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The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

BsT A London correspondent Of the Boston
Trareiler, who is or PROCESSES TO be an English
man, gives very gloomy account OF the British
prospects in India and also of the conduct OF the
British troops in that country. He says;
India still continues disturbed, and, between
drinking, fever and cholera our army meits
away. Our bravest have fallen and still one
hundred victories have gained US no sure foot
hold over the alien race. The Sepoy enemy no.
where presents firm front, but harnesses us by
guerrilla warfare, and by an obstinate resist
ance in struggling fortresses- Our own conduct
is not defensibe. The permitted conduct OF our
army would stamp us with eternal disgrace II
we were dealing with any civilized power. our
British troops give no qnarter-every acuon Is
followed by an ndiscrlminate slaughter OF nun
dreds and thousands-the route of our army Is
indicated by blackened corpses, the prey OF the
hideous vulture and the jackal. and ruined vii
lages soaked in blood Our allies the savage
Ghoorkes and Sikhs, are totally urrestrained-
they spare neither age nor sex, and welding
naked swords, they rush upon the plunder with
demoniac cries. The sack of Lucknow, and the
horrors after the assault, were too horrible even
for the pen of the Times correspondent to de-
scribe, which hesitated not at the carnage of
Sebastopol. Our mode of conducting Eastern
war appears not to have improved with the ad-
vance of the 18th century. Lucknow saw two
hundred thousand armed men destroy her an
cient palaces, and hold their hideous orgies in
her sacred temples.
/" From henceforth our rule in India must be
the rigid one of the sword. Already We have
one hundred thousand men in arms on the con-
tinent-the bone and sinew of our population
drained away, and still the Indian authorities
cry give, give"
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

Ga5- Mr.. Watkins, nti-Lecompton candidate
for Assemblyman from Siskiyou, came very
near being killed on election day. We are in
formed that Mr.. Bradshaw called him a Re-
publican, which he pronounced false. This led
to some further strong language, as well MS
bellgerent action, when Bradshaw drew pistol
and fred. Luckily Watkins struck the pistol
up and the ball glanced By his head. just graz,
ing the rim of his hat. It was narrow escape
Watkins, or as he is generally known all oyel
the State, "Sniktaw,' is too clever wit to bt
killed about politics.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

FIGHT WITH THE INDIANs-WHIrEs VIcToRIous.
By Indian Ietegraph.-From Judge Rosbo-
rough, who is in charge of Indian Affairs here,
pro tenn, we learn that Tol-lo, Indian chief OF
the Scott Valley tribe, arrived in town yester-
day, from the Modoc country. with intelligence
received there from the De Shutes-that a
fight had taken place somewhere in the vicinity
OF Thompsons river between the Indians ami
whites, in which a large number of the former
were killed. Tol-lo did not learn whether the
whites were regulars or volunteers, but said the
Indians were surrounded and fred upon from all
sides. Very few, if any, oil the whites were
killed. We place considerable reliance upon
the information thus received from Tol-lo, as he
brought, in the same manner intelligence of
Col. Steptoe's defeat, several days in advance Of
information gained of the occurrence from any
other source. We will, no doubt shortly hear
of the fight. 1t has been either with Captain
Rohinsons company of volunteers, who was in
advance Of Browns party, or with the regulars
in the vicinity of Fort Walla Walla. Tol-lo
said the battle was about twenty suns from
Yreka.- Prska Union.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

re- Of the Democratic scism in Illinois, the
Washington correspondent of the Yew York
Times, in his letter of July 30th, says:
The Republicans Of Illinois are unquestion-
ably well frightened, but the panic will wear off
before the battle comes on. Their great dan
ger and the surest hope and reliance of Judge
Douglas is proposed union upon him of the
Fillmore Americans with the anti-Lecompton
wing Of the Democracy. Fillmore received in
Illinois $1,000 votes in 1856, which, united with
BIchanan's vote, would have given the Demo-
Gratis on their Presidential ticket about $4,000
majority but 10000 OF them voted for Govern
or Bissell, and elected him as a Republican,
The most remarkable part of this statement is
that Senator Crittenden is at the bottom of this
movement, and favors the re-election of Doug
las
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04
G a z ID

