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Year: 1866

MAIL ROUTE NEEDED.-The whole south.
west of this county, and the northwest of
Tehama, are destitute of mail facilities.-
Piety Hill, Janesville, Roaring River, Wat
son Gulch and Eagle Greek poll about three
hundred votes, yet have no mail. A weekly
mail carried on horseback would supply this
need, and besides accommodating the places
named, would be of great conveLience to
large population ON the Tehama side of Cot
tonwood- adjacent to Roaring River. In this
connection we suggest that those most inter
ested petition the Postmaster General to
establish the route. and receive bids for a
weekly mail from Red Bluff to Shasta, thro'
those places. Such a petition, sent to this
office, will be promptly forwarded to our
Representative in Congress, who will un-
doubtedly give it the req quisite attention to
procure the desired end. Let it be attended
to at once, as little delay now might throw
action upon it over until another session of
Congress
Year: 1866

With this number the COURIER begins its
Fifteenth Volume. The auspices under
which it is commenced indicates prosperous
ending. Our course on all matters that may
arise may be Judged by the past history OF
the paper. As heretofore, the advancement
of the best interests of the Nation, the State,
the county and the town, politically and
financially, will be the great object for which
we shall strive, and the utmost power Of the
paper will be given to it. We desire to ex-
press our thanks for the greatly increasing
patronage We are receiving. not so much tor
its pecuniary value, as for the evidence OF
approval it affords.
Year: 1866

The reported arrangement of difficult


ties in Baltimore will hardly give salts


faction to the friends of Governor SWAMI


and the supporters Of the law. The old


Judges Of election, whose infamous char


acter was shown up in the evidence ad-


duced for the prosecution in the trial of


the Police Commissioners, will still


preside at the elections to-day, and it
cannot be expected that they will SO
soon forget their nature as to deal fair
ly between the political parties, and
carefully obey the law. The appoint
ment of one Democratic Judge in each
precinct is a step in the right direction,
and would, perhaps, be satisfactory, if
the scOundrels who have been formerly
appointed were removed and more repu-
utable Republicans put in their place.
The Democrats do not demand in each
case, q majority of the election board,
but they have right to demand that
their exercise of the elective franchise
shall not be dependent upon the respect
for law entertained by convicts and
bawdy- y-house keepers, such as many of
the Radical Judges are. If the troubles
in Baltimore can be settled without
bloodShed and without plunging the
nation into another civil war, and. al
the same time all the legal rights and
privileges Of all classes of citizens be
secured, the people will be profoundly
thankful. But the conservative masses
i'll Baltimore will hardly be disposed to
submit quietly toan arrangement which
places them, as before, at the mercy of
the worst and lowest characters to be
found anywhere in the land.
Year: 1866

now offering his house for sale, as be. is
desirous of returning to his farm, near
Manassas, where the first battle of the
late war was fought, and as he only pur-
chased this place during the war, being
a refugee from his home after the Bull
Run fight.
Year: 1866

Professor Stowe delivered a temper
snce discourse few evenings ago in the
Fourth Congregational Church of Hart
ford Connecticut, in the course of which
he told some amusing anecdotes


Among them was one of a certain Jim
Wilson, very rum customer, of Cum
berland, Mainc, who used TO get convert
ed at every August camp Meeting, and
soon after. getting drunk again, would
keep drunk pretty much the rest of the
year.


The Rev Mr. Richardson having got
hold of him at camp meeting made this
prayer: 90, Lord thou hast many
times converted this poor sinner, and
now again hast thou made him sub
ject of thy saving grace; we pray thee,
o, Lord, to take him home, and to do it
now. for if he remains on earth he will
be drunk again in less than a week.


The PRAYER was answered to some pur-
pose, for it so frightened the poor sub
ject OF it, that from that day he became
a reformed and temperate man.
Year: 1866

Can any one tell how young men who
dodge their washerwoman, and who are
always behind with their landlord, can
play billiards night and day, and are
always ready for game of poker" or
"seven up"


Can any one tell how it 10 that
some men owe their butchers, owe for
rent, for tailoring, for boots, etc; and
yet have everything nice. est oysters,
wear the very best clothes, and have the
delicacies of the season?


