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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16

New York and North Carolina each cele-
Governor-Gen. Dix in the former, and Judge
Caldwell in the latter.
By the 4th of March the army will be clothed
in their new uniform, which is very like that of
the Prussian army.
A New York Court has decided that the
United States cannot tax the salaries of State
Judges.
The last rail on the northern division of the
Cairo and Fulton railroad, connecting st. Louis
with Little Rock, Ark, was laid Jan. 8. The
southern division, extending to the Red river
and making connection with the system OF
roads running to the Gulf of Mexico, will be
completed during 1873.
?. T. Barnum was robbed of a thousand dol
lar diamond pin ON the cars between Richmond
and New York.
Another instalment of destitute Italian en-
igrants arrived at New York the other day
They claim that they were unable to subsist il
their own country.
Heavy snow-storms prevailed in Kansas anc
Missouri on the Sd, and in Kentucky and
Tennessee on the 4th, being the heaviest
snow-falls known in those regions for many
years.
bill to deal with mnrderous insanity ha,
been brought before the Legislature of Ohio
1t is similar to the bills prepared for the New
York and Illinois Legislatures in providing fo
the imprisonment of persons who escape con
viction on the plea of insanity.
Gen. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, in
forms Congress that 80, s87, 462 has so far beer
spent on the canal around the Falls of the
Ohio, and $2,7692OO on that around the Der
Moines Rapids. The ship canal talked of t.
connect the Mississippi above the Delta will
the deep waters of the Gulf will cost 81, 500,
000
Senator Buckingham.s BILL introduced int
the United States Senate last week. adds an
! other to the countless schemes for improving
our currency. He proposes that banking b
made free; that no interest be allowed on de
posits; that banks may make United State
bonds part of their reserves, and may re
deem their notes in coin, legal tenders, or Ma
tional Bank notes. The bill further provide
for the reciprocal convertibility of bonds an
| preenbackS
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16

The Territories foot up populations as
follows: Alaska, 70,461; Arizona, A.
10; Colorado, Al, 164; Dakota, 0,501;
District of Columbia, 131, 700; Idaho,
20, 5S3; Indian Territory, 68, 1872; Monta-
ia, 80, 1876; New Mexico, Ill 1903; Utah,
1851; Washington, 37,432; Wyoming,
II, 518.
RACE AND COLOR.
Of this aggregate of 80, lis, 641, the
white population embraced 80, 203, 1913,
an increase of 6,512, 34S, or "a. 80 per
cent. and the colored population 4, 1885,
LOG, gain of 9.21 per cent.
NATIVITY.
Of the total constitutional population
of the United States, 80, 991, 142 are ma
tive, and 1867, 229 foreign-born. There
are 10, 1872, OILS having one or both parents
foreign; 1O,521, 233 having foreign
father; 10, los, 627 having foreign mother;
1874, 845 having foreign father and for
eign mother The increase of foreign
born population over 1860 is !, 428, $50.
The increase of foreign-born population
in Massachusetts, since 1860 is SO, 213,
and the increase of native population
134,0 Of the foreign-born population
of the United States, 80 sos were born in
Austria, 1873, 464 in British America, 49,
402 in France, 1,690,531 in Germany
$50, 924 in England, !, 1855, 1927 in ireland,
140, 953 in Scotland, 1913 in Wales,
46, S02 in Holland, II, 157 in Italy, Al, 464
in Mexico, 114,246 in Norway, IA, 1876 il
Poland, 1857 in Portugal, 4,64 in Rus
STA, 584 in the Sandwich Islands, 8, 764
in Spain, 1882 in Sweden, Is, 1853 in
Switzerland, 6,251 in the West Indies,
and the remainder in Asia and other
parts of the globe.
THE FIFTY LARGEST CITIES.
The population OF the so largest cities
| In the United States is as follows, IL
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16

