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The Placer herald., 1856-12-20
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Notice to enforce Mechanics Lien.

District court, llM Judicial District, Placer Co.
New England Company VS. Robert Jackson
A LII PERSONS HOLDING OR CLAIMING
II liens under the provisions Of an act Of the le-
gisature Of this State, entitled "An Act for Sc
curing Liens Of Mechanics and Others" approved
April 9th. 1855" upon building and lot in the
ing north Of the Methodist Church on Sacramento
street. formerly kept by said Jackson as Restau-
rant, are hereby notified to be and appear before
said court on the first day of next term thereof,
at the opening Of the Court on that day, then and
there to exhibit the proofs Of such liens. A fail
ure to exhibit such proofs will be deemed wal
Yer Of such lien.
CROCKER & LANGDON.
dec. l3, ls56-4w Attys for Plaintiff.
The Placer herald., 1856-12-20
Thomas F. MEAGHER ON THE REsuLr.-

Thomas F. MEAGHER ON THE REsuLr-
We copy the following, glowing with elo-
quence, from the Irish News, edited by
Thomas F. Meagher:-
There are glad tidings-tidings of exceed
ing joy-utterng themselves everywhere
about us, as the sunshine widens On thou
sand faces, as they hurry past our windows
there is a flashing pride. Snewey-limbed
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of every calling-la-
borers students fastening to the colleges
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. fastening to their
marts-all look joyous, buoyant, bright, as
if it were the first day of summer.
The Constitution-the laws-the Union
have had victory such as Jefferson would
have commemorated in some immortal docu-
ment, full of strength chastity and sublimitv
A victory such as Webster, from the pedestal
of the mighty monument overlooking Char
lestown, would have announced with all the
thunders of his eloquence A victory such
as the poets Of the Revolution, and all who
have since then echoed in more majestic
harmones the deeds done under Washing
ton, would have sung in numbers pregnant
with a dlviner fire than that which woke
into martial hymns the Tyre of Tyrtpus and
that of K9rner. A victory such as the great
orators Of the American pulpit may well pro-
claim in the midst of loud anthems and
hosannahs throughout the cities and the
hamlets the homesteads of the prairie, the
vineyards of Ohio, and the mines Of Sacra-
mento, richer than those Of Ophir.
The black peril which overhung this coun-
try yesterday-whic filled every wise and
good man with the saddest forebodings-
which has moved the soul of the people to
its deepest depths, and marked it with fear,
anguish, and all the emotions which precele
furious civil striie--this peril, thanks be to
God! has passed away. But yesterday, and
the land trembled on the verge Of an un-
known future. To-day, and the future into
which it enters is illuminated. There are no
terrors now before the people, their states
men, and their w-givers. All is bright,
disentanged solid. The Republic is pre-
served. Another period, full Of peace, unity,
brotherhood and all the prosperous activity
of acompact and inseparabIe Commonwealth,
opens to the historian, who, from the highest
posts in the public service-the Secretary
ship of the American Navy and the mission
to England d-secludes himself to chronicle
the struggles, labors and splendors of bis
country.
The Placer herald., 1856-12-20
UNION LIVERY STABLE,

Corner of East and Sacramento Streets. Auburn
NIiE proprietors have recently erected cA
l. a large and commodious stable on the E2sgs1
site of the "Od Crescent City Hotel" NENS
where they keep constansly on hand superior hor-
ses for hire. &ss-GOod care and attention paid
to horses left on livery at their stable. sept15my
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-18
GOV. REEDER'S PROTEST