Can any one tell how men live and
support their families who have no in
come and don't work, while others who
are industrious and constantly employed
find it so hard to live?
Year: 1866

We hear a general complaint about the
high prices Of produce and goods in gen.
eral. These prices, in many instances,
are exhorbitant. Not only articles Of
luxury, but the very necessaries of life,
are sold at such rate as to be almost
beyond the reach of the poorer classes of
the community.


These are certainly hard times, and
especially so for the working people.
For, Notwithstanding the abundance OF
work, and the comparatively high rates
of wages, mechanics do not generally
receive for their labor salaries sufficient
TO meet the prices they have to pay for
food, raiment and other necessaries.


What must be done in such a case 2
The best way to meet the difficulties of
the times is to practice economy.


1t may seem rather preposterous to
recommend economy to those whose
condition makes it a matter of almost
absolute necessity. 1t is, however, a fact
that we find great deal of fimprovidence
and even extravaganza among the work
ing classes, as well as in the higher por-
tion ofsocitey. The poor man is too apt
to live for the day, quite Indifferent as to
the future.


In spite of the exiguity Of his pc
cuniary means, he will often indulge in
unnecessary and foolish expenses, spend
ing a part of his money in mere luxu-
ries, and sometimes depriving himself
thereby of things almost indispensable.
He is quite lavish during the prosperous
Sc ason but is found destitute when the
evil days come. That is certainly pay
ing too dear for the whistle.


1t is no unusual thing to see the ta-
BILE of the mechanic loaded with danties,
sometimes to the exclusion of more SUBJ
stantial meats. A palmer board would
certainly be more in keeping with his
means and much better adapted to the
sustenance Of his body. Those delica-
cies, frequently bought at very high
price, are not only superfiuous, but in
| furious to health and sometimes fol-
/ lowed by sad results.


II poor families would abstain from
all useless and injurious eatables
if they knew how to dispense with tea
and coffee, spices, mustard, pickles, and
all those condiments more or less detri-
mental to the constitution, they would
find themselves much better off bodily
speaking, and might save enough during
the year, to buy several barrels of flour
or few hundred pounds of meat.


Now if we add to the useless and
baneful articles, tobacco, liquor, extray-
agance in dress and furniture, the econ
omy might be still greater and conse-
quently more beneficial to those who
| should make it.
Year: 1866

JOHN G. SAKE ON VERMoNT.-The
short speech made by Mr.. SAKE before
the Hoffman meeting in Union Square,
New York, the other night, commenced
as follows:


Gentlemen Your President does me
the honor of introducing me as citizen
of Vermont. Vermont is State by no
means an unlucky one for Democrat
to be born in, for am quite sure that
the Democrat who for twenty-five years
can vote his ticket without ever getting
digcouraged, is worthy to become citi-
zen of New York. / have the pleasure
of voting for a Democratic Governor
who will be elected. Apropos of Vermont,
she is gallant little State, with nothing
bad about her but her politics. Like
many of her sister States of New Eng
gland the misfortune is that she has not
discovered that the war is over. 1t used
to be said of Zachary Taylor, that he
did not know when he was flogged, but
/ never knew before of any victors who
did Mt know when their enemies were
fogged and this is the trouble with
Vermont
Year: 1866

SINGULAR THETA very considerate
thief jumped into the wagon belonging
to the Hon. L. s. Huntington, which had
been driven into the village by his SER
want, the day Of the Cattle Show here,
and drove off. The wagon contained
several dresses belonging to the young
lady, her cloak, &c. About ten o'clock in
the evening the team was found hitched
at the identical place from which it had
been taken in the afternoon. No one
knows who the guilty party is.-Water-
loo ddvertiSSr,
Year: 1866

There is decidedly a lamentable
thoughtlessness, We might say reck-
lessness, on the subject of expenditure
throughout the community. Itshould be
therefore, the duty Of every economist
and philanthropist to endeavor to diff
fuse more rational ideas on the subject
of economy, and promote amore simple
and frugal way of living than is gener-
ally practiced in this country.


l, Il, L.
Year: 1866

The SroRM.-The heavy storm which
prevailed during last week caused con-
siderable damage along the line of the
Central Railroad. At Roxbury some sew
enty feet of track were washed out by
the food, and at Montpelier and Middle
sex the road was impossible to trains on
Year: 1866

