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The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

PREPAR1NG FOR THE PAPER CURRENCY
Some Of the landlords of this city, having an
eye to possible contingencies, are resorling
to the following method ofprotecting them-
selves against the chances of loss on their
rents, in any extent. They are having their
leases so drawn that a piece Of property
which now brings 500 in gold, is rented
for $50 per month. payable in United
States Legal Tender or National Currency
Notes." with the understanding that 500 in
gold, paid in advance, shall cancel the OBJ
legation for the $3.50 in greenbacks. In case
rent, this arrangement will enable them to
get the foil amount due in reality, instead
of losing, at least 33 l2 per cent, IS they
would now he certain of doing-AHa.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

EYy- The Democratic State Central Com
mittee of Indiana, has passed resolution
requesting the National Committee to call
National Democratic Convention at an
early day as practica'-not later than May
or June
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

CAMELs FOR SALE.-The train Of Govern
ment camels some thirty in number, that
have been in use in the Fort Yuma country,
we're offered for sale by Quartermaster Bab-
bitt, At Benicia, on Friday. The sale was
TOR cash, payable in legal tender notes.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27
re- On last Monday work was commenc

re- On last Monday work was commenc
ed by the contractor, with force Of some
thirty men, on the deep through cut on the
Pacific Railroad, one mile south-w of
Auburn. The point is known as Bloomer
Gap. The cut will be about one thousand
feet long, and the deepest cutting sixty-two
feet, and the amount of material to be re-
moved nearly 100000 cubic yards. The
material is found to be boulders imbedded in
cement, and of course difficult of excavation.
1t is proposed, however, whenever sufficient
face is obtained on the bank, to try the
mining 'plan of bank blasting, which will
expedite the work materially.
LEvANTED.- D.-Gebhardt the County Treas
urer of Caaveras, has left the State, taking
with him some Sl2 900 of county money.
Caaveras has been singularly unfortunate in
the selection Of Treasurers-this being the
third or fourth instance of defalcation in that
office. There must be honest men down
there, but they don't seem to make Treasurl
ers out of them.
Gebhardt was appointed at first to take
the place of a defaulter, and last fall was
elected on the Union ticket.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

~ The State Central Committee of the
Abolition party Of California, have called a
State Convention to meet in Sacramento on
tbs Gath of March, to appoint delegates to
attend the National Convention of the party,
to be held at Baltimore, on the 7th day of
June.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

CHRIST'S CHURCH SERVICE, Episcopal
DIVINE SERVICE will be celebrated at the
Court House every second (2nd) and fourth (4th)
Sunday OF the month. Hours of Service III
o'clock, A. NJ, and 7 o'clock Pm.
The Sunday School will meet on euery Sunday
at o'clock, Pm.
REV. ADAM A. McALISTER,
Minister Officiating.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

The enormous business done in canned
provisions appear from the fact that one
single establishment in New Jersey puts up
five thousand cans per day, and often turns
out six tons of jeIIies, in glass, per week.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

E% Notice has been given that the Gov
ernment will occupy, for military purposes,
the Island Of Santa Catalina, opposite the
port of San Pedro. This will put stop to
prospecting for copper on the Island, that
has been prosecuted favoraby, unless special
permits bs obtained.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

The BASE OF THE SIERRAs.-Iresiden
Lincoln has declared that the initial point Of
the Western end of the Pacific Railroad,
which begins at the base of the Sierras, shall
be at Arcade Creek, about seven miles from
Sacramento. This decision is an important
one, as it fixes the payment of forty eight
thousand dollars per mile to the Company
from that point eastward
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

ANCIENT MoNEY.-An ancient coin has
Just been discovered in wood near Elain,
France. 1t bears the impression Of the head
of Apola, crowned with laures on one side,
and on the other person being drawn in
car by two horses, and in large greek char
a"ters the word Phiiippon. |: is coin Of
Phillip II, King of Macedon, father Of Alex
ander the Great, who reigned from the year
$50 to $50 B. G. Thus the money is up
wards of two thousand years old.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

A bounty of one thousand do liars is paid
in Newark, New Jersey, to every recruit un'
der the last call for troops. A regiment will
thus cost the mere trt1e of one million dol.
lars
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27
DIVINE SERVICE.

Divine Service will be held at the N. E. Church
by Rev. William Wilmot to. morrow Sunday at
10 A. NJ. and u P. M, and rgulary thereafter NJ
the same hours on each Sunday.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

New SrEAMER-The California Steam
Navigation Company intend building a
new steamer, to be placed on the San Fran.
cisco and Sacramento route. The boat will
be larger than the Chrysopois, and cost
about S25O.OOO.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27
BIRTHS.

