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San Andreas independent., 1858-01-02

Ample SfQCk, of all Varieties.
All orders sent to us at the Nursery, or to
A. q. Brown, Hunter street. Stockton, accom-
panied by remittance, either by mail OF through
Wells, Fargo Co., will be carefully attended
to- the Trees will be securely packed and de-
livcred on board steamer and shipped to any
part OF the State. SMITH Il WINCHELL.
San Jose, January I'd, 1853 ia 2:3m:27
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-02

ALso-Gooseberry, Raspberry, Strawberr,
Currants, and
Shade and Ornamental Trees.
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-02
THE
CARRIERS ADDRESS,
THE
SAN ANDREAS INDEPENDENT.
January LIST, 1858.
TO THE PATRONS OF THE

THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE. Of '57,
The last faint sigh escapes to Heaven
Hoary with age, he bows his whten'd head,
Is numbered in a moment with the dead =
No tear bedims the cheeks-no mourning slghs
No groan escapes our bosom as he dies
The air, the moon, the stars all seem to glow
And smile tho death has touch'd the veterans
brow
San Andreas independent., 1858-01-02
TREESs
1.-THE Proprietors of the......
e. o RR ERE crCiaI Nursery.
SAN JOSE.

WTHO RECEIVED the First Premium from
w the Santa Clara County Agricultural
Society, offer to their friends and patrons of
San Joaquin Valley and vicinity, the present
season, their
Entire Stock of Fruit Trees.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN-To those who have
reached the meridian of life, and who feel
age growing on them apace with silent but
rapid steps and yet no great achievement ac-
complished, no high and noble aim reached
how melancholy must all retrospection and re-
membrance of the past be. Life's pilgrim thus
looking back sees the promises of youth wreck
ed and shattered on adverse rocks the hopes
of early years thwarted the bright pictures of
happiness which the warm heart and glowing
mind portrayed, vanished like a dream. And
thus looking back from the standpoint of the
present. into the irrecoverabe past, many there
are who, they sigh over their lost years, think
with regret of what might have been. Admoni-
tions unheeded, opportunities lost, time wasted,
affections betrayed and friendships severed, all
rise up before the minds gaze to account for the
barrenness of the pilgrimage and the disappoint-
ment of youthful antcipations. Had wisdom
guided, every day of these early years of life
might have been proftably spent in acquiring
knowledge and fitting the youth for the accom-
plishment of noble purposes and worthy deeds
in manhood. But they have been wasted in idle
dreams, in trivial undertakings, in aimless wan
derings from the straight path, until the guer-
don which should have been long since won
seems farther from the grasp than eyer.-Sonora
Herald
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

ELECTORAL VoTE IN lS6O.-Before the next
Presidential election, says an exchange, three
new States, additional to those voting in 1856,
Will have been admitted, viz: Minnesota, alrea-
dy In the Union, with Kansas and Oregon to
come In next winter. In 1856 the whole num-
Der OF electoral votes was 295 with the above
mentioned new States, the whole number in
1860 will be BOG. Of this number, l54 will be
required for majority. And of the BOG electo-
raj votes, l20 will belong to the Slave States,
ana 1856 to the Free States. The majority of the
North over the South is thus shown to be Co.
ana yet the niger worshippers, fanatics and
tnelr allies are constantly harping about the
slave power, its influence and its aggressions.-
They assert, with unblushng impudence, their
ignorant or unprincipled speakers proclaim it
from every stump, that the North is at the mer-
cy OF the South that they are outvoted on ev-
cry question: and that to admit any more slave
territory will perpetuate the evil, forgetful of the
fact that the South is in hopeless minority in
Congress.-Nountain Democrat
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23
The Law of Newspapers.

l. Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary, are considered as wishing to
continue their subscription.
2. If subscribers wish their papers discontin-
ned, publishers may continue to send them until
all charges are paid.
s. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
papers from the Office or place to which they
are sent, they held responsible until they
settle their bill, and give notice to discontinue
them.
a. 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
facie evidence of intentional fraud.
Ee7E Postmasters would oblige, by strict
fuIiment of the regulations requiring them to
notify Publishers, once in three months, of pa
pers not taken from their office by subscribers.
HEg- Under the law of Congress papers are
not charged postage in the county in which they
are published.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

