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The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

MOUNTAIN RoADs.-Every sign indicates
the certain and rapid prosperity Of Washoe.
1t is not extravagant to estimate the total
white poulation of that country by the middle
of next summer, at % 900. This population
will produce more wealth in precious miner
ais. than any equal number ofpeople ever did
before, not even excepting the early miners
of California. They will be almost exclus
lively mining community. This State must
supply their machinery, clothing, bread and
nseat-in fine, whatever they eat, drink or
wear. All our valleys will be drained oftheir
surplus. Our merchants, freighters and
farmers must have better and more convent
ent road facilities for transportation. Wearc
now assured that these will be no longer de-
layed. The Henness Pass route is to be put
in excellent order, and the Big Tree road will
be turned over to company, whose chief
interest is to see it made equal to its full ca
pacity as route for freight. Thousands of
dollars will be expended to place it in that
condition. Substantial bridges win be
thrown across all the streams aud bad places
will be carefully macadmized In this con
nection we call the attention of persons to the
fact that good hotel stands abound on the
Big Tree road, and must year or two hence
become most valuable property, as they now
are on the Placerville road to Carson Valley.
--Iacefendent.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16
Freedom of the Press.

Mr.. President, do gentlemen propose to
us seriously that we shall stop the right of
free discussion that we shall restrain the ex
preston of free opinion everywhere on all
subjects and at all times? Why sir, in our
land, if there be any base enough, to bias
pheme the Maker that created him, or the
Saviour that died for him, we have no power
to stop him. If there be the most bitter. un-
just and vehement denunciation upon all the
principles ofmoralty any goodness, on which
humane society is based, and on which it NAV
most securely stand, we have for great and
overrullng reasons connected with liberty it.
self, nc power to restrain it Private charac-
ter, public service, individual relations -nei-
ther these, nor age, nor sex, can be in the ma
tnre of our Government exempt from that lia-
bility to attack.
Sir, the liberty Of the press is the highest safe
guard to all free government Ours could
couldn exist without it. It with us. nav.
with all men, like great exulting and
abounding river. 1t is fed bv the dews of
Heaven, which distil their sweetest drops to
form it. 1t gushes from the rill as it creeps
from the deep caverns of the earth. 1t is
fed by thousand affiucnts, that dash from
the mountain top to separate again into a
thousand bounteous and irrigating rills
around. On its broad bosom it bears thou
sand barks. There Genius spreads its purple
sail. There Art, Invention, Discovery, Sci
ence, Morality, Religion, may safely and
securely float. 1t wanders through every
land. 1t is Il genial, cordial source Of thought
and inspiration, wherever it touches, what
ever it surrounds. Sir, upon its borders,
there grows every flower of grace and every
fruit ftrnth. am not here to deny that that
river sometime oversteps its bounds. | am
not here to deny that that stream sometimes
becomes a dangerous torrent and DESTROYS
towns and cities upon its bank but am
here to say, without it, civilization humani
ty, government, and all that makes society it.
self would disappear, and the world would
return to its ancient barbarism Sir, if that
were to be possible though for moment. the
fine conception of the great poet would be
realized 1t that were to be possible though
but for moment, civilization itself would roll
the wheels Of its car backward for two thou
sand years.-Coi. E. ID. Baker IN the Senate
January. 1851.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16
SHASTA COURIER.
The yyar-The President and the People
of the South.

