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The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

Be VIGILANT.-Although the Presidential
aspirations of Horatio Seymour have been
rudcly nipped in the bud by the defeat of his
party in the great States of Pennsylvania
and Ohio, there is still work to be done in
this State. The Democracy will make stub
born fight to maintain their power in Cali
fornia, and will relax no effort to accomplish
that object. The Haights, Holdens and
Fitzseralds are not going to let this State
SKIP through their fingers if they can possibly
avoid it. To carry the State for Grant and
Coifax 1T will be necessary for Union men to
use all possible exertion, and vigilantly watch
all points of advantage. Union nenl be
alert and vigilant, and in November we can
telegraph East that we have met the enemy
and they are ours"
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

Drowned IN WELL-A MOTHER AND
CHrLD.-The Examiner, October 18th, saws :
most heart-rendng accident occurred
about 3 O'Clock yesterday afternoon, on the
Potrero Nuevn, near the intersection of
Fifteenth Avenue and the Potrero and Bay
View Railroad. A Mr. Sherwood, team
ster who had his leg broken some weeks ago,
resides there and only able to hobble about.
In the afternoon Mrs Sherwood left the
house to visit some neighbors taking her
little child, who was about twenty months
old, she did not return at the time appointed,
and her husband hobblel out to see if they
were all right. To his utter horror, he dis
covered that the newly-dug well, the top of
which came even with the ground, was un-
covered, and the boards laying around in
disorder. His wife and child had fallen into
the we'll. The bodies have been taken out,
the mother at the bottom the child on the
surface.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24
PROBATE NOTICE,

TN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
il Jacob Bicking, deceased-In Probate Court.
County of Shasta, State of California.
In pursuance of an order of this Court, duly
made an entered on the 2Ist day Of October, A. D.
1868, notice is hereby given that Monday, the 9th
day OF November, 1868, at 10 o'clock A. NJ. of said
day, at the Court Room of said Court, at the Court
House, in the town and county of Shasta. be ap-
pointed for hearing the application of Salome
Bieklng praying that document now on file in
this Court, purporting to be the last will and esta-
ment of Jacob Bicking, deceased, be admitted to
probate and letters testamentary be issued thereon
to ID. D. Harrill and Henry Habich, who are
named therein as executors, at which time and
place all persons interested may appear and contest
the same.
Attest: GRANT T. TAGGART. Clerk.
Shasta, October 81, 1853. o24
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24
Republican Majorities
S(l&.
Pure Blood. Muddy Water.

Pure blood may be compared to pure water, and
impure blood to muddy water. If you pass muddy
water through muslin you soil it continue the
process and you cover with thick mud. Blood
passes through all parts of the body if good and
pure it nourishes and cleanses the parts it goes
through. If impure it leaves more or less dirt be-
hind it. BRANDRHTH's PILLS are the medicine
wanted, because they made purpose to take
dirty humors out of the body, and they never fail
These pills scrofula, even of forty years
standing; they have cured eases of rheumatism
when the patient had not walked for four years
of paralysis where the legs had lost their power of
movement for seventeen years. The evidence in
these cannot he disputed. Is there town in
the world where such evidence exists not? If
BRANDRETH's PILLS have been much used there
we know that such evidence can be found
But be sure and see upon each box my name in
the Government stamp, in white letters.
B. BRANDRETH, Brandreth House, New York.
Sold by all druggists. s26
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

CALLED. Hon. J. K. Luttrell, of Fort
Jones, called upon us on Monday, and we
found him to be an affable and agreeable
gentleman, although Democrat Mr.. Lut-
trell is too intelligent and gentlemanly to find
congenial companionship in the ranks of the
present Democratic party, and we hope he
will soon see the error of his way, and leave
the doomed organization which is bound to
sirk under the weight of its manifold iniqui-
+,ac
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

RUNAwAY.-Mr. L. C. Woodman came
into town on Friday of last week, and drove
his buggy up in front of Richards shop for
some trifing repairs. He commenced un-
htching the horses from the vehicle, and got
them detached with the exception of one
trace, when the horses started ahead. The
one fastened to the buggy became frighten-
ed and started up Main street, dragging the
| buggy after him. The animal finally ran
into Scott's corral, smashing the buggy
against the gate post, and damaging it con.
siderably.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

