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The Shasta courier., 1859-01-15
The Romance of the d" Iron Duke"

In sketch of the late Lord Charles Wellesley,
a recently deceased son of the Duke of yelling
| ton For7leys Press publishes the following, but
generally well known, incident in the life of the
1" Great Duke :"
Whoever should exhibit the " Iron Duke" as
the hero of romantic love story, in which sem
timent is blended with chivalry, would probably
be laughed at. Yet there really is such an in
cident, true in all particulars, and imbued with
delicacy and refinement of impassioned afec-
ton. At the risk of having this little love-pas-
sage ridiculed, we shall take leave to relate it,
At the age of tweuty-eght, Arthur Wellesley,
Tor Wesley, as he wrote it at the time, according
to an autograph in our little collection.) went to
India with the rank of full Colonel, obtained
simply by the influence of his aristocratical
birth and connections, and by money, in the
tenth year of his military service. AT that time
he was engagedto Catharine Pakenhan daugh-
ter of the Earl of Longford, and sister of Gene
raj Sir Edward Pchael Pakenham, who was
killed at the battle of New Orleans. The lady,
young and beautiful, was devotedly attached to
Colonel Wellesley, and her affection was fully
reciprocated. Called to India, where his eldest
brother was Governor General to take lead
ing part in the war with Tippo-Saib, this fortu-
nate soldier had to leave his lady-love behind.
After an absence Of eight years, during which
land, where he was met by letter from Miss
Pakenham, informing him that the smallpox
had assailed and injured the beauty which he
had so much admired when life was younger
and gayer with both of them, and with tender
ness, assuring him that she had resolved to re-
lieve him of his engagement With the true
feeling of an honorable mind, he assured her
that her beauty had not been the only induce
ment to WOO and win her. Accordingly, the
marriage took place in 1906, within six months
of his return from India. The only fruit of this
union were two sons, ono born in 1907, and the
other in lS09
In the spring of the latter year, Wellesley had
to leave his wife to take part in the Peninsular
War He returned for short time, after the
signing of the Convention at Cintra, but from
1909 to 1914 during which he rose step by step
to the highest honors of the English peerage, he
was detained on the Peninsula. The strong tie
of married love was weakened by this prolonged
absence, and the Duchess Of Wellington, from
the Waterloo victory Of 1915 to her death, in
1881, was not happy wife. To the last she
deplored that a sense of honor had made the
Duke marry her, against her own better iudg-
ment, when her beauty had become thing Of
memory alone
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THE GOLDEN ConKscREw.
LEGEND OF TINE RHINE.
THE FIRST FIT.

THE FIRST FIT.
1t WAS the burly landlord stood at the hostel
door,
" Sir Painter, thou hast painted here good
three weeks and more:
Right deftly thou hast caught the tints of river,
rock, and tree,
But the color of thy money is what wish to
see.
Behold thy score; three oughts is ought and
three times three is nine,
| have thee down some ninety TASKS Of Oberwe-
sci wine;
And then come sundry items for sckinken, bra
ten, kraut,
| have heavy bill to meet, and cannot go with
out"
Out spoke the painter Sir, perhaps you're not
aware that Art
Is long And wants long credit too" the
host made answer smart.
"You painter gents have notions queer about
the quidp pro quo.,
But how is one to pay his rent? That's what
want to know.
Yet list plan which propose will forego
the wine,
So thou but get thy palette out and paint me up
a sign"
such disgrace"
The painter stopped, for out there popped sweet
Gretchen's pretty face.
glance. A smile. Sir host" quoth he, &c thy
house shall boast sign
Shall not be matched by any inn upon the banks
Of Rhine"
THE SECOND FIT.
1t was summers evening. The painters task
was done.
The freshly painted sign board hung glistening
in the sun.
1t showed youth and maiden, and eke, between
the two,
Upon shield all proper, displayed q golden
screw.
Its fame already was abroad in Oberwesel town.
To gaze on this art-treasure the neighbors had
come down.
And some admired the maiden and others
praised the youth,
And all agreed the corkscrew was very full of
truth.
1t was himself and Gretchen the willy painter
drew,
One of her golden tresses he studied for the
screw.
Which shows how much about high art the sim
pie rustics knew.
THE THIRD FIT.
'Tis morn. The painter takes the path that
climbs the vine-clad hill,
And in his haste forgess to pay the balance of
his bill
What makes him rise SO early? He never goes
sketching
With an umbrella in his hand, while on his arm
hangs Gretchen.
Last May landscape from that hand was hung
upon the line
Called Number 81, Oberwesel on the Rhine"
For Gretchen-if you go that way you readily
see her
At Oberwesel-on the sign Yum Golde1ea
Pfroptenrieher ."-Frazsr's Magazine.
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LIFE IN GorHAM.-What queer and horrible
things happen in New York" stranger than
ncuon Last week, man talking with a
irlend and waiting for an omnibus, at the corner
OF thoroughfare, suddenly disappears, and is
discovered thirty feet under ground at tbs bot1
tom OF an old web, inadequately covered nm a
clergyman is shot at in his pulpit, the ball hardly
glances by his head and is buried in the wall =
gentleman, walking with his child. has II
nearly clutched from him in a public square bv
frantic irishwoman a respectable Young lady
IS beguled by one Of her sex in apparent distress
INTO house, gagged on the threshold. bonnd
and kept prisoner twenty-four hours and =
maid OF all work going to the cistern. looks
down upon the floating corpse of a murdered
mani-Boston Daily Erening Trqnscrip.
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Fearful Questions to Young Hen.

