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The Shasta courier., 1858-10-16
Times of Holding Courts

NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT,
SHAsrA-Third Mondays in January, May and
September.
SIsKrYoU-First Mondays in March, July and
November,
TRINIry-Seeond Mondays in April, August
and December.
Shasta County Courts.
held on the 1st Mondays of January, May aad
September.
At said terms, the business pertaining to the
Court of Sessions shall FIRST be disposed of, and
after that the business of the County Court and
Probate Court in such order as the Judge may
determine.
BOARD OF SUPERyIsoRs-Meet lst Mondays in
hay, August, November and February.
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The Law Of Newspapers.

1. Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary, considered as wishing to
continue their subscription.
2. If subscribers wish their papers discontin-
ued, publishers may continue to send them until
all charges are paid.
S. II subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
papers from the office or place to which they
are sent, they are held responsible until they
settle tasir bill, and give notice to discontinue
them.
4. If subscribers move to other places without
informing the publisher, and the paper is sent to
the former direction, they are held responsible.
Notice should always be given of removal.
5. The courts have decided that refusing to
take paper or periodical from the office, or re-
moving and leaving it unealled for, is prima
facie evidence of Intentional fraud.
DE~ Postmasters would oblige, by strict
fuIflmen. of the regulations requiring them to
notify Publishers, once in three months, of pa
pers not taken from their Office by subscribers.
Hss- Under the law of Congress papers are
not charged postage in the county in which they
are published.
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COUNTY DIRECTORY
County Omcers.

District ,Judge-Willam P. Daingerfeld, of
Shasta.
County Judge-Joei T. Landruai.
Associate .Justices-y. b. Stewart, and Will
liam Knowlton.
County fyeSsurer-James Hayburn.
EepxIS CIerk-H. |. Vanhorn.
SKsif-H. Clay Stockton. Under Sheriff
John Dena-
Jounty Assessor-W. Fl. Angeh.
County Surueyor-E. Linn.
Public Observation-Disclosures Swasey.
Dsstrict Ahorney-James D. Mix.
SckeeI Gommissioner-G. K. Godfrey
County Physician-Dr. James E. Pelham.
Board of Supervisors. District, Samuel
Payne; I'd District, William B. Stoddart; Sd
District, D. c. johnson.
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nsy- The nephew of John Hancock illumina-
ted his uucles mansion in Boston the other
night The candlesticks used had oficiated on
three great occasions before in l7s5, when
peace was declared; in 1885, when the difficult
ties growing out of the last war we're settled by
a peace declaration; and in ls4s, on the occa--
sion of the Cochituate Water Celebration
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Trio OF WHopPERs.-A correspondent of
the Rockingham (Va.) Register concludes a let
ter with the following tough yarns:
"There is frog so large down in North Car
olina that he treads one horse tbreshing ma
chine, and does the full work of mule. Then
there is an old gander that decoys wild geese to
the shore and pokes his head under the water
till the game is shot And lastly the women in
the suamps hitch their husbands in shafts and
plow them One in the swamps whilst thus en-
gagged took fright and ran off, breaking the
shafts loose from the plow and climbing tree
with them attached to him, could only be coax
ed down by holding 3 cooked cimbling under the
tree, which he was induced to come down and
eat
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nSz- woman at Zanesville Ohio at :

Ba5- woman at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, at the
apparently proper time, was delivered Of two
children. Three days afterwards she Tas de-
livered Of two more, and on the fourth day she
had fifth child. What is most extraordinary
of all in this wonderful development the phys
ician in consultation pronounced that she had
yet q sixth of which to be relieved.
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FOOT RAcE.-The foot race between Forbes,
Of sutter, and @Soda Bill" of Nevada, for $1,000
SIDE, came OFT at zabriskies ranch, near Ma
rysyille, on the 9th. The National Democrat
says Forbes won the race with perfect ease,
beating his opponent about eight and half
feet. About $4,000 changed hands.
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Towusbfp 0mcers.

