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The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

A old maid who has her eyes little side
ways on matrimony, says "the curse OF war
is, that it will make so many widows, who
will be fierce to get married, and who know
how to do it. that modest old maids vii!
stand no chance at al!r'
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

The New York Herald asserts that the
Confederates have $50 regiments of 500
men each in the field. This makes 100000,
fighting men in all.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25
TERMS.
subscriptions inuariadlyin advancc)
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
oHoo on Main Street, Auburn, Placer cour

One square of Ten LINES, (thls sized type)
First insertion. .:...............:o7 w w
r"" h,oI half SQUARE five inesD or less. 90
n,,, advertisements charged full rates.
o,,;tnorv Birth. and Marriage Notices published
without charge
1srTiberal deductions made TO monthly or
yearly advertisers.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

The Continental Opera House Baltimore,
Nd, has been turned into q "Steam Oyster
House" 30 it is said. "What change, my
oountrymen!" from opera to oysters,
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

The girls of northampton have been send.
inc bachelor editor boquet OF tansy anu
wormwood The wretched individual says
he don't care-it's sweeter than matrlmony
anyhow.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

"ls anybody waiting on you2" said po.
lite dry goods clerk ia prstty girl from
the country.
"Yes sir" said the blushing girI; that's
nv feles outside. lis uot.idn'i come in.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

A citizen Of Stockton, out cunning recent
ly is said to have killed twenty four ducks at
one shot.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

"Will you come to the bower | have sha-
ded for you?" as the western man sad wheh
he had concealed all the "bowers" IN his
boots.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

r. II. Thomas, of Tehama county, has
lost some 1000 head of cattle by the Hood
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

The losses caused by the California HOOD
of 1862 are variousy estimated at from len
to fifteen millions of dollars.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

CONTRADICTORY REPoRrs FROM THE NEz
PERcEs MINEs.-Mr. Frank Mcguire, who
has returned from the Nez Perces country,
where he has been since July, informs the
editor of the Red BIaIf Beacon that the re
ports of heavy profits in the mines Of that
district are generally exaggerate' manu-
factnred by the spectators and Oregon
newspaper editors lie SAYS there were a
number Of persons. last Summer and fall,
who ma le good wages (whle Others made
nothing at aI;) but as to $500 or even 5000
a day being taken ont by anybody, it is all a
humbuy. While taking grounds against a
repetition Of the Fraser river hegra. he ac
made there, and intends to return with his
pack train in the spring.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

Firewood is scarce in Marysvile, and il
selling at 50 to SIG per cord,
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

The Los Angeles Star says immigrants
continue to arrive from Texas. They do not
give very favorable report Of the condition
of things in the State, or on the way.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

A Coop DIvIDEND-A broker, when es-
cortng home fair damsel, asked her what
kind of money she liked best. OF course
the blushing beauty instantly suggested mat
ri momy.
"What interest does it bring'" inquired
the note'shaver.
"If properly invested" faltered the far
charmer, "If property invested, it will doub
le the original stock every three years"
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

New TARIFF.-A telegram has been re
ceived at the San Francisco Custom House
from the Secretary of the Treasury announ-
cling that Il now tariff bill has passed The
only changes of which he gives information
are, that henceforth tea is to pay tax Of
twenty cents per pound, coffee five cents, and
sugar two and "A half cents. The tariff went
into effect on Christmas day, and applies to
goods in warehouses as well as those enter
ing from abroad. A Rep 'blican Congress
taxes the necesaries of life, which the poor
use, not the luxuries, which the rich could
we'll afford to pay for.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25
NUMBER 81.
ANNIE OF THE VALE.

