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The Oxford falcon., 1869-10-23
WHAT PEOPLE USE COT
TON AND WHERE THEY
GET 1T.

China 10 the great wonder
'rsginp Of the warld Ss litsi~
Ia known, and 80 many won-
derfnl things arc told of the
doings of that strange old
people, that one scarcely
knows what to believe of any
statement concerning them.
Among the earliest accounts
that we know of, ia that of a
traveller who visited the en-
pire In 1855. This account
states that cotton was then
largely cultivated, and had
been for about five hundred
years. 1t is probable, how
ever. that the plant was In
troduced by the Mogul Tar
tars in 1880, when they inva-
ded and conquered the en-
pifr. Whenever it may have
been introduced, it is very
certain that the great bulk of
Chinese clothing is made of
cotton. Mr, Cook, in his very
interesting letters from Chi
m. says: every morning
throughout the Chinese em-
pire. thsrs are three hundred
millions Of blue cotton breech-
= drawn over human legs.
Men, women and children
alike wear them. "That is .
case Of wearing Of the blue"
By wholesale.
Another singular fact In
that there arc, 1t i said. no
sheep In China.
There seems to be some fa-
tality attending the culture
of cotton that runs men era
w. We have already men,
tionsd the disastrous results
In Egypt and India of too
much cotton and too little
| grain. and we have to call at
tention TO q similar calamity
In China. About the close Of
the last century, the Chinese
had got so crazy on cotton,
that an imperial edict had tc
make them plant grain enough
for bread. Egypt, India and
China thus offer cotton plan
ters Of the South q lesson
Unfortunately there 10 nc
hope Of an imperial decree in
behalf of bread for the South,
1t isonIy within the present
decade that Chinese cotton
had to be exported, TO any ex-
tent, worthy of m en- tion
Previous to that time. China
imported largely from India
But the less cf lie .amcricsg
The Oxford falcon., 1869-10-23

Daniel Webster was . phi
losopher long before he dream
ed OF being q statesman. At
the are Of twenty he wrote
TINS to his borther Ezekiel }
sI have now by me two cents
In lawful federal currency;
next week / will send them,
If they be ell (, they wip buy
q pipe, With q pipe You can
smoke, smoking inspires wis.
dom | wisllum is allied TO for
titusle / from fortitude Ii 10 bal
one step to stoicism I; and
stoicism never pants for the
worlds goods 30 perhaps
my two cents, by this process
may put yoa quite Ct eas<
about cash." To such Of NJ
as hSve mit q single nickel II
our pockets these words ars
valuable. They would BE. o.
least, If a nickel w0rld bury
pipe and the tobacco with
which TO fill II.
The Oxford falcon., 1869-10-23

