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Year: 1865

While the workmen engaged in the
renovation of ST. Patrick's Cathedral, in
Dublia-the Oldest church in Ireland
were digging up part Of the flooring in
one ofthe aisles, they discovered large
stone coffin of curious workmanship buried
a few feet below the surface. The
coffin was opened and found to contain
tie skeleton of an ecclesiastic, supposed
to have been buried there some 900 wears!
The skull was perfect, and the bones
crumbled into dust when exposed to the
air


On the lid of the coffin there was full
length figure of bishop in his robes
1t was inspected by some antiquarians,
including Dir. Todd, who expressed it as
his belief that it was the original founder
of the church. St. Patrick 1t is in good
preservation, and it is in every respect
most interesting relic When the church,
is finished it will he placed in a most
prominent position, because there is no
more remarkable antiquity in the build
ing.
Year: 1865

JEFF. TAKES To PRAyING.-It seems that
the chief conspirator is losing confidence in
saltpeter, and is about to invoke new ele-
ment to his aid. He has appointed Friday
tenth Of March, as day of public " fasting
humiliation. prayer and Thanksgiving, and
earnestly invites his friends to observe the
same. There is evidently no necessity for
his setting apart any particular day for hu
initiation and fasting, for all days in the week
seem to answer that purpose very well with
the confeder.tes And as to praying, we
doubt very much whether the rebels bring
influence enough to bear on the Almighty,
at this stage of the game, to induce Him to
change his purposes, and evident intentions
to scourge the traitors back into the Union
or mete out to them unqualified annihilation
We advise jeff. to resort to some other expe-
dient, if he would retrieve his waning fortunes.
Probably he does not consider that in the
matter of a contest Of prayer with the loyal,
determined North, he will of necessity come
off second best. We can certainly pray as
earnestly as he can besides, we have the
heaviest cannon and most men on our sde.-


San Jose Mercury.
Year: 1865

At the Republican Convention on the 18th
at Bowling Green, a most disgraceful scene
occurred. Some soldiers who had real or
imaginary difficulties to settle with Capt.
Curry, the Republican nominee for Repre-
sentative, swore that they would buck and
gag him. and "made for him." or "went for
him." as they expressed it, for the purpose
of doing 50. The Captain ran from them as
fast as he could, took shelter in a store, after
running some 80 rods. Here he thought
himself safe, but in this he was much mis-
taken. They soon drove him from his hi
ding place. He then ran across the street
and into another store, a crowd of some two
or three hundred running after him-only
q few of whom wished to do him harm
the balance out of meIe curiosity we sup
pose for they made no effort to assist the
Captain. He remained but short time in
this latter place of refuge till he was forced
to run tor his life again, and ran into a third
store, which he was forced to leave in
a very few minutes, his pursuers now
at his heels striking and kicking him
whenever they could, as n he ran
through the crowd. We were told
that he was knocked down three times, but
we did not see him knocked down at all;
we saw him once on the ground, but sup
posed he fell in attempting to run through
the crowd. Here two or three friends rem
dered him a little assistance and he got out
of the crowd, and ran as fast as he could,
pursued as before but this time he outstrip-
ped his pursuers and got into his buggy
and drove home, ....-..s..t.. ~. " -. .


Thus ended the most disgraceful scene it
has ever been our misfortune to witness.
Here, in broad daylight, the nominee of the
party for an honorable Office, attending his
own party's convention, is set upon by a
number of men belonging to his own party,
and no one to rescue him, but some of his
own party rather standing back and saying
to one another, that shows how the soldiers
like Captain Curry" Curry may have done
wrong-may have abused his men-this
we know nothing about-but if he did and
deserves killing or Furnishing in any other
way there is certainly some law by which.
this can be done, without having soldiers
who have been good and true to their coun-
try, take the law into their own hands, and
thus, constitute themselves mob.-ToledO
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Year: 1865

The people all over the country will de-
mand that all the men and all the property
of the land shall bear their just proportion
of the taxes. 1t is well said that there is
no parallel to the injustice which has ex-
empted so largea class of property from its
share of burdens-none to the folly which
has endeavored to erect and organize in this
which claims to have bought perpetual ex-
emption from its portion of taxes. The
holders of the bonds will themselves, il
wise. beg to be permitted to strengthen
public credit by sharing the public burden.


