THE WEEKLY PLACER HERALD.

VOLUME 3. AUBURN, PLACER COUNTY, CAL., SATURDAY. JULY 28, 1855. NUMBER. 46.

THE PLACER HERALD. Lines copied from an Old Magazine. The Way it Ended. An Act concerning Roads & Highways. said county, and, on conviction thereof, shall A Masquerade Ball came off Albany on The the State rep- be fined in a sum not to exceed one hundred PUBLISHED EVERY AT at People of of California, SATURDAY, .. , THE OFFICE, No glory I covet, no riches I want. Tuesday evening last. Among those present resented in Senate and Assembly, do enact dollars. Main Street, near Holmes’ Store, by Sec. 14. All fines collected under the pro- Ambition is nothing to me; were Bob H and Frank B , of this as follou's; visions of this act, shall be paid into the TABB MITCHELL. The one thing I beg of kind heaven to grant, city. Bob is a married gentleman, and owns Sec. 1. Roads shall be considered as public the fee simple of one of the prettiest wives which are now used as such, and county treasury for the use of the road dis- Is a free. highways, TERMS.—Subscriptions invariably in ad- mind independent and and babies in the Metropolis. Frank B is have been declared as such by order of the trict in which the same was collected. vance. For one year, $0,00; six months $4,00; a bachelor, slightly given to champagne and Court of Sessions or Board of Supervisors, or Sec. 15. An Act concerning roads and and an three months $2,50; one month $1,00; single With passions unruffled, untainted with pride. illicit calico—in othet words, Frank is a roue , which may be hereafter so by highways, passed April llth, 1850. declared the concerning roads and copies, twenty five cents. By reason my life let me square; and as a matter of course is a great favorite Board of Supervisors within their respective Act highways, passed April ISHh, are hereby repealed. The wants of my nature are supplied, with the ladies—roues always are. Bob left counties. 1853. FOR ADVERTISING.—One square of ten cheaply town under the plea that a ‘sick uncle’ was Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Board of Passed April 28th, 1855. or more than first And the rest are but folly and care. like*, five, insertion $3,00; dying, and that his services were needed to Supervisors of each county to divide the each subsequent insertion, $1,50. For half a ‘regulate the The First Fruits of Know-Hothingism. will.’ county into road districts, and to appoint an- Emigration from Europe, says the New «eqaH» Of fcivK lines, or less, $2,00; each sub- The blessings w hichProvidence freely has lent, ball, we have stated took occur, The as already nually. or whenever vacancies may an Times, to seems to re- sequent insertion SI,OO. I’ll justly and gratefully prize; place on Tuesday the York New York, have evening last. Among Overseer for each district, whom they shall a decided check. Without any refer- distinguished entered room to pleasure. ceived JOB PRINTING.—Large additions have re- Whilst sweet meditation and cheerful content, visitors who the have power remove at ence to the statistics of the Emigration Office, as the sixth cotillon was being were 3. The Clerk of each county cently been made to the Job Office, and work Shall make me both healthful and wise. danced, Sec. County the most casual observer will at once per- ■of all descriptions will be executed in a supe- Bob and his friend Frank—the former dis- shall notify all persona who have been ap- ceive, by the appearance of our wharves, that guised as ‘Cardinal Woolsey,’ and the latter pointed Road within days after rior manner. In the Overseers, ton the rush of emigration from the Old the pleasures great man's possessions as a ‘Brigand.’ Among the ladies present such appointment has been made, informing Country display. to the United States has been partially General Advertising Agency, was one w'hose beauty of contour and deli- them of such appointment and describing the stopped. There is none of that bustle and Unevied I’ll challenge my part, cately small ankles produced an immediate boundaries of their district. JVb. 97 Merchant Street, excitement visible about our quays which For every fair object my eyes can survey impression on the pair. She wore a mask, Sec. 4. The Road Overseers shall cause all characterized the landing of passengers in SAN FRANCISCO. and personated some lady of Italian extrac- the public highways within their respective the spring of year. A Contributes to gladden my heart. be kept from obstructions, last multitudinous and Subscriptions re- tion. districts, to