European energy INTO Chinese
cotton fields, and the eonse.
quence, was from importing
half Of the India crop. China,
in four years, came to sxpor-
ting 3e9. .ozz bales a year, to
England alone, which was
about half Of caSorted
crop.
In quality. this Chinese cot
ton Is only third rstc. Though,
owing to the lack Of full and
trustworthy information as to
the climate, soil aud mode Of
culture, as well as extent of
land fitted for cotton In China,
it y not practicable 1t this
time to spe:k positively even
as to the probable yield of
future Chinese crops. We see
no reason to expect it to In
crease.
COTTON IN SOUTH AMERICA.
In several Of the South
American States. cotton 10
grown to . considerable ex-
tent, but Brazil 10 the only
country that exports to any
amount In Brazil, unlike in
all the other cotten regions,
the exported crop has not in
creased within the past eight
years. On the contrary, 1t
has fallen off, boih in guam
tity and quality. 1t is pro-
bable that this has ,een main
ly caused by the' disturbed
condition of the country.
The return Of psaea Ehsre-
f---S ns-s rcsroso ER0Atn
of cotton to what il once was,
but there is but little grounds
for apprehending that Brazil
will ever become q very form
liable rival of the South in
foreign markets.
CONCLUSIONS.
From this brief glance at
the lands that grow cotton,
we conclude that the cotton
planters of the United States
can, by reasonable efforts.
keep undisputed control OF
the best cotton markets Of the
world. They can make bet
ter cotton aud more Of 1t than
all other countries. But they
can make great deal more than
is needed to supply thedemand.
Now the danger is. that they
may do this. The cotton plan
ters must remember that the
spinners do not require rs
much of their cotton now as
they once did. They have
learn to mix in the low grade
cattons of India, China and
elsewhere 90 as 10 use much
less of the high grade Auleri.
can cotton even In good cloth.
They should also Emember
the experience of thepast few
years, and take warning OF
the terrible misfortunss Of
other lands. Plenty of pro-
visions sho'd be their first
aim, and then to make what
cotton they can without Dor.
row;n0 uonev
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JuEIoR YxAR--ulsekseBxsss<zna,.
nasntsris., Ksuf's Commsrtnr51s.
Story on B&ilmsu1n, Story On 49,
cy. Story on Psrtnsnhip, Byiss q
Biils, emitA en censraets, 6ssphsn
en- Pleading.
SENIOR YEAk---Moot Courtz, osSss-
leaf on Evidence, Adams Equity.
Angel d Ames on CorporatioSs.
Story on Conflict Of Laws, nlshoe
on Criminal ] Aw, In cornsstion wlsk
the Criminal Code of Afisslssipni. -
vfsed Gods o 1Glnsisssppi.
- WlplunM sfruzu ffSn Aunnre =.
sqrivalent 70 : licsnsa far rrS~S6.-
In MizAt~ippi.
raitioa rss go 90 per m. !
Advance
TIE ss-ss "opens on -. ,sss
tember. ls51 aud snds s.. - ~
June. lsfo
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OF THE e.
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AT OXFORD. X
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N IN swo ssrnzs of nine asnmses
each. The rnwkhod Of instrup&lun =
thzt of orml xxzn1lnakiuna. daily. -
on the tsxt, accompanied hy 80 -.
pianstions and Isckares e Ntats -.
isiation snd heal sdIu1ssnxssas 49,
made nscesunry.
Moet Courts viii b. hsad ws<s,v.
IN which the prsetios wlll enafnra.
Ia every ESSENTIAL reupecf, - ths ruesp.
modes ef precedrvs nnd nrnnweEsa.
ten adcpesd il ths foIlew1ix ccuvss /
4 fsssa.: cssssi.s cesrs q 2. =
3. HQpguma % "a %
C5fuuit cssrt of Asizausavsa
= Chaucsxy eg
.. Probses |" of 20
.: High cosrt Of Erross and A. ~.
The Law Lis,rsfv num bsrs ~ -
than one thoussnd volumsc.
TIE IAw 6tudenss VIII have -
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The Oxford falcon., 1869-10-23

W0nld anybody have dreem-
cd that the carpct-bsggers.
establishing organizations ex.
clusiyely of blacks, on the
basis of hostility to the whites
on the ground that ali of the
latter did not reach the con-
rlusion that the freedmen
were capable of suffrage inn
mediately after their emanci-
patton, would have nomina-
ted as their candidate for 1t
Governor, with the under
standing that he would be-.
come the actual Governor af-
tar the election of Alcorn TO
the Senate) . man who two
years ago published an adj
dress defining his position"
on that question az described
In that document reproduced
elsewhere In these columnsf
BY that address signed R. @.
Powers, the colored voters
will see that
1st. He denounced the me.
gro as a dangerous element In
society"
End. That he said In the
negro's hands b . ballot
would be . dangerous weap-
on"
3rd. And that to guard
against the evil consequences
which he described a. likely
TO result from the confering
of suffrage on the Ignorant
masses !" he advocated "a pro-
perty and intelligence" (edu-
cationaD test for oil persons
voting for State Senators, and
the adoption of other restric.
tions by him enumerated.
1t may not occasion STIR.
prise that the carpet.bagger
candidate for the second place
on the Rabid Rad ticket, ut
tered these sentiments two
years ago. They are not stron-
ger than the afndavits and
written statements of Tarbcll,
Rabid candidate for United
states Senator. But 1t Ii mat
ter of surprise that the man
who uttered them did actu-
ally not only vote for the con.
stitution disffanchising q large
class of the white voters OF
the State, but presided over
the Radical Convention oi
November 25th last. which
petitionesi Congress to put II
In force on our people aftel
they had rejected IL, anf TO Sc
cure the success OF that out
rageous measure, appointed
Gibbs, Oastello, Alcorn and
Others a. . committee OF six
teen to engineer 1t before
Congress.
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ConrxG TO THEIR SESsEs.-

