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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-09-16
POETRY.
A Twilight Memory

Gently fell the twilight shadows
Ger the sunsets mellow light,
And we saw the angels lighting,
One by one, the lamps OF night.
s'I am tired" my darling whispered,
''And | long so much to sleep j.
I could hear the robins calling,
From the shadows dun and deep.
"Hold me on your bosom, mother )"
= Faint and low her whispered words,
But to me they held the music
Of a thousand singing birds.
And held her to my bosom,
Close against my aching breast,
But the mother-arms about her
Could not sooth her into rest.
stSing the dear old cradle ballad
That you used to sing to me.
When YOU hushed me into siumoer
And I sat upon your knee.
Then I sang the simple dltty
To its old familiar air,
While nv eyes were dim and blinded
By the tears that gathered there
"Hush, my child, lie still and s!umber,
Holy angels guard thy bed,
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head"
Then light shone-oh so softly J.
From the shadows of the west,
And it touched my darling's eyelids
With the blessed balm of rest.
Oh, that light so mild and tender |!
Ihave. often thought since then
That an angel touched my darling,
And he charmed away her pain;
For she slept the last sweet slumber
That weary mortal knows,
And her face grew strangely quiet
In deep and calm repose.
Yes, she slept, to wake at morning
On the calm, Eternal Shore
To new and strange existence, aH
Full of rest for eYermore. .f.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04
Railroads.

The California and Oregon Railroad
Company are pushing their line along in
very lively manner and the chances are
that the whistle of the locomotive will be
heard at Chico by New Year
The California Pacific, or Vallejo Com
pany, have almost completed their exten-
sion from Davisville, in Yolo. to Yuba City,
opposite Marysville. Within the next ten
days, unless delayed by heavy storms, this
company will set force of 200 Chinese TO
work grading their extension line from
Woodland, Yolo county, to Colusa and
Red Bluff. This line will ultimately be
extended to Shasta and we will hear the
whistle of locomotive in this town with
in two years, just as sure as the world
stands that length of time. The old fogys
of this county might just as we'll commence
waking up, advertising, and laying the
foundation for an increased business now,
or by and-by new, live, energetic men will
come along and drop down and run them
off the track. Wake up, everybody; the
cars will be tearing up here before you
know what you are about!
1t is matter of indifference whether
the California and Oregon Company build
their road through this county or not !;
the Vallejo Company are bound to run their
line to Shasta in the course of time, which
will not only restore the former prosperity
of the town, bat Will result in great ben.
eft to the whole county and also to the
railroad company. A through line to Ore
gon on the other side of the river will help
the county precious little, and may have
the effect of injuring the ranchmen on that
side of the river, for whenever the line is
Oregon wheat and barley can
be laid down in bulk at any station on the
route, in this county, cheaper than our far
mers can afford to sell it.
The completion of the Vallejo road to
his point, however, would tend to build
up home market, and place us in direct
with the Bay.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

HARsH.-The Democratic papers pre-
judge the incoming Legislature harshly.-
The Sonoma Democrat is after the Solons
in a threatening manner, and now comes
the San Francisco correspondent of the
Yolo Democrat, thus:
"Those who claim to be somewhat on the
inside in such matters predict that the
next Legislature will be the most corrupt
which has assembled in Sacramento for IA
long time. Perhaps they base their pre-
dictions upon the character of our San
Francisco delegation, without making suf-
6cient allowance for the virtue of the 'couu-
try me pbers.' However this may be, the
King of the Lobby, Zeke Wilson, is said
to be in jubilant spirits over the prospects
of a good Winters work. All that the
members of the Third House now want is
plenty of good, paying bills. and of these
they will probably have enough, and many
schemes for making fortunes out of the
people of the State are maturing. As to
the San Francisco delega iIn, it contains
some good men; but as whole is far be-
low par. 1t could never have been elected
had 1t not been for the overshadowing i'm.
portance of the Constitutional Amendment,
as its character is well known, and an in
tense disgust existed among good Dem
ocrdts with the ticket that had been foisted
upon them by the most venal convention
that ever assembled in San Francisco"
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

