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The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19

The DoG.-The man who conld. tire of
reading Fred. Cozzens' description of his dog,
must have nature deficient in the sublime
ingredients. 70 those who have never read.
or want to read it again, we present it.:
A dogs a good thing to have in the coun
try. ! have one that l have raised from a
pup. He is u good stout fellow, and a
hearty barker and feeder. The man of
whom bought him said he was thorough
bred, but he begins to have a mongrel look
about him. He is good watch dog though
the moment he sees any suspicious person
about the premises, he comes right into the
kitchen and gets behind the stove. First
We kept him in the house. and he scratched
all night to get out. Then we turned him
out. and be scratched all night to get in
Then we tied him up at the back, Of tie
garden, and he howled SO that our neighbor
shot at him twice before daybreak. Finally
we gave him away, and he came back, and
now he is just returning from fit in which
ne has torn up patch that has been sowNn
for our spring radishes.
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19
SHASTA COURIER.
MIR. Lincoln as a Public Speaker.

Moncure ID. Conway, Virginian, in some
Personal recollections of President Lin
coin, /" contributed to an English periodical,
gives the following:
HIS manner of speaking in public was
simple, direct and almost religious lie was
occasionally humorous, but rarely told anec
uotes as he did IN private conversation and
there was no sarcasm, no showing of the
teeth had not listened to him long, on
the occasion to which REFER before l per
celved that there was a certain artistic ability
IN IN him as public speaker, which his au-
olence would least recognize when it was
most employed. Early in the address some
adverse allusion to slavery brought a surge
OF misses, but when it broke at his feet there
was play of a faint smile on his face as he
gathered from it the important knowledge of
the exact proportions of Kentucky, which he
had to deal with on the occasion. have
often wondered that Mr.. Lincoln's power as
an orator-surpassed as it is by that of only
one other American-is so little known or
thought of in Europe and have even found
the impression that he was as speaker,
awkward, heavy any ungrammatical. It.is
singular misiudgment. For terse, well.
pronounced, clear speech for careful and
easy selection of the fit word for the right
place; for perfect tones for quiet, chaste
and dignifed manner-it would be hard to
lind the late Presidents superior
lie said, with an emphasis which made
the proposition seem novel, "Slayery is
wrong t'-thcn came hiss. After mo.
ments pause he continued-each word driv-
en- through and clinched-" 1 acknowledges
that you must maintain your opposition lust
there. if at ALL But | find that every man
comes into the world with a mouth to be fed
and back to be clothed that each has only
two hands and | infer that those hands were
meant to teed that mouth and to clothe that
back. And warn you Kentuckians, that
Whatever institution would fetter those hands
from so doing, violates that Justice which is
the only political wisdom, and is sure to
crumble around those who seek to uphold it.
This lS the constant testimony of the men
who founded this republic 1t was this that
made jefferson tremble for his country when
he remembered that God is Just !; and this
that made your own great statesman, Henry
Clay, pray that his tongue might cleave to
the roof of his mouth ere it voted to carry
slavery into any territory where it did not
exist. Your misses will not blow down the
walls of justice. Slavery is wrong: the
denial of that truth has brought on the angry
conflict of brother with brother; it has kin
died the fires of civil war in Kansas it has
raised the portents that overhang the future
of our nation. And be sure that no COM
promise. no political arrangement with slave
ry will ever last which does not deal with it
as great wrong" The Kentuckians had
nc sibllant arguments to bring forward now.
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19
Who Ranks.