IMPORTANT DEcIsIoN-THE WAR EXPEDITIONS.
A recent decision of the Secretary of the In
terror recites that prescriptions to town sites on
public lands are to accrue to the benefit of ac-
tual occupants naturally drawn to the point by
the course of business and trade. This breaks
up the old routine practice of the Land Depart
ment, which has made many land spectators
millionaires by recognizing their bogus occu-
pants as really so in contemplation oflaw. Hum
dreds of speculative sites and thousands of
spectators will be headed off by this policy of
Mr.. Thompson. Though it is assumed by the
spectators that the old practice had the sane
ton of Mr.. Cushing, am authorized to state
that he has personally approved of the decision
of the Secretary of the Interior.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23
The Negroes OF the south.

:. ~. description of country and plantation life
~ ~ virginia, recently published G. P r. James,
'ne noveliSt, writes: THE negro life of Vir-
gina differs very little believe, from the negro
NE all through the South. ia return for food.
ciothing, house room, medical attendance. and
support In old age, about one-thrd of the labor.
"nlch is required of the white man in most
countries, is demanded of the black. He per-
forms it badly, and would not perform it at all
II he were not compelled. The rest of his time
Is spent in singing, dancing, laughing, chatter
ing, and bringing up pigs and chickens. That
negroes are the worst servants in the world, ev-
cry man, believe, but thorough bred southern
man, will admits but the southerner has been
reared with them from his childhood, and in
general has a tenderness and affection for them
81 which northern men can have no conception.
Great care is taken by the law to guard them
against oppression and wrong, and after six
years residence in the State, can safely say |
never saw more than one instance ofcruelty to-
ward negro, and that was perpetrated by a
foreigner. That there may still be evil in the
system, which might be removed by law, and
that there may be individual instances of op-
preston, and even bad ueatment do not deny;
but those instances are lot SO frequent as those
of cruelty to northern wife or child in north
ern lands, as displayed every day by the news
papers, and in point of general happiness, il
would not be amiss to alter an old adage, and
say, As merry as negro slave.
:" Imust not pursue this branch of the subject
further, for | can pretend to no great love for
DR.. Livngstone's friends and Makalolos There
are, beyond all doubt, some very excellent peo-
pie among them, but, as race, the more | see
of them the less do ! think them capable of civ
ilization, or even fitted to take care of them
selves"
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

Bg" Some green eyed" correspondent of the
National Democrat says that the celebration OF
the overland mails arrival, is Gwin move
ment, and intended by his friends as Gwin
laudation. How ridiculous such statements ap-
pear, when the call for the meeting is signed by
over fifty asprants for his place With some
persons there is always niger in the fenes'
The Alta speaks warmly in favor of Aaron v.
Brown, the Postmaster General, and intimates,
or indeed fairly commits itself to him for the
next Presidency. We would like to have that
ballot marked We would
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23
COUNTY DIRECTORY
County OMcerS.

District Judge-William P Daingerfeld, of
Shasta.
County Judge-Joel 7. Landrum.
Associate Justices-J. B. Stewart, and Viii
liam Knowlton.
CounfY Trea as,4 james Hayburn.
Co,nfy C7eriA- H. J. Vanhorn
Sherif-H Clay Stockton Under Sheriff
John Dent.
county Assessor-W. II. Angel.
County Surreyor-E. Linn.
Public ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Swasey.
District Auorney-James D. Mix.
School Commissioner-G. X Godfrey.
County Physicidn-Dr. James E. Pelham.
Board of Superrisors.-lst District, Samuel
Payne; I'd District, William B. Stoddart; Sd
District d. G. Johnson
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