II is an interesting fact, and a fact that is
creditable to the whole American people,
whether within or outside of the Union, that
the war now waging in our midst has been
conducted with fewer instances OF cruelty
and barbarity than has ever before marked
the progress even of civilized warfare in any
age OF the world This obvious fact refutes
the ill-founded assertion, sometimes made,
that blood-thirsty hatred exists amongst a
people who have been born and bred under
the same free institutions.
Mr.. Lincoln is native of Kentucky, and
SO far as the prejudice of birth may operate,
might be supposed to favor Southern inter
ests. He does favor them! lie is entirely
convinced that the true interests of the peo-
pie of the seeding States would be promoted
by abandoning their present leaders, and re-
turning to the sure protection whlchis secured
to all the rights of man under the Constitu-
tion and the laws of the United States. Such
a return to their duties and to their inalien-
able rights, is desired by the great body of
the American people. And our Southern
brethren may be assured that no motive of
revenge, no desire for conquest or subiuga-
tion enters the heads or the hearts of those
American citizens who arc now III arms for
the sole and only purpose of resisting a bold
attempt to set at defiance the justly constitu-
ted authorities of the nation.
Mr.. Lincoln and his constitutional advi-
scrs have the same desire to promote the best
interests and happiness of the whole people
of the seeding States as of any other portion
of the nation, nor can the people of the slave
holding States select from among themselves
an Executive that will more conscentiously
protect and secure to them every right and
privilege which can be enjoyed under any
form of government which they may estab-
lish. A very false imputation against the
people of the North, and one which has pro-
duced more heart burning than could arise
from any other source, is the charge that they
enter fully into the views of the extreme Alb
olitionists, and are determined to eradicate
slavery from the land This charge is ut
terly false, and so far from any desire to in
terfere with the rights of the master over the
slave in any and every State where consti-
tutionally established, not only is the whole
strength of the nation, both legally, and
therefore morally, bound to protect it, but
that it shall be so protected is the expressed
desire of an overwhelming majority of the
whole American people.-Mssouri Repu0ii-
can.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

PRoFlrABLE.-The entire expense Of run
ming the Sacramento Valley Railroad between
Sacramento and Folsom, says the Union, for
the month of October, is reported to be 50, 4522
so the entire receipts, S2S, $50 05: profits for
the- month, SlS.367 25. If California rail
roads pay as these figures indicate, why
should not California capitol build more of
them ? and if this road pays so we'll why
should not the managers keep the street cross
mgs in order, according to the terms of the
grant by which they have the use Of the Il
street levee?
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

DtvoRcE--The Sierra Democrat says: A
suit for divorce was co nmenced in the upper
district of Downieville. The Deputy Sheriff
served a summons on the defendant "a case
Of clearly proved desertion. Our colored
friend rolled up his eyes as he looked at the
summon, and says he = What's dis?'' The
Sheriff replied, Its a summons. Your wife
has commenced saitfor divorce and she claims
the young ones and this house, ..WelI >
says our colored friend. "custom's law. Got
to stand it. Dem children she can have
Never claimed 'em no how one belonns IN
Dick, de buck saw man, and'de oder jackson
de barber but de house is mine-I paid for
dc house, and rs gwine to hold on to it,
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

GERMANS IN THE ARNY.-The following is
given as very nearly correct statement of
the number of Germans in the Federal army
from the different sections of the country =
New England, 1000; New York. u 600: New
Jersey, 1000; Pennsylvania. 10000; Ohio,
5000: Indiana, 1000: Illinois, 6000 Mis-
souri,, $4,000: Minnesota, 500; Wisconsin,
1000: Michigan. 1000; Iowa. 1000: Kansas,
500; California and Oregon, 5000: Western
Virginia. 1000; Maryland and District Of
Columbia, 500; kentucky, 500; Delaware,
100. Total. 80, 400.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

TAKING LIBEETiES-We find the fallow;nr
in the San Francisco dispatch to the Maryss,
Vile Appeal:
George W. Bowie and Tevis Topman pass
Ell examination before the Military Board
and Will take command immediately"
lewis Iopman, we suppose means Ferris
forman. The mistake is not SO bad after all
Tor forman is generally the top man when
any office is in question: Union.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

LETTERS IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES-Th
number of letters in the alphabets of differ
ent languages is as follows: English, 70 /:
French. p; German, 20; Spanish. 81 !:
Dutch. % Greek, "a Latin, 25 Sclayonic.
%; Arabic. 2s Persian. 81; Turkish. 3S /:
Georgian, So; the Hebrew. Chaldaie. Svriac
and Samaritan. each %: Coptic. 81: Sans
crit. so; Bengalese. 2l Burmese, To-
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

ONCE FOR ALL--A traveller stopped at a
tavern. and was much taken with the landla.
dy, neat, pretty and agreeble Quakeress,
When about to depart, he declared he could
not 60 without a kiss. The pretty Quakeress
blushed, as she replied, with great eireum.
spection:
FRIEND, thee must not do so impudeni
! a thing: BY heavens. will = ercIa;a, u
the traveller. Well. as thee has sworn !
will notsbe the cause of thee breaking tIh;n. III
oath, nalvely answered the blushing landladr
but thee must not make practice of T.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

