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R. O. MATTHEW'S, CAPT. J. @. ALEXANDER
Late Of LOWS, Matthews Co. Late ofFriars Point Miss
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25
Some Truth.

The San Francisco Examiner has the fol
lowing:
p l.. Shoaff having become the sole pro.
prietor and editor of the Salt Lake Vedette,
has reduced its dimensions and in card to
his readers talks thus sensbly: He says:
Viewed solely as business enterprise the
undersigned can dispense with all doubtful
or dead" advertisements, and feels ndis-
posed to publish newspaper for the pur
pose Of advertising peoples wares, wants and
wishes, who do not feel a corresponding in
cination to pay up promptly for the service
rendered.
The credit business may do very we'll for
some folks and some kinds of trades, but in
newspaper office its defects is usually at
tended with disappointment; if not disaster.
There are now standing on our books, due
the late firm, money enough to make one
man rich, and half dozen bappy-if col
ected. Accounts on books, we discover Gf
we bad not known it before) will not pay for
paper, ink, types or composition. The sub
scriber has, therefore, stricken out all nom
paying or expiring advertisements, and pro-
poses to run the concern, on his own hook,
on a cash basis"
If all newspapers would initiate the ex
ample of the Vedette and pursue the course
marked out by that journal, they would soon
be IN a more prosperous condition. The
public would speedily learn something Of
which it seems to have been ignorant herel
tofore, viz: that newspapers cannot live and
thrive without certainty and punctua'ity of
payment on the part of subscribers and
patrons.
Unfortunately for publishers who credit
subscriptions, subscribers throughout the
country look upon the amount, five dollars
or so, as too small to be of much moment,
to the newspaper man, and hence they will
wait for some prospective opportunity of self
or neighbor going to the point of pubica-
ton, or for the calling around of an agent,
If each of these subscribers would remember
that his own case is only one of the many,
and that if the many would, each for ,himsel If
mail or express their five dollars to the pub
Usher, the aggregate would amount to a
good sum of money, and thus encourage the
institution, they might be more prompt. ln
the case of the Express, we may say we
have no regular travelling agent at present.
but we have some subscribers who are in ar
rears.-Erpress.
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25
A FIT ALLY.

No European Government more warmly
sympathized with the United States in its et'
forts to defeat the attempt of the Southern
States TO win independence and nationality,
than the paterna Government of Russia;
and there is none with which the United
States so amorousv fraternizes. The follow
paragraph will show how eminentIy worthy
of the respect and admiration of our Gespot-
ism. that of Russia is:
Berlin Correspondence of the London Timcs.]
POLISH ExILEs SENT TO SIBERIA.
According to manifesto issued for and
probably by the aristocratc representatives
of Poland, the number of Poles sent to Sibe'
ria since January, 1868, amounts to 1862,
among whom l64 are women and ia
priests. A Il were transported for polifica de-
linquencies, and, according to the otfense
imputed, are sentenced either to forced la
Dor in the mines, colonization in the villages.
or mere residence in villages or towns. In
addition to these, SO, ,780 persons were ban
ished to the steppes of the Ural, as severe a
punishment as removal to Siberia, but nearer
home. Furthermore, l2 .556 persons, among
them 28l women and l63 priests, were forcl
ibiy made to leave home and accept com,
pulsory abode in the interior of European
Russia; 25l6 were placed in the ranks Of the
army, $500 in houses of correction (he
greater part of whom were subsequently, re-
moved to Siberia and 620 in the church
yards of divers penilentiaries, having died
before trial. On the battle fields of the re-
belion, as Russian computations show, 3S,
500 were buried AS l46S more were hung
or shot, by the courtsmartial, and 7o60 fore
ed to seek refuge in foreign countries, the
total Of the melancholy list is swelled to l4l,-
$50. Without vouching for the accuracy of
these figures, may yet say that, excepting
those slain in battle certainly over'eslimated,
there is nothing to excite surprise In the
numbers stated. Besides these, Poland has
furnished two per cent. of her male popula
ton as recruits.
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25

