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Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, and Mems Furnishing
Goods generally.
Particular attention is given to Ladies DRESS
GOODS, aud their stock of Musns, Bareges. Tis
sues, Embroidered Collars, Bonnets, Ribbons
Flouncings and Fancy Goods, cannot we'll bu aur.
passed. Watches, Jewelry, Toilet Soaps, Per,
fumeres, Fancy articles, in great variety. To
gether with general assortment of articles tno
numerous TO mention. 'o'. ttSe
From the fact that one of otT partners (the
purchuser) resides in New York, we are enabled
TO buy Goods to great advantage and we are also
determined to sell at Low PRICES FOX
CASH Call and examine our stock, and be
convinced of the quality and price of our Goods
June Q, 1857 4S ,t.f f
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How the abolili6nisls would howl if the
following outrage had'occaited attbe South.
Where is Greedy
HoRRlntE OUrRAoE,-- One Of The most
diaholleai outfsaea which we overheard Of
loQk place on Saturday evening hlst at y
ssaal! gsoegery kept on ths Newark Plank
Road in Bergen The circumstances, as
teas as we can get at them, appear to be as
follows: a black man IN the neighborhood,
knowns by the snHmesof Sam, was at tliis
dstnkiog piaos. when somo three OF four
individuals, whose fiarnes we heyenot heard,
also came ia, and after plying the negro
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WAsurSGroN, june l2,--Gcn. Walker,
with Colonies Lockridge and Waters, and
Captain Fayssoux, arrived hore to-day at
III o'clock, and stopped at, Browns Hotel.
There was'no public demonstration, but
great many have called upon him.
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FATAL REHcoNYRE. "a reaeontre took
place in the street Of Memphis. Tenn, The
week before last, between Two men named
Dugan and IVooils, IN which the former, re-
ceived Il souad Of Which BE died, after .
Few days suffering.
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ftJ'''S'HJ afi'NSu iiuI0 NJ
III o'clock, and stopped at Browns Hotel.
There was no public demonstrate but
great many have called upon him.
lrf 81 ~ E; '-.>------a- s-S------- '.a-' 's.t
a FAHHFrLSYIFE AND A BRurAL Hus.
pAND.--Some four wears since, man was
sse.eheed ~ The New Hnnanshire State
Prison, for an attemptto kill his wife,. She,
full Of ofaffeclion, had been unsparing in her
efforts for him, and finally pardon,
with which, In company With bis mother,
she joyfully hastened to the prison on Sas-
urday morning. eager to iberate him whom,
she loved SO well, despite his cruel treat
ment and long absence. The correspon-
dent Of the Manchester American thus mar
rates the sequel:
I For several days previous the man had re.
fused 10 work. feighing sickness, The ply.
sican reported thathe was we'll Saturday
morning the warden went 10 bis cell and
told him 10 90 out: he replied that he vas
sick. Finally nv j.. said "you must 90,
you are pardoned.p '.Weh,'' said he, a.If
must, ! must, | suppose. !" and Immediately
followed the warden 10 the Office. where
were his wife and mother. They were fll.
ed with JOY. and spoke kindly 10 him. but
be would make no reply. He sullenIy
dressed himseIfis . suit provided for him;
and left the office. After reachIhg5 the
yard. The hardened wretch tore his vest
from him, rent his clothes. and departed,
sfnntterin0 euraes on his henefactors - ~
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DesrRuorivE HAIL SronM A portion
OF Lancaster, Kershaw. end Sumler Dis.
'thcts, was visited on Friday afternoon last,
,by a most destructive hail storm, coRamen,
seipg above ftussell Place. 10 Lancaster. and
extending N south eastsrly direction as
far as Bishopvilles ip Sumter, its Width va
<ying. rs ws hear, from two to six miles..---
in many places il drifted to the depth of
from one TO three feet. some OF the icy mis-
silss measuring nine inches 10 circumference,
and roany as large as hen-e3gs. pbe de-.
ssrastiou ri cfops tpay iot iifitrgis,yfas . saaay
Whsat fields have been totally destroyed,
md the corn and cottdan sery badly injured,
trees stripped of their foliage, and all yegete
,tion lying 10 its track vastly injured.
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State OF souah Carolfma.

IN EQUITY-PGCKRNs.
Abraham Duke, Harriet Duke and Ransom, Duke
The Placer herald., 1857-05-09
The Mahogany Trade.

