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VOLUME 5.
THE PLACEU HERALD.
IS PUBLISHED KVER Y SATURDAY,
.Main Street, Auburn, Placer County, Cal., by
CHARLES 11. MITCHELL.
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The Sea Shore.
The wide sea stretches beneath the shy
In the golden light of day,
And the wild waves come with their snowy plumes,
That glitter, and dance, and piny;
And on they come, and on (hey come,
With the lofty pomp of power,
To scatter their beauty on shiny weeds.
And die on the briny shore.
The wild waves glitter, and glance and play,
To break on the briny shore,
Jlut caeli is bearing its tribute on.
To add to earth’s bright store.
Some may bring us the little shell,
And some the store of gold,
And some the sailor’s shipwrecked foi
All ghastly, and stern, and cold.
And the wild waves murmur in sadness round,
Or thunder with m, .dial roar,
As eacli rolls up with it,- given freight,
And dies on the* briny shore.
here's a wide, wide sea. a changing sea,
The shadowy sea of life,
When* the lofty billows rise and fall,
In the never ceasing strife.
And on. and on. and ever on,
Pressed by restless power,
They bear their joy or their curse to earth,
And die on the sandy shore.
And on they come, and on they come,
Till night sweeps oe'r the scene.
Am) the dun clouds lloat o'er the gloom/ sky,
A<«l the stars look out between—
Till far away in the orient
The sun comes forth in power,
And tlie secret burdens lie all revealed
Upon the briny shore.
'The Russia,! Possessions in the Pacific.
Very little is known of the Russian pos
sessions in the I’acilic. All the knowledge
that we have recently obtained in relation
to them, was through the Allied Fleet in
these walefe, and that is of course unsatis
factory in the extreme. It will bo seen
from the following, which is copied from
(ho Gazette d'Au<jxhury, that, a well fortified
Russian city has been built since 18b 1 ;il tho
mouth of tho Arnoor River.
“It is already known that Russia has lately
peaceably acquired the mouth of tho River
Arnoor. Two hundred years ago the Rus
sians had taken possession of that territory,
hu;t*&J*l>}V .years afterwards they abandoned
it, and as. ibo llv-l n
then appreciate the importance «f that pos
sesslW,jth’e inhabitants of the country recog
nizedfhe autlibrity of tho Chinese Govern
ment-' Tlie Emperor Nicholas was the first
to appreciate tho importance of settlements
on the Northeastern coast of Asia. During
his reign, the population of Kamtschatka
rose to eighty thousand, and tho capital of
the Province became a strong* place, of twelve
thousand inhabitants. Ocbotsk, the princi
pal place of the Territory of Irkutsk, came
next in importance. This city numbered
one thousand inhabitants, and w as 9550 versts
(about 0370 miles) from St, Petersburg*.
Ocbotsk was, however, 3500 versts (2330
miles) therefore, ordered, not only an exact
survey of the part of Siberia situated at the
East of the Sea of Ocbotsk, hut also ordered
several forts to be constructed at the mouth
of the Arnoor, and sent steamers to sound
the river. It was in 1851 that the plans
conceived about this subject began to bo put
iu execution. A great number of peas
ants belonging to the Crown, and from
those regions beyond (ho Baikal, were in
fact sent on tho Chinese frontier as military
colonists. Three years afterwards 5000 could
be mustered, to tlie astonishment of their
Chinese neighbors. When, in 1854, all the
regular troops were withdrawn from Siberia,
dud the Bunates were sent to Irkutsk to suc
ceed the Cossacks of tho line, a sufficient
force was foft at tho capital of Kamtschatka
.find on tho Arnoor. The fortifications were
strengthened, the settlements were increased
and the Russian Government took advantage
of the embarrassment of the Emperor of
China to obtain three hundred square miles
of land by a treaty of rectification of the fron
tiers. A well-fortified Russian city is now
ni the course of construction at the mouth
ot the Arnoor. When it will be strong
enough to resist the attacks of the Western
Powers it will become tho nucleus of rela
tions which will probable take a large exten
sion.”
Posen.—Mrs. Snubble (to her daughter,
I.aura.) “It was very wrong of you, Laura,
to waltz with young Jolly. Your papa was
greatly shocked, lie says he has met young
-lolly in the city, in places where no decent
/nan would ever be seen!”
TH E PLA CE R HER A L I).