The ROYAL LOVERS AFTER MARRIAGE-If one
may judge from the following account, the mar
ried life of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter
glides on as smoothly and pleasantly as possi-
ble:-
The lady really loves her lord more deyotedly
than is often the case with her rank in life, and
there are many anecdotes in circulation illustra-
ting the artless manner in which she displays
her attachment. The other day the Prince went
over to Potsdam " on important business" l. e.,
drilling and manGuvering his brigade of Guards;
but he had scarcely been absent a few hours
when he was recalled to Berlin by telegraphic
dispatch from the Princess, begging him to re-
turn Immediately. He hastened back in the ut
most alarm, tancying that something dreadful
had happened, and was quite relieved by her
receiving him in her usual health and spirits,
only stating when questioned why she had sent
for him In so violent hurry, that she had " felt
such longing to see him again." "and be-
sides,' she added, on her husbands remonstrat-
ing with her for calling him away from his pro-
iessional duties, mamma always telegraphs for
papa when she wants him."
This reference to what her mamma does the
little Princess considers justification for any
offence she may commit against the starch eti-
quette of the Prussian court. One day she put
on her bonnet and walked across the street to
her father-in-law's without even a footman be-
hind her, to the inexpressible horror of her O5u-
hot meisterin, or duenna-in chief who exclaimed
that no Prussian Princess had ever been guilty
of such breach of decorum "But mamma
does so at Osborne" replied Vic the Second.
and if mamma does why should not I?y Her
affability and good nature have made her gene
rally popular.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23
Times of Holding Courts.

NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
SHAsrA-Thrd Mondays in January, May and
September.
SIsKIYou-First Mondays in March, July and
November.
TRISITY-Second Mondays in April, August
and December.
Shasta County Courts.
Held on the lst Mondays of January, May and
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 SUPERvIsoRs-Meet lst Mondays in
May August, November and February.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

GooD.-A "working democrat" is defined in
Minnesota paper as ' democrat who can poll
the largest number of votes with the fewest
men !" which has the double merit of being both
witty and true.-Er
There is some wit in this Interpretation, but
it would have contained more truth if it had
been given as definition of 4" working MEM
Der" of any political party
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

THE HUGHES INsrRUMEST.-The Albany Jour
MI thus sketches the principal features of this
new invention;
The Hughes instrument is a combination of
the Morse and House inventions. In the Morse
instrument two or three pulsations of the elecs
tric Current are required to indicate letter. In
the House instrument it requires but single
pulsation for each letter. The mechanism bv
which this is accomplished is simple, though
the principle on which it is based is complex
The type wheels at the respective stations re-
volve to print the message, and their revolutions
are governed by vibrating springs These springs
cause them to revolve in exactly the same time.
There is an acoustic principle involved, viz.
that two springs which give the same musical
tone, while vibrating, vibrate the same number
of times per second. The springs are therefore
chosen and regulated by sound This instru-
ment, 1t is evident, economises both time and
electric power. Its exceeding senstiveness to
the least perceptible pulsation of the electric
currents adapts it especially for long lines and
submarine cables. 1t is capable of writing
forty words minute, with about one tenth of
the battery power of other instruments, and sends
messages both ways at once? At least SO the
inventor Claims and it is to be tested on the At
lantic cable.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

feA They have recently had rather rich
difficulty at this place in regard to dog. Some
one had poured camphene over the animal, and
some one else set fire to him. The dog, in its
fright and pain, ran through house in which a
family resided, frightening the folks and endan-
gering the house.-Amador Ledger.
The parties who committed this cruel act,
would not hesitate at any crime, but for the fear
of the law 1t requires murderers heart,
which is that of a coward, to do such an act of
cruelty.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

CAUSE FOR PRAIsE-From the whole surface
of the ocean, says DR.. Dick, there arise, every
twelve hours, no less than thirty millions of mil
lions of cubic feet of water, which is more than
sufficient to supply all the rivers on the earth
This immense body of water is formed into
clouds, and carried over every part of the con-
tinents and again it is condensed into rain,
snow, or dews which water and fertilze the
earth. Should this process cease, we might wash
our clothes but centuries would not dry them
for evaporation alone produces this effect; We
getation would wither the rivers would swell
the ocean-the operations of nature would cease.
So close is the connection between this process
and vegetable and animal life.-Life Illustrated
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

The CoMET.-This brilliant visitor is no long
er visible, to the naked eye, of an evening, from
this place, although it may be seen from the top
of Shurtleff's Hill, south of the town. 1t is rap
idly receding from the earth, and is apparently
speedily decreasing in size, brlliancy and length
of tail. AS Gen. Washington once exclaimed
during the raging of the battle of Monmouth
quoting the language of Homer in describing the
siege of Troy, Letherrip."
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

