now trying
to keep his oath. This fact should be borne in
mind that Samuel Medary once proposed to
repudate the State debt, and is now SIAN
dering the man who had the honesty to
administer scathing rebuke, and to make
his vile purpose known-M. Giead Sen
Hnel
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COMMUNICATIONS.
The man for the Times.

Mr.. EDITOR In my last | addressed a
few words to our friends asking them. not to
fritter away their strength in discussing the
ilerits Of Mr.. Chase or Mr. BrinaerhoG.
now beg leave to call attention to man who
has all at once challenged tie admiration of
the whole north, and sent terror and dismay
into the hearts Of the south. Thos. III. Ford,
plain farmer, no hunter after place, no
seeker fof office, has asionishcd alike the
politicians u. both parties, and caused the
chivalry to tremble sad gnash their teeth by
his mas.erly efforts in the Philadelphia Con-
vontion. All at once he has become famous,
all at once he has made the acquaintance of
the south, and they have learned TO quake
with fear at the mention Of his name. The
man for the times is what the people OF Ohio
want, Tom Coruin was comparatively un-
known ill, he demolished Gen. Crary, Tom.
Ewing come up from the country, and surpris.
ed every one by depth of reasoning and
solidlty Of judgment, that won admiration
alike in the Senate Chamber and in the Hall
of justice, and now Tom. Ford, some plain
country farmer perhaps, looms up, in Phila-
delph'o, and the, Union savers, Political
tricksters, and platform makers, and causes
such n rafting Of dry bones, as was never
dreamed Of by the northern doughfaces, or
southern Conservatives.
Let us have Ford! Ford! Ford!! he is the
man for Governor, he has proven himself to
be right sort Of metal. his speeches show
the, clear ringing sound Of the unadultcrated
material. The proceedings of the X. N.
Convention exhibit him as man full of
nerve, and back bone, ready at all times to de-
lend the right.
With such n man, md such cause, Ohio
will roll up euch majority in October, TINT
we shall never hear of squatter sovreignlty
in the state again. Let those delegates who
were at Philadelphia, see the freemen Of
OHIO taking up such a man as Ford and they
will begin to believe, that we are in earnest
in this matter. Let them behold the sublime
spectacle of free people, rolling to the sup
port, of manly defender of northern rights,
and the reign of southern aggression will be
over Come on friends can we not get this
man for our canddatel Can we give him
such majority that, the crnging sy ophants
who lie fiwning around the feet of the great
do ai-god of southern slavery shall fly before il,
as the blackness of darkness flies from be-
fore the coming of the morning sun! Come
then friends one and all, let us at Columbus
on the 18th OF July make this man our Can
di9atc. Let us elect him by hundred and
fifty thousand majority, and ut once bury the
whole crew of constitution makers, Pro-slav-
cry tlunkGys, demagogues and doughfaces,
whole fathoms down beneath the deep sea of
political oblivion. What say you gentlemen
OF the Ohio press, Journal Columbian ,Chron-
iclr, Leader, &c shall we not do il!
For my part, nominate Thomas II. Ford,
as suitable candidate for Governor of Ohio,
Who sec onds the mo,onl
ZONE OF THE PEOPLE"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-06-28

THE HEMrFlELD RAILRoAD.-To.duy the
Crescent works commence on the rail for this
road, having some $500 tons to make to lay
the rail from Wheeling to Washington. 1t is
to be finished by the Is. August,when the lay
ing of the rail will be commenced at the de-
pot in this city. The crosstes for some five
miles Of the road have been delivered at the
depot here. The balance have been or viii be-
delivered along the line. The bridge over the
creek, al of solid stone masonry with five
piers, is completed except placing few
stone on the. road way. The bottom of the tun-
mel is taken out and the foundation for wall
ing the tunnel has been commemorative tim
bers to supper: the top being on the ground.
This shows fair state of PROCESS Wheeling
Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-06-28

