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Daily national Democrat., 1860-11-08

HoRRBLE AFFAIR ~ TEXAs-LyNcuIyG
CASE At Bee TREE. The following statement
All ears in theiNayarro (Texas) Express of the
18th ut, without any explanation of the
cause of the terrible tragedy:
" On Tuesday morning, the 2d inst, four
respectable citizens of this county, all mem
bers of our County Court, were found hung
in the public square of this town. Various
are the conjectures as to the cause of this un-
fortunate affair We presume, however
that it was owing to the fact that they were
members of the County Court In saying
this. We must here enter our declaration that
we know Of no conduct of theirs which de-
served such a severe penalty. 1t is thought
that the presence of the Chief Justice could
have saved them from this fate. AS we will
hereafter speak more Of this matter, we
withhold comment, until further develop
ments shall put us in possession of all the
facts connected with the melancholy affair" ="
Daily national Democrat., 1860-11-08

If We may credit the statements floating
through the English papers, the pleuro pneu
monia epidemic, which created such panic
among our New England farmers, has exten-
ded into England. One journal states that
Mr.. A. Barbarie, who was sent to England
from New Brunswick TO purchase and trans
NIT stock to that province, has returned with
out bringing any neat stock. He found that
the p euro pneumonia was so prevalent
throughout England, Scotland and Ireland
that 1T was dangerous to attempt to transport
cattle to the port of embarkation.-PI
deLphia Press.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-11-08

CouNrERFelTs.-The Trinity Journal states
that large amounts of spurious coin are in
circulation in that county.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-11-08
The Days THAT are No More.
FROM TENNYsoN's PRINCESS. ,.

Tears, idle tears, we know not what they mean.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair,
Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumu-ields,
And thinking Of the days that are no more
Fresh as the first beam ghttcring on sail.
That brings our friends up from the underworld.
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge; 4;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more
All, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns.
The earliest pipe of halawaken'd birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The easement slowly growsa gIimmering square,
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others deep as love.
Leep as first love, and wild with all regret;
o Death IN Life, the days that are no more
Daily national Democrat., 1860-11-08

PAC1FIC TELEGRAPH MATTERS, Pho. AND
CoN.-Alr Wade one of the managing Direc-
tors of the West ern Union Line, leaves New
ork on the llth of November for San Fran
cisco, upon business connected with the im-
mediate commencement of the Pacific Tele-
graph line. Mr. Wade carries with him the
strongest testimonials of character as a re-
sponsible contractor and a reliable gentle
gentlemen, and as he has a large pecuniary
interest personally involved in the matter,
and speaks likewise for the Stebbins line,
running vest from this city, whatever he
says may be relied uTon. Mr. Creighton, the
engineer, so TO speak, or builder employed
TO run the wires to Fort Kearney, as well as
to Fort Smith is now on bis way to this city
en- roHte for Salt Lake, whittier he goes in
company with brother of C. NJ. Stebbins,
to contrnct for telegraph poles, as has been
before stated, to aid the early prosecution of
the Overland Telegraph in the Spring. The
Northern route is accordingly fixed fact,
and may be regarded as settled
The Democrat Of yesterday has a long ar
ticle in relation to the Los Angeles line
pushing forward Immediately to Fort Yuma,
and eastward along the valley of the CHA to
connect with the Stebbins lne, which will be
extended TO sherman, Texas, as soon as assu-
ldhCta are ildu IllHb Iue wires Will 90 uD to
the Colorado river No new statements are
made which have not already been forward
ed to oCalifornia, and the article is rather an
attempt to show that the Southern route will
he auNiliary, if not the most important main
line to California than TO introduce any fresh
information. Already the wires are up with
in few miles Of Fort Kearuey, and possibly
telegram may overtake this letter on It's
way 10y the Pony Express, to tell the news
OF the completion of the work While the
Pony Express continues to run regularly the
Fort Kearney and Carson Valley line has
great advantage, but. as the croakers say,
Just wait till the storms in the Platte Val
ley commence, and then away will go your
Fort Kearney telegram like reed before
the wind Well, we shall soon know the
result OF the experiment. Meanwhile, tie
wires to Fort Smith work splendidly, and
the repairs hardly equal an eight of the ex-
pense for the same thing in the line to Omaha
Nebraska Territory.-St. LogiS cor. Atta
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22
Written for the Courier.
Politics

