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The New York herald., 1864-10-15
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gang OF Mosby's guerlas IN strong force yesterday
made attack the outcr Of the Second pstrct
sf Cslumbis regiment, stationed at White Plains
ths Mansssas Railroad. The qua I'd Of eight were
sapsarsd sud The ocer in command shot in several
paces and abandoned to his fste.
TWO prvates of the Sixth Pennsvlvahia heavy artillery
were killed BY gu rss yesterday between Accctink and
'furkss statiou.
The New York herald., 1864-10-15
The President Petrole Compeny.-
The ot our readers e saled 70 ne

The President Petroisum Cempany.--
The attentou Of readers called TO the edverseoeel
OF me PRESIDENT pRTRoLRuM CohrAsr rha
comnany ranks as Al. It's capital stock 10 e1uUOu
sharss es each Of tho company oonssa 49,
aOD thus possessng an OIL boring ,erntoy o.
ten ana 4 half miles Some Of the mrs. eiufe
OF New York aud other States taking stnek IN and
the capitalist and parties Of limited mssss "e
offered unsarias.ed. 90 a. r.,.. .,..~,
a the AGENT the ensrprse They are very oogne -
well a. rsa &c smsn, Who are happy In lspcnsing
70 NATION 70 nqurers aud those who proHoss buying
.n Nv Application this 1rm obtain full perticu 40
ssfy themselves the sodity and 6rlant proapecn %
the Prssldsni Peroisun compsny-bosou Evening frS~
weller
The Japanese Hair stain CoiOrs the
vb,sk,rs and musachs beautiful ack cr orcwa ooar
sisss Of only preparation Color viii not fads Or vssA
out Only 9 GENTS boz, .su.a.,r,,. all. proor,.,o,
For sals By Hslmeod % Bso:dry psm. .I,n a,.s
New York Lord Smith, Chicago, aud sh druszsA
vinaSgvs As Toilette OF socfets Hyei
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highest rrsmium Loeb etisch Machines 30 S'0sa
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Ruructt's Oriental footh Wash -
worth all other dsnufrices HELNB0LDS, 6< DroaAwuv.
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schenck's seaweea Tonte.-The BEST
Tonic 10 the world. Sold st HELNB0LDs drug STORE sszs
10 Natropottan Hotel.
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Penmsylvanaa.

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The following are tho reported the vote OF last
year in Pennsy vana in addition those which gave
yesterday. They the gains n the counties
ard districts erred TO- but above those given
In our tables yesterday.-
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fxf cEhr. WARD. su BROADWAY.
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Bnisara Balls and Checks.-weilfngS
patent compressed Ivory. l Broadway Sligo Golden -
phant 81
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Fragvan ne Sos odsnt 10 Vow Aftrae0sg
vsry great attention. and vel my rss srtcis reyrs
10 the NOS oeueucai peepAfe-
tIeu Tor The breath and recsh Ne wsrd hss svss
s.sn Sold by druRglsts
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Batehsler's Hair Dye-lhe Best II taS
world Harmlosa roliabe The cnly poTto0
dye. seld 81 ~ drussissA Yactory 81 Barclay street.
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Green, the Maiden Msrdsrss, 60 be EIs-
eutsd.
Boros, oci is. 1904.
me COMMITTEES Of the Executive Couscn 90 Pardoos
have reported against comuos the scot encs Of Green
the Maiden murderer and have rscommsndsd that dAy
Be APPOINTED for hia execution.
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02
Smith O,Brien on our Civil War.

Smith O'Brien says, that 200, 900 Irishmen
have been killed in the Lincoln war, and he
adds
81 shall not inquire how many of tl,sse
Irshmen have been Induced by the eloquence
of General Meagher to fling themselves into
a premature grave, but feel convinced now,
as in 1861, that if the Irish population Of
America had thrown the weight of their
influence into the scale in favor Of peace,
the miseries of war which have devastated
region that ten years since enjoyed
greater amount Of material prosperity than
any other portion Of the globe, might have
been averted."
Mr.. O'Brien adds this melancholy reflection:
These men have fallen in the prime Of
life, in the vigor of youth and strength.
Had they fallen in contendiug for the free
dom of their country, their memory would
have been consecrated in the annals Of
Of patriotism. Their heroism would have
been admired even by those who hate our
naton-but truth compels me to say that
these brave men are now regarded as mere
mercenares, who, for the sake Of handful
of dollars, enlist themselves in strife, the
sole object of which is to determine whether
one'thrd of the citizens of the States shall
be governed according to their own free
choice, or Shall he coerced by force TO subj
,nil to connection and gave! pmeDt shl~b
they repudiate and auhof"
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02
a Leg I Soc


