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Year: 1860

November l3th l6OO.
To H. A. Higley, Surveyor Generak'


In compliance with law herewith submit my
annual report. As in my last report do not
deem it necessary to indulge in any lengthy COM
ments, preferring to submit compilation of sta
tistics for the consideration Of those who may be
interested therein.


1t will be seen by comparison with my previous
repO TT that some species of property have depre-
ciatcd in value, and my observations as to the
causes that have brought about the result may
not be inappropriate. ..rrt


Live stock, although having largely increased
in numbers have deprecated in value. This is
doubtless owing the fact that the facilities for
range and pasture possessed heretofore IN the
lower portion of the county having almost en-
tirely failed, and greater attention and expense
being requisite to the proper care Of this kind Of
property the market necessarily became crowded
and hence the loss in value. Thisgrazing region
too being composed of rich agricultural land. hav-
ing fallen into the ownership and possession OF
our citizens, under the various State and United
States land laws, and the right of common range
being denied to the owners of stock, has also had
its weight to lessen their value.


The fact, however, of these lands becoming
private property hgs greatly added to the value
Of real estate; the land itself being taxed at its
market price, when heretofore the improvements
alone have been assessed.


The value of Ditch property has decreased as
has also that of Saw-mills ! am unable to ac'
count for the former ns our mining regions ar e
rich and valuable-nor for the latter. unless it be
that the facilities for market are such as not to
allow n competition with other more favored
countries When system of Railways shah
have been projected and completed, the heavy
and eXten>ive forests in the upper portion of our
county will prove one of the greatest sources Of
wealth to Our people.


1t is pleasing to see the attention and care that
our citizens are giving to the cultivation of the
various iruit trees and vines. The cultivation OF
the grape has been demonstrated to be peculiarly
adapted to our climate and many OF our citizens
have embarked extensively in the enterprise
One vineyard alone, near the centre of our coun-
ty. is covered with upwards OF 10000 vines.
| The figures given below will compare favorably
with any previous report from this office, and
| feel confident that Placer county combining MS
she does all the best elements OF climate. soil and
| productions. will continue to increase in wealth.
and Tor all time furnish q home for rich and
prosperous people.


The following is as correct an estimate as pos
sible of the various Fruit Trees and Vines under
| n cn1tiy ttiOn.
Year: 1860

AssEssoRs REPoRr.-We have given up
much of our available space to day to the
Report Of the County Assessor. 1t will
prove more interesting to many Of our read.
ers than The present political statistics.
Year: 1860

The subscribers respectfully inform their comers
and the Planters general that they always prepared to
furnish them with NEGRO CLOTHING of the very best ma
terials, and at most reasonable prices.


The large patronage they receive from this and neghbonR
States has induced them extend their establishment
meet any increase buness In be able supply
their patrons always with The and best descriptions of
teras they with several Of the
In the South and shall henceforh be able
% suppiy Planters with goods of uniform quality.


They feel confident that they will give entire satisfaction to
may paronze their emnenty Southern enterprise
and solicit orders which shall receive immediate attention
isls en ---asz-4 HEBRARD Il co.
Year: 1860

A CANINE ADVERTISING AGEST.-A nov
e mode of advertising has been introduced
by the proprietors Of u new weekly paper in
New York A dog of magnificent proper
tions is led about the streets. carrying pen
dant from his mouth box OH which is the
inscription, 81 am the advertising agent of
the new weekly paper. My boy will give
you circular" The boy, accordingly,
finds himself kept busy in supplying the de-
maud Of the public, This dog, by the way
u Siberian blood hound--has a pedigree.
Ills paternal progenitor was sold some time
ago for presentation to Queen Victoria, for
the handsome sum of 81 900.
Year: 1860

Domestic FAuLTs.--A writer thus speaks
of the fatal influence of small faults on the
peace of households:


Homes are more often darkened by the
continual recurrence of small faults, than
hy the actual presence of any decided vice.
These evils are apparently of very disslmlar
magnitude yet it is easier to grapple with
one than the other The Eastern traveller
can combine his forces, and hunt down the
tiger that prowls upon his path-but he
scarcely can escape the mosquitoes that in
vest the air he breathes or the tleas that
swarm in the sand he treads. The drunk
ard has been known to renounce his darling
vice the slave to abandon dress and extray-
agance, her beset,ng sin-but the washpish
temper, the irritating tone, rude dogmati!c
manners, and the hundred nameless negll-
gences that spoil the beauty Of association
have rarely done other than proceed TIL the
action of disgust and gradual alienation mas
turned all the currents Of affection from their
Course. leaving nothing tut barren track
over which the mere skeleton OF the compan-
iouship stalks alone.
Year: 1860

