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The Placer herald., 1857-05-16
SloShin' About.


The Montgomery (Ala) Mail seems to
have fund of humor on hand, and gives
occasionally a southwestern sketch by a few
touches that are as telling as Hogarth's. 1t
would seem that at certain ''court time" in
Pike county, there was trial for a general
row, and witness testified that one Salton-
stall jest kept sloshin' about. As this re-
mark regarding the chvarous Satonstal
was frequently repeated, said the lawyer for
the "defense:''
"Come, Witness say over again what it was
that Mr.. Satonstall had to do with this af-
fair"
"Saltonstalls Why, I've told you several
times; the rest on 'em clinched and paired
off, but Saltonstall, he jest kept sloshin'
about"
"Ah, my good fellow" exclaimed Nat,
quite testify, 1--WE want to know what this is.
1t isn't legal evidence in the shape you put
it. Tell us what you mean by sloshin' about"
"Well," answered the witness, very delib-
erately, I'LL try. You see John Brewer and
Sykes, they clinched and fout That's in a
legle form, amt it?'
"Oh, yes" said Nat, ego on"
"Abney and Blackman then pitched into
another, and Blackman bit off piece of Alb
ney's lip-that's legle, too, amt it,"
'Proceed.n
"Simpson and Bill Stone and Murray was
altogether on the ground, a bitin' and kickin'
one another-thats egle too, is it?''
'Veryl-but go on"
"And Saltonstall made it his business to
walk backward and forward through the
crowd, with a big stick in his hand, and
knock down every loose man in the crowd as
fast as he come to 'em. That's what call
sloShin' about"
The Placer herald., 1857-05-16
NOTICE.
NOTICE,

hereby given, thar ali Stock in the American
i Falls Mining Company, assessed prior to this
ua1e will iae sold to satisfy suoh assessla ests az
she sthce Of said company, In Placer county, CAL,
neTxeen Tte ,hpurg Of IL eeleck NJ, and 6 O'clock
Z. Il, On Tuesday. the 9th day of June, 4. D.
1857, Snless sooner paid
by order of the Trustees
j. G. BALL, SeoreSary-
Offce Of Co, May 4th, ts57--4w'
The Placer herald., 1857-05-16

CoNTRAcr FOR KEEPING THE County Hos
rIrAL-leserday the County Supervisors
contracted for the keeping of the County
Hospital, for the ensuing year, with DR.. S. p.
Thomas, on most favorable terms, and as fol-
lows: To board the patients at S. per week
each, and to furnish medical service (includ-
ing medicines and a hospital bulding) for
$4,000 per annum. by the terms of this
contract, the hospital will not cost the coun-
ty over $500; and not so much should the
fund set apart for that purpose not reach this
amount.
Under the old contract, the county ply
siciaps received $ls per week for the board
of patients, and it has cost for the past year
over $l6, 200. 1t will strike every one, that
10y the new arrangement heavy item of ex-
pense will be saved the county. This is the
first fruits of special legislation for Placer.
The Placer herald., 1857-05-16
Court of Sessions.

On Monday this Court met and venire was
issued for Grand Jury, which body was
in session until last evening, when they closed
their labors. They found but four indct-
ments-two for larceny, one for robbery, and
one for assault with intent to DO bodily in
jury.
The Placer herald., 1857-05-16
&HERIFF'S SALE.--By virtue ofa dccretai

SHERIFF'S SALE.--By virtue ofa decretai
lth judicial District, in and for the county Of
Placer and State of California. to me directed
and delivered, commanding me to make the
sum OF $500. with interest on the same, at the
rate Of five per cent per month, from the month
of January 1884. together with the sums of S454
80 interest. and $ll2 GO costs, both Of which
sums drawing interest at the rate of ten per cent
per annum. from said month Of January, 1854,
upon judgment rendered at the January term,
1884, OF said court, wherein Mitchell x Anderson
are Plaintiffs and +. NJ. House is Defendant,
and decrceing the sale Of certain property there
in mentioned for the satisfaction of the same,
upon which sal indcbtcdn SIS there are credits
TO the amount of Sll36 Ga. therefore In pur u
ance of said order ! hereby nQtity all whom II
may concern, that will sell to the highest bid
der for cash, at the Court House door, in the
town of Auburn, in said county on Monday, the
lst day of June, 1857 at 2 o'clock p. NJ. all
the right, title, interest and claim, which the
said II. NJ House had on the 18th day of March.
1853, (and which on said 18th March. mort
gagged by said House to William Snyder as
security for the payment of certain promissory
note referred to in said decree,) in and to "a
certain house situated in the town of Auburn,
in said County of Placer, known as the Empire
Hotel and the lot of land upon which the same
is situated, together with all the out buildings
and appert,nances thereto belonging ''
VIM Y. HENSON, Sheriff.
April 25th 1857 3t.-pf "a. -
The Placer herald., 1857-05-16

