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The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09
A POEM.
Ny CARIN. SHASTA

My CABIN, SHASTA Co.. April g. 1852
MY FRIENDS Il was sitting in my cabin last
night, feeling particularly blue "The old time
came over me" and was indulging in the plea
SAINT "reminiscences of joyous youth never to re-
turn fully realizing "what am, . and vividly re-
memberipg "what used to was," must confess
that felt very much az did my Dutch friend
when he exclaimed, 81 chust leaf lif as .ie.n-
While in the midst of thoughts as to which was
the easiest Il hate pain) way to "put out this
light" in came my jolly companion, Jim, with
the last copy of the COURIER. grabbed at it
eagerly, read it ravenously, and straightway felt
an inclination to continue the daily occupation
of eating slap-jacks, boiled beans and old horse
for few weeks or months longer In this plea
SAINT state of feeling picked up my pen and
dashed off the following soyereignest remedy
on earth for Z brised" spirit.
fla happy man you'd be,
You must read the Courier,
If the weekly news you'd see,
{ou must read the Courier
Why don't you take the Courier?
o, won't you take the Courier?
The joys of mirth
Are little worth
Unless you take the Courier, MINER
That's so, But we think this version of the
old song decidedly more to the point;
If q happy man you'd be,
You must pay the Printer;
liza happy man you'd see,
Go and pay the Printer.
Why don't you pay the Printer?
o, won't you pay the Printer?
The joys of Heaven
Are never given
To those who cheat the Printer
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09
COUNTY DIRECTORY
County Officers.

NOuEIty U1NCVFS.
District Judge-William p Daingerfeld, oil
Shasta
County Judge-Joel 7. Landrum
Associate Justices-J. r. Durick and Thomas
Bass.
County Treasurer-James Hayburn.
County Clerk-H. l. Vanhorp.
iSksrff-H. Clay Stockton Under Sheriff
John Dent.
-ounty Assessor-W. II. Angel.
County .Surueyor-E. Linn
Public dnainistrator-Benjamin Swasey.
District Auorney-James D. Mix.
School Commissioner-G. X. Godfrey.
County PhysicidR-Dr James f. Pelham
Board of Superrisors.-lst District, Jno A
Dreibelbis; I'd District, William B. Stod.
dart Sd District, D. c. Johnson
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Township Officers.

SHASTA TowNsHIp.--Justices of the Peace-J
r. Durick, and Jmes Keene. Constables-
mas J. Flynn, Joseph NJ Short.
CLEAR CREEK Observation-Disclosures William
knowlton, James NJ. Eby. Constables-J. W
Gardner, D. Wilder
FRENCH GULcH TOWNSHIP Justices NJ
Mcdonald Constable-William Davis.
SIERRA Observation-Disclosures. D. Baker, D
o. Stevenson. Constables-Stephen Park, Jo-
sepd Meyer.
PITr RIVER TowNsHIp- Justices Thomas
Bass, A. R. McColum. Constables-Daniel G.
Hunt, - Stanley.
SUGAR LOAF TOWNSHIP P-Justices-Jos. Nc.
Mann, S. F. Southern. Constables-William
9.ytle, David Reams
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

The GRAND JURY SYsTEM.-Mr. Anderson s
bill to remodel the grand jury SYSTEM has finally
passed both houses, with amendments, provid-
ing that the nRmber of a grand jury shall be
sixteen, and that not less than twelve shall find
bill of Indictment This is some improvement
upon the old laws, though by no means as bene-
ficial as the original bill would have BEEN
Grand juries are simply grand humbugs, and if
they could be abolished edconstitutionally, it would
be great benefit to the States f. Herald
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Not SO Bad After All.

