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The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

Ar a stated meeting of Shasta Lodge, No. 81, /.
0. o. F.. held on Monday evening, Oct. 2Sth, 1851
the death of Past Grand Sire Thomas Wildey hav-
ing been announced by the Secretary, the following
preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased the Almighty Ruler OF
the Universe to remove suddenly from us our aged
and beloved brother, Past Grand Sire Thomas
Wildey, the founder of the Independent Order Of
Odd Fellows in the United States, therefore
Resolved, That in the death of our worthy bro
ther full years and ripe in experience, the order
has lost worthy member-one to whom all Odd
Fellows were wont to look for fatherly advice and
sage counsels in every time of need; whose ardent
zeal, during long life, in disseminating the true
principles of Friendship, Love and Truth has en-
deared him to every COED and true Odd Fellow.
Resolved, That this greatloss is not sustained by
US alone, but the Order throughout the world has
been bereft of one fits most brilliant lights.
Resolved That we, as members of this Lodge,
deeply and sincerely sympathise with all Lodges
and all brothers. in the loss we have all sustained
in the death of Father Widcy.
Resolved, That as further mark of resnect to
the memory of our departed father, that this hall
be draped with mourning, and the usual badge be
worn by the members.
Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to fur
nish copy of these Resolutions to the Shasta pa
pers for publication.
W. G. WEST,
GEO. R. KNOX. ! Committee.
A. C. TAYLOR.
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Letter from Col. Magee.
SHASTA. Oct. 3lst. 1861.

SHASTA, Oct 3lst, 1861.
EDITORS COURIER II have just returned
home after an absense of three weeks, having
been engaged for that space of time in re-
moving Instructions to navigation in the
Sacramento river, between Downs ranch and
Red Bluff. In the improvements have at
tempted to make, with the view of improving
the navigation of that stream between the
points named, / have made no attempt to
deepen the channel; only to remove the rocks
considered dangerous to the passage of
steamboats,.
The work done by me, and those in my
employ, has been done at the expense of
Maj. P. B. Reading and myself, with view
to the improvement in the value of our own
property on the river. 1t is our expectation
to use every effort in our power to induce
steamers to navigate this stream to the high
est point practicable.
| am induced to address you this letter,
and to request you to to publish the same,
to serve the purposes of general reply to
the many questions that are continually be-
ing asked me since my return.
Yours, WM. MAGEE.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

TIE SACRAMENTO RvER.-We congratu-
late the people of Northern California that
the Sacramento river now has unimpeded
navigation from Sacramento to a point ten
miles south of the town of Shasta. Colonel
Magee has removed the last t,obstruction, as
he announces. Indeed the impediments to
the navigation of the river existed more in
imagination than in fact The shallowest
places in the river, at its lowest stage, is three
feet. Boats will be running to the point
mentioned in less than thirty days.
At that place town, TO be called Latona,
has been laid off, on the estate of Maj. Read.
ing. As the title is unquestionable. there will
be degree of stability about the proposed
town not often found in the towns of Califor-
nil This town, it is thought, will command
the very extensive and rapidly increasing
trade of the Humboldt mines, in Nevada
Territory.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

w CouGHs.-The sudden changes of our cli-
mate are sources of PULMONARY, BRONCHIAL and
AsrHxAT1c AFFECTIONS. Experience having prov
ed that simple remedies often act speedily and GER
tainy when taken in the early stages of the disease
recourse should at once be had to Bro,n's Bron,
ekial TrocLes" Lozenges, let the Cold, Cough, or
Irritation of the Throat be ever so slight, as by
this precaution more serious attack may be efec-
tualiy warded of. PUBLIC SPEAKERS and SINGERS
viii find them efectual for clearing and strength
ening the voice. See advertisement.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

CooIIsH.-The Empress of Austria, while
on recent visit to man-of- war, lying at
Corfu, is represented by jenkins as going
about over the vessel with her magnificent
hair and her lovely face as her only adorn-
ments." Whether the Emperor was clad in
the costume common in the State of Georgia,
ia standing collar and pair of spurs, we
are not informed
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

OK THE RAMpaGE-On of our cotemps of
the shirt-tail persuasion, says that g if Brock
inridgc had been elected President, there
would have been no secession Of the Southern
States.' The conclusion from this is that
those who opposed the election of Mr.. Breck-
ridge are the true secessionists-that three
and halfmillon of voters have seeded from
half million-that twenty three States have
seeded from ten-that a majority have Sc
ceded from a minority.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