Ny heart is sick to mark and mix
With these vile tricks,
And lying schemes of politics
That monster form, whose homes the storm,
Who waves her arm
To fan the red fires fierce and warm;
Beneath whose reign, her sordid train
Loose every chain
That checks the lust of place and gain
Whose every heart knows we'll its part,
With treacherous art
To launch tie venom-p pointed DART
And with wide and endless tide
OF words, to hide
Truth stained and dimmed, yet scarce denied
As round they press, with fond caress
She stoops to bless
Her chosen, Fraud and Drunkenness.
And at her call o'erbearing all,
The murderous brawl
Bathes with red drink her lips of gall.
She makes her haunt where ruffians faunt
Mid souls who vaunt
No faith binds them, nor shame can dauntl
Afar, from hence, her foes she scents,
And on them vents
Her hell endowed maleyolence
And here secure of refuge sure,
With fatal lure
She snares, then rends her prey-the pure.
Thou ul-breathed ghoul, to each tr-e soul.
Than thy control,
Better the cord, the knife, the bowl.
Oh Freedom. can thy glorious plan
Of Hope to Man
Thrive, with this demon in its van
Oh Reason strong to thee belong
These cheats-this thong
That drives like senseless herds, the throng
Oh lovely land, whose future grand
Fills thine own hand,
Canst thou and this together stand?
BRUTUs.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22
An English Lady Married to a Bedoui
Chief.

Hadji, the Syrian correspondent of the Boston
Traveller, gives an account of the freaks of an
English lady Of rank and beauty who has lately
become the wife of Bedoun Chief:
AT the hotel of Mr.. Rarey found a most sim
gular specimen of the English woman, who
seems to emulate the character of the famous
and once powerful Lady Hester Stanhope known
as Lady Digby; she excites the mirth and ridi-
cule of the natives, but the wife of Sheikh
Mignil-the Bedouin Chief of Damascus-she
wields powerful influence among the Bedouins
of the desert. Possessed of an ample fortune
Lady Ellenborough, once the favorite of the
Court of st. James, and after her fall and di-
vorce the wife of a Russian nobleman, and then
of Greek Prince, established herself at
Damascus few years ago. Here she prevailed
upon a noted Bedouin Chief to put away his
wives and live with her. They spend their win
terS in town and their summers in the desert
where she visits the old wives of the Sheikh
with her many and beautiful presents, to ap-
pease their wrath and jealousy. She has fire.
quently been seen in the DESERT habited in the
one loose robe of the children of the sandy
waste, barefooted and bareheaded. In Damas-
Gus she wears the long white sheet, which COW
ers her figure, and lives in good English STYLE,
still retaining the luxures of civilized life, and
a French maid. Her constant attendance upon
protestant worship, when in town, gives travel
ers frequent opportunities of seeing her and
being majestic woman in appearance, and still
retaining traces of wondrous beauty, she always
excites attention and inquiry. hear that she
has lately had her marriage with the Shekh le-
galized by the Cadi of Damascus, and recorded
in the British Consulate. Her lord and master
for in this country a husband is emp phatically
a " lord OF creation"-possesses nothing either
in face or figure to attract a woman of culti-
vated taste. Small in stature, darker than
muatto, with small, piercing black eyes, and
walking with the swaggeAaR gait of the Be-
douin, he dlsappoinls every She who sees him
for one would naturally expect to see some
thing in the appearance of the man which would
account for this singular freak of an English
lady of rank and fortune, in choosing for her.
self husbard from among the rude sons of the
desert. But such expectations are far from be-
ing met at sight of this most inferior specimen of
the Bedouin race. This interesting couple are
now on their way to Europe, where Lady Ell
lenborongh hopes to educate and civilize her
tawny spouse.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22

ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.-A gentleman ofNew
Orleans was on board the ill-fated steamer
Arctic, when she got lost on the 9th of Septem-
Der, 1854. The sad news reached here that he
was among the missing, and cast gloom in his
household, for he had famly-a young and
pretty wife and child. He was we'll to do in
the world, and left property sufficient for their
maintenance. The young widow mourned Eer
lost husband sincerely, doubtless, but sorrow is
not everlasting, and as the long years rolled
past, the mourning weeds disappeared, the roses
on her cheeks bloomed again, and smiles played
on her rosy lips. She was young and pretty,
and suffers were not wanting.
Several years of quiet bliss have passed since
the day she took a new companion in life, and
now, suddenly, the electric spark of the tee-
graph flying with the speed of lightning, has
struck the ediice OF her happiness-struck at
its base, so as to make it totter and crumble. A
dispatch from the Balize, received yesterday,
announced the arrival of the long-lost first hus-
band. Cliuging to some piece of the wreck, he
had foated to a distant shore, where Tor six
long years he lived with the hope of greeting
once more the beloved ones he had left at home,
but unable TO fud homeward bound vessel.
We hope to obtain some particulars concern
ing his Crusoe-like life, aud Of the many hard
ships he must have suifered-aIl of which dwin-
die into mere nothingness at the thought of the
disappointment that awaits him on bis arrival
home. The feelings of the twice welded wife
may be better imagined than described.-N. o,
Paper.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22
SPECIAL NOTICE.

.-F Hem al kable Cure OF fCOnsumptlOns-e
The almost miraculous cure that has been ef-
fected in my case, prompts me to impart to those
OF my fellow creatures who may be suffering
from like afflicton, the source of relief, with a
short description ofmy case. Several years ago
my health began to fail. | was attacked by gen.
eral debility, which reduced me to the mere
shadow of my former self. At that stage l
sought medical assistance, and expended large
amounts, but without the least beneficial result.
That fell destroyer, Consumption, had already
seized upon my vitals. | was daily drawing
closer to my tomb; my physicians held out no
hope of recovery; my strength had wasted, and
was in state of almost utter prostration.
was informed by my physicians that they could
do nothing for me except to smooth my path to
the grave, when most fortunately, l applied to
DR.. l.. j. Czapkay, and am now well and per-
fectly sound man. 1t is difficult for me to ex-
press the emotions of deepest gratitude expert
ence when realizing the immeasurable service
have received at the hands of DR.. CZapkay, and
feel reJoiced that it is at least in my power to
tender this feeble recognition of his great skill
and capacity. To the afflicted | would say, do
not despair, for whatever may be the nature Of
your case, am confident that you will find re-
lief by applying to DR.. l.. J. Czapkay. "There
is a balm in Gilead, and there is a physician
there" IT,. S. HENRY WESSLING.
subscribed ana sworn 10 De1Ore me- tnlS lotn
day of October A. d. 1859. City and county
of San Francisco, in the State of California.
S. F. J. THIBAULT, Notary Public.
The undersigned is personally acquainted with
Henry Wessling, and knows that the circum-
stances related in the foregoing certificate are
true. He saw Henry Wessling during his ILL
ness, and bears willing testimony to the fact of
his remarkable cure by DR.. L. J. Czapkay
l.. S. A. ROSENHEIM.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th
day of October, A. D. 1859. City and county
of San Francisco in the State of California.
L. S. F. j. THlBAULT, Notary Public.
DIR. L. J. CZAPKAY'S Private Medical and
Surgical Institute is ON Sacramento street, be-
low Montgomery, opposite the Pacific Mail
Steamship Companys Office, San Francisco
The Doctor offers free consultations and asks no
remuneration unless he effects cure. Office
hours from 9 A. NJ. to 9 r.. M. ml7:3m
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22

