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List Of Letters

DEMAINTNG in the Cumberland Post
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GRIND STONES, just received,
" large lot of OHIO GRIND STONES, and
Tor sale by TgyiC&
Feb IL ly HUsiBIRD & LONG.
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Glover Bottom

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thereto distinguished upon the general plat OF
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Supplementary to Ordinance 40. %, ea-
tilted an Ordinance to establish and reg
aaatc Markets IL the city Of Cansber-
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GEORGE a. HOFFMAN,, ?. VI.
Cumberland, Nd, March II, 1864.
The Placer herald., 1864-10-22
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.

TOWNSHIP No. /.
Constabes--E. D. Bickford and Jas. Rice.
Justices-D Allen, FL. V. Dudley.
Col)ector-G. L. Grilley.
Assessor-J. D. Pratt.
TOWNSHIP No. 2.
Constables--D. Flicker and r. p. Allngham.
Justices-James Moore, W. Hider.
Collector-D. B. Choate.
Assessor. D. Barmore
TOWNSHIP No. g.
Constables--James Mahon and John Sears.
Justices--S. B. WOodin. Samuel Morris.
Collector-John Connor.
Assessors. NJ. Stevens.
TOWNSHIP No. 4.
Constables--J. w. Greely and Jacob Keck.
Justices Jonathan Brown, w. G. Brown.
Colector--Charles Nj. Kopp.
Assessor--W. A. Hines.
TOWNSHIP No. S.
Constables-E. F. Hoyt, S. G. Smith.
Justices-R. Winspear, S. M. Jamison.
Collcctor-J. l.. Sanborn.
Assessor-Thomas Dodd.
TOWNSHIP No. 6.
Constables-John Noell, r. A. Mcdonald.
Justices-C. Swenson, F. B. Burt.
Collector-James D. Mccormick.
Assessor-W X Dltz.
TOWNSHIP No. 7.
Constables--M. Taylor and j B. Carder,
Justices-W. Van Vactor, o. H. Young.
lector-John r. Brown.
Assessor-V. F. Field
TOWNSHIP No. 8.
Constables-G. p. Ward, D. Penman.
Justices-S. R. Case, Jack Hyland.
Collector-J. B. Cornett.
ASSESSOR. M. Bardwell,
TOWNSHIP No. 9.
Constables--John s. Agan and G. Rawles.
Justices-M. A. Burke, L. G. Browne.
Collector-Dana Perkins.
Assessor-C w. Humphreys.
TOWNSHIP No. 10.
Constables--J. T. Burge and Geo. Small.
Justices-James Beck, H. W. Starr.
Collector--John Barnes.
Assessor-John Bristov.
The Placer herald., 1864-10-22

ANT TRAps.-Among the various devices
for getting rid Of these little pests, we have
met with nothing which promises better sue
GEES than the following:-"Procure large
sponge, wash it we'll and press it dry, which
will leave the cells quite open; then sprinkle
over it some fine white sugar, and place it
near where the are troublesome They will
soon collect upon the sponge and take up
their abode in the cells. 1t is only necessa'
ry to dip the sponge in sca'diug water,
which will wash them out dead by the tens
Of thousands. Put on more sugar, and set
tho trap for new haul. This process will
soon clear the house of every ant"
The Placer herald., 1864-10-22

A CnAxoE.-Tbe cry for a change of
Administration is happily set forth IN the
schuylkil penny Advocate: Miners, nue.
chancs and laboring men are calling for
change. They had it four years ago. and
are willing to change it back again. They
don't like the conscription acts, taxes, licen-
ses, eto, incident to the existing Administra-
ton. They want change-they insist upon
q change--a return to the tine when peace
reisned supreme; to the time when no con
scription acts, no stamp acts, no provost
marsh als-in fact, none Of the relics of mon
archy should be exhibited throughout this
once free country of ours. Every day we
hear of men joining the Democratic party
who see 10 it's success the salvation OF the
The Placer herald., 1864-10-22

RotsrED.-Orestes A. Brownson, Repub,
iieap candidate for Congress last year, in Q
recent speech said:
ACcnsert the war, in the popular mind,
into an Abolition wsr; make it war of the
North on the South, or of imposing North
srn ideas upon Southern society. and the
nation, as a Republican nation. is ruined
forever. Northern ideas are as much exag-
a4ra,joos ip one way as Southern IDEAS are
ihsaoslsI."
The Placer herald., 1864-10-22
REDUCTION
IN PRICES TO SUBSCRIBERS.