IIuMBoLDT.---We have conversed with an
intelligent gentleman, Capt. Weatherloe,
Just in frem the mines on the Humboldt He
gives most glowing descriptions of their ex-
traordinary richness. and says that he has
no doubt but that there will be twenty thou
sand people proftably employed in one years. s
time. Judge Harrison, formerly of this
county, is doing extraordinarily well over
there
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

THIRrY-NINE counties of Western Virginia
by most overwhelming vote, have pro-
nounced for the new State of Kanawha. The
people are thoroughly Union out there. We
do not like the project. In little while
more and the necessity for this movement
will be removed
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

MONUMENT TO SENATOR DoUGLAs.-An
agent in the person of Lieut.. George F.
Price has been appointed to solicit subscrip-
tons to the building of a monument to the
memory of Senator Douglas. We are glad
to record this, for it will give those who loved
that statesman while living, and who revere
his memory now that he is dead, an oppor-
tunity of testifying to the deep affection felt
for him.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

FuNSr.-The Vigilance Committee which
calls itself Confederate Congress has pass
ed law Ito throw open the whole of the
Southern ports Cor the entry of vessels"
Facetious cusses, they must have their regu
lar !" goak.N
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

How THEY Fix IT.---We see it stated that
the shirtless patriots of the rebel forces have
divided out all the property of the Northern
States, and that the officers have selected the
different posts where they will be stationed,
when they win this little fight. If so, we
suggest that Gen. Price be sent to Dunginess,
Washington Territory.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

OREGON SENAToR-It has not transpired
who the Governor ofOregon intends sending
on to Washington in the place lately occu-
pied by Senator Baker. The Governor is a
secessionist, and will doubtless forward some
one of his own way of thinking. and if so the
appointee will be far more likely to bring
upn at Fort Lafayette than at Washington
CITY.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

SUSPENDED. Our cotemporary, the Shasta
Herald, has suspended publication. Mr.. W.
Watson, editor and one of the late propric-
tors, bids graceful adieu to his friends
The Herald was good paper, and Mr.. Wat
son is a good fellow and a good printer. He
concludes his valcdictory thus. ''we ignore
politics-but the Union forever The pur-
chasers of the press we are informed viii start
a paper at Colusi.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

The WAR.---lt is supposed that California
will yet be called on for quite large force
for operations in Mexico, if Spain and other
powers should interferfere in that country.
Mr.. Lincoln has said that :. if any foreign
power should attempt the occupation of Mex
leo, the United States would stand by her to
the last extremitv.''
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

THE Appeal and Democrat Offices, of Ma
rysville, have been united, and will hereafter
publish one daily, to be known as the Ap-
peal and Democrat, under the name and
style of the appeal Association" Wehope
the enterprise will be acceptable to ali the
former readers of those thoroughly patriotic
sheets
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

INDIAN REMovAL-A. L. Downer, Special
Indian Agent, left this county on the 28th
ult., in company with leading men of the In
dian tribes of this county, for the Indian Re-
servation. The object of this visit is to show
to the Indians the kind of place to which it is
proposed to remove them.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

SMALL BUSINESS. When White with $50
men captured 500 rebels at Lexington, No.,
recently, the report states that when they
threw down their arms and hoisted their
shirt-tail banner they . commenced begging
for quarters" just like the hen roost rob-
bers. The only wonder is that they didn't
her for h1lrcs
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

WM. G. RAPP and John Harold, of the
secession stripe, who were brandishing their
weapons in the Bank Exchange, in San
Francisco, and hurrahing for JEFF. Davis, have
been fined $3.50 each by the Recorder.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

.CAsuALrY.-Mr. Whitton, of Churntown'
in this county, was very severely injured last
week. He was hauling load of boards,
when the horses he was driving became
frightened and unmanageable. He was
thrown from the vehicle, one of his arms
shivercd, and so sprained and bruised that it
was considered at one time that he was NOR
tally hurt lie is recovering.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

CUSHING & BusH.-We request our readers
attention to the advertisement of these gen
tlemen in to,day's paper. These gentlemen
nrc so welfhnown that of them we need say
nothing. OF their stock, however, we will
saw that it consists of general assortment
of groceries and provisions, sold at reason
able rates. Give them 4 call.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