SHASTA TewNsHdP.-Justices of the Peace-H.
A. Curtiss, e. K. Shed. Constables-Robert O..
Dewitt, Thomas J. Flynn.
CLE4R CREEK TowNsHTP.--Justices- illiam
Kn0wlton, James M. Eby.
French GULcH TowNsHIP--Jlstices-J, B,
Stewart
SIERRA TowNsHIP-Justices-S. D. Baker.
PITT RIVER TowNsHIP-Justices-J. M. Hunt.
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WHITE House GossrP.-The romance of Pres
ident Buchanan's early love scrapes is familiar
to every one, and the opinion has been enter
tanned that the idea of a second love would
never enter his head, much less his heart But
there is no accounting for the freaks of Cupid,
and rumor now reports that even Mr.. Buchanan
is a victim to his unerring darts. A young lady
from tide-water Virginia, the daughter of dis
tinguished jurist, came to this city, openly de-
claring her purpose of vctimizing his Excellency,
and supplanting the elegant Miss Lane in the
management of the White House. Her fascina-
ons, it is said have proved resistiess, and it is
whispered about among the particular friends
of the President that during the coming winter,
he will lead to the altar the charming Miss
c.
In connection with the rumor of the Presi-
dents contemplated alliance, gossips have re-
vived the story of Miss Lanes engagement to an
English nobleman, of advanced age but of i'm
mense fortune, and it is now said that matters
will be hurried up so that the neice will be
even with the uncle. 1t is worthy of remark,
just here, in connection with the rumored mar
riage of the President, that there has never been
q child born in the Executive manson- Wash
Cor AHd
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"What nextT Why cider, to-be-sure

THE NATIONAL TREAsURY-The receipts into
the United States Treasury, for the quarter end
ing the 30th of June, were over S23 900, 900, in
cluding S9,S50,00O from the customs, and l2,-
$4,000 from the sale of treasury notes. The
expenditures, during the same quarter, were
S22 1000, including nearly $4,000 900 for in
terest on the public debt and the payment Of
treasury notes.
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"OLp Bucks" NATIVE CABIN.-Near MERGERS
burg Penn, there is spot called Stony Bat
ten," place of resort for pic-nics, and in sight
of it is still standing the old log cabin wherein
the President was born-at very early period
of his life. The people of the pleasant town mad
a oood time ont there on the 9TH of July.
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DIVERSIFIED ScENERY.-A Kansas journal thus
describes the scenery along the Missouri river:
aOn one side of the river there are immense
bottom lands, covered with cotton woods on
the other SIDE tall cotton woods, standing upon
immense bottoms"
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SPREADNe.-The land claim of Mr. Clark, in
winch Haycraft & Laferty's Ferry property is
situated, seems to be rather more extensive than
was at first thought. The boundaries now
claimed include the "Buncombe Mills" and
much valuable land in that region.
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B1r The hens eggs produced in one year in
the United States amount, in value, to the annu-
al product of the California gold mines No.
body would believe it, of course yet it appears
to be true, and more than true. statisticap
of the East estimates the number of laying hens
in the United States at 103, 600, 900, of which
50o0O,0O0, or little less than ore half lay one
egg each day, throughout the year, which gives
an annual product Of 1880, 100000 of eggs. At
eight cents per dozen IA low ayerage) this pro-
duct is worth Sl2l 666, ,666 ca.
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nesz- The following notice from a Young man

B7F The following notice from yonng man
was recently addressed to Judge of Probate:
"Sir: Ny father departed this life not long
hence, leaving wife and five scorpions. He
died detested, and his estate is likely to prove
resovent. l was left executioner, and being
told that you were Judge of Reprobates, apply
to you for letters of condemnation"
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THE WESTERN CORRAL,

