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The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15
SINGULAR FREAKS OF INSANITY tho Foe,

SINGULAR FREAKS OF INSANITY tho Fact
ern Lnnatic Asylum in Lexington, Kentucky,
are several very anomalous cases of insanity.-
lhere is one man who talks perfectly rational
on every subject except the room he occupies.
tie declares his room is half mile lonp and
only SIX inches between the floor and ceiling
There is another man who appears to be sane
on every topic bat one. He insists that be is
the true legitimate Sultan of Turkey. Another
inmate converses with nationality upop all sub.
Jee'S OUT politics. He declares not only that
hentucky will vote for Breckenridge, but that
he VIII be the next President of the United
States.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15
Tuesday, the 18th inst.

SUPERVISOR DISTRICT, No 3.-Delegates from
Fort Crook, Harrilrs Mill, Buckeye, Churntown,
Fort Reading, Oak Run, McMurtrys Ferry, Fall
River, Sierra, North Cow Greek, and Lockhart's
will meet at Buckeye, and nominate one candi-
date for Supervisor, and Justices and Consta-
bles for their respective townships.
SHASTA TowNsHIP.-The delegates from Mid
dletown, Whisky Geek, Canon House, Mad Ok
Lower Springs, Spring Greek and Shasta, are
requested to meet in. Charter Oak Hall, Shasta
at l l o'clock, A. NJ, to nominate one Supervisor
and two Justices and two Constables.
FRESea GULoa TowNsHTP.-The delegates will
meet at French Gulch to nominate two Justices
and two Constabes.
CLEAR CREEK Observation-Disclosures will NEE
at Horsetown to nominate two Justices and tive
Constables.
CoTToNwooD TowSsHIP-Delegates viii mee
at American Ranch to nominate two Justice:
and two Constables
FELIX TRACY, Chairman.
]. W. GARDEN, Sec.
Sept. lst, 1860
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

G. W. PArRIck.-This gentleman was one of
our delegates to the National Convention We
observe that he was nominated as one Of the
candidates for Assemblyman by the Tuolumne
Breckenridge Convention.
We are here reminded of duty we owe that
gentleman. Some weeks since, seeing it stated
in the Sacramento Bee, we think-that he had
receivedia Federal appointment in connection
with Indian affairs in this State, we penred a
paragraph in relation thereto We are now
satisfied that Capt. Patrick never received any
such appointment, nos sought any official posi-
ton at the hands Of the Administration. We
are glad to make this statement, which we do
the more readily, because we had always con-
sidered and do now consider him an honorable
and unpurchasable man. He, however, will
himself admit, that, had he under the circum-
stances accepted an office at the hands of the
Administration, as did Uncle John Dreibelbis.
he would have been proper object for just such
squibs as the one in which we, to our present
great regret, done a wrong to an honest man
himself
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

HsH.The Boilers State Convention was pre-.
sided over by two old wind-galIed, spawned.
broken down political hacks and Federal ex-
stipendiaries-old Tom Henley and. JOHN B.
Weller. Federal ofice-hol controlled the
Convention We venture the assertion, from
our knowledge of the names, that Federal sti-
pendiaries and those dependent upon them, cast
at least one hundred votes in that Convention.
The amount of proxies therein reported was
frightful, some Federal office holders holding
as many as five and six. And yet the number
must have been double as great as given. For
instance, Siskiyou and Shasta are reported
present with full delegations-2O votes-when
the truth is, we presume, that one half that
number was not present
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

LARGE YIELD.-Maj. P. B. Reading has fn-
ished threshing his wheat and barley crops He
informs US that his wheat yielded 45 bushels to
the acre, and his barley 70 bushels to the acre
the barley weighing 55 lbs. to the bushel-
These crops were produced on land that has
been under cultivation for the past thirteen
years-Sacramento river bottom land We are
inclined to the opinion that these yields of Shas-
ia farming lands have not been surpassed by
those of any other county in the State.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

ssG~ Gov. Letcher, of Virginia, supports
Douglas of course. He couldn't bolt the repu
lar nominee of the Democracy if he were to
try and when he tries to do it, prepare your
" ascension robes everybody, for Gabriers
horn viii be heard footing over these golden
hills shortly thereafter, sure. The last Pony
brings the report that Senator Hunter was
stumping the State for Douglas. Doubtful.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

