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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-08-16
Ease BAH Club.

yUHERE viii be a RATCH CANE Of Base Ball
between the first and second Nine ofthe stone
wall Base Ball Club at the ground Eastot Charles
Town. ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON, TODAY
at O'Clock.
The pame win be for a new Ball for the use OF
the Club. The members Of the Mines VIII please DC
on the ground at the appointed time
The public is respectfully invited 70 attend
By order Of the President
C. HORACE GALLAHER, Seey.
Aug l6-lt
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

IRISH ADvANcEMENr.--Th editor of the
Albany Argus, now abroad, gives an unex.
pectedly good word for Ireland and its people:
The progress among the people iu wealth
and education is decided. The Catholic
University rivals the Queens Colleges in
giving Instruction to the people, and the
rudiments of learning are pretty generally
ditfused. The rate Of wages rises steadily,
food is cheap and abundant, and the climate
is free from the extremes of heat and cold
that tells with such severity upon the labor
ing poor Of our lands The convivial habits
of the better classes for which the m memories
of Sir John Darlington and the hardly less
historical stories of Lever give us amusing
accounts, have given way to sober moods
and less riotous life. The teachings of Father
Mathew have made many disciples among
the poor. The records of the police show
less disorder, and the assizes have fewer crimes
of violence to pass upon"
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10
General Wool.
We extract from the Troy Presa the fol-.
lowing patriotic letter from Gen. Wool:

we extract from the Troy Presa the fol-
lowing patriotic letter from Gen. Wool:
Troy, August 10th, 1865.
To Andrew johnson, President Of the United
States:-My Dear Sir:-The Hon. George
Vail, Of the city Of Troy, will hand you .his
note. As one Of our most respectable and
worthy citizens, would commend him to
your kind attention. lie is an old fashion,
ed Jackson Democrat, and your poiticah
friend, who wants nothing but his country's,
good. lie, as well as myself, is exceedingly
anxious, deeming it essential 10 the welfare
and prosperity Of the country, cha. you
should succeed in your policy Of restoring
the Union.
We fully concur with you in the declara.
tion that 1--WE have bad war enough, let
there be peace" Another civil war, as in.
dicated by those who declare the Union dis
solved, would rend the United States into
fragments, followed by pestieuoe, famine
and desolation throughout the land, and
would over,urn the best government ever de-:
vised by man, and ruin the finest country
on the face of the globe.
That you may succeed in your noble and
generous efforts to bring back into the folds
of the Union brave people, and make us
what We ought 10 be, united, great and
prosperous nation, should bo the earnest and
anxious desire of all true patriots and lovers
of their country.
l 1greatly regret that important private
business will deprive me Of the pleasure it
would afford to accompany the Mayor, Com
mon Council, Mr.. Vail, and other citizens of
Troy, hO intend to nav their respects Ia
you on the morrow, while en- route for Chi
cago, to celebrate the erection of the monu.
ment in commemoration Of the late lamen-
ted Douglas.
l have the honor to be, with considera.
tions of the highest respect, your obedieut
servant.
JOHN E. WOOL,
Major General n. 8 A.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10
STONEWALL JAKSON

The admiration of Stonewall Jackson, saws
"Hall's Land We Love-" was by no means
confined to his section, The Federal prison
ers always expressed great desire to see him,
and sometimes loudly cheered him. This
was the case at Harper's Ferry, where the
whole line of eleven thousand prisoners greet
ed him with lusty shouts Citizens say that
the hostile troops always spoke of him in
terms ofunqualifed praise. A gentleman in
the Valley of Virginia relates that when Fre-
mont and Shields though that they had en-
trapped him beyond the possibility of escape,
Seigel's Dutch soldiers passed his house sing.
ing "Shackson in shug;" Gug) Shackson 10
a shug, and when they returned crest fallen
from Port Republic, they answered bis inaui-
ry what they bad done with Jackson, ''Py
tam, the stopper come out of the shug, he be
gone, If the rebels don't make him de Presi>
dent, SeigePs men make him.
While he was making his stealthy march
around Pope's rear, still as the breeze, but
eventually dreadful as the storm Philadel.
phia paper remarked: "The prayerful pratisan
has not been heard from lately which bodies
no good" 1t sent Pope to fight Indians in
the far, far west, away from the pleasant haunt
about Washington
"Where is Jackson?" asked an Irish pris
oner, who was astonished beyond measure to
find rebel grab upon his shoulder With
the apt readiness Of his people, he replied,
Faith, aud that's just the trouble all the time,
sure" Percontra, another countryman of
the Emerald Isle taken in McClelan's retreat
from Richmond, who had been curiously ex.
aiming the commissary stores, expressed the
utmost contempt for Jackson, as he reeled
along: "Yo're laughing now boys; Yell be af
ther crying presently: Little Mac is as good a
fighter as yer Stonemon Jackson, and be
doomed till him"
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10
Virginia..