The LUST FOR RIcHEs.-The grudge with
which most men part with little pittance for
the nobest purposes, is astonishing and humili-
ating. Mammon is the god of the protesting
world among us. The love of distinction flows
in the channels of wealth, and thus creates an
aristocracy the most feeble and enfeebling, the
most corrupt and corrupting, the most slavish
and enslaving of all aristocracies-the aristoc-
racy of Dollars. Hence the passion for lucre is
the passion of the United States. Men measure
their respectabilty not by their deeds of good
ness, but by the sums of which they mas
terc Hosou
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

Bey] The editor of the Butte Record gets off
the following sensible remarks in reference to
politics:
"Politics are nuisance-so to speak, A
necessary evil like the existence of flies, law
yers and lunatic asylums Without them, the
country which is periodically in danger, would
never be safe. OF course there is right and
wrong side to these politics, and if we didn't
keep stirring them over, they might get mixed
wrong side up, and then we should be in de-
plorable plight and we might have a continuous
century of campaigning to capsize wrong
side that we could have kept down half the time
if we had only worked away industriously and
struck while the iron was hot. As patriots,
then, we can't keep out of these campaigns; we
must busy ourselves with them, and, if necessa-
ry, so engross our minds as to come out of the
battle with our sconce boxes crammed with
nothing but the ammunition and cid army stores
of our regiments and battalions, and so many
war horses as are untitled for working in the
harness of peace and poverty"
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

FRANCE AND MADAGASCAR.-On the eastern
coast of Africa, and defended, like that contin.
ent, says the Washington States. by climate
fatal to the while race, at least along the coast
lies the magnificent island of Madagascar. q
strangely neglected but wonderfully rich field
for the colonizng ambition of Europe. France
has glanced in that direction before but it has
remained for the daring, far-sighted Napoleon
TO really comprehend its grand capabilities. and
grasp them boldly, as an appendage of his pros
pectlve African empire. 1t is now quietly an
nounced that this vast island, a thousand miles
In length, and of twice the area of France is
and has been for two centuries French nronartv
1t has population of several millions of ne
groes with large sprinkling of straight haired
Arabs, who are not entirely destitute ofciyilized
ideas.
What Napoleon the Third intends to do with
the island or its inhabitants is not declared bnt
1t may have some kind of relation with the fact
that, among the ways and means suggested far
the construction of NJ Belly's Nicarurua canal
it was stated that excellent able-bodied laborerS
could be obtained in Madagascar, and delivered
on the lsthmus at 1000 francs, or 5000 head
Suppose-we advance it merely in the wav of
cohJecture-that two, or three, or four, or five
hunored slaves had their liberty bought by the
canal contractors on condition of their serv;no
fifteen years in Central America, what Enronooge
power would be likely to interfere? Is there
anything to hinder this project, so "eminentlv
advantageous to humanity and civilization p,
We think that is the phrase used by the French
journalist in repelling the subdued remon-
strances of England at the Napoleon plan of
spelling the British cody trade by taking nm the
African line of opposition.
BE that as it may, France comes out with her
claim to Madagascar, in the calm, noiseIess wav
IN which Napoleon always strikes his sure and
sudden eoups and certain it is, that no Euro
pean Power will venture to dispute If
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

PoINTED.-In reply to Mrs. Julia Branch's res
olution in the Vermont Free Love Convention,
that the matrimonial contract deprived woman
of her legitimate labor" the Nashville Banner
wickediy retorts: " This is mistake it is only
by marrying that woman comes to legitimate
laborn
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

BSg@ large quantity of rags from the Cri-
mea were recently received at paper-mill in
Massachusetts, Some of them were dotted with
blood, and among them were many ofthe labels
which were upon the bundles of linen sent out
from England, stating the name of the person
who sent them, and the place ofresdence. At
tached to one of these labels was found beau
tful poetical tribute to Florence Nightingale.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

What a Man Eats.

