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The Placer herald., 1864-06-18
COUNTY COURT PROCEEDrNo.
H. II. Fellows, PRESIDING

June 18th, 1864.
The People vs. A. w. Henderson, Defend...
enters plea Of mot guilty. Monday. Jnns
18th. fixed for pronouncing of sentence.
The People VS.. Alexander Brown and Trim; H.,
Martinez-Defendants arraigned and take t ,;,i
Monday to plead. VIII
~ June 18TH
| fined 500 and COSTS
The People VS.. Alexander Brown and Trinidad
Martinez Demurrer of Defendant Brown over.
ruled, and said Defendant plead mot euiltvn ona
demanded separate trial. S. X. Welsh assipn.S
as counsel for Defendant Martinez, and tsLoa
one day in which to plead. Trial of Brown s.s
for June 18th. OCT
Croker Il Young VS.. j. Mariner-By Conan,
continued for the term.
The People VS.. McFinn IL Ryan-Demur,.,
overruled; plea of mot guilty" entered. and
trial set for June 23d, and notice given that Ia.
PENDANTS will serve on trial.
w. II. Davis VS.. His Creditors--H. H. Fellovs
appointed to represent the creditors residing ont
of the State, and default of creditors entered nd
Sheriff appointed assignee.
The People VS.. Maxwell-Jury empannel,.d.
Special Venire for eighteen special jurors issued
June l4tb.
The People VS.. Hiram Jones Attac hment issu.
ed for witnesses for Defendant.
The People VS. Trinidad Martinez-Demurrer
overruled; plea of mot guilty" entered and
cause set for Friday June nth.
The People vs.. W. H. Witnesses or.
amined; cause argued and submtted; iury in
structed; retired, and subsequently returned
verdict of not guilty.
June 18TH
The People VS.. C. L. Wilson-Jury empann.,.
led, and examination of witnesses conc luded.
Miller HeatOn VS.. May banks u Pickett Ia.
PENDANTS allowed to answer.
Jacob Schuler VS.. His Credors-Pctitione,
allowed, on motion and afidavits filed to amend
his petition.
The People Va. John Dodge Motion to rot
aside indictment taken under advisement
June 10TH
The People VS.. G. l.. acknowledgement con-
cluded and cause submitted to the jury by tho
Court.
June 10th.
The people VS.. Wlson-Jury failed to agree
and were discharged.
Miller q Heaton VS.. Maybanks Il Pickett
Judgment of non-suit for Defendants.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

MOUNTAIN TuRNpiKE The Bonner Lake
and Pacific Turnpkes are now open for trav.
ell from Dutch Flat to Virginia City. The
opening of these roads through our county
give channel of communication to Washoe
that has been long desirable-and we may
soon expect to see fair share of the great
trade TO sllverland taking its course through
Placer county.
We are not informed as to the distance by
the Bonner Lake road, but of the Pacific
Turnpike can speak. The distance from
Sacramento to Virginia City by the latter
route is as follows:
From Sacramento to New Castle, 10y rail
road,) 3 miles.
New Castle to Auburn, 8.
" Auburn to Dutch Flat, 80
Dutch Flat TO Henness Pass
Road at Bowman's, 24s
Bowman's to Virginia City 81
Total 1856
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

ELoPEMENT IN New YORK UPPER TENDON.
Quite recently an eder and wealthy widow
er, who resides in a splendid Fifth avenue
mansion, took to his bosom a Young and
beautiful spouse. Five thousand dollars were
spent on the honeymoon, which lasted five
weeks. But then "cane change over The
spirit of his dream" The old gent had a
son rapid rake, Just twenty-one years of
age" On the installation of the before
mentioned beautsful wife, aged nineteen, into
the family mansion, the son was smtten -
mamma" reciprocated. First lightning
glances; then stolen kisses; then-O, hush!
This continued for three months, until con-
cealment was no longer possible She de-
termined to live with twenty one" and
"mizze" from 'sixty-one." She was artful,
irresistible. She had all she asked for, that
is, in cash. She asked; she saved she eIoped
with darling "twenty one" and likewise
twenty thousand dollars in cash. Poor old
grayhead raved and ranted, but to no purl
pose. Police detectives we're batf1e1, and
another chapter was added to the plots of
the sensation novels of the day.
~ Y. Cor. 1Zto
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

GREEK FIRE BURNED OUr.-People at the
North, unfamiliar with this siege, have heard
a great deal about Greek fire, which it was
said, was thrown into Charleston; and that
fiery mixture was reported terribly destruc
tive. l will rob the seige of that barbari:y,
for not drop or particle of Greek fire
ever reached that city from our batteries
That invention was tried, but would not
work; it always fell short, often exploding at
the muzzle of the guns.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18
NEW STAGE LINE.
A9l3