In a recent speech in New Jersey, Henry
Clay Dean, Of Iowa, pays the following glow
ing and beautiful tribute to Virginia, the mo-
ther of States, statesmen and heroes:
Il dare speak one kind word for the op-
pressed in the very teeth of the opressor.
Since Adam took possession of Eden, no part
of his heritage has given to man such an
history as that of Virginia, beginning with
the public life of George Washington and
ending with the surrender of the armies of
Gen. Robert E. Lee. The great orator Patrick
Henry, whose spirit lighted up the first great
revolution, and whose mild sweet voice call
ed armies up the valley and from the moutains
to defend New York, New Jersey and Massa-
chusetts from the invaders hoof, was Vir-
ginian; George Washington who led these ar.
mics was Virgnian; Thomas Jefferson whose
great soul encompassel the world and lifted
its light upon benignted age to teach it lib
erty, was Virginian, James Madison, who
enviroued our rights by flame of living fire
which the most iIustrous periods in The past
and present century preserved unharmed all
that was sacred in life and precious in hope
the Constitution of the United States
Virginian; John Marshall, whose luminous
mind, guided by immutabe justice, gave be-
ing to most profound and comprehensive
judiciary, the bulwark of American insiitul
tions, the marvel of mankind, was Vrginian,
Henry Clay, whose commanding majesty
drew after him whithersoever be went full one
half Of the whole moral and intellectual power
OF America, who did obeisance in his name,
was Virginian; the Lees, Richard Henry,
Arthur Francis Lightfoot, Light horse Harry
and his illusrous son, Robert E. Lee, were
Virginians; Thomas Jonathan jackson, the
great military genius of the Western Hemis
there, was Virginian. The courts and
Legislatures, forums and pulpits ofevery State
in the Union, and every Government on he
Continent, have been adorned by Virginians.
Their blood, shed in noble defense Of liberty,
has fattened every valley, and their bones
have beached on every moutain from Bunker
Hill to the City of Mexico. With such a his
tory and such race of freemen, Henry Viii
son, Horace Greedy and Charles Sumner,
would disfranchse this iustrous people, and
place them under the tutelage of negroes!
Proud, glorious old Virginia, what American
with American pride, would not rather be
Stonewall Jackson, buried 10 the bosom of Vir-
ginia, dead and immortal than to live and be
Bntler, loathed by manknd!"
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

AS REASONABLE AS Could BE EXPECTED
The Palladium asks, says the New Haven
Register, if the Southern States are in a
proper frame of mind to be restored to
FELLOWSHIP in the Union, without any con-
ditions precedent" The Constitution of the
United States gives the form ofcompact, and
neither Congress or the President can take
from or add to the requirements of that
instrument. We believe the Southern peo-
pie to be in as reasonable frame of mind 'as
could be expected under the circumstances
and that their Representatives are as much
entitled to their seats ia Congress as those
Of other sections. What does the Palladium
fear from a restored Union? 1t is falsehood
to assert that democrats, North and South
assailed its life." If the advice of democrats
had been taken there would have been no
war between brethren-no weeping widows
or fatherlees children, no monster debit"
1t was Radicasm that called for "blood'
letting" and denounced the proposition to
reason together and no sophstry can shake
the fact, or successfully falsifv history in the
future.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

IMPORTANT TO SETr+ERs.-We are informed
by the Register and Receiver that they have
been notified under date of Sept. 8, 1866, that
in all reasonable probability within a short
time maps will be filed, showing the routes
of the Placervile and Sacramento Valley
Railroad, and the railroad to connect Port,
land, in Oregon, with Marysvile,in California.
resulting in the withdrawal from market OF
the lands granted in aid of such roads by
Acts OF Congress, approved July l3, 1866,
aud July %, 1866. This matter is very
important to settlers on the lands along the
line Of route Of those roads. We have not
the Acts of Congress referred to at hand,
but judging from what was done in the
case of the Central Pacific Railroad, it may
be expected that on the filing Of the maps
named, the whole Of the lands for distance
Of 20 or pa miles on each side of the proposed
routes will be withdrawn from market. Ma
ny of these lands are already surveyed, and
having been offered at sale, are now open for
private entry at 81 25 per acre. After the
withdrawal, even numbered sections will ba
doubled in price. They will be open to
entry by preempton in tracts Of lG0 or lesa
or by homestead in go acre tracts. The
odd numbered sections will be open to entry
in like manner for three montba after the
filing Of the map, but after tho expiration
Of those three months their withdrawal will
be absolute until the Railroad Company
shall be entitled to sell them at whatever
price they may think proper.-Marysville
Anpeal
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

