The Placer herald., 1858-04-17
NUMBER 81.


which was referred to that committee to aid
in the construction of Railroad from St.
Louis to San Francisco. 1t proposes to pass
through Albuquerque, the Semine Villages
and the TETON Pass. One half of the road
the other half by the State Of Missouri;
the United States to grant money and lands
to aid in building it, After ninety miles are
built, United States thirty year bonds to be
issued to the State building it, at the rate of
$500 per mile, and so on as it is finished
two hundred miles west from St. Louis and
east from San Francisco, then for two hun
dred miles further, bonds to be issued at the
rate of 81, 500 per mile, and for the remain
der of the way at the rate of $l5 900 per
mile; road to be finished in ten years. The
United States is to have as consideration
for its aid a legal right to priority of use for
all government purposes Missouri is to be-
gin to build at st. Louis, and California at
San Francisco, and proceed continuously
They are to meet on the lOSh meridian of
longitude.
Kansas.
Delegates to Constitutional Convention,
have been elected in Kansas, under the pro-
visions of a bill passed by the late Territorial
Legislature. The Convention is Free State.
Kansas IS quiet, but it is insisted that in case
the Lecompton Constitution is accepted by
Congress, the people will rebel against it,
and resort to civil war before submitting.
Gen. Lane is organizing the militia under
the authority of the Territorial Legislature,
and against the proclamation of Governor
Denver.
ST.. LOUIS, March 0th.-The Missouri Re-
publican learns that the Election Clerks Of
the Shawnee precinct, in Kansas, were pre-
pairing certificate under oath, stating that
they gave their testimony before the nvesti-
eating committee under threats of death.
A letter from Fort Scott says that that place
has been taken by company of Lanes men,
who were robbing stores and stealing horses.
No lives were lost. The Ledgey learns from
a gentleman from Kansas, that the Topeka
ties and anti Topekates had quarreled con-
cerning the policy to be pursued, and that
two sets of candidates had been nominated
to the Constitutional Convention. The De-
mocrats made no nominations. 1t is report.
ed that Lane has issued proclamation, call
ing on the Free State militia to attack Wes-
ton, Missouri; this report is not credited here
TESTING THE LuNGs.-Persons deirous of
ascertaining the true state of their lungs,
are to draw in as much breath as they con
vcnientIy can; they are then to count as far
as they are able in slow audible voice, with
out drawing in more breath the number of
seconds they can continue counting must be
carefully observed; in consumption, the time
does not exceed ten, and frequently, less than
SIX seconds; in peursy and pneumonia, it ran
trnc frntt min tot H. Al
lungs are in sound condition, the time will
range as high as from twenty to thirty sec.
onds.
The NEGRO RAcE.-Bayard Taylor, writ
ing from Nubia in upper Egypt, says:
Those friends of the African race who
point to Egypt as proof of what that race
has accomplished, are wholly mistaken. The
only negro features represented in Egyptian
sculpture, are those of slaves and captives
taken in Ethiopian wars of Pharaohs. The
temples and pyramids throughout Nubia, as
far as the Darcf and Abyssina all bear the
hieroglyphy of monarchs, and their is no e Vi
dence in all the valley of the Nile that the
negro race ever attained higher degree Of
civilization than it is at present exhibited at
Congo and Ashantee.
: A KING FOR CANADA.-The Sandwich (C.
t W. Mercury is in favor of erecting Canada
into an Independent kingdom, with a per
manent ruler The eligible person for a Can
adan dynasty, the Mercury thinks, is a
: Prince of England; for, while his elevation
to the throne of the new kingdom "would
be graceful tribute to our gracious Queen
it would remove the disadvantages under
,.)s NJ 1oh ~ 4 L \
r more firmly as an entirely independent nation,
o to the first empire in in the world"
= THE Toy Snors OF PARIs-Paris has ta-
5 ken the place Of Nuremberg within some
years; and now, its trade in childrens play.
= things is by far The most considerable of The
continent. 1t employs 5000 workmen, be-
> longing to the 400 or 500 toy shops ir
y the capital, and it is calculated that the sale
" of toys amounts to about the sum of 6,OOO,
T. OOOf, yearly. More than three fourths OF
- this sum are spent between the 25th Decem.
' Der and the 18th of January.
st "SNIKTAw," of the Siskiyou Chronicle, tell
ID Of paper devoted to romance, heartrendine
Of soul-scraping, bosom tearing tales, ne-horse
Of poetry, the spread of morality, Wstar'
n Balsam of Wild Cherry and the Oxygenatee
Btters.
y QuALwyINc.-A lawyer lived in Durham
;r Indiana, better known by his eccentricity thar
r. his legal lore, of whom many good anecdotes
q are told. A man once went to him be quail
n flied for some petty office. Said he: 'hole
$ up your hand; I'll swear you creation coult
not qualify YOU"
:, LocoMorlvEs.-Th life Of locomotive
~ ~ is estimated at 10000 miles, and the vau
- of irst-rate engine is some $l2, 900. 1t fol
.' a lows, therefore, that every mile locomotiv