When Gen. Grant was about to leave
washington to enter upon that sublime cam
paign which began with the battle of the
wilderness and ended with the downfall of
the rebellion, he called upon Secretary Stan.
ton to say good bye. The Secretary was anx-
iousiy awaiting him. During the two and
halt years that President Lincoln and Secre.
tary Stanton had managed the Eastern ar
mics 1t was the first point in their plans to
keep Washington heavily garrisoned with
troops. Large bodies of men were stationed
IN the Notifications around the city, and
other large bodies were kept within sup
porting distance. Now that Grant had come
into power. Stanton wanted to see that the
defense OF Washington was not overlooked.
Accordingly, after few preliminaries, the
Secretary said:
(" Well, General, l suppose you have left
US enough men to strongly garrison the
" No." said Grant, coolly e can't do
that"
Why not?' cried Stanton, jumping
nervously about. "Why not why not ?"
Because have already sent the men to
the front" replied Grant. calmly
-" That won't do" cried Stanton, more
nervous than before. ''It's contrary to my
plans; can't allow it. I'll order the men
back"
| shall need the. men there answered
Grant. " and you can't order them back"
Why not?" inquired Stanton again.
Why not F? why not %
" believe that l rank the Secretary in
this matter" was the quiet reply.
Very well, +" said Stanton, little warm
ly "we'll see the President about that. I'll
have to take you to the President.
That's right" politely observed General
Grant the President ranks US both"
Arrived at the White House. the General
and the Secretary asked to see the President
upon important business, and in few mo-
ments the good natured face of Mr.. Lincoln
appeared.
'Well, gentlemen" said the President.
with genial smile, " what do you want with
meW
General said Stanton, stifly, estate
your case."
Grant; g I'm satisfied as it is )" thus out
fanking the Secretary, and displaying the
same strategy in diplomacy as in war.
Well, WELL said the President laugh
ing, " state your case Secretary"
DeeIetdIy Otanton oDeyeu: Ueneral Grant
said nothing: the President listened very
attentively. When Stanton had concluded,
the President crossed his legs, rested his ell
bow on his knee, twinkled his eyes quantity
and said
g Now, Secretary, you know we have been
trying to manage this army for two years
and half, and you know we have not done
much with it. We sent over the mountains
and brought Mister Grant, as Mrs. Grant
calls him, to manage it for us, and now l
guess we had better let Mister Grant have
his own way.
From this decision there was no appeal
Nobody ranked the President So General
Grant went off with the army and Secretary
Stanton went back to his office.
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19


A. WARD ON THINGS AT RIcHMoND.-Arte.
mus Ward is out in an amusing letter
from Richmond" in which he thus dis.
courses of the union sentiment there:
There is rarely great deal of union
sentiment in this city. see it on every
hand. | met man to-day-I am not at
liberty to tell his name-but he is an old
and Influential citizen of Richmond and
sez he, 6 Why, wev's been fighting agin
the old flag! Lor' bless me, how ngular p
He then borrer'd five dollars of me and
burst into a flood of teers. Sed another, Ia
man of standin' and formerly bitter rebuel,
" Let us at once stop this efushun of bud.
The old flag is good enough for me."-
:. Sir" he added, you are from the north.
Have you doughnut or piece of custard
pie about you?" told him no, but knew
man from Vermont who had just organized
sort of restaurant, whar he could 20 and
make very comfortable breakfast on New
England rum and cheese He borrowed
fifty cents of me, and asked me to send him
VIM. Lloyd Garrison's ambrotype as soon
as got home he walked off Said another.
" There's bin tremendous union feelin'
here from the first. But we was kept
down by a rain of terror Have you a
dagerretype of Wendell Phillips about your
person and will you lend me four dollars
for a few days ill we air once more happy
and united people?"
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19

TURNING GLAss.-Glass may even be
turned in a lathe. Strange as it seems, this
is literally true. No special tools even are
needed; any amateur turner who has opera.
ted on either of the metals may chuck a
piece of glass on his lathe, and turn it with
the same tools, and in the same way as he
would a piece of steel, only taking care to
keep the chips from his eyes. This strange
discovery was made. almost accidentally, in
the early part of 1860, by one of our most
celebrated mechanical engineers, and might
have been patented, but the inventor con-
tented himself with simply putting it on
record, and generously presented it to the
nation. The consequence was, that no one
cared or thought about it, and the idea has
been suffered to lie nearly barren, though
capable of being turned to account. Let
any amateur mechanic make the experiment,
and he will be surprised at the ease with
which this seemingly. intractable material
may be cut and fashioned according to his
Chambers Journal.
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19

