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The Placer herald., 1860-10-20
Yuba county, 8 members,
rnse Ase Sounty Sou Ma Judges Ss in the following

Attention is directed to the n.o....
Act entitled IAN Act to provide f''sIons fo' Of On
tain equitable claims against the paying Ger.
fornia, and to contract funded deht 'e ss OF Cali.
pose" approved April 3Oth, A. D. Isso mat pu,.
Also, to the provisions of an Act -oUv. ent;.,
Act recommending to the electors Of .h IAN
vote for or against q Convention to ,ue . Stateto
change the Constitution of the State "e "revlse and
April 28th, A. d. 1860. '' approved
The Placer herald., 1860-10-20

ROAD Commission ERs.-Attention is call
ed to the fact, that under the new road law
passed for this county last winter, it will be
necessary to elect three Road Commissioners
in each Township in the county. The road
tax of each Township will be paid into the
county Treasury, Gnstead of being collected
by Road Overseers as Formerly the fund
of each Township being kept separately.
The Road Commissioners will let contracts
annually, to the lowest responsible bidder to
keep their Township roads in repair, or to
portant one for the county, and we believe,
a great improvement! on the old system 1t
was framed by Mr.. Beach, and received the
unanimous support of our delegation in the
Legislature. There are other important
provisions in the law, but we have not space
at. present to enumerate them. AS soon
as the crowded state of our columns
will permit, we will publish the Act in full
The Commissioners should be selected from
| lDe DeSt men or every township
QUARTZ PRosPECTING AT PARADIsE.-An
old friend and patron of the Herald, writing
from Paradise, below Todds Valley, conveys
us the information that quartz mining will
! probably become very lucrative business
there. He says "there has been good deal
of prospecting done here in quartz leads the
past summer, with more success than the old
residents ever dreamed of. The surface dig
gings in the ravines and holows in the Vi
cinity have been fabulously rich-bu. have
been so completely gutted that it was
thought they were worked out. But it
seems the main sources are in the hills that
have never been disturbed, and that Para
disc has not yet been prospected, and that
we are just getting into the secret AS yet
there have been no veins struck as rich as
those at Spanish Dry Diggings, on the op-
posite side of the American, but it is the
impression Of every one that that lead runs
through Paradise, and this summer three
men took out of small vein three thousand
dollars in one week Al the veins found
here yet are small, and generally run east
and west, but those familiar with quartz
working say the main lead is not yet found,
the small veins being but feeders. These
discoveries have given the miners around
here new hopes and IDEAS
The writer further says that the late rain
did some slight damage upon the Middle
Fork, bat repairs having beea made, the mi
ners have again gone to work
The Placer herald., 1860-10-20
List of Letters.

"a , NAMING in the Post Office at Rattlesnak
AA Placer county. October lst, 1860
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11
Resolutions of Coincidence.

AT meeting of Eureka Engine Company
held Sept. 10th, the following Preamble and
Resolutions were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased the Arbiter of human
destiny to call suddenly hence from our midsts.
while IN the enjoyment of life and health. our
worthy fellow fireman and citizen, Charles Lind
therefore be il
RESOLVED, That we deeply sympathze with
the family of our deceased brother in their great
bereavement. BY his death the Department has
lost one Of the most active and efficient members
his family devoted husband, brother and SON
the community an exemplary and worthy citizen
RESOLVED, That the blow that fell so heavily
and crushingly upon them has likewise cast a
deep gloom upon us who have labored with him
in the discharge of our duties as firemen, and we
feel that it will be long ere his place will be filled
in our ranks.
RESOLVED. That Eureka Engine Hall be draped
IN mourning for thirty days, and that the above
Resolutions be published and copy sent to the
widow Of our deceased brother
+ J. JocELYX, Sec'y.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

PLuMAs COUNTY FAIR. Some weeks since
j. G. Lewis, Secretary of the Plumas County
Agricultural Society, issued a call for meet
ing of the citizens of Quincy and vicinity, to
make arrangements for the holding of a
County Fair. He says: "The call was re
sponded to with the utmost enthusiasm, by
one man-that one ourself. Yes solitary
and alone, we stood in the deserted hall. and
considered had the call been made for a
Niger show, would it have been thus? No,
indeed. " lie subsequently, issued another
call, but whether with any better success, we
are not informed.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11
Joint Senatorial Convention.