The young stars are glowing,
Their clear light bestowing,
Their radiance fills the calm, clear summer night;
Come forth, like fairy,
So blithsome and airy,
And ramble in their soft and mystic light
Chorus: Come, come, come, love come
Come ere the night torches pale;
Oh come in thy beauty,
Thou marvel of duty.
Dear Annie, dear Annie of the Vale.
The world we inherit
Is charmed by thy spirit,
As radiant the mild. warm summer ray;
The Watchdog is snarling,
For fear, Annie darling
His beautiful young friend Id steal away.
CHORUS: Come, come, come, love come
Come, the night torches pale;
Oh. come in Thy beauty,
Thou marvel of duty,
Dear Annie dear Annie of the Vale
An unfortunate editor who was unexpect'
edly called upon for copy got the following:
We had sweet dreams the other night
When all around was still
We dreamed we saw II host of folks.
Pay up their printers bill.
We wish The dream would come to pass
And our empty pockets fill
Tar ump ia da tie diddle DUN,
TIE ump te iddlc dill.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

SCENE IN THE HousE.-In the House Of
Representatives at Washington, on the lth
December, quite a spirited debate took lace
on the resolution censnring the "third orr
der" the order forbidling "contrabands'
from passing the lines at pleasure of Gen
Halleck, commanding in Missouri.
During the debate, Representative Fouge,
of Illinois, declared that, if it passed, all
volunteering in the State Of Illinois would
cease.
The resolution was tabled showing a ma
jority of the House against the radical meas
ures of the Abolition wing Of the Republi-
can party.
Mr. Foulke also declared that, if his Abo
lition Republican colleagues would pay Tess
attention to the inevitable negro, and mort
to the interests of the country at large, the
nation would get along much better.
The galleries applauded this sentiment o
the Illinois Representative.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

VITALITY IN HORSES. s.-Some experiments
have recently been made in France, by per.
sons skilled in the vertnary art, with view
of ascertaining how long horses may live
without food in certain contingencies; as,
for example being shu: up in beseged places.
The following results have been noted: A
horse may live for twenty-five days withou.
solid food, and merely drinking water. He
may live seventeen days without eating or
drinking He can live only five days, when
consuming solid food, without drinking.
After taking solid aliment for the space Of
ten days but with an insufficient quantity Of
drink, the stomach is worn out. The above
facts show the importance Of water in the
sustenance of the horse, and the desire the
animal must feel to be supplied with it. A
horse which had been deprived of water for
the space of three days, drank eleven gallons
in the space of three minutes.
The Placer herald., 1862-01-25

HoRRIBLE-At the DaIes on Sunday
night, 29th December, says the Portland
Times of the lst, a man was shot under the
following circumstances:
Some six or eight of the California volun
teers were assembled at the Orleans Saloon
and had partaken freely of liquor A quar-
rel ensued between two OF them, and one
grasped his revolverand attempted to strike
the other over the head with it, when it was
discharged, and the contents entered the
forehead of third person who was sitting
in a chair by the stove, killing him instantly.
The ball entered his forehead and came out
of the back part Of the head and entered the
partition wall of the room. The deceased
had his feet upon the stove, and his position
remained the same, save :hat his head drop
ped a little to one side and his arm fell down
by his side. In this position coroners in
quest was held upon his body. His name
was Appleton. Several of those present
were arrested
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-08
The Arrest of Charles J. IngersoIi.