laughable yet mortitying incident oc-
Cured at merry-making in the upper part
OF the city of Memphis, recently. Music
and dancing were the order of the evening,
at private residence, where some twenty
couple had engaged to pass a pleasant
evening. ln order to make room for the
dancers, stove was removed out of the
room, and the hole through which the pipe
passed through the second floor, covered
with small piece of thin board 1t so
happened, untoruna ely, that the pipe had
been held in its place by small sheet of
tin which had the aperture cut in the middle.
The upper apartment in which th,s man trap
was situated, was used by the ladies as sort
of retiring room, to which they repaired
whenever they wjsh3a to re-arrange their
dlsordered carmen mootb their lresses,
or re powder .he'r Ca ks. Late in the
evening, reu.p q ts} of full proportions
rushed hastily % g., room to improve her
toilet when, unlu KY, she bore her dainty
foot, and her one hundred and sixty pounds.
avoirdupois, upon the aforesaid weak and
treacherous board. AS you have already
anticipated it gave way with crash, and
down she came, driving her comeIy limb
through the orlhce, tar above the knee,
and what is worse, the jaggered edges of
the tin would not allow her to withdraw it.
The merry groups down stairs were startled
by the appariton of a neatly stockinged,
finely tapered leg, hanging above their
heads between the upholstered joints of
their extempore dancing ball. There we're
screams and confusion on the part of the
ladies, and rushing up to their unfortunate
sister while the Others looked the other way,
Of course. TO be sure the exhibition would
have been considered all right in the ballet,
but this did not happen to be in the ballet
To make the matter as brief as possible, we
would add, that pair of timers shears
were brought into requsition before the
damsel was released. Although her distress
and confusion would not permit of her
appearing again that evening, the remainder
OF the party continued their festivities until
the small hours.
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02
A Military Republic,

The following is an extract from Webster's
Grafton on the completion of the Bunker
Hill monument, June 18th, 1S43. We have
no longer "politcal freedom" because, under
Lincoln's Administration, the military are
not subordinate but superior to "the civil
authority" Mock elections, supported by
the sword" are the only elections that are
allowed by the party in power:
"A military republic, government foun'
ded on mock elections, and supported only
by the sword, is a movement, indeed, but a
retrograde and disastrous movement from
the regular and odlfashioned monarchcal
system. If men would enjoy the blessings
of republican government they must govern
themselves by reason, by mutual counsel and
consultation, by sense and feeling of general
interest, and by the acquiescence of the
minority, in the will of the majority properly
expressed; and above all the military must be
kept, according TO the language of ouS bill of
rights, in strict subordinaton to the civil
authority. Wherever this lesson is not both
learned and practced, there can be no
political freedom. Absurd, preposterous is
it, scoff and satire on free forms of con-
stiutional liberty, for forms OF government
to he prescribed by military leaders, and the
right of suffrage to be exercised at the point
of the sword"
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02
Fires in Bedrooms.

Most people, even many intelligent re-
formers, says DR.. Lewis have the idea that
to sleep in cold room is good-essential
to health. 1t is an error. 1t is better to
have an open fire in your bedroom. The
atmosphere is not only by this means con-
stanty changed, but with the fire you will
keep the window open, which will add
greatly to the needei ventilation But
more than this, with the fire you will have
fewer bedclothes over you, which is gain,
as large number of blankets not only
interferes somewhat with the circulation and
respiration, but prevents the escape of those
gases which the skin is constantly emitting
Even furnace or stove heat with an open
window, is better than close cold room
Interchange with the external atmosphere
depends upon the difference between the
temperature of the air within and that with
out. But let us have the open fire. Let u.
60 without silks, broadcloths, carpets, ano
tinery of all kinds, If necessary, that we may
have this beautiful purifier and difuser o
joy in all our houses. In my own house
have ten open CRATES, and find with coal a
eleven dollars the ton the expense is frightful
and if it were in any other department o
housekeeping should feel could not affort
it; but in this | do not finch, SO importan
! do deem the open fire.
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02
Savage Justice among the Arabs.