COULDN'T SWALLOW IT.-Gen. Rowe. of
Marysville, recently made sreech in
Colusa, in which he took the ground of the
War Democracy against the Radicals, and
argued the case from the stand point of Ak
tell. Casseriy & Co. The Democracy of that
burg, who are of the regular Ku Klux stripe
got highly disgusted and were ready to tos:
him in n blanket. @ Durn sich old Abo
litionist a-comin' and tryin to ring hisself in
for Democrat, they said
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

N STATE Of John C. Strickland Deceased
IL Notice is hereby given by the undersigned,
ADMINISTRATOR of the above named estate, to the
creditors Of and all persons having claims against
said deceased, to exhibit the same, with the
necessary vouchers, within ten months from the
first publication Of this notice, to the undersigned
at his residence, Thomas Ferry Pitt river, Town.
ship No. 4, Shasta county.
A. THOMAS, Administrator
October Is, 1868. oil
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24
DIsrILLER's LlcENsEs.-The follow will

DIsTILLER's S LIcENsEs.-The follow will
explain itself:
UNITED STATET INTERNAL REVENUE,
Assessors Office. 4th district, CAL,
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 10TH 1868
DEAR SIR:-I am happy to inform you
that through the intervention of our Sena.
tors at Washington, the following dispatch
has been received from the Hon. Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue:
- Distllers of brandy from cranes, peaches
and apples are exempted from the payment
of any special license tax"
Very respectfully,
THos. j. BLAKENEY, Assessor.
To JOHN j. COMFY, Assistant Assessr.
This action on the part of Commissioner
Rollins, who is a Republican. shows that he
is mindful of the interests of the fruit growers
of this State, and leaves certain Democrats,
wha have endeavored to make capital out OF
the four hundred dollar clause of the Reve.
nue. Law, in decidedly ridiculous position.
The new Revenue Law of Congress has
greatly reduced the tax on liquors, and Dem
ocratic misrepresentation on that point is
now played out.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24
How Refreshing

Is the fragrance of newly culled flowers
With many, the indulgence in this exquisite
luxury is difficult, if not impossible. TO all
such we offer Murray & Lanman's Florida
Water; it is the concentrated fragrance of
the most delicate and rarest floral beauties ;
although, unlike them, it will neither fade
nor wther.
ET As there are counterfeits, buyers
should always ask for the Florida Water
prepared by the sole proprietors, Lanman &
Kemp, New York.
For sale by L. Welendorf, druggist,
Shasta. $40
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

MAN bearing the name of John Colin, a
native of Ireland, aged forty years, came out
from Philadelphia in March last, and wrote
to his wife that he was engaged in cutting
cord wood in Sonoma county. At his request
she came out in June to join him, but is un-
able to obtain any tidings of him or his fate
since his last letter. The press of this State
will confer great favor upon worthy and
industrious woman by publishing this item,
and the request that any person having
knowledge of her husband would address a
letter to Hannah Colin, Napa City, or the
editor of the Napa Register.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

GARFIELD.-Hon. S. Garfield, of Washing
ton Territory, spoke to large and appreci-
ative audience, in this place. on the evening
of the 10th inst. His speech was the
ablest, most logical and convincing delivered
here since the opening of the campaign. Let
the Union people below make every effort to
secure him large audiences, as he is very ef-
fective before the people, and calculated to
do much good for our party.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24
j. Q. ADAMs.-Thc Reno Crescent goes

j. Q. ADAMs.-Thc Reno Crescent goes
after j. @. Adams as follows:
The Democrats are publishing John
Quincy Adams letter, accepting the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor of Massa.
chusetts. All that gives his words any sig
nificance is the fact that his grandfather was
John Quincy Adams and his great grand
father John Adams of revolutionary memory.
The stock of native horses through Mexico
and California, sprang from those turned out
by Cortez. The original stock were thoroug-
bred barbs from Spain but by too close
breeding their brains have been partially
destroyed, and the result is the bucking mus
tang.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24
REDEMPTION FUND.

