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The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25
JANsoN. BOND & CO..

TMPO ORTERS 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 sc inch Brown Sheetings;
100 bolts No. 0-000 Duck
500 bolts No. 2-l0 Duck;
20 bales Raven Duck;
10 cases Merrimac Prints :
100 cases Prague Prints
500 cases Pacific Prints
100 cases Dunnel's Prints;
10 cases and "A Bleached Shirtings;
10 cases Ga, 8-4 and l0-4 Bleached Shirtings;
20 cases Blue Drills;
10 cases Blue Denims
10 bales Hickory Stripes;
25 bales T, and A Tickngs;
10 bales Scarlet, Blue and Grey Flannels
10 bales Ballardrale White Flannes;
cases Coburgs and Merinos;
cases wool and half wool Plaids
cases Blue and Black Alpacas;
10 cases Pacihc-new styles De LANES;
cases, all wool, new styles do
cases French Merinos;
1000 Bay State Plaid Shawls;
1000 Cashmere and plain Wool Shawls;
Black and Colored Silks;
Plain, Figured and Plaid Silks;
And large assortment of other Dress Goods
Blankets.
1000 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;
GOO pair "a, l0-4, Ia and l2-4 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. Satnet 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, Silk
Suspenders, and variety of
other articles too numerous to mention For
sale low by JANSON, BOND & CO.,
Cor. Battery Clay sts. San Francisco.
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ACROSTIC.
BY A LADY OF SHASTA.

q ss-fragiic nerves, health, spirits, body,
mind,
Enfeeble and ddepress-man--woma
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,
Creeping with mental and with bodily pains
Oh, if they knew how Webbers Cordial heals,
Refreshes, strengthens and new life reveals;
Dropping no more, health, spirits, mind, re-
lieve,
Invigorated- -youthful-sanguineou bloom,
Are seen upon their cheeks; health thus re-
stored,
E4ingers no more-but lives and reigus-adored.
The afflicted may rely on its powers to reno
rate the cnfeeblcd system, strengthen the ema-
ciated and STOPPING frame, ctr'e 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 consttu-
tons 1t has cured hundreds of cases of dys
pepsia, loss of appetite lapguor, nervousness,
weakness from change Of climate sickness, tax
ing too much medicine, intcmperance and de-
bauchery.
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Constitutional Weakness,
Intemperence, Delirium,
Dyspepsia, Chills, Ague, &c.

Read this statement or cures, effected by the
most extraordinary concoction of the age.
A case Of bodily pain, Ague, Debility and Dys-
pepsia cured:
Mr.. John B. Flemming, Merchant Tailor of
Ophr, 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 ccrtiies 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 feeling was an exhaution, a 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 So by
every Wholesale and Retail Druggist in Califor-
mia. PARK & WHITE,
San Francisco Agents.
BSg~ CAUTION.-Mind none is genuine
that has not the signatures of T. JONES and j.
WEBER, NJ. d., on each outside wrapper, and
blown on the glass. n20:3m
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UPON EVERY BED,
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FOR EASE AND COMFORT
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REQUIRES BUT ONE TRIAL,
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TO INSURE REST AND QUIET.
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SINGLE ROOMS ONE DOLLAR.
SINGLE ROOMS ONE DOLLAR.
SINGLE ROOMS ONE DOLLAR.
JACKSON ST., ABOVE MONTGOMERY
JACKSON ST., ABOVE MONTGOMERY.
JACKSON ST, ABOVE MONTGOMERY,
SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO. o3o:3m
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.
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A GOVERNOR NoNPLUssED.-The other night,
as the ministers were returning from the the
conference, on the East Tennessee and Georgia
Railroad, an amusing occurrence took place
between Governor Brown and Parson Brownlow.
Just as the cars arrived at Knoxville, Governor
Brown came up and taking the Parson by the
hand remarked:
How do you do, brother Brownlow? I am
happy to see you."
The courtesy was returned, when the Gov
ernor continued:
hope you viii moderate in al your notions
ofpropriety in regard to your fellow-citizens-
live good christian, and last, though not least,
become good Democrat"
The Parson, with the eccentric look peculiar
to himself, stretched himself up and remarked
Governor, an old gentleman of your politics,
many hundred years ago, took our Savior upon
mountain and preached just such a Sermon
The eu.burst of laughter can be better i'm
agned than described.-Cm. Gazette.
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To a Child, Embracing it's Mother.
BIZ T. HOOD.

