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The Placer herald., 1865-03-25
The Pope and the Confederate States.

The London Index publishes the subjoined
reply of His Holiness the Pope, to the man
ifes,o of the Confederate States:
HONORABLE GENTLEMEN: Mr.. Soutter has
handed me your letter of November !, with
which, in conformity to the instructions Of
your Government, you have sent me copy
of the manifesto issued by the Congress of
the Confederate States, and approved by the
most honorable President, in order that the
attention Of the Government of the Holy
See, to whom, as we'll as to the other Gov-
ernmenls you have addressed yourselves,
might be called to it. The sentiments ex-
pressed in the manifesto, tending as they do
TO the cessation Of the most bloody war
which still RACES in your countries, and to
the putting an end of disasters which accom-,
pany it, by proceeding to negotiations for
peace, being entirely in accordance with tho
disposition and character of the august head
of the Catholic Church, did not hesitate a
moment in bringing it to the notice of the
Holy Father. His Holiness, who has been
deeply afflicted by the accounts of the fright
ful carnage of this obstinate struggle has
heard with satisfaction the expression Of the
same sentiments. Being the vicar on earth
of that God who is the author of peace, he
yearns to see these wratbs appeased and
peace restored In proof Of this he wrote
to the Archbsbops Of New York and New
Orleans, as far back as October lS, 1862,
inviting them to exert themselves in bringing
about this holy object. You may, then, hon
orable gentlemen, feel we'll assured that
whenever favorable occasion shall present
itself His Holiness will not fail to avail him
self of it to hasten SO desirable result, and
that all nations may be united in the bonds
OF charity. In acquainting you with this
benignaut disposition of the Holy Father, |
am pleased to declare myself, with sent-
mens of the most distinguished esteem,
truly your sewant,
q. CARD. ANToNELLI.
Rome, December 2, 1864.
Messrs. Dudley Mann, J. NJ. Mason, John
SldeIl Commissioners of the Confederate
States Of America, Paris.
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25
EE The Columbus (Ohio) Journal tells

EE The Columbus (Ohio) Journal tells
queer story about married couple in that
place. The husband is a tyrant. One eve
ming during recent severe storm, bis wife
was out visiting neighbor, and when she
applied for admission on her return, her hus-
band pretended not to know her. She
threatened to jump into the we'll if he did
not open the door,. Having no idea that
she would do so, he obstinately refused to
recognize her; SO she took a log, plunged it
into the we'll, and simultaneously with the
splash it made she placed herself by the side
of the door; as soon as her husb.nd darted
out in bis night-cIoihss, she darted in. locked
the door, and declared that she did not know
him! She frog. him until he was penitsnt,
and then le, him in,
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25
Boring Rocks with Diamonds.

A tool was patented at Washington about
year ago, and noticed at that time, for
boring rocks with cutting edge made Of
diamonds The invention was generally con.
sidered as an impraclicable idea, and little
was said or perhaps thought about it by any
person except the inventor. The american
Artizan, however, says that the tool has been
put to actual and successful practice in Dor.
ing for oil wells in Pennsylvania. 1t con.
sisls of a tubular stock of steel, having
attached to it cutters composed of diamonds.
1t makes an annular cut, leaving a solid cone
of rock in Tho center Of the cut. The editor
Of the Artizan has seen cone three and a
half feet in diameter, taken from four and
half inch bore, through some Of the hard
est rocks in Oil Creek. Eighteen inches are
said to have been bored through this rock
in twenty minutes, when an ordinary drill
would not have cut two inches in twentys
four hours! 1t is said that we'll which or
dinariy requires six months 10 sink, may be
bored with this tool in one week A further
important advantage which may be deriv ed
from this drill is that it will bore out broken
drills. Many wells, when nearly completed,
have been necessarily abandoned from the
breaking Of the tool in such manner as to-
defy the ordinary means of extraction. We
are without any information'in regard to the
cost and wear of the tool in the operation;
the paper from which we derive these facts
merely informing us that "the diamonds Of
which the cutting edges are formed are Of
an inferior quality to those used in jewelry."
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25

