VOLUME I.
Cl)c lUnilii V Infer fnratt.
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BUSINESS CARDS.
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H. O. liyersoi*,
rTORNEY AND OUNSELLOR
at Law, Auburn, Placer co. [si 1 tf.
Philip* W. Thomas,
Attorney and counsellor
at LAW, Auburn, Placer Co. sll
Hale & Hopkins,
ATTORNEYS and Counsellors at
Law, Placer Co Cal., will give their
joint attention to allcivil business entrus
ted to their care.
Jas. E. Hale, Yankee Jim’s.
R. D. Hopkins, District Attorney
Auburn. slltf.
Empire Hotel.
AND GENERAL STAGE HOUSE.
\ ÜBURN, Placer county, by
A slltf] H. JVI. HOUSE.
Brittain & Co,
BUTCHERS and dealers in stock, —
Sho[> on Court street, one door front
the National. .Auburn, sept 18 my
BLACKSMITHING of all kinds done
to order upon the lowest terms; also,
mending and repairing waggons, by
P ALLEN WILLIS,
Near the Empire Hotel, Auburn, slltf
International Bowling Saloon.
MAIN S T R E E T, A U B U RN.
016-tf
~J. I). BURLINGHAM,
HOUSE & SIGN PAINTER.
WORK, done with neatness and dis
patch Shop in rear of \Y ells,
Fargo & Co.’s express office. [o9-tf
Edward Field,
MAN UFA C TURING JE IVELLER .
TTTATCHES REPAIRED in a
it neat and substantial manner. cLA
Auburn, Placer Co., Oct. 30th. [tf
YANKEE JIM’S
Herrick’s Hotel,
CORNER, of Main and Spring streets,
Yankee Jim’s. S. HERRICK.
sll-Sm Proprietor.
Niles’ Hotel,
AIN street, Yankee Jim’s.
HENRY W. NILES, Proprietor
si l-3m
Harcltier’s Hotel,
MAIN street, Yankee Jim’s.
N. GARDNER,
si 13m A. T, HOWES.
Proprietors.
James S. Folder & Co.,
I7IMPIRE Store, Yankee Jim’s. Deal
'j ers in provisions, Miners’ Tools,
IFines anil Liquors. Goods packed to
order. sll-2m
Stovall, Cravens & Co.
PEOPLE’S SPORE, Yankee Jims,
keep constantly on hand a large and
well selected stock of provisions, liquors,
and miners supplies in general. Miners
and others wishing to purchase are re
spectfully invited to call and examine for
themselves. Goods packed to order,
sept 18 my
Livery Stable, Yankee Jim’s.
HORSES to let at all times, hay and
and grain to sell, also stabling for
horses and mules, near the People’s store.
J. Gaily & Co.
sept 18 Im* Proprietors.
Cartwright & Bullard’s
Bowling saloon, Main street, Yankee
Jim’s.—septlB Im*
Stein, Eisner & Co.
DRY GOODS, clothing, boots and
shoes, provisions, groceries, liquors,
crockery, cigars and all kinds of miner’s
tools, the largest assortment in town. —
Main st. opposite the Golden Gate, Yan
kee Jim’s.—sept 18 lm
SMITH MEIIHICK,
, Justice of the Peace, office on Main st.,
Yankee Jim’s.—novSOmy
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OPUIR.
W. Hathaway,
WATCHMAKER and Jeweler, Main
street, Ophir, one door below Ad
ams Co.’s Express Office. sll-lm
THE WEEKLY PLACER HERALD.
AUBURN, PLACER CO., CAL., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1852.
u Tlie Wife for me.”
Horace Hastings was a sober, sensible,
enterprising bachelor, of some seven and
twenty years, who having obtained an ex
cellent reputation by his industry and in
tegrity, and having made himself useful in
the mercantile firm in Boston, with whom
he had served an apprenticeship was at
length invited to a partnership in the con
cern. For some time he had been encour
aged to anticipate this elevation, and he
soberly and energetically entered upon
the new duties of his position. When
business crowded he had but little leisure
to mourn over his celibate condition, but
when the hurrying season was over, and
hours lay heavy on his hands, he could
not help thinking how delightful it would
be, had he but a house and gentle wife of
his own. His pecuniary circumstances
now warranted such luxuries, and he re
solved to marry when he could find a lady
“just suited to his mind.”