Love thy mother, little onel
Kiss and clasp her neck again
Hereafter she may have a son
VIII kiss and clasp her neck in vain.
Love thy mother little onel
Gaze upon her living eyes,
And mirror back her love for thee
Hereafter thou may'st shudder signs
To meet them when they cannot see,-
Gaze upon her living eyes
Press her lips the while they glow
With love that they have often told
Hereafter thou mays st press in woe,
And kiss them till thine own are cold Il
Press her lips the while they glow
O, revere her raven hair,
Although it be not silvery grey,
Too early, death, led on by care,
May snatch, save one dear lock, away
o, revere her raven hair
Pray for her, at eve and morn,
That Heaven may long the stroke defer,
For thou may'st live the hour forlorn
When thou wilt ask to die with her.
Pray for her, at eve and morn !
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.
Volume Fourteen begins September IA, 1858.

unlrcHANIcs, INVENTORS, MANUFACTURERS, AND
FARMERS.
The ScIESEIFrc AMERICAN has reached its
fourteenth year, and will enter upon new Vol
ume on the lth of September. 1t is the only
weekly publication 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
so deals 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 Manuf;ac-
turer 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 are 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, 81 ten
copies, six months, s.; ten copies, twelve
months, SIS; fifteen copies, twelve months, S22
twenty copies, twelve months, S2s, in advance
BS Specimen copies sent gratuitously for
Inspection. Southern or Western money, or
postage stamps, taken for subscription.
Letters should be directed to
MUM & CO.,
30:3m l2s Fulton ST., New York.
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JESSIE GRAY,

Ye promised to wed me, Jessie Gray,
When the south winds rock the clover,
When the heath was green and the thistle red,
And the barley harvest over;
Ye promised to wed me then, Jessie,
And light was my heart and CHEEKY,
As gaily bound up the barley sheaves,
And thought of my Highland deary.
And come to claim ye now, Jessie,
My flower of the laughing Yarrow;
And he kissed her check and whispered low,
Oh, remember love, tomorrow
And Jessie pushed back her flaxen hair,
And toyed with the plaided wimple,
Yet I know that her sweet lips answered true,
From the tell-tale blush and dimple
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

THE SUCCESSION OF RACES OF MEN.-Gcnera-
ton after generation takes to itself the form of
body, and forth issuing from Cimmerian night,
on heavens missions appears. What force and
fire is in each he expends; one grinding in the
mill of industry; one, hunter like, climbing the
giddy Alpine heights Of science; one madly
dashed in pieces on the rocks of strife, in war
with his fellow; and then the heaven-sent is
recalled; his earthly vesture falls away, and
soon even to sense becomes vanished shadow
Thus, like some wild flaming, wild laundering
train of heavens artillery, does this mysterious
mankind thunder and flame, in long drawn quick
succeeding grandeur, through the unknown
deep. Thus, like God-created, fire breathing
spirit host, we emerge from the inane; haste
stormfully across the astonished earth, then
plunge again into the inane Earths noun
tains are levelled and her seas filed up. in our
passage. Can the earth, which is but dead and
vison resist spirits which have reality and
are alive? On the hardest adamant some foot
print of us is stamped in; the last rear of the
host will read traces of the earliest van But
whence? Oh heaven, whittier? Sense knows
not; faith knows not only that it is through
mystery to mystery, from God and to God
CdrlYle.
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An ALBANY HEap-The s. F. Bullefin tell

An ALBANY HEAD.-The S. F. Bulletin tells
the following good one:
Van v, an emigrant to this land of gold from
Albany N. Y, possesses, like all of his name-a
numerous one in that same i" village"-a large,
peculiar shaped head. One day-he found him.
self entering small town up in the mountains,
and, feeling tired and dusty, concluded to enter
BARRIERS shop and brush up a little. He seated
himself, and the operator, "a gentleman from
Africa commenced manipulating. He had
hardly done SO before he exclaimed: You
from Albany, sar?' Van, astonished at such a
question from a perfect stranger, without an
swering him, desired to know why he asked
Sambo replied, with grin: q Kase den make
desc heads dare, sGr" The Albanian wilted.
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Her breast-O, It's glory her face hands and
neck,
Like her teeth, white and spotlcss, free from
sunburn or speck;
And the ravens wing pales side her soft jetty
hair,
so lustrous, clean, silken-yct here declare
THAT THE MOST HOMELY PERSON CAN
i become thus, land, reader, though we thus
poetize, we speak the trnth,) by using the fol-
10 wing 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 emol.ient, soft. white and
clear as child's, even if it is coarse, red vel
low or discolored. 1t is fine for shaving or wash
ing.
Then clean your teeth with LAFONTS WEST
INDIA SOAP ROOT. Itmakes dark, discolored
or yellow teeth white the most foul or impure
breath pure and sweet, and cleanses the mouth,
tongue and throat
Then, if you would have beautiful hair, mind
JONES' CORAL HAIR RESTORATIVE, really
has the following qualities: All those whose hair
is gray, or turning so, as in short time it will
make it grow dark Those whose hair is weak.
or falling off, it will force to grow, and at the
same time cure it of dandruff, and if used to
dress or embellish the hair, it certainly gives it
most charming look and feeling, and keeps it
50 long time.
Sold at the above prices by every wholesale
and retail dealer in California. nl3:3m
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FOR RENT.

