The Placer herald., 1857-12-12
Wisconsin Hill Correspondence.
WISCONSIN HILL, Dec. 10th. lSs

WISCONSIN HILL, Dec. 10th, 1857.
Editor Herald: Believing that your cores
pondent "Syphax' has been derelict of duty in
keeping you posted up in the sayings and doings
of our quiet little village and for the purpose of
jogging his memory, indite for you few lines,
hoping thereby to induce him to be more pune
tual hereafter.
The late rains have filed our bitches, and wa
ter is in abundance on this ''Dvde." The Mi
ners of our place are making a run" on the
banks, probably with as much energy as our bre-
thren of the rising sun side of the Rocky noun
tans Although our banks do not suspend spe-
Gle payment, yet they exhibit unmistakablc signs
of "caving in" and large amounts of ORC are
being placed on the credit side of our mer-
chants, mechanics and shopkeepers ledgers.-
Buoyancy and vivacity prevails among the
Miners of this district, OF truth they wear
smile-lt couutenances and unmenti ionables the
orifces of which are lined with the precious me-
tails coined for currency. All anticipate rich
harvest the coming winter; in fact the coolest in
habitant' prophecy's much. | cannot in this
give you the names OF individual companies who
are making "big Strikes but | can vouch for
their all receiving good pay. Unlike the prac-
tice of years bygone, they have this year prepar-
ed their dggings for work during the dry season,
and are thereby enabled to make use of the first
water that comes.
Among the recent arrivals at our place | notice
that Of the wife and family of R. r. Patton, which
will make quite an acquisition to the social cir
cles of our present happy community
By the bye, this puts me in mind of grand
entertainment in the shape of an oyster supper,
rendered to the Franklin Guards by the members
of the Franklin Social Temple of Honor. The
ladies of our village were escorted to Temperance
Hall by an escort of the Guards, who made an
imposing appearance, dressed out in their unique
toto Not ho;p of
bvolves am unable to testify as to their in
trnsc merits, but am Informed they were deli
cious. All went off pleasantly and agreeably,
The festive board rang merrily, until
"The wee sma' hours, ayont twal'
when all dispersed with contentment and salts
faction
Should you deem this worthy of being placed
before your numerous readers. you may again
hear from PLWDWDDLWN
New STock OF CIGARS ETc.-Barney
Goodkind has replenished his stock of Ci-
gars, Confectionery, Liquors. &C., which he
intends to sell on the most favorable terms
See advertisement in another column.
re-" The obstruction across the river at
Sacramento, called the bridge is been push
ed rapidly toward completion. What has
become of the Marysvile Injunction?
Rg- Frank Whitney was elected Chief of
the San Francisco Fire Department, on Mon
day over Jas. f. huffman, by votes. The
vote stood Whitney, 400; huffman 395.
Close9
STEAMBOAT OProsTrIoN.-The old steamer Nc
Kim has been placed in the San Francisco and
Sacramento trade. as an opposition boat. Price
of passage So; freight SO per ton.
@Is- The Columbia Gazette learns by letter
from Washington. that the L. S. Attorney Gencr-
al has refused to dismiss appeals in California
land cases. but requires all cases to come before
the L. S. Supreme Court for final adjudication.
RAIN-The rain came down with but little in
tcrnission all of yesterday.
TIE SUB-TREAsURY VS.. BANKs-IIad the
Independent Treasury not been established,
and were the funds Of the Government now
locked up in the vaults of the suspended
Banks, or friltered away by these unsafe de
postories perhaps, in large discounts of loans
to broken railroads, cattle, flour and sugar
SPECTATORS, a large portion Of which would be
a total and entire loss what would be the
condition of things? 1t requires no great
depth of thought to answer the question:
A very school boy of twelve years of age,
can see at a glance that, without the Indepen-
dant Treasury, we should have bankrupt
Government in addition to bankrupt Banks,
bankrupt Railroads, bankrupt Spectators,
&c. &c.
MoRMoNs.-Th number of Mormons who
have left Carson Valley, for Salt Lake. dur
ing the last three months, is 96S, and not
more than one or two are LEFT. About one
hundred Mormon families. and an equal
number of bachelors, have left various por-
tions of this State, to 90 to Salt Lake by the
way of San Bernardro; and fifty and sixty
persons are now on their way to that place
by land. The whole State will be freed of
Mormonism in month or two. Instead of
the couple of thousand there were last spring,
not more than dozen, at most, will be left
Right or wrong, they are sincere, and faith
fully obey the command ofther prophets, no
matter at what sacrifice of money, risk,
or life.-1lta.
CHINESE SnYLoCK.-At Dry Creek in Am
ador County, some two years ago. China
man lent Chinawoman $3.50 she giving her
note for it to bear interest at the rate of 20
per cent, compound interest per month Suit
having been brought on the note, Judge
ment was rendered for the principal and
$1,000 interest. The man insisted in open
court the money of the womau the Cinnamon
around declaring that the claim should be en-