The exports Of mahogany from the port
of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, were as follows:
The Placer herald., 1857-05-09
HASTY CLIPPINGS.

The railroad cars now run the entire dis
tance from Charleston, S. c.. and Savannah
Georgia, to Memphis, Tenn, on the Missis
sippi river The distance is TAI miles. From
Memphis an extension, now under way, slim
ulated by liberal grants of public lands, is tc
be made to Little Rock, Arkansas, and thence
on to Fulton and Henderson, Texas, there te
connect with the Southern Pacific Railroad
There are ten miles of the Southern Pa
cifc Railroad in Texas now finished and in
running order.
The people of Iowa have formed a new
State Constitution.
There is much quarreing in Kansas be-
tween the squatters and the land associations
in different parts of the Territory.
Some French gentlemen of Louisiana have
purchased 10000 acres of land in Illinois,
on the Central Railroad on which to found
a colony from Canada.
MOVEMENT TOWARD THE FORMATION OF A
STATE IN MlNNEsoTA. - Gov Norman, OF
Minnesota, has issued proclamation calling
an extra session eff the Legislature on April
27th, for the purpose of making the neces-
sary laws to enable the people to form a
State Constitution; also for the purpose of dis
posing of lands granted at the last session of
Congress in aid Of railroads in the Territory.
The total number of emgrants sent to
Liberia by the American Colonization Society
from 1920 to 1856, was 95O2. Number
born free, 3676; number that purchased their
freedom, 1926; number smancipated for eml-
grafton to Liberia, $500.
Leavenworth City, in Kansas, is but two
years old, and has now population OF 5000
inhabitants and rapidly increasing. The
trade of Leavenworth, it is stated, is of itself
sufficient to keep up large place. A rail
road westward towards the Pacific is pro-
jected, and the subscription is filling up rap
idy. A charter has been granted for the
Kansas Valley bank at Leavenworth, and
branches at Atchson, Lecompton, Fort Scott
and Shawnee.
Why are kisses like Creation?- Because
they are made out Of nothing, and pro
nounced good.
The Placer herald., 1857-05-09
Uncle Sam.

The origin of the term "Unce Sam," as
applied to the Federal Government of our
Union, has been variously attributed. Some
give it as the familiar term applied to Gen.
Washington's elder brother. The most re-
sponsible is that the application was first used
at Troy, New York, and that it grew out of
the letters "E. A. U. S." marked upon the
army provisions barreled up at Troy, du-
ring the last war with England, under the con-
tract of Ebert Anderson, and were the neces-
sary initials of himself and the Government.
The inspector of these provisions was Samuel
Wilson, who was usually called by the peo-
pie "Uncle Sam" 1t SO happened that one
of the workmen being asked the meaning Of
the initials of the casks replied in short that it
meant "Elbert Anderson, and Uncle Sam
Wilson" The jest took, and afterwards,
when some of the men were on the frontiers
and saw the same kind of provisions arriving
for their use, they would jocosely say ''here
comes Uncle SAM" and thus, by degrees, it
came to be general nickname for the United
States.
The Placer herald., 1857-05-09
NEWS OF THE STATE.

New USE OF Duck IosE,-The Amador
Ledger, of May I'd, says that Messrs. Meek,
Pardee & Co., are conveying water across
Jackson creek, at hight of ninety feet, and
distance of five hundred and fifty feet,
through common duck hose, which is sup
ported by frame work erected for the pur-
poso
FLoAr1NG Loos.-E 1Iestress has about
two thousand saw-ogs floating down the
Stanislaus to his mills. The water is very
high, and the logs were driven along with
great rapidity.
Scorr VALLEY. EY.-The citizens OF Scott
Valley in the north have commenced work
upon their wagon road.
PLuMAs COUNTY YIELD.-At Elizabeth
town, lO2 ounces of gold were taken out by
one company, with four hands, in one week.
ROAD FROM RED BLUFFS TO WEAvERvILLE.
A committee appointed by the citizens of
Red Bluffs to view out wagon road between
the above places, have returned, and report
as follows. 'That so far as they went on the
trail, they think it will cost an immense
amount Of money to make road passabe
for wagons" Also, shat the trail WAS SO
steep that squirrels had to double teams to
get walnut up it."
The opposition passenger trains between
Shasta and Yreka carry passengers for from
$40 to $i5.
A new mail route has been established
from Sacramento to Napa; by it stages leave
Sacramento on Tuesdays Thursdays and Sat-
urdays, stopping at Pptah, Yacaville and
Cordelia.
A fire occurred in Shasta the first day Of
May, which destroyed upwards of $4,000
worth OF property.
CHYAMAN SHoT.--On Tuesday, April 2Sth,
Chinaman was shot on the road between
Negro Hill and Condemned Bar. by man
named Henry G. Alder. Alder Was arrested
and taken to PlaceryiIle.
PEAcnEs.-The peach crop, about Nevada,
promises to be astonishIy large this season,
ANOTHER CALIFORNIA DIscoyERy.-lt has
been demonstrated by an actual experiment
in Shasta county, that the leaves OF the Man
zanita treee, which abounds most plentifnlly
throughout the mining region, are possessed
of all the astringent properties requisite tor
tanning. This article is now being used ex-
clusvely in the above county by gentlemap
in his tannery.
The Placer herald., 1857-05-09
Picture of a Good Wife.

