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FATHER Hyac1NrHF I'M ru,

FATHER HYAcINTHE IN THE LEcrupp
RooM.-Father Hyacinthe, the eloquent
and now celebrated French priest, lectured
n the Academy of Music, New York. ON
Thursday evening, at the request and for
the benefit of the French Benevolent So
lety of that city. The telegram reports
him as having said in conclusion /.
In modern society, celibacy exists for
the sake OF good, but it is the exceprion
Ii you m5,e it the rule, it is against God
ma agaslst nature. Celibacy is cowardice
1t does not glorify marriage. The Amos.
ties have said marriage is honorable. mar.
rage Is spotless before God and man Tba
<lrqat object in view is reconciliation of.
heaven and earth, Of the present life with
The future. To secure union ON earth
union IN city, in nation, in humanity wa,
the thought of Jesus Christ. The founda,
ton OF your people is the Bible. the book
that speaks Of God as the Liyino Word
nd OF Jesus Christ's. The admirable
manifesto of your President shines tbrougb
MS words Christian faith, belief in Jesus
are thereof of this nation. Nav Jesus
Chrst protect your country and develop il,
Oid Europe is preparing amid strife for
unity of religious faith and material pros.
pe Ity When | return shall tell Eurone
have found here liberty associated with
Christianity; have been among people
who do not think that to be free thew must
BE- parted from God"
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WHAT's TUE UsE.-What's the use of
miuding what 'they say" What's the use
lying awake o nights with the uukind
remark of some false friend running
through your brain like forked lightning?
What's the use Of getting into worry and
fret over gossip that has been set afoat to
your disadvantage by some meddlesome
busy-body, who has more time than char
acter? These things can't possibly injure
you unless, indeed, you take notice of them,
and in comoatting them give them charac-
ter and standing. If what is said about
you is true setyourse.f right at once; if
ialse, let it go for what it will fetch, until
it dies of inherent weakness.
The Shasta courier., 1869-12-25

The TRAGEDY OF LIFE Life is a
monstrous disappointment. and death the
only portal to peace There is not day
that passes in which virtue does not sell
itself for bread; in which some poor har-
rassed or frenzied creature does not rash
madly upon death in VIII ch The g li are
not prosecuted aud the weak trampled upon
Behind windows you look heedlessly at
crime, tragedies, red as any history or
fiction ever painted, are being pl yed, and
faces you admire mask with smiles an
inward torture worse than the agony vi the
rack. Who, even in this audience, has
realized the fulfillment Of his earlv hope
Whose life has not its notifications. It's
bitter concealments, its poignant humilia-
tons, its wild uneasiness, Its wrestling and
defeat? ? But we do not re resent life. we
rePesent the fairest portions and the highest
level of it. Beneath US is the great mass
OF humanity, and they writhe and weer
and moan they oil aud starve and curse
and fight and die. The world goes roaring
on as needless Of those who fall as the Gale
in autumn is bee less off e leaves it strip.
from the t ee, o. the branches it wrenche:
from them.-Dr ". II. Murray.
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SAN FRANCISCO MECHANICs.-Carter's
heal Estate Circular says the complaint is
general among those who erect bouses in
San Francisco, of the incompetency of
many OF the mechanics. Not more than
one workman in four is master of his busi-
ness. Between ignorance of their trade.
general desire to do as little as possible.
and the fact that mechanics exact ten
hours pay for eight hours work, those who
employ them find it most costly business.
The original cost of building is frequently
not near so heavy, proportionately, as the
after expense of making repairs, which
would not have been required had the
work been properly performed at first.
lhe lncompetents are the most impudent
and exacting, too. aud vii least tolerate
any remonstrance about their work being
improperly done.
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Our CHINESE MIssIoX.-Under this
caption brother fitzgerald, State School
Master and editor Of the Spectator, says !:
Ne have mission China-our only
Foreign Mission. The church is commit
ted to rs support, and God has not with
held His favor. But is not San Francisco,
not 5aliimore, the proper fulcrum for our
Chinese missionary lever? Would not the
presence Of Dr. Cunyngham in San Fran
CISCO as Assistant Secretary of Foreign
Miss ons be the right thing at this time !?
30 we think, and could give our reasons,
but forbear now. Let all concerned
consider the matter"
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loo OLD-Tbe two Senators from East
Virginia, with members elect to the House
and members of the Virginia Legislature.
called on President Grant to thank him for
what be said in his message about their
State. After the presentation of the dele.
gates, they requested Judge Alexander
hIves to be appointed District Judge un-
der the new law, for the Fourth District.
The President replied that Judge Rives
was too old. Senator Lewis replied that
Rlyes was sixty-fve years of age, but he
was in good health, bodily and mentally,
and IN all respects qualified for the office.
That IS the most sensible talk we have
heard from any President in several deca-
des. Let Grant stick to that, and let Con-
gress take from the Bench those over a
stated age, and we shall have clear headed
bright vigorous and respected Judiciary !;
where as now, the old women of the Su
preme Court become an object of pity.
scorn, or contempt to all who see them
shrvelled up in wig and gown. The
people who c such a Bence of fossils can
have no respect for what it my say; and
1t is well, perhaps, that but few tizens
look IN upon it in its decrepid State. else
the law which all should respect might not
be so well obeyed = Sac Bee.
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A Country Home.

