The Placer herald., 1862-04-12
NUMBER 30.
CLIPPINGS.

main lead being between five and six feet in
diameter.
AMNESTY. Hon. J James Guthrie is in favor
Of an amnesty act, to apply to all now in
arms against the Government who shall
submit to its requirements.
CROOKED LoGIc.-The Sacramento Union
argues that large amount of the Sacra-
mento City bonds are illegal, and says that
if the Courts shall declare them illegal on
technical grounds and thus wipe out those
evidences of Indebtedness, no one can call it
reputation.
FARMS DESTROYED fine farms on
the Yuba, above Marysville, it is said, are
mostly all destroyed, some of them covered
with sand from one to six feet deep. Briggs
orchard is filled up to the lower limbs of the
trees, and has general gone in appearance.
The rebels affect to consider the wooden
shoes made at Charleston admirable, especi
ally Tor use on the sea coast, as the salt water
cannot injure them.
LARGE CIRcuLArToN.-The New York
Herald of the 2lst February says its average
daily circulation from the week preceding
that date was 10000.
EE- The Chinese of the present day are
said to have lost a curions secret. They
knew formerly how to paint their porcelain
with fishes and other creatures in such
manner that they never appear to the eye
until the vases were filled with liquor.
Nearly one million bales of cotton were
received in England last year from Bombay.
In 1856 man was prosecuted for selling
coffee, just then introduced, as nuisance
and prejudice to the neghborhood
There are now 42s patients in the Cali
fornia State Insane Asylum, being 20 less
than at the beginning Of March.
The Confederate Government follows Capt
Cuttle's advice, and whenever they find
piece of paper they "make a note of it,"
Philadelphia has the largest fire depart.
ment in the world 1t consists of 100
companies, 27 steam engines, 46 hand en-.
gines, 206 hose carriages with four wheels,
and ten with two wheels. The estimated
value of property is over ST 900 900. The
number of fires in that city during the past
year was 3S2; estimated loss 1888 200; in
sured $2O5,265.
The women Of Iceland have novel mode
of taking snuff. They carry it in an article
resembling moderately sized powder horn.
When in the house, they spread the snuff
on the back of their hands and slowly in,
hale it; but when riding they thrust the end
of the horn into each nostri inturn. Among
other eccentric Icelandc customs is that of
having their dishes washed by dogs, who
wash them with their tongues.
The Pound Master of San Francisco. re,
signed one day last week. and on the next
day there were six applicants for the position.
AN IRREpRFssIBLE JouRNAL.-1'he Stock
ton Independent declared "that the irrepres-
sbe conflict still lives, and will live and act,
until the last slave shall have disappeared
from the United States"
A husband alvertises thus: "My wife,
Maria, has straved or been stolen. Whoever
returns her will get his neck broke. As to
trusting her, anybody can do so if he sees
fit; for, as | never pay my own debts, it's not
likely Ill pay hern."
clergyman consoling young widow
on the death Of her husband, remarked that
she could not find his equal. "I'll bet wllv'
remarked the sober fair one.
The ABOLITION AGTAroRs-T Buffalo,
Courier says "that it has the authority of
Thurlow Weed for the assertion that Mr..
Lincoln expresses the most intense regret
that he did not urge the adoption of the
Crittenden Compromise resolutions by his
friends in Congress-"
"Will you come to the bower | have shad'
ed for you?' as the Western man said when
he had concealed all the bowers In his boots
The demand for whskey is said to be so
great at the South that every gallon is sold
as soon as it is made. Such whisky must
be like that known in some western localities
wherein those who drink it can see the boys
hoeing the corn from which it is made.
small locomotive, measuring, with ten
der attached, only II feet, was recently ship.
ped from San Francisco for Oregon. 1t is
designed for the Dalles and Deschutes road.
When the Government is afflicted, the
political docto's generally apply ieeches to
its chest.
Steel vests, capable of resisting rifle shot
or oayoHel tnrusI, anu weighing dUouI Clree
and half pounds each, to be worn under
the ordinary clothing, are now being man
ufactured in great quantities in New Haven,
Connecticut.
Your candid friend has never anything
pleasant to say to you. lie reminds you Of
his pet virtue by wounding you with it.
Gen. Buell. recently said: None Of my
officers shall attempt to tell people what the
war is about. myself don't know what it