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Year: 1859

Mr.. EDITOR The law makes it the duty of
the Public Administrator to make and publish
annual, and if | mistake not, sem-annual re-
ports of the condition of the estates in his
hands. l observe these requirements of the law
are complied with in Tehama and other counties.
Why has not our late Public Administrator pub
lishec such reports? +? And especially why has
he not published his last annual report2


The law makes it the duty of the County
Clerk to collect three dollars from suffers for
each suit brought in the District Court. For
meriy the money so collected was to be paid to
fhe District Judge, in part payment of his sala-
fy' Last winter, however, law was passed


making it the duty of the Clerk to collect and
pay over this money, monthly, to the County


treasurer, and the duty of the District Attorney
20 see that it was SO applied. am informed
|that there Is no record of any money, collected
from this source, having been thus applied since
the passage of the Act of 1859. And vet the
sums SO collected should, in the aggregate,
amount to perhaps not less than three hundred
|follars Now it is an interesting question as


o what has become of this money


Again 1t is the duty of the Clerk of the Pro-
bate Court to collect for the county, for each
brder made in Probate, fee of one dollar, to be
paid out OF the estate-which sum at the end OF
each month should be paid over to the County
Judge in cash on account of his salary-the re-
|sidue of his salary being paid in scrip. The
County Judge has never received any money
from this source, but has drawn his full pay at
the end of each month in scrip. Now if these
fees have been collected by the Clerk of the Pro-
bate Court, what has become of the money p
iii the fees have not been collected, the county,
as well as the County judge, has been greatly
1.-THE loser.


If the Grand Jury will give these questions a


title attention, they will but do their duty, and
oblige one who IS slightly interested. CITIZEN.
Year: 1859

A HORRIBLE CRME.-A most unnatural and
horrible crime has recently been perpetrated in
this community. Some unnatural creature in
human shape-some mother whose maternal
affections and instincts have been DESTROYED by
vice and crime-some monster in female shape,
after giving birth to a female babe, deprived it
Of life, and placed it, wrapped in paper, beneath
tree in the upper corner of Mr. Tull's corral,
next to the graveyard, where on Sunday morn
ing it was found by packer while getting his
mules together. We are not advised whether
the Coroner held an inquest upon the corpse of
the murdered babe. Certainly it should have
been done, and the facts put upon record, and
the officers of justice put upon the track of the
unnatural criminal. We should think it would
be an easy matter, in q town SO small as this,
to discover the perpetrators of this monstrous
murder. The child was undoubtedly born alive,
and was killed by stroke upon the skull A
telegraphic dispatch to the Aha says: aNo sus-
picions as to who is the mother of the child
Oh I! indeed How does the writer know What
would he say if we were to tell him that the
murderers are known?
Year: 1859

Attend brother Botts We have word Of
admonition and reprimand for you. You are
the editor of the central organ of the Demo-
cratic party of the State. We are the editor of
Democratic paper that belongs to ourselves,
and that is the organ of those who think with it
on political questions. Therefore we can say
what we = please about men and things. So
you can about trifing matters, but not about
important Subjects such as the election of Uni
ted States Senator. You must avoid all risk Of
tramping upon the toes of the parasites of this
or that aspirant, or of twitching the nasal ex-
tremites Of the various atulent self-elected die
tators of the Democratic press. This is a thing,
oh editor Bolts, that you have not attended to,
for we perceive that numerous scallawags are
after you with sharp sticks. Perhaps having
subscribed few dollars (Which they borrowed
from some victimized acquaintance toward the
establishment of the Standard, they labor under
the pleasing delusion that you are their proper
ty, and are angered that, instead of holding up
to the gaze of the world the evidence of your
servile position as craven hireling, you dare
to show yourself off as proud and fearless edi-
tor of leading Democratic organ Be ''umble," :"
editor Bolts, be " umble," like Uriah Heep.-
Even if your natural tones are those of the noble
mastif, modulate them, modulate them, brother
Bolts, until you can initiate the little whiffets
that are now so industriously barking and snap
ping at your spur protected heels
Year: 1859

BRowNLow- IsMs.-Ths hater of Democracy,
quasi-Methodist preacher, and most successful
co-worker of His Satanic Majesty on earth, has
been stopping at the Virginia Springs during
the summer, with q view to the recovery of his
voice, which he broke down in uttering ISLANDERS
against the Democracy and in bringing contempt
upon things sacred. Notwithstanding his vile
ness, however, he frequently gets off q good
thing Thus: In one of his letters, he says he
intends to keep on talking and writing against
the Democracy as long as he can use his tongue
or WELD pen, and when he can do neither, he
will wag his finger.