PAN-rEc-NA-THEc-A.-A show, on the pan.
oramic, dissolving view, graduating slide
type, is agonizing the peoples of Marysville
at this crisis. We print the name, that our
people may become familiar with the pronun.
citation of it by the time it arrives in this re-
zion.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

THE Missouri rebels are not slave owners,
so says the Republican, of St. Louis, and so
everybody knew before. We venture the
assertion that there is not a thimble rigger or
petty blackleg in the southwest who is not
a secessionist.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

RopBERY.-A mule train under the charge
of two Mexicans. was recently robbed below
Sonora. in Tuolumne. The train consisted
of sixteen heavily laden mules, and was en-
,ou,e from Sonora to Mono. Circumstances,
needless to specify, led to the belief that the
train had been attacked, on investigation
the Mexicans wer, found killed, the train
robbed and the mules dispersed.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

DIED.-The Indian boy, Charley Bim, do
mesticated in the family of A. L. Downer
Esq, died of consumption at this place on
the lst of November, aged about thirteen
years. He was well known and liked in this
vicinity
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

SENTIMENT BY AN ARKANSAS SEcEsHER.-
80 He who forcets the brook out of which he
drank, or the tree under which he ganbled,
is stranger to the finest emotions of the
human heart"
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

SINGULAR Kentucky has gone to Carson
Valley. That is, we suppose so. We see
that John R. Mcconnell has gone there.
..As goes Kentucky" &c.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

IT is said that Ben Mccullough having sto-
len everything he could lay his hands on in
Missouri, is now trying to steal march out
of n
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

RED BLuFrs.-The Beacon says that the
town of Red Bluffs is rapidly improving, and
that the good people of that charming town
are not the least frightened at the prospect
of boats running above their location.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

THE Abolitionists under Wise in Western
Virginia, at the late fight couldn't ''ceme to
time" Had they done SO they would prob
ably have come to eternity.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

DRowxED-on Friday, Oct. 18th, little
son of John F. Lowe, of Saw Mill Flat, near
Whiskytown, aged four years, was drowned
in prospect hole.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

Gov. WIsE.---A shirt tail editor says that
the gallant Gen. Wise is looming up the
valley of the kanawha.' Jes so. Like
a sweet south wind over bed of violets
sfealiaq and giving od0r.'
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

NORTH CARoLINA.-We observe that the
Eastern portion of this State proposes to Sc
cede f.om the secession OF middle part of the
commonwealth, following in this particular
the example of Western Virginia. There is
in that State decided majority in favor of
the Union, who have been coerced, by the
bayonets of Mr.. Davis, who, since the taking
of Hatteras by our troops, have commenced
talking out. A regiment, and probably two,
composed exclusively of North Carolinians,
is about to be raised. North Carolina had
the honor of issuing the first Declaration of
Independence in the revolutionary times of
1776. Now she will have the further honor
of being the first to return to the bosom of the
Union her counsels and good right arm did so
much to establish. The eastern and western
portions of the State are as loyal to-day as
California. And yet a little while, all will
understand how utterly baseless is this re-
bellion. Let tho Federal Government win
one square fight, and the South alone can
fight its own way back in the Union.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02
FERRY NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given, that I will make ap-
y pleation TO the Hon. Board Of Supervisors, at
their next general meeting held in November, for
license to keep public Toll Ferry across the Sac
ramento river, at or point Of the landing Of
the steamer :. Belle about two and q half miles
above Wells Ferry.
s B. SHELDON.
Shasta, Oct p. 1851 81
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

For $4,000 years, say the geologists, the
waters Of the cataract of Niagara have been
wearing away and cutting through the con-
solidated strata.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

SEWING Observation-Disclosures wishes to
purchase Wheeler & Wilson, Grover &
Baker, or Singers Sewing Machine, will
do well to apply at this Office. A farmer,
carpenter or wood chopper will find this a
rare opportunity to procure one of those Ia
bor-s saving machines, as one half the price
will be taken in their line of business.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

PENSION. The wife of Col Baker, under
the laws of the country is entitled to pension
of S2, 500 year for life.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02
Flax and Linseed Oil.