Will our young men who are pleased to
think of good wife as an elegant paything
intended only to dress and dance, visit and
spend money please to look at the following
picture of a good wife, drawn by the pencil
of Solomon.-PRov. XXI.
Verse 10. Behold virtuous woman, for
her price is above riches.
12. She rseth with day and preparetl
breakfast for her households; yea, before the
sun hath her madens at work.
l3. She seeketh wool and flax, and lavetf
her hand to the spindle while her right hand
turneth the Wheel
IA. She looketh we'll to the way of hel
family, and eateth not the bread of idleness
l6. By her industry her cheeks are ruddy
like the rose of Sharon; yea, her nerves are
strengthened, so that when she heareth talk
of Mysteries she marvel!eth thereat.
II. Her house is the habitation of fneatnesf
so that the heart of her husband is refreshed
when he enters the chamber.
Is. She maketh fine linen and seleth it
and deivereth much cloth to the merchants
10. Her husband is known in the gates
by the fneness Of his apparel for she maketl
him cloth of silk and purple
20. Her children rise up and call her bles
sed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
The pantheism of the East represents mar
as snow flakes exhaled from botomless ocean
and whirling over its surface till absorbed il
its bosom; but Christ says that we are Gods
children, made in his image, to grow more
and more like him forever.
The Placer herald., 1857-05-09
NUMBER IS.

No FAST MEN IN THE TREASURY DEPART
MENT.-Secretary Cobb has announced his
intention to remove all clerks in his depart
ment who are addicted to lotteries, faro
banks and other amusements of fast men.
There was novel scene lately witnessed
in New York. Messrs. Christy II Wood ad
vertised to present at Union Square ten
thousand kites to that number of clean
faced boys. At least fifteen thousand boys,
with bright, clean faces, were present.
Girard College, at Philadelphia, now sup
ports and educates regularly Sl5 boys all
INDECENT orphans.
The export trade of Liverpool, England, is
estimated at five millions of dollars per week.
The CINCINNATI AND CovINGToN BRIDGE
OVER THE Ono RvER.--Estimated cost of
the work 100000. The towers will con-
tain 10000 perch of masonry-all to be
built of stone. Base of towers 80 by so
feet, and 33 by Is at their tops-2l1 feet
above low water. The distance between the
Ohio and Kentucky towers is 1905 feet. The
bridge floor will be about 100 feet above low
water mark. The opening through the tow
ers for the road and sidewalks will be 80 feet
wide and 75 feet high, united again by an
arch above with decorations.
USEFUL IIINr.-A tight screw may be
easily loosened from a metal socket by heat
ing the latter by means of cloths with boil
ing water or in any other way-on the sim
pie principle of expansion by heat
Wrought iron will crush together under
smaller strain than is required to rend it by
a direct pull. With cast iron tho reverse is
true. These facts should be borne in mind
in selecting material.
A little hole in ship, sinks it; small
breach in sea bank carries all away before
it; little stab in the heart kills man; and
little sin, as often improperly called, with
out a great deal of mercy, tends to his final
destruction. Whatever sin the heart is most
prone to, that the devil will help afterwards.
1t is said that 10000 persons attended the
funeral of George Seibert, who was killed in
Chicago election riot.
Col. John Preston is said to have made
S3G0,o last year by the produce of his su-
gar plantations in Louisiana.
Forty.two IIungarians, who fought under
the British flag during the Crimean war, ar
rived at Now Orleans lately, on their way to
join Walker in Nicaragua.
At Portage, Ohio, Mary Anderson lately
recovered damages to the amount of 81 500,
from the Pittsburg and Cleveland Railroad
Company, for killing her husband.
Two Gipsies have been arrested at SavaN4
nah, Ga, for swindng man named Mitch
ell out Of $500.
Two sous of the King of Dahomey, an
African province have been sent to France
to be educated,
The Michigan Legislature at Its late sea-
sion appropriated s4OO, 900, among which is
$4,000 to Kansas.
The Placer herald., 1857-05-09
Why I Didn't Marry Her.

