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before the light, and traced a fac smile on
the prepared paper. These copies he sold as
originals, at SIS to $40 apiece, in large
numbers. The plan he adopted was to on
close the forged autographs to persons whom
he thought would prove customers, offering
them for sale at five or ten dollars each with
the suggestion that, if the recipients did not
desire to purchase them, they might know
some one who did
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-02-04

lin case Of wlr between the United
State, aud uuy Power possessing largely
superior navy, it is plain that Cuba could
not he defended for our communication
with 1t, either for the supply of men or pro-
visions would be cut off by vast interven-
ing hostile feet. Moreover, any attempt To
IN anticipation OF war, would by so much
weaken us at home, and still more if by any
possibility we could keep up communica-
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-02-04

ton with it during the war. 1t would be
like having to defend a foreign country III
addition to our own
No more thorough-going democratic paper
can be found in the country than the
Journaiof Commerce, but it is staggered by
the proposition to lay out $50, 900 600, with
the prospect of laying out five times as much
more after it to got, if we can, Cuba, which
we don want, and which would be a curse
to us il we were to have it,
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-02-04

TuE WINANs STEAMER. The new fashioned
Steamboat constructed in the shape of a
long hollow cigar, by Messrs. Winans, of
Baltimore, has made trial trip, which is
reported to have been quite successful. Bal
timore papers say that, with pressure of
about fity-six pounds of steam to the square
inch about half the capacity of the engine, a
speed of II miles an hour was attained The
points Of the bow and stern barely touched
the water. and the even progress of the
vessel caused no commoton of the waves,
but left smooth wake like a groove,
VI. CENTRAL RAILROAD VRusrFEs. -Geo
NJ. Dexter Esq, Of Boston, has resigned his
place as Trustee of the lst Mortsago Bonds
of Vermont Central Railroad Company, and
Joseph Clark, Esq, Of Milton, has been
appointed to succeed him. We understand
that Messrs Braincrd j. G Smith and Clark
constitute the corps Of Trustees, at present
FORCED ArToGRApns,-An Enslishman
name Robert Spccring, dealer in Old books
and curiositics, has been arr, sted at Phi adel-
phia for forging and selling autographs OF
Gen, Washington. His way was to take
some unrulei paper having the same water
mark as the paper of an original letter of
Washington in his possession, aud steep it in
coffee till it hadacquirel the tint Of old paper.
lie then ironed it smooth, placed the letter
beneath it aud held it against pane Of glass,
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-02-04

The Patent Office has refused to again re-
new Mccormick s patent for alleged improve
ments of the reaping machine,
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-02-04

SATURDAY MoRNISG, Jan. %.
Mrs. Sanders Is much better but is looking
very pale. We believe she does not yet knows
that her husbands brother is dead, but sup
poses he has been saved as she was. She is
so far recovered that she will be removed to
Springiield to-day.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-02-04

or. Simmons,) the other day, spoke in
glowing terms, and yet most justly, of the
credit of the United States, and showed that,
with the small debt that we now have, II
nominal debt, we can 60 into the market,
and with five per cent, stock, borrow money
ON four per cent. stock any where in the
markets OF the world. That is because we
are uovces, inexperienced, untried, unknown
in the money market, except for paying such
small debts us we have made But, sir, when
we shall have shown that We eau increase our
debt in forty days, for that is the period
which remains of this session, from
500, 900 900 10 $500, 900 600, | beg leave
to express tho opinion that the rate of inter
est will be found to rise in proportion to the
llberality with which we propose to borrow.
In that cast, you will find your revenue, de-
rived from all sources, scarcely more than
enough to pay the interest ON the debt which
YOU shall thus have created, leaving no funds
whatever for carrying on the ordinary oper-
atoms Of the government,
This, however, it might be said, is a fan
cied picture, because the bill appropriatcs
only $50, 600 900, and not the whole $3.50
OOO, 900, which have supposed. Neverthe-
less, Sir, it appropriatcs the whole amount
which the President shall write in the
treaty. We give him u blank draft ON the
Treasury, and authorize him to fill up the
blank for himself have supposed he will
fill it up with $250,000, 600 But am told
that we can retreat from this contract with
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14