from the Oswego IN. " Palladium


1t is of the law itself, and of those who en-
acted it, that the great mass of people com
plain, and most justly complain. They de-
mand equalization; and no party can re-
ceive popular favor and support that re-
jects it.
Year: 1865

It is exceedingly difficult to reconcile ire conflict
ing interests wv arising with regard to lands that
have been SO long in the possession of the
and Florida. would recommend that the attention
of Congress be called to the subject of this repor at
as early day as possible and that these lands or


part of them be purchased by the United States with
view to the rental and subsequent sale to the need
men. lai nae tI... t4i- II 81. sfrfrI1a t1l7f.-
Year: 1865

The prosecution in the case of Commodore
Craven before this court closed yesterday. To-
day the court was engaged in hearing the tes-
nmony for the defence of several officers who
were under Com. Craven's command at the
time of the escape of the StonewalI.
Year: 1865

a MORRIS A few days since, Beebe s. Hall formerly in the 2d Conn. Artillery was going into the woods after load of wood, when he slipped upon the ice, and fell under one of his oxen which stepped upon him and broke his leg between the knee and ankle. Being unable to move, he lay where he fell for about three hours, when his absence being noticed, some persons went- to his assistance and found him nearly exhausted. We are happy to say that he is now doing well.

 Mrs. Wright, ,.of Morris. also slipped and fell upon the ice while walking, about week since, and fractured her arm, beside suffering severe confusion of the hip.

 Mr. William HalL also of Morris, was riding on horseback on the west side of the lake, on Saturday, the 14th, with his little son, aged six years, in front of him, when the horse be came frightened and jumped, throwing them violently upon the ice. MT. Hall fell upon hls back and was badly but not seriously lnJufed' but his son, who struck upon his head received severe concussion of the brain, lnJuring him seriously. @
Year: 1865

E, THE FALL OF FoRr FISHER We give in another column the official dispatch of Secre- tary STANTON, announcing the capture of this important fort, and also the report of Admiral

 PORTER. It will be seen that the event is de- cisive of the fall of Wilmington, and reflects the highest credit on the military abilities of the gallant son of Connecticut who planned and accomplished the glorious result.
Year: 1865

E5 The House of Representatives on Monday passed joint resolution reducing the duties on paper from twenty to three per cent. ad valorem. The resolution has yet 10 be acted upon by the Senate but we have no reason to doubt that it will be passed by as decisive a vote as that in the House. s.
Year: 1865

NoTBs MAY BE STAMPED AFTER SUIT Con-
MENcED.-ln ruling on demurrer to the
answer in the foreclosure suit of Pezzoni VS..
McAlister ct al. where the mortgage was
executed to secure the payment of gold note
made prior to the passage of the Specific
Contract Act, and which was not stamped
this latter fact being the only matter in the
shape of defense to the action set up in the
answer-the Court held that the mere fact of
the want of a stamp was no reason why pay


ment of the note should be deferred until
suit. The note may be properly stamped on
the trial; and as to the right to pay a gold
note in legal tenders, which plaintiff pro-
poses to do after it has been properly stamp


ed. the Court adds that it is not competent
to the debtor to do So whether the note was
made before or after the Specific Contract
Act of 1868. The demurrer was sustained,
with leave to amend on payment of costs.
Year: 1865

OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.-For over week
past there has been no communication be-
tween the Atlantic aud Pacific because OF the
line being down beyond Fort Laramie. In
dian difficulties on the line for a hundred
miles east Of Laramie Is the cause. The
whole Government forces in that section are
out.to protect the line and punish the In
dians. Latest.-February Gth,--from Lara
mis and Salt Lake City leaves the whole
matter in doubt as to the ability the troops
and operators to get the line up and keep 1t
SO until reinforcements sufficient to punish
the red rascals and drive them off can be
brought on the ground. Meanwhile great
anxiety prevails in the public mind as to what
Grant and Sherman are doing on the other
side. An express through the broken chain
of telegraph to Laramie may be reasonably
calculated on before our next issue, if moth
ing better, so that we will be thrown back
only a day or two behind regular teegraphic
speed. White renegades are said to be
among the Indians melting them on to the
mischief they are doing.
Year: 1865

| EDITOR CoURIER-Sr: Allow me to call
your attention to the following, which appear
ed in the COURIER of January 2ht, 1865,
under the head of "fhe Mammoth Mill"
While on your late visit to the mill, who
ever there informed you that the company
had not suficiency of water to work it,
either did not know what they were talking
about, or gave you erroneous information.-
| (Our information was derived from the late
Superintendent, and in presence Of the larg-
est ssockholdcr ofthe company.-ED-)
| The above declarations of :. a stockholderp
| cannot discuss.


