The Shasta courier., 1859-08-06
"Big Cuto VS.. "Beacon, -

EDITORS COURIER R:-Congratuate your cor
respondent, for, in fire separate, distinct articles
the editor ofthe BeGcon,-the man who elaughs'
and makes jests-spastic ones though-has
condescended to notice the production of " Big
Cut" He and his lager beer friends have waxed
exceedingly merry over the subject. and, by CO.
pious extracts from the above production, have
managed to make very readable paper of theil
issue of the 9th ult. Glory enough for one
year helping Mr.. Fisher to edit the Beacon by
giving him something to fill up the columns o.
that journal with.
| He says, (implies would be a better word
thought that the sun will be shining over Red
Bluff I" as the Head of Navigation" long after
your correspondent shall have, to use vulgar
parlance, gone where the good darkies CO.,
Now, is not this too bad Big Cut" is not dys-
peptic, rheumatic, or consumptive, and was
iattering himself that he had many years to live
and knock around in this mundane sphere but
1t is not to be. The Beacon, could its words
prove true, has made but short "cutp of him,
for it is plain to every sensible man that that
jolly old ssan, Ike the Beacon, can't shine much
longer over 4" Red Bluff as the-hem-Head oil
Navigation" Well, so be it. The writer Ioi
this article has not much to chain him to life,
but he would like to, and scU live to see the fast
write herself " Head of Navigation |" But. Mr..
Editor, let your triumph be tempered with mer-
cy; let US donate to our lowland neighbor a
corner lot on some hill, just without town, where
he may pitch his tent, swing his " shingle," and
lament over his fallen greatness, after the man
ner of How art thou fallen, &c., Oh Lucifer,
Son of the Morning"
Again, he wishes to know " who ever heard of
Red Bluffs haughtiness and pride?n We have
heard of it, but that is all for Shasta is SO much
above Red Bluff in all that conduces to render
town prosperous and wealthy. that the latter
village has never dared to put on airs over her.
But in the case of her beautiful little sister, Te-
hama, it is different. Has not she, in her
haughtiness and pride," said repeatedly to the
latter, !" | want and will have the county seat !:
l want and must have every office and officer in
the county: want and shall have every bit of
county patronage there is to be got hold of this
is the only and proper place for these things !;
they of right belong here and ,riH have theml'
Has she not also sneered and scoffed at any lit
tie improvement Tehama may have instituted :?
Has she not, too, ever kept jealous, suspicious,
treacherous watch over the doings of that little
town? Verify, Tehama has not only heard" !"
but seen felt and tasted of Red Bluffs haughti-
ness and pride. The sin of this meekest and
humblest of places has, of truth, found her
out"
But day of retribution is surely, steadily
drawing near. Let the Beacon jest as much as
it will, its editor knows but too well that the
star of Red Bluffs destiny, which erewhile
blazed like meteor in the heavens, has paled
and grown dim before the irresistible, onward
sweep of enterprise that has discovered other
and better places for it to build up, and breathe
into it the magic breath of vitality, only to leave
them, too, when it shall have become sated with
its new productions. The mind of the great
American people contains, in great abundance,
the feminine element of curiosity 1t impels
them, or portion of them, tor instance, to run
boat to a certain point on the Sacramento
river. That point becomes, for awhile the
"Head of Navigation" But this Internal curl
osity still keeps to work wants to know how a
| steamboat will look steaming little further up,
and roila! up she goes, and, by the way, SO does
the former Head of Navigation" See the
point, Charley. Big CUT.
Shasta, Aug. 4, 1859.