VKHAT HAS BEEN YOUR PAST LIFE :?
Wv Has it been one of dissipation, frivolity
iutemperence, debauchery, or-worse2 Has
sickness, mental disease, or disappointment in
love or business been yours? Has your occu-
patton been LONELY? Have any of these ills
been yours till now? You feel sense of inca
pacity and weakness physically and mentally
knowledge of being painfully unwell, yet an
inability to describe or localize it'll LIFE BE-
COMES BURDEN. Your hands tremble-your
limbs totter-your spirits become low-your
sleep ftful and disturbed-your appetite poor
your whole natural functions debilitated-
night sweats-bad dreams-weakness in the
morning-and similar horrors. Reader, if you
knew the many that have been brought to the
vigor and strength of youth by that sublime
vegetable concoction, DR.. JACOB WEBBER'S
INYIGORATING SANGUIFIER, you would not
doubt
The Shasta courier., 1859-01-15

MANNERS OF THE PAST AND PREsENT-In
former times, the children of the common schools
in the country were taught to bow to strangers
passing. This custom has been lost in the pro-
gress of " Young America" writer says, in
illustration
' Some eight or ten winters since, Edward
Everett, Governor of Massachusetts, and the
late Amos Lawrence, were in a Sleigh riding
into Boston. AS they approached q school
house, score of young lads rushed into the
street to enjoy an afternoon recess. Said the
Governor to his friend, :" let us observe if these
boys make obeisance to US as we were taught,
fifty years ago." At the same time he expressed
the fear that habits of cvity were less practiced
than formerly. AS they passed the school house,
all question and doubt upon the subject re-
ceiyed speedy mot satisfactory settlement ;
for each one of these twenty hopeful New Eng
landers did his best at snow-balling the way
faring dgnitaries."
The Shasta courier., 1859-01-15
Drs7kvc1,oy OF A CHIsrsp pInArrs' Nest.

DESTRUCTION OF CHINESE PIRATES NEsT-A
piratical town named Sapoo, of 1000 houses,
and about / 2 600 inhabitants situated some three
miles up narrow creek on the south branch of
the river Han. Swstow, was bombarded on 9th
October by boats from the British ships Magci-
enne and Fury. The town contained the nest Of
pirates that recently plundered a British ship OF
cargo Of sugar, valued at $4,000, and after
wards pulled the vessel to pieces. About 200
houses were soon leveled with the ground. At
last truce forty light hours was given, and the
leaders of the piratical inhabitants engaged
forthwith TO return the stolen sugar and make
rspsratiou for the loss ofship
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Constitutional Weakness,
lntemperence, Delirium,
Dyspepsia, Chills, Ague, g.
In all of the above it is an absolute panacea

Read this statement OF cures, effected by the
most extraordinary concoction of the age
A case Of bodily pain, Ague, Debility and Dys-
pepsia cured:
Mr.. John B. Flemming, a Merchant Tailor of
Ophir, in this State, certifes, Sept. 81, 1854,
that two bottles of DR.. Webber's Cordial cured
Mr.. J. G. Ewens, of the same place, of pains in
the body dyspepsia, chill and hacking cough,
together with general debility, neuralgia and
rheumatic pains.
DR.. James Bonnaut certifes to the cure of a
pitiable case of decayed manhood (where the
strength, nerves, memory and the whole phys
iquc was prostrated) by its use.
Mr.. james Freeman, ofMokelumne Hill says:
Myfeelingwas an exhaution, a want OF strength,
a torpor a want of vigor, appetite and other
miserable feelings. One battle of your Cordial
relieved, and three have entirely cured me-"
We could give fifty other certificates, not
withstanding that most persons are sensitive
about being noticed but the above must salts
fy any reasonable person.
1t is sold for S. or two bottles for So, by
every Wholesale and Retail Druggist in Califor-
MIA. PARK 6 WHITE,
San Francisco Agents.
E5~ CAUTION.-Mind none is genuine
A. h. -. e 7
The Shasta courier., 1859-01-15