The following s official copy of Gov. Reeder's
protest against the admission Of Gen. Whitfield az
Delegate from Kansas ~ the House of Representa-
t;ves az Washington:
To rae Honorable ne Hoa'e IF Rre'eAtGi'e' Of I've United
Sfafoss
The memorial of the undersigned, on behalf of the
qualified voters Of the Territory of Kansas and in his
capacity Of representative Of said voten herein
after stated respectfully represents That be claims
to be entitled TO represt NJ the said Territory in the
Thirty-Fourth Congress Congressional Delegate to
the exclusion and in Leu Of Hon. J. Whitfield. the
sitting Delegate upou the following state Of facts The
ta.d j. ". Whitfield. your lnOralist i info. med
claims % have beer elected a.: o pretended election
held 81 he d-s. 81 @. D>tctr C.: Fad Territory
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-18
fBy telegraph
ST. LOUIS, Saturday, ]

ST. LOUIS, Saturday, Feb. 10, 1856.
The LearenWorh Herald of the 9th says a Pro-
Slavery meeting was held there the I'd inst, at
which it was determined TO offset the influence of the
Free State agents sent abroad by dspatchng George
L. Mclean to the Southern States to give the people
there the Slavery aspect Of the case, and to urge
SOutherners to emigrate to the Territory and aid in
rescuing the contro of affairs from the hands Of the
Abotonsts Of Lawrence-Robinson, Lane, Brown,
and Others who doing everything possible to bring
on a civil wer
They apprehend that many Free-State men will re-
fuse to follow them into rebellion against the Federal
authority and the laws Of the Territory.
The Herald Of Freedom says that Messrs. Robinson
and Lane have adopted precautionary measures and
organized regiment; that the forts are guarded day
and night, and that munitions of war were being oil
eeed in readiness foy instant service an attack being
expected.
Tie Topeka Herald appeals to the friends Of the
North and East TO hold themselves in readiness to
march at a moments notice says that the struggle
begins to show sef in earnest, and nvokes the people
of Kansas TO die in preference to surenderng.
The Presidents special Kansas Message has reached
Leavenworth but not Lawrence.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-18
MARRIAGES. or SLAVES-AN ITEM FOR
ABOLIIIONISTS
Eron The Chnrle.ton Is. o. @

From The ChayIeston Is. C.) Courier, Jan. q.
A standing topic Of argument against Slavery with
the AbOtoniststhose at least who prete nd et al 10
argumeutis the assertion that it virtually ignores OF
oisregards the marital tie. Admitting the utmost
possible force in the argument, II could be met by
counter statements against any form and mode OF
labor; for the separation of husband and wife Is
common incident to the breling white and black, no
less than TO the slave. We could appeal also 10 tie
experience of all Southern observers in proof that our
Shareholders and planters generally were anxionsy
disposed to respect and protect the marital relations
of slaves and that difficulty is found IN educat-
ing and training the slaves themselves to regard d
than in protecting it when established good basis.
We introduce the matter, however only 70 mention
fact lately brought to our notice which speaks
than any assertions could TO the relative attacr-
meBts OF u g negroes.
Tie Gaze to which we refer il, briefly, a voluntary
and mutual dissolution and rupture OF a marriage OF
30 years happy and agreeable duration between
sayes; and this by consent Of both parties, each
Ireferng to this relation rather than 10 leave
the masters family although the option was iei, 70
each aud etler-as il most generally the case. Inc
circumstances were these: The wife was On old nurse
ard " mama" of family migrating TO Florida, snd
had for wears lived in condition OF indulgence and
ease better than could have been possible had sne
been free actually she was virtually. On the clos-
ing Of en- estate by sale for division, under our laws
she was necessarily offered for sae and purchased
by the son Of the mistress, 10 whom sbe had been
nurse and favorite maid This gentleman, yso
in Lis boysh days had received at her HANDS be
rod, which the wise king recommends as sovereign
specific for the fooshness Of CHILDHOOD very naturauy
and cIarecterstically offered her freedom, so far az
could he done ard gave her the choice of three rest
dences Tor life and at the time promised her am
PIE comforts TO bis surprise her answer was; " NO,
" Inasse, goes wild you TO the new country nc
told her Of her husband and again asked her 20 chos
nominal master and protector in the neighborhood,
ard one of these places offered to her was the pania
ton on which her husband lived.
She persisted that her first choice 20 follow Der
master, when be Immediately resolved 70 purchase
her husband, whose owner equally ANXIOUS 20 Po
tect ana spare the marital tie Of veteran servant
The bargain was soon settled between the Inas'eIs,
Tor both slaves were too old to have been WORD any
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-18
cone.popdepee of The n. Y. Herald.

