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The Placer herald., 1864-04-30
From the Round Table.
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Terrible times of sorrow and need,
Times to make hearts of adamant bleed;
Times that seem to have been decreed
To chasten our wayward nation;
Fathers and brothers thinning away;
Bread growing scarccr every day;
Famine to pinch and sword to slay--
'Tis woeful situation!
But even as Nero, in days of old,
Unmoved, heard Roman fre-bells tolled,
And saw the "machnes" that ratified and rolled
To the scene of the great disaster,
The while he rosined his fiddle bow
And played some classic ''Bob Ridley, OH"
So we make merry while all things go
To the dickens, faster and faster!
Parties, sociables, visits and calls,
Operas, hops and Russian Balls,
Mid broken pillars and totterng walls,
Enough to bewilder q body;
Silver and gold, and gems of the mine,
Satin to rustic and silk to shine,
Feathers and fuss, and frippery fue-
The paraphernala of Shoddy.
Carriages flash through the crowded street,
Flunkeys in livery style on each seat,
Buttoned and capped from head to feet
Most solemn, majestical funkeys;
And "tigers' to let down the steps with bow,
Learned only by a tiger, and Heaven knows how
Dressed up in fashion, | must allow,
Like that Of the original monkeys.
The ladies who walk when the weather is fair,
Show marvellous tastes with marvellous air;
Nothing can be toe splendid to wear,
Too gaudy, too fine or to funny;
For each credit is good, if prices are high,
And Government nod or wink by the eye
Can pile up ''greenbacks" clear to the sky
"Greenbacks" being Shoddy for Money.
So yellows and blues and scarlets gay
Go sweeping the pavements every day,
Making rainbow Of poor Broadway,
With glare that is really stunning
And even the churches where fashion goes,
Are mass of folles and furbelows,
Filtration and foolery under the rose,
Past even the serpent's cunning.
While Shoddy over its turtle goats,
Our soldiers shver in rotten coats,
And our tars go down in their leaky boats,
The victims of contract building;
Aud poverty starves in It's wretched slums,
Or freezes to death when the north wind comes
While Sboddy is picking the sweetest plums
From its bed of gingerbread gliding,
But what cares Shoddy for all these things?
Shoddy, the richest Of paper kings;
Shoddy, who dances, fddles, sings
On the crater of wild imitation?
What does he care? Not sou marquee;
He fattens and batters in luxury,
AS if his reign were thing to be
OF eternal perpetuation.
But Damoces' sword hangs overhead;
Justice may sleep but she is not dead.
Vengeance is mine!" the Lord hath said,
And soon at the end of the story,
| Frutiest wine shall be btterest gall,
silk and satin make shroud and pail,
Truth shall rise and Shoddy shall fall,
To the nations lasting glory!
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Obituary. Birth and Marriage Notices, published
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SURPRISING THE NEWS.


