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The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

A DECIDED FIX. AT the late Harrisburg
Convention, Bill Wilson, was as usual, very
anxious to be nominated for Governor. He
went around to his friend, Bigler, when
the following conversation occurred:
Now, Bigler, 've got good show for
Governor, and | want my old friends to 60
in for me. hope you.l do your best"
II did not know that you were a candi.
date" said Bgler, in the gravest OF man.
ner scratching his head, and looking appar'
entity amazed.
"Yes, am" said Wilson, "now 60 in
big"
Here Biger's eyes were fixed on vacan-
cy, and no looked very solemn. At length
Wilson aroused his reverie by inquring
what be was thinking about. Scratching
his head again and speaking very moderate
ly, Bigler replied:
Il was just thinking that If you were
nominated and our ticket is elected, \,ohat
HI of a fr the State would be in"
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

THE IIADEAs CoHrus-T. Babington Ma-
cauley. the great English historian, in speak
ing of King James the Second, the tyrant
whom the English people expelled from the
throne in 1857, says:
One of his objects was to obtain a repeal
of the habeas corpus act which he hated, as
it is natural a tyrant should hate the most
stringent curb that ever legislation placed upon
tyranny. The feeling remained deeply fixed
in his mind to the las, and appears in the
instructions which he drew up, when in exile,
for the guidance of his son. But the habeas
corpus act, though passed during the ascend
ency of the Wings, was not moro dear to
the Wings than to the Tories. 1t is, indeed,
not wonderful that this great law should he
highly priced by all Englishmen, without dis.
tinction Of party; for it is a law which, not
by circnitous, but by direct operations, adds
TO the security and happiness Of epery inhabi-
tant of the realm.
We don't think he hated the act more
than our President and Cabinet do at the
present time.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16
NUMBER 20.
FROM BOISE.

Mr.. E. P. Fitzgerald has lately returned
from Boise and furnishes US with the latest
news from that quarter. He left the basin
in the midst of Il snow atorm, with the snow
at the time of starting six inches deep
With the fall Of snow he thinks mining ops.
rstions for the winter will be over A mum.
Der of prospectors were at work for the pur.
pose OF ascertaning whether gold exists be.
low the surface Of the shell which has here.
tofole limited the operations of the miners.
1t may not be generally known that hereto
fore there has been no attempt to reach the
bedrock. All the miners have done is to
strip off the surface earth, and penetrate
what appeared to be little more than a
shell. Beneath this shell i, is thought rich
deposits will be found and it is to test this
theory that prospectors are now at work.
Like all Others who have returned from
Boise Mr. f., is sangune, and thinks that
last season is only foretaste of wha! we
may expect With another year. The heavy
snow on the mountains give assurance that
next year the miners will have an abundance
of water, and with this element there can
scarcely be limit to tho productiveness Of
the Boise mines. The stock of goods in the
'hihes arc III ia'r supply, ana no suHerlnG
need be apprehended for want of neccessa-
ries Of life. A few articles are scarce and
command high rates. but fortunately they
are convenences rather than necessares, and
can readily be dispensed with. Among 9th.
ers who came out with Mr.. F., was Mr.. Pin.
ney, who it will be recolected narrowly es.
capped assassination few weeks since. Mr.
p, had sufficiently recovered to be able to
travel, and reached Umatila Landing safely.
There is little security for life in the Basin
and the question of forming Vigilance Com.
mittee had been seriously debated. Should
the citizens be driven TO this alternative, woe
to the scoundrels that infest the country
In conclusion, Mr.. F., represents the travel
TO and from Boise as pleasant The travel
Ter if SO disposed, can stop at a house each
night on the road, and is at all times able to
get square meal" With these convent
euces, tho trip to Boise partakes of the ma
ture of pleasure excursion, free from dam
ger, and such as almost any person might
undertake with perfect safety -Mountaineer. .
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16
Cincinnati Enquirer.