COMING TO THEIR SESsEs---
A Washington corresponds
ent of the \. I. Herald says
that Senator Wilson does not
approve of the Boutwell, poll
cy Of interfering In the elec-
ti0ns In the Southern States.
He thinks 1t would be better
to conciliate NIL parties claiEi1-
Ing to be Republican, whether
they call themselves Radicals
or Conservatives. Using the
patronage in II iss ssip pi
against Dents and Ia Texas
against Hamilton will. he
thinks, only make votes for
the Liberal candidates, while
1t win do the Radicals no
good.
The Oxford falcon., 1869-10-23

Col. e. @. Coca has been
recommended for t Legisla-
ture in Copiah ch&pty. He
comes out In s ca however,
and says his form Acrvant,
Joseph Buie, is 4 Rr for
the place.
The Oxford falcon., 1869-10-23

4 APierrepmt, whilom Govern
! of Virginia, wants 10 GO
! the West Virginia Legisla-
alvc from Marion conn :.
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naent&4
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mentx.
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MOULD announce 20 the citi.
w gems of Oxford and vicinity
that he has just received and opened
and viii keep constantly on hands .
complete and fresh stock or Family
Groceries and CONNECTIONS, which be
will continue TO sell at as low prices
~ the same articles can be parchassd
this side Of Memphis or New OrleAns
He respectfully soIlclts . liberal share
Of public patronage, aud, By fair
dealings with all, h detsrmined to
merit II.
October Gath, 1ses-sm
The Oxford falcon., 1869-10-23

WHAT THE RABID KADI-
ICAL CANDIDATE FOR
1T. GOVERNOR SAID
ON THE sUBJECT
OF NEGRO sUP.
FRA0E.
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and do so.
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sfven * the collection OF claims Of
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LOOK HEREIi

II you want 70 boy, rent, isake or
rrsde for any kind Of land In Aiesiss
sippi, aFpiy %
II. N. SULLIVAN,
General land Agent.
n. -1rs ~ -. s@rt 's'f, a..
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17
JOHN V. SCOTT, Proprietor.

VEVHE PROPRIETOR OF THIS FAVORITE
A Hotel takes pleasure in announcing to his
friends and the public generally that he has re-
fitted and re-furnished the establishment through
out, and is now prepared to entertain guests in
style equal to any other house in Northern Cal
ifornia. The PARLOR and ROOMS are large
and commodious, and the BEDS and sleeping ac-
comodations unsurpassed.
HE ABLE
viii always be supplied with everything the
kets of tins locality afford, and every possible at
tention will be paid to the wants of guests, and
pains spared to render them comfortable.
At the BAR none but the best brands of Wine
Liquor aud Cigars viii be dispensed to customers.
The Oregon & Cal. Stages arrive at and leave
this Hotel daily.
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17
The Sick Party.

The New York Tribune thus iacetiously
takes off the old and bed ridden Democratic
party:
\ good deal has been lately said in the
newspapers of the death of an old lady in
blaine, who for 36 years has been bed rid
den. While our sympathies are fully
aroused for this unfortunate woman We
cannot help thinking of the harder fate OF
the Democratic party" $50 called). 1t
Is true that this shattered organization has
not been bed-rdden if it could have gone
comfortably to bed and stayed there, re-
ceiving rations of physic and cruel from
sympathetic neighbors, its fate would have
been softer But even now, when it is
really in extremity, it is forced to get up
and dress itself in various disguises, and
hold State Conventions, as lately in Yer
mont, under the most discouraging circum-
stances. Although for so many years it
has not had particle of influence upon
the public policy, 1t has felt it duty to
go through the motions as if it really al
tered something. We wish that, once for
all, it would go to bed and stay there We
calculate, since the beginning of the re-
bellion, in its various County, District.
State, and National Conventions, that this
feeble old party has passed from forty to
fifty thousand resolutions, the whole
amounting to one elongated and continuous
growl and grumble The eccentric DIR.
Valentine used to personate an old gentle
man who at the same time was tormented
by headache, earache, toothache, pulmonary
consumption, lumbago, rheumatism, neu-
ralgia, liver complaint, and Indigestion;
very useless old gentleman, but master,
nevertheless, of the sublime art of scolding.
The Democratic party in Convention as
sembled always reminds us of this amable
parsonage.
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17
A BisHFUL BRIDE.

