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The Placer herald., 1866-08-11
re- RAYMOND of the N. Y Times (R,

EE Ravmond, of the N Y. Times Ire.
pubIicau,) defines his position in regard to
the approaching fall elections, and expresses
the following opinion of the chances Of the
Radicals in the continuation Of their war on
the President:
I'VE intend to do all we can to secure
the nomination and election of Union men
AS members Of Congress, who will admit
loyal members from States holding loyal
attitude towards the General Government
We prefer that the South should come back
into Congress under the action and by the
votes of Union men. We believe that they
will thus come back, and in our judgment
the Union member who resists their admis.
sion now, will meet some difficulty in secur
ing denomination and reelection in the
coming canvass. The people want the Union
restored, and in our judgment they will send
members to the next Congress who will re-,
store it. And where Union nominees will
not stand upon that platform, they will stand
very good chance Of being beaten. We
sustain, thoroughly and heartily, as we have
done heretofore, the position and policy of
the President upon the subject"
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11

A TELEGRAPHrc LAW SuIr.-A case touch.
ing on tho liability ofeIegraph companies.
IN Transmitting messages incorrectly has
just been decided in the Supreme Court Of
Wisconsin This was an action TO recover
damages for alleged carelessness of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, in
transmitting dispatch for plaintiff to his
correspondents in New York, ordering them
to ship to him AT ST. Louis certain quantities
of salt by sail" when it reached New York
and was delivered, it read ship by rail"
That is, the word "rail" was substituted for
the word SAIL in the original dispatch.
Accordingly large proportion of The salt
was forwarded 10y railroad, instead of by
canal and lake, as was originally intended
10y the difpach. The slipping by railroad
was much more expensive than by water,
and the action was brought to recover the
difference between the two modes of trans.
porlation. A judgement was rendered in
the court below for the plaintiff, for the sum
of 81 ,0s5 A, and to reverse this Judgement
the case is brought here by appeal. The
Supreme Court held that as the plaintiff did
not order the message repeated, the telegraph
company is not liable for the mistake that
occurred. Other decisions have been given
against telegraph companies where omis.
sons have been made, and where gross care.
lessness has been exhibited In this case The
mistake was that of the substitution Of but
one single ietler.
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11

Look TO THE School BooKs-A New
York letter descril es as follows the sort of
books which are placed in the hands Of chill.
dren at the north:
But the most noticeable publications that
are brought out are those designed entirely
for children. Through these a big crop Of
hate and persecution for "rebeIs" is being
planned precisely AS abolitionism was sown
thirty years ago. remember then finding
Aboitionism in my school books. One Of
my little boys got prize at school the other
day; it was a book entitled The Soldier Bow.
The frontispiece contains an atrocous libel,
in representing a Confederate soldier at.
tempting the life of a Federal soldier who
bad given him drink of water l. narrates
with approval all sorts of oulrages perpetra.
ted by "Ihe Soldier Boy" and bis friends
upon "Sou'hern sympathizers" or ''lraitors."
The book in short is abominable TRADE
against the South; and vet it is permitted to
be distributed to the school children in this
most conservative quarter of the north.-
There is no Instruction in it-only spirit of
malice against the South and the Copper.
heads.
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11
LAW OF NEWSPAPERS.

!. Subscribers who do not give express notice
TO the contrary, are considered as wishing TO
continue their subscription.
2. II subscribers wish their papers disconin-
ued publishers may continue to send them until
all charges are paid.
3. II subscribers neglect or refuse 10 take
their papers from the office place to which
they sent they are held responsible until they
settle their bills and give due notice to discon
tnue.
4. IF fsubscribcrs move to other places with
out informing the publisher, and the paper is
sent to the former direction. they are held re-
aponsible. Notice should always be given OF the
removal.
S. The Courts have decided. that refusing to
take q paper from the Office, or. removing and
leaving it uncalled for, is prma tacia evidence
of Intentional fraud.
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11
A PERFECT ANrrDorE FOR ALL Po1soSs