This Convention assembled at the District
Court room, yesterday, at II o'clock.
On motion Of Gen, Winn, of Sutter, T. B.
Reardan was elected President, and g. h.
Crackbon, Secretary.
On motion, a committee of four were np-
pointed on credentials Chair appointed A.
NJ. Vim, +. w. Burk 5 c. Tompkins and Il.
w. Theall as said committee.
Adjourned until two o'clock.
Two ocLocK.-On re assembling, the COM
mittee reported the following delegates entil-
ed to seats in the Convention;
Yuba county.-S. C. Tompkins, Hugh
Carr, E. T. Wilkins, John Flattery, j. p.
Brown, w. Y. Head, j. M. Belrude, c. +.
Stone, c. L. Crackbon, T. b. Reardan, John
Collins, Joseph Payne, IL. w. Theall.
Sutter county-E. P. Wilson, a. NJ. Vim,
James Richards, James e. Dow, William
Geller Thos. Hammond David 0. Mahoney,
Clay Rnncy, A. B. Davis. Z. IL. Childers, f,
W. Burke, NJ. jones' q. Kirkade.
On motion, the report of the committee
was adopted
On motion, the temporary officers were
chosen as the permanent officers of the Con-
venton.
Nominations being in order H. W. Theal
nominated James C. Wilson.
A. NJ. Winn moved, that as there had been
an understanding in times past that the nom
ination should alternate between Yuba and
Sutter, and that Sutter having had it for the
last term, that James c. Wilson be declared
the nominee by acclamation. Carried.
Mr.. Wilson being present, addressed the
Convention, endorsing the principles of til,
party and pledging his utmost exertions fol
the success of the Democratic ticket.
Adjourned. T. B. REARDAN, Chm.
c. l.. CRACKBoN, Secretary.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

HE BRECKENRIDGE CONVENTION. This body
was made up of funny materials, and the
delegates from many precnts were elected in
funny manner 1t appears from a letter
now before us that the party never had
primary election at French Gulch, and vet
that precinct was fully represented in part
By three pledged members Of the Douglas
wing. East Fork was also represented by a
set-elected delegate who had been defeated
as a candidate for Douglas delegate from
French Guleh. Middletown, too, had four
delegates. As that is just one more than the
number of Breckenridge voters in the pre-,
cinct, they prevailed upon good Doug glas
man to permit his name to be used for the
occasion. Funny way to make up a Con-
vention, that-verY!- !-Shasta Conrier.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

BURNING OF FULLER's QUARTZ MILL.-A tel
egraphic dispatch was received by Mortimer
Fuller, in this city, last evening, to the effect
that his quartz MILL at Yankee Hill, Butte
county, had been destroyed by fire, Mr..
Fuller had worked very hard for more than
year in building his mill and had just COM
pleted it. 1t was probably the best quartz
mill in Butte county, and was in a rich
quartz district Mr.. Fuler's loss cannot fall
short Of $4,000
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

Ok Saturday Of last week. Messrs Dosh,
White, Shurtleff and Tracy, addressed q
meeting of the Democracy at Whisky Creek,
Shasta county. Judging by the hearty man
ner, says the Courier, in which the speeches
were received, We may safely assert that
Whisky Creek precinct will give Douglas and
johnson a hearty support. We were inform
ed that at least two thirds of the persons
present were supporters of the regular nomi-
mesa
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

FoUR FIFTHs FOR DoUGLAs.-A we'll inform
ed Breckinridger, who come, says the Sierra
Democrat, as delegate from Forest City tc
the Breckinridge county convention oi
Wednesday, September 5th, was asked about
the prospect in south Sierra. lie replied :
'It's too bad to say So but four-ffths of the
people are for Douglas"
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11
MARYSVILLE.
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 10th.
THE CAMPAIGN DEMOCRAT.
Supervisor Convention.

The National Democratic voters Of the Second su-
pervsor District, county of Yuba, will meet in their
respective precincts on THURSDAY, September 18th,
for The purpose Of electing delegates to District
Convention, to be held at smartsville on SATURDAY
September 18TH 1862 at 12 o'clock NJ, to nominate a
candidate for Supervisor and Township officers for
said District. The precincts will be represented as
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

OLD ARKANsAs.-The latest news from Ar
kansas is that Judge Rector, who has just
been elected Governor is Douglas man
The Breckinridge candidate was pretty badly
beaten. So it goes. First, Missouri pro.
nounces against the Secessionists, then Ken
tacky, then Alabama, then Arkansas. All
slaveholding States, too. OF course, Breck-
inridge will be elected The signs are cheer
ing, Can't the Breckinrdgers get up shout I
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