REMEMBER The delegates to the late Doug
las Democratic County Convention, from the
lst and Sd Supervisor districts, respectively
meet at Shasta and Buckeye, on Tuesday next
the 18th inst, for the purpose of nominating
candidates for Supervisor of said districts, and
Justices and Constables of their several town
sbins
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15
No SHOW FOR LrNcoLy.-The TeIeoranb q

No SHOW FOR LNcoLN.-The Telegraph an
nounces the arrival of the Pony, and news that
the Republican party has been rent asunder by
the straight-outs nominating Gerrett Smith, of
New York, for President, and Mcfarland, of
Pennsylvania, for Vice President. The dispatch
does not state whether Seward supports Abra-
ham Lincoln or Gerrett Smith
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

SUPPOSED MuRDERERs ARREsTED.-Itis is report-
cd that Brown and Coffin, the supposed muir
derers oil the dead man recently found near
Horsetowr, are under arrest in Yuba county for
burglary. If so we trust they will be made to
answer to the charge OF having perpetrated this
higher crime.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

GlLNoURs BILLIARD SALOON FOR SALE.-Mr.
Gilmour offers for sale bis entire establishment,
together with his private dwelling and furni-
ture See advertisement
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15
led BLurF LIVERY SrABLEs.-Our old towr.

RED BLuFF LIVERY STABLEs.-Our old towns
man, Bill High, long of the Shasta n Centre
Stables" has purchased into the ''Salem Sta
bles and Corrals;" Red Bluff In connection
with the livery business, he has also established
sales stable. Packers, teamsters and farmers
are referred to his advertisement
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

HEUsToN, HASTINGS Il Cove direct the at
tention of traders to this great Sacramento
clothing firm. Their advertisement will be
found in another column. Persons visiting Sac
ramento and desiring to purchase new clothes,
will, if they seek the best goods at the cheapest
rates, visit the immense establishment of Heus-
ton, Hastings Il Co., corner J and Second sts.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15
Judicial District Convention.

The delegates elected at the late Democratic
County Convention to attend a District Conven-
tior, to nominate a candidate for District Judge
are hereby notified that the District Convention
will be held at Trinity Centre, on
Tuesday, the 18th inst,
at o'clock, P. NJ.
FELIX TRACY,
Chairman of Central Committee
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

oNhATh' boARDMAS x Co.-Northern traders
are referred to the advertisement of this exten-
siye Red Bluff firm. They announce their abil
ity TO sell goods at such prices as will save
northern traders the time, trouble and expense
of visiting San Francisco. Of course traders
will not fail to avail themselves of so profitable
an advantage
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

AceUIrTED.-Dr. Stone, tried at Jackson, Am
ado county, for the murder of Asscmblyman
'ohn = Bell, last winter, in the capitol, was ac
suited on the llth inst.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

dSaJ. J. Taylor, of Sacramento, desires in
formation as to the whereabouts of his brother,
Edwin Taylor, formerly of Yorkshire, Englan
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15
DEMOCRATIC NOTICE.

The delegates to the late Democratic County
Convention from the various precincts, are re-
quested to meet at their respective places, and
for the several purposes named below on
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

Eas- man by the name of Fraser-who was
pensioner for life for his heroic bravery in Or
egon during the Indian war, was shot and killed
at Fort Churchill, Carson Valley, on the 9th
inst, by James Dawson, m emigrant from Ben
ton county, Missouri. Dawson was honorably
acquitted. Fraser was q Virginian.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15
Both Sides.