PERFECT ANTIDorE FOR ALL PoIsoNs. -
A plain farmer says: at is now over twenty
years since learned that sweet oil would
cure the bite OF rattlesnake, not knowing
it would cure any other kind of poison
Practice, observation and experience have
taught me that it will cure poison OF any
kind, both on man and beast | think no
farmer should be without bottle of it in
his house. The patient must take spoonful
Of it internally, and battle the wound for a
cure. To cure a horse i; requires eight
times as much as it does mau. Here let
me say of one Of the worst cases Of snake.
bite in this neio bborhood: K even years ago
this summer, where the case had been thirty
days standing, and the patient had been
given up bv his physician, | heard Of it, car,
ried the oil, gave him one spoonful, which
effected cure. 1t is an antidoe for arsenic
and stricbnine. Il'll cure boat in cattle
caused by eating to freely of fresh clover, it
will cure sting of bees, spiders, or other i'm
sects; and will also cure persons who have
been poisoned by low running vine grow
ing in the meadows, called ivy"
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11

TIE CoMsTocK LoDE.-A contemporary
has been at the pains to gather some inter.
esting statistics with regard to this celebra.
ted series of veins, from which springs 30
large portion Of the wealth Of the State
OF Nevada. The mining operations on the
Comstock lode are very extensive. This lotls
has been explored little over three miles.
The ground is owned by forty'six companies.
These companies have excava,ed about forrv
miles in tunnels, drifts. etc. The longest Of
these tunnels in II straight line is the La
trobe, 5000 feet. The tunnel was COM
menced in February 1891 and is still being
extended. There are forty four hois,ing and
pumping engines belonging to the lode, ag'
gregali"g 1900 horse power; also seventy
six mills for reducing ores, with a combined
capacity of 1900 tons daily. Some OF these
mills are fourteeen miles from the lode, and
of course the ore has TO be transported Ia
them in wagons. About 22,265 cords Of
wood at SIG per cord are consumed annu-
ally; also l5,504 $50 feet (board measure)of
timber and lumber, worth about $40 per
1000, making an aggregate outlay of these
wo items alone Of nearly 100000
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11

ANCIENT MINNIE Interesting discoveries
have lately been made in the San Domingo
mines of Spain, showing the methods of mi.
ming adopted by the ancients. In some o!
the mines the Romans dug draining CALLER.
les nearly three miles in length, but in 9th
ers the water was raised by wheels to carry
it over the rocks that crossed the drift =
Eight Of these wheels have recently been
discovered 10y the miners who are now work
ing in the same old mines. The wheels are
made of wood, the arms and fe!oes of pine,
and the axle and its support of oak, the fab
ric being remarkable for the lightness of it's
construction. 1t is supposed that these
wheels cannot be less than fifteen hundred
years old. and the wood is in perfect state
Of preservation, owing to its immersion in
water charged with the salts of copper and
iron. From their position and construction
the wheels are supposed to have been work.
ed as tread mills, by men standing with ma
ked feet upon one side. The water was
raised by one wheel into basin, from which
it was raised to another stage by the secon d
wheel, and SO on for eight stages
S. r. Miner.
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~-As steamboat was about to star

from Cincinnati one day, young man came
on board. leading blushing damsel by the
hand, and approaching the polite clerk, said
in suppressed voice:
II say, my wife has just got married, and
I'm looking for Accommodations"
Looking for birth9" Hastily inquired
the Clerk, as he passed ticket to another
passenger
"a birth! thunder and lightning. no.!
gasped the astonished man; 1--WE amt but
just got married-we only want place to
stay all night, you know"
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11

reputation to save ourselves from money
ed oligarchy. This is the danger to be fear.
ed and the issue for the Congressional elec
tons. But the proposed Convention, what.
ever may be the sequel, has done the coun
try service by removing all pretences of
concord in the republican ranks.
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11

HonRIBLE.-A warrant has been issued
against Turner Cowing, Of San Francisco
on charge of keeping the dead body o
his wife in his house ill it has become an
offensive nuisance to his neie ehbors. She
has been dead year. The San Francisco
Call says:
1t is charged that the husband took the
remains of his departed consort. which
were much decomposed, into the garden a
day or two since, and after washing them
with the hose, replaced them in the coffin,
since which time most offensive odor has
pervaded the entire neighborhood from this
cause. The Health Officer sent an Inspec.
tor 10 the locality yesterday, with orders
TO the owner to aba,e the nuisance bv bur.
'al OF the body. Owing to the absence of
the party, the agent deputed to perform this
duty was unable to serve the notice upon
him; but from the peculiar charneI'honse
smell pervadng the premises be reported
that the complaint was evidently we'll foun-
ded.
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11
Heavy on Congressman Bidwell.