A TTENTION is CALLED TO THE FOLLOW
II ing list of American and Foreign Periodicals,
for which receive subscriptions. Permanent ar
rangelhents having been made by the U. States
Government for carrying of the mails from the
Atlantic States by steamer three times month,
am enabled to receive subscriptions at a much
lower rate than formerly. The same care and at
teution will be paid to the forwarding of all pack
ages for which this establishment has gained such
an enviable reputation throughout the Pacific
The Placer herald., 1864-10-22

AN INDEPENDENT JrDIcIARY.-The San
Francisco Bulletin, in remarHng upon The
clainor raised against the Supreme Court
ION account Of its decision against the con,
s,itutionahty of the law allowing soldiers
regards the amendments to the Constitution
making long terms for the Judges, as a
wise provision that i. now fully demonstrat.
ed, and then caustcaly refers to the fact
that the Judges having the shortest terms
were those most effected bv the popular
pressure. The Bulletin says: ut was be-,
lieved that by lengthenng the tenure of
Office they would be farther removed from
the temptation to yield to popular camor
what a wise Interpolation of constitutional
law would prompt them to withhold. The
correctness of this theory is s'rikingly shown
in the late decision on the military suffrage
question. Judge Shafter, who has nine
years yet to serve, wrote the original opinion,
which he now elaborateIy re affirms. Judge
Rhodes, who has seven years yet to serve,
concurs in that opinion. without thinking it
necessary to offer an explanation. Judge
Sawyer, who has yet five years to serve. is a
little nearer TO the people, and gives his
reasons sor concurrng in separate opinion.
Judge Curry, who bas but three years to
serve, dissents, and writes short opinion,
inchning to the popular view. Judge San
derson, who has only one year to serve,
writes very long, elaborate and positive
opinion. arguing strongly in favor Of military
suffrage. The striking condolences thus
noted seems 10 indicate that the nearer the
judiciary comes to the people the less in
dependence and fiImness it manifests. The
sliding scale of approach to a subservency
to outside claInor is quite marked and signh
icant, and will have n tendency with reflect
ing minds to encourage a feeling of more
respect for the opinion Of the majority of
the Supreme Bench"
The Placer herald., 1864-10-22
A Talk win Genera, shermnD

One OF the Massachusetts State agents.
sent to Georgia TO obtain negro recruits thus
describes recent interview with General
Sherman:
told ths General my errand He had
passed me and was inside the tent, and half
turned around when spoke to him. He is
square built man, of medium height, with
head of average size, lank face, Roman
nose, good but not commanding forehead
and an eye like lark dark gray in color,
quick gsucing, restless, showing fire there
but indicating also an irritable temper and
unsympathetic nature That is the first i'm
preston the leader Of our armies of the
West made on me.
lie was dressed in plain blue pants and
vest; bis hat and coat were of; he had one
boot and one slipper on; an unbleached
linen shirt and blue WOODEN socks.
His eve showed tina, he was not in one of
bis best humors, as he broke the silence
with
"Milledgeville's good place. Savsnnah's
another"
He spoke few more sharp shooting sen,
tences of that sort, when | explained the
object Of my visit to him. He came out and
sat down on a chair in the piazza, and asked
me to be seated.
lie said that he had repeatedly written to
the Secretary Of War that there were no
able.bodied men in this country who were
not either in this army or the other; that
every Niger in the department WAS needed
for commlssary and qnartermaster work,
aud for building forts, or as prisoners he
would agree, he said, to eat every n;gger |
could recruit without salt; when there were
enough recruiting agents down here he would
organize them into regiment-he had no
doubt they we're loyal men-and put them
in front to fight The enemy. The rebels had
swept every able'bodied nigger before them,
and taken them down into the corn owing
regions of Georgia. He did not believe they
would be found in Atlanta.
When asked whether he would forbid the
agents 10 operate within certain distance
from the front, be replied that be had no.
thing to say 10 the ma ter No! Twas here
by higher authority than his-that of
Congress; but he seemed decidedly to believe
(he never believed anything otherwise than
decidedly that all the agents would get their
labor for their pains. and only.eat his rations,
which he does not like
He got over his sharp-shooter style before
we finished, for am hot apt to be overawe ed
BY the powers that be, and he saw it clearly
enough, and adopted corresponding style
The Placer herald., 1864-10-22