Two children having quarreled in the
street. their parents interfered, and from in
suits and men aces becoming more and more
excited, one drew bis knife and stabbed his
adversary, who fell dead He had received
five wounds-one in his right and one in his
lef. breast, two in the stomach, and the fifth
in the back. A crowd had collected and in
1t were the police agents, who arrested the
murderer, and conducted him before the
magistrate of the town. The Uemas, or
doctors Of the law, assembled and constitu-
ted tribunal. In less than half an hour
the witnesses had been beard and the cul-
prit was condemned to suffer the penalties of
vengeance at the hand of his victims broth
er. Upon a sign from the magistrate, two
police agents tied his wrists together placed
themselves on his right and left, and pre-
ceded by his execuoner, led him to the
market place, then thronged with 1000 or
5000 Arabs. When | arrived, the police
officers, fourshing their sticks amid the
crowd, had cleared a circular space, of which
the centre was occupied by the executoner
and the condemned, the one with knife in
his hand, the other calm, and apparently in
different to what was passing In the terms
of the sentence, the murderer was to die un-
der the same number of wounds as he had
inflicted, and to receive them in the same
order and IN the same parts of his body as
his victim had received them. When all
was ready and the preparations were limit
ed to the simple arrangements | have de-
scribed, police officer raised his baton
that was the signal. The man with the
knife rushed at his patient, and stabbed him
in the right breast, and then in the left
breast, but, of course without reaching his
heart, for the unfortunate man cried aloud.
"Strke, strike, but think not that thou canst
kill me; it is God alone who slavs" Mean
while the punishment was terociously ntlict
ed, and the criminal, whose eutras were
bursting from him with waves of blood, as
wound after wound was inflicted, continued
to revile his executioner. There remained
a last blow to deal. The wounded wretch
turned himself round, and the blade of the
knife disappeared in bis Ioins lie stagger.
ed, yet did not fall. Enough, enoughl"
shouted the ~d; "he gave only five stabs,
and he must receive no more" The execu-
ton, In fact, was over, and the miserable
man had strength enough left to regain his
horse. The consular physician, M. Warmer,
arrived almost at the same moment and
while he was engag in dressing the stom
achI wounds, the man reiterated, "Oh, pray
you, cure me! They say you are a great
doctor; prove it; cure me, in order that |
may kill that dog!" But all was unavaing,
and he died in the course of the night.
Horses of the Sahara. bv Gen. Daunaas.
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02
Law of Newspapers.

l. Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary, are considered as wishing to con-
tinue the subscription
@ If subscribers wish theirIparers discontinued
publishers may continue to send them until all
charges are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect refuse to take their
papers from the office or place to which they are
sent they are held responsibleSuntil they settle
their bill and give due notice to discontinue
them.
4. If subscribers move to other.pacer without
informing the publisher, and the paper is sent
to the former direction, they are held response
BILE. Notice should always be given of removal.
s. The Courts have decided, that refusing to
take a paper from the Office or removing and
leaving it uncaled for, is pr'md tocie evidence
of intentional fraud.
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02
Democrats, Read This.

The Boston Commonw eathy, Senator
Summers organ, says:
The thirty-eighth Congress is about to
assemble. The Senate will have large
Administration ma ority, and the House
one sufficiently large to elect the caucus
officers. We say this without having care
fully examined the tables, for we assume
that the Administration would not have
resorted to its somewhat extraordinary means
of carrying elections in the Border States,
unless it had been sure that these means,
successfully used, would give it working Q
majority We do not find fault with the
machinery used to carry Maryland and
Delaware. Having nearly lost control of
the House by its blunders in the conduct Of
the war from March, 1861, to the fall of
1862, the Administration owed it to the
country to recover that control someho "
To recover it regularly, was impossible; so
irreguIarity had to be resorted to- Popular
institutions will not suffer, for the Copperhead
element will have much larger number of
members IN both branches than it is entitled
to by its popular vote. Ohio, with its ninety
thousand Republican majority, will be rep
resented by five Republicans and a dozen
more Copperheads. 1t is fitting that mis-
representation of popular sentiment in the
great States of the West should be offset,
if necessary, by loyal delegation from
Maryland and Delaware, won even at the
expense of military Interference. If laws
are silent amidst the clank of arms, we must
take care that the aggregate public opinion
of the country obtains recognition somehow
Or Of har
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02