SLIGHTLY CoNDENsED.-The Placerville
Mirror, a paper which has risen from the
ashes of the Placcrville News, thus dishes
out the recent yainglorious manifesto Of Sen.
ator Conness:
=" SENATOR CoNNEss' LETTER.
"Thc following is the distinguished Sen
ator's letter slightly condensed:
' made the Union par.y-the Union par
ty preserved peace in California and saved
the country-therefore I, individually, am
to be credited with the countrv's salvation.
Now amt a good boy?
JOHN CONFESS"
The following we give as the substance of
"Johnny's Letter" to appear in the spring
of 1867.
Having made the Union party expected
to rule it. The Union men not consentipp
to my rule, have considered it necessary to
bust it up, and have instructed nv AGENTS to
that effect. | shall proceed to form new
party of material more pliable for my pur.
poses. and shall spew the old party out of nv
mouth as having outlived its usefulness.
The Independent copied the above. There
is question of veracity now between Con.
ness and Bishop, bolter candidate for District
Attorney in Tehama county. Bishop says
he made the Union party and he is going to
burst it up. Conness and Bishop should
quietly arrange this matter.
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19

The LAUGH OF WoMAN.-A woman has no
natural gift more bewitching than sweet
laugh. 1t is like the sound of flutes on the
water. 1t flows from her in clear; spark
ling rill; and the heart that hears it feels as
if bathed in the cool exhilarating spring.
Have you ever pursued an unseen fugitive
through the trees, led on by a fairy laugh,
now here, now there now lost, now found
We have. And we are pursuing that wan
dering voice to this day. Sometimes it
comes to US in the midst Of care OF sorrow,
or irksome business and then we may turn
away and listen, and hear itringing through
the room like a silver bell, with power to
scare away the evil spirits of the mind
How much we owe to this laugh 1t turns
the prose to poetry; it filings showers of SUM-
shine over the darkness of the wood in which
we are travelling it touches with light even.
our sleep, which is no more the image of
death, but is consumed with dreams that are
the shadows of Immortality.
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19

CURE FOR THE SMALL Pox.-The following
prescription is vouched for by the Eastport
(Me.) Sentinel. as cure for the small pox.
1t is worth trying:
sGiye to the patient two tablespoonsful of
a mixture of hop yeast and water sweetened
with molasses so as to be palitable, equal
parts of each three times day. Diet-boil-
ed rice and milk, and toasted bread moisten-
ed with water, and without butter. Eat no
meat. Give catnip tea as often as the pa
tient is thirsty. Give physic when neces-
srry. If the above treatment is strictly fol-
lowed no marks of small pox will then re-
main.'
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19

THE man with :" IthuriePs spear" has
fallen to work discussing the difference be.
tween military law and martial law. The
difference is pretty generally understood
Either law affords little chance for assassins
and traitors to escape, and so the Examiner
is opposed to them.-S. F. Flag.
Sir you should remember the resolutions
of 1913. You should remember the writ of
ha5eas corpus, sir !! Yes, sir the wri. Of
ha5eas corpus by thunder.-GoH H'll
Nesps
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19
The Primary Election System.