Near a country village in Maine, not a
thousand miles from Bangor, lived an old
friend of his father, and being on a col
lecting tour in that region during the au
tumn months, he determined to accept an
oft repeated invitation to spend a few days
with the old gentleman, and sent a note
to announce his coming
At the appointed time he reached the
residence of his old friend, and found that
the family were prepared and pleased to
welcome him as a guest. In the parlor
were two young ladies, well dressed and
quite handsome. He w'as duly intro
duced to Misses Jane and Charlotte, and
found them accomplished and sensible
young ladies. Being just now concepti
ble to the tender passion, he was easily
pleased, and exerted his powers to render
himselfagreeable to the fl ittered maidens.
He succeeded, of course. Sensible men, j
of his age and prospects, always do, when I
they try. And as his eye wandered in
conversation from one handsome, intelli
gent face to another, he caught himself
several times mentally inquiring, “Which
would make the better wife?”
The mother and a neat looking maid,
were seen at intervals passing from the
kitchen preparing the supper. The gi/1
who set out the table, and spread the
white, stainless cloth, and arranged the
plates, seemed to do it so gracefully and
quietly, as if site had made such duties a
study or a science, won a passing glance
of admiration as a very neat ana preuy
servant—a model of her ‘help.’ Alto
gether, he thought it was a charming fam
ily. When they sat at the cheerful sup
per, and he tasted the light, home made
bread, and the sweet, fresh butter, and
the thinly sliced, home cured beef, the
hot, well flavored tea, the excellency and
good taste manifested in the whole order
ing, he felicitated himself upon having
found a pleasant home even if it was only
for a few days. And after supper was
over, and the table was cleared, a third
young lady, very neatly dressed, entered
the room, and was formally introduced to
him as one of the sisters —Miss -Sarah.
He was not a little surprised to find
that the neat servant girl, whose handy
work had won his admiration, was one of
the sisters. He found her sprightly,
cheerlul,as accomplished, and he thought
a little more graceful than Jane, who was
older, or Charlotte, w ho was younger than
herself. He thought a little more meanly
ot himself, for having taken her to be the
hired girl of her family, but not a whit
more meanly of her for having revealed
herself in that capacity. And his per
plexity was somewhat increased as he
sat down on his bedside in the chamber to
which he was shown by his host, and said
to himself, “Which of the three?”
In the morning, after a night’s sound
sleep—for he was not sufficiently in love
to keep him auuike —lie entered the break
fast room, ana was soon joined by the
two young ladies who first welcomed'him.
Sarah was not yet visible, but when
they had seated down at the table, and
Jane had poured out the coffee, Sarah
came smiling in behind a clean white
apron, and with a steaming pde of hot
buckwheat cakes in her hand, which judg
ing from the hue of her cheeks she had
just been baking. If there was a blush
on her cheeks, any eye might see it was
forced there by the fire, and not by any
sense of degradation, on account of the
office she so gracefully filled.
►She greeted the guest with a welcome
smile, deposited her load of eatables, and
returned to tbe kitchen whence she trip
ped again in a few minutes, with another
plate of cakes, most beautifully baked by
her own skill. Horace eat a large quan
tity of them, more than enough merely to
satisfy hunger, because of tbe beautiful
little hands that made them. And then
ho wandered over the farm with the old
man, and prated of horses and cows and
crops, as though he know something
about them as well as broadcloth and cal
icoes.
At dinnertime Jane and Charlotte were
in the parlor waiting far him, and Sarah,
as usual, was bustling about in the kitchen
“1 do wish,” said he, sotto voce, “dial
one of those girls would take Sarah’s
place in the kitchen a little while, that 1
might find out some of their housekeep
ing qualities, and that I might have a lit
tle chat with her.”
