The Shasta courier., 1860-03-10
rh. Beacon and the Courier:

TIL. R>aeon complains that we "spt fire and
brimstonep every time it " makes mention of our
no,;,;csl sntecedents." The Beacon is mistaken.
We simply hit it when it misrepresents our po-
litical sntecedents. But why "make mention OF
on, no,;,;cal antecedents ~ The Beacon editor
has frequently confessed that the Courier was
sound Democratic paper, and working In the
sam. cause with the Beacon. Why then try to
cripule it, BY repeating a charge which we have
time and time and time again denied, and which
the columns of the Courier prove untrue2 1t
looks like the result of personal malevolence,
and vet the simplicity of the article in the last
BEACON would indicate that the writer is labor
inn under a delusion. Witness the annexed
paragraph:
Nov We have intimated that the aforesaid pa
mar hn, ,porked outside of the pale of the Demo-
cratic Church. If the Marysvlle Democrat is
now and has been for the last year and half
d. .imon-pure, regular Democratic paper, and
acknowledged as such by majority of the party
in California then the Courier has been one
likewise And if the Democrat ever went against
the party, and did it an injury, then so did the
Courier And all we ask, to prove our assertion,
is the lone of file of the Courier for '58 and 49,
and II we cannot make our dSStTtlOHS BOOu, we
will acknowledge that we have made false
charges against Mr.. Dosh.
Now every Democrat in Shasta county knows
that the Courier never did work outside of the
pale of the regular Democratic Church" Judge
Hinckley former coadjutor of the Beacon, now
alternate delegate to the Black Republican Con-
yention-endeavole ed to make that appear, and,
.bo
Democrats of this county would not believe it
The Marysville Democrat has opposed the Admin
istration with great earnestness from the COM
mancement of the Kansas split. 1t opposes it
just as fearlessly to-day. The Democrat sustain
ed the cause of the boilers in 1858 and 1859
In 1858 it opposed the Democratic ticket-Bald-
win and Meloney-in 1859 it opposed the ticket
headed by Milton s. Latham. On the other
hand the Courier never has uttered harsh word
of James Buchanan or his administration. The
Courier did sustain the position assumed by
Douglas on the presentation of the Lecompton
Constitution, but it endorsed the English Bill as
a fair compromise of that vexed question. The
Courier in 1858 supported the regular Democrat
ic ticket-Baldwin and Meloney. The Courier
in 1859 supported the ticket headed by Milton
s. Latham, and the editor stumped good por-
ton of the county for it. In fact-and the wri-
ter in the Beacon ought to and does know it to be
true-the Courier has never faltered in support
Of the regular organization and its nominees
Hence when men say that it has faltered, we
pronounce the charge, in good old Saxon, lie.
nl g.
is funny one for an editor. We have almost
daily use for our files as the Beacon editor ought
. to know. Why not pay US a visit? Wen look
through our files with you. Or why not author
ize the witnesses you have named against us
Judge Landrum and'Mr. Dreibelbis-to examine
our files for you? Well render them every ia
cility. But says the Beacon:
If he will not send US his file, we can refer
him to a number of the best citizens, and ablest
Democrats, in his own county, TO prove what
we have stated, and among them such men as
Ex-Sheriff Drebelbs, Judge Landrum, and a
number of others.
Now we do not believe that Judge Landrum or
Mr. Dreibelbis ever authorized the Beacon to
make any such reference. We do not believe
that either of these gentlemen ever told the ed
itor that the Courier had % made upon the
Administration" We do not believe that either
of these gentlemen ever did or could utter a
slander so foul, falsehood so black. Let the
editor of the Beacon produce the evidence Of has
,ritne,,es Both of them hostile toward
Douglas We are an ardent admirer of that
great Democrat Both of them might have said
we "opposed the Administration" before the
adoption of the English Bill They might have
said so under the influence of excitement or an
GER But neither of them, we venture to assert,
will now say that we ever " made war upon the
Administration" Judge Landrum will bear
witness that, in the last canvass, we did what
few other Democrats did, stumped the county
for the ticket We have speut more time and
money in the cause of the Democracy than any
other man in Shasta county-and never bolted
On the 10th of July, 1858, we characterized
the same charge'in strong language. We then
said, and here repeat, that
ANY intimation that the Courier is Tor ever
has been1 an anti-Administralion paper, come
from trh0t ii may, we here and now pro-
nounce q He,"
taken for truth reports be heard on the street
We are inclined to the opinion that he has
heretofore believed them. Henceforth he shall
have no excuse in our eyes for giving them cre-
dence. We pronounce them false, wholly and
in part-our files are free to any one for exam
fnation, and will prove that We utter the truth
In pronouncing the charges untrue.
Has- 1t appears that the richest quartz leads
yet found are near Jacksonville Oregon. A
company at that place have produced from $50
pounds of quartz, 44o ounces of gold, worth Sic
per ounce, or $1,000 and that they crushed it
all in one day with a single arastra, driven by
mule; that two men took out from the lode
in one day, quartz valued at $4,000; that it
pays $40 to the pound, etc. That beats Washoe
A Prominent CANDIDATE FOR REPUBLICAN Ho-
soRs.-A private letter received by the last
mail, says the National, mentions that Mr.. Pen
nington, of Jew Jersey, Speaker of the United
States House of Representatives, will be likely
to be the choice OF the Chicago Convention for
President.
EUROPEAN AFFAIRs.-The indications now
are that the Poue of Rome will shortlv be en-