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The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR PAR

DON.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA U.s.
ALEXANDER VANCE.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the undersigned
~ will apply to the Governor of the State oil
California for the pardon Of Alexander vance;
convicted of the crime of murder in the secohn
degree, in the District Court, Of the Eleventh
Judicial District, Placer County, on the 9th day
of November A. D. 1862, and sentenced by INC
said Court to be imprisoned in the State prlso"
for the term Of ten years.
JAMES MOORE.
We accept service of the above notice at Au-
burn, Placer county, on the oath day Of March,
A. D. 1868
B. E. MYREs, Judge 18th judi DIST
Jo HAMILTON, Dist. Atty, Placer 70
March 25th, lS63-0w
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28

gfs" We are indebted to A. N. Gamble
bookseller, for a pamphlet copy containing
The U. S. Internal Revenue Law, the stamp
duties, and the decisions of the Revenue
Commissioner relating thereto Mr. Gamble
has the work for sale
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28

TWENTY PER CENT PREMIUM.--We read a
letter from New York a few days since.
which stated copper cents are twenty per
cent premium.
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28

LYNCH LAW The talented statesman
and profound jurist, who edits the Placer
Courier, utters the following maxim:
''In this unnatural contest the Government
should know no law but the law Of force and
the law of might"
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28

Gen. Shields arrived at San Francisco on
Friday last, among the passengers on the
Constitution.
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28

DECISION ON THE STAMP QUEsIIoN-In
the case of William G. Graham VS.. The New
ldria Mining Mining Company, in the Fourth
District Court, Judge Reynolds rendered a
decision, which, so far as his Court is con
cerned, at least, settles mooted point in
regard 10 the stamp duties. The action was
brought upon bond, executed on behalf of
defendants to secure the release from attach
ment of certain property levied on by the
Sheriff. Defendants objected, first, that the
bond was not stamped as by law required;
second, that the acknowled cement was taken
before deputy, and not before the County
Clerk in person. and third, that the bond
was executed by one only, instead of all of
the defendants. All the exceptions were
overruled as insufficient, the Court holding
that the law imposing a stamp duty applied
to the original writ, and that all papers fol,
lowing as necessary parts Of the suit, are
exempted from stamp duty. In other words,
the original writ being properly stamped,
the suit became valid one in law, no docu-
ment forming portion of the after pro,
ceedlngs requiring stamping We believe
the same conclusion has been arrived at by
the Judges of some of the other State Courts.
here and elsewhere.
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28

RAILROAD BILL.-1he Central Pacific
Railroad Co, have caused bill to be passed
through the Legislature authorizing the
county Of Placer to subscribe S25O,O0O to
the stock of that Company, The Enquirer
and Courier have indicated their intention in
advance to support the measure; but it seems
to us the press of the county should be adj
vised as to the safeguards the county may
have in the bill, and the financial ability of
a Company that is entering upon work that
will cost millions of dollars. If Placer coun-
ty is to assume a Railroad tax Of $4,000
per annum, taxpayers should scan the propo
sition with the utmost care.
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28

CONVICTED u. T. Gassaway, a young
man who resides above Auburn, about seven
miles, was convicted of highway robbery on
"Wednesday last in the Court of Sessions
of Ell Dorado County. The robbery was
charged to have been committed near Mud
Springs last fall. His brother, Orpheus, is
now confined in Nevada county Jail on a
similar charge.
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28

