The Placer herald., 1857-03-28
NUMBER 20
Gleanings.

METHODIST DiSCIPLlNE.-At Albany, New
York, after fifteen evenings of trial and de-
bate Brother Brank' was found guilty of
shouting so loud during service as to attract
attention and excite ridicule, and was duly
sentenced to cxpulson; but the pastor, Rev.
Mr.. Brown, took the responsibility of sus-
pending the sentence during the good be-
havior Of Mr.. Brank. The offending brother
confessed to the shouting but maintained
that, under the excitement Of worship, he
could not restrain his feelings Mr.. Brank
is represented as an excellent and exemplary
Methodist and he makes appeal from the de-
cison of his church to the Troy Conference.
Edwin Booths Hamlet fell short of the
anticipaions Of the Cincinnati E'Nqui,ey. and
did not compare in excellence with his Rich
ard. The Cincinnatians think him the best
living representative of Shakspears's heroes.
REsTcNED.-The Hon. !. II. Bell has re-
signed the office of Judge of the First judicial
District of Texas. An election to fill the
vacancy will be held on the 7th of May.
FLoRIpA.-The last news from the upper
st. Johns is to the effect that Indians are
supposed to be concentrated in considerable
force in the swamps about New Smyrna
SuGAR.-The sugar discussion in Congress
exhibits the fact that every man. woman, and
child in the Union consumes, on an average.
twenty-nine pounds of sugar year.
SECRETARY OF LEG ArIoN-Mr. BENJAMIN
Moran has been appointed by President
Pierce Assistant Secretary of the American
Legation at London.
QuARr2-The Nevada Journal SAYS quite
number of prospoctors for quartz, have
been busy in our vicinity, during the last few
weeks, and we understand that several ledges
have been discovered, which are thought to
be rich.
The CELrIc UNIoN.-A committee has
been formed in Sidney, Australia for the
promotion of Irish literature, and to co.
operate with the Caltc Union and Ossanic
Society.
SMUTE.-One hundred guns were fred on
Capitol Hill, Albany, on the announcement
of the election of Presto King to the United
States Senate.
DnuGGED.-Recentlv man of wealth and
respectability was robbed of 81 500 in Phila-
delphia after being drugged with liquors
from the effects of which he died.
CHANGE OF NAME.-The name of the
town of Clinton in Nevada county has
been changed to that of Moore's Flat, its
original name.
TEsruoNrAL TO FATHER MATHEW
people of Cork are taking maaures to erect
a monument to Father Mathew. 1t is
thought they will succeed.
LARGE MAU.-Nearlv two thousand let-
ters were sent from the Nevada Post office
by the last steamer
NETT PRocEEps.-Th benefit given bv
Miss Provost to tho Odd Fellows Library
Association, at Sacramento last week natted
about $500.
MITleArEp Huntingdon, the
New York forger confined in Sing Sing
Prison, has been relieved from the rough
labor first imposed, and placed in the Con
tractors Office as book keeper.
CHINESE ExoDrs-1hc steamer Com
modore left San Francisco on Thursday
with one hundred and sixty seven Cinnamon
all bound for Crescent City She had also
some forty other passengers.
The people Of Orosille celebrated St.
Patrick's Day with a grand ball.
HARD TO BELIEvE.-A correspondent in
the Ireka Chronicle says that the enor.
nous sum of $40, 600 was taken out of claim
on Sucker Creek, in Klamath county, one
day last week.
MISS IIERoN.-1his old Californian IA
vorte, closed her first New York engage
ment Feb. 10th, having played twenty
nights to crowded houses, performing each
evening her translation of Camille. Such
tarore as she created has not been expert
enced in New York for years
ANCESTORS OF BOTH SIDES. The grand
father of VIM. III. Prescott, the historian,
commanded the American force at Bunker
Hill, while the grandfather Of his wife COM
manded British ship of war which bonn
barded the American works in the same ac-
ton. The historian has the swords of each
at his residence in Boston. Mr.. Prescott
ought to write an impartial account of the
revolutionary struggle, bound as he is by
precisely the same ancestral ties to both par
ties.
a NEW CALIFORNIA STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
Tile Journal Of Commerce learns that