SAD CHAPTER OF CALAMIriEs.- THE An,
napois correspondent of the Baltimore
American writes AS follows:
One of the most dep plorabe cases among
the wounded soldiers, last brought from
Richmond, is the case of John w. Williams,
of the Sixteenth Regulars, and a native of
Philadelphia. In one of the earlier actions
of the war in the West he received three
wounds, from which he recovered, and again
went into the field, when at the battle Of
Chickamauga he was struck with piece of
shell in the right eye, cutting out the en-.
tire eve, then passing under the bridge Of
the nose and destroying the sight of the left
eye, and he is now perfectly blind, though in
the prime Of life. In the same action in
which he lost his eyesight, he had a father
and three brothers killed, leaving, out Of a
whole family, only himself and his aged
mother, who is now a resident of Philadel.
phia.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16
UNION PRISONERS In THE SOUTH.

We extract from the Richmond Dispatch
the Southern version OF the treatment of our
unfortunate soldiers who are prisoners in
their hands. The Despatch says:
1t must be apparent that about thirteen
thousand Yankee prisoners thrust upon a
community already overcrowded, having
great difficulty to provide the painest arli,
c,s of food for its own tables, cannot expect,
with the best disposition on our parts, to
fare sumptuously every day. We know
people, once in affluence, who would be
glad to he assured Of as liberal daily pro.
vision as these Yankee prisoners 1t may
be that their food is plain, and not abundant
but it as good aud plentiful as, with our
straig ghtened means, we can supply. Liars
ought to have good emories, and to keep
up a show at least Of consistency, and there's
fore we would suggest to the mendacious
Yankee scribes who accuse us of debera, e
y starving our prisoners, whe her, if it be
true, rs they daily assert, that the people Of
Richmond are threatened with the horrors of
famine it may not be that the alleged fam
Inc among their prisoners is Involuntary?
II we arc starving ourselves, how can we
keep them from starving! But the truth is,
that, though strai2 2htened in our means of
life, we are doing as well for our prisoners
as for ourselves; seventy bulocks q day are
sacrificed for their commissaliat, and bread
in proportion to their numbers. Our own
people, as we know of our own personal
knowledge, are in some cases denied meat
for their families, because it is necessary for
the Yankees. Thus much We say, not be
cause we consider any explanation due to
our enemies, or likely to be satisfactory, but
because the facts ought to be known in vim
dication Of our own character, and in justice
to our own prisoners, whom they wish to
harrass and torture upon false and malig
nant pretext.
In regard 10 accommodation it is undoubt.
Y true that we are deficient in the means Of
comfortably accommodating the multitude
on our hands. We had no room in Rich.
mond before the war for a large surplus pop
ula:ion. Since the war began, our popula
ton has been doubled; people who once
lived in large mansions, are glad 10 get two
rooms, the Confederate Government has
been compelled to use for the purposes Of
State many of our principal public edfces.
Arlizans and builders having been drawn up.
on largely for The army, but very little build
ing has been going on since the war com
menced. The consequence is, that after
packing all our spare factories with Yankee
prisoners, we have been forced to cncamp
The others on Belle Isle. which is the most
agreeable of places in Summer, bnt not bet
ter in Winterlh than the usual Winter quarters
| I<fe eCI,l hat Il, ~ yaI
ments have been made to send them eff as
fast as we can find places for them in the
interior Of the country, and in the meantime
they must submit to a dsagreeabe position
with the best philosophy they can, knowing
it is the result Of necessity and not Of wan
ton necessity on our part.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

Rev. DR.. ScorT.-1'his able Divine, who
was pastor of Presbyterian church in San
Francisco, for number of years, has recent
ly settled over the Forty second street Pres
hyterian church of the city of New York.
DR.. Scott left San Francisco on account of
the rampant fanaticisln of some of the mem
hers of his flock, but finds new field for his
labors in the great commercial metropolis of
the Atlantic, where, it is to be hoped his la
bors will be appreciated. On Thanksgiving
day he preached a sermon on the Punish
ment Of Nations for Sins. 1t is said to have
been one of the most able and learned dis
courses ever delivered in New York city. lie
alluded to war desolating our country, and
announced himself for peace, as he had been
from the beginning. His church is rapidly
filling up with the very hest class OF citizens
MarysuiWe Erpress.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16
RETUENS OF STATE ELECTIONS.