The LAND OF CosTRARIEs.--In Australia, the
north is the hot wind, and the south the cool !;
the westerly the most unhealthy, and the east
erly the most salubrious; it is summer with the
colonists when it is winter at home, and the ba-
rometer is considered to rise before bad wea-
ther and to fall before good the swans are
black and the eagles white; the mole lays eggs,
and has ducks bill tho kangaroo, an animal
between the deer and the squirrel, has Eve claws
on its fore paws, three talons on his hind legs,
like bird, and yet hops on its tail There is q
bird (melliphaga) which has q broom in its
mouth instead Of a tongue; fish, one half be-
longing to the genus rara and the other that of
squalus. The cod is found in the rivers and the
perch in the sea- The valleys are cold, and the
mountain tops warm; the nette is a lofty tree,
and the poplar dwarfsh shrub; the cherry
grows with the stone outside; the fields are
fenced with mahogany the humblest house is
fitted up with CEDAR and the myrtle plants are
burnt for fuel; the trees are without fruit, the
flowers without scent, and the birds without
song.
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fsS@ We heard a story related of vouug
man, a few days since, who attended a ball moi
hundred miles from this place, and whose uni
form bad luck in getting dancing partners in
duced him to quit the " gay and festive scene ),
and retire to bed in disgust. Previous. howey-
er, to carrying out his desperate design. he
thougnt ne would make one more trial He ac-
cordingly addressed young lady friend and
found, as ne had anticipated, that she was GEN
gagged Tor several dances ahead, but added that
she "would dance with him sometime in A.
course of the evening"
Very well, madam" rejoined our victim.
my room IS number 81, and when vou get
through, just come and wake me up.H
RImor hath it that like sensible girl she
has ceased engaging herself ahead since that
time-Tsidnd Gazette.
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DISCOVERIES WITH REFERENCE TO THE PLANET
MARs.-It is found that there is no planet within
the reach of our telescopes which presents an
aspect so like that Of the earth as Mars which
surface, independently of the changeable at
nospheric influence, shows appearance Of
well defined seas and continents-this being
found to be very specially the case at the time
when the geographical lines of demarkation
were SO beautifully distinct that Sir John Hers
chel called attention to them, saying that he was
able to make a tolerable map of the surface. The
predominant brightness of the polar regions
leads to the supposition that the poles of Mars,
like those of the earth, are covered with perpet-
ual snow The seas are also pronounced to be
of q greenish hue, resembling the color OF our
own; and the land a red TINT perhaps owing to
aquality in the prevailing soil
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For. RENE

6sa THE LIGHT AND COMMODTOUS
I'LL Fire Proof Brick Store, next door to
Ill Stevenson & Co, and now occupied by
Hoffman as family grocery, is offered for rent
on reasonable terms. For particulars enquire of
DR.. R0ETIIE,
City Drug Store, Main ST.
Shasta, Dec. II, 1857 decl2tf
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Also, California and Foreign Grape Vines,
with full assortment of the above kinds Of
smaller fruits.
The above are of the most vigorous and thrifty
growth and we'll shaped Trees, very large size,
from to 5 feet in hight.
Shade and Ornamental Trees,
Consisting of the Elm, Maple, Linden, ALLAN
thus, CataIpa, Laburnum, Curled Leaf and
Weeping Willow, China Tree and Locust, all Of
fine growth and large size, sufficient for setting
in private or public grounds.
Our stock of Camelias, Roses, and an endless
variety of Green House Plants are unusually
large and fine.
Our Camelias have now commenced blossom
ing in all their beautiful varieties and colors,
and will continue blooming through the winter
and spring months.
GARDEN SEEDS.
We invite the attention of planters and deal
ers to our very extensive and general assort-
ment of VEGETABLE SEED, the crop of this
years growth, which is pure and sure to vege-
tate, which we offer at greatly reduced prices.
We hold out great inducements to parties pur-
chasing wholesale, or stock being very large,
and to deal ers and planters wanting large guam
titles.
We will sell for cash at a less price than can
be purchased in any part of the State.
Trees, plants and seeds packed with the great
est care to in insure them in transporting to any
part of the Pacific coast.
CAUTHON.
We caution all persons from buying Trees
from hawkers and peddlers who pretend to have
Trees from our Nursery, without vouchers from
US but should advise all to send direct to US,
or through our authorized Agent, when they
will be sure TO get Trees correct to their labels
Trees ordered from the Nursery win be packed
with the greatest care, and will be in much bet
ter condition for planting than Trees long ex-
posed for sale in hauling about the country
Persons planting out orchards cannot be too
careful in planting none but the best varieties of
Fruit Early planting, when practicable, is par
ticularly recommended.
Catalogues containing full descriptions of our
stock and prices, sent free to all applicants. All
orders must be accompanied by the Cash to re-
ceve attention. A. p. SMITH.
30 james W. Downer, of the Telegraph Of
fee in Shasta, is authorized to make sales of
our Fruit Trees and Garden Seeds, and has sam
pies of the different sizes and vari-tie of our
FrIiit Trees for the insOaction of those wishing
The Shasta courier., 1859-01-15
The Hidden LIE of the Rodee.ner.

