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The Placer herald., 1871-06-03
The "RcpOrtcr" Defends.

The unseemly has which marks the rush
ing to the defense of the Supreme Court by
the Sacramento Reporter reveals its salts
faction at the decision of that high Judiciary
on the consttutiouality of the act authorizing
the taxation of private property for the bene-
fit of railroad or other private corporations.
The defense of the Reporter is uncalled for,
and coming from Journal owned and there
fore controlled by the Central Pacific Rail
road Company; is exceedingly bad taste.
The Supreme Court cannot be defended. If
the occupants of the Bench are the just and
conscientious men whom the people believed
they were electing to that high position,
their every act is hedged about with a sense
of right and justice forming mail of proec-
ton against which the shafts Of calumniators
and traducers may be hurled in vain Such
men need no protection; their acts pro-
tect them. If these five Judges have fallen
from the high pedestals on which the people
have placed them, and sink the law beneath
the level of interest, they are beyond the
reach of protection and no defense can be in
terposed which will shield them from public
cxecration and eternal nfamy. They who
feel themselves called upon to criticise or
condemn the decisions of the Supreme Court
may do SO; there is no law to prevent and
custom sanctions the privilege, but however
eager and however earnest the Reporter
may be to e, ince its zeal for the interests of
those who own a majority Of its stock, it
must be admitted that its assumption Of the
position of champion and defender of the Su-
premc Court will add nothing to the dignity
or respectabilily of the highest tribunal of
.ur State We assume the subsidy dccis-
ion Of the Supreme Court to be based upon
what the Judges believe to be Constitution
al law; but it happens to be a decision in ex-
act accordance with the wishes of the Cen
tral Pacific Railroad Company, and the ex-
ultant "good boy style in which that cor
poraton pats the Court upon the back, is an
insult to the dignity of the Bench and cacu-
lated to shake public faith in the integrity of
those who may be in reality undefiled The
purity and wisdom of a legal decision may
be maintained with greater power 10y those
whose interest are unaffected by it than by
the party whom it places in possession of a
long coveted treasure. To the Supreme
Court the "wel done plaudit of the Central
Pacific monopoly, through the Reporter,
must sound much like the thanks of the
criminal who has escaped the halter through
tecnicalty of the law.-San Joaquin Re-
publican.
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03

A CERTAIN green customer, who was a
stranger to mirrors, and who stepped into the
cabin of one of our ocean steamers, stopped
in front of large pier-glass, which he took
for door, and seeing his own reflection, he
said 81 say, mister, when does this ere
boat start % Getting no answer from the
dumb reflection before him, he again repeat
ed, 81 say, mister, when does this ere boat
start" Incensed at the silent figure, he
then broke out; "Go to thunder !! we ours
ed sasafras colored, sock headed bull calf;
YOU don't look as if YOU knew much, any
how -
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03
act Justice all men exclusive prvleges nome"
w o II ID 5

g If words could satisfy the heart,
The heart might find less care;
"a But words like summer clouds depart,
And leave but empty air.
The heart, a pilgrim on the earth,
Finds often, when it needs,
That words are of as little worth
AS just so many weeds.
A little sad-and truly said
Can deeper JOY impart
Than hosts of words that reach the head.
But never touch the heart.
The voice that wins its sunny way,
lonely home to cheer,
Hast oft the fewest words to say,
But o! those few-how dear
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03
NUMBER Al.

