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General Scott, who has been quite feeble,
is now better, and is busiy at work on his
Life and Times," which he expects to have
ready for the press in few weeks. 1t will
make an octave of nine hundred pages.
Lzy-A car buffer Is In use on the Midland
Great Western Railway, which, placed on
the rails, will bring up heavily loaded train
going at the rate Of twenty miles an hour
in a space Of nine feet. without injury to the
cars.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-04


The Courier des Etats Unis of this morn,
ing announces, in a sort of semi official way,
that the Emperor Maximilian will devote
himself at once to secure the completion OF
The Tehuantepec transit; not by the cutting
of canal, but by railway from Minatitlan
to the Bay OF Ventosa. The Courier re-
cites the well known advantages Of the Te'
huantepec transit; and shows that upon its
being opened to the commerce of the world,
the trip from New York to San Francisco
can be made in fortnght-the difference
in favor Of the Tehuantepec ronte against
the Panama and Nicaraug. routes being AS
follows: by the Isthmus Of Panama, 1858
miles; BY Tehuantepec, 4,744 miles; total.
sissipp to the Pacific States the advantages
offered by the new route will lie still more
considerable: From New Orleans to San
Francisco the distance by way Of Panama is
5000 miles; by way Of Tehuantepec, 1924
miles; total, l,7O6 miles.
The opening of the Tehuantepec route
was first undertaken in lS4s by an Ang O.
Mexican company, under charge of M. de
Gavay. This company received from Santa
Anna decree giving them monopoly of
the passenger traffic for fifty years and of the
goods traffic for sixty. The Gavay Conn
pany, after variety of experiences, was re
organized in $780, sent out competent en-
gineer, and made the necessary surveys for
the Tehuantepec Railway, estimating the ex
pense of building i, on line passing, as
above stated, from Minatitlan to the Bay Of
Ventosa at fifteen millions Of francs. The
Mexican Government, however, annulled the
Tehuanepec concession by a law passed
May ooh, 1851, and the affair now awaits
the deliberate and un,ramlneled action Of
the new Government of the Archduke Max
imilian. There can be no doubt that the
successful opening Of a practicable transit
across the islhmus would materially strength
ell the interest taken in the imperial expert
ment of Macmillan by the commercial
world of Europe, while it would contribute
.,vaiy to the internal paclfcaiion of his
somewhat chaotic empire, and the predic
,ioos of the Courier will probably be veri
fled in the action of the Macmillan Govern
nent with the least possible delay
Neao York Tribune.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-04

The Liverpool Albion says: The Great
Eastern has been tak-n up by Glass, Elliot
& Co., for the purpose of laying the cable
between England and America. When the
cable is laid the proprietors of the Great
Eastern are to receive 100000 in paid up
shares of the Atlantic Telegraph Company.
1t is not intended to lay the cable until next
spring
The Placer herald., 1864-06-04

HARD TINES IN NEVADA TERRIToRY.-The
PlacerviIIe Democrat of 28lh May says:
1t would be difficult task to place the
roads leading from PIacervlle to Nevada
Territory in better condition than they are
at present. They are hard, smooth and even
free from dust and mud. They were kept
in good order all winter and spring, the re-
markably dry season enabling hands to be at
work on them without interruption. Long
lines of freight teams are continually passing
through our streets, and the stages are daily
crowded with passengers-but the returning
tide of travel seems greater than the out
going. Those returning give discouraging
accounts of affairs in Nevada. Claims are
not worked, mills are idle, and hundreds Of
miners are out of employment. Business is
dull, money scarce and confidence destroyed
They attribute this business stagnation and
want of confidence to Congressional legisla-
ton, tampering with the currency question,
and the large amount of wildcat stock which
has been put in the market by broken specu-
lators to vic,imize the innocent and credu-
lous Those who are out of employment
and possess the means are returning to Cali
fornia, while there are hundreds who wish to
return but have not the means. The result
in the end, must he beneficial to Washoe and
California; it will close wildcat claims, drive
out of the market wildcat stock and stop
the nippings of wildcat spectators, and in
duce capitalists to invest their money in the
mines of California; and thus aid in devel-
oping the numberIess quartz lodes in our
State
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THOMAS ROYCE,
AGENCY
NORTH EAST CORNER OF
Montgomery and Washington Streets,
SAN FRANCISCO.