Hut he waited for such a change in vain,
though he found some opportunities of
converse, and discovered all he wished to
know just then about her mental qualifi
cations and acquirements, and the close
of the fourth day, just as he got into bed,
! he slapped the white counterpane emphat
ically, and said to it, as there was nobody
in the room, I suppose he must have
spoken to the counterpane or bed post—
“ She’s the wife for me.”
The next morning was the outer limit
of his visit, and as he stood at the win
dow after breakfast, he saw Sarah with
that witching white apron, trip out into
the orchard to shake down some apples—
for it was baking day and pies were to he
made. Horace strolled out after her and
shook the tree, and helped to pick up the
apples, and carried the basket as they re
turned slowly to the house. What it was
he whispered in her ear she never told,
hut she seemed not displeased, though
evidently surprised and a little frightened.
A year after Horace was at the house
of his old friend again, and this time Sa
rah was not so much in the kitchen.—
There were great preparations fora wed
ding going forward, and in a few days
Surah became Mrs. Horace Hastings, and
now in a splendid Boston mansion fully
justifies the wisdom of her husband’s
choice, by being to him a most excellent
wife uiqj superlative housekeeper.
Tlie Perils cf Cosrisaercial Men.
Most men regard the mcrcantit’e profes
sion as the path to wealth, yet statistics
reveal the fact that a large proportion of
those destined to mercantile pursuits are
destined to fail. A profession so exciting
and so uncertain in its results, must beat
tended with peculiar dangers. Few per
sons can pass through the trials of failures
and bankruptcy, without* injury to the
elements of moral being. The claims of
| friends, the demands of a dependant fain
|i!y, and the promptings of pride, present
strong temptations to appropriate some
part of the gains of former years, which
belong legally and morally to creditors.
The excitement of trade is not favor
able to the cultivation of the moral na
ture, and the pressure of a financial crisis,
often makes revolutions of character, not
suspected by friends or enemies. Men
who prove to be defaulters, who burn
their houses for the insurance, who fail
full-handed, and compromise with their
creditors, had long before, under the
guise of fair dealing, resorted to mea
sures, which a pure conscience could not
approve.
The first lapse from the path of virtue
is seldom a final fall. The heart of the
tree decays long before the old trunk hv i
its tali, gives evidence ot Us weakness.
In times of pressure men may become
morally bankrupt, whose reputations have
been fair. The character which falls in
adversity, had been undermined during
prosperity. From these perils there is a
way of escape. A high estimate of man’s
moral worth, may save him from sell
destruction.
Intellectual cultivation, moral training,
literary pursuits, and social pleasures,
may restrain a man from an inordinate
desire for material gains. An enlarged
and liberal mind, which values wealth for
the good it may do, is in little danger of
sacrificing himself upon the altar ot Mam
mon. Wealth gained by the loss of char
acter, self-respect and virtue is dearly
purchased. That cannot be a good bar
gain, which costs us the manly sentiment
and virtuous principles of life. The
higher wants of the soul, are of more im
portance than any material interests. —
Commerce and wealth are desirable only
as they afford facilities, for mental and
social improvement.
When tiie energies of life are devoted
wholly to the accumulation of material in
terests, it is only the earnest virtue that
can triumph over temptation, when earl}
presented, as the plausible means of self
preservation. The haste of multitudes
to lie rich, is said to be characteristic of
the people of this country.
An English writer represents the whole
American people as standing behind one
long counter, from Maine to Texas, tra
ding against the rest of the world, under
the auspices of the Guardian Spirit ol
Mammon. This may be a caricature,
still there must be a semblance of truth
in the representation, or wo would not
perceive the likeness. It may bo that ii
other countries the devotion to materia
interests is inordinate, exhausting aim
perilous, yet there is in this country i
spirit of daring enterprise, and a habit o
innovation and speculation which con
trusts strongly with the timid adherenci
to a prescribed mode of life, and the fixei
lethargic character of the people of tin
old world.
“Make haste slowly,” is a good maxim,
and if the spirit of speculation, could la
restrained among mercantile men, theii
moral welfare would he promoted without
any detriment to their material interests,
for it is a fact of striking significance that
failures occur, not so much in the prose
cution of legitimate mercantile business,
as in the attempt to anticipate the profit
of regular trade, by embarking in some
promising but delusive speculation.—J\lil
waukie Journal.