While we were making arrangements to
pass the night eve cannot say sleeep) in
the sleeping-car which carried us from
Macon to Montgomery, Alabama, and just
as we had begun to wish for better bed,
the cars stopped at small station, and a
blushing couple, hold of hands, came into
the car Their appearance as they stood
hesitatingly in the doorway, showed that
they meant mischief, and was just start
out on their wedding tour
Would you like berth, sir.?7 said the
lively, jolly faced Conductor of the miser-
able sleeping car.
No, slr-I reckon-as may be-that
amt what we want" stammered the bride
groom. Haint you got no bridal cham
Der on ere keer?D
ooh, the bridal chamber exclaimed
the Conductor. "Come this way, sir"
The couple went trembling through the
cars to the state room, which looked about
as much like state room on Il Northern
sleeping Car as cell iu the county jail ap-
pears like the Parker House parlor.
Does that door shut up?" anxiously in
quired the bridegroom
Oh yes. See how it slides" said the
conductor.
But Pm dogged if l see any place to
sleep" suggested the applicant for the
chamber
40 we'll fix that, if you viii be seated, -
said the conductor, pointing to low,
hard sofa on the opposite side ofthe car,
close to the head of our curtained couch
| don't like it so there" whispered
the bride
Don't like what?" asked her partner.
g | won't go no further, | won't, if you
keep talking so"
What have | done, ia like to know 2"
g You told him you didn't see no place
to sleep, and do:, think it was usin' me
right
Well, l don't see no place now, neither
If we've got to be tucked away in that
little hole, we'll have to stand up all night,
that's sartin'
Lets 90 back, johnny I'm afraid to
go any further"
"Oh, no, don't let's 90 back. Let's
Stlck CT cOuU.
& | can't, won't, l don't like ter l
can't stay here. There's lots of men be-
hind these curtains. Tn sick | won t
90 no further. Say, Johnny. let's go
home. Do, l want ter so much" and the
far one began to weep as though her heart
would break.
Wen, don't cry, Mollie, we'I get right
coat at the next place. But you hadn't
orter be 50 fraid Of folks, now we're mar
ried.
This seemed to quiet her grief, and at
the next station the afflicted couple left the
cars, having paid for the stateroom, and
we heard him, as he stood on the platform
outside, remark:
That ar sleepin -kear was doggoned
small quarter for married folks - Car.
Boston Trareler
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17

SALT WITH NUTs Many persons suf
fer acute pain after eating freely of nuts,
especially those that contain most oil. All
nuts are difficult TO digest and much dis
tress dyspeptics when they are eaten, as
they often are, late at night. 1t is said
that they may be made digestible, and the
flavor improved at the same time by sprink
ling salt on them, or by touching the tip
into salt as we do radishes Dr. Aberne-
thy records case of death that occurred
in England from eating freely of nuts,
which he said would have been prevented
if the person had eaten salt with the nuts,
or had taken freely of it after distress had
occurred from eating them.
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17
PROBATE COURT.

c. c. Bush, Judge.
TERNs-First Monday in January, May and
September.
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17

Coon 0YsTERs.-The Bee says: 1t
makes our mouth water to think OF it. but
it seems we are really 10 have good oysters
A letter from Baltimore to one Of our
friends says: % As soon as the oyster sea-
son commences again, Sacramento, San
Francis and all intermediate places on
the railroad win daily be supplied with
fresh Chesapeake Bay Oysters, as large
preparations are being made by our deal
ers for the new trade in their business,
opened by the completion of the Pacific
Railroad, and | hear that New York and
Philadelphia will also. furnish you with
their higher priced planted bivalyes. |
know from experience that there is no such
thing in California as good fresh oyster ;
in fact | at the time fully agreed with a
writeri in one Of your papers who described
their taste as that of the result of dirty
penny soaked in vinegar ] am told there
will be no difficulty during the cool months
in dilivering on the Pacific Coast perfectly
fresh either in the shell, or opened and
canned in large cans
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17
BOARD OF SUPERVISOR,

Henry Jones. Lorn Scott. and F. d. Lack.
TERHs-First Monday in February, May August
and November.
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17
5 SHASTA COU ER.
THE GRAVE OF LINcoLN,s MOTHER.


