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The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-18
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HORSE BREEDERS Asso IATI0N.
FIRST SALE AND EXHIBITION
Training Of Stock

Training of Stock
Win be feature of The Exhibition. entirely new, and
under Regulations Of The Associa ion cannot ut
bring together stock in this portion Of the State,
and meet With favor from the People.
Fee for entering Stock ON Sale or Exht-
bitiOns
HORsEs-one span.-$i 90 sHEEP-Single Heads 25
-single....-.-. SO lswiNE-....-.......... 2b
caTTTEen yoke Oxen s. For DRovEs or FLocKs
-single.-..... 35l salts aetory dsduction
The secretary's Office will he opened for the entering
of Stock on Sale Exhibition from Friday morning.
May 9Th. until Saturday, the day of Exhibition. at
o'clock, NJ. Ample accommodations will be made Tor
all stock from abroad The track is in excellent condi
on and the advantages those having Stock sale
country. J. s. HERRIGK, Ger Sec.
Ravenna, May 9, 1859. my11 Sw
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BOOTS & SHOES
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Remember. l9r No. Phenix Block.
May. 1853. s HI DAY.
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E. TAYLOR, Atty. -
Nav Is, i65q-6w. T1siz7z-

L. GAI. NOTICE.
Williamson Carer, surviving Ad-l PROBATE COURT
ministra'oI OF Jss,ss Carter. p.,,.,o
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-18
Ensign & Soule.
DRUGGISTS, and Dealers i'm PAINTS,
PAINT-BRUSAEs,O OILS, PERFUWE-
RY, PATENT MEDICINES AND
DYE-SrUEEs, 74

IETOULD respectfully call the attention of the citizens
w Portage county their large and carefully
lerted stock of the above mentioned articles $50
Our Medicines aud Liquors warranted pure as any
in market, and by purchasing only from Responsible
houses to purchasers the best goods al
the lowest prices. We keep constantly on hand the diff
ferent brands of f47s..-f z-a5ss1
PAINTS, ALL QUALITIES AND CoLoRl,
White Lead dry and in oil we warrant free from whiting,
marble dust barytes. with which the interior grades
often adulterated. Our fancy Paints also pure.
BY recent arrangements with heavy manufacturer of
LINSEED OIL,
able defy competition in this article, which is
of the first quality We also selling the best of
SUGAR AND TEA,
The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-18

John Hutson, Nancy Strong, ia
cob Strong, Sarah leonard, Har-
rison Carter and others, legal
representatives and heirs at law
- of Ianiaa Cartar. deeeaaad =
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29
The Fallen Prestige of England.

The Rev. DR.. Cahill, of Ireland, says that the
professed refusal of England to participate in the
recent wars which have resulted in a curtal-
ment of the empire of Austria, of transfer of
Lombardy to other hands, and of remodeling
of the whole south of Europe, is all sham, to
cover up the shame of fallen prestige She
refuse to send plenipotentiary to Zurich in
deed The truth is that her name and power
were totally ignored in the sanguinary warfare,
and now they are totally ignored in the national
settlement being attempted in the Conference
at Zurich.
During the last half century (since the battle
of Waterloo) no loeah foreign cabinet dare execute
any public political act without the concurrence
of England The Americans heretofore dared
not fish, the Ionia Greeks dare not speak, the
Spanish and Portuguese Queens dure not mar
ry; nor the people dare not pray without the
permission of England"
A few years age, continues the Doctor,
''Great Britain would not permit salmon to
be caught in Newfoundland, snipe to be shot
at Copenhagen, or red button to be worn at
Corfu.
Now, while kingdoms are given away or mod
eled, while whole Duchies are transferred like
Christmas gifts, she stands silent, stunned with
terror, before the defiance of superior power
The Rev Doctor evidently hates brave old
England with bitter hatred We make one
more extract from his article;
To Il certain extent London is now putting on
the cid faded garment of Palmyra the Princes
of the world ne longer frequent her palaces; the
road is now to Paris and the TuiIleries One
Grand Duke waits upon the Emperor of the
French to-day; an other Duke visits him to- NOR
row. Kings stand in his Imperial hall waiting
| for admission; he is thanked in humble sub.
mission if he condescends to give smile to one
an assuring word to another, leave to remain il
the city to third Deputations from severa
! kingdoms appear ut the gates OF his capital beg.
ging an interview with the Supreme conqueror
the undisputed arbiler Of nations and the fate
of their thrones hangs on his word and the lib
critics of millions ofhumah creatures tremble or
| his lips The road TO London is now forgotten
the grass is beginning to grow in Downing.
street, and the crowds that once frequented the
thoroughfares Of the Queen Of the West, now
turn their faces towards the city of Charlie
magne! England is certainly on the wane and
as the tide Of empire can ebb well as flow, il
requires little observation to clearly that the
exclusion of England from Zurich is an evidence
of French defiance, as well palpable sign o
her singalarly fallen prestige. During the last
three hundred years she has not received such q
! heavy blow in her diplomatic character.
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29
aay- Lord Brorgham is certainly one of the

