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The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27

MARrsvILLE ELEcrIoS-The Sacramento ma
pers have the following report of the city cleo
ton in Marysville on Monday
Thirteen hundred votes polled Peter Decker.
Douglas Democrat. elected Mayor by III major
ity z. NJ. Gorham, DEM, elected Clerk, 234
majority, and A. @. Soule, Dem, elected Treas
urer Independents elected. 7. McCarty,
Recorder; A. J. Barkley, Marshal, and G r.
Nightingale, Assessor. Council, ten Democrats,
and two Independents.
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27
Shasta County Courts.

Held On the lst Mondays of February, April,
June, August, October and December.
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 SUPERvIsoRs-Meet lst Mondays in
May, August, November and February.
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27

SIX PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH.-Near San
Juan, Monterey county, on Sunday 18th inst, a
the ruins the half consumed bodies of Mrs:
0den, who lived in the house, and her forzus 81
dren; and also that of Miss Burns, friend
who had been paying Mrs Oden a visit The
latter is niece of DR.. Cora, of San Jose. Mr.
Oden had left two days before, for the Four
Greeks country, in search of cattle 1t is sup
posed that the family were murdered before the
house was burned. Suspicion rests upon cer-
tain Spaniafd who lived in the neighborhood- =
The widest excitement prevails about the af-
fair; and men are securing the country in every
direction in search of the supposed culprit, So
says the Sac. Union.
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27
Times of Holding Courts.

NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
SuAsrA-Third Mondays in January, May and
September.
=. SIsKryoU-First Mondays in March, July and
November.
TRISIry-Secoud Mondays in April, August
and December.
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27

Rs5- Gen. Allen, of the Marysville Nens, re-
Gently stole pair of scissors from one Wright,
merchant, with such "delightful expertncss"
that he, Wright, Immediately thereafter present.
ed him, Allen. with an elegant penknife.
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27
COUNTY DIRECTORY
County Omcers.

County O6icers.
Outrict Judge-William P. Daingerield, OF
Shasta.
County Ja4ss-jcei L. Landruin.
associate Jastiecs--J. R. Stewart, and Will
liam KnOwton.
County Trsasurer-james Hayburn.
County C7erk-H. l. Vanhorn.
Sherf-H. Clay Stockton. Under Sheriff
John Dent
County 4s:essor-W. II. Angell.
County .Sxroeyor--E. Linn,
Public Idmixistrafor- Benjamin Swasey.
Distriet Ahorney-James d. Mix.
School Commisstoner-G. X. Godfrey.
County Physiciaa-Dr. James L. Pelham:
:, Board of Sapercisors.-lst District Samuel
Payne I'd District, William B. Stoddart, Sd
District, D. c. johnson.
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27
The Law Of Newspapers.

|. Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary, considered as wishing to
ceannue their subscription.
:. Ii subscribers wish their papers discontin-
hed, publishers may continue to send them until
all charges paid.
5. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
papers from the office place to which they
are sent they are held responsible until they
settle their 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 uncalled for, is prima
ftcie evidence of intentional fraud.
BkS@ Postmasters would oblige by strict
tulhlment of the regulations requiring them to
notify Publishers, once in three months, of pa
pers not taken from their Office by subscribers
BsE- Under the law of Congress papers are
not charged postage in the county in which they
are published
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27

Divorce L1w:-Mr. De Long has introduced
in the Assembly act concerning divorces.
1t provides that divorces may be ganted for
seven causes-the seventh cause being the
natural consent or desire, of both the parties to
the contract, for separation If that has mt an
6dor of MoImonism about it, very much
mistaken. However, it makes no sort of differ
ence whether the divorce laws are made looser
or not. Anybody can get divorce now, and
hence we do not perceive that the proposed law
will be productive Of any particular effect one
way or the other.
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27
township O0icers

SHASTA TtwssHIr.-Justiccs of the Peace-H
A. Curtiss, b. T. Shed Constables-Robert ..
Dewitt, r. r. Snee.
CLEAR CREEK TosxsTiif. .-Justices William
Knowlton, James VI; Eby.
FRENCH GULcH Observation-Disclosures B.
Stewart.
SIERRA Observation-Disclosures. d. Baker.
PITT RIVER TowxsHIP-Justices-J. NJ Hunt
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27

TEMPER.-Keep your temper in disputes. The
cool hammer fashions the red-hot iron to any
shape needed.
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27
NUMBER 3.

