The Placer herald., 1861-03-16
Predictions for the Year 1861.

The year 1861 will be very eventful one
to every maiden who gets married.
Throughout the whole course Of the year
whenever the moon wanes the nights will
grow dark.
If Iandies wear their boards there will be
less work for BARRIERS. lie who wears his
mustache will have something to sneeze at.
Whoever is in love this year will think
his mistress an angel. Whoever gets mar
ried will find out whether il is true.
lie that loses his wife will become wild
over
If Young woman should happen to blush
she will look red in the face. If she dreams
of a young man three nj ghts in succession, it
will be sign Of something. If she dreams
OF him four times or have the tooth ache, it
is ten to one that she is long time getting
either of them out of her head.
If any one Jumps overheard without know
ing how to swim, it is two to one he gets
drowned
If any one lend an umbrella, it is ten to
one he is obliged to go home in the rain for
his pains.
Whoever runs in debt this year will be
lunned
Many an old sinner will resolve to turn
over new leaf this year, but the new leaf
will turn out blank.
1t is probable that if there is no business
doing people will complain of hard times,
but it is certain that those who hang them
selves will escape starving to death.
He that bites off his own nose, or turns
politician will act like n tool, and this is
the most certain of all.
eff the cotton States un;tedlv and earnest
ly wish to withdraw peacefully from the
Union, we think they should and would be
allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel
them by force to remain would he contrary
to the principles enunciated in the immortal
Declaration of Independence contrary to
the fundamental ideas on which Human
Liberty is based"
~. Y. Tribune, Nop 1860.
The contingency above mentioned has now
occurred. The five cotton States have ex-
pressed, through their people assembled in
regular convention, desire to p acefully
withdraw from the government as ii is pro-
posed to conduct it by Mr. Lincoln But
is there any evidence that they are to he al
lowed to do this peacefully? On the con
trary, the Tribune is row camorous for war
1t seems to have forgotten the above extract
from one of its own articles, and is now so
anxious to retain the cotton States as to whip
them into the Union. This new tone of the
Republican papers is all the more astonish-
ing since it is not long time past when they
were telling the North that these States
could not he clicked out" Before the cleo
tion the Tribune said they would make haste
to submit to Lincoln, and that the ap7lica
tons for office from the South were "too
numerous to mention" Then, too, the
South has So ong been a tax on the North
We pay for her mails; she is so dependen,
upon us, &c. &c. Ifall these things are true,
as the Republican papers have so constantly
asserted, why not get rid of such an expen-
sive incumbus upon us? Ger ainly there are
some very queer flaws in the Republican
statements. ~ Y. Day Book.
PRosrECToRs.-The Los Angeles STAR of
the I'd inst, says:-1he rumors Of rich silver
mines near the Colorado river are bringing
prospectors to this section of the State, seve
raj parties OF whom arrived here by the last
trip of the SENATOR" and left this week for
the Colorado-the scene of their future
labors. OF the success of their mission there
can be no doubt, as the ore which comes
from that section is rich beyond anything
yet discovered, say" the famous Comstock
Indeed. from Washoe, by the Esneralda,
Coso, along the mountain range to the Colo
RADIO, and in the Province Mountains, silver
has been found in great abundance. At no
distant day the Colorado country will be the
scene of active industry of large mining
population.
The statement that Gen. Scott and Com
modore Stewart will ride together on inaug
uration day, in the next carriage to the Pres
ident and the President elect, reminds us
that these two veterans were in early life
suitors for the hand of the same ladv-,he
present Mrs. Scott. Stewart afterwards
married Miss Tudor Of Boston-and bv
singular coincidence Mrs. Stewart and Mrs
Scott are now both residing in Paris.
TINES PRoGREss. it is not till
time with reckless hand torn out half the
leaves ttom the book of human life, to light
the fires of passion with from day to day,
that man begins to see that the leaves which
remain are few in number and to remember
family at fist, and then more clearly, that
upon the early page Of that book was writ
ten Il story of happy influence which he
would fain read over again. Then comes
listless irresoluton and the inevitable mac
tion Of despair; or else the grim resolve to
record upon the leaves that still remain
more noble history than the chid's story
with which the book began.
The Wide-Awakes of St. Louis got asham
ed of their organization, disbanded and
Z a.