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The Placer herald., 1857-10-10
Hon. Andrew Stuart. Of Ohio.

This gentleman, for years Democrat was
elected to Congress on the anti-Nebraska
platform, and has ever since acted with the
Republican party. lie has just been making
tour of Kansas, and in a late number of
his own paper, the Steul enviIle, Ohio, Union,
lie says:
"Every street, corner, and 'doggery,' of
which, even in this old Massachusetts town,
there were not few, had its crowd of dis
putants. Here found James H. Lane, who
invited me to his wigwam, where we took a
smoke and talked over matters. He justities
his course and that of the ultra ree-State
men of which he is the leading spirit, upon
circumstances Of which he alleges the people
in the Free States know little or nothing.
also met Gov. Robinson, Gen. Pomroy, Mr..
Jenkins, DR.. Cutter, S. N. Wood, and other
hotabiities of the trceState party. The
principal topic was the Topeka Legislature,
then about to assemble No one appeared
to know precisely what they were going to
do; no plan seemed agreed upon, and the
more prudent acknowledged that the whole
proceeding was farce which they scarcely
knew how to get out of with any kind of
credit. They were determined not to vote
for members for the Constitutional Conven-
ton, but avowed that they would vote for
members of the Territorial Legislature next
October, when they expected to carry every
election district in the Territory. | endea-
vored to understand them on the hypothesis
of consistency, but could not. They would
not vote at the Constitutional election, be-
cause that would recognise the bogus Legs-
lature; but they would vote in October for
Delegates to Congress and for Legislative
officers under the same bogus law.
"They also avowed their intention of voting
down the Constitution, whether good or bad;
saying that they had majority and would
make a Constitution in their own time and
such one as they wanted. To suggestion
that it would be Of vast interest to the
prosperity Of the Territory to have political
matters settled Immediately and finally, the
reply was that such settlement might tend
to build up the id Democratic party which
they desired to see crushed to atoms.
II Withdrew moro than ever convinced
that the free State leaders do not desire to
sec peace or fraternal feeling prevail among
the people, Their object is to keep Kansas
bleeding for the purpose of furnishing Black
Republican electioneering capital in the
States. Looking over the whole field, and
after mixing with the people Of the territory
for near month, such conclusion forces
itself upon me irressably."
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10
Another Grove Of Mammoth Trees.

On one or two occasions we have noticed
the fact of the discovery of another grove of
mammoth trees in Mariposa county, rivaling
the far-famed Mammoth Grove" of Calave-
ras. The grove is situated in a high valley
near the Merced river about midway between
the village of Mariposa and the Yosemite
Falls, and covers an area of about three hun
dred acres. The editor of the Farmer, in
company with four or five other gentlemen,
recently visited the spot, and furnishes that
paper with an interesting report of his obser-
vaticns. 155 standing trees were measured,
the least of which was 40 feet in circumfer-
ence and the largest lO2 feet, and the height
of many was estimated at from $50 to 800
feet. The aim of the party, we are informed
by the Colonel, was to find one hundred
trees with circumference of so feet and
over, and in this they were entirely success
ful, as the following table will show:
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10

instrument, in the free exercise of the right
of suffrage when it shall be submitted to
them for their appreciation or rejection.
l have entire confidence in Gov. Walker
that the troops will not be employed except
to resist actual aggression or in the execution
of the laws; and this not until the power OF
the civil magistrate shall prove unavailing
Following the wise example of Mr. Madison
towards the Hartford Convention, illegal and
dangerous combinations, such as that of the
Topeka Convention, will not be disturbed
unless they shall attempt to perform some
act which will bring them into actual COLI
sion with the Constitution and the laws. In
that event they shall be resisted and put
down by the whole power of the government
In performing this duty l shall have the ap-
probation of my own conscience, and, as
humbly trust of my God.
l thank you for the assurance that you
will "not refrain from the prayer that AL
mighty God will make my administration an
example of justice and benfcence" You
can greatly assist me in this blessed CON
summation, by eXerting your influence in al
laying the existing sectional excitement on
the subject OF slavery, which has been pro
ductive of much evil and no good, and which
if it could succeed in attaining its object
would ruin the slave as well as his master
This would be a work Of gigantic philan-
thropy. Every day of my life feel how in
adequate am to perform the duties of my
high station without the continued support
of Divine Providence; yet placing my trust
in Him, and in Him alone, entertain good
hope that he will enable me to do equal
justice to all portions of the Union, and thus
render me humble instrument in restoring
peace and harmony among the people Of the
several States.
Yours, very respectfully,
JAMES BUCHANAN.
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10
Machine for Tunnelling Rock.