Too TRUE. 1t is now an admitted fact,
with cool thinking people, that the once sew
erign States forming the American Union
are no longer republics either in name or
fact. The old republic has passed away, and
in its place we have centralized despotlsm,
that with one stroke of usurpation has des-
lroyed ten States and placed nine millions OF
people in a state Of vassalage worse than the
tyranny Russia iuflcs upon the Poles. In
the Northern States, fanaticism and slavlsh
ignorance have so taken hold of the popular
mind that all hopes Of saving even few
remnants of constitutional liberty have ceas'
en-. Like the FROGS in the fable, the people
are clamorous for king, and from the signs
Of the times, the coming despot is not fat
off.-Indiana Republican.
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25

returned to the House of representatives., in
which it originated, the bill entitled ian act
to provide for the more efficient government
of the rebel States" with his objections there.
to, the House of Representatives proceeded,
in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsd'
er the same, and
Resolyed, That the said bill do pass, two.
thirds of the House of Representatives agree
ing to pass the same.
Attest: EDWARD Mop PHERSON,
Clerk Ii. r. U. S.
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25
SOME DAY.

You smooth the tangles from my hair
With gentle touch and tend'rest care,
And count the years ere you shall mark
Bright silver threads among the dark
Smiling the while to hear me say,
you'll think of this again some day!
Some day."
do not scorn the power of time,
Nor count on years of fadeless prime;
But no white CLEANS will ever shine
Among those heavy locks OF mine.
Ave. lau oh as gaily as you may,
You'll think OF this again some day
Some day!
Some day I shall not feel as now.
Your soft hands move about my brow;
Ishal not slight your light commands,
And draw your tresses through my hands,
I shall he silent and obey
And you-you will not laugh that day
Some day
know how long your loving hands
Will linger with these glossy bands,
When you shall weave my latest crown
But you will see no touch of gray
Adorn their shining length that day
Some day!
And while your tears are falling hot
Upon the lips that answer not,
You'll take from these one treasured trcss
And leave the rest to silentness-
Remember that used to say
You'll think of this again some day
Some day!
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25

Here is a graphic description OF the
American like appearance OF the House OF
Commons during the late Reform discussion;
During great part of Dlsraell's speech, and
that Of Mr.. Lowe, Lord Stanley recned on
his back on his own bench, with his legs
barring the aisle, and his feet on the top OF
the clerks table, and on the opposite side
the Marquis of Harrington was enjoy ing
the same free and easy position. If the
Speaker (Mr Dennison) had leaned forward
be could have touched their boots. Mr.
Gladstone was doubled up in bis bench
something like ball, and nothing on the
said ball was visible but bat, the brlm oil
which was drawn over bis nose."
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25
LAW OF NEWSPAPERS.

l. Subscribers who do not give express notice
To The contrary, are considered as wishing to
continue their subscription.
?. Ii subscribers wish their papers discontn-
ued. publishers may continue to send them until
all charges are paid.
g. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their papers from the office or place to which
thew are sent they are held responsible until they
settle their bills and give due notice to discon-
tinue. -,
A. 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 a paper from the office. or removing aud
leaving it uncalled for, is prima facia evidence
OF intentional fraud
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25
In THE SENATE OF TIE UNITED STATES,
March 9 1867

The Senate having proceeded, in pursu
ance of the Constitution, to reconsider the
bill entitled "an act to provide for the more
efficient government Of the rebel States re-
turned to the House Of Representatives by
the President of the United States with his
objections, and sent by the House of Repre-
sentatives to the Senate with the message Of
the President returning the bill.
Resolved, That the bill do pass, two thirds
Of the Senate agreeing to pass the same.
Attest: S. w. FORNEY,
Secretary of the Senate.
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25

A New ENTERPRISE. - well-known
Photographic artist, who has travelled over
British Columbia, Washington Territory,
Oregon and California, and has several thou
sand views of Pacific Coast scenery, incIud'
ing every description Of mining, and all the
prominent cities, ETC., proposed to bave
them prepared for public exhibition by the
.tereoscome, and with appropriate lectures
descriptive OF the climate. products, etc,
convey them to the east and Europe and
exhibit them.
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25
MINING APPARATUS FIFTEEN HUNDRED