Despite Of all the frauds and all the appli-
ances Of corruption and all the intimidation
Of power, civil and military, nearly one
million and a half of Democrats marched to
the polls at the late election and recorded
their votes against the policy of the Admin
is,raton. Those who think that the Demo-
cratic organization is now powerless, will be
instructed by persuing the following table of
the votes as given at the State elections in
1868.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

When the Masons in their regaia were
en- route for Greenfield, Massachusetts, the
other day, an iuquisitive countryman at one
of the stations, after eyeing the Knights
Templar for few moments, inquired with
much concern, "wheher all them Br,ga.
der. Generals were going home on fur
lough"
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16
A case of sharp lady practice is related by

A case of sharp lady practice is related by
the ST. Louis Democrat Her husband be-
ing perfectly responsible, she sent to the
jewelers. for several sets of diamonds from
which to make selection, and they were
promptly furnished. That night, size and
her sisters appeared in them at bal to
the intense disgust of the aristocracy. The
next day she sent back all the jewels, with
the exception of one set, which she paid for.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

FLED IN DlsGRACE. - The Sacramento
Union remarks a> follows on the deialcation
of ex-Controller Warren:
The ex-Conlroier Of State, G. r. Warren,
has proved a defauler in the sum of aboat
sl2 600. and has fled the State. He left on
the steamer OF Monday. Although single
man, i; seems that bis habits were so extrav'
agant and expensive that he could not live
on salary of 81 900 a year, and to raise
money to CRAFTY his appel'es he deliberately
disgraced the State, the party which elected
him, the friends who trusted him. and sacri
feed his own reputation for life. lie has
been tried and found wanting in the essential
point of honesty. He has lived fast, and
probably gambled in feet with the money of
the State, and when the time for reckoning
came found himself unable TO restore it, and,
like Treasurer Bird, was compelled to take
hioht. The sum for which lie has sacrificed
himself is comparatively small, and he leaves
his securities to make up the loss TO the
State. They are reported to be abnndantly
able to pay it; but then who ever heard of n
bond being collected? When Warren was
nominated, it was reported that he had been
engaged in a money transaction which was
considered dishonorable, but his friends ex-
planned it away. The charge was probably
true, as he has demonstrated that in money
matters he could not have been at any time
very conscientious. There are those in the
city who predicted, after seeing him, that he
would be certain to disgrace himself before
his term of office closed lie has fulfilled
those predictions.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

A young man in California, whose friends
had ceased to correspond with him, woke up
their interest by sending letters to business
men in his native place, inqnirng the price
of tolerabIe sized farm Seven atfectionate
letters camo from the friends by return Of
the post and two or three at a time have como
ever since, including one frotA an old and
co!D sweetheart.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16
SoFr SOAP FOR ALL SoRTs!-For a lie

SoFT SOAP FOR ALL SoRTs!-For leu
tenant call him captain; for middeaged
lady, kiss her, and say you mistook her for
her daughter; for young gentleman rising
fifteen, ask his opinion respecting the COM
paratve merits of Mech.and Mappeuas razor
sellers; for young ladies, if you know their
color to be natural, excuse them for paint
ing
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

A New York Journal give the following
estimate Of the Russian ball: ''Dresses, laces,
&c, bought for the occasion at moder-
ate average S25o,o0O; masculine purchases
at some $50 1000; jewelry, sl,000,00O; bou'
quets, 5000; coitfuers frseure, &c. 80, 900;
supper for two thousand, with vine, SIC. 800;
expenses of Academy, decorations, &C., car
riages, S. 900. Total, Sl,34G,o00.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

The twenty second instant will be celebra.
ted by the Poles Of San Franeisco-that be-
ing the anniversary Of the declaration Of Po.
lands independence. High mass will bs
offered up for the reposs of the souls Of the
patriot dead.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

The Bulletin urges direct mail commune
cation through southern California 10 Arizo-
ma and New Mexico, instead Of the round
about one via Salt Lake City
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

A Bachelor editor, sensitive in relation to
his rights, objects to taking wife through
fear that if he should have baby his cotem
ooraries, who habi,ually copy without credit,
would efuse to give him credit for it.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16
y.rs OF ADVERTISING.
THOMAS soYcE,
ADVERTISING AGENCY
NORTH EAST CORNER OF
montgomery and Washington Streets,
SAN FRANCISCO.

