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The Placer herald., 1870-09-24
San Joaquin Valley Correspondence.
PARADISE CrTy, Stanislaus County,
Sept. 10th, 1870.


Sept. 18th, 1870.
Editor Herald:-Several months have
elapsed since my last communication to the
HERALD, and during the interval hard times
have been growing harder amongst the farm
ers here, for when threshing time arrived
they did not realize even the scanty yield
which they had anticipated; much Of the
grain estimated at six and seven bushels to
the acre, turned out at the rate of three and
four--this amount does not cover the ex-
pense of putting in and harvesting. East
ward, nearer the mountains the yield was
better. However, some advantages will ac-
crue to farmers as the result of last winters
drouth--the ground is SO loose in consequence
of the small quantity of rain that fell, that
dry-plowing is practicable, where, in ordinary
seasons it is impossible, thus affording an
opportunity for early crops, which are the
surest.
From present indications, Paradise will
soon have railroad. They are now at work
grading south Of the Stanisiaus river. The
road is completed to the river in San Joa-
qun county, and | hear that the design is to
build the road to the Tuolumnc river before
winter-a distance of about eleven miles
further towards Visalia. Whether said road
will monopolize the business of transporta-
ton will depend upon whether they are will
ing to come dorn on their freight prices, as
steamboats, can take grain to Stockton, dur
ing the season of high water, for three and
four dollars per ton, and from Stockton to
San Francisco, by water, it will cost 81 IS,
including the cost of reloading and placing
aboard eff sea going vessels AT least so
says the Stockton Independent.
Paradise county, sometimes Improperly
called Paradise Valley, is section of the
San Joaquin plain between the Stanislaus
and Tuolumne rivers. Within this territory
and on the Tuolumne river, are Paradise
city and Tuolumne city, which are five miles
apart. These towns are of recent origin and
from their contiguity, are rival places. Par
adise city contains one of the largest and
finest Touring mills in the State AT Tuol-
umne the only paper in the county is pub
lished-the Tuoumne City Neos, demo
cratic
The country hereabouts has been some
what overrated; the result has been rather
injurious than otherwise Those that own
large tracts have been led to place too high
an estimate upon their land, have underta-
ken to farm it on too large a scale, without
realizing much profit. People of moderate
means who could farm more successfully
have been excluded from large tracts because
they could not buy; and thus it is that the
public interests have languished.
In my next may speak of the country
about Nisalia Yours truly,
| VITAL f. BANGS.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

THE HAIR BUSINESS The Oregon Legis-
lature is discussing bill that provides for
taxing every man in the State SO month
for shaving portion of his head or wearing
cue. True, this is disloyd 10 the Emper-
or of China, for by the shaved head and cue
does the Chinaman prove his loyalty to his
heather sovereign and his disloyalty TO his
friend Grant and the mongrel Congress.
Grant may be at the bottom Of this thing Che
once lived in Oregon) to make his Chinese
subjects forget and renounce (by the cutting
off of the cue) the Chinese Emperor and turn
their moonish eyes upon, and bow their cue
less heads to his own personal greatness
Be this as it may, the bill is being seriously
discussed and may become law, and then
we shall know Grants true position on the
Chinese cue question. If Grant is with the
Oregon Legislature everything will be lovely
when the bill passes, and if against it, then,
as soon as he gets done junketing around
watering places and race grounds. we shall
expect him to abolish said Legislature This
is a momentous question, and one that should
challenge the grave consideration of the Great
Grant.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

