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Year: 1859

RARE CHANCE To MAKE MoNEY.--By the
Investment of mere triae, hand machine to
manufacture an article useful in every public and
private house, can be purchased If applied for at
once. Any person, male or female, can enter into
a lucrative business by applying Immediately at
the Franklin House, whore the article can bo
Year: 1859

TERRIBLE SMASH UP ON THE ID. d NJ. ROAD
The passenger train on the d. q Nj. Road, due
here yesterday morning 1T $3.50, when crossing
tressle bridge over Hog Creek, at Lima, was
thrown from the track into the creek, end the
at the scene of disaster short time after it ocS
cured, and made diagram of the condition Of
the train, thus decribes it:


"The Locomotive stands diagonally across
the track; the tender is square across the track;
the baggage car, aud first passenger car both
lie in the creek on their backs; the other passen
ger coach hangs to the track with one end,
while the other rests in the creek"


The baggage car and first passenger car are
complete wrecks, and the I'd passenger car will
cost nearly as much to repair it as a new one.
The Locomotive is badly damaged, while the
tender is a complete wreck.


The tressle work is from Is to 20 feet from
the water, and the creek was frozen over
Strange as it may seem no one was killed, and
stranger still, no one was severely injured. Con
ductor oonover was slightly injured, while
Ross. baggage master, Mold, express agent
and Hankins, fremen, received unimportant
bruises,


man who was in the Cd passenger car
with alittle child, at the time Of the train going
down threw the child out of a window. The
little thing fell upon the ice below, and escap
ed without injury. John Byron, brakeman,
who resides here, was at the rear end of the I'd
passenger car, and was in the act Of discon
Meeting the bell cord, when the accident oc
cured he was thrown down, and rolled clear
through the car aud was "spilled out" Into the
creek below He was little bruised in his
passage through the car.


1t is not certainly know what caused the
tressle work to give way, but it is supposed
that two damaged locomotives which passed
through the night before, on their way to the
shop at Lima, had displaced some braces Of the
bridge, or broken a rail. A watchman whose
duty it would have been to inspect the bridge
after the passage of trains, would probably
have prevented the catastrophe.
Year: 1859




Unbelevers in geology often ask, How
was it possible for animals or reptiles to
make the impressions which are now said
to be their footsteps preserved in the solid
rock ?" Hugh Miller had a rare faculty
of finding apt illustrations from daily life
of the abstrusest theories OF science, and
in his " Popular Geology" just published
work Of singular fascination and elo-
quence, he tells the following incident,
which answers this perplexing question


The strange reptiles Of this ancient
time, in passing over the tide uncovered
beaches of the district, left their footsteps
imprinted in the yielding sand and in
this sand, no longer yielding, but hardened
long ages ago into solid rock, the footsteps
still remain. And with truly wonderful
velations-revelations Of things the most
evanescent in themselves, and Of incidents
regarding which it might seem extrava-
giant to expect that any record should re-
main, do we find these strange markings
charged. They even tell us how the rains
Of that remote age descended and how its
winds blew.


Let US see whether We cannot indicate
a few of at least the simpler principles OF
this department of science. The artificial
sheet of water situated among the Pent-
lands, and known as the Compensation
Pond, was laid dry, during the warm sum-
mer of lS42, to the depth of ten fathoms
and as lake, bottom ten fathoms from
the surface, is not often seen, visited it,
in the hope OF acquiring few facts that
might be of use to me among the rocks.
What first struck me, in surveying the
brown sun-baked bottom from the shore,
was the manner in which it had cracked
in the drying, into irregular polygonal
partings, and that the Tipplemarkings with
which it was fretted extended along only
narrow border, where the water had been
shallow enough to permit the winos or
superficial currents to act on the soft clay
beneath As | descended. | found the
surface between the partings indented
with numerous weIl-marked tracks of the
feet of men and animals made while the
clay was yet soft, and now fixed in it by
the drying process, like the mark of the
stamp in an ancient brick And some of
these tracks were charged with little
snatches of incident, which they told in a
style remarkably ineligible and clear.
At one place, for instance, found the
footprints Of some four or FIVE sheep They
struck out towards the middle of the hol-
low, but turned upwards at a certain point
in an abrupt angle towards the bank they
had quilted, and the marks Of increased
speed became palpable. The prints, in
stead OF being Ieisurely SET down, so as tc
make impressions as sharp-edged as il
they had been carved or modelled in the
clay were elongated by being thrown out
backwards, aud the strides were consid
erably longer than those in the downverC
line And bearing direct on the recreat


ing footprints from The opposite bank, ano
also exhibiting signs of haste detected
the track Of dog.
Year: 1859