We seen young farmer who knew
little OF the arts of the schools, tame the
wldness of nature, and write the poetry
OF his heart upon the soil. He chooses a
hillside overlooking lake Elms which
time had fostered, he preserved He grad
ed the hill to picturesque declivity. He
set out orchards and planted garden Out
OF flowing spring and pearling stream he
fashioned IA pond, and its waters leaped u
rom a graceful fountain. Sheep and cat,
tie roamed about his fields In autumn.
grain and yellow fruits brought him profit.
while they give color and variety to the
scene iils barns were neat and comely.
ills walks were graded and graveled. and
led by pleasant paths to his modest home,
overlooking the whole and half hidden ir
Ieaty wealth. Industry and taste have
made the most of nature there, and that
hillside in the rich autumn sun is brighter
than the colors of Claude Lorraine.
Of the humdrum Of life we all have full
enough. By the sweat Of our brow we
must all earn our daily bred Most Of our
time must 90 III caring for crops and the
dairy, IN providing for daily necessities-
Ii L have not spoken of such topics. il Is
because more practical subject has come
before me. 1t is serious evil that our
young men drift away from production.
and people OF every age desert the country
for the town. Youth has reason for if.
Business, and professions, and science and
art, are painted in glowing coIors But
has not science its first sphere where soil
is made and vegetation commences? ? Does
not art begin in Transforming barrenness to
beauty, and decorating earth with foliage
and lowers and fiuit? Well as it NAV
be to be an artist, is it not better to be
both producer and artist
by such ii tone aud temper of thou yht,
mingled with the practical toll of every
day HE, 1t seems to me the largest profits
may be made out of agriculture. New
value will be given to the farm, and a
higher interest thrown around our ru4l life.
Fields will be better titled, and the harvest
more plentiful. Better yet, the crop of
men and women on the soil will be i'm
proved Our best youth will be kept at
nome; our prosperous families will vie
with each other in beautifying the old
homestead. Pardon me then, if [ have
used this hour in suggesting now agricul.
lure may conduce most to the culture of
men how worthy youth may become in
tercs1ed IN raising crops how souls as well
as truits may grow ripe and mellow This
ls. The sraa search for the golden feece.-
Address of Ellis Ii. Roberts.
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WORK SUSPENDED.-It is reported
that the workmen on the line of the CAL
lfornia and Oregon railroad in Suffer conn
ty, have been driven from their work by
some OF the farmers, armed with double
shot guns, refusing to permit the construc-
ton OF the road across their farms untll
the right OF way shall be paid Tor. OF
course, the workmen don't like to stand
lre, and they leave. The company gen.
orally, IN locating this road, have run it
around parties who will not give them the
right OF way, and of course, the work must
cease until new line can be run around
these pugnacious farmers. If the rail-
railroad company really desire to progress
with their road on the line where they are
now at work, it is probable they might
make headway by little judcious might
work, and appropriate the right of way
from these contumacious farmers who till
their land with double-ba shot guns.
instead of gang plows. 1t looks, however.
as though the company had progressed in
that direction further than they supposed
they would be obliged to before Mr.. Bin
ney would give them the Oroville road,
and as 1t contumaciously refused to rain,
there Was no way of stopping work except
by airing somebody to drive the vorkmen
OF VITA doube-barrel shot guns Crossing
the river was well enough, because branch
road to Colusa would be very good thing;
but the pretence of making that the Oregon
hne, does not appear to bring the Oroyile
road to terms. and some excuse vas nee
eSsary to stop work. Binney don't sell
worth cent, and it looks as though the
California and Oregon Company had lost
Its narrative in their own ira p Butte
Record
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An army chaplain relates the following
stry See NJ dirty faced butternut ur
ella a the fence in front lof house, the
preacher stopped and said !:
.Is your fathei at home?'
''No. he's gone to church."
s'Is your mother in %
aNo. she's gone too."
Then you are al by yourself?"
"No, Sam 5 in thar huggin' the nigger
gal"
That's bad"
Yes, it's bad, but it's the best he can do
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A scholar was turned out of one of the
district schools in Sutton, Conn.,, the other
day, because he was forty-eight years old,
aud had family, including three or four
grown children He said "his boys and
gals had more learning than he had, and
be wanted 20 kstch up with 'em.
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l.. p. FISHER. 20 & 2I New Mer-
chants Exchange, is cur only authorized Agentin
San Francisco. For Eastern Advertising, Mr
Fisher is represented by S. N. Pettengill Co.
of New York and Boston,
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JOHN V. SCOTT, Proprietor.