EE- Honorable Jefferson Davis, it is said,
cannot live three months whether free or
captive. The WeaO York Tribune (Jacobin)
says: I'VE feel that the Government is dis
gracing itself by its treatment of this prison.
er; that he ought to have been brought to
trial long ago and let him know his fate:
that it is playing mean and cowardly part
in regard to him, that it should either rel
tract its charge of assassination or have him
indicted or tried thereon, according to law.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10
LAW OF NEWSPAPERS.

l. Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary, are considered as wishing to
continue their subscription.
2. II subscribers wish their papers disc ntin-
ued, publishers may continue to send them until
all charges are paid.
3. II subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their papers from the Office or place to which
they are sent, they are held responsible until they
settle their bills and give due notice to discon-
tinue.
4. If subscribers move to other places with
out informing the publisher, and the paper is
sent to the former direction they are held re-
sponsible Notice should always be given Of the
removal.
s. The Courts have decided, that refusing to
take paper from the Office, or removing and
leaving it uncalled for, is prima tacia evidence
of Intentional fraud.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

The LARGEST DESCRIBED SNAKE.--Mr.
Speke, in his work on the discovery of the
sources of the Nile, thus describes jhe death
of snake of the boa Species shot by his
travelling companion, Captain Grant; 81
shuddered as looked upon the effects of his
tremendous dying strength. Foryards around
where he lay, grass and bushes and saplings,
and In fact everything except the more fully
grown trees, were cut clean off. as though
they had been trimmed with an immense
scythe. The monster, when measured, was
ifty'one feet two and half inches 10 extreme
length, while round the thckest portion of
his body, the girth, was nearly three feet;
thus proving, | believe, to be the largest ser,
pent that was ever automatically heard Of"
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10
JOHN E. WOOL.
Major General, U. S. A.

OPENING OF A VALUABLE QUARTZ MINE.
1T will be remembered, no doubt, that the,
UNION, not long since, noticed the fact that
the quartz ledge, known as the Murphy and
Bulger, on Union Hill, near Grass Valley,
had been purchased by COL O'Connor Sidney
Of London. We are pleased to know that
the Colonel has perfected bis arrangements
for opening this very promising vein, and
that work has alreacdy been euergetically
commenced. lie, through his agent, J. NJ.
English, who has arrived in this place res
Gently, from London, has commenced the
work of sinking an inclined shaft which is
to be i've by twelve feet in the clear. Tha
old works in the mine, consisting OF a tunnel
and drifts some eight hundred feet in length,
are being continued to the new incline. Ex-
cellent hosting and pumping works will be
placed on the mine Immediately; and by the
approaching Spring twenty stamp mill.
with all the modern improvements, will be
erected on the mine. Very valuable ore
has already been extracted from the ledge,
and we feel very confident that the enter,
prising Colonel will reap thousand fold in
return for bis outlay. The Murphy and
BuIger vein, as it is generally known in
these parts, is one of the best quartz regions
of Grass Valley Township, being in the
vicinity of the celebrated Eureka, the Union
Hill, Lucky, Cambridge and other valuable
quartz mines, and we expect at an early day
to see it ranking among the best paying
gold mines Of this State. Our old friend.
Dan. Collins, has charge of the mine, and
from bis we'll known energy we expect to
see the work pushed forward with the greatest
vigor-G. V. Union.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10
Sis KI-YoU,-The Humbolt Times saws:

The following extract from the dictiona-
ry of the Chinook Jargon, by George Gibbs,
has been handed us by friend:
is,kiyou, Cree, { Anderson IA bobtailed
horse This name, Iudicrous enough, has
been bestowed on the range of mountains
separating Oregon from California, and also
county in the latter State. The origin Of this
designation, as related to me by Mr.. Ander
son, was as follows: Mr.. Archibald R. McLe
cd, a Chief Factor of the Hudsons Bay Com
pany, in the year 1928, while crossing the
mountains with a packtrain, was overtaken by
snow storm, in which he lost most of his
animals, including a noted bob-tailed race
horse. His Canadian followers, in compli.
ment to their chief, or 'bourge named the
place the Pass Of Siskiyou-an appellaton
subsequently adopted as the veritable Indian
name of the locality, and thence extended to
the whole range and the adjoining district"
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