ELEPHANT BATHING IN INDIA.-Beyond
the dhoby, in cleaner water by comparison
a bevy of elephants are enjoying their
morning bath And they do enjoy it in
deed See how they roll away like so
many porpoises, right under the food, and
leave the mahouts shouting and cropping
with their feet for the unstable black is
lands which after a time rise up above the
surface. Look at the great jets they blow
up over their backs, and listen to the deep
breath of pleasure or the shrill flourish
of delight with which they lie down on
the sand while their attendants knead them
all over, These great creatures are so
sagacious, ,sosensitiye to kindness, that even
in their wild state cannot feel any sym
pathy for those who delight in killing them
and call it sport" But these elephants,
fond as | am OF them, are, il must he ad-
mited, dangerous playmates. In our
camp there were no less than nine koo-
nies, or murderers beasts which
have killed their nahouts, or other at
Year: 1859

THE DIVORCE LAW OF INDIANA, as amended,
requires, (according to the Lafayette Courier first
that the applicant shall have been bona fde
resident Of the State for one year; second, aban-
donnlent for one year; third service ten days, or
publication thirty days instead of fourteen; fourth,
if the defendant files cross petition the suit can


not be withdrawn by the withdrawal of the original


petition fifth, the court to decree such alnoay as
circumstances shall render just and proper; sixth,
divorce on account of the misconduct of the wife
gives the husband the same title to her property
as if she was dead. A new section authorizes the
opening up of DEGREES in certain cases within two
years, as to custody of children and allowance of
aimony, but not so to marry the divorced parents
Year: 1859

A CHASTITY ExPERIMENT.-Spirits of wine
poured on a teaspoonful of common salt in a vial,
well shaken, and then put either lamp cotton
or tow, and ignited, will burn with a peculiar
colored Game giving out purely yellow rays. This
mysterious effect changes the appearance of all
earthly objects Coral lips become livid hue;
rosy cheeks turn ghastly pale; red cap ribbons
to what it does by the white light we are familiar
with; and of all things the human face undergoes
the greatest change Very young children should
not be shown this experiment; for though there
will be laughing lips and dazzling eyes, yet they
are of such an unearthly color that old friends
would appear with new faces, and a child would
scarcely know its own mamma. a afe7s $50
Year: 1859

UNDERsELL1NG NEGRoEs.-The New York
Herald now admits that it is known at Washington,
from official sources in Madrid, that the Spanish
government has determined to throw open the
trade of importing Coolies into Cuba and to snn-
late it as much as possible The object of this
movement is double one. 1t is intended to
increase greatly the present production Of sugar,
by decrea, ing the cost of labor to its minimum
point, and to lead eventually to the abolition of
negro slavery in that island, so as to make its
possession as undesirable to all the great powers
as are Hayti and Jamaica now. It's calculated
that 100000 Chinese Coolies can be placed in
Cuba in FIVE years at cost of no: over $3.50 a
head, and that the value of the slaves everywhere
in America will be reduced in a corresponding
ratio
Year: 1859

