The Placer herald., 1871-10-21
TELEnRAPllC SUMMARY.

kansas, was indicted for violation of the en-
forcemcnt law, trap for Democrats, and
then all the indictments were quashed to
save one Radical thief President Grant
has issued Ku Klux proclamation for sew
eral counties in South Carolina. Fenan
raids on Canada are threatened. Travel
on the Mount Gems tunnel commenced OH
Monday last. The adjourned term of the
United States Supreme Court commenced
the 10Th inst. Among the important cases
to be decided is one from Kentucky in
volving the constitutionality Of the civil
rights act; another involving the constitu-
tionaity of the So called Drake amendment,
relating to the effect of pardons in the Court
of Claims; another involving decision of
disputed rights of property Of the Presbyte-
ran church North and South another in
volving the question as TO the binding force
Of notes for slaves before the issuance Of the
emancipation proclamation, and also case
involving the constitutionaity of the income
tax. 49,. A story has been started that an
association of Poles has been organized to
assassinate the Russian Duke, Alexis, on
his arrival in this country. William j..
Sausson, contractor for Midland Railway,
New jersey, is missing, with $500 1t is
feared he has been murdered. =. The Leg
islaturc Of Illinois, in extra session, has pass
ed bill rcfunding to Chicago the So ,OO0-
600 expended by her in deepening the Hi
nois and Michigan canal, with proviso that
the money shall be expended in -bu ilding
bridges and other public cdifces in the city.
=. All the banks in Chicago have resumed
business, and many contracts have been
made for erecting buildings in the burnt cis-
trict, which makes business lively. Ninety
two bodies of victims Of the Chicago fire have
thus iar been found. There is a spec of
war in Boston harbor 1t seems the English
captured an American fishing vessel tress-
passing on their fishing grounds and took
her into port. American seamen cut her
out and took her away. An English man
of-war is looking for the escaped vessel, and
three or four Amer can armed revenue cut
tors are watching the Englishman, ready for
a fight. ~ A mob took pos session Of War
saw, Kentucky, and shot to death in his cell +,
a desperate who had killed a young man a
few days before. -. Charles Durbin, a
young lawyer Of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, shot him
self through the head, on the l7h inst, at
the bedside of a sick wife, on being Informed
by physician she could not recover. The
wife died few minutes afterwards,
summary of Coast Dispatches.
The Kimball palace car, built in San
Francisco of California woods and consid-
cred the finest in the United States, was
burned in the Rock Island depot in the
Chicago fire. , lsaacs, the guard that
fought so bravely at the Nevada prison
emute, has die ! of his wounds. The Bo-
dega stage was robbed on the 18th inst. =,
near Sebastopol by five robbers, three On
foot and two on horseback. They took the
express box, which was found the next
morning about 100 yards from the scene of
the robbery, opened, and minus $3.50.
Passengers were not disturbed, The letters
and papers were left with the box. -. The
Arizona Miner Of October 7th, says the
party of diamond hunters returned to Flor
ence, bringing stones believed to be diamonds.
| Some have been sent to San Francisco.
| There is some uneasmcss as to the solvency
of some of the san Francisco insurance COM
panics and this causes depression in bust
ness. The subscription to the Chicago
fund has roachcd $780, 900 in San Fran
cisco, $50 900 Of which will he given to the
Wisconsin and Michigan sufferers by the
late disastrous prairie fires in those States.
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DIsousrEp GERMANs.-1he Bastrop (Iex-
as) Adreriiscr remarks: "Thc Germans
throughout the whole State are organizing
Gibbs in opposition to the Radicals. These
honest, hard working people are tired of ex-
haustng themselves and their substance for
the benefit of few non-taxpayng Radical
rascals, and will support the Democratic
nominees almost as one man. They flvoi
an economical administration of the govern
ment and reduction of taxatiou."
ANOTHER. William Highly has been an
nounccd as a candidate for United States
Senator. William, You had better withdraw
your name and save yourself veAation,
trouble and defeat, You were well paid fos
your treason to the Democratic party, and
must now remain on back seat and give
Massachusetts chance.
WE publish in our columns to-day an in
teresting table of the population of Califom;a
! hv counties classified rs to nativity and