MAxIMILiAN's PLANS FOR ARIzoNA.-The
Los Angeles correspondent of the Bulletin
writes:
Il have just learned that Ex Governor
Gandara, who is thoroughly in the interest
of Macmillan & Co.. when here few weeks
ago, contiJentially talked to the following
effect:
AT the close of our Mexican war, Santa
Anna or the Mexican Government sold or ce,
ded portions of the northern States of the
Republic to the United States. But those
States New Mexico, chihuahua, Sonora, etc.)
formally protested against that sale; as also
against the Gadsden sale, (Arizona.) Well,
now, Napoleon, by right of conquest as well
as of cession from. MaximiIian, proposes to
concentrate 10000 or $4,000 soldiers at
Guaymas and other points near our south
western frontier for the purpose of enforcing
the (Slate) sovereignty Of those northern
Mexican States whose territory was aIienated
without their consent and in spite of their
protests. Gandara was to join these forces
at Guaymas about the goth of March.
Whether Gov. Gandara talked this way
because he wished it were true, or whether
he was inadvertently revealing the outlines
of deep intrigue, that was actually in pro-
gress, is something that we will have to wait
for time to determine Why did the French
allow themselves to be so easily driven out
Of Acapulco, the most important harbor on
the west coast of Mexico? Why are they
moving up this way? Any schemes that
old Gwin is engaged in, we can be sure be
forehand, will turn out deep in strategy, au-
dacity aud rascality"
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25

ETA new negro Methodist meeting
house was burnt recently by an incendiary at
New Town, Maryland. General Lockwood
thereupon assessed the neighboring rebel
sympatbizers for the amount necessary to
construct smother house. - Abolition paper.
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25

SOMETHING LIKE A SCARECRow. - "Y on
don't know anything about scarecrows. If
you'd seen one that my Uncle Ben made
once, you'd think so too. Why, he made
one, and set it up in bis cornfeld, that near
ly frightened the feathers off every crow that
looked at it; and, by jiugo, one crow that
had been pecking around the field for two
or three days after he'd seen it, actually flew
away and brought back all the corn be had
stolen"
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25

The ROYAL BABY.-Mr. Punch thinks that
the most appropriate title for the little
prince would be "Dnke Of Cornwall" seeing
that be must necessarily remain so long q
minor (n,iner)
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25
N%- The Internal Revenue Taxes a

EY- The Internal Revenue Taxes are ma
king some important developments with
regard to the distribution of wealth ia the
country. Among other things we notice
the following with regard to the proportion
of wealth as distributed among several of the
States:-
New York we should expect TO exhibit the
highest ratio, yet its twentylfour millions of
taxes divided among its population Of nearly
four millions, gives a tax of only SC to each
individual. Pennsylvania, with nearly thir-
teen millions taxes, divided among about
three millions Of population, gives but SAG
to each person. Massachusetts gives s907;
Rhode Island, $lo25; Connecticut, 1884;
Ohio. s5.O4; Illinois, s570; New jersey,
1882; California, 81 so; Maine, Sl.so; Mich
igan, $l57; New Hampshire, s3.o7; Ver-
mont, Slip; Delaware, 1928; Maryland,
s4,o2; Indiana, $2.4l. According to these
ratios, Rhode Island is richer, per capita, than
any other State in the Union; or in other
words, capital is more remunerativo and
wealth more accumulated. California, it
will be seen, makes fair exhibit as com
pared with several Of the larger and oldest
of the Atlantic States.
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25

FRANK ADMISSION. Tho Cincinnati Com,
mercial, an intolerant Administration organ,
recently, in one of its Il is Of candor which
sometimes takes possession Of its columns,
very frankly admitted that the United States
Senate of 1864 is a degenerate assemblage,
and not at all to be compared, either in in
teIlect or dignity, to the same body Of fifty
years ago. 1t even went so far as to make
the truthful admission that Charles Sumner,
the idol of the Abolitonists, is nothing bet
ter than stupid bore, to whose harangues
people very much dislike to listen. All this
is true and history will so write it. Look at
the material out of which the administration
makes Senators-Chandler, a sot Dick Yate,
ditto; Jim Lane, an assassin; Sumner, acra
ven and fanatic; ColIamer, swinder, and
Others Of the same ik. 1t is not an honor tc
be member of a body composed of sucl
men. Fearfuly, indeed, has the Senate de
generated.
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25

A DouBr. --"Whenever marry" says
masculine Ann, II must really insist upon
wedding man! "But what If the man flor
men are but human) should b equally nice
about Wedding ssomors
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25

Judge Richardson once said that "every
thing was forekuown by the Almighty, ex-
cept what would be the verdict of petit
jury"
An experienced old stager says, if you
make love to a widow who has daughter
twenty years younger than herself, begin BY
declaring you thought they we're sisters
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25
Release of Col. North.

