Year: 1861

Will refuse or complain OF, our taxes will be
onerous to our producing people. 1t is to be
hoped that, upon the incoming of new officers,
and the changes to take place, that a vigant
eye shall be kept upon the Treasury, and a
reduction of expenses of our county, so that
the patriotic tax upon the people shall not
help to weigh them down, as a heavy burthen.


The Court House.


Our temple of Justice has been entered by
the hardy mechanics, who have driven out the
money changers and turned their tables and
desks topsy-turvy. An entire renovation of
the edifice is taking place. 1t had been ascer-
tanned that the pasterng in the Courtroom
was dangerous, and, in fact, some of it had
fallen, to the terror of those whom we had al
ways innocently supposed had been the cause
of the whole cracking and breaking of the
ceiling, namely the lawyers, who had been in
in the habit of creating such a storm in the
room, that The reverberations of their eloquent
appeals had been SO strong that they had well
nigh produced an effect almost equal to the
last great judgment act, rendered by the giant
Judge of Israel at the feast of Dagon; but
upon investigation, it has been ascertained
that the roof of the building had settled across
the centre of the Courteroom about eight in
ches, and had drawn the plastering from the
cornlce thus creating the danger we had sup
posed attributable to the lawyers. This diff
Guilty has been remedied by erecting two large
pillars or columns under the depresson-th
one upon the right and the other upon the left
of the entrance to the Bar. The one upon the
right is to be called Law or Dan, that upon
the left, Justice or Beersheba-and the two.
taken together, are thus explained That the
clients who have occasion to enter the temple,
may have their notions gratifed by believing
that the distance and difference between Law
and Justice is as great as that between Dan
and Beersheba. 4 new roof of tin is being
laid, and a thorough hard finish of crystal
white is being spread throughout the building,
which not only improves the appearance of the
building, but will tend in great degree to
Tighten it up, after the ingress of that invoice
of Egyptian darkness that will be stored there
on the lst Of January next There has also
been erected, a kind of Observatory upon the
top of the building 1T might be called Gu
pola, Or belfry, but at present, looks like
pigeon-house; any how its not a steeple, for it
is too fiat. But, to take The various improve
ments going on at the Court House, and anv
one can see that they are a benefit to the
building and most of them necessary to its
preservation. The total cost of the improve
ments will be about two thousand dollars.


No LACK OF EMPLoYMENr.-Snc the town
of Oroville sprang into existence there never
has been time when there were so few idlers
lounging around the saloons and street corners
as at present. Every body appears to be en-
gagged in some kind of useful employment, and
it is difficult in many cases to obtain laborers
at any price. The Railroad contractors have
been considerably retarded, of late, in their
operations, on account of the scarcity Of help.
Should these happy times continue, the Va
grant act might as well be repealed





GENERAL DENyER.-It is reported that all
the United States army officers upon this
coast, and also the volunteer officers have re-
fused to serve under General Denver, and have
sent protest to the Government to that effect.
California has fiddled for such men as J. w.
Denver to dance about long enough, and have
the right to expect change in the programme.


SENATOR NEsMIrH.-This gentleman is now
in San Francisco with his family. He will
soon proceed to Washington, to be present at
the opening of Congress.


COMMISSIONERS TO THE WoRLDs FA1R.-G.
D. Wells, Professor Blake, and A. H. Myers,
have been elected commissioners to the Worlds
Fair


An Independent military company, sound on
the Union question, has been organized at
Yreka, under the name of the Siskiyou Light
Guard, Capt. Geo. W. Chase.


The Placer Herald says that Col Judah's
rerlment will shortly he fnl1 A I praront tbarn