Bsas- Lord BroCgham is certainly one of the
great men, of the day. Therefore a pen and
ink sketch by enc who has lately seen him will
be welcome. That is the world renowned
Lord Brougham and Vaux. He is not going to
the Commons, we will venture to say, for that he
never does. No; you see him turned the other
way. What queer looking character it is =
See how loosely his clothes hang about him
That hat of his, too how closely it is pulled
over his brow 1t is not, however, a whim Of
his to wear it so, but necessity compels him, for
his forehead is so large that he would never
keep his hat unless he were to pull it well
over his brow. He looks very, very old now,
and well he may, for he is in or over his eighty
first year. For such age be walks well, and see
how voluby he is chatting to the friend on whose
arm he hangs. 1t would be worth something
now to know what he is talking about-perhaps
our foreign relations or it may be the last dis
covered fossil fish, the Palace of the People
at Muswell hill, or some new machine, or fresh
theory Of light, or-but it is in vain to conjec-
ture. There is joke abroad that one day at a
conversazione he was talking learnedly about
Hndoo poem written 500 years B. c., when
suddenly, some hint given, he began to dis
course with equal knowledge on the philosophy
of cooking beefsteak.
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29

How TO PASS COUNTERPART NOTE say,
Tom, here's pretty good counterfeit three. If
you will pass it, we will divide"
"Lets see the plaster" said Tom, and after
examining it carefully, put it in his vest pocket,
remarking:
Its an equal division-a dollar and half
apiece"
Yes" said Ben.
"All right" said Tom, and off he went
few moments afterwards he quietly stepped
into the store of his friend Ben, purchased can
of oysters for one dollar and half, laying down
the three dollar note for them.
The clerk looked at the note rather doubling
ly, when his suspicious were Immediately calmed
by Tom, who told him "there was no use look
ing for he had received that note from Ben him.
self not ten minutes since"
OF course the clerk, with this assurance, i'm
mediately forked over the dollar and half in
change, and with this deposit and can of oys-
ters, Tom left
Shortly afterwars he met Ben, who asked him
ifhe had passed the note.
oh yes, said Tom, % here's your SHARE" at
the same time passing over the dollar and a halt
to Ben.
That evening, when Ben made up his cash ac-
count, he was surprised to find the same Old
counterfeit three dollar note in the drawer
Turning to his = locum tenens," he asked:
Where did you get this confounded note p
Didn't you know it counterfeit"
why" said the clerk, Tom gave it to me,
and suspected it was 6shy, but he said he had
just received it from you, and ! took it,"
The whole thing penetrated the noddle of
Ben. With a peculiar grin, he muttered,-
/" sold" and charged the can Of oysters to prof,
and loss account.
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29

SIZE OF THE GREAT EAsTERN.-The following
is the comparison of the size of the Great Eas-
tern with Noah's Ark, made by the English pa
pers:
The length of the Ark was three hundred
cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, snd its height
thirty cubits. The Scripture 'cubit, as stated
by Sir Isaac Newton, is twenty inches and about
s'xty-two hundredths. Bishop Wilkins makes
it somewhat more, namely, twenty-one inches
and about sixty-eight hundredths. Reducing
them to English feet, and calculating the ton
mage after the old law, we have approximately
the following table:
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29

DIszPPRovED.--The fourth division o. the
Memorial to Congress adopted by the Pacific
Railroad Convention, reads thus
Fourth, That the Government donate to the
State Of California all the public land within her
limits, excepting those which are mineral "Also
that Congress authorize the re- payment to said
State of the sum of S2,706,5I2 claimed to he
legally due said State, having been collected as
customs at the Port of San Francisco. between
the dates of Aug 9th, lS4S, and September 9th.
1850; these lands and this sum to be dedicated
to the State Railroad Fund, and to be used in
the aid of the construction of a railroad running
from San Francisco to the eastern frontier of
the State, as the Legislature of the State shall
direct"
We doubt the propriety of asking Congress to
donate all the public lands in this State that are
not mineral, to the State, with the condition that
they be used in the construction of one single
road. Other railroads are much teeded in the
State, and some of our public lands should be
reserved for their benefit. For instance the
extension of a railroad from 0roville to Shasta
would be greatly accelerated by large dona-
ton of our public lands.
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29
NUMBER 81
The Wrong Spirit.