Daily California Rcpub
lican, Sacramento.
Dlily Express. Marys'llc
Daily Beacon, Stockton.
E,maralda Star, Aurora
Placer Herald, Auburn.
Colusl Sun.
Aurora Times.
Chronicle, lone City.
Democrat, Nevada.
Telegraph, Folsom.
Dispatch, Jackson.
Enquirer. Dutch Flat.
Journal. Yreka.
Trinity Nationalist, Wea
verville.
News, Knights Landin g
Sentinel. Santa Cruz.
Pajaro Times, Watson
vile.
Tribune. San Jose.
Gazette. San Mateo.
Pacific Ech o, Napa.
Tuolumne Courier, Co
lumbia.
San Francisco, May !
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

Ifyou be pungsnt be brief, for it il with
work as with sunbeams- the more they are
condensed, the deeper they burn.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

EE The mortality in stock is still unaba'
led, says the Monterey Gazette, and the bsrds
are rapidly whitening bill aud plain
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

It is now said that petroleum is an excel
lent article for preserving wood against
the action Of salt water and marine insects.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

Democrat. Santa Rosa.
Cumberland Prcsbytcr,
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, W est
minister.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16

"IIAs CLEARED JUST Two MILLION DOL
LARS" Last week we went into store in
Pit,sburg to mike a small purchase. The
proprietor was just going out, and remarked
to us that he would like to show us some
nice goods, but he was invited to see a
friends daughter married. After he went
out, the gentleman waiting upon US said,
"Mr. l. is gone to see Miss b. married.;
her father has cleared just So 100000 within
the last two years." "llow?" we inquired.
"By Government contracts" he replied.
This is very fine. Two millions clear in
two short years! The marriage of a daughl
ter and golden wedding at the close! II
this was the only view Of the subject i,
would be magnificent. But those two short
years have desoIated many, many happy
homes, made many sorrowing widows and
bereaved many innocent little babes Of a
kind father and protector. And at the end
instead Of golden wedding and orange
blossoms, a funeral procession and cypress
leaves symbolic the inward sorrow Of the
heart. The picture has two sides. Mr.. b
'has cleared $4,000 900" and wishes the
war to 90 on; a poor widow has lost her hus
band, and is thrown upon the charity of the
world. The first looks to Mr.. Lincoln for
fortune; the last to God for bread
Kittaniny (Penn.) Mentor.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16
MONO LAKE.

The Aurora correspondent Of the Sacra-
mento Bee tells several things not laid down
in the books concerning this singular lake.
He says:
In company with three others paid visit
to Mono Lake last week, and spent two days
hunting round the shores Of that internal de-
coction which gives rest and food to myriads
of ducks and geese, of which we gathered in
a sack full. The waters Of this lake paltake
of an oily look, but to wash in it is like
taking your aolutions in suds as strong
rs soap can make them, and if you
battle your head in it will clean it beautifully
of dandrutf and every creeping thing, and
make foam like unto lager let loose. Mos.
people call it alkaied water, but as there are
no evidences of akali about the shores OF
the lake, conclude the properties are not
alkaline; but not being versed in the myste-
res of chemical science, am no. able to
tell what this lake inferno does contain, but
am sure that if old Charon should swamp
his boat in its norderous waves, he would
think he had crossed the river Styx and fell
into the devils frog pond. There are some
curiosilies in and about the lake. The rocks
around the shores and back on the plains for
several miles have an appearance SO similar
to white corral, that one not knowing from
whence it came, would hardly hesitate in
calling it such. Out in the lake, "a hundred
rods from shore, where the water is Of an
unathomable depth, and black as ink, one
of these coral rocks rise four or five fee,
above the surface of the water, and is per-
haps six feet in diameter, and near the center
two jets of clear, pure water, rises to hight
of five or six inches, one falling towards the
east and the other towards the west, and JUS
so near each other as not to touch. Then
upon an island in the lake are two spring, in
close proximity to each other, one hot and
su!phury, the other clear, cool and pleasant
to the taste. The only thing that can thrive
in this water is worm, a sort of cross be-
tween the worm Of the stll' and the cater
pillar, that supplies the Indian tribes around
with heaps of muccamuc. The shores of the
lake are generally springy, and the water
emptying into it cool and clear. And there
is some beautiful land around it, that pro.
duces vegetables rivang the famed produc-
tions of the valleys Of the Golden State.
The Placer herald., 1864-01-16
NOTICE.