ded and the answers given on the said examina-
ton therein mentioned
JAMES r. ROGERS,
President of the Board of Supervisors of Placer
county.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th
day of September, A. D. 1864. ny epr.p
l.. s. County Clerk. with the seal of the Coun
~ ty Court of said County affixed.
lint. REV. sTAMP-5 CENTS.
The Placer herald., 1864-10-22

EcS Subscriptions received for all the San Fran
cisco Dailies, at Publishers Prices.
Any Newspaper Magazine or Review not men,
toned in the above list will be furnished to order
Orders for Books, Music, Fancy A ticles, &C.. fill
ed promptly at the lowest market rates. Sub
scriptions payable invariably in advance.
Address, j. STRATMAN,
News gent San Francisco
The Placer herald., 1864-10-22

l5th--By what arrangement has the work been
performed beyond the first eighteen miles, to New
Castle9
Answer--The work was done by contract. Sec
tions nineteen and twenty, Collins, contractor
received two thousand and foriy-tour dollars and
eighty four cents in cash, and in stock three hun
dred dollars; and for the same sections e, Crock
er contractor. received fifteen thousand two hun
dred and twenty-siX dollars and seventyfvc cents,
making total of seventeen thousand five hundred
and seventy-one dollars and nine cents. Sections
twenty-one twenty-five, twenty three and twenty
four Turtan, Knox Il Ryan, contractors. received
in cash, twenty-five thousand seven hundred and
seventy.sX dollars and two cents, and in stock
four thousand five hundred dollars making
q total of thirty thousand two hundred and
seventy six dollars and two cents. Sections
twenty five, twenty six and twenty-seven, G. D.
Bates contractor received in cash, thirty one
thousand two hundred and twenty eight dollars
and eighty eight cents and in stock five thousand
thousand seven hundred and twenty eight dollars
and eighty eight cents Sections twenty eight
and twenty uiue S. D. Smith contractor, received
in cash, forty three thousand three hundred and
thirty one dollars and sixty four cents, and in
stock seven thousand six hundred dollars, making
a total of fifty thousand nine hundred and thirty
one dollars and sixty four cents. Sections thirty
and thirty one. c. Crocker, contractor, received
in cash sixty-five thousand five hundred and
thirty-seven dollars and forty-two cents, and in
stock eleven thousand six hundred dolla1, max
ing total of seventy-seven thousand one hun
drcd and thirty dollars and forty-two cents
REHABILITATION:
Sections 10 and 20.... ...... 571 09
Sections 2l, %, %. 24.............. 30276 OF
Sections 25, 26, 27.......... ...... 3672S SO
Sections %, % 29.............,..... SO 93l "a
The Placer herald., 1864-10-22

State of California. County of Placer
james r. Rogers being duly sworn, deposes and
says that the foregoing report is true, and that
the accompanying list Of questions and answer.
is true list and report of the questions propouu
The Shasta courier., 1864-07-09