Senator Clay, of Alabama, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Georgia, and other
hot-heads who desire the success of the Repub-
licans in the next Presidential election, for the
reason that they think such success will enable
them to more speedily dissolve this Union and
establish Southern Confedcracy, have declared
that they will not vote for Douglas even if he is
nominated by the Charleston Convention. They
have the satisfaction of knowing that every
Black Republican and Aboitionist in the North
will applaud them for the determination, and
will unite with them in opposing Douglas, if he
is nominated by the Charleston Convention. In
precisely the same spirit, the Marysville Demo-
crat has announced its determination not TO
support the nominee of the Charleston Conyen-
ton, if he does not happen to think precisely as
does Douglas on Popular Sovereignty. Such
Democrats won't do to bet on. How different is
the spirit of the subjoined, from the old and re-
liable organ of the North Carolina Democracy,
the North Carolina Standard:
We say to our Democrctc friends, BE OF COOP
CHEER Every indication is in our favor We
North Carolina Democrats are not affected TO
States with regard to men. We agree on prin-
cipe, and will not fall out with each other
about men. Some for Douglas some for
Breckenridge, some for Wise, some for Hunter,
some for Lane, some for Dickinson, some for
Dalias-but, WE ARE ALL FOR THE NOMINEE. THAT
is the true fire of the flint. Let us be careful to
pursue such a course as will strengthen the
bonds of harmony and good fellowship which
now unite u.s. Let US be ready, when the period
arrives, to play our part with zeal and effect in
the great contest upon the result of which de-
pends the preservation of our rights and the
perpetuation of n constitutional Union Let us
see to it that if North Carolina is divided in the
House of Representatives at Washington, she
shall not be divided at home, but shall speak
ONE voice for the right man and the right cause,
when the day for action arrives. Let our mot
to be, /" Union and Harmony; everything for the
cause, nothing for men,"
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29

A BEAUTIFUL WoMAS.-The Empress Eugenie
nust be surprisingly beautiful. correspond
ent Of the London Times thus speaks Of her, as
she appeared on a recent fete day:
"Never was the realization of the beautiful
beheld to greater advantage. Attired in white,
enveloped in clouds of rich lace, through which
her soft complexion was Softened even more, she
appeared the most perfect realization of Imperial
grace and dignity ever beheld since Mary Stu
art fell beneath the murderer's ak of the infa-
nous Elizabeth. The taste displayed in her
costume was perfect--a graceful daughter of
high-souled and dignifed Spain, deriving her
descent, too, in part from the old Celtic race
Fitzpatrick of Scotand-an honorable branch
of the Fitz Patricks, Princes of Ossory, Ireland
No fantastical bonnet concealed those flowing
tresses and lovely features from the admiring
crowd she selected the Spanish and old Irish
costumes long veil of Brussels print was
thrown over her head, and that calm, fair fore
head was encircled with the Imperial dadem,
the great Sanci diamond which flashed and
sparkled, as the true gem only does, as in the
sun of that memorable Autumn day." IL were
pity to allow this gem to pass unset in our
pages, and the reader we take it, is truly thank
fni
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29
A Fatal Duel Between Two Bloods.
Found, says the Southern Observer, in the Ar
chives of " Code of Honor Society"l

Found, says the Southern Observer, in the Ar
chives ofa Code of Honor Society."l
One Mr.. Knott, with Mr. Shott
Into some quarrel got,
The cause was what?-No matter what.
Their anger waxed hot
Then Mr.. Knott called Mr.. Shot
Hard names-no matter what.
And Mr.. Shott replied to Knott
In terms-no matter what.
Wrote Mr.. Knott straightway to Shott.
And Shott wrote back to Knott
Wrote Mr. Knott again to Shott.
And Shott wrote back to Knott.
So Mr. Knott from Mr.. Shott
The deadly challenge got.
And Mr. Knott sent back to Shott,
T4at he declined it not
Now Mr.. Knott and Mr.. Shott
Their tried revolvers got.
The friends of Shot, the friends of Knott
All went into the lot.
Big Mr.. Knott, big Mr.. Shott,
Three glorious rounds there fought
Our Mr.. Knott, ne got the shot,
And Shott he got it not.
As Mr. Knott had missed his Shot,
And Shot had missed his not,
So Knott was shot, and Shott was not,
And Shott the glory got.
MoRAL.-'Tis better to be Shot than Not.
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29
SHASTA COURIER.
A Batch of Fault finders.