families. ET1ss or companies cannot combine
to rent postoffice boxes concertly but that the
box rent must be collected for each firm,
family or company enjoying such facilities.
The internal revenue receipts for the last
quarter of 1872 were $26, $50 OBS.
Washington dispatch says: 1.-THE Presi-
dent has directed the Secretary of State to
prepare Immediately an executive order In eff
feet prohibiting persons holding United States
commissions from occupying Office under State
authority"
1t is stated that Secretary Boutwell, adheres
to his former opinion that Congress last year
made too large reduction in taxation, and
that he expects further increases of the public
debt hereafter.
The President authorizes a contradiction of
the statement relative to the proposed retire
ment of Secretary Fish and the appointment
of Mr.. Evarts as his successor.
President Grant has pardoned two more Ku-
Klux out of the Albany Penitentiary.
A Washington correspondent says well-in-
formed members of both houses of Congress
express the opinion that there is no hope for
the passage of the Postal Telegraph bill dur
ing this session.
Hon. Charles Summers health continues to
decline. and his friends are becoming appre-
hensive. He is not able to take his seat in the
Senate, nor to take part in public affairs. His
chief trouble, as in the case of Mr. Greeley,
appears to be sleeplessness.
The President has expressed his intention of
not calling an extra session of the Senate for
executive business after the 4th of March, I'M
less something of Importance requiring it
should transpire before that time.
The House Commerce Committee are busily
engaged in perfecting Shelabarger's bill fol-
The revival of American commerce.
The House Committee on Public Lands have
agreed to Ketchums bill prohibiting the sale
OF public lands within the limits of any railroad
grant at less than $3.50 per acre.
bill has been introduced into the House
providing for the issue of $25, 900, 900 of Ma
tional Bank notes in addition to the amount
authorized heretof ore. These notes are to be
distributed to banks in States and Territories
which failed to received their due proportion Of
currency under previous appointments.
The Finance Committee of the Senate has
been instructed to report whether Secretary
Boutwell, has the right to issue leSal-tendel
notes in place of the forty-five millions of banl
notes Cancelled by the act of 1866.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
FACTS FROM THE CENSUS.
Revised Tables of Population, Nativity
Etc.--SOme Interesting Figures.

Ordinarily, figures are dry and uninter-
esting reading; but the following extracts
from the first volume of Census Com
missioner Walkers report of the 9th
census are notable exception to the
general rule. The facts and figures here
given are those of the first Importance
embodied in the work, and are the first
that could be depended on for accuracy:
The total population of the United
States in June, 1870, the date of taking
the census, was 3S, GAL, distributed
among the several States as follows:
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16

The progress made during the decade
preceding 1870 by the several States is
shown by the following table:
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15
BRIEF MENTION.

General Hardee, author of Hardee's
Tactics, is dead.
Robert Prichard has purchased the Span
gle property in the lower end of town.
Mrs. Rhodehamel, of Gilroy, is i'll and
not expected to recover.
The Treasurcr's office is now located in
E. Lewin's iron front building.
For the past week the weather has been
splendid.
Harmonic quartz ledge, lately discov-
cred near town, is prospecting splendidly
Some of the rock may be seen at Knox's.
Cayton, Thomas, Hansell, Townsend, pi-
oneers Of the Pit River country, have left
the county and gone in search of "new"
territory.
A. Grotefend returned from San Fran
cisco this week where he has been to select
a fresh stock Of Groceries: Dry Goods, Cloth
ing, &c.
Brigham Young may consider Salt Lake
paradise, but Samuel Cooper don't. He
prefers Shasta. 1t was ever thus with
those who leave this healthy and beautiful
old town.
VIM. Pryor telegraph operator at this
place returned from visit to Sacramento
and Grass Valley this week, looking just as
happy as big sunAower.
The examination OF Shorty Hays last
Saturday resulted in his being bound over
to await the action of the Grand Jury in
the sum of $4,000.
If the proprietors of the Shasta butcher
shop will establish a soap factory in connec-
tion with their slaughter house and shop,
they will find it good investment and a
paying enterprise. Such factory started
in Shasta will prove fortune to its owners
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15
This petition is in circulation a:

"To the Honorable the Legislature of
the State of California, in Senate and assem-
bly, convened: In view of the. disastrous
Influences cf the public sale of Intoxicating
Drinks upon the peace, the morals, and the
financial interests of all classes of Society
all experience, past and present, proving
that such drinks are an unmitigated evil,
producing desease, idle and desolate habits,
crime, insolvency and poverty--th evidence
of the Judiciary and other officers of the
law universally showing that their use en-
tails, directly and indirectly, upon the Peo-
pie tax many times greater than the sum
of all revenues derived from their manufac-
ture and sale, and it being manifest injus-
tice that our property, our homes, and our
lives should be in constant jeopardy, from
the carelessness, violence, rufianism and
crime of drunken men made so by the traf-
fc in the agencies of intoxication, respec-
fully petition, that Law be forthwith en-
acted, similar to the Pennsylvania "Iocal
Option Law which shall provide that the
question of "license or no license" shall be
submitted to the voters of every Township
or City OF tie State, distinct from any 9th
er issue, and which shall prohibit the sale
of all Intoxicating Drinks in those town
ships where majority of the votes cast are
in favor of '.no license
Sand your Petitioners will ever pray
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15
IRON ORE IN SHASTA AND OTHER
FOOTHILL COUNTIES.