New YORK DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVEX
TroS.--A Rochester dispatch of Wednesday
gives the following nominations and cpitome
Of the platform:
AT the afternoon session of the Democratic
Convention Joseph Warren, from the Com
mittee on Resolutions, reported first, general
indictment against the Republican party;
second, in favor of free trade; third. reform in
the national revenue laws: fourth, denounces
the Congressional Naturalization act; fifth.
rejoicing at the dawnfall Of Imperialism in
France and the establishment of a French
Republic; also the reestablishment of German
unity; sixth, sympathizing with Ireland, Cuba
and other people struggling for liberty; sew
enth calling for an extension Of clemency to
prisoners violating neutral laws; eighth, in
dorsing the Canal Funding bill; ninth, Indoors
ing the administration of Governor Hoffman.
The following Democratic State ticket was
nominated by reclamation: Governor, John
7. Hoffman; Lieutenant Governor, Allen G.
Beach; Comptroller, Asher F. Nichols; Canal
. commissioners Qong term), John d. Fay;
1short term). George w. Chapman; State
Prison Inspector, Solomon Schew. All are
denominations, The Convention has adion-
ID,
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND
DUMB, AND THE BIIND-As the time for reopen
ing school is approaching, the Directors of the
Institution desire to call the attention OF the
public to the provision made by the State, for
the education of all youth afflicted with deafness
and blindness. A large and convenient build
ing, an excellent corps of teachers, and suitable
apparatus for the special instruction which such
unfortunates require, enable the Directors to
offer unusual facilities for accomplishing the
benevolent purposes of the Institution A large
shop has been erected, where the pupils spend a
portion of each day in acquiring a knowledge of
some handicraft by which they can support
themselves after leaving the Institution
To correct misapprehension, the pubic is in
formed that the Institution is not an Asylum,
but an educational establishment, where pupils
are admitted for purposes of instruction only,
but all deaf and dumb, or blind persons, between
the ages of six and twenty-one years; of sound
mind and body, and residents Of the State, will
be received without charge save for clothing and
travelling expenses.
Pupils from Nevada can be admitted by ap-
plication to Hon. A. n Fisher Superintendent
of Public instruction in that State. Any one
Who knows of persons afflicted with deafness or
blindness will confer favor by addressing the
Principal WARRING WILKINSON Oakland, Ala
media county, u whom all communications, re-
latng to the Institution, should be directed and
who will be happy to give any information that
may be desired.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

RETURNED United States Senator Eu-
gene Casscrly returned from his labors at
the National Capital, to his home in San
Francisco, Overland, this week. The Sen
ator's friends at San Francisco had made
preparations to give him grand reception on
his arrival, but the matter coming to his
knowledge, his usual modesty and solid
worth forbade the idea, and hs telegraphed
on declining the ovation.
In these days of sickening, disgusting, sup
plant todyism, a la Sherman, among mon
grels, Senator Casserly is to be doubly hon.
ored for this manifestation of good sense and
true dignity. Senator Casserly has been a
thorn in the side of monerelism, and tower
of strength to the gallant minority in the
Senate during the late session, and has made
for himself record for craftsmanship and
devotion TO the true interests of the Country
rarely equalled and never surpassed in these
latter days.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

A STRONG MAN-There is a man living
in Calhoun county, Miss, who is supposed
to be the strongest man in the State, il not
in the entire South. He is 35 years Of age,
and weighs two hundred and twenty-five
pounds. He has been known to carry three
bars of railroad iron, when it takes from
three to five ordinary men to carry one. Hs
can take cask containing forty gallons Of
whisky or water (the former is preferred raise
it from the ground land drink out Of the bung-
hole, with as much ease as others could out
of common pitcher, and he has frequently
taken barrel of -four under each arm, and
balancing sack of salt on bis head, carried
then for several hundred yards with appar-
emily but little effort
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

The OLD GUARD.-The September num-
ber of this ever welcome and always excel
lent periodical has been received. 1t is one
of the most solid, truthful and instructive
magazines published in the country, and one
that should be in every we'll regulated, SEN
sible family in the land. Its contents are
food for the healthy mind, and impressions
drawn from its ample pages will accompany
and improve the mental man through life.
Published by Van Everie, Horton Il Co.,
1852, Nassau street, n. Y, at 50 per annum,
with great reduct ton to clubs.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24


THE Provisional governing ministry Of the
French Republic is composed of the follow
ing persons: Foreign Minister, Jules Favre,
81 years old; of Justice, Isaac Crimeux, Il
years old of the Interior, Leon Gambetta,
aged 80; Of Finance, Ernest Picard, 40; Of
Marine, Martin Fourchon; of Commerce, Jo-
seph Magnin; Of Public Works, Pierre Dor
ian; Of Public Instruction, Jules Simon, IS
years old. Etienne Arago is Mayor Of Par
is, and 6S; Keratry is Prefect of Paris Po-
lice. aud so. General Trouchu is Military
Governor of Paris, though not Of the Minis
try. He i. said by some to be 46 and by
others 81,
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

OREaoN U. S. SRNAToR.-The Oregon
Legislaturchas elected James G Kelly, dem.
ocrat, over Williams, mongrel, United States
Senator for six years from the 4th Of March
next, by majority Of sixteen. Thus the
country gets rid of another minicn, and in his
place puts gentleman. Poor Williams eat
heap of dirt, and cost Ben Halliday heap
Of greenbacks, but it was no go--the peo-
pie gave him his walking papers, Sargent
and Cole will soon keep him company on the
head waters of salt river.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