NARROW ESCAPE OF GENERAL. BURNsIpE.-
A correspondent of the New York Herald,
writing from the Ninth Army Corps, near
Spottsylvania, May 18th, in giving an account
OF the battle of that day, says:
Roemer's battery opened the ball between
4 and 5 0 clock A.. NJ. with six l0-inch Par
rotts, supported by Thomas Second Maine
Battery, the Eleventh Massachusetts, and
two pieces of the Seventh Maine on the right.
The rebels were not slow in responding from
their side, and the interchange of cannon shot
soon became quite lively. General burnside
at this time occupied little knoll in the rear
of Roemer's battery as corps headquarters.
The very first shots from the rebel guns few
over the brow of the hill and lodged in the
midst of the General and his staff. who were
just rising from their couches. il | can apply
a term SO suggestive of civilization to the
rustic resting places Of these officers, where
cedars formed canopy and the ground
bedstead. One she'll burst Immediately over
the Generals head, wounding Captain Hat
tan IN the side, and breaking bis revolver.
The fragments entered the earth in close
proximity to General Burnside and Colonel
Richmond. Another SHE'LL or. to use the
technical term, spherical case shot. exploded
near Major Cutting, the sui phur with which
the bullets were soldered striking him in the
face and severely burning him. The rest OF
the staff escaped unharmed, though fragments
of the bursting shells struck in every direc-
ton about them. An immediate change OF
base was the consequence. and temporary ref
uge was sought on the side of neighboring
hill. During the shellingone of the orderlies
was wounded in the leg and had bis horse
killed.
The Shasta courier., 1864-07-09
NUMBER 10.
An Ounce Weight and Tun Weight.

An ounce weight and a tun weight of iron
VIII tall down pit with equal speed and in
equal time. Until about 500 years AGO. all
tue learned men in the world disbelieyed and
denied It, Gallleo, an Italian, taught the
contrary to the popular belief. The Uniyer.
sIty OF Pisa challenged him to the pro,,f The
leaning tower Of that city was Just the place
Tor such an experiment. Two balls wera
obtained aud weighed. and one was found 10
be exactly double the weight of the other
Both were taken to the top. All Pisa looked
on. and crowds of dignitaries were confident
that young Galileo. then obscure and de-
spiseo, but honored ana immS.talized now.
would he proved to be in error. The two
balls were dropped AT the same instant. Old
theory, and all the world, sa that the large
ball, beng twice as heavy as the less. must
come down IN half the time. All eyes watch.
ed, and 10 all eyes beheld them strike the
earth at the same instant, Men then disbe.
iIeved their eyes, and repeated the expert
ment many times, but each time with the
same result. The little ball was big enough
to destroy theory of 1000 years old; and
had 1t been little as pea, it would have de-
stroyed it just as well, or even more quickly.
But how was this? Did not the earth draw
down the large ball, which was double the
weight OF the smaller, with double force p
Yes, truly; but in drawing down the large
tall there was double force Of resistance to
be overcome. and as the two forces acted il
given proportion ON the large ball. and il tbs
same proportion on the less. the velocity of
the two was equal though in bulk they were
unequal. Let US suppose there was to be two
wagons, one with load of Eve tuns, and the
other ten tuns. and that the unequal loads are
drawn by an equal horse power-should not
their speed be equal, though their weight is
unequal? No. There must be double
horse power to draw the double weight. to
obt25O9aual speed. Let ten pound weight
AND 4pound weight fall at the same time,
and<aDearth must draw down the heavier
weight with ten times greater force than the
other that they may have equal speed, and
it does so. A tun weight Of iron, and an
ounce weight, leaving the top of pit at the
same instant, would. therefore, at the same
inftanI fall to the bottom.
The Shasta courier., 1864-07-09

EATING WHEN SIcK.-It is q custom
among a certain class of people, when a
member of the family is sick, to begin at
once to ask: Now what do you want to
eat ?n Every one has heard the old story
of t e man who eat the eighteen dumplinga
wher he was sick. On the occasion when en-
gagged upon the eighteenth. his little son
said 9 Pa, give me piece p " No, no, my
son." replied the father, 'go away, pals
sick" When young man has been surfsit.
ed. in season and out of season, until ex-
hausted nature gives way, and fever is
coming on. the good mother is in trouble.
She anxiously inquiries: g Now, John, what
can you eat? you must eat something. Peo-
pie can't live with out food Then comes
toast ard tea, etc. The stomach is exhausted,
and no more needs stimulating or food than
the jaded horse needs the whip. What is
needed is rest. complete rest. Nine-tenths
Of the acute diseases might be prevented BY
q few davis starvation, when the first lndi-
cations appear. | don't mean abstinence IN
every case. but perhaps piece OF cold
bread. with cold water for drink. Ii such
palicy was generally adopted, what ruin
would overtake the medical profession2
The Shasta courier., 1864-07-09