A process has been discovered by which
India rubber can be bleachsd to pure
white, and having been hardened, will ba
used for the manufacture Of collars and cuffs.
The process is so injurious to health. that
the men employed are encased in an armour,
and receive supply Of air throughasdSes
from seperate apartments to those 10 which
they work.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

Oh IN HUMBoLDT.-The Irwin Davis Com
pany are down l 800 feet and are still boring.
The Union Mattoe Company have procured
the steam machinery Of the Jetfery Company
and are going down.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

WANToN WIoKEDNEss.-Thos Wilson, a
drunken saiIer, stabbed Chnaman in San
Francisco, on Sunday evening, for no reason
so that be can hardly live. ;
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

AS WELL-Artemu Ward says there are
no daily papers published in his town but
there is aIadies sewing circle, which answers
the same purpose.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

FATAL SHoT.-The only son Of VIM. Harts.
horn, of Gilroy, accidentally shot himself
through the heart on Saturday, while hunt
ing.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

EH' WHAT is the differance between six
dozen dozen and half a dozen dozen9 Six
dozen dozen being S64, and half dozen
dozen only 72.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe regards bill
lard rooms and nne-pin alleys as means o
"grace."
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

Victor Hugo does large part Of his daily
work before breakfast, gets up at o'clock,
and all that. He writes standing, and blots,
grasses, interlines, SO that all bis matter must
be copied before i. goes to the printer.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

CosrLY OsoULAT1oN.-For kissing another
mans m wife, in Rock County, Mississippi, Dr..
Hale paid $796 SO.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

A Rich SERMoN.-Where is the man with a
harp of thousand strings? The following ex.
tract from sermon will be recognized at
glance by some Of our readers here at home.
1t looses much of its humer, because we can
not put in the appropriate gestures that ac-
company it, MY friends, sin makes the pur-
test young man in the world ugly.ah. was
coming up to church toda'ah, when saw some
men on the road-ah, and thought one of them
the purtiest young man ever saw in my life.
And as | drew nigh unto them, discovered
that they were playing at marvels, and they
all drew nigh unto place they called taw,
and they marveled ah. And when he mar.
veled, he jumped up and tapped bis hands
like arooster does his wings, and says, Il wish
| may be ID if amt fat ah!' And oh, my
rends then l thought he was the ugliest man
| ever saw in my life ah. And l opened my
mouth and spake unto him thus; Says
young man, this is not the way to salvation
And be said, Look here, old hoss, if you had
been saivated as was, you would not love to
hear talk of salvation ah.' And now, my
friends, when that young man said he was fat
be told lie, for be was as lean that hungry
looking sister over thar, that's always praying
so piously when the bat is being passed
around alb.
And, my friends, if that young man had
not been blinded by sin, he never could
mstuck me for an old boss ah.'
The PoEr's Cor.-Burn's cottage, at Allo.
way, is advertised for private sale. The Iu-
varnass COnrior cove. t1ho oottoro 1;torolI
clay built thatched hut, remains in much
the same condition in which it was left by the
poets father, built with bis own hands, in De-.
cember, IT'S, thirteen months before the
birth of his illustrious son; but since that
time two rooms and large hall have been
added, communicating with the cottage.
Some persons we hear are willing to give a.
bout $4,000 for house and land in order that
they may be kept in creditable manner and
that the cottage Of the pious father of that
'Cotter's Saturday Night may be saved from
further degradation"
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10
rates of Advcr rtfsfn
JOB PRINTING

OF every variety, executed with neatness and
dispatch, at reasonable rates.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10