FROM AUBURN to NEWCASTLE TWICE
EVERY DAY.
TnNHE undersigned have started new stage line
Il from Auburn to the Pacific Railroad Station
at Newcastle, leaving Auburn at 6 o'clack, A. NJ,
connecting with the early train to Sacramento;
LEAVING THE STATION
at IL o'clock M. for Auburn; leaving Auburn
again at O'Clock P. NJ, to connect with the
o'clock down train; and returning again to An'
burn upon the arrival of the evening train from
Sacramento.
The travelling community will find this yer!
convenient and expeditions route.
PALMER & SPEEDY.
Auburn, June Is, lS64.-my.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

New STAGE LINE.-The advertisement of
the new Stage Line of Palmer e. SPEEDY
will be found in another column. The stage
connects with the early morning train on
the Pacific Railroad from Newcastle to Sac
ramento, as we'll as the down and up evening
trains on the road. We have before spoken
of this enterprise as great accommodation
to our citizens, and we notice they are avail
ing themselves of the privilege by literally
patrouizing the same
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

SUBSTITUTE FOR LEATHER. Not the least
remarkable feature of the present day is The
almost universal application of new dis
covery, intended, perhaps, to supply want
in one particular branch of industry We
are not, therefore, surprised to learn that NJ.
Szerelmey has adopted his process of indu,
rating stone to other substances, and as an
instance of this in the House of Parliament
alone, where its first trial took place, it is
used also to prevent rust Wood, too. is
subject to the "Zopissa" process, and last
year it was found to act wonderfully on
calico, cloth, moleskin, etc, rendering them
water 'r"of, and capable of being worked
up int" the most wonderful limitations and
varieties Of dressed leather. This last appi-
ton has recently been patented, and com
pany is now being formed for the manutac
ture of boots and shoes, of which the upper
feathers are to be made Of this new material,
which, soft to the foot, adapting itself like
a glove, is not liable to crack or shrink, is
impervious to wet, and permits the perspira-
ton to pass off. Other improvements, too,
in the manufacture itself, are introduced -
The sole is divided along the side, leaving
the upper portion of it to protect the foot
from the rivits, and the hard side of the
leather too is lowest, leaving the soft side
(the sucker" propensities of which we have
doubtless all proved SUPPLEMENTARY to be
presented to the foot to absorb its moisture,
and not TO the ground as is now done. THIS
new material and the Improvements we have
entioned will, no doubt, recommend them
selves, and from the cheapness Of the former,
great reduction in the price of boots and
shoes may be expected
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

The Constitut ton was a compact, not be.
tween solitary individuals, but between po-
litical societies-the people, not of America
but of the United States, each enjoying SOW
ereign power, and of course equal rights
Thus it differs from a State Constitution,
which is compact, so far as it can be called
compact, between individuals. 1t is a
compact between sovereignties.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

A Fremont ORGAN.-The friends of John
Charles, The Pathfinder" say that Ere
mont organ will be established in this city
at an early day, with much capital to back
it. Its projected conductors, editors, etc.
are said to be men of fine abilities. and the
new organ will no doubt be an able one.-
The elements of a powerful Fremont party
are lying around loose 10 California, and or
the Pacific coast, if some master hand would
but undertake the task of coalescng and con
soIidating items. r. Press.
New ENGLAND GENERALS The Albany
Argus says:-New England has given to the
war that larceneous phianthrophist and dis
graced General, Neal Dow, the coarser ano
rapacious Butler and the sleek and corrupt
Banks. From the day of Big Bethel down
to the disaster on Red River, their paths
have been marked by caamities and shame
RAIN.-Reese River seems to be especially
favored with rain this season and we may
expect ali abundant crop of hay, vegetables
etc, and prices within the reach of all, add
ing SO much to the comfort, health and
economy of living in this sage brush desert
which is now emerald with abundant grass
and beautiful with flowers of every hue and
aroma Reuille.
Prentice of the Louisville Journal, says
Those clergymen are censurable who refuse
to pray for Mr.. Lincoln We ought all tc
pray for the poor, and be is mighty poor
President"
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

ATTEMPT AT SuIc1DE.-On Tuesday last
J. Fl. Dreamer, confined in the Sacramento
Jail, and sentenced to fifty days in the chain
gang for petit larceny, attempted to commit
suicide by cutting his throat with razor
He will probably recover Notwithstanding
the wound was serious one.
Dreamer is we'll known in this county
For number of years he kept hotel an
restaurant 10 Auburn, as we'll as at Iowa Hill
At that time be bore an excellent reputation
and it was the universal sentiment that che
could keep hotel" and did 80 successfully
In the mutations Of fortune, since leaving
this county, it seems the poor fellow has
gone down step by step, and at last the
prison doors close upon him criminal.
With our knowledge of his previous histo,
~ We are inclined 20 charitable opinion OF
the unfortunate man. The unhappy result
Of bis domestic life may have driven him in
. career, foreign to his true nature.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18
AGAINST GREENBACKs.-In our ADVERT.