In subsequent letter he gives one most
vivid picture of an admirable appetite Speak
ing Of brother preacher present. whose church
(the Catholic) he hates as bad as does old Satan,
he says he eats up and down the table as far
as he can reach, and all aroundw
Year: 1859

ACCOUNTED FoR.-We are undoubtedly in the
enjoyment of an unusually pleasant autumn
Long ere this last year we we had experienced
much cold and rainy weather. 1t is said that
the appearance of large spots on the sun is gen.
orally followed BY increased heat. At present
there are six visible, one of which has been cal
culated to be 10000 miles in diameter Perhaps
these spots may accoun, for the most unusual
though delightful autumn which we are now
enjoying.
Year: 1859

The Ladies Committee, in behalf of those in
terested in the completion of the new Church in
Shasta, take this occasion to return thanks to
all those whose liberal aid contributed to the
late Festival held at Charter Oak Hail. We
have the pleasure to announce that the nett
proceeds of the Festival amounted to Ssl5,
which has cancelled all outstanding indebted
ness against the Church. leaving balance on
hand of about fifty dollars.


LADIES' COMMITTEE.
Nov
Year: 1859

H. GRTLEsoN Cove direct the attention
of'traders and the public at large to the adver-
tisement of this old Shasta firm. They keep
constantly on hand the largest stock of dry goods
to be met with in Northern California. and do an
immense wholesale business. Country traders
should rely upon their pledge TO sell goods at
the lowest jobbing rates. Doing business here
since 1850, they have acquired reputation for
truthfulness and fair dealing that justly entities
them to the confidence of the public.
Year: 1859

The boy is now living who will be President
Of the United States IN 1900. He is about ten
or twelve years of age. His parents are in
humble circumstances, but of sterling traits of
character, and their son, is not one of those
oirty, noisy, boys that spend their days, even
ings and Sabbaths in idleness and rowdyism.-
On the contrary be is Of serious cast, is very
studious aud withal is well behaved.


Teacher, weigh we'll your responsibility! The
future President may be in that grammar class.
that you think scarcely worthy of respectful
attention. What boy Of all our readers will
lay claim to this Distinctions Recollect, the
future President is not found amongst the SAB
bath breakers, the everyday idlers, the evening
rowdie-, the blasphemous the vulgar, or among
those that love aud make lie. He is not one
Of those who pride themselves as being Young
America, aud despise the authority of : father
or break away from the gentle restraints Of q
good mother.
Year: 1859

Hush tell il not TO the flowers and trees,
Whisper 1t rot 10 the birds and the breeze
Let not the blossoms Of crimson and blue
Hear the sad tale tho ugh its burden be true,


Summer is dead
Hush for the sea bath suspended its breath,
Feering to catch the FIRST summons Of death
And the bright clouds that are passing away
FaD must drop tears could they bear what you say,


Summer is dead
Aye though her mtntle Of glory be still
Spread over garden and meadow and hill
Though the rich bloom hath touch of decay,
And the bee tolls through the long sunny day,


Summer is dead
Aye II is ended From forest and glcn
From cities alive with the conflict of men,
From The grass at cur feet for the now silent bird
From earth, sea and sky, in cur spirits is heard,


Summer is dead
So much of our glory and gladness is left,
We sigh not those Of her presence bereft;
Her crown and her girlsnds unfsded hung
Where they dropped when aside they were careless
y flung;


Sun mer is dead
Year: 1859

We have now by mail fuller account of the
late news from Mexico. 1t turns out, as we had
supposed that the banishment of English subjects
from the city of Mexico, was limited to a certain
number only; those mainly who had signed the
protest on the subject of the massacre of Tacubaya
addressed TO Mr.. Otway, the British Minister, and
in which that dignitary was no less unceremoni-
ously handled than were the Mexican officials.