SERVED HIM RIGHT.-A young man in
the Woolen Mills at Ludlow recently
kicked and otherwise abused a colored
boy, also employed in the mill. The
contraband took his bruises and the
young Democrat took his discharge
from the mill.
Year: 1866

CHEEsE.-The Orwell Cheese Factory
has produced on the average about eight
hundred pounds of cheese per day
through the season. Another factory is
being built in the east part of the town.
Year: 1866

WE rejoice that the public are not to be


wholly deprived of an opportunity to attend a
popular course of lectures this winter. The
Young Mems Christian Association present a
list of lecturers which has not been surpassed
in this city, and we advise individuals and fam
lilies to secure season tickets at once, as but a
limited number can be crowded into any church
in the CITY, q,a Kan F..-ig a..ss-s
Year: 1866

Two PUPILs' of one of our pnblic schools
inform us that young miss, age not given,
after series of petty offences, FUSED rather
provoking language to the teacher, whereupon
she received shaking They express the
opinion that a'teacher fought never to lay his
hand on scholar, and she a young lady" and
want to know what we think about it. We
don't think she was a young "lady," and we do
think if she had been shaken at home she
wouldn't have needed it in school If boys
and girls will not behave like young gentlemen
and ladies, they ought not to expect to be
treated with the consideration which would
otherwise be their right i III .s--9ls.-l q,
Year: 1866




rIExAs-PAYMENT OF THE CoNFEDERATR
DEBT.-In the Texas Legislature bill was in
troduced to pay the balance of salary due a
Confederate state officer. 1t was opposed ON
the ground that it contravened express terms
and obvious meaning of an ordinance of the
late Convention repudiating the war debt and
forbidding the payment by the State of any
debt or liability accruing subsequent to seces-
sion and prior to the re-establishment of civil
government under Federal auspices. The Aus
tin City Intelligencer says:


Il At this critical juncture, when it was apuar-
ent that the bill as it stood would be lost Mr.
Munson offered a substitute bill, DONATING to
the family of r. I. Wheeler 81, ,O66, as a mark
OF the States respect for the distinguished SER
vices OF the deceased. The substitute bill was
said to be free from all the objections urged
against the original and was adopted and pass
ed to engrossment with but slight opposition
1T it Is competent for the Legislature of Texas
to pay the balance due on Judge Wheeler's
salary by donation act to his family, 1t Is tcitt
in the poioer of that body By resorting to the do
nation dodge to pay the entire ,oar debt incurred
The process is simple-donation acts as trib-
utes of respects for distinguished services NAV
be passed without limit, and every citizen Of
the State who in civil or military Capacity has
so demeaned himself as to have won the annro-
baton of this Legislature may be paid IN fun
for his services rendered. to the Confederate
cause. il4 | . IiiI.r q l777
Year: 1866

Nor YET.-7We were in error yesterday, in
stating that the Mutual Insurance Company
had declared second dividend of five per cent
The fact was, that the stockholders, at their
recent meeting instructed the Directors to
make such dividend as soon as sufficient sum
could be collected from the premium notes, to
enable them to make such payment
Year: 1866

1t is said that a successor to Bishop Colenso
in the See of Natal has been selected, but several
of the bishops differ from the primate, and will
refuse to recognize a second bishop in the same
see.


The Count of Flanders has gone to Italy to
study the most remarkable architectural monu-
ments in that country. intending TO have
palace bnilt for him in Belgium on the old classic
model.
Year: 1866

TWO TABLEsPoONSFUL OF the Extract of Sarsa-
parIa added 10 pint OF water, Is equal to the Lisbon
Diet Drink, and one bottle Is equa 20 sal on OF the
SvrUp sarsap6rla or the decocu0n as usua y made
sary TO prepare it fresh every day and the run Is still


more ss IL Is Neaher than the decOcti0n
Tor fluid saturated with Is susceptible OF holding
in so ulion much less eXtractiye matter than wa
alone and lie syrup Is herWse Objectionable for the
patient is frequently nauseated ana his stomach
ieted by the large proportion o. sugar he rs Obliged to
take with each dose OF sarsGpal and which Is OF
use whatever except TO ke'p the decoction from spO


