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The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
FEARS A REPUBLIC.

That Napoleon commenced this Franco
Prussian war through fear of the growing
power of Prussia, and that the other first
and second-class powers Of Europe were will
ing that these two dangerous, ambitious
monarchs should weaken and humble them
selves there can be no doubt among either
intelligent Americans or Europeans; but the
war, so far, has taken shape and assumed
an overwhelming success for Prussia, which
begins to alarm the crowned heads of Russia
England, Austria, Italy, etc., and when
they begin to talk of an armed meditation to
prevent the acquisition of territory, the ex-
tension of power and the strengthening and
expanding Of the material resources of the
North-German confederation, Prussia, or
rather Bismarck says to them, you had
better occupy yourselves concerning the in
ternal condition of France and the disturb
ances there, which are likely to result from
the war, and also to take precautionary
measures against the anarchy that may en-
sue at the close of the contest" We give
Bismarck great credit for diplomatic skill
and subtility, and can interpret this language
to mean nothing else than saying to Russia
England, Austria and Italy, 81 have broken
the power of Napoleon, but he or the peo-
pie of France may declare for a Republic,
and then look to your Ielands, your Po-
lands, your Hungary and to your tottering
crowns when all Europe will resound with
the shouts of liberty, Republicanism, and
when our and your armies become disloyal
to monarchy and Kmgly power Prussia may
feel secure against internal commotion while
fighting the French Emperor and Empire,
and she may feel reasonably secure against
the Democratic and Republican hosts of Eu
rope; but her rulers have not wholly forgot
ten the days of As" But be this as it may
King William and Bismarck know that nei-
ther England, Austria, Italy or Spain dare
allow Republic to be declared in France,
and therefore they say to these powers, con-
cern yourselves about this republican tinder-
box in Europe, and not about whether Prus-
sa claims and establishes Governments in
the French provinces of Lorraine and Alsace
The diplomatic point is good one, and may
engross the attention of these shaky powers
until Prussia secures Alsace and Lorraine and
other territorial alliances which will make her
the leading and overshadowing power in Cen
trail Europe, which is all that either King
William or Bismarck ask. Prussia evident
ly has no desire to fight Frenchmen, especi-
ally when they fight for France and French
Republic, This is The way the diplomacy
of Prussia is now directing events, or at
least that is the appearance it assumes at
this distance.
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27

HrGH AND Low.-Our neighbor says that the
Supervisors gave the county printing to the high
est bidder. The record shows that our bid was
$500 lower than the HERALD's.-StarS d Stripes.
The record shows that the UERALDs bid
was the lo,cest and that in that regard the
above statement is false. After the letting
of this contract we denounced it as a swinde,
and when an attempt was made to deny our
statements we offered rager daring the
Stripes, the Supervisors or any man doubt
ing our charge to take it and we would fur
nsh the proof Later we offered to deposit
500, the other side doing the same, and at
the end of the contract count up the cost OF
printing, and, if at our bid it would have
cost more than that of the Stripes the S10O
to 20 to the School Fund, and on the con-
trary the other 500 to go to the School
Fund, and still, the Stripes, the Supervisors
and all their friends failed TO punge. We
then said, and we now repeat it, "the Stripes
bid was not in accordance with the proposals
our bid was the lowest, and the Supervi-
sors gave the contract to the highest bidder,
thereby cheating us out of our just rights.
Now put ur Or dry up "
If the present editor of the Stripes has
published this falsehood in ignorance of the
facts, he will, # friendly to the truth, re-
tract it; but if he believes it true, we give
him or any man believing his statement cor
rect, the same offer for the benefit of the
School Fund, and will put up the money to-
day. The Supervisors let the contract to
the highest bidder, either through dishonesty
Or ignorance, and the Stripes can apologize
for their ignorance Or defend their bad faith,
which ever it pleases.
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
Official Paper Of Placer County
rr,o.t.a Rnrcr n, 40 Exchnnna R,,ildinr

THoM,s BoYcE, No. 80, Exchange Building
on California street. San Francisco, is authorized
70 solicit advertisements and subscriptions in that
city for the HsRALD, and receipt for the same.
BEAN & BLACK. No. 4l0 Montgomery street,
opposite Wells Fargo & Co., San Francisco, are
authorized to solicit advertisements and subscrip
tons, and receipt for the same.
HUDSON g. NIKNEr are our authorized sole Agents
in New York. All orders for publicationp unless
accompanied with the money, must come through
them TO insure attention.
II. ". STARR of Lincoln, is authorized to act
as our Agen in that place.
p. Z. WEBER is authorized to act as our Agent
in Gold Run and vicinity.
JAMES McCoRMrcK is our authorized agent on
the Forest Hill Divide to solicit subscriptions,
advertisements. and make collections and receipt
for the same.
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27