PALPABLE TRUru.-The Louisville .Jaurnal
truly asserts One thing is as clear as the
light of day. Two such Governments a.
those Of the United States and of the Soutb-
ern coniederacy cannot exist side by side in
this country. Either the one or the other
must so down. No truth under Heaven or
IN Heaven is more indispatable than that.
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

The Richmond Examiner of November tth
says: The work on the 81 Merrimacu is s,;il
incomplete, and there are great conn laints af
mperiectIon OF iron work as furnished bv ,ha
foundries md adds that it is certainly /; ', sb
time she was completed. ~ gu
The correspondent of the Examines 49,.
plains that Governor Letcher. who b.J '.i I'm
ed the Peninsula. to look after the s;t,,a.:
had done nothing on arriving there INT bt'oa ~, !,
hog. fish and drink. As eat
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16
COMMISSION AND PURCHASING
Ascent,
SAN FRANCISCO.

ORDERS FOR THE PURCHASE OF MER-
~ ehandize and articles of every description are
solicited by the undersigned.
residence in this city of over ten years, snd an
experience in the business of nearly the same length
of time, considered sufficient to warrant tho
confidence of persons in the country who occasion
ally require to make purchases here, through tho
agency of reliable party or 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 effort shall hc
spared to execute their commissions satisfactorily.
All Orders must be accompanied with the Cash or
City Reference.
Those desiring information concerning the under
signed referred to
VIM T. Coleman & Co., San Francisco.
J. III. Coghill 4 Co.,
C. Lar gley, Druggist, +"
Flint. Peabody & Co., I"
Ira p Rankin. +"
Ross. Dempster & Co.,
j. Anthony & Co., Jnion Office, Sacra-
mento City.
And to the proprietors of the Shasta
COURIER.
NB.-0rders for Machinery, Pianofortes, Melo-
deons, Sewing Machines, Watches, Jewelry, &C.,
will be attended to by competent judges,
l.. p. FISHER,
Commission and Purchasing Agent.
629 Washington street. up stairs,
Opposite Magrire's Opera House, San Francisco.
ap27
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

WIRE BENDING.-An Iowa man has invent.
ed machine to be attached to any mower or
reaper. which. with the attendance of one
man, will bind grain with wire as fast as
cut
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16
SAN FRANCISCO ADVERTISEMENTS.
A NEW PRINCIPLE.
WHITES PATENT LEVER TRUSSES
...AND...
ABDOMINAL SUPPORTERS.
For the retention and radical cure of Hernia
or Rupture, &c.

TuVHESE instruments are radically different in
III principle and construction, from all others,
embracing what ir valuable in them all with new
principles of vast utility.
The Bow used in these instruments is not a
spring but soft iron, to be shaped ut pleasure to fit.
The Pad works over a knuckle, giving at the same
time an inward and upward motion whereby not
more than half the usual pressure is required. and
very little on the back. 1t cannot work up or out
of place the pad-bearing is changed, or the pad
sefchanged in shape size with very little trou
Bile. These instruments the smallest, lghtest,
most endurabe, (no rust )most ceanly. the cases
be taken off and washed at pleasure, and will do
for relief and radical than any others
offered to the public.
Send for a descriptive pamphlet
EDWARD HALL & CO.,
Wholesale Druggists,
SIS Washington street, San Francisco,
Sole Agents for the Pacific coast. au3:3m
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