Considerable noise has been made in regard to
the Cal. stage beating our time from Shasta to
this place, fifty minutes. The facts are these
Both lines started about the same time for Shns-
ia. the Cal. Stage Co. with about three pounds
IF express matter, and the Loag 4 Sulloway line,
per Sacramento route with the Atlantic papers
and Wells Fargo Co.'S express, weighing in
all 200 pounds, also with load of passengers
from head of Shasta Valley against their empty
coach. which made difference of at least four
hours in the time would have made, had we
but the same weight to carry
D. II. VAN WYCK,
se4:lt Agent Sacramento Line.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

HEAVY SUIr-Mr. Della Tore, U. S. D trict
Attorney, under instructions from the Govern
ment at Washington, commenced suit in the
U. s. Circuit Court. San Francisco, on Wednes-
day, against John Parrott, Bolton, Barron & Co.,
and Il. W. Haleck, who have in their posses
sion, and are working the New Almaden mines,
praying for the appointment OF a receiver for an
injunction, etc. The United States alege the
grant to Castillero, under whom defendants
hold it, is a forgery, and that the entire mines,
worth $4,000, 900 is the property of the Uuited
States. The profits realized by defendants, it is
alleged, amount to SS,00O,O0O and they are
required to give an account of all their trans
actions. This suit is considered by far the most
important ever commenced in California if not
in the United States of America.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

BASKET MEETING" is advertised in Tehama
county. What, in the name of the elder Harry,
is 'basket meetin ?'-Trmity Journal
Why, meeting of baskets, we reckon, or, it
may be, a meeting of 5asks, with women inside
of them or, if it is not either of these, then it
must be gathering of folks to hear preaching
somewhere in the woods, each party, of one or
more, being furnished with a basket filled with
all manner of eatables for dinner Baskets oil
champagne are admissible at these meetings OF
the baskets.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

FiRE At WHisKEY CREEK.-We pained to
record the destruction, by FIRE, of the large and
we'll furnished notef of Z. Nix l. Co., in the town
OF Whiskey Creek, in this county. The conha-
grafton occurred on last Sunday afternoon, at
2o'clock, and is supposed to have been started
accidentally The house was very good build
ing, sos l50, two stories high, and was we'll
furnished. The entire loss to the proprie,ors, we
presume, Is somewhere near $4,000. The COM
munity atlarge sympathize with the proprietors.
The loss falls especially heavy on Mr. Mix, who
Tor months past, has been incapacitated for Lusi-
ness by injuries resulting from fall from his
horse
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

SHAME SHANE A few Democrats in this
State have suffered themselves to become so
embittered against Senator Douglas as to wish
that he may be defeated by Abram Lincoln, a
Republican of the Abolition stripe. This same
Lincoln, when in Congress, during the existence
of the Mexican war, aoted with Tom Corwin, in
refusing to vote supplies for the army when it
was in foreign land, battling for the honor and
glory of the q stars and stripes" The man who
can wish to see him elected over Douglas, is no
Democrat, no patriot, no friend of his country,
but capable of proving traitor.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04
ELECTION RETURNS.
shasta County.

Shasta Precinct-Baldwin, 200; Currey, ia
Meloney, 90; Dawley, 90 McKibben, l25 Dud-
ley, 10; Tracy, H. For bly-Street,
Administration Democrat, 2l5.; Goewey, Anti
Lecompton, 1o7- For Assessor, Angel, 1913
Brennan, lis. For Supervisor, Dreibelbis, dem.,
lse; Van Schaick, Ind, 80. Justices, Shed,
Ind, ISL Keene, Dem, l7s; Durick, DEM,
1871. Constahles, Short, 2o5, Flynn, 2lo; Nc
Turck, 72.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

nG- "A Soldier of 1872" through the Rich
mond (Va.) Wing, nominates Gen. Scott for
next President for these reasons:
We want man who is spunky,' some one
who will resent the insults offered TO the flag. with
which he has won his laurels, and also one who
will (as he has done be!ore) prsserre our national
honor. One who will fight if you snap your
finger at him."
This old southern son of Mars" has evident
ly had his blood unduly heated Like the gall
liant " Harry of thu West" in the days of the
Mexican war, he wants to = slay Mexican" or
somebody else.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

STAGE AccIpESr.-0ne of the California Stage
Co.'S stages was upset about 100 miles below
this place, few days ago, and one of our cti-
zens, Mr.. Wm. High, seriously injured We are
informed that the driver was considerably in
toxicated, and had been driving recklessly for
considerable distance, at several points en-
dangering the lives of his passengers. We take
it for granted that he was discharged by the
Company the following day. 1t IS bat justice to
the Company to say that their drivers generally
appreciate the responsibility of their position.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