1t is true, that, from the time of his return
with his parents to Nazareth, to his baptism,
Jesus did nothing more than obey them. am
seized with astonishment at these words Is
this all the employment Of Jesus Christ of the
Son of God? All his employment, all his exer-
tons, are to obey two of his creatures And to
obey them in what? In the lowest functions !;
in working at mechanical trade Who, then,
are they who complain who murmur, because
their employments are not equal to their capacl-
ty? or, to speak more properly, to their pride :?
Let them enter the house of Joseph and Mary,
and contemplate Jesus working at his trade; for
it is certain that he worked in his fathers shop.
1t is probable that he lost Joseph before he en-
tered on his ministry; and that, after this time,
he supported his mother and himself by the la
Dor of his hands. This was all his employment
In the first age Of the Church, the plows made
by him were remembered; they are mentioned by
the most ancient authors. Let those who sup
port themselves by a working trade, comfort
themselves and rejoice. Jesus WAS q member
of their community. Let them learn, while they
work, to praise God, to slug psalms and holy
canticles Jesus will then bless their work
Some blush for Jesus Christ when they behold
him at this employment; and make him, in his
infancy, play at miracles. What do they not
relate of the wonders wrought by him in Egypt?
but tnis Is only TO be found IN apocryphal writ
ings. Those who are weary of the obscurity of
Jesus, are equally weary of the obscurity of his
holy mother, and wish to attribute continual
to her. But let us hear the Gospel. It
informs us that the employment of Jesus was to
work at his trade; the employment of Mary, to
mediate in silence on the secrets of God.
You, who complain of your lowly lot in this
life, think of the obscurity of Jesus and Mary
They were the admiration of the anpels. but
what was their employment on earth To
whom, upon earth, did they belong? What was
their repute2 Yet those who thus complain,
would have name, and would perform actions
of renown. Behold the Divine Carpenter, with
his saw, with his hammer, and hardening his
tender hands with his tools. 1t is not skilful
pencil which he holds, q learned pen, with which
he instructs the world He works at low
trade; he subsists by it he gains livelihood !;
and in his wonderful ,humiliations, blesses the
will of God.-Bollsset.
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JUST RECEIVED,

A LARGE AND EXTENSIVE ASSORT-
IA ment of very fine white and blue
BILL HEAD AND WAT-BILL PAPER.
We are now prepared to do this style of print
ing in neat and expeditions manner, and a
San Francisco Prizes!
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WHY SHE MARRrED.-" Wa'sl," said she,
young man, I'll tell you how twas. When
was little gal lived in family where there
was an old maid, who, in going up stairs to bed,
naa TO go through an entryway where there WAS
pile ofpotatoes in one corner, and she used to
make me go and cover EN- up with blanket
before she went by EN-, for fear they'd see her,
cause they had eyes. Wa'al, thinks |, if old
maids Is like that, won't be one, nohow. So
you see, as soon as got old enough, like fool,
Invent and got married.
The Shasta courier., 1859-01-15
BEAUTY.

