The Shasta courier., 1858-01-30
From Horsetown.

From Hometown.
4 correspondent. writes us from Horsetown as
follows:
There is quite military spirit pervading the
people Of this place, which has alreedy resulted
in the organization of company called the
" Shasta Guards" At the first meeting some
thirty-three names were enrolled, and since the
number has been increased to over eighty MEM
bers. They have had their election for officers.
which resulted follows Isaac Hare Capt;
W. E. Johnson, lst Lieut. John H. Fisher, I'd
Lieut.; John Donovan, Sd do. They have for
warded their application to the Governor thro'
Senator Garter. The company meets for drill
every Saturday Evening at the Ball Alley of
Maj Maher. Should there be call upon Cali
fornia for troops to assist in suppressng the re-
bellion in Utah, this company will be able to
do good service, as | have very seldom seen as
many fine looking men in one company They
nll seem eager for the FRAY"
IscEsDrARIsM--Our neighboring city, Yreka,
seems to be infested with a set of incendaries.
Within the past few months quite number of
attempts to burn the town, portions of it at
least, have been made. On the l4th inst. we
learn from the Chronicle an effort of this kind
it was defeated by a timely discovery A few
days subsequent, the Sheriff, by the assistance
of one Of the band, young man by the name
of Ned Flanders, who turned traitor and acted
spy upon the actions of certain suspected
parties learned that an attempt was to be made
upon unoccupied two story house upon
Fourth street, near the Metropolitan Hotel lie
took measures accordingly, by surrounding the
house with his assistants About / o'clock a
man by the name of S. P. Everett, a strolling
play actor, formerly from Philadelphia, was seen
to enter the bui!ding-in a short time flashes of
light were observed up stairs, as if from the ig-
nitiIg Of a match. 4 few moments thereafter
the same person left the house, and was arrest
ed. Upon examination handle of paper satu-
rated with camphene was found-the lining of
the room was saturated with the same LIQUID
and on board under the paper lay cotton
cord, one end of which was lying in pile of
powder, while the other was slowly burning
Everett was lodged in jail He was formerly Il
clerk in the Western Hotel, Sacrameuta-
IrISERAST PoLITIcIASs-The Governor has
appointed Manuel T. Brocklebank, his brother
in-law, for his Private Secretary. Mr.. b. has
not rs yet been in the State a sufficient length
of time to become a citizen say some of the
grumblers who were disappointed in getting the
position That objection, however, these fault
finders should remember, will be obviated in
the course of a few weeks. These same grum-
blers say that his appointment is contrary to the
spirit Of 4 portion of his inaugural where he
denounees ''itinerant politicians, having neither
interest noe sympathy with us for having got
ten atn Office and scontralled its 1.-THE State J
legislation" They say man who thus breaches
against itinerant politicians" should not, so
soon as he is elected Governor, send off to
another State for one of them to fill an Office
which many friends, who helped TO elect him,
were praying for. Poh These defeated office
seekers make themselves ridiculous. The Pri-
vate Secretary of the Governor, as every body
h..ows, is not a political Office.
MoRaoys.-The Nnrmous who left San Ber-
rardino at the command of heartless set of
priests, are now, in great part, encamped upon
tHe eiolaNc- lie Los Angeles i>tdT learns tnat
since the camp was established about fifty mar
tiages have taken place, and about twenty-five
babies come into the world. The same paper
learns that grea, destitution exists al Salt Lake
City. A portion of the Mormons who started
for head quarters thought better of it after trav-
sling awhile, aud returned to San Bernardino
Den- The Washington correspondent of the
g. F. Herald says, in speaking of the Kansas
matter:
Senators Gwin and Pugh spoke on the sub
Ject in an equivocal manner, bat finally sustain
ed the Administration. Douglas carried but
one Democratic Senator with him, namely
Broderick of California
If Mr. Broderick is the oaly Democratic Sen
stor who sustains Douglas, the greater is his
credit And whether rig or wrong he will
have the satisfaction of knowing that he is sus-
tanned by large majority of the Democracy of
the State which he represents.
INPUDESr.-The stockton Democrat saws that
Gov. Weller has been pestered by several Black
Republicans to be retained in ce rtain Offices in