TENHE PROPRIETOR OF THIS FAVORITE
Z Hotel takes pleasure in announcing to his
friends and the public generally that be has re
fitted and re-lurnished the establishment through
out and Is now prepared to entertain guests in a
style equal to any other house in Northern Cal
ifornia. The PARL0R and ROOMS are large
aud cunmodious. and the BEDS end sleeping ac-
comodations unsurpassed.
THE TASL
will always I've supplied with everything the mar
kets If this locality afford and every possible at
tention viii he pad to the wants of guests, and
pains spared rnder them comfortable.
1t the B ! z none but the hest brands of Wine
Liquor aud CT sJrs Will be dispensed to customers.
The Oregon & Cal. Stages arrive at and leave
this Hotel daily.
CORRAL e. STABLE.
Attached to this Establishment is good COR
RAJ. and STABLE wucre Transfers and others
can always find aAundant supply Of HAY and
BARLEY at reasonable lrices.
JOHN V. SCOTT.
Shasta. june l9.h, 1869. jel9
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c. c. Bush, JuSge.
TERMs-First Monday in January Nav and
September
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Honesty is the best policy.
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Having furnished our Office with an elegant as
sortment of FANCY JOB TYPES. We are pre-
pared TO execute neatly and cxpeditously ali
manner of job Printing, such as
D.ft. Haads
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A liberal discount made to Monthly ana Yearly
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COUNTY COURT.

Il UAEIEK, JuUge.
TERNs-Second Monday in March June and
November.
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PROBATE COURT.

c. C. Bush, Judge
TERMs-First Monday in February, April, June,
August, October and December,
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Indian outrases.

In spite of the Quaker commission and the
frequent reports of Gen. Gustav and others
that the Indian war on the plains is at an end,
the startling report comes from Kansas that
on Tuesday about 20 white persons were
killed by the Indians in western Kansas.
The murders have been committed by rowing
bands OF Indians, no large bodies having been
heard OF, and the massacre has been the result
OF guerrilla fighting, rather than of general
Indian war. The scene of the operations has
extended from the Republican and Solomon
rivers tothe end of the Kansas Pacific rail-
way. Settlements in that part of the state
are scattered, and very much exposed. Gen.
Schofeld has only small number of troops
at his disposal, but he is making the best use
he can of them.
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Reduction of Freixhts.