Nevada. —The quartz miners held a
convention at Nevada on the 10th inst at
which certain laws were enacted for the
government of quartz miners, their claims
&c. Each proprietor of a lead or claim
is entitled to 100 feet on a vein, and the
discovc rer 200. This and other laws are
set forth at length in a report from a com
mittee having the subject in hand, and are
to ho valid throughout Nevada county.
The heavy rains in the vicinity of Ne
vada have been favorable to miners and
saw mills.
An Editor in the Blues. —The editor
of the Saratoga (N, V.) Republican pours
forth his lamentations:
“Having made precisely money enough
at the printing business, the subscriber is
satisfied to give up and retire to the poor
house. Under these circumstances, he is
induced to offer the printing establish
ment of the Saratoga Republican for sale.
I be paper has a circulation ofabout 1,000
—one-fourth of w hich may he called [lay
ing, and the other three-fourths non-pay
ing patrons. The office has a good varie
ty of jolt type, and a fair run of work of
this description, provided the work is
done at the reduced New York [trices,
and the printer will take “cats and dogs”
for pay. This village is one of the pret
tiest places in the world for a newspaper
publisher. Everybody will find fault, do
the best you can, and the editor who [ileu
ses himself will stand but a slim chance
of pleasing anybody else. The subscrip
tion list and good will of the office will
be thrown in, if the purchaser w ill take
the type, presses and materials for w hat
they are worth, and pay for them, so that
there wdll be no probability of the present
proprietor being obliged to take the estab
lishment back and stick to the business.”
A London Reporter.— Prohy had
never been out of London, never in a
boat, never on the back of a horse. To
the end of bag-wigs he wore a hag. He
was the last man that walked with a cane
as long as himself, ultimately exchanged I
for an umbrella which he was never seen
without, in wet weather or dry; yet he
usually reported the whole debates in the j
Peers from memory, w ithout a note, for j
the Morning Chronicle, and wrote two or
three novels depicting the social manners
of the times! He was a strange feeder,j
and ruined himself in eating pastry at the
confectioners’ shops (Tor one of whose!
scores Taylor and 1 hailed him,) he was
nlwnr" •« " - I nnerrn
Column christened him “King Poms;”
and ho was always so punctual to a
minute, that when he arrived in sight of
the office window, the cry used to he,
“There’s Prohy—it’s half-past two,” and
yet ho never set his watch. If ever it
came to right time 1 cannot tell; but if
you asked him what o’clock it was, he
would look at it and calculate something i
of this sort: “I am twenty-six minutes I
past seven—four, twenty one from twelve,
forty—it is just three minutes past three.”
Poor, strange, and simple, yet curiously
informed Prohy ! His last domicile was
the Lambeth parish workhouse, out of
which he would come in its coarse, gray
garb, and call upon his friends as freely
and unceremoniously as before, to the
surprise of servants, who entertain “an
’orrid” jealousy of paupers, and who
could not comprehend why a person so
clad was shown in. The last letter I had
from him spoke exultingly of his having
been chosen to teach the young children
in the house their A 15 Cs, which confer
red some extra accomodations upon him.
Jerdan's Autobiography.
Burnt District. —Notwithstanding
the inclemency of the weather during the
past week, the sound of labor and indus
try are constantly heard upon the burnt
district. Five or six small wooden build
ings have been erected, most of them
temporary. On Clay street, the founda
tion is laid for a row of brick stores,
inking up at least half the space he
tween the California Exchange and the
store of Messrs. Austin &, Lohdell. De
spite the severe rains a very large num
ber of workmen are engaged in putting
up these buildings. A row of brick houses |
will add much to the appearance of that
portion of the city and act as a harrier to
die devastation of the fire. This has
been one of the most unfortunate por
tions of the city, having been swept by
every conflagration since 1841). It will
soon however he in a condition to resist
the progress of another fire.— Mia
DanieT Weijster.— '“ Serena,” a lady
correspondent of the Marysvi le Herald,
utters the following beautiful thought in
speaking of the demise of Daniel Web
ster:
“ He was so great tnat we could almost
weep that he was not greater, that we
might have worshiped him without feeling
that he was mortal.”
