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The Shasta courier., 1871-11-18
N O t i G e.!

HNANE- BoTTOMED CHAIRS RESTORED BY
" the undersigned work to be left at Mr.. Veides
Furniture Shop ia Shasta
The Shasta courier., 1871-11-18
Saddle and Harness Shop!
Main Street, opposite Dunn's Stables.
JOHN FORSTER 4 CO., pRopR1EroRs.

A LII KINDS OF SADDLES, BRIDES.
N Haruess. and EVERYTHING belonging to
the Trade kept on hand or manufactured to order.
Repairing done with Dispatch Prices low for
Cash. Gail il where you see the Panther or Cal
ifornia Lion over the door. IN .3m.
The Shasta courier., 1871-11-18

Some husbands though anything but
sharp, are awfully shrewd.
The Shasta courier., 1871-11-18
TERMS TO CLUBS.
THE DOLLAR WEEKLY SIN.

THE DOLLAR WEEKLY sun,
Five copies, one year, separately addressed
Four Dollars.
Ten copies one wear, separatelv addressed (and
al extra copy to the getter up of cluD)
Eight Dollars.
TIslsT comics, one year, separately addressed
(1ad an extra copy to the etter up of club)
Fifteen Dollars.
Fifty copies one year, to one address land the
Semi W eek y one yea- - getter ID of club,
Thirty-three d ollars.
Fifty copies. wear. separately addressed (and
the Semi eekly one year getter un OF citib),
Thirty-ive Dollars.
One hundred couies, one year, to one address
(and the Daily for one year to the getter M or
ciuo). Fifty Dollars.
One hundred copies, one year separately nd.
dressed ,anc the Daily Tor ole year to ne Setfer
mp of club, sixty DoIiars.
TIE SEMI-WEERLY sun,
Five copies. one year. separately addressed.
Eight Dollars.
len cor1cs, one yePr. separately addressed fand
an extra copy to getter Up of cl1p),
Sixteen Dollars
SEND YOUR HONEY
In Post Office Orders. checks, or drafts on New
YORK, wherever convenient If aot. tnen register
she letters Containing money. Address
I. ". ENGLANH, Pub ishe--
Sun office. New York City.
The Shasta courier., 1871-11-18

ESSRS. PHELAN C0LLENDER, THE
lVu well known Billiard Table Manufacturers
of New York, have established at 5il Market street
this city an extensive branch OF their business
where they propose to keep constantly on hand
the largest and most complete assortment of Bill
lard Tai les, Cloth Cues, etc., on this coast The
Tables are of the latest styles and size recently
adopted iu the Eastern States are Manufactured
in the best p"ssihle manner. and furnished with
Phelan's latest improved Cushions
The new composition Billiard Ball made by the
Hyatt manufacturing Co of Albany N. Y the best
substitute for ivory yet discovered For Sale only
by us. Price sl2 per set.
All goods will be of the best quality, and the
prices fully as low any other house in the bus
iness.
Parties visiting this city are invited to visit our
warerooms and inspect stock.
GEO. & PHELAN. 54I Market ST.
n. B. The public notified that no other
parties on the Pacific coast have the right sell
phelsn's Cushions
The Shasta courier., 1871-11-18
SUMMONS.

In the Justices Court, Mills & Wilkinson,
of Fourth Township vs..
County of Shasta and H. C. Essley.
The Shasta courier., 1871-11-18
FURNITURE STORE,
ONE DOOR BELOW THE POST OFFICE,
Main Street Red Bluff.

~ w. FICkERT TAKES THIS METH
~. cd to inform the people of Tehama, and
Shasta counties that he keeps constantly on hand
a large and well selected stock of
The Shasta courier., 1871-11-18

The People of the State of California sen
Greeting to II. c. Essley:
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20

