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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-12-27

AcciDKNr-on Friday afternoon, Mr. Hart, a
wen Known reporter for the distant press, was
tnIown from his buggy, the wheel Of the vehicle
having became locked with that ola psssing
y, IN. tau was severe, eausiag insensioiis
harU viii result therefrom '-a' az 'e'ious
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

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SAN FRANCISCO.
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Families and single gentlemen will find this
house the most comfortable one, in all respects,
in San Francisco.
The international Hotel Coach always in rea-
diness to convey passengers to and from the
house. JNO. J. HALEY,
Proprietor
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04
JANsoN. BOND & CO.,

TN o T E r S AND JOBBERS OF DRY
l. GOODS, corner Battery and Clay streets
San Francisco, have now landing and in store
200 bales so inch Brown Drills;
100 bales So inch Brown Sheetings
100 bolts No. 0-OO0 Duck;
500 bolts No. 2-IO Duck
20 bales Raven Duck;
10 cases Merrimac Prints
100 cases Prague Prints
500 cases Pacific Prints
100 cases Dunnell's Prints;
10 cases and "A Bleached Shirtings;
10 cases ga ss-4 and lO-4 Bleached Shirtings
20 cases Blue Drills;
10 cases Blue Denims
10 bales Hickory Stripes;
20 bales Z, ! and A Tickings;
10 bales Scarlet Blue and Grey Flannels
10 bales Baliardrale White Flannels;
. cases CobUrgs and Merinos
cases wool and half wool Plaids;
cases Blue and Black Alpacas
10 cases Paclic-new styles De LANES;
cases, all wool, new styles do
cases French Merinos
1000 Bay State Plaid Shawls;
1000 Cashmere and plain Wool Skavls;
Black and Colored Silks;
Plain, Figured and Plaid Silks;
And large assortment of other Dress Goods
Blankets.
900 pair White, Green and Blue Mackinaw
1000 pair BIB, TBB and SBG Blankets
1000 pair cheap Grey English Blankets;
1000 poir cheap Blue English Blankets
500 pair scarlet English Blankets
600 pair 94, 10-4, ia and 12-4 White Red
Blankets.
Clothing and Furnishing Goods.
1000 doz. grey, blue and scarlet Flannel Shirts
1000 doz. grey and white Merino Undershirts
and Drawers;
1000 doz. Merino and all wool Socks;
500 doz. Satinet and Jean Pants;
500 doz. Duck and Cottonade Pants
500 doz. Hickory and Check Shirts
500 Calico and White Dress Shirts;
$50 doz. Overalls and Jumpers;
Black and Fancy Silk Cravats, Neckties, Sill
Handkerchiefs, Suspenders, and variety o
other articles too numerous to mention. Fol
sale low by JANSON, BOND & CO.,
Cor. Battery Clay sts., San Francisco.
oc9-2n
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04
ACROSTIC.
fragile nerves, health, spirits, body
BY A LADY OF SHASTA.

fragile nerves, health, spirits, body
-. nlnd,
Er{feeble and ress-man-womankind;
Beware life's fragile tenor-stretched too far,
brings permanent ill-health the system thus
at war
Engages painfully with life, the blood, the
nerves,
Relax and weaken-'tis ere that one observes
Such poor, weak invalids, such tottering frames
Cfeepng with mental and with bodily pains
OBJ, if they knew how Webbers Cordial heals
Riefreshes, strengthens and new life reveals
DFooping no more, health, spirits, mind, re-
lieve,
-youthful--sanguineou bloom,
Ate seen upon their checks; health thus re-
stored,
Llngers no more-but lives and reigns-adored
The afflicted may rely on its powers to reno
vate the enfeebled system, strengthen the ema-
ciated and STOPPING frame, cure every nervous
affection, restore to full vigor the digestive pow
ers, regulate the secretions, calm both bodily
and mental physique, and thus give strength
and vigor to the most broken down constitu-
tions. 1t has cured hundreds of cases of dys-
pepsia, loss of appetite, languor, nervousness,
weakness from change of climate sickness, TAX
ing too much medicine, intemperance and de-
bauchery.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