NOTICE is hereby given that sealed proposals,
directed to the undersigned, for the surrender
Of County Warrants, will be received up to the last
day Of the next regular meeting of the Board of
Supervisors.
e,. a. 1898 "a
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

EARrHovAKE.-A telegraphic dispatch re-
ports severe shock of earthquake at San
francisco, Oakland, and other points on the
Bay, on Wednesday A number of buildings
were partially shaken down in San Francisco
and nine persons killed. The shock was felt
at Sacramento and other places in the lower
Sacramento Valley.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

SuccEssPuL.-John Wilcox, of Salt Creek,
last week returned from a hunting tour in
tho mountains of Klamath, Trinity and Hum
boldt bringing with him fifty odd deer skins
and six bear skins.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24
SETTLE UP.

DERsONs KNOWING THEMSELVES IN
Il debted to the undersigned, either by note or
book account, are requested to pay up immediate
ly, or legal steps will be taken to compel settle
ment- SAMUEL RICHARDS.
81 asta, October ], 1868.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

GREAT WORDS OF GREAT MEN,
"Tete d'armee. "-Napoleon.
/" / still live."- Webster.
This is the last of earth. ."-J O. adam,
Let US. have peace. Grant
"Lesh AXE rink "-Blair.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

PIcrUREs.-J. B. Higinbotham desires to
inform the public that he will remain at his
gallery, in this place, for few weeks, for the
purpose of accommodating all who desire
photographs, ambrotypes, etc.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

GoRHAM.-The speech delivered by Hon.
George c. Gorham, at Petaluma, few even
ings ago, is described as being the most pow
erful, eloquent and convincing ever made in
that place. Union men were electrified with
enthusiasm and even Democrats were seen to
applaud. Let everybody make it a special
point to turn out and hear this eloquent
champion of freedom in this place tonight.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

On THE DANcE.-A San Francisco dispatch
to the Reporter says: 'Kewen is waltzing
into the Radicals" This we believe to be
true. Kewen is good at dancing. He danced
from the Wing party into the Know Moth
ings, and thence into the Democracy. But
he will never dance at the Inauguration ball
of Seymour and Blair. That's one consola.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

EDIroR. VIM. Irwin, the gentle
manly and urbane editor of the Yreka Union,
called upon us this week. Editing Demo.
cratic paper must be hard work nowadays,
but Mr.. Irwin appears to stand up under it
pretty well.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

MiLLvILLR.-On the 17th inst. Hons. S
oarheid and L. B. Miner addressed the peo.
pie OF Millville and vicinity. A large and
enthusiastic audience was present, and Gar.
fields speech made a very favorable impres.
sion.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

HooKEK.-General Hooker, the hero of
Lookout Mountain, has been placed on the
retired list, with the full pay of Major
General. His bodily infrmities, superin-
duced by wounds received during the war,
rendered him unfit for military service
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

BLIND TRoUpE.-The Pioneer Blind Troupe
gave performance here on SATURDAY. night
last. The performance closed with dance.
which was greatly enjoyed by all who par
ticpated in it. This troupe can always de-
pend on a cordial greeting in Shasta.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

A DEMOCRATIC exchange calls Indiana the
Hosier" State. We suppose this is because
its party were soorsted in the late election
there.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24
THE OVERLAND MONTHLY.

vUyHE ABOVE MAGAZINE, PUBLISHED BY
4 A. Roman & Co., of San Francisco, and SO
favorably recommended by the entire Press OF the
State, can be obtained of the undersigned, who IS
agent for this county. Subscription price, 81 per
annum. Subscriptions solicited.
i NJ
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

NEvADA.-The Union party of Nevada is
thoroughly organized, and confident of carry
ing the State for Grant and Colfax by q
handsome majority.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

In TowN.-Thomas B. Merry, Esq, late
of the Red Bluff Independent, bas been stop
ping in town for few days.
The Shasta courier., 1868-10-24

sPEAKING.-Thomas B. Merry will address
the voters of Janesville and vicinity, at Gar
den's store, on Tuesday evening next.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-26
r,,r UUmRUe ABOUT KU-KLUx.