nwrNc NOTICE..
u possih;e 20 .he unfavorablc season, and the i'm.
our Offices MY OF making desired settlements,
.arDEpn|Sl14IreSe arDEsf |l1I ee kept open until July.
BANKING hns;no hHiio VIII be received and n General
Or credits o;un continued. but no look accounts
AUBURN January l, lss4-im nAN q AAAhN'
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freedom. Will not this necessarily make
them discontented? or, if not, you ought
n gratitude and perhaps in policy to free
their wives and children. This will give
you, instead OF half a million. a million
and . half or two millions of free negroes
in your midst. That is more than one.half
Of the present slave population of the Con-
federAte States.
How long would slavery last under this
strain? Is not your proposition Abolition
ism in disguise7 No, Mesers. Editors. we
could not live in q country inhabited nv
such q class. Either they or We must be
forced to leave. Which would it be. and
where and how would they gof Abraham
Lincoln emancipates all he can steal. You
would take and emancipa:e one half at q
word. or, ut all events, on would take and
enlenc'pate that portion withou: WHOM the
other portion would be valueless. and a
charge upon the country. No. our cause Is
not SO desperate, It's condition so low, as
to need the aid OF an. army Of free negroes.
enough among the white men Of the Con.
federacy to win and secure its freedom. and
he who wonld call upon the poor, ignorant
slave to fight his battles, tor the boon of a
worthless freedom, must not only be deep.
" respondent, but regardless of the duties
ne owes to his country, to his negro, and
himsel. 1t il not for the slave either TO
win freedom for the white men. as you
would have him, or take the yoke of sub.
Jugation upon him, as would the Yankee.
But It is for the Southern white man to
achieve his own independence, to secure
himself in the possession Of his slave and
to secure to the slave the secure possession
of good master.
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The celebrated magician, Anderson, with
the assistance Of his daughter fourteen
plicating 1.-THE performance Of the Daven-
port Brothers." the spiritualists, in Lon
don. Those who witnessed the represen-
tatisns, tricks, manifestations, or whatever
is the proper name for such things. say the
imitators EXCEL the original. The box wss
made of similar size to the one used BY the
Brothers; Sutten and Miss Anderson were
bound hand and foot by COMMITTEES, and all
by the Davenports, they were unbound.
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n NEVERDY JOHNHUNs
c. G. Fulton, Esq, Baltimore.

ILLINOIS CoTToN.-A ''cotton plantation"
OF two hundred and ninety acres, in Alex.
andria county, made an average yield of
four hundred pounds per acre. This shows
that cotton can be pro6tably raised in the
south part Of the State. AT fifty cents per
pound il would yield two hundred dollars
per acre, which Is rather more profitable
than raising corn, and the cost Of cultiva-
ton il about the eame.-Peor;0 Transcript.
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RIyEnDY JoHNsON ON THE ABOLITION
OF SLAvERY.-WAsHIN0 April "a, "a.
Delighted to hear the result Of yesterday
election. A new era is now dawning on
our State. Slavery ended and she will be,
a. Washington said she would be IN that
event, 'the garden spot' Of the United
States. a III
He said 30 in letter to st. John Lincoln
in '9C. If it il done also in the whole coun-
prosperity has been in the past, and high
a. has been our name with the nations OF
the world, both will be immeasurably, al
most, enhanced. God grant that it may be
SO. Yours, truly,
REvrpny IOHNsON.
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~ In consequence of . pretty equal
division of the Union vote between Knox
and johnson, Union candidates in the First
District ct st. Louis, Hogan, Copperhead,
has been elected to Congress.
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TIE NEW CoNaREss.-The recent cleo
tions have placed a three-fourths Union
majority In the next Congress beyond
question. The delegations will stand about