THE FAMILY OF THE PIccoLoMINI.-According
to the New York Times, Mile. Piccolomni, the
prima donna, travels amply protected
That paper says:
cit happens in matrimony, sometimes, that an
aspiring bridegroom discovers, when too late,
that he has not only married wife, but espous-
ed family with all its infinite ramiications of
mother in-law, maiden aunts and cousins of
remote degree. Politicians, too, unite them
selves to their constituents by pledges which
sometimes become orphans and roam about the
world like sorry outcasts. The Doges of Venice,
in the olden times, went little further and
welded the Adriatic, which, it must be con-
fessed, was very grave responsibility. But,
sad all these, e,illsto bear, they are as moth
ing when compared with an operatic managers
i" engagement" Mile. Piccolomni came yester-
day also, Mile. Piccolominis mother likewise
Mile. Piccolomini's father; to which we may
add the name of Mile. Piccolomini's brother and
another Piccolomini that we have not been able
to place. Is it possible that this name can mean
Smith +? Good gracious where's the Cardinal
Let one of the ten servants who are in attend
ance upon the identical Piccolomini bring us an
answer. In the meantime, we congratulate Mr.
Ullman on having attained the happiest ian
most expensive) day of his life
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04
Fearful Questions to Young Men.

WHA T HAS BEEN YOUR PAST LIFE
w Has it been one of dissipation, frivolity,
intemperence, debauchery, or-worse? Has
sickness, mental disease, or disappointment in
love or business been yours? Has your occu-
patton been LONELY? Have any of these ills
been yours till now? You feel a sense of inca
pacity and weakness physically and mentally
knowledge of being painfully unrell, yet an
inability to describe or localze it'll LIFE BE-
cesIEs BURDEN. Your hands tremble-your
limbs totter-your spirits become low-your
sleep htful and disturbed-your appetite poor
your whole natural functions debilitated-
night sweats-bad dreams-weakness in the
morning--and similar horrors. Reader, if you
knew the many that have been brought to the
yigor and strength of yoath by that sublime
vegetable concoction, DIR. JACOB WEBER
INyIG0RATING SANGUIFIER, you would no;
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04
Constitutional Weakness,
Intemperence, Delirium,
Dyspepsia, Chills, Ague, &c

Read this statement o. cures, effected by the
most extraordinary concoction of the age.
4 case Of bodily pam, Ague Debility and Dys-
pepsia cured:
Mr.. John B. Flemming a Merchant Tailor of
Ophir, in this State, certifes, Sept. 81, 1854,
that two bottles of DR.. Webber's Cordial cured
Mr.. J. c. Ewens, of the same place, of pains in
the body, dyspepsia, chill and hacking cough,
together with general debility, neuralgia and
rheumatic pains.
DR.. James Bonnaut certi6es to the cure of
pitiable case of decayed manhood (where the
strength, nerves, memory and the whole phys
ique was prostrated) by its use.
Mr.. James Freeman, of Mokelumne Hill says:
"My feelingwas an exhaution, want of strength,
torpor, want of vigor, appetite and other
miserable feelings. One battle of your Cordial
relieved, and three have entirely cured me-"
We could give fifty other certificates, not
withstanding that most persons are sensitive
about being noticed but the above must salts
fly any reasonable person.
1t is sold for $:3, or two bottles for s., by
every Wholesale and Retail Druggist in Califor-
MIA. PARK & WHITE,
San Francisco Agents.
E CAUTION.-Mind none is genuine
that has not the signatures of 7. JONES and ].
WEBER, NJ. D., on each outside wrapper, and
blown on the glass. n2O:3m
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