We are apt to be little frightened at f..
statement that Mr.. Duchanan's Administration
has cost upwards of eighty millions of dollars
during the past year, which is many millions
more than the Government ever cost before for
the like period. Yet what is Eighty Millions for
the annual public service of such a nation as
this? "a pittance, a contemplate penny-fee." !"
Says John Mitchell, of the Southern Citizen, in
letter to friend in Ireland
Compare it with the revenue and expenditure
of England at this moment; which amounts to
Ttco Hundred and Serenity Million Dollars per an
nam-not counting lndia-and not counting the
enormous tithes and endowments of the estab-
lished church, and the county taxation in name
of grand-jury cess, and the poor-rates; all
which added together, may make a matter of
Two hundred millions more and your popula-
ton only equal to ours and post-office sys-
tenn of neat cabinet size, bearing the same rela-
ton to ours that well-laid out garden with
gravelled walks, bears to vast continent of for
est, cane-brake and prairie, gashed with canons,
ribbed with snowy sierras.
Taking our Federal, State and City Taxation
all together, we pay, man for man, much less
than one half what you pay. The President OF
the United States lives upon salary that would
not keep the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in wine
to say nothing of Prince Albert's yachts and
horses. The Ministers and great officers of State
here are expected to keep open house for all de-
mocratic mankind, upon salaries that an English
Secretary of State could afford to give his clerk
The Judges of the Supreme Court, (the most
august tribunal on this continent, and as l be-
lieve, on earth,) receive salary about equal to
that of a chairman of quarter sessions in one oi
the good counties of Ireland, salary which il
you were to offer to one of the Judges on Inns
Quay, his whalebone wig would stand on end
with horror and disgust: name such pttance
to the Archbishop OF Armagh, and he will teal
his lawn sleeves and dance upon his shovel-hat
with rage mot to mention his Grace of Dur
ham, and the rest Of that thrice-accursed gang
| of holy men,
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

INDIAN ToSGUE.-In conversing with the in
terpreter on the Nome Lackee Reservation, our
curiosity led us to inquire the meaning of the
name by which the Reservation was called. He
informed us that Lackee meant lingo or tongue.
Thus, Wi-Lackee means the northern tongue,
Nome Lackee the western tongue, &c. Yolo
Bolly is the name given to high snowy noun
tain lying back of the reserve-.S f. National.
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

Rs~ A letter from Pert aa Prince, dated Jan.
26, reports stories of unheard-of barbarites per-
petrated by Soulouque, as in circulation on the
island. In one dungeon, where the floor was
below the level of the sea- the skeletons of 1900
State prisoners were feundi Rather steep,
that.
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

MOUNT VEsUvIUs.-This volcano is said to be
cracking and opening at all parts from the base
to the smmit Small craters are forming all
over it, and it is feared that another such catas
trophe that which engulphed Pompeii and
Hercuianeum may at any moment occur.
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

ANNE LAuRIE."-sIr. Robert Chambers says
the verses of this song, which are in style won
derfully tender and chaste for their age, were
written by Mr.. Douglas of Findland, upon An
ME, cne of the four daughters Of Sir Robert
Laurie first Raronnt of Maxweltan, by his sec
ond wife, who was daughter Of Riddle OF Mlnto.
As Sir Robert was createda Raronet in the year
1855. It is probable that the verses were COM
posed about the end of the 7ih century. 1t is
painful to record that, notwithstanding the ar
den. and chiyalrous affection displayed by Mr.
Douglas in his poem, he did not obtain the he
roine for a wife; she was married to Mr.. Fergu-
SON Of Craigdarrech.
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

Bss~ All the pending bills for the organzatio9
of new Territories failed, including that for Ne
vada CT Carson Valley. Its defeat is ascribed
to Speaker Orr, who would not give the floor to
the member having it in charge.
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How He Cor THE M1TrEN.-The editor of the
Yreka Union-now most incorrigible bachelor
once related how he fell in love and got the
item" which accounts for the milk in the
cocoa NUT If we had been served that way,
we, too, would now be hard swearing bachelor
we, too, would have emigrated to Oregon for
! time, or at least done what is almost as bad
committed suicide. We pity Brown, we do
upon our soul we pity the poor fellow. But let
the possessor of the petrified heart and frozen
affections tell the tale in his own fecitous style:
We were never kind reader, " desperately in
love" but once, and that was with a red-no,
" auburn"-hared girl, with freckled COM
pleXion, and who had bat few pretensions to
beauty; but then she had such really beautiful
eyes-deep liquid orbs, through which her soul
in moments OF tenderness looked out with pas
sionate fervor and in joyous mirth flashed and
sparkled with the light of thousand-dew
drops-diamonds we were going to say; but
then we never saw a thousand diamonds Her
name was Laura--which when breathed softly
by very soft lover, is avery sweet name-and
her clear ringing laugh fell all around you like
a shower of silver bells. Moreover she wore
dark wine-coored dress, trimmed with lilac-co-
lored velvet and black fringe, with a neat little
white collar of fine lace, which is one of the
prettiest of dresses, and has the effect to make
very plain girl look absolutely charming. She
never perforated her ears to hang thereby pen
dulum of brass and glass; and the only ornament
on the little white hand, which needed none,
was plain gold ring sacred to the memory of
maiden promise. Well, one evenng-it was
moonlight in the summer time-we sat alone in
the porch by the door, holding that little white
hand in gentle pressure one arm had stolen
around her waist, and silent song of Joy, like
the " music of the night" was in our soul. Our
lips met in sweet delicious kiss, and bending
softly to her ear we whispered a tale of passion
ate devotion-we proposed" and--the Uttered
headed rizen refused us
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TOWER HOUSE.
At the junction of the YreEa and Vea
verviIfe Roads, 12 Miles from Shasta.