clear mass of adventurers, with a profusion of ceived by Agent, ‘That's a killing foot. Bob, isn't it?’ and in good repair, causing banks to be graded, trunks, boxes and beds, was daily discharged ADVERTISEMENTSThomas Boyce, How vainly through infinite trouble and strife, ‘lt form be made where the 97 Merchant street, and Room No. 9, up stairs, isn’t anything else; and then what a bridges and causeways to last year upon our piers, from clipper and Iron Building, northeast corner of Montgom- The many their labors employ! —who the deuce can she be?’ same may be necessary, to keep the same in bark, brig and schooner. Every description ‘Can't renew them when des- ery and Washington streets, for the Since ail that is truly delightful in life, say, but I intend to dauce with her, good repair, and to of craft arriving here from Europe was cram- AUBURN; or perish in the attempt.’ troyed. med to with its incongruous cargo “PLACER HERALD.” Is what all, if they please, may enjoy. F'rank The Road shall have pow- suffocation “Democratic State Journal,” Sacramento; After the sixth cotillon was finished. Sec. 5. Overseers of human beings, collected from every quar- crossed the room, drew on a pair of lemon er to make use of any gravel or dirt for im- “Daily Argus,” Stockton; Absurdities of Life. ter of the Old World. The plodding Ger- “Sierra Citizen,” Downieville; colored kids, ‘doubled up,’ and requested the proving the roads, which may be absolutely mans fled from the oppressions of Emperors, “Miners’ Diamond Springs; Not to go to bed when you are sleepy, be- honor of dancing the next set with the fair necessary, from any adjacent unimproved Archdukes and Serene Highnesses, the Advocate,” cause certain to “Mountain Messenger,” Gibsonville; it is not a hour. unknown. She consented, and in a few mo- lands, ami the Board of Supervisors may al- sanctuary provided by this Great Republic, To stand in water up to your knees fishing afterwards the good looking brigand low such damages, there be any. to the “Contra Costa,” Oakland; ments if whose arms have always been opened wide to “Tribune,” San for trout, when you can buy them in a clean, was doing a waltz in -. manner that indicated owners of said lands, as they may deem just; receive the persecuted of every clime, Jose; dry that lacked in it said shall be liable with- Portland, O. T. market. what such dancing grace, provided, that Supervisors out distinction of race or creed. “Democratic Standard.” committing of made suit of From land- Men suicide to get rid a up in hugging. to pay damages to the county, at the lord tyranny and English misrule, the outcast WILLIAM DUCK, short life, and its evils, which must necessarily Having acquitted himself of the waltz, any citizen, if it shall be proved that they and down-trodden Irish—men, women and YANKEE JIM’S, terminate in a few years, and thus entering Frank seated his fascinating partner, and have allowed extraordinary and extravagant children—cast themselves into the first vessel, upon one which is to last forever, and the once more his friend Bob. damages. Placer County, California. joined and sought shelter and protection on our evils of which they do not seem to take the ‘Charming creature, isn’t she?—waltzes like Sec. ti. The Board of Supervisors shall have shores. Germany and Ireland, in fact, sup- wisest method of an angel, and has all the of a road on all able-bodied T AM NOW SELLING GOODS at reduced avoiding. bewitchingness power to levy a tax plied the great bulk of the arrivals at this People of exquisite sensibility, who cannot Spanish coquette.’ men. between the ages of twenty-one and fifty J. prices, and Miners are invited to call and port; and, for many years past, the tide of bear to see an animal to death, showing ! ‘She has evidently made an impression on years, shall not exceed five cents on see my new and elegant stock at the old put which emigration unabated, undiminished has the utmost to variety you, you do same?’ one hundred dollars for road purposes, stand, on Main street, one door above Adams attention the and abuu-' Frank—did the each been setting in towards this continent from dance of their tables. •I rather think 1 did—engagedfor a ride up to be levied and collected at the same timeand «fc Co.’s Express Office. Goods packed for those countries. To buy a horse of a near relation, and be- the Troy road after the ball is over—if that manner as other property taxes are purchasers to any part of the Mines. collected; Although it carried with it no small portion every