WAsHrSGToS, Saturday, Feb. l6, 1856.
A. informed you yesterday, Gov. Shannon left this
afternoon for Kansas. He will travel night and day
until he reaches Shawnee Mission. The President de-
sired him to arrive there before the Free-Stae Legis
lature assemblies at Topeka the Attn of March next
He has full power understand to arrest the Members
of that Legislature, as its meeting is deemed by pow
ers that be- overt act, aud such deserving of
we're punishment. II be carries out his instructions, il
il thought by gentlemen here who residents Of
Kansas that there will be collision between the Fed
eral authorities and the Free-StGte men.
We apprehend that there must be some mistake as
to the full powers alleged to be given to Governor
Shannon to arrest the members Of the Topeka Legis
laure The power of arrest for treason any other
oense Goes not depend upon and cannot be conferred
by the fat or full powers Of President. 1t de-
ponds upon the law of the lSpd The notion Of con-
structive has already been pressed very far
in this country but we are not aware of any case in
which the meeting Of unarmed men not to fight but to
legislate has been held an act Of levyng war.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-18

which ssid pretended election your memora1st CON
,.nd and pupoees to show was absolutely void, beng
without any valid law or the vii OF the people OF
qualified voters 10 authorize or 20 support u. .
That the law under which said pretended election
WAS held emanated from legislative assembly "hlcn
the people and qualified voters OF said territory pro-
t.s. and declare through your memorlahst, were ~.
elected By them but imposed upon them by the force
- sureri1r non.re-idents who could pass no law thai
would be binding on them, and whose election anu
action should not be sanctioned or recognized oy TINS
House because they utterly inconsistent Win tIe
idea Of republican government ana ~ ~
planest and mos: unden!abe civil and pohticai At.
That the said supposed election law was ehdIeiy
nugaory and of eject, because passed az an neg a.
aud unauthorized place, where no Vauu legts-a''oH
could be Ind and was void in Itself AID on III ace as
cotaininr provisions directly and materially voatiye
of the Act of Congress to organize the SAID IeFro!
THAT ssid pretended election was not conducted
even according 70 the forms aud mode prescribed Oy
the supposed law which purported to authorize y;
That many hundreds Of Illegal votes were poAea ae
said pretended election BIZ non-residents and others
And your memoralist excuses himself for the want
Of specifications under the two objections last ABOVE
stated by reason that be has been unable to obtain
from Tie Executive Office in said Territory the neces-
sarv information or any copies OF the returns OF sau
election; that after several applications to the SecTe
tsry Of the Territory for GER ed copies OF papers IN MS
office had been neglected and evaded the sad Secre
tery finally gave positive refusal 70 furnish 'g
demanded and for the further reason that the sad
Secretary Of the Territory has withheld the copies OF
Executive minutes for the year ls55, although the
laws require him 10 furnish them senaunuauy 10 t1e
President Of the United States which said copies had
they been forwarded, might have furnished tue heceS
sarv information TO your memorallst.
And your memOralist further states that he was
duly elected by large majority of the legal voters OF
the said Territory TO the said office OF Delegate al an
election held on the 9th day Of October which he pro-
poses to show wss the only valid election held IN the
Territory for that purpose a. H. hLEDL"'
D." Harrington, Feb. IL, 100"
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-18