ing HeTe the advantages and superiority Of the uid
Extract in comparative view are strlkngy manifest.
Year: 1866

| turing establishments. The damage from
| building the tunnel in this manner is


roughly estimated at hundred mil


lions of dollars. Another plan is tC


make it without deranging the surface
by the ordinary operation which mi
ners call driving, just as our water
works tunnel is carried out under the
lake. This scheme, however, involves
the expense of boring with machines
through the dense rock which under
] lies great portion of the city, and


which Is pierced with difficulty even
where blasting can be employed. II is
| also probable that in some parts of the
line, as at the Canal street crossing, the
| depression of the surface, and the con-
sequent necessity of sinking the tunnel
very considerably below the level OF
'thetide, would compel the engineers to
resort to an expensive system of drain
age by steam engines, which would
add seriously to the expense Of the en-
terprise. The machinery employed for
this purpose, however, might also be
used, in part ut least, for ventilation.
1t has also been proposed to avoid
Broadway altogether, and carry the
tunnel under the middle of the blocks,
half way between that great thorough
fare and the next parallel street. While
this plan would render it impossible to
construct the work except by driving,
it would avoid all danger of disturbing
the water-pipes, and would also afford
the advantage of an occasional
ventilator rising through those
portions of the surface which hap
pen not to be already covered with
buildings. Another plan, lately broach-
ed, Is to take tor the line the ridge of
the Bowery, and thus to connect the
North and East rivers by II diagonal
tunnel, extending from somewhere near
the foot of Wall street or Fulton street,
in northwesterly direction, to the
NorthIriver, on Thirtieth street or For
tieth street. This, however, would pro-
vide but partially for the great mass of
passengers between the Southern ex-
tremity of the town and its upper por-
tions. F


Various projects for elevated railways
extending above the sidewalks of
Broadway, and supported on pillars,
have also been advocated in the jour
mails, and are represented by bills pend
ing in the Legislature, but the public
feeling seems rather to favor the adop-
is not impossible, however, that the
number of these conflicting proposi-
tions may prevent the adoption of any
one of them by the present Legislature.
But the necessity is too urgent to allow
ofany great delay; and within three or
four years the visitor to New York, in
vited to dine with his friend up town,
may expect TO be conveyed to the ban
quet by descending into the darkness
of the earth, or by whirling along upon
an aerial road, or probably by either,
as he may prefer.
Year: 1866

Of exciting cholera outbreaks wherever
they may be sent for washing or other
purposes. IN -
a Such are the weil-ascertained facts
about cholera, upon which all our mea'
sures OF precantion must be based Oi
course DIR. Simon Is careful TO guard
himself against being thought to deny
the concurrence of occult influences,
such as atmospheric conditions and local
peculiarities These, however, are for
the present unknown, but that the dis.
ease is communicable by human inter
course, in the manner we have stated, is
nov well Known, and is the fact upon
which 1t behooves us TO act


s,tsr.4 Wherever cholera ap.
pears the utmost vigilance ought to be
directed TO two points-first, to the
prompt disinfeetion Of the discharges,
clothes, and houses Of the sick; and sec.
ondly, to the condition of the supply. In
some cases it may be desirable to close
the wells and pumps altogether, and in
all cases the water should be carefully
examined. But besides this, the sick
should be as far as possible isolated, and
the utmost endeavors should be made to
treat them in special hospitals. Nor,
where such precaution is feasible,
would it be at all an excess of vigilance
to isolate their families for time We
are glad to see that this precaution is
being actually adopted at Liverpool The
depot at Bankhall has, it appears been
reserved, nor for the sick, but for the
families of the sick who will thus be
placed in sort of quarantine.
Year: 1866

! The radical St Louis Democrat OF
yesterday says of the Southern crops;


Unless our Southern exchanges select
the bad news only, relative to the crops
of the South, the indications must be
received as most unpropitious for the
yield Of cotton, sugar, corn, aud other
products. The Empire parish, in Lou
isiana, affords almost the only instance
of fair prospects. Everywhere else the
cotton seems to be poor, with caterpillar
and worm rayenously at work on its
delicate bolls. The organ of Carroll
parish declares that it is really distress
ing to hear the planters talk of the
crops. But few win make corn enough
to last until the first day of January
and no one makes any calculation for
more than a third of the crop of cotton
per hand that they made before the war.
In many instances portions of the crop
have been abandoned that the remainder
might be worked out to some advantage.
Year: 1866