Daily California Repub
lican. Sacramento.
Daily Express. Mlrys'lle
Daily Beacon, Stockton
Esmeralda Star. Aurora
Placer Herald, Auburn.
Colusl Sun.
Aurora Times.
Chronicle, lone City.
Democrat, Nevada.
Telegraph, Folsom.
Dlspatch, Jackson,
Enquirer, Dutch Flat.
Journal, Yrcka.
nationalist, Wea
verville.
News, knights L1ndin 9
Sentinel, Santa Cruz.
Pajnro Times. Watson
vile.
TT bune. San Jose.
Gazette. San Mateo.
Pacific Echo. Napa.
Tuolumne Courier, Co
lum
San
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/ Democrat. Santa Rosa.
Cumberland Presbyter,
Pacheco.
Alameda Gazette, San
Lcandro.
Solano Herald. SuiSua.
Marin Journal, San Ra-
iael.
Oakland Press.
Oregon Democrat, AL
bany.
Oregon Union. Corvallis
Cosmopolitan, Mazailan.
Oregon Sentinel, Jack :
sonvillc.
Herald Of Reform. Eu-
gene City.
| Democratic State Jour.
nal. Dalles.
Review. Eugene City.
Washington Standard
Olympia.
British Columbian, West
min stcr.
Sco
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Personal advertisements charged full rates,
Obituary Birth and Marriage Notices, published
without charge.
na-Liberal deductions made to monthly or
YEARLY advertisers.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.

One square Of TEN LINES, [this sized typc,)
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How do you like it1

The following from the financial columns of
the Day Book, will give the reader pretty
fair idea Of the taxation which is in store
for him to sustain Lincoln's war to give
freedom to the niggers:
The sum total of all this rag business is a
miscellaneous paper currency of $780,
100000! 1t will increase to this amount
before it lessons. Is it strange that imitation
is the result? And if we suffer what we do
Today with $500 900 900 of currency, what
will be the state Of things when we get the
S44O 100000 more which is bound to Gomez
The effect of the present panic should be to
lower the cost of necessaries of life; but it
will not be permanent. In a week we shall
see the reaction of the stock market, and the
tendency Of gold again strongly upward
Mr.. Chase has gone to Washington with a
firm determination to institute huge taxation.
lie has been heard within the past few days
to declare that $500 900, 900 per year should
he raised that we should be taxed to the
amount of one-half of our expenditures; or,
in other words, that the poor working man
who earns twenty shiIlngs a day, should
pay one-haf of it to the government to carry
on this war. How do you like the idea,
my agricultural friend9 You are now earn
ing 81, 900 per year. Mr.. Chase says $500
of it shall 60 to the Government to keep up
this "hel upon earth" which this nigger
party have inaugurate1. Will you give six
months daily labor out of twelve to "squech
out the SOUTH" my friend? You may reside
in the glorious state Of Illinois, which once
sold millions of bushels Of grain per year to
90 down the Mississippi, to that very South
ern people this Internal party of fanatics
desire to exterminate. You, my western
friend, who have in times past pocketed the
gold for your sales in the markets of New
Orleans, will you devote the half of each Of
the next five years to crushing out your old
customer, the State Of louisiana Will the
working men of New England, whose entire
yearly products found a ready sale in the
cities Of the South. give half bis time for
the next five years to the expunginy from
the face of the earth the people whose agri-
cultural Iabors produced the gold which
went into his pocket in return! | do not
think either of you, farmer of the west, or
mechanic of the east, will consent to any
thing of the kind, and if you did, your job
would fail. 1t is all very well for Salmon
p Chase to talk elibly of forcing taxation
to the extent of half the expenditures of the
him, and the journals all over the country
who love to echo his sentiments, to indulge
in speculations of this character; but unless
this people have made up their minds to play
subjects" instead of "sovereigns," which
latter you have heard a vast deal about on
fourth of July days, | am Of the opinion
that there is a limit to the taxing power of
the government, and that limit is some ways
short of the so per cent OF the labor of the
country.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-04
Where the Gold and Silver of California
Sunk.

An account was lately rendered to the
British Parliament of the gold and silver
imported. into and exported from the Presi
denotes of Bengal, Bombay and Madras, ex
cluding CeyIon and other oriental Dependent
cies of Great Britain. by these carefully com
piled official returns it appears that the god
and silver imports into the said districts of
India, containing 100000, 900 of souls, ex-
ceed during one year, the exports by trac-
ton under 100000, 900 This puzzled and
annoyed John Bull immensely. His eastern
subjects, it appears, have an odd fashion
among them, adopted after centuries Of war
and anarchy, of boarding their extra profits
in very curious laces to provide against
sudden evenlualiles, peculiarly Asiatic, and
gold, silver and precious stones are their an
cient and modern favorites But these are
also particularly esteemed by Mr.. BIS cash
keepers in India and England, and this orien
tai plan causes much perplexity to them.
The returns alluded to slate that from 1855
to 1868, this excess of the Imports over the
exports of India has rea he'd tho enormous
value of $55O,O0O,OOO. There is no doubt
that into this Indian maeslroom has been
engulfed our $l,OOO,OOO, 900 of California
and Washoe gold and Silver dug out with
much persplralion between l94S and 1864
S. f. Bulletin.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-04