word he says in praise of the ani- is not an impression, I know what that the provisions of this so WILLIAM DUCK. lieve don’t would provided, section of the misery which gave it a westward ten- mal he is desirous to dispose of. be. the way, how can I find out who she far as it relates to the road tax, shall not apply Yankee Jim’s, Oct. 14. ’s4—6m By dency, and although our eyes were made fa- To suppose that every one likes to hear is?’ to any of the incorporated cities or towns of miliar with scenes of distress and destitution child to ROBERT O. CRAVENS & CO. your cry. and you talk nonsense it. •Use stratagem—bet me fifty dollars, and this State. to this land and repugnant to the shall be foreign PEOPLES’ STORE, (Yankee Jim.) The perpetual struggle of affectation to I'll ascertain that fact in twenty minutes.’ Sec. 7. The property tax so levied, feelings of its people; still, it must be admit- pass for an •I'll do it—now go ahead.' collected by the sheriff of the in the keep constantly on hand a large and well oddity. county, ted that material benefits were derived from THE To send your son travel foreign Bob did so, and in the of a few min- same manner as in the collection of other stock of PROVISIONS, LIQUORS, to into course the importation of so much available labor. selected ignorant of the constitu- utes returned. taxes—but road for road purposes, and 'countries, history, all taxes If a country can have the profits arising from MINERS’ SUPPLIES. tion, manners, and language of his own. •Well, what luck, Bob—found out who she shall be by the overseers *in their Miners and others wishing to purchase are collected labor, without being saddled with the cost of To tell a person from whom you solicit a is?’ respective districts; —provided, that the Board respectfully invited to call and examine for rearing it up, its means of producing wealth loan of money, that you are in want of it. ‘Can’t say for certain—but think I have. of Supervisors shall in all cases, require a bond themselves. Goods packed to order, sptllly must be considerably increased and rapidly To call a man hospitable who indulges his While sitting by her side, I drew her handker- of such overseer, to secure the payment of facilitated. This has been precisely the case H. FITZSIMMONS., vanity by displaying his service of plate to chief from her pocket, and with it her card such monies as he may receive under the pro- with America, and hence that unprecedented his rich neighbor frequently, but was never case. There it is; open it on the sly, and see visions of this act. industrial progress has enabled the of?' for the im- which Attorney and Counselor at Law. known to give a dinner to any one really in if it contains what you are in search Sec. 8. Whenever any contract United States to outstrip all modern competi- —OFFICE— want of it. Frank did as desired, and made a discovery provement of roads is to be made, advertise- tors in the march of enterprise. The strong That any man should despair of success in that rather astonished him. ments thereof shall be given by the overseer arm of labor, on this continent, has A U B U R N . je2 my surmount- the most foolish undertaking, in a world so ‘Who do you think she is?’ of the district in which such improvement is ed every difficulty which stood in its made, path. LANSING STOUT, overstocked with fools. ‘Could not even guess.’ to be by posting written notices in two The dense forest soon gave place to the culti- A man is in debt to you in a large sum of ‘Read and take on knowledge.’ of the most public places of his district, and Attorney and Counselorat vated field, and where, only a few years ago, Law, money, and has no means in possession or in ‘Mrs. Robert H ! My wife, as I’m a sin- by advertisement, in one newspaper of tbe solitude reigned undisturbed by the foot-fall BEALS' BAR , prospect of paying you—that it maybe ut- ner. Get me a pistol—l’ll murder you, and county, or if none be published in the county, of man, now stands the populousand Placer California. civilized County, terly.impossible for him to earn it by his in- then take her life'’ by notice posted at the court house door ten thriving city. These lasting of jyB my monuments dustry. you immure him in a prison. The last seen of Bob and his friend, they days prior to the letting of such contract, and persevering industry were chiefly reared by To be passionate in your family, and expect were rushing down State street, the latter all contracts shall be awarded to the lowest the imported of Repuidic. bidder, the