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"A hand, cheap cash good lot Of Boards and PoPlA
shingles be delivered in few days 70 those waning
them. by Mill s cutting daily Agent for other Mills;
and will pay particular attention all orders. Call the
savings Institution and leave orders you wish mem
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SnIdiars nffha WarI31Q

WISH buy old Military Land Patents, Issued 70 So
ders Of the Regular Army Of the War Of 1919, and date
about the year 1878. Soldiers having such claims the
heirs ssgnees viii address the uRdersgned a Nashville
Tenn.
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Lindseys Advertisements
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A HANDSOME oguntry residence, OF ne Dickinson Of
"A BrTn5h Iousviis tuIubiks - miea from Nashville
e uisee contains rs ssFss ground, asFss Of which
woodland The dwelling e neat IRENE house With foal
a kitchen an servants and out houses Of ever
fDd II he very bs order On the place there is never
falling suppiJ 81 water. For terms Which suitable %
the times, NpplY 20
fen1 y s LINDSLENs
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A TaInahIe BlSineSS mi FOT NaIe.

An now Offering for sale thar vslubls Lot on Market
street. adjoining tne store Of Morris Mathews. The Lot
rents 50 feet Market and back l0 feet "wards
Front street.
would make ofthe best stands for wholesale Gro
CRY Store in the City. For terms Hpply 70
septa n ser A. V. S. LINDSEY.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11
How Trustees Perform their Duties.

In referring to the manner in which the
school Trustees of this county perform their
duties, Mr. Godfrey, County Superintendent, in
MS report to the State Superintendent makes
the following remarks:
Trustees have performed their duties very
trict.
They have not taken that interest in visiting
the schools which the cause demands, in educa-
ting the rising generation. trust they will cx-
hibit greater interest in school affairs during
the present year. There is a wide field open for
them t. display their energy and talents in pro-
3ting the best interests of this noble institu-
Ion. Our scho5f'iaw, which regulates the pub
lie schools of this State, is good and whole
some, and if parents and patrons live up to the
requirements of the law and their sense of duty,
our common schools will prosper.
Our schools are deficient in one respect Trus-
tees, as general thing, do not employ teach
ers who are thoroughly qualified to teach our
public schools, even the first primary rudi-
ments. They are deficient in experience and
education.
Trustees should never grant certificates o
appreciation or recommendation to persons pro-
posing to become school teachers, until after a
| thorough examination they are found to be per-
sons of good moral character, and of sufficient
learning and ability for teachng-having spe.
cial regard to their ability to impart knowledge
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11
NUMBER 40.
A MosIem Romance.

A Jaffa correspondent writes to the Psnnsyl-
odnian, OF a recent social event at Damascus:
Il have just heard from an authentic private
source, OF startling incident which occurred
few days since in Damascus, and which bids
ialr to rival the most exaggerated romance of
Eastern story. One of the fairest pearls of this
terrestrial paradise has forfeited her position as
houri in the celestial abode of her Turkish lord.
by an indiscreet passion for .Jesc, the drapo,
man OF one of the consulates of that city. For
some time they had been living outside the
bonds and bounds of Holy Matrimony,' without
any suspicion attaching to her infidelity. Her
position, as one of the first ladies ofDamascus.
in beauty and rank, placed her beyond suspicion ,
I'll by ~ fatr pas of her paramour, her gnilt was
discovered. He had visited her in the disguise
ofa female costume for some time, and was only
discovered a few days since by an indiscretion
in his movements.
"By secret aid, she escaped to the desert,
where she eluded the vengeance of her pursuers
but a few hours Her body was cut to pieces
and with the curses of the Koran. her mutilated
remains were left to bleach, unburied. in token
of her shame. In the meantime the greatest ex-
element prevailed in the city. which threatened
toinyolve dHChristians in an indscrimnate mas
sacre; so long as their thirst of blood was un-
apPeased and the dragoman had escaped their
hands He had mysteriously been rescued from
prison, and transferred to Beirut From there
he will probably make his escape by sea- and
save his body from the torch of the Moslem.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11

A Sad Tale.