To-day primary election will be held in
San Francisco for delegates to State Ju-
dicial Convention, to make a nomination for
the Supreme Bench, in place of Hon. 5. w.
Sanderson whose term is closing; and also
delegates to County Convention, to NOM
mate Legislative ticket to represent the
City and County of San Francisco in the
approaching Legislature. From the bottom
OF our heart we hope it will be the last pri-
mary election that will ever be held in the
County For, whatever sins of omission or
commission John B. Weller may have been
guilty of, when Governor of the State of
California, his one act, in recommending that
primary elections be legalized, should cover
a multitude OF those sins, 1t was an en-
lnentiy sound recommendation, and one, ifit
had been acted upon and put in force long
since, would have saved the State much bad
legislation, and many of its prominent places
disgrace and degradation. Certainly we do
not use too harsh term, in thus expressing
ourselves, when we present in illustration
the scenes of disorder and bloodshed. which
have characterised several of the assemblages
which have lately sprung into life By means
of the primary system. We never have be.
lieved the system was an honest, fair ex-
preston of popular will, and we have always
advocated that the dictates of common Justice
demanded that it should be legalized, to give
it fairness, stability and character. The
circumstances which have lately transpired
in several localities in the State have
brought SO vividly before the public eye the
bad elements of the system, that the demand
is becoming universal for radical change;
either an entire adjustment of the whole
arrangement, or placing around it such
guards by legislative enactment, as to render
it unobjectionable. All good men must GER
tainly see the necessity of it, for, as matters
are conducted now, the evil effects arising
from the system are SO palpably brought into
view that the vital Importance of an entire
re- organization becomes more deeply i'm.
pressed upon the minds of the peoples f.
SPIRIT ofthe Times.
The legislator who shall draft law that
will work harmoniously, legalizing conyen-
tions and primary elections-such law as
will be sufficiently popular and just to in
sure its observance or enforcement of its
penalties, will have immortalized himself;
and the State that first places such law on
its statute books, will have taken step in
progress and morality far in advance of her
sisters.
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19

JOSH BILLINGS ON MsRRIAoE.-You ask
me which IL the most best, the married or
the single condishun ? Most everybody, at
some time in their life, haz tried the single
state; also, most every body has hankered
after the double state, or married condisbun.
l have tried both states, and am ready tew
sware that if man kan git woman who
kan fri pankakes on both sides without burn
ing them, and don't banker to be a Woman's
kimmitty, the married state is Heven and
arth awl to onst. But after awl the married
state is a good deal like falling ont of
cherry tree; if person don't happen tew
GIT hurt it u god reson for not trieine il
again.
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19

ENLARcED.- The Red Bluff Independent has
been enlarged nearly double its former size,
and is otherwise greatly improved. We wish
friend Chalmers much success, but think he
is wrong in sustaining bolter ticket for
county officers: All good Union papers should
stand by the regular organization. Ereka
Journal.
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19

All owners and claimants of any right, title or
interest IN any of the property described above,
are notined to appear in said Court at the Court
House In the town of Shasta, in said Coun.
ty, within eight weeks Of the date hereof. and an
swer the complaint SO fled against such property.
or Judgment will be rendered against such proper-
ty for the sale thereof and for the relief prayed for
in such complaint.
Given under my hand this 1st day of July, A. D.
1863. II. A. CURTiSS.
District Attorney Shasta County.
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19

UNEQUAL AND UNJUST. Real estate is sup.
posed to be assessed atits proportionate value,
aud the man in possession is compelled to
pay whatever taxation is levied thereon. In
case the holder of such property borrows
money secured by mortgage upon it, the
holders of the mortgage, by clause in the
instrument, compel him to pay whatever
taxes are levied on that mortgage. 1t works
hus: A man owns lot worth say $40. 900.
he borrows $1,000 for which he mortgages
his lot; it is assessed to him at SIC, 900, and
the mortgage is assessed at its said S..
and the poor fellow actually owning but S.,
600 in the property, has to pay taxes on SIS.
000. Now. this is all wrong; the owner
should be allowed to deduct from the value
of his real estate whatever he owes secured
by mortgage, and the holder of security
should pay for his part: and the law should
be altered to effect this result without delay,
as an act Of justice clearly demanded by
every principle of equitv.-Fiag.
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19

GEO. B. VAN Nest recently arrived at San
Jose, from Mexico, where--at Rosario, fifty
miles from Mazatian-he was engaged in
experimenting cotton culture. He informs
the San Jose Mercury that business enter.
prises are uncertain, on account of the un-
settled condition of the country. Wages for
field laborers are fifty cents per day. The
men are very lazy and hard to CONTROL
They steal for the very love of Stealing
The gentleman brought forty five bales of
cotton up with him, of staple equal to the
best Georgia upland cotton, grown on fifty
acres of ground. He thinks the country
needs to be regenerated with American Ia.
bor-Erdnainer.
Or better, that benefcent institution
The Shasta courier., 1865-08-19

Or better, that benefcent institution
slavery ?-ehl
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-06-03
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Going A head.

