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The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

Town lots in Carson City command very
high prices. A lot with % feet front on
Main street was lately sold for $3.50.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

Newspaper proprietors are always glad to
number among their patrons all classes of
citizens-and that thd larger the ratio thus
represented, the better; but they have pref,
erence, it is for early settlers.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

E4s- An Oregon school master dismissed
his school for three days to give his pupils
an opportunity of going several miles to see
a man hanged.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07
The Railroad.

The Report upon the location survey of
the Railroad from Folsom to Auburn in
spires our citizens to active exertions in be-
half of the improvement, and shows the ne
cessity of prompt action in furthering an
enterprise so important to the general inter
ests of the county. 1t is the intention of
the Company, to put one Division of the
road into operation as soon as practicable,
and if they meet with proper encouragement
from those whose interests are directly in
volved, this will be at an early day.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

w- 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.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

Mrs. Partington says she can't understand
these ere market reports She can under
stand how cheese can be Noely. and pork
can be octice and Fathers drooping-that is
if it's raining; but how whiskey can be
steady, or hops quiet, or spirits dull, she
cant see; neither how lard can be firm, in
warm weather, nor iron unsettled, nor pota-
toes depressed, nor flour rising-unless there
had been yeast put in it, and sometimes it
would not rise then
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

Ey-The debt of the city Of Marysvile
is slG5,2s9 76. The receipts for the cur
rent year are estimated at $7O,l76 07-dis-
bursements $6O,Ol7 IA.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

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.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

E9y-A tax collector shot and killed a
Chinaman in Butte county, on the 9th of
March, The collector was surrounded with
thirty or forty Cinnamon, armed with picks
and shovels, who threatened violence, and
he shot one in self defense
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

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 congenia| spirits in a beer saloon.-
There's model politician for you
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

EE-Flax is extensively raised about Salt
Lake city. The necessity for hemp in that
quarter, should cause attention to be paid to
its cultivation.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

THE New York style of ladies' Dresses.
The low aud behold style. Vanity Fair.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

INDIAN WAR WANrED.-A correspondent
of the Shasta Herald, writing from Red Bluff,
recently, says: there is now petition 90
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 a man on Battle creek,
burned a dwelling, and drove off consider
able amount of stock.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

TE"A national Homestead bill has pas.
sed the !oNer House of Congrsss.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07
Ey-A San Francisco dispatch to tn

Ey-A San Francisco dispatch to the
Sacramento Bee, says VIM. r. Garrison and
others are negotiating with reference to the
establishment of line of steam propelers
from San Francisco to Japan.
The enterprise is commendable, but it
seems rather early in the day for it to be a
paying investment.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

EE Quartz, paying Sl4 to The pound, ha
been found in deserted diggings at Chill
Camp, Tuolumne county.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

EE-The Golden Rock Water Ditch, has
been completed to Big Oak Flat, Tuolumue
county. 1t is forty miles in length; cost
$4,000 and has been four years in pro.
cess of construction.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

EE" Somebody says Mr.. FairchiId, in the
Assembly from El Dorado County, is one
hundred and forty years Of age. This must
be mistake. To Judge from his speeches,
he is not more than fifteen!
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

That means wearing the cast-of clothes
Of white folks, and drinking their lightning
whiskey.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07
MARRIED.

On the 29th of February. at R,o,.
igan Mr. GEO. BAKER late of Sonor' S"uan, "a Mich.
to Miss HARRIET HAsELTINE. of tbo .0ailiornh
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

On Tuesday. several distinct shocks of an
earthquake were felt at San Juan, Monterey
county.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

Kirkpatrick's Revenue Bill has been order
ed to an engrossment in the Senate.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

EsThe Hydraulic Press says San Juan
was never in more prosperous condition
than at present.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

The Indians of Utah are fast falling be-
fore the influences of civilization
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

ES"S San Juan Island at the north, about
which such a hue and cry was raised while
ago, and which raised American and British
bristes, is now jointly and peaceably oc
cupied by the troops of both countries, ac-
cording to agreement between the two coun-
tries, until the question of boundary shall
be definitely settled.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