An APPALLING FIGURE.-A temperance paper
extending its views into the region of tobacco,
exclaims: What splendid figure the Apostle
Paul would have made, had lie gone about to
proclaim the sublime truths of Christianity with
quid of tobacco and long-nine in his mouth"
Yes, and what ridiculous figure would he
have cut, in the eyes of the ancient Romans, If
he had appeared before them on Mars Hill in
swallow-tailed black coat, white neck-tie and
stove-pipe hat
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

SpuSKr-A. L. Lamar, who was refused a
Clearance to the coast of Africa, "for the mr.
pose OF taking On board African emiprants i,
accordance with the United States nass.nr..
laws and returning with the same to the rn;..a
states writing to the Secretary of the Treasury
Mr.. Cobb, says of the law prohibiting the slave
trade
~ IS enforced by the santiment of sn.,h.-
ana hostile section of the country. I, ;s
tanned oy persons who have more regard e.. ~ !.
people OF that other section than the trn, '',e
IS badge of servitude, brand of reproha,;o. :.
and not only would | not sustain II bu, a'.on ! !
have told you frankly from the first in,s,s a. :,
violate it. will reopen the trade in s,a,e " "
me if they can" '4As eaten
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04
Congregational Appropriation.

The provisions of law requiring a complete
exhibit of appropriations by Congress at each OF
lis sessions, to be made ont, have been COM
piled with, by the proper Clerk at the capitoi
and the result, for the session just expired, IS
conta;ned in the following summary table. We
III I've the detailed statement at another time.
The Statement includes all appropriations made
bv Congress, whether in deficiency or in regular
appropriation bills
ACTUAL.
To be paid from the Treasury. ...S67, ,o67762 10
Deduct-Amount contained in act
for collecting revenue from GUS
toms, so much being contained
in the joint resolution OF l4th
nose .......... :. ............2 ,45O 900 90
q
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

LIrERAruRE-Our attentive friends, Lougee
& Davis, of the Pacific Book Store, loaded our
table after their usual fashion, with New York.
Boston and London Pictorials, Graham's Mara-
zine, and sundry weekly newspapers from all
sections of the Union. They always have the
latest papers from every section of the country
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

An ANIABLE OLD CuSs.-When Dr. Forney,
Indian Agent for Utah, was passing through
Provo, he was approached by Heber c. Kimball,
next in dignity to Brigham himself, and bless
ed" He said he had right to bless him, and
Col. Kane, and Gov Cumming, " in the name Of
Israels God,' and that he should always pray
for them. 81 pray also for my enemies" said
he. "Yes," said the Doctor, who is an enthu-
sastc Episcopalian, " that's right; that shows
Christian spirit" 81 pray that they may all
go to HE'LL" was the conclusion of the sentence.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

Bsy@ Speaking of Governor Stewart of Mis-
souri, getting drunk and getting beaten in a
groggcry the other day, the Washington Repub-
lie is reminded of a story:
" The deacon Of a church, upon whom new
pastor had been settled, was praising his many
qualities 10 the deacon of a neghboring church.
lie declared that their new minister had but one
fault in the world, and that was, propensity TO
become little quarrelsome when he ,eas drunk"
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04
sxAIL Y0rr.-The retarns already in give

A SMALL yorE.-The returns already in give
an aggregate Of upwards Of 1900 votes in the
county The preciacts yet to hear from, and
those in which this year no polls were opened.
give last year some 26i votes. Those same
precincts this year will not pol over 200 votes,
SO that the entire vote of the county at this
election will be very little, if any, over 1900
Last year the vote cast was 2,235. Decrease
this year about 800.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

THE ARMY PASSING THROUGH SALT LAKE Cry.
The Army entered Salt Lake City on the 26th
of June, and was ten hours in passing through
the City. A correspondent Of the N. Y. Tribune
says:
"All the flags which had been flying ever
since last Sunday from the stats on Main street,
were struck by the Mormons during the passage
of the troops. Most of the men who had been
attracted fr m the South by curiosity, watched
the procession through the cracks between the
boards with which their windows were barri-
caded. The city seemed as dead as on the day
our little party of Gentiles entered it fortnight
ago. The only groups of visible spectators were
on the corners the Temple square. Tie
few laborers who were busy in their gardens
and fields, kept at their work with inditfer-
cnce which was affected and amusing.
The troops, the officers included, wore the
rough undress usual on 4 march. There was
perfect order in the ranks, no cheering or laugh
ing nothing calculated to aggravate the feelings
of the Mormon population. No one was allowed
to leave the column for a moment.
The regimental bands played during the
march, but it was noticed that the music was
suspended when they passed by the porch on
which Gov. Cumming was standing, and that
no salute was paid to his Excelency."
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04
reg The Detroit -4asertiser gives this