| Crosette, of the Butte Record, is decidedly
heavy on Congressman Bidwell, as witness
the following:
The system adopted by Congressman of
employing Washington Bohemians to write
them into notorely, is sometimes carried to
the most ludicrous excess. A recognition
and drink will secure favorable mention
from these Bohemiaps; five dollars will place
before the public the important public mea
sures Congressman intends to present for
the benefit of his constituents and the indus,
try and distinguished ability with which they
are urged; and ten dollars, we dare say, wIl
put the "cap sheaf on top of the clmax,"
and crown The pinnacle of hyperbolicaI ex
cess in about the following style Of p Wash
'ng,on correspondent, of The N. Y Tribune.
General Bdwell is the greatest landhold
er in the world He is large, black haired,
farmer Ike man, who raised brigade of
soldiers among his tenants and iaborers."
Ibis undoubtedly astonishes the gawkeys
OF South Carolina and Massachusetts, of Vir
GINA and Pennsylvania, ard probably makes
lion ot our Congressman, among the creme
de la creme Of trans atlantic snobdom. AT
home. in California. it can only excite laugh.
'e' ""u ueI'SoU. lne on1V hTlHaue he ever
raised was composed of a tribe OF dirty, mas.
ty, theving Digger Indians, maintained on
his ranch with all the repulsive and obnox>
ious tea ures of Virginia slavery. So great
had this nuisance become, that in 'G2, dur.
ing the progress of war agaius, the late re,
beI.ion, and duriag the Indian troubles in
the adjoining territories, that General Bid
well prevailed upon the authorities to station
soldiers at his ranch to keep his neghbors
from ex'ermina'ing his brigade of laborers
and tenants. He is, however, the command
i"g General of this militia brigade, and un
der the old law, Chico township furnishes
military company. We dare say it wa
composed Of intelligent and patriotic young
men, who repudrare the idea of beirg rank
with General Bidwel's Digger abolers and
tenants.
Is it possible that this highfaIuing Con
gressonal life has any connection with Bid
| wells determination not to be a candidate
for e.eIection, on account of "pecunarv sac,
rfce," it would invoIveg We also notice
that some 600 quarter sacks Of Chico flour
have been shipped to New York, probably
for pocket money, to enable him to com.
mand the Bohemian Brigade. That is leoi.
innate enough it a man wants to spludge and
has the ac;... &c &c !: ";:aa But viii the
Washington Bohemian Brigade please draw
it a litlIe more mild on our famous Briga-
der hereafter.
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11
LA w CARDS.
JOHN T. CANNON,
Attorney and Counsellor at L

Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
LINCOLN. PLACER COUNTY. CALIFORNIA,
WILL practice in the courts OF Placer and
w adjoining counties. All business intrusted
to his care will be punctually attended TO.
Lincoln. June 25th. lS65-my
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11

SENsIBLE.-Says q travelling correspon
dent of the New York Times in Georgia, af
ter looking the country over and carefully
observing the industrial relations of blacks
and whites, "there are no people who have s.
deeper interest in the people and prosperity
OF this section than the manufacturers Of the
North. This is their garden and orchard,
upon the luxuriance and steady yield of
which their comfort depends. Let it be
made Hayti or Jamaica, and what be
comes of its fertility? The Sea Islands.
which have been Jamaicaized for the last
tour years, ought to have taught lesson as
to the consequences of African supremacy
Now, this is is the happiest and most pros>
porous agricultural community ! ever saw.
Let the Radicals have their way, and it will
be the most wretched and the most unforlu.
nate"
We prefer that kind of testimony. support
ed as it is by occuar proof to the most eol
qnent lnvectives Of party orators. A little
good sense puts down their ven1efn twad'
die about the continued cruelty Of Southern
employers The agents sent South by Con
grtss to report upon the condition of public
feelings esteem it their duty to make only
such reports as will please those who employ
them, and their reports are regarded by all
intelligent individuals as one sided ia Sc, and
slandelous. Disnterested and patriotic gen
llemen fatty contradict the reports of the
Congressional hirelings Mountain Dem.
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11
JOB PRINTING

OF evc,y variety. executed with neatness and
dispatch, at reasonable rates
The Placer herald., 1866-08-11