| The Louisville journal, in speaking Of the
folly of the Administration in attempting to
deceive the people, by refusing to allow the
results of battles to ba made public, comments
| as follows:
We have seldom known anything so silly
and absurd as the refusal of the War Depart
ment, and most of our Generals, to let ao-
counts be published of the battles that take
place and their results. We do not see what
the authorities can possibly promise them
selves or the country from such policy.
The outlines OF the great events that occur
must inevitably come soon to the knowledge
of the nation, and if, from the want of full
and connected accounts, those outlines are
for the present ef. dim and shadowy, the
public mind will greatly exaggerate them
whenever disastrous. They will be sure to
loom to gigantic proportions, like objects
seen through a mist, for fear and apprehen.
sion are great magnitiers. Under such Girl
cumstances, a far deeper gloom and appre-
hension will be felt than if a clear and cam
did statement Of facts were permitted. Our
authorities ought to know that, when defeat
or a reverse is sustained all the bolts and
bars and chains and fetters of the earth cam
not keep the main fact from the people OF
the United States.
We have said that, where only military
reverse is vouchsafed to our people through
their newspapers, mystery deepens and
Strengthens the impression as to the magni-
tude of the calamity. The Florida
repulse was certainly a very serious affair, but
we don't know how serious, for all the letters
in regard to it, written by the correspondents
of Federal newspapers, were seized and de-
sroyed by order of General Gilmore He
wouldn't even permit catalogues of the killed
and wounded to be sent into the loyal States
for publication. His conduct in this matter
has been unworthy of a General and of man,
We can't imagine what he promises himself
from it. To be sure heiis mere military
man, but his action is exceedingly bad mill
tary policy. Many thousands of people are
now narrowed by the deepest and most pain
full anxiety for the safety of relatives and
friends who may or may not have been in the
battle, and whose names may or may not be
in the long and bloody catalogue which Gen.
eral Gilmore, for the reason that common
sense cannot possibly appreciate, wthholds
from the public. If General Gilmore has
acted in this matter in pursuance OF orders
from Washington, he is not censurabe. 1t
he has acted upon his own responsibility, ne
has displayed great deal of folly. Proba-
bly mere military man-one who is nothl
ing ese-knows very little of that very con-
siderable portion o.. mankind that doesn't
wear uniform
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Democrat, Santa Rosa.
cumberland Presbyter,
Pacheco.
Alameda Gazette, San
Leandro.
Solano Herald, Suisun.
Marin Journal, San Ra-
fael.
Oakland Press.
Oregon Democrat, AL
bany.
Oregon Union, Corvallis
Cosmopolitan, Mazatlan.
Oregon Sentinel, Jack
sonville.
Herald of Reform, Eu-
gene City.
Democratic State Jour
/ nal, Dalles.
Review, Eugene City.
Washington Standard,
| Olympia.
British Columbian, West
min ster.
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DATES OF ADVERTISING.

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NUMBER IS.
The Abolition Party coming upon the A.
malgamation Platform.

| A late Abolition book has made its ap-
pearance, openly advocating the amalgama-
ton of the white with the negro race. 1t is
accompanied with the following indorse-
ments from distinguished leaders of the Ad-
minsiration party. We take it from the
advertisements in the New York papers:
"Misceginatiom," the theory of the blending Of
the Races, applied to the american White
Nan and Negro.
This curious work, which discusses the
question "Will the Negro become compo-
nent part of the future Americana" is crea.
ting extraordinary interest in scientific and
political circles. 1t has been accepted BY
the anti slavery and progressive mind Of the
country as the true solution of the problem
of Race on this continent.
From very numerous favorable opinions,
the following are selected
putting disturbances of civilization aside,
and looking only to our natural state, we
should be constrained to admit that the man
of maximum intellectual capacity is Of
brown hue.-Protessor Draper of the Neo
York.
"Your work has cheered and gladdened
a winter morning. You are on the right
track. Pursue it, and the good Goo speed
you. All the mysteries of the wondrous
apocalypse now unfolding in our country are
not eve4 dreamed Of yet, and hail your
work as a true prophecy. Parker Pillsbu-
ry.
81 look upon your work as sign of the
times rather than as the solution Of great
problem albert Brisbane.
81 have no hope of the future but in that
sublime mingling of the races which is Gods
own method of civiizing and eev ating the
world.- Wendell Philips
written ia one word-which many are afraid
to speak and many more afraid to hear-and
that is gamation" = Theodore Zilton.
ave are wholly one with you in opinion
as to the result and the desirableness of the
result "a 'ch is inevitably before our country.
Angelina q, Welde and Sarah NJ. Grimks.
This rebellion will extnguish slavery in
our land, and the negro is henceforth and
forever to be a part of the nation. His
blood is to mingle with that of his
former oppre9aor, and the two races blended
IN one will mako more peaceful, hardy,
powerful and intellectual race than America
has ever seen before William Wells Brovn.
81 ain willing to put my signature to your
doctrn es.-Dr. u. Nc Cune Smith,
"Ihe future must decide how far black
and white are disposed to seek each other in
marriage. The probability is that there will
be progressive intermingling, and that the
nation will be benefited by it. We are
sure that many will agree with Us in finding
the pamphlet interesting and instructive,
and in thanking the unknown author for it."
-Anti' Slavery STANDARD.
Thus has the Abolition party progressed.
and ca this amalgamation platform are they
destined to staud.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19
11A7svLLE Ky, THURSDAY, May 10 1864.

