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The Placer herald., 1863-12-12
ihe Anticipated Programme OF Nevada on
the State Admission Question.


The Territorial Enterprise of the 29lh of
November, says: From the best information
we can obtain, we think it probable that the
Constitutional Convention will conclude their
labcrs about the 10th of December, and that
the Constitution will be submitted to ,he
people for ratification or rejection on or
about the first Of January. At the time the
people are called upon to adopt or jsc,
the Constitution, the people will be anthorz
ed to elect Governor and other State Off
GERS, including Supreme Court Judges, Mem
bers of Congress, and Senators aud Assem-
blymen. The various Judicial Districts will
time, and in fact all the officers will be
chosen necessary to set the machinery Of
State running. The Convention will also
recommend to the Territorial Legislature to
meet on January lst and adjourn, to await
the action of Congress on The admission Of
the new State. So soon as our Convention
adJourns, certified copy of the Constitution
will be transmitted to the President of the
United States, and if the people vote, as they
undoubtedly will, to adopt the Constitution,
then the President will probably send in to
Congress copy of our Constitution with
message recommending our admission as
State. If Congress complies with our wishes
IN this matter, so soon as the bill passes
both houses of Congress and receives the
signature of the President, a telegraphic
dispatch will announce the fact to our peo-
pie, and the State Government can immedl-
atey be organized. II, on the contrary,
Congress shall refuse us admission as State,
our Territorial Legislature can cow enc again
and remain in session the balance of the 40
days.
If the programme we have men toned is
carried out by the Convention, the recon.
mendation of the Territorial Legislature will
be made on the score of economy. If we
are admitted as a State the Legislature elect,
by pursuing the course recommended, will
save us the sum of $4,000. And as it is
presumed that there is as much patriotism
in our Territorial Legislature as can be found
in any similar body of men, it is altogether
probable that they will follow the recon-
mendation of the Constitutional Convention.
Presumng, then, in advance, that the
course we have indicated will be pursued, it
behooves our people to consider the quali6ca,
tlons Of those who desire State offices. We
have the right material to set in motion the
machinery of State Government. 1t will
be we'll for the people that they commence
thinking in advance upon whom they will
bestow the honors of the new State, for in
very short time they will be called upon to
choose State officers. We want good
Governor and other responsible State officers.
We want Judges who are above outside IN
tluences, without regard to the question Of
one"ledge or three-ledge theories We want
member of Congress who is patriotic and
a statesman. We want Legislature who
will elect two of the ablest and most honest
men among us to represent us in the United
States Senate. Are the people prepared to
act in the manner we have indicated? II
not, they should be.
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12
Pennsylvania EIectiOn---Parties Tied In
both Houses.

The frauds perpetraed by the Republicans
to elect their Governor in Pennsylvania, it
is now known will prove of no great advan-
tage to them. The parties are tied in both
branches Of the Legislature. The New York
World, of October 29tb, says:
"Curtin's majority in Pennsylvania is now
ascertained officially to be about $4,000,
which is four or five thousand ahead of the
rest Of the State ticket. The Leo eislaure is,
however, in curious muddle. The lower
House is tie, while the Senate has one
Republican majority; but then one of the
Republican Senators from the western por-
ton Of the State, Major White, is prisoner
in Richmond, and likely to remain there,
owing to the dead lock in the matter of
exchange. Hence neither party will be able
to control the Legislature, and compromise
must be effected in the organization. The
fruits of victory in Pennsylvania. therefore,
are lost to the Republicans, as they cannot
control the Legislative measures of the ses
sion. This occasions much chagrin to the
Republicans"
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12
PAPER MONEY IN CHINA.