AGAINST GREENBAcKs.-In our adverti-
sing columns will be found card signed by
the bankers, and business men of this city,
(Austin) refusing to recognize any attempt a
change in the currency, and pledgng them.
selves to publish any one who may cancel
obligations in greenbacks except at their
coin value-Reese Riuer Reuille, June 10.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

VOLUNTEER ELECroR LIsr-The list OF
electors in the California Volunteers, accord.
ing to the law passed at the late session OF
the Legislature and approved April LIST, 1864,
was completed by Adjutant General Evans
on Tuesday last and filed in the Secretary
of States office.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18
CHRIST'S CHURCH SERVICE, Episcop,

DIVINE SERVICE will be celebrated at the
Court House every second (2nd) and fourth (4th)
Sunday Of the month. Hours of Service IL
o'clock, A. NJ, and o'clock Pm
The Sunday School will meet on everv Sunday
at 2 o'clock, P.
REV. ADAM A. McALISTER.
Minister Officiating
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18


A KEY TO A PERsoN's NAME.-By the &C.
compauying table of letters the name of
person or word may be found out in the fol-
lowing manner
Let the person whose name A B D II p
you wish to know inform you c E l Q
in which of the upright col. E F F J R
umns the first letter of bis G G. X S
name is contained. If it is | J L l. T
found in but one column it is X X M M N
the top letter; if it occurs in M N N N V
more than one column, it is o O o OW
found by adding the alphabet Q r T X X
ical numbers of the top letters S S Il Y
of these columns and the sum U w Y Z
will be the number of the let w w w
ter sought. BY taking one Y Z
letter at time this way, the whole name
can be ascertained. Example, take the word
Jane. is found in the two columns cons
mencing with B and II, which are the End
and Sth letters down the alphabet; their sum
is 10, and the 10th letter down the alpha
bet is J, tie letter sought. The next letter,
A, appears but in one column, where it
stands at the top. N is seen in the column
headed ID b and H. these are the 2nd 4th
and 9Th letters Of the alphabet, which added
give the l4th or N; and so on. The use of
this table will excite no little curiosity
among those unacquainted with the forego.
ing.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

We are informed, on reliable authority,
that on Saturday last Moses Ellis Il Co., OF
San Francisco, received telegram stating
that gold was 2l5 in New York.
Neuadd Gazette, June ID.
A man named Joseph Rogers, Of Shelby
vile, Indiana, aged about Al years, of good
standing in the community, left wife and
six children few days since, and sloped
with a widow toward California.
In the neghborhood of the Cas- plan Sea
petroleum is used as fuel by impregnating
clay with the combustble fluid. The clods
are burned on an ordinary hearth. The
Norwegians mix tar and saw dust, nodded
in the form of brick, and burn in similar
manner.
On the lst instant there were AZ vessels
on the way to San Francisco from eastern
United States ports
DREDGING THE RIvER.--The little steamer
Goodman Castle was engaged on Friday last
in dredging the river in front Of Sacramento,
for the purpose of removing or reducing the
sandbar which has been deposited there.
Sixteen hundred and twenty five sheep
from Yolo county passed through Austin, on
the 18th inst, en- route to Smoky Valley.
Greenbacks are selling in San Francisco
at So cents.
b pdes of elven deserted infants have been
discovered in the streets and highways of
San Francisco during the asst two months.
The steamers at Sacramento have now to
back down the river to NJ street before they
can turn.
Ma, why is postage stamp like a bad
scholar? | can't teI my son; why is it?--
Because it gets licked and put in corner -
Susan, put that child to bed.
The spirituasts in the United States are
SAID to number five mi lion of persons
AT coin sale in Providence, r. Island,
recently, New York "Excelsior' cent OF
1887 brought twenty-five dollars, and a
small eagle "Washington" copper, sixteen
dollars.
The Chinese are building a Joss house in
Virginia City.
IL Is estimated oy stock TalseTs III MOntel
rey that their loss this year, owing to the
dry season, is at least seventy-fve per cent,
of their entire stock.
During the month Of May one thousand
foreign miners licenses taxes were sold in
Plumas county.
To REMOVE HORSES IN CASE OF FIRE. - The
great difficulty of getting horses from the stable
is we'll known. A gentleman whose horses has
been in great peril from such cause, having in
vain tried to save them, hit upon the experiment
of having the harness put on them. when, to his
JOY they were led from the stable without diff
Guilty.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