long years; you have done righ {, and am
very proud of you, my Philip; aud, if it
would make you happy to have me walk
through life. with you now I will do so
gladly. rsl .5el s5f 3N~
He rose, and pressing her to his heart,
said, In choked voice
May God bless you, Maud; you have
made me very, very happy. Come to my
heart and home, and let it be soon, Maud
my darling, my wife.
They were m arried very quietly, Ia few
weeks afterwards. The world spoke of it
as marriage in high life, and praised the
beauty, talent and grace of the fair bride,
but Maud cared little for its opinion; sh g
had now all that she had ever wished for
"a home with hef early love.
And did Philip. in his deep, fervent af-
fection for Maud, forget her whose golden
head had first rested upon his breast?
Look at the little fairy, of seven summers
with the thick housekeeping ourls-the
soft, gazelle eyes. and the little rose bud
mouth. She is the loved and only
child of Maud and Philip. Her name is
Glare We're. Ds srr
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19

TIE WORD WITH THE BARK ON 1T.-Wm.
Marshall Anderson, a brother of General
Anderson, 1.-THE hero of Fort Sumpter, and
also of Charles Anderson, Lieut.. Governor
of Ohio, was nominated by the Democratic
State Convention at Columbus as Presi-
dental elector for the 18th district. He
declines to accept the honor, and in letter
to the Columbus Crisis says: >
"I do not ACCEPT this nomination for one
or two reaso bs--either did not understand
the feelings and convictions of my nomi-
,nators, or they did not understand mine
1t is not my wish or intention to deceive or
be deceived. I desire every voter to know
that / am diametrcally opposed to the con-
tlnuance of this war will not and cannot
consent to advocate and sustain any man,
be be soldier or civilian, who is in favor OF
its further prosecution,
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The Rose B1sh.

& child sleeps under rose-bush fair;
The buds swell ont in the soft May.aiI;
sweetly it rests, and on dream wings flies
To play with the Angels in Paradise
And the years glide by.
A maiden stands by the rose-bdsh fair;
The dewy blossoms perfume the air;
She presses her hand to her tnrobbing breast,
With loves first wonderful rapture blest-
And the years glide by.
A mother knee1s by the fose-bush fafr;
Soft sigh the leaves in the evening air;
sorrowing thoughts Of the past arise,
And tears of anguish bedfm her eyes
And the years glide by.
Naked alone stands the rose bush far;
Whirled are the leaves in the autumn air;
Withered and dead they fall to the ground, !,
And silently over new-made mound
And the years glide by. .s,
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19
High Pressure.

This is high-pressure age, and we are
bound to keep the machine of human civ
ilization at full speed even If we sit on the
safety valve. People talk faster; think
faster, eat faster, fb faster, and lose fortunes
much faster than they did in the slow and
respectable Long Ago. Fulton gave the
human race wonderful impulse, and it has
worn the shoe of swiftness' ever since
changing them every now aud then for
new and improved pair. Old people cannot
live in peace, and so they die to be out of
the way. No one can guess where this
thing is to stop. Stop! it won't stop, cau'E
stop. Society has got an unst0ppable;
patent. perpetual leg on. And as long az
the world goes round, the rush must con-
tinue. Revolutions never go backwards.
aud a revolution in science, or art, or polita
idal economy, or social philosophy or soudeS
thing else, is inaugurated Eve believe that's
the word) every day. Occasionally we
break things, but it's of no copsequ enoeS
as Toots remarks when he sprains his ankle
10 tunbling over chair. The great shib-
boleth of the age is push, and you must
conform to it or be run over. Nobody
knows where the goal is. 1t is subject of
conjecture and speculation, like the North
Pole. Our idea is that mankind is engaged
in chasing moveabls steeple, and that as
the object moves little faster than we do;
there is no earthly probability that the
steeple chase will be finished while grass
grows and water runs' So far as we can
judge there is but one thing that Is not .dond
faster than in old time. We refer to marri-
age. Judging from the readiness with
which divorces are obtained; the nuptial
knot is not tied quite as fast as it used to be
a century ago.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19