A Fort Crook INCIBENT.-A few SUNDAYS
since, strapping six-footer, living in the Pitt
River Valley visited the Suffers store at Fort
Crook. gentleman there having no love for
him, spoke to another equally hercuean framed
individual, nicknamed Major" who was going
about with full load of q chain-lightning
whisky under his belt, and informed him that
if he would whip six-footer No. l, he would
give him SIS. Whereupon the following scene
ensued:
MAJoR.-(Stepping up to "six-footer') You
said the other day that you could whip me, l
believe
SIx-FooTER.-No, sir, by no means. never
said or thought anything of the kind.
MAJoR.-Fm liar, then am l and the nMa-
jor" let fly at six-footer" with the force of the
kick of jackass, striking him full on the pro-
bosses, and knocking him some ten feet distant
upon the fat of his back "Supine he law" for
an instant, but an instant only, for recovering,
he sprang to his feet and upon the Major" who,
in an incredibly short space of time, was one of
the worst whipped individuals that it has been
any mans pleasure to see fer long time Of
course he didn't claim the twenty-five dollars
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14
Written torthe Shasta Courier.
The Wheel of Life.
BY sKURB.

YEARLY still the wheel goes round,
And still to its rim we cling,
While hope on hope are to ashes ground.
And tn rush ofits whirl our groans are drown'd
AS we writhe in its iron ring
The flowers of life scarce spread their bloom,
Ere withered by sorrows blight
The sun burts forth from the shrouding gloom.
The landscape one moment his beams illume,
The next, all is clouds and night.
To-day, slave by misfortune how'd,
Meath the trampling feet of men,
Tomorrow in triumph, stern and proud,
We hurl back its scorn on the bending crowd.
That Knocked at our anguish then.
We grasp the wreath, and its glory dies
Win fame, and its charms are gone.
We lift the cup, and its sweetness flies
Kiss loves dear lips, and she wells her eyes,
Oblivion claims its own
All, all, is vanity, change and pain.
Oh soul, wilt thou never leasn?
Wilt thou still shrink back from Deaths proffer'i
gain?
From the peaceful rest of his silent reign,
Where the wheel forbears to turn?
Equine City, Nay SM.
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14
COURIER.
The Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny,

Many unco-righteous editors in this State have
for some weeks been groaning over the suppo-
sed designs of Gen. Walker. At one time thew
say he has returned to this State for the pur
pose of organizing another expedition against
Sonora, and then they raise their hands in holy
horror, and shower anathemas upon his head.
The next day they announce that Nicaragua is
the innocent little lamb that this terrible condor
is Tapping his blood-stained pinions for swoop
upon. Whereupon with deep, sepulchral groans,
and uplifted hands, they turn up their eyes and
expose the whites thereof like dying Juvenile
specimen Of the bovine species beneath the
weight of the butchers axe
These gentlemen pretend to think that fill
busterism is the objectionable sin-that it is
worse than highway robbery, or piracy, especi-
ally when directed against any portion of Mexi-
co or the Central American States. They pro-
fess to look upon Walker as a robber and mur-
derer, whose fitting punishment is death by the
hangman's rope.
For ourselves, while freely acknowledging
that Walker, in Nicaragua, frequently acted with
unnecessary cruelty to those under him, we yet
believe it would have been fortunate fer our
own Government, for Nicaragua and for the
world at large, if he had succeeded in sustaining
himself We believe our Government made a
mistake in not recognizing his as the de facto
Government of Nicaragua. By SO doing we would
have gained foethold there which we are sike-
ly now to lose for all time, and which, according
to recent advices, England and France are al
most certain to obtain. We fear that while our
Government has been busying itself in hunting
down fl4ibHsters, England and France in the
teeth of the " Monroe Doctrine have been qui-
etly taking possession of the much coveted 18th
mus. Time, however, which resolveth all things,
will tell. In the mean time, we trust those edi-
tors who so deeply exercised over the wick
ed designs of the great Fiibuster Chieftan, and
the terrible outrages suffered at his hands by
the unhappy Greasers of Nicaragua, will here
after greaH, if grean they must, less boisterousy
-"'gently,h as BELTS the role of the pious phi
lanthropist
The foregoing remarks were put in type last
week. Since then Gen. Walker has left on the
mail steamer for some point on the Pacific coast
where, is not known, as he kept his own
consel while in San Francisco. We will proba-
bly, hear of him in very short time.
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14
Township Officers.