SHADES OF GoRHAM PROTECT HM.-Our
cotem. has come to the rescue of Boggs,
and feels terribly alarmed about the safety
of private character. Boggs might be saved
in this way, but we fear it would be more
than Boggs could do for the editor in return.
There is no harm in charging Tom. Harper
with missing $500, 600 in property in one
batch, not Harper but the Railroad COM
pany's agent for swearing falsely i'll not Civ
ing in all its property, but to say that Boggs
has been cheated in the same way, by the
same company, is "nairly -" But
Boggs was here in 1849. We know that,
for we were here first, and we have been in
innate and friendly ever since. We have
sold him grub, hired him, trusted him with
important business, loaned him money, be-
friended him, and in return he has performed
his part of the contract well and befriended
us; but what has that got to do with the
value of the Railroad or the amount of its
land? Last year Boggs valued the Railroad
under oath, at SD 900 per mile, and he told
us that he thought that was its honest value.
This year, when it is finished and worth
more, he puts it in under oath again at only
Sc 900 per mile. That don't make him dis
honest, necessarily, but it shows that he was
bad Judge of Railroads last year, and a
hundred per cent. worsq this year. We
said we had nothing to do with Boggs' con
science but that we thought he could not
find another man in the county that would
agree with him in Judgment. This bad and
tickle Judgment may not keep the Assessor
out of Heaven, but we are very sure ii
should keep him out of the Assessors office.
Our article on the matter last week was
very plain, and we invite any man that
doubts it to again read it and see if it is La
Die to the charge of merely insinuating.
When the Stripes defends the official, God
help him whoever he may be, and that Off
cial who don't want the whole truth dragged
out had better call off his dogs.
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
Ne,C Adyertise,2seuts.
Trustees Sale Of Town lotsl
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIyI

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT I'm.
~ der and by virtue of the provisions Of An
Act of the Legislature of the State of Cslifornis.
approved March 30, 1868, entitled IAN Act TO
authorize and direct the County Judge Of the
several counties of the State to execute certain
trusts in relation to the town lands granted to
the unincorporated towns in this State by the
Act OF Congress entitled An Act for the relief Of
the inhabitants of cities and towns upon the pub
lc lands, approved March 2, Eighteen Hundred
and Sixty seven, will, on
Monday the 10Th day Of September, .. L..
loIo' at ten clock A NJ. of said day. and 1t the
Court House door, in the town of Inbnrp pi.-
er county, California, sell, at public auction to
the highest bidder, for cash in gold coin. the
several lots and parcels of land in said town of
Auburn, which are delinquent for the assess
ments thereon levied under the provisions of the
cribed on the maps of said town on file in the
County Recorders Office as follows.
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27


The WAR NEws.-We give in to-day $
HERALD tie more reliable and reasonable
dispatches from the two sources of informa-
ton. Our readers must take these dispatch
es as we do for just what they think they
are worth. Later dispatches from French
sources would indicate that the Prussian ar
mics had come to halt at a point about lie
miles distant from Paris; that Bazaine's and
McMahon's armies have here formed juno
ton and are about to assume the offensive,
and that more great battles are about to be
fought around Metz and Nerdun. This may
be true, or the French may have merely
concluded to go into the ne,Cs business in
competition with their enemies. The Prus-
slams, up to now, have been either victorious
Or the fights were drawn battles, and this
fighting has carried the Prussian armies full
ly one hundred miles into French territory
In this way the Prussian lines of supply and
communication have been extended, while
those of the French have been contracted
and if now the tables should turn and the
lighting should continue back to Saarbruck-
en-, both parties would be just where they
started, and two or three hundred thousand
innocent men would have been slaughtered.
The news is so volumnions, trashy, CONTRA
dctory and unreliable that we have no dis
pOsitiOn TO comment on il or ATTEMPT to de-
duce from it correct conclusions.
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
WHEELER g. WILSON'S
HIGHEST PREMIUM
SEWING
MACHINE.