The Marystille Democrat relates the sad tale of
an Indian squaw whose heart was broken by the
desertion of her white lover. He, with promises
of a speedy return left for the Atlantic States.
where he married white woman, who lives in
blissful ignorance of having had dusky prede-
cessor in the wids of California. OF the de-
serted squaw, the Democrat relates that
She wept his absence night and day" pined
in thought''-hid herself away in secret places
that she might mourn undisturbed-refusedt the
proffered protection of all suitors who came TO
her fathers camp, and became living monu-
ment of melancholy despair. At last, she gave
birth to little blue-eyed boy, which, we have
been told, was the very image of its white ia
ther. Bearing this little innocent result Of
most singular union in her arms. the poor mother
might be often seen around the old haunts where
she had wandered with her lover. 1t is a fact,
that she has often been seen to bend over her
infant in an agony of grief and shed a wild food
of apparently exhaustless tears. Anxiously
would she inquire of every white stranger that
she met if he had heard of her wandering lover.
After while, she vanished from among the
camps, leaving her little one behind. and was
seen nc more. She had yrieped herself to DEATH
Her poor, simple, Digger heart had broken, un-
under its weight of misery and heap of sand
now marks the spot where her ashes lie (for the
Diggers frequently burn their dead before they
/ 3asy them) on the banks ofthat mountain stream
beside whose musical waters she had lived and
loved.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11
The Indian War in Humboldt.

Speaking of the expedition against the Indians
in Humboldt county, the Humboldt Times of the
9th ult. says
Since Messic's company was first organized
they have been kept busy all the while Gen.
Kibbe has been with the expedition from the
6rst, and with him the responsibility of the
campa. gn rests. 1t is for him to say when the
war shall end. and this, he assures us, will not
be until the Indians entirely cleared out of
that section. He superintends, in person, the
purchase of all the supplies, and takes bills for
the same. Instead of paving for packing his
supplies he employs mules by the day or month,
and details men from the company to do the
packing. And in all matters pertaining to COM
pany expenses, the strictest economy is used.
We are happy to be able to state, that the
expedition is progressing finely, and that there
is fair prospect Of bringing the Indians to terms
early the approaching winter. Already, be-
tween thirty and forty prisoners have been
taken, to say nothing of those that have been
killed, and the Indians are now more anxious TO
hide than fight. To those not acquainted with
the extent of country occupied 6y sSse hostiIe
Indians, nor their facilities for hiding and sub
sistance, it might appear like trif1ing job to
subdue them. The Indians living upon Red
wood, Mad River, the different forks of Yager
and Van Dnsen, all speak the same lingo, and
each ofthese tribes have their summer and
winter houses in the deep canons or on the
high bald hills throughout this section, and
their knowledge of the country enables them to
watch the movements of their enemy, and es-
cape from one hiding place to another.
Weare assured by Gen Kibbe, that the scope
of country which these Indians have occupied
will afford pasfurage for from twenty to thirty
thousand head of cattle, and that it surpasses
any he has eyer Seen in Califnrpi, for rra.;r,x
purposes. He gives it as his opinion that,
throughout that whole section, where there are
not mere than twenty settlers, in three years
there will be several hundred.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11
The ATLANI

The ATLANTIC CABLE FRAUD.-The admission
(says the Philadelphia Argus) is at last reluct-
antly made by the New York papers, that no
regular message has ever been transmitted
through the medium of the Atlantic Telegraph
The whole thing turns out to be a stupendous
humbug, if nota premeditated fraud. Mr. Cyrus
w. Field, who was a few weeks ago looked up
on as veritable lion, turns out to be an animal
of a totally different description. As soon as the
shares in the company were bubbled up to the
proper altitude by the general tom -fooiery of
public celebrations, be took good care to sell
out his stock, and resign his situation as director
of the company. Instead, therefore, of being
considered an available candidate for the next
Presidency, by those who had more enthusiasm
than common sense, he bids fair, if Justice is
done in the premises, to be candidate for a
very different situation.
The credulous public, which has run mad
with excitement over the Atlantic Cable will
now have ample time to reflect upon the eyre
gious folly which has made us laughing stock
of the whole civilized world
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11
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-
ued, publishers may continue to send them until
all charges are paid
8. If 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 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.
BI% Postmasters would oblige, by strict
fulhlment of the regulations requiring them to
notify Publishers, once in three months, of pa
pers not taken from their office by subscribers
B2~ Under the law of Congress papers are
not charged postage in the county in which they
are published.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11
Township Officers.