New TowNsH1p-The Board Of Super
,psors have created new township out of
rthe western part Of Township No. 2, which
'~ill he designated as No. 10. The necessity
of this has been felt by the residents in that
part Of the county for some time. Until the
next general election the township will re-
main attached to No 2, for judicial purposes.
The Placer herald., 1857-05-16

Heavy rains and snow storms prevailed all
through the northern part of the State last
week.
Owls look wiser than eagles, and many a
sheep-skin passes for chamos
The Placer herald., 1857-05-16
YOUNG A MERlCA.
Wholesale 4 Retail Cigar Store!

Gp GQODKIND would respectfully inform the
R1s public that he has lately enlarged his store,
and keeps now on hand the largest and best stock
of CIGARS ever brought to this county, amongst
which be has the finest brands ever offered to this
market.
lie has also on hand u very good assortment of
TOBACCO, and can supply you with any brands
that can be called for, also
Perfumery of all kinds. Dried and Preserved
Fruits, Playing Cards, French and English Ac-
cordeons, Matches. &c.. &c.
p. If you wish TO get real genuine Havana
Cigar, go to BARNEY GOODKIND'S store. next
door to !. v. Credits restaurant and you will not
be disappointed In iniing it,
Auburn, April tth, 1856.
The Placer herald., 1857-05-16

Coon MISUNDERSTANDING this week
Sam Hyneman has had that part of Main
street in front of his fre-proef brick build
ing, planked. This snakes not only firm
road, but is a preventive against mud and
dust. More improvements OF the kind would
be desirable around tow4
The Placer herald., 1857-05-16
Religious Motto,
Birth.

Birth
The wife Of JouS SM0FER of a girl, al Ophir
Son Friday the Sth ins4
The Placer herald., 1857-05-16

The election for county officers in San
Mateo county, on last Monday, resulted in
the election of ticket claimed by the Peo-
pies Party.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30
~ The Pennsylvania, Forney's DAD

W The Pennsylvania, Forney's paper,
is down on Simon Cameron most fu,iously,
for defeating Jno. W., trying TO magnify II
into great national disgrace, as though the
country at large cared two continental cop.
pers about either one of them. II charges
Simon with bribery and corruption, and calls
him all manner of hard names. We had no
idea before that Simon was such bad man.
He's "born democrat" however, raised and
trained in all the crooked ways and iniqui.
ties of that party; and as they were both
nourished at the same fountain, fed from
the same table, Forney perhaps knows his
successful rival better than any body else. It
is said that Cameron knows something of the
$4,000 taken out of the United States Trea.
sury soma years ago to establish the Wash.
ington Union. Simon il n kno,oing chap, too,
and the Pennsylvania ought not to press
him too hard--if he were to try he could
tell enough on the leaders of the democracy
IN and about Washington and Harrisburg to
penitentiary two thirds Of them.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

The new Constitutional provision on bank .
ing, which has just past both houses of the
Missouri Legislature, authorizes the incorpo.
ration Of ten banks with a capital not to ex.
coed twenty millions Of dollars, the founda.
ton Of which shall be specie. No bank can
be chartered upon my other basis. Hereto.
fore the banking privileges OF that State
have been restricted to the State Bank, hav.
ing capital OF FIVE million of dollars with
five branches in the State, and which has,
for over nineteen years, been conducted on a
capital Of one million two hundred thousand
dollars.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

MODEL CLRTIFIcATE.-The following Ger.
tihcate speaks for itself. Il is going the
rounds, and we should like to have it "loca.
ted" in order 10 advise the owner 10 take
out "pateni:"
DEAR DocToR:--f will be one hundred
and seventy five years old next October
For nine:y-tour yenrs have been an invalid,
unable to move, except when stirred with n
lever; but n year ago last Thursday, heard
of the Cranicular Syrup. ! bought bottle,
smet of the cork, and found myself new
man. can now run twelve and half
miles nm hour, and throw nineteen double
sommtraets without stopping.
p. S.-A little of your Alicumstoutum
Salve applied to wooden leg, reduced n
compound fracture in fifteen minutes, and
is now coveringNthe limb with fresh cuti.
Gle of white gnm pine bark.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