Ofail the great undeveloped resources
of this State none have been so entirely
overlooked and neglected as the iron inter
est. 1t was notAuntil quite recently, that
the least attention was paid to the subject,
and even now, outside of few loca' pa
pers and one or two of the more enterprlslng
dailies, the matter is not discussed. Pub
lie attention-eyeu in the counties where
the valuable deposits of ircn is known to
exist-has not attracted to that mineral re-
source and the first step towards its devel
opement is vet to be taken. Notwithstand-
ing this indifference regarding what is sure
TO be one of the leading interests OF the
,ytate in the near future, at least FIVE OF the
mountain counties contain deposits of iron
equal in quality to the richest ores of Pen
sylvania and New York-Calaveras, Tuol-
umpe, Placer and Shasta In relation to
the supply we cannot speak with such abb
solute certainty, because little or no work
has been done to ascertain the truth respect
ing the ex tent of the deposits; but the In
dica;ions lead to the belief that they are
inexhaustible. Shasta, alone of the coun
ties known to contain iron produces the
black oxide, or what is more popular known
as magnetic ore deposits in the others con
sists wholly of the hydrated oxide of iron,
quality of ore usually called brown hemat
ite. The difference between the ores is
that the magnetic is the richer, and Is usu
ally made directlyin to wrOughtiron in fors
cs, while the hematite is manufactured int
pig. With am abundance of these two
classes of ores extending along the upper
range Of foothills, from Tuolumne to Shasta
and plentiful supply of wood for coaline
purposes, what better facilities for the prof
liable manufacture of iron can be asked
The distance from the line of iron deposite
to railway communication does not exceed
twenty-five miles at any point, and in nearly
every instance it is much less Excellent
furnace sites are obtainable without diff
Guilty, and in fact all the requisites for the
cheap and rapid manufacture of iron upon
a scale of any desirable magnitude are al
hand-Calavaras Chronicle.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15

SUMNER FALLow-We hope soon to
see the day and will hail it as the beginning
of long period of agricultural prosperity,
when the system Of summer-tallo%ing will
become universal among our farmers. Its
advantages are everything. Clean crops,
sure crops, greater yield, fertility OF land
preserved, sowing and narrowing all done
Just before the rains set in, while dry and
pleasant, blowing done after the heaviest
rains are over, surely the advantage are
manifold. Once this system becomes uni
versal, the necessity of resortlng TO irriga-
tion will be little urged.-Colusa Indepcnd
ept
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15
PROCEEDINGS NOV.
TERN, 1873.

Board met Monday Nov. Sd, and made f.
nal adjournment Friday Nov.7.
Present Supervisors Anderson, Webb and
Oliyer-Wm II. Bickford, clerk.
8 The following is synopsis of the pro-
ceedings had
Application of E. L. Warner for franchise
to keep a toll bridge across Pit River halt
mile below mouth Of Hat Creek franchise
granted for FIVE years. Bridge must be sub
stantial and safe. and owner must enter into
$1,000 bonds-and pay $50 per annum j!
cense; Rates of toll Six horse team 50 100;
four horse team $3.50 two horse team 75c
buggy 75c; horseman 25c; loose horses and
cattle per head 08c; sheep and hogs per head
03c.
Hospital physicians report accepted and
the following accounts allowed on the Hos
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15

Troublesome rascals in the vlc;nage OF
Gilroy have ezasperated that people into
organizing a Vigilance Committeeman
these committees are wonderful purifiers of
the moral atmosphere. Rogues fear them
more than they do the Courts or the otfl-
GERS of tie law-for once in the hands of
such a body their trial is speedy and their
punishment certain-Sacramento Bee.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15
MACNEALE g. URBAN'S