SHASTA TowNsHJP.-Justices of the Peace.
R. Durick, and Jmes Keene. CenstaJles-Tho-
anas j. Flynn, Joseph NJ. Short
CLEAR CREEK TewNsHIP.-- --Justices-William
knowlton, James NJ. Eby. Constables-J. W.
Gardner, D. Wilder.
FRENCH 6ULcH TOWNSHIP. NJ.
Mcdonald. Constable-William Davis.
SIERRA TowNsHIP-Justices- d. Baker, D.
q. Stevenson Censtables-Stephen Park, Jo-
soPd Meyer.
PTT RIVER TOWNSHIP Justices Thomas
Bass, A. r. McCollum. Constables-Daniel G.
Hunt, - Stanley.
SUGAR LOAF TowNsHIP-Justices-J Nc
Mann, S. F. Southern. Constables- William
Lytle, David Reams.
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14

RGgs The Paraguay difficulty, it is announced,
has been adjusted without coming to blows
Probably the same result would have followed
had Commissioner Bowlin gone out in single
vesgel-ef-War.-Sac. Union.
Here is another opening fcF those editors who
desire to find fault with every act of the Admin
istration. Why not pitch into the President for
extraTagance in sending more than one vessel
to Paraguay?
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14
SINGULAR PHExoMEYQN.--The Humboldt Times,

SINGULAR PHEyoMEyQN.--The Humboldt Times,
of April 23d, says:
We learn from Larabee, of Van Dusen's Fork
that meteor passed over that section on the
morning CT the 4th inst, and struck the earth
somewhere in that vicinity Withsuch force as to
produce heavy shock of the earth, accompa-
MED by report resembling heavy gun, or
distant peal of thunder. The report and shock
were preceded by buzzing sound, similar to
that caused by a large flock of pigeons darting
through the air. At Larabee's house on Van
Dusen, the shock was SO heavy that it caused
the window panes to rattle as though they
would break in pieces.
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14

Cons PROTECTION OF YOUNG DEER.-An old
Canadian hunter declares that the reason why
the wild deer were not all killed when young
las they breed once year, and are always sur
rounded by other animals which prey upon
them, as dogs, wolves, bears, panthers, etc) is,
that no dog or other animal can smell the track
of a doe or fawn, while the latter is too young
to take care of itself" Ee stated that he had
often seen it demonstrated. He had taken his
dogs over the ground where he had just before
seen them pass, aad they would take no notice
of the track, and could not be induced to follow
when taken to the spot, while they would in
stantiy discover the track of any deer not hav-
ing young ones. This is but one peDof of the
adaptation of the natural lava to preserve life
when it most needs protection
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14

An IMPORTANT LAw.-Heretofore it has been
impossible for the County to appeal case to the
Supreme Court, unless some citizen would vol
unteer to pay the necessary officers fees. The
Legislature last session passed law obviating
this Inconvenience. 1t reads thus:
SECTION /. In all civil actions brought by the
State or county, against any person or persons,
association or corporation, against a county,
Sheriffs, Clerks, and all other officers, and all
persons required by law to perform services in
civil actions, shall perform such services for the
State or county without requiring the payment
of fees therefor in advance, but al such fees and
the costs accruing on the part of State or
county, as the case may be, shall become a
charge to the State or county, as the case may
be, and shall be audited and allowed as other
demands against the State or county are audited
and allowed
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14

FoR CeNGREss.-Among the names to be pre-
sented from the North, to the Democratic Con-
vention, that of Judge Ord OF Colusa county,
meets with general favor as a candidate for Con-
gress. Residing in the extreme North, and in an
agricultural county, he comes with strong claims
to the favor and good will of the people of the
South. He was long a resident in Los Angeles
and the Southern counties-knows intimately
their wants and wishes, and is desirous of ex-
erting himself to further their prosperity There
is no reason, then, why the delegates from the
South should not concentrate on him, as the
candidate from the North-indeed, there is ev-
cry reason why they should, and apparent and
cogent reasons, too-and thus give him a
strength which shall carry him successfully
through the ordeal of nomination. The claim
of Judge Ord, from the North, will in no wise
clash with that of any gentleman from the South.
Los 1nqeLes Star
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14
The Chinese Question.