A VILE SLANDERER.-We clip the follow
ing from the San Francisco Bulletins S Wash
ington correspondent, j. W. S., dated Nav
9th
I" Atthe same time complaints of Gen. But
ler's Incapscity as military leader contin-
ued to come hIther from numerous official
sources. 1t is also made very evident that
there is no harmony of feeling between him
and Gen. Smith, who doubtless pereeives the
sacrifices daily required at the hands of mill
tary incapacity and frets under the knowl-
edge that he must share their responsibility
10 greater OF less degree. Secretary Stanton
| am informed has himself become quite sat.
i>fied of Buffers unfitness for military com.
niand, and there is little doubt has sent orders
for his relief. Whether the successful defence
on Saturday night last will change his fate
or not remains To be seen"
From no other source have we noticed com
plants of Butler, except the New York Times
of which j. w. s. is correspondent. Three
weeks after he wrote the letter from which
the above is taken, Grant visits and inspects
his position. and expresses himself perfectly
satisfied. We can account for the persistent
attacks ofthis man upon Butler on no other
hypothesis than personal malice transferred
from the dead A. j. Butler. who once snub-
bed J. W. S.. to the living General Butler.
brother of him deceased and the following
ungenerous paragraph. clipped from the edi-
toriai columns of the Bulletin. shows that The
paper shares its correspondents malice:
a MAN WHO MADE FORTUNE SOMEHOW .
=. TIE will of A. j. Butler. brother to Gen.
eral Butler. has been offered for probate in
the Sorrogate Office in New York city. He
left an estate. the Express SAYS, valued al
s., 600. 900 of which half is bequeathed to the
Major General"
The New York Express being Copperhead
makes no scruple in lying about the Buffers
in order to do an injury TO the Union cause
but the Bulletin reprints the statement from
no other motive than TO be revenged upon a
dead man. to the injury of his living broth
er's reputation
We append The following explanatory re.
marks taken from the Sacramento Bee:
MALIcIous.''- Some years ago Colonel
Butler, o this State (now dead), brother OF
General Butler. snuhbed Simonton. editorial
correspondent of the Bulletin. Since that
event Simonton has let slipn opportunity to
vent his malice on the whole Butler family
father son and brother. To get even with
the dead Butler. he is now engaged IN at
tempts to write down and misrepresent the
live General"
The Shasta courier., 1864-07-09

A CHARMING Cuss.-The Esmerelda Union
gives the following description Of the Rich.
mond Examiner the fend who not only JUS
tifes the Fort Pillow massacre, bat advocates
the steady pursuit of that heIlish policy:
"a blacker hearted william never went un.
hung than the eitor of the Examiner. With
the money he received for his services as
Minister to Sardinia under the admnistra-
ton of James Buchanan, he purchased the
material of the Examiner office, and at the
breaking out of the rebellion assumed editor
ial control of that paper. lie is tall, slim,
black eyed, long haired, sharp-featured over
hearing, tyrancal- looking specimen of the
Southern chivalry and his long black nous
tache presents an appearance which, CON-
bined with his most prominent features. is
an index to a heart incapable of single hu-
name emotion. He sleeps but little in the
night time. His room is near his Office, in
the same building. and the nails ard hooks
therein are loaded with swords. pistols, re
volvers and bowie-knives, reminding one for
cbly of the land pirates. He is very vulgar
and insulting in his editorials, and not un-
frequently becomes involved IN serious trou
BILE. The unrelenting spleen of Baldwin, Of
the Dispatch is nothing when compared with
that of the edi.or of tie Examiner. He is
perfectly familiar with every vile epithet in
every language with which he is acquainted
and is unsparing in his bitterness toward any
thing which emits not the foul odor of despo-
tism. In short, he is a heartless traitor aad
beastly tyrant; and were we IN authority
at Richmond, with Daniel. of the Examiner.
within our reach, we would hang him up like
a dog, and keep him there until deconposi-
ton ceased to greet the nostrils of his traitor
friends. Once we saw him PROSTATE in the
dust. with the dagger of Marmaduke John
son, then Union man. raised against his
life; and on behalf of humanity and tse Un-
ion, we prayed in vain that then and there
he might be sent to treason's heIl-but he
lived. we hope to meet the fate the end of
which is the end of a hempen rope.n