A wooded hill--a low sunk grave,
Upon the hilltop hoary
The oak trees branches Ter it wave
Devoid of slab-no record save
Traditions story
And who the humble dead that here
So lonely sleeps?
And who, us year rolls after year,
Ia Summer green and Autumn sere-
Comes here and weeps?
So lone and drear-the forest wild
UnbrOken seems
We well might think some forest child,
Grown tIrud Of hunt and War-trail wiid,
Here lies and dreams 8?
But no no Red man of the West
Inhabits here
These clod, soft by wild beasts pressed,
Now lie ON the mouldered breast
Of one more dear.
For Lincoln's MOTHER here is laid
Ear from her son.
No long procession, false parade, a
Or pride or place Was here display ed
No requiem sung
No Summer friends were crowded round
Her humble grave
The Summer breezes bore no sound,
Save genuine grief, when this long mound
Its echoes gave.
Her husband, and her children dear,
And neighbors rude
Dressed in their hardy homespun gear
Were all that gathered round her brier,
In this lone wood.
High pile the marb . above the breast
Ol chiettain slain;
While in the wildwood of the West,
In tomb by naught but nature drest,
His mothers lam
Her grave from art or homage free,
Neglected lies
And pride and ponp. and vanity.
From this lone grave must ever flee.
As mockeries.
A nations grief and gratitude
Bedewed his bier;
For her who sleeps in solitude,
In this lone grave in Western wood,
Have ye no tear?
And shall the mother of the brave,
And true, and good,
Lie thus neglected in "a grave
Unfit for menia, clown, or knave,
In this drear wood?
Oh ! nation of the genrISS;;:.ss hhrraagS,
BE this your shame ;
And let this grave beneath the tree
No longer thus neglected be
Without name.
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17

PR1NTERs.-''P 'Printing-ink begets cynic-
ism, as dampness rheumatism, or foul air
fever. There is no escaping it. Men in
printing offices, whether they prepare or
set copy, contract the disease and suffer
from it more or less, as their mental system
responds to or resists it. They are behind
the scenes. They know thar the golden
crowns and golden gobets the public ad-
mires are only pasteboard; that the glitter
ing jewels are only colored glass that the
crimson glory of the tabeaux Is bu- flash
of red fire; that The mouthing fellow who
is lavish of his dukedoms is ia arrears for
his morning cocktail life is uuidcalizsd
to them from the outset Itis stripped Of
It's illusions, and fine names are but echoes
of emptiness. Why expect thetn TO admire;
Why ask them to be ambitious Why lo.k
for enthusiasm in them Z.
'.The Printer understands how reupu-
tations are made lie knows that they are
not blown forth from the trump of fame,
but from the trump Of him who seeks repu-
tation by performing solo, and gets it there
By lie is aware that, while genius starves,
impotence fattens that while wisdom
hdes in garrett fippancy draws on the
plve; that while inspiration pines, manage
ment fushes with health. That honors
are easy to the man that has the effrontery
to ask, and the determination not to be
denied No marvel he believes all achieve
ments unworthy, all success a sort of cheat,
all persons Of emiuence those who have yet
been found out
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17

Nor So.-The Reporter s. Us ''the Fifteenth
Amendment declares that al citizens shall
be voters without regard TO race or color" :"
That is not so. The amendment says no
citizens shall he denied the suffrage on ac
count of race or color but it does not de-
clare that all or anv shall be voters. What
citizens shall vote is left to the States, which
NAV limit the number BY any qualifications
which will apply equally to all citizens
Thus it only guarantees equal righ to all
citizens - in accordance with the Reporter $
own maxim Union.
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17
CORRAL g. STABLE.

Attached to this establishment is good COR
RAJ and STABLE where Teamsers and others
can always find an abundant supply of HAY and
BARLEY at reasonable prices.
JOHN Y. SCOTT.
Shasta, June 18th, 1869. iel9
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17

l.. p. FISHER. 20 & 81 New Mer-
chants Exchange is our only authorized Agent in
San francisco. For Eastern Advertising, Mr.
Fisher is represented by S. NJ. PettengiI 4 Co.
of New York and Boston,
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17

The inventor of bed-bug exterminator
has received from Queen Victoria a gold
watch, with an autograph letter acknowl-
edgng the efficacy OF the extcrminator in
staying the brown backed midnight marau-
ders which infested the royal bedchamber.
The gift has made the recipient proud, and
he now struts the streets of London with
all the airs of s'big bug"
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17

LEGAL RATE.-The legal rate of interest
in California was changed BY the Act of
March 80, 1868, from ten to seven per
cent per aunum but, by express contract,
any higher rate may be charged and cob
leetad
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
DISTRICT COURT.
COUNTY COURT.

L. GARTER, Judge
TERMs-Second Monday in March June ant
November.
The Shasta courier., 1869-07-17

C. C. BUSH, Judge.
TERNs-First Monday in February, April, June,
August, October and December,