The Sierra citizen., 1859-03-19

The fish upon their pin hook,
The flavor of their
MANUA LoA.-The volcano of the Sandwich Islands
has recently produced the most violent eruption yet
known. The burning pit is, according to the Islanders
in the dominions of the Goddess Peli.
Imagine vast column of fire. thirty or fifty feet in
diameter and thousand feet hgh rising from the side
of mountain and falling down over in a stream and
flowing slowly carrying every thing before it-destroy
ing beautiful forests and filling immense guches quench
ing streams turning the water to boiling heat Such
these mighty streams of molten lava and the lava
it is thrown by the volcanic action carried by the wind
for fifty miles, and scattered all the country in the
form of spun gassPelis hair it called which the
angry goddess tears in her wrath"
MINING IN SIsKYoU.-The Yreka Union mentions the
coming of weather and the consequent abundance
of water
"The gulches in this immediate vicinity present a
busy appearance and encouraging intelligence of the
general activity in the mines comes in from all the sur
rounding towns Two reservoirs at Loafer Hill broke
loose on Sunday evening last occasonng considerable
damage to the works and also breaking away section
Of two bitches. A full head Of water is running into
the Shasta river canal and considerable ground sIuic
ing is in operation The evidences of this harvest time
in the mines will be apparent in the increased
tivity of all branches of trade and industry
Your Cars Your CHILDREN.-An Illinois paper
cautions parents against allowing tosleep with chill
dren. little girl recently went to bed with her cat
strange noise which awakened her she FASTENED to the
bed where the child lying and found the cat with
her mouth close to the chids mouth At first they took
the child to be dead but they soon perceived seemed
to catch for breath occasionally After two three
hours she was restored to consciousness and has been
very stupid and unwell since.
A WORD TO PoRK EArERs-It is asserted that a great
deal of the pork consumed for food is affected with the
measles and the measles, again, said to be nothing
hut Tho 1880 Of the common Tuenia So,;uas which
tak nto he
full grown tapeworm that elongated monstrosity which
preys SO nsdiOusy on its ignorant victims. As the
larv seldom lose vitality in the process of cooking they
are eaten unconsciousy in large quantities. The moral
Of this item s-if people toW eat the Jewish abomna
tion let them first be that it is not affected with the
meases.-Hydraulic Press
The Press is called upon to translate its hog latn
and furnish "a word of instruction on the symptoms
of hog measles This much is due as well to hogs as
hog eaters.
CHANGED THEIR TAcrIcs-We learn that the Shasta
county anti China party have resolved upon dsband-
ing organized force to resist the law and to har
and the Chinese out of the mines in small parties
wherever they may find theu at times and in places
where they escape the vigilance of the officers This
mode of lawless warfare will undoubtedly prove much
more formidable to the officers of the law in the dis
charge of their dutie than though they had maintained
their organization.-Red Bluff Beacon.
CONGRESSIONAL. BRANs-The Lowell Courier tells of
Congressman from Maine who paid political editor
$40 to write his acceptance of the nomination. and $40
to write his speech to his constituents the
sion of his reelection The price is entirely too cheap.
The honorable member doubtless valued the brains
of the editor at the price he put upon his constituents
and his own. He had no doubt often cheated them by
ten dollar Speech with the belief that he man
of ability and profound statesman. He is not the first
political legislator who has been indebted editor
for all the public distinction he ever acquired.
A VIRGINIA SrABLE-The Richmond Dispctch says
that it has from good authority that the Messrs boswell
have been offered the of SlS.50O for their fley,
Fanny Washington and their celebrated brood mare
Nina, and her three Revenue colts Planet Exchequer
and yearng. Planet is estimated at $e,O0O Exche-
quer at S3000 the old and the yearng at $780,
and Fanny Washington at $4,000. The sale has not
been made
FEAST OF BEANs.The Frazer river people started in
on clans aud coming out on beans. bean feeder
writes:
:" We had splendid dinner on New Years Day This
is the Bill Of Fare First course-Bean Soup I'd course
-~-Boiied Beans then Baked Beans with Fyijoles
Plain then Fried Beans, and Frijoles Guisados con
.Mantecd. Desert-Cofee and Beans. After this sump-
tuous repas all adjourned to Sam Berry's Whisky
Battery and played bean poker for sack of Beans"
One MILLION FOR wHIsKY.-The official census of
places where liquor is sold in New York. just completed
shows that there dram shops in the CITY, and of
the whole 72 licensed. More than 5000 are open
every Sunday contrary to law At the lowest estimate
S2593O are spent in them every Sabbath, $50
for the Sundays of year.
IHE CENSUS OF lSbU-As congress will soon make
rangements for taking the next we would
the proprety of nquiring if the returns cannot be COL
lected arranged and published short of 1862 There
can be no reasonable excuse for any such delay The
progress of the nation rapid that OF late years our
Census Report when it is ready for use is of Infinitely
less value than last years almanac All that is worth
publishing ought to be published within eighteen months
after the Census Marshals their abor
fnrthest-.N. r Day-Book.
The Missouri DEMocRACY.-In a recent convention in
Missouri. a
"test " Of Democracy, the Cincinnati Platform, and g
nored all sectional issues factional connections and
solved to conduct all future campaigns Democratic
principles alone.
PLEASING PRosPEcr-The following is copy of let
ter which was lost in Des Moines, Iowa.
"des Moines iowa nov. II. 1S5S-my dear mss-the
pleasing prospect have of taking out staying the
first good that is enough to lift my soul
above the sordd vanities of this world with such an in
tegent young lady as you are yours in love purity
and fidelity"