the Lecompton Constitution because it is not the
act and deed of the people of Kansas, and does
not embody their will.
Congress adjourned to attend great WASH
ington celebration at Richmond on the 22nd
The New York Herald says: q We learn from
Washington, that at caucus of Democratic
Senators held to arrange the order of business
of the Senate, it was agreed to dispose first of
the bill providing for the increase of the army
and then to take up the bill for the admission
of Minnesota into the Union. 70 the Minnesota
BILL an amendment will be made providing
for the admission Of Kansas under the Lecomp
ton Constitution. Said Constitution to be so
amended to drop the clause which prohibits
the people of KANSAS from altering it till 1864.
It will pass the Senate by six or eight majority"
BssS~ In April, 1856 the e. s. ship of war
independence, arrived at Apia, in the Navigators
Islands and while there the commodore, Mer-
vine, ordered one of his men, VIM. H. Parker,
to be confined four five days in double irons,
and afterwards confined him for thrty-fve days,
in single irons, in the shell room. During this
period, the weather being excessively hot, the
prisoner suffered greatly. He repeatedly re-
quested a trial to be informed of the charges
against him, but was always refused. He there
fore bded his time, and as soon as his ship
reached San francisco brought suit against his
commander for false imprisonment. The Com
modore set up in way of defence that the United
States commercial agent at Apia, charged the
complainant with having killed a resident
there; and represented that, if he were allowed
to land at that place, there would be boodshed.
He therefore thought, to prevent difficulty, he
was justified in placing the plaintiff in custody.
The jury, however, differed with the commodore,
and accordingly rendered a verdict in favor Of
| the plaintiff for $4,000
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27

| II The Inaependent Order sf Odd Fell
lows, (Shasta Lodge, No. SD will meet every
Monday evening" at o'clock, in the Masonic
! Hall.
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27
SHASTA COURIER.
y cHAxDLER's HoRsETowx SHASTA EXPRESS.
From Horsetown.

z EDIroRs CouRIER:-Thinking that you have
9ng been looking for letter from some one
<Ae idea struck me this afternoon that was the
an,* and the impression becoming SO very
rong, (although ann not spiritualist,) have
etually seated myself upon three legged STOOL
Eith pens, ink and paper enough to supply a
Uniting Office scattered around me in multitu-
nons confusion, and am now striving to catch
soring idss y Sh,rh e sommsnss ny
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27

= You're right. We hope it viii keep on strik-
you regularly every week-only be brief as
The Shasta courier., 1858-03-27

BY THE NORTHERN TELEGRAPH LINE.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02
eonsumpsive Lecompton.

The news by the steamer from the Allan |
tic States, which has reached US by tele- |
graph, confirms the opinion expressed day
or two since. The lingering illness of Le-
compton cannot but prove fatal to the hopes |
of its friends and advocates 1t is not a
constitution that can Withstand 30 prolonged
an attack and notwithstanding the unre-
mitting attentions of Drs Buchanan, Mason,
Hunter, &C., it will coon sink into rapid
decline, and pass into the Toom5s, whose
arms are opened to receive it, 1, has been
kept alive during the month preceding
March 4th, only by the constant and unre-
mitting application Of federal pap, admins.
tered by its distinguished nurses, and
move in the popular branch Of Congress is
likely to cut off the supplies Of this lfe-giv-
ing pabnlum, and leave Locompton putrid
mass Of corruption and sectional folly that
even federal power could not bring into
galyanic existence.
The national Democracy Of the great
states of Ohio and Indiana have declared
against the iniquity, and endorsed the
course Of Douglass, Bro1erick, Stuart and
Wise. Should the Senators from those
states heed the expressed sentiments Of
their constituents, it will deprive this mis-
cradle abortion Of three votes in the United
States Senates-Pugh, of Ohio, and Bright
and Fitch, of Indiana. The two latter gen.
tlemen, however, were not duly elected, and
can retain their seats only while they per-
nit themselves to be used by the corrupt
majority of that once august body. What q
commentary upon the u. s. Senate, and
what unut erable and contemplate degra-
dation on the part of Messrs, Bright and
Fitch, who thus violate the sentiment of tile
State they represent, that they may retain
for a brief period, their seats within the
Senate How low has the administration
and the Senate fallen, when they resort to
such means to carry their measures, and
how Infamous on the part of men who thus
entitle themselves to seats in that body
Let those gentlemen pursue their course
The national Democratic sentiment rcvolts
at the sectional iniquity that oppresses any
portion of the people Of the American Union,
and tho wisdom Of our forefathers has a
monument in the popular branch Of Con
gres, that checks the tide of corruption
which has overwhelmed the other two
branches Of the government
Notwithstanding the fierce assaults of Sec
tionalism, the American government still
stands. 1t only remains for the admnistra-
tion to re e-model the cabinet, remount the ma
tional Democratic platform, and retrieve its
popularity by firm and consistent adhe-
renee to the principles by which it was cho-
sen--the Constitution, the Union, and Pop
ular Sovereignty
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