S.. & N. RAILROAD CoMpANY.-Chas.
A. Tuttle, Esq, has been elected President Of
this Company; and S. w. Lowell, Esq, has
been elected Director, TO fill a vacancy
caused by the resignation Of Judge Hale.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

SroRM-RA1N AND SNow-The "oldest
inhabitant" is astonished at the weather,
and declines to prognosticate as to what
comes next, until "things SETTLE" For ten
days, with occasional intervals, the rain de-
scended in copious showers, causing the earth
to assume its spring time freshness and
beauty. and buds and blossoms to develop
rapidly; but Thursday morning presented a
landscape covered with mantle of winter,
and looking bleak as the snow-clad hills of a
colder cline. At this writing, however, it
has disappeared except in sheltered hooks,
where little patches may yet he seen, and a
slight pattering upon the window frames
gives some assurance of "nore rain" The
kind Of weather we will be possessed Of by
the time :his is in print, we will not under
take to say.
At Auburn snow fell to the depth of an
inch and half, and at the head of the ra-
vine, two miles above town, was found by
measurement TO be eight inches deep. This
must have been caused by drifting, we sus-
pect, as at Illinoistown, twenty miles above,
it was but six inches deep, on the same
morning.
Snow in Auburn on the 5th day of April,
is something before unknown, and some are
afraid the seasons are about to take new
tack.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

MA FA5acnliD's UN,oN RESOLUTIONS
We are under ann,eross obligations to Mr..
Deact., OF tils Assembly, for printed copy
OF the resolutions offered by Mr.. Fairchiid, of
III Dorado. "Rciative to as,e State OF the
Uaion," They arc Legislative curiosity.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

THE BALL.-The Odd Fellows Ball. to be
given at the American Hotel, in this place,
on the 26th inst, is much talked OF, and
from the interest manifested, there will un-
doubtedly be large attendance. The man
ayers are determined on having the great
"hop" of the season.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

LOO. F.-The following gentlemen were
elected on the 3Ist of March, as representa-
tives to the Grand Lodge Of the State, from
Auburn Lodge, No.. 7, viz: A. s. Grant,
Henson HazelI, Thos. B. Harper, VIM. A.
Johnson, J. B. Squires, and Thos. Jamison.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

SNow-BALLING. - Thursday morning
while the snow was on the ground was a
good time for the boys, and they pelted each
other to their hearts content. Occasionally
somebody would get a ''sockdolager," but
then it was all in fun. OF course! but they
hurt!
Reader, don't you remember your boyish
days, when often you have nearly frozen toes
and finger ENDS indulging in the same sport'
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

CONSTITUTIONAL CoNyENTIoN.-The Cill
calling Constitutional Conven,on has pas
sed the Assembly, and in the Senate has
been favorably reported upon 10y the Judici-
AIRY Committee. Tbs prospects are favorable
that it will become law. This is gratifying
to those who have SO long advocated the
u, eassre.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

Fxou WAsnoE.-Mr. Crawford Ritchey,
residing near Auburn, has just returned from
the Waslloe country. lie was favorably I'M
pressel with the n,i0sng prospects there, and
Intends geing back in eight or ten days.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

IS- The Methodist Church South intend
building College at Cachevle, YoIo county:
dimensions so by so feet. Proposals for
building are advertised for.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

ES- The Pixies Peak gold mines "stil
live" and preparations are reported for =
large emigration from the Missouri to that
quarter in the Spring.
Rich quartz lodes have recently been open
ed near Denver city.
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

T4y~ The Sacramento Standard says there
is no rivalry between San Francisco and Sac.
ramento. The one is a great commercial
emporium, the other the capital of the State
destined, eventually, to draw to itself the re
tired wealth and luxury Of California.
The above is enough to make a San Fran
eiscan tear his hair with vexation. The idea
of retired wealth and luxury" squattine
down at Sacramento. Bolts, you are such 3
Joker
The Placer herald., 1860-04-07