Permit me to refresh your memory with
part of the information" which, by you.
twas derived from the late Superintendent
In answer to your question How much
water is there in the well ?" 1 replied that
"when we concluded to quit work in the we'll
for short time, there was twenty-five feet of
water, that the original design was to sink a
we'll ffty-fve feet, then run tunnel across
the water courses and towards the gulch SO
as to cut off all the streams running from the
high hills, and under the ridge upon which
the mill was erected. conducting them into
the well. which would give an abundant
supply ef water for the mill. In answer to
the question " How deep is the well?" the
reply was forty feet Deep" Shat TIE water
came into the we'll so fast that it was deemed
prudent to keep the engine running continu-
ously, exclusively for the pump hui that by
getting some rock down from the ledge to
the mill we could be crushing rock at the
same time the pump was at work, so that the
cost of running the pump would not be felt"
You was also informed that had made a
proposition to one of the members of the
Sacramento Ditch Company for them to allow
US to take frSm their ditch, at point near
the mill, about four inches of water, and in
consideration of W hich | would turn into their
ditch about twenty inches of water which
belonged to the company, and was now rum
ming into what was known as Rich Gulch'
"That this proposition was made so as to
run the mill day and night without the mill
company going to the expense of conveying
their water to the mill, as when the well was
finished they would have all the water they
wanted" also stated that q the Board of
Trustees had been out to make arrangements
for supplying the mill with water until the
well was finished


Your attention was also called to the loca-
ton of the springs. as we were going up the
road towards the ledge, but you did not man :
ifest any desire to go down to the gulch and
examine them. Allow me also to state that
during your visit, whenever the subject of
supply of water was preached, remember
that there was not q shadow of doubt in nv
mind about obtaining supply of water
During my stay in Shasta county ! have
frequently been asked about supply of
water for the mill, and have uniformly ex-
pressed the frmest confidence in being able
to get an abundance for engine and mill
purposes, and up to this present have not
seen any cause why l should change my
opinion.


BY giving the above place in your paper
you would oblige,


Yours, ETC., LATE SUPERINTENDENT


Sacramento City, JAM 80, 1865. =.
Year: 1865

Gen. SHERMAN's OPINION OF COPPERHEADs.
"A Tribune correspondent credits General
Sherman with the following sentiment in a
letter to friend. 1t sounds like him, and
the people will take such opinions with good
grace from man who has won with his sword
the right to use his pen pretty much as he
pleasess


my idea is that every young and middle
aged man ought to be proud of the chance to
fight for the integrity of his country. wonld
like to see all trade and commerce absolutely
cease until this conflict is over and all who
can fight and won't fight ought to be killed
OF banshed and those who won't support
those who dofght should be denationalized. :"
Year: 1865




From items in our local column it will be
seen that some three of our mining compan-
les, working with sluices. have most emphat-
ically 6 struck it." From our quartz milling
companies we have no returns this week, fur
ther than that all seem to be progressing sat
fisfactorily-


Reports from the agricultural interests are
favorable-all that our citizens should antic-


pate.


I Quartz discoveries for the week, so far as
have come to our notice, amount to the DIS
Ecovery of one lode only. The discoverers
showed us some two or three pounds of the
rock in much of which we could see fine
specks of gold. We selected from the lot
eight ounces in small pieces in which gold


was not preceptible and bad it crushed in a


mortar. The result was about ten cents, as


near as We could judge. We intended to


have weighed it, but accidentally dropped
the pan and lost it. Next week we are prom
ised more ample means of testing this late
discovery. We certainly feel some interest
in the full development of this lode, for it is
near town, convenient to water, and-we are
promised feet. Look out for rich newspa
per man. We are 50 on TO it."