Common sense and substantial homespun
garments are not much used in these days,
The Placer herald., 1864-06-04

French people had been oppressed in the
name Of the Church. When oppression had
been thrown off, they no, only sought and
worshpped the ashes of Voltaire, but Knocked
the embems of the true religion.
once before stated, and now repeat the
opinion, that if the people Of the seeded
States were all united as men are united
when inspired by just cause, when urged
on by convictions of duty to self to country,
and to God, they could never be conquered.
History furnishes no example of such thing,
and | saw no special reason why the general
current should be broken in this case
thought, however, they might be conquered,
because did not believe they were united
Mr.. President, we have expended two
thousand millions of treasure; we daily expend
three millions more. The daily destruction
of property well nigh equals the daily expen
diture, thereby decreasing our means Of pay
ment in the same ratio in which the burdens
of Indebtedness are increased. The Border
States have been ravaged, desolated, and now
their population is flying to the wilderness
Territories of the West to escape the curses
of what we call American civilization. They
seek peace, in order that when all else has
been lost the future rewards of labor NAV
he preserved for the comfort and support of
their families. To the holy suppose of re-
storing the Union we have given a million
of lives and a halt million brave soldiers
now stand ready to add their blood to the
saneuine lake that knows no filling. Rebel
lion is confronting us yet. Is it weaker
than it was? Public opinion says yes. Take
the newspaper press of your country and
add up for youi selves the reported desertons
of rebel troops for the last two years. and
it equals the original militia strength of the
South. The same authority tells us that the
rebel armies are in state of starvation, and
in the same column reports the destruction
OF commissarv stores on the outskirts OF
rebellion sufficient to subsi>t their armies
for three months. We are told by the reports
of chief engineers and major-generais in
command that forts have been leveleJ by
our artillery have become a mass Of shape
less ruins and unavailable for defense. These
forts for SIX months thereafter, have held in
security Confederate garrisons, and they yet
frown defiance to our ironclad navies.
For three years the armies of the rebellion
have defied our power. In April. 1861, the
Executive and his advisers thought that sew
enty five thousand men could suppress the
outbreak in three mo tbs. In July, 1861,
The Congress supposed that five hundred
thousand men would soon complete the work.
With an amy of many hundreds of thou'
sands now in the field the same authorities
regard it necessary to add seven hundred
thousand men to our present.
Who is the man that thinks the rebellion
weaker to day than it was one, two, or three
years ago9 1t is easy to say we think it
weaker. Indeed, it may not be SO strong;
but our actions give no evidence that such is
our opinion. If deceiving others be excusa'
BILE it is scarcely so to deceive ourselves.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-04
About London.

The Corporation of the City of London
has obtained Special Act of Parliament to
enable the city authorities to regulate, in
some measure, the enormous traffic through
the streets of the great metropolis. The
Parliamentary Committee which examined
the details of the measure, collected much
curious information, tending to show that
under any regulations, its due ordering must
be matter Of gr at difficulty.
"In 1850, it was ascerlained, by relay of
sharp-eyed policemen, that between eight in
the morning and eight in the evening, on
one particular day, 900 vehicles passed
Bow Church, in Cheapside; thirteen years
afterwards, on a similar day in 1868, the
number was l2,300. Again, the vehicles
crossing London Bridge on one dav in 1850,
were l3,00O on similar day in 1868, they
had risen to the stupendous number OF
10000. AS the pressure is not equally in
tense all day long, and as Cheapside is often
a regular block about noon, a counting was
made on the 25th Of March, 1862, to deter
mine the number of vehicles that passed
Bow Church between twenty minutes past
twelve and twenty minutes past one-one
hour of high-pressure business in the City:
they comprised POI omnlbuses, 573 cabs,
and 294 other vehicles, or l,l5S wheel ve-
hicIes-at the rate of nineteen per minue!"
On particular day in May last, the We
hicles that entered the city of London were
49,l77 in number; they contained, besides
unnunbered tons of merchandise, l55 900
passengers; while 37OlO7 other passengers
entered on foot; and we may reasonably in.
fer that those who emerged from the city
during the same twenty tour hours were
about equal in number. Although the Clan,
Metropolis covers more than 100 square
miles, the City, ito which this enumeration
refers, (bareIy exceeds one square mile.
The sum totals are almost incredible. II
requires strong faith in the accuracy of those
who made the enumeration to believe that
so many vehicles and many persons come
every weekday into an area comprising little
moIe than one square mile.
The Placer herald., 1864-06-04