The press of the country is engaged in
discussing the so-called disorders in
Tennessee. An old gentleman with a
shattered nervous system, who had spent
the winter in Nashville in making laws
for this State, being about to return to
his home, some thirty miles distant on
one of our main railroads, having heard
some goblin stories about the nocturnal
capers Of few frolicsome young fellows
among superstitious negroes, took it into
his head, that there was mischief-rebel
mischiei-afOot and forthwith indited
letter to General Thomas, representing
that the State Government was about to
be overthrow, and was then lying de-
feneeless at the mercy Of the Khan called
Ku-klux. Some of the rOysterers, think
ing TO humor the joke by melting further
the silly fears of this gentleman, and
other timid people, commenced to send
out hcrror-breathing hand-bills full OF
rant and fustian, and some of these have
found their way, as much other useless
matter does, into the local columns of the
newspapers. And out of this, this great
mother has come. Ii is too ridiculous to
write about and we have forbOrne to do
40. although the Misrepresentation
which have grown out Of it, have, per-
haps, made it duty to denounce IN pro-
per terms the attempt to magnify this
myth flor all we have any reason to be-
lieve, into a terrible reality, and make II
the ground of further oppression to tins
people. We confess to profound con
tempt for the whole business, and con
clude this reference to it, by saying tina
if there is such an organization In thu
State, there is no proof that it has ye
committed, or that it meditates, an un
lawful act against individuals, or thu
State or Federal governments.
This paragraph is not intended as
reply to the inquiry directed to this pa
per by the Louisville Journal as t.
whether there is a rebellion in Tennes
see, for its article on the subject was evi
IDENTIFY written in ridicule; and the con
ductors of that paper, and every othe
man of sense of every party, at all con
versant with affairs in this State, know
that the Radical alarm about Ku'klu
Klans is all pretense and bosh.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-26
ANOTHER ABORTION.

The first miscarriage of reconstruction
was in the case of Alabama, and now a
similar catastrophe has befallen in ArS
kansas. In the first named State, the ms
famous party patchwork called Con"
stitution, failed of receiving the requisite
number of votes, white and black, re-
CURED by the law of Congress. A large
majority of the white men in that State
we're, of course, DISTINGUISHED, but many
of those registered, and not few negroes
even, abstained from voting, and permits
ted the loathsome thing to die of inan-
ity. The registered voters of Arkan-
sas, however, seeing the effort to galvan"
ize the Alabama Constitution into life
by the powerful Radical battery at
Washington, determined to make sure
work of their monstrosity, and on the
18th instant they killed it dead-very
dead. A clear majority of the registered
population went to the polls and voted il
Il
down positively.
1t is to be hoped that the States yet re
naming, who are required to undergo
this process, will initiate the example o
Arkansas. Doubtless, as in the instance
of Alabama, tn Radical managers il
Congress will invent some plan to declare
all the Constitutions ratified, regardless
of the action of the people If Radica
usurper is to occupy the Presidency, TIN
certainly will be done. 1t is intended t
make the electoral votes Of these State
tally in the Radical count in the college
But, nevertheless, they should be re
jected by the people, and the in
EQUITY made as glaring as possible
The question may arise in futur
as to whether such organization
are States, and whether their acts ar
valid or their representatives legal, an
We hope there may be tribunals ye
to be erected, who will try such question
with Justice.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-26

HAVANA, March 24.-The Heralds spe-
eial from Venezuela says it is stated that
that country is dissatisfied with its govern
ment for its mismanagement, and is sick of
the war. Basicela has been taken by Cen
eraI Manages. General Vale had left for
Tigre. General Calenas had gone to Gala
boso via Barbacoa. At Caracas, on the
7th inst, there were sill some cases OF
yomito. In Accomare the Rebel faction
left their wounded in Cretacs. Guerrillas
are in Laguna. Maradega, Santa Cruz and
Cagua troops cover the communication be-
tween Ariguro and Guaybohza. Reports
from Jamaica cay that the Rebels are
within fifteen miles of Caracas, the CAPT
tai is in a state of siege, and it is unsafe TO
walk about by night. The Secretary of the
French Legation has been shot, through
blunder of some troops and yacht Sulta-
pa party narrowly escaped like fate.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-26
washington items.

