The Shasta courier., 1861-10-19
All Sorts of Items.
A. A. Sargent, NJ. C. elect from this State
has left for Washington City.

A. A. Sargent, NJ. c. elect from this State,
has left for Washington City.
The Douglas City Trinity Gazette indig-
nantly denies that any efforts were made in
Weaverville to prevent men from enlisting in
Captain Crowninshield's company.
King Kamehameha has announced that if
any of Davis pirates enter any of his ports,
they will be seized Bully for him.
Squiggles informs us that he is acquainted
with Col Barrett, of the Confederate Army.
He knew him in South Carolina when
member of the firm of Grin & Barrett.
W. S. Byrne has retired from the Noun
tain La Porte) Messenger. We are sorry
for it.
We see it stated that John c. Breckenridge
has been run off to Davisdom by the indig-
nant Kentuckians. We believe it.
Paul Shirley, who married niece of Col.
Gift, and has been on a visit TO the Sand
witch Islands, recently returned therefrom,
and on oyerhauling his baggage a secession
flag was found by the Custom House officials.
who coerced" that same at once, if not
sooner.
The Red Bluff Beacon thinks Marshal
Rabe 81 sour kraut eating old Dutch 70.
y," because he suppressed the circulation
of the New York Day Book and Freeman's
Journal in California. we think he acted
precisely right The U. S. mails are not
maintained for the purpose of circulating
treasonable documents.
The Secretary of the Treasury has appoint
ed Ezekiel Wilson, of San Francisco, to be
Steward, and his wife to be Matron of the U.
S. Marine Hospital at that place.
The Contra Costa Gazette says that during
the past week a lot of cattle were offered at
rable sale in that county, and were sold at
s. IS per head.
Three volunteers, recruited in Tuoiumne
county, and mustered into service at Camp
McDougall, Stockton, are worth, collectively,
over 500, 900. They enter the service as pri-
Yates.
1t is reported that ex-Secretary Cobb is
going into the military service.
The Louisville Democrat says, in reply to
the whine of the tories about country held
together by force:
We all, indeed, deplore the use of force in
executing the laws but still we can't accept
an anarchy, and the destruction of a coun-
try. 1t is certainly no more despotic to try
to save country by the sword than to un-
dertake to destroy it by the sword
A correspondent of the New York Tribune,
writing from New Orleans, insists that there
is still a Union majority in Louisiana. which
is secretly preparing to assert itself when the
right time shall come. 1t says nearly all the
old Wings are Unionists, and will fight for
the Government when they can.
The n Y. Independent of Aug. o2d. says
that not a soldier anywhere in America, un-
der Federal authority, went without his pay
on the lst of the month, save those whose
pay rolls were blunderingly inaccurate.
Geo. NJ. IIarson, Superintendent of Indian
Affairs for this State, addressed note to the
Marysville Appeal, in which he says that the
reason he has not placed all the Indians on
Reservations is the want of funds. lie con.
cludcs as follows:
If the good people of Shasta county will
exercise forbearance short time, until
means are furnished me by the Government.
| promise them that the Indians shall be ta-
ken t. the Reservation. so far as it is possi-
bile for me to do so. | have now a special
agent in that county endeavoring, so far as
he can without money, to gather up all the
Indians and remove them to the Reservation.
William Kennedy, formerly of this county,
was burned to death recently near La Porte,
Sierra county.
The Overland Mail, consisting of thirty lock
letter bags, and ten newspaper bags, arrived
in Placerville on the 7th, in sixteen davs and
nineteen hours from St.Joseph. This is the
quickest tima yet made between the two
points by the Overland Mall
The Territorial Enterprise says the camels
lately taken to Washoc will not answer for
packing purposes, being too small, though
they do very we'll on level ground
Col John Fitz Roy De Courcey, an Eng
lish officer of much distinction, has rendered
his services to the Government, and the offer
has been accepted. Col. De Courcey COM
manded Turkish regiment during the Cr-
mean war.