Last week we published short editorial
relative to tobacco culture on this coast,
amounting, however. to no more than asus-
gestion that its production was feasible IN
this State, and could be made profitable IL
earnestly attempted. In the absence OF sta
tistics it is impossible to prove by figures that
this branch of farming can be made to pay,
but that it would, is fact respectfully sub
mitted to any one who knows anything OF the
culture, supply and demand of the article
There are yet other products which could De
supplied in this State, from its own enter
prise and labor Take the article of llnseed
oil. We are afraid to venture the express
sion of an opinion as to how much money
annually goes abroad from California to pur
chase this useful article Wetake the risk OF
saying that it is good deal more than one
million of dollars. There is not an oil mill
in the State. No effort is made to produce
the flax seed of which it is manufac-
tured, even for medicinal purposes. Now it
can be safely held that the growing of flax,
the production of hemp, and the manufacture
of linseed oil would be the most remunera-
tive business that could be started in this
State. Let the reader take up the N. Y.
Tribune, and turn to the quoted price of this
article in the New York market. He will
find it quoted at 50 and GO cents per gallon.
On enquiry at any place in the California
mines, he will find that it is one dollar and a
half, or about that figure. If it can be man
ufactured at the first quoted rates in the East,
why can it not be done here at double those
figures? The machinery costs but little.
We could raise much more to the acre on our
bottom lands than can be done in the East
The seasons are more propitious. Again, it
will do well to remember that the flax for
various purposes, and the oil cake, so yalua-
uble for stock, would defray all the expenses
of putting the seed in market, leaving as a
margin of absolute profit all that the seed
could be sold for. In the Tribune of August
3lst, fax seed, rough, is quoted at 81 SO and
81 So per bushel. Out of seed quoted at
these prices the oil is made, which sells in
that market for 60 cents gallon. Any man
who knows the number of bushels of flax
seed that can be grown from one acre of
ground, will see that raising it in California
at dollar and half bushel is better
business than raising wheat, or indeed any
thing else in the agricultural line. Now if
it is profitable for the Eastern farmer to raise
the seed at dollar and half per bushel,
and sell the oil at sixty cents a gallon, what
in the name of common sense is the reason
that our farmers cannot proftably raise it
when the oil manufactured therefrom
would sell for more than twice sixty cents
per gallon, and the productive capacities of
our lands, altogether, is a third greater than
theirs? The best oil we believe comes from
the East Indies, as that country produces the
best seed. Weoan grow as good in Califor-
MIA as can be grown there.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

The proprietors the Allison quartz lode,
at Grass Valley donated three hundred dol
lars to thesfund for the benefit of the widows
and orphans of the New York Sixty ninth.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02
H,H, Bancroft q Co.'S Book List.

Edevin of Diera, Poem by Alex. Smith.
Recreations of Country Parson.
Life in the South Pacific.
The House on the Moor.
Gipsey Prophecy, by Mrs Southworth.
DIR. Russelrs Civil War in America.
Vol. "a Howard's Q. S. Supreme Court Reports.
Vol. 80 Barbour's N. Y. Supreme Court Reports.
Upton's Maratine Warfare and Prize Law.
Spots the Sun.
Faraday's Chemistry of Candle.
Hallecks international Law and Laws of War.
Belknaps Probate Law.
IN PRESS.
Hand Book Almanac and Year Book OF Facts, 1869.
Contents +. l. Calculations, by Thomas Tennent.
IL On the Art of War, by II. W. Hal
leek.
III. Federal officers on the Pacific.
". State and County Officers, Mem-
bers of the Legislature, Attorneys,
&C., for California, Oregon, Wash=
ington and Nevada,
V. Election Returns.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

The New Orleans Pcayune says the heavy
growth OF grass in some of the streets in that
city would pay the mower for his trouble,
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

VERY extensive soap manufactory has
been started at San Pedro, in Alameda
county.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

SHASTA GUARDs.-This company has ar
rived, no accident intervening. at Fort Van
eouyer, before this time.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

The New York Tribune strenuously SUP
ports Daniel S. Dickinson for the position OF
= ey General Of New York.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

IlIED.

In County Hospital, on the 18th ult of softening
of the brain, J. H. Edwards aged A years, former
ly of Pittsburgh, Pa.
In County Hospital, on the 31st ut., paralysis,
Elisha Mills aged 81 years formerly of Ohio.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02
LICENSES! LICENSES!

