The Shasta courier., 1861-06-15

hunting and neutral ground of the aborigines,
8ful soil.
81 In this beautiful valley, where assembled
those patriotic volunteers for the defense of
our homes and hearths, in the infancy of
gour greatness, and whom it has been aptly
said
They left their ploughshares in the void,
Their focks and herds without fold,
Il Their sickles in the unshorn grain,
Their corn half garnered in the plain,
And mustered on their simple dress, =
For wrongs of '.ours' to seek redress.
IIere in this beautiful valley, so associated
with our early history, was born General
SAMUEL H. DosH.
At at early age Gen. Dosh apprenticed|
himself to the printing business, in the Office
8of the Valley Star, in Lexington, then ed
: sited by John Letcher, the present Governor
/ sof that State.
! Gen. Dosh came overland to California in|
lS49, and occupied himself during the first
year of his residence here in mining-the|
common avocation of that day. The scenei
of his mining labors was confined to the pre-
sent limits fEl Dorado county. This indus
= trial pursuit was not, however, congenial toi
q 9his wishes, for shortly after we find him en-I
gagged in working upon of the Placer Times
His connection with that paper was short
lived, for next year he, in connection with
several printers, who afterwards distinguish :,
! ed themselves, devoted their energies in cs-i
s Stablishing the Sacramento Union His
connection with that journal was of short du- !
ration, as change in the proprietorship led,
also to a change in the politics of the estab-
! $lishment, and he withdrew
= Gen. Dosh arrived in Shasta in February
of 1852, and, in connection with Hinckley
and Skillman, established the COURIER, the
first number having been issued from the
press on the 18th of March following.
1t is unnecessary for us to say that the
= COURIER was the first paper published north
of Marysville, and the General was of course
one of the pioneer editors and prieters in all
4that extensive region now embraced in the linn
Fits Of Tehama, Shasta, Trinity, Siskiyou,
Humboldt, Del Norse ard Klamath.
= In 1855 General Dosh " ted 10 the
State Senate, -whereibc served his constitu-
vents with distinguis shed ability honesty and
fidelity, for the constitutional term for which
&he was chosen.
In this year he was commissioned Brig
|adier General of the first brigade sixth diyi
y sion of the militia Of the State, and recon-
missioned in 1861 by Gov. Downey.
In 1856 he was selected by the Democratic
Estate Convention torepresent the State in the
&Nationol Conventim that assembled in Gin
cinnati, and that resulted in the nomination
Hand subsequent election of James Bachanan
& to the Presidency.
81 We have thus glanced at the more impor-
tant incidents of a life that gave brilliant
B &prospects of future usefulness, and, we may
be permitted to say, great distinction. 1t is
{ our province now to view him as writer, a
(! politician, a Christian, and husband and
father.
As writer Gen. Dosh had few equals, if
3indeed any superiors. A thorough master of
: the art political, terse, keen and effective, he
&presented the very embodiment of vigorous,
easy and graceful composer, seldom lacking
in language to express his ideas, and always
ito the point. His long connection with jour
&nalsm had rendered him model editor.
1t need not therefore be wondered at that
his influence over his fellow citizens was very
sgreas. Honest, incorruptible, fearless, mild
FIN manners, social, and at all times present
ing the beau ideal Of a gentleman, he was ad
( mirably adapted to the various and impor
tant positions assigned him in life. His in
fluence, therefore, as politician, was very
6great.
A Democras of the Jeffersonian and Jack
sonian schools, :. dysd in the wool, he never
n $wayered, hesitated or faltered. He evel
planted himself on the right, and there, like
a pillar of granite, he stood battling for party
and friends. To his influence in grea
measure may be attributed the success of the
Irregular Democratic party in this county las
fall. The contest was fierce and embittered
as vituperation and Misrepresentation wer,
the weapons then used against us in place o.
argument.
No doubt has ever existed in the minds
of his most intimate friends but that hi
religious convictions were well grounded
and sincere
The true lineaments of his character shon,
ont conspicuously in the social relations O
fife. All concsde that he was kind, atten
tive and affectionate father and husband an,
generous to fault in his private friend
!. ships. Unlike the Russian ice palaces.
who '' smile when they are cold,' the geni
ality of his nature, and the generosity of hi
disposition were apparent to friend and foe.
The character of the society in which Gen
posh moved, especislly in the early settle