| was sitting last summer smoking cigar
with my friend Tom Fairbanks. 1t was at
Rockawav, and we were laughing in our own
room, with our feet elevated on window
bench. Best way in the world of sitting
that. Wonder if ladies ever try it when no
one is near. Guess they do We had smok-
ed two cigars and commenced on third.
There's something strange in cigar-t
makes one cool in hot weather, and warm in
cold weather. and there is a good deal in en-
joying it with crony Tom was fast friend
of mine, and fine fellow-yes fine fellow,
there's something in him. lie was fond of
society and great favorite among the ladies,
and now as looked over the dancing waves
and mused; cigars promote reflection, they're
real moral institution, and that's why the
clergy patronize them suppose-as | smok-
ed and unused wondered why he had never
been caught in any of the nets spread for
him. There was tall dark-eyed beauty who
had made a great impression on his heart.
lie had danced and firted through whole
New York season with her. and from the
way in which they both denied it, had re-
ally believed them engaged. But Tom had
suddenly drawn off, and left the young lady
to point her toes and curl her ringets for
some one else. had never known the rea-
son Of this, and with my mind full OF these
thoughts, suddenly turned to Tom, and
asked him how it was he didn't marry Flora
Goodman.
Tom took the cigar from his mouth, looked
at me, arched his eyebrows, and then com
menced putting again.
No, but tell me, you were very much
faken in that quarter once"
Tom made no reply but to throw open his
collar little more-Tom and had mount
ed Byron collars since we were to Rockaway
There seemed no getting anything out o.
him.
"Did the lady cut you, Tom?'
thought this would rouse him. "No,'
was the emphatic response.
He then knocked the ashes off the cigar,
saying, "And SO you want to know why |
didn't marry Miss Goodman!"
"Yes, ] thought papa had been spoken to,
and the bridal dresses ordered"
mo never had anything to do with Mr..
Goodman farther than to settle myself in his
chair when he left the psrlor clear for me in
the evening. Flora generally sat on an OF
toman-long- wasted people look better on
ottomans you know
"Well, you didn't tire of long waists, did
you? l thought you admired everything
about Miss Flora"
$50 did then; that's my reflection now.
And she was a very beautiful grl-a very
nne one in many respects
The Placer herald., 1857-05-09

Less than century since, benjamin Frank
lin, the Postmaster General of the Colonies,
set ont in his old gig to make an official in
spection of the different routes. 1t is sup
posed that he accomplished the object of his
journey but if he was to undertake to travel
in his GIG all over the routes at present ex-
isting, he would arrive at the end of his jour
ncy when he was about an hundred years
old. About eighty years since, Congress ap
pointed DR.. Franklin Postmaster General to
the independent Colonies he still went in his
old gig, and a small folio, containing about
three quires of paper, lasted as his account
book for two years. Now the railroad train
goes sixty miles an hour, and the postoilice
accounts consume every two years, three
thousand of the largest sized ledgers, keeping
no less than one hundred clerks constantly
employed in recording transactions with thir-
tv thousand contractors and other persons.
There are now paid annually for ma-locks,
keys and stamps, nearly thrtytw thousand
dolars-a sum equal to the entire outlay Of
the whole department in the year 1900
The STAMPED envelopes and postage stamps
cost over fourteen thousand dollars; the mail
bags fifty thousand; the blanks seventy-one
thousand; the wrappingp paper forty-one thou
sand.
Franklin would be slightly astonished if
he could rise from his grave, travel to Wash
ington in his old gig, see the three thousand
ledgers, the one hundred clerks, and hear
the mail train thunder past him at the rate
of sixty miles an hour. And yet what would
be his emotions when he reflected that this
was but one evidence of the rapid advance
of the great republic of which he was one
of the founders
The Placer herald., 1857-05-09