The grain producers of the Mississippi Val
ley can bear with equanimity the sneers Of the
Chicag papers and warehouse thieves at the
efforts Of the st. Louis and New Orleans grain
associations, when those efforts have already
yielded the substantial fruits indicated In the
following from the Praire Farmer
The effect of experiments in shipping grain
down the Mississippi to New Orleans and thence
direct to New York aud Liverpool, has been,
even thus early in the enterprise, q reduction Of
ten cents per bushel on the rates of the last few
years on the Northwestern railroad from all
points on the river, to this city, However much
the papers in the interests of the railroads and
warehousemen may scof at this project, talk of
its lmpractibility, and insist that nothing can
turn the grain trade from Chicago and the lakes,
here is a direct admission by the management of
the great road that has its branches stretching
all over the country to the West and Northwest
OF us, built expressly to transport its immense
grain product, that there is danger that the trade
may be lost to them. We congratulate the far
mers of the valley of the upper Mississippi at
this partial lifting of the freight burthen from
their shoulders. We trust that the enterprise Of
shipping via New Orleans will DO pushed to an
extent that will forever prevent the great monop.
oily that many have feared was being built up
with this Noi thwestern road. No amount of ar.
gument or protest, we are convinced by the past,
could have produced the effect that has been
brought about voluntarily, on the part of the
railroad company, by the shipment of few hun.
dred thousand bushels of grain down the Mis-.
sissippi river.
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ToRNADo.-The southern part of Macoupn
county was visited on Friday evening of last
week by terrific tornado The town of
shipman was almost destroyed Halt the
buildings were torn down, and not building
IN town escaped injury Orchards in the
vicinity were also Frustrated us if a monster
scythe had swept through them. As far as
the eye could reach east and west, a scene of
desolatlsn and destruction was presented to
the view. The loss to Shipman is estimated
at 100000. @-l
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oilves Plating Company.