This affair, together with that of the stoppage Of
the specie conducta by Robes seems TO be at this
time the chief object of interest in Mexico-the
war apparently being pretty much at standstill.
Tie amount of the specie in charge of the conducta
now stated at three millions ard half instead Of
FIVE millions of dollars. Miramon had guaranteed
it a safe transportation for the sum of $3.50 900,
being eight per cent on the amount which
was paid to him. One third of the whole
amount is now stated to belong to American
citizens. When news arrived at Vera Cruz that
the specie had been stopped. The merchants held
a meeting and requested the English, French, and
American CoDsuls TO interfere and to endeayor to
induce Robles TO deliver the money into the hands
Of the constitutional authorities at the National
Bridge as had been the usage hitherto, and as
MGsnion had in substance sgreed TO do in this
Year: 1859

The celebration of the Fourth passed of with
unusual quietness in this neighborhood. The
weather was remarkably cool and fine, and more
than two hundred thousand people enjoyed it BY
getting out of the city on the various boats and
trains which piled with double diligence for their
accommodation. In the city, there was little tf
note beyond the military parade and the fireworks
in the evening These were remarkably fine No
very serious accidents occurred.
Year: 1859

SENSIBLE Fasn1os.-We ohsrre that m1oy Of
the Indies Of this city heve adopted subssan-
til! waterproof boot as the most appropriate
defense against the mud and water Of Cur
streets. The idea is q sensible cue, and ought
to be generally adopted
Year: 1859

Pacific RAILROAD CoNvENTioY.-This body
adjourned last Saturday to meet again at
Sacramento on the first Monday in February.
1t was mostly composed OF intelligent prac-
aical men, who addressed themselves to the
consideration of the important topic before
them freed from partizan and sectional bias
They expressed preference for the Central
route, yet wisely thought the selection of a
to the capitalists and contractors who are to
build it. They declared it should have two
termini on this coast-one at San Francisco
"a superfuous declaration) and the other on
the, Columbia river at its mouth. They de-
termined to memorialize Congress to take
decisive measures in aid of the enterprise,
and thought it the policy Of that body to Of
fer conditional bonus of land to that end


Resolutions were also passed in favor of ex-
tending State aid to the road, even urging
loan for that purpose of 5000, 900, which
will never be made. The proposition of Col
Fitch and others, that the State guarantee
payment of interest on bonds as the work
progresses, has always seemed to US the bsst,
and only one that ought to be adopted. The
mere resolutions of the convention will not
probably produce important practical results,
but its next sitting during the session of the
Legislature may perhaps bring a strong in
duence to bear in favor of the policy of State
aid. The amount of practical, scientific in
formation ELECTED by the convention. strikes
US as being its most valuable accomplish
ment. The positive testimony of such men
as Lander and Judah. in faver of the Central
route. must have great weight. Col. Lander
advanced the idea that the great work should
De preceded BY preliminary wooden rail-
way, which can be constructed at the rate
of mile dry from st. Joseph, and at
cost of $4,000 per niie. Over this track all
the material for the iron railway could be
cheaply and rapidly conveyed, thus removing
one great difficulty in the wayof the enter
prise. The Sierra Nevada, he believed, could
be crossed in this way with but little trouble.
The bugbear of snow did not frighten him.


1t would be rendered harmless by placing the
raii, when necessary, upon an embankment
three or four feet high; the winds and snow
plow would then suffice to clear it.
Year: 1859

THE BEST RoUTE TO CARSON VALLEY
The Maryville Express and Democrat both
assert, as We believe very truly, and on re-
liable testimony, that the best route from
that city to Carson Valley is by way of North
San-Juan,- or Downieyine, and Truckee rly-
er. The distance is less than by the Placer
vile route, the pass lower and easier kept
open, the road already ywell made'for agreat
part of the distance and'only requiring an
expenditure of about ten thousand dollars
to put it in thorough order. Even now the
route can be travelled by buggies and loaded
teams. Many weeks ago we chronicled
the passage through our town of wagons
from Marysville loaded with freight tor Was
s.u, and since the completion of the Sierra
turHfike,- teams can doubtless go through
by Downieyilla. Another advantage of the
route commended by our cotemporaries is
that good feed can be more readily obtained
along it, as it goes through greater amount
of country already settled at this end and
striEes several pasture valleys after reaching
the summit.