Colonel North, State Agent OF New YORK
in Washington, for obtaining soldiers votes
from the army, and who was arrested on the
9th of October last, has just been released.
The Express says:
Not only is Col. North acquitted by the
Court, but there was not particle of trnth.
ful evidence warranting his arrest, nor was
there any evidence that single fraudulent
vote ,cas taken or attempted to be taken in has
Office 1t was monstrous per secution--a
cruel and wanton exercise of arbitrary pow
er from beginning to end-an act which in
every aspect reflects the deepest disgrace
upon those who nstigated the arrest. those
who were parties to it, and the Adminstfa-
tion under which it was coInmilted."
Now, we insist that if the above are facts,
and we surely for the credit of the Demo
cratic party desire that they should be, then
Col North owes it not only to his own vim
dicaton, but the public demands him to give
some authoritative statement branding the
infamy of this transaction upon those guilty
of this monstrous outrage. The hue.and cry
raised by the Abolition press just before the
late election, the confession of one or two
parties, the plausible stories told in relation
to the affair, we feel quite sure have left a
deep Impression upon the public mind, and
if there were no frauds, if Col. North has
been all this time victim of cruel persecu.
tion, as we believe he has, we trust he will
not rest unit the authors Of this damnable
outrage are fairly blistered with public exc
ration.-Day Book.
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25
3. =. MvREs,

attorney and Counsellor At Law Auburn.
lrflCE in building on Court street, next door
~, 70 the Temple. Having resumed the practice
y. IA. viii attend 10 all business intrusted to his
'"'e 10 the several courts Of the State. jellmy
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25

Eg A bashful youth was paying his adj
dresses to gay lass of the country, who had
long despaired of bringing things to a crisis
He called one day when she was at home
alone. After settling the merits of the
weather, Miss said, looking syly into his face
II dreamed of you last night"
"Did you! Why now!"
Eyes, dreamed that you kissed me-"
"Why, now! What did you dream your
mother said?"
"Oh! l dreamed she wasn't at home"
A light dawned on the youths intellect,
and directly something was heard to crack
perhaps his whip, and perhaps not; but in
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25

MAKING THE BEST OF IA humorous
writer in the Chicago Post describes how he
got out a bad scrape in the Police Court
"Tbe next morning the Judge of the Police
Court sent for me. went down and he re-
ceived me cordially. Said he had heard of
the wonderful things had accomplished, by
knocking down five persons and assau!ling
six others, and was proud of me. was a
promising young man, and all that. Then
he offered a toast, Guilty or Not Guilty."
responded in brief but eloquent speech,
setting forth the Importance of the occasion
that had brought us together After the
usual ceremonies, | was requested TO lend the
city ten dollars"
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25
's. HALE. FELLOWS
HALE {. FELLOWS.
Attorneys at Law,

w AAL PRACTICE in all the courts of Placer
cn,." ana adjoining counties, and in the Supreme
xnr Omce 10 brick block opposite Temple
"uoura, March llth, 1865.
The Placer herald., 1865-03-25

| U. OAKD. ANTON ELLI.
Rome, December 2, 1864.
Messrs. Dudley Mann, J. NJ. Mason, John
SlideIl Commissioners of the Confederate g
States Of America, Paris.
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-06-29
Wishing for Riches.

