The Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1852-1872, 1853-04-23

ER IRAN, ROGERS a. COS EXPRESS.
Messrs. Of tie Courier: 81 cannot say precisely
how it is in your city Of Shasta, that The Courier
is looked after on the day of publication but I
knor, that in Yreka, when Messrs. Cram, Rogers
s. Co.'S Express arrives, all the sensible portion
of our citizens run to their office and cry out.
''Have you got the last number of the Courier p"
and you can judge by this alone that our popu-
ation must be of the best kind, A No. sort of
folks. Now 1 account for this in several ways.
The first is, that we have extra share of beau
tiful and intelligent ladies here and the natural
curiosity of the sex induces them to enquire
have to be posted up, so as TO satisfy them, and
we all know that the ladies must be satisfied at
all hazards. Then again, we have very sober,
orderly community-you can hardly ever see
fights, rows, drunkenness and all that sort Of
thing, and in such a neighborhood you always
find a deal of quiet social intercourse, reading,
debating, intellectual conversation, &c. Our
amusements during the starvation period, as it
was called, was of this class, and trying to find
something beside beef to eat, which occupied
about all the time Now that the =" trails are
open," we lose the last part of those amusements,
and have in its place good music and very excel
lent singing by a French lady, Madame Faubery,
who if not Catherine Hayes or Jenny Lind, is
very superior cantatrice
The duel, threatened in former communica-
ton, has been indefinitely postponed, in conse-
quence of the masculine parents of one of the
would-be heroes, having threatened to spank
that part of his body which he stands when
he sits down. So there will of course be no
blood shed.
The reports from the various mining districts
in this section, are of the most cheering nature.
From the same gulch in which the $IO2S, 90
piece was found, several more Jumps have been
TAKEN one weighing twenty-five ounces. Ano-
tller from Grecnhorn weighs twelve ounces.
have seen since last wrote you, Gone week, J
seven pieces, not one weighing less than twelve
ounces.
Business has been very dull, and there is a
very moderate amount of goods now in our shops.
Flour is at % 30 cents. We are IN want of
pork. bacon, &c. Potatoes arc also wanted very
much both for seed and food, selling now read
lily for fifty cents per pound.
We have beautiful weather, and the fields,
plains, and hill sides are covered with natures
Sdt PCT VI SiScH, pluC, I'ulpiC yclIOW. II
really seems from the great amount of yellow
flowers ornamentinS the earth here, that the
gold underneath had some effect in coloring the
plants. recommend botanists to examine these
howers-the miners already examining the
gold-perhaps between them they can find the
cause. Moreover, it is, as / heard physician
say yesterday, 'distressingly healthy" and
believe that this is as healthy place as can be
found in any part OF California.
The Schonlmaster is not abroad uphere yet
and although we have in the town some forty
children who ought to be at school, no attempt
has yet been made to open one. This is dis
grace to the town as we'll as to the parents.
wish, Messrs. Editors, you would use the power
OF the press to remedy this evil, and l cannot
show The necessity better than by showing a
" handful" found posted in our streets some
days since. (There were several others like it. J
1t almost needs the sagacity of Champollion or
Young to decipher this, but it was intended to
mean, . that bundle had been taken from the
bushes on Long Gulcl, and whoever would re-
turn 1t to the Miners Ou,ftting Store, should re-
ceive $40 reward AS to the date, suppose it
is compound OF the Chinese Hindoo and Jew
sh calendars.
[IIere should follow copy of the bill, but as
we know nothing about hyeroglyphcs, we find
it utterly impossible 10 decipher it'll
An example of the great carelessness with
which people handle firearms, occurred here a
day or two since. person was examining a
Colts revolver, when it was discharged by acct
dent, the ball passing through an inch board, the
clapboards OF the house, quarter of beef, which
was hanging III the butchers shop next door,
then into malis back about two inches, and is
imbedded in the bone called the sacrum, at the
lower end OF the back. He is in fair way of
recovery, but it is miracle how it escaped the
nerves in that portion, which would have caused
paralysis of the lower extremities, and perhaps
death.
l heard pretty good story the other day, and
if you think it worth publishing it is at your SER
vice. In a certain town in Rhode Island there
lived an ancient grey -'cooled descendant of Ham.
Exceedingly pions, he once attended love-
meeting it is called. and ON someof his white
brethren and sisters telling how much they had
undergone. and were willing TO undergo for their
Saviour's sake. Sambo astonished them by the
following: My dear brederen and sisters Use
berry happy to see you all so within to suffer in
de good cause; for my part, Pse willing to he
made pit-bor oh, an pit on, all ODER, for de
Lord Jesus sake. ~ Vale, R. DE G.
A BAD pUY.=We have for some time be-
lieved that bad pun was next to bad liquor,
which we have always been taught to consider,
by drinking friends, as the meanest thing in all
nature except counterfeit cent. Hence our
feelings were never SO "harrowed' as upon the
occasion of first reading the following wretched