Going Ahead.
Ihear the far-of voyager's horn,
see the Yankee trail
Hrs foot is OF every mountain pass,
On every stream his sail.
He's whistiing round St. Mary. Falls
Upon the loaded tain,
Hes leaving the pictured rock,
His fresh tobacco-stain-
hear the mattock in the mines,
The ex-stroke in the dell,
The ciamor from the Indian lodge,
The Jesuit's chapel bell
see the swarthy trapper come
From MissIssippis sprinys,
and wsr-chiefs with their painted brows,
And crests of eagles wings.
Behind the sqaaw's light birch canoe.
The steamer smokes and raves,
And city lots staksd for sale
Above Old Indian graves
BY forest. lake, and waterfall.
I the pe,iler's show,
The mighty mingIing with the mean,
The lofty with the low.
hear the tread Of pioneers
or nations yet to be,
The first low wash Of where soon
Shall roll a human
The rudimeuts o. empire here
Are plastic yet and warm;
The chaos OF a mighty world
l. rounding into form.
E.ch rude and iostIing fragment
It's fitting place shall find
The material or a State,
Its muscle and its mind.
The western-stilI the star which leads
The New World in its train,
Has tipped with Gre the icy SPEARS
or many a mountain chain.
The snowy cones Of Oregon
kudled in its way;
And Califcrnia's golden sands
GIeam brighter ray. -Whiftier.
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Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-28

& . L
John B. Haskin, who avows himself
the. author Of the platform recently
adopted by the Democratic Convention
Of New York, seems to have poor
opinion of some, if not most, OF his po-
litical associates in the other States. He
designates their political sentiments as
"the Bourbon VallandighaHaism Of
Ohio, the Jerry Black Bachan0nisHs o.
PennsylUansa, the Camden and AmbOy
Rip Van Winkleism of Nete Jersey 7
and afirms that he would have none Of
il in the New York platform. He de-
sired the Democracy of New. York to
give "President Johnson sincere and
hearty endorsement TO make him the
great leader of the people and Of the
Democratic party, as his great proto-
type, Andrew jackson, was Of old Ia
other words, be desired them to 60 over
to the Republicans horse foot and dra-
goons But the latter party don't want
them. e4 eA4 g
Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-28

The late rebel Secretary Of State,
Judah P Benjamin, has published let
ter in the London Times, denying that
the rebels treated Federal prisoners With
cruelty, and vindicating jeff Davis from
the charge Of inhamanity. The state
ment Of a man who deliberately per-
idred himself, By taking an oath to sup
port the Government he designed be-
trayipg and destroying, win be taken
Ohly fOr what II is worth even in Eng
land The world has so tar learned the
lying spropensities Of the rebels, as to
place no confidence in any thing they
may say. Benjamin ought BY all means,
to have his frss name changed to Judas,
and ever hereafter sign himself in that
way.
Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-28

Ia regard to dry goods, the New York
Tribune Of Saturday says: Domestic
goods are still lower, and for New York
mills 55 is the price, against 65 last
week. All grades are dull, and buyers
are looking for still further reductions.
Imported goods are steady, with good
kns5aaaa"
Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-28

Hon. Samuel o Dsily, recently mem
Der Of Congress from Nebraska Terri.
tory-fofmerly 3 resident Of Tndiaaspo-
lie, and an active Know Nothing, in
those days-died at New Orleans on the
lIth inst
Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-28

Gen. Benton, who was nominated BY
the Iowa Democrats as their candidate
for Governor, insists that be is not a
Democrat, and yet the Democrats are
oil supporting him. How have Ne
mighty fallen, when the uDterrified De-
mocraey Of New York and Iowa areso
subjugAted a. 70 endorse Republican,
Administrstion, and nominate and sup.
port Republicans as their candidates
Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-28

The Concord, Mass, National Bank
was robbed of 100000 In broad day
light, Monday. The cashier was out at
dinner, and probably neglected to lock
tha safe.