The following facts in the history of paper
money in China, gathered from late French
work, may not be without interest to the
curious, and instructive to the practical:
Paper money was known to the Chinese
at very remote period, it having been in
use 10 years before the Christian era. 1t
circulated among them with a conventional
value in the form Of pieces of parchment,
or square cartoons. In the 10th century of
our era, the imperial treasury emitted a
kind of bank bills to be used in exchange
for goods left with it in deposit These bills
bore the seal of The Government, and we're
everywh ere used in trade.
The celebrated Marco Polo, in his travels
through the country about the middle of
the 18th century, found paper money in
circulation, and used like silver 1t was
used to pay the officers of the government,
and in trade or commerce to purchase all
kinds Of goods. The people were required
to accept it in payment for debts and pur
chases under the penalty of death. 1t cri
culated in the form of square coupons made
of the bark of a tree after undergoing some
sort of preparation. There were bills Of
different values, bearing the signatures of
many great mandarians and the seal of the
Emperor. The counterfeiting of these bills
was punishable with death. They who had
in their hands bills which had been worn and
tattered by use could exchange them for new
bills by paying five per cent on the amount
of the hills.
The use OF paper money continued and
went on increasing to such a degree under
the Mongul dynasty that it resulted in the
most serious evils to the country, all of its
resources being exhausted, at the same time
bird and tyrannical government was en-
deavoring to give il artificial wealth.
Without profiting by the lessons which
their predecessors had bequeathed them, the
Emperor of the Ming dynasty continued to
emit paper money and endeavored to give
value to these bills By absolutely prohibiting
the use Of gold and silver. But towards
the middle of the 18th century these bills
became so discredted that one for thousand
'cash' brought only five cash in copper
money. The cash with the Chinese is a
small round piece of copper money with a
string is passed to tie them together by tens
fiftes. and hundreds. A thousand being
about equal to our dollar; dollar in paper
money was worth ouly half a cent. In
1885, the Government ordered all taxes to
be paid in paper money, and bsoutely fori
babe the circulation Of hard money. But
the conventional value of paper money soon
declined, and in a short time utterly disap-
peared as it bad become utterly worthless
In the summer of 1859, the writer being
one Of Mr.. Wards party, which made the
first American visit to Pekin ever made,
saw as elegant bills of Pekin banks as art
could produce in New York, but compared
with the inevitable strings of cash, were
of small value, and some were bought by
individuals of our party, and brought here
as curiositics.
". Y. Journ0l of Commerce.
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12
Copper Mines In Plumas COun

The Quincy (Plumas county, Union of the
28th November says:
Experts in the matter declare that the
copper ore of Plumas county is richer and
more concentrated than any they have ever
seen. The Green lode in GenDesee Valley
is perhaps as rich as any yet discovered; the
ore assayine so per cent of copper to the
ton. The Metropolitan in the same section,
is also very rich, while in Lights Canon,
the rich Superior and the Mountain Meadows
claim, near the valley of that name, produce
ore very rich. From the latter claim we
have seen specimens of pure copper. The
ledge is well defined The company are
pushing forward their tunnel rapidly. A
lode of copper that will average Is per
cent. will pay immense dividends with the
proper machinery, and we know that the
lodges we have mentioned will pay that per
cent. in copper to say nothing of the gold
and silver mixed in with it. From the Cop
per lode large amount was shipped to test
its value, to Swansea, England, and we have
heard that the return gives 1926 to the ton,
5000 in copper and 1925 in silver. If this
be true it will warrant the owners in erecting
works to reduce and smelt
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12

IMPORTANT TO TRAVELLERS BY RAILROAD
A highly interesting decision in the law of
common carriers has just been reached in
the United States Circuit Court at New
York, Nelson, j., in the suit Of William
Grosvenor Us. the New Jersey Railroad and
Transportation Company. The principle on
which the suit was decided in favor Of the
defendant is, that if passenger in any way
contributes by his carelessness or negligence
to the accident, he cannot recover damages,
even though the common carrier be gull
ty Of negligence or carelessness. In the
present case the company was, however, in
nocent, but the passenger careIessly attempt
ed to get on defendants cars while in motion.
On the previous trial the jury disagreed; on
this trial, after a few minutes delberation,
they gave verdict for defendants.
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12

Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee
| and California are not included in this report.
Those in the navy and regular army are not
included, nor any Of the drafts or conscripts,
or any OF the volunteers since the first of
January last. All these added would make
nearly 100000, or over a hundred thou
sand more than Mr. Lincoln's vote and more
than one half of the entire vote of the States
contributing, and ye,-mosl unaccountable
fact!--the recent vote in those States shows
no dimnution. Another suggestive fact is,
that New England, the war States proper,
with thirty-six Administration Senators and
Representatives in Congress, furnishes 1e3,.
1872 volunteers for the war. The six North
Western States, with tbirtynine Admnistra
ton Senators and Representatives, voluntar-
lily contribute 545,Oll soldiers to the war.
Ohio, with only five Representatives in Con,
gress supporting the Administration policy,
contributes ITO, l2l volunteers; Indiana with
only four Administration members, pives
104,3l6 volunteers; Illinois, with five Ad
ministration members, gives 1876, ,44O; and
Massachusetts, with ten uncompr, missing ad
vocates of the ultra abolition policy in the
AAOuo0 VI lSCPiCoohtdliNco, COuiu Ouly IdIS6
7l,03s volunteers for the war by enormous
bounties, and a large proportion of these
were foreigners opposed to negro emancipa-
ton. These are curious facts, but they il
lus!rate rule which is unifolm-that the
talking men are not the fighting men, and
the loudest advocates of war are those who
take the least hazard in its chances except
in pecuniary way. Yet in the face of these
facts all the abolition papers persist in as
serting that all who do not fully indorse the
policy of the Administration are traitors in
sympathy with the rebellion. If Democrats
would take them at their word and leave
only those to do the fighting who are in fa-
vor Of prosecuting he war upon an abolition
basis, the war would have been closed within
the first thirty days Of its existence, upon
any terms which the South might have die
tated. Withdraw from the support of the
Administration to-day all who disagree with
its policy and are in consequence denounced
as traitors, and it would fall to pieces by its
own internal dssensions. Nothing now but
the fear of the party success Of the Demo
Gratis, keeps the Jacobins and the Girondists
Of the Adm inistration from falling upon each
other with as much unreasoning violence as
is exhibited in their common attacks upon
Democrats. Democratic Press.
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12

HABITS OF THE GREEKs.-The pure Greek
race is dry, snewy and sharp, like the coun
try which maintains il. The draining of a
few marshes would suffice to suppress all
epidemic fevers, and to make the Greeks the
healtbiest people in Europe, as they are the
most temperate. The consumption of one
English laborer would supply, in Greece, a
family Of six persons. The rich are perfectly
satisfied with dish of vegetables for their
repast; the poor, with handful Of olives or
morsel of salt fish. The whole nation eats
meat once year, at Easter. Drunkenness,
80 commo n in cold countries, is an extremely
rare vice among the Greeks. They are great
drinkers, but water drinkers. 1twould make
their conscience uneasy to pass a fountain
without drinking at it; but if they Go 60 to
the public house, it is to gossip. The cafes
of Athens are full Of customers, and at all
hours; but they consume no strong liquors.
They call for a halfpenny cup Of coffee, a
glass Of water, fire to light their cigarettes, a
newspaper, and set of dominoes; with that
they will amuse themselves the whole day
long. All the Year Round
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12

ABoLIsuED.-It may be Of interest, to bill
lard players to know that the "push" or
"shove" shot, otherwise the "Bowery or
timber lick" has been abolished, and hereaf.
ter will not be recognised or allowed by gem
temen, either on the amateur or professions nal
list. From all accounts, the change caused
many wry face, and the angles will have
to be more closely studied than they have
in times past We think the change is an
opportune one, and will add still more to the
beauty and refinement Of the game of bill
lizards. Spirit Times
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12

'TE GoLTEN ScHIRKLEs." ."-"Mister -,
he comes to me and says, for Won tolar he
will makes me Won Knites nit to Gotten
SchirkIes; dat he will give me all de signs
and grips, so ash ven te Schuddern man
comes he shall not tech any Of mine brop.
erty, but shall get all dat he wants from de
Plack Repoobcans. So gives de Won toll
lar, and he gif me de grips, and de signs,
and says shall gif dem ven do Schuddern
man he comes he no stheals from me- Veil
he comes and get mine horses right away: so
goes out and says, "Mynheer, ish Kntes
nit de Gotten Schirkles; gfs you de grips,
do 81 gns, de pass words and every tngs, so
you leave mine horses ven he says "To hell
nit your grips" and he takes mine horses
O, ish ruined man! | gifts mine tollar for
de grips, and it is nix goot, but it is SO better
as noting at all, for dey stbeals from me as
worse as anybody else."
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12