The MADISON CouRIER.-1his paper is a
true exponent of the principles Of the Repub-
lican party. lie prefers the negro to the
poor Germans. We do not know when we
have read paragraph that excited in us
more indignation and contempt for its AUTH
or than the following cruel insult to the poor
German immigrants who seek our shores.
This is the true Know Nothing, Republican
doctrine; it is the doctrine upon which that
party was formed in 1865, when Morton left
the Democrats and joined il. No such in
suit was ever found to the negro in the col
u.nns Of the Courier. He says:
1--WE are sad AT the thought that some oi
those who come 20 our shores will be among
the most corrupt and oullawery of Europe.
They are the roughs, the hards, the dead
rats, and the otfscourngs of Bllingsgate, OF
Paris, Of Berlin and Frankfort. They bring
with them all their bad habits. their unyefd'
ing hearts and almost uncivized natures.
They will necessarily be a power for evil,
and their breath will be as concentrating as
the hot wind of the sorocco, and as deadly
as the poison Of the Upas.
"WelI may we ask how the evil is to be
resisted, and made to result in good. The
only directions we can give is, that every
man, woman and child now in this country
must seek to counleract this corrupt intlu
ence by all the moral power within them
churches must stand like wall Of stone
and resist the deadly onset of this host o
corruption. The many of the immigrant,
who are peaceable and imbued with higher
| spirit must be encouraged, sustained built up,
and made to exert a holy influence over
their countrvman."
Charlottesville Mdiana Reoiew.
Ey This Democratic good thing is now
going the rounds. There is "more truth
than poetry" in ii:
"a so called Union man. who once had
acted with the Democratic party, as it was
said, for patronage sake, the other day tried
to Justify his change of sentiments to Dem,
ocrat, and wound up by saying that "tbe
Democratic party, when last in power, was
so corrupt that it was shame for any de.
cent man to have ANYTHING to do with it.
Oh, said the Democrat, the Democratic party
has Undergone a complete puritication with.
in the lest four years. How so9 eagerly in
quired Mr.. Abo,ionist. Why, slowly res
ponded the other, all the id rascaIs left
the Democratic party at the breaking out OF
tho war to secure share of the plunder,
and we thus got rid Of them. There was
Forney, and Ben Butler, apd--With
out waiting to hear the balance Of it our
negroist moved rapidly up the street.
OLD BoY-The followi scene laioy oc.
Cured 10 the Police Court at st. Louis
Fred Wolf was up for disturbing the peace
Of bis better haif. The wife related that she
desired to have her second Oldest boy sleep in
the same bed with her. Fred objected and
kicked up a muss.
"How old is the boy you wanted to sleep
with youa" asked the Judge.
Seventeen years"
"Dischsrge bin. Boys OF seventeen are
too old to sleep with their mother
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3. r, MYRE ES

Attorney and Counselor AZ Law, Auburh
OFFICE in building on Courtstrect. next door
~ 10th q Temple Having resumed the practice
ofiaw will attend TO al business intrnsed to his
care in the several courts of the State. jel1my
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Spirit of the New York Market.

NEW ohks JHllc ~.
The gold market Was firmer this after
noon, and the price was run up to l53l6,
but afterwards fell to l52lG @l52l5, and
closed ut this rate. Cash gold was loaned
at u per cent. toward the close.
Three cases of cholera, in the city, re-
ported to-day. The scourge seems TO have
broken out afresh at quarantine. There
were two new cases on board the Illinois.
and two deaths from cholera and one FROM
yellow fever since last report.
Extensive preparations are making here
Tor grand Indignation meeting of Fenians
NJ Union Square next Monday evening.
Money Is said to be flowing into the eX-
chequer of Roberts faction. New circles
are now forming by the Celts who have
abandoned the Stephens and O'Mahoney
branch of the Brotherhood.
The Panama star aud Herald, says the
last seen of the Spanish fleet il was steam
Ing southwest, evidently bound through
the straits tO Montevideo for supplies.
Two vessels had left the fleet, and had
probably gone TO Manila, where the Span
iards have a large store of munitions OF
war, so that the entire fleet may come back
again.
Panama one hundred and eighty Spanish
subjects. who had been compelled 10 leave
the country.
Government securities were firm this af-
ternoon, with some inquiry for the old 5-20
bonds on German account. The following
were the closing prices: 1881, ll0l6@ll01@ (;
800 coupons of 1864, 02A@l023s; 1910
coupons, 961e@95Ai; June 1908, li016.
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allonstarplapa commertial.
/ Cincinnati NInrItctH,

