The Shasta courier., 1859-05-28
A Miracle! A Miracle !--Sudden COnver-
sion!
TEXAS SPRINGS, May %, 1859.

TEXAS SPRINGS, May %, 1859.
EDITORS COURIER A few nights ago the usu-
al quiet of little town was disturbed by
many strange and hideous noises, coming from
the direction of Townsend's Flat On making
inquiries next morning, | was told that the gen.
tlemen who plead so long and earnestly for their
long tailed brethren at the Shasta Miners
Convention" who drafted and acted under the
Briggsvile resolutions, had actually risen against
their Celestial brethren-that having enough OF
their society, and being sick of their bargain
they had landed a number of the yellow rascals
on the ether side of Clear Creek. But the &C.
lestals preferring the society of their advocates
would not remain I" on the other side of Jor-
dan" and at evening returned to their old camp
on Townsend's Flat. But the gallant gentlemen
of the Stockton posse comitdtus notoriety charged
on them in the most gallant manner, in the same
way that they charged en- those six miners at
Middletown, on the first Of March last. But
this time they were successful, and managed to
arrest a number of the Chinese, whom they i'm
Psisoned for the night and, next morning start
cd them TO the other side of Clear Creek
threatening them, in case they returned, that
they would fog them severely, and cut their
cues Off
Now, which is the most humane way for the
miners to act--to give them time to settle their
affairs, and furnish them with wagons to haul
their goods, as the miners did on the first Of
March, or to make them leave without one mo-
mcnts notce-without giving them time to re-
iliove their goods or settle their affairs? as the
snen of Townseud's Flat have done-the very
iaen who were SO dcsrous of putting down the
pners at all hazards-wno called on Humanity,
Gov. Weller and Sheriff Stockton to shoot down
the miners for doing what they themselves have
since donel Where is Col. Lewis? Where is
Sheriff Stockton and his posse contatus2 ? Where
are Gov. Weller's bloody dispatches and where
are them one hundred and thirteen guns ~
Why does not Stockton fulfill the pledge which
he made in Excelsior Hall, that lie would enforce
the laws while he was Sheriff? Where is Well
ler's that the laws should be enforced while
he was Governor, let it cost what blood it might?
The truth of the matter is, that the white mi
ners on Townsend's Flat have had their tail
races and sluice boxes robbed a number of times
since the first Of March. Matters have gone so
G.s- that all the white miners have been compell-
ed to watch their claims at night to prevent
them being pillaged. They endured this until
forbearance ceased to be virtue, and then see
ing their in having the Chinese among
them, they rose aud" john was obliged to
trayei. ENDIcAToR
p. s. Since writing the above, telegraphic
dispatch has arrived at Ilorsetown from Cover
nor Weller, stating that he accepts the cannon
and mortar which the citizens of that town do
mated to tho State-wishes to have them put in
order for active service, as he is determined not
80 let IL lousy miner live in Shasta county, more
particularly on Townsends Flat, as he considers
she white mners who reside there to be arch
traitors, because while they were first to profess
loyalty, they are the first to rebel. V.