The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

District Court, has made an order directing
the Receiver to distribute among the credl-
tors of Adams & Co., the sum Of $4,000.
Is 81, 1000 all that is left!
EY-The debt of the city Of Marysvile
is SlG5,2S9 76. The receipts for the cur
rent year are estimated at $70,l76 07-dis.
bursements $6O,Ol7 "a.
EE-Fax is extensively raised about Salt
Lake city. The necessity for hemp in that
quarter, should cause attention to be paid to
its cultivation.
EN-The Alta advocates the establish
ment of Branch Insane Asylum in that
city. To Judge from the maniac rawlings o.
the editors of that sheet, and other Anti
Bulkheader., if the Bulkhead bill becomes a
law, large Branch Insane Asylum will be
a necessity at the Bay.
EEThe Treasurer of the Committee to
build the Broderick monument, in San
Francisco, reports the amount of cash on
hand as $3,537 rs.
ES-If the Bulkhead bill passes, the S. F.
Bulletin threatens to have the capital re
moved to the Bay city. Was ever Common.
wealth threatened with more direful d saster:
We live in hope of surviving the blov!
Eg-The Governor has appointed N L.
Broughton, of Caaveras county, as Tnspec
tor of Beef, Pork, etc, at San Francisco.
Would Nat have not made better in
spector Of liquids than solids.
EE-Frank Soule, we'll known for his
literary attainments, has gone Washo-ward
and purchased an interest in the Territorial
Enterprise newspaper, published at Carson
City.
Strange country, that Washo Draws
poets, and politicians, as wei as spectators
and miners
The Indians of Utah are fast falling be.
fore the influences of civilization
Sierra Democrat
That means wearing the cast-of clothes
Of white folks, and drinking their lightning
whiskey.
~ Walsh, the editor Of an obscene lit
tie sheet published in San Francisco, called
the Sunday Varieties" has been found
guilty of libel, and sentenced to twelve
months imprisonment in the county Jail.
No WAxr.-J. w. Haines, of this CITY,
has just returned from Washoe, and tells US
that there is no want or fear of want over
there He came over the mountains on
Sunday last; the roads are bad, but he met
all of three hundred men on their way to
siverland, each Of whom had one or more
mules packed with provisions for himself.
Eatabes there average forty to fifty cents
per pound, but flour is cheaper than that
Sac Bee
INDIAN WAR WANrED.-A correspondent
Of the Shasta Herald, writing from Red Bluff,
recently, says: there is now a petition go
ing through the country praying the Legis
lature to call out and keep in service twenty
five men, to act against the Indians on the
east side of the Sacramento, who are now
daily committing depredations having a
few DAYS ago killed man on Battle creek,
burned dwelling, and drove off consider
able amount of stock.
OF Long John Wentworth it is said, that
he has frequently attended prayer meeting
or religious school in the early part of the
evening, and after very earnest address to
the children, has gone to German dance
house. and entered heartily into its sports,
and spent the small remainder of the night
with congenial spirits in a beer saloon.-
There's model politician for you!
E1s- A melancholy case of an appopIetic
London baker falling. in fit, into his large
dough trough and suffoca.ing, is given in the
English papers. lie wasn't probably knoad-
ed here below, or he would have risen.
A waggish constable in Albany arrested
a man under the statute against CARRYING
deadly weapons, for going into the Police
Court room with bottle of whiskey in his
pocket.
oEbAe'ofoL.-Mr. ''o"eu, 'Ho AMERICAN
contractor for removing the distractions
from Sebastopol harbor. has now finished
his work with the outer line of sunken vess-
els, SO that they do not obstruct navigation.
A STARTLING CLIMAx-The New York
Day Book says of Spurgeon, the sensation
preacher: He has huge voice, great deal
Of brass, a smattering of learning, subdued
vuIgarity, a hurley figure, butcherIy head,
bigoted SOUL a little mind, and is an Abo-
itionst.
Eg The exploits of the republican Rep