4,!sfs4A THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD AN
niH8 nounce to the public, and particularly
- to persons travelling to and from Yreka,
and Weaverville, that, having leased this long
established stand, formerly known as the q Free
Bridge House" he is prepared to entertain Gus
TONERS in style not surpassed by any hotel in
Northern California
Having completed his commodious building,
and furnished it in the best possible manner, he
is enable to promise the very best aceommoda-
tions
The Table, as heretofore, will always be sup
piled with the best viands the market furnishes:
while from the large garden attached to the
premises, all the vegetables grown in this part OF
the State will be furnished in the greatest album
dance.
He has also secure CORRAL connected
with his establishment, always supplied with an
abundance of Barley and Hay
LEVI II. TOWER.
Tower House, March l, 1854. mh1I-tf
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CAN'T Do lT.-Judge Creanor has decided that
School Land Warrants cannot be located on
mineral lands so as to prevent miners from work.
ing the mines
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Special Notices.
YOUNG MEMS, LIBRARY AsOCIA.

u YOUNG MENS' LIBRARY ASOCIA-
tion. This Association viii meet on Thursday
evening of each week, at s o'clock, tof the
transaction of general business Rooms-in
Tomlinson's Building, over Wells, Fargo & Co.
open to members at all hours
(. n. BRICEEAND, President.
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

BsS~ Mrs. Ann Wilds, thirteen years eff age,
and married but five weeks, was recently burn
ed to death IN Sonoma. Her dress caught from
one lighted shayings.
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

| A CHEAP Hor BED.-The following directions
for the construction of hot bed, are given by
the Louisville Journal:
Throw out the soil the size you wish your hot
beds, to the depth of ten or twelve inches, and
fill it up even With the surface with fresh man.
ure from the horse stable (cow manure won't
do,) and tramp it we'll down with your feet and,
if the manure should contain good deal of dry
straw or hay, it will be better to make it pretty
moist with water then make your frame of
boards just large enough to rest upon the edges
of the soil around the manure; let the back, or
north side, be from 4 to Is inches high, and the
front about inches less, SO as to drain off the
water and expose the surface to the rays of the
sun ; cover the manure with two or three inches
Of light soil--leaf mould from the woods is best,
rs that contains no weed seeds-iet the whole
stand secured from the rain for few days be-
fore sowing your seeds. In the meantime make
your frame of light stuff large enough to project
about an inch on all sides. Get some common,
unbleached domestic and tack on tightly to the
outer edge of the frame then get some linseed
oil and give your canvass good coat or two,
put on with brush, ana let it dry well before
covering the bed. The oil renders the canvas
opaque, so that while there is an abundance of
light there is no need of shield from the sun
later in the season, as with glass.
This is cheap, simple, and will last, if taken
care of, several years, and any family of three
four persons will be more than paid for all the
expense of making the first year.
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

The LIE FIlEs.-The Southern Citizen Of Feb.
18th, published at Washington City, says:
chinese camp near Shasta has been attack
ed by whites, aud their whole property DESTROY
ed. Many Chinese were badly hurt but none
killed.
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