d. THE LIGHT AND COMMODIOUS
tsmil Fire Proof Brick Store, next door to
I'LL Stevenson Il Co., and now occupied by
Hoffman as family grocery, is offered for rent
on reasonable terms. For particulars enquire of
DIR. ROETHE,
City Drug Store, Main st.
Shasta, Dec. II, 1857. decl2tf
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

ESs5@ The London Times, in an editorial on
the wretched condition of Mexico, says there is
no reason that England should oppose the am
bilious designs of the Government at Washington.
1t considers that the establishment Of any gov
ernment of law and order in Mexico would be a
gain, and ridicules the threatened Spanish expe-
dition as farce, and says that every gun fired
on Mexican territory is fired to the ultimate profit
of the Anglo Saxon northern territory
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

Rly@ There is a railroad down South which
runs one train day, drawn by locomotive of
about coffee-pot power. The conductor is SO
polite that if a lady shouts out, Mr.. Conductor,
should like drink of water" he Immediately
jumps off, blocks tho train with stick, and
attends to the lady's wants.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

gsa% One James Thorp, a colored individual
md also teamster in Newark, has fallen upon
pleasant times. A gentleman appeared in that
part of Jersey last week, on mission to discover
4 James Thorp, who entitled to an estate of
$4,000, left by planter in North Carolina
The teamster turns out to be the man. He was
born on the estate, but was sent North to be ed
ncated had his schooling at Norristown, Pa, is
and is said to be industrious and wor-
liz
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

Bs% genius once undertook to name and
classify the different sorts of fools in this world
First, the ordinary fool; second, the fool who
is one and don't know it; third, the fool who is
not satisfied with being fool in reality, but un-
dertakes. in addition. to play the fool .
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Fearful Questions to Young Men.

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR PAST LIFE
w Has it been one of dissipation, frivoity,
intemperence, debauchery, or-worse2 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 sense of inca
pacity and weakness physically and mentally
a knowledge of being painfully unwell, yet an
inability to describe or localize it'll LIFE BE-
COMES BURDEN. Your hands tremble-your
limbs totter-your spirits become low-your
sleep ftful and disturbed-your appetite poor
your whole natural functions debiitated-
night sweats-bad dreams-weakness in the
morning-and similar horrors. Reader if you
knew the many that have been brought to the
vigor and strength of youth by that sublime
vegetable concoction, DR.. JACOB WEBER S
INVIGORATING SANGUIFIER, you would not
dOubt
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JUST RECEIVED.

A LARGE AND EXTENSIVE. ASSORT-
L 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., 1858-12-25

THoUGHrFuL.-A young man in good circum-
stances was arraigned for stealing three dollars
from draymanis overalls pocket. When asked
by the Justice what could have induced him to
steal SO paltry sum, be replied that though in
easy circumstances now, he might some day be
poor ard he was driven by this reflection to
try what he could de, if it was necessary to
livelihood. Young men should learn to do some
thing-better steal than starve Sierra Demo
cTaf
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

GIASTs.-The bed of og was Ii feet long and
fleet broad. The hight of Goliah was Ii feet
his coat weighing 80 pounds, and his spear
head 10 pounds. Orestes, the son of Agamem-
non, leader of the Grecian expedition against
Troy, was ll5 feet high. The giant Galbara,
brought from Africa to Rome, in the first cen
tury, was 10 feet high. Maximus, a native of
Spain, the Roman Emperor was feet high
Maximus another Roman Emperor was 81 feet
high. His wiles bracelets served for finger
rings. His strength was such. that he could
draw loaded wagon, break horses jaw with
his fist, crush the hardest stones with his fingers,
and cleave trees with his hands. His voracity
equal to his strength, eating 40 pounds of
flesh and drinking Is bottles of wine daily
Byrne and 0'Brien, Irish giants were eight feet
high. A Tennesseean giant lately died y feet
high, weighing mere than one thousand pounds.
The Kentuckyg giant was feet II. inches high.
The Canadian giant feet.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