ONE OF The BoSDs OF CRIME.-Cne OF the
surest methods of making criminals, says q
contemporary, is to degrade labor and pay
undue respect to wealth. Men will run any
risk to gain position in society. The re
cent disclosures il the case of Huntington,
Tuckerman. and other similar delinquents in
this county; Of SadIer, Robson, Rrdpa,h,
and others in England and France, prove
that the desire to appear well in society, to
be ranked among the happy few who live
without labor and indulge in the elegancies
of life, is one of the strongest incentives to
crime. And it must be noticed, for the fact
is painfully evident, that the false spirit of
aristocracy which reverences mere wealth
and scorns honest labor, is becoming alarm
ingly prevalent among Us. 1t is time that the
Press and the Pulpit, and every instrument
for modifying opinion, and producing mo-
raj effect, were employed in checking the
growing evil in question. tits especially the
duty of parents to insti into the minds of
their children just ideas on the true dignity
of labor, ard the worthlessnrss of mere in.
trinsic show; for the child who hrs been
taught to regard wealth as the standard of
excellence, and honest labor as degrading,
will run narrow risk Of ending his days on
the gallows or in the cells OF prison. A
lew nights since little child Of some ten
years, who should have been rs guileIess and
innocent rs cherub, on being requested to
dance with another child of her own age
shrugged up her shoulders, and, in her child.
ish way, positively refused. On being asked
why she hesitated, she said she couldn't
dance with the other girl because her father
wns captain Of a steamboat. OF course the
little creature was taught to regard the cap.
tain of steamboat with disdain, and prob.
ably to look upon the children of all me.
chanics rs below her. or she would not have
dreamed Of making such an excuse. 1t
wonld require no gift of prophecy to see
what must be the inevitable terminations OF
a life which is commenced with such false
ideas of what should constitute true claims
to honor and respect.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

ONE DAY LATER FROM CALlFoRNIA.-By
the arrival OF the steamship Texas we have
tho San Francisco Alta California, of Decem.
Der 2lst, being one day later than we had via
Panama. The following is the only para
graph Of interest It contains:
It is said that party is about ready to
leave here, who will 60 in smiling vessel to
the head of the Gulf of California, and from
there to the vicinity of the Arizona copper
mine, in the Gadsden purchase, where they
will rendezvous, with the intention Of making
descent upon Sonora. The ostensible pur
pose Of the party will be to 60 to Arizona to
settle, but it is said that they will go well
armed and equipped, and that about five hun.
bred Of them will soon leave here.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

The "SLuIcE Box."-A paper called the
Slu'ce Box, published somewhere in the in.
terror under the shadowy side of On old oak.
has been discontinued. The editor, accord.
ing to custom, publishes a valedictory, in
which he says:
Our work is done, our mission ended, and
now, with clear conscience and dust in our
pockets, we vncate the editorial chair and 70.
tire to the shades of private life."
lie asks no odds of the public, and has no
thanks TO render for past fnyors.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

The New. CABINEr-CAss, COBB AND
CLIrroRD.-Commenting on the prospect Of
having Cass for Secretary Of State, Cobb, Of
Georgia, in the Treasury, and Clifford, Of
Maine, Attorney General, the Providence
Journal, with more truth than compliment in
its remarks, aptly says
"With Cass at the head of our foreign
affairs and Palmerston in England, if the two
countries are not in aquarel in the course of
month, and in a war in the course of year,
it will be the most conclusive evidence yet
afforded of special providence, and of the
miraculous interposition Of divine power in
human concerns. The supercilious, aristo-
cratic contempt of Palmerston for everything
American, the demagosical hatred Of Cass for
everything English, will meet as steel meets
flint. To change Guthrie for Cobb, is to
change order, system and enlarged views for
mere political expedlency, and the descent
from Gushing to Clifford, is an intellectual
fall that the Office has not often been called
to make"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

tR Great men never stceH. 1t is only
your "three cent individuals" who are salar.
led at the rate Of two hundred dollars year,
and dine on potatoes and dried herring, who
put on airs and hashy waistcoats, swell, puff
blow, and endeavor to give themselves con.
sequential appearance. No discriminating
person need ever mistake the spurious for
the genuine article. The difference between
the two is as great as that between barrel
of vinegar and bottle of the pure juice of
the grape.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