GREAT RuMoRs.-Some individual full OF
the idea of selling" his neis started
rumor in the western part of the city. yes
terday, that the steamer had arrived and
had brought news Of the resignation of Mr..
Buchanan, a fight between Senator Douglas
and somebody els,, in which one of the COM
batants got killed, and various other start
ing items IS State Journal
We heard some terrible rumors going the
rounds of 0roville just after it was known
that the steamer was telegraphed. One was,
that Horace Greeley had knocked old Buck
heels over head, gouged his eye out, put it
in his pocket aud fed to Boston for protec-
ton. The rumer further stated that old
Buck felt hurt about it,
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02
% Gents per Nigl,t,
C0NSTABLE'S SALE.

HIf VlRUE OF A DECRETAL ORDER Is
hs sued by John s, Berry, Justice Of the Peac4 in
ana tr ophh Township, County Of Butte and state
OF calicrnil- against JAMES BRADLEY and in favor
OF u. nlkSVhEf. for the sum of foriy-nine and
hluety nve one hundredth dollars debt and twenty.
one dollars costs Of suit, and for ccring costs of
said WIZ. TO me directed and delivered. commanding
me 10 sell The following described properly 10 satisfy
said demand ! will. on Tuesday the Txyen-
tfeth day of April, Al I.5s at eleven O'Clock
a W IN pursuance with the requirements of said
orue' sen NJ public sale, 10 the highest bidder for
cash, the property described in the order of sale as
looNs 10 ~h' All the right, title and interest of the
1eienaant IN and to Lots Nos l. ; 4 ., g. and
% M .So hundred and forty feet square, and bound
"a On me north by Robiusln street. on the east by
neeohu Avenue on the 2 iuh by High street, and on
me "est oy Third Avenue. laid down and descri-
osu on he map or plot OF The Carleton Estate now on.
uig III the County Recorders office OF Butte County
A.. ine aoofe sale 10 take place at the Court House
w ~, ne town of 0ruville Bat,e county and State
On r. L. P-4TTO.N, Constable.
orOville, March 3Isi, isSs.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02
THE COURTS,

DISTRICT CoURT-Second Monday In January,
May, and November, and fourth Monday of August.
County CoURT.-First Monday in March and June
second Monday in september, and fourth Monday in
November.
COURT or SESSIONS Second Monday in Febru-
aTy. third Monday in April, July and October.
PROBATE Court Fourth Monday in February and
Mag, third Monday in August and second Monday
in December.
RoARp OF SrPERvIs Meets first Monday in
February, May, August and November.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ADVERTISEMENT.

THE PEOPLE VS. FRGrEEICE FRIcKET.-rhs was
case of assault and battary, tried last Monday be-
fore auctce's Court i. c. Campbell Justice Of the
Peace, at ThompSon's Flat 1t WAS jury trial
James lngraham was the complaining witness De
fendant says he treated with great Injustice on
the trial That the prosecuting witness had
been trying TO swinde some parties out of a claim
purchased Of defendant. and on Sunday he went to
see the prosecutor about it. That on asking the
prosecutor why he was trying to swindle the pur-
chasers ont Of their rights, the prosecutor struck
fendant over the face with stick having an oyster
can at the end of it, serving for dpper. That de-
fendant grapplsd with him to keep him from repeat
ing his blows when tho prosecutor sucked defend
ants thumb into his mouth and went to chewing
away on II TO bite il ST. II then that the de-
fendsnt maued the prosecutor over the caebza uu-
I'll he spit oct the thumb and begged FOR quarter
which was generously granted whereupon the
prosecutor ran to Frenchman near by who had
shotgun, and tried to snatch 1t away to shoot de
fendant with it.-but Mons, Crapeau foied the ras-
call attempt. Defendant had three witnesses who
testified that he was struck first bv ths prosecutor
whle the latter and his partner in the vilainv only
stated under oath, that defeniunt began the attack
with thus state OF facts the jury found defen liant
guilty Jimmy the prosecutor, being Yankee and
iclehdant bloody tnrriner.' This i the kind of
justice that is generally meted when an adopted
citIen Is dstendant-especially where the iurv are
snch asses that their soaplocks scarcely hide their
long ears taps-t%l FRED. FRICKET.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