MINING APPARATUS FIFTEEN HUNDRED
YEARS OLD-Iuteresting discoveries lob
serves the London RevieD) have recently
been made in the San Domingo mines Of
Spain, showing the methods adopted by the
ancients. In some of the mines the Romans
dug draining galleries nearly three miles IN
length, but in others the water was raised
by wheels to carry it over the rocks that
crossed the drift. Eight of these wheels
have recently been discovered by the miners,
who are now working in the same old mines.
TIE wheels are made Of wood, the arms and
feoes of pine, and the axle and its support
of oak, the fabric being remarkable for the
lphtness of its construction. 1t is supposed
that these wheels cannot be less than fifteen
hundred years old, and the wood is in per-
feet state Of preservation, owing to Its I'M
merson in the water charged with the salts
of copper and iron. From their position
and construction the wheels are supposed to
have been worked as treadmlls by men
standing with naked feet upon one SIDE
The water was raised by one wheel into
basin. from which it was raised to another
stage by the second wheel and so on for
eight stages.
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25

nyz- The New York Freeman's Jou,na
demolshes the sensation story about Mrs
Minnie Boxer Dean, who, it says, is living
hanpily with her husband in handsome cot;
taaa Of their own at West Hoboken. Mrs.
Dean says her married life has ben far hap,
pier than that of most Of her early acquan-
tances.
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25
A Snail that Lived Seven Years Without a
Square Meal.

At a recent meeting of the California AS
sociation of Natural Sciences, r. E. @. Stearns
read paper en- the annual period of mac,
tivity, torpor or sleep peculiar to the snals
and other tribes of the geoophyla, and which
is called Information or estlvalion, according
to its occurrence either in winter or summer.
In these countries where the winters are
cold and accompanied with snow and ice,
the sleep of the snail is properly hibernation;
where the summers are hot dry or rainless,
as in the greater portion Of the Pacific States
and in South America, for instance, the
period or sleep is in the summer. In the
Philippine Islands, where the climate is per.
haps the most favorable for the snail, the
period Of Information or estivaton is very
short, even if it exists at ALL In isolated
Instances the period Of torpor extends TO an
abnormal length, embracing both winter and
summer, and even continuing for several
years. A specimen in the British Museum
slept four years, and sealed itself up again
when it found il could not leave its prson.
most remarkable case came to Mr.. Stearns'
own knowledge. In l949, DR.. Veatch
brought from Cerros Island a species of
helix, specimens of which, sealed in a paper
DOX, came lnlo possession VI MI. otediho iu
December, 1865. lie was surprised to find
living specimen, which after being placed
in box of moist earth in short time COM
menced crawling abou, apparently as we'll as
ever Mr. Stearus' paper concludes: "Fear
ing from its activity that by some accident
it might craw away and | might lose it,
after forlught's turough from its long
Imprisonment, | placed it in pill box,
marking the date Of reimprisonment upon
the cover, in order that at some future
time may examine it and ascertain, posi-
bly,, if it does not out live me, how long
suai can live without rations. Here is an
instance of a snail living at least six years. In
California parlance, without single square
meal and it is probably still alive. though
sleeping and perhaps dreaming of Cerros
Island, and the snas it left behind" DIR.
Vea,ch mentioned, when Mr. Stearns con.
cluded. that it is common for snail speci-
meus on waking up and finding that they
cannot get away, to draw within their shells,
seal themselves up, and 60 TO sleep again,
like philosophers, determined to make the
best of what they can't help. ysena.a
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25

Mohammed Emir Pasha. Turkish minister
of police, died recently at the advanced age
of one hundred and nine years. lie started
in the service as a private janlssary, and
gradually worked himself up to the post he
occupied at the time of bis death: Not
outstanding his great age, be retained bis
full faculties aud very much of his bodily vig'
or to the last, and continued to labor on the
average ten hours every day.
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25
The Negro and His Friends.