. n y " r. y q
ouvsx Plating Company.
Arinvitation having been extended to the
city Of Ottawa to make proposals to the "Na-
.tQpol Silver Plating Company" of Chicago to
inc Hc6 tkea tclocate their works e Ottawa,
. meeting Of our leading citizens was held at
the Clifton Hotel last Saturday to take the
matter into consideration. The result of the
meeting was the appointment of committee
topFt thp CDnpap at Chicago on Monday
to polp with them. The committee consis-
ted Of Mayor Shuler, Hon. B. c. Cook, Major
Taylor and J. G. Nsthnger, who were to re-
port at . Subsequent meeting. The commit
teea oeeSdd promptly on Monday morning
to Chicago to discharge the duty assigned
them, and although no subsequent meeting
has yet been held to which they could report,
We pree1ms No violate no confidence in saying
that IT, committee were not very deeply i'm.
pressed with the magnitude Of the project,
and if opportunity il given them to make a
report, win probable not recommend a very
heavy Investment on the part Of our city to
procure the location of the establishment in
question at Ottawa.
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CRESCENT CIrY.-This is the name Of u
young town growing up "like weeds" in
Iriquois county. In notice Of the town by
the Gilman Journal, we notice as figuring
quite prominently the familiar names of Mr..
Crumpten, Freddy March, Mr.. Howard, and
Others, former citizens of Ottawa. The town
is located on the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw
II. r., miles east of Gilman. -lstr1
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he water Power Project.
4. In spite of the crosking in certain quarters
to the contrary, meeting Of the leading citi-
gems Of Ottawa, representing fully : moiety Of
liz wealth, held ct the Clifton Hotel last Satur.
day, unanimously and cordially endorsed the
plan Of offering bonus of $4,000 in cash,
or $4,000 in city bonds, to Col. W. H.W.
Cushman, if he will guarantee the construc-
ton Of the proposed water improvement at
Ottawa within the coming year. The meeting
had been called for another purpose, but find
ing the representatives of both water power
companies present, a. we'll as many of our
leading and most wealthy citizens, Col. Red
dick thought it was good time to talk about
water power, and pressed the subject upon the
meeting. It took little time to bring out these
leading points:
l. Thatmeither Of the present water power
companies had the means or proposed to go
on with the work;
.. That both companies were entirely willing
TO transfer their lands, rights, privileges and
fanchisesto any third party that was willing
10 undertake the work and,
8. That Col. w. II. w. Cushman had fully
authorized Chas H. Force to make the offer
= the people of Ottawa to undertake the
work, if they would vote him the bonus above
mentioned.
This last fact having been distinctly placed
before the meeting by Mr.. Force, who was
present, the meeting cordially agreed that it
vas the first proposal thus far made on the
subject that looked like business, and on a
mston to that effect being put, it was unani-
mously voted that the offer ought to be &C.
cepted; and committee was appointed i'm
mediately to open correspondence on the
subject with Mr.. Cushman, who is now at the
east. Theifollowing gentleman compose this
committee: Col. VIM. Reddick, silas w.
Cheever, Hon. B. G. Cook, Richard Thorne
Lorenzo Leland and Mayor Shuler. It having
been suggested to the meeting that some legis.
iation might possibly be necessary to perfect
the arrangement between the city and Col.
Cushman, the meeting voted that Mr.. Cook
should correspond with Gov Palmer, and re.
quest him to embrace the subject in his proc
lamation, should an extra session of the legis-
lature be convened.
Thus certainly, in our view, places the water
power project in the most favorable position
for its early completion, it has yet occupied.
Col. Cushman is not man who makes such a
proposal hastily, or with any thought Of back
ing out if accepted. His word is his bond,
and 90 far as he is concerned, our people can
rest assured that there will be no backing out.
But will the city come up to her part of the
engagement On this point there is no diff
Guilty as far as the wM is commemorative only
doubts suggested being as to the uay to do
it. This point was sufficiently discussed by
the meeting to show that there are at least no
insuperable legal difficulties in the may. Va
rious plans were suggested, but as all required
closer investigation than the meeting was
ready to give them, it was decided to arrange
that matter after the committee shall have re-
ceived q proposition IN definite shape from
Mr.. Cushman.
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Some idea of the extent Of the fruit ttSde a
Union county may be gathered from the fact
that 100 teams loaded with strswberrisi, srd
400 men to handle them and place them "a
the cars, were at the depot at Golden ~ Sne
time on the 9th ult. orr lAVTpSxI
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John A. Logan has appeared in a new role.
The Cairo Bulletin has a notice posting him
to deliver sermon from Methodist pulpit
in Carbondale. Johns health must be fail
ing" When the devil was SICK" &C., must
now apply to him.
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Grant has been given the credit, by his ad
mirers, of making the epigrammatic remark
that office-seeking is becoming one of the
industries Of the country" Naturally enough,
Now England paper already suggests that
the new industry De remembered in the next
tariff and suitabiyys protected. "a
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Among the other strong points urged by the
Rock 'lSiand Usioa for the location Of the blind
ssylun 1t that place, it ssys ''ths attractions Of
che scsassy sre unrivallsd" n~'~ NJ. g
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The New York Sun, the ablest radical organ
Of that city, asks the following, "awful hard"
Suppose that il had been discovered and
proved, during the hunt after Andrew johnson,
Mat he had appointed persons to, office who, had
bestowed ~ him 1lfts, would not the
impeachment trial have had different result 2"
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MENDOZA CoLLEGE.-The name Mendoza
College has been familiar to us for several years
past, but remembering good many fifth rate
schools that have assumed this pretentious name,
we confess to little surprise On receiving, few
days ago, circular from the above school show
ing how really important an institution it is
There is already erected large four story build.
Ing. flrnished with the apparatus and equip.
nents Of a real college, and with faculty Of at
least halt dosen Of able professors or teachers,
giving daily instruction to 152 pupils. The
college isowned and controlled by board Of
Trustees, two.thirds Of whom are appointed by
the ~. LatAersn Synod Of tho northwest, and
Hs rbslinoe ~ ths citizens Of Mendoza. Adj
lsbuildings are projected, 90 % to afford,
When completed, accommodations for 300 pupils.
Msndotss qallsgs Il syadsaNy reality. and dls-
tlaAvsezs aeoA 10 haleAs Of tho leading lsdues-
1oAal insitutioas IA tAs' tAaje. ai,aeesyd e re
Good hers. hsfIsss aad wagon for sale. +tt,
.otie ,eni4a ossfryr9ya T. TzoAsoS.i9'
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- eoloaed' woman who was s.axing up" TO b
lwtisea asAthsn., Ga, ID Sunday, Wa arrest
I for stealing clothes to weir during the bsp.
famL ceremony 8sE1.sJ Q oEITT
tyoislreeld ieS