A new steam boring machine for tunnel
ling through rock has been invented and put
into operation in England 1t consists of a
strong cross head of wrought iron, secured
to the outer extremity Of the piston rod of Il
horizontal steam engine, and on this cross
head there are twenty-four short arms, stud
ded with diamond-ponted steel cutters By
the forward stroke of the piston these cutters
strike against the rock, and by a selfacting
device are then partially rotated, and the pis-
ton returns on the succeeding stroke or blow,
the cutters strike new part of the rock, and
so bore into the rock by an intermittent ro-
tary motion of repeated blows, similar to that
given to the chisel in rock drilling by hand.
The steam cylinder is so managed to cush
ion of steam behind the return movement of
the piston. On the forward motion, the blow
on the rock and recoil takes place; differ
ential pressure of steam is then brought to
bear upon the reverse face of the piston, and
the moving mass is thus, to certain extent
balanced between two steam cushions The
engine is secured on a truck, and moves for
ward to its work on rails.
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10
Discovery of a new Principle in Gunnery
and ProiectileS

We learn that patent has just been
issued to Capt. L. Mcconnell, of Illinois,
for an improved new-shaped ball, suited
to every species Of firearms, from a ps-
tol to a cannon of the largest size.
The discovery consists in the peculiar
formation of the ball, being so made as
to give it spiral motion when fired from
a smooth bored gun, the same as it would
take if fired from spiral grooved or rifle
barrel
The inventor discovered that ball Of
the exact shape of an egg, thrown with
the large end foremost, would keep that
position, and would not remove or turn
over in its flight, as the minnie ball, thrown
with the small or lghtest end forward,
is liable to do. lie al,o discovered that,
by putting upon ball Of that shape spiral
grooves Of a peculiar shape and angle, the
force of the atmosphere, acting through
those spiral groves when the proectile is
put in motion, gives the same spiral or
twisting motion, like rifle ball thrown
from a twisting grooved barrel. The re-
suit is that the ball flies upon a straight
line, and does not oscillate from side to
side, as an ordinary round ball is known
to do when thrown from smooth-bored
gun. Thus the certainty Of the rifle is at
tanned, at a far greater distance, and with
less force applied, than can be attained
with a round ball, when thrown either from
rifle or smooth bored gun, of either small
arms or cannon.
In this invention the rifle growing is up
on the ball, and not in the gun, and the
spiral motion is communicated to the ball
by atmospheric pressure upon its surface,
and not by the gun from which it is thrown,
as in the ordinary rifle.
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10
Many of the trees are of surprising beauty,

Many of the trees are of surprising beauty,
towering up, straight as an arrow, to height
of 800 feet, while many of the monsters
stand joined together in groups of three,
four and five as though one germ had given
birth to all. The monarch of this forest of
giants is no longer standing The Colonel
thus describes it:-"It is charred and time
has stripped it Of its heavy bark, and yet, as
we measured it across the butt of the tree,
as it lay upturned, it measured thirty -t,co
teet without its bark, and there can be no
question that, in its vigor, with its bark on
and upight, it measured forty feet IN dame
ter, or one hundred and twenty feet in cir
cumference. Only about one hundred and
fifty feet Of the trunk remains yet the cavity
where it fell is still large hollow beyond
the portion burnt off, and upon pacing it,
measuring from the root, one hundred and
twenty PAGES, and estimating the branches
this tree must have been four hundred feet
hiqM This we believe to be the largest tree
yet discovered, and this forest we claim as
the Parent Forest Of tie UcrH"
Golden Era.
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10