SUIcIDE.-A German named Peter Eller-
brook, committed suicide in San Francisco
Tuesday evening, by shooting himself thro'
the heart with pistol.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

SAW Mill BURNED-We learn that the
Saw Mill known as the Sugar Pine Mill was
burned on Sunday morning, 9th inst. 1t was
owned by Mr. r. s Jenkins, and located on
the La Porte road a short distance above
the Oregon House The mill was totally
consumed. We did not learn whether any
of the lumber was saved or not.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

THE German vote in the Northwest, which
Of late years has gone in great part to the
Republicans, goes now for Douglas.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

On Friday morning, the Matelot reservoir
near Columbia, broke The damage done
by the water to mining claims is estimated at
$4,000.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

The UNIT RULE.-Speaking of the unit
rule adopted at the Charleston Convention,
the Express says;
"Now if it was necessary to compel the delega-
ton OF one State to vote as q unit in order to
represent correctly the will of their constituents.
It was equa lly necessary to make all submit to
the same rule"
What does the Express mean by using the
the word compel" in this connection ? There
was no compulsion whatever in the unit
rule. 1t merely recognized the right of each
delegate to cast his individual vote, when
not instructed by his State as to how his vote
should be cast. Does the Express call this
compelling the delegations to vote as a unit :?
Several delegations were sent to the Conven-
tion with instructions from their States as to
how they should vote Others were sent
not instructed, but left free to vote for any
candidate or platform they pleased. The
unit rule recognized the right of the States
to instruct their delegates, and the right of
those delegates not instructed to vote as
they chose. We ask what could be farer
''"H 'Hio' St, luNSihS Ilotu tie ldHSudSe
of the Express, it believes the Convention
could to have adopted rule compelling"
all the delegations to vote as a unit, thus
denying to delegates not instructed the right
to vote as they pleased We PROFOUND the
following questions to the Express:
Have not States the right to instruct their
delegates to the National Convention to vote
as a unit? Does the Convention possess the
power to abrogate those Instructions? When
delegates are not instructed by their States
as to how they shall VOTE does the Conven-
tion possess the right to dictate to them as
to how they shall vote?
We apprehend that if the Express had
had the fairness to quote the "unit rule" in
its article condemning it, it would have
placed itself in a ridiculous light.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

QUICKSILVER MTNEs.-The Board of Eouali
zation of Santa Clara have fixed the assess-
ment of the two square leagues of land
known as the New Almaden .ancho ot
100000. The Board also ordered the as
sessment of $3.50 acres, part of the Rancho
de los Capitancllos, assessed to Henry Ian
rencel and Hugh Tyler, at 1912, 800.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

LAST week, between SCOTS Valley and
Yreka, VIM. McAboy was seriously and pre-
haps fatally injured, by being thrown from
buoy.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

The SIZE OF THE GREAT EAsTERN-In Civ
ing an account of the late trip of the Great
Eastern, the New York Post says the great
size oil the ship was made more apparent af-
ter few hours on board than at first sight
Friends would get separated aud be unable
to find each other till the next day. Dod-
worth's full band, with both brass and wood
instruments, played aft, without being heard
in the forward part of the vessel, and parties
of hundred or more joined in the noisy
games in one part of the vessel, without
quieter people in other parts of the ship
knowing anything about it.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

The Delegates elected uuder the foregoing call will
convene at SmarsYie, at the time and for the object
designated above.
LORENZO HUBBARD,
Chan Yuba Co. Dem. Central Committee.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

SUsPIcIoUs-The Breckenridge papers all
seem to have had supplem ent containing
Gwins speech at Stockton, and to have issued
it very nearly at the same time. It's hardly
probable that they could have all taken a
notion at one and the same moment to get
out this supplement, and it is shrewdly sus-
pected that VIM. NJ Gwin has himself had
these copies published in some office below,
and sent them up gratis to the Breckinridge
papers in the interior cities and the mountain
towns We think the Express would hardly
assert, if pinned down, that its supplement-
was printed in the Express office, or that it
cost the establishment anything to issue it.
This Simultaneous publication of Gwin's
speech and hearty endorsement of it looks
very much like the old fox was behind the
curtain in the management of this whole
Breckinridge campaign.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

BLOODY BUTcHERY-San Francisco papers
say that in Oakland on Friday, two China
men, while quarreling about money matters,
attacked each other with knives, and one
killed the other on the spot, and was himself
mOrtAlly wounded and died shortly after
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

PERsoNAL.-C. E. Fisher, editor of the
Red Bluff Beacon. passed through this city
Sunday, on his way home from the Demo
cratic State Convention. We were pleased
to see him in such fine health and spirits
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11
Chief Justice Taney for Douglas.