SG3.--
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WEDNESDAY, Aurust 3l-r. m


Gold opened at 1861 and sold as high as 1894
upon the announcement Of the nomination at Chicago
TIE nett turn was downward and 237i was accepted.
From this point the Market grew stronger, and at 3,
D m. the 24li. closing at 24l at D. H. Gold
10 scarce for delivery Fe era Stocks are higher. Con
pons Of 1884, 1857 aloe. $50 Coupons ITO. ilO, 1914
l0,aioa.. Certificates 9li. Kentucky es, ia asked
Indiana S. SCI ds7. Tennessee g. 5e.aGO. yirgipia
Ga S. Georgia Is, 81. North Carolina Is, g.. a64
Missouri g. 67Fa6s California IS l63 asked; Canton
Co., 33ia34; Delaware and Hudson. 2O4 asked Penn.
sylyania Coal 2os asked, Quicksilver. s2i0sa; Mime
sofa Od53; hsrposa BiG4lt; Cumberland Coal
Co., 6oiS6oi; American Coal Co., $685. Pacific
Mail, 299i sskel Atlantic Mail 1877 lsa; Ces'
tral Transit, ITO esko New York Central l2s. AZ.
Erie, loot a 1885, do Preferred 10 a 1l0i; Hudson
River l27i l2si Reading. 1914 1884,; Michigan Cen
tral 1851 a 1856 do. Southern e6i e6i; do. Guaran
teed 1851 a l46 Panama, 80 asked; Illinois. Contra
12e O l2si Cleveland and Pttsburg liz a ll2t Cleve
,aDd and Toledo. 1851 ap27i North Western. SAT 54i
% Preferred. s7i a s7i; Rock Island. llOs a ll0a
Prairie du Chen, CO 60; Fort Wayne, llIi III;
Terre Hsue and Alton - 60; Toledo and Wabash IS
6s Stocks have been in ocular. The opening was quite
strong and upon the list generally IN advance paid
Al the close Of the call prices lower and npon the
street and at the Public Board. lower were &C
septed There is little disposition shown 70 operate in
any direction The Railways are all reporting large
earnings enough to warrant fall dividends IN The Au.
tmn but it las effect upon speculation Before the
Gecond Board met the announcement ofthe new loan
usde when general movement was made to sell by par
tes having information and quite low prices we're made
Government Stocks were. however. well sustained
For commercial paper there less demand and buyers
srpect fall rates The disturbance IN values caused by
the fluctuations and feveshDess in gold makes people
esuEops u new engagements There IL more difficulty
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u'n nkpAln
Passengers smiled.

IN .team.ip Emily B. Souder Jor Nee 0rleons--Franrs
Carroll A. Hannemin, Thomas Mcconnell s. N. Swen.on,
John Week ring, I. IL. Duval John Hamilton Frank Ham.
iltou, win Col n ard WIFE Emily Gudan, Margaret
Gill, land Jacob III rmsnn Jacob HERMANN Jacob Msz II.
c. Glson, wifi and child II. j. Trimm daughter Thonsa
good John Esnn and lady H. c. PaIon John Doyls,
Judge j. s. niaA.r. wife and two children, A. Stssbachs
Bsu on Grover j. Sch.rer. T. W. Msrden and Wife Mira.
Por.er Child John Savage lady and child Mis- 6. Hans
Le,ry /. Dreyions Mr.. TYR Mr.. Eoyd. Peter Carey,
CLARKE r. Anne. hlcn, IL. blum Jsmes Connolly, ROlus
Waplss Dr. Deyron ID. Bidw,l Decius y. Phelps James
wilson, s. KndskoH John IN, Il. NJ Morrison, John Ga
nsnd A. Butcher, Il. 5. Benedict and SON. Amos Morrill,, T..
Mansfield.
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,garLct.- BIZ Ttlegraph.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug 3l-four veiy dull; Superhnc,
$685. fstrs.. sndsl2 beat very du1; Ola he'd
~ sgd IS new Rcd ~ t5d ~ 55 White, ~ SOQ -
orn heavy; .sles Of on bnsh.ls-Yelo, 81 -; Mixed
Weston 81 70. Oats doll-N~w, 80 Old, III. Lard bm
At 2iQ2sc. Petroleum. Crude, SOC Rehued IN bond, sia
sc do Free g5d3lc WHISKY dull aud ialen II y Do q
I'll SO.
BALrrnoRK Aus. 3.-Flour dull and heavy; Howard
Street III. b2ldSll u.s. Wheat dull inactive and nominal.
Corn dul. anu declined i4c2c. Whisky nominal, At
= t6dtl 81.
change Wheat rrner and IN only modrat demand Sales,
No Chicago sprng ~ O3 other grad~s neglected and
nominal corn quirt and Sales ONO 5 o. Oats
dull sales 75676c; other grades nominal hissey dull
held 81 Canal frzhts dull TO New York. Wheat 2lG
z. A., Corn l8dle.c, Oats l.tc.
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(Adyertisernent.l
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
No. 4 WALL ST.. New Yorh.