Extract from the Inaugural of Jefferson
DELIVERED MARCH 4111, 1810.
“Equal and exact justice to all men, of
whatever state or persuasion, religious or
political; peace, commerce, and honest friend
ship, with all nations, entangling alliance
with none; the support of the stale govern
ments in all their rights, as the most com
petent administration for our domestic con
cerns and the surest bulwarks against anti
republican tendencies; the preservation of the
general government in its whole constitu
tional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace
at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of
the right of election by the people—a mild
and safe corrective of abuses which are lop
ped by the sword of revolution where peace
ful remedies arc unprovided; absolute acqui
escence in the decisions of the majority, the
vital principle of republics, from which there
is no appeal but to force, the vital principle
and immediate parent of despotism; a well
disciplined militia—our best reliance in peace
and for the first moments of war, till regu
lars may relieve them; the supremacy of the
civil over (he military authority; economy
in (he public expense, that labor may be
lightly burdened; the honest payments of our
debts and sacred preservation, of the public
faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of
commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of
information and arraignment of all abuses
at the bar of public reason; freedom of reli
gion; freedom of the press; freedom of per
sons under the protection of the habeas cor
pus; ami trial by juries impartially selected —
these principle form the bright constellation
which has gone before us, and guided our
steps to an age of revolution and reforma
tion. The wisdom of our sages and (lie blood
of our heroes have been devoted to their
attainment. They should be the creed of
our political faith—the text of civil institu
tion—the touchstone by which to try the
services of those we trust; and should we
wander from them in moments of error or
alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and
to regain the road which alone leads to peace,
liberty and safety.”
That the inferior animals have intelligence
distinct from that instinct w hich is common
to them and to man, is a notion now genc
rally prevalent. An interesting illustration
of this opinion was related at a meeting* of
ihe Literary and Philosophical Society of
Liverpool. The authority is such as to lean*
no room for question. A pair of goldfinches
had built their nests on a small branch of
an olive tree; after hatching their brood,
tho parents perceived that the weight of tho
family was too great for the strength of the
brunch which supported the nest —it had be
gun to yield; the provident parents with an
intelligence that, cannot be resolved into in
stinct, were seen to fasten by means of a
small string which they procured, the branch
which supported their ilost to a stronger mid
higher branch of the tree —thus redeeming,
by an extraordinary effort of reason, the
original error which they had committed,
and guarding their parental hopes from the
threatened ruin.
But few men (lie of ago. Almost all die
of disappointment, passional, mental or bodily
toil or accident. The passions kill men some?
times even suddenly. The common expres
tion choked with passion, has little cxagger
ation in it; for even though not suddenly fa
tal, strong - passions shorten life. Strong bod
ied men often die young—-weak men live
longer than the strong, for the strong use
their strength, and the weak have none to use.
The latter take care of themselves, and the
former do not. As it is with the body, so it
is with the mind and temper. The strong
are apt to break, or, like the candle, to run:
the weak burn out. The inferior animals;
which live, in general, regular and temperate
lives have generally their prescribed term of
years. The horses lives twenty-five years,
the ox fifteen or twenty, the lion about twen
ty, the dog ten to twelve, the rabbit eight,
the guinea pig six to seven. Those num
bers all boar a similar proportion to the ■
time the animal takes to grow to its full size. I
But man of all the animals is the one that
seldom comes up to his average. Ho ought
to live an hundred years, according to this
physiological law, for five times twenty are
one hundred, hut instead of that, he scarcely
reaches, on the average, four times this grow
ing period; the cat six times, and (he rabbit
even eight times tbu standard of measure
ment. The reason is obvious—man is not
the most irregular and the most temperate,
but the most laborious and bard worked of
all animals. Ho is also the most irritable of
all animals and there is no reason to believe
though wo cannot tell what an animal se
cretly feels, that, more than any other, man
cherishes wrath to keep it warm and con
sumes himself with the fire of his own secret
reflections.— Blackwoods.
Important experiments for the economical
extraction of gold from its matrix, have re
cently been conducted in London. It ap
pears that the quartz is first calcined and re
duced to an impalpable powder which is
then placed in a glass retort immersed in a
cistern of water, kept up to boiling tempera
ture; this is connected with glass tubes at
tached to a regenerator, in which the chlo
rine gas is produced by the decomposition
of the black oxide of manganese, acted upon
by hydro choleric acid. This gas passing
through, and saturating every particle of
gold dust, hitherto invisible, converts the
the same into a soluble chloride of gold.—
The sand is then well washed, the chloride
consequently dissolved and a stream of car
burretted hydrogen being passed through the
solution, precipitates the metallic gold in the
form of a deep purple powder.
