The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1861-11-09
!. .CRAmENTO CORRESPONDENCE.
SACRAMENTO, Nov, 9TH. 1851.

E,5;foys Her0id:-Wc are to have "a fine time
,oro ot our School election. which comes off Dec.
Oh The law was amended last winter, so az to
.,;Sconnect the "Board of Education from politi
nal nreiudces or influences by fixing the election
~ directors and Superintendent subsequent to
tho general electiOn,-and some other minor
changes not very material in my Judgment Il
,nns believed that our School matters would be
Inns severed from the filthy pool of politics.
The main object may be gained from the fact only
that we have no party politics nowadays. But
# begins to be unprecedented, so little general in
terest is felt in this matter, that a very small
vote will be pOled although there are candidates
Nv the hundreds Offering for the various positions
Hparticuarly the SUPPLEMENTARY, which is
worth $1,000 per annum! A Director receives no
nav. but candidates are numerous from the fact
many aspire to a position wherein they may re-
ward their friends by i'm appointment in our
schools About $4,000 or $4,000 is discussed
Yearly to teachers and assistants. most all of
svhom are females, and receive salaries from $50
down to $40 per month. The election will re-
snlt in great scramble among individuals and
classes. for which those who really have the
GOOD of the public Schools at heart will take an
active though unconscious part young Amer-
ran and cold Fogism' IRE Inscribed on the ban
ners of the contending parties. Young America"
will probably win
THE NEW COLONELs.
Ferris Forman to Colonelcys of the 4th and 9TH
REGIMENTS of Volunteers. creates some consider
able feeling hcre-especially that Of Foimln's
The Federal Union men are afraid Of him and
many say that he is not sound But the fact
that he accepts with the expectation of taking
the modern oath is enough TO satisfy the most
skeptical. Ferris, guess. is Il good Federal
Administmtion-m and has probably not rcceiv-
ed and accepted the appointment without ully
weighing all the various positions he may be
placed in before the termination OF the present
war. Ferris. at any rate, likes office."
PREDICTION ABOUT RAIN.
DR.. Logan. of this city, having kept record
of the seasons for the past ten twelve years
in his monthly statement for October makes the
prediction that we are to he favored or unfavor-
ed. with q dry winter. The Doctor says that
every t. rec and seven years are periods Of maxi
mum rain and this year is Of the cycle three"
"All right" say the miners in the rivers Of your
county.
THE MORTALITY TABLE
shows a greater number of .deaths for October
than any past month of the year. The total is
81 twenty females and seventeen males. This is
much the largest number of females ever dcceas-
ed in one month in Sacramento.
THE AMERICAN RIVER LEvEE
question is still before the Board of Supervisors
who are at present engaged in digesting a plan
submitted for its support by B. f. Leet, late of
your county. 1t would save us much money if
YOU would not pour your waters this way.
THE DIFFERENCE IN PRICE.
The exact decline the last year in the wholesale
price Of grapes in this city is twenty-five per
cent. We have several large vineyards III this
vicinity. the owners OF which suffer several
thousand dollars loss in the depreciation. Oae of
these vineyards is owned by 4. d. Hopping, who
set the Los Angeles vine seven years ago. and
from their bountiful yield this people eat daily
as luciOus grapes as can be raised from any OF
the cracked-up foreign stock.
TX SURVEYOR YOU,
"what was" and Lieutenant Young. ''whO is
and who lately resigned from the Forest Hill
Company, came To this city few days ago ana
joined Capt Smiths Company, Of the 9Th regl-
mcnt rs Il private Since which. he has been
elected to the position Of lst Lieutenant. This
success is complimentary to Thomas.
THE FLOUR SPECULATION.
Spocu ,tors in Hour are using every prrtcXt to
raise a D IN C o bar. with the view Of realizing
large profits during the approaching year. The
price has been already advanced here from tour
TO six shillngS (bi,s) ON a hundred. and there is
pressure to get it mp notch or two higher.
But for the fac that there is no combination OF
capitalists having cash or credit sufficient to buy
up Il monOpolizIng quantity. the price would bc
Immediately raised to very high figure. Be-
sides. capitalists are looking to other articles OF
general consumption more readily monop@lzed
IRON the fact Of greater scarcity aud being more
concentrated at San Francisco. II the war con
tinucs II year or more. we shall exhaust many CT
our domestic goods; and which, as they grow
scarce in one market, the capitalists may grab
and hold at his own price. But | believe the
advance in -four is based upon fiction, and that
the price new demanded will not be sustained.
LITTLE MORE INCENDIARISM.
This morning two or three more buildings were
destroyed by an incendary. The buildings de-
strOyed heretofore as well rs the one set on lire
last nj ght. were generally unoccupled
THE CAPITOL.
The Capitol, Cor the Court House for the city
and county of Sacramento) is being painted OUT
side. and ceansed and re aired within. prepare
tory to the converting OF the Legislature When
the Capitol proper is completed, which will be IN
the course Of three or four years. this Court House
building will be occupied by Sacramento. in
stead of being rented to the State. There will
then be great stampede O. saloon-keepers from
4th street to and Seventh, and to within respect
full distance of the State House.
WINTER LECTURES.
One of the greatest "instilutons' of Sacra-
mento is the Library Association, and the Lee
lures delivered before its members The regular
course will commence on the 18th inst. There
IRE $500 volumes in the Library.
SOME EXCITEMENT.
1t was rumored here this afternoon that i'm
portant news by telegraph was received. and 4
curiosity was telt by our people to know its mer-
its. At about p NJ the Unions extra appeared
on the streets and then you ought to have seen
the rush of the citizens towards the newsboys,
with their two bits extended. The news was
more in detail by this dispatch, but it failed to
crafty those who invested their quarters. The
removal of Fremont was about the gist OF the
whole affair. MORE ANON.