Whether the slight censure, from q Leicester
correspondent, in regard to the management of
the recent Thomss concert in this city, was de-
served or not, there still remains one point of
view from which al such frst-class musical en-
tertainmeuts appear open TO criticism. The
pieces performed are of too high an order 1t is
all doubtless very satisfactory for the few cult
waited musicians-the one-tenth, or, 10 speak
with severer accuracy, the one-twentieth portion
Of the audience; but to the common herd of
mankind these fine concerts are in great
part, incomprebensible.
This is perhaps a rather unpaltable truth Mr..
A does not like TO confess it in regard TO him
self, but, knowing it to apply to Mr.. B, pities
hina,-and is in turn pitied by B, for the same
reason; while c cOmmiserates them both for
what in truth is a common educational defect OF
all three Of them. This characteristic of
mixed popular assembly does not need proof
At the recent Thomas concert, the manifest
thrill of delight that pervaded the entire audi
ence when the least complicated and most reg
ular portions Of MasanieO were heard, is the
best evidence of the grade Of music that would
have oecasioned the greatest qualification to the
NlNduspt nuilpNl pitoCuls III idtls SOtuEluluE
still more simple, say the Last Rose of Sum-
mer" would have called forth much more hearty
applause than that justly celebrated or
chestra has been wont TO receive in this city.
Who doubts it2
Therefore, il the intention Of these and such,
like concerts is to amuse those who attend them
some small part of the music, at least, ought to
be within the comprehension of the ninety and
nine whose musical education is not far ad-
vanced. In this way the class that have ears.
but hear not-beyond a certain range, would re-
ceive pleasure from what they can understand,
and would be gradually educated up 10 an an.
probation Of more elaborate music, by the other
portions Of the concert
1t is the same with all the sisterhood of fine
arts From the ballad Of ''The Babes in the
Wood" to paradise Lost" from the daub on &
tavern sign-board to Raphael's "Transfgura
ton" from a coarse plaster image to the Apollo
Belvedere, the paths Of discipline and cultur
are so long, toilsome, and slow 10 climb, tina
the greater portion even of civ lized communi
ties have, thus far, died at but a comparatiyel,
short distance from the starting point. Thi
being so, our musical entertainments, especially
would be much more effective, it, while en-
! brscing greater variety In their composition
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20
Foreign Notes.

LONDON, Jan. 1S.-A dispatch from Versailles
states that the fire of the Prussians on Paris
still continues. A part of the siege train from
the fortress of MeziereS has been placed on the
batteries of Hontmorency, and, as far as can be
ascertained, has done considerable damage TO
the public buildings within range of the Prus-
sian fire. All the women and children in the
st. Denis quarter left the neighborhOod Sun
day, as it was known that the enemy had threat
ened to destroy this part of the city.
The effect of TrOchu'S proclamation was very
manifest. The excitement consequent on the
belief that there was treason with the generals
has subsidized to a great extent, and the inhabi-
tants endure the r,yolting horrors of the siege
with more heroic calmness.
VARIOUS ITEMS FROM LONDON.
LONDON, Jan. 17.-The Journal Of st. Peters
burg criticises, in caustic language the reply of
Won Beust to thenote of GortSchakoff, and says
distinctly that the policy of Austria is not cal
culated to secure the friendship of Russia, or
that Of the western powers.
A dispatch just received from Versailles says
that the French under Chanzy are retreating
from Laval. The German army is in full pur-
suit, and has already passed the town of Vaiges,
fourteen miles east of Laval.
Two thousand additional prisoners have been
taken. Aencon was occupied by the Germans
on the night of the 18th.
Gen. Won Werder maintained his position to
the southwark of Belfort on Monday against the
renewed attacks from the French army of the
east. The German loss was comparatively
small.
A dispatch dated Prundlet, on the nth, re-
ports renewed fighting to-day along the whole
line.
The king OF Prussia, in a letter to Prince Hen
ry of Luxembourg, cOunses him to be prudent
and cautious, and asserts that Prussia has never
intended to attack the independence of Luxem-
bourg.
The investment of Longwy is complete, not
withstandiug the attempts of the garrison to
prevent the placing in position of German bat
teries.
The Germans, on the 18th inst, dispersed a
force of 1000 gardes mobile near Langres.
The German loss in the battles with Chanzy
is officially stated at III officers and 1908 men
killed and wounded. The French lost, besides
their killed and wounded, $4,000 unwounded
prisoners.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20