Intelligence of Birds.
Age.
AUBURN, PLACER COUNTY. CALIFORNIA. JUNE 0. 1857.
AN hat is there in 11* signature of a belov
ed name which makes it more precious than
all the written words which precede it? —
V\ hat is there that makes it more bitter
when all is past and gone, to meet that name
on a blank title page of a book, than to hear
it spoken a thousand times in ordinary con
versation, or to look over a hundred other
memorials of lost happiness? Who does not
pause at a name inscribed in a book, and
gaze upon it as if it told the history of the
years which have passed away since it was
written? The hand which traced it may bo
grown feeble and tremulous with age, or mav
lie, cold and forgotten dust, in the grave.
It may have become
• “An empty sound.
To which no living thing lays claim;”
but its magic power remains. Two syllables
on that silent page make oath to ns that a
being was, with health, strength and reason;
who hoped like ourselves, laughed like our
selves. and breathed the air we breathe, A
name! It suffices to will away broad lands
and fair domains; to curse the. lifelong pover
ty, or bless with prosperity and wealth. A
[lower lies there which mocks the grave, and
the living obey the dead.
The Rev. Mr. Bellows, of New York, re
cently delivered an excellent address on
Mirth, in the course of which he remarked:
“For my part, I say in all solemnity, 1 have
become sincerely suspicions of tlie piety of
those who do not love pleasure in any form.
I cannot trust the man that never laughs;
that, is always sedate; that has no apparent
outlet for natural springs of sportiveness
and gaiety that are perennial to the human
soul. 1 know nature takes her revenge on
such violence. 1 expect to Hud secret vices,
malignant sins or horrid crimes springing up
in this hot-bed of confined air and imprison
ed space; and therefore, it gives mo sincere
moral gratification anywhere and in am*
community, to see innocent pleasures and
popular amusements resisting the religious
bigotry that frowns so unwisely upon them.
Anything is belter than dark, dead, unhappy
social life; a prov to ennui and morbid ex
citement, which results from unmitigated
pnritanism, whose second crop is usually
unbridled license and infamous folly.”
A writer in the Boston Post takes offence
at a somewhat common abuse of the word
“virtue,” and fears it will be wholly banished
from “polite discourse.” He gives a very
good illustration of the evils complained of:
“Suppose the character of a woman is
under discussion in court or elsewhere. “You
say she is selfish, cruel, and a had mother?”
“Yes, but she is virtuous.” You admit she
is a termagant to her husband, and the ter
ror of her household?” “7 cs —hut she is
the most virtuous of women.” “A slanderer
and a liar?” “Vos—but of unimpeachable vir
tue.” “A drunkard and a thief?" “Yes—
but virtuous —rigidly virtuous,-—rigidly, un
impeachably virtuous.” Mi‘ llerenh! Here
now is a woman with all tlie vices in tlie
calender save one, —yet a paragon of virtue!
Surely, if words could talk (on tlioir own
account) tbo noblest of them all might ex
claim:
“To wliat base esc do we come at lust?”
11 1 stoii v ok the I’ennv. — Tho ancient
English penny was the first silver coin struck
in England, and the only one current among
our Saxon ancestors. At the time of Ethel
red it was equal in weight to oi)i* threepence
Till the time of King Edward I. tbe penny
was so deeply indented that it might easily
be broken and parted, on occasion, into two
parts —(hose were called half pence; or into
four, these were called four things, or far
things.
it-f?" •'i.asuow, in 1550, was only (lie
fourteenth town in Scotland; a hundred years
ago, its population scarcely exceeded twenty
live thousand souls; now in the number of
its inhabitants, it is second only to the vast
metropolis of the united empire. In the re
cent war it gave seven thousand recruits to
the army.- —Eight years ago, the Clyde could
admit only a few lighters from (ireenock;
now America, India, and China float their
vessels into the harbor ot Glasgow. '1 lies
University vies in its scope of teaching and
its collection with the most renowned of the
world.
Authsias Wkm.s in Nkw York. —The N.