RE-oPENING AN OLD MINE-On the mid
die fork of The American river, at American
Falls, a company, composed principally Of
Grass Valley men, have for a number of
years past owned an extensive mining claim,
in the effort to open which they spent many
thousands of dollars, year after year. with
out being successful in overcoming the OBJ
structions offered Ly the Falls, holding back
the gravel to the depth OF some Is feet or
more. We notice the incorporation of the
Great Crevice Mining Company to reopen
and work an extensive mining claim on Muir
derers Bar, mile below the American
Falls claims, and as the workings of both
claims are some hat similar, we take from
the Record the following notice of the Great
Crevice Complny's cltims: There is his
tory connected with this enterprise which
carries us back to the flush days of 40 and
so, which on recital will at once occur to
the early miners of this section In those
for gold, discovered a rich deposit in the bed
of the middle fork of the American river, at
point known "a Murderers Bar, the local
ty having received that unple Is mt title from
fact that four men were once found murdered
there. The miners delvcd and made for
tune, but the Spring freshets coming on they
were obliged to abandon the work, and are
said to have returned home. In 1854 the
locality was again worked by Col Potter, NJ.
Maus and others, but owing to the fact that
every Winter the improvements of the pre-
vious Summer were washed away, they
abandoned the work. The bed has not been
approached, we understand, for about twelve
years, yet those acquainted with it were full
ly convinced of its richness. Within the
past year or two, however, new mode of
river mining has been discovered, which con-
sists of sinking a large iron tube Give feet ii.
diamctcr) into the gravel bed until solid bot
tom is struck; then excavating in and around
this tube, and tunneling under the river by
the same process used in all tunneling opera
tons. Thus the river may flow on above,
while miners are searching for the precious
dust beneath The tube, of course, will be
the means Of ngress and egress. The orig
inal owners Of the claim have determined to
commence operations once more, and have
incorporated in order to sell sufficient
amount of the stock to enable them TO erect
the necessary work and prosecute the exca-
vations. One thousand shares will be sold
at five dollars per share. The miners are
confident there is a fortune in it if they are
successful in erecting the necessary appar-
atus for working the claim. Over one-half
the shares have already been taken by we'll
known citizens of Sacramento.
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03

RATHER RoUGH ON THE MoNTANIAN. The
Helena Gazette tells a story of young man
of that city who spent few months in St.
Louis last winter. 1t says that one cold day
he walked into the Southern Hotel, and look
ing in vain for stove, asked the clerk il
there was no place where he could warm
himself The clerk, smiling urbanely, es-
corted the COL. to a register and told him to
stand on the CRATE and he would soon get
warm. The Colonel was much pleased
Later in the day, while perambulating about
the city, becoming rather chilly, he espied a
coal CRATE in the sidewalk. Here he thought
was another "heatcr," and he would i'm
prove the opportunity by warming his feet
A few minutes later passer-by heard him
calculate: These things may do very well
for hotel, but they amt worth d--n tc
warm the city"
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03

ScHURz AND BLAIR.-Citizens of Missouri
have cause to congratulate themselves upon
the able manner in which their State is rep
resented in the Federal Senate. Indeed, we
may say that it is more ably represented
than any other State in the Union, and is
making its weight and power felt i'll the Wig
orous attacks now being made on the Ad-
ministration. Senator Schurz leads the at
tack, and leads it brilliantly and gallantly,
in opposition to the Presidents San Domn-
90 policy, while Senator Blair is bolder and
not less spirited in his exposures of the re-
construction acts of Congress. The one is
a Radical and the other a Democrat, and
yet they have no difficulty in finding COM
mon ground upon which they can unite for
the purpose of attacking a common enemy
the President of the United States.
But not in their general political sentiments
are the two Senators more unlike than in
their mental constitutions and their style of
argument and manner Of speaking. Senator
Schurz is German by birth, "a philosopher in
temperament, a diplomatst by education,
graceful and fluent in debate, seif-possessed, !,
coldy logical, without passion and almost
without enthusiasm, polished in diction, cpl
grammatic in point, ana delivering his blows
as coolly and in as deadly manner as a
swordsman sends his rapier home. Senator
Blair, on the other hand, is a Western man
by birth and education, a politician of the
jackson school, bold by nature and rash on
calculation, impetuous and at the same time
cool, a natural leader and controller of men,
hesitating in delivery but strong and logical
in matter, and always in the midst of the
melee, he delivers his blows with the strength
and accuracy and skill of trained man-at-
arms. Both are admirable in their way,
and both, as we said, doing good service to
their State and country.-lVarrenton NO. }
Banner
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03

Resolced That all voters in the State of Call
fornia who are opposed to the Radical measures
Of Congress- and who pledge themselves to sup
port the Democratic nominees mt the ensuing
election shall be permitted to participate in pri-
mary election for delegates to the Democratic
State Convention.
The Central Committee urgently request the
different County Committees of the Democratic
Party to call their County Conventions for the
election of Delegates at as early date as possi-
ble and to forward to Thos n Cazneau, Secre-
tary of the State Central Committee at their
rooms No. 321 California street, San Francisco,
full list of their County Committees, Officers
and Members.
BY order of the Democratic State Central
Committee.
JOSEPH p HoGE, President
THos. n. CAzNEAU, Secretary.
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03