AS the average price is about $l2 ton,
the amount exported within the above eight
years would be $12,06S.
The Mexican treasury receives one dollar
for every ton exported, and the same amount
for every tree felled. The export of ma
hogany for 1857 will amount to about 10000
tons, being $500 tons more than the aggre-
grte of the preceding eight years. cuttings.
Three-fourths at least of this amount is for
the United States, whose citizens seem to
have almost the monopoly of it.
No doubt this trade will soon largely in
crease. Mexico is rich in costly woods, es-
pecially the Isthmus of Tehauntepec. Differ
ent specimens of the woods there, it will be
recollected, were recently brought to the
United States by Mr.. Stevens of the Tehaun-
tepec Company.
The Placer herald., 1857-05-09
Peru.

A friend recently returned from visit to
Peru, thus expresses his impression of the
country. From the tenor of his remarks we
should Judge him to be manifest destiny"
man.
Peru, like all the old Spanish provinces,
under the bigoted and calculating rule of the
priesthood, is subject to retrograde move
ment in all the essential comforts of life.
The majority of its inhabitants are at present
reduced to bare existence They will not
work except by compulsion, and, unlike Fal-
staff, they do not try to disguise their dis
positions by a show of words. could not
observe slight instance of native improve
ment since | visited the place in 1850. But
the Anglo-Saxon has set his seal by building
a railraad from Callao to Lima, and are about
extending the enterprise to the Peruvian
watering place, Churilas, upon the site of
an old Indian village, situated on a bay form
ed by the land-spit of Callao and the Island
of San Lorenzo. The place is we'll cacula-
ted for sea bathing, although more barren
Nnd desolate, with truth, perhaps might
add, "God Forbidden" place, could not be
found this side of the desert of Zahara.
But what degeneration since the days of
the early Spaniards! The country is covered
with ruins of palaces and aqueducts, and all
the appliances common to Spanish opulence
in the sixteenth century. The intelligent
natives, who have seen by travel the fruition
of Ango-Saxon improvement, do not hesi-
tate to avow their belief that the country
will be better in every respect, both for the
native and immigrant, when the manifest
destiny" OF the Young Americans is finally
consummated. But the half-breeds, who
now repose in sothful ease and the otune
cam dignitate of filth and Spanish pride, the
synonym of poverty the world over, hate
with tervent hatred the name of Yankee
They are ptiahle set, worthy the attention
of some philanthropc nation. 1t is not ne
cessary to conquer them, but to join faction,
as they are always engaged in what they
call revolutions but they are perfectly harm
less matters, for no one is injured except in
pocket-quite different from the Gallo af-
fairs in France. The term looks bilious upon
paper as the natives do in the face, but the
gall never leads to the commercial inter
change of bullets according to the Partisan
formula. This may be accounted for from
the scarcity Of medical men and schools of
anarchy, which, on the score of svmathv,
usually creates business in their line in the
same manner that railroad terminus at
village builds a city,
Peru, from its peculiar situation, is proba
bly, capable of being made the most proluc-
tive country on the Pacific coast, but while
the country is governed by its own produc-
tons, in the nomnative and subjective cases,
the practical use of the word progression
will never be known.
The Placer herald., 1857-05-09
Over the Left.

The following good story is told on Gen.
Harvey by one of the officers who was with
him at the battle of Ash Hollow, and after
wards at Fort Pierre:
At the treaty held at the latter place, at
which the General had great talk with the
chiefs of all the tribes, he stood few steps
in advance Of his staff, and debating to the
Interpreter what to say, in his usual grutf
and authoritve manner "rell them," said
he, 'that their great father at Washington
has sent me here to make them respect the
treaties they have made with the whites.
"Tell them | am furnished with a great
number of braves, horses and cannon, and
that shall make war upon them long as an
Indian can be found on these prairies; if they
don't.
"Tell them that they must not kill or rob
any more emigrant trains that are crossing
the plains, or steal anything from the whites
in any manner.
"Ask them if they remember the fight at
Ash Hollow.
1t will be remembered that great num-
Der of the Indians made their escape through
a pass in the bills that the General knew
nothing Of until too late
"Tell them that left place for them to
escape through, then, to prevent my braves
from killing every one Of them;" and he con
tinued, turning his eyes over his shoulder
to his staff, tits lucky for them that didn't
know where it was, or I'd have killed every
id redskin in the Hollow"