We are advised that though the political
pot does not yet boil, simmering around the
edges is palpable, and we are gratifed in be-
ing able to assure our readers that Shasta
county abounds in talented and highly edu
Gated men who are willing to sacrifice their
personal ease and comfort to serve the dear
people of the county aforesaid. in almost any
Office of honor and en1olument. Hence we
opine that when the people shall, by their
representatives, assemble in convention to
select the most worthy of their numbers to
fill those positions, there will be no dearth of
willing souls to obey the behests of the dear
people.


A low murmuriDg comes to our ears too,
that certain portion of Shasta county would
like to secede from the other portion, thus
necessitating the organization and support
of two county governments, when, SO far, we
have failed to support one. But more of this
anon. We merely hinted at it that our read
ers may know we are not sleeping over their
interests
Year: 1865

ANOTHER ApPEAL-The Secretary of the
California Branch of the Sanitary Commits
sion sends us circular, suggesting the get
ting up of monthly meetings, tableaux, &C.,
to swell the monthly subscriptions fthere
is anything left to squeeze out of the folk IN
this burg. let the means be taken and it will
come.-Red Bluff Independent.


We cannot but admire the whole souled.
self. sacrificing, out, spoken patriotism which
SO palpably predominates in the above para
graph. Has Red Bluff got so far along as to
make it necessary to "squeeze" it in order
to raise contributions to the most holy of
causes? Oris it simply the editor who needs
squeezing?'' For the last four or five years
we have been RECALLED with glowing accounts
of the prosperity of Red Bluff, through the
columns of the Independent Through the
same source we have been assured that no
town or county in the State could compete
with that town and county in patriotic devo-
ton to the Union cause but now, forsootb,
with all this matter, all this patriotism and
prosperity, it seems, % the mind of the Inde-
pendent man, a question whether there is
anything more in the burg to be squeez-
ed'' out.


QUERY lis not the advertising and print
ing patronage of Red Bluff at the disposal Of
Cops,-and are not "we," would it not be
better to spell it weep of the Independent
becoming more ardent in the pursuit of the
mighty dollar than enthusiastic in sustain
ing our holy cause? Truly the paragraph
quoted looks as though it might have come
from the conservative kentucky chap Of
whom 0rpheus SO often writes.
Year: 1865

We are in receipt of a monthly published
in San Francisco with the title of The Med.
ical Press So far as we are able to Judge,
the work is good one, and should be in the
hands of every physician. -
Year: 1865

We have read this document-we
mean the one in REFER nee TO the South
-snd End il . tame affair." He left
Washington for the trip on the 9Th Of
November. and Was gone some ten days
or two weeks. In that time he made
bis tour Of observation and read the
secrets Of the great southern heartl II
the thing had not assumed something
Of . serious sh;pe. we should be tempt
ed 70 laugh at the folly Of the thingl-
Manifestly it is absurd to think the Gem
eral could learn mack in 90 short time.
and certainly nothing that ought - be
considered Of sufficient weight to base
Legislation or the policy Of an admins
tration upon: and We trust our solons
at Washington will act with more cir
cumspection and wisdom than to take
their cue from such data 10 form laws
and reconstruct the broken parts Of the
machinery Of the government.


Grant is great in his proper sphere.
out Of it he is ordinary.


Possibly the whole secret Of this
movement amounts to about this: The
President finding strong current run
ming against his reconstruction policy,
probably wished to have some 'aid and
comivrt.' and knowing Grants popular.
i:y. procured him 10 go south. observe
what be could. and report as favorably
as circumstances would permit. The
general is conservative and rather leans
to the South-always has-sees things
in favorable light. and 50 reports
That is all there is of it.


This, We think. is not exactly the
way for Mr.. johnson to make treason
odious.' or to hang traitors especially
as these same good faith Unionists o'
the south. take especial pains to elect
rebels to Office whenever they have op.
porsunity. and thus show their love to'
the Union by honoring with power it
most bitter and prominent enemies!
Year: 1865

4
1t is said that President johnson


who was born poor, and raised poor


and is yet of the people in his proper.
ty and expectations, has given the or.
der for retrenchment and economy


and declared that the nation must go
right to work and pay it's debts.
Good 81.