POISONED BY MIsTAKE.-Two fatal cases
of poisoning by mistake occurred in Balti.
more on the 2lst inst. A druggist filled a
prescription ordered by Arnold, German
physician, for child. The child took the
medicine and died Immediately. Arnod
took the remainder of the medicine TO the
druggist and told him he had made mis-
take. The druggist persisted that the med
icine was right and to show his confidence in
his correctness swallowed portion himself.
He was Immediately attacked by horrible
commissions and died in five minutes. The
Doctor who merely tasted the preparation and
spit it from his mouth was also attacked and
with difficulty saved. The affair occasoned
great excitement.
The druggist had mixed cyanuret Of potas-
stun with lemon juice, developing enough
prussic scid in the preparation to have killed
three hundred men.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

"THEY ASK THEIR WOMEE."-At the re.
cent WOman's Rights demonstration at New
York, Wendell Philips, in one Of his speech.
es, grew classical and quoted Tacitus, as to
tho Ssxons on the Rhine, to this effect: ION
all grave questions they consult their wo.
men," :he IDEA of the speaker being that
the SGIons were the cleyerest of fellows,
while zoe, descendants Of their amalgam with
the Anglos, were quite otherwise. The ed
itOrs of the New York Express take up the
cause Of the Anglo-Saxon offshoot, and re-
spond to Mr.. Phillips in this wise:
And who does not know to the contrary
in America, good Dir. Phillips! Who goes
out without telling his wife where he is go-
ing! Who puts on the garments she orders
put off? Who has for breakfast, dinner, or
tea, wha. she does not permit! Who sleeps
out Of nights without the minutest record of
himself? Who LOOKS lovingly, even, on
another fair face, without owning all up to
his crime! Who belongs to anybody but
his wife? Who works for any other body.
Whose slave is n husband, il not his wire's?
The Lucys, and Sallies, ard Beities,-the
rOgues curtain lecture us in the morning and
renew their duties again at night. They
pull our ears, and cuff them even, at
times, and often their voices-their sweet
voices, we should say-are not 50 sweet rs
they might be when we don't do exactly
what they say.
Strike for "Men's Rights" Who is ready!
Our suffefinps is inlolerable Hrar nil man.
kind in Amcrca utter a general groan.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

MoSTvALE SPRINGs.-Messrs. Watt Ian.
Ter d Co., Of the Exchange Hotel and Mont.
g"mery Hall, Of this city, have purchased
the celebrated Montvale Springs, of Tenn.
essee. This watering place had already be
come iav"rlte resort for some of our cit.
zens; and now that these gentlemen are to
take them, 1t will be the summer resort OF
the Montgomery people who don't belong
to the Cant Getaway Club.-Mont Ala
Messenger
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30
ATHENS, FRIDAY, JAN. 80. 1857.

BAnK DrREcroRs.-'rbe following gentle
men have been appointed Directors Branch
Bank of Tennessee at Athens, for the cur
rent year
Minu-Wm. II. Ballew. Jos. McCully,
VIM. 6. Horton, Thos. r. Wells, WINS.
Msyirld, John McMahan, John McGaughey,
r. NJ. Fisher.
Knor-G. w. mnbry.
Roane-Henry Liggett
Meigs-Caleb Moore.
Rhea-D. E. Gillespie.
Monroe-Johu Ramsey.
Bradley-Wm. Grant.
Polk-John H. Dobson.
Hamilion.--S. r. McKnmy.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

LEeIsLATIvE.-Jim Russ, formerly Of the
sbslbyville Expositor, is called on in that pa
per to run for the Legislature. Don't you
do Il, Jeames. De like Glendower's spirits
in the vastly deep--let 'sm call. but don't ysu
come. Hire yourself out rs journeyman
hog droysr. or 70 break rock on the pike at
two shllIIngs day; but don't 60 to disgracing
the craft that way.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

THE IssrIrUrIoN.-The wordy war in the
North against slavery continucs--the fire.
eaters South threaten to dissolve the Union,
and the Free soil leaders swear the institution
shall never expand beyond its present limits.
In the meanwhile negro property continues
to advance in value, commanding higher
prices now, Notwithstanding the pressure in
the money market, than ever before. It
really at this time don't look like the Union,
or the institution of slavery either, was in any
great danger.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30
FoRHEY AND CAMERoN-We find the fol-