In connection acith the Western House,)
Lower end of Main Street, Shasta,
- Is centrally and conveniently located,
02 and is one of the largest and most COM
modious in town. 1t will always be found abun-
dantly supplied with good OAT-HAY and
FRESH WATER.
Hay, per night, so cents--per pound, by
the bale, cents.
augf- m
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FoREw4RNED.-The editor Of the Mountain
Messenger informs his readers that he has in his
possession large bunch of keys, some of which,
1t Is thought, assisted in the unlawful opening
OF certain door and safe locks. He, with de-
gree OF thoughtlessness that tells well for his
freshness among the supper kids" forewarns
the people thus: I" Look to your locks, citizens"
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Consul FOR TAHITI-fhe newly appointec
consul for Tahiti, vi. Turner, Esq, took his de-
narture ON the 9th inst He was accompanied
bv Hon. W. W. Hawks, who visits Tahiti on ac-
count of extreme i'll health.
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re- An editor out West thus talks to nom
paying subscribers Wagons cannot run with
out wheels, boats without steam, bullfrogs jump
without legs, or newspapers be carried on ever
lastingly without money, no more than dog
can wag his tail when he amt got none. Our
subscribers are all good but what good does q
mans goodness do when it don't do any good
We have no doubt every one thinks that all have
paid except him, and as we are clever fellow
and this a little matter, it will make no differ
ence
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LAND SALEs.-lt is said that the State Sur
veyor General disposed of 100000 worth of
lands for the benefit of common schools during
the month of September.
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CIDER MILLs.-In the manifest of the ship
Anglo Saxon, consigned to VIM. T. Coleman &
Co., we see mentioned tro cider mills. The inn
portation of these destructive engines of the
fruit eaten by mother Eve, where short time
since the price was beyond eating rates, is al
most as startling an event as the success of the
Atlantic Telegraph. What next7-S f. Ma
tionaI.
"What nextY Why cider, to- be-sure.
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WONDER IF Irs So.-" 1t is a curious fact"
saws some entomolgist, that it is only the fe-
male mosquito that torments u.s." A bachelor
says it is not at all " curious"
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Nor ENTITLED TO PRE-EMP.-A. @. Bradford,
Register of the Land Office at Stockton, has
decided " that by the laws of the United States,
colored men are not entitled to pre-emption."
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VIEWS OF A PoLIT1CIAN.-TheN New York Times
publishes letter from " Old Point Comfort
Virginia" which was honored by Pierre Soule'
formerly United States Senator from Louisiana
and Minister to Spain. In the latter capacity,
he signed the famous Ostend Circular. The cor
respondent of the Times says:
The Hon. Pierre Soule spent some days at this
delightful Summer resort, and whilst here, as at
Washington, expressed himself warmly on polit
lcal topics. 1t was his decided opinion that the
Democracy of the country could only hope to
succeed IN 1850 by the nomination of Judge
Douglas. Such was the view he took of the
political field as it now stood, but he thought
that while much wonld depend upon the pru-
dence of Judge D. and his friends, much would
also be developed during the approaching Win
ter, by which we could the better Judge of COM
ing events. On the subject of Cuba, he thinks
the day has passed when we could have pur-
chased it. The Spanish Cortez was expecting
to sell, after the conclusion of the Ostend Con-
ference, for one hundred and twenty millions of
dolars-twenty millions of which they intended
dividing among themselves. Mr.. Marcy, not
having the nerve to stand up to his own policy,
deserted Mr. Soule, and defeated the purchase
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SW AS Y'S HOTEL.
Lover Springs.
TWO MILES BELOW SHASTA.

- THIS HOUSE is LOCATED IN A
iii good mining district, and possesses su-
El4 perior advantages for the accommoda-
ton of miners and the travelling public. Team
sters are assured that every attention will be
paid to their wants. Hay and Barley always on
hana ct the lowest market prices.
BENZ. SWASEY.
Lower Springs, Dec. 1851. If
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THE DEUCE You WILL ?-The Plumas Argus
says:
We are in favor of and will advocate the pas
sage of law raising the pay of members OF the
Senate and Legislature of this State to fifteen
dollars per day for the time actually in attend
ance'
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KICKING Our OF BED NO CAUSE FOR DIVORCE
in the case of Winfred Greenfield u.s. John
Greenfield, for divorce, the plaintiff stated under
oath that John, the I" unfeeling wretch" had
kicked her out of bed, and that in the fall her
knees were considerably bruised. Johns attor-
ney argued that it was a most improbable sup
position that woman weighing from l20 to lao
pounds would fall upon her knees at all, thereby
intmatlng, we suppose, that the cat-like nature
OF the sex would inevitably have brought her
square upon her feet, if, as she averred, John
the unfeeling wretch" had kicked her out OF
bed. The Judge seemed to be impressed with
this view OF the subject. Any way, he decided
that kicking out of bed" was not such cruelty
as would eatitle wife to divorce; and hence,
and because, further, that "plaintiff had given
her husband cause for jealousy" he denied her
application: Husbands are therefore notified,
that if their wives give them cause for jealousy,
they can kick them out of bed at pleasure, with
out the slightest possible chance of having
bruised knees brought up in judgment against
them.
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The NEXT SEYAroRsHIP.-The s. F. Herald
gives the following list of candidates for the
next Senatorship:
Mr.. Gwin, John Bigler, 3. b. Washington,
J. w. Denver, Milton S. Latham, T. J. Henley,
Judge Creanor, Judge Terry, Gen. McDougal,
Judge Howell, Judge Bolts, NJ Brent, Mr..
Peachy, J. B. Weller, Chas. Scott, Judge Hyden-
feldt, Frank Tilford, S. W. Inge and ]. P. Hoge.
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S6T There are now 545 prisoners at the
State Prison.
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CAN IT BE Solve trust the following state
ment is true. Anyway we are quite sure that
if the @rial ship is not already perfected, it will
be in few years =
NJ. Garvani, French machinist has. is said
perfected his aerial ship, at cost of 100000
francs, and made voyage to Algiers, Africa
and back with ia distance of fifteen hundred
miles from the starting point. The average speed
was almost one hundred miles an hour, the voy-
age occupying eighteen hours. NJ. Garvani is
to make the attempt from Havre to the city Of
New York, as soon as he has further tested the
character of his invention by a few short trips
over the Mediterranean and its peighboring pro-
vinces.
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p9- According to the Beacon the distance
from Red Bluffs to Fort Crook is lib miles.
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PROFESSIONAL.
TOWER HOUSE.
At the Junction of the ,Yreka and Wea
yervilIe Roads, IL Miles from shasta.


- THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD AN
liii nounce to the public, and particularly
e4H to persons travelling to and from Yreka,
and Weaverville, that having leased this long
established stand, formerly known as the " Free
Bridge House" he is prepared to entertain Gus
toners in a style not surpassed by any hotel in
Northern California.
Having completed his commodious building,
and furnished it in the best possible manner, he
is enable to promise the very best accommoda-
tions,
The Table, as heretofore, will always be sup
Piled with the best viands the market furnishes;
while from the large garden attached to the
premises, all the vegetables grown in this part of
the State will be furnished in the greatest abun-
dance.
He has also secure CORRAL connected
with his establishment, always supplied with an
abundance of Barley and Hay.
LEVI II, TOWER.
Tower House, March l, 1854 mhll-tf
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A Coop SHoT.-A correspondent of the Mari
posa Gazette gives the following instance of an
exceedingly good shot:
On the same day, another of the same tribe
having imbbed some distilled ointment, (your
sort,) probably quart, felt himself "mucho
ualiente" and drew his pistol on Mr.. George
Ritelle, and threatened to shoot him. The latter
went to his cabin, got his gun, gave Mr.. Injun a
half days chase, got glimpse of him 200 yards
distant, fell upon his knees took good aim, fred,
and poor Digger was gathered to his fathers
Mr.. r. was examined before Justice Counts, and
held to answer in $1,000, and raising bail is now
at liberty.
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E NJ PI r E H o T E L,
c. A N o n III O u S E. .

a HAVING PURCHASED THIS LONG
Esiiil established and favorite Hotel stand-at
Ia....A the mouth Of the Canon fees no hesi-
tation in announcing to teansteFs, and travellers
generally, that they will here find every conven-
ience and comfort that may be procured in any
house on the road
The Table and Bar
Is always provided with excellent food and
choice LIQUORS.
The CORRAL and BARN
Is kept in order and constantly supplied with
the best Hay and Barley, which will be disposed
of at the cheapest rates.
VIM. w. TRACY.
Canon House, Dec. !, 1855. diff
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PER SPIRITUAL TELEGRAPH.-The following
dialogue occurred, we reckon, between printer
after an unsuccessful collecting tour and an ex-
ceedingly intelligent departed spirit. We prin,
it for the benefit of about two or three hundred
people whose names we have carefully preserved
in book:
"Tell me, angelic hosts,
Ye messengers of love-"
Shall suffering Printers here below
Have no redress above?
The angel bands replied
q To US is knowledge given,
Delinquents on the Printers books
Can never enter Heaven"
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Arrival Of the Great St. Louis and Mem.
phis Overland Mail.
We take the following from the telegraph col
umn of the pNion of the 18th;

