The Placer herald., 1856-02-23
NUMBER "a,

NoNsENsE.-What awful lies are told
about the dignity of labor, and it's tendency
to produce happiness and peace? Dignity in
check shirts and dirt Not bit of it.
What nonsense this is. There is dignity
in a check shirt when it covers a manly
breast, and the strong brawny arm that is
smutted at the forge conveys as correct an
idea of true dignity as do the ink stained
fingers the Judge, or the kid covered hands
of the brainless exquisite.
Dignity! What represents it, if the
strength of manhood does not! Is the silk
clad invalid specimen of dignity Bah!
Give us the honest grasp of q hand hardened
by toll, in preference to velvet pressure of
an effcminate toplng's digits. The former
we can meet often on the floor of Congress,
the latter we receive only at the head-quar-
ters of fashion, vice and folly.
As very respectable coored gentleman
Of Boston, dealer in second hand clothing,
was passing down Brattle Street to his place
of business, some evil disposed person COM
ING up behind him, threw frozen carcass of
a cat and hit him on the back. Instantly
NItGill0 w Nllt NllN-dDoub letCt, tuc HSu.tcQ
citizen exclaimed, in a voice half choked with
Indignation:
I-I-Td glib five dollars to any gemman
what would point out de noxious Individual
what frow'd dat treezed-cat at me-
UlAwArHA IN LoNDoN.-The London
Leader is in raptures with "Hiawatha," the
new poem by Longfellow. 1t concludes
long notice in this warm strain.
America has now her epic. The intellec-
tual greatness Of America which every
dispassionate eye must see will one day be
commensurate with her territorial greatness,
and of which, even now, there are unmista-
kable SIGNS, in the originality of several
writer's, may, and probably will, produce
epics grander in substance than this of "IIia,
watha;" but the glory of having given his
country her first national poems of other
lands, will always belong to Longfellow.'
CAUSE or THE CoLD SNAp.-An old gen.
teman in one of the stage sleghs, the other
morning, audibly wondered what caused the
uncommon severity Of the weather. "Why,"
grumbled a muliled parsonage near to him,
"When DR., Kane left the north pole, he for
got to shut the back door after him.
EARTHQUAKE IN JApAN-An earthquake
in Japan, on the lst of November last, swal-
lowed up large portion Of the city of Jeddo.
1t 'smacked It's mumbling lira' over ton
thousand dwellings, ffty-four temples, and
twenty thousand inhabitants Sac Tribune,
REAL EsrArE.-The Thirteen Mile House,
on the Auburn road, a two-storv frame build
ing, 80 feet by 80 feet, together with two
stables, so by 100 feet and 40 feet by 90
feet and 100 acres of land contiguous were
sold yesterday at auction by J. B. Starr, to
Thomas NJ Smith, for 81 ,059. Union.
A HINT TO CARELESS PEopLE-Last
Thursday, SAYS the Calaveras Chronicle, %
miner at Campo Seco, carelessly ignited ii
match to light his pipe, and let it fall into
coffee pot nearly filled with powder, and he
narrowly escaped with his life 1t is thought
he will entirely lose his eye-sight.
UNcEnrA1NrY or LIFE.-The biographical
sketch Of the poet Rogers, in the London.
Times, was written some five years since, in
anticipation of his death, then expected,
His biographer has been three years in the
grave
Douglas Jerrold has a son in New York,
who has immigrated with the intention of
connecting himself with the American news
paper press.
ErTrCrs or THE WAR IN ENGLANp.-The
Manchester Eramjneg, an able English paper,
says that the increase of pauperism in Man
chester has been nearly so per cent. in 1865,
ohovn t,a ,,,,,n bar in 1884
ALPINE IoE.-It is scarcely possible to es
innate the quantity Of ice on the Alps. 1t
is said, however, that independent of the
glaciers there are | 800 square miles of ice
in the Alpine range from so to 600 feet
thick.
INsANE-A German named Charles AL
lington was found few days ago wandering
through the streets of San Jose in a state Of
insanity. An order was at once made for
his transfer to Stockton.
PrRsoNAL-Ex- Governor Bigler will visit
the Atlantic States with his family in April
next. Col. Frank Washington will probably
practice law in Sacramento instead OF Ne
vada, as previously stated.
OREGoN.-The Yreka Union says, it is in
formed that very nearly all the Southern
Battalion Of Oregon Volunteers, have been
or will be discharged.
STATUE OF CAuFoRNIA.-Wm. B. Astor,
of New York, has purchased Hiram Powers
statue Of California, for $4,000.
The SHocK-The Monterey Sentinel says
the shock Of last Fridays earthquake was a
or1 oI,o -, hot ,,icipitu