HUMBOLDT, man whose word Justly carries
with 1t European authority, confirms the statement
of Gumilla, that the Ottomacs Of Sou-h America,
during the periods of the floods, subsist entirely
on fat and ferauginous kind of clay, of which
each man eats daily pound or more. Spix and
Martuis declare that the Indians of the Amazon
eat kind OF loam when other food is abundant
Molina says the Peruvans frequently eat a sweet
smelling clay; and Ehrcnberg has analysed the
edible clay sold in the markets Of Bolivia, which
he finds to be a mixture of taic and mica The
inhabitants of Guiana minge clay with their bread
and the negroes of Jamaica are said to eat earth
when other food is deficient According to
Labillardiere, the inhabitants Of New Caledonia
appease their hunger with white friable earth,
said by Vanquelin to be composed Of magnesia,
silica, oxide Of iron, and chalk To conclude the
list; we must add Siam, Siberia, and Kamschatka,
as countries Of cay-eaters This is rather q
staggering accumulation of assertions, which wo
cannot dismiss altogether, even if we suppose
large allowance of scepticism justifable. Granting
the fact that certain kinds Of earth are really
nutricious (and it is difficult to escape such a /,
conclusion,) we are completely at loss for an
adequate explanation of it. Little light is thrown
on it by the assumption probable enough, that the
earth must contain organic matter because in
pound of such earth there could scarcely be
contained sufficient organic matter to supply tho
demands of an adult Nor will we get rid ot this
difficulty to say that the earth only appeases
hunger without nourishing the system because in
the first place. Humbodts testimony is, that the
Ottomacs su6sist on the clay at periods when other
food is deficient, and in the second place, although
the local sensation Of hunger may be appeased by
introducing substances into the stomach the more
imperious systemic sensation of hunger is not thus
to be appeased. We must, therefore, be content
at present with accepting the fact which the
science of future days may possibly explain
Btdckcood. 9 e., .rs a.
Year: 1859

LAW OF EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL CASES in
ENGLAND.-Lord Brougham has brought in a
bill which provides that any person on trial for
treason, felony, or misdemeanor may offer himself
as witness in his own behalf, and his wife as WELL


in her husbands behalf. Such person must be
sworn on the Holy Evangelists, and be subject to
cross-examinations. No writing of such person
will be receivable in evidence unless called for by
the prosecutor. The most important clause, how
ever, is that which withdraws from such prisoners
protection from answering questions tending TO
criminate. They may not refuse to answer any
question on the ground that the answer may de-
grade them, or tend to show that they have been
guilty of any offence misconduct. No answer
however, to such questions will be admissible in
evidence in any proceedings against the deponents,
except in prosecutions for prejury assigned
on such answers. Scotland is exempted from the
operation of the bill. =---t-- ....
Year: 1859

The NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL.-The
New York Times, in speaking of the appoint
ment of Mr.. Holt says:


1t was intimated Immediately upon the
death of Mr.. Brown, that this appointment
would be made but the rumor was discredited
by the fact that no sufficient partisan motive
could be discerned for making it. The presi-
dent has falsified his own unfortunate IT puta-
ton, and deserves all the credit which can at
tach to an inconsistency so honorable and SO
unexpected.


MIR. Holt comes into an office at a moment
extremely propitious for man of abilities and
of honesty, who really wishes to earn good
name with his countrymen by fairly admins
tering one of the most important and most
dilapidated branches of the public service.
We cordially hope that he ill avail himself
of the golden opportunity, and do his share
towards redeeming the present Government
from the gulf of disgrace and failure towards
which it has been so steadily driven.
Year: 1859

RAILROAD AccIDENT.-About two o'clock
Wednesday afternoon the draw-bridge of the
Boston and Lowell Railroad over Charles riv-
er was opened to allow schooner to pass.
While the draw was open, an empty train


consisting of two passenger cars, one baggage
and a milk car, approached the draw, backing
from the car-house. Attached to the train was
the locomotive, and in advance was the milk
car The only persons on board the train
were brakeman named Woods, and Nahum
III. Wright, who was seated in the milk car.
From some cause not at present ascertained,
the engineer failed to observe the open draw
in season to prevent the milk car from going
overheard When the train broke through the
gate, Wright sprang from his seat, and leaped
through side door on to the bridge. The
whistle was blown and the brakes applied in
vain. The milk car bounded across the gap at
the instant that boat from the schooner, con-
tanning man named Sullivan, was passing
through. His critical position was observed
by Parmenter, the draw tender, who cried out
to him to jump overheard, which he did, and
thereby-though getting thorough drench-
ing-saved his life, for the car in its descent
crushed the boat and sank it. Woods, the
brakeman, was on the platform between the
two cars in advance, and escaped unhurt.
Year: 1859

A GREAT Corn CRoP.-About five miles
below Chillicothe, Ohio there is tract of
high river-bottom land, known as the "Clay-
pool Farm" now owned by the widow of
James Davis. The corn crop of 1858 was
gathered and stored in the usual manner, in
rail pens along the banks of the Scotia 1t is
rough way of cribbing corn, but very good
one, and cheap. No expensive method could
be adopted to store such crops as grow upon
some of the great corn farms of the West,
such as the one above named, from which we
are told that 5000 bushels of corn were sold a
few days ago to Emmets distillery at Chilli
cothe, at Is cents bushel This is very
high price for that great corn-g growing region,
and the quantity appears large to small farm
ers, but not so much as it would if we had
never seen these rail-pen cribs of corn along
the Western river banks, from half mile to a
whole mile long.-lMadiSon Courier
Year: 1859

