The Placer herald., 1866-02-17

bv the money and prices that obtained il
1860 and how different it would be! 1896
would no doubt 90 far ahead Of 1865. 1t is
therefore the difference 10 prices, not il
quantity. Something like this estimate was
the dog trade where Snooks sold .Joacler 70,
$50. His wife was delighted; wanted to see
the coin. OH" said Snooks, II swappedfo'
two puppies worth S25 piece!" The East
ern world is just now doing business on this
dog trade principle, but will not acknowl.
edge it. Where now is Gouge on Banking
or over banking! where the thousand and
one political orators who twenty years ago
denounced soft money swindles? Where?
They are to-day rampant bankites, begging
Congress for more non specie>paying banks!
Foreseeing that trouble may come Of all
this one sided legislation; that some future
"locofoco" party may organize on hard
money principles, Mr.. Sumner, in the U. S.
Senate, has proposed an amendment to the
Constitution to prevent any future hard
money Congress from disturbing the soft
money legislation of this. This Congress
seems to believe that whatever it may do
should become a part Of the Constitution to
prevent future action on the same subject.
| We have now as chronic constitutional tnk'
ers as were those demagogues in the French
Constituent Assembly, who led by old Able
Sieyes, had Constitution prepared to serve
every day in the year. A Constitution that
Monroe, Jackson, Benton, Clay, Webster,
Van Buren and Sias Wright is too defective
for the expansive little great men now in
Congress. Our present State doctors carry
in their brains panaceas for all public ills.
Every representative has his plan and pre-.
scribes nostrums to preserve the public
health. The latest dose was administered BY
Long John Wentworth Of Chicago, to keer
disordered cattle out Of the country by for
bidding all importations, thus cutting off a
large supply of beef from Canada and put
ting up the price of Illinois meats 10 the
New York and Boston markets.
The country is disordered by reckless leg
islation; the times are intolerably political.
Both OF the real parties are too much led by
men who are ION the make" The lobbies
pass TOO many Eastern laws. There is dis
position to concentrate all legislation in Con.
gress, as it saves the lobby all the trouble
and expense of perambuIatipg and buying
up State Legislators. How to make the
most money out Of monopoly grants and
special Legislation is the order of the day.
To keep cloud before the people, Africa,
Mexico and Canada, sprinkled over with a
touch of the Fenian, are trotted out, while
the real business on hand, namely, sound
currency and speedy restoration of the Union,
are placed almost out Of sight. Your corr
respondent sees too many whiting and hig-
CLING politicians in the East. He has no
confidence in any party just now; old issues
are dying out, but the cohesive power Of
public plundar still survives. Every man
who opposes paper money inAations or enor'
nous taxes wrought by protective tariffs is
set down for croaker. Popularity seems
to consist in urging one half Of the nation
to plunder the other half
NEGRO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of
the New York World writing from Augusta,
Ca, says:
The Freedmen's Bureau are taking q new
course in the management Of the negroes
Those who will not contract with their old
masters for the coming year are transported
to Arkansas, where there is create demand
for labor than here and where their labor will
be more profitable. More than thousand
have been brought to Augusta recently, and
shipped to the West. Old and young wo'
men and children, are carried off together at
Government expense for the fresh lands be-
yond the Mississippi. They do not 60 volun
tarily, but by compnlsion. A few days age
a planter Of my acquaintance called all biz
hands together and told them that he would
give them all eight dollars month for thu
next year, and all who would not accept i
should cross over line he drew to the Fed
eral captain who stood on the other sid
Every one declined the wages and crossed
the line. The captain took all to the depot
brought them here, and sent them off to th.
far west When they reached this place
and we're told of their destination, they bit
terly repented their decision, but there was
no alternative, and they we're compelled te
continue their journey.
The NEGRO PEN.-WilI it be believed thai
the horrible "negro pen" Of which we used
to bear so much, says the Newark IN. J.i
Journal, has again been brought into requisi
ton, and by the "Freedmen's Bureau" itself
Such is the fact Gen. Fullerton was recently
sent to New Orleans by that institution t'
put things to rights there. He framed h
policy and left it to be. executed by Gen
Baird. A writer says: t.t
To be satisfied of the latter officers resolu
tion to execute the new policy promptly AM
vigorously, you will have only to 60 on tb
levee and see what was never before exhibited
in this city, legitimate negro pen. An en-
closed lot is there established, in which al
the negro vagabonds, wharf rats, all VIII
cannot give an account Of their wheresbout'
are collected and imprisoned. Attracted b
such an extraordinary spectacle, stoppe
and asked negro soldier guarding this PEI
what il all meant. 'Dem's loose rats, siI
what won't work, and want to live by stea
ing" ,!s