SAFES,
With Patent inside Bolt Work and Hinged Cap.
The only Safes made whose Locks and Bolts are
as completely protected from Fire as the contents
By opening the Cap, mechanism can, without
trouble Ut expense, be easily kept clean and well
oied-ihus avoiding the common accident of Locks
or Bolts rusting OF becoming foul and refusing to
operate, and necessitating the destruction of the
Door or Lock- to gain access to the interior OF the
Safe
The Burglar Proof Metal consists of plate of
soft, tough, Bes Steel firmly welded between
two plates of Spring Steel, tempered Drill Proof,
thus rendering the Safe against Drilling and
Fracture. Wedgng, and the introduction OF ex-
posives, as Nitro-G ycerine, &C., are absolutely
prevented by the Related Doors, with Tongues
and Grooves. Solid, welded, Corners, and twisted
hard and-soft steel Conical Bolts with right and
left hand threads.
The Excelsior and "Perfection" Combination
LOCKS (no keyhole and no springs) are unequalled
for security, reliability, and smooth working and
after a careful comparison with competing locks,
subjected to the seve-est tests, have been adopted
by the U. S. Treasury Department, as proved to
be the Best. The steel twisted Spindles are so
made that they can be neither Drilled, Broken,
Driven, nor Pulled.
We are at liberty to state that, after careful
investigation and comparison, these safes meet
with the approval of WELLS, FARGO co. who
are using them in their Express and Banking De-
partments.
I GEORGE A. RAYMOND, Agent for the Pa
cifc Coast, 900 California Street.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15
DR.. shnr,leff and ". s. Wills. officials

DR.. Shur,leff and W. S. Wills, officials
of the Grindstone Board, went below last
Saturday night. Wills goes to Napa to
look at real estate known as the Oddfellow
Houe property, and the Doctor goes along
to look after the Presidents health, in case
he should suffer in consequence of sudden
ly changing from the saluhrious climate oi
Rock Creek Valley to the bleak, wind
SWEPT plains Of Napa.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15

MOUNTAIN SHEEP KILLED The early
part of the present week D. C-familiarly
known as Doc-Basley killed two noun
tain sheep on Little Shasta, near the resi-
dence of Mrs General Martin. Though
the mountain sheep is usually very wild,
these were very tame and scarcely made an
effort to get away. Having approached to
within short distance of where they were
laying, apparently unohserved by them,
Bagley made noise, causing them to jump
up, when he shot the larger enc. TIE
other ran away but he pursued and soon
succeeded IN getting q shot at it. They
were to be seen for day or two at John
Foall's butcher shop in town, where they
were viewed By citizens as quite curioslties.
The larger oSe weighed the entrails out
but skin and head on-200 pounds. They
have enormous horns, shaped soruthing like
rams horns but three or four times as large
"a short deer like tail, and coarse, but
not harsh, hair, blush Or mouse colored.-
The meat is esteemed as quite delcacy
+. Ro.ler, the druggist, purchased their
heads aud intends forwarding them to some
friends in Germany-Yreka Union.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15

A man living on Long Island Sound,
haviog his finger caught by crab, tried to
dislodge it by biting off its claw. He rails
ed it to his mouth for that purpose, when
the crab reached his nose with the other
claw, and embraced that with his equal ar
dor and vehemence.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15
JOHN v. SCOTT, Proprietor.

TNHE PROPRIETOR OF THIS FAVORITE
Il Hotel takes pleasure in announcing to his
friends and the public generally that he has re-
fitted and re-furnshed the establishment through
out, and is prepared to entertain guests in a
style equal to any other house in Northern Cal
ifornia. The PARLOR and ROOMS are large
and commodious, and the BEDS and sleeping ac-
comodatons unsurpassed.
THE TABLE
will always be supplied with everything the mar
kets of this 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 hest brands of Wine
Liquor and Cigars will be dispensed to customers.
The Oregon & Cal. Stages arrive at and leave
this Hotel daily.
CORRAL g. STABLE.
Attached to this establishment is good COR
RAJ and STABLE where Teamsters and Others
can always find an abundant supply of HAY and
BARLEY at reasonable prices.
JOHN ". SCOTT.
Shasta, June 10Th, 1869. je19
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15

Next stated meeting of Western Star
Lodge No. 2 T. and A. NJ. will be held on
Saturday, the 29th day of November. Be
ing the meeting for the election of officers
for the ensuing year, full attendance OF
the members is requested.
T.. WELLENDORFF, Master.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15

