The Placer herald., 1864-04-16

IRlsHMEN AND GERMANS PLACED ON
LEVEL WmH NEoRoEs--1he New York
Illustrated Nea0s, an abolition print, says
there is no more objection to a white wo
man marrying a negro, than New England
woman marrying with an Irishman, or stout
Illinois girl with a German.
Snow, says the Downieville Messenger has
fallen during the late storm TO the depth of
five feet in the northern part of the county,
decreasing to two in the central, and few
inches in the southern, except on the ridges.
The mails have been delayed during the past
week by the snow and mud at certain points,
but will soon resume schedule time.
The San Francisco Alta says:
"Mr. Aime uumbert, the Commissioner Of
the Swiss Government TO Japan, is now in
this city from Japan via Sbanghae, and is en-
route for Europe via Panama. Mr.. Humbert
concludes commercial treaty with the JapI
anese Government. lie leaves on the Gold
en- City to morrow"
A HIT BY THE HERALD.-Under the sug.
gestive heading Of "Prces of three votes for
the Presidency" the New York Herald re'
ferring to the last massacre in Florida, has
the three suggestive words, "One thousand
lives"
A RoUsER.-A panther measuring nine
feet from nose to tail, was lately killed near
Lewis river and taken to Portland. 1t was
in the act of tearing hog to pieces for food
when shot.
The Terre Haute Qndiana) Democrat says
that female child, recently born near that
city has neither arms or legs and that it is
stout and healthy, and has every prospect of
living.
If half the stories that we hear Of South
ern destitntion were true, the rebels had
ought to be all dead and buried--but thev
obstinate J contine to live, and will stir up
our side in short time.
The county seats of Nye and Churchill
counties, Nevada Territory, have at last been
designated By Governor Nye. the former
being at lone, the latter at La Plata.
The Pope recently gave audience to Cap-
tain Grant the discoverer Of the sources Of
the Nile, ard appeared to be much interest
ed in the maps submitted to him by that
lhtlePlu explorer.
Qullp says that women, as general thing
are happier than men, a"d assigns as a
reason for the fact hat the felicity of the
former lies mainly in dry goods, whereas the
latter commonly need something wet" in
addition.
RErREsENrArIvEs.-O Olive Lodge, No. 81,
|. O. O. F., elected the following named
Representatives to the Grand Lodge, which
convenes in Sacramento on the first Tuesday
in May: w. II. IlIIhouse, P. B. Holmes,
E. b. Buust, w. G. Richmond, l.. G. Blais
r. Patchen. DGtch Fiat Enquirer.
The MENKEN.-We learn that this mpor-
tant parsonage arrived at this place from
Washoe yesterday. A large crowd assem-
bed in front of the Union, but they were
disappointed she had clothes on
Nepoda Gazette.
1t is said that discovery has been made
in France which will probably revolu,ionze
the paper business Excellent paper is man
utactured from the wood of the oak. walnut,
pine, chestnut and various vegetables, with
out any addition of rags. A reduction in
price of from fifty to eighty per cent is pre-
dicted Samples was exhibited, and attracted
general attention.
A CURE FOR DIprHERIA-The Easton
Express says: A lady friend informs us. for
publication, that piece Of camphor placed
on the tongue and left there to dissolve, is a
sure cure for this dreadful malady. She
says that she knows it to have been tried eff
tectually.
E95- Great interest has been excited in
religious and artistic circles in Rome, bv the
discovery of a portrait of our Saviour, which
is described as fully authentic 1t is cut in
cameo, and bears the following inscription:
Executed by order OF the Emperor 1iberi.
us" and given bv the Sultan of Turkey to
Pope Innocent VIII in ransom of his broth,
er Toin then a captive in the hands of the
Christians.
THAT's So.-A writer in the Washington
Republican-the organ of ofthe Administra-
tion-some huge aboitionist, of course
says emphatcaly that 'the people have lost
all confidence in Lncoln's ability to suppress
the rebellion and restore the Union" Just
what the democrats have always thought and
said. 1t is refreshing and encouraging to
find an aboIitionist conceding so much 1t
augurs well for the fnture Fanaticism is on
the wane. Union Democrat
DEsTITUTON, STARVATION AND DISEASE
Gen. Burnside, unimpeachable Abolition
authority, said, in a recent speech in Boston,
that out of $4,000 contrabands in the depart
ment assigned to him, "full half had
died within year, owing to destitution,
starvation and disease Abolition of slavery
has thus become, practically, abolition of
the negro. The men who profess to be their
friends are their worst enemies. The pros
poets of the colored race are gloomy, the
fate of the Indian seems foreshadowed.-
Neglect, starvation and disease, to which
they have been subjected by the Aboliionists,