Was delivered yesterday Che Atm to Con-
gress. We did hope to be able to present
our readers with telegraphic abstract of
it this morning; but for some unacco,mtable
reason we received only mutilated sum
mary of its contents, that gives our readers
merely an inlllng of the Presidents mean
ing. When we get full printed copy of
this important document, we will, as soon
as it can be got into type, lay it before our
readers. This we expect to be able to do
on Friday morning It is possible, how
ever, that we may be as late as Saturday
morning certainly not later.
Year: 1860

GARIEALDIs ToLERATIoN--A few days
before Victor Emanuel entered Naples, the
English community there sent memorial
to Garibaidi, praying hun to grant them
permission to purchase site, in that city,
for a Protestant church Garihndis reply
ran thus:


Grateful for the efiicacous and generous
sympathy of the English the Dictator thinks
that this is very small return 10 make for
SO many services received from them in
support of the noble cause OF the Italians.
Not only is permission granted to erect a
church within the limits of the capital to
persons who worship The same God as the
Italians, but the English are requested to
accept, as a national gift, the small spot Of
ground required for the proposed project for
which they desire to use it.


G. GARIBALDI.
Year: 1860

Although AIahama seems to have deter


mined to attach herself 10 the lightning
train of South Carolina, which proposes to
run out of the Union orer re,y crooked
track, trith plenty Of steam amt engineer,
we are happy to chronicle the fact that the
Douglas and Bell voters of that State have
issued an address in hich they declare that
they are for cooperation with other South
ern States and not for separate State action.
Year: 1860

our correspondent " E, OF Center Town
ship. If all men were as reasonable as he'
there would not be much strife in this
world 0 for more dispassionate argument
asnd considerate action, North and South
Year: 1860

Notwithstanding the great Magnolia brings in
nearly 5000 bales, it is diminished load, and the
other boats all bring diminished loads for this sea
son Of the year; nevertheless, the receipts are
double for the corresponding days last year. The
Vieksburg packet Charmer brought in on the COR
responding day last year 3T43, and the steamboat
Magnolia, from Vicksburg, $3.50 bales. So those
close calcuators on the flags who are watching


from hour to hour the arrivals and receipts of cot
lonesome for one purpose and some for another
can compare figures. Possibly it would be an ad-
vantage to talk and argue with some of the new
candidates on the flags who are desrous of
formal introduction to our factors-the fedglings,
the intended new agents of Manchester spinners
who are about making their first bow to our fact
ors. They have been arriving very freely by the
last steamers but few of them have appeared on
our flags. They are, however, coming; they are
merely stopping along on the way to learn some
thing of the frost injury. But regret to have to
repeat the talk, that on their arrival in our good
city their letters of credit their great margins will
not pass current with factors at this juncture.
They will have to go through probation of one
season, perhaps two, before they will be able to
make things work.


1t is with some degree of sorrow that we have to
announce only one quotation of eonsols by the
three last steamers. 1t is impossible to realize or
talk OF the profound contempt the cotton factors tf
New Orleans have of the value of British consols.
We have much more interest in our city consols
than British consols. Our city consols are not
tumbled about on the several markets of the world
and are worth ao@9l. They can well be compared
with British consols.


There was great liveliness and brskness in the
foreign freight market on Saturday. Several ves-
sells were taken up for Europe on an average of
I'd. for cotton to Liverpool There is however, a
good quantity of tunnage in port, with more on
the way. There has been no Improvement in
grain or other rates beyond cotton, consequently
we can urge Western traders to send their produce
forward with dispatch. 1t can be sold and paid
for in good solid money, free of all the and
extortionate charges which prevails in Northern
cities.


There was something of half-andhalf mail re-
ceived yesterday. Part of the Europa's mails
came through on Sunday-the other or remaining
part may come to-day, tomorrow or the day after.
1t is about time for our Post-ofice to close in
toto, and let the community make arrangements
with the eXnress cnmDanies
Year: 1860

A THIEF coMPELLED TO DIseoRaE.--A physician
in Cincinnati, Ohio, had for some time past been
much annoyed by some depredator who drank up
the milk left on his doorstep at an early hour.
One day last week he left an emetic in the pitcher
and soon after the mkman had passed, the Doe
tor found policeman in neighhoring alley
" making his returnsu
Year: 1860

CURE FOR THE CATTLE DISEASE. Yer.
mont farmer who lost several calves two
years ago by the same diseaae which is now
prevailing among tho cattle at North Brook.
field and vicinity, writes to the Worcester
Spy that he finally discovered a remedy for
the disease, as follows A spoonful or two
of spirits of turpentine poured into the nos.
trils of the creature when the first symptoms
OF the disease appear. he says that several
OF his neighbors tried the same remedy, with
success in every case.
Year: 1860