We publish elsewhere in this paper the speech
for making which, Charles j lngerSoll, of Phila-
;tdelpha has been arrested We submit il to the
candid consideration of every reader. 1t is only
constitutional and loyal appeal to political
meeting to thrust from power by the peaceful and
legal agency of the bdllotbox the radicals who
are now in Congress, and whose schemes will de-
stroy the country
We are anxious to support the administration
in everything; nut we cannot indorse this treat
ment of Mr.. IngersOll. We regard it as blow
struck at freedom of discussion IN the approach
ing campaign. 1t is wrong, all wrong, and we
hope Mr.. Lincoln will rectfy il at once. Men
who are allowed to vote, mus. be allowed freedom
to discuss the conduct of their rulers. The Gov
eminent ceases to be worth saving when such dis
cusSiOn is prohibited.
What makes this act the more reprehensible, is
the fact that both Greeley and Wendell Phillips
have so far escaped Cnscathed They have not
confined themselves TO discussions of political
nature; but they have openly discouraged enlist
ments What does this favOrtism mean
The New York World, (Republican), says in
regard to this speech and arrest:
I'VE publish elsewhere the speech delivered by
Charles j. Ingersoll at the Philadelphia Demo
cratic meeting on Saturday last, for which he has
been arrested by order of the Government. 1t
no doubt contains "A world of ncendiary and dis
loyal matter, or else he would not have been ar
rested; but a great many honest peOpe will
'cudgel their brains without finding il out He
expresses doubt as to the wisdom and honesty
of the Administration it is true; but then Horace
Greeley and Wendell Phillips have done the
same thing in fifty fold more offensive manner,
yet the one offender receives a respectful letter
signed "A Lincoln and the other is sent to Jail.
1T is an extraordinary spectacle which We
have witnessed for the last year-a free people,
the freest on earth, tenacious OF their rights, i'm
perious for the largest liberty quietly submitting
TO the suspension OF their rights and liberties, to
restricted freedom of the press, the suspension
of the hGbe0s corpus, Imprisonment without trial.
alterations without reparation.
THE President OF the United States and his
advisers will terribly mistake the temper of the
American people, the secret of their submission
to. or their demand for, these stretches of execu.
tive power, il they presume or act upon the pre-
sumption that they will tolerate them for any
other end whatever than the suppression of the
rebellion
Every word of this is true We hope il will
attract attention at Washington. We. at least,
enter our solemn protest against the treatment
Mr. lngersoll has received.--DdrOh Free Press.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-08
The Disaster In Kentucky.

We have no heart to comment upon the sad
reverse to our arms in the engagements near
Richmond, in Kentucky. There is great wrong
somewhere. 1t will not do to pass over lightly
the disorganizaton of seven thousand fresh troops
and the great loss in killed. wounded and
prisoners which occurred. These men were
placed in the field to meet disciplined and well
Differed foe. largely outnumbering. them. undis-
ciplined, both officers and privates. What other
result could have been anticipated And in this
way the precious blood of gallant men has been
sacrificed There must be responsibility somewhere
for such giaring evidences of incompetency. 1t
is not right to place totally inexperienced men in
command of regiments andsyen companies. and
rush them into the field. Continued disasters to
our arms must be anticipated as long as such a
system is continued. Not only the men, but the
officers who have not the slightest knowledge of
military duties and discipline. should be placed
in camps Of instruction before sent upon active
duty. The officers must know company drill,
regimental drill, brigade drill and even division
drill, or else we must look for confusion and
disaster &pon the battlefield. Men should
not be sacrificed by incOmpetency. 1t is
worse than useless. 1t is criminal 1t weakens
our cause and strengthens the adversary. We
saw the gallant ToPPING as he left here. He was
Lieutenant Colonel OF his regiment With true
diffidence and excellent Judgement, he did not
desire to assume duties in which he had no ex-
perience- He desired experienced officer
placed in command, at least until he lad become
fully acquainted with the duties of the position.
Herocally he sacrificed his life in the attempt to
rally and hold his men TO their work. He is
gone. With him many other brave spirits bit the
dust, situated just as he Incompetency will
drape many home in Indiana with mourning.
Political and personal considerations must cease
in military appointments. We can not of course
expect to find experienced officers for all our reg
iments in private life. but there are hundreds of
company officers who have service who
should be made regimental officers, and men,
too, of equal ability, character and capacity in
other respects to those who are generally Sc
lected. And it is right, too. that the men who
have borne the heat and burden of the war in in
ferior positions should be promoted whenever
there are openings for them. There must be
reform in these regards or else we must look for
more disasters like those which have Just occurred
in Kentucky.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-08

Our Republican friends in the Eighth Con-
gressional District are divided upon the emanci-
patton and colonization policy of the President.
Hon. JAMES WILSON, who formerly represented
this District in Congress, is opposing the propo-
sition in most decided terms. He regards it as
unwise. inexpedient, and uncalled for. And we
notice that in some portions of the District his
views are sustained by his receiving majority of
the votes as the nominee for Congress. On the
other side, Mr.. WHITE, the present Representa-
tive. is the champion of the emancipation policy.
At the last session of Congress he reported bill
appropriating some two hundred millions to carry
out the Presidents scheme. And he is apollo
giving, defending and advocating it before his
constituency.
Yesterday the Republican Congressional Con-
vention assembled in Lafayette to make cand-
date. The nomination will doubtless turn upon
this issue If Mr. WHITE is renominated it will
be an Endorsement of the Presidents policy, and
the vote he receives, whether nominated or not,
will be an indication of its popularity with the
Republicans OF. the Eighth District. An attempt
may be made to avoid the issue by shelving both
of them and bringing forward some new man, un-
committed upon the subject If this course
should be adopted the question can not be deferred
before the people, and whoever is nominated
will be compelled to be for or against it,
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-08
Ignorance,