labor this There PHILIP W. THOMAS, them be placid. about four feet in advance of Cardinal Wool- responsible subject to approval of is yet room and scope enough for countless Attorney and Counselor at Law, To think every one a man of spirit who sey's stiletto. What became of Mrs. H , the Board of Supervisors; provided, that the millions iuside the boundaries of the Union, AUBURN. CALIFORNIA. fights a duel. will be known when the Northern mail ar- overseers shall have power to make contracts and. whilst any portion of the resources of the To pronounce those the most pious who rives. for the improvement ot roads, which shall not Office at the Court House. nlmy country are undeveloped, we must therefore never absent themselves from church. Moral.—When you go to see a‘sick uncle,’ exceed the sum of fifty dollars, at their option, regard a decided falling off in emigration to To sug- be by the ol JAMES ANDERSON, take offense at the address or carriage of ; take your wife along. Loneliness is very such contracts to approved Board this quarter of the globe as a positive loss to ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, any man with whose mind and conduct we i gestive and leads to more impropriety than Supervisors. the Commonwealth. are unacquainted. | Byron’s poems. Albany Dutchman, Sec. 9. The Board of Supervisors of each We find by the records of the Auburn, California. petition, Commission- To laugh at the appearance or manners of county, on presentation of praying ers of Emigration, that there is a startling de- Office, in the Court House. m3fl my Ohio laid the foreigners, to whom we must appear equally The Liquor Law. for a county road to be out within crease in the number of immigrants that have ! one Eureka No. ridiculous. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser talks county, or praying for a cart road, or from arrived in New York since the Ist of Lodge, 16, To the road to and the March and A. M., meets on the third occupy attention of a large company I in the following facetious style about the Ohio public another, designating up to the present date, as compared with the. by the recital of an occurrence interesting to Liquor Law: points therein, shall cause notice to be given corresponding period of last year. Although Monday in each month. Transient land, yourself alone. The Buckeyes are exemplary temperance to parties owning the over which each the returns for this month are not yet com- Brethren in good standing are iuvi AF. Not to wear a great-coat when our joints men, ami do not fail to enact admirable laws road is to be located, and if objections by one plete, the additional increase, if any, will be ted to communicate. are aching with rheumatism, lest we should for the suppression of intemperance. But or more of the owners shall be made, the very trilling. The number that arrived from H. R. HAWKINS, be thought delicate. I they have a sharp eye to the main chance, Board of Supervisors shall consider and de- foreign countries at this port in March and Decl9my Secretary ; nevertheless. While they prohibit, under so- termine the same, at their next regular meet- April, 1854, were 34,906; in March and April, How to keep gatheredFruits and Flow- lvere penalties, the use of all intoxicating ing, and if they shall be of the opinion that 1835, (up to this date, April 25th.) 5,358, & State, shall appoint WELLS PROVOST, ers always Fresh. drinks manufactured on of the they such a road is necessary, they which give the enormous decrease, in two permit the to pour down as much ale of two persons as viewers io vic» ,».,d Pickle and Preserve A friend has just informed us that fruit and lieges mouius, oi 4.i,0-io. in me penuu of year, Warehouse, domestic manufacture, cider and made said ami a return of the viewers, last No. 4H Front Street, flowers may be preserved from decay and wine road, upon to which we allude, 13,506 of the immigrants fading in solution of from grapes grown in the State, as they can shall declare the same to be a public highway. came Ireland, but the and Sacramento by immersing them a from from Ist of March Between California sts., in hold. Now, a man whose taste is sufficiently When absolutely necessary the county sur- to the the SAN FRANCISCO. gum Arabic, water, two or three times, up present, arrivals from that coun- waiting a sufficient time between each immer- vitiated to like Catawba wine, can get as veyor may be called in by the Supervisors to try only numbered 1,681, which exhibits •blue a sion to allow the gum to dry. This process as blazes’ on that delectable prepara- assist in said location. falling off to the amount of 11,825. 