SHASTA TowNsHip.-Justices of the Peace
r. Durick, and Jmes Keene. Constabies-Tho-
mas J. Flynn, Joseph NJ. Short.
CLEAR CREEK TOWNSHIP -Justices-William
Knowlton, James NJ. Eby. Constables-J. W.
Gardner, D. Wilder.
FRENCH GULcH TOWNSHIP Justices Z.
Frank, Chas. 0'Conuell. Constable-William
Davis.
SIERRA TowNsHIp-Justices- D. Baker D.
G. Stevenson. Constables-Stephen Park, Jo-
seph Meyer.
PITT RIVER Township Justices Thomas
Bass, A. R. McCollum. Constabies-Daniel G.
Hunt, - Stanley.
SUGAR LOAF TOWNSHIP. -Justices-Jos. Nc
Mann, S. F. Southern. Constables-Willian
fytIe, David Reams.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11

IMPORTANT FROM MExioo--2, 900 SPANISH
TRooPs LANDED AT TAMPIco.-The Tehuantepec
correspondent of the Alta California writing
under date of Nov. ls, says:
:" Great excitement has been caused here By
the arrival of a special courier from Oaxaca this
morning. Two thousand troops have been
landed las you will see by the enclosed ''bando''
from four vessels at Tampico, destined to oper-
ate in conjunction with Zuloaga, the Priest par
ty. This, it appears, is only the advance guard
from Spain. How will Uncle Sam relish the
dessert2 Will he allow Spain to become the
Protectorate of Mexico? We may hear some
cannon fred. ere long, around the walls of
Cuba, or another bombardment of Vera Cruz.
Ouien sQ5e"
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11

THE GROWING USE OF SLANG" IN DECENT
FAMILrEs.-How imperceptibly we acquire bad
habits is seen by the aptness with which some
adopt slang phrases. 1t is not uncommon to
hear young lady in her mothers paror, sur
rounded by all the appliances of wealth and ell
egance reply to friendly interrogatory by the
expressive phrase you bet" If you ask her to
accompany you to a concert she may refuse by
that laconic expression: d" over the left; or
should she choose to accept your invitation she
will signify her intention by saying, " OBJ course
will, sir" Should the way prove rough and
uneven, she will inform you that q Jordon am a
hare road to travel" Should she wish to adj
vance any of her friends in your good opinion,
she will tell you that he is " a perfect brick
The mother tells her babe to dry up" and her
boys 'to go it while they're young" and even the
little children catch the taint, and defy parental
authority by saying, lyon can't come it." Like
deluge Of unclean water. slang phrases are
sweeping over the land debasing and degrading
that power which distinguishes man from brute.
-Hesperian.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11
The Camanches---Lieut.B Beale's Party.
The Fort Smith Ark Times, of the loth Of

November, says:
A gentleman arrived at Fort Smith on the 4th
November, from the Creek country, who informs
Us that he met Lieut.. Beale and his party near
the North Fork, and the United States troops
Lieuts. Steen and Bell, near Bayou Zeil, all get
ting along well. 1t is reported that the Canaan
ches have set fire and burnt up all the grass on
the Plains: and if it is so, Lieut.. Beaes Express
will have to lie by until spring. The weather
has been wet and unpleasant ever since the par
ty left, and the water courses all high. <
We learn from gentleman just in from the
Indian country, that the Camanches are very
hostile, and that their Chief, Buffalo Hump, sent
word into the Texans that he would make peace
with them, but it would not be until every Ca
manche was killed.
We also learn from another gentleman from
Fort Arbuckle, that the Camanche sign is fire.
quently seen by other tribes in the neighbor-
hood. The Wichitas are at Fort Arbuckle and
are fed by the general government Messrs.
Jones Brown have suspended their surveying
operations on the one hundreth degree of west
longitude, until next spring.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11

CHESS MATCH BETWEEN MEssRs PAUL MoRpHY
AND HARRwITz.-This match is over Eight
games IN all were played, of which Morphy won
five, lost two, and drew one. The victory was
to be adjudged to the first clear winner of seven
On going to the Paris Crab on Monday last to
play the ninth game, as was appointed Morphy
was informed that Harrwtz resigned the match.
This was hardly courteous on the part of the
latter and Morphy, consequently, has refused
to receive the stakes. He does not play merely
for money, and was jsstly vexed at the refusal
on the part of the German professor to play out
the match on the terms agreed to.-BelEs Life in
London.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11