7" '"nS snP tofto"tnS run lHe Telegraph COZ
umn Of the pNion Of the 18th;
SAN FRANoIsoo, Oct. 10th.
The Southern Overland Mail arrived to-day,
at o'clock A. NJ, from ST. Louis and Memphis,
uia El Paso, Tucson, Los Angeles and San Jose,
in twenty-four days, bringing dates to Sept 10th
from the former cities, and nine days later intel
igence from New York, Much of the inteli-
gence comes from telegraphio dispatches to the
St. Louis Republican, Of September 10th.
Domestic News.
The Secretary of the Interior has decided that
prescriptions to town sights on public lands ac-
crue TO the benefit Of the actual occupant rnstu
rally drawn to the point by the course of bpsi
ness and trade This will head off spectators,
Gen. Harpcy is to sail for the Pacific Septem
Der 20th and will leaye with force of three
thousand men for Washington and OREGON Ter.
ritories, including those now here. ''
The New York Militia have taken nosscss;on
of the Quarantine at Staten Island. All is ouiet
Leayenworth is convulsed with the gold ex-
citement about Pixies Peake. Companies are
about leaving for the mines with six months
provisions: Good news and specimens of cold
have arrived from the diggings.
DenYer is reported as about to resign the Coy
ernorshlp OF Kansas, and again become Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs
Senator Benjamin, of Louisiana has declined
the mission to Spain.
Forsyth will not return from Mexico till Oc-
tober.
The baltimore Custom House has been par
tally burned. Loss, $4,000.
Morrill, Republican, has been elected Cover
nor OF Maine, by 5000, certain. E. B. French
and 5. G. Foster (Republicans) are elected to
Congress. 80
AT Lancaster, Pa, the Democratic County
Convention unanimously nominated James NJ
Hopkins for Congress, He declared himself fa-
vorable to the admission of Kansas with her
present population, and high tariff
AT New Orleans there were ninety eight deaths
from yellow fever in thirty hours
Timothy c. Day and John Gurley have been
nominated for Congress at the Cincinnati Con-
| ventiop.
T. Becher Kay died in Boston from disease
of the heart -
In Vermont, Republican Governor, Senate
House, and Members of Congress are elected.
The new Governor is Hiland Hail. formerly one
of our land commissioners under Fillmore.
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The Administration and Douglas. ;

Inose Democrats in this State, who have as
sumed hostile attitude to the President, be-
cause OF his presumed persecution of the friends
OF Mr. Douglas, will therefore see that they have
acted too hastily. We predict the next steamer
VIII bring us the news that the Administration
men, par excellence, of Illinois, have united in
an earnest effort to secure the recollection of ~
great Douglas to the United States Senate
Shasta Courier, Aug 14th, s
Friend Dosh, You were mistaken, that time
The "next steamer brought no news of the
KIND, and at this moment the Administration is
doing all in its power to defeat Mr. Douglas
The fact is, friend Dosh, you will have to cut
soose entirely from all association with the Le-
s9mptonites, and follow your principles, ere
long. Where your heart is, there should your
pen be also. The great fight is yet to come and
gallant soldier like you should be found on the
right side. And the sooner the hetter-Nation-
al Democrat, Oct, 5.
We do not think yet that President Buchanan
is waging war upon Douglas in his race with
Lincoln. This charge is boldly made, we know,
but where is the evidence, even the most outside
shade of the most distant shadow of evidence to
support 1t? We have never seen it. If it be in
existence, let it be produced. Is that evidence
towards Douglas? As well hold Mr. Buchanan
responsible for the bitter denunciations which
the Sierra Citizen showers upon the head of the
greatest Democrat in the West Douglas him.
self, in recent speech, portion of which we
printed upon our first page last week, speaks OF
the Union as pretending to be the organ of Mr..
Buchanan, and shows that the Union has COM
menced denouncing President Buchanan him
self. On the other hand we find such Admins
tration papers as the Memphis appeal, Richmond
Enquirer, Mobile Tribune, N. O. Delta, Baltimore
Republican, and such Administration men as
Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, Senator Green,
of Missouri, A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, and
many, many other prominent Administration pa
pers and men are taking sides in favor of Doug
las in bis battle for reelection to the Senate
Does this look like the Administration men in
the East are desirous of defeating Douglas?
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Foreign.

BY the Vanderbilt, at New York, London dates
are received to September lst.
Paul Morphy had played eight games of chess
blindfolded at Birmingham with English celeb
rites, and won seven of them.
Queen FictQria had returned from her Conti-
mental visit
The London Times pokes fun at the Americans
for making so much fuss about the Cable cele-
bration, and claims for England the chief honor
A large number of English ships had been
wrecked by storms. '''
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Mexico.

General Eidaurri was about marching o. 600
men against the city of Mexico from San Luis.
Some heavy battles had been fought, and the
Government troops were defeated.
Sonora.
The correspondent of Aha says that Lieuten-
ant Mowry received nearly THO whole vote of
Arizona for delegate to Congress. %