The end of all argument-"You're another
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10
The Memorial Of Prof. Silliman and 9th.
ers, and the replv of Mr.. Buchanan

The following is the memorial of Prot
Siliman and forty-two others of Connecti-
cut, addressed to President Buchanan, to-
gether with his reply:
The undersigned citizens of the United
States and Electors of the State of Con-
necticut, respectfully offer to your Excellency
this their memorial The fundamental prin-
cipals of the Constitution of the United
States, and of our political institutions is,
that the people shall make their own laws,
and elect their own rulers. We see with
grief if not with astonshment, that Gov.
Walker of Kansas openly represents and
proclaims that the President of the United
States is employing through him (Walker)
an army, one purpose of which is to force
the people Of Kansas to obey laws not
their own nor of the United States, but
which it is notorious and established upon
evidence they never made, and rulers they
never elected
We represent, therefore, that by the fore
going your Excellency is openly held up
and proclaimed to the great derogation
of our national character as violating in
its most essential particular the solemn
oath which the President has taken to
support the Constitution of this Union
We call attention, further, to the fact
that your Excellency is in like manner
held up TO this nation, to all mankind,
and to all posterity, in the attitude Of "levy-
ing war against portion of the United
States" by employing arms in Kansas to
uphold a body Of men and code of en-
actments purporting to be legislative, but
which never had the election, nor sanction,
nor consent of the people of the Territory.
We earnestly represent to your Excelency
that we, also, have taken the oath to obey
the Constitution, and your Excelency may
rest assured that we shall not refrain
from the prayer that the Almighty God
will make your administration an exam
pie Of justice and beneficence, and with
his terrible majesty protect our people and
our Constitution.
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10

A pro-slavery paper is to be established
in Manchester, England under the manage
ment of r.. A. Barlow, Esq, at an early day.
Such paper, ably conducted, will do much
to dispel the prejudice existing in that coun-
try against American slavery.
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10
NUMBER S.
The Young Widow.
BY ROBERT JOSSELYN.

She is modest, but not bashful,
Free and easy. but not bold,
Like an apple, ripe and mellow,
Not too young and not to old;
Half inviting, half repulsive,
Now, advancing, and now shy,
There is mischief in her dimple,
There is danger in her eye.
She has studied human nature;
She is schooled in all her arts;
She has taken her diploma
AS the mistress of all hearts.
She can tell the very moment
When to sigh and when to smile;
Oh! maid is something charming.
But widow, all the while.
Are you sad? how very serious
viii her handsome face become;
Are you angry? she is wretched,
Lonely, friendless, fearful. dumb;
Are you mirthful? how her laughter,
Silver sounding, will ring out,
She can lure, and catch and play you,
AS the angler does the trout.
Ie old bachelors of forty,
Who have grown so bald and wise;
Young Americans of twenty,
With the love-looks in your eyes;
You may practice all the lessons
Taught by Cupid since the fall;
But know little widow
Who would win and fool you all.
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10

plete valuation of real and personal pro.
perty in Butte county, is $3,60s,s79, up.
on which the total amount of tax levied
is $6e.57O "a. !:
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10

If a mans worth depends on his 'acres,' a
person with eight decayed teeth should be
considered man of property. Assessors
will please take notice.
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10

A Barrster, blind of enc eye, pleading
with his spectacles on, said-"Gentlemen, IN
my argument, | shall use nothing but what
is necessary" "Then," replied wag, "take
out one of the glasses of your spectacles."
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10

There are one hundred and nineteen Pro-
testant Missionaries in the islands of the
Pacific.
The Placer herald., 1857-10-10