The SIcKLEs CAsE.-The Washington
correspondent of the New York Tribune of
yesterday says


Mrs. Sickles is detained here, because her
knowledge of the events which led to the late
tragedy, may be necessary as a guide to the
counsel for the defense during the approach
ing investigation. She still expresses the
warmest affection for her husband, and the
deepest penitence for her conduct, but feels
that there is deep gulf between them, which
neither can pass in the future.


Some of the most eminent counsel of New
York have rendered their services to Mr..
Sickles for his defence, but he has declined
them, preferring to retain Mr.. Stanton of Lam
caster as his chief adviser. The Grand Jury
is composed Of the most respectable and fair
minded men in the District and no fears are
expressed of an exhibition of partiality on
their mart
Year: 1859

A FINANCIAL MovEMENT.-The Admins
tration has discovered a means of meeting the
wants of the government Orders have been
sent on from Washington to the navy yard at
Charlestown, no longer to permit the poor to
take chips from the yard, as heretofore, but to
consume them on the premises On the
strength of this, the favorite contractor and of
ficers of the Administration will probably be
allowed to swindle the people anew, to the tune
of thousands, if not of millions.
Year: 1859

Nearly all the clergymen in New York made
feeling allusion to the Washington tragedy
last Sunday. Without an exception they con-
demned Sickles, and laid the crime of murder
to his charge
Year: 1859

FATAL AccIDENT-Oswego, March o.
The floor of the First Catholic church, in this
city, gave way this evening, causing consider
able CONSERVATION among the congregation.
In attempting to escape four or five persons
were killed and several injured.
Year: 1859

OuTRAGEous.-Some scsmps caught .
dog yesterday afternoon, and procuring piece
Of rope, fastened it around the poor auirnsls .
neck, and then attached the other end to the
tail Of COW. The COW, thinking the dog was
after her, sprang off At . Tremendous rate,
jerking along the yelping canine, who Was
not disposed to keep company with her LADY,
ship, but was forced to by the cruel rope. The
last wa saw Of either, they were going down
F. urth street on the jump, the deg every little
while landing plump on his head with suffi-
cient force to knock oct his brains. This ID
anything but manly sport. and if the psrpetrs'
tors could be found, they should be severely
punished
Year: 1859

WT The Muscatine Journal gives th e
folio wing data on which the river has closed 1t
that point for the past The
channel at this point is a.ill free from ice with
no present prospsc. Of its closing up. The
water is very cold, and We may loox for q
bridge Of ice across the big creek the n ex.
frosty night We have.
Year: 1859

The D. C. AS Hops.-We are much
gratified in being able to announce that this
company have completed their arrangements
for giving . series Of Eve hors at the Bartis
House. the first to come off on Thursday eve
ming next Thus far this winter We have had
no parties whatever, and the Artillery Compa-
ny deserve much credit for moving in the mat
ter ar. giving cur citize . series Of their
popular and pleasant hope 1t 10 necessary
that large number Of tickets be sold to cover
the expense, and We trust that those who de
sign attending. will Immediately come forward
and purchase = ticket for the series. They
can be had Of Mse.rs. Remington, Miner and
Altman. the committee. A full band Of music
has been engaged, lead by that old favorite.
Milo White
Year: 1859

ENGLISH lRoy FOR ILLINOIS. The Spring
field Journal announces that ." the iron Tor
the Illinois River Railroad is now being re-
ceived at New York. Thirteen vessels loaded
with it have arrived And 1t proceeds to
announce the re-shipment Of portion Of this
importation to Chicago, there to be again
re-shipped to Pekin. where It will at last
reach the ground on which it Is destined to
be laid down.