nF ALL THE GREAT CURYosrrIY
- which attracted the most attention at tho
Mechanics Fair are the wonderful improve
ments which are now attached to the wel-known
WHEELER WILSON SEWING MACHINE.
without the completion of the others. This il
the only Family Sewing Machine with the new
silent reed Motion. 1t makes one thousand
button holes per day. on linen, cotton or woolsn
goods 1t sews on the binding of IL dress with
ont previous bastng, in four minutes; and while
sewing ON one tuck, makes the line of marks for
another; gathers and sews on at the same time: :
hems silk or wooen goods with equal facility !;
cords and bralds with surprising quickness;
makes articles for mems as well rs women's
wear; takes two thousand stitches Der minute.
which Is fifteen hundred stitches more than any
other lock stitch can make.
This wonderful machine has no shuttle 10
thread five or six times before starting which il
great saving of time. 1t is IL positive fact that
WHEELER X WILSON'S FAMILY SEWING;
MACHINE will do all the same kind of work
that the other machines now on sale will do
VIII make the same single thread loop-stitch TINT
rlNels out very conveniently, because YOU can
sew with one yard of thread all day long. sew
ing 1t IN again and SO on-all right and verv
convenlent; but you will find that the same
WHEELER IL WILSON FAMILY SEWING
MACH NE that does all these wonderful things
makes also the only straight, solid lock k-stitch
whch cannot be raveled; perfectly safe to walk
TO church with clothing made with this stitch !:
also this machine will make the three thread en-
broldery stitch which is the loop-stitch and lock
stitch combined The AMERICAN INSTITUTE of
New York, reports. This machine makes the
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27

HRS THE MARK.--Lost, stolen OF mislaid
French Prince, IA years of age, Of tranquil
temperament, wears red trowsers, and car
ries bullet in lis pocket, Was last seen
going home from baptism of fire. Is sup
posed at Paris to be in Metz; is supposed at
Metz to be in Paris; is supposed at other
places to be in London. Any information
concerning him will be received with the
greatest indifference by the Corps Legislatf.
--Er.
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27

THE PLACER HERALD enters to-day on its
nineteenth volume and nineteenth year OF
its age. 1t is the oldest Democratic paper
on the Pacific coast. 1t viii not change its
politics or its independence, nor will it defend
rascality in any party or man. 1t is paid
for, its the property Of its publisher, and owes
allegiance only to truth. justice, honesty,
progress, and good government.
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27

SUPERVISORS. The Supervisors, as SUI
pervisors and also as Board of Equalza-
ton have been in session this week. Some
bills have been allowed against the General
Fund and Hospital Fund, and some equali-
cations of assessments made, which are i'm,
portant only to the individual applicants
Complaint has been filed by G. g. Bisbee
and A. Barrett, taxpayers, that the CP.R.
r. assessment is below its value. Sripun.-
tons have been entered into between II. II
Fellows, District Attorney and Robt Rob-
inson, Attorney for the Railroad company
and the case set for hearing on Tuesday
August 3Oth
The Board of Equalization will adjourn
for the term Immediately after this ease is
disposed Of
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
Apportionment Of school Money.

To the Treasurer and School Trustees Of Placer
County. GsNTLEMEN:- The following is stat
ment OF State School money apportioned by me
this day
Total amount apportoned. g, l72 81
Total hummer Of census children. z, 100
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
BORN.

In Bath, Placer county, August 10Th, 1870,
ANN, wife of G. B. Mcclure, aged 26 years, 5
months and days.
At the County Hospital, August 18th, George
W. Wells, formerly of Louisville, Kentucky, aged
rs years
At Auburn, Tuesday, August %, infant daugh-
ter of John Jones and wife, aged ID days.
At Coon Creek, Sutter county. August Goth,
JOHN NJ. son of T. H. and Sarah Thomas, aged
years, months and 20 days. st Louis pa
pers please copy.
In Lower Lake, August 13, infant daughter of
lanes and Dora Campbell aged 10 months
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
FOR THE PLACER HERALD. !