MORE BLEEDING.-At the meetipo of
the State board of Education Yesterday the
old and much vexed question of "new text
books" came up We have freouentlv
had occasion to allude to the freouent
changes made in the Biographies. gram.
mars, ETC., used in the public schools
Two things are perfectly clear in regard TO
the matter: In the first place. those
changes are gr;evous and onerous bur.
den upon parents; and, in the second
place, they are benefit to mons but tba
publishers of the "new SERIES" Every
year some enterprising teacher, either act.
ing upon his own suggestions, or upon that
of an enterprising publisher, gets up new
arithmetic, a new grammar, new "reader.n
or series of readers, which differ only from
those previously in use in arrangement and
and expression. Let any intelligent person
subject the different series of ':readers."
for instance, or the different grammars. or
the different arithmetics, to a critical
examination, and it will be found. as a
general thing, that the real difference
between the old text book and the new is
simply one of style and fashion. Never.
theess, the State Board has seen fit to
ring in ''new series" of biographies. for
which parents will have to pay and which
are in no essential respect superior to
Cornelfs series, which they supercede.
So far as we are able to understand the
matter, Superintendent Fitzgerald and DR..
Lucky were the main advocates of this
expensive and unnecessary change
[Chronicle.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04
SH ASIA COURIER
SATURDAY. MORNING, DEC. 4, 1869

NEW CoUNTY.-It is reported that pc
titions will be presented to the next Legis
lature praying for the formation of new
county to include Surprise Valley, Goose
Lake, and Big Valley on Upper Pit River
Another petition is also said to be in cir
culation asking for the formation of a
county, to only include Big Valley, Pit
River, and Fall River Valleys. 1t might
be well enough to form new county out
of Surprise and Goose Lake Valleys, but
the interests of the people of Big, Pit
River and Fall River Valleys are certainly
such as to render them opposed to the pro
ject TO include them in the same county
limits with the two former valleys Sur
prise Valley and that portion of Goose
Lake Valley laying within the boundaries
of this State are sufficient to form large
county and their geographical situation ren-
der their interests identical The location
of Big Valley, Pit River and Fall River
Valleys, also render their interests insep-
cradle, and in time they will undoubtedly
secure county organization. Let the
people residing in the valleys of Pit River
and Fall River resist any attempt to include
them in county organization with Sur
prise and Goose Lake Valleys.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04
A New York dispatch Of November 27t

A New York dispatch of November 9th
says the Press dinner at Delmonico's this
evening has 1876 seats provided. All were
sold, the only seats unoccupied being those
of some immediate friends of A. ID.
Richardson. Oliver johnson preside d
Among those present are Horace Greeley,
james Parton and wife, Samuel Bowles.
NJ. NJ. Pomeroy and Theodore Tilton.
Greeley mde capital speech on country
farming and city editing. Short speeches
were also made by quite number of others.
Several poems were read, and the gather
ing was altogether agreeable.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

SCHOOL HOUSE DEsTRoYED--The
Texas Springs School house caught fire
on Monday evening and was entirely con.
sumed The house was warmed by an old
fashioned fireplace and the floor probably
caught fire from Goals or sparks from the
wood left burning in the fireplace. Loss,
in building and school books, over 500.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

Big Row.-At meeting held in San
Francisco on Monday, for the purpose of
recognizing the Democratic party and
preventing its early dissolution, big row
took place and the meeting broke up in
confusion. George z. johnson, of the
Examiner, Frank Soule, of the Call, Nc
Coppin, provinces and other head chief:
were active participants in the affair. From
the statements made it appears that the
Democratic party is split up into factions
and likely to become completely disorgan
lied.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04
Northern sacramento Valley.