Noticing this fact, the Shasta Courier
makes the following observations:
Mr.. Douglas said, in his Freeport speech.
that the people of Territory may lawfully
exclude slavery, by refusing to pass laws for
its protection.
Nearly all the Democrats who oppose him
now give that declaration in justification
thereof They admit that Cobb, Secretary of
the Treasury; Cass, Secretary of State :
Toucey, Secretary of the Interior; Holt,
Postmaster General had each, years ago,
uttered precisely the same opinions in speech
es afterwards published. They admit this,
but say the bred Scott decision was pro-
nounced since then, and that that decision
emphatically declares the very opposite doc
trine
In reply, the friends of Douglas say that
no such question was ever before the Su~
preme Court the only points decided in the
Scott decision are, that negro cannot be-
come Il citizen of the United States, nor in
stitute a suit in the United States Courts.
They quote Reverdy johnson, who helped to
argue the case on the side of the defendant
in error" Mr.. Sandford, and against the negro
Dred Scott, and who declares that this point
was never mooted, never alluded to. much
less argued before the Supreme Court
Now, Mr. johnson must be considered
pretty good evidence on this point. The
Breckinrdgers feel it, because Mr.. johnson is
a great lawyer, and a Southerner and slave,
holder. Hence, with great flourish Of
trumpets and triumphant shouts, they quote
the opinion of the Court itself-written, they
proclaim, by the great and venerable Chief
Justice fancy hinself
Very we'll We reply that Chief Justice
fancy, the author Of the famous Dred Scott
decision-the very decision by the aid of
which the seceders seek to prove the great.
the gallant and the glorious Douglas recre-
ant to Democratic principles and outside the
pale OF the Democratic party-wo repeat, we
we reply that Chief Justice Taney is himself
a warm supporter of Stephen A. Douglas!
Cry it aloud-let it be borne on every breeze
thunder it in the ears of every enemy of
the great lllinoisan-that the great author of
the Dred Scott decision is himself an earnest
support of Stephen A. Douglas Our au-
thority is the New York News of the 18th
Aug, which declares that
Owe learn from reliable authority that
Chief Justice Taney, of the Supreme Court
of the United States, is warm advocate of
Mr.. Douglass election"
w hat saw VOu tO that 1-o RraoI-;r,;1 900. 9
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11
A Southern Chain-Shot into the Ranks OF
the SecedeIs,

Tue UNKINDEsT CUT The Charleston
Mercury has had a reputation for years as
one of the most ultra journals in the whole
South, and has usually given its support to
any measure which was exclusively of a
Southern nature and designed to forward its
sectional interests at the expense of the
Union. And yet this journal, pre- eminenty
sectional and Southern as it has been and is
now, refuses to support the Seceders in the
action they have taken. 1t denounces their
ticket as too sectional for even its support.
Here is what it has to say, and the truth it
utters is all the more potent coming from the
source it does
"The Seceders ticket is respectable in point
of ability, and has the additional merit, so far
as our present recollection ofthe past course
of the nominees serves us, of being entirely
safe for the South. Had it been nominated
at Charleston, we should have been much in
clined to advise the voters of the South. of
all parties, to make a common cause of its
success in a straight-out fight with the Re
publlcans. 1t comes to us now, though, in a
very different aspect. 1t is the ticket of a
mere faction that has split off from the Dem
ocratie party, and, so far as appears from the
| record, is without the prestige and credit of
nationality. Gentlemen from several North.
ern States participated in tho action of the
Convention, but there was not one, we APP
prehend, who went there duly accredited 6v
the people at home. 1t remains TO be seen
whether or not the popular sentiment at the
North will redeem the ticket from the sec
tional character with which it is ushered to
the country, Unsupported in the North it is
obliged to do harm, by dividing the anti
Republican strength, and thereby rendering
certain the election of Lincoln 1t cannot be
elected even should it carry every Southern
State, which is not to be presumed; for while
the Democratic vote is to be divided with
Douglas, the Wings have a ticket in the field
fully equal to it in its devotion to tho oousti-
tutional rights of the South, and immeasur-
ABLY its superior in point otaJttity, statesman
shi~, experience and p,t6lic serpice."
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

