The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1861-08-03
Eastern News.

.h,oa miles of Manassas Junction, where OF
the same evening an attack was made on
masked battery, which resulted in the kill
;,o Of about 40, and the wounding of 90
rho loss Of the Confederate forces is no
Known. II was expected the battle woul,
ha resumed on Sunday, the 2lst. The Fed
o,sl. troops were placing their cannon in DO
zion. The troops are under the command
- General Mcdowell. The batteries which
accompany the command consists of eigh
so pounders, the largest in the service
T. is said that Gen. johnson formed E
Junction with Gen. Beauregard at Manassas
on the 10th.
Gen. Patterson is reported to be approach
;oo Winchester cautiously by two routes
IN General McClelan's line there has
hoen some severe fighting. He has succeed
ed in whipping the Confederate troops at
..everal points. The last battle was at Cheat
River. in the Laurel Mountains. In this bat
tla General Garnet of the Confederate
sorces lost his life He WAS formally an
nficer in the U. S. army. Many prisoners
we're taken.
BilIy Wilson's Zouaves had arrived at
Fort Pickens, and were compelled to drill
la;lv. Their arrival was announced by the
"buiies" giving "cheers and "tgers," the
GLa Of which was never before heard in the
EVERGLADES of Florida. Gen. Bragg has fit
tad four new batteries, bearing on Fort Pick
sns this makes about eighteen in all incul
inn Fort Rae and the Barrancas. At the
LATER place Columbiads have been mount
cd instead of common guns. Bragg has
about 5000 troops, while the United States
has 1000 on Rosas Island near the Fort.
There is an English steam frigate anchored
near by, watching British interests.
The news from the State Of Missouri is of
an alarming character. Civil war has been
inaugurated, and troops are pouring into the
State from Iowa and Illinois. Citizens are
armng. and anarchy and bloodshed are de
yastatng the fair plains Of Missouri. Mill
,ary power has taken the place of the laws of
the State, public journals have been forcibly
suspended, and law abiding citizens have
been arrested and imprisoned for expressing
their sentiments in opposition to the despot'
ism and acts Of tyranny which have been
inaugurated.
The Pony news which was due last night
may bring US news of a general engagement
near Manassas Junction.
On Monday, the 18th of July, about 200
women, mostly soldiers wives, paraded the
streets of New York city, demanding bread
bread bread-f,r their starving children
and for themselves; and yet the war goes
on. The poor have commenced to starve,
and the rich are lining their pockets with
fat army contracts.
1t is rumored from credible source
that the English Government, acting in
concert with France, is about 20 request of
the United States the exemption of one
Southern cotton port, that they may get
needfu supplies of the staple. The Admins
,ra,iou will not concede 1t.
Senator Simmons, of Rhode Island, is pre-
barring an entire new tariff bill, which he
intends to substitute for the House bill, lay,
jnp additional duties at ten per cent on all
articles where the duty will not exceed fifty
per cent.
Several members of Congress have gone to
Manassas Junction to witness the fighting.
A war vessel had attacked Fort Hattrass
without any effective result.
SINGULAR EFFECT OF THE Hot WEATHER.
The Knights Landing Ne~s of July 9Th,
saws
The recent hot weather has had the effect
to heat the waters in aud around Sycamore
slough to such an extent that all the fish
have died, and for the past week the river
at this point has been literally covered with
dead fish. from the smallest minnow to the
largest sturgeon; and as the river is falling
rapidly, large numbers are deposited on tn"
banks and bars Of the river, causing an IN
tolerable stencil to rise from their decompo-
siton. We trust the worst is over, for
should this continue another week, 1t must
breed great amount of sickness
Ou1cK T,ME.-The Sacramento Union is
informed that w. S. O'Connor arrived at
Carson City by the last Overland stage from
the East, having left London thirty one days
before This is undoubtedly the first instance
in which the trip has been made in that time
Thrty-one days from the city of London to
the Sierra Nevada mountains, and one halt
that time spent on one fourth OF the journey
IN travelling by horse power.
The RED BLUFF SEA SERPENT The
big snake" which excited the people OF lie
hama county turns nut to be no snake. The
Beacon of the 25th instant says, that gen
'|eman who lives in the big bend OF the r'v-
er near the Iron Canyon, saw, on Friday last
opposite Whites old place, large fish re
semb'ing porpoise, only much Longer than
those animals usually grow, stranded and
dead on rifle in the river. 1t is evidently
one of the monsters about which so much
excitement was created few weeks since
IN lde's bottom.