DEMOCRATIC NOMuSAT1oNs.- The follow
ing is the Democratic ticket nominated in the
State of Nevada, S. B. Wyman, an old
Placer countyian and an 1S49 Aubumite,
being President of the Conventions
For Governor, L. r. Bradley, of Elko;
Lieutenant Governor, Frank Denver of Sto-
rey; Congress, G. w. Kendall, Of Storey
Secretary of State, j. ID. Driesbach, of
Ormsby; Treasurer, J. Schooling, of Nye;
Controller, o. X. Stampley, of Humboldt; );
Survcyor-General A. d. Rock, of Lander;
Superintendent of Public Instruction, G. f.
Cutler; State Printer, c. l.. Perkins, of FL
ko; NIineralogist, r. s. Keys; Supreme
Judge, John CARRIER of White Pine; Clerk
of Supreme Court, W. C. Grimes Of Church
ill; Attorney-General, l.. A. Buckner.
This is good ticket and one that will be
elected if the voters of Nevada know which
side of their bread is buttered. We have
Known Major Bradley for many years, and
know him to be one Of the truest, soundest,
and most worthy men on the coast. His
honesty, bis integrity and his administrative
ability finds no superiority, if equaled, in the
whole State of Nevada. 1t was proud day
for the Democracy of Nevada when it made
Major Bradley its standard-bearcr in this
campaign, and if the people of that State
are worthy of good Governor, he will be
triumphantly elected.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24
NOTICE.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, THAT ON
~ the lst day of the November term, 1870, of
the Board of Supervisors of the county of Pla-
Ger, or as soon thereafter as the same can be
heard, the undersigned will apply to said Board
to grant him license to erect and maintain toll
bridge across Bear river at Johnson's Crossing.
so called, on the old road leading from Auburn
and Lincoln in Placer county, to Marysville in
fuba county; and to fix the rates OF tolls thereon
CLAUDE CHANA.
Sept l7th. 1870. -l
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

ONE of the queerest revelations Of the cen
sus gatherers has occurred in Indiana, where
a lady has been discovered who is happy and
contented in the name of "Jane Julietto Is
alma Araminta Musadora Peeks." In Ohio
there is family where the first son is named
Imprimis, the second Finis, and the three
others Appendix, Addendum and Eratum.
The last must certainly be suspicious char
acter.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

MIsrAKEN.--Grant groaned the other day,
and forthwith it was telegraphed to St. Louis
that the President wanted all his friends, in
fact ordered them to support McLerg for
Governor. Grant walked up and heard of
the dispatch, and denounccs il as malicious
liz
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

SECOND VoLUME.-The Enctnal pleas
ant, diguifed, and ably conducted weekly,
published at Alameda by Fred X. Krauth,
has entered upon its second volume with good
prospects for long and useful career. The
Encinal is welcome exchange and We wish
il much success.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24
official Paper of Placer County

THOMAS BoycE, No. 80, Exchange Building
On California street. San Francisco. is authorized
10 solicit advertisements and subscriptions in that
city for the HERALD, and receipt for the same
BEAN 4 BLACK, No 410 Montgomery street.
opposite Wells, Fargo & Co., San Francisco are
authorized to solicit advertisements and subscrlp-
tons, and receipt for the same.
HUDSON &IMENET are our authorized sole Agents
i'm New York. All orders for publication, unless
accompanied with the money, must come through
them to insure attention.
H. w STARR, of Lincoln is authorized to act
as our Agent in that place.
Pc. WEBER is authorized to act % our Agent
In Gold Run and vicinity.
JAMES Mccormack is our authorized agent on
the Forest Hill Divide to solicit subscriptions,
advertisements, and make collections and receipt
for the same.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

THE GOLD FINDER. We are in receipt of
a work giving history of the Life and Ad-
venturers of James w. Marshall, the dis
coverer Of gold in California, by George Fred
erck Parsons. Marshall was indeed the
man who first discovered gold in California
on the 18th day of January, 184S, but
aside from this his history is romantic and
fraught with interest to the general reader,
and especially to the Californian. Though
the discover of gold, Marshal, after a check
cred and unsuccessful career, now finds him
self bordering on sixty years of age, broken
in constitution and in INDECENT circumstances,
and this history is given to the cauntry with
the two-fold object of furnishing information
to the public and resulting in pecuniary re-
reward to sustain him in his declining years
We hope it will find extensive sale every
where, and at good prices.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

