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WEAVERVILLE, CALI,
Saturday Morning, June 4. 1859.
LATE EASTERN EVENTS, BY OVERLAND MAIL
The southern overland mail arrived at San Fran
cisco on Saturday, with st. Louis dates to May
5th-thus anticipating the news by the steamer
now due.
A report prevailed in London, thai another at
tempt had been made to take Napoleon's life.
India is tranquil, at present. Secretary CaSs was
dangerously i'll. The opposition to democracy
have carried Philadelphia by $500 majority. The
receipts of the Treasury for the quarter ending
April lst was about S22 100000 the expendi-
lures nearly SlS,O00000.
DOES Look DANGERoUS,-T Morning CdN
thinks if fourteen prisoners, during the very first
week of the return to the contract system, can
secrcte tools, cut through the walls and scale the
outworks of the prison. but short time will
elapse before the State will again be overrun
with this vermu. They will come forth from
their prison perfectly organized bandtti, and
rapinn and death will mark their progress through
our State The Bav papers almost universally
condemn McCauley for reducing the prison guard
to onc-tourth the number formerly employed
That State prison is a nuisance.
Why Nor THE n Y. Tribune thinks that in
case a woman discovers her husband in adultery
she should be entitled to the prcrogative OF shoot
ing, throat cutting, etc, as much as her "liege
lord" under similar circumstances. A Buffalo
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argument would open a door which il would be
difficult to shut, and remarks "What terrible
carnage there would be in the land, If every NO.
man should turn her own avenger, and slay all
the husbands who have been guilty Of that
crime
A CALIFORNIA TowN.-Visalia, down in Tularc
county, must be brisk place, considering the
following statement, made by a correspondent Of
the San Francisco Times:
"Thcre are twelve lawyers in the pl CO, and
they wear revolvers in court. Recently the Board
fol Supervisors met, and were so drunk that they
! adjourned. Next morning it was the same, and
! finally they staid in town aweek before they were
sober enough to do the business of the county
All these things, and many others equally hard.
are related upon the road and in the town itself
DOUGLAS IN THE SourH.-Tbe following rcso-
lntons were passed at democratic meeting held
at Cohawbo, Dallas county, Ala, on the 10th of
April;
Reso1ped That we utterly ropudiate Stephen a.
Douglas and his abolition hereev that terrific
rial legislature may prohibit slavery by native
legislation.
Resolved, That undcr no circumstances viii we
support stephen A. Dnugas for the Presidency
if nominated by the Charleston Convention.
MIGnr HAVE RENN GovERNon.-The Morysville
Democrat thinks Weller might have been the next
California Governor, had he avowed himself a
friend of Douglas, and identified himself with
the Douglas party, and says: "TIe had the CON
fdcnce of the masses and he had the men who
would work for him. As it is now, he has dis
gustcd his able and influential supporters, and is
cast aside by those at whose instgation he did
what he did"
THEM PEsKY MEN."-A correspondent Of the
Vincennes SIM, writing from Olney, small vii
lage in Illinois says
81 asked an old lady of the church, in conf.
dcncr if she really thought a 'dis-virinons wo-
man would become virtuous by joining the
church?' She jerked her cap border, adjusted
hea specs, and said 80 Yes, If the resky men will
let her alone I! and believe she is right"
THE Nevada .N'oGonoI observes From one
of our exchanges, we hear Of little one as hav-
ing first seen the light of this wicked world in a
stage between San Antonio and San Jose.
We very well remember being on a New York
& Erie railroad train on the occasion OF a similar
advent. and being requested, with some forty
others, by conductor Ayres, to go out and help
"wood up
CELESTIAL" LELLY.--A little girl of Mariposa,
whose parents were absent, was lately brutally
injured by Chinaman. on the road from Stockton
to Mariposa A Mr. Martin, the girls brother
in.aw, was directed to the spot 10y the cries Of
the child, and seeing at glance what villany
had been done, snznd club and beat the China
mans head into Jelly.
WE'VE got lot Of wood cuts, received at diff
ferent times from advertisers OF patent medicines.
They generally represent men anljc with scnr-
w, tooihachc. St Vitas dance and other "p"rcn-
ial disorders" Candidates are desired to look at
the assortment. and if they would like to have
their cards illustrated it can be done at low
rate.-Mniposa G0zeae.
CAMP MEETING IS srsKYor.-The Methodists
of Siskyou county are to hold a camp meeting
commencing June 18th, in Scott's Valley, mid
way between Orc Fino and Etna Mills Rev. T.
Thomas, of the Christian Adr0cate and other Cal
ffornia and Oregon ministers will be present.
THE "TEsT" THE Sierra Democrat says
"The test of Lecomptonism is did you vote
our ticket .ast fall" In Sacramento, Melony's
vote was the basis Of the apportionment. Ia
Calaveras, the requirement was having voted for
Brush the deftulting Treasurer"
THE San Francisco National says that Swift
Co. have started an express from Petaluma to
Weaverville, direct II is stated that this route
is from 60 TO so miles shorter than any other
Travelled route.
THE London News tells Of two persons now
performing in that city Howe and Cushing, who
used TO be trappers in San Francisco Those