FLAT CREEK, May IL, 1859.
Dear to the American citizen is the doctrine
of the right of the people to protect lfe liberty
and property. In law-tearing land like ours,
there is little danger in preaching its eternal
truth and justice. The danger is in corrupting
the moral sense of the people by declaring that
when every peaceable, legal, patient and per-
sstent effort has been made to procure the repeal
of an unjust and oppressive law in vain, then it
is wicked to resist it fercibly. Te assert that is
to tear our Declaration of Independence to spit
in the face of Human Rights and Civilization =
If the great mass of miners are rebels, SO were
our forefathers of the Revolution. They fought
against oppression and unjust laws, and we, as
the guardians of the rights and privileges they
beaueahed to US, will do the same until our
just demands are satisfied.
Look at the columns of the county papers
throughout the mining region in this State, and
see the fererish state of the public pulse and
which is only quieted and kept from open vio-
lence by an Ellusery idea that the great doctors
of the Supreme Court will eventually give us
tue relief we so earnestly demand.
Unfortunately, history shows that there are
| always agencies, even in republican governments,
sufficiently powerful to thwart the passage Of
laws desired by the masses of our population
Have we not the right, as miners and citizens to
protect ourselves?
1t is under this view of the case that have
done, what thousands of others have done, and
will continue to do, to maintain our local laws
| passed conscientiously, and thus far supported
firmly yet peaceably. All human laws arr
based upon the law of necessity-of self-protec
ton and self-preservation. And so far this un
alterable law has guided us in our crusade
-against the herdes of Asiatics in our midst Ii
removing the Chinese from the precincts where
the people have decided emphatically that the,
shall not mine, we have acted humanely towards
them-we have allowed them time to collect
their property and take it away with them. In
fact defy any man to say that we have done
them bodily injury or destroyed their property.
If, as the Chinese sympathizers say, they are
popular class of citizens, why is it that the
people of the State murmur and complain of
their presence? Look at the papers of the
State throughout the mining region What
grumblings and angry murmurings come from
the people in relation to this damnable wrong
done to the rights of American citizens. NINo
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14

SINGLES BEEs--They are about introducing
into the Atlantic States species of the honey
bee which is devoid of that disagreeable appen-
dage of the old-fashioned kinda singer. The
new variety abound in South America, and are
said to produce an excellent article of honey.
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14

SARsAPARILLA.-Dr Booker, of Bonn, on the
Rhine, so well known for his experiments on the
digestion Of articles of food and ailment has
by experiment, discovered that sarsaparlla has
none of those wonderous purifying properties
usually attributed 10 it, and that it is a useless
and expensive hospital drug This but confirms
the opinion which has been previously expressed
through our columns-,Scientifc american.
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14
Times ofUoIdjne Courtx

Times of Holding Courts.
NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
SHAsTA-Third Mondays in January, May and
September.
SIsKIYoU-First Mondays in March, July and
November.
TRINIrY-Second Mondays in April, August
and December
Shasta County Courts.
deld 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 Isl Nonds,s :,
Hay, August, November and February.
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14

SENATORS HUNTER AND DoUGLAs.-A late
overland mail brought this item:
alt was generally conceded in political cir
cles that Douglas and Hunter have CONS to an
understanding, By which the latter is to have
the Democratic nomination in lS60-the former
awaiting the chances of 1864. This opinion
receives additional force from the fact that the
three candidates of the Democracy have been
taken from the North, making the next due the
South. The Washington States, formerly
strong Douglas paper, is now evidently under
the control of Hunter, with kindly feeling to-
ward Douglas, and the editor is Yirginian of
the Hunter school. The silence of Hunter dur
ing the recent popular sovereignty debate in the
Senate is also considered ominous of his aspira-
tions"
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14

That IssUE.-We see it stated that the ques-
tion raised in the United States Senate on the
23d day of Feb, "must be met" Query lst,
Who will meet it Query I'd will the meeting
be friendly Or hostile.-C Ckachevilie Spectator.
The Shasta courier., 1859-05-14
COUNTY DIRECTORY
Comfy Officers

District Jucgs--WiLliam P. Daingerfeld, OF
Shasta.
County Judge-Joel T. Landrum
associate Justices-J +. Durick and Thomas
Bass.
County Treasnrer-James Hayburn
County Cerk-H. l. Vanhorn
SherD-H. Clay Stockton. Under Sheriff.
John Dent.
County Assessor-W. II. Angel.
County SUrUeyor-E. Linn
Public administrator Benjamin Swasey.
District Atorney-James D. Mix.
School Commissioner-G. K. Godfrey
County Physieian-Dr. James E. Pelham.
Board Of S,4peruisors.-1st District, Jno. A
Oreibelbis; I'd District, William B. Stod-
dart; Sd District, D. G. Johnson
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-18
Steam Commute alton with Oyster Bay.
TO The EDITOR OF TnE HERALD.