1t was mercy to traitors that they were per-
mttcd to live and not Immediately hung, in this
loyal State and they could not complain at being
merely excluded from the Courts. These men
were too cowardly to go South and aid the rebel
lion, and if they remained here, as they Were
doing, plotting in every treacherous way to
break up the Government. it time for the
Legi stature to do something to put them down.
He therefore hoped the bill would pass. - Extract
frOm J. ". Orens' speech IN support Of the
Test oath Bill
This creature believes that every person
who does not agree with him on the current
politics. s necessarily traitor, and he would
hang them if he had the power. We have
heard of jus. his style Of man before-Ma.
cauley tells Of "a mad tailor, in reign Of the
Protectorate, pronouncing eternal terments
against those who refused to believe, on his
testimony, that the Supreme Being was only
six feet high, and that the sun was four miles
from the earth"
AS to people being cowardly, has lie rel
Elected that there is loud call for soldiers
by President Lincon9 If yes, why is he
wasting away in inglorigus civil life'
CoppER.-The interest in copper discover
les, and the formation of copper companies
seems undminished in our neighborhood,
but owing to the late rains but little can be
done in prospecting. However, in few
weeks we expect parties will prosecute work
upon their different claims with vigor. The
Reed Company are still sinking their shaft
and are now down about l6 feet, with a
good prospect, from the indications for
copper. The Redwne Company, for the
present, have suspended work on account of
the superabundance of water.
MORE Troops FOR MASSACHUSETTS, On
the 23d inst, three hundred and seven men
and officers, left this State for the East, re-
cruits to fill up the quota of Massachusetts.
They have gone, where several abolition
lists who do not love the true interests of
California and the country, so much as Mas
sachusetts and her sms, ought to 90, and if
they had any courage would go,-to be brig
AIDED With the negro regiments of that State
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28
TIE HEAVY BILLS.

The Capitol bill having been disposed of,
the Legislature has two or three more heavy
bills to get over The most Formidable is
the appropriation bill, which was under dis
cussion yesterday and to day. Then there
is the State Prison bill, providing for a
branch at Folsom. This will hardly pass,
though it is generally conceded that it would
improve our State Prison system. But the
bill of bills before the Legislature, and the
one that has the most money if not merit
in it, is that to settle and dispose of the
wharf property in San Francisco. Many Of
those wharf franchises expire this year. but
cannot revert to the city of San Francisco
without an act of the Legisature-and the
Legislature can extend them, or do whatever
may seem best in its wisdom. The Folsom
street wharf, is occupied 10y the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, and this company
asks an extension of its lease for ten years
Other parties are also besegng the Leeis al
ture for greater privileges, and it is said that
any amount of money has been assessed to
the various franchises to aid in obtaining
what is asked. A finer opportunity for
speculation is ahead than al any time during
the Senatorial struggle. There is said to be
fine opportunity for carpet bag members
to obtain a free passage to the States, pro-
vided they go for giving the Mail S. S Co.
a franchise for ten years, worth 100000.
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28
THE TREASURER AND CONTROLLER.

The greenback investigating Committee is
still at work. aud by testimony brought be
fore them have so far implicated the Con
lrolIer in another affair, as to cause the ap-
pointment of an Investigating Committee in
his case. 1t appears by rumor that the
Controller refused to issue warrant until it
had been sold to l. IL S. Wormser, the
same party supposed to have tinanciered
with the State Treasurer.
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28
A SILLY ACT.

The passage of the bill in the Assembly,
requiring plaintiffs in suits to take an oath
of allegiance, seems to be a silly piece of
work to put the people to useless and need
less labor. 1t is, however two edged
weapon, and just as likely to annoy the
friends as the enemies of the Government
supposng there are enemies in the State.
MIR. Yule, Of your county, moved to lay the
bill on the table. but his motion found no
favor. His reasons, though, for opposing it,
were not very sensible. This kind Of Iegis
lation, aimed to irritate and exasperate
peaceable and law-abiding people, reflects a
very small degree of manliness and decency
upon the members of the Legislature. All
citizens of this State have equal rights, and
a law compelling one man to do that which
is not requisite of all, is unjust and uncon-
stitutional. But these par excellent Union
members must make bug-bear out of some
thing, and they might, perhaps as well cum
Der our Courts with meaningless forms of
oath, as to do worse by bunging up some
thing else.
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28
THEATRICALS.

The sable Ministries have left us, and the
Buchanan troupe occupy the Metropolitan
again, and are representing the great Irish
play of colleen Bawn" The Sacramento
melodeon has frozen out and the proprietor
started on tour through Nevada Territory
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28
SACRAMENTO CORRESPONDENCE
SACRAMENTO, Thursday, March, goth, 1868.