The enterprising business men of Marys-
vile will doubtless subscribe for the COM
pletionof this ttransmoutane high
way, at an early day. The eastern slope is
now rapidly settling up, and the people of
that section will naturally do the most Of
their trading with whatever commercial
point in California they can reach soonest
and easiest. Probably, now that much cap
ital has been invested in constructing
turnpike to Downeylle, and that being a
toll road, the Marysyille travel will chiefly
avoid the route through this place and go
through Sierra county. Yet we confidently
anticipate the day when the citizens of North
San Juan and other towns on the ridge be-
tween the South and Middle Yuba, will see
xhe necessity of opening road for their own
convenience across the summit, by way of
the Truckee Meadows. The road already as
far up as Eureka is an easy grade most OF
the way, and one of the best mountain roads
in the State. Very little, if any, money
need be expended upon it. The ascent to
the summit after crossing the Middle Taba
is described as being so gradual that it is
hardly perceptible. What the cost cf open
ing this route would be, We are not prepared
to say; but it certainly cannot be SO large
but what it can and will be raised on the
ridge whenever our citizens are convinced
that such thoroughfare is desirable. That
it really is desirable We may attempt to
prove hereafter.
Year: 1859

1t is estimated, says the Bee that the Wis
itors who crowded Sacramento during the
of the Fair left at least half a
million dollars in town, the good effects OF
which will be felt for some time to come.
Year: 1859

Quite the most interesting mining item
this week is the voluntary reduction in the
price of water from thirty to twenty-five
cents per inch, by the Middle Yuba Ditch
Company. This reduction will enable some
parties to make wages out of their dggings
who have heretofore made only enough to
paw water bills. A larger number of claims
will consequently be worked, and more en-
,ployment afforded to laborers. The Ditch
Company has exhibited wise policy in this
instance which might be frequeuty'imitated
by other holders Of water rights with the
most beneficial results. The interests ofminers
and ditch owners are so nearly identical and
interdependent that all reasonable conces-
sions should be made by both without re-
The Middle Yuha Company have, by this
timely reduction secured the prestige that
attends the voluntary Performance OF lib
eral act, and given assurance that they are
not Indifferent to the welfare of the noble
class of workers upon whom they depend.
They have also thus published a convincing
evidence of their prosperity and Of the ex-
tensiveness of the diggings.


Another important item connected with
the mining interest, is the fact that Tea-
ver's Ditch is under contract from Eureka to
Orleans Flat, distance Of about six miles.
This ditch is two feet and half wide on the
bottom, two feet deep and four feet wide at
the top. 1t is intended chiefly to supply the
extensive and valuable mining region about
Columbia, Kennebcc and other hills, and
will afford large quantity of water. It's
early completion is matter of vital conse-
quence to the region named, and is natur-
ally awaited with anxious impatience. Co.
lumbia Hill is nearly deserted during secular
days by its adult male inha bitants, the NEST
of whom have taken contracts on the Ditch,
upon which they are working with the ut
most good spirits and a serious determine
ton to risk everything for its completion.
About forty persons have taken contracts on
the work, and on Monday fifteen or twenty
more are going up from Kennebec Hill and
vicinity, from which place the Eureka Lake
Company have recently withdrawn what lit
tie water had been running to that part of
the ridge. We are informed that this COM
pany has made a reduction in the price of
water from twenty-five to twenty cents per
inch, the reduction to 60 into effect after
the first of next January. This may be
hailed by miners everywhere On the ridge
as another encouraging sign. Only let wa
ter be abundant and cheap and the gold


seeker will prosper almost anywhere in these
immense deposits of auriferous gravel.
Year: 1859

desire to call the particular attention of consumers
in California to the label brand upon my Hams
which in all cases bears 'ac sme'' of my signature.
and is in every respect the label have used for
many years past.


The unrivalied reputation which my Hams have long
borne in the California market renters me exceedingly
anxious that no Hams packed by other persons should
he mistaken for the we'll known and genuine
Year: 1859

THIs SEASON AT HIS WELL KNOWN


RESTAURANT
with his house newly fitted and furnished where he will
tns and officers ships find this place most convenient
and all they the Of civil walters, excellent sup
plies and first rate cooks.