V. correspondent of the San Joaquin Ji'/uih-
Ucan says that nine artesian wells, have been
sunk for various establishments in New York
city, at an expense of *50.000, which furnish
1130 gallons of water per minute. The price
of the same quantity of Croton water annually,
would be *70,000. This is a great saving to
manufacturers, and good argument in favor
of the wells.
Wasn’t Good at Conundrums. —Last
summer, not a thousand miles from Wilming
ton, there was held a camp-meeting. A very
eloquent and popular preacher was present
at it, and the thing “took.” Multitudes
were brought to the anxious bench. One
day a dry and absent minded, unsophisti
cated old’ fellow wandered into the camp
meeting, and by-and-by found himself near
the preacher’s stand. Brother Stern was
giving the sinners their deserts just about
flint moment, and shouted with peculiar em
phasis:
“What shall you do to be saved?’ 7
“Yes,” cried lie, looking directly at hilly,
the absent minded one, “what shall you do
to be saved?”
“Excuse rno,” said hilly, in a flustered, con
fused way, “but I—l—am —a —not good at
conundrums.”
A Name.
A Minister on Mirth.
Virtue.
Facts for Farmers.
To destroy kidney worms, give hogs oc
casionally a tablespoonful of a compound of
three parts ashes and one of salt in their
food. For costiveness, take copperas pul
verized, boil it in a skillet, stirring well; then
pulverize, and give same quantity, mixed
with other food, to each hog.
In selecting hogs, get short noses, small
ears, short legs, with fine short early white
hair; they fatten easy and make better meat.
Manure, salt and salt peter. 224 lbs. of
I equal parts of salt and salt peter, will in
crease a crop of wheat from lit to 27 bushels
an acre, or in that proportion. Salt (chlo
rine and sodium,) and salt pet re, (potash and
aquafortis) are at the very best of manures,
; distributed at the rate of 10 bushels to (ho
acres. It destroys worms, gives healthy
color to the foil age, collects and retains
moisture, prevents the rapid secretion of plants
and is a Inalthy stimulant.
To prevent hogs from rooting, cut across
the nose, just above the gristle of the snout,
by which you will sever I lie nasal tendon,
which enables them to root. Then split
the gristle up and down the face, and the
work is done. For the long nose tlap eared
breed, cut off the nose eighteen inches above
the snout.
The want of lime may be seen in heavy
crops of straw and light crops of grain. In
root crops, it, K seen in Pips, and the roots
all branches, or, as they are sometimes call
ed all lingers and toes. It should never be
put on at the same time with manure, as it
liberates the ammonia, and allows it to es
| cape.
If land is too sandy, the best manure is
1 clay and leached ashes. These will puddle
;it and render it tenacious of water. If it is
' heavy clay, it requires sand to render it por
ous. If it is muck it requires lime to neutra
i lize, the acid, and destroy the antiseptic, or
resinous quality of the soil.
The roots of wheat have been (raced four
feet. Farmers usually plow four inches.—
Well lot the other three feet eight inches
take care of itself! A man must he in small
business to he fussing over a place for wheat
roots to run! The fact is, they have no busi
ness to run so far.
German Mode of Preparing Coli’ee
The most important thing is the burning,
which were better done in a light, revolving
cylinder. i>o not burn the coffee or let, it
sweat after burning. Keep it air tight
till used. A half ounce of berries is enough
for two large cups of cotlce. Five half
ounces enough for six persons, or twelve
<-iil is. The German coffee machine has an
arrangement on top, a cup wiih a very line
sieve at the bottom; above tins sieve they
press the ground coffee, and pour boiling
water on. It drips through'"below. Allow
no steam to escape, lloil it none at all.—
bet it stand two or three minutes, ami then
pour two parts black coffee to one part
boiling milk. Sweeten to lasts,
Remedy for the eruptions produced by (lie
poison oak; take sulphurate of iron ten
grains; laudanum, half an ounce; water, one
ounce —mix and apply to (he diseased surface,
constantly, by means of soft lipen, saturated
with the solution. If the eruption is persis
tent with sympathetic fever, take salts in aperi
ent doses and of one grain of sulphate of iron
internally.”
California Silver Mines.
“It is now sett loci bevmid much possibility
of !i doubt,” says tho (State Journal , “that
11 1 <3 silver mines recently discovered about
forty miles from the city of San Bernardino,
in this State, arc of an immense value. Wo
have personal information to that client, tor
wo know of specimens of the ore from those
mines being melted, which proved to ho
from seventy to ninety per cent, pure silver.