NEWSPAPER CHANGE Alex. Montgomery,
formerly of the California Express has pur-
chased the Mendocino Democrat and become
editor and publisher There can be no doubt
of the sound Democratic sentiments and the
ability with which they will be given to the
public through the columns of the Democrat
by the present publisher in the future. We
wish our old friend Montgomery all the sue
cess it is possible to achieve as publisher,
and as a sound, consistent, and able defender
of the true doctrines of free federated gov
ernmcnt
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

AMERICAN SHopDY ToDYIsM Frank Pix
ley, him of mule notoriety, is in Paris, and
has written letter and the Chronicle has
printed it. Frank is disgusted with Ameri-
can shoddy-possibly there is no love lost,
for who has not been disgusted with Frank !;
and he puts it TO them thusly First let
us tell who this American shoddy is compos-
ea Of and then Frank shall have his say.
This American shoddy is made up of what
was the "trooly loil'' thieves during the late
war in this country--the fellows that fought
Gopperheads in the rear while stealing the
soldiers clothes and rations and the sanitary
eweetmeats designed for the army hospitals,
--fhe preying Chaplains who stole cotton
and spoons, and watches, and ladies' jewelry,
etc. the partners of army Generals who
caught fugitive niggers when they come inside
of the lines, ironed them, took them back and
traded them to their old masters for cotton
and tobacco; the Lincoln contractors, who
supplied the soldiers with pasted paper shoes
and sboddy coats, pants, and blankets made
eout of rotten rags; the thieves, who, through
ahe coniyance Of commsaries, stole the cav
airy horses and army beeves and charged it
on the rebels, then swung round the circle
and again sold them to the chest Government
ON earth" and again stole them, etc. in
short, the creatures who were the life, light,
and elite of the great loyal mongrel thieving
Republicaa party. If Pixley will go to Ber-
lin he will fnd a swarm of the same class
there eating dirt and todying around the un-
dcTstsarpers Of King Williams court. These
are them-aow let Pixley describe them:
1t is curious fact that of all the apologists
for Napoieon-of all the upholders of his dy-
nasty-of all the sycophantic dirt-eaters who
crowd Paris and do homage to this bloody
humbug, the Americans are the worst.
was conversng to-day with an American
banker, and he said this sentiment of Napo-
leonism was so common with his clients, the
Americans, that he dared not talk politics
with them These idle, rich, loating Amer
leans, who come to Paris to swell and spend
money, seem to feel it their duty constantly
to apologize for everything American-te
laud and excuse every outrage that grows
out of Imperialism.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

MAINE ELECTION. State Of Maine
has held her State election and the result is
that the Democracy have gained about 20, :
900. Two years ago the State stood 2S.-
600 Republican majority y,-this year it drops
to about 5000. The same increase will give
the State to the Democracy in 1872 by IL,
600 majority.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

PLACER AT THE STATE FAm.--But few of
our producers or cultivators entered the lists
as exhibitors at the late State Fair. Indeed
this is true of nearly every county in the
State except Sacramento, and in this partic-
ular the Fair was much more Sacramento
than State exhibition. T. L. Chamberlin,
of Lincoln, in this county, took the first pre-
MUM of $40 for the best two bushels of
Australian wheat, and also framed diploma
for one hundred pounds best California -four
In fruits and wines j. R. Nickerson, of Lin
coin, took the following premiums:
WINES.
Catawba, special premium; Isabelle, spec
ial premium; Angelica, special premium
Blackberry, special premium.
PEARS.
Best six varieties and best specimens and
six Of each, correctly named, premium $40.
OLIVES.
Best general display Of fruits, embracing
best and gratest varieties, premium, $25.
GRAPES.
Greatest number of varieties and best spec
linens of foreign grapes, three punches each,
premium, S25.
Greatest number of varieties and best spec
linens, S.
BRANDY.
Best brandy one year old, premium, SIS.
Also, best pear brand Especial premium.
Miss Lou Nckerson was awarded diplo-
ma for crochet tides.
These were about the only exhibitors from
this county, and they all come out with fly.
ing colors, which is highly honorable to them
selves and extremely credtable to the county
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24
SERIOUS AccDENT.-The Marysville Stan

SERIOUS ACCIDENT. The Marysville SIAN
dard of the Goth inst. says:
Yesterday, JAS. W. Murphy, of Wheat
land was moving lot of merchandise from
the depot to Zeigenbein's store, across the
street. The horse becoming frightened, at
tempted to run; Mr.. Murphy was thrown
from the wagon, severely cutting and bruis-
ing his head; the wagon at the same time ran
over his right wrist, crushing and breaking
the bones in distressing manner. He was
attended by DIR. burst.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24
MARRIED.