Confined at home by illness for the past ten
days, the issues of our very learned contemporary
sometimes escape our vision. Such was the case
with Mondays paper. In it the editor, upon the
question of exemptions, with a grand flourish of
trumpets. announces that he has finished and LAID
away the Sentinel. In his own estimation, he
does that same thing about once a week. but we
"still live" Until our article of last Saturday,
both he and the Governor were in blissful igno-
rance of the fact that therew as clause in the
Act of 1892, the only act defining exemptions,
relating to the point in controversy between US,
viz:
" All persons who now are, or may hereafter
be. exempted BIZ the ars of the respective States.
shall be and hereby exempted from militia duty,
Notwithstanding their being above the age of
eighteen or under the age of fOrty-fye." (See
Dunlop's Digest, page 81
The editor OF the Journal excused the Govern
or for exempting members of some religious de-
nominations, in good standing, whose articles
Of faith justified them in being conscientiously
opposed to bearing arms. His apology for the
Governor was that by not exempting this class he
he would be aanuIling the Constitution of the
Not that the laws of the United States exempted
those that the laws of the State exempted, but
that the Constitution of the State exempted the
parties referred to. The act of 1875, as the edi-
tor knows, was an after discovery with him,
and his justification of the Governor
was in entire ignorance of that law. So that if
ignorance of that act is an ''absurd blunder;' if
it is ''sheer ignorance, complete ignorance, anu
sing ignorance, enormous ignorance" not to know
OF the act of 1875, our very learned neighbor, al
though great lawyer, was in blissful ignorance
of that act up to Saturday last, and he would
now be in the same blssfu state, if his attention
had not been directed to it by outsider In
ignorance, therefore, he has not more than two
days advantage of us
But before discussing the question further, as
to whether the Journal or the Sentinel is right
upon the point in controversy, we will call the
attention of our neighbor to the act of Congress
of July IL, 1862, and inquire whether. under its
provisions, any able bodied citizen between the
ages of eighteen and forty-fve are exempt
That act says:
The enrolment of the militia shall in all cases
include all able bodied male citizens between the
ages of eighteen and forty-fve, and shall be ap
pOrtioned among the States according to repre-
sentative population.
law passed'by Congress in July last, which
certainly Overrides State Constitutions and State
laws, says Gin all cases" the enrolment shall
include "aH able bodied male citizens be-
tween the ages of eighteen and forty FIVE I'm
L. - a. Oh
makes no provision whatever for exempts can
the conscientOusly scrupulous against bearing
arms escape enrolment? We put the inquiry to
the common sense, or the legal sense, of the
Journal, if it has either, for reply.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-08
Fitch and Davis.