A mystic belle who came tripping into
the house one evening from the fields,
was told by her city cousin that she looked
as fresh as a daisy kissed with dew.—
“Wo I, it wasn’t any fellow of that name,
hut Bill Jones, that kissed me; and, eon
found liis picture, I told him everybody
would find him out,”
O’er Vounu to Marry. — Naomi, the
daughter id Enoch, was not married until
she w as live hundred and eighty years old.
Anecdote of Dumas.— A little
anecdote is going the rounds, that
shows the author of Monte Christo
to bo more of a democrat than the
Trois Mousquctaircs would lead one
to suppose.
Alexander Dumas, with two friends
was boating one day lately on the
Seine. Dumas rowed, one friend
smoked, the other philosophised.
“It’s very hot,” says one.
“I’m very thirsty,” says Dumas,
“and here’s a little grog shop, let’s go
in.” It was agreed, they stepped
ashore, and whilst the companions
loitered behind to fasten the boat,
Dumas entered the cabaret.
There was one room only, and one
table in it, that was occupied by a
fellow in a smock frock. He him
self was lolling at full length on the
solitary bench.
“I beg your pardon,” says Dumas,
“a little room, friend, if you please.”
“What do you mean? room! it’s
my table, and my bench.”
“There’s not much liberality, and
still less fraternity in that notion.”
“Perhaps so: but it’s the fact.”
“Give me leave to call fora bottle
and take a drink with you.”
“1 don’t drink with chance corncrs
in.”
‘The do’ll you don’t! you’re proud,
eh?”
“Proud, or not, I oidy tipple with
my equals, you old Mulatto!”
The word was scarcely uttered,
when a vigorous crack on the head
sent the impudent rascal sprawling
under the table.
“What’s all this about?” cried one
of the party coming in. “What are
you doing there?”
“Oh! nothing, nothing,” replied
Dumas, sitting (piietly down, “1 am
only democratizing an aristocrat!”
The Course of 'Trade.— The
1- i*i o \ \Vi SFumii u-l iii ulO Dum oo VJI
au article designed to show tlie in
llnence which the newly constructed
railroads of this conntiy have upon
Western affairs, says:
“New Orleans is already beginning
to find that she permitted the North
to steal a march on her, and is strug
gling now to change the path of des
tiny, but we think she is too late in
her efforts. The climate of New
York and Boston is much better
adapted to the preservation of most
of the products of the west than tho
tropical heat of New Orleans. Flour,
bacon, pork, tobacco, &c must do
much better, generally, in New York
and Boston, than in the South, and
(he salutary experience derived from
the railoads of Ohio and New York
will not encourage shippers to look
hack. Large quantities of western
produce, which formerly went to New
Orleans, now prefer a northern mar
ket, and find it a great advantage to
do so. Mr. Stone, the accomplished
superintendent of the Cincinnati, Co
lumbus and Cleveland railroad, in
forms us that it is not an uncommon
occurrence for one hundred hogs
heads of tobacco to pass daily over
his road on its way to New York.
Commerce has made quite a revolu
tion, under the marshalling of a rail
road whistle, and it is not probable
that this revolution will go back
wards.”
He who is astonished is half sub
dued. Kach absurdity you get peo
ple to swallow prepares them for a
greater. The man who gapes at a
juggler, only needs that juggler to
turn priest to believe that he is con
nected with the God-Head. The
blockhead who imagines that a
bought prayer will do his potatoe
patch more good than a top-dressing
of manure, finds no difficulty in at
tributing the rot in his sheep to his
not having paid tythes to a conse
crated extortioner who denounces
pride in a fifty dollar shirt. Again
we say, if you would mislead your
fellow creatures, astonish them.
San Joaquin. —The Republican
has been considerably enlarged, and
ascribes the fact to a continued in
crease of advertising favors. We are
glad to find the office is so nourish
ing a pecuniary position. It augurs
well for the growing prosperity ot
California. —Union.
There are 1118 school children in
Marysville, according to a late report.
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