LosT-A note against Thomas Maupin
and in favor of H. NJ. Rockhold, dated DC
tober 1st, 1873, for $3.50, payable five
months after date. The finder is request.
ed to communicate with
THOMAS ii. MAUPIN.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15

LosT.-About the 18th inst, between
Horsetown and Midd!etown, an account
book. The book was tied up in plllo"
case. will pay the finder So, on return
ing the book. The accounts are for iumber'
&c. Names J. A. Petty 4 L. Maupin.
THos. H. MAUPIN.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15

HIGHWAY RoBBERY.-And still the
game goes on. While riding over Trinity
mountain, between here and Trinity Centre,
last Sunday night, VIM Murry was star
tied by the sudden appearance of two men
who jumped into the road, leveled guns at
him, and ordered him to stand and deliver.
As there was no other alternative, Murry
gave the robbers all the money he had,
amounting to $1,000, when they ordered
him to proceed on his way. He says that
one of the robbers had on soldiers blue
blouse and would weigh 175 pounds
Parties from Trinity Centre are in pursuit
of the raseals.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15

CoURT.-District Court, Hon. A, NJ
Rosborough presiding convened, at the
Court House Monday. The following pro
ceedlnss were had:
Case of B. Garland ct al versus h. Lew.
in and f. Observation-Disclosures demurred to
plaintiffs complaint and Saturday Decem-
ber 9th set as the time for hearing argu
ment on demurrer. Case of Charles Young
versus James A. Powell in matter OF con
ficiting claim 20 School lands in Pit River
Valley-case tried, submitted and Judg
ment given in favor of plaintiff
If you want to spend pleasant evening"
don't fail to attend the Thanksgiving Ball.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-11-15
STORE!

HVHE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFULLY IN
forms his friends and the public generally
that he has returned to Shasta and re-engaged IN
business at the stand formerly occupied by :. e.
Bush & Co., where he will be glad to see both
old and new customers.
personally selected my large stock with the
view of supplying the demands ofthe Shasta trade
with which past experience has rendered me ia
mliar. My stock consists of all descriptions OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-05
Chesapeake a.d Ohio Canal.

The last weekly report Of the coal trade ~
Cumberland, though it does not exhibit any
considerable diminution of the deficit Of this
years trade Is compared with the last, Is, on
the whole, gratifying. 1t shows that with any
thing like q fair chance there Is virtue In the
canal to hold its own against all opposition,
whether Of open competition or secret treach-
cry. The canal has responded like vessel 10
its helm when the right course is steered and
the requisite strength applied For weeks upon
weeks in the earlier spring It fell back and
back of its old record, for IL labored under the
weight of policy that was submerging IL in ruin.
Seeing that all prayers, arguments and remon-
stIances were alike unav ailing, an understand
ing was had by and between one of the compa-
mics having large shipping facilities at George
town and q number OF boatmen, whose all Is
upon the canal, whereby the great object Of
cheap freightage might be attained, even If
against the policy of the canal company itself.
The consequence has been that since even the
partial operation of this saving measure the
prospects Of the canal have frightened, and we
are now semioffcially told that ''the business
of the canal has increased every week since
the first Of June" which was just the date
when the redeeming movement was set on foot
Although the Baltimore American, in Its cur
sorry notice Of President Germans last annual
report, held IL, with scarce suppressed citation,
to be notorious that the recent advancement
of canal tolls directly operated in forcing ton
rage upon the Baltimore aud Ohio railroad"
and then went on, in the spirit of railroad par
tizanship pervading the Baltimore press to
disparsge the canal and predict its extinction,
we now see that very brief sail upon the right
tack has been sufficient to give quite another
aspect to canal affairs. What the prosperity of
the canal may be, if the purposes and policy of
the boatmen could be impaired to the councils
of the canal company, and the interests of the
canal held to be paramount by all connected
with it, we will not undertake to depict; but the
result would hardly be agreeable or advanta-
geous to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad as a
competing cOal-carrier. Proposing at this time
no more taan few obvious remarks upon the
new and happy turn in the affairs of great
public work in which SO many of Us are more or
less directly concerned, we may, nevertheless,
before long, venture NJ IN something more of
review of President Gormln's last annual
report, which, as 1t contains numerous topics of
local and general interest furnishes occasion for
dispassionate comment