Editors HeraM:-Some of the editorial
fraternity, on both sides of the "line," are
Selling the Chapman case to elbow Off
the two MarysviIle papers, Express and
Appeal, perhaps doing a little more than
their share of it. From what little news
can get from the examination of these "pra-
tes," infer the whole affair is likely to
blow over, and the il-temper manifested by
the press of the State, is all for nuught
You editors, though, must have a sensation
al subject upon which to dilate for the edifi-
cation of your readers-and the Chapman
affair affords an excellent one. The South
ern editors have chip poised upon each
shoulder and are daring the Northern edi
tors to jar it off-and on the other side, the
latter declare the former must drop their
menacing weapons, else there will be muss.
1t is terocious war Of the quilltes, and is
likely to end in spilling and wasting deal
of ink
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28
SEVERE THUNDER STORM.

A very heavy shower, from the southeast,
passed over this city last evening, accompa-
MED with a strong wind. 1t was the sever
est storm of the winter considering its brief
direction.
The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-03-28
PREVENTING LITIGATION.

Our courts are almost barren of suits for
the collection of debts, from the fact that
Judgments can be paid off in the legal cur
rency of the times. Men rather let their
claims 90 uncollected than to be paid off in
greenbacks. A debtor after being sued is
not modest in paying up in the cheapest pal
per he can get. A suit seems to obiterate
all former obligations to pay in gold. The
State of our currency is therefore seen to be
in singular state Of uncertainty. There is
another effect attributable solely to the
greenback issue. No man will lend a dol
lar, because there is doubt whether he can
collect back in gold, however strong he
makes his notes and obligations. This state
of money affairs renders business duler here
than it would otherwise be at this season Of
the year.
The free South. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1863-1864, 1863-01-17
MISCELLANEOUS.
Constitutions for the Starving Ope-
rafives Of England. >.

Constitutions for the Starving Ope-
ratives of England. =.
Contributions for the starving operatives
of Fnoland thus far over S100,O have
been raised in this city alone. The Brit
ish residents have also, on their own ac-
count. contributed freely, and supplies
from their hands are already on the way.
The most curious part of the American
movement was that all the aid was to go
to England. Whether the Emperors
offer of mediation" had barred his sub
iects from O participation in the bacon
and -four, or whether the donors here I'M
aoined that the French operatives had no
stomachs, is not clear, but that Farnce
was not down on the list was certain.
We'll, the contributions for Lancashire
went on until Thursday last, when
Thought struck some one that there wal
suffering in France as well, and that !
would look singular enough abroad for al
cur generosity to be dumped in the lap o
John Bull. So it was proposed tina
something be done for France"
The Courier des Etas Unis seeming
rat in the meal tub, begged the movers II
the affair to desist-that international ald
VIXEN it sprang from pure motives, was
noble undertaking, but when, as IN tn
present instance, it had selfish ends L
view it begged to intimate to the partle
interested, that they had better keep thel
money in their pockets. believe, how
ever. they decline to receive this good at
vice. and that the movement Is In pr
oress.-N. Y. Herald
The free South. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1863-1864, 1863-01-17
sTHE CAPTAINS wirE.