WELL DoyE FOR FRANK CLEvELAND.-We heard
the other day, says the Grass Valley National, OF
circumstance which transpired during the
down trip of the Nevada and Grass Valley stage.
The stage contained as passengers, lady and
her child, and thing in the shape of man.
When the stage stopped at Sands (half-way
house, the thing, keeper of the Bed Rock Sa-
loon, at Nevada, got out to drink and invited
Frank Cleveland. the driver, to drink with him.
After the imbibHation, Frank, as is bis custom.
went to the stage to collect his fare from the
lady; and found her crying she said the fellow
had insulted her, and that when she CHANGED
her seat the fellow changed his, and insulted
her again. Frank then went into the bar-roon,
where the thing stood by the stove. and Knocked
him over-upsetting the stove. On LEAVING
Sands the fellow was put outside with the dri.
yer, and little distance from the house he con-
cluded to get even, aad pitched into Frank. F.
knocked the fellow off the box and left him with
a sore head to exercise himself on walk back
to Nevada
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

sNnwgum SHASTA CHAPTER ORR. A. MA
sZNr sons, No. 9-The regular semi-monthly
s1DSss Meetings held at Masonic Hail every I'd
and 4th Tuesday.
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

THE WOMEN OF CAPRI, ITALY.-fts women,
says Miss Kavanagh, arc, after ALL the most beau-
tiful pieces Of antiquity which Capri possesses,
Truly the blood of the Greek has come down to
them undefled. l never saw in all Italy such
lovely creatures, They are tall and stately, yet
exqusitely graceful, with pure eval faces, dark
eyes, soft and downcast, and sweet dignity in
their aspect and their bearing that made them
look to me like SO many virgin queens. could
not think with patience of the comments had
heard on the so-called messalliance of the two
English gentlemen who married Capri girls
Women like those we are ladies, for their
beauty is not mere beauty of form and color, IL
is the perfection of womanhood. They may be
peasants, they may be ignorant but rude or rui-
gar ttrey cannot be, with such noble, intellectual
faces. Was Nausica the less princess for wastS
ing her fathers linen? For ypart, locked at
them and became a sudden convert to the tho
ory of races had already seen, two years be-
fore, Agrippina, Faustina, Mossalina, and other
Roman Empresses, revived, under the aspect of
Roman girls; but these before ne were the
daughters of an earlier and nobler race than
the Roman. Theseus, Ajax, Agamemnon-ths
most heroic of men-HeieE, Briseis-the lowell
est of women-wsre the progenitors Of the wo.
men of Capri.
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

a WESTERN STAR LODGE, No.
~M~ 2, of F. Il A. NJ, meets every Saturday
AE evening. Stated meetings on the Sat-
v urday Evening next preceding the Full
Noon
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

CLEAR CREEK LODGE, NO. 60, meet
every Thursday Evening in Spencer's Hall, at
Horsetown. Joseph Clough, N. g.; Thomas
Connolly, Rec. Secretary.
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Eo GR. GD> -.

Eo GRo 0D~ H.
..ssssYsx. SHASTA LODGE, NO. 81,
sCSE Meets every Monday Evening at Odd
7S>zsasss Fellows Hall, in Wills and Youngs
Building. All visiting brothers are
cordially invited to attend. Geo. r. Knox, P.G.;
]. E. Pelham, N G.; George R. Gushing, Re-
coriinp Secretary.
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.,. SHASTA ENCAMPMENT, NO. II,
T:-Y I. 0. O. +. F.-Regular Meetings on the End
AHT and 4th Wednesdays of each month.
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Times of Holding Courts

NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
SHAsrA-Third Mondays in January, May and
September
SIsKYoU-First Mondays in March, July and
November.
TRINtTY-Second Mondays in April, August
and December.
Shasta County Courts.
Held 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 nav
determine.
BOARD OF SUPERyIsoRs-Meet 1st Mondays in
May, August November and February.
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A Monster.

On the 3Oth ult, Capt, Pendleton, of the bark
Sarah Parker, just arrived, brought on shore and
placed under the charge of the United States
Marshal, two sailors, named John Thompson and
William Johnson, charged with larceny on the
high seas, in stealing some biscuit. They sta
ted that they stole the biscuit to keep from
starving. The mate confirmed their tale The
Herald thus describes them:
Haggard want and unutterable misery, looked
from eyes that had almost lost all Speculation :"
Their bony frames seemed ready to rattle in
their loose and faccid skins. Hunger and gaunt
| starvation stared from every lineament. The
wrists of one wretched victim had been excori-
| oted by the long-worn manacles, while his hands
were puffed and swollen by the tightness of the
irons. The back of the other man-if the cow
ering, shivering, half demented being, could be
called man-was scanned with cruel stripes
that had wept thick gouts of blood at every lash
| The closely stubbed welts were nearly black
with crusted gore, and, still more horrible to
relate, had been stepped in safest brine.
Another man, driven to entire distraction and
loss of mind by cruel treatment at the hands Of
Captain Pendleton, was still on board the bark
| Another had been SO badly whipped during the
voyage, that suffering nature succumbed under
the infliction, and his body had been given to
| the waves
This monster, we are glad to say, got caught
in his own trap. So soon as the officers saw his
victims, they arrested the monster, and the U
S. District Court sent him to prison in default
of $4,000 bail. He should be hung, if the
l trua
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