OYSTER BAY, L. l.. August IT, 1850.
In yoar ssue Of tho 18th you notice report Of certain
ueetrgs held at Oyster Bay The 9th and 11th nstan,
reference to steamboat communication With New York
and ss that report incorrect regards It's most i'm
Tortsnt points, beg leave the same 30 the
public mind may not be wrongly impressed would
rate he. tie westpg OF the 9th entirely favor
supporting Cant Somsripdyck IN consideration Of hts re-
esBg TIE ctrzrF OF Oy der BAY roc, the imposition
hifn 'Bre ard poor Recommendations, from which they
hsvc suffered the lsst t~o ye1s AND the commit
zee stokep q being appointed 70 report upon
ecf that IL ALTO ircorrtct bnt the contrary they
appointed 70 attend Souarnosck meeting at Huntington
"A Taearc the meeting Of ibe 11th Instant which the
reeoiuon endorsing tho rival line passed, would
tate that bS the srepresentaions Of Parties
10 she OLD e-wbcb used the prejudice Of Capt
-oDaiudyck, 10 the effect tbs the NAY flower haul
ed OF from the Glen Cove route, the Groom would discoo
pue her rips TO O, ater Ray immedistel 70
aaepctd TO vote cs the resou oo which by
Tacr Of only three. Tbe adherents Of old line th
showed the ounces az their approvpp
he minutes OF the previous meeting which favo
70 the opposition. CHAs G. sUMMERa
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NeNa from Yucrran.
TIE WAR OF RACES BROKEN OUT AMI
From the New Orleans Piciyuns, August

TIE WAR OF RACES BROKEN OUT ANEW.
From the New Orleans Piciyuna, August ii
BY the Mexican schooner Bnaute. Capt Bs.sta, ar.
rived yesterday, from Stat the Oh Csmpeachy the
esh inst sc have s~o weeks later from Yucca
the reactonayy party having been able since the
tore OF their leader, effect ganizsion but tne
var Of races had broken out Our h.es being i'm
peifect, 90 cot furnish toe date OF the movement
enonR the Indians, but Il n certain tnat the Oath ut
uey beo the TO importsnt towns Of Ichmul Peo,
wnn all the adjacent country, stretching up into
tsirs wbepce they threatened iurcaGe cepredaons
Of every kind upon tho defepce'eas Inhabitants o. the
24b, ho~ever.a considerable body OF troops was deg.
tached 10 s hase TO toe threatened provinces, and
Sgain VIC read, To oms' reports OF .ae 20tn OF Ger.
tain advantages gsioet over the asvagas hut they DO
not appear 10 have been OF a decisive cnsracser.
The ofHcsl pspsr tho Consuc,onol og Merida repre-
duces N fu The u,e &c drcy az Ju or TO he nation a.
c'rntnis Of slmWt .xuavsgsnt praise. "It meets a,
all the heint OF the tres II is fully up to the
BIN baye conp- hsnoed al lie scope The creed OF III
ber al party No more compromise Of principle DO more
po cal bargains co more fusion of parties. with
ancient prejudces and abuses, bds the pdvi,sse d
csiscs" Perhaps, tortver tho radicals OF the PENN
sula w 10 'bnk differently when tho decree OF
fscsten begins 10 DO executed in their mdst and,
the ltthu,u,, beir little "san's' funds" begin to
se'zso pehape will have come the day OF the rival
party
capital great excitement tho discovery
That the Virgins orosn snd oinc 40 ungs, 10 the psu
cpa church Of the city, ited up for The celebration Of
fesst day. were missing, e'oeh -" sscriieiious rob
berry !" eaye the cffc'o paper quoted above similar
theft, Il viii mbered, committed In th,s Bamc
church dutirg the last years. feast
On the 24h the f day oil the Governor Of tho State
largo number OF political prisoners we're ses a lib 3ry
but we co not potice among them The name OF OK Cover
For Bsrfcra nor, indeed do any where hnd mention
wha,ever OF that unfortunate leader Of the opposing
The Epslish brig vepus, whence n not stated had a.
rived 1T sssl WITH aS6 racks Of and 100 barrels
nour IDe sparien steamer Union sailed Tor Havana oI
GOOD