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The Placer herald., 1864-03-12
Silver Mountain.

Silver Mountain, a name first applied to r
single district, and afterwards extended, like
Esmeralda, Humboldt yud Reese river to the
surrounding, region, embracing many dis
tricts, occupies an extensive basin formed by
the Sierra Nevada on the south and west
and lofty spur pushing out from that chain
toward the northeast. This basin, which
lies nearly due south from Virgini,, is si,u-
ated on the head waters of the Carson river.
Its surface is exceedingly rugged, being cut
by numerous deep ravines-the channels of
the various branches of that stream. The
entire region, though east of the Sierra Ne
vada mountains, is wholly in the State Of
California, being mostly within the limits Of
Amador county. The lodges, large aud nu-
merous, are remarkably well defined, and
under the application of three years steady
labor, are now in forward state of develops
ment. Owing to its isolated position, how
ever, being hedged in by mountain ranges,
impossible to teames. but little comparatively
has been heard of this district beyond its own
precinct. Without wagon roads it has been
impossible to get in machinery, and as con-
sequence there is not as yet single quartz
mill within the district. During the past
summer wagon roads were commenced,
which having been just completed, there is
now every facility for taking in heavy freights,
and arrangements have been made for the
erection of several mills in the SPRING
Apart from the very promising character of
the lodges, there is not among all our silver
bearing districts another 50 favorably situa>
ted as Silver Mountain, whether we consider
its greater security for person and property,
or its advantages for the cheap raising and
and economical reduction of ores. Located
in community where mining interests are
amply protected by legislative enactments
and tho laws governing them have become
fixed and certain by frequent adjudications,
within hardly more than days journey OF
San Francisco, the great mining mart, and
point of supply; in the midst of splendid
forests, suitable alike for fuel and lumber,
with water-power capable of driving a
thousand stamps, and enjoying the benefits
SOIL much of it adapted to tillage, and Gov
cred with native grasses, and climate high
Iy equabe and saIubrous, it would seem to
open field alike inviting to the laborer and
capitalist; and unless we greatly overrate
the resources of this region, California will
be able soon to boast of silver mines quite
as rich, and even more profitable, than those
of Washoe or any other country outside her
borders At least we would recommend at
the hazard of seeming a little partial, that
such of our citizens as contemplate engaging
in this business when the spring opens, take
Silver Mountain in their way while journey.
ing to other more remote bnt less promising
localities. s. r. Bulletin.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

A POPULAR SONG.

Dearest love, do you remember
When we last did meet,
How you told me that you loved me,
Kneeling at my feet?
o, how proud you stood before me
In your suit of blue,
When you vowed to me and country,
Ever to be true,
When the Summer breeze is signing
Mournfully along,
Or when the Autumn leaves are falling,
Sadly breathes the song:
Oft in dreams see thee lying
On the battle plain,
Lonely, wounded, even dying,
Calling, but in vain.
If amid the din of battle
Nobly you should fall,
Far away from those who love you,
None to hear you call,
Who would whisper words of miort,
Who would soothc your pain?
Oh! the many cruel fancies
Ever in my brain!
But our country called you, darling
Angels cheer your way;
While our nations sons are fighting,
We can only pray!
Nobly strike for God and Union
Let all nations see
How we love our starry banner,
Emblem of the free!
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12
A Statement of the Schleswig Holstein
Difficulty.

The death of King Frederick VII, of Den
mark, which occurred on November 18th,
1868, brought on crisis in the Schleswgl
llolstein question. The two Guchies of
Schleswig and Holstein have never been in.
tegral parts of Denmark, but they were in.
dependent duchies, whose dukes happened to
be at the same time kings of Denmark In
Denmark proper, the crown of the monarchy
was transmissibe to females; in the two
duchies the Salic law prevailed, according to
which the crown can only descend to
heirs male. In cons' quence of this diff
ference of the law of succession, the con-
nection of the two duchies with Den
mark had to cease with the death of King
Frederick; the Prince of Augustenburg be.
ing the lawful successor in the two duchies,
and another relative in Denmark. In order,
however, to secure the integrity Of the Dam
ish monarchy a Conference of the great
Powers of Europe, held at London in 1852,
and in which England, France, Russia, Aus
tria, Prussia and Sweden took part, under
took to change the law of succession both in
Denmark proper and in the duchies, desig
mating Prince Christian, the father of the
Princess of Wales and of the new King Of
bTeeCe, rs ouIilleu W suCCeSSlOu lOT iu0
whole monarchy. On the death of King
Frederick, the Prince Of Augustenburg
claimed the succession in the two duches, of
the ground that the Conference of London
was not authorized to dispose of his right,
and the privileges of the people of the two
duches-that neither the Diets Of the duch
les nor the Federal Diet of Germany had
given their consent to the protocol OF 1852
and that it was therefore utterly invalid
The claims of the Prince were at once recog,
nized by number of the German Princes
and sustained by the German people gener-
ally.
The duchy of Holsen is exclusively in.
habited by Germans, and is a part of the
German Confederacy. In Scheswig about
145, 500 inhabitants are speaking German,
$4,000 Friesian 200 Danish, and $4,000
Danish and German. Schleswig does not
belong to the German Coniederacy, but by
virtue of treaties is connected with Holstein
The two duches together with the duchy of
Launenberg) have population Of ,OO4,47S
souls, while Denmark proper has l,GOO,55l
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