WoMAY's PowER.-John MITCHELL in his South
ern Citizen, after denouncing the growing power
and splendor of the Federal Capital; after ut
tering maledictions upon the vast blocks of
granite and marble which now cucumber the
streets-all of which he thinks serve to postpone
the consummaton of his darling, but unhallow-
ed and traitorous scheme, to wit, the dissolution
ofthe Union, thus alludes to another and fairer
and lofelier, though much more dangerous and,
it may be, a much more corrupting power:p
But women also-it wounds nay chiYalrous
politeness to say it-are an engine and organ of
Federal corruption and Despotism, still more
dreadful than mart lie palaces. You know how
reckless in al matters of money-how innocent
of political economy-how nsanely fond of
marble halls and all manner of gorgeous extrav-
agance, is that dangerous and designing SEX
Southern ladies reign supreme in Washington :
if Northern policy prevailsin the Senate, South
ern beauty queens it in the drawing rooms and
its will is to sway, not district, but hemis-
phere. One of these imperial Washington Beau
ties desires to feel that the whole unbounded
continent is hers she shrinks from the thought
ofa new Federal Capital for the Southern States
at Tuskakee, Alabama. Insomuch that, besides
all other dangers and malign influences our lib
critics are exposed to that same peril which over
threw Beranger's Repu6hque-
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

FRENCH GULCH LODGE, NO. as, meet
every Saturday Evening. VIM. B. Stoddardt
n. G.; VIM. Watson, Secretary.
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09

ESy WILLIAM NJ. ALLEN, R. w. G. W.,
and D. D. G. A.-Residence, Horsetown.
The Shasta courier., 1859-04-09
Ellie veut regner; elle est belle
Cen est felt de Ia Liberte

1t Isl form of political corruption and villainy
for which have more indulgence than any 9TH
er; and there are women here who might al
most make any man National Democrat or
what is worse, a fool.
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= fubhcation Office in Loag's Building, on Main
street, where all Orders for Advertising and Job
Work should be left.
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THE
SHASTA COURIER

SAM. H. DosH, ARcs1s.rn sr,rtu.x
Edators and Proprietors.
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for one Year, SO 90
I" Six Months, 90
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NEW YORK MARKET-July ]


Flour-Marke dull unsettled, and l57Oc lower. Sale
4sOO bbs at IS bOas675 for sup States Sb7SGS6 for eI
Sate IS 80 So IS for super 5,ISGi 10 for common
good extra sn; 6S5O for old, aud S6d6 % for tresl
ground shipping bands extra Isurd hoop Ohio CLOSING
hravy.
1tys Flour--Cl net Mt LON@475, sales 800 bis.
Mhrui-null and .d6clulug. Sales " bus AZ boi9OC
for unsOund Milwaukee Club l5 so for choice red
IS for white weste and o5 for new red south
Com-Eacer Sales 80 900 bus at s6as7H for now m I'd
20 for unound white southern, 81 yellow southern
$500 ~ round yellow
Nye-UnGhanged. Sales at s8(uSlc,
BlTiey-Quiet
4SlSl for Canadian
Whisky lower Sales 100 hhls at 21c,
POrk-Oull aud dropping Sues stO bhls AZ elbVUtlb8t
m sac thn moss $3.50 clear, Sl7 @9S7 primo mess
Bssf-unchd Sales go bbls at S85Od7 fr prime SIO9
Sl3 rspuoksd Chicago S4a650 for cAtTa Prime mes
beef nominal at Sis0S2l.
Beef hauis are held VI l4(0lT 80.
BaOou-Duli and nOmnaly unchanged Shles 2h0O teree
baggtd hams at llH.
saed shoulders; 7A@Ts{ for hand some picked do sass
for dry halted hams
Lard-Heavy. Sales 400 bbls at IOAar. Small lots o
choice at IN
Rauer-Gbl; ll9l5 for Ohio; lsals for sue
Cherse-tdsitC
Tallow-Bnm sales 1000 lbs al lOX9u