Gov. Weller has gone out of the great Demo-
cratic party, and into the Black Republican
party, in search of a proper man to appoint to a
certain office. He has appointed N A. H. Ball.
Republican, who ran on the Opposition ticket
at the last election for the Clerkship of the
Board of Supervisors of Sacramento County,
ms appointment, or rather this action of the
Governor in going into the ranks of the enemy
In search of men upon whom to bestow his
avors, is objected to by the Democratic Stand
'.rd
J The Marysville Express, says the Governor has
also appointed Chas. NJ. Gorharn Notary Pub
lie for Yuba county, over the heads of "good
Democrats who worked hard for the party in
season and out of season." and who were also
applicants" but who 4" were thrown overheard
to make way for Mr.. Gorham," man who is a
bitter enemy of the Democratic party" The
Express thinks it cannot I" be possible that any
Democrat of this Yuba] county recommended
him" By the way, it may be we'll tor US to re-
mark here, lest we be accused by the Beacon of
making side-wipe at his Excellency, that the
Express has avowed itself in favor of Weller for
United States Senator.
The Express, however, thinks the editor of the
Standard is not precisely the right sort of per-
son to iud fault with the Governor for appoint
Ig Black Republican to office, for the reason
tlat one /" Mr.. George C. Gorham who was the
Opposition candidate in this Yuba] county for
Iecorder at the recent election, AMI who was
one of the bitterest and most unscrupulous par
tsans in the county, scarcely knew officially
nat he was defeated before he was assistant
eiitor of the Democratic Standard, the great CEN
tai Democratic organ of the State" writer
IN the Union says the editor of the Standard has
associated with himself, in the performance of
bis duties as State Printer, Black Republican
ty throwing OFF, Postmaster Hardenbnrgh,
Who was part proprietor of the Standard when
the State Convention was held, and who was
mainly instrumental in securing Mr.. Bolts his
domination.
The Standard replies to the Express that Mr.
Bolts is the responsible editor of that paper,
| chat he has perfect right to employ whom he
pleases to do the work about his office. and that
The Express exhibits lack of good taste in thus
interfering with the internal affairs of that pa
per.
The Express might well reply, that it is true
that the Central Democratic organ of the State
may employ enemies of the Democratic party to
write for it; and so may the Governor appoint
Black Republicans to office. They have the
power. But can they exercise that power with
out being guilty OF the grossest ingratitude to
the party that placed them in Office?
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29
According to Sir Isaac Newton.
+ According to Bishop Wilkins.

Bea Lamountain, who accompanied Wise in
his famous balloon trip from ST. Louis to the
State of New York, recently made another trip
into the air, and is supposed to be lost When
last seen he was near Hawesville, Lewis county,
New York, at great height, and going with
tremendous velocity over the New York wilder
ness. One thousand dollars reward had been
offered for the recovery of his body if alive, and
FIVE hundred if dead
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29
Township Officers.

SHASTA Observation-Disclosures of the Peace
James Keene, and E. X. Shed Constables-J.
N. Short, G. S. Ovett
CLEAR CREEK TowNsHIP.-Justices-G II.
Brooks, W. S. Barnum. Constables-Chas
Mcdonald VIM. Logan.
SIERRA TowNsHIP.-Justices-D c. Steven
son, Jos. B. Downs. Constable-E NJ Hin
PlrT RIVER TowNsHIP.-Justice- F. Ross.
Constable-A J. Wilmot
FRENCH GULcH TowNsHIP.-Justces- B.
Stewart, E. Dickinson.
LocKHART FERRY TowNsHIP-Justice-J NJ.
Ford
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29

ga5- The New Albany Qa.) Ledger pays the
following quiet compliment to the Louisville
CourtT-an Administration paper:
The Louisville Courier is very savage in its
abuse of Douglas; but on referring to file of
that paper in the possession of friend, we are
consoled to find that it was still more savage on
Polk, Cass and Pierce"
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29