WooD PILE BURSED.-0n Wednesday even
ing on the Indiana Central, a FIRE had been
kindled TO burn up some trash; the wind
blew the fire into a mammoth pile of wood
right alongside the track, and sci it on fire.
Nothing could be done to save the pile, and
over 400 cords of wood were consumed So
intense was the heat that the cars could not
pass the place for long while, and the train
due here in the evening was delayed until about
three O'Clock yesterday morning. The trains
exchanged passengers and baggage, aud re-
turned, unable to pass.
Year: 1860

@-At fire in New Haven recently four
engines were stationed in line, carrying wa
ter from long distance After the FIRE, a
lively fish, about three inches long, was
found in the box of toe engine farthest from
the water, having been sucked through the
hose Of three machines, and sieve in the
box of the last engine only prevented the
fish from being played upon the FIRE and
roaAted alive.
Year: 1860

EfS- The ship carpenters Of Buffalo made
strike on Thursday last and now refuse TO work
on The terms heretofore prescribed by their EN-.
plOyers. They do not ask for an increase Of
wages, but simply that for their labor they
should receive cash or its equivalent. Hereto
fore they have been compelled to take two
thirds of their wages in orders, and one-third
in cash
Year: 1860

~ merchant of the sewing machine perS
suasion, in New Orleans, was recently severely
cowhided by one Of his employees, young
woman with whom he had been improperly
playful. At first she resented his liberties by
throwing sewing machine at his head, which
took effect Just above the right hip, causing a
stitch in his sidel Afierward she belabored
him numerically with a stiaging whip.
Year: 1860

~ The friends of education will please not
forget that the proceeds Of the High School
Exhibition next week are to be devoted towards
procuring piano for the Institution. We hope
to be able to record the abundant success Of the
exhibitlon
Year: 1860

O A contemporary who wishes to encourage
literary genius in his neighborhood, publishes
the following as sample Of the ability of at
least nine tenths Of those who think they could
edit paper!
Year: 1860




To Messrs. Emory, Matthias and others:


Gents: Your catechism of the 18th is
before me, aud in reply will say that never
saw, at or about the time of which you
speak, any letter from Douglas to any one !;
but at the time when the question was be-
fore the Convention, as to whether the Con-
stimtion should be submitted to the people
or sent directly to Congress, Mr.. Calhoun
informed me, together with others, that he
had authority from Mr., Douglas to say, that
unless the Constitution was submitted to
the people of the Territory 1t would have
no support in the North, and had no chance
to be adopted.


In answer to your second question, state
above that Calhoun informed me that he
had received letter from Mr.. Douglas, but
he never spoke Of there being any plan fore
shadowed in it for submission; only said
at the time | refer to above, when the ques-
tion was submission or non-submission, that
Douglas said it would have to 90 to the
people and get their Endorsement, before it
would have any chance in Congress. By
way of explanation, l will state that at
tended the caucus held with closed doors,
at the office of John Calhoun three nights,
when this momentous question of plan or
form of submission was canvassed during
those three evenings. saw no letter from
Mr. Douglas with a plan in it, or sugges-
tions of a plan, or, indeed, any letter from
Douglas. This plan, if it had been sug-
gested by Mr.. Douglas certainly coming
from so high an authority, would have been
spoken of at the opening of the meeting,
whereas the plan that was finally adopted
by the Convention did not present itself, ]
think, till the third evening. Where il
came from know not, perhaps from the
Administration itself maybe from the fer
tile imagination of tho General" When
that proposition was fairly before tho eau
! Gus l left ii, and knew nothing more of il
Year: 1860

Mn. ED1roR:-I am not one Of those who
look upon the Lecompton convention as a
lubberly, sick whale who threw up Jonas he
cause they could not keep him down. be-
lieve that Mr. Jonas was deliberately and de
signedly selected to preside over the conven-
t on because he was better fitted for that du.
ty than any other member l must say, too
that he was superior to his successor as q
presiding officer, and that to him belongs the
credit Of leaving order where he had found
chaos-in fact, under his ruling the conven-
ton reached point from which ii could PRO
ceed almost without head Mr.. JOINS ser
vice in office certainly pointed him out as II
suitable officer for such a convention, and
do not think it fair to ignore him as the EX
press has done in its report, or to compare
him to colored perspirng individual under
oath, as the Appeal has done. Fair play is
a jewel that should be preserved inviolate.


