The Shasta courier., 1855-03-10

hs' futioeatu S1o, ol Wnoin SO were females,
| aud Al children.
| We are under obligations TO Mr.. Brigham. of
Tracy &. Co.'s Express, for the earliest delivery
| of Atlantic papers.
Rhodes s. Co.'s Express placed us greatly in
| their debt for very great variety of the latest
dates from the principal cities in the Union.
CoNGREss.-The House has passed the bill TO
enable The people OF Oregon To form State
Government.
MIR. Gwin presented memorials from certain
land claimants IN California, asking for an extern
sion OF time, to file claims before Commissioners
Referred to Committee on Private Land Claims
Mr. Seward, from the Committee on Post
Offices and Post-roads reported the following
JOINT rcsolniion-That weekly mail to and from
San tranclscolrom some point on the Mississippi
| river, be established; The "trip to be fourteen
days, the postage on letters to be fifty cents per
halt ounce and prepaid, the mail not 10 weigh
| over two hundred pounds, and the remuneration
| to be six thousand dollars a trip-and if from
| any cause the mail to he delayed beyond sixteen
days, the pay of that hip to be forfeited; three
| successive delays beyond that time to cause n
forfeiture OF the cOntract-the contract to be
| commenced within one year, and to be contin-
ued five years. Read and ordered to be printed.
| Mr. Dodge Obtained unanimous consent to in
| trOduce bill to provide for telesraphc mail
communication between the Mississippi river
and the Pacific ocean. Read three times and
| referred to Committee Oh Territories.
The French spolia.ion bill has passed the
| HOnse and been read a second time in the SEN
ate. This bill appropriates $4,000, ,0eO
In the House, January 3Oth, quite funny
| scene occurred. in which MIR. Lane, Of Oregon
and Mr.. Farley Of Maine were the actors Dur
| ing debate upon the Senate bill for the con-
s,ruction of magnetic telegraph from the Miss
| issippi to the Pacific, Mr. Farley several
| times interrupted by Mr. Lane, and called the
| latter to order. Mr.. Lane replied ansrily and
| dictatorally: Mr. Farley reminded him that he
had submitted to several interruptions from him,
and that he had the light to call him to order
Mr.. Lane. standing within ten feet of Mr.. Far
| ley, replied, "you are a liar!" Mr. Farley in
stanily retorted, "y"u are damned liar. and
| sprang at once to meet Mr. Lane, who was then
| advancing towards him. The greatest confu-
sion ensued, members rushed up the aisles and
over the desks tn see the fight. Gen Lane was
| easily mastered 10y some of the peaee,nakers, but
Mr.. Farley. who is small man, gave four stout
members some trouble TO hold him, and turned
| upon his friend, Hamilton, and bclabored him
for Interference. Quiet was finally restored, but
| Mr.. Lane came near raising anotherscene few
moments aftcr by alluding 10 Mr.. Farley as
that fellow" No steps were taken by the
| House to inquire into the affair. In the debate
which was continued upon the bill, Messrs. Nc
Dougal and Latham spoke in favor and Colonel
| Benton against it. Colonel Benton rdicued the
scheme, and said the Digger Indians would tear
The wires up These Diggers." said The Col,
'' have long slender sticks with hook at the
! end the object is to pursue the lizard running
| into hole and bring it out with hook Put
down your fifteen hundred or two ihosand miles
of telegraph, and they will dig up and cut up the
wires, every inch of it, and make of it hooks to
pull out the lizards" (Iaughter)
The following day the debate upon the bill was
was stricken ont. Subsequently the House re-
considered and passed the bill, with the two mil
lion acres OF land grant stricken out
| An aHray occurred at the Warren House. Phil
aaelpiiia. January 28th, in which Robert Smith
stabbed John Hunter and james Mccarthy.
| Hunter is dead, and Mccarthy it is thought can
| Got recover.
| Frank May, Cashier of the Farmers and Me.
chanlcs Bank at indianapolis, Ind, has robbed
that institution OF about fifty thousand dollars.
and. absconded Ills uncle. Col May, says he
will be responsible for the full amount
Lieut.. Charles Hunter the same that captured
Alvarado with one gun, has been dismissed from
the United States Navy, for leaving the Brazil
squadron and sailing for New York with the
cambridge, without leave or orders from Com.
modore Mckeever
Bishop Capers, eminent divine of The Me
thodist Episcopal church at the South, is dead.
There had been a caucus of the WlIig mem
bers of the New York Legislature at which Is
Senators and ga Assemblymen were present.
VIM. III. Seward received "A votes scattering 6
| votes.
VIM. II. Goodwin (Know Noihing) has been
elected 10 the New York Senate over Loomis.
the Seward candidate
Hon. Chas. Durkee, Gan old fashioned Abol-
tionlst" a land relormer" ETC., as the New York
Tribune calls him, has been elected as United
States Senator from Wisconsin, in place of Col
Isaac T.. Walker.
Senior Felipe Molina, Minister to the T. s. from
Costa Rica. Guatemala aud San Salvador. died
at Washington on the LIST February, of consump-
ton.
The bill authorizing the Secretary of the NAVY
to dispatch steamer aud tender to search for
Dr. Kane and party, has become law
Gen. Henry Wilson has been elected U. s.
Senator from Massachusetts,
The Know Nothings of New Hampshire have
nominated Ralph Metcalf for GoveInos, their for
mer nominee, Rev. MIR. Moore, not having re-
sided IN the State for the time required by the
Constitution.
Hon. Luther Severance formerly Commission
er to the Sandwich Islands, died in Maine, JAN
27th.
Hon. Harmon KnickerbocYer, the original of
Washington Irving's Diedrich. died at Schagti-
coke, N. Y. Jan. 90 aged IS years.
AFFAIRS OF PAGE, BACON & Co.-The N York
Tribune says: We gratifed to learn that the
prospects very favorable for early resump- |
,ion Of payment on the part of Messrs. Page s.