In Dutch Flat, February 2lst, the wife o: VIM.
Stewart, of a daughter.
In Dutch Flat, February goth, 1864, the wife Of
John l.. Herbert. OF Il son.
In Auburn, February 23d, the wife Of Hon.
Joseph Walkup. Of daughter.
At Gable Ranch, near Todd's Valley, Feb. l7th,
the wife of l.. E. Humphreys, Of ~ daughter.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27
BROWNS BRONCHIAL TROCH Is.

THESE LOZENGES are prepared from
highly esteemed recipe for allcviating BRONCHIAL
AFFECTIONS, ASTHMA, HoARsENEss, CouGHs, Coins,
and Irritation or Soreness Of the Throat.
Public Speakers and Vocallsts
Will find them beneficial in clearing the voice
before speaking or singing, and relieving tho
throat after any unusual exertion of the vocal
organs, having peculiar adaptation to affections
which disturb the organs of speech.
Francisco.
Feb. 10th, 1S64.-1m
~ Take AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL to
stop your colds, coughs and Bronchial affections
before they run into consumption that you can
not stop.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

~We are indebted to Mr.. Winchester,
Of the Assembly, for the annual report of
the State School Superintendent, aud the
report Of the Attorney General.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

1t is a remarkable fact that although COM
mon sheep delight in verdaut fields, religious
flocks are not anxious for green pastors.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

UNCONSTITUTIONAL UNION MEN.-Those
who "labored for nineteen years to break up
the Union" those who for years cried "no
Union with Shareholders" those who said
"let the Union slde" and those who are for
Union with the slaves freed, the whites
enslaved and liberty fled from the land.
MarysvWe ErpreSs.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

Bss" A hard-shelI preacher, in discoursng
about Daniel in the lions den, said: land
there ne sat all night long, looking at the
show for nothing, and it didn't cost him a
cent"
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

The MISSING SNunFERs.-"I wonder what
has become Of the snufiers!" said Mrs.
Johnston. II have been looking for them
all the evening, and can't find them high or
low Nobody could give any information.
After while, her tired Dutchman of hus-
band, getting sleepy. commenced pulling off
his boots, preparatory to going to bed. "AII
dis day" said he, 81 tinl1 | was got some
little grabble stones in my poot. kess
ket 'e,n out now" He turned up his boot
and poured out the snutfers.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

1t does not follow that two persons are
fit to marry because both are good. Milk
is good, and mustard is good, but they are
not good for each other.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

The French say that the flesh of young
horse is as good as that of a calf, but upon
the whole we prefer veal to wo.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

H- The National Convention of the
Democratic party is to be held in Chicago
on the 4th day of July.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

GRAIN IN NApA.-Prime wheat. 100;
oats, l,75; corn, l so; barley, 80.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

USEFUL SORT OF BALLAsr.-Passing a.
long Delaware avenue yesterday, where a
vessel was unlading, We found that her bal
last was being conveyed into storehouse.
The ballast in question proved to be an arr
tice mined in Russia-literal rock salt
The vessel was baIasted in Russia, made a
voyage to England and thence to PhiIade-
pha, the balance remaining unshifted. The
salt sells here for 500 ton. 1t is mined in
blocks that to he eye appear to be quartz.
1t is sufficiently hard for building purposes;
but it is, of course, soluble, and wonId yield
to the action of the elements. Farmers buy
it for their cattle. A thirty pound block of
it placed in box in field, will supply a
herd of COWS for some weeks. 1t is as hard
as stone. Ordinary salt would dissolve in
one,four,h the time. No other country yet
known Yields this peculiar product. 1t is
quarried precisely as we quarry MARBLE
Phladelphia North american.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

ES- A native Of the green isle of Erin
called at one of the drug stores, the other
day with prescription, the putting up of
which he watched with great curiosity
"What's that, any way" asked the cus
toner.
This" said the obiging apo,hecary, sis
tinctnre cemicitaga racemosa."
A look of bewiderment changed to one of
grave concern as the Irishman inquired,
"And what is the price"
Thirty seven cents" was the reply.
"Be jabers," said Pat, 81 thought two
such names as that would cost me at laste a
dollar and half"
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

~ The Enquirer says that the Roman
Catholic Church, at Iowa Hill, was blown
down during the high wind that prevailed
week before last. The Church will be inn
nedately rebuilt.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