THE CAUSE AND REMEDY.-With coin al
most every thing to eat drink, and to wear
can now be bought as cheap as ever, and
many things cheaper. But if the public
wishes to pay for its luxuries in deprecated
paper money.it is unreasonable to as dealers
to loose the discount. When gold is SELL
ing at S.85, a paper dollar is worth but
ffty-four cents. Gold will soon be 200. and
then our currency will be worth just fifty
fifty cents on the dollar. The republican
party and its leaders in power who have so
mismannged and protracted the war, and
wasted aud plundered the resources OF the
country to carry out the traitorous and un-
constitutional schemes of radicaisnn,- have
been the sole cause of the ourreHcy, and
what is popularly known the term "high
price, - The remedy is in the hands of the
people, and so soon as they repudiate radi-
Gals and rsdicalism, there will be change
for the better, butts continuance OF abolition
supremacy will ensure national bankruptcy
and ruin iD.-Detroit Free Press. ss'se
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19
From The London Standard.
The Forged Mallory Report,

We leave it to the Northern Government
to deny, if it dare, that the chevelier d'indus-
trie who fabricated this atrocious lie, was a
paid agent of its chief Secretary of State
Meanwhile, whether it was so or not does
not matter SO much. It would require an
expert casuist to distinguish between the
comparative guilt which attaches to one who
suborns a falsehood. No one is better in
formed than Mr.. Seward on all matters
which concern the Southern Confederacy.-
A glance at the fictitious report would have
satisfied him as to its nature. Further, it
purPorts to have been intercepted by an
agent of the Northern Government. If SO,
it would have come into Mr.. Stewards
hands first of all, aud it would have been
for him to have sent it to the papars il he
pleased. If he had not seen it until it ap-
peared in The Sun, by that circumstance
alone he must have known it to be forgery;
and that he imposed it upon the British
Government. -,=ee
The matter cannot be suffered to rest
here; it must be sifted to the bottom. We
would wish all men to know how far they
can trust in the word of this Government
with which we pretend to be in friendly re-
lation. If Lord Russell suffers by these dis
closures, Mr.. Seward suffers more. Sim
plicity is a fault which rouses laughter
rather than anger. For mendacity we have
no feeling but one of contempt. To Lord
Russell.the history of the spurious report is
humiliating, to Mr.. Seward it is disastrous.
The Understands accused of having imposed
upon the British Government a forged
document, knowing tito be forged. The
other, presuming on this falsehood, has
strengthened himself in the task of prosecu-
ting the most unjust claims against the sub
jects of the Queen. Iu the relations between
the British aud the Federal Governments
the effect of this disclosure canrot fail to
make itself felt. 1t is destructive to all
confidence and of all respect.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19

Jay Cooke & Co.. of Philadelphia have
purchased the Pine Grove Iron Works in
Pennsy lyania, for the sum of two hundred
and Thirty five thousand dollars.--Erchangs.
The head of the Above named firm has
also purchased one of the islands, out in
the Lake, not very far from this city, on
which he intends to build commodious
hotel. The purchasers probably think this
method of investing their fluids, much m ore
preferable than investing them in "5- 2o's,'' -
''Io-40's" or any kind of Government se-
curities. 1t is happy thing to be Trea-
sury Agent under Secretary Chase-it evil
IDENTIFY Sandusky (O,@ Nesos.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19
Prayer of an Ancient Maiden.

Prouftious HeavenI o olend an car
Give kind answer to my prayer.
1 ask not honors, wealth or fame
Trffies like these would not name.
Ny prayer is ehort-O, grant it then,
Tis but a word-girs me a man.
Nor do 1 wish to pick and choose
Him that is sent III not refuse.
Forgive me if my tears do tell
What sorrows IN my heart I feel;
TTs,o with propitious eye my grief,
And send me man to my relief.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19
VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4s

ity than to life; my trust is in God, and I
indulge in no dark forebodings as to the fu-
ture of what was the North American Con-
federacy of States; peace once restored,
commercial relations in few years will OBJ
literate recoliections of past wrongs, com
mitted under mental hallucination. Hate
is diabolical and evauescent. Love alone
is eternal; for God is Love.
CHARLES JARVIS.
Ellsworth Maine.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19

The Norfolk correspondent of the N. 7:
WorId,says that Gen. Butler has collected
about $3.50 900 in ground rents from those
doing business about Fort Monfoe-Kim-
berry Brothers paying $500 per months )
Wilhard's restaurant $1,000, and others
large sunas-and that no receipts are given
for the money, and if complaints are made
of these exactions, the reply is Move of, it
you think the rent is too high Are these
copperhead lies, or is somebody in G FEN. But,
ler,s depsrtm ept turning an honest penny
Spring gheld Republican.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19
BE A WOMAN.