NJ. Edtor:-With your permission l will cor
rect few errors in your notice of the two men
found dead above Grey Eagle Bar Il few days
ago. You would have been duly notified by tht
writer of the sad casuty, but for thinking the act
ing Coroner would give You the facts of the case
as elected at the inquest. 1t appears that Aexan-
der McLane and Louis Stuperee, deceased and
two partners of the latter were at Barretts store
on the forenoon of the 9TH. About noon the
four left the store together, McLane and Stupe-
rec taking the trail leading to Mad Canyon the
other two going up the river. Nothing further
was heard from them until the Friday morning
following, when some Chinese, working on
Bichard's dam, saw corpse floating towards
them. On looking mp the river a short distance
another corpse was seen. Both were hauled to
the shore for identification. 1t was hard to iden-
tify Stuperee, so confused, ut and manged was
he about the head by coming in contact with
jutting points of rocks on his precpitate descen,
TO the river His neck was dislocated,-so was
McLane's; but McLane's head did not show
many cuts, and but little disfiguration, com
pared to his companion. The weather being
very warm, and modification evidently setting
in, an inquest was held, and they were buried as
eXpedtiously as possible. 1t is well known that
falling over the precipice was the cause of their
death but what cause compelled them to fall
over?-there is the rub. understand they were
not intoxicated and one knowing them would
suppose they would be the two last in the world
to quarrel, yet there is no other solution to the
mystery but that they did quarrel, grappel, and
rolled over the precipce, as their hats found
near the trail about twenty feet apart, indicating
preparations for "A fight. 1t occurred between u
and o'clock, on the public highway immedi-
ately above and below being thckly populated,
with on excellent view of the fatal spot from up
and down the river Alexander McLane, alias
Jake, was n native of Renfrenshire, Scotland
Louis Stuperee, native of Leseina, on the Adri-
atic. TERRAp
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
MARRIED.

At Ophir, August 10th, by Rev. N r. Peck,
Francis LAvALLE to LYDIA HAMILTON.
q At the residence of A. Adrian, in Auburn ON
Wednesday, August oath, 1870, by Judge d. w.
Spear, c. L. SIMoNs to MARGARET GREEN. All
" Auburn.
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27

CRocXER's thumb-paper has entered into
the white-washing business. Whose turn
comes next?
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
LOCK STITCH.

and ranks highest on account of the elastic;tv
permanence, beauty and general desirableness of
application.
Ihis report was in accordance with the previ-
ous-the stitching when done and the wide
range OF Its awards at the fair of the United
states Agricultural Society, at the Fairs of the
American Institute, New York;
Mechanics Association, Boston;
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia:
Kentucky Institute, Baltimore;
Mechanics Association, Cincinnati:
Mechanics Association St Louis:
Mechanics Institute San Francisco.
metropolitan Mechanics Inst, Washington.
AT THE STATE FAIRS OF
Maine. Virginia Tenness..
vermont Mississippi, Illinois
Connecticut, Missouri, Kentucky
New York, Ohio, Michigan
New Jersey, Indiana Wisconsin,
Iowa, Pennsylvania California
And at hundreds of County Fairs.
The battle-felds of Napoleon 1. were scarcely
more numerous than the foreign contests of the
Wheeler n Wilson Sewing Machines. Pari, in
1861, London, 1862 Linz and Kningburg, 1863,
Dantzie, Agram and Krema, 1864 and Dublin
Stettin, Cologne and Wicmar 1865, bear testi
mony to the superiority of the Machine and y.
appreciation abroad. AT all these international
Exhibitions the best fruits of foreign genius
We're arrayed against it, backed by national
amour pf0pre: but there as here the star of its
destiny is always in the ascendant.
We can now supply our customers with Stod-
dard's Patent Tuck Maker for the Wheeler 4
Wilson Machine only, and one of the most use
full attachments for the Machine ever invented
which, while the Machine is sewing one tuck
makes the line of marks for the next
~ This Tuck Maker was awarded tha r,.s.
PREMIUM at the great State Fair held in Sacra
mento' 1867, over all competitors.
1hese Machines are specially adapted for the
use OF farmers, being able to sew grain sacks and
heavy clothing with the same facility as the usu.
~ lainily work-making q more durable seam
not liable to ravel, as is the case of the loon or
chain stitch. 0 '0oP ~
W. N. sToDpARD.
Agent for the Pacific Cosst.
Office, No. 435, Montgomery st.
SAN FRANCISCO.
buy no Se,cing Machine unless Wheeler
d W'lson IS stamped upon the Cloth PLATE.
aug T-ly.l
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27

GoD's Noblemen are now being made out
Of very bad and treacherous material,
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27