The process from working these mines is en
tirely different than that of the gold mines.
There is a good chance for tho enterprising,
with capital, as there was in the gold mines in
18-10, and the probability of acquiring
wealth much greater than at present in tho
gold mining regions. As far as the depos
its of precious metals are concerned, Califor
nia has taken and will take the lead. If is
hardly necessary for our people to risk their
lives among tho savages of Mexico, if they
wish to hunt for this material.”
Smart Boys.
A pedagogue liud two pupils—to one lio,
was very partial, to Llio other ho was very
severe. < hie morning it happened that those
two were late, and were called out to ac
count for it.
“You must have heard the boll, hoys; why
did you not comet”
“Please, sir,” said his favorite, “1 was
drei|min’ that 1 was goin’ to Californy, and I
thought (he school hell was the boll of the
steamboat I was going in!”
“Very well, sir,” (glad of any pretext to
excuse his favorite,) and now sir, (turning to
the other,) what have you to say?”
“Please, sir,” said the puzzled boy—“l—l
was waiting to see Torn off.”
Naturally Answered.
“My dear,” said tin anxious father to his
bashful daughter, “I intend that you shall
be married, but I do not intend that you
shall throw yourself away on any of the wild,
worth less hoys of the present day. You
must marry a man of sober and mature ago —
one that can charm you with wisdom and
good advice, rather than with personal at
traction. What do you think of a fine ma
tured husband of fifty.”
The timid, meek, blue-eyed daughter,
looked into the old man’s face, and, with the
slightest possible touch of interest in her
voice, answered:
“I think, papa, that two of twenty five
would he. hotter"
False Pretenses.
A man about forty years of age, with brilli
antly illuminated neck-handkerchief, and the
rest of his costume in a gone-to-seod condi
tion, appeared at the Huttalo Police Court
a short lime ago, and walked doubtfully
within the bar. Some business being trails
| acted, bo waited anxiously until it was fin
ished, and then walked up to the desk, say
i iug: ‘Judge, 1 want a warrant.’
The Justice, who was busy making out
some delivery papers tor an individual w ho had
just been convicted of something merely
salt), ‘Mb! what?’ and went on chirograpliing
his irrevoeahle edicts.
After some time ‘seedy’ broke out again
with, ‘Squire I want a warrant.’
‘Well,’ said the Justice, very blandly, ‘and
what do you want a warrant tor.’
‘For false pretenses,’said seedy; ‘a man— ’
‘Well, well, hut hold on! who is the indi
v idltal vou wish to arrest?’
‘lt was ./impson and he went and— ’
‘Well, now, stop,’ said the Justice waxing
impatient, ‘you just answer my questions,
ami we will have it straight. Now what
: did J impson do?’
‘\\ al, vou sco, Judge, he comes false pre
tenses on me. 1 was just, agoing to roost,
j and vou see, Squire, Jimpson met me in the
hall, and savs he, Lank, savs he, come into
Imv room and have a little game of hlnll. !
told him I know’d nothing’ about blutl, ami
said lin’d show me, and went in,’
‘And what did you do then? said the
Justice becoming interested.
‘Wnl, J impson show ed me how they bet
on pars, and thorn as had the most pars
look the pile, that was up. 1 won two or
three pots, an 1 then Jimpson won a small
one.’
‘Well,’ said the Judge, screwing his chair
nearer to the .applicant for a warrant for
false pretenses.
‘Then Jimpson ho delt, and I sware of thar
warnt three queens in my hand. 1 says,
bank. I’ll bet ten dollars on three pars’—
and Jimpson savs, he, ‘An I’ll see that nr.
and I’ll go you ten dollars hotter.’
‘\\ oil, go on,’ said the Squire, getting
more interested; ‘what then?’
‘Then I got a little skeart, hut 1 ktmdelhal
three queens was a blessed good hand,’cause
Jimpson said at lirst that them as had the
most pars took the pot, and I went him ten
dollars better.’
‘Well, what then?’said the Justice, rising
and leaning over the justice’s box.
‘Wal, Jimpson he looked at his hand again
laughed, and said: i see that ar, and I’ll go
you twenty dollars better—and can you heal,
four kings?’ says Jimpson. That skeart me
worse’n ever, as I knode three queens
couldn’t, heat four kings, and so I didn’t het
—and he took down the pile; and now |
want a warrant on Jimpson for liaise pro
tenses.’