Oft I've heard gentle mother, .
As the twilight hours began,
Pleading with son on duty,
Urging him to be-a man.
But unto her blue-eyed daughter,
Though with loves words quite as ready,
Points she out the other duty.
"strive, my dear, to be q lady"
What's lady! Is it itfomethiug
Made of hoops, and silks and airs, ~.
Used to decorate the parlor, rE
Like the fancy rugs and ehairsl
Is it one that wastes on novels
Every feeling that is humanf
If tits this to be lady,
'Tis not this to be a woman.
Mother, then unto your daughters
Speak of something higher far,
than to be mere fashions lady
"Woman"i is the brightest star.
If ys in our strong affection,
Urge your son to be true man,
Urge your daughter, no less strongly
To arise and be woman.
Yes, a woman-brightest model
OF that light and perfect beauty,
Where the mind, and soul and body,
Blend to work out life's great duty
Be woman-naught is higher
On the gilded list of fame,
On the catalogue of virtue
There's no brighter, holier name.
Be n woman ON to duty, -s r..a-
Raise the world from all that's low,
Place high in the social heaven
Virtues fair and radiant bow.
Lend thy influence to each effort
That shall raise our nature human,
Be not fashions gilded LADY 49,
Be brave, whoie-souled, true woman.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19

Arrah, Pat, why did marry ye? Jist
tell me that--for its meself that's had to
maintafn ye ever since Father O'Flanagan
sent me home to your house.
Swate Jewel, replied Pat, not relishing
the charge. and it's mesalf that hopes to
live to see the day that ye're widow, wap-
ing over the could sod that covers meS then
by ST. Patrick, Pll see how you get aiong
without me, honey dear.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19

The Catholic Church of N ashville has
,asssd SI2, ,141 for an asylum for orphans.
ri This the clever sum OF So, ,154 IS was
raised BY q fair. S749 by Fenian ball. $S75
by q Christmas collection, the balance by
snbscription.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19

Frederick Banburs, who was applauded
In tho papers few weeks ago for his dis
Interested patriotism in enlisting and refus-
ing bounty, stole $3.50 from his Quarter
master at Readyille, Mass, Saturday, and
deserted. .-, - =, -. !.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19

The music aud the glory of nature go
along with the joyful soul, as the moon
seems to the child to run beside him
through all the streets.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19

An Irish woman nine-fonr years OF age
was lately natnralized in New forE snat
she might inherit half million Q, ooliars
left By the deceass OF her three oacoeier
SONS.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19


The New York Trloune is not satisfied
with the order of Gen. Tuttls. at Natchez:
It's correspondent says:
Some old citizens. living here for forty
years SAY they neversaw so much sorrow and
distress in Natchez as they saw on the 1st
day of April. Many of the freed people
were heard to say they never had been so
hardly treated by their masters. Whole
families had lived together with their mas
ters; but now they must be separ ated d-some
stay in the city. others be driven to the kraaI
and from that to the plantation, to be again
taken by the rebels. Hence many who had
kind masters resolved to return to slavery
rather than to expose themselves to the un-
known cruelties of lawless and prowling gueri
rillas.
Very pathetic and very true. They were
more Kindly treated under their masters;
but it is a military necessity for them to-
have to work. AS to the little touch of
pathos about their being seperated, it is char
acteristic in the Tribune to feel so deeply
for the poor African, though it has wasted
no tears on the fifteen hundred thousand
white men who have been separated FROM
famile - kouisviHe Democrat.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19

There are persons who would show theif
liberslity to starving man by sending him
a costly tooth pick instead Of food.
Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-19

Tart words make no friends; spoonful OF
honey will catch more fies than gallon OF
vinegar,