VAcunY.-An old lady desired her worse
half to look into barrel that stood in the
corner and tell her what he saw. The old
gentleman looked and answered:--O | G q
MT
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-09-08

a SITUATION wArTEp-sy You've WOMAN. AZ
~ meat aac p&auy coos. Plesse cal a. ~ WI ~ urf
Aoor IRON room.
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-06-03

step, clog and choke up the thousand pores
Of the check, and when washed Oh. leave your
skin 10 dry and ahriyeied as parched Sleeps
pelt Neither eat arsenic, "a do the foolish
ladies' Of Austria, for, although il may in
crease your strength, give apparent sound
ness 10 your limbs, and add freshness 70
your cheeks for time, verify, you shall pay
most dearly for its fayors Aye, We shall be
cut down like clover that falls in full bloom.
Don't live fast, my friends; for thath over
living -crowding life into an uncomfortable
small space Beware Of prolonged excite
ment. An accidental or artificial aronsing
ones emotions and ideas is all very good Hf.33
perhaps necessary; but long excitement,
whether pleasant or otherwise, always has a
doable-back action attached to it, which, ola
truth, il Far from agreeable Like Patricks
gun, 1t 10 sure TO shoot at both ends
Live calmly, slowly, moderately, systemat-
ically, prudently but generously, gaily, good
buInoredly, and always glad to know that
there are hearts in the world as happy as
your own. Don't fret and fume away your
life-substance in the pursuit Of gold, in order
| that You may find enjoyment therefrom in
your waning years; for the days will sud
denly come when you shall say. My gold
ayaileth me nothing-I have neither the pow.
or nor the inclination TO enjoy It'll Then,
mayhap, you viii say, ] win lay my treasure
up in heaven and have snug little capital
| to begin eternity with. But this won't an
swer, you must leave yoi,r riches behind, to
be larishly handled by those whose motto in
all likelihood win be, Live while you live,
and let Death tumble at an empty pocket"
My brethren the man who really knows
how to live, 30 as to extract all the rich juice
Of long life, hath wisdom; and the young
woman who enters upon the world with the
same knowledge and is governed by pure
and virtuous impulses, hath something more
valuable in her bosom than wad Of raw
cotton. So mote it be
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-06-03
tfroin Arthur's Home Magazine.
THE MAKING UP"

a wish had mt said it! Dear me what
would | give il could recall t?' murmur-
ed Mrs. Leeds as she leaned her head down
on the arm she had rested on the breakfast
table, while the thick tears sobbed up into
her blue eyes.
She was a pretty little woman, this wife of
a year, though tears dimmed her eyes, and
the trouble ut heart shut OF the roses from
her cheeks, that cherries November morn
ing, with the dull brownish clouds piled low
about the sky, and the hoarse wind cacklins
and crumpling through the trees outside
ITO think, too, continued the lady, raising
her head once more and abstractedly lifting
the cover off the china teapot, she should
have spoken SO Grossly and sharply to me,
just because l said | should like that new
velvet carpet at Myers. Well, for my part,
don't believe there was ever such a thing
as woman satisfied with what she had got
| think it was real unkind of him, any way,
and nothing in the world could have made me
believe before married Henry Leeds, that
he we-sssaaye used that tone of words in
speakinseS me. But l guess was more to
blame than he, for l said good many satir-
icai things. almost wish my tongue had
been cut of before they passed my lips, but
somehow, my temper got the better of me,
and he went of without speaking one kind
word. or even kissing me- ;"
Here there was another outbreak of tears.
he won't be home till night, and how
shall ever get through this long, dreary dis
NAL day, knowing all the time Hal is 50 an
cry with me-he who has been such a true,
generous, loving husband How wish
could see him for moment. and, forgetting
all my pride, wind my arms about his neck
and say, Hal, I'm real sorry: wont you for
give me this once Y-and will, too
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-06-03
A WoMANs BELIEF IN eWoMAN's RIGHrs