MARCO BozARRIs DAUGHTER.-Helene Boar
ris, for some years one of the Maids of Honor of
the Queen of Greece, and so conspicuous for her
extraordinary beauty as to become one of the
most attractive lions of Athens and to cause a
just sensation amongst the English tourists Wis
iting the city of Minerva, is the daughter of the
Sulot hero. She is now married to a French
man, at present. Colonel in the Greek army
and head of the Military Academy at the Piraus,
and has become the mother oil a blooming fam
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11

STEAM BETWEEN VIRGINIA AND FRAYcE-We
have been favored, says the Richmond Inquirer,
with the perusal of letter from Mr.. t. Lacon-
ture, the energetic and enlightened originator of
the proposed line of steamers between Norfolk
and st. Aazaire, in France. Mr.. L. is now in
France, but expects to return to Virginia during
the next month. He has strengthed the COM
pany by important additions and happy combi-
nations-n word, he has labored euergetical-
ly in work which he has so long and perse-
veringly prosecuted. He writes that France is
all ready, and that it only remains for Virginia
TO do her part, that the enterprise may go into
instant practical operation. He had Just re-
turned from tour through Bretagne, and from
visit to the magnificent port of st. Nazaire,
which is 10 be the port of connection with the
lines from Norfolk. That port is a new but won-
derful creation, on which have been brought to
bear all the Improvements that science has dis
covered. The railroad encircles the docks with
girde of rails, and cargoes of vessels can be
easily discharged into the cars, which will d.
rectly transport the merchandise to all points of
France. Railroads are finished even to the
frontiers, and are in immediate connection with
all those of the neighboring nations In The
same manner merchandise destined for the Uni
ted States, may be received at st. Nazaire, which
is nearer to them, by forty-eight hours, than
any ether port on the British channel.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11

RAW NEAT IN DYsExTERY.-Dr Weisse, of St.
Petersburg first, in l845, advised the employ
ment of the lean of raw meat, very finely mine
ed, in the chronic diarrhea of children, giving
too teaspoonsful four times day. Since then
the same practice has often been extended to
various forms of obstinate diarrhea with good
effect Mr.. Pansa, now practicing in Egypt, re-
ports the benefit he has derived in several cases
of severe dysentery occurring in adults, from Il
employment of raw, or nearly raw, minced meat,
given in doses from two to three times day
Medical Times.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11
SHASTA COURIER.
stephen the +" Stoned,. and stephen A.
the Sucker"


We have had our attention attracted to the
9Th chapter of the "Acts of the Apostles" by
the notice of recent interesting incident occur
ing in Illinois.
1t is therein related how certain people, whom
Stephen the stoned called /" stif-necked and unf
circumcised in heart and ears, treated that gool
and wise man. 1t is most interesting to nots
how wondrously correct in their treatment
stephen the Sucker, certain Democrats
been IN Initiating, to the extent of their powef,
the mad doings of an ignorant multitude of
olden times. While they have not consigned
him to political graye-as the ancient mob
did Stephen to an earthly grave-they trod in
the footsteps of their illustrious predecessors
entitled to the appellation of 20 stiff-necked and
uncircumcised in heart and ears"-especiaIly in
tears"
To illustrate what we mean, for the benefit of
such as have no Bibles, or having, yet never read
them, we give certain texts of said chapter, with
few running comments
"s. And Stephen full of faith and power, did
great wonders among the people
of Illinois, during the late canvass and at the
recent election, for instance.
"9. Then there arose certain of the syna-
gogue, which is called the synagogue of the Lib
ertines, u disputing with Stephen"
"Certain of the synagogue fthe Li5ertmes" is
good, and directly to the point. Dr. Leib, for
merly Mormon "Danite"-a "libertine," or
licentious fellow in the full sense of the term
headed these dissolute fellows from the afore-
said synagogue" wherein were the Federal
pap-troughs out of which they fed.
10. And they were not able to resist the wis.,
dom + by which he spake."
Nothing can so admirably illustrate this text
as the returns from the recent election in Hi
nois.
{" IL. Then they suborned men, which said
We have heard him speak blasphemous words
against Moses and against God"
| So also did these fellows from the moderr
synagogue of the Libertnes," swear that Ste
| then, the Sucker, had spoken blasphemou.
words against" the President and against Dem
ocracy. The charge is just as true in one cas-.
as in the other.
| "l2. And they stirred up the people and the
elders, big postmasters, land agents, mail
] agents, &c. and the scribes, [post office, land
office, mail agent and custom house'cierhs, II, s
came upon him, and caught him, and brought
him to the council"
Here the parallel ends. Stephen, the "stoned, ,
was put TO death. But in the case of Stephen
the Sucker when they had caught him and
| brought him to the council" in other words, the
people, they discovered that they had caught 8
Tartar" The people were not able to resist the
wisdom by which he spake," and hence
put him in the 'cay of obtaining authority to
| cleanse the synagogue from all "libertines," and
| fill it with honest Democrats. So mote it be.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11
Cannibalism i'm the Fejee Islands, and
its Punishments.