reg The Detroit -4drertiser gives this inter-
esting passage in the life Of the present editor
of the Washington Onion:
"Thc editor of the Washington Union is Sim.
Johnson He used to live at Grand Raplds.-
Rix Robinson, of Ada, Kent county, once pre-
sented him with pair of stoga boots, but in the
hurry of the presentation he forgot to take them
off his own feet. They were presented end
wisen
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

ESy~ Peter Dawson, who was recently arrest
ed in New York for keeping the vilest kind OF a
brothel, where women were actually imprisoned
and not suffered to step foot outside OF the door,
was in 1855 a member Of the New York Assem-
bly, Dawson is supposed to he worth 100000.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

IN BATrLg.-The Little Giant of the West,
has determined to fall--if fall he must, beneath
the combined blows of Republicans, Americans
and FEDERAL Office holders, with his face to the
Toe and the " harness upon his back" In the
chicago Times he announces fourteen speeches
ia dieren, parts of his State, for the residue of
July and the month of August.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

FATE OF THE LOST PREACHER.-A year ago
last February, Rev. Mr.. Brooks perished in the
snow on Salmon mountain, and though dlgent
search was made no trace of him could be ound
lie was tracked round the head of Coffee Greek,
going parallel with the trail but in evident be-
widerment, but fresh snow at length obliierated
his track. In October succeeding Reverends
Reasoner and Simonds again went in search of
his remains, but ascending the mountain were
driven back by storms. A few days ago his
bones, watch, twenty dollar piece and pack
age of tracts were found near house on the
north side of the mountain, telling the sad story
of the good mans death. He had perished al
most in sight of shelter.-7riaity Journal
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

GEN. DESvER.-The Kansas correspondent of
the Boston Journal (Republican) thus speaks of
Gen. Denver:
Gov. Denver is enthusiastically attached to
oaiiiornia' and designs returning there in Octo-
Der, to make the Golden State his permane,,
residence. His departure from Kansas will be
seriously regretted. He has recently shown n
disposition to deal justly with the people, which
has given excellent satisfaction
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

New FraN.-The reader will observe tha
Henry Getleson, of this place, has associated
with himself 10 business, his brothers D. and D.
Getlesou. The irm viii hereafter be known BY
the title of H. Geteson L Bros. They have the
largest wholesale and retail Clothing Store in
Nosthexn California.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

NEW AND RtcH DsGGISas.-We have been
shown letter, written by gentleman living
in Yreka, from which we are permitted to take
the following extract:
We are going to have q tremendous rush to
Soda Creek, and I think yol will also from be-
low. They have discovered very rich diggings
on that Creek. There is no humoug about it,
Soda Creek IS on the Sacramento route to
Yreka, about miles above Soda Springs, or
&C miles north ofthis town.
Of these new diggings the Yreka Union of
the End inst, says:
We learn that six men on Soda creek, realized
in three days last week, the sum of four hun
dred dollars, from the claim of Bailey Il Co., six
miles below Soda Springs. The gold is coarse
aud of bright yellow color
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

EV- The Mohammedans in Jeddah, the port
Of Mecca in Arabia, had murdered all the Chris
tians in the place upon whom they could lay
hands, including the English and French Con-
suls, whose residences were plnndered. The
English governmcnt had ordered three ships of
war to the spot.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

E0y- The True Southron publishes letter
from an intimate friend of the late General Quit
man, who declares that the National Hotel dis
ease, which has cost thirty-one persons their
lives, and destroyed the health of sixty seventy
more, was undoubtedly the cause of his death,
and that the physicians who attended him per-
ceiyed the unmiStakabe effects of arsenic.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

B9- We regret to learn, says the Louisville
Journal of July 23d, that Gen. H. S. Foote is la
boring under painful afflicton at the residence
of a friend near Memphis, and that fears are en-
tertained that he cannot recover.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

BUsISEss--Business is rather lively in this
place at present. We are informed that it is
impossible to procure mules ard teams enough
to take freight to the North as fast as wished.
The prospects are most tlattering for good Fall
trade.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

