The Placer herald., 1858-12-11

about quite change in the weather-the
cold and frost yielding before a warmer at
mosphere, that has brought drizzng rain
to melt the snow and moisten the frozen
earth. Miners may soon look for plenty Of
water
HUGE PIpp1Ns!-Mr. Barney Goodkind,
of the Young America store, has our thanks
for the present of two very large Oregon
Pippin Apples. The largest ono weighed
26 ounces, being "leetle the biggest" speci-
meu that we have ever seen. Barney always
has fruits of the largest and best varieties
at his store.
Gg- The Tehauntepec Route is evidently
destined to become the favorite with the
travelling public Of the 400 passengers
that went out on the Golden Gate the other
day, 100 of them were for Tehuantepec
The agent of the line has more applications
for tickets than he yet feels authorized to
sell--as the company have not yet perfected
their arrangements for carrying passengers.
MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER RopE AT Ne
vADA.-Shaw & Seibert have manufactured
a rope out of hides half tanned, 200 feet in
length, and an inch and half in diameter,
for the Live Oak Shaft. The rope was con-
structed at the rope-walR between Neva-
da and Grass Valley, and is an article
worthy of notice. 1t is composed of
twenty seven stri ps of hide, arranged in three
strands and twisted like an ordinary rope.
The hide is trimmed to an ob!ong shape and
then cut into one strip, by machine, com
mencing on the outer rim and running
around and around till the whole is exhaus-
ted One rope of this kind will last a num-
Der of years. The article is strong and dur
able and must come into general use. The
manufacturers commenced making hide rope
at Ireka, but deeminG the field not large
enough to give them permanent occupation,
they have removed to the vicinity of Nevada.
Nepada Journal.
The Butte Record says. that the $40 and
sc" Quartz Lead took out, in three days, re-
Gently; about 800 pounds weight Of gold.
This claim has long been noted as one of the
richest among the rich quartz leads of Butte
1t appears that the company have struck a
vein of decomposed quartz Of remarkable
richness.
GOLD IN LARIMIE TERRIroRY.-The Kan
sas City Journal of Commerce, Of Nov. 4th;
says:
That gold abounds in large quantities
along the base of the Rocky Mountains, in
the Territory of Kansas, is now and hence
/ forth fixed fact. Returned miners bring
unquestonabe information that gold is
| spread over an immense area, and that
man can make very handsome wages in dig
ging it. One Of the best routes to these
gold mines is by the way of Fort Riley, and
up the Smoky Hill fork The emigration
there next year will be immense, and it will
not be at all surprising if delegate from
Laramie Territory should be asking for
seat in Congress before the end of another
year.
ELECTRIC CABLE WITHOUT INsULATIoN.-
The Nevada Journal, having examined the
discovery, recently reported by it, of plan
by Mr.. John Pattson Of Nevada, for trans
hitting intelligence under water by means
Of uninsulateI wires-is satisfied of the feast
bity and great value of the project 1t
adds:
We have great hopes, based on what we
have seen, on the simplicity of the theory of
Mr.. Pattison, and the results of it put in
practice, that an important era is at hand
in the unity of peoples by submarine agen-
ces. The indications are certainly f1attering
that, unless the powerful currents recently
brought to bear on the Atlantic cable have
destroyed the continuity of the wire that
grand work, over which the whole world
has just rejoiced and is now mourning, will
yet be rendered useful.
FAITH AND PERsEvERANcE.-The Nevada
National says:
. For the last five years the Rock Tunnel
company, consisting of sixteen miners, has
been running tunnel, night and day,
through greensboro, hard ground, mud and
water, from near the bed of Slate Creek into
the ridge dividing the waters of Deer Creek
and Wolf Creek. Their tunnel is now 5000
feet long, and they have not yet made sim
gle dollar.
, A LIVING INDIAN SKELEroN.-Gen. Kib-
be relates to the Humboldt Times, that he
has among his prisoners an Indian who is
the most remarkable curiosity be has ever
observed among the freaks Of nature. He is
from sixteen to twenty years of age, and is
nothing more nor less than living skeleton.
The Indians say he has always enjoyed good
health, and has never had any flesh on his
bones. The General says that an Indians
hide stretched over skeleton would be a
perfect picture Of this natural curiosity.
f CRINoLINE.-The Paris correspondent OF