The U. S. ship Vandala Commander Sim
clair, arrived in port yesterday, from a cruise
through the South Pacific Lieut. j. Hogan
Brown gives some interesting information
about deed of cannibalism and its punishment
While the Vandalia was at Ovolau in the Feiee
Islands, information was communicated to Com
der Sinclair, by the Consul at Levuka that the
inhabitants of Lomati, on the Island of Waya-
tribe of ferocous cannibals-had surprised
small vessel, and murdered, cooked and eaten
the crew. Thereupon, an expedition, consisting
of sixty men, was fitted out, placed in charge of
Lieut.. Caldwell, with Lieut.. Ramsey, of the ma
rines, Assistant Surgeon Trist, and Masters
Mate Bartlett, and sent against them. The ma
tlves refusing to give up the murderers, and
taking advantage of their strong position, Ia
town situated on top of high mountain, 600
feet above the level of the seal to defy the party
sent against them landing was effected at day
| light on the morning after reaching the Island
and after most fatiguing r'arch of several hours
over declivities, precipices, rocks, and through
ravines, the expedition arrived opposite the town.
A long halt made to refresh the men, who
were almost prostrated by their exertions.
| After resting, the town was assaulted and
| carried by flank movement, the natives fleeing
to the rocks and fastnesses the town was near
y destroyed, ll5 houses having been fred and
consumed; On the return of the expedition they
! were attacked in ths Sc ane
sol me rassrrs, " :.
pulsed with heavy loss, nftera severe : .-s..
of about balfa an hour, the natives losing nearly
fifty in killed and wounded, including two Of
their principal chiefs The Americans had six
wounded, one man very severely. The seamen
and marines behaved in the most gallant man.
ner. The anomaly of their situation {attackine
powerful and courageous mountain tribe in
fac pof
haps to more steady and daring conduct. The
tribe has been taught severe lesson, and one
that will not be lost the tribes in their vicin-
ity. The Americans murdered and eaten were
Lonis Brewer, Prussian, naturaiized, and Hen
ry Homer, of New York-14ha Cal
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11

Bs5- couple of idle fellows strolled into the
colored church at Higshire, a few evenings
since, to enjoy the fun; but when the colored
minister rose up to preach, before announcing
his text, he leaned forward on the pulpit. and
looked around on the congregation. nBredren, y
said he, at length, "may de Lor hab mercy on
all the scoffers." Iong pause.) "May de Lor'
hab mercy on all de laughers." (Sole I'M pause J
May de Lor hab mercy on de two peanut eat
ers down by de door," The two young men did
not wait for the benediction
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11

TAKING LONG PULL-The Fulton Gazette
tells of an amusing incident that occurred not
long since in a church in Oswego county AS
the wine" was being passed, it came to a new
ly converted French girl, and was offered with
the usual salutation, Drink ye all of this
which she interpreted in a literal sense, and pro-
ceeded forthwith to swallow the whole, only
stopping to breathe when it was half drank up.
The Shasta courier., 1858-12-11

FINANCES OF VIRGINIA.-Durng the fiscal year
ending the 3oth of September, the receipts of
the treasurer of the State of Virginia, amounted
(includng previous balance of S379,s7l) to
the sum of S9,5ls 1907, and the disbursements to
50, ,364, 900, leaving balance of Sl54-007.