HISTORY OF LOUIS XIV. BY John 5. c. Alb.
bolt. Harper & Brothers, publishers. Most
readers know very well what j. S. C. Abbott is
and what he is not, as a writer of biography,
especially when he has Bonapartes and other
French notables TO deal with. This is not the
worst of his superficial books, for ii enables us
to see the selfshness, arrogance, weakness, base
ness, and utter worthlessness, of that very de-
testible human creature, the French "grand mon
arch, )" the most eminent of the BourbOns. Some
of the race may have been more detestble than
he, but it seems hardly possible.
A GERMAN READER, to succeed "The German
Course" By George F. Comfort, A. NJ. New
York: Harper Brothers. Mr.. Comfort is pro-
fesSor of modern languages, in the college at
MeadYile, Pa. His German Course" shows
that he understands what is wanted in the study
of German; and this book furnishes additional
evidence of his aptitudeas teacher. 1t is de-
signed for use in academies and colleges The
selections are taken from the best of the later
German writers, and they relate to great
variety of topics. They are accompanied by ex-
planatOry notes and an English-German vocab-
ulary. For sale at Bigelow's.
The You've PIONEERS OF THE NORTHWEST,
by DR.. C. H. Pearson, is published by Lee &
Shepard as the fifth volume of their Frontier
Series" 1t is well told story of life on the
frontier, in which we are introduced to militia
ry station, and told of adventures with Indians.
IN THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, for February,
there is a poem by VIM. D. 0'Connor, which
fills more than six pages. OF course, it is no
ordinary production, for Mr.. O'Connor is a man
of genius. There is a second paper by Henry
W. Williams, M. D., entitled "0ur Eyes, and
how to take care of Them" which should be
studied carefully by all who have eyes to read it.
"Our Whispering Gallery, No. II" contains BIZ
ographical "reminiscences of Hawthorne, which
are to be continued. Samuel A. Greene writes
"The Story of the Famous Book" Dr. Franklin's
Autobiography. The other articles are generally
good, although, that entitled 'The Origins OF
FOLKLORE is open to criticism.
OUR YOUNG Folks, for February, has ar
tices by J. 7. Trowbridge, Mrs. Stowe Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps, and seven or eight other
writers. This magazine, like the Atlantic
Monthly, holds on its way without change, save
in the name of the publishing firm. What was
Fields, 0sgood & Co." is now Games R. Os.
good & Co."
BRETT HARTE's Heather Chinee" poem has
been published on illustrated cards, and is for
| sale by Jenkins & Whitcomb.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20

Under the title of Expense CT the Franking
Abuse" the New York Evening Post says:
"Tbe postmaster-general in December, 1869,
instructed all the poStmasters in the country to
report monthly the amount of free matter pass.
ing through their offices. The number of offices
thus required to report was over twenty-eight
thousand. For the SIX months following, to
July, 1870, only 1888 reported, whose returns
show that within the six months there were
transmitted 5,140, 796 frauked letters, the post
age on which, at the established rate, amounted
TO $685., 54s, and 2,047 971 pounds of other frank
ed matter, such as printed documents and seeds,
upon which the postage at established rates
amounted to $3.50, S4S, making altogether for six
months for postage on free matter the sum of
S3l6,396. At a fair rate of estimate for the
nearly 90 600 non reporting post-offces the
postmaSter-general says the following grand re-
suit is shown: Total number CT franked letters
for six months, 1884 ,497; postage, 1888 ,079.
Printed matter, &C., 2,655,196 pounds; postage,
SS3e ,593.S5. To al postage for six months,
Sl,271 ,66385. Total Tor one year, So 543 32772."
The Post, we suppose, is responsible for none
of this paragraph except the title which, how
ever, is of itself adapted to convey a wrong i'm
preston; the facts and figures are given on the
Authority of the postmaster-general, and are, we
have no reason to doubt correct so far as they 90
They fail to state what part of all this free mail
matter was official, pertaining to the business of
hedepartments and bureaus, which the govern
ment must under any system bear the expense of
transporting and how much of it was covered
by what is popularity known as the franking
privilege of members oil congress.
1t is of no special interest to the public to
know the aggregate amount of free matter, and
it contains no legitimate argument in favor of
Inc reform which the postmaster general pro-
fesses TO have so much at heart Among his
statistics on this subject which he puts forth from
time to time, why does he not discriminate be-
tween the free matter sent under the authority
of the executive officers and that franked by
members of congress? The former is known
TO be very considerable; we have ourselves no
doubt that it largely exceeds the latter in
amount. At the post office in this city the
amount Of free matter was considerable for the
period to which the inquiry was confined, but
that sent under a congressional frank was an
insignificant fraction of the whole The attempt
to create popular demand for the abolition of
the franking privilege, by giving out the impress
sion that it would save to the country the post
age Oh all the matter which now goes free, is
disingenuous Let the congressional franking
privilege stand or fall on its own merits or de-
merits. We are not anxious TO preserve it. But
let us know Just what it costs, and then it will
be possible 10 judge whether it is worth saving.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20