a SERPENTiNE WATER -SPOUr.-On Sat
urday last, as we are Informed by an eye
witness, just after the great hail storm had
swepC northwarl over the valley, Il cloud
was discovered above the lake in American
township. between the Sacramento and
American rivers. 1t assembled gradually,
aud kept increasing in extent at rapid rate
From being at first no bigger than a mans
hand, 1t swellel in its proportions until it
became almost portentous, and the water on
the outskirts began t. play as if hundred
hose attached to t4ncifu! engines were test
ing their strength Now the stream would
be white as milk, now dark as the sea in its
greatest depths, and anon the hues would be
varied. 1t reached an altitude of s,me two
hundred feet, and after sporting around for
the space of ten minutes, began to descend
from the top, jast as if a great weight were
pressing upon It, became more compact, low
cred slowly until within some tweaty feet Of
the earth, When. all at once, it went, souze !
into the lake whence it rose. Those who
were near to it, say it created rushing
sound, like the wind tearing through pine
trees, and that if it had continued licking
up the waters of the lake for an hour, at the
rate it commecccd, it would have drank it
dry - Sac. Bee.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

SNAGoINa A "SrEAMBoAT."-Som somebody
started about town last evening trying to
make April fools Of people by selling them
old Eastern newspapers for late ones, but his
base purpose was foied by that "high toned
patriot John Davis who followed the steam
boater about and in trumpet tones exposed
the swiudle. John had so decided an ad-
vantage that the ambitious vcnder of old
publications dried up.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

0RovILLE TURN VEREIN.-Ata an election
held by the Orovils Turn Veren, March
8lst, 1868, the following officers were elected
for the ensuing quarter President, Phillip
Waterman Secretary, II. Lob; Treasurer,
II. Hons Turnwart, Adam Sattler Zeug
wart, P. Shumocher. This popular associa-
tion give n magnificent soiree on Monday
evening next. OF course it will bo grand
affair.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

POLITICAL SENTIMENT IN PLACER.-A
correspondent of the Press, writing from
Strawberry Flat, says:
Outside of political aspirants, you will not
find one Lecomptonite in twenty in this part
of the county. In voting as our delegation
did, they misrepresented the views of their
constituents, and leave the impression on
the community that they yielded to some
foreign influence and did not reflect their
own honest sentiments.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

FEAST OF THE PAssovER.-We are in the
midst of the season so sacred to the He.
brews. the Feast of the Passover. Itis kept
with much solemnity among Israelites gen.
orally, but we have seen 10 indications of its
being celebrated by the Israsltes in Oroville.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

No RtILRoAp.-We may as we'll conclude
to abandon all hopes Of the passage of Pa.
cihc Railroad bill during the present session
OF Congress. Kansas has too entirely en-
crossed the attention Of our law givers to ad-
nit of their action upon such minor affairs
as Pacific Railroads, and therefore. so long
as Kansas continues to be bone of conten
ton California and the Union at large may
whistle for the construction either of Ma
tonel Railroad or the passage of National
Railroad Bill. Truly California is victim
lied on all hands. Fllibuster Walker has
cost her the conveniences and profits of the
Nicaragua route, the Pacific Steamship Com.
pany have Jewed her out of large share of
her surplus cash, unprincipled politicians
have robbed her treasury at home, and Kan
sas has destroyed oil chances for the speedy
completion of what she most needs. the Pa.
ci6o Railroad. viii our fortunes ever
change for the better'
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

ATLANTIC PAPERs.--Mr. Lockwood, OF
the Post Office Literary Depot, was ahead Of
every one last evening with Atlantic papers,
and to him are we indebted for copy Of
Forney's Press and the Boston Journal. We
we're soon after supplied with the N. Y Her
aid, Tribune and Times, and other valuable
exchanges. by Mr.. Ezra Morse. We feel
largely indebted to these generous gentle
men.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