l
81 wish---," said Cousin John, ant
then stopped,
"well, what do you wish fori" sskcj
TAYLOR, looking up from his book.
"To BE- rich, to be sure" answered the
lad, "thati Is what almost everybody L. try
ing after. The great talk In f,ther's II.
fec Is about stocks, and per cent, wha,
people are worth, aud all that sort OF
thing"
tft docs seem as Il ii h people must be
very happy" said Asnnsb.
"fhere Is certainly nothing which peo.
PIE try AFTER SO much as r,ehes," said
Aunt Emily, "but whether they make peo-
pie happy is quite another thing. have
just heard All interesting story on this
point"
"oh, tell us a story, Auu,y,' cried
Hannah, and the rest Of the children
echntd, do, do, buny."
"Among the crown jewels OF Russia" !"
said Aunt Emily, "lhere is magnificent
diamond Of great value, almost the size
and length OF one's little finger. Thi,
diamond is called the Shah, II has c,l-
rious history. Opce il belonged to a
Persian King. The King wus murdered
BY his soldiers, who divided his treasures
amongst Themselves. Tho Afghan, into
whose hands the diamond fell, LEFT his
country and came to Turkey, and finally
offered Il for sale TO rich man in Bssso-
ra. Shahas, for that was the merchants
name, suspec,iug the man had not cnme
honestly by II, asked him to call again;
aud, In the meantime. he told his two
brothers about this splendid jewel. Blu,
the Afghan never returned. Asa guilty
csncicnce is full Of fears, be secretly lcfi
the city and could nowhere be found.
"Somc years afterwards, Shairas me,
him in Bsrdrd. nnd he asked al o It the
diimond. Ithdb"n bought BY aJcw.
The Jew lived IN Baedad. Shafras went
10 see him, aud offered him twice as much
for The diamond as he gave for it. Du,
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-06-29
Justice Of the Peace and Real
Estate Agency.

The Justice OF the Peace Of Clinton town.
ship may be found athis office, two doors
north Of the Post Office, and opposite the
Shawhan House, in the City Of Ti0iu. =
Having taken out license from the United
States. as Conycyancer and Claim Agent,
res PC otfully Offers his services to the pub
lie and viii draw aud make Deeds. Mort
cages at all times, he will also procure Back
PAY, Bountes, de-, due Soldiers. their
Widows. Children or Mother, with prompt.
ness. Also, attend to the prosecution Of all
claims against any OF the Executive Depart
ments Of the Federal Government, and the
Collection of Debts and Claims Ia this
County, &c. Having also taken out a
license as a Real Estate Agent, will attend
to the buying and selling af Real Estate.
Renting Of Houses or Stores, or other Real
Estate and for the accommodation ofall per-
sons having Farms, Lots or Houses which
they wish to sell or exchange 10 this City.
County or State, or any other State or
Territory of these United States. He has
procured Book in which he invites all
those persons who may have any such Real
Estate, &c. to sell or exchange, to come
and register them In the Book, free oil
charge aud which will be always open TO
any one wishing TO purchase, free ofcharge'
the subscriber only asking q reasonable
compensation for his services when he may
be the means Of benefit to those who may so
register their properly .or BY us exa mination
be benefited. ID. J. GOODSELL, j.P.,
Tifin, April gath. leo3 3iD.
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-06-29
Not too Young for a Soldier.

In september, 1861, Maj)r Anderson
(tho Fort Sumter hcro) reviewed the
Nineteenth Illinois volunteers, then ut
Louisville, Ky, and just atler the terrible
accident they had pas 'cd through on tho
Ohio and Mississippi Railroud, by which
some forty or tifty lives wcro lost. Past
ing down the line, ho came to the line,
he came to the extreme left, where his
eyes met boy apparently about twelve
or fourteen years of aye. The General
looked somewhat surprised, and walking
up to the child Gas he considered him),
placed his hand on his head, saving:
."Yourg man, don't you think you have
mistaken your calling! You are far too
young for soldier too young to 90
ssbSSSRgbb sshss hardsnips that these men are
General" twas the prompt rerly Of the
young hero. 81 am six'een years old,
and have boen in the army ever since the
war began (somc five months), nnd il G od
spares my life | Rm going to SEQ it
through!" The General SIN led, but re =
marked: II think you will havo cause
to remember what | have said"
M ,jor General Anderson, on the lith
Of April, went to Fort Sumter to raise
again the old il,g over the ruins, where
four years ago that sano day he had been
forced TO take il down. While there, a
young NJ jor related to him tho above in
cident, aud then told h m he was the boy
who four years before the General had
spoken to while in the ranks OF the Nine.
teenlh Illinois.
Tho Gincral's surprise can hardly be
conceived. He shook the young officer
by the hand, complimenting him on his
progress, and wished him every success
for future advancement. The young
officer was Major II. C. Higginson. the
youngest officer OF his rank In the army
being only twenty years old. lie wa'
one Of four commissioners who came iron
our prisoners at Andersonville, Ga, I,
see President Lincoln in their behalf, an,
he is now about to rails, a regiment o
men who have Loen held a. pris jners oil
war. Young Higginson remained one
year and two days prisoner and ha'
been Ia the army since April, 1861.
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-06-29
A New Sensation.
From the New York Express.