Hdr breast-O, It's glory her face hands and
neck
Like her teeth, white and spotless, free from
spnburn or speck;
And thei ravens wing pales side her soft jetty
HAIR
So lustrous, clean, silken-yet here declare
THAT THE MOST HOMELY PERSON CAN
a become thus, land, reader, though we thus
poetize, we speak the truth,) by using the fol-
lowing beautiful preparations
Price only 25 and so cents each.
Wash your face, hands and shave with
jones' ITALIAN CHEMICAL SOAP. This
will make the skin emollient, soft, white and
clfar as childs, even if it is coarse, red, yell
loIv or discolored. 1t is fine for shaving or wash
inE.
Then clean your teeth with LAFONTS WEST
OLA SOAP ROOT. 1t makes dark, discolored
OF yellow teeth white; the most foul or impure
breath pure and sweet, and cleanses the mouth,
tc, sue and throat
Then, if you would have beautiful hair, mind
JONES CORAL HAIR RESTORATIVE, really
has the following qualities: All those whose hair
s s,ray, or turning so as in short time it will
make it grow dark. Those whose hair is weak
orr falling off, it will force to grow, and at the
same time cure it of dandruff, and if used to
dress or embelish the hair, it certainly gives il
most charming look and feeling, and keeps il
soa long time.
tSold at the above prices by every wholesale
ard retail dealer in California. nl3:3nl
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.
Volume Fourteen begins September IA, 1858

Volume Fourteen begins September IA, 1858.
MECHANICS, INVENTORS, MANUFACTURERS, AND
FARMERS.
The SoIENEIFIC AMERICAN has reached its
fourteenth year, and will enter upon new Vol
unle on the lth of September. 1t is the only
-. r1-uhHcatiou of the kind now issued in
this country, and it has very extensive circula-
ton in all the States of the Union 1t is not, as
some might suppose from its title, a dry abstruse
work on technical science; on the contrary, it
sofdeals with the great events going on in the
scientific, mechanical and industrial worlds, as
to please and instruct every one. If the Me-
chanic or Artisan wishes to know the best ma
chine in use, or how to make any substance en-
ployed in his business-if the Housewife wishes
to get recipe for making good color, &c.,
if the Inventor wishes to know what is going on
in the way of improvements-if the Manufac-
tur~ wishes to keep posted with the times, and
to employ the best facilities in his busness-if
the Man of Leisure and Study wishes to keep
himself familiar with the progress made in the
chemical laboratory, or in the construction of
teegraphs. steamships, railroads, reapers, now
ers, and a thousand other machines and appli-
ances, both of peace and war-all these desider-
ata can be found in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.
and not elsewhere. They here presented in
reliable and interesting form, adapted to the
comprehension Of minds unlearned in the higher
branches of science and art.
TERMS One copy, one year, 81; one copy,
six months, 81; five copies, months, S4 ten
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twenty copies, twelve months, S2s, in advance.
RaP Specimen copies sent gratuitously for
inspection. Southern or Western money, or
postage stamps, taken for subscription.
Letters should be directed to
MUM & CO.,
o30.3m 12S Fulton ST., New York.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

NAPoLEoN.-Napier, in his history of the PEN
insular War, makes the following excellent and
just remark on Napoleon % Self had no place in
his polity save his personal glory was identified
with France and her posterty. Never before
did the world see man soaring so high, and
devoid of all selfish ambition. Let those who,
honestly seeking truth, doubt this, study Napo-
leon carefully; let them read the record of his
second abduction, published by his brother Lu-
Glen, that stern republican who refused king
doms at the price of his principles, and they will
doubt no longer" This is a British writer who
studied the affairs of the times in which Napo-
leon fiourished with more than ordinary fidelity
and intelligence and who, wthal, is as regular a
specimen of John Bull ever put pen on pa
per,
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