TsrThc Evening Post says the law against
killing game does not prohibit the slaughter
ing of "Buck" Indians in Mendocino county
to Judge from the conflict between the whites
and aborigines in that region. Rather a
grave subject for a Joke.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

BURIAL OF THE GIpsY KINa.-The wander
ing Gipsy bands of this country recently
lost their King, named Owen Stanley. BE
was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Dayton,
O., on the 10Th ult., in the grave of MAUD
his Queen, who was inferred there two
years ago. Some fifty of these singular
people followed the remains of their King to
his last homs, and large concourse of the
citizens of Dayton witnessed the rites of
sepulture. The funeral services were con-
Quoted by the Rev, D. Winters, from
l Chron., chap. xxx, " l5:
"For we are strangers before thee, and
sojourners, as were all our fathers our
days on the earth are as shadow, and there
Is none abiding"
After the service, an opportunity was
given for all to satisfy their curiosity by
looking into the grave.
Owen Stanley was born in Reading,
Berkshire county, England, in 1894; was
married to Harriet Misten, in 1929. and
died in Madison, Ind, about six weeks ago,
of dropsy. He had fifteen children, twelve
of whom are living, ferty grandchi dren,
and two areat-grandcnildren. Since the
death OF Owen, Levi, his son, becomes Chief
of the clan. He is handsome and remark
ably intelligent man, and we'll fitted both by
nature and education to rule his nomadic
brethren.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

PACIFIC RAlLRoAD.--At a meeting of the
House Pacific Railroad Committee, on the
evening of the Sd inst, definite conclusion
was arrived at by the adoption of the following
resolution, offered by Mr.. Curtis, Chairman
Resozued, That the road shall start from two
points, one on the western boundary of the
State of Missouri, and the other on the western
boundary of Iowa, with two converging lines
bearing westward and uniting within two
hundred miles of the Missouri river, and
thence proceeding by single trunk line by
the nearest and best route to the Bay of San
Francisco, or to the navigable waters of the
Sacramento, in the State of California.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

"CAMPjNG orr IN CHARLESTON. - The
California and Oregon delegations to the
Charleston ConYention propose to "camp out'
IN frontier style during the Convention; they
will take down their tents for that purpose.
They will require room enough for some three
large marques, and from twenty to twenty
five small tents, as there will be about forty
attendants from the Pacific slope. An active
Charestonian has secured for the purpose
above named the vacant lot on the easterly
side Of Meeting street, near South Bay.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

NOTHING BUT SIx-FooT GAUGE. = Mrs.
Francis D. Gage, OF Missouri, fslmerly of
Ohio, might claim The nomination of Presi-
dent, under the authority of Mr.. Beecher,
aggregate height wouid form column SO
feet high in honor of their mother, who will
all vote the Republican ticket in 1860, with
but one exec ptlon. and he has not attained
lis majority. Not one Of them smokes Or
chews tobacco, Or stimulates the inner man
with intoxicating beverages. Mrs. Gage is
also the mother of two daughters. -.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

Two NEW York HoRRoRs.-On the 18th
of March the sloop E. A. johnson, Capt.
Geo. Burr, sailed for Virginia for load of
oysters. Some days after, she was found
adrft near Long Island, everything from
the rudder to the bow besmeared with blood, :,
and indicating terrible struggle for life-
The crew consisted of Capt. Burr, A. N.
Hicks the mate, and two boys named S. and
o. Watts. Capt. Is. had about 81 900 with
him to purchase oysters. The Captain and
two boys had evidently been murdered and
thrown overheard. The murderer escaped
to the shore in the small boat, and was
traced by the police to Providence ard ar
rested. Capt Burr's watch, and some $500
in money, were found on the prisoner. He
was brought to New York for trial, and
asserts his innocence. Hicks has a wife and
child.
The second horror is of like kind. The
sloop Spray, Capt. Leete, was found off
Barnegat, everything in great disorder, and
no one on board. A Chinaman was picked
up from yawl in the vicinity, who claimed
that the sloop had'iheen wrecked by a
collision. The Chinaman, it is supposed,
murdered Capt Leete and his brother, after
having drLgged their tea. The three sailed
the sloop, and Capt. L. had considerable
money, the proceeds Of his cargo. The bodies
must have been thrown overheard in the
sound, as the Cninaman was seen to pilot
the Spray through He'll Gate alone. He had
nearly $400 in gold on his person when ar
rested,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