BLAcK.-The period in which we just now
live is one of undoubted fraud and corrup
ton. There never was an Administration
at Washington under which fraud was carr
ried on as openly and boldly an1 successfully
as now. The criminal who t1atters the
President and supports the Administration
has full liberty to rob the Government
The millions that are now being stolen with
impunity by pets of the Cabinet will never
be counted. 1t is disloyal to expose the
corruption Of the party in power.
Mountain Democrat
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12
WAKED Up.--The night before the earth

WAKED Ur.--The night before the earth
quake which occurred last week, man on
retiring at the San Lorenzo hotel, left word
to be called about five O'clock Morning
came, and so did the earthquake which
aroused the man with its first tremble, who,
thinking it was the servant come to call him
cried out, "yes, yes Pm coming!" The shak-
ing continued and the man now Thoroughly
aroused and frightened, leaped npon the floor
with yell Of "haIloo"' and was heard to
mutter--"I wonder what id arrange
ments they have here for waking a man up
in the morning!"-,Sonta Cruz Sentinel.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12
THE NATIONAL DEBT.-Secretary Chas

THE NATIONAL DEBr.-Secretary Chase
places the national debt at 81 ,6S6, ,O00 OOO-
on which the annual interest is Sl04, 100000
the interest alone amounting to more
than the whole annual expenditures of the
Government before the Abotionists came
into power. Chase estimates that for 1865
eleven hundred millions more will be needed.
Dearly are the people paying for the triumph
of Abolitionism.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

The CoNrRABANDs. s.-Speaking of the re-
port of Yeatman relative to the condition Of
the contrabands in the Government camps
along the Mississippi, which we published
last week, the New York World truthfuly
says that "no honest and humane man can
read it without cold shudder Nothing in
the baracoons of the African coast; nothing
in descriptions of the horrors of the middle
passage; nothing in the worst cases of cruel
treatment of the field slaves by inhuman
overseers can surpass this awful record of
hunger, starvation, and DEATH"
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

A St. Louis paper says that the grasshop
pers have eaten up the entire tobacco crop
of Franklin county, and the last that was
heard from them, they were seated on the
fences, asking every one passing for
"chaw."
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

Daniel S. Dickinson, the apostate, is not
ashamed to call himself jackson Demo-
crat. In late speech he said, "We must
submit these issues to the discretion of the
President" But Jackson said "'The laws of
the United States must be executed. | have
no discretionary power on the subject" If
Mr.. Dickinson were follower of Jackson
he would tell Mr.. Lincoln that it is his duty
to strictly adhere to the laws. because he has
no discretionary power. The Constitution
is his master.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

ENFoRcED--The Sacramento Union, with
artful Indignation, says the rebel conscrption
has been rigidly enforced in the Confeder-
ate States. Well, the Federal conscription
has been rigdIy enforced in the Federal
States and its no worse to be conscripted in
Massachusetts than in Alabama, we suppose
The Union affects to have great sympathy
for the Southern Conscripts, but it has none
for those Of the North. That the latter
should be manacled and driven at the point
Of the bayonet to the army, it thinks is all
right Mountain Democrat.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

The total amount Of internal revenue col.
lected in California from the time when the
law went into operation to December LIST,
1868, is $l,433,ll2 OF, of which Sl,4l8,'
800 "a is of classes A, B and G, and Sl4,-
Sll 67 is of class ID. The total amount OF
collections in the State arising from the in
come tax is $l62 ,665 26, and the total
amount of assessed income tax for 1862 is
S58O,l64 90, being 4 1904 per cent OF the
whole amount assessed in the States undis
turbed by war.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