B. Particular invited to his private rooms
where parties all hours with meals weekly
order. ls-u
Year: 1859

The BEST RAsoR STRoP.-Get root from a
cypress tree, dry it in the shade, shape it as you
wish, and straighten with sharp foreplane. Use
it any 'ther strop, and once i'll every six months
take a thin shaving off every side Will a keen
foreplane, W hen it will be good new.


These cypress roots are beginning to be known
among the BARRIERS of New Orleans and other
cities as superior to all other razor strops
Year: 1859

VIII the National Democracy when they
assemble in Convention at Charleston, meet
the Territorial question fairly and squarely,
and plant themselves boldly upon the Cincin-
natl platform with the Dred Scott interpreta-
ton that 1T is the duty of Congress to afford
adequate protection to slave as aoeH as other
property IN the territories or will they disap-
point the reasonable expectations of the un-
hltering Southern Democracy and speak in
Delphic phrase or with forked-tongue?


If the majority shirk the issue and shrink
from the manly performance of duty, then
farewell to the integrity of the National DEM
ocratic organization, If they REFUSE 70 e,saesse
the decision o. the Supreme Court Of the
United States an impartial tribunal uninfu-
enced by sectional and partizan prejudice, and
looking only to the true Interpretation of the
Constitution, then, they will have forfeited all
claim to continuation of the confidence of
the minority. The decision thus rendered
will afford a platform upon which all can
stand who are willing to preserve the COnsti-
tuition, with all its sacred guarantees, and to
mete out to every State its just rights in the
confederacy. The reputation of that arbi-
tration will evince such departure from the
true faith, and such repugnance to the prop
er discharge of indispensable obligations, as
will force the Southern Democracy to dissolve
a connection which they could no longer sus-
tain without compromising their own honor
and sacrificing the rights Of their own section.


The delegates from the Southern States
will go to Charleston with the Dred Scott de-
cision in hand, and ask its endorsement. Will
the Northern Democracy refuse to comply
with requirement so just and reasonable p
Upon their answer depends the united action
of the party in the approaching Presidential
election
Year: 1859

This distinguished man is an object of Bit
ter aversion to the Black Republicans and
their Squatter allies They do not like his
straightforward honesty nor his ir1nness in
opposing their wicked combination against the
South. They may imagine, too, that he is
destined to be the next Democratic candidate
for the Presidency, and they dread to encoun-
ter his strength with the masses. 1t is in this
fashion that Forney prognostieates his for
tunes:


In 1860, Lanes term as Senator will also
expire, and from present appearances the two
new Senators of the State will be an anti
Lecompton Democrat and Republican,
Buehananism is as obnoxious to the people of
Oregon as to the citizens of any other State,
and the influence of Gen. Lane has been al
most entirely destroyed by his eagerness to
PROSTATE himself at the feet of power, and to
misrepresent the sentiments of his constitu-
ents on the great Territorial question.


The meaning of Forney's charge that "he
has misrepresented the sentiments of his con-
stituents on the great Territorial question"
is interpreted that he has shown no favor to
the vile heresy of squatter sovereignty which
the enemies Of the South have accented IN
lieu Of the Wilmot Proviso for .depriv;ns her
of the right TO enjoy the territories equally,
with the free States. The charge VIII not inis
pair his standing with the true National
Democracy. +
Year: 1859




In their State Convention on the Goth inst.
the Democracy of Maryland unanimously
adopted the following resolutions re-affirming
the Cincinnati platform with the Dred Scott
Interpretation:


RESOLVED, That upon the subject of slavery
the democracy of Maryland adhere to the
time -honored creed of their party and the
principles and policy laid down in their ma
tional platforms of 1852 and 1856; and that
regarding this great question solved and set
tied by the adjustment measure of 1850 and
the Kansas Nebraska act and that as applied,
executed and maintained in good faith under
the decision OF the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States in the Dred Scott case, there is no
exigency requiring any new issue to the sub
ject.


Resolred, That the democratic party al
ways maintained these measures distinctly,
and recognizes the right of the people of the
Territories where they live to form themselves
into States, then to determine the question of
slavery for themselves, and to be admitted in
to the Union with or without slavery, as they
shall so determine; and that in the mean time,
under the Constitution of the United States,
and as expressed by the Supreme Court in the
bred Scott case, the rights of all the people
in all the States to their property in the Ter
ritories are inViolable, and cannot be impaired
BY legislation, either directly or indirectly.