A SPLENDID ADvERTlsEMENr.--City dailies
sometimes afford splendid specimens of ad
verlisements, which we always make mental
note of. The one we have quoted below,
however, rather surpasses anything of the
kind we have ever seen in its suggestive
ness; but to the advertisem which is
from the New York Sun:
FoR SALE CHEAP.-A neatly fitted up
liqnor store in the 7th Ward, underneath
two double houses containing 48 families,
all Irish. For particulars, apply on the
premises, 6l4a Water street.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13
The Congressional Executive
Committee.

WASHINGTON, March 80, 1860.
EDITOR JouRNAL:-The Republican mem
bers of Congress have organized an Executive
Committee, of which Hon. Preston King, U
S. Senator, is Chairman, whose principa
business it is to aid in the circulation O
documents and speeches. Arrangement.
have been made which will enable them te
send speeches in packages to one person, o,
in detail, where names are furnished, at the
following rates, free of postage:
For page speeches, SO cents per 100.
l6 81 100.
"24 &" &" 1.5O I" 100.
This is a much lower rate than is possible
to furnish such documents from any other
point
l notify you Of these facts, that they may,
through your paper, reach the people, because
it is not true, as is generally supposed, that
these speeches are printed at the public cost,
and because the members of Congress from
Iowa, although as liberal in this respect as
their circumstances will justify, will not be
able to pay for all the documents that ought
to be distributed in our State during the
approaching campaign.
Among the eight-page speeches that the
Committee are prepared to furnish are the
following:
Hon. Wm II. Seward-The State of the
Country.
Hon. G. A. Grow, of Pennsylvania-Free
Homes for Free men,
Hon. James Harlan, of IoHa-Shall the
Territories be Africanized?
Hon. John Hickman, Of Pennsylvania
Who have violated Compromises?
Also, tract, entitled, "Land for the
Landless."
Among the sixteen-page speeches are the
following:
Hon. B. F. Wade, of Ohio-Property in the
Territories.
Hon. Z. II. Van Wyck, Of New York
True Democracy-History Vindicated.
Hon. H. Wilson, of Massachusetts-Terri
LOTldl SEtVc COue.
Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois-The
Demands of the South - The Republican
Party Vindcated.
Hon. Lyman Trumbull, of fIllinois-Seizure
of the Arsenals at Harper's Ferry, Va, and
Liberty, Mo-, and in vindication of the
Republican party.
Hon. j. R. Doolttle, of Wisconsin The
Calhoun Revolution - Its Basis and its
Progress.
Carl Schurz, of Wisconsin--Douglas and
Popular Sovereignty.
The only twenty-four page speech yet
published by the Committee is that of Hon.
Jacob Collamer, Of Vermont.
The speeches of Grow, Harlan, Hickman,
Schurz, Seward and Trumbull are printed in
the German language, and furnished at the
same rates as the English.
Persons desiring documents will address
Hon. Preston King, U. S. S., Washington,
DC. Very respectfully, E. H. 7.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

No BEARDs.-Dr. Hayes states that
he never saw but one of the Esquimaux
with beard. The exception to the gen.
eral rule was an old man with hairs up
on his upper lip and chin, which were
silvered with age. The faces of all the
others of the tribe were as innocent of
hair as woman's. The boards of DR.
Kane's party excited great curiosity
and admiration among the native resi-
dents Of the Arctic regions.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

~ From the testimony before the House
Printing Investigating Committee, it appears
that the profit made by the public printers for
the last six years am""r. - tho snuo sum Of
about two millions of dollars. 1t appears,
also, that, under the personal direction of
President Buchanan, considerable part of
this plunder was judiciously employed in
pensioning Democratic papers, and in helping
to elect, or in trying to elect, Democratic
candidates for Congress in Pennsv!!7; ania and
in New York.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

