The Placer herald., 1856-03-01
Gleanings.

Lieutenants of the Sarsfeld Guards, tor
disobedience of orders of their Captain, and
the Captain on complaint OF the Lleutenants
As this will be the first Court Martial ever
held in this State, in connection with the
Volunteer soldiery, considerable interest is
manifested in it. The appointing OF the
officers of the Court rests with Brigadler-
General Gorham.-Fireman'S Jou11lat.
A Virginia postmaster has been inqniring
of the Department the meaning of the little
"pictures struck on the letters" and another
official in Iowa, desired the Department to
sustain him in decision he had recently
made against a 'feller' who insisted "that
them pictures of Washington, on the letters,
paid the p0stdge"
INFANT1LE PArRIors-On the authority
of the Torn Talk we have the qualification
of announcing to the members of the Calltor-
MIA Emigrant Society, that there were no
fewer than eleven marriages and tccnty-one
births in the city of San Francisco, on the
anniversary day of the birth of the Father
of his Country" "Wait little longer" and
there need be no efforts made to encourage
emgrants from the parent States.
News Boy BURNED TO DEATH.-Frank
Cassidy, wel-known San Francisco News
Boy, was burned to death i'll a oontlagratlon
on X street, Sacramento, on the morning OF
the 22d inst He had taken lodgings in the
back room of a restaurant, and either did not
wake or was sufocated by the smoke. His
remains were found badly burned and
charred.
QuARrz M1xIxG.-The Calaveras Chronicle
gives a favorable account of quartz mining
operations in that neighborhood The last
weeks work of the Lone Star Quartz Com
pany produded $1,000.
DEATHS IN NIcARAGUA.-A Nicaragua
letter SAYS that the recent deaths in that
country have been occasioned by the eating
Of large quantities of fruit and drinking
intemperately Of very bad whisky.
CASE OF CosuIL1.-Coshill, indicted for
the murder of young Cole at Volcano, is so
dangerously sick that his trial has to be
postponed to the next term Of the District !
Court.
JAcEsoN's FAREWELL Address was read,
according to custom, before both branches
of the Pennsylvania Legislature on the 8th Of
January, ana five thousand copies ordered to
pc printed for the use ofthe members.
Discovery OF ANIMALcULE.-Dr. Ttask, |
the State Geologst, made discovery yester
day Of new genera OF animalcuIn in some
of the waters OF our bay. They are micros
copic, being about sX-thousandth of an inch |
in length and sixty-four-thousandt of an
inch in diameter
MINERS MEETNG.-The Calaveras Chroni- |
Gle says that great excitement prevailed on
Thursday last at Mollelumne Hill, on account
of the high prices charged for water by the
"Mokelumne Hill Canal Company" A
meeting was held, and the miners resolved |
not to use any more of the water until the
prices were reduced to forty cents an inch.
EARTHQUAKE AT SANTA CRuz-We learn
that the earthquake was felt quite severely at |
Santa Cruz. An old woman was thrown |
out of bed, several windows were broken, |
and things were made to dance about gener-
ally.
Mr.. SPEAKER FANLnY.-The Amador
SeRt'nl ofSaturday last gives this gentleman
a handsome dressing down for the cquvoca |
position he has taken in respect to the coun-
ty seat question.
CoRA's TRAL-ln consequence of the
accident to Gen. McDougal, counsel for Cora. |
the trial of the latter will probably not take
place before the March term of the Fourth |
District Court.
ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAlL.-The Nevada
Jommol says that a bold attempt to break
Jail was made on Tuesday evening last. bv |
three prisoners sentenced the day previous
for feonies.
WEATHER DowN SourH-They have oc-
casiona refreshing showers of late at Mon
terey, Santa Barbara and other places down
South.
AcQUmTED.-Peter Mines, on trial in San
Francisco for the manslaughter of Nicholas
Morris, was acquitted on Thursday.
The Fremont claim to the Marposa estate
of eleven leagues of land, has been finally
confirmed by the Supreme Court of the |
United States. 1t is said that Palmer, Cook
& Co. own one half Of this property.
DR.. Bradley proprietor of the El Dorado
County Journal, now published at Diamond
springs, has made arrangements to publish |
his paper hereafter under another name.
at Granite City. The first number will
shortly be issued.
The British crown contains Jewels valued
at more than half a million of dolars-and
would purchase stove-pipe hats for our
Presidents, at five dollars each, allowing a
new one every six months, till the year
54,055, which is sometime ahead.
PENNSYLVANIA IRoN.-It is said that
Pennsylvania now produces as much iron as
was manufactured in all Great Britain thirty
years ago.
HORSE THIEVES AT SAN D,rco Tbo