mice: denounce it's commercial 'pecqationsi dissP,
prove his granting Of certificates 70 tne S',;nctIv
LEGISLATOR and not only pretend but most dstiny
bsse their opposition to the rule of the people oil MS
sour on the ground OF "iegulay OF election .S Is
the President euphonres the unparalleled oatreges
Atohisons armed rebble on the yotn Oh nSsr The
cnrb and in the form OF law TO which SUBMISSION 70
these enactmeuts bject US. $500,
But / must stop, for if remember the 9utI Ia
prscticed on the peaceful citizens OF hansas oy ' S
whose conduct the President 30 mildly reproVes pc
CO.. 7 read the Message once more, may-torgeitng
at once nv duty as a democrat and man-angriiy de-
rounce his Excenency and be obliged to swear Hy'e"
INV - AJEFFERS0NIAS VIRGINIA soUAIIEA
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-18

DEATH or COOP MAs.-The Rev. Worthingtoa
Smith DID,, late President Of the University of Yer
mont died al his residence at St. Adams, VT, on
Wednesday, the 18th inst. DIR. Smith was one of the
Vermont, the State Of his adoption. He was gifted
scholar, and one who the respect and affection of
all 10 were Intimately acquainted with hm, by bis
courteous and dignfed bearing and his uniform kind
native of Hadey, Hampshire County, in this State,
and the youngest Of the late Deacon Seth Smith.
He was fitted for college at the Hopkins Academy in
Hadley and completed his education at Williams
College, where be graduated with the high honors of
that institution He was about 90 years Of age. His
death is public calamity, and wide circle Of his
admirers aud acquaintance will sympathize with his
afflicted family in their bereavement. Boston Tran.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-18
KANSAS AFFAIRS.
A PLAN FOR SETTLING KANSAS

IT, tic Editor Of The " Y. Tribune
SIR: As there many at the North interested in
making Kansas Free State whose private circum-
stances business relations will not allow of their i'm
mediate emigration thther, would propose that every
such person shall send substitute in the following
manner In every town in our rural districts there can
be found from five TO ten MORE young men, married
or unmarried, who could arrange their business so as
to goto Kansas this Spring but who, although they
may have enough to take them there and provide
them with the means Of commencing operations, yet
fear they will not be able TO pay for their land when it
comes into market
Now think those of us who can, should come for.
ward and engage to furnish 600, warrant 10 pay
for the 100 acres which such may have claimed
and give him deed for half Of it. ii he viii do duty as
Free-State man in Kansas residing on and improving
his part Of the quarter section for Eve years.
The friends Of Freedom ought TO make this effort
Immediately 70 that small companies from every town
n ay early this Spring; for every FreeSate man
now doing duty in Kansas, and every man who shall
60 there for that purpose in the coming Spring will in
future years recur to ls5J6 honorable era in his
lie; and as there are many OF who on account OF
age, iifnty business relations cannot leave home
should certainly aspire 10 share these honors By
aiding Others who can, and are willing to go.
AT the end Of the FIVE years half OF the quarter
section will repay the money with interest This is
the true way 10 speculate in unimproved lands any.
where, and especially in Kansas. We could afford to
provide our substitutes with RITES and other comforts
Oterlia, O., Feb H. 1855. Yours, &C. LIB
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-18
THE COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE
Editorial CoIespordsDce Of The N. 7. Tribune