The Con trorersy between Senator Brooks
and John, Archbishop of New York.
Growing out OF the speech of Senator
Brooks on the Church property bill, in the
N. Y. Senate, March 9th, 1855. New
York, Dewitt & Davenport, publishers,
price 25 cents.
The above controversy between Senator
Brooks and "Cross John" has been exciting
considerable attention throughout the coun.
try for a month or two past, it having been
published in the New York Journals. "Cross
John" found that he was most wofuIy mis-
taken when he imagined that his mere name
would awe into silence a free born American
citizen. The pages o: this book bear wit
ness to the severest drubbing Catholicism
has received for years, and is but an earnest
of what it may expect in future controversies
with the same person. The thunders of the
Vatican have no terrors for Mr.. Brooks, and
the bulls Of the Pope Of Rome are taken by
the horns and receive some most unmertiful
kicks in the ribs. 1t will pay any one to
procure a copy Of the work and read it.
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Russians had never ucndcd to maintain
the position.
Teleg: ,phic acour Is indicate that the allies
are yet on their own side of the river.
The allies fouLd 1900 tons of coal at
kertch, and so dismouuted guns.
The allies propose to forti.y Yenskali; bnt
will not hold Kertsch.
Gortschakof telegraphs June Sd, that after
the allied feet left Genetch, part of the
burning stores were saved.
Cracow letters represent the Ukraine insur-
rcction as unsurpassed
BALTIc.-The British and French fleets June
4, were close to Cronstadt. New batteries
have been erected.
AsIA-Peissier telegraphs, Juno Sd, that
tie Russians evacuated Sougak Kali, but first
destroyed 60 guns and 6 mortars.
Changes have occurred in the Turkish Cab
met, and new political combination ID
springing up.
The London Times is az for war but agrees
that any invasion of the PrincipaLes by Ru
sia as extremely remote.
Parliament-Sir Francis Baring's motion
being permitted to pass is namely: thnt the
House having seen with regret the conferences
at Vienna have not led TO a termination Of hos.
tllties feel it their duty to declare they VIII
continue to give every support Her Majesty
may need in prosecuting the war until she
shaH,in conjunction with the allies, obtain fol
the county,, a safe ard honorable peace.
France DEGREES to extend the free impor
tution of Breadstutf to England the present
year.
The King of Sardinia will probably NEE
"'"toria in Paris in August, and perhaps tin
Sultnn
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the pursuit o! the degraded and despiscd
slave. Hence the contest for supremacy in
the territories of the nation between the
Southern taskmaster and the Northern free
laborer. IL slavery be admitted the frle Ia.
borer must seek some other location in which
his energies msy have room to expand, and
where he may build up for himself and fam-
ly home where labor IS respectable, and the
laborer respected.
But, what more has slavery to do with us,
IL defes our moral sentiments.
Go where you will-to the savage, the
sem;.barbarian, or the civiized-represent
to him how slavery robs its victim of bis
right to himself--of the right to the labor Of
his own hands-of his right to obey the i'm
pulse Of his own will; show how it robs him
of the wife Of his bosom, of the children of
his lovc-how it b!ots out his individual char
acter--his manhood; how it robs him OF all
that makes life desirable, even of life itself
and then ask the character of system that
does all this, and where is the man on the
face Of Gods earth, not governed by se.f-in.
terest, (excep, the dough faced polticianj be
his condition what it may, his intellectual at.
tainments what they will, who will not an
swer that such a system is disgrace, an in
famous blot upon the character of the mos
vile and degraded nation upon which the sui
ever shone.
And this is the system we are called upor
to extend, to perpetuate, TO render eternal
so far as legislation can accomplish it; this il
the system in favor of which we are Gale,
upon to conquer our prejudces, to cast asd
those inherent impulses OF our nature whicl
spontaneously burst forth in condemnation o
all great outrages upon humanity.
n rfcA
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Know Something Convention.

AHCW something COuNcHIlOu.
1t appears that the naow Something's are
seceders from the Know Nothingo on the
Slavery question. Their National Conven.
tion commenced its session in Cleveland on
the 18th inst. Every free State is fully re.
presented. Senator Wilson, and large num-
bers Of the Philadelphia Delegates were ex-
pected. After the passage OF the pro. Slavery
resolutions by the Philadelphia Convention
tho fnllnwing despatch ~os roasivod by the
X. s. Conventions
"The North is beaten. ..thirteon States have with.
drawn in disgust Say TO our friends at Cleveland,
we are wi tn you heart and SOUL"
Since then Delegates have arrived from
Philadelphia authorized 20 unite with Know
Something's. A committee on resolutions
made report, of which tie following is the
substance, which was adopted with but slight
notification
The preamble asserts that the servility to
the Slave Power, the Characteristic of ex-
listing political parties, is perlous to manhood,
to the best interests of the North, and to the
liberties of the Republic:
The first resolution declares that the issue
before the American public is whether Free
dom is to be limited to Free States or Slavery
to Slave States.
Second: That the issue has been forced up
on the country by Slave Power aggressions.
Third: That these aggressions, & espec-
ally the Nebraska outrage and the assault
upon the elective franchies of Kanzas. have
aroused the fieemen of the Republic, and
that they will maintain their rights and re-
sist the additions Of slave territory.
Fourth: That they will maintain the ma
tonality of Freedom.
Fifth: That the friends of Freedom should
make principles, not birthplace, the test of
admission to citizenship.
Sirih: Thut we will repeal every eccesias-
tcal interference in political affairs by poten-
tate, pontif or priest, as destructive of the
right to worship God according to the dictates
o. conscience and of liberty.
Seventh: Recommends action in several
States for The promotion of Temperance.
Eighth: Agreeing TO support free schools,
free labor and harbor improvements.
Ninth: To strive for the election of men
of integrity, with nerve to resist aggression
of any kind.
Tenth: For these objects we are ready TO
unite with all men under any name or Or
ganizaton to aid in carrying into operation
these principles.
This is glorious platform, and woul,i
sweep this State next fall, il fairly pu: to
the people, II the seeding X. Ms unite
with them on this platform, and then they
both act with the Republican party, Loco
focoism will be "no where" next fall
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Progress Of Reaping Machines:

We have been informed by a manufacturer
OF agricultural implcments-one who is exec
lent author,y--that between fifteen and six
teen thousand reapng machines will be man.
ufactured and sold this year in our country -
The demand is so great that manufacturers
cannnt make them fast enough for their orders.
This affords evidence of agricultural prosperi-
ty, as the cost of these machines will amount
to nearly two millions of dollars. Our farm
ers exhibit wisdom in using and patronizing
machinery. A reaping machine will save
the price Of itself in one seasou.-Scieni6c
American.
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6YPlatlorms, and resolutions are getting TO
be stupendous bore. We never contemplate
the resolves of pebald assembly met for
the purpose of erecting platform but we are
reminded of a certain meeting of N. England
topers, (there was time when there were
topers even in the land of steadyfshabits. y
This meeting once upon time,r having ex-
hausted their supplies resolved that they
would drink no more of the ardent until 1T
raiued. Unfortunately for the rum traffic in
New England, and for these poor fellows,
their resolves and long dry "spell of wealth
er" commenced about the same time. Day
after day passed over and no rain-a week
passed-two weeks, and still no rain. They
could stand it no longer. Appetite triumph
ed-but like politicians, thev must be con-
S,Stent so they all convened once more, and,
sorry looking set that they were, passed the
following resoution:-
"Resolved, That it has rained."
That was u hit-a capital hit--and though
the weather remained as dry as before this
concourse of Citizens was dry no longer.
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THE WHEAT CRoP IN THE PRAIRIFs
From our up country exchanges we learn
that the wheat crop throughout Red River
Lammar, Hopkins, Hunt, Fannin, Kaufman
Collins, Cook, Denton, and Dallas counties,
has yielded beyond all precedent in that reg
ion. The crop is now harvested; and when
we consider the abundance of the yield per
acre, and the great incre ase in the.nnmber of
acres sown, we are led to look for an immedi-
ate reduction in the price Of flour. In two
weeks more the "Flour Wagons" from the
prairies will be in our streets. We can
promise them hearty welcome.--Jefrsoa
(Ieras) Herald.
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Females.
302,S3l
1857
Males.
4i4,5l9
4,9l9
White
Colored
Totals.
4l9,43s

Total number of white and cold youth, sl7, LOG
or the above the following number attend.
ed school during the year:
Males. Females. Total
White 244,089 209,663 453,752
Co,orC l,265 LIZA 9,a3e
The number in average daily attendance
in Common Schools was l4s,27l males, and
l25,l7l females; and in High Schools, 2,25s
males, and ,476 females. OF the total num-
Der of scholars, 239, 1853 could read and write.
The latter is more than one fourth of the
whole number of youth in the State.
The number and grade OF schools is as
follows: Common, l0,330; High, 81; Colored
4S; English and German, 4S. Number of
Teachers; in Common Schools, 1859
males and 6,4l3 females; and in High Schools
II males and 60 females. The number OF
scholars enrolled, compares as follows:
Males. Females
Common l89542 l64,264
High 2,4l4 2Is7
Number of school houses built during the
year, ITO; value, $346,943. Number In the
State, 1895; value, $2,l97,3s4, including
lots and furniture. The amoun: Of Common
School Fund collected and apportioned during
the year ending November 18th, 1854, was
Sl,llS,0S9; special take! collected to keeT
up Common Schools seven months in the
year, $4o4,37s; collected for support of High
Schools, 25,232. Total funds derived from
all sources, $i,6s4,694. The average rate
per schcl lar, paid for tuition out of Schoo
Fund, was S2,O7.5.