nv s;star Rlancba ber cb;ld ord T ,,o,,, =, Al,
- 1a.' lawn tIo. morp;ne WI '''
g.s Oh. could a wife. strong love .bs s;obed
sssward off a soldiers fate,"
~" 'V,ee - s,. u '"ei'' Us ''lfous
when mn Tho Ian. a soii;er roas o,a h.,.d a,
the III ,s cate .-e '' .o'e' anu "''''' = :
.~1ays,tz g 80. .,,s vssS,ss = tss,ys r. <
! % Which house Is Malcolm Blake,s ?n he cried
:, ,ss letter for his sister ~ i, )
Rlauche murpur;ng ne took II asIed-a Asd
none for me. his wife pr, ,4......e,.7.
sa Halsq Maesc curis' anu S'''p''s
sts' Your father was my captain, child loved
- him as my life: al
ps..,..a,.,,,. :. ..,,..., as ,.;.h,n. . xo,,
= Anen saN''loiy nc s"iopeo o''' "i'i'' O' :"
-1Ii. t..mce Spoken p,...A 49,. uwb,,
pafst Ine sea-, anu DMne,lo o., oai'' o"' WV"
10 God how could answer her9 How should
= -. d the news DC broken! = 81 :,
For first they wrote to me, not her, that should
break the blow. .1c
49,. -, d.. 80,
a a ~s'ue ~ 'ne swamp :, 'Ai "' '-
-, were plase, out os. y. -.
& Hef qac. eye caagn, inc teii-'"ie ' Pas'' -noS
4 And first lfnshs famed through her face-and
scra then shadow crossed it - .s-~tn
/, !" Read Quick, dear May-read oil, pray--and
:, ~. LEI me understand" ~ tsaaf
oared NOT ,sae IL as IL s'ooa, .einfN'e" ~
the phrases s.,,fs
That scarce as s hrst r sne guessed the Wor keep
& ;ds back the fafai word, -.
The free South. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1863-1864, 1863-01-17

PRoposAL TO JOIN THE TEAMS The
churches in the South seem to be aware
that their view of slavery isolates them from
all the other Christian and civilized coun-
tries. Phe Richmond Christian Adcocdte
proposes, therefore, convention OF the
christian churches of all denominations at
the South, to unite in formal solemn tes-
timony in yindication of their "Conserva-
tive and Scriptural" principles on the
slavery question, as wen as their position
in the war.-Tribme.
The free South. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1863-1864, 1863-01-17
PRICE FIVE CENTS.

DRUNKENNESS IN THE MY-Drunk-
enness among the officers of the,army j. ,
terrible vice-in itself, but espAially in
it's consequences. We can judge soma
thing of the extent of this evil in.Wash.
ington, for We see many intoxicated Off
GERS here. It was but the other day that
I saw noble-looking young lieutenant
staggering up the Avenue, and inquiring
the position of the National Hotel, which
was right before him. Yet in time of bat
tie the lives of true and honest men are
put IN his charge, and he cannot even
govern himself or his appeticer Ne
drunken officer should remain an hour in
the army. No officer who has ever been
seen drunk should be permitted to remain
An hour in the army, for he is IN unsafe
man. Let us have reform in this respect
in the army. Away with the worthless
officers, and let faithful men be promoted
from the ranks. There is not regiment
in the service which has not in it twenty
privates fit to be ieutenants and captains.
These are the men for such places-the
bold, brave, loyal men. -.
The free South. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1863-1864, 1863-01-17
Z sen3z FOR THE FREE SOUTH
The Confiscated Lands. ,.

