The Shasta courier., 1859-10-29


tor of the Beacon of his self-assumed ermine, and
convinced him that to hang calfs skin upon
those rccreant limbs would be more appropri-
ate. He grows angry, and essays the role of the
man in the prison dock In his defence he at
tempts to be very severe, by quoting upon US the
language that we used in reference to himself a
few weeks ago. Pshaw Fisher, when you at
tempt sarcasm, why don't you be original at
least. If you are what Ferguson, now dead,
would call scallawag, exhibit some brains
For weeks you have been making a charge
against us, which we have time and again pro-
nounced falsehood. You said reliable men
said the charge was true. We told you those
reliable men lied. In reply to this you nor your
informants said a word. And now, the very first
charge we made against you, upon the evidence
of third parties, causes you to grow as mad and
senseess as an inebriated fool, and to call oul
authority "thread-bare authority"
Pray what but thread bare authority was thai
upon which you charged US with having insult.
ed Gov. Weller while addressing an audience il
Shasta? 1t was monstrous lie-sublime il
the simplicity of its nakedness. And yet yot
have never in any manner informed your read
ers that you had been led into an error by thir(
parties.
For ourself We rejoice to learn that Colone
Lewis had nothing to do with the assaults upol
US that have from time to time appeared in tn
Beacon. Had we not been informed that~bsEsi
all probability, was the author of them, we as
sure the editor of the Beacon they would no
have been replied to. 1t is not our habit " t.
hawk after larks and sparrows," because W
long since were taught by Locke that that sor
of amusement was exceedingly proftless.
SAD.-Under the appropriate heading will b
found recorded the decease of two very interest
| ing children of Mr.. Jonathan Allen, of Whisk
Greek. They both died within a period les
than week, and of the same disease, Blood
/ Flux. Truly this is a sad affliction After
time, however, when the poignancy of thci
grief shall have become somewhat ltssened, tn
parents of little " Charlie and Katie" ma
draw consolation from the thought that they ar
angels in Heaven!
! There is no flock, however watched and tended
! But one dead lamb is there
There is no fresde, howsoeer defended,
But has one vacant chair
The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And MORNINGS for the dead
| The heart of Rachel for her children CRYING
VIII not be comfortedl
Let US be patient these severe Affections
Not from the ground arise,
But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.
We see but dimly through the mists and yapors
Amid these earthly damps
What seem to US but dim funereal tapers
May be heavens distant lamps.
There is no death what seems so is transition
This life Of Mortal breath
Is but suburb of life elysian,
Whose portal we call Death.
BSg- In speaking of the filling of the Senate.
rial vacancy by the Governor, the Placer Heralo
says;
d" A sound, national Democrat will be sure tc
be appointed, and none other. This much we
can say for certainty, as Gov. Weller has nc
sympathy with any other kind"
The Herald, we presume, had not, when he
wrote the foregoing, seen the numbers OF the
Standard and Marysville Express, wherein the
announcement was made that Gov. Weller had
just appointed n. A. II. Ball. a Black Republi-
can, to office Only few months ago Mr.. Ball
when a candidate for Office at the hands of the
people, stated that he might be induced to vote
for an Anti-Lecompton Democrat, but for Le-
cOmDtou Democrat never