A on cant have it,’ thundered the Justice.
■( >n what grounds do yon claim one?
‘Wal, Squire, you see J impson asked me
if I could heat four kings, and 1 knode
three queens—’
‘<>ii what, grounds do you claim a warrant
—yon Inst the money, didn’t yon? said the
.1 nsiice.
‘Yes, hut you see, I holt three (pieons,
and Jimpson asked me if 1 could heat four
kings, and I knode three queens wouldn’t
heat four kings, and so I throde np and he
took down the pile. And he never had four
kings, and consequently he obtained mv
money on tiiil.su pretenses. (Jive ns a war
rant, Squire.’
‘What did J impson hold?’ asked (he Squire,
‘lie never felt nothing biff two little par.’
The complainant narrowly dodged a whack
from a tremendous list, as the J nstic.o sank
into an arm-chair with a sigh, while the
victim went oil’ lamenting and execrating
I lie law that did not allow a man to seize
the pot when ho ‘licit’ three queens,and a
law that permitted another fellow to pull
down the pile when lip ‘licit but two paf.’
A Scrupulous Juror.
During the recent trial of Fort man, at
Covington, Ky., oneof the jurymen returned,
was asked by the prosecution, if he had any
“conscientious scruples about inflicting tho
death penalty.'” “Scruples?” “Yes, sir, con
scientious scruples.” The juryman scratch
ed his head, and thought deeply for a mo
ment,. “Yes, sir, 1 have them sera sern .”
“Scruples,” suggest is 1 the attorney.” “Yes,
sir, conscientious scruples.” “Will you ex
plain the nature of your scruples Ip the
Conrl?” said the lawyer. “My scruples,”
said tho juryman, facing Ids Honor, “is that
the Dutchman ought to ho hung, and I’m
in for it.” Ho was ordered to “stand aside
for cause.”
A Sharp Boy.
The Uutland (Vt.) Herald, says that on
the last night of the Vermont legislative
session, while the school hill was under dis
cussion, a member com plained that school
boys had lost their politeness and respect.
Mr. Bartlett, of Lyndon, said, “I acknowledge
the truth of the gentleman’s remarks. 1 was
once forced to take of! my cat-skin cap to
every passer by. A few years since I was
riding through Ctrl,cans county in a sleigh,
and overtook a hoy who had attained the
ago of nine years. He stepped out of (ho
road to let mo pass. There lie stood upon
I lie crust —erect , hold and aspiring. lie
did not propose to doff ids heaver —not he.
Said I, ‘My lad, you should always take off
your hat to a gentleman.’ Said ho, 'Jahoays
do, sir.' ”
One of the Certificates of Death, written
by a “physician of large practice,” received
at the City Inspector’s (tllice, reads as follows;
Mrs. Karoline Johnsons dawter aged five
months and ate clays, died with defisiiensy
of life to day under mv attendance.”
Immense Telegraphic Enterprise.
We learn from a gent lonian in the way of
receiving authentic intelligence on the sub
ject, that a number of gentlemen of this city
largely interested in telegraphic business,
have a project on loot to connect New York
and San Francisco direct by a lino of tele
graph.
The plan is not yet fully matured, but
"ben (reflected it will embrace a preliminary
expedition under (lie auspices and protection
of the Government parly, which is soon to
start, on an engineering tour for the purpose
of laying out (under the recent act of Con
gress) a military vend to the Pacific.
The tclegrapliie party, which is to accom
pany (lie military expedition, will probably
consist ot some forty or fifty persons, and
will be amply supplied with mules and camels
for the purpose of crossing the continent with
safety and dispatch. The parly will start
from Omaha City in Nebraska, (to he con
nected by telegraph with St. Tonis) follow
the Matte river to the South Pass, and thence
direct across to San Francisco.
This is an immense enterprise, and one
which requires a largo outlav of labor and
capital. Should it prove successful, and the
submarine telegraph lie laid successfully in
•luly, Loudon and San Fiaiicisco will be
within hailing distance with each other, and
the quotations on Vhango in the metropolis
ot Kurope will be bulletined in the Golden
Giu within an hour.- .V. V, Mirror.
