The Placer herald., 1857-02-28

lature as to the validity of the contract itself
or on the general subject. In this emergen
cy would it not be well to send a special
committee to inquire into the actual condi-
ton of the convics and to supply them with
diatey in want We would suggest that
Messrs. Norman, Ashley, and Watkins be
appointed on the mittee.-Journal.
There are undoubtedly good men in San
Francisco, and bad men in the mining region
of the State, but when one institutes a
comparison as a class between the people
of that city and those of the mountains we
most heartily endorse the following re-
marks, of the Daily Butte Record
Bennett on Reputation.
"Suspcon haunts the guilty mind" of
Bennett, of the New York Herald, that the
good people of California will "repudate"
their honest debts, and dares to so express
himself Alter alIpding to the decision Of
the Supreme Court in relation to the Wagon
Road Bill, and then expressing doubts as to
the honesty Of Californians at large, he
Nlldo w 90 iOiloNS'
"If the question could be settled in half
an hour by the merchants of San Francisco
no doubt the creditors would not suffer even
in imagination for a single day. But the
high minded men over whom Governor Nc
Douga presided are a very small item in
the population of the State Their views
are not certain to be those of the poor farm
ers, and miners, and fishermen, and va
grants, who will be called upon to vote the
ratification of medical act
Now there's "a opinion as is opinion"
If the merchants of San Francisco--that
law abiding, Constitution loving, habeas
corpus respecting community Of saints pre-
sided over by Tom King and Joh hn p Man
row-if they had the question to settle, they
would do it in half an hour But leave it to
the ragged people of the mines, who are so ut
tery devoid Of principle as to even entrust
their hard earnings in the hands of such San
Francisco men as |. G. Woods and Meiggs
and expect to get it back again sometime or
other-leave the question to these miserable
working men and to the farmers and mechan-
les, and oh. how poor, dear unsophisticaed
Wall street would suffer. Here is the cata-
logue agan-"Poor farmers, and miners,
and fishermen, and vagrants." Now that's
a nice set to bring to bear against the 'pur-
est and best" of San Francisco. That's a
selection of associates that Mr. Bennett had
better make in New York, and not among
the two first named on the catalogue Pick
out the "poor farmers and miners" and
give them fits by themselves, if you dare,
Mr. Bennett: but you are "takng the biggest
kind of chances" to mix them up With
"tishermen," but more especially with IVA
grants" and such a 'break made in certain
mountain localities on this side the Rocky
Mountains might perhaps, cost his Satanic
Majesty" a most uncomfortable ride on q
very roughly hewn rail, or may be some
thing worse
But Bennett's opinions become more and
more WORTHLESS and unsound as he grows old
er and more corrupt, and this assertion
about Calitornians and their matters is among
the most foolish of them all.
A JUST DEc1s1oN.-Judge Shattuck, OF
the San Francisco Superior Court, decided
: that under the law, the horse and cart of a
gardner, used to carry flowers and Vegetables
to market, is exempt from execution. He
says:
at seems reasonable that the Legislature
intended to embrace all classes of industry
and encourage them by reserving things in
dispensable for prosecuting their peculiar
branch-as men Of family their furniture
farmers their implements of husbandry; me-
chanics their tools; doctors, lawyers, survey
ors, miners wagoners, carmen, etc, theil
tools. Now | think the inference is fair
and the principle just, that the Legislature
intended by the Act of Exemption to pro-
tect all industrial pursuits, and that gardners
may be arrayed under one Of the classes
they have made, without any forced construc-
tion. Let the gardner retain his tools, hoes
, rakes, spades and wheelbarrows, to encourage
his industry, that he may the sooner work
, himself out of debt"
CONGRESSIONAL DIsTR1crs-An act was
considered, in Committee of the Whole, on
Saturday, districting the State into Congress
sior&l Districts. We hope this act will meet
with the approval of the Legislature, for the
more direct the representation from the peo
pie, the more responsibility will attach to the
delegate, and the more accountable he will
be held by his immediate constituency
This is one of the few cases in which division
is beneficial CaN
SUICIDE AT YREKA.-Dr. q. r. Romayne
a physician, committed suicide at Yreka, by
taking poison. lie was from Clinton, La.