THE "GREEN-EYEp MONSTER R.n-Kamehameh
", King of the Hawaiian Islands, some time last
month was led to elieve that his private secre-
tary, H. A. Nelson, had seduced the Oueeu-
The swarthy King at once became enraged, like
Othello, beyond all control, and with a pistol
attempted to blow Mr. Nelson's daylights out
by letting daylight into his abdominal regions
The bullet, however, hit rib, and the secretary
still lives. Soon after his Majesty became sat-
isfied that like the Moor he had done his Des-
demona great injustice by acting upon unfound-
ed suspicious The fact is, we think his Majesty
was slightly drunk when he committed the deed
of blood. When be got sober, we take it, and
saw what he had done, he at once became re-
pentant. At all events he determined to abd-
cate at once, so as to place himself within reach
of the law. This every one of his subjects OBJ
jected to, the mere intmation of such event
having created the most extraordinary excite
ment. The King then determined not to resign,
but apologize to Mr. Nelson. We think he had
better, on bended knee apologize to his wife
She is the person entitled to bis apologies
Nor So.-The Marysyille Democrat quotes a
blackguard, lying article from the Washington
Star, abusive of Douglas, and tells its readers
that the Star is I" an obsequious organ of Mr.
Buchanan" The Democrat ought to know that
this is not true. This slandering the President
in order to defend Douglas is just as bad on the
part of the Democrat as is the offence of the
Star in belieing douglas for the sake of pleasing
his enemies.
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29

MExIco.-General Alvarez was preparing to
march on the city of Mexico with six thousand
we'll armed infantry, cavalry and artillery.
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29

nea. Major Neighbors, Indian Agent at Bel
knap, Texas had been killed by the ruitiians OF
that place.
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29
p YOUNG MEMS, LIBRARY AsocIA.

ton. This Association viii meet on Thursday
evening of each week, at o'clock, for the
transaction of general business. Rooms-in
Tomlinson's Building, over Wells, Fargo l. Co.
open to members at all hours.
T. G. ELLIOT, President.
]. E. DENT, Secretary
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29

a@- On the 22d there was the sum of S45s..
271 OIL in the State Treasury.
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29
County Officers.

District Judge-Willam P. Baingerfeid, OF
Shasta.
County Judge-Joel t. Landrum
Associate Justices-E. X. Shed f. Dickinson.
County Treasurer-James Hayburn
Recorder-J. R. Durick
Cierk-John Anderson
&srf-John S. FOllansbeei Under Sheriff
Wm. H. Angel
Tar Coilecto~-A Skillman.
Assessor-B. Garland
Pub. Observation-Disclosures Dunn.
Su-peyor-A. G. Qnait
District Attorzey-James D. Mix.
Sup. Pub. Instruction-G. X. Godfrey.
Board of Supergis0rs.-lst District Jno A
Dreibelbis; I'd District, j. W. Roner; Sd
District D. c.. Johnson
The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29
COUNTY DIRECTORY
Times of Holding Courts.

NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
SHAsTA-Third Mondays in January, May and
September.
SIsKIYoU-First Mondays in March, July and
November
TRISITY-Seeond Mondays in April, August
and December.
Shasta County Courts.
Held on the LIST 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 iR spch eraer as the Judge NAV
determine.
BOARD OF SUPzRvIsoRs-Meet Ist MONDAYS in
May, August, November and February.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-04-08
VOL. ., H& s6.

INDIAN TAcTics.- Those who suppose, SAYS
the Galveston Civiiian, the Indians on the from
tier Of Texas 10 be desti tute of craft and cour-
age, IN the prosecution OF their depredations,
should note the following incide nj, as related to
the editor of the Western Tenn, By Mr.. Roam,
who arrived with the San Diego mail last
week
The train near Fort Quitman on the Rio
GFande, had slight brush with Indians It
seems that two Of the Mexicans while eogaged
10 guarding their nnles, noticed something mo-
wing 10 the tall grass. Supposing it 10 be COL
Totes, they took bat lille notice of i. Shortly
an Indian took hold Of one of the stake ropes
within lew feet OF one Of the Mexcans, and
cried boob I evidently expecting that the Msxi-
cans would run but IN this he was mistaken.
The Mexican held his six shooter near the head
of the Indian, and shot him dead on the spot -
The ether lndian in moment shot the Mexi-
eau with three arrows, mounted a horse, rode
direct through camp upon the run, and as he
passed a person covered up with two blankets,
he seized both the blankets, STOPPING as he went
and escaped. Some six Government mules
were driven OF and the Indians crossed the Rio
Grande into Mexico.