The Placer herald., 1862-08-16
SACRAMENTO CoRREsPONDENCE.

SACRAMENTO. Thursday, August IA. 1862.
Editors Heraid:-Poltic begin to stir the
Office hunters and the hunters begin to arouse the
peeps" The Union-.A Administration, and the
Union nti- Administration parties have both
opened the canvass in this county, and there is Il
prospect oil big struggle for the ascendancy.
NEW ELEMENT IN THE TIDE.
There may be four tickets in the field before
election day. The settlers are not yet all dead.
and the Citizens Committee or Protective AS
sociaton is just warming into life. Both may
make separate tickets from the material Of the
two. Then again, the Firemen urc looking out
for themselves, and will make another scattering
among the Legislative nominees, unless all OF
them should answer yes to their desires
Taking things altogether, we are TO have mixed
matter of it, and the wisest politician in the
county cannot see the end thereof. What pity
it is that every man cannot have his own way
about everything. and every interest conducted
to suit every man? How easy everybody could
then rest, and how harmoniously our city and
county government would then wag along. But
such is not lie-'tis contrary 10 "nutur."
OUR CITY FRONT
Your miners on the American, and the hills
bordering on it, are fast raising our city front.
1t is fast filling up with sand. Sacramento is
ever out Of luck. In the winter season, she ia
deluged with floods, and in the summer she
suffers for a lack of water TO float the steamers
and sailers lying at her docks. The sands OF the
American have so encroached upon her front that
the steamers of the California Steam Navigation
Company have been compelled to move their
landings from 10 street This disarranges
the usual places Of trade along the city 'front.'
Hotels, restaurants, warehouses, etc, are thus
relatively removed from the steamers.
THE LEvEEs.
The work on the evees is going ahead finely,
| and all of them will be finished before the rains
fall The entire liue is under contract, excepting
a small section on and Front-both OF which
we're not overtopped by the foods last winter.
The new levecs look like many of the fortilica-
tions around "Old Virginny,' and let the quanti-
ty of water be what it may that shall fall next
winter, these levees are strong enough to resist
the attacks.
| HOW THEY WILL DO HERE.
don't know how the Breckenridge Democrats
intend to cast their votes in Placer but there Is
one thing very certain. they will support the en-
tire Douglas Ticket here. mean the local ticket
| not the State. AS 10 the Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, believe they will generally sup
port their own nominee. But Sacramento county
is not situated like any other county in the State
We have so many bows to our strings that oul
politics cannot be so anticipated or forctold
The Latham interest, the squatter embroglio. the
Citizens Committee secret conclavc and the Fire
mans wants, all together, confound political cal
culations, and mistify the result.
SENATOR BOOTHS LECTURE.
Metror olitan Theater was filed last evening tt
hear Newton Booth on the Debit and Credit O
the War"
| DRAINING THE CITY.
The lower part of the city, in the vicinity o
the Railroad, still under water, will doubtless b!
drained off next week by the ditch now being
dug for the Sacramento river.
STATE FAIR.
, The Managers are completing all the necessa
~ arrangements for the approaching State Fair
and r1otwit outstanding the floods and the hare
4 times It is anticipated that there will be o'gene
ral and full attendance from all parts OF th'
State, and that the show Of stock and agricultu
mi products win equal that Of any other preced
Ing exhibition, MORE ANON.