GooD.-Concerning the New York Custom
House frauds, the Springfield (Mass.) Re
publican says: "The professed loyalty and
Repubicanism of these officials only make
their treason the more fragrant and deserving
of the severest punishment" Of Neal Dow,
the same paper ssys-"the rebels propose to
exchange Brig. Gen. Neal Dow for the lS
pianos he sent home from the South"
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

A VALUABLE CRUIsE.-The steamship
Vanderbilt, which started off about one year
since determined to catch the Florida and
cage Semmes, has just returned to this port.
The sum total of her cruise is, that she
chased one blockade runner and did not
catch her, but succeeded in capturing fifty
bales of cotton, which the former threw
overheard! All this to pay for one years
cruise. " Y. Day Book.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

Po1NrED-Some "disIoyal" wag pro-
pounds the following: When Lincon's
Abolitionism uses up the last man and the
last dollar, what is TO become Of the bond
holder9
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

What is the difference between volun-
teer who shoots wide of the target, and
brute of husband who blackens his wife's
eyel The one misses his mark and the other
marks his missis.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12
THE PLACER HERALD.
,,,,sbed every saturday Morning,
onNevadastreet' 'A Auburn plaoefo0un'y ,oa'.'0'
r. g. c. n. MITCHELL.
sof,,5,cription---Invariably If in Advance
Dates OF ADVERTISING.

Oo aonore oil TEN dimes, tyPcj1
rach Ens, subsequent insertion. ,,..... 90
Ear I'rI half square Give lines,) or less. s.. oo
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

porsonal advertisements charged full rates.
Obituary, Birth and Marriage Notices. published
"'elis ~s-I ,iberal deductions made to monthly or
vaarlv advertisers.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

The estimated cost of the ship canal
around Niagara Falls, which Congress has
been asked to construct, is five millions and
half of dollars,
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12
The NORTHWESTERN RAT HIDE COMPANY

The NORTHWESTERN N RAT HIDE COMPANY.
The Chicago Journal saws:
1t is rumored that company of French.
men has been formed in this city for the
purpose of catching all the rats possible,
curing their skins, and exporting them to
Paris to be used in the manufacture of gloves.
For years, what is called the "French KID"
have been made from the skins of these anil
mails, caught in Paris and other parts of Eu'
rope; but the demand being greater than the
supply, it has becoms necessary to extend
the rat catching arrangements to this coun'
try, and 40 finer field than Chicago for such
operations can possibly present itself
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

Government officers are to be required by
law to write legbly. Salutary movement bad
writing is crime.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12
THOMAS ROYCE,
ADVERTISING AGENCY.
NORTHEAST CORNER OF
MONTGOMERY and Washington Streets,
SAN FRANCISCO.

Daily California Repub- Democrat. Santa Rosa
ican. Sacramento. Cumberland Presbyter
Daily Express, Marys'lle. Pacheco.
Daily Beacon, Stockton. Alameda Gazette, San
Esmeralda Star, Aurora. Lcandro.
Placer Herald, Auburn. ISolano Herald, Sulsun.
Colusa Sun. Marin Journal, San Ra-
Aurora Times. fael.
Chronicle, lone City. Oakland Press.
Democrat Nevada Oregon Democrat, Al
Telegraph, Folsom. bany.
Dispatch, Jackson, Oregon Union, Corvallis
Enquirer Dutch Flat. Cosmopolitan, Mazatan
Journal, Yreka Oregon Sentinel, Jack
Trinity Nationalist, Wca- sonyille.
yervile Herald of Reform. Eu
News, Knight IS Landing. gene City.
Sentinel. Santa Cruz. Democratic State Jour
Paaro Times, Watson nal, Dalles.
Vile. Review, Eugene City.
Tribune San Jose. Washington Standard
Gazette. San Mateo. Olympia.
Pacific Echo, Napa. British Columbian, West
Tuolumne Courier, Co. minister.
lumbia.
San Francisco, May 1865
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

Why do the recr limitations Of married
couples resemble the sound of waves on the
shore! Because they are murmurs of the
tjp1
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