"What is beauty? not the show
Of shapely limbs and features? No.
These are but flowers,
That have their dated hours
To breathe their momentary sweets, then go.
'Tis the stainless soul within,
That outshines the fairest skim
The Shasta courier., 1859-01-15
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.
Volume Fourteen begins September a. 1858.
MECHANICS, INVENTORS, MANUFACTURERS, AN
FARMERS

MECHANICS, INVENTORS, MANUFACTURERS, AND
FARMERS.
The ScIENEIYIo AMERICAN has reached its
fourteenth year, and will enter upon a new Vol
ume on the llth of September 1t is the only
weekly publication of the kind now issued in
this country and it has very extensive circula-
ton in all the States of the Union. 1t is not, as
some might suppose from its title, a dry abstruse
work on technical science; on the contrary it
so deals with the great events going on in the
scientific, mechanical and industrial worlds as
to please and instruct every one If the Me-
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II lAe inventor wishes to know what is going on
IN the way OF improTements-if the Manufac-
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the Man OF Leisure and Study wishes to keep
himseh familiar with the progress made in the
chemcal laboratory, or in the construction of
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efs' and a thousand other machines and appli-
ances, ooth OF peace and war-all these desiaer-
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and not etsechers. They are here presented in a
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comprehension of minds unlearned in the higher
branches of science and art.
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Letters should be directed to
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ss2s~ How the universal heart of man biesses
no~e's They are wreathed round the cradle,
he marriage-altar and the tomb. The Cunid
o. o. the ancient Hindoos tipped his arrows with
mowers, and orange flowers are bridal crown
win 9sIa nation of yesterday. Flowers gar
Anueu 'ae Grecian altar, and hung in votive
Nrea'hs before the Christian shrine.FNrs Child
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Useful and Beautiful.

The tomb of Moses is unknown; but the trav-
eler slakes his thirst at the well of Jacob. The
gorgeous palace of the wealthiest and wisest of
monarchs, with the cedar, and gold, and ivory,
and even the great temple of Jerusalem, halow-
ed by the visible glory of the Deity himself, are
gone, but Solomons reservoirs are as perfect as
ever. Of the ancient architecture Of the Holy
City, not one stone is left upon another; but the
pool of Bethesda commands the pilgrims rever-
ence at the present day. The columns of Per-
sopolis are mouldering into dust; but its cis-
terms and acqueducts remain to challenge our
admiration. The golden house of Nero is mass
of ruins; but the Aqua Claudia still pours into
Rome its limpd streams. The Temple of the
Sun, at Tadmore, in the wilderness, has fallen ;
but its fountains sparkle freshly in his rays
as when thousands of worshippers thronged its
lofty colonades. 1t may be that London will
share the same fate of Babylon, and nothing be
left to mark its site, save mounds of crumbling
brick work. The Thames will continue to flow
as it does now. And if any work of art should
rise over the deep ocean of time, we may well
believe that it will be neither palace nor tenn
pie, but some vast acqueduct or reservoir and
II any name should flash through the mist of an
tiquity it will probably be that of man who,
IN his day, sought the happiness of his fellow
man rather than their glory, and linked his
name to some great work Of national utility and
benevolence. This is the true glory which out
llves all others, and shines with undying lustre
from generation to generation, imparting to the
work some OF its Immortality, and in some de-
gree reseuing them from the ruin which over
taxes the ordinary monuments of historical ira
dition, or mere magnifcence.-Ed Edin5arg Rsuiesr.
The Shasta courier., 1859-01-15

The SPIRIT OF '76.-When the news of the
iall OF Iiconderoga reached Exeter. Lanrdon,
who was the Speaker of the Provincial Legisla-
sure OF New Hampshire, then in session. seeing
the public credit exhausted, rose and said
nave thousand dollars in hard money; will
Piedge my plate Tor three thousand more; have
seventy hogshead of Tobago rum, which will he
sold for the most that it will bring. These are
at the service of the State. If we succeed in
defending our fresides and homes, NAV be re-
muneratedi if we do not, then the property will
be Of no value TO me. Our friend Stark. who so
nobly maintained the honor of our State at Bum
ker Hill, may safely be entrusted with the honor
of the enterprise, and we will check the progress
Of Burgoyne."
1t is well known that from this noble offer
sprang that gallant little army of Stark's, tha;
covered itself with glory at Bennington. These
were the deeds that make our history venerable
and consecrated the Revolution.
The Shasta courier., 1859-01-15
TEAS! TEASl TEASi

lust RECEIVED AND FOR SALE,
y Choice Young Hyson Tea,
Superior Black Tea, in lib baskets
Breakfast Tea, in Glib papers.
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