Commencing at point as far up the
river as Shasta and reaching to Grand Is
land in Colusa county, is what may be
termed the Upper Sacramento Valley. Its
average width is 10 miles, and for all the
uses to which civilization may apply a
country, no land beneath the SUI may ex-
CELL Its soil and climate are in almost
every respect adapted to the production of
all the earth may grow. In the matter of
cereals, the crop is sure, if planted in sea-
son, with an average yield of 80 bushels to
the acre, and more of barley In many
localities excellent crops eff corn are'grown.
Fruits of every variety known to the tenn
perate, and many belonging to the tropical
climes, grow in richest profusion- AS a
wine producing country, whenever we shall
command the experience and skill of the
Rhine and other favored wine countries
this valley will furnish the principal vine
yards of the State Thousands of acres
within the bounds of this valley are un
occupied, awaiting their settlement and
reclamation by the immigrant, where, with
less expense and greater security to sure
yield, he may found his home, surrounding
it with all the beauty of his native land
and receiving for his labor greater recon
pense than any other country may afford
In the adjacent foot hills and in the
mountains to the distance of 25 miles
many qniet nook can be found where
honest Industry and experienced labor will
build up happy and profitable homes. The
waters OF our noble river sweep majestically
midway through the valley, affording the
best OF facilities for transportation to the
great marts of the State, and railroads now
10 operation and in contemplation. vii
soon place the Upper Sacramento Valley
upon condition of equal facility with any
portion of the State [Chico Enterprise
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

A RUMoR.-The Yreka Union intimates
that the Democracy of this county will
procure the passage of legislative act
authorizing special election to fill the Of
fee of Assessor. The Union is evidently
mistaken, as the Democracy of this county,
after all their talk about economy and re.
trenchment, will certainly not favor move
that would put the county to an expence of
at least two thousand dollars. An appoint
ment by the Board of Supervisors would
secure competent Assessor, and not cost
the county S25, while an election would
result in heavy addition to our county
Indebtedness, and is not demanded by the
taxpayers.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

WouNDED-We notice by report of a
recent Indian fight in Arizona, published
in the Bay papers, that Lieutenant Lafferty,
at one time commandant at Fort Crook,
was shot in the face and terribly wounded.
The ball struck the Lieutenant's cheek
bone and glancing downward completely
shattered his upper and lower jaw
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

TAKING Up LAND.-Parties have lately
staked off large number of land claims
in the Cow Creek country with view of
speculation in real estate in case the CAL
ifornia and Oregon company run their road
in that direction.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

GONE BELow-Hon VIM. Irwin, SEN
ator from Siskiyou, and editor of the Yreka
Union, gave the COURIER Office call on
Monday. Mr.. Irwin is man of ability
and engaging address, and if his party run
on qualifications hereafter, they cannot find
better man to run for Congress in this
District mex, year.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

STILL ANOTHER RoBBERY.-On Mon
day last young man, whose name we fail
ed to learn, was stopped on the highway,
five miles this side of Red Bluff, by a
couple of highwaymen and robbed of s35
IN coin, a silver watch and couple of gold
finger rings
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

CHINAMEN RoBBED.-SeveraI Chinese
report that they were robbed by white
man near the Whiskytown divide on We'd
nesday. The robber took all the coin the
Chinese had. on their persons at the time
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

GOLD QUARTZ-We are informed that
Charles Offschneider of Whiskytown, last
week found piece of gold quartz in his
claim which weighed almost thirty pounds
and is thought to contain as much as four
or FIVE hundred dollars in pure gold.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

LEAsED.-Fred Myers has rented his
farm on North Cow Creek to Lem Williams,
who has lately brought his family out from
the States. Fred is going to take trip
to Michigan. We advise him to put the
trip off until next Spring, and if he comes
in contact with the winter breeze from
Lake Michigan, after residence in Shasta
county, he will wish he had taken our
advice.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04
JeWelry,
also,
PER.EUMERY

Ladies and gentleman yoi will ind it to your
advantage to call at MANASSAS before buying
anywhere else. He intends to sell goods as cheap
as possible as his stock is large and be desires
to sell of a. much as possible at any rate.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF THE