recent address of the Breckinridge National
Central Committee, over the signature of l..
Stevens, says:
consider the spectacle presented to US by
the Democratic and Douglas candidates for the
fresidency. Mr.. Breckinridge has retired to
MS quiet home in Kentucky, there calmly and
Win dignity TO await the verdict of the people.
MT. douglas is trayersing the country, especially
IN the North and East, dosing out the panacea
OF oquatter Sovereignty as a remedy for all
ms appealing to the higher law and endeav-
oring, with the magic of his words and his pres
ence, to caJole the people to his support. In
this he will miserably fail. In the c<alted posi-
tion of President of the United States the peo.
pie VIII exact something more than the qualities
OF mountebank."
Now we ask every fair-minded man-we do
not mean the Breckinridge disputants, who
think 1t improper to admit anything against
their side in an argument, even though it be
that two and two added together make four
whether if il is proper for Mr.. Buchanan, in
cumbent ofthe Presidential chair, to make stump
speeches from the windows of the White
House" it is improper for Mr. Douglas. candi-
date for Presidential honors, to make speeches
through the country?
After they answer this question: we then re-
quest them to say, whether, if their National
Central Committee is justified in pronouncing
Douglas " mountebank" because he is trayers-
ing the country in obedience to the demands of
his party, they should not also denounce Mr.
Breckinridge as q mountebank,n who did also
in obedience 10 the solicitation of his supporters
deliver stump speech at Lexington on the 9Th
of the present month?
And then, after they have disposed of these
two questions, we respectfully solicit reply to
this other query, to wit: Ought not men who
live in glass houses to be particularly careful
not to project the first stone2
WHAT LIE.-A recent Douglas demonstra-
tion at Springfield, Illinois, was estimated even
by the opposition to number 40 900 people. Abe
Lincoln himself said it was the largest assem-
blage he had ever witneseed.s subsequently a.
Lincoln gathering was had at the same place.
and which, Republican authority says, number
ed about four times as many as the recent
Douglas demonstration" That is to saw. the
crowd numbered ,o00l Truly huge num-
Der but hTger lie.
RICH POPULATION to the CEN
sus returns, Tehama county has population of
1900, who have 7s0 houses, ard are worth
4,l25,o9o, or about 81 ,O06 each. We predict
the people OF Tehama county will be found TO
be the richest people in the State, taken as a
whole.
BeAs Slanders, issuing from red and beautiful
lips, are like foul spiders crawling from the
bluslsing heart of rose.
gsrThe Rome (Ga.) Southerner predicts the
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

s-F Man can get Along without Ad.
vertising, and so can a wagon wheel without
Hucks & Lambert's Axle Grease-but it goes
hard. jl2s:3m
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

BeA, Slanders, issuing from red and beautiful
lips, are like foul spiders crawling from the
bluslsing heart of a rose.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

Be1- See advertisement of thirteen Bactrian
Camels for sale in San Francisco.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

rR MRS. WINSLOw, an experienced
Nurse and Female Physician, has Soothing
Syrup for children teething, which greatly fa-
cilitates the process of teething, by softening
the gums, reducing all inflammation-will allay
all pain, and is sure to regulate the bowels. De-
pend upon it, mothers, it will give rest to your
selves and relief and health to your infants
Perfectly safe in all cases. See advertisement
in another column. aul8
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15

gSy-The Rome (Ga.) Southerner predicts the
election of Douglas, though opposed to him.
The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15
BIRTHS

In Shasta, on the 18th inst, the wife of N,
Maher, of son.
In Horsetown, on the I4th inst. the wife of
VIM. Wiel, of daughter.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-09

RALPH FARNHAM.-Mr. Ralph Farnham,
the Bunker Hill hero, writes to the Boston
papers of his safe arrival at his home in
Acton, Maine. He thus sums up the causes
which have contributed toward his attain.
ing so great age:
"Though l am in my 1O5th year, am
not past all usefulness. | split my own
kindling- wood, and build my own fires.
am the first one up in the morning, and
the first one in bed at night. l never
sleep or lay down in the daytime, but rise
at five and retire at seven o'clock-and this
I continue Summer and Winter. 1 have
always been temperate, and for over thirty
years past l have not tasted drop of spiri-
tuous liquors, or even cider. I was never
sick in my life so as to require the attend
ance of a physician. About twenty-five
years ago l broke my thigh by falling on
the ice, and had doctor to set it, but this
is the only time doctor ever attended me.
I live on plain farmers diet-drink tea and
coffee, and eat very light supper, never
eating meat at supper. have no doubt it
is owing to these abstemious and regular
habits, and the avoidance of medicine at all
little ailments, that my life has been so pro-
longed. voted for Gen. Washington for
President, and have voted at every Presi-
Dental election since; and hope to vote at
the next election. This is the duty of every
Christian freeman" ,.o,,
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-09
THE WORLD MOVES.