A METHODIST GLASS MEETING IN THE Cry
OF MEMco.-The Pacific Methodist thinks that
everybody should study the Spanish language
1t says:
"In view of surrounding circumstances and
coming events, knowledge of the Spanish Ian
guage is matter of Importance to our people
Already it is valuable possession to the few
who have acquired it. Arizona is settling up
Mexico will be annexed in due time and we
shall thus be brought into intimate business and
political relations with our Mexican neighbors
The poiftioan the soldier, the civil engineer, the
merchant, the mechanic, the lawyer, will all lie
the better for knowledge of the liquid lingo Of
Cervantes. Our preachers will need it, too
Some Methodist now liring must [must?1 hold a
ctassmeeting IN the city Of Merico before he dies
The Spanish language should be taught in our
schools
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04
SQUAW-LY.

1t appears that unprotected sqawz" were
recently chased out of Mariposa by some rude
Young men, The tale of their ~ sufferinks' is
thus told in the & Marypozy Star" by % Kapting
John Smith, ,cun of the Pokerhuntus tribe"
'Twars mite an oh 'twars orful dark,
And vulnerable it wars,
When strayen frum the forest kome
unprotected squawz.
These squawz prehaps had missed the trale,
Or by some other kause
Had been obeeged kum town
unprotected squawz.
Allthoo not white, they orter to be
perteckted By cur laws,
From insult and the ike Nv that
The unprotected squawz.
But no-a set NV rowdy chaps,
With shouts and lowd hooraws,
An ister-cans an old tin pans,
Got after these squawz.
Tha chased 'em up to Bullion street,
Nor didn't hawlt nor paws,
Till suddenly they disappeared
unprotected squawz.
Sum fellers havin hooman harts,
An merritin applaws,
Opened the dore and tuck 'em in
4 unprotected squawz.
Whuther the Desil done the act,
Or what the motiY wars
Doozen konsern no but them
unprecedented squawz.
mLet's bust the dore,n tha all kried out !;
Bring axes, mauls and sauz-
Nell kaye the offs in or ketch
These unprotected squawz."
Up spoke We valeyent Printer man,
An boldly kun to tau
Ses he 'syou've got shedd sum blud
BED yew tetch squaw."
What keard the crowd for Printer mani
Tha didn't kear 3 straws
With shouts and jeers they hustled out
unprecedented squawz.
Then lowder rattuld pans an cans,
And pheerser the hooraws,
An knothink moar was heered oY them
unprecedented squawz
Last vurse containing the Morrell:
druther a innerscent burd
Under Grizzla's pauze,
Than take the despurit chances Nv
unprotected squawz
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

CABBAGE AND DITTo.-We have Just now heard
of cabbage story, which we will cook up for
our laughter-loving readers. "Oh loves you
like anything" said young man to his sweet
heart, warmly pressing her hand
Ditto" said the lady, gently returning the
pressure.
The ardent "lovyer" not happening to be over
fdrned, was sorey puzzled to understand the
meaning of ditto" but was ashamed to expose
his ignorance by asking the girl. He went home
and the next day being at work in the cabbage
yard with his father, lie spoke OUT
Daddy, what's the meaning of dtto?'
"Why," said the old man, "this here is one
cabbage-head amt it?
"Yes, daddy"
'' Well that ares ditto"
&c Rot that od-for-nothin' galf' calculated
the indignant son, "she called me cabbage
head, and I'll never go to see her again"
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

GENUINE ELoQUEYcE.-There is no people in
the world with whom eloquence is so universal
gift as the Irish When Leitch Ritchie was
travelling in Ireland, he passed man who was
painful spectacle of pallor, squalor, and rag
gedness- His heart smote him, and he turned
back. If you are in want said Ritchie with
some degree of peevishness why don't you
begY Sure it's beggin' am, yer honor You
didn't say word 'Ov coorse not, yer honor:
but see how the skin is speakin' through the
holes of me trousers and the bones cryin' out
through me skin Look at me sunken cheeks.
and the famine that's starin' in my eyes Man
alive isn't beggin' l am with a hundred hun
dred tongues p
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