WHAT CoLTAX IS TO Do.-An excellent
Illustration of the manner of jenkins rog-
nosticatlons and onterprising reporting, is the
following chapter of quotations from the pa
pers, concerning what Colfax purposes on
the expiration of his official term.
Mr.. Colfax will engage in the manufac-
ture of laminated OK whips at South Bend
lie will establish mandatory of nrated
mouse traps at South Bend.
He will establish a manufactory of sugar
coated hair crimperp.
lie Will, in partnership with the cnterpris-
ing editor of the The Vidette, engage ex-
tcnsively in the manufacture of variccsc vel
vet horse collars.
He will engage extensively in the manu-
facture of corrugated calico coal hods.
He will erect Il rolling mill for the manu-
facturc of stuffed clubs.
He will embark in the manufacture of de-
odorized supe hosphate and slver-plated
toothpicks
lie will engage extensively in the manu-
facture of those rotary, high-pressure, doub-
lie revolving, cylnder-escapenent, silver
mounted burglar-proof post-hoes.
He will erect a foundry for the manufac-
ture of reversible feed stomach-pumps.
He will devote his time to the manufac-
ture and sale of iron-cad, burglar-alarm,
non-forfeitable chemisettes.
He will establish an agency for the sale of
low pressure, frog-levcl indicators, on the
mutual plan.
He will establish laminated steel chgnons,
pointlacc pork barrels, vuIcanized lock-sthch
vernifugs, non explosive telesc ext rs on,
asulated fichus, Bessemer steel undershirts
and self-rakng, threc-play corrugated fire
escapcs-very bouiant and cut bias.
Further information of his intentions will
be published from time to time.
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03
Sheriff's Sale.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT BY
~ virtue of an execution issued out OF the
District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Dis
trlct, in and for the County of Placer, State of
California on the 23d day OF May, A. d. 1871,
upon Judgment rendered in said Court or the
10TH day of March, A. d. 1871, in favor of James
Teaff and against the Red Stone Quartz Mining
Company for the sum of Nine Hundred Dollars,
gold coin, and interest on the said sum of Nine
Hundred Dollars, from the 10th day of March,
A. d. 1871 at the rate of seven per cent. per an
mum, together with Ten dollars and Ninety cents
in coin costs of suit, and seventy-five cents ac-
cruing costs of this execution, l have this 25th
day OF May, A. d. 1871, levied upon and will
sell at public auction to the highest bidder for
gold coin of the United States, on
Tuesday, the 21st day Of June, 4. ID. 1871
at O'Clock P. NJ. of said day, at the Coult
House door, in the town of Auburn, PIE
county, California, the following described p4
erty to-wit: All that certain part, piece or pa
eel of land or mining ground known as the Req
Stone quartz mining company's property, for
merly known the Dozier quartz claim, the
same containing twenty-four claims of one hun
dred feet each, or twenty-four hundred feet in
length on said quartz ledge, with all the dips.
spurs and angles of the same; also that certain
eight-stamp water quartz mill erected by said
company on or near said quartz claim. Also
that certain water ditch built by said company
to convey water from the North Fork of the
American River to said quartz MILL all of said
property is situated in Township No 4, Placer
county California.
All of the above named property will sell as
aforesaid, with all the appurtenances ana prlvil-
eges belonging thereto, SO much thereof as
will satisfy said judgment costs, accruing costs
and expenses of sale.
b. d. DURHAM. Sheriff of Placer county
Sheri1s Office, Auburn, May Goth, 1871.
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03
Mining Notice.