"That trouble in m yThroat, (for
S which the 50 Troches" are a spccific)
having made me often a mere
ES whispcrer.' n. p. WILLIS.
s. recommend their use to Pm
S Lie SPEAKERS"
REV. E. II. CHAPLIN.
ES "IIavc proved dextremely service
able for IloARsENEss."
S REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER
almost instant relief in the dis
IGS tressing labor of breathing peculiar
to ASTHMA"
S REV. A. C. EGGLESON.
"Contain no Opium or anything
Is injurious" DIR. A. A. HAYES,
Chemist, Boston.
s "a simple and pleasant combi-
nation for CorGHs, &C."
ES DIR. G. +. BIGELOW.
Boston.
s Beneficial in BRONCHITIS
DIR J. T. W. LANE,
ES Bosfon.
"I have proved them excellent
s for WnoorISG CoUGH.'
REV. ii. W. WARREN,
ES Boston.
Beneficial when compelled to
g speak, suffering from Cold"
REV. S. j. =. ANDERSON,
ES 81. LOUIS.
Effectual in removing Hoarse-
S ness and Irritation of the Throat,
so common with SPEAKERS and
ISS SINGERS
Prof. NJ. STACY JOHNSON,
S La Grange. Ga.
Teacher of Mucic, Southern
ES Female College.
"Great benefit when taken before
s and after preaching. as they pre-
vent Hoarseness. From their past
ES effect. l think they will be of perma-
nent advantage to me-"
S REV. E. ROWLEY, A. NJ.
President of Athens College, Tenn.
ES 10 Sold by all Druggists. -3N
GTON & co, Wholesale Druggists.
gents, San Francisco. o12:3m
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

MoTIo FOR T.iIoRs---.As We sew so sb.u
We rip - snaii
The Shasta courier., 1861-11-16

PUBLIC SPEAKERS and SINGERS.
Few aware of the importance of checking a
Cough or Common Cold in its first stages that
which in the beginning would yield to a mild rem
edy, if neglected. soon attacks the Lungs. "Bro,rn
bronchial Troches,' containing demulcent ingre-
dients, allay pulmonary and Bronchial Irritation.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-03-24

HENRY C. SPALDISG,i
No. As Cedar St, n. Y
Dear Sir:
Inclosed find twenty five cents, (25) for which send
box of "Cephac Pills.. Send to address of Rev VIM
C. Filler, Reynoldsburg, Franklin Co., Ohio.
Your Pills cork like ckdrm-cUre Headache al
most rlstqntcr. Truly yours, WM. G. FILLER.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-03-24

Passengers or Lake Steamers. leaving cincin-
natl at 7:3o A. n have hours in Cleveland
Leaving at 10 A. n. make direct connections
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PURIFY THE BLOODi
NR. WEAVER'S CANKER AND SALT RHEI

mr. WEAvER'S CANKER AND SALT RHEUM SY-
~ RUP, for the cure Of Cankcr, Salt Rheum, Fry.
speas crofuous Diseases, Cutaneous Eruptions Sore
Eyes, and every kind of Disease arising from inn
pure state of the Blood THE MOST EFFECTIVE
BLOOD PURIFIER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
II Is the Prescription Of Educated Physician, and
all who are afflicted with any of the above named dis:
eases Should use it without delay 1t will drive the
diseases from the system, and when once out the
skin few applications of DIR. wEAyER'S CERATE, or
OINTMENT, and you have permanent cure
The CERATE has proved itself to be the best Oint-
ment ever invented and where used it has never
been known TO fai! Of permanent cure Of Old
Sores letter and Ringwom Scald Head Chblains and
Frost Bites, Barbers Itch Chapped Cracked Hands
or Lips, Botches or Pifnplcs on the Face. And for
SORE NIPPLES AND SORE EYES the Cerate is the only
thing required to II should be kept in the house
Of every family. 4.
Price Syrup 81 Cerate Of Is cents per bottle Di-
rections accompany each bottle Sold by most Medi-
cine Dealers. N. HARRIS CO., Proprietors,
For the Western and Southern States; Cincinnati,
To whom orders for the above Medicines may be ad.
dressed XII sf - -
Sold Wholesale and Retail by W. W. Berry Demo,
vile, Ewin, Pendleton Co, Rains Brown, and all
other Druggists Of Nashville, Tenn & Mansfield Co.
Memphis, Tenn; Edward Wilder Co., Louisville Ky,
J. Wright ( Co., New Orleans, La aug20-d4w1y
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DR. Henry ANDREW the o,,s,n., ,nv,n,or /,