Lows MAJoRIrY.-The Alta say, several
parties who are interested in bets on the re-
suit of the forthcoming Presidential election
in California, desire to know the exact ma
jority for Low last year. 1t was with the
soldiers vote 1861; without it, 1882.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

SoUAw VALLEY.-1hs mining district in
Placer county is coming into considerable
notice. 1t has water and timber in plenty
as we'll as other natural advantages, besides
mineral wealth. Many prospecting parties
are engaged tunneling the hill through
which the Truckee river passes, and entertain
great antici pations of the wealth in store fol-
them. Flourishing towns are being built
and a prosperous time is looked for gener
ally.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

re- A dancing party will be given at the
Alabaster Cave, in Ell Dorado County, on
the 4th Of July. 1t is the intention to ilu-
inmate the Cave with colored lights on the
occasion-the effect of which will be sight
we'll worth seeing.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

The SOLDIERS VoTING LAW IN VERMONr-The
Supreme Court OF Vermont has declared that the
law of that State comforting soldiers the right
to vote is unconstitutional so far as it relates to
the President and members OF Congress.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

TO THE VOTERS OF DISTRICT NO. g.
announce myself as candidate for Collector of
this District, subject to the nomination of the
District Democratic Convention.
j. d. MCCORMACK.
Michigan Bluff, June l. tn, 1864
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

CoMPRoMIsED.--lt is stated in the San
Francisco Spirit Of the Times, that the Com
mittee appointed by the Board of Super.
visors, on the Central Pacific Railroad
matter, have effected a compromise with the
Company which would be made known at
the meeting of the Board of Supervisors, on
Monday evening.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

WHAT Now?-The miscegenation organs
OF this coast, without, we believe, single
exception, denounced in hypocritical plat
itudes all attempts on the part OF Senator
McDougal to have our Government stand
up to the Monroe doctrine. McDougall's
demand for maintaining a great American
principle, these skukiug enemies to true
national principles said, was Copperhead
dodge TO throw us into a quarrel with France
We were advised to wait till the little (?)
job Of conquering the rebels was performed, ~
and then the French rooster would have
his gatfs removed, his plnmage spoiled, and
his jugular seveled Well, at Abes pow
WOW in Baltimore, facetiously ironically call
ed National Union Convention, resolution
was passed indorsing the Monroe Doctrine,
which was stronger in terms than ANYTHING
yet offered by McDouga. VIII the hypo
critical dogs now eat dirt, as they usually do,
and take back all they but recently said in
denunclaon of McDougall for supporting
the principles of the Monroe Doctrines! The
dldappers can not dodge this matter by
saying that the rebellion is crushed, or that
Napoleon's designs on Mexico are less avar,
cous than they were; for the war bears a
gloomler aspect now than it did nearly one
year ago, Immediately after the battle of
Gettysburg; and we all know that Napoleon
has better thing than ever in Mexico. But
the miserable shutters and word-swa low rs.
taking their cue from the great political
contorionist and acrobat, Seward, will soon
be yelping for the Monroe Doctrine and
ringing the changes on it from Cape Cod to
Florida. Consistent pinks, are they not!
Grass Golley National
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18
DIVINE SERVICE.

Divine Service will be held at the NJ. E. Church
by Rev. William Wilmot to- morrow Sunday at
1Oi4 A. NJ. and u P. M and rgularly thereafter at
the same hours each Sunday.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

The drain upon the population Of Iowa
Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, tc
furnish eighty five thousand men for one
hundred days, will interfere dsastrously with
the agricultural prospects of those States.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

NATIONAL BANK.-A Bank is about to be
started at San Francisco with capital Of
50, 100000. D. O. Mills is to be Pres dent.
We presume the idea is to food the State
with shnplasters.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

H John P. Hale, the noted Abolition
enator from the State of New Hamps hire
i, to be succeeded by man named Chaplin,
The venerable Hale seems 10 have fallen into
disrsputs With the party that he built up in
the Granite State.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18
FOR Observation-Disclosures NO. 8,