DISING SUN GOLD AND SILVER MIN
II ing Company-Location of Works one mile
west of Colfax. Stockholders in the above nam.
ed Company are hereby notified that the annual
meeting of the above named Company will be
held at the town of Colfax, County Of Placer
State of Calf?rnia, at the Office of the Secretary
on MONDAY, JUNE 5th 1871, for the purpose
of electing Trustees for the ensuing year. Al
are requested to attend. w. A. HINES,
Secretary
Office at Hayford, Hines e. Co.'S. store.
Colfsx, May 81, 1871. myl3-iw.
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03

"EF had been eatin' dried apples for a
week, an den took to drinkin for a mont,
couldn't feel more swell'd up den | am dis
mnnit wild pride and vanity at SEEM such
full tenaence har dis evenings" said a colored
preacher in Louisville
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03

The question, docs getting drunk ever ad-
vance ones happiness? would seen to be put
to rest by the Irishman who went a courting
when drunk, and was asked what pleasure
he found in whisky. ooh, Biddy, it's
trate intrely, to see two of your faces instead
of one. :"
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03

"What is the annual corn crop of Ken
tucky?' asked a foreign tourist of a Ken
tuckyian. 81 can't exactly say replied
the Kentuckian; "but know its enough to
make all the whisky we want, besides what
is wasted for bread"
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03

HIdH STRUNG. Said an American to an
Irshman, "My ancestors came from Ireland,
ny name is Bryant; did you ever know of
any people Of that name in Ireland % "Oh,
yes, great many of them" "Well, what
sort of people were they? Pretty high
strung were they not p 90, yes, I've seen
a great many Of them strung SO high that
their feet did not touch the ground.
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03
Administrators Sale Of Rea!
Estate.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN
~ pursuance OF the order of the Probate
Court of the County of Placer, in the State of
California, made on the ID day Of May. AID. 1871
N the Matter of the Estate of HENRY SCHAF-
FER, deceased, the undersigned Administrator
OF said Estate will sell at Public auction, to the
highest bidder for cash, in GOLD coin of the Uni
ted States subject to confirmation by said Pro
bate Court on
TUESDAY, the Goth day OF Jurc, 4. u. 1871,
at 10 o'clock, A. NJ. at the late residence Of the
deceased, Dutch Flat Placer county all the right,
title and interest of the said ntestate at the time
of his DEATH and all the right, title and interest
that the said Estate has by operation of law or
otherwise acquired other than, or in addition to
that of the sald intestate at the time of his DEATH
IN and to all that certain Real Estate lying and
being situate in the County of Placer and State
of California, and particularly described as fol
lows to-wit:
The undivided fourtwenty -ffths, and the halt
Of another twenty-fiith i'll and to those certain
mining claims situate ON Gilmore Hill in the vi
cinity of the town of Dutch Flat and known as
the Louisiana Mining Claims.
Also the undivided one-half of those certain
mining claims at the town of Dutch Flat known
rs the Columbus mining claims.
Also the house and lot owned by the intestate
at Dutch Flat.
Terms and conditions of salo ten per cent. of the
purchase money to be paid on the day OF sale,
and balance on confirmation of sale by the Pro
bate Court. Deed at the expense of the pur-
chasers. JOHN MEYER,
Admin strator.
FE1Lows & MORTON, Attorneys for adminis-
trat1r
May 18th, lS71.--my204w.
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03

A mother was amused the other day TO
hear this bit of argument from her little
boy. "Mamma, | don't see how Satan
could have turned out to be such bad fell
low-thcre wasn't any devil to put him up
to it,
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03
Constable Sale.

10y VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION ISSUED
ID out of the Justices Court of S. G.. Lewis,
at Rocklin Township No. Placer county Cali
fornia, on the 2Sth day of April, A. d. 1871, and
to me delivered on the same day, in favor of l..
g. Smith and against John Derrick for the sum
of Two Hundred ard ninety-nine dollars and
ninety nine cents ($29999) judgment, and costs
of suit taxed at Twenty-seven dollars and thirty
cents 1927 30), | did, on the 2Sth day of April,
A. d. 1871, levy upon and seized and wi / ex-
pose to public sale to the highest bidder, on the
ranch Township No. 8, Placer county Califor-
MIA,
On Monday, the IIth Day ofJunc, A. ID. 1871,
at ten O'Clock, A. NJ the following described
Real Estate, to-wit The South west quarter OF
Section q Township No. II, N, r. east, Mt.
Diablo Base and Meridian. Together with all
the improvements thereon, or so much thereof
as will be sufficient to satisfy the above judg-
ment and costs and accrung costs.
d. HARRIS,
Constable Township No. O.
RoclIn, May /, 1S7l.-my 20 3w.
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03