The brutal retaliatory order of the jeff Davis
Government in regard 70 General Fitch's COM
mand, published in our issue OF yesterday, re-
minds us of dialogue which took place at Wash
ingtOn about two years ago between Davis and
Fitch. Fitch was then United States Senator
from Indiana. He was an unreentng anti-Doug-
las Democrat, not so much probably from princi-
pie as on account of aiong standing personal feud
between him and the eminent Senator from Hi
nois. Davis and Fitch were ranked rs leaders in
the war waged upon Douglas at the period of the
Lecompton controversy. The latter was even
more bitter in his assaults upon the anti Lecomp-
ton chieftain than the former.
Some two years or more ago, Davis and Fitch
we're members of the same standing committee OF
the Senate. One day, AT the close of session of
the committee, discussion happened TO arise be-
tween them as to the course the South would pro
badly pursue in the event of Lincolns election.
Davis declared that the Cotton States would with
draw from the Union, establish an Independent
Government, and, if need be, take up arms IN It's
defense Fitch doubted the fact, but assured the
arrogant Mississippian that If the South at
tempted anything of the sort. the North would
meet force with force. The discussion waxed
warmer and warmer. Said Davis Do you
mean 10 say, that if we of the Cotton States
set up a Government of our own, you of the
North will come down and try to subjugate to
Federal authority" al dor responded Fitch,
with emphasis. "What" replied Davis, rising
from his seat, edo you say that you would invade
our soil and endeavor hy force to compel SOW
ereign States to return to the Unlon-that you
of the North would try to conquer asY" 81
mean," replied Fitch, rising and speaking slowly
and firmly THAT if the States on the Lower Mis-
sssppi attempt to set up an independent Gov
eminent, we of the Northwest, who hold the
sources of that river, will invade your territory
with forces sufficient to conquer and subdue you.
State by State, county by county, till you submit
to Federal authority"
A little more than two years have passed since
this dialogue transpired. Fitch commands
brigade of Union troops in Arkansas. He re-
Gently executed rebel for murder. Thereupon
Davis directs his Adjutant General to issue an
order proclaiming Fitch and his command out
laws, who, if captured, not to be treated as
prisoners of war The order is aimed personally
at Fitch, directing that, if he be taken. he shall
be confined as a felon and dealt with accordingly:
We are of the opinion that if the troops OF
Graham N Fitch meet in equal force those oil
jefferson Davis, they will give the latter ample
cause to remember the encounter.-NeU York
Tribune.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-08
Amount Of Appropriations of the Last
Congress-.

The amount of the specific appropriations
made at the last session of Congress for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1863, has been ascer-
tanned to be eight hundred and ninety-four mil
lions of dollars. The indefinite appropriations
are small, because Congress took so much time
in maturing the tax bills that fixed apprOpria-
tons were made for almost every conceivable
object; therefore there win not probably be a
great deficiency bill at the beginning of the next
session, unless, indeed. Indian wars may lead to
large expenditures, AS well as present unexpected
military complications. Deducting from The
sum above stated seventy-one millions for ordl
nary expenses of the Government, the sum APP
prOpriated at The previous regular session, for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1862, we have eight
hundred and twenty three millions of dollars as
the sum appropriated on war account for the ifs
cal year ending June 80, 1868.
The appropriations on the same head at the
extra session were two hundred and sixty five
millions making an aggregate at both sessions
of one thousand and eighty eight millions of dol
lars for war purposes.
To pay interest on this, and to gradually re-
duce the national debt. the internal tax bill was
passed, with view to getting an income of one
hundred and fifty millions of dollars and the tar
if act so as to get seventy five millions.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-08
The Growth of Conservative Sentr-
ment.

The Growth of Conservative SentI-
ment.
The Chicago Times takes the following hope
full view of a rapid and conservative change in
public sentiment:
The growth of conservative sentiment in the
North is no longer matter of conf ecture; it
may be regarded as fixed fact. The only ques-
ton is as to the rapidity of its movement Will
it grow fast enough and strong enough to control
the elections this fall? We believe it will. and
we think that even now, if the issues forced be
fore the country by the persistency of abolition
ism could be determined by an election, the peo-
pie would kill the serpent at the ballot box.
Ohio is awake and active; New York is deter
mined to crush fanaticism: Iowa is on the move;
and Indiana intends to make "A good report. We
shall carry Illinois and Wisconsin, and, strange
as it may appear, we look for the return OF two,
and probably three, Democratic Congressman in
Michigan. From every portion of the country
there is the most cheering evidence that the
people are intending to work revolution in the
politics of the country. This work will be con-
Quoted with temperance. earnestneSs, and firm
ness that will add another laurel to American
history. 1t will prove the capacity of American
citizens to properly appreciate and conduct con-
stitutional Government. By the peaceful power
of the ballot they will destroy party of license
and anarchy in the loyal States, and by the pow
er of their armies crush rebellion in disloyal
States. The task is truly an enormous one, but
the people of the United States are accustomed
10 Herculean labors. Let Democrats and other
conservative men work cheerfully, hopefully, for
the contamination devoutly to be wished