We are authorized to announce the name OF
THOMAS DODDS as a candidate for Assessor OF
District No. 3, subject to the decision of the Dem
ocratic District Convention
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

REPuDIATIoN.-At length the abolition
organs begin to hint at what cannot much
longer be concealed, and plainly foreshowed
reputation of our enormous national debt -
The country is bankrupt and financial crash
is inevitable. 1t cannot be postponed much
longer. The Boston Traveller, a strong sup
porter of the Administration, in an article
upon the financial question, says:
1--WE shall, in no long time, have Gordi.
an knot in finance as we'll as in war and poll
itcs, which can never be disentanged and
adjusted, but must be cut by some bold and
daring hand"
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

BANK OF MExIoo.-lt is reported that the
Rothschilds have obtained privilege from
the Regency, to be approved by the Emperor
Macmillan, to establish banking house to
be called the Bank of Mexico.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

COUNTY FUNDs.-The Board of Examiners
report this week in the County Treasury
81 ,S9l 52 in the different Funds
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

EE A monument is to be erected to G 60
II. Hossefross, former Chief of the San Fran
cisco Fire Department, in conspicuous pc
sition in the Lone Mount Cemetery.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

The city of San Francisco has bonds stand
ing out to the amount Of 81 1888, 500.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18
CALIFORNIA STAGE COMPANY.
&8| New ARRANGEMENT &

I'm and after August LIST, 1868, the Stages, OF
" the California Stage Co., will run rs lol
lows: -
From Auburn Station, via Auburn, Grass Var
ley, and Nevada, to Virginia City, arriving a' 'n'
latter place daily at IL o'clock M. ,
Also from Auburn Station direct. via Aupuin -,
Illinoistown, Iowa Hill to Dutch Flat, arriving ~
the latter place daily at O'Clock. P. M: ..
These Lines connect with Forest Hill, Iouu o
Valley, Yankee Jim's, Michigan Bluffs and oqua"
Valley daily. orsry
Stages for Marysville leave Auburn e''''
morning at o'clock.
JAMES HAWORTH,
President Cal. Stage 10
August sth, lS63.-my.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

EARTHqUAKE.-There have been recently
several slight shocks of earthquakes at Sal
Francisco.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

self on the 18th of June by jumping into the
river from the Sacramento and Yolo bridge
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

SHOWED THEIR HANDs.-The San Francis
CO Board of Education the other day recev
ed an invitation from the Grand Marshal for
the schools to join in the Fourth of July
celebration in that city. The Board accept
ed, but it being subsequently, discovered that
the printed invitation contained the motto
"The Union as it was" they Indignantly re.
sciuded their acceptance, and denounced the
motto as a disloyal sentiment, used by Cop
perheads. These gentry, after this exhibition
Of assinine bigotry and stupidity consented
to receive an explanation that the sentiment
THE Union AS it was,"-was not used in
party sense, and concluded to take part in
the celebration.
This final action in no way relieves them
from the utter scorn and contempt that their
conduct merits. In their hatred of demo.
cratic ideas, they hastily exhibited their true
sentiments in opposition to restoring the
government, and showed themselves AS fac
tionists, destroyers, and traitors to that gov.
eminent they have so loudly professsed to
be trying to restore. They gave the lie to
all their lip professions, and suddenly, per-
haps unwittingly, removed their lions skin
and showed their jackass ears
In this little affair the Board Of Educa.
ton Of San Francisco have made themselves
4 reputation by which they will be remem
bered. A reputation that will stink with
meanness.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18
MARRIED..

At Sacramento, at the Golden Eagle Hotel
June 18th. by Rev. Geo. Sim, G. W. HUMPHREYS
to Miss ICY N. HOLDEN, both of Placer county.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

ES The Mission Wooden Mills at San
Francisco have made arrangements for wash.
ing wool on an extensive scale, the better to
prepare it for an eastern market. 1t has
been matter of great complaint that Cali
fornia wool was quite unclean, and conse-
quently it has not brought its full value in
market. Properly prepared California WOO
would rate considerably higher than it has
and the enterprise of the Mission Mills will
tend to accomplish this result.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

EF Delegates to another Constitutions
Convention have recently been elected il
Nevada Territory-but great Indifference
has been manifested by the people, and but
small vote polled. Some of the papers OF
the Territory treat the proceedings with but
little respect, and say that Constitution
will be voted down by decisive VOTE
They don't want a State, but do want rel
spectacle judiciary; but have no guarantee
they would any more obtain the latter desid-
eratum under State than under Terrific
rial government.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-18

EF-Pay the printer what you owe him.