= HOAX me WORLD 0OvE0s
8 The New York Herald thinks so, and re-
fers to the following curious points in the
last steamers news: .tafo7,y g..
l. Universal suffrage is given to the people
of Naples. They are requested to vote by bal.
lot, yea or nay, upon the question Of union
of all the Italian States, with Victor Emauel az
constitutional king. - 1' ''l
2. A serious proposition is made to the Pope
to sell out or commute. An attempt is beng
made to carry out About's idea Of palace and
garden for the Holy Father. srrE esc
3. One of the old Bourbons writes to the
London Times and claims the throne of Spain
A Bourboun appealing to the world through q
free press is one of the wonders of the age.
4 4. Garibaldi takes q railway train as con.
veyance to the scene where he fights against
another Bourboun, and opposes Colts revol
yer to the old fashioned stiletto. r" 't
Truly, as Galileo said, the world does
move. The European people are evidently
preparing to follow our example and to set
up in the business of government on Their
own account. They certainly cannot make
a worse hand of it than the hereditary des.
pots who have oppressed them so long. Lei
US hope that they will do much better.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-09
The Royal Dance in New York.

The New York Methodist discusses the
reception of the Prince of Wales. 1t pro-
nounces Albert Edward himself "a strik-
ing example Of the negative virtue of pru-
dence," since be has not dropped, during his
sojourn among us, "a single bright saying
to be chronicled by the greedy press" nor
said anything to make us blush for himself
or bis Royal mother. Then it says:
As to the ball ITSELF considered as q
transpired fact, monk could scarcely wish
it a greater failure. The enchantment of
music, and flowers, and fashion, is broken
by the falling of the floor; the crowd
is 80 great as to make dancing al
most impossible, coarse aspect of reality
and business is given to the whole affair by
the official presence of stifened age, and
bald and gray experience; and it may be
considered certain that such thing will
never be attempted again. But there is
another aspect of the affair which is not so
easily disposed of. Things which are minute
in themselves, are often mighty and far
reaching in their influence. Leading menu
bers of the churches, of all the churches,
perhaps, have attended ball and thus given
their sanction in the highest possible form.
Ministers of the gospel of several different
denominations, men who ought to be the
nearest representative of the Saviour of
sinners were there, as if to give the sane.
ton of Christ's authority to the most mons
trous earthly vanity. What now becomes
of wholesome Christian discipline? What
becomes of the line so clearly drawn by
Christ between the Church and the World?
What of bis command to deny ourselves of
all ungodliness and worldle lust, and live
soberly, righteously and godly in this evil
world ? May the Holy Spirit himself inter-
vene to restore the broken bulwarks of sa-
cred discipline, and 10 trace again the fading
line between the aggressive World and the
invaded Church
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-09
dy; and that would be pretty high. Our

dy; and that would be pretty high. Our
government now costs one hundred millions
in its administration we have, say, thirty.
three millions of people this is three mil.
lions of dollars to one million of people, as
it now stands in the Union. When out oil
it, the amount required would be treble that
sum and let it be remembered that in this
estimate there is no account taken of foreign
taxes, &c. 1t is only for general purposes,
as nation. rtaa1L5
Suppose, however, it all does not exceed
the sum of six millions annually what is
the per centage of taxation Let US see.
The taxable wealth of the State is about
100000, 900; if she has to raise six mil
lions on that, it is just one per cent, or 81
on every 800 worth of property! The
present tax is not one-fourth of that.
Do our readers believe the good people oil
Mississippi are going into this absurd dis
union movement, only to pay more taxes
Will any other good come out of it, even
If that be regarded as one? 1t is idle to
think of it. The masses have too much at
stake, and too much intelligence, to risk
such consequences. The Union is safe."
We extract the annexed paragraph from
the Mount Sterling (Ky) Wing:
We learn that on Saturday night a mob
of thirty or forty negroes assembled at Ca.
MARCO, with flags and clubs, paradiug the
streets, hurrahing for Lincoln, and daring
any white man to interfere with them, in
Guiding the supposed ringleader, boy be-.
longing to WELLESLEY Orear, ESQ.,, the same
who, it will be remembered, stabbed a boy
of Wilson Maupin's last fall. The affair
will, of course, be vigorously inquired into,
and the particlpators properly punished.
There is, as far as we learn, no occasion for
alarm; but we wish to take this opportu-
nifty to express our disapprobation of the
infammatory appeals made at public meet
ings upon the Slavery question; they are
productive of no good, but may be of in
calculable harm. 1t is not long since we
heard a Democratic orator assert that the
Republican party wanted to elect Lincoln
in order to set all the negroes free. What
reason had any negro within hearing to
doubt it? Every white man present knew
better the negroes are the only ones to be
affected. If any serious trouble should
grow out of this affair, those who have
needlessly and foolishly made assertions of
that nature, and thereby led the negroes to
believe what is untrue, and what, even if it
were true, they should not know, are the
ones who should be held responsible.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-09
Politics i'm tho Money Market.