RULES FOR SLEEP-laPaovEMENr ON Dr. HALL.
list. As soon as you are, in Bed have Bridget
hand the wash bowl to you Then place it i'm
mediately beneath the small of your back,
and you will Immediately sink into calm
slumber. 1t should not remain in that position
long enough to produce stupor.
I'd. Try to think of something you can't re-
member; the more you can't think of it, the
sleepier you will get.
Sd. Let John or Phineas pour ice water down
the sleeve OF your shirt for an hour or two,
while he holds lump of asafetida to your
nose.
4th. Count two millions slowly and deibe-
rately. You will certainly be asleep before you
have counted that number.
5th. Hold wire against the nerve OF your
tenderest tooth. This is infallible-patent ap-
piled for.
9Th Have your back gently smoothed with
curry comb.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22

sG5- few days ago. says the Mariposa Ga
zette, we came in possession of the original let
ter which Buchanan directed to Queen Victo-
ria, as well as the answer of the Queen, and we
give them in full
Dear Friend!-I learn from the papers that
you intend to send your oldest boy from Lon
don to America. Tell him to call on me in
Washington; | wish to see that gay boy
There are fine girls in America, too, and they
will not charge as much for favors received, as
the London beauty did. Ny compliments to
Albert. Let US hear from you soon.
Your old friend, BUCHANAN l.
Old Fsllow!- My boy will certainly call on
you. bought him expressly a new suit of
clothes for that purpose; but in regard to the
female sex, wish to keep him of, because in
ashington-well, you know, and there is
such number of lads ruined and miserable
for life time. If be should be shor. Of cash By
his arrival let him have few dollars Albert
is well, and so are all the nine young ones. !
hope shall.hear from you before you leave the
White House, because afterward there can be
no more correspondence between US.
Yours, Vic
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22

No COMPLIMENTS IN PRAYER.-We have heard
some prayers which were designed to affect the
hearer rather than to reach heaven. The fol-
lowing characteristic anecdote of John Randolph
is keen rebuke of the practice:
In ore OF his spells of repentance and sickness
he was :isited by a minister, who, at his re-
quest. prayed for and with him. The minister
began in this wise " Lord, our friend is sick
Thou knowest bow generous he was to the poor,
what eminent services he has rendered to his
country, and how he is among the honored and
great of the earth
"Stopl' said the impatient Randolph, " no
more of such stuff, else the Lord will damn us
BOTH
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22
Ey- Sam Slick says-Yes, YES. natur bal

EkS- Sam Slick says-Yes, yes, natur bal
ances all things admirably, and has put the
sexes and every individual of each on a par
Them as have more than their share of one thing
commonly have less of another. When there is
great strength there amt apt to be much gump-
tion- A handsome man, in general way,
amt much of a man. A beautiful bird seldom
sings. fellow with one idea grows rich,
while he whU'calls him fool dies poor. The
world is like baked meat pie; the upper crust
is rich, dry and puffy; the lower crust is heavy,
deughy and underdone; the middle is not bad
generally but the smallest part OF all is that
which Aavors the whole
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22

ACQUIRING KSowLEDGE OF CIvILIzArIoS.-A
carriage was stopped below Rough and Ready,
on Sunday last, by an Indian, who presented a
United States musket in due form, and demand
ed two bits of the astonshed traveller. The
team, being unused to such sudden demands,
tooA fright and ran some distance, not giving
the excursionist time to parley with the " abo-
rig me- MS to whether he would not take bit
AMI say no more about it. This bold but un-
successful attempt at highway robbery shows
tlat the aborigines are becoming somewhat
.-Naraaq Journal
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22

soE- Several of the principal Kingdoms of
Africa are IN full reyolu,ion. Theodore /, En-
peror of Abyssinia, who but a short time ago
was all powerful, has met with great reverses,
and has lost various of the provinces be lately
acquired. Negousi-Nikas, his adversary, has
regained the upper hand. The King of Darfour
has been ousted by "a band of Maugrabins, and
IS now wanderer on the confines of his former
territories, making every possible effort to es-
cape the pursuit of his enemies
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22
Publishing their Infamy.
The Breckenridge papers are publishing a
article commencing thus:

The Breckenridge papers are publishing an
article commencing thus:
"There were nine candidates for the Presi-
dency before the Charleston Convention, to wit
Hunter, Guthrie, Douglas. Dickinson, Lane,
Toucy, Davis, johnson of Tennessee, and Pearce
of Maryland.
They have expressed their preference and
stand as follows: For Breckinridge, all save
DouglAs-or eight for Breckenridge against one
for Douglas.-Coun]
These Breckinriige sheets intend this article
as piece of deadly sarcasm at Douglas ex-
pense When it is remembered, however, that
all of these gentlemen, for tro long days, at
Charleston. and through fiy-eight ballots, exhib-
tied thorough willingness to acceptths nomination
upon the rery platform on uhich Douglas nom
stands, it will be seen that the sarcasm rebounds
with crushing effect upon the heads of the said
eight" who are now boiling the nomination
of Douglas upon the professed ground that bis
platform is not Democratic enough We are
surprised to see party papers thus publishing to
the world the infamy of their own friends. Men
who consider platform Democratic as long as
they have chance to be nominated upon it,
and then pronounce it bad when they fail to get
n nomination upon it, are not fit to be held up
as worthy of imitation. Rather than vaunt their
disgrace, their friends should cover them with
the mantle of charity against the shafts of en-
bittered enemies
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22

n@- I'm fiatteredT drawled fop to a
young lady, who was praising the beauty of his
mousiache.
/" For goodness sake, rna'an," iaterposed an
old lady don't make the monkey any fat,er
than be is now
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22
CAUTION.

Owing to the unexampled demand for these
Bitters, some unprincipled parties haze ndea-
vored to counterfeit them. The genuine RO-
SENBAUM have the name of N. B. JACOBS &
CO. branded on each cork, and their signature
on each label. Beware, also, of worthless
article, called Rosencht's Bitters, put up in this
city. Its external appearance is very much like
the true Rosenbaum, but it is useless as a rem
edial agent, and has only been got up to prey on
the reputation attained by Rosenbaum's Bitters.
N. B. JACOBS & CO.,
Corner Sansome and Commercial sts.,
mrlO:6m San Francisco.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22

H@- In the " first circles" no one speaks of
perspiring any more. What was once called
sweating" and recently perspiring,n is now
Suffering diminution Of the tissues Of eysto-
ration"
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22

Worse AND WoRsE.-We have been informed
State Convention was really l54, instead of 100,
as stated elsewhere When the proposition to
assess the delegates So each was made, Mr.
Moulder, of Sacramento, said " We have, ac-
cupyng seats on this floor, less than t,oo hundred
members" and he wanted each vote assessed So.
Their Committee on Credentials itself reported
lo3 proxies in Convention where 349 delegates
we're entitled to vote. But then that Committee
reported a full Siskiyou delegation present,
when DR.. Sorrell alone was there OUT of the u
delegates. Gen. Josh Haven had eight proxies
instead of one, and Kewen had eight proxies
from Los Angeles. The Shasta and Trinity DEL
egations were also set down as being present
when the fact is that not more than half dele
cations were present. So that in truth there
were but ls5 delegates present in person at the
Breckenridge State Conventi9n, which, to be
full, should have contained 359l
On the other hand, the Douglas Convention
was also entitled to a representation of $50 del
egates from all the counties. The Committee
on Credentials reported 354 delegates entitled to
votes, of which number % were proxes-mak-
ing 33l delegates in actual attendance, OF l36
more than were present at the Breckenridge Con-
venton. And not one Of them was a Federal
stipendiary, while over one-thrd of the Breck-
inridge Convention were dependent upon Fed
eral pap for their daily subsistence. Democrats,
look on these two pictures
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22

rG John asked Julia if shs would have him
NO, .eid she, al will not have you . but be-
Ere John could recover from the shock, she
Achly put in, but you may have me.n
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22
Notice.

A LII PERSONS having claims against the es-
n tate of Matilda Miranda, deceased, are
hereby notified to present the same to the un-
dersigned, at his place of business, in the town
of Shasta, within ten months from the second
day Of March last past, otherwise such claims,
if any, win be waived
Il. 4. BENTLY,
Administrator Of the estate Of said Matilda
Miranda, deceased.
Shasta, May !, 1860 m5:9m
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22
SHASTA COURIER.

~ L. P. FISHERS the only Agent of the
SHASTA COURIER in San Francisco, with power
to receive subscriptions and advertisements
therefor, and receipt for the same.
OFFICE-l7l3 Washington street, opposite
Maguire's Opera House.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-22

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