LADY, think you said your name was
Mary? New Broom-No, mem, not exact
ly Mairey--its Sairoy, and YOU spell it with
hess mstid Of 4 hem.
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03
SherifPs Sale.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT BY
virtue of two certain Executions issued out
u the Court of n. II. d. Traphagan, a Just.c
Of the Peace in and for Township No. 4, Placer
county, California, on the I'd day of May, A. d.
1871 one of them on o Judgment rendered IN
said Court on the 18th day of June, A. d. 1869,
in favor of j. Fingland, and S. +. Gwinn and
against B. S. Higgins for the sum of Two Hun
dred and ninety-nne dollars and ninety nine
cents (S299 99) damages, and Twenty-four dol
lars and ten cents 1924 10) costs of suit. And
the other on a judgment rendered in said Court
on the 18th day of June, A. d. 1870, in favor OF
John Fingland and against b. S. Higgins for the
sum of One hundred dollars and fifty. nine cents
($100 59) damages, and Six dollars and ninety
five cents CSC 9j) costs of suit; have levied up
on and viii sell at Public Auction to the highest
bidder for cash, on
Monday, the 9Th Day of June 4. ID. 1871,
at u o'clock, NJ at the Courthouse door in the
town of Auburn, Placer county California, the
following described property to-wit: All the in
terest of Defendant, b. S. Higgins in and to
that certain piece or parcel of mining grouno
known as the b. S. Higgins and Company
mining claims, situate southeast of the town OF
Auburn Township No. 3, Placer county, Cali
fornia, on the south-sde of the Mcdaniel Hill
and next to and adjoining the Mcdaniel Claim
on the south; with all and singular the improve
ments, appurtenances, rights and franchises
thereto belonging or in anywise appertalnlng.
The above property will sell as aforesaid to
satisfy said judgments, COSTS accruing costs and
expenses OF sale.
E. d. DUNNAM,
Sheriff of Placer county.
May 18th, 1871.-3w.
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO WHOM
~ it may concern, that an application has been
made by JOSEPH A. MENDES, HANS FED
DERSON, REYMUNDO SILVA AND JOHN
RANK an association of Miners to the Gov
ent Of the United States for Patent to the
1ilr-ing described Placer Gold Mining claim,
viz l,nown as the Quartz Rock Ravne and In
diaaa Rayinc Claims, situated in Hoggs Dig
gina5 Mining District in Ell Dorado county,
State of California being bounded by the min
ing claim of Jim Clark on the west and by unoc-
cupied mineral land on the northeast and south,
and more particularly described as follows, to-
wit on unsurveyed land, being the west frac-
tional "a of west a of the northwest quarter of
Section 30, Township y north, range east.
Mount Diabo Base and Meridian, in the district
of lands subject to sale at Sacramento, Califor-
MIA, and containing 50 48-1o0th acres; said claim
being still more particularly described in the d-
agram posted and filed with said application
All pers ons no ding any adverse claim thereto
are hereby required to present the same before
the Register and Receiver of the United States
for Sacramento Land District, at Sacramento,
California, within ninety days from the first day
of publishing and posting hereof.
Dated May l9th 1871.
JOSEPH A. MENDES.
HANS n. FEDDERSON,
REYMUNDO SILVA,
JOHN FRANK,
my 273m Applicants.
The Placer herald., 1871-06-03
1872.
Application for a Patent
TO A
Placer Gold Mining Claim.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
S..-u...,..,l.,.t.. l,..l NJ. 1lLl. 1 ALl

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, I
Sacramento, Cal, May 10Th, 1871
JOSEPH A. MENDES, HANS FEDDERSON,
REYMUNDO SILVA AND JOHN FRANK,
an association of miners, having filed their APP
plication in this office for Patent to Mining
claim, and the law and instructions in such cases
provided, having been complied with, 1t is here
by ordered that the annexed Notice of such APP
plication be published for ninety days, in the
PLACER HERALD, a newspaper published nearest
the location of said claim at Auburn, in Placer
county, State of California.
- JOHN G. McCALLUM,
SEAL Register,
\Z0TO
Copy of Notice posted on the Claim.
-4pplication for Patent to Mining Claim.