CiNcINNATI June 90
There was not much animation In the
general market to-day. There was better
demand from the country for flour, and II
fair Inquiry from the local trade and prices
remain steady. Wheat was very dull and
buyers demanded concessions which hol-
ders were not disposed TO grant. Corn was
In light request but there IL very little on
market and prices nfe hardly as firm.
Whisky Is steady at the advance cs-
tablished yesterday, although there were
reports Of transactions at lc. below our
quotations. There was nothing doing In
groceries In round lots, and considerable
concessions would be necessary 10 induce
buyers 10 take hold. Sugars and coffee are
offered at less than u would cost 10 lay
them down here, without inducing buyers
to Invest. There was firm feeling IN the
provision market. Mess pork sold 10 q
liberal extent Mt $33 for inside city brands.
holders at the close asking 2b(a5Oc. more.
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SOMETHING NEW.

IMPORTANT TO FARMERS AND
Manufacturers of Sorghum sirup. Something
every body should have
PArENT RIGHT FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF WINE
FROM THE COMMON SORGHUM.
The best of Wine worth from g. 30 10 az per
gallon, made at \ cost Of less than twenty cents
per gallon.
For Information concerning individual Mann
featuring or Township Rights addrIss the pro
prietor, JOHN fiSSEpp MiamisbuTe
Montgomery Co., o.
Editors of Papers within the State, by inserting
the abovn In their paper for two months, VIII be
entitled 20 an Individual Right Tor manufacturing
sAlu Wlne' ff a aEHHUH mar3l WITT
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BY TELEGRAPH.
Mexican AIalrs-A Battle for Plum
@tiA " - ~ der. ~ ttAA ~
NEW ORLEANS. Juno 10.

gQOfT NEw ORLEANS, June 2Of b
The Crescent bring5 the extra Rio Grande
Courier Of the 18th, with details of the
capture by the Liberal forces under Ire
aniO iof q large merchandise train going
from Matamoras TO the interior. The train
was conveyed by ten Impcrialist compa~
niea, Numbering three hundred and tlfty
men, Captain lappa and one hundred con.
tra guerrillas, made up OF Conlederptes, and
llfteen Mexicans. The Impeflallsts had
eight pieces of artillery and six Mexican
guns. The fight lasted one hour when the
train was captured about three leagues
from Camargo.
Cancles, Narango and Escobedo, with their
commands, had placed themselves under
TreaniO.
The Liberals numbered $500 men, we'll
armed and equipped The train contained
merchandise and ammunition, and was of
great value.
New York, June 20.
General Ortega, now In Washington. has
issued a protest against the recent decree Of
President Juarez, reappolnting himself to
Office, aud denounces the act rs arbitrary
and Illegal, and intending TO establish n
dictatorship.
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LAW REPoRT.
surnm0n cOgsr-1IvDor nAYNEs.

LdDosa ahdlftte--Anactloh brought upon
five promissory notes Of 500 each made by
defendant 70 Ia Dow a Hamilton, partners.
The interest In said notcs was assigned
by Hamilton 20 Samuel Tate by which be
became party In Interest. iltb t
Defendant admits the making Of the
notes, but AYERS they were obtained by
fraud and misrepresentation concern
ing the value of AN undivided hall
Of 800 acres of land In the State OF Illinois
for which la Dow 4 Hamilton represented
that they had been offered the sum OF two
thousand dollars, aud thatit was worth that
amount, and that said offer was still open
at the time Of making the contract and
could be accepted by the defendant--and
upon these representations the notes In ques
tion were given for the residue of the pur-
chase money of this land.
Defendant AYERS that IN point OF fact no
such offer was made TO In Dow a. Iiamil-
ton, aud that the land was not worth more
than half that amount which facts bo
pleads In defense of payment Of those
notes.
The plaintiffs deny that such representa-
tions were made. and upon those issues the
case was tried by the jury.
WANTED.--Two Carriage Trimmers and
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gB-Speclal telegram from Geo. Hoeh-
waits Peoples Shoe Store, No. 3ls Third
street, sign Of the large Golden Boot, Day
ton, Ohio. In order "a make room for n
large fall stock of Boots and Shoes, | viii
sell my entire stock Of Spring and Summer
Boots and Shoes at cost, for sixty days
ltdw2m
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Largo Fire.

CHICAGO, June 20.
The Chicago Rolling-mills, situated Oh
the north side OF the river, were almost ell-
tirely destroyed by fire last night, resulting
In loss of over S2O0,000. These mills gave
employment TO about five hundred men,
nearly all Of whom are thrown out of en-
piOyment d.h 49,