The duties Of governors in the Carolinas are
difficult and perplexing. In North Carolina.
Gov. Holden called t'the militia 10 repress
and punish the kuklux. Martial law was de-
clared in one or two counties where the outraees
had been most numerous and aggravated, the
ruf1ans were quelled for the time and peaeeable
and well disposed citizens were relieved from
their terrorism. For this service Gov. Holden
has been imDeached by the legislature and is
likely TO be convicted. IN South Carolina the
governor took different course. ourages of a
similar character were committed there, but Gov
Scott, instead ofsummoning the militia to subduC
the outlaws endeavored to encourage the civil
authorities to perform their duty, and to stimu
late the well disposed people Of the state to aic
the civil officers in preserving the peace. Tn,
legislature Of his state are as much dissatisfied
with him as the Legislature of North Carolin;
arr with Governor Holden. They demand win
he did not call out the militia to suppress thes
disorders, and threaten TO impeaeh him for fail
ing to doso. The situation is unpleasant for,cael
Of these governors. Perhaps the states nigh
exchange chief magistrates to their mutual salts
action.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20

The baptismal font at the Baptist church at
Akron, Ohio, has been re-arranged, so that the
water can be heated now before persons are bap-
tised. This, says the Akron Times, will make
the road TO heaven somewhat warmer, if not
easier.
A farmer who wished to invest the accumula-
tion of his industry in United States securities,
went to brokers' office TO obtain treasury notes
The clerk inquired: "What denomination will
you have them, sir?" Having never heard that
word used excepting to distinguish religious
Sects, the farmer, after little elaboration, re-
piled: well, you may give me part in Old
South Presbyterian, TO please the old lady, but
give me the heft ont in Free Will Baptist"
While Mr.. Cox was secretary of the interior
he used to give the following example to appli-
Giants for places in his department, they say, and
it sent so many up the spout that it got TO be
called Cooks cowcatcher:" "a sold a cow for
SIS, and by the transaction lost 143 per cent.
He sold another COW at an advance of sixteen
per cent. for just enough to cover by the profit
the loss upon the first :cow. What did the Sec
ond COW sell for?
A manufacturer of ladies' furs has consigned
very nice lot of such goods to r. A Clapp 223 Main
street, to be sold at very much reduced prices, to
close out the stock This is quite favorable op.
portunity for those who have waited for lower
prices.
Fairbanks & Piper's Wine of Calisaya Bark and
Iron enriches the blood TRY it,"
0YsTERs.-For fresh and salt fish and good fresh
oysters, call at O'Gradys, 295 Main street.
c. B. Eaton, lie Main street, commences his an
nual clearing out sale of fancy dry goods January
Is. Persons wishing for nice goods in his line will
find them selling at very low prices.
The best lung protectors, single and double, at
Fairbanks Piper's, 10 Front street.
Fairbanks & Piper's Wine of Calisaya Bark and
Iron restores the glow of health to the palid cheek
"Try it."
Fairbanks s Piper's Wine of Calisaya Bark and
Iron gives tone and vgor to the debilitated system
"Try IT,"
LADIES, in want of real hair will do well to read
MEDIEA's price list in another column.
Fairbanks & Pipers Demulcent skin lotion cures
chapped hands and renders them soft and smooth
Try it.
Fairbanks & Piper's Wine of Calisaya Bark and
Iron cures dyspepsia. TRY it."
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20

and arrangement, they should never entirely
omit specimen or two Of those simpler pieces
which the ignobe vulgar-so to speak--can
both appreciate and enjoy. Thus, those who
pay the fiddler would get something of what the
old adage guarantees to them. n
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20