CALIFoRNIA ToBACCo.-Col. Ransdal has
presented US specimen of leaf tobacco,
raised in this State, which looks as if it
might be equal to the best Virginia 1t was
raised by c. S. Shortridge, on small piece
of ground in the foot bills, about eight or
ten miles below Grass Valley, Nevada county.
lie has cured two thousand pounds, and
says that the yield was larger, to the amount
of land sown, than in Southern tobacco
States Sierra Democrat.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

ANTIQUITY OF THE PIG.-The pig is the
existing representative of a very ancient race
of animals which lived and died upon this
earth long before there were Christians to
devour, or Jews to abhor their flesh. The
same species of wild boar that was hunted
by our foretathers was cotemporary with
the mammoth, cave bear, and the long haired
rhlnoceros. Some persons imagine that
geology deals only with fossil shells or fishes;
but there is a vast deal of interest attached
to the geological history of the predecessors
and representatives of our domestic animals.
We know that the wild ancestor of our
domestic pig was in existence before the
separation of. England from the continent
Of Europe; and that the hunter-had hunters
then lived might have chased the boar
through forests the site of which IS now
occupied by the waves of the English Chan
mel. Mammoth tigers and rhinoceroses
perished, but the wild boar lived, and lives
still on the continent Of Europe, though
extinct here
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

curious fact has been established in
some of the communes in France. 1t has
been found that the use of threshng and
winnowing machines has produced an i'm
mense amount Of bronchitis and diease of the
throat and chest among the iaborers employ
ed, who are exposed to an atmosphere charg.
ed with dust, which affects them SO power
fully that in some parishes there are whole
families of confirmed invalids. To such an
extent has the evil gone that the Mayors
have issued an order that all Iaborers en-
ployed near this machinery shall work in
wells.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27

A New WILD BEAST IN THE BOISE RIVER
REGIoN The Boise News, published at
Bannock City, Idaho Territory, of the 10th
of January, remarks
Those who have read the narrative Of
Adams, the California bear hunter, will re-
member that he gives an account Of having
seen in region north of Salt Lake City, an
animal of the lion species, being samewhat
larger than the California lion and different
from it in appearance, inasmuch as the north
ern animal was spotted in black and white
like the Bengal tiger. His book is illustrated
with plate representing the new species
We are now assured that the settlers have
seen animals corresponding with the grizzly
bear hunters description, in the bills contil
guous TO the Weser and Payette Valleys
1t is thought that ere long the public will be
satisfied that Adams account was not my
thical, as old hunters are on the track, each
eager to be the first to make capture.
The Placer herald., 1864-02-27
PACIFIC rURNPrKE ROAD.

A writer in the Marysville Erpress who
has recently made a stage trip to Washoe
by way Of Placervlle, and back by the
Henness Pass route, says, that he found the
latter road, from Virginia City to Bowman's
Ranch, on Canon Greek, to far excel the
Pacerville route.
He refers as follows to the Pacific Turn
pike, the road running from the Dutch Flat
ridge to an intersection with the Henness
Pass road, near Bowman's Ranch. He says:
'A' this point we found the junction Of a
new road which we were informed was
almost completed. This road is known as
the Pacific Turnpike, or Cubertson road.
As we ascended the mountain or ridge, we
saw it laying, spread out down the valley for
some distance, passing down Canon Creek a
short distance, thence bearing south, around
the south side-hill of Canon Creek, around
the point with a beautiful grade, almost
level as far as we could see. This road, as
we are Informed, will be the great road from
Sacramento and Marysvie to Virginia City.
This road bears a south westerly course
distance Of about ten miles, crossing Fall
Creek and South Yuba, Immediately above
Bear Valley, and sweeping down through
Bear Valley. We were informed by some
gentlemen on board, who knew all the routes
over the mountains, that this route, when
completed and the IIenness, would be the
route for all the teams and stages. | was
informed the distance from Bowman's Banch
to Bear Valley was short of ten miles, and
almost level road, and the grade was far
better than anything We had yet seen. At
Bear Valley, the Pacific road forks, being on
the south side of the South Yuba River, and
the Marysvile travel will pass up through
Nevada City and up the Nevada Ridge to
Bear Valley, about twenty miles, thence
along this road to the Henness road, and so
on. BY this road The stages and teams
would miss the deep gorge of the Yuba. AT
Bear Valley we were informed the Sacra
mento travel would come up via Dutch Flat
and follow up to Bear Valley, being from
four to six miles shorter than the Dutch
Flat and Donner road to Virginia City, and
about eighteen miles shorter than the Placer
vile road, and far better route AS we
assembled from Canon Creek we could see
the route, and | am now fully convinced
that when the Pacific Turnpike is completed,
that it will be the route for Marysvie and
Sacramento n traral ~
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