Army teamsters are proverbial for the
scientific volubity with which they swear.
A teamster with the Cumberland army, not
long ago, got stuck in the mud, and he let
fly stream of profane epithets that would
have astonshed "our army in Flanders
even. A chaplain passing at the time was
greatly shocked.
"My friend" said he to the teamster, "de
you know who died for snners9"
"D-n your conundrums. Don't you see
I'm stuck in the mud?"
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02

The New York World says an active Re-
publican, in view of the recent exposure
concerning Busteed, the custom house, and
other matters, remarked to a friend that there
appeared to be three sources appointments
at Washington-Lincoln Seward and Chase
Mr. Lincoln appointed id traitors with
occasionally fanatic; Mr.. Seward appointed
ID loafers, with occasionally man of
ability; Mr.. Chase appointed id fools, with
sprinkling of great scoundrels. The Re'
publican has been expelled from the Loyal
League.
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02
LYRICS FOR THE TIMES.
Tune There's nae Luck about the Hou,

Some years ago no debt" we owed,
Small taxes had to pay,
But now we whistle to the tune
or Millions every day;
For taxes all our pockets drain
AS dry as any vat,
And are up to the eyes in debt
There's no mistake in that!
CHORUS.
For rogues have now the upper hand.
And knaves are getting fat
But workingmen must pay for all
There's no mistake in that.
All of you know, four years ago,
Before this war begun,
We all could buy our winter coal
For tio0 and haif ton,
And by good fires to warm our shius,
AS by the stove we sat,
But must to-day ten dollars pay
There's no mistake in that.
CHoRUs-For rogues have, DC.
Provisions, too, were very cheap,
And houses moderate rent,
Before shinplasters were in vogue,
Worth sixty-two per cent.
Prime beef was but ten cents pound,
No matter, lean or fat,
But now its to twenty-five
There's no mistake in that.
CHoRUs-For rogues have, &c.
Five hundred thousand more poor men,
By the Conscription law.
Are from the L0ttry-b0r of Death,
Compelled their names to draw.
And while those that first began the war.
And wear broad -brimmed hat,
Escape the law because they're rich
There's no mistake in that.
CHoRUs-For rugues have, &c.
From Father Abraham's bosom now
The Shoddyites all bray,
And treeley swear that black is white,
Providing it will pay.
But rascals will not aways reign,
For some day ii. for tat,
viii be returned, with interest too
There's no mistake in that
CHoRus-For rogues have, &c.
What has caused our taxes debt,
Overwhelmed us with distress
Suppressed free speech, brought on the draft,
AS well as gagged the Press;
The Union broke, made brothers fight
AS fierce as dog and cat!
The canfing .a6OhtioniSts--
There's no mistake in that
Chorus For rogues have, &c.
United States debt.
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02

The Wayne County Democrat says: AN
Abolition orator, rdiculing the Democratic
Party, described it as raft. The metaphor
is correct. The raft is the only water craft
which cannot be sunk. The waves dash
over it in vain And the Democratic Party,
although drencbed with flood of Abolition
ballots, will still float along the tide Of
American history. Other parties can be
destroyed by defeat; but the Democratic, new
er. Its principles are eternal, and never die
The Democratic raft cannot be sunk"
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02

ut is with narrow soued people," says
Swift, "as with narrow'necked bottle; the
less they have in them, the more noise they
make in pouring it out"
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02

CURE FOR FELoN.-As sood as the part
begins to swell get the tincture of lobelia
and wrap the part affected with cloth thor.
oughly saturated with the tincture, and the
felou is dead An old physician says he has
known this to cure in scores of cases, and it
never fails If applied in season.
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02
From the New York News
SING A SONG OF GREENBACKS.
A FEDERAL NURSERY RHYME,