At Sacramento, at the Capital Hotel, Sept 10th
1870, by Rev. w. r. Gober, d. G.. MARSHALL 70
Miss ANGELINE BURKE, both of Truckee.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24

TWELFTH VOLUME Amador Dis
patch, one of the soundest and most consist
ent Democratic papers in the State has en-
tered upon the twelfth year of its existenee
with bright prospects for the future. TIE
Dispatch is one of the few Democratic pa
pers on the coast that withstood, with manly
firmness and with true moral courage the
mad raids and vile prosecutions ola wild
wicked, and desperate tyranical party. 1t
has borne the he 1t and burthen of the day,
and is doubly honored and appreciated by
us; and now that it has fought the good fight
may its days of peace, prosperity and use.
fullness be long, pleasant and prosperous
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24
BORN.

In Truckee, Cal, Sept. 10th, the wife OF James
Lind of daughter.
In Truckee, Sept. 18th, the wife of Alexander
Cassidy, of son.
In Auburn, Sept. 21st, 1870, to the wife Of
Bartholomew Mullen, q son.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24
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n dersigned must POSITIVELY settle and
make payment without further DELAY. Those
who neglect this notice will have only themselves
to blame for what follows. Heed this notice.
DIR. L. s. CHAPLIN.
Auburn Sept. 10th, 1870.
The Placer herald., 1870-09-24
SHAVING&HAIRDRESSING
CH1S. r. WISEMAN
HAS THE PLEASURE OF INFORMING
L l. the people of Auburn and vicinity that he
has opened a
BARRIER SHOP.

NEXT DOOR TO THE AMERICAN HOTEL,
Where he will be pleased to receive calls from
ell persons desiring anything in his line. Mr..
WIsEMAN feels confident from his long expert
ence in business in San Francisco, Sacramento,
and other cities, that he can give entire satiafac-
ton to all that may give him a call 9
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The Placer herald., 1870-09-24
DIED.

In Sacramento, Sept. Goth, MARGARET, wife Of
Wesley Myres, of Colfax, in this county, native
Of Ireland, aged 81 years and 10 months.
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Miscellany.
From the Boston Sunday Herald,
The False Alarm.

re- Before the war commonly called the
Great Rebellion, there was not a more
quiet, rural neighborhood in the vicinity
of Boston than Hope Hill 1t is not
high hill, but rather series Of easy rises
aud falls, the rising gradually gaining on
the fall until tolerable elevation is
reached, whence widespread view of
Boston and its harbor can be enjoyed.
The residences scattered over these knolls
'or built on the slopes of the meadows
we're, ten years ago, with only few excep-
tions, plain cottage houses, let at low
rentals to that class Of trades-people who
prefer to endure the drawback of the lack
of city convenieuces, rather than lose the
precious privilege of sleeping in the pure,
fresh air.
One of these unpretending residences
was situated on the highest land Of huge
orchard, at the terminus of winding lane,
now changed into a pretentious avenue.
with handsome brick houses adjoining both
sides of the widened roadway. AT that
time there were no other houses down
the lane; it led to Mr.. Stanope's and there
stopped. A large orchard spread around
the house and on both sides of the lane,
and as some fine cherry trees grew close
about the house it had the appearance OF
very great seclusion. 1t was a single
house, with but two parlors and a kitchen
on the ground floor, with corresponding
bed-rooms over, whose windows in the ga
bles to the steep old roof might be seen
from many points glistening in the morn.
ing or setting sun. M sf9 % am'f 3
+ Mr. Stanhope was clerk in a banking
house. He was widower, with one Pret-
10y daughter, Hester by name, living a
quiet, retired life. He was able to ai-
ford to keep a servant TO save his daughter
from the harder offices Of housekeeping
and in fact to give her a sense of compann-
ionship 10 her lonely life, for he was often
ab.ent from an early hour in the morning
tilllat at night.
One winter evening, Peter Staohope
came down to tea at sevan o'clock, with a
smiling face. lie brought an invitation
for Hester to witness some private thcat-
ricals at the house of Mr.. Smythe, one OF