The national debt has been cipher
ed up, and the sum total is big one,
but the American people is big
one too. On the LIST of July next our
debt will foot up i'll round numbers
three thousand millions. We can pay
it, and add to our wealth. But we
have got to practice economy, public
and private. We have particularly to
apply economy and watchfulness to
the Legislation of Congress, and to the
administration of the Departments and
Bureaus in Washington. The expens-
es of the Government must be showed
back rapidly and in good faith toward
the old peace footing of 1860. We
may never again get quite to that
but let us get as near to it as we can.


The ablest statists in the service of
the Treasury Department have been
to measure the wealth and re-
sources Of the nation, and to calcu-
late when it will be possible for us to
pay, and probable that we will pay,
that immense debt of three thousand
millions. They have reported that the
" bottom dollar" of it can be paid in
twenty years from lsT0t


Good again Let the watchward
of all politics be-pay eG tie aationai
debt!
Year: 1865

will be charged for any article on our list. and
this sum the purchaser need not pay until he
kno,cs ,chat he is 10 get! This plan acoords with
the method recently become SO popular for
disposing of large stocks of Jewelry and SINH
lar productions
Year: 1865

and therefore greatly superior to the goods
imported from abroad and hawked about as
the cheapest ever sold. The simple duty on
imported goods, and the high premin,a on God
tall foreign bills are payable in gold, amount
to more than the entire cost of many ol the
articles afforded by us to the public. To IA
citate the sale
Year: 1865

DAVID W. HuL, a lawyer, and brother Of
BRIrros A. Hill, met terrible death in st.
Louis the other night His sleeping room
was In the third story of a building on the
corner of Second and Pine streets, and going
to it late at night, he stepped through an open
window of the third story and fell down
through the sky-light of the National Bank,
and was killed almost instantly by the fall
Year: 1865

Some of the clergy in Missouri hesitate
about taking the oath prescribed in the
new Constitution of the State, and some
Of them advise their brethren not to touch
the unclean thing. A few go further
than this, like Bishop Green, and openly
declare their hostility to. the Union, and
are striving to stir up sedition and revolt
among the people. Governor Fletcher
is not disposed to bide this unclerical
proceeding. In speech made at St
Joseph few days since, the Governor
said: a. -


81 have directed an enlargement Of
the penitentiary cell.room, with the in
tention that men who commit crime here
after in this State, by undertaking to de-
eide for themselves the laws which are to
be obeyed, and those that are to be spit
upon and trampled under foot and there
by become accessories before the fact OF
criminal offenses, consequent on their adj
vice, shall be provided with suitable
quarters, in case, they escape the hanging
they well deserve"


With this admonition before them, the
clergy of Missouri have cheerful pros
pect of martyrdom, by Imprisonment. be-
fore them, and have only to persist in
their obdurate course to secure as much
distinction as the saints of Ohio, whose
lives have been made historical by


Incarceration in the bowels of Lincoln
Bastiles.


The secessionists of Missouri, like those
of other Southern States, have been
clamorous for State Rights. and have laid
it down as fundamental political truth
that the allegiance of citizen is duo,
first of all, to his State. Allegiance
implies obedience submission to law,
constitutional and statutory, and acquies-
cence to the voice of the people. 1t will
not do now for them to finch. because
the Constitution of the State, and the
laws made in pursuance thereof, contain
provisions that do not meet with their
approval. They must either abide by
them, or leave the State for more con-
genial residence elsewhere. Governor
Fletcher has shown determination to
enforce the laws as he finds them, and
there is not the shadow of doubt that
he will do it - Gin. Com.
Year: 1865

The following letter, from our old
friend and townsman, Guy G. Worth,
will prove interesting to his many friends
hereabouts. We are glad to find that be
is gradually settling down in his new
home, aud heartily wish him God-speed.
Confident we are that his qualities Of
head and heart will make him a welcome
resident to any community in which he
may locate.
Year: 1865

The Post publishes the statement of a
man living near Andersonville, who says
that at the time Of the starvation of our
men there were abundant supplies in
the vicinity. At the Post Quartermssters
at Amerieus, nine miles from Anderson
vile, there was turned over to the United
States Government nearly two hundred
thousand pounds of bacon, aud an i'm
mense amount Of coTh and ether produce.