~ former aud founder Of new prncipesjD the prac-
tice Of Medicine, can be consulted by letter. by ad
dressing him at New o. leans, La and Medicine viii
De forwarded by mail (ee Of charge for trial. 70 any
Post Once in the Union DR. ANDREW offers 10 al
cases o. Consumption and Nervous Debility, Scrofua
ana an Rheumatic, Paralytic and Mercuria Affections
diseases Of the Hip and SPINE, Kidneys and Bladder
Gravel Dropsy &c-, safe and speedy cure &fcnals
Weakness Suppression irregularities, and all disease<
Of the Womb, Structures In the Urethra, Fstula
f1fes rencdied without the instruments o. band
ages After twenty years Of personri md professional
exprenoe, no can state that person In tbs world
can cure those diseases with mineral vegetable med
tc1ne alone There never wss chrunie dineaee
xcafed right o. properly - the Clarity hospital n
this ety. and 9he hend and prjde Il nsdina1 cny
have charge Of it, He 49, nlnsrnI nrfi>ins. Hs
xo9d1ee n919e the most debilitafed - tE eToat
nndesston g hea1th while taking ths nsdtcns = 4
e09peFio6 thsiF nym, uey1e-v3Da'
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Jasper Branch Railroad.
OFFICE NASH. & Char. RAILROAD Co.

October 8, 1859. d.
DY order OF the Board of Directors made the
II stock of the Company subscribed for building a
branch road from Bridgeport to Jasper payable TO the
Treasurer Of this Company follows
One dollar On each share the LIST of November OF
1859, and two dollars each share the LIST day OF
December, 1859, January, February, March, April
May, June, July, August, September, October
and November, 1860.
Payment may be made to jackson Pryor, at Jas
per, to the Treasurer al his Office In Nashville.
Promptness in meeting these calls is requested OF
subscribers Of stock the of the road
depends exclusively the provided specifically
for that purpose.
oct4-d WA. GIEAyES, Treasurer.
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SUCH NEWS WE ARE RECEIVING DAILY

FULL DIRECTIONS ACCOMPANYING EACH BoTTLL
They sold by Medicine dealers generally
Price rs cts. per bottle.
J. n. HARRIS CO.. Cincinnati ONO
Proprictors for the Southern and Western States to
whom address all orders
For sale wholesale and retail by W W Berry & De.
moville Ewin, Pendleton Co. and Rains & Brown
Nashville, Tenn; s. Mansfield & Co., Memphis, Tenn.
], Wright Co., and Scovil Means, New Orleans:
D. Park, Cincinnati, Ohio; Ewaod Wilder, Louisville
KY. oct6-dAw-ly
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Express to Clarksville.

THE Southern Express Company respectfully an
Il nounce that they are now running MESSENGERS
through to GAINESVILLE via. E. & K and II. C. & l. Rail
cars and prepared TO forward to that place and
tervenng points with promptness and dispatch all
goods usually sent by express They will also forward
te all places stage routes connecting with the above
Railroads. Bills notes, drafts, ETC., collected and
prompt return made.
6E- Office No. 10 Public Square.
feb17-Q A. K HOLT, SUPERINTENDENT
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Nashville & Decatur Railroad.
49, a1s -
Complete from Nashville TO Decatur

DoUBLE DAILY TRAINS WILL COMMENCE RUN
L. ming from Nashville to Decatur, Grand Junction,
Memphis, Jackson, Tenn, Canton jackson, Mss ana
New Orleans on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2Ist, 1850
making close connections North and South.
The shortest and most reliable route passing through
the finest portions of Tennessee and Alabama having
gentiemanly conductors, and making quick time. No
Line offer greater Inducements 70 travellers than
this route
vile at A. NJ, and 630P. II. Arrive at Nashville
10 a NJ, and ]: 20 p. n.
Freight Trans leave Nashville at SIS A. NJ Arrive
at Nashville at $50 P. II. W. ON. PERKINS,
nov17-d General Superintendent
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EXPRESS FREIGHT.

TINE Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company
l. in connection with the Roads below, are running
Express Freight Train from Charleston and Sayan-
nah TO Nashville, slower speed, but with the
certainty their passenger Trains No delay ofreghts
by this route L. W. COLE,
jan27-tf Supt
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Rates ON Flour Reduced.

n VIE Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad viii receive
i At Nashville, Wartrace, Sheibyvile and Stations
y. s G. r. R. between Nashville and Wartrace and
give through receipts for Flour by Car load Charles
ton or Savannah at One Dollar per barrel through.
E W. COLE,
Supt of Transportation n. & C. R r.
ian22- If %