FoREEY AND CAMERor.-We find the fol-
lowing in the Richmond Enquirer:
"Mr. Forney, like his competitor, Mr..
Cameron, commenced his political life rs n
type. setler-he was then foreman of print
ing office afterwards an editor, then pro-
prietor of a newspaper, was subsequently
Clerk to the House of Representatives, and
has filled considerable space in the political
world. 1t is little singular that Simeon
Cameron has run the same career with John
w. Forney. He also has been e.setter,
editor, proprietor, and in addition has served
as bank president and cashier, and has sat in
the Senate of The United States. Both For
ney and Cameron are self made men-both
were born in comparative poverty-both
achieved their present positions by energy,
skill and talent of various kinds"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

w A friend writing to US, from a neigh
boring county, suggests that we ought to
enlarge our paper. We beg to differ with
our friend. II is true, we might enlarge our
columns TO the extent of some of our CO.
temporaries, and by using large type furnish
broader and longer sheet without any adj
ditional expense, except in the item Of pa
per. But where would be the gain TO the
readersl We give nm average of seventeen
columns Of reading matter a week, in small
type. making eight hundred and eighty.four
columns per year-equal TO three thousand
octave pages at least-taking especial pains
to keep up with the current news of the day,
and to furnish rarely in which each and
all may find something to nmuse, if not in
struct. In all conscience, isn't that enough
for two dollars! We suggest to our friend
in return, that our paper, like the old Iady's
coffee, lis pretty good what there is OF It,
and plenty Of it such as il is"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

NEBRASKA TERRIToRy.-The weather in
this Territory has been very severe. A writ.
er says that recently the Territory experienc.
ed the coldest and most severe storm OF
snow known to the "oldest inhabitant" for
long years. We already hear of hundreds
Of head Of stock destroyed and many frog
en- to death. The snow in many places now
is from six to ten feet deep. There was
much suffering experienced by those whom
the storm found unprepared.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

FEY A friend If that noble animal, the
horse' suggests the necessity of warming the
bits on the brides before putting them in
horses months. The temperature Of the air
is such MS to make the iron, when put into
their mouths. set like hot iron and give
them much pain. To prove il, put your
tongue in contact with piece Of cold iron
out of doors and find how easily IL will take
the skin of.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

Week before last, at n raising of barn
below Jamestown, Pennsylvania, mnn nam.
ed Jones fell from the top Of the building
and was killed.
A German numed Smith insisted that II
he had been active he might have saved him.
self. He assembled the building and nd.
vanced to the same place where the other
had fallen from. snow den," says he, dis de-
vay," and letting 60 his hold, he fell to the
ground, and he now lies 10 bed with bro.
ken back. His experiment failed though he
s not yet convinced that it wouldn't work il
rightly managed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

IMPORTANT TO FARMERs-The Tennes-
see State Agricultural Bureau offers the fol-
lowing premiums for field crops to be award.
cd at the next State Fair ut Nashville, in
October 1857:
For the best ten acres Of Wheat 800
For the best ten acres of Corn 100
For the best ten acres of Cotton loo
These premiums are not to be bestowed
until accurate report is made of the mode of
preparation of soil, and of cultivation, and of
the amount of labor and of fertilizers en-
ployed in the production of the crop, accom-
panied with satisfactory evidence as to the
measurement of acres, and oc its products-
And in no instance is premium to be awar.
ded where from the report on expenditure
of labor and cost of fertilizers, the commit.
tee is satisfied that the profit is not such rs
would justify them in recommending mode
to the State at large for general adoption.
These premiums are open to the compe-
tition of farmers in every part of the State.
The newspapers of the State will confer a
favor by copying this notice and calling Mt
tention to it.
BY order of the State Agrie ultural Bureau.
Z. G. EASTMAN, Secretary.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-30

W Many persons wear India rubber
overshoes in cold weather, to keep their feet
warm. This is m injurious and unhealthlul
practice. They may be worn during wet
and sloppy weather. but should be worn MS
little as possible in the house, because they
are alright, and both retain and restrain
the perspiration OF the feet. Their sole use
should be to keep out water; and in any
other way they are positively injurious to
health.