WASHINGTON, Friday, Feb Is, 1856.
had not intended to speak again OF the cOmpO-
sition Of the several Standing Committees of the
House; but the howl set up in The Union of yes
terday was doubtless intended to give the cue for
a similar demonstration at least throughout the
Slave States, and seems 10 render some elucida-
ton appropriate. A simple statement of facts is
all that can be necessary.
The Nebraska Democracy have about the same
strength in the present House that their opponents
had in the last. Their Speaker then gave our side
an average of two Members on each important
Committee; now Mr.. Banks has given them three
each on the Elections, Ways and Means, and For
egn Affairs, and four on Military Affairs. Beside
these there is South American on each of these
but the last, so that the Speakers supporters are
barely majority on each On the Judiciary, there
are two Nebraska Democrats but there are also
two South Americans, who will vote against Us on
every question affecting Slavery or the Territories
90 that here we have also bare majority. Aud
there are several Committees of considerable i'm
Pcrance-Naval Affairs, Roads aud Canals, Mil
iua' ~e.-on which Mr.. Banks has conceded ma
tority TO those who opposed his election
Mr.. Boyd, OF the thirty-seyen Chairmen of the
Standing Committees of the last House, conceded
ono to his Opponents-Mr. Chandler of Pa. presid-
ing over the Committee on the Library. Mr.. Banks,
ss Speaker Of the present House, has conceded
eigh of the Chairmauships to his opponents, in
GLIDING the Committee en- Military Affairs, now Of
tie highest Importance. Gen. Quitman, who has
been called to preside over it, is a new Member,
and one of the most determined SOathrOns 10 Con-
sress lie is the last man either % seek or 70 earn
EvOr in the eyes Of an Anii-Nebgassa Speaker;
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-14

Governor Wises famous and mach quoted Bu
chapan ratification speech, delivered a. Richmond
throws more light upon the history, objects, ends
ard aims Of Mr. Buchanans nOmin alton. and upon
what is to be expected from him, 10 case be should
be elected President, than any Oher docum sn.
which has yet seen ths light and in that poin. or
view, as well as in some others. it il dsser ing
very particular study and attention. U,oc this
subject Mr.. Wite speaks with authority. He
claims in this speech, and no deub. with j4s.ice
and truth, that the nomination of Mr.. Buchanan
was brought about by the Safe OF Virginil, Mr..
Wise himself being the chief instrument through
whom this sentiment OF Virginia in favor Of Mr.
Buchanan was made effectusl; and such being tn
fact, he certaoly occ Ipies position to spsok vi
authority as to the motives Of that nomination. /:
must be confessed, however, tina: in his anxiety to
recommend Mr.. buchanan to Southern favor, the
Virginia orator ventures upon fasifca atoms, such
I" suppose in biz auditors an utter ignoradcs not
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-14

A leading Fillmore contemporary, which thinks
THE TRIBUNE entirely too free In its structures on
political antagonists, gives the following specimen
Of its own decoium in the shape OF (selected)
criticism on Lew portrait II Mr.. Buchanan;
"It ia n nortrait Of an old man with treacherous
eyer, mouth fallen apart, head Topped over on one
shoulder and feebl. ne.s impressed on every
while moral Peck, nifian white handke,c chief enye
ops the neck in folds Of 'resps ctability II JUST
such picture as ore would expect to find OF man
who had proposed to steal bis neghbors land If he
could not buy it, ard who had abdicated his owa per-
sona,ity and made himself platform"
We don't pretend to be meay mouthed' but
really the lectures of one who delights in such par
scraphs as the above can hardly profit us.
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UsrAiD LETTERS The plan put in operation at
New.York some weeks ego for the disposition IF IN.
paid letters addressed to persons within the Cnited
tho,ed 10 cay that the PostmsstefG neral has 81 cen
directions for II TO be extended TO ali other OIL rs IA
early practicable. Blauk Circulars and n,,es ofip
stIuciions have been printed aud WI be dis ,u,ed :,
poetmsssTs in cue course Of business. TIE following
copy Of this circular and note will show what this plan
IL, viz:
OFFICE, -, 1885,.
"A letter bearing address 10 detained this Office for
pon payent OF postage By ineosng to immediately Ga
receipt Of this cent stamp PIE paying your
of reply the letter will be duly forwarded ordng d.
rection- Respectfully yours, -. POstnsst-r."
EoTE-Postnstets viii I'll sddfess and sgk ID, above
notice without the Of sopt all per.ons tho
ttd for vhnm unpsd letters shall hsye bsen dep ,sed
la In ard distse with the former practice
cosns up nocss In hei III that such letters have bsen
5sn,s;s ed thr.ein. JAMES CAMPBELL,
Postmaster q snersl.
Wsshiaston Star lib