LII persons indebted for State and County Ii
"A censes, are requested to call at nv Office and
settle up. They will thereby themselves costs
A. SKILLMANt
Tax Collector.
Shasta. Nov. /. 1861. n2tf
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

OVERLAND TELEGRAPn.-The following is
a list of prices charged by the Overland Tel
egraph Company for transmitting ten words
from San Francisco to the points named be-
low Ifmore than ten words are sent, some
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

SCHOOL CENsus.-Prof. G. K Godfrey has
very politely handed US the statistics in re-
gard to the youth of this township, from
which we learn that there are
Between and Is years of age............ 100
Number under 95
Over III
Total. .295
OF these one hundred and fifty were born
in California. The School Marshal last year
reported the number at 10, being gain of
125, which is doing very we'll.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

f. G. WAITE has ceased his connection
with the NeTada Journal.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02
DISSOLUTION.

THE COMPREHENSIVE HERETOFORE
existing between Skillman Dosh in the pubica-
ton of the Shasta COURIER, was dissolved on the
31st inst, by mutual consent.
The outstanding business of the late firm will be
settled by John ]. Conmy.
A. SKILLMAN.
ELLA. c. D0SH.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02
MECHANICS LIEN NOTICE.

RanaId Mcdonald VS.. The Soda Springs and
Pit River Turnpike Road Company.
In the Ninth Judicial District Court, State of Cali
fornia, County of Shasta.
COMPLAINT having been filed for foreclosure Of
I J Mechanics Lien, in the above entitled cause,
with the Clerk of said District Court, Notice is
therefore hereby given to all persons holding or
claiming to hold any lien upon the Soda Springs
and Pit River Turnpike Road, to be and appear
before the said District Court, in said county,
Monday the 25th day of November, 1851,
at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, of said day, and then and
there exhibit proof of their respective liens. And
tits hereby ordered that this notice be published in
the Shasta Courier a week successfully for 20
days from this date.
Dated at Shasta, this 31st day of October 1851.
JOHN ANDERSON, Clerk D. C.
By JAMES KEEN, Deputy.
CURrIss & GARTER, Attorneys for Plaintiff. n2td
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

The Shasta COURIER will hereafter be published
under the firm name Of skllman & Conmy.
A. SkILLMAN.
JOHN J. C0NMY.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-02

All persons knowing themselves indebted to the
late firm of Skillman & Dosh, for Subscription, Adj
vertising Job Work, win confer favor by call
ing and paying their bills Immediately, the bu-
siness must be settled.
JOHN J. CONMY.
Shasta, Oct. &c, 1861
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-12-17

(unless compelled, J except drink and ca
rouse, else go home on furloughs. There
is general order just issued that puts a
stop to that game, no enlisted men are
allowed furloughs, nor commissioned Of
fcers leaves of absence, except they are
granted by Maj. Gen. Halleck, comman-
ding the Department. Our Lieut.. Colo
mel is splendid officer and perfect gen
tleman, well adapted for the position he
occupies. He is one of those men who
will win The esteem of every one who
may make his acquaintance. There is
no doubt as TO his bravery, for he was
tried in the battle of Springfield, (when
in command of company in the Iowa
First, he behaved noby there.
Maj. Gen.sFremont passed through
this place on lis way to ST. Louis, at the
time he was removed, and | must cen
fess, that | was never more disappointed
in the appearance Of any man, (that has
had so much said as there has been about
him) in my life, he is very ordinary
looking man and an ordinary man, as all
his actions say, not fitted for one of the
great military commanders of this war
Maj. Gen. Seigel and Gen. Ashboth
passed through here week ago, there is
more snap in one Seigel than ten Ere
monts. Gen. Seigel looked care-worn
| admired Seigel ever since the Spring
geld fight, but since | have seen him
think more yet of him. and this seems to
be the universal opinion here.
The general opinion is that there vii
be a move made down the Mississippi
shortly, | hope soon. No doubt 20,
have heard that all the troops have beer
ordered back from the southwest portion
of the State, and are now lying in CAM
near Rola and Sedaia, about $4,000 il
the two places. AS for Price, he is re
ported here one day, and then the mex
day somewhere else, so l cant tell yol
where lie is, but report gets him in half
a-dozen different places in one day to
day he is on the other side of the Usage
yesterday he was close on to Rolla. DR.
Wright's wife and Mrs. Hord are staying
here with their husbands. Mrs Horc
lives in the tent with her husband and
seems to enjoy it. Yours truly,
WIN SCOTT