9 3m D. PROVOST. Agent. it branch Each r port to June covers the surface of the fruit with a thin tion; but as encourages an important Sec. 10. road overseer shall \ arious minor reasons may have combined coating of the gum, which is entirely imper- of agriculture, the crime is overlooked. Ohio the Board of Supervisors quarterly, the to produce this result; but the principal BOUNTY LAND WARRANTS judges, when called upon to punish intoxica- amount of money collected and paid out by by vious to the air, and thus prevents the decay causes may he fairly traced to the crusade obtained tion, must discriminate after the manner of him. and to whom, and for what paid, the JAMES ANDERSON, of the fruit, or the withering of the flower. that has been waged in some States against Our friend has roses thus preserved, which the Dutch justice, before whom three ine- number of days he himself has been in actual our imported population; and, in a still ATTORNEY AT LAW have all the beauty and fragrance of freshly briates were brought to trial. “What you service, and also a list of delinquents, and the greater degree, to the last season of unparal- Auburn, Cal. plucked ones, though separated from the pa- gets drunk on?” said he, addressing the sor- said overseer shall make an affidavit before a leled distress, was experienced riest the which with Office at the Court House. mayl9 tf rent stem since June, 1853. To insure suc- specimen of three. “Blackstrap.” Justice of the Peace, that said report and de- more or less intensity throughout every por- big his cess in experiments of this kind, it should be “You he one rascal, to drink such poor linquent list is correct to the best of tion of the Union. Thousands returned to DR. J. C. HAWTHORNE, in mind, that whole stuff. 1 lines you five dollars.” Ruin was the knowledge and belief, and any person refu- the old during the winter, borne the surface must weakness, countries past AUBURN, CAL. be completely covered; for if the air only next fellow's and he was fined two sing or neglecting to pay the road tax re- taking with them accounts of the sad instances dollars—rum being a more respectable this the on or be- PS- OFFICE with M. E. MILLS, Esq., at gains entrance at a pin-hole, the lal»or will all tipple, quired by act to overseer, of destitution which they bad witnessed. Court House. may26my be preserving of fruit, in the estimation of the justice. And what fore the first day of October of each year, Their tales were sufficient to dispel the gol- the lost. In specimens drunk, particular care should be taken to cover the make you ray friend?” said he to the shall be considered a delinquent, and the den dreams of persons intending to emigrate, you on and sell at ROBERT J. FISHER, stem, all, with the gum. A good way third culprit. “Punch.” “Go 'long wid overseer shall proceed to levy and induce them to remain at home, and end and —I I highest bidder, bear House Carpenter and Joiner, is to wind a thread of silk about the stem, fines you just noting at all—why gets public vendue to the (after a little longer the wrongs and oppressions prepared to erect buildings on short no- and then sink it slowly in the solution, which drunk mit punch myself sometimes.” giving six days public notice.) the property from w hich they had made up their minds to or so much thereof as IStice. He constantly has on hand a large should be so strong as not to leave a particle of such delinquent, escape. At this season, last year, the waiting assortment of sluice lumber, etc. of the gum undissolved. The gum is so per- An Automaton that Walked am* Spoke.— shall be necessary to satisfy such delinquency rooms and office of the Commissioners of Undertaking. fectly transparent, that you can, with difficul- An ingenious mechanic in New York has suc- and cost. Emigration were crowded to excess with ap- in The for orders as Undertaker, promptly at- ty detect its presence, except by the touch. ceeded in making a machine the human Sec. 11. overseers shall receive plicants for transmission to the interior. Now tended to. [n44.v3] R. J.FISHER. Here, we have another simple of fix- shape walk and talk. The Evening Post de- their services while in actual employment, the they are nearly deserted. For the moment, method is to ing the fleeting beauty of nature, and sur- scribes it to be an awkward looking thing, same per diem compensation, as allowed we may seem to he relieved thereby from