ET-An Englishman complains of the style in
which Italian opera singers render I" God Save
the Queen" and gives the following as speci-
men:
"Goad saave grajous Gween,
Longa 1eeve ORA nobla Gween,
Goad saave DIS Gween.
Sen da veectorieuse.
Appe disglorieuse,
Longa tOoo wrane ovar oose,
Goad saave da Gween."
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04
FOR RENT.

o. THE LIGHT AND COMMODIOUS
Naiii Fire Proof Brick Store, next door to
-l4...A Stevenson Co., and now occupied by
Hoffman as family grocery. is offered for rent
on reasonable terms. For particulars enquire OF
DR.. ROETHE.
City Drug Store, Main ST.
Shasta, Dec. II, 1857. decl 2f
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

The EFFECTS OF MARRIAGE.-Somebody once
said-it matters not who, for the simile is as
beautiful as true-that women took to marriage
as they did to sea-bathing some would at first
put in one foot, and then, with shiver and look
OF apprehension, perhaps, put in the other; after
which they would do no more than to make a
reluctant courtesy in the water, the unwelcome
element scarcely reaching the region of their
hearts: when, with squeal, as though they
were half killed by the operation, they would
rush to dry land again, aud shivering from head
to foot, cry out, sob, how cold it is ~ While
others, shutting their seraphic eyes to the dan
gers of the untried sea, would instantly plunge
in head over ears, and after a glorious good
souse (observe the singular beauty and closeness
of the sime, to spouse) would rise like Nercibes,
their cheeks all glow, with eyes as liquid as
the sea, and shoulders dripping with pearls, and
exclaim, Oh, how delicious it is !''
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

The Brown FAMILY.-Mrs. Smith, desirous of
seeing certain Mrs. Brown, who lived say, at
Reservoir Avenue, called at her abode last Sat-
urday, and inquired of the lady who answered
the bell for Mrs. Brown. There are three Mrs.
Browns here said the lady. Mrs. Smith ex-
planned that the Mrs. Brown who was wanted
came from Wethersfield. So,' replied the lady,
did they ALL But the husband of the lady Mrs
Smith wanted to see was a machinis. THE
Messrs. Brown, said the lady, are all machin-
lists Mrs. Smith persisted by going on to hint
that the Mrs. Brown was the mother of three
children. 1t appeared from the lady's reply,
however, that each Mrs Brown was equally blest
in that direction. Investigation still in progress
-Hqrtford Press
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

ESg- A Dutchman asked Yankee WHY he
supposed people called his son Hans. The re-
sponse was " don't know Because dat ish
his name" was his reply. This is something
Ike the stage-driver's sell, up in Shasta
There" said he to group of gaping passen-
gers, " there in that house is woman who has
been lying for three weeks, and isn't buried vet y
" You don't say 81" was the reply-a why ?s
"Oh, because she isn't dead,n said he's. r.
SPIRIT Of the Times
That's not so. There is no such woman in
Shasta
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04
A Tale of the Present.