IN THE PROBATE COURT OF THE
County OF Shasta, state of California.
In the matter of the Estate of A. c. Sprck,
Deceased. Order to show cause why order Of
Distribution shoald not be made.
an reading and filing the petition of Daniel
~ Lynch, the Administrator of the Estate
of A. c. Speck deceased, setting forth that he
has fled his final account of his Administra-
ton of the Estate of said deceased, in this
Court, and that the same has been duly settled
and allowed that all the debts and expenses
of administration have been duly paid and
that portion of said estate remains to be di-
vided among the heirs of said deceased, and
praying among other things for AL order OF
distribution of the residue of said estate
among the persons entitled:
1T is ORDERED, That all persons interest
ed in the estate of A. C. Speck, deceased, be
and appear before the Probate Court of the
County of Shasta at the Court room of said
Court in the town of Shasta, in said Shasta
County, on Monday, the Third day of January,
A. D. 1870, at 10 o'clock, A NJ, then and
there to show cause why an order of distrib-
ution should not be made of the residue OF
said estate among the heirs of the said A. c.
Speck deceased, according to law.
tits further ordered, That a copy of this
order be published for four successive weeks,
before the said Third day of January A. D.
1870, in the SHASTA COURIER, newspaper
printed and published in the said Shasta coun-
ty. c. c. BUSH,
Probate Judge.
Shasta. Nov. 80, 1869.
Office of the County Clerk
OF the County of Shasta.
|, Grant 1. Taggart, County Clerk of the said
County of Shasta, State of California, and Ex-
iarlr Of tI,o obato -, nd for
said Shasta County, do hereby certify the forego-
ing to be u true copy of an order duly made and
entered upon the minutes of said Probate Court.
Witness my hand, and the seal of said Pro
II. s.. bate Court, this Nov. 30 A. D. 1869.
GRANT l. TAGGART, Clerk.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

ROBERT LINCOLN has just become the
father of Abraham Lincoln's first grand
child
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04

PURcHAsED.-L Garrecht & Co., re-
Gently purchased the brick building adjoin-
ing G. G. Bush 4 Co.'S warehouse and are
fitting it UP for pork packing and storeage
establishment.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-04
SHERIFF'S SALE,

WHEREAS BY VIRTUE OF TWO EX-
w ecutions issued out of Justice court in
and for Number One Township, county of Shasta
State of California, and to me directed and deliver
ed for Judgements rendered in said court on the
9th day of November A. d. 1869, in favor of Y. f.
aCrocker ct al and against All Ben; the first for
the sum of Sl05,S4 judgement and costs, the sec
aRd for the of SO judgement and cost,
Ne levied on the following property to-wit: The
mining claim known creek claim lying and be-
ing in the bed of Clear Creek below Whiskytown
in the county of Shasta and State of California
commencing at Farrington's Dam, running up the
bed of Clear Creek about one thousand feet to Jo-
seph Resting & Co. claims; also miuiDg claim
known and called bar claim adjoining said creek
claim, ON the west side of Clear Creek commenc
ing at an old oak tree and running up the side of
said creek about nine hundred feet to the claim of
Edward Byrne also one cabin situated near said
claims on the west side of the creek. On the Sd
day of December A. D. 1869 at the hour of o'clock
p NJ, at the Court House door in the town and
county of Shasta, State aforesaid, I will sell at
public auction the above described property to
the highest bidder for cash.
THOMAS GREENE, Sheriff,
By VIM. JACKSON, Under Sheriff.
Shasta, Nov. l3, 1862
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-07

II turns out that jhe new secretary of the
navy is Borie, AdoIph +. by name; that he
is a retired East Iudia trader; whence it is to
ne presumed that HI is familiar with ships,
that he is q man Of ,.'princely" fortune, that
he was ''trooly loif' during the war, and man
ifested his "loilty" by discharging the ardu-
GUS duties of vice president Of the Union
League Club; that ii summer he resides on
magnificent estate called Lorrasdale, and that
in winter he hondrs Philadelphia with his
opulent presence. These particulars will have
to satisfy the longing curiosity of the country,
but they do not it seems satisfy the Radicals,
who don't think Mr. Borie representative
Republican" inasmuch as he never helped to
murder innocent women or paroled soldiers,
and has not made himself conspicuous in the
attempt to elevate the man and brother to the
top of Southern political society. He may
have favored these things in his heart. but he
has given no evidence of his faith, except "a
mild vote for the Republican ticket and Gen.
Grant Hence much bowling in the Radical
camp, and badly suppressed denuncia.ions of
the new President.
The Radicals are MT content with A. T.
Stewart. They swear that he is free trader,
which is deadly sin of course; and that be-
ing an importer of foreign goods he cannot
hold federal Office. The inference being
that as secretary ofthe treasury he would not
collect the duties hebesly from himself as i'm
porter of foreign dry goods. There is no
doubt however, tina. sc will do his utmost to
pay himself honeshxin gold, for the many
millions of fve-twer hes of which he happens
to be the owner, WITCH makes things about
even after all.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-07