A BEAUTIFUL FIGURE.-Life is beautifully
compared to a fountain fed by thousand
streams, that perish if one is dried 1t is
silver cord, twisted with a thousand strings
that part asunder if one is broken. Frail
and thoughtless mortals are surrounded by
innumerabIe dangers, which make it much
more strange that they escape so long, than
that they almost perish suddenly at las..-
We are encompassed with accidents every
day to crush the mouldering tenements we
nhabit. The seeds of disease are plan ed
in our constitutions by nature. The earth
and atmosphere whence we draw the breath
of life are impregnated with death; health
is made to operate its own destruction; the
food that nourshes contains the elements
Of decay; the soul that animates it, by vivify
ing first, tends to wear it out by its own
action; death turks in ambush along the
paths. Notwithstanding this is the truth
so palpably confirmed by daily example be-
fore US, how little do we lay it to heart. We
see our friends and neghbors die among US,
but how seldom does it occur to our thoughts
that our knel shall, perhaps, give the next
fruitless warning to the world.
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12

An exchange says we are indebted to the
Abolition party for the following blessings:
Widows, orphans, cripples, prisoners, pimps,
spies, informers, taxes, tax-gatherers, thieves,
punderers, swindlers, shoddyites, corruption,
mock royalty, stamp acts, excise acts, paper
money, national debt, negro citizenship,
white slavery, coufscations, proclaiming
martial law, CONSUMPTION.
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12
NUMBER OF SOLDIERS.

The Army and Nary Journal gives the
number Of troops voluntarily raised by the
adherng States from the commencement of
tho war to January lst, 1868. The table is
prepared from official reports and is as COM
pIete as it is possible to make it:
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12

ExrRAoRDINoRY NAMES. - What odd
names some mortals are blessed witb:-
We heard of a family in Michigan, whose
sons were named One Stckney, Two Stick
ney, Three Stickney, and whose daughters
were named First Stickney, Second Stickney,
and so on.
Tbre elder children of family in Ver
mont were named-J oseph, And, Another
and it is supposed that, should they have any
more, they might have named them-Also J.
Moreover, Nevertheless, and Notwithstand-
ing.
Another family actually named their child
Finis, supposing that it was their last, but
they afterwards happened to have a daugh
ter and two sons, whom they called Addenda,
Appendix and Supplement.
Another parent set out to perpetuate the
twelve Apostles, and named the fifth child
Acts.
A man in Pennsylvania named his second
son James Also and the third William Like
wise.
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12

Eighteen of the colored walters Of the
Delevan House, in Albany were drafted
Sixteen of them took the skedaddlsr's rail-
road 10 Canada.
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12

APHoRIsMs ON TIGHr LAcINa.-A narrow.
ness of waist betrays a narrowness of mind
When the ribs are contracted it is sure
sign the intellect is also.
Better to have good lungs and what, in the
wisdom Of Le Foet, is considered bad
figure, than by a tight corset to get better
shape and worse constitution.
When pair ofstays comes in at the door
health, parted with happiness, flies out of the
window
In the shadow Of small waist may be
seen a large doctors bill and tho outline Of
coffin.
Beauty npped in the w:st is like rose
nipped in the bud. 1t is short lived, and
falls off the quickest.
The more "a woman's waist is shaped like
an hour glass, the more it shows us that her
sands of life are running out.
Whats bred in the whalebone will eventu-
ally "come out" in the visits of the doctor.
Give me the unmaking Of lady's stays
and | care not who makes her dresses
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12
A Picture for Christian Men to Look At,

The Memphis Bulletin thus graphically
sketches the condition of Tennessee: There
is portion of this State so devastated BY
the civil war, as to be practically abandoned
by the foot of man The men are slumber.
ing at Shiloh, Corinth and Stone River the
servants have gained their freedom; the
women and children have fled to more rel
mote and quiet precincts. FaIIng'in behind
the retiring footsteps of humanity, come
the four footed beasts and creeping things
The fox makes his burrow under the ruined
dwelling 0where happy couple once dwelt
The serpent crawls under the floor of the
church and school house. The squirrel
chatters and builds his nest upon the old
locust tree in the old yard, once noisy with
the mrth of children. The gum is ro,ting
n the cool spring. The partridge whistles
from the ridge-pole of the cabin. The wild
bee seeks a storehouse for his honey, fearless
of detection by the human eye All return
ing to a state Of nature. What monument
of ravages of war"
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12

Major Noah said hazel eye inspires at
fl rst sight Patonic Gibraltar A woman
with hazel eye never elopes from her hus'
band, never cbatss scandal, never sacrifices
her husbands comfort to her own, never
talks too little, and always is an intelligent,
agreeable and lovely creature. We never
knew, says brother editor, of but one hazel
eyed woman who was uninteresting or un
amable, and she had nose, as we Yankees
say, that looked like the little end of moth
ing whitfield down to point. The gray is
the sign of shrewdness and talent. Great
thinkers have it. In women it indicates a
better head than heart. The dark hazel is
noble in its significance, as we'll as its
beauty. The blue is amiable, but may be
feeble. The black-take care! There is
thunder and lightning there!
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12
THOMAS BOYCE,
ADVERTISI AGENCY,
NoRTH-EAs CORNER OF
MONTGOMERY and Washington Streets,
SAN FRANCISCO.