WASHINGTON, March 25.-The President
to-day sent a communication to the House,
enclosing brief report from the Secretary
of State, saying, in his opinion it is not COM
patible with public interests, at this time,
to comply with the resolution calling for
copies of all the correspondence, negotia-
tions and treaties that had been made with
any German States, since first of January
last, relating to the rights of naturallzed
citizens.
About fifty Germans, of both sexes, from
Bremen, passed through here yesterday,
ON their way to Virginia. 1t is said they
are pioneers of over 10 900 such emigrants
to be brought to Baltimore during the
year, and from thence to new houses in the
South.
Brig. Gen. Humphreys, Chief Engineer
of the bureau has, through the Secretary Of
War, sent to the House revised estimates
| for the river and harbor improvements Of
| 1869. The amount is $4,012, 500, and say7
| they are as low as is deemed prudent.
| Another communication from the Wal
| Department states that on the 9th of De
cember there were five officers and fifty
| eight men on the island of San Juan.
| The territory disputed between the Uni
ted States and Great Britain is now hello
by joint occupation.
Mr.. Trumbull, in remarks on the veto
said / do not attach the Importance e
this bill which some others do. In my
view it does not take from the Supreme
Court the jurisdiction of any case now be
fore it. The act of 1867 was passed to pro
vide for cases not before provided for Il
relieve persons deprived of their liberty
under the color of State laws in the Rebe
States. and of such acts as the apprentice,
law of Maryland, whereby cOlored citizen
were virtually slaves. 1t was in these case
that the act of 1867 allowed appeals to tn
Supreme Court, and not in cases which
arose under the case of 1868, which wa
the McCardle's case.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-26
ALOYALIsT ON THE REVOLUTION
ARYJUNTO

Professor Goodwin Smith, Of Oxford,
England, was great shining light in the
Loyal Leaguers in this country, The
New York Times says of him: When
he was in this country couple of years
ago, he had a reception such as has
been afforded to few foreigners. The
Loyal League teted him from city to city,
and the acclamations that welcomed him
almost rent the roof He was looked on
as the very incarnation of political wis
dom. and every word that dropped
from his lips was listened to with rev-
erent air. 1t seems that the eyes of the
Professor have been opened TO tue enor-
nifty of the usurpations and oppression
which we're being perpetrated by the
Revolutionary Junto in the name OF
"loyalty.' DiscOursing of American
politics in a recent letter, Prof Smith
touches up the revolutionary leaders of
Congress as follows:
"Reyolution is to them the breath of
life. They do not know Its limits or per-
ceiye when the time is come for bringing
il TO close They do not see that, the
war being over, the people long for repose
that the heart Of each man turns from the
fierce struggle of contending principles 10
his own vine and his own hg-tree. They
strive, by inflammatory speeches and mea-
sures of violence, to spur enthusiasm again
TO the revolutionary pitch, and by 80 doing
they increase and precipitate the reaction.
Had the Republican chiefs
brought forward rational, however tho
roughgoing, scheme of reconstruction, con-
WINGED the people that il was practicable,
and pushed steadily forward its accomplish
ment without entanghng themselves IN
any other issues, or seeking any ADVENT
tious aid, they would probably have re
tanned the full confidence of the nation,
which would have seen in their ascendancy
the best hope OF terminating the revolution.
But, as have said before, the men pro-
duced by revolutions are revolntionists.
They are enthusiastic, sometimes fanatics,
sometimes really great moral leaders, but
seldom statesmen"
This estimate of the Radical leaders in
Congress by an English freedom shrieker,
would be denounced as the venomous
outgiving of a "copperhead" had it come
from Brick Pomeroy or John Muially, of
the Metropolitan Record, but coming
from Goodwin Smith, Oxford professor,
negro worshipper, and patron saint of the
Loyal Leagues, it has spice about it
which eommends it to tho attention Of
Radicals who have been running after
the strange god" Prof Smith so elo-
quently denOuncss.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-26
virginia Convention.

RICHMOND, Va, March 25.-In the
convention resolution was introduced
appointing 2 committee to enquire into the
conduct Of Judge Underwood, President Of
that body. The resolution embodies a
letter from John Howhurst, Chairman of
the Republican State Executive Commit
tee, published in the morning papers, in
which he states that Underwood, in con-
versation about raising means for the Re
publican party had said TO him, if we
favored Chase for President Senator
Sprague would give 100000 for use of the
party, and, also, that two men in the State
would give $1,000 each for nominations TO
Congress.
Judge Underwood was not present.
The resolutions were laid over until
Wednesday next.
The disfranchisement question was again
taken up, and an amendment offered dis
fraEchising those who voted for the seces-
sion ordinance, etc. 1t was strongly OPP
posed by several leading Republicans
They quoted private letters from Stevens
Sumner, Wilson, Washburne, Kelley, o.
Pa, and other prominent Radicals, ad'
vising against any further disfranchise
ment than that contained in the recon
struction acts. No final action taken.