Victor Hugo wrote his last great work, Les
M;serables nSpreat in thought and purpose, as
well ne in volume in, order to throw some light
.upon ,"the great problems of the age, the deg
radation ,of man by poverty, the ruin OF wo-
man by starvation, and the dwarfng OF child
hood by.physical and spiritual night ,
The opinion above expressed concerning the
hook. Is founded upon the character of Victor
HUGO and the aim he proposes in the preface,
which is nearly oil of the book that have read.
Being thus on miori criticism, the opinion is
rot ultimate, and ! do 0pt hold myself bound
byit. w.sb.t...
These three, and nearly all conceivable social
L 1blems are ,inyolved, more or less, directly OF
-: 'sntallv. in the fundamental problem OF the
s;s.r;,, ion of land; or the still more radical
aaa &C the uature and right of property. IL II
by mn means ny purpose TO enter into discussion
of onr of those questions, though their solution
Ia not dif;cult. They are supposed to require
nrofolnd, and elaborate research, only oeeaus'
The ;mmemorial traditions and usagcs, orgina,
t;n; first in force or fraad and finally organizes
into law. have superseded the simple natura
laws off acquisition and -tmnsmlsslon. nov
onlv assume the fact, which may be demonsfra
ted in various ways, that the poverty, ignoranc'
and vice which is the most striking characferist
of all societies of men, are traccabie more or les
directly, TO the monopoly of land and It's conse
ouence. the unequal distribution OF wealth
and immense disparities of condition amon
men. The palace and the hovcl are respecl
.iyely the compements of each other; the cathedro
and the Five Points are twin brothers; that on
man may be millionaire, thousand men mus
= he drudges. The eonnexion of these statement
with the question of the disposition OF the con
-'f;scated lands may not be obvious. Let thet
tnass. and those who feel an interest inquire
Z there is any. c -,
Are the lands in the rebellious States, III
..ssses on which are not paid before a certai
-4iue TO be sold by auction to the highest bidder
Is o question of profound concern to u u
WeliasNe snd future condition of the people OF u
section r.dicated SuS say II YOU you'd proea1l
01ss wouId inevtabiSS fnas IN the, g
z al ,hethalds of capitalists and mere sptc;ilaor
and keep them from the actual eulivatoss, c
cept upon exorbitant and oppressive condition
at would leave the liberated Slaves in the poy
\ and at the mercy of men, who would have
interest in them but as things out of viii
snones may be made. They would be in a st'
y of virtual servitude, hardly better than the {
sSrlaYery. For if we will consid it, labor
wages, as the only means of subsistence, is bu
modified seryitude, under better conditions
The free South. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1863-1864, 1863-01-17
Confederate News.

Through the courtesy Of Rear Admiral
Du PosT we have received the Charleston
Courier of recent date, from which we take
the following: ,..
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REV. Runaway
~ from Kaolin, on Saturday, the 2ath OF November,
INV how HECTOR Hector is square built about five
Set two or three inches high good looking, black paus
nile In speech twenty-five or three years old. The
above reward win be paid for his delivery at the Work
Hn,se IN Charleston Hector wi no doubt, be making
his way down to St Pauls Parish and to my plantation
| on ~, To9eeodoo - JOS. 4. JENKINS.
Grshams 4. O., December l3, 1867,
The owner is requested to call at the OF
| flee of the Provost Marshal, Beaufort, and
prove his property, especially the living
| chattel. 49, --t So
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Patrol duty.

Patrol duty.
/. This goodly city of Beaufort, in the pal
INV DAYS of its quondam elegance and re-
enforcement, was honored by the establish.
ment of what was calleda Patrol Guard
sort of volunteer police as it was some
times called TWAS not however altogeth-
er a voluntary or free-will offering on the
part of the. members, for We perceive by
the !" ancient records" that they were fre-
quently 'shauled up" before his Honor
'' the intendent and common council
and fined for default of duty. But how
ever these precadillos and their penalties
may have occurred it was "guard of hon
OF (" without doubt, for we find among the
crllprits on record the names of some of the
| F. Fs, the very elite of Beaufort. 1t was
"eitizen's PATROL, none of you" b'hoys
who patrol for lucre, but gentlemen, who
did duty for the fun of it.
Now the question naturally occurs, What
was it that rendered the citizens guard
necessary in this staid old city of 800 OF
1000 inhabitants quiet little village like
which in rampant, abolition, inidel,
New England could hardly muster watch
dog for its nocturnal protection, nor deem
his services needful if he should volunteer
to bark for nothing and find himself !? wha
| was it that caused these gentlemen in town
thus to forego their usual shlmbers, ant
"reyisit thus the gimpses of the moon,
making night hideous? why should this lit
tie island town, SO remote from urbar
chatter and metropolitan depravity, nee'
such a formidable police, and keep its gen
tie denizens forever 6 on the watch .? til
cows lie quietly in the streets until "gr1e
dawn" the porker scarcely breaks tn
stiffness with grunt, one can almost hea
the dews fall, SO deep is the silence OF tn
night in this modish old town, and yet tn
d !" music of the spheres is made hideou
by the bo,drg tramp of that ever recurl
# ing, unremitting lght patrol What az