SAWED IT DowN.-A week ago, the Red
Bluff Beacon come out with blazing head,
bran new, the most prominentp part of which
was wonderful picture Of Red Bluff and n
little stern wheel boat endcavoring to pass
it. Now this weeks edition of the Beacon
comes to US with the pictorial part of the
head sawed down, and nothing left Of it but
the horrible Bluff, surmounted by the bla-
zing coffee pot and its label "head Of navi-
CATION" The saving hN improved the
thing vastly, but they ought to give it one
more turn and dig down that bluff AS it
is, it presents the funniest appearance Of
any head we ever experienced. 1t beats that
picture Of San Francisco at the head Of the
New Orleans Delta.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02
India.

The British Government is evidently con-
vinced Of the inability Of the East India
Company to longer hold possession of their
Asiatic Possessions and hence is seriously
inclined to take charge of the troublesome
Sikhs and Sepoys, and thus make future
revolutions less liable, and occurring, more
readily put down. Wo suppose that Lord
Palmerston, who seems to be the originator
Of the plan to take India out of the Compa-
ny's hands, thinks that if John Bull has got
to do the fighting for that unhappy land
that when peace is conquered, said peace be-
longs to the Government and thus belong.
ing, it is nothing more than right that the
British Lion should have full enjoyment of
it, and Governmental attaches hold Indian
positions of emolument and trust. Just as
liaely as not lord Palmerston is half right
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

ANOTHER VIGILANCE TROUBLE We
find the suhjoined in the Union under telc-
graphic head of San Francisco March 30:-
This morning a libel was filed in the Uni
ted States District Court, by M>rtin Cola.
gher. one Of the Vigilance exiles, against
the American barque Yankee, how in this
harbor, and the master, James Smith. He
alleges, in terms, that on May 25th, 1856,
he was an American citizen, resident here,
and man of good reputation and fair char
acter, engaged as a night watohmau in the
Custom House, at n salary of : l20 n month
etc. He charges that Captain Smith conspi-
red, combined and coufederated to abluct,
punish and injure him, lie also charges
that said Captain Smith, in manner afore
said, deprived him of his liberty, despoiled
him of property to the value Of 50 900, and
Of his cfiice in the Custom House, whereby
he has sustained damage in the sum of @25.
900. The claim purports to be made by
Gallagher. in his own person. The vessel
was attached, and Captain Smith arrested
by Cnitel States Marshal solomon. His
bail was fixed at $iS 600. and the Captain re.
leased on parole to look up boud>mcn.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

STOPPED. Several gentlemen who were
on the eve of a departure hence for the East.
have abandoned their trip since hearing of
the withdrawal Of the Sierra Nevada.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

Fool HARDY.--While the Archy case was
undergoing examination before Comms'
sioner Johnson. lawyer Hardy got his dan
der up and told one of the opposing counsel.
Mr.. Tompkins, that he lied, whereupon Mr..
T. approached him, and Hardy made mo-
tion for his pistol, whereat somebody cried
out in an ironical tone, "Yes, draw your
pistol" but the hot-headcd gentleman re-
fused to do it, and 80 the muss was queted
down after few harsh words. Archy will
be the death of somebody yet.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02
OROvILLE, FRIDAY, APRIL I'd. 1858.

~ MIR. John ii. LiIIard is authorized to
receive Subscriptions and collect moneys for the
Daily and Tr Weekly Butte Record. Persons living
ut distance can obtain the paper by furnishing him
with their names.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

THE EMrERoR IN DANGER.-There is
strong ground for surmising that ere this,
Louis Napoleon has been dethroned-por-
haps decapitatcd. The financial crisis which
has fallen upon America and England, and
swept like pestilence over the Continent,
has left large class of people in the cities
Of France and other Continental States in
destitute coalition. This fact, and the well
known excitability of the common people of
Paris, and the unpopularity of the Emperor
among the adherents of the Bourbous places
him in very critical position, and we may
reasonably apprehend that there has been
at least a revolutionary movement if nothing
worse, in Paris. Ten years is a long time
for the peaceful occupancy of the French
throne. and it will indeed be mirclc if the
usurper who now occupies it will be allowed
to hold possession without fighting for it.
The daily Butte record., 1858-04-02

THEArRE IN Sonora We sec by the
Herald that joint stock company has been
formed in Sonora for building theatre.
The building will commence very shortly.