FAIR PLAY.
Year: 1860

EDITOR DEMocRAr:-It is whispered that
Levi Hite has received assurance from GER
tain Douglas-haters that, if he would consent
to spend his money for the whole ticket, they
would yield him their powerfoul support in
convention next Fall for the nomination for
Senator, either in the place of Parks or
Wheeler. The same set made similar
promise to gentleman about eighteen
months ago, and violated it as a matter of
course The gentleman did not get the
small office, but did get the large one in
spite of the active opposition of those who
made the promise. Hite ought not to have
been thus entrapped into spending money
during these hand times. TYcno.
Year: 1860




EDIToh NATIONAL DEMoCRAr:-The Express
seems to fiatter itself that the Object Of the
Democratic City Committee, in giving its
opinion that no good could result at this time
from contest between National Democrats as
such and the miserable faction styling them
selves Democrats, was to give Douglas men
a chance to vote the Lecompton ticket


l can confidently affirm that such was
known not to be the Object, but simply TO
leave the party free in charter election to
vote for good men Of any party against the
rule of the Jonas Court House Clique. If
any Douglas Democrat could be so base rs
10 vote for ticket which he was insultingly
prevented from either advocating or opposing
n primary meeting-if one could be found
who would for a moment endorse a test re
roactive in its charaeter-a sort Of small po-
tato Bill of Attainder-then l have yet to
behold him. trust that every Douglas man
will cast his ballot for the Peoples nominees
without respect to FORMER party association
and thus secure for the city government i'm
munity from the rule of bigoted blunder
heads. COMMITTEE Man.
Year: 1860

ELoPEMENT-We are informed that teams.
ter eloped with married woman living in
the neighborhood of Penn Valley, and brot
her down as far as the Yuba Ranch Thence
she came in company with another toamster
to Marysyille and stopped at one OF our prin
cipal hotels. Night before last. her husband
made his appearance at the hotel and saw
his wife. What the result was we have not
heard.
Year: 1860

INrRUDERs. We are informed that certain
intruders were present at the Peoples Meet
ing last night for the purpose of disturbing it,
but were prevented by the prompt decision
and good sense Of the presiding officer Mr.
Galloway. We can hardly believe that any
respectable number Of men can he found in
this city who would be guilty Of intruding
themselves into a meeting Of peaceable citi-
Eens with any such blackguard intent
Year: 1860

RATiFIcATIoN MEErtNG.-A number Of citi-
zens and dogs gathered, yesterday, in the
street near the corner Of Third and Maiden
Lane, and there either witnessed or took part
in the destruction Of a box full Of rats. which
had been eutrapped for the purpose. French's
brindle dog made the most havoc but the
chief fun was to see Jack Barkley's little
three months old, part terrier and part bull
attack and kill several rodents nearly os
large as himself lie had never been trained
but took to it as naturally us duck to water.
The fun was fun while it mstel.
Year: 1860

EDITOR DENocRAr:-Did you ever see such
a greedy, hungry nnprincipled creature in
all your life as is that commodity known as
the City Marshalship? About three years
ago il fastened its terrible fangs in the frame
of poor Jack Barkley, and ever since that
time has been feeding upon his flesh and
blood-clinging to him Just like his shadow"
is there no balm in Gilead ?" Cannot the
Great Physician (ruE ProPLE) relieve this
poor suffering mortal of this monstrous
Dragon Let them try it on. KINo
Year: 1860




THE United States Attorney General has
given an opinion sustaining tho action of
the Postmaster of Baltimore, who refused
to deliver letters addressed to fictitious
persons or firms. The Attorney General
snye the Postmaster has authority under
the laws to prevent the service from being
used for fraudulent purposes, and then
adds:


With that end in view, you certainly
have power to order the non-deliyerv 0f
letters addressed to any person under a
name which you know to have been as
cnea1 ana dGfraud the public. But the
fraudulent intent ought to be very clear,
for you are not invested with any authori-
ty to carry on an extended inquiry into the
private affairs of persons who receive let
ters by mail, nor have you the means of
ascertaining with correctness what they
are. 1t should also be remembered that
the me.e misnOmcr of a man is not suf-
ticicnt grounds for saying that the name
is fictitious, neither is firm an imaginary
one because the style of it has no refer
ence to the name of its members, nor can
you stop.a letter on the sole ground that
it is addressed to n person whose en-
ploymcnt is immoral, it being the duty Of
the Stnte Government, and not of the Post
Office Department, to punish such often
ces. But in the case under consideration,
If there be no legitimate business of any
kind carried on by c., under the name Of
D. & Co., if he has caused letters to be
addressed to Baltimore in name which
is merely imaginary, if his correspondents
do not know who they are writing to, and
if, in addition to this, you end the fact to
be that G. is using this fiction for dishon-
est purposes, then the measure taken by
the Postmaster at Baltimore ought to be
sustained.
Year: 1860

EAsY-M1NDED.-At some assizes, a
country fellow was convicted and brought
up and sentenced. The judge asked him
if he had anything to say why sentence
should not be pronounced, and was some
what astonished at the answer go DON t
knows hev I amt got no money"
Year: 1860

RIDDLE FOR A ToBAcCo-PApER.-
Why does a tobacconist invariably take
his wooden f CURE Of .snutf-taking High
lander indoors over night? Answer
For fear there should be Scotch mis-.
before morning.-Pwnch. -: