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The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15
A Bad Oyster.

Scene-4n Oyster Cellar.-Enter French
man." Sair. you keep de oystair?''
Opener.-'' Yes, sir; fine, fat Princes
Bay"
Frenchman-" Tres 1ien, will eat some
raw oystair."
The man opens a fine fat one and puts it
on plate before the Frenchman, who eyes
it sometime and says:
g Monsieur, you call dis re good oys-
tair ?''
g Yes sir, prime.
The Frenchman swallows lit was the first
he ever ate,l opens his eyes and mouth, puts
his hand to his bread basket, and g uup," T"
comes the oystair" ON his plate.
" Sacre dam by gar Eat is no re goot oys-
tair ?"
81 You don't put on any salt and pepper,
SIR
All pardonnez!" Puts pepper and salt
on the same one and swallows it-and b ! u
up," up it comes again
How you tell me zat oystair bien?'
Why sir. you must use vinegar"
''Oh oui certainment ! be negar oui ~
and he swallows the same one again
"B-l-u-u-p," and up it comes again on the
plate.
just then gent enters;
''Give us dozen o raw"
The Frenchman turns to him, All my
fren. you eats ze raw oystair?'
''Of course
s1ou call Eat re good oystair?"
Yes; fine, fat one'
Ha, you tink Eat is good oystair? sup
pose you eat him.
with pleasure, sir;'' and the gent gave
the oyster dart of pepper sauce and bolted
| it.
The Mortified opener stood agape he
didn't mind sawin' Frenchman, but an
old customer was another thing.
The Frenchman turned on his heel. All.
my fren, zat may be re good oystair, but |
no like him, swallow Eat oystair tree time. "
B.lu-u-p'' and up came the oystair.
The Frenchman danced with delight.
"Ah, Monsieur Eat bad oystair oui? cer-
tainment.' The gent speechleess with horror
ran to the bar, seized the brandy decanter.
swallowed about half a pint and mizzled.
The Frenchman followed saying, Eat bad
oystair,r
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have been disregarded. The laws of the
country have been trampled upon with gross
impunity. No true citizen can regard the
secession, as now attempted, anything else
than treason. 1t may be called revolution.
If so, in truth we may remember that even
revolution may be treason, and we must not
| forget that this revolution, from its first
overt act to the present hour, has been moth
ing else than the levying of war against the
| United States The relation, therefore, OF
the rebels, one and all, and the Government
of the United States, has been state OF war.
Those men who fired upon the flag of the
| United States knew at the time, and know
now, that the act was one of war. This Is,
therefore, civil war-made by renegade
citizens of these United States against their
own country. To recognize this secession
of rebels would annihilate the Government
and disintegrate the Union. If this rebellion
and secession is not war against the United
States, or if such war is not treason, there
are no United States and never have been.
We are now in the midst of an active de-
velopment Of the natural operation of a
healthy organized government, against reb-
els. Our present duty is faithfulness to our
country and to the heritage which God has
given US. We are citizens, and are in duty
bound to honor and protect the flag which has
protected us and made us what we are. 1t
is the duty of every man in calmness and
with decision to uphold the powers which be
against all the Vaccinations of treason and
the assaults of traitors.
The President makes no war against the
rebellious States 1t is his manifest duty to
hold and defend the property of the United
States in all parts of the country. 1t is not
coercion to reinforce Pickens, to retake Fort
Sumter, or to defend them when beleaguered
by hostile armies, whether of foreigners or Of
traitors. If tits coercion to execute the laws
in Southern ports, it is also coercion to exc
cute United States laws at the port of Boston.
The Administration is simply doing its du-
ty, although it will not satisfy those who do
not intend to be satisfied. As the war has
commenced by rebellion, nothing is now to
be expected of this Government but to act
vigorously, and by decisive onset, restore
the peace of our country. We fear not the
result The rebels have inaugurated this
war, and may have considered contingencies.
They have taken the steps, and on them rests
the responsibility. 1t is now for the Admin
istration to avoid the worst evil that can pos
sibly occur, viz: delay and want of efhcien-
cy. Right must ultimately triumph, and
the great destiny of this country be accom-
plished. 1t will be well to know that we
have Government-cne that is efficient and
can faithfully and truly enforce its laws.
There is no difference now in the parties
North. Everywhere this love of country and
the Constitution presents one generous out
break of enthusiasm that overshadows all
other considerations The laws shall be sus-
tanned and the Union preserved. This Gov
ernment cannot fail so long as the people are
true to the Constitution.
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15
Fanny Fern on Lovers and Marriageable
daughters.

How any young fellow can walk into your
family and deliberately ask for one of your
daughters, passes me. Thatit is done every
day, does not lessen my astonishment at the
sublime impudence of the thing. There you
have been, sixteen, or seventeen. or eighteen
year of her life, combing her hair and wash
ing her face for him. 1t is lucky the
thought never strikes you while you are do
ing it. that this TO be the end of it all.
What if you " weren married yourself?
that is no reason why she should be bewitch-
ed away into a a.seperate establishment just as
you begin to lean upon her and be proud of
her; or at leaS, it stands to reason that after
you have worried her through the measles,
and chicken pox, and scarlet fever, the whoop-
ing cough. andshad -ber properly baptised and
vaecinated, this young man might give you
short breathing spell before she goes
1He' seems to be Of different opinion
''he" not onlysinsists upon taking her, but
upon taking her Immediately, if not sooner
He talks well about it-very we'll you have
no objection to him, not the least in the world
except 8 that"
When the world is full of girls. why
couldn't he have fixed his eyes on the daugh-
ter of somebody else? There are some pa
rents who are glad to get rid of their daug Oh
terS. due eyes are dS pitHty as DlackDefrleS;
why need it be this particular pair? Isn't she
happy enough as she is? Don't she have
meat and bread and clothes enough, to say
nothing of love? What is the use of leaving
a certainty for an uncertainty, when that
certainty is a mother, and you can never have
but one?
You putall these questions to her, and she
has the sauciness to ask, if that is the way
you reasoned, when her father ceme for you
You disdain to answer, q course; it is a
mean lodging of the qya1Qa. But she gets
round you for all that, dndy SO does he, too,
though you try your best not to like him and
with WELL if must, must" you just
order her wedding clothes, muttering to
yourself the while-'' dear, dear, what sort of
a fist will that child make at the head of
house : how will she ever know what to do
in this, that or the other emergency; she
who is calling on mother fifty times day,
to settle every trifing question:
What folly for her to set up house for her.
self. How many mothers have-had these
foreboding thoughts over daughters we'd
ding clothes; and yet the daughter has met
life and its unexpected reverses with hero
ism and courage as undaunted as if every
girlish tear had not been kissed away by lips
that, alas! may be dust, when this baptism
of womanhood comes upon her.
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15
Treason, War and Government.
BY PROF. C. X. GODFREY.

What of the times? This inquiry is far
more important to us than that respecting
the past, which has been urged with so much
interest during the last few years. The past
has gone. We may hear the moaning of the
wind as it sighs DER its mouldering grave,
or through the vaulted roof of its ruined tenn
Piles, but it has no music except for cfiemi-
mite souls. Time, to which every true man
gives heed, points not that way.
The present is with us, and every consid-
Grafton is urging us to understand its pecu-
liar character, and make the most of it bv
past experience. The present is day of
change it is also day of treason against
our Government.
The aspect of the times in which we live is
indeed serious. The revolution which has
been progressing for some time in the South
ern States has at last reached bloody stage.
and war is inaugurated-a war the end of
which no man can forcsee. The excitement
which attends it. the passions raised to fever
heat, the anger which makes the blood boil
within, is awful to contemplate.
The present war is more dreadful than anv
thing which our infant nation has experience
ed. Our revolution was a war with our guar
dians over the sea. Our second war with
England was mainly series of naval en-.
gagements. The war with Mexico was on
Mexican soil. Our Indian wars have been
with the sava-es of the wilderness. The
present war is with those who have fought
our battles with us. It is an irrepressible
conflict, towards which we have long been
tending, between the antagonistic states of
freedom and slavery. The causes of the war
are remote, Of long standing. and many in
number. Unkind words. unfriendly acts.
aenunciations. threats, prophecies and init
nations of cowardicc have contributed in no
small degree to this end. Preiudices. at
tachments and political parties have taken a
geographical form, and churches have come
to be Northern and Southern. When Cal.
houn preached his notification doctrine. the
seeds of secession were sown. and it has been
growing, silently and almost imperceptiblv.
till it has spread over the Southern States.
Our country, since the Inauguration of Pre-
sident Lincoln. has been under an intense
excitement. The Constitution and the Union
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15

TIME People of the State of California send greet
II ing to j. ii. Robinson, Defendant You are
hereby required to appear, in an action brought
against you by the above named Plaintiffs in the
District Court of the 9th Judicial Pistrict of the
State of California in and for the said county of
Shasta, and to answer the complaint filed therein,
Ia copy of which accompanies this summons) within
ten days Exclusive of the day of servce) after the
service you of this summons-if served within
this county or, if served out of this county, but
within this Judicial District. within twenty days
if served out of said District, then within forty
days-or judgment by default will be taken against
you according to the prayer of said complaint.
The said action is brought to recover the of
six hundred and twenty-eight dollars, with interest
thereon at per cent. per month from the I'd day of
january A. D. 1861, alleged to be due and owing
from you TO them on an expressed contract for the
direct payment of money; the same being based
upon certain promissory note by you executed in
their favor, and particularly described in said
complaint.
And you are hereby notified, that if you fail to
appear and answer the said complaint, above re-
quired the said plaintiffs take judgment against
you for the said of S62S with interest there
on as aforesaid. together with costs of suit, &c.
Given under my hand and the seal of the District
Court of the 9th Judicial District, of the State of
California, in and for the said county of Shast ia,
this 23d day of April, in the year of Lord enc
thousand eight oundred and sixty-one.
JOHN ANDERSON, Clerk
By JAMES KEEN, Deputy Clerk. my11
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15

Action brought in the District Court of the Ninth
Judicial District of the State of California, in and
for the county of Shasta. and the complaint filed
in said county of Shasta in the Office of the Clerk
of said District Court.
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15

Why is a hen sitting on fence like cent?
Because she has head on one side and a
tail on the other.
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15
Wonderful Calculation.

A writer thus undertakes to convey some
idea of the greatness of the populatian of
China:
1.-The mind cannot grasp the real import of
so vast a number. Four hundred millions
What does it mean? Count it. Night and
day, without any rest, or food, or sleep, you
continue the weary work; yet eleven days
have passed before you have counted the
first million, and more than as many years
before the end of the tedious task can be
reached"
He also supposes this mighty multitude to
take up its line of march, in a grand process
sion, placed in single file at six feet apart
and marching at the rate of thirty miles per
day. except on the Sabbath, which is given
to rest:
Day after day the moving column adyanc-
es, the head pushing on towards the rising
sun, now bridges the Pacific, now bridges
the Atlantic. And now the Pacific is cross
ed, but still the long procession marches on,
stretching across high mountains, and sunny
plains, and broad rivers, through China, In
again over the stormy bosom of the Atlantih.
But the circuit of the world itself affords not
standing room. The endless column will
double upon itself, and double again and
again, and shall girdle the earth eighteen
times before the great reservoir which fur
nishes these numberless multitudes is ex-
hausted. Weeks, months and..year roll away,
and still they come--mcn, women and chill
dren. Since the march began the little child
has become man, and yet on they come. in
unfailing numbers. Not till the end of forty
one years will the last of the long procession
have passed.
Such is China in. its population; and if
Homer could preach eloquently on the vanity
of man as a mortal, with equal eloquence,
had he seen or contemplated the millions of
China, could he have preached on the vanity
of man as an individual!
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15
Summons.

In the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District
of the State of California in and for the county of
Shasta.
Charles Hosmer and A. w. Snyder VS.. j. HI.
Robinson.
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15
A TERRIBLE WAR ENcrSE.-A norta,ls

A TERRIBLE WAR ENGISE-A portable
railroad battery is being built at Philadel-
phia, and is thus described A long platform
baggage-car has been fixed with sides and
top of thick sheet-iron, the sides having
portfolios for musketry. A turn-table has
been arranged, on which rife cannon is to
be placed. The carriage for the gun is 50
constructed that it can be fired at any angle.
and from any one of the portfolios in the
side or end of the car. In place of shot OF
she'll for the cannon, pieces of iron punched
from locomotive boilers will be used as loads.
This car is to be placed in front of loeomo-
tive. with fifty men inside, armed with Min
ME rifles. and seamen to work the guns.
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15
Commission AND PURCHASING
Agent,
SAN FRANCISCO.

ORDERS FOR THE PURCHASE OF MER-
q chandze and articles of every description are
solicited by the undersigned.
residence in this city of over ten years, and an
experience in the business of nearly the same length
of time are considered sufficient to warrant the
confidence of persons in the country who OCCASION
ally require to make purchases here, through the
agency of a reliable party who may be looking
for permanent Agency in San Francisco. To
either the advertiser offers his services, assuring all
who intrust orders to him that no effort shall be
spared TO execute their commissions satisfactorily.
All Orders must be accompanied with the Cash or
City Reference.
Those desiring information concerning the under
signed are referred to
VIM. T. Coleman & Co., San Francisco.
J. II. Coghill & Co., 8
c. Largely, Druggist, q
Flint. Peabody 4 Co., g
Ira p Rankin, .
Ross, Dempster & Co., g
j. An1hony & Co., Union Office, Sacra-
mento City.
And to the rroprietors of the Shasta
COURIER.
N. Borders for Machinery, Pianofortcs. Melc-
deons, Sewing Machines. Watches. Jewclry, &c,
will be attended to by competent judges,
l.. p. FISHER,
- Commission and Purchasing Agent
G29 Washington street up stairs
Opposite Maguire's Opera House, San Francisco.
an9-
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DETECTIVE PILLs-An idle fellow. hearing
that a quaek had gained great credit and
wealth by the sale of pills, undertook to make
pills himself and to sell them. He gave the
same pills to all patients whatever; and by
chance they sometimes succeeded. and his
name became famous. A country fellow
called on him, and desired to know if his
pills would enable him to find his COW he had
lately lost. The qnack bid him swallow six
pulls On his way home, the operation of the
pills obliged him to retire into wood, where.
sure enough, he found his cow. The fellow
spread report that he knew doctor who
sold pills which would recover stray cattle.
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15

WOODEN NuTMEGs OUTpoNE.-There is a
Partisan dandy who, we think, rather outdid
Connecticut. c. had at his residence a
complete costume of a groom. When offer
ing an attention to one of the fair sex he used
to say: Permit me TO send YOU bouquet
by my black servant He then repaired to
his garret, took out his backing bottle. pol
ished his face and hands, put on his livery
and knocked at the lady's door. "Here, .
he said :. are some flowers sent bv nv mas
ter to madame" lie had spent the last five
francs in their purchase. Madame was So
delighted with the present, that she present
pocketing of the dollars, and a lady's favor
into the bargain.
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15

DISTURBING THE Bones OF THE ROYAL
DEAD.-ln excayating for the temporary
grave of the Duchess of Kent, a small open.
ing was made into the uault which contains
the collins of Henry WILL, and each of his
queens, Lady Jane Seymour also the cof-
fin of Charles L., and an infant child of Queen
Anne. The cofins. and even the crimson On
which are placed the coronets. and the SPEAK
hole in the coffin of Henry VI ssaidgto has
been made by one of the soldiers Of Jliyer
Cromwell was clearly discernable
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15

"FELLER sogers." said a newly elected
lieutenant of militia. I'm all fred obliged
to You for this shove up in the ranks you
have given me. Feller sogers, I'm not going
to forget your kindness soon. not bv a darned
sight, and I'll tell you what it is. I'll stick to
my post like pitchto pine board, so long as
there's peace, but as go in for rotation in
office, and if we snould come to blows with
anybody. darn'd if 1 don't resign right off.
and give every feller a fair shake for glory,
and all that
The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15

''THE little darling he didn't strike Mrs.
Smiths baby purpose, fid he? 1t was a
mere accident. wasn't il dear?' 90 Yes.
ma. to be sure it was, and if he don t behave
himself. I'll crack him again. -
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SEVEN YEARS.
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Six hundred persons can be com fortably
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The early reputation Of the house at home and
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uRIEs, has been enhanced every year by the un-
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First class Pianos snd MelodeoDs for sale at
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UIp REs~slIN1S BACK.
1 W0l LID respectfully inform tho citizens OF X eo-
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Youths and Boys Clothing cnt in the latest New
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