BE- In Liberia, few miles northward from
Monrovia, is a tract of land about a mile from
the beach, of more then ten miles in extent, en-
tirely covered with pineapples The fruit buds
out in April or May, and ripens in August and
September, and is offs delicious flavor. The ap-
Piles are taken to Monrovia in considerable
quantities, where they arc sold as low as two
for q cent.
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nSy The most beautiful women in the Unit,

R$ The most beautiful women in the United
States, according to Caleb Cushing, are to be
found in that region of country represented by
Philadelphia at one extreme, running thence to
Baltimore and coming down to Richmond. In
an after dinner speech at Richmond the other
day, he made this remark, explaining it more
fully thus: As, for instance, for clearness of
complexion, for deicacy Of skin, for rounded
contour and outline throughout all the lines of
form, for health-everything say, as my own
observation, and with some little time and taste
for observation upon that subject, tina. think
in all these respects that it is the region in which
the physical beauty of woman attains its great
est perfection. And with so abundant evidence
of the fact all around Richmond, ! can say, too
that in this region of the United States is pro-
duced that other being which, if without profa-
nation | may say it, is next in all conceivable
beauty to woman-that is fine horse -(laugh-
ter and applause)-next in all the elements oI
body which the eye commends. | viii not %
further; am far enough" Laughter.)
B&T Here is case where geological exam
ination might be of more value to the public
than survey of the entire State would cost Is
the formation of the rock in Contra Costa such
that good coal need be looked for there? We
understand the result of cursory geological ex-
aminations hitherto made to be that all the rock
in the central counties of this State-including
Santa Clara, San Francisco Contra Costa and
Sonoma, where valuable coal mines have fire.
vuently been found, if report speak true-is Ell
ther primary or tertiary and that the secondary,
which alone produces first rate coal, is not
found at all. Some fossils of the secondary pc
riod have been found, in the northern part of
the Stste we have been informed by DR..
yeatch, and the probabilities are that if we are
to find any first class coal in California, it will
be in the valley of the Upper Sacramento, or in
that of Pit river-4Ha.
sS5n The Altoona Tribune notices a remarkable
cure of deafness by electricity. A citizen of
that place suddenly lost his hearing, and after
every means known to the medical fraternity
had been exhausted, electricity was resorted to.
An instrument produced, and placing the
end of piece of wire in each ear, the electric
current was let on lightly at first, and gradually
increased. After continuing the operation for
some time the hearing of the man was so much
restored that he could hear heavy rap upon the
table Again the wires were inserted in his
ears, and the fluid applied. On removing them
a second time the patient could hear loud talking
in the room. This operation took place in the
afternoon, and the patient was then allowed to
rest till the next morning, when the wires were
again inserted, and after applying the fluid
few moments, the hearing of the man iwas per-
fecty restored.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

Esl5T One of the miseries of human life is, be-
ing compositor on a newspaper, and having to
insert the marriage of the girl you love with a
man old enough to be your father-he is rich
aud you are poor
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

B5a- An exchange in speaking of a celebra-
ted singer, says: Her voice is delicious-pure
as the moonlight, and as tender as three shil-
ling shirt
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

Day@ We once heard of rich man who was
badly injured by being run over !" 1t isn't the
accident" said he. ''that don't mind; that ism
the thing; but the idea of being run over by an
internal swill cart makes me mad"
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

pG. A pious old lady could not get the run
of certain hymn, in which Canaan and Jordan
were spoken of. But she could well remember
bread:
So to the Jews of ld-sometiihg stood,
While-somethipg rolled Jetteeent
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

BS5@ Nobody likes to meddle with woman
whose disposition contains the essence of light
ming, vitriol, cream-of-tartar and hartshorn.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-25

BE- Tom Moore, writing to Miss Godfrey
says: 4" | will send you an epi,aph that will
make you laugh if you never heard it before
Here lies John Shaw
Attorney at Law,
And when he died,
The devil cried,
Give us your paw
John Shaw,
Attorney at Law"