ONE OF LINCoLN's Consciousness. BY
Mr.. Lincon's order, Mr.. Frank Key Howard,
Of Baltimore, was arbitrarily arrested and
confined in an American Bastie for fourteen
months. He was guilty of the crime Of
opposing Lincoln's Administration. lie
thought, very enormously, that he could
exercise a freeman's right, as he had done
before the reign of Abraham the First. He
tried the experiment and got immured in a
loathsome dungeon for his temerity. The
blood of his ancestors had been freely given
for American liberty-for that liberty of
which he was deprived by order of Lincoln.
In a late publication he relates coincidence
of his Imprisonment:
"When," says Mr. Howard, speaking of
his first morning in this Government bastile,
81 could not help being struck by an odd
and not pleasant coincidence. On that day,
forty-seven years before, my grandfather,
Mr. F. S. Key, then prisoner on British
ship, had witnessed the bombardment of Fort
McHenry. When, on the following morn
ing, the hostile fleet drew off defeated
he wrote the song so long popular through
out the country, The Star Spangled Banner.
AS | stood upon the very scene of that
conflict, could no: but contrast my position
with his forty seven years BEFORE The flag
which he had so proudly beheld, | now saw
waving, at the same place, over the victims
of as vul gar and brutal despotism as
modern times have witnessed"
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12
BURLESQU DISPATCHES.

lHo Oso tuH ourleSqueS tne senSatlOnal
telegraph in the following excellent manner:
WAsHoE CRY, Feb. TO- 1894
An "intelligent contraband" has Just ar.
rived within our lines, who reports great
battle to have taken place between the Fed
eral General Culley and General Plum, the
noted Guerrilla. Chief. The loss of General
Plum is very great. His entire army of l0,-
600 men were cut to pieces; he had 5000
killed and 1000 wounded and taken prison.
ers. Our loss is small; five men killed and
two wounded.
Gold, 1876.
ONE DAY LATER.
WAsHoE Cry, Feb. 10, | S64
|. is reported that General Plum was de,
feated by General Culley, with the loss of
about 1000 killed and 900 wounded. Our
loss is small.
Gold, l4O.
STILL LATER.
WAsHoE CRY, Feb. IL. 1864.
Reliable information has been received.
from gentlemen who was an eye witness of
the fight. He states that the enemy under
General Plum, the noted Guerrilla Chief,
has been defeated, and it is presumed that
General Plum has been taken prisoner.
Gold, l42 l-2.
LATER NEWS FROM THE BATTLE.
WAsHoE Cry, Feb. Is, ! 864
The number of the enemy killed in the
late battle is not so great as was at first sup
posed. Several "inteligent American gem
tlemen of African descent" state that the
loss of General Plum must be somewhere be.
tween 100 and 10000. Our loss is some.
what larger than at first reported.
Gold, lat.
WAsHoE CITY Feb. 16, 1864.
1t is reported that General Plum managed
to escape with smaller loss than was at
frs. supposed. His loss is probably 200
in all.
Gold, l4S.
WAsHoE CITY, Feb. II, 1854.
1t is said that no fight had occurred as
yet; but one is hourly expected, and no doubt
will come off soon.
Gold. l49.
WAsHoE CRY, Feb. lS, 1854.
General Cu!ey has been ordered to Wash
ngton. The whereabouts of Gen. Plum is
not at present known. There will be a court
of inquiry instituted for the purpose of find
ing ont why Gen. Culley did not find Gen.
Plum andsengage him in battle.
Gold, $50. Whiskey, 100,
All quiet on 'he-[ Wires down.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

The snow is said to be forty feet deep in
some PLACES in the Rocky Mountains.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

REBEL CRUELTY.-A correspondent of the
Louisville Journal writes: II cannot refrain
from sending you the following bit, an exl
tract from a private letter received from a
relative Of the late Gen. VIM. H. Lytle, of
Cincinnati.
"Cousin Wills sisters were much affected
by the kindness with which his remains
were treated by the Confederates. A Con.
federate surgeon, who identified him, cut off
some of his hair, to send to his sisters. They
also sent his private papers, watch, chain and
money. They had his grave marked with a
slab, and when the metallic coffin was sent
for the body, placed it tenderly in it. They
had covered the wounds in his face first with
green leaves, then with lace net and fine
cambric handkerchief His remains were
escorted to the lines by sixteen Confederate
officers none under the rank of Colonel"
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12
ONE DAY LATER.

WAsHoE Cry, Feb. l2, 1864.
|, is reported that General Plum was de,
feated by General CuIley, with the loss of
about 1000 killed and 900 wounded Our
loss is small.
Gold, l4O.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

That Georgia Regiment.