Daily California Repub-
lican, Sacramento.
Daily Express, Marys'lle.
Daily Beacon, Stockton.
Esmeralda Star, Aurora.
Placer Herald, Auburn.
Colusa Sun.
Aurora Times.
Chronicle, lone City.
Democrat, Nevada.
Telegraph, Folsom.
Dispatch, Jackson.
Enquirer. Dutch Flat.
Journal, Yrcka.
Trinity Nationalist, Wea-
verville.
News, Knights Landing.
Sentinel, Santa Cruz.
Pajaro Times, Watson
Vile.
Tribune. San Jose.
Gazette. San Mateo.
Pacific Echo, Napa.
Tuolumne Courier, Co.
lumbia.
San Francisco, May l,
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12
Federal MaGdalens.

"The Administration, in its humane efforts
to elevate the character of the Africans and
equalize them with white people, two years
ago benevolenty sent out from Massachusetts
to Port Royal, South Carolina, at the expense
of the whole people of the United States,
few hundred spinisters to educate, civiize
and refine the contrabands at that place.
The New Hampshire Patriot, Of the 4th of
October, gives the result of this very benevo-
lent experiment of Mr.. Lincoln's in the
following paragraph:
"Private advices from Port Royal, say
that many of the female Aboltionists who
went to Port Royal to teach the little mig
gers how to read and pray, have been oblig-
ed, within a few months, to abandon their
black charges and open nurseries on their
own private account. An officer informed
US recently, that no less than sixty four white
spinsters had contributed to the population
in and about Port Royal barbor. The cli-
mate seems to favor population even more
than the production Of Sea Island cotton by
paid negro labor. The information furnish
ed us by the officer concerning the sixty'four
little muattoes, has been confirmed by the
testimony of the Rev. Liberty Billings, 1t.
Col. of the First SoN.h Carolina Regiment,
who is here in consequence Of i'll health
He says it is sad truth"
"Here, Republicans, is sweet little morsel
for your particular masication. President
Lincoln has used the money of the people
to prostitute these Yankee women, with
buck negroes, and we may now expect him
to provide grand Magdalen Asylum for
them and their woolly paramours. O, the
morality of the Republican Administration
Six,y'four sweaty, odorous buck negroes,
seduced by like number Of Yankee danasels
What think you of this, California repubs."
The Placer herald., 1863-12-12

! Democrat. Santa Rosa.
Cumberland Presbyter,
PachecO.
Alameda Gazette, San
Lcandro.
Solano Herald, Suisun.
Marin Journal, San Ra-
fael.
Oakland Press.
Oregon Democrat, AL
bany.
Oregon Union, Corvallis
Cosmopolitan, Mazatlan.
Oregon Sentinel, Jack
sonvillc.
Herald of Reform, Eu-
gene City.
Democratic State Jour-
nal, Dalles.
Review, Eugene City.
Washington Standard,
Olympia.
British Columbian, West
minister.
lQEQ
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-10-22
Dat Fence.

A darkey down South had obtained
a, license Of the BaptiGts to preach.
lie was holding forth in the presence
OF many OF his colored brethren vt one
time, when lie undertook to describe
the process of Adams creation. Said
he: .ar .alT
when God made Adam, lie ,stoo.
ped down, scraped up Q little 'eir.,
wet it a little, warm in the hands.
aud sqneeao it in tho right slfape and
den lean it up against the afanoslto
dry" .o..z gL.ts sdT
"Top. dere, said our Uniyersaliss
dsrkey. You say dat are de fuSt
man eber made 90 d. y sa' .i 40
"Sartin," said the preacher. aTill
"Dsn," said the other 'jesl tslaa
teller whar dat ere fence come tromp
"Hush !" said the preacher, two
more questions like dat would api.s
all the, teology in the world" o. 10