Mr.. Hoar's bill to establish a national system
of education is likely to obtain support in I'M
expected quarters. The opposition to it in con
gress has come from the democratic side of the
house, but this is 10 be changed. The demo-
cratic party Of Connecticut have expressed them
selves emphatically in favor of free schools and
general education, as necessary to the existence
Of a free people. One Of the resolutions adopted
by the state democratic convention held few
days ago reads as follows:
Resolved, that the source of power being in
the people, free schools and general education
are essential TO good government and the per-
petnation of free institutions
OF course Mr. Barnum, the only democratic
representative in congress from Connecticut, will
take his cue from this resolution and support
Mr.. Hoar's bill. The Louisville Courier-Jounal
too, the most influential organ of the democrat
ic party in the southwest, is making commend
able progress in the direction of approaching
the advantages of education. Confession gen
orally precedes amendment, and after such a
frank confession as the following, which is cut
from that paper, we are confident that we shall
not have long TO wait before the Courier-Jour-
nal will be found devotng its great ability and
influence to the advocacy of Mr.. Hoar's bill.
The Courier-Journal says:
The great nstrumentalitv through which rad.
icalsm attains place and power is mind, with a
little assistance from money; the great instru-
mentality through which democracy attains the
same ends is ignorance. Wherever radicalism
prevails, there learning lifts her classic head,
and from her ambrosial locks scatters intel.
lectual light and loneliness abroad; wherever
democracy obtains q bnra
ercctS her shrnes and her affairs, before which
her blind and ragged yotares PROSTATE them
selves in the dust and sing p@ans in her praise.
1t is not strange, then, that the democrat who
is true to his principles and his party never APP
proaches school house without instinctively
feeling in his pockets 10 see if he has such a
thing about him as box of matches or a can
of ntrO-glycerine. 1t is to the democratic party
the English poet refers when he tells us that
where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20

sun rose bright as ever, the stars fell not from
heaven, the laws of nature were uninterrupted.
at was only postponed" said the credulous;
they counted the days, weeks and months with
indeScribable anxiety, and it required many
wears of anguish to restore calmness TO their
minds
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20

The Nation suggests, in view of the disorders
in South Carolina, "that the true friends of the
state should pray and work as they are able for
three things two of which are "the decline of
the carget-bag influence" and "the increase of
population by immigration" There seems to
be an inconsistency here. Carpet-baggers, we
take it, are immigrants, and the Nation would
hardly wish for anything so undemocratic, in
the original and best sense of that much abused
word, as an increase of their members with
decline Of their influence. If by "carpct-bag in
fuence" the Nation means the influence of inn
migrants from northern states who have figured
in politics there it still seems not to strike at the
root of the trouble. Some of these "carpet-bag-
gers, if no other name will do, have been and
are political adventures, not altogether adj
mirable in their private character or official con-
duct, but the friends of the state might possibly
do better than to expend all their prayers and
efforts upon them. The worst of them would
compare fayorably with the men who, as the
Nation says, figure in the familiar ku- kluX role
of surrounding and numbering a man in his
own house." Would it not be hopeful expert
ment for the friends of the state to pray and
work as they are able for the decline of the ku-
klux influence? Perhaps we ought not but we
cannot help being reminded by the Nation of the
Yirginian magistrate, who, when a promising
but unknown young lawyer had provoked the
legal magnate of the neiahborhood into profan-
ity by getting the better of him in argument,
threatened 10 fine the young man "for making
Squire Pendleton swear?"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20

$1,000. BOSTON STOCK SAhES- Jan, 10.
$4,000 United States FtvetwPnties 1851. ...... lOI
$4,000 Boston, Hartford h. Erie IS new 235f 6l23X
5000 Michg Central r. r. SIS. 1904
S500 Vermont Central railroad LIST mort Is S79 6S7
$1,000 Vermont Central railroad I'd mort 40E
$4,000 Iowa Central Railroad Ts,..................9
Sl2000 Union Pacific railroad 6s...,....,..T 50r75h
$1,000 Union Pacific land grant Is .....,........ Sc
$4,000 Union Pacific income Th@4g
$4,000 Gin, Sandusky and Cleveland II Is ...,,.SO
II Boston and Name railroad
"a Eastern railroad ll0A
rs Michigan Central railroad. Observation-Disclosures
Sc Ogdensburg q Lake ChamDlan RK....... So 6lS9I
do Dref ~ iOSb
IA Old Colony and Newport railroad .............tb
Isg rhl VIII and Baltimore railroad ,.....,5lN@ 52
1853 Rutland railroad. pref
n Vermont and Massachusetts R...,..,,,,,,,,,,7O
Chicago, Bufling on and Quincy RR............l5lk
Cheshire railroad, pref .......... ..........S5H
800 Indianapolis and ncinnat railroad. 1H6l7H
IS Boston and ALBANY rarOaft. ISL
100 Gin Sandusky and Cleveland X R,.....,..,.,23N
200 Hartford ana Erie railroad 10
Manchester and Lawrence railroad ......,.....l3G
Portl md. Saco and Portsmouth railroad. .l2Ok
% Naumkeag Steam Cotton Mills.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20


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