The other day we were amused by the re-
port, published in one of the daily journals,
that Georgia regiment bad intended to de
sert to our lines, but that the design was dis.
covered, and the regiment didn't come al
though the news of the attempt did.
The report amused US, because that Geor-
gia Regiment is very old friend of ours. 1t
often turns up in the newspapers. We take
up our Herald every morning; and always
find something or other about it. Some
times it is Georgia regiment. Sometimes
it is transformed into Tennessee regiment
Sometimes it swelIs to brigade Under
any name, and in any form, it is always
going to desert and don't do it, 1t would
be great relief to us if it would either give
up the idea or come.
We have had the Georgia regiment in our
minds eye ever since the war began. 1t is
an annoying, tantalizng and vexatious regi-
ment, and gives us no little trouble. We
know that its members are ragged and hun
cry. We imagine that its officers are dis
satisfied with the war. We are always in
hopes that it will succeed in escaping. Still
it never comes. 1t is like the ship which
belongs to us, and which we freghted with
happy hopes, long ago, and which is always
coming in laden with gold, but keeps con-
tinualy on the voyage, and never arrives at
any port.
We are satisfied that our Georgia regiment
is brave regiment. Once it revoled and
pitched into the other Confederate troops.
There was fight in the army, and that
Georgia regiment got the worst of it. The
regiment was cut up and annhilated We
mourned over it and had serious thoughts Of
wearing black, the only objection being that
our motives might be misunderstood, and
that black did not become our complexion.
What was our surprise and delight however,
to read in the paper, the next morning, that
our Georgia regiment had come to life again.
and was going to desert in body. Then we
were sure it was coming, but it never came.
So often has our Georgia regiment been
about to desert in a body and so often has it
disappointed us, that we begin to believe it
has no body at all. Upon no other bypoth-
ess can we account for the fact that our
Georgia regiment is ubiquitous. One day
we hear of it in Virginia. The next day it
is away out in Texas. Spirits can move
about in this bewdering style, but regiments
composed of men with bodies cannot. Oar
theory in regard to the matter is that our
Georgia regiment was massacred somewhere
or other, at the beginning of the war, and
that its disembodied spirit now trots around
on the double quick, trying to get back into
the Union, and always failing like the poor
Flying Dutchman of ancient memory. Some
practical people believe that the whole thing
is a myth; but we decidedly prefer our own
theory, having a great deal too much respect
for the papers to charge that the reporters
are indebted to their 'imagnations for their
facts.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12

FERNANDO WooD's PRoposIrIoN. - The
Louisville Democrat makes the following re.
marks upon Fernando Woods peace propo
stions:
We see that Fernando Wood has made n
move to see If Peace Commissioners cant
do something for a restoration. 1t is omn,
ous that the proposition was laid on the table
by majority of eight. A change of five
votes would have carried it. In peace pres
pare for war for peace is equally good. 1t
may be said this will encourage the rebels
If it does it is their own fault. All sober
people who look on this contest will regard
this movement as praiseworthy. 1t places
the Governmental favorable light before
the world and before its own people. Soon
er or later such a proposition will carry, and
it will end in Union of these States Mag.
nanimity and concession will enlist the sym
pathy of the world, and will find a response
in the hearts of the masses who feel no I'M
terest except in the restoration of the Union.
Perhaps the time has not come vet for wis
dom and moderation, but the time will come.
The Placer herald., 1864-03-12
New England is King.

On looking over the committees of the
Two houses of Congress it will be seen how
completely the power of the South has been
overthrown, and the moulding of our avs
has been transferred to the free States. New
Eng gland, that Virginia and the whole Slave
States have wont TO regard with such sove-
reign contempt, and whose official agent
South Carolina, few years ago, treated with
such contumely, is now exercising the very
influence, and holding the position he South
ern States so long held
Washington Chronicie
This is an unexpected confession. When
the South had so large an influence, through
the construction of the committees of Cons
gress, upon the legislation of the country,
New England abollionsm denounced the
exercise of such influence as an intoerable
outrage upon the other sections of the Union.
New England is now exercising the very
Influence and holding the position the South
ern States so long held" Aud this New
Eng land, in population, is dimnutive by the
side of the South, and in territory but
patch on the earth's surface" Illinois ex.
ceeds her in territory, and Illinois and In
diana, together, exceeds her in population
If the former sectionasm Of the South
was offensive, what shall be said of the pres
ent sectonalism of New England!
Chicago Iimes