Sing song of greenbacks,
A pocketifull of trash,
Over head and ears in debt,
And out of ready cash;
Heaps of tax collectors,
AS busy as bee:
Amt we in pretty fix
With gold at sixty-three.
Abe in the White House
Proclamation writing;
Meade on the Rapidan
Afraid to do the fighting;
Seward in the Cabinet
Surrounded by his spies;
Halleck with the telegraph
Busy forging lies;
Chase in the Treasury
Making worthless notes;
Curtin at Harrisburg
-"uhihS ohouuy COdlct
Gilmore at Charleston
Lost in a fog;
Forney under Abe's chair
Barking like dog;
Schenck down at Baltimore
Doing dirty work;
Butler at Norfolk
AS savage as Turk;
Spraguc in Rhode Island
Eating apple sass;
Everett at Gettysburg
Talking like an ass;
Banks out in Texas
Trying TO cut a figure;
Beecher in Brooklyn
Howling for the niger;
Lots of Aboltionists
Kicking up yell,
In comes Parson Brownlow
And sends all 10 hell;
Burnside at Knoxville
In kind of fix;
Dahlgren at Sumter
Pounding at the bricks;
Grant at Chattanooga
Trying Bragg.to thrash;
Is it any wonder
The Unions gone to smash!
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02

A Dutchman being called upon to give a
toast, said "Here ish TO de heroes what fit,
pied, and died at the battle of Bull Run-of
which | am one."
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02

On child being told that he must be
broken of bad habit, he actually replied
"Papa, hadn't better be mendedS"
why is niger as good as a white manl
Because God created them both. On that
theory jackass is equal to MajorG General
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02

RAIN, Snow, &c.-Rain is caused by a
cloud moving into stratum of cold air, by
which its particles are condensed, and run
into drops too heavy to float in the atmos
phere. Snow is produced by the cloud be-
coming frozen before its particles have COL
lapsed into water. Hail is caused by the
freezing of the drops after they begin to fall
as rain. Dew is the falling of the vapors of
the day when they part with the motion in
the cool OF the evening. A fog is cloud
floating on the surface of the earth, and a
cloud is fog floating in the atmosphere.
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02

Personal advertisements charged full rate
Obituary Birth and Marriage Notices, published
mS-Liberal deductions made to monthly or
YEARLY advertisers.
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02

PETRIFIED BODIES An Australian cor,
respondent of an English paper writes:-"ln
stony creek, fifteen miles from Castlemaine
were found the bodies Of three aboriginals,
quite WHOLE and not wanting in the smallest
details, but which were petrified into solid
marble When | last saw them, thought
they were actually alive, until, on going
closer. noticed the eyes. They are in a
sitting POSTURE and the veins, muscles, etc.
may be distinctly traced through what is
now group Of stone blocks; they are in a
splendid state of preservation-even the fin
ger nails, teeth, ETC., are as perfect as they
were five hundred years ago. One OF them
has a stone axe by his side without any haft
WASHING WooLENs.-If you do not wish
to have white woolens shrink when washed
make good suds of hard soap, and wash
the flannel n it. Do not rub woolens like
cotton cloth, but squeeze them between the
hands or slightly pound them with clothes
FOUNDER. The suds used should be strong
and the wooens should be rinsed in warm
water. By rubbing hannels on board and
rinsing them in cold water, they soon be
come very thick.
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02

The LONDON BRIDGEs.-When all the
bridges across the Thames at London are
complete they will form a sight unrivalled
in the world for magnifcence. Two splendid
new bridges are now in course of construction,
one of which is designed to accommodate
four lines of rails, with side ways for passen-
ger traffic. Within the limits of London
we believe, there are seven fine bridges and
one tunnel. The shipping Of the Thames is
all "below" the old London Bridge.
The Placer herald., 1864-04-02
THOMAS BOYCE,
ADVERTISING AGENCY,
NORTHEAST CORNER OF
Montgomery and Washington Streets,
SAN, FRANCISCO.

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nal, Dalles.
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! minister.
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San Francisco, May;l,lS63.-