Al. Alexis Soyer the eminent cook, whose
death was announced in the Era week or two
ago, IN one OF his most touching pictures of real
lie, represents to us good genius leading out
little aristocrat, or yet unconscious millionaire.
to vast plain upon which are collected on one
spot all the delicate food and costly LIQUORS
which that favored being will consume during
me period OF his mortal struggles, supposing
him to attain the average of man. That great
writer throws in the additional and awful touch
that the animals destined for the support of the
little boy are in that awful vision endowed with
life, and are gazing at their future consumer
with lack-lustre but reproachful eye Taking
the medium consumption of his daily meals the
eminent writer In question has calculated that
the boy would be surrounded and gazed at by
80 oxen, 200 sheep, los calves 200 lambs SO
pigs; in poultry, by 1900 fowls, 800 turkeys,
$50 geese, 400 ducklngs, 263 pigeons, 400
partridges, pheasants and grouse, GOO wood
cocks and snipes, and COO wild ducks, widgeon
and teal, 450 plovers, rufs and reeves 500 quails
ortolans and dotterlls, and a few guillemOts and
other foreign birds also by 500 hares and rab-
bits, 40 deer, 100 guinea fowl ten peacocks and
$50 wild fowl. In the way of fish, by l2O tur-
bot l40 salmon, 120 cod, 26O trout 400 macke-
rel 800 Writings, 800 soles and slips, 400 houn-
ders, 400 red mullet, 200 eels, $50 haddocks
400 herrings, and 5000 smelts, and by some hun
urea thousands OF tnOSe QellclOuS Sllyery white
bait, besides few hundred of fresh water fishes
In shell-fsh, by 20 turtles, 10000 oysters, 1906
Holsters crabs, 10000 prawns, shrimps, sar.
dimes and anchovies.
| With the enumeration of the living creature:
we will stop. We have not room to dwell upor
the food, upon the fruits and vegetables VIZ
would only say that the liquids to promote the
! digestion of the above articles, enumerated OF
suggested are counted as 40 hogsheads of wine
1861 gallons of beer 5S4 gallons of spirits, 34l
of liquors, &c. This may furnish a rough ides
of the spectacle that would meet the inteligen
eye of a little colonel of the Grenadier Guards
if summoned at an early age to inspect his fu
ture rations. The sight that would greet thu
eyes of an embryo soldier destined to serve un
der his command, would be of far less compli
Gated nature, seeing that it would mainly consis
of huge pile of boiled fresh beef, in weigh
equaling 1865 pounds of stringy, overlooked
fresh meat. We have somewhat over-stated th,
weight, and over-estmated the esculent valu,
of this mountain of insipid flesh, because pri
vate soldier does not receive even one pound o
such diet every day and even from the weigh
he actually receives, a considerable deduction
must be made for bone and other portions unf
for human food.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

BI5a The Shasta Courier, speaking of Hon.
Mat Ward, member of Congress from Texas,
says he is the same man who killed school
teacher in Louisville, Kentucky, some years
since The Courier is mistaken. The two gen.
tlemen are in no way related to each other
Marysrille Express.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

FINE WRITING.-This is what some people call
fine writing:
"To all appearance, he passed Times ordeal
without the care of much wealth, or the risk or
fear of bankruptcy; and shed his mortality under
Oriental tints Of fuRclouded sunset"
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

HARD SET.-Columbus. Kentucky. must be a
hard place. An old farmer who had been badIv
swindled there, said of it: " If the angel Ca.
briel happens to land at Columbus, there'u be
no resurrection, for they'll swindIe him out of
his trumpet before he can make single toot.u
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

SMUT IN WHEAr.-A. F. Beardsley, OF Suscol,
an experienced scotsman and botanist, agrees IN
opinion with some others that smut in wheat IS
caused by the bruising of the grain in the COM
mon threshing machine-.Sde. Union.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

Ba5~ The general elections for members of
Congress and State officers, in Pennsylvania
Ohio and Indiana, took place on Tuesday, the
18th inst The State elections in New York
and Illinois will be held on the lst proximo.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23
Township Officers.

SHASTA TowSsHIP.-Justlceso of the Peace-H.
A. Curtiss, E. X. Shed. Constables-Robert U.
Dewitt, Thomas J. Flynn.
CLEAR CREEK -Justices-William
KuowIton, James NJ. Eby.
FREScH GULcH TOWNSHIP B.
Stewart.
SIERRA TowNsHIP-Justices-S ID. Baker.
PITT RIVER TowNsHIP-Justices-J. NJ. Hunt.
The Shasta courier., 1858-10-23

A Touch SToRY.-The Texas Item saws that
there is remarkable negro boy in Polk county
He has two faces fixed in opposite parts of the
head, with mouth, nose and chin so full and per-
feet that tits impossible to tell which is the front
face, when the body is hid from view. He is
about six years of age, healthy, of very sound
mind, runs and plays among other children with
as much sprightliness as could be expected from
one of his age.