The Placer herald., 1864-07-16


moved the Spanish Inqusiion."
The Wilderness, in which the frs, battles
of the present campaign was fought, embra>
ces fifteen miles Of timber land, thickly stud
ded with underground, making it at some
points utterly impossible. During the bat,
ties our men were often unable to see any
object twenty five feet distant from them.-
1t is from twelve to fifteen miles from red.
ericksburg.
The maple sugar crop of 1864 will greatly
exceed that made in any previous years in
all probability 100000 Ellsworth, at the
lowest estimate of Is cents pound, nearly
100000.
A dam eved The Red River fleet, and
allowed i: to pass over the shoals We
should have supposed it would have been re-
Iieved long since, for we have heard the ex
petition damned most essentially since its
blunders and misforlunes began.
An Eoglishman 'estifying in one of the
Sacramento courts lately, was asked the
The city debt of Philadelphia is thirty. six
millions of dollars.
John Martin and Lewis Walton. convicts.
escaped from the Oregon State Prison on the
LIST inst. A reward of one hundred dollars
is offered for their arrest.
The Cincinnati papers have raised their
price to nine dollars per year. The increas.
ed cost for material and labor has rendered
this course imperative.
Last Sunday night tho telegraph wires
were connected through from Portland, Me
to St. Louis, making a circuit Of over two
thousand miles.
The Post Office Department use $ss, 900
worth Of rarping paper, $4,000 worth of
Irvine, 100000 for new mail bags, and $lO,'
900 for new locks and keys-in one year.
Grapes are selling for 81 pound over in
Washoe.
SrRANGE.-We have seen no joke emana'
ting from Presden! Lincoln this week.
Spurious vaccine matter has worked seri.
Gus mischief in Appanoose county, Iowa,
producing syphlitic sores, extremely difficult
to cure.
The exports Of California, exclusive Of
treasure, average thus far this year $780,
600 per month.
Richard Cook had half the scalp torn off
from one side of his head the other day by
striking it against sharp rock during his
descent into the Gold Canon mine, near
Gold Hill MT.
The postal service for California costs
about S350,000 per annum, and it yields a
revenue of some S280,OO0. Loss to the GOV.
eminent, say $4,000 year.
The exports of wool from this State for
the first six months Of the present year
amounted to 1899 bales-a thousand bales
less than were exported during the same Pc
riod in '62.
1t is known that there are now on their
way to San Francisco ninety two vessels,
from domestic, Atlantic and foreignrports.
During the first six months of this year,
37l,S62 hides were shipped from this State,
against 1875, 56l for the same time last year.
The increase is mainly due to the hide crop
reaped from cattle that have died from STAR
walton owing to the drouth
Moore and Brothers recently started with
band of 1000 cattle from Santa Barbara
county, in search of pasture in the Owens
River country. Before half the distance had
been passed between 500 and 600 head had
died of starvation.
A brute hired horse from livery stable
at Browns Valley the other day. and it was
missing for week. 1t was then found tied
to a fence, where it had been left six days
without food or water.
An ounce of nitrate Of soda dissolved in
gallon of water is highly recommended for
watering strawberry plants.
On the marriage of a Miss Wheat, it was
hoped that her path would be fowery, that
she might never be thrashed and nothing 90
against the grain,