REcoyERIyG.-IIon. Wm. l. Ferguson, who
was recently wounded in duel, is steadily i'm
proving. His physicians 10 longer have doubts
as to his recovery, without the amputation of
his wounded leg.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

Total amount of appropriations S6s,Ooo,0oo 90
In addition, the revenues collected by the
Post Office Department authorized to DO
used for the expenses of that department. For
the current fiscal year they are estimated at
Sl44l5, $40 Washington Union July 27.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

FINE PEAcHEs.-Our friend, Thomas McGee,
who has very fine garden ut Horsetown, sent
us, per Chandler's Express, some magnificent
specimens of his peach crop. Each one we
think, wculd measure not less than ten inches in
circumference.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

THASKs.-We desire TO return thanks 10 Wells
Fargo & Co.'S Express for favors shown us every
day in the week
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

esT The Star Fish is making sad havoc with
the oyster beds in New York harbor-and that
luscious biyalve is in danger OF becoming extinct
in that locality.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

TRAvEL.-The travel between this nlace and
Sacramento City continues to be large. The
stages are crowded almost daily.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

PURLrc SPEAKISG--On Tuesday evening last
Hon. J. c. McKibben addressed quite a large
audience In this place. 1t is the generally en-
pressed opinion that his speech was the ablcst
effort ever made In Shasta by any political
speaker. During the evening speeches were
also made by Messrs. Street, Goewey, SprAghe
and Garter. We have seldom seen an audience
manifest more interest to hear both sides
debated. As consequence, the discussion
was prolonged into an unusually late hour OF
the night, or rather to very early hour in the
morning, as we think it must have been after
two o'clock when Mr.. Garter concluded his re-
marks. During the last half hour the audience
numbered but sixteen, the remainder-worn out
with excitement, and with efforts to get light
upon the subjects at issue by frequent gszings
through the bottoms of glass tumblers-hlying
gone off to their beds to recover sufficiently for
the labors of the day following.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

tV The "old log cabin" SO famous in DO
htical history as the residence of Gen. Harrison
at North Bend, Ohio, has been burned to the
ground
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

PLENTY on HAND.-The Chicago (Ill.) Demo-
crdt says there is now in store in that city. a.
million of bushels Of wheat, " and this too, right
in the face of an incoming CROP
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

na5- There is no occasion to trample upon
the meanest reptile; nor to sneak to the great.
est prince. Insolence and haseness are equally
unmanly.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04
BIRTH.

On the lst inst, in this place, the widow of
John Owens, of a daughter
On the 3Ist of August, in this place, wife of
Thomas J. Flynn, of son.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

TELEGnApaIc FAvoRs.-We are under many
obligations to the Telegraph Office in this town
for election returns from various parts of the
State.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

HUMBUGGED.-Thc Boston Journal of the 5th
of August says:
The news from Frazer river has created
quite rush of New Englanders for the New FL
Dorado. We hear of parties being made up in
several places to go out and try their luck in the
new diggings."
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04
Proposed Mail Routes.
Posr OFFICE, SHAsTAeQ'

Posr OFFICE, SHAsTKQR.(
Sept IS
EDIroRs COURIER AS az and
to bring the subject befoy who
may be particularly ints you
that received official no Of
fee Department at Washing hat
post road has been established tsta
City, by Mobiles Pass, to Susanvilie, Utah Terri
tory" and q from Yreka, by Shasta Valley, Soda
Springs. Portuguese Flat, Dog Creek and Churn-
town, to Shasta" am requested by the De-
partment to furnish it with all the information |
can in relation to the above routes, and the
country through which they pass; such as length
of routes. rivers, mountains, (if any, and any
suggestion in relation to the kind of service
required, number of trips per week, days and
hours of departure and arrival, &C." ANY in
formation in regard to the above, will be thank
fully received by me before the closing of the
" States mail" of Sept 20th. would also like
to be furnished with diagrams of the above
routes BY some one.
Very respectfully, OaRIN FIrcH, P. NJ.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

Amount brought down ......Sc4, ,6l7,762 IS
4dd--Indefnite appropriations
contained in the various actsand
in private bills which win prob
ably amount to, during the year
1859 9....................... 49,, ,237 2I
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

nor--rrom all quarters of the globe come
accounts Of unusually hot weather durin, the
past summer months.
The Shasta courier., 1858-09-04

CoMSG.-The stages from below come in
daily crowded with passengers.