Were it not that the spectacle IS so common
It might well make US Illinolsians, open our
eyes somewhat, to see quantities of foreign
iron thus brought three thousand miles across
the ocean and another thousand miles inland
10 lay down railroad track across our
prairles, while al through the southern
| Counties Of our own State rich beds Of Iron
ore are lying untouched By the miner, and
within less than TWO hundred miles lie The
marvellous deposits Of the Iron Mountains Of
Missouri, already connected by direct chain
Of railroad and river transportation requiring
| but single transfer of the freight, with the
very port which the English metal is at last
to reach by the above long and devious road
How manifest is the folly of that revenue
system that thus builds up foreign manufac
tures at the expense Of our own, instead o
Year: 1859

CLEAR lRIsH-An Irishman in the emplov
of Peter Ryan, of Danbury, Conn, who was
going to shoot cat, loaded an old fashioned
gun, frst putting in charge of shot which
he covered with a wad then Il charge of pow
der, finishing up with handful of corn. lie
then brought the old fuzee to bear upon the
cat but notwithstanding his repeated snap
ping, it was no 60. Heating his ramrod he
wofmed it down through the corn till it
reached the powder, when up went the ram
rod between his fingers and thumb. planting
the corn in his hand. Both cat and Pat
survived, after having the corn d" hoed out -
by doctor
Year: 1859

The cold year was 1916. That summer
there was irost in every month. On the 9TH
Of June there was snow, on the 8th 1t was
too cold to ride comfortably toward the north
even in winter clothes and Tor three sue
ccessive nights there were heavy white frosts,
which cut the corn down t. the roots. Corn
was so thoroughly frozen on the 25th Of Sep
tember. that it was hardly worth harvest
ing.
Year: 1859

B- Persons residing along the line of canal
in the city, and those who frequently pass the
bridges are under obligations TO Marshal Hans
noa for interfering with those small boys and
half grown men who make practice Of bath
ing in the canal, before dark, and making night
hdeous with obscene language. We hope he
will entirely dry them up
Year: 1859

~ Those who will examine the Empire will
we think, come to the conclusion that il Is a
neiOSpsPer-especislly when they compare it
with its competitors. We will not allow our
selves to be equalled in all the requirements Of
local and general newspaper in Dayton
Price 10 cents per week.
Year: 1859

GJ-The Pike Peak excitment is receiving new
material to work upon. Dispatches state that
gold mines in that region, of great richness.
have been discovered" If this be true, there
are already more people there than can work
them to advantage, The announcement, if
true, is cruel. We advise the people to stay
sway-DOn't gol
Year: 1859

A REMEDY FOR FEVER AND AGUE.-We
heard of remedy a few days since for fever
and ague, which, for its simplicity and not
hard to-take qualities, we regard as one of
the best extant The plan is to secure Il
bottle of sa1ratus and dissolve sufficient of it
in warm water, to make the water about the
same strength as the mineral springs found
on the plains. A little sulphur added to
the mixture has a very beneficial effect. BY
washing the whole body in this solution
about twice week, the pores of the skin open
and the insensible perspiration Of the system
allowed to evaporate and pass off. The bilious
secretions are regulated and the liver kept
in healthy condition. a Walk of mile
or two before breakfast every morning may
be INDUCED in with good effect. BY adopt
ING this method, and pursuing it regularly
through the summer months, we will insure
almost any person against the attacks of the
meanest sickness known.


Tehdma Gazette
Year: 1859

AUBURN. CAL.
TAKE this method of informing the public that
L they are at all times prepared to take con
tracts for building, or do any kind of Carpenter
or Joners work in workman like manner and at
low rates.


They constantly keep on handa full assortment
of seasoned Lumber, and Shingles that will be
sold in quantities to suit purchasers. Sash doors
made to order


Shop and Lumber Yard on Auburn Ravine,
near the Placer Heroid office. where those want
ing anything in the above line can be promptly
accommodated. REED q FRENCH.
Auburn Jan. lst. lS59-my
UDLANK ATTACHMENTS
ID For sale at the Placer Herald
ollce.
Year: 1859

Upon the PURITY of that fuid If the skin is in
natural state, in Scrofua Leprosy, and all Ucerous
Diseases it is evident that the vessels which ramy
the surface of the body be charged with diseased
blood and if the whole volume of blood, and
arteraI is impure. Before be effected there
must be publication Of the vital stream. The great OBJ
ect therefore, is to ascertain what remedies will act most
directly upon the constituents of the blood when in the
act of combination. Experience observation and cloud
of witnesses establish the fact that this preparation is at
the very head of this class and will restore the
ation to healthy state by eradcatng the elements Of