ANOTHER MIRACLE IN 1TALY.--A miracle
"a mighty miraoe-has just been wrought
ant, the Snydc, he Judge and all the p1 lice
authorities and agents have witnessed, GER
titled and registered it. A fire burnt down
the church Of St, Januarius, in Pozzuoli, on
the first day in Lent. A strong wind from
the sea saved the chapel in which the
sweating stone is preserved, and the saint
(or the dre) caused the said stone to run
blood in profusion, some of which the Bish.
op caught with cotton wool.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

Senator Wigfall, of Texas, used the
following language, few days since, in
Congress: ....-..
"These Northern people, of all parties, are
a mean, despicable set of starvelings, unable
to see beyond dollar, and caring for no
consideration beyond money. Threaten them,
and they will crouch to your feet like so many
hounds. Only swear that you are going to
dissolve the Union, and the timid creatures
will get down on all fours, bite the ust, and
kiss the rod raised to chastise them" . .
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

OccULTATIoN OF STAR BY JUp1-
TER In the year 240, B. c., star in
the constellation Cancer was eclipsed
by Jupiter; also in the year 1716 a
similar phenomenon was observed, when
the planet occulted the bright star in
the constellation Gemimi or the twins.
On the 28th of March a similar occul-
tation took place, when the planet pass
ed before ninth magnitude star, sit
uated in Gemini. .-....-
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

~ 1t is said that Gen. Jo Lane rests his
hope for the Presidential nomination at
Charleston upon the possible reversion of
support from other candidates, as he will go
before the Convention with no positive
strength. Mr.. Buchanan has regularly adopted
him as his preference, and is the open advocate
Of his pretensions, hoping by some such
accident to prolong the rule of his dynasty.
1t is said that Secretary Thompson, of the
Interior Department, also supports him.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

THE WAsHoE VALLEY SILVER MINES. The
newly discovered silver mines in the Washoe
Valley, at the head of Carson River, appear
to have fairly turned the heads of the gold
diggers of California. The mines are situated
Oh the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada,
near the 33d parallel. where the line sera.
rating California from Utah bend. from the
south to the soush. Least. California is trying
t" annex the valley to its own territory.
The late accounts from California give
what appears to be fabulous accounts of the
richness of the Washoe Mines, and the mi
grafton in that direction is represented as
exceeding anything on the Pacific coas'
since the pioneer days Of California mining
Thousands have LETT the gold diggings for
the silver mines, and the number OF miners
on their way to the mountains, or about tc
60, was estimated as 25 900! Placervile
the last stopping point of Importance on the
western slope of the mountains, was cram
med with them at latest advices.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

GyMr. Hooper, the Democratic Delegate
faom Utah, avowed in the House, on Monday
of last week. that Polygamy is now part of
the Mormon religious faith. In the early
DAYS of the sect, and elsewhere than in Utah,
the contrary has been sustained.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

sarThere is significant premonition of
the coming of the Democratic Convention in
the Charleston papers, when they say,
beware of pickpockets." The next thing
we shall hear will be, "Dinah, take ali the
linen off the clothes-line; the steamer has
arrived from New York, with the Dead Rabbit
Club ON hoard."-LouisgiHe Journal.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

"WE ARE ALL DEMOCRATS. $50 thinks the
Memphis Aualanche, from which we copy the
following tribute to the Democracy of Iowa:
"Douglassm is still hourishing in the
Abolition States. 1t grows most vigorously
where Abolitionism is rankest It's a noxious
weed, that thrhes best in steaming and
fermenting composts, where society is rottng,
ranking and deco,nposing."
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-13

TRUSTEES OF THE INSANE AsYLuM.-The act
for the government and organization. of the
Insane Asylum names the following gentle
men as Trustees Of that institution: D. L..
McGugin, Of Lee county, G. W. Kincaid, of
Muscatine county, J. d. Egbert, of Van Buren,
county, NJ. L, Fisher, of Clayton, and J. B.
Lash, S. Mcfarland and Aspen Riggs, CT
Henry county.