New EsTABLIsHMENr.--By our new advertise
ments it will be seen that George McComb has
just opened new tin store and shop, in Center
Block, where he is uncasing large and entirely
new stock of goods, purposeiy selected for this
market, and embracing everything i'll the line
suited to town and country customers. George
is an old hand at the business and perfectly at
home in such an establishment Persons wish
ing anything in his line should examine the ad-
vertisemept and stock when they will be pre-
pared to judge for themselves of the character of
the goods and tle prices
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27

TNHIS HOUSE Is ENTIRELY NEW Is
l. commod:ous and furnished in the best style,
md is on the most pleasant location on the Lake
\ daily line of Stages runs between the Tahoe
House and Truckee, connecting til trains from
the East and West on the Central Pacific Rail
road
SPECIAL RATEs.-Visitors to the Lake, buying
railroad tickets from San Francisco, Sacramento.
Marysville or Colfax, to TRUCKER, at the regular
ticket rates, can purchase SPECIAL RETURN
TICKETS at the TAHOE HOUSE at a rate which, in
addition to the fare paid to Truckee, will make
but two-thirds of the full price of tickets, for
the round trip. mv7-tf
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
NOTICE TO TEAcHERs.

INEACHERS DESIRING CERTIFICATES
l. Will take notice that the Board of Examine
ton VIII meet at my office, in Auburn, ON We'd
nesday, September 7th, 1870.
JOHN T. KINKADE,
ag27-lt] Supt. Public Schools, Placer Co.
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
Kill L L ID go NOT DROW NED.
Two Lone Friends Quarrel, Grappie Roll
Over Precipice and Both Killed.

Such seems to have been the fate of the tive
men found dead in the Middle Fork of the Amer
lean river, an imperfect account of which We
gave in late number Of the HERALD. Our Mid
lie Fork Correspondent gives the correct details
Of the sad occurrence which we append. This
correspondence was intended for the last issue
Of our paper but reached us too late for that
number.
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27

JOHN L. KINKADE,
Supt. Public Schools, Placer county.
Auburn, August 3d. 1870.
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
w. N. sT0DQARD,
Agent for the Pacific Cosst.
Office, No. 435, Montgomery st.
SAN FRANCISCO.

6uy no Se,cing Machine unless Wheeler
d Wtlson IS stamped upon the Cloth Plate.
aug. .T-ly.l
The Placer herald., 1870-08-27

ID. W. SPEAR,
County Judge of Placer county, California.
Auburn, August 25th, A. D. 1S7O.-3w.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-17
PRESCOTT, Wis, THURSDAY. MARCH 1870.

was memorable. He turned away with
the speech in his pocket, muttering
something about members who havn't
got the brains to write speeches ought
to have the money to pay for them
He was resolved not to lose his labor,
and he went Immediately in search of
another customer. He soon discovered
a Democrat who was anxious to make
a speech on recoustruction-of course
from Democratic stand point. He wan.
ted the speech within two days. and the
Bohemian after descanting on the short
ness of the time in which to prepare a
speech on so momentus n subject went
away to his task.
The speech which he refused to sell to
the Republican member was soon upon
the stocks, and in less than two hours
was converted into first class Demo
cratic speech, for which he received sl0O
cash. Fl sssa .s.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-17
BEI-o.,.D THIS PRRsE.N-T.

1--WE measure life by years and tears" he said:
1--WE live little; then life leaves us dead,
And the long grass grows greenly overhead
The-years pass on some swiftly and some slow;
Each takes a little nom red summers glow:
Zach gives a little OF white winters snow.
Forever more and more they take and add:
We lose the things that used to make us glad;
We keep but those that make Us slow and sad.
Hot tears well up from out the fountain heart;
We wipe them of with proud resentful start:
Alas, our pride heals not their bitter smartl
The eve Is but the surface; deep and wide
Abides beneath the source Of their salt tide:
The heart must rest ere that full HOW De drled.
As on its hinges swings the door OF Time,
We catch sweet glimpses OF a land suonme.
Filled with the gOldenness Of Heavens PRIME
And One stands mp: oh fair and full in sight,
With clear true words He calls Us day and night!
Help Us, God, to see and hear arightl
For five see Him. we shall see Thee too;
And il we hear Him. He will tell us true,
And al our hands with some blest work 70 do.
And then both years and tears shall surely cease
Time to Eternity shall make increase;
And smiles shall beautify an endless peace.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-17

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