Tuscan Springs
I’beso springs, near lied I‘lull’s, are becom
ing a lavorile |>laco ot iv^ort. In speaking
ot them, the linicou of May Oth, says:
I hem are a dozen or more of (hose springs
situated in an area ot i wenty rods stjiiare, each
differing from all tile others in temperature
and all the properties of its water. We are
not aware that a thorough chemical analysis
of the waters has heon had, hut we are in
lormed that eonniioii salt, horax, sulphur,
ammonia and iron are the prevailing pro
perties.
Some ol the water i-- so strongly impreg
nated with these properties as to leave salt,
horax, etc., in eonsiderahlo ipiantities, al
most pmv, in a clrystaliz.cd stale in the vici
nity of the springs.
1 hey emit large ipiantities of inflamma
-1)1 e gas - sulphurated hydrogen gas—wliieli,
when ignited, produces a hriliiaut w Idle ligiit,
not unlike the gas light used in cities. Su(R
eient ipiantities of lids gas might he collect
ed to light the house and heal the water used
for bathing.
The country around has a highly volcano
appearance, the whole surface of the neigh
borhood being covered with scoria;. NVe
think these springs must become celebrated
as a natural curiosity, lor the beauty of the
scenery around Ilium and for the mcdica)
virtlies of their waters.
A llomu Tmirsr.—'l lie N. V. fix-pres*
says; “The Abolition journals, after heartily
abusing ‘the scoundrels' of the United States
Supreme Court, are rapidly coming to the
conclusion—that big scoundrels as they are,
they have only decided that a negro is nut
a citizen of the United Slates. As even in
New York, we have heon deciding all that
for years hv refusing to let negroes inter
marry with our children—have kept them off
our Juries and militias—kicked them out of
railroad cars, churches, grave yards and free
schools—why call judges scoundrels, for le
gally carrying out, our own practical decis
ions? Nevertheless, the Court will lie de
nounced as bar-room politicians, and as a set
of scoundrels, just as bitterly as ever.”
AN ACT
To prohibit Gaming.
Ihr People of tin * Stale of Ca/iforniu, rrprr
rrsted in Senate anil .Isseinhl i / do enact as
fill lawn:
Si;r. I. Every person who shall deal, play,carry
on, open, or cause to be opened, or wig) shall con
duct, either as owner or employee, whether for
hire or md, any game of Karo, Monte,' lupiletle,
JiUlisijnenet, Kongo el .Voir, or any hanking game
played with cards, dice or any device, vpljether
the same be played for money, checks, credit, op
any representation of value, shall be guilty of
felony, and on conviction thereof shall lie punish
ed by imprisonment in the State's I’risen fop a
tefin no! exceeding twp ) ears, gad by line not ex
ceeding live thousand dollars.
SMI I. 2. livery person who shall bet, havard. nr
play money, checks, or anything of value against
said games mentioned in the previous section,
shall he deemed guilty of a (Misdemeanor, and
shall, on conviction thereof, he lined nut exceed
ing live hundred dollars, and imprisoned In the
county jail not exceeding six months.
Sec. 3. No perse n otherwise competent as a
witness, shall lie disqualified from testifying as a
witness, either before a grand or petty Jury, con
cerning the offenses mentioned in the foregoing
sections, on the ground that his testimony shall
be reduced i ' anting, and no indictment or pro
secution shall afterwards he brought against him
for said offenses, conci riling which he lias tesliticd
as a witness.
Ski', -t. The iiislriet Attorneys of tin; various
counties of (he State shall receive one hundred
dollars for every conviction under this Act, to ho
collected out of the property of the party so con
victed.
See. a. livery person who shall knowingly per
mit any of the games mentioned in this' sec
tion to be played, conducted nr dealt In any
house owned by him or her, in whole or part,
or rented by him or her, in whole or part, shall
lie guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
shall be lined live thousand dollars, and imprison,
ed in the county jail six months.
Approved April 27th. I So 7
AN ACT
Fixing the time of holding the County Court irp
the county of Placer.
The People of the State of California, repre
sented in Senate and .7, .anbly dp enaet us
ful/oti't:
Sec. 1. The County Court of the comity of
Placer shall hold a term on the second Mondays
of February, May. August and November, in each
year, which shall continue until ail the business
of the Court is disposed of.
Sec . 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict
with the provisions of this act, are hereby repeal;
i d. so far as they relate to the county of Placer
Approved April 28th, 1857.
NUMBER 39.