The Placer herald., 1861-11-30

any Postmaster shall unlawiuly detain in his
office any letter. package, pamphlet, or news
paper, with intent to prevent the arrival and de-
livery of the same to the person or persons to
whom such letter, package, pamphlet, or news
paper may be addressed or directed in the usual
course of the transportation Of the mail along
the route; or If any Postmaster shall, with intent
rs aforesaid give preference to any letter, pack
age, pamphlet. or newspaper, over another which
may pass through his Office, by forwarding the one
and retaining the other he shall, on conviction
thereof, be fined in sum not exceeding five
hundred dollars, and imprisoned for "a term not
exceeding six months. and shall, moreover, be for
ever thereafter incapable of holding the Office of
Postmaster of the United States.
A counlrymen in one of the Western
States, with load Of meal, drove up to a
lady's door, when the following conversa
tion took place:
"Do you want any meal, ma'am!"
"What do you ask for a bushel?"
"Ten cents, maam-prme!"
ooh, can get it for fp."
In a despairing voice: Dear lady! will
you not take bushel for nothng!"
"Is it sifted?"
MORAL AND PHILosopHICAL The editor
of the Spirit of the Times thinks that to
play the "Dead Heart" effectively it is not
necessary for the actor to be dead drunk"
OREGON VoLUNrEERs.- was expected,
Col. Wright has made a requision on Gov.
Whitaker for mounted volunteers to serve
for three years on the frontier
To PREVENT iREcKLEs Make lotion
by mixing l ounce of rectied spirit of wine,
a teaspoonfull of muratic acid and or 8
ounces of waterstogether and, according to
directions moislening the freckIes with this
lotion, they will after while disappear.
To KEEP HANDS Soft AND WnlrE.-
Take one half pound of soft soap and melt
it over slow fire with gill of sweet oil
and add half teacupful of very fine sand and
stir the mixture together till cold.
Useful knowledge can have no enemies
except the ignorant; it cherishes youth, de-
lights old age, is an ornament in prosperity,
and yield comfort in adversely.
"Dear me, how huidly he does talk" said
Mrs. Partington, recently, at a temperance
lecture. 81 am always rejoiced when he
mounts the nostrils for his eloquence warns
me in every nerve and cartridge of my body.
Poetry is the attempt which man makes
10 render his existence harmonious.
The Alta says there are 483 convicts in
carcerated in the State Prison at San Quen-
tin. OF the entire number none are females,
nor has there been a female prisoner inside
Of the walls for year past.
PAPA, didn't you whip me once for
biting brother Tommv?' "Yes, my child;
you hurt him bad" "WelI, then, papa, you
ought to whip mas music teacher too, for
he bit her right on the mouth and | know
he hurt her, because she put her arms around
his neck and tried to choke him."
BETTER LATE THAN NEvER-1he Treasu-
rer of Caaveras county advertses to pay ac-
counts allowed by the Supervisors of said
county in November 1857 to the amount Of
$l,6l6,42.
~ Winter, Representative in the Me-.
vada Territorial legislature, attacked Van
Rokelen, President of the Council, on Satur-
day, knocked him down with club, and
kicking him in the face.
FANArIoIsM REBuKED-One of the curl
Gus facts connected with the result of the
election in Pennsylvania is the election to
the Legislature of Col. d. Il. Neiman of
Northampton CountG whose paper, two
months since, was destroyed by a mob. The
Democratic majority in Northampton is usu
ally about 1000. Col, Neiman is elected by
over | 300 majority.
Horace Kemp, charged with libeling John
White, editor of the San Francisco Herald by
publishing him as a Secessionst, has been
examined before the Police Judge of that
city, and sent to the Court of Sessions.
In San Francisco, Wednesday, man nam
ed Barns, aged so, fell from house and
broke his skull
Thomas Jefferson was called the "Intidel
President, and to him we owe, in great
measure, all the religious liberty we enjoy.
But for him, the sword might still be in the
hands of the Orthodoxy, and the Blue Laws
still give tone to American legislation.
How TO COMPLEMENT AN OFFICER.-By
giving him his complement Of men.
An old bachelor is traveller upon life's
railroad, who has entirely failed to make the
proper connexions.