We have received very interesting account
of the proceedings at the thirty-seventh ami
versary of Dolbear Commercial College, by
the gifted authoress of Heart Leaves.
The crowded state of our columns preclude
the possibility of its being produced in full
SO we give sketchy summary of its contents:
A glowing tribute to the eloquence of DIR.
Palmer, who offered the Introductory prayer.
A condensed report of the valedictory by
Robert B. Taylor, of Georgia. of which she
speaks in the highest terms. Then the be-
slowing of diplomas, followed by benedic-
ton by Rev. DR.. Lewis. The account con-
cludes with an earnest exhortation to all
Southern youths, in which was quoted this
sentence from Mr.. Taylor's valedictory, ITO
retrieve the fortunes of the South upon South
ern SOIL"
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-07
THE STATE FAIR.

On April 9th next will be inaugurated the
third annual State fair of the Mechanics
and Agricultural Fair Association of Louis
lana. This Association, composed as it is of
our most prominent citizens and business
men, is one that has exercised in its somewhat
limited sphere a most benefcent influence
upon the agricultural, mechanical and COM
mercial interests of our State. We say in
their past limited sphere, because, as it was
organized just previous to the war, its first
fair was not held until 1866. when the coun-
try, not having yet recovered from the desc
lation of four years of blood and devastation,
affairs were far from favorable to such an en-
terprise. It is true the fair was success, as
was also that of 1867, but both of them were
so in degree greatly less, we are convinced,
than will be that Of 1867. This conyic-
ton arises from the fact that the asso-
citation is older now both in years and
experience; it is weather., our people know
more about it and are more interested; and,
lastly, the bountiful crops with which the
harvests of 1868 were crowned will enable the
residents of the country to attend the fair
and see for themselves what the productions
of their State are. And to those country
people whose means and circumstances will
permit them to come to New Orleans next
April. we say, let nothing prevent you from
coming. If you have anything at al worth
exhibiting, bring it along with you, for even
if it does not obtain a prize. its sight may
make your neighbors more emulous of an
equal excellence, while a comparison of it
with similar articles may give you informa-
ton that will be valuable. But, then, if you
have nothing to exhibit, come any how. You
may see piece of labor-saving machinery, or
learn something about the cultivation of the
soil, or the raising of stock, that will, in its
practical application, be of more worth to you
than twice what your trip will cost.
1t is hardly necessary, we suppose, to state
to our citizens the wisdom of their giving
every encouragement in their power to the
Fair Association. For, aside from the gene
raj principle that whatever benefits the State
will benefit New Orleans indirectly, the an
nual influx of visitors which the fair should
attract, could not fail to make the fair week
one of unusual briskness amongst New Or
leans dealers.
Let rs hope then, that the approaching
fair will prove in every way what it should
be- the most successful and best attended fair
since the incorporation of the association.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-07

We observe that our friends, Col Charles
T. Nash and CAPT. w. l. Hodgson, have
associated themselves together under the
name and firm style, of Nash & Hodgson, for
the transaction of la general auction and
brokerage businessI As of yore, Col Nash
will attend to the Note and stock department
especially. We wish and solicit for the new
firm continuance Of that prosperity which
has attended them individually in the past.
To the public no word in their behalf is at all
necessary. These genial, heightened gentle
men are too well known to the community to
require it So we will only extend our sim
cere good wishes towards them individually