KossUTH.-George Alfred Townsend, who
was travelling in Europe, saw Kossutb at
Paris, and thus describes him: Z" 1t is at the
Cate tlorlan-a man of hairs so white that
you do not note their thinness, bowed down
and meek and silent, yet kindly eyed, but
never flushed by any period to which he
comes, past the young dreams of great free
State, but waiting yet, though death seems
closer than freedom, reading the journals all
apart, SO respected that not the busiest intru-
der does more rreverence than look with
mild and loving askantness toward where be
sits, alone, aged and very thoughtful. This
is Louis Kossuth, the man Of glory when !
was little boy, the rescued, praised, assisted
man, whose thought toward our country is
cbidlike yet, although our warm welcome
made him hope too WELL"
Pacific RAILROAD SURvEY.-Buck's party
of engineers, in the employ of the Central
Pacific, have returned to California. Eper,
who was chief of another corps for the same
company, surveying to Gravely Ford, has got
through. He, with O'Bannon, of Ives party
parted from Buck at Thousand Spring Valley
and started for Salt Lake. A corps Of engin,
eers in the employ of the Union Pacific
Company, numbering in its ranks son
or son n-iaw of Brigham Young, passed
down the river this week on its way to
Crystal Peak. The Chief Of this corps says
that on no part of bis survey, from Salt
Lake to the Sink of the Humboldt, will q
grade Of SO much as fifty feet to the mile be
required. His route comes through gap
named Cedar Mountain Pass, and not within
rs miles Of the Goose Creek Mounta Road
Humboldt Register, October 81.
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10
Ayers Cherry Pectoral,

Coughs. Colds, Influenza, HOarseness,
Group, Bronchitis, Inctpient Con.
sumption, and for the Relief
of COnsumptivc Patients
in advanced Stages
OF the Disease.
This a remedy universally known to surpass any
other for cure of throat and lung complaints that it
is useless here to publish the evidence of its virtues Its
unrvaed excellence for coughs and colds and its truly
known throughout the civilized nations of the earth
Few arc the communities, families, among them
who have not some personal experience of its effects
some living trophy in their midst of its victory the
subtle and dangerous disorders of the Throat and lungs
AS ali know the dreadful fatality of these disorders, and
as they know too the effects Of this remedy need not
do more than to them that it has now all the vr-
tines that it did have when making the cures which have
won SO strongly upon the confidence Of mankind
Prepared by Dr.J G. AVER g. co" Lowell, Mass.
SOLD BY-Mack Webber, Auburn; R. H. Nc
Donald Il Co., Sacramento; R. Fl. Mcdonald q
Co.. and Crane Il Brigham, San Francisco. jy28 ly
The Placer herald., 1866-11-10

FOR PURIFYING THE BLOOD.
And for the speedy Of the following complaints
scrofuIn and Scrofulo GUS Affections, IS uc II
as TumOrs, Ulcers, Sores, EruptiOns,
Pimples, Pustules, BIOtches, BCils,
Blains, and all Skin Diseases.
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-02-20


'iuucu h'S sp''on w .aH-lRsl til'c' ahu ~
s'lc lleIii i,nit II n"u pee0hie very ge,srally
SHOWN lnnl VIC hlesSage was on nhnu hhd
Wohhthf rNu P~ Toll " Mr. aus con
riudcu ~ consequence tlv guhucs
SOON i'll'U w auu HrEe huhoef oi the
memhcrS Nll {p'i uPu7f rongre9lled IN the
0cma'' chhhpor
Inc message occupied about halt an hour
IN itN rrailig', anu Mss iiHte''d 10 WIN the
most proionnu atteliion' shd NJ IT'S closc
lncre was " 1,e',o'n schSlIloh, lninYlcl WIN
uppIn'sr hlu IiisSeS Willch pr0eheuru rom
llr Sehiieniah ghlefles ahu having DCh
againsl tlf HSprGial Wnrnillg ol Tue prrsid-
lhSnlRr'r' thr SergVnnt .at-arnis was d.
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-02-20

A LECTURE will be delivered in st. so
seph's (Catholic) Church. Second street on
Thursday evening, Feb. - for the benefit
ofthc Sisters of Charity. by Rev. r.. N.
Young. Subject ''rhc truths ofthc Chris
tinn Religion Essential to Human Culture.
Wcarc conliicnttb known ability OF the
Lecturer, together with thc vital impor-
tancc of the subject, and its charitable oh
ject, will MI the Church to overlowiug on
the OCCASION. feb2O-3td
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-02-20

ny SrANpARED IloMEopArlnc MEDICINES
! .-grhe hgcnt of Iluinphrcy's llQmcopath-
3 ic Specifies hhs received u very important
addition 10 his list OF Humphreys Specific
homeopathic Remedies in the shape Of
Specific No. 81, which cures dipthcria and
liberated sore throat. These specifics have
s obtained wide celebrity among the mcdi-
cal practitioners and are very largely used
.. and conyenicnt. An cXtcndcd advertise
ment in another column gives II list Of the
different species, the diseases which they
remedy, and the prices. Thecases for iami-
Hly use are especially worthy Of attention,
and also the new department. OF veterinary
specifics. The headquarters of Humphrey
Specific Homeopathic Medicine Co., Is ut
bG2 Broadway, New York.