It is fact that The so called Congress pro-
fess to be the peculiar friends of the negro;
that to prove the sincerity of their friendship
they have fastened debt upon the country
OF over twenty. five thousand millions. 1t is
also a fact that the labor of the negro pro
duces nearly all the cotton in the United
States. A tax of three cents for every pound
of this cotton, is paid to the Federal Govern
meut. A tax of five dollars on every one
hundred dollars worth Of manufactured cot
ton goods, is also paid to the Government.
Now, when cotton goods are exported or
sent to foreign countries for sale, draw back
is allowed not only of the five per cent. tax,
but also of the tax upon the raw cotton.
Nearly all the cotton manufactures in the
United States are in New England. Three
cents per pound is about tblrty-three per
cent. of its value in gold.
The result of these facts is, that the negro
pays into the United States treasury one.
third of all he abors for, and his New Eng
land friends draw it out of the treasury and
put it into their own pockets-paying moth
ing into the treasury for the labor perform
ed by them 10 manufacturing it, for they have
dawback of the five per Ct also.
The laboling men of California can see
where the money comes from to send SO
many newspapers and pictorials broadcast
over the land for the purpose of keeping
alive and stimulating their hatred against
the Rebels.
The question, "Who fred upon SUMTER"
is little out of date-aboult three years, free
trade, economy and equal taxation is now in
order. r.-Facts for the People.
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25
mates of Advertising

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The Placer herald., 1867-05-25
The Confiscation Bill.

II will be remembered by our readers, that
prior to the adjournment of the Fortieth
Congress, that Dcarnate tlend Thad. Stevens,
introduced bill having for its object the
confscaton of almost the entire property Of
The Southern people for the benefit of social
ed lovaIlsis and negroes On this the Louis
vile Journal thus leeingIy and eloquentIy
comments.
Famine in tie south. The grand spectre
glares in with hollow eyes upon every house
hold Men, women and children wrlbe be-
meath his ghastly glance. Millions of vail
ing crys of hungar and starvation sound dole
fully upon every breeze. All the blood in the
veins Of fathers and mothers is turned to
tears because they cannot answer the prayers
Of their wan and pale little ones for bread,
the bread they cannot give. Grim Death
alone is gorged in that most unhappy sec
ton.
Mercy and pity and charity are no: extinct
in the hearts Of our people. Hundreds OF
movements are made troughout the country,
some Of them in the most fanatical parts fit,
to mitigate the horrors Of Southern famine.
Even the benevolent poor take from their
pockets, in so holy cause what they can i'll
spare. But 10! while all these things are
done, heartless wretch, more a thing of
he'll than EARTH rises 10 the American Con-
gress and proposes to wiring five hundred
millions of dollars from the suffering and
pershng section! And by many the accurs-
ed proposition is received with favor and ap-
pIause! 'Tis enough to shock mankind, and
all the deviIs-except perhaps Moloch.
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25

A GREAT INvENTIoN.-The Santa Clara
argus has seen a machine for cutting ditch
es, grading roads, ETC., the invention of Mr.. j..
T. Henning, resident Of that county, which,
make if it is what is represented 10 be, will
the name of Henning to the people of Cali
fornia and the other Pacific states what the
name Of Whitney was to the people of the
Southern states-a benefactor to"the entire
public. By the invention of a cotton gin,
Mr.. Whitney gave an impetus to the produc,
tion Of cotton in the Southern states, the
great staple the expectation of which
kept the balance of trade in favor of the
United States for more than half century.
1t is we'll known that the greatest backset
hitherto experienced by the agricnlturst Of
California in the preparation OF his farm for
irrgating and draining bitches, and this ma
chine is intended to supply the great univer-
sal want in these respects. In the report
made by the editor of the argus of trial of
the machine which he witnessed be says:
although four horse machine, only two
were hitched to it, and apparently with as
much ease as they would draw an ordinary
plough, at each trip over the ground, they
cut ditch 20 inches in width and two in
depth, depositing the excavated earth at a
distance of six feet to one side. Mr.. Hen
ming claims that four horses can draw this
machine l2 miles in ten hours, cutting a
ditch feet wide and inches deep, equal to
one mile of ditch 8 feet deep, with an EN-.
'bankment of loose dirt feet high on the top,
thus making five foot fence around GAO
acres iuefour days"
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25

In shoeing horses that are employed upon
the pavements of Boston, cushion Of India
rubber has Of late been placed between the
shoe and the hoof. and with very satisfactory
results.
The Placer herald., 1867-05-25
JOB PRINTING

OF every variety, executed with nef tncss and
dispatch, at reasonable rates.