A WoMAN BELIEF IN s.WoMAN's RlGHrs."
The following condensed opinion of 'wo-
mans rights will remain true and in full
force long after the feminine misanthropists
ofthe day shall have been forgotten:
l believe in woman as the equal of man,
in that she equally with him was created in
the image Of our Creator. And | believe
that the dignity and worth of human nature
consist in this likeness to Sod, so essentially
and only, that after this all other distinctions
fade and are lost.
l believe that woman is inferior in posi-
ton to man, in that she was created after
him, for him, and dependent upon him.
| believe that man possesses q strength
and comprehensiveness of intellect, which
enables him to grasp a vast and complicated
subject and reveal its intricate relations,
which woman can only comprehend after
they are once anravelled.
believe that woman possesses q delicacy
and acuteness of perception, which enables
her to feel her way directly to many impor-
tant and practical truths which man reach
es by longer and more laborious process.
l believe thai many women surpass many
men in intellect.
| believe that laany men surpass many wo-
men in feeling.
| believe that neither the vigor of man
Intellect, nor the accuracy ofwomans tact
can avail to preserve them from error if the
will be not bowel before the DEGREES of God.
believe in woman's right to careful de-
veopment and cultivation offs her natural
powers and capa bilities SO as to render her
10 the highest degree intelligent, and happy
in the sphere which God has assigned to
her
believe in woynans right to keep silence
in public assemblies and leave the task Of
public Instruction to those better fitted by
nature and circumstances to fulfill that i'm
portant duty.
believe that ,aost women, if they listen
reverently to t!,e voice of God and nature in
their avn souls viii end themselves drawn
to acts of love ard mercy in private and do
nestle life than 10 grand public schemes for
ameliorsting the condition of the race
| believe that woman's natural and appro-
pirate position is that of companion and as
sistant to man.
believe IN wenan's right to submit unre
seryediy to hes husband in everything, save
IN matters OF conscience between God and
her own soul
believe in mans right to love his wife
even as himself 10 regard her interest aud
welfare before his own, to cherish and pro-
tect her as the apple of his eye.
| believe in the right of each 10 labor, to
saaer-if need be, to shed their heart bloed
for the other
believe that the beauty and joy of life is
love, and that woman can love and does love
Is deeply and deyotedly as man.
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-06-03
Farmers, have you seen and tried the
Worlds Fair Prize Churn?


OR, fsaVis' Ad iustaI lc ChnrH l. Butter.
Worker Com bincd-Patentcd FEB. 90,
1854.
A II State Fair, held at Muscatine, Iowa, last
"A October, QS56,) this Churn alone had a Premium
awarded it, although there eight ten other Chrns
exhibition, and indeed 1t always tai es the first pre-
MUM wherever introduced. The advantages of this
Churn over all others rs follows:
LIST. 1t will produce butter In short time as any
other Churn.
3D. 1t will gather the butter after it is produced.
3d. /. will work the butter into Il roll md expe the
buttermk therefrom completely without the hand ladle
4th 1t will salt the butter before taking it from
the Churn.
9th. II can be operated by child with perfect ease
and is as easily cleansed as any other Churn
practical operation will convince any person Of the
truth of these statements.
Below few of the names Of practical butter ma
kers, who have subscribed to the following certificate,
viz: We using the above Churn and utter
Maker it churns with and facility and gathers
works and salts the butter in perfect manner before
taking i. from the Churn and cheer fully
ii as the best Churn we have ever seen.
Isaac Leonard Crawford Hanna, Abner Comstock,
James Woodside James Hillery, Robert Brown, NJ
Gregg, Hamilton Brown, James Dickson, z Brooks,
Samuel Foster, Alexander Fleming, jeremiah Lee, Mr..
Thompson B Bates John Wild, Samuel Moore Mr.,
Davis, Jacob Wilhelm, James Robertson.
The subscriber has purchased the right to manufac
and sell the above named Churn in Dcs and
Henry Counties, Iowa, and Henderson and Warren
Counties, Illinois, and is prepared to furnish all
who will favor him with their patronage.
~ These Churns also for sale at J Kimbail&
Co.'s, Keith Robinson Co.'s, and G Humans, Bur-
lington, Iowa
Shop corner of Valley and Eighth streets.
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