On pine wood shed, in alley dark, where
scattered moonbeams, sifted through row of
tottering chimneys and an awning torn and
dropping, fell, strobe back and forth, with stiff
and tense drawn muscle and peculiar tread, a
sat.
His name was Norval on yonder reighboring
shed his father fought the cats that came in
squads from streets beyond Dupont, in search of
food and strange adventure.
Grim war he eourted; and his twisted tail
and spine upheaying in fantastic curve, and
claws distended, and ears fatty pressed against
head thrown back defantly, told of ofimpending
strife.
With eyes a-gleam and screeching blasts oil
war, and steps as silent as the falling dew
young Norval crept along the splintered edge
with tail a-wag triumphantly;
Then with an imprecation and a growI-per-
haps an oath in direst vengence hissed-he
started back, and, crooked in body like letter
5, or rather Ike q inverted, stood in fierce
expectancy.
Twas well. With eye-balls glaring and ears
all aslant, and open mouth in which two rows ot
fangs stood forth in sharp and dread confor nifty
slow up post from out the dark below a head
appeared.
dreadful toosin of determined rtline young
NorVal uttered tnen, with face unDlanched, and
moustache standing straight before his nose
and tail flung wildly to the passing breeze, STEP
ped back in cautious invitation to the foe.
Approached the other, and, with preparations
dire, each cat surveyed the vantage of the field
Around they walked, with tails uplifted and
backs high in air, while frem their mouths, in
accents Kissing with consuming rage, dropped
brief but awful sentences of hate.
Thrice round the roof they went in circle
each with eye upon the foe intently bent: then
sdewise moving, as is wont with cats, gave one
long drawn, terrific, savage yawl, and buckled
in.
The fur flew. A mist of hair hung ocr the
battlefield. High 'bove the din of passing
wagons rose the dreadful tumult of the strug-
Cling cats. So cleaned their eyes in frenzy, that
to me, who saw the conflict from window near
nought else was plain but fiery stars that moved
In orbits most eccentric.
An hour they struggled in tempestuous might
then faint and fainter grew the squall of war
until, all sound was hushed Then went forth
with lanthorn, and the field surveyed What
saw II
Six chws-one ear-ofteeth, perhaps hand.
ful and save fur, nought else except a solitary
hil. That tail was Norvalis-by ring knew't
The ear was-but we'll let the matter pass The
tale will do without the ear.-Golden Era.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04
JUST RECEIVED.

A L A R G E AND EXTENSIVE ASSORT-
4 ment of very fine white and blue
BILL HEAD AND wAY-BILL PAPER.
We are now prepared to do this style of print
ing in neat and expeditions manner, and a
San Francisco Prices.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

DANCING THEIR Races orF.-Two unsophis.i-
GATED country lasses Visited New York during
the ballet season. When the short-skirted. COS
samer-clad nymphs made their appearance on
the stage, they became restless and fdgcty
"Oh, Annie p exclaimed one sotto voice.
i' We'll, Mary ~
' II amt nice don't like it. l don't care.
ain'e nice; and wonder aunt brought ms to
such placer
Hush, Mary, the folks will laugh at you.n
After one or two filings and pirouette, the
blushing Mary said
Oh, Annie, let's go it Amt nice and don't
feel comfortabler'
q Do hush, Mary" replied the sister, whose
face was scarlet, though it wore an air of deter
mination; it's the first time | ever was at A
theatre, and | suppose it will be the last. so I'm
Just going to stay it out if they dance every rag
off their backs
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

Bss- This animal cried an itinerant show
man, "is the royal African hyena, measuring
fourteen feet from the end of his nose to the tin
OF bis tail, and the same distance back again,
making In all twenty EIGHT feet. He cries in the
woods In the night season like human being
IN distress, and then he devours all that comes
TO his assistance sad instance of the deprav-
ity of human nature
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

RIA story is told of person asking an
other whether he would advise him to lend a
certain friend money. "What lend him money
you might give him an emetic, and he wouldn't
return it,
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-04

LEARNED BoYs.-I have seen silly parents try
ing TO- get their children to say that they liked
school-time better than holyday time and they
liked work better than play. I have seen, with
Joy, many little fellows repudiating the odious
and unnatural sentiment; and declaring man.
tniiy that they preferred cricket to Ovid And
ifany boy ever tells you that he would rather
learn his lessons than go out to the play ground
beware of that boy. Either his health is droop-
ing, and his mind becoming prematurely and
unnaturally developed, or he is a little humbug.
lie IS an imposter. He is seeking to obtain credit
on iaise pretences Depend upon it, unless it
eaiiy De that he is poor little spiritless man,
aehclent In nerve and muscle and unhealthily
preoocious in intellect, he has in him the ele-
ments OF sneak; and he wants nothing but
ameto ripen him into pickpocket, swinder,
horse-dealer, or Whig gtatesman.-Frazer's
Nagdzine