A DOUGLAS GOVERNOR IN ARKANsAs.-The
St Louis Republican,, of August 18th, thus
speaks OF the recent election in Arkansas:
A letter from Memphis dated the llth
speaks of the defeat of Colonel Hindman
Breckinridge candidate for Congress, in the
First District of State. His opponent is Of
the name of Sypert, and was not known out
side of the State before the election. We can
hardly credit this report.
The same letter says that Bell may, but
Breckenridge cannot, get the electoral vote
of that State for President Douglas is gain
ing friends rapidly all over the State.
Our dispatch from Van Buren, Arkansas,
published yesterday, indicates a complete
revolution in that State. Rector, who is
elected Governor, is a Douglas Democrat,
but he was supported in therao by theOppo.
siton or Bell party.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11
KHHI MEL'S
M u - I'D u MY
ID Street, near the Post Office
MARYSVILLE, CAL.

VII ~ above Museum is now ready for the recepton
n OF visitors All those fond of Natural and In.
common Curiosities, can now have an onnortnnitv
rarely offered by calling at KIMMEL'S MUSEUM.
to be found on exhibition: 's'
E' Two Birds of Paradise,
n o,,. Two Sea Parrots,
4 w 70 NaIi3rhla lions, Lamb with eight legs,
Sa CI al on,y Two legs, Two Lambs with eyes and
~ ~ O'uIoInla n, Mohkey, mouth underneath the
~ TWO bSdgers, throat,
Two Mountain Cats One ArmadiIla
w W nniIe I, haS, Also large variety of
Also large variety Of other curos ties, too tedi
az DlIus' Gus to mention.
Museum open from morning till night
Also, large lot Of CANARY BIRDS for salebaau.
tiful singers. " ~ "N
sea JOHN KINIMEL, Prop'r.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

UISrANp ny rus DgNoCRAro ORG ANiEArioN, flELp
oRepisScr To Irs usAGEs, ASp SUPPORT ITS REGULAR
soMlyges ''--Steptea A. Douglas, July p lsos
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11

A New IoRK letter says young Virgin
ian won $4,000 at a faro bank in that city
recently. He asked the banker to change his
"chips" to money, which was done, and he
went away without stopping a moment or
uttering word. He has not entered the
place since, nor has he been seen in the city.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-11
Democratic Candidate Tor the Senate.

In another place will be seen the proceed
ings of the Democratic Joint Senatorial Con-
vention of Yuba and Sutter, which assembled
at the Court House, on yesterday.
1t will be seen that JAMES c. WILSON has
been nominated for the Joint Senatorship of
Sutter and Yuba counties. We indorse this
nomination heartily, and have no doubt
whatever of the success of our candidate
Mr. Wilson is gentleman well known in this
region of the State, for his fine business
telent his strict integrity in all his dealings,
his firm adherence to political principles and
his general qualities as an upright man and
good citizen.
There is a natural desire on the part of the
public to ascertain the birth. place of a candi-
date and all about him, and in Difference to
this feeling, we will simply state that Mr..
Wilson is native of Maryland. born and
reared, we believe, in the city of Baltimore.
He came to California in ls49, was one OF
the Company who built the first large quartz
mill at Grass Valley, came to Marysville in
the latter part of 1853, and has been here
ever since He was at one time engaged in
stock raising in Sutter county, but the most
of his time since 1858 has been devoted to
merchandising in this city, in connection with
his very worthy partner, Mr. Walker.
Mr.. Wilson is a man who has numerous
friends and but few enemies. We know OF
no man in this region more popular, more
trusted, and more worthy to be trusted, by
the people.
AS to his politics, he has never in his life
been outside of the Democratic organization
We are pretty sure of his election. The
unanimity with which his nomination was
made shows him to be the choice of his party
The UNIT RULE.-The Express, discussing
the unit rule, says:
"Why was 1t applied to only the delegates from
States where the majority were favorable It
Douglas"
We reply that it was not so applied, Or
the contrary it was applied to all the State:
indiscriminately-that is to say, wherever
delegates had been instructed by State Con,
ventions to vote as a unit they were to do So
and wherever not they were to vote accord
ing to their individual inclinations Thi:
rule was applied to all the States, and moi
to the Douglas ones alone.
OLD ARKANsAs.-The latest news from Ar