The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1864-05-14

sand dollars in United States Treasury Notes
in our State Treasury, holding as anomalous
position as did Robinson Crusoes's long,
boat, which could not be moved after being
built, or the Vicar of Wakefeld's family pic
ture for which, when painted, he hal no
room large enough to hold it. What shall
be done with these greenbacks! The Treas
urer cannot pay them out for salaries or 9TH
er purposes at par, and is not authorized to
sell them below par value. The last Legisla-
ture, in dealing with the currency question,
put on white gloves, and did not soil them.
They had a healthful fear of touching a
consideration Of those greenbacks in the
Treasury, and so left them there, where we
suppose they must rest at least for two years
to come. s. +. Call.
Chy Lung Sing, Chinese political refugee
of rank, who has been living in San Francis
co for two years past, committed suicide a
few DAYS since. The frequent humiliation
to which his poverty subjected him, had he
come intolerable; and calling together his
creditors, he upbraided them for their insults,
and challenging them to follow his example,
then and there, dsemboweled himself with
two cuts of sharp knife. His funeral cere
monies were performed in style Of unusual
magnfcence. -Argus.
CoppERopoL1s.-W are informed, SAYS
the Stockton Independent, of May 9Th, by
DR.. Holden, who returned from Copperop-
oils yesterday, that vein of concentrated
yellow sulphure's has been recently struck
in the Calaveras copper claim, three feet in
width, at a depth of only As feet from the
surface The ore is said to be of the richest
yielded by any claim yet developed in Gala
veras county of that character.
The taxes levied bv the Mexican Govern
ment on the product Of their mines are said
to be:-A tax Of reals to the mark (6
ounces of silver); secondly, further tax
(State) Of % per cent. on the first tax
Coinage costs | 2 per cent. The export
duty on silver coin is about l.2 per cent.
SrocKroN.-So important has the copper
trade become, that the new boat which has
been constructed in San Francisco to be put
upon the Stockton ronte was built with spe
clal reference to the carrying of copper be-
tween the two cities Stockton may vet
prove an exception to the rule in regard to
California inland towns.
TIE BOISE MINES People continue to
write unfavorably of the Boise mines, There
is no show for any new arrival, rs everything
worth having is taken up.
The Humboldt Register says: "A Board
of Brokers was to have been organized last
week, but was not. The failure is owing,
probably, to lack of funds to buy candles
to light up for the first meeting"
Judge Evey, of Napa, raised consdera-
bic crop of tobacco last wear lie was an
old tobacco planter in Virginia and Mary
land. From the result of this, his first years
experience in raising it in California, he is
satisfied that tobacco Of the best American
quality for chewing and smoking, can be
produced in this State, if proper efforts and
care are ouIy taken in its culture and cure
for use.
Wall street is the only centre of excite
ment and attraction in New York All
other business is now tame compared to
fortune hunting in fancy stocks. Brokers
who do not make a thousand dollars per
day in commissions are classed as old fogies.
Money is easy, now, with banks, bankers,
brokers, merchants, everybody. Spectators
are therefore multiplying rapidly.
Concentrating wo ks have been put in
operation at the large reservoir in Salt Spring
Valley, Calaveras county, on the plan of
DR.. Hepburn, of Mokelumne Hill. A mill
of ten stamps has been built to crush the
ore, and then the slate and foreign substances
are washed out and the ore concentrated.
1t is said to be very simple, yet almost per-.
feet process, and the cheapest plan yet dis
covered to bring second and low class ore
to shipping quality.
Stockton Independent.
The assessed value Of the property in New
York City is nearly s60o,oOo,oOo.
A bust of Thackeray is to be placed in
Westminster Abbey.
Rives, OF the Congressional Globe, and
Ticknor, of the firm of Ticknor & Fields, are
dead
Cornelius Vanderbilt began life by trans,
porting garden sauce from Staten Island to
New York city in small sailboat. Now
he is reputed to be worth about $26,OOO,-
| 900.
The steamer from Portland and Victoria,
which arrived on the 9th inst, brought $685..
sos treasure.
General Pemberton says he selected the
4th of July as the day of surrender, because
he believed he should, on that dav, obtain
better terms; since he would thereby "gratify
the vanity" of the Federals?
The Valata shrub Astounding in Guiana,
is said to afford juice resembling gutta.
percha, and for many purposes superior to it,
A method has been discovered in Eng.
land of Photographing upon steel.
The art of making lemonade was patented
| in Paris in 1860.