The anxiety of monied men as to the
coming election. has had marked effect
upon the stock market. The N. Y. Time.
of Saturday last, says:
We have had another day of extreme excite.
ment III the stock market, with further de.
preston in prices. and frequent and wide fuc.
tuatiOns from hour to hour on the leading
stocks. So far as the movement can be called q
panic market, the cause appears to be found
almost wholly in political agitation. We have
seldom if ever heard the political state of the
country so generally discussed and brought in.
to the current estimate of stock values, in
Wall street. as during the present week.
The Tribune of the same date says:
The excitement in the stock market contin.
ues, and at the First Board to-day, was intens.
ifed to an extraordinary degree, and there was
more of panic look about the market than we
have seen since the Autumn of 1857. Prices
were worked down upon nearly every stock
upon the list, and the disposition during the
early part of the day seemed to be to sell at
the first bid made. 1t looked in fact as if the
brokers had made up their minds that the
Union was already about the same as in frag.
ments, and that self preservation required that
each one of them should ''stand from under" as
the structure gave way.
Rather squally indications. The World,
generally fair authority, says:
The Wall street financiers are simply at their
old tricks. The operations yesterday attract
unusual attention from the fact that the ordi.
nary gambling machinery was made to move
with more than ordinary momentum. It is the
business of the Wall street guild, which they
practice from years end to years end, to al.
ternately depress the prices of stocks and raise
them. The bears who cause them to 60 down
to-day in order that they may purchase to ad.
vantage, are metamorphosed into bulls to-
morrow, and operate for rise that they may
make money by selling. They always keep a
sharp lookout for occurrences which can be
used in this game. The breaking of bridge,
the burning of depot, the smashup of train
of cars by collision, a freshet which under
mines an embankment, short crOp--anything
and everything, in fact, is seized upon and
magnified for the purpose of depressing prices
by those who want to buy. A great godsend
to Wall street is the buster of the Sc desper.
ate political gamblers whose last card is q com.
mercial panic, by which they hope to brighten
the country from the calm expression, through
the ballot box, of its deliberate opioion.
The World thinks that the large upward
movement in stocks since the beginning Of
July, though it had reasonable and sub.
stantial basis in the heavy grain crop, and
consequent revival of western business, has
probably gone little too far, and that pol.
itics aside, there would naturally be some
reaction at the present time.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-09
Papal Desp0tism.

Editors Pioheer and Democrat:
Is it possible amid the raging excitement
of the day against the Pope and bis gov
eminent to get in one grain of truth or
fact? If so, please insert the following,
which is taken from the Western Banner of
October Goth:
BAYARD TAYLOR ON PAPAL DEsPOTIsM.
l have read, during the past week, in va
rious papers, that the Papal States are the
worst governed in Europe. I have read
it often. The precise nature and extent of
this despotism I am a little in the dark
about, but generous enlighteners, the edi-
tors, do not condescend to come down to
particulars. Still plain man may be per-
mitted to ask a few questions. For what
does this despotism Of the Papal Govern
ment consist? Is it that clergymen hold
office? For many years there has been q
smaller proportion of clergymen holding
office in the Roman States than in some of
the States of this Union, and their salaries
have been in smaller proportion to those of
similar officers. Is it in the expense of the
Government 1t is one OF the most eco>
nomical in Europe. The salaries Of the
higher officers of State do not exceed $4,000
year; and the whole civil list costs about
100000.
Are the people ground down with taxes?
The taxes in Rome are far less than in
England, France or New York. Are they
deprived of the benefits of education The
Papal States, with population of less than
100000, have seven universities; and the
city of Rome has more free public schools
than New York in proportion to her popu-
lation, and what is still better, a larger pro-
portion of children attend them.
Perhaps the poor are cared for and their
suffering treated with neglect. There are
more and better free hospitals for the sick,
the poor and aged of every class, in Rome,
in proportion to the population, than in
any other city in the world. 1t is not asked
in Rome what is mans country or creed.