The new establishment ON Broadway
sSed sHa s'nsa and ssfsa Swh has sab!: bs
come one of tho fashionable resorts OF
upper tendon. II is nightly tlronged
with gentlemen, among whom our rcpor.
tcrs noticed judges, lawyers bankers.
merchants, etc.. who seemed greatly de-
lighted, not only with the rich appoint.
mcnts of the place, but also with the
"pretiy W alter girls" OF whom some fifty
were in attendance.
II is said that tho Constitution was
modelled n tier the most improved French
plan, nd cost somewhere in the neigh =
borhood Of $50 900. IL takes tho entire
basement uf Mortimcr's building, and is
arranged into two sections; one being
devoted to lager, wine, and feminies,
while the other holds billiard and domino
tables. The latter place is mainly occu.
pied with gentlemen, for none OF the
girls are permitted TO enter its precincts.
Still, truth the other section is more free.
ly patronizcd, and by mcR who would
think il an outrage upon public dcccncy
to be seen In Broadway concert saloon.
The "Lluyre" is without music, and does
not come within the law relative 10 the
fash establishments, which emit go much
moral poison to the community.
The bar Is probably the handsomost in
tho city, and Is furnished with its lnge
by mems of an uir compressipg machine
which brings the fonming beverage fr, IL
the patent Ice box, SO feet away. Mir
rors ofgrcat size, cooling fountains, anC
brilliant chandeliers, give to the place a
showy, yet not Il ishy look. Tho walls
and ceilings arc frescoed in the best style
o! the art, and in fact, everything IS com
plete. Whatever may be thought of the
character Of such places, the superb finish
of this must be admitted, The propric-
tors have placed the police arrangements
in the hands Of a 4cll-known onicor
who has several sub ordinotes, and The
most perfect order is maintained. a
girl who exhibits too much familiarity ID
promptly expelled, and fashionable gon.
llcmcn are also restrained from too free
indulgence ID mitth.
The propfictors, who arc known as
worry westRy business men, have closed
the Fifth Avenue entrance in order II
please the residents in that Immediate
loca lity, so that the saloon cannot be
viewed at all from the fashionable thor.
oughfare. They express their dotermin.
alton TO keep the establishment in such
perfect order that there can be no cause
tor rcmonstranee.
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-06-29
wASHINGToN's GRAVE.
Homage Paid by Our Soldiers,
tstom II. L.m,r sl an Arm, c.r,.rc.a.r,, ,

ttfcm the Letter ei an Avn, cer,,pcpa,r,
General Logan suggested, as the army
nearcd its destination, that the troops
might be marched perhaps with sa,isfac.
ten TO Themselves, past tho t. NIB OF
Washington. The departure from tho
direct roud would cost the men about eight
miles OF extra marching, but the tuggcs
ton was no sooner offered than Il was
accepted. Tho day Gas, Friday) was a
damp, drizzly day, and tho roads were
heavy; notwithstanding all th, the men
chccrlully undertook the lsbor. and
Mount Vernon received as tribute rffrr--
ings the memory of Americas greatest
hero, the reverence of twenty thousand oi
Americas choicest hero patriots. ltwas
n solemn but magnificent pageant. Qui.
city, rtverenty moved the tried and trust.
cd column. Scared aud jaded by four
years of bloody wrestling, wcaricd with
the days march, ragged aud hardy, though
cheerful, these adpring thousands thread.
cd the lanes and walks Of the old home-
stead of Washington, s orderly and
slightly as though tho eyes Of him they
ssmc TO offer homsgc TO were constantly
upon them, and ps though the dust they
,rod on were hallowcd by tho proximity Of
his bones.
The column marched through the tomb,
countermarehcd and passed the old real
dence back into the main r1-d. The or.
ders were from Washington TO allow no
troops within the grounds, but the super.
intcndent and managing ladies' Of the LA,
dies Mount Vernon Association" kindly