No. WALL ST., New Yorh
rrscAL AGENT FOR TIN Q. s. GOVERNMENT.
On the 9Th nst the Secretary Of the Treasury win open
bids for tbryone millions Of u S. Size. OF lealbeng the
unswasded ballnee Of the seventy five million loan.
This Bank will take orders for this loan, and viii include In
il. own bid the orders Of other parties All orders entered
must b. accompanied by pre- payment Of five per cent The
balance must be paid notice Of awards.
The bonds viii carry interest from the day Of payment.
Mr. J. Thompson viii Iepcsent this bank in Washington ct
the opening of tho bids.
s. C. Thompson, President.
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DlRlCTIONs TO suIPPERs.

Pack all produce soIrry to avoid ofehsge OF boxes or
contents II different qualities are sent let them Do IN seps
rat. pseksr-s
hsik everything plainly with tho consignses nane also.
put yonT Inne private marx known 10 The coIsgIee,
e the package upon tue outside, with mum
b,r wri.t So show what contains aud where foul,
without opening
Puan inside laid upon the top tackled tho
gndrrsds Of also send dup by mail a. tue
the produce oth,r articles shipped, sains the
route sent, rte
reputation Tor ctn.s quail Of produce even
aud good packing that your articles VIII always be IN de-
ulaJd.
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Philadelphia Cattle MurLcf-Aug. 81.

There inert in the supply Of BEky CATTLE
retriy 90 h.a with last reforms The enr- re-
pts and this amOneI t. 40 head lse mar
therefore dull and bet cattle sold Il iIoin : 70
81 4 100 n. Ordinary and good were sold at isou . to
$lL
sBEEPThe supply Of Sheep eontinnss good and the sale.
aInout' to 49, head at prices ieLgDg from to cents
n. arose.
oGsThe make, fo Hogs brisk and prices advanced
,haae TIE amounted 80 bead, pces ranging
Tom : l3to III 4, iOu 70. net.
GOws-ihee j. but Ut - clsnge In this market $50 head
sold va 20 for sprng"Ts and from 90 10 S,u
Tor Cow and Calf, according 70 quality.
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ont the week, and moderately upwsrd, with fair
aniuunt OF s,es The snare market generally has re-
manned dui. with very niue change ana m"d"Tntev
firm prices in the sound dividend paying securities,
While tae speculative eiass. with but lew exceptions,
have continued weak and declining Money hns cpn.
for loans The deuiard for discounts been hight
and very little Of hfsci0ss commercial paper hrs been
off red AT the banks. The Lnslness trsictions have
been 10 Z ir extent and In some crces the movement
has been materially quickcned Prices for nest articles
Of mel chandise renan firm.
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FIRE IN EAST BOTH STREET.-The premises
No TO- East J0th street occu,ed q dwelling by Mr..
stephen f. Austin, was damaged by fire ON Tuesday,
TO the amount OF 500 TIE building insured for
100 and the furniture for 5000 in city companies
Fire Marshal Baker caused the arrest OF the servant
Julia Dalton, suspicion Of setting the premises on
fire. fire discovered In pantry short time
before the one was discovered which did the damage.
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
PORT OF NEw-YORK.......Au August IL
Cics red.

Steamship Kedar fBr.). VIM, Liverpool. +. Cunard.
Ship hsxogen Brabant bFem), shotmuyef Maf'eiles
Rugcr Bros ~
Lark Mary (BG). Putnam, Sydney, n. s. j. r. Whitney d
Co. 49,
BRIG d. n Dewolf (Br) Covert Laguayra and Maracaibo.
ID. X. Dew oil.
Brig Blonde (Br), Bsbich. Maitland, n s.. Y. Whitney
Co.
schr. r. Hober Robinson, Georgetown. Baker Dayton.
Schr. HnmuIiHg Bird Coe. Providence.
Schr. Ellen, Mcfarland Boston.