rounding ourselves ever objects weighing, it was said, three hundred and fifty the Supervisors of their respective counties. many embarrassments incident to a large im- Come and See for Yourselves! with those obstruct any which do most the mind, the pounds, with a huge bronze head, a monstrous Sec. 12. If any person shall migration. But the result may show the elevate refine the that and heart. body painted red, and short legs. The ma- public road by felling any tree across advantages lost are far greater than the evils ROBERT GORDON taste, purify the therein, Country Gentleman. chinery was wound up, aud off it started and same, or by placing any obstructions escaped. this method of notifying his walked a short distance forward and back- or damming, digging and deepening a creek TAKESfriends and the public generally, MnhU ward, and then by the use of an air-pump and or river or its banks, so as to destroy a fofd Dyspepsia and Vinegar.—As soon as food that he can still be found at his old stand, on Nkwsboys.—They say a wet Sunday morn- the moving of some keys on the outside of or crossing, he shall be liable to prosecution reaches the stomach of a hungry, healthy man, the corner of Main and Commercial streets, ing is the best of all times for their trade. the body, when the figure said, with pauses before a Justice of the Peace, by any Super- it pours out a fluid substance, called gastric with a full assortment of all the necessary ar- “People can't go to church, then," they say between the words: visor of the county or overseer of the road juice, as instantly as the eye yields water, if ticles for Mining, Farming, Hotel and Family “and they wants the papers. Werry often, and gentlemen, you see before you district, on behalf of the county, and on con- it is touched by anything hard; this gastric with (mimicking sly “Ladles uses. His BAR is always well supplied you hears a short whistle,) a triumph of and art.’’ thereof, shall be fined in a sum not dissolves the food from without inwards, as look science viction the choicest Liquors, Cigars, Ac. And ‘boy!’—and maybe you has to round a Many more words were spoken, but were exceeding fifty dollars for every day he shall i lumps of ice in a glass of water are melted his goods, which he warrants of a superior good while to And where it comes from, ’cause not understood. The voice seemed to sound sutler said obstruction to remain after he shall | from w ithout inwards. If fron any cause the quality, he is determined to sell at the lowest they won’t open the door only a crack, for as if proceeding from a living body through have been ordered to remove the same by the food is not melted, or dissolved, that is indi- Cash Prices— and delivers free of charge. fear the neighbors ’ll see ’em—and then you pipes. The operator assured the spectators overseer. gestion, or dyspepsia. Vinegar, in its action N. B.—Orders from a distance promptly at sees somebody's hand stickin’ out motionin’; that any body could make the figure speak, Sec. 13. If any person shall willfully de- on food, is more nearly like the gastric Juice tended to. Auburn, June 23d, ’55 my and they sticks out the money and takes the and that there was no collusion. liarnum stroy or injure any bridge or causeway, or than any fluid known; thus it is that a pickle paper, and slams the door, and you never sees moved the keys and the figure answered, but remove or cause to be removed any of the or a little vinegar will “settle the stomach,” Board of Equalization. ’em. That’s the dodge (with a knowing as he could not see the interior he was not plank or timber therefrom, or cut down or in- when some discomfort is experienced after TVTOTICE is hereby given that the Board of wink) they can’t go to church, and they w ant's satisfied. jure any tree planted or growing as shade eating. The best viuegarfor thatorany other Supervisors will sit as a Board ofEquali- the papers.” tree in any public highway, or damage any purpose is made thus: Mix two quarts of New sation at the term commencing on the first Hens aud chickens should never be allowed highwuiy by digging in it, he shall be liable tf Orleans tnolasse.- with five quarts ofwarm rain Monday of August, A. D. 1855. The throat of birds is very small; hawks, to amuse themselves, as it always results in be prosecuted before any Justice of the Peace water, and four quarts of yeast; use in a fewr nevertheless, • wcekp. aii.Zw A. S. GRANT, County Clerk. often take quite large swallows. fowl play. by any Supervisor of the county, in behalf o.