The London Times of the 23d Of July
admits that the cholera, after lowering
around our coasts with sort of indeci-
sion, has at length invaded the country
in earnest" II is extremely opportune,
the Times remarks, that at such a mo-
ment statement should have been laid
before the public which gives o distinct
account, on the highest authority, of the
principal facts ascertained respecting
the nature and contagiousness ofcholera,
and respecting the kind of precautions
which are necessary to prevent its diffn-
sion. The Medical Officer of the Priyy
Council Of England has presented most
interesting discussion on Foreign Epi-
denies and Quarantine, in his report
Just presented to Parliament; and that
which Is learned from this document is
stated by the Times as follows;


The first point clearly ascertained is
that cholera is one of those diseases
which are propagated by human inter
course. In other words, it is distinctly
contagious disease. The contagion, Of
course, may be. very different from that
which propagates fevers. In the latter
case the emanations from the body ap-
pear to be the source of infection. But
in cholera it is the discharges which are
the principal means Of propagating the
disease. If these discharges are not i'm
mediately disiufected, they soon develop
o highly infective power, and the small
lest quantity Of them is sufficient to inn
part a noxious quality to other accnmu-
lations, aud even to large volumes of
water In consequence, not only do the
effiuvia. from these. accumulations be-
come dangerous, but, what is Of more
Importance, if the poison leaks in the
smallest degree into wells or running
streams, the disease may be spread over
whole district by means of the water
supply. So important is this source OF
diffusion, that geological conditions Of
soil and the varying hight Of the water
level in wells have been found to be ma
terially connected with the spread of the
disease and SO subtle and dangerous is
this influence that such things as bed
ding and clothing may long retain their
infectious properties, and be the means
Year: 1866

had provided themselves with fre-crack-
ers, pistols, and putty-blowers, which
they used rather freely. The firing had
a bad effect on the bride = completely


unstrung her naryesp Samuel was
prompt in doing what any other devoted
spouse would have done-went straight
way to the kitchen and made the sharer
of his joys a strong cup of tea, aud taxi
ing seat by the bed, fed her NTH a
spoon The festivities were kept up to
a late hour when the guests returned to
their homes. We wish the young gentle
man and his aged bride all the prosperity
imaginable. To wish the bride long
life would do no good, for she has already
passed the allotted three score and ten.
Year: 1866

"We were much interested in hearing
Deacon Estabrook, of this city, a sea-cap-
tain of forty years standing, relate, at a
meeting last evening, how he succeeded in
substituting coffee for Jacks daily allow
ance of grog, and the good effects which
followed the substitution. The captain,
from his earliest youth, had been greatly
exercised on the subject of temperance
He was ali unbeliever in the necessity of
grog on board ship, Snd seen sailors in
foreign parts subject to ridicule and axtpr-
ton in consequence of this addiction to
liquor. But it was serious question how
to introduce reform. Everybody drank
liquor. No shipmaster thought of going
to sea without full supply in the spirit
room, and every ships company expected
as a matter of course his daily allowance.


SAT length in the fall of 1924, being at
Smyrna, Captain Estabrook saw some of
his own crew reeling through the streets
and pointed at by Turks as dogs of Chris
tians. He made up his mind then what
to do. During the passage down the Med
iterranean, spirits were served out as usual
But when the Rock of Gibralter had been
passed, he, without saying anything to off,
GERS or crew, took possession of the keys of
the spirit room and ordered the steward to
serve out hot coffee instead of spirits, when
the time for the daily allowance came.-
The men took the coffee without word.
They knew the captains principles. They
knew the change was not made for econo-
my, because the coffee cost three times as
much as there watergrog and no COM
plant was made.


"The vessel reached Boston Bay in a
snow-storm in the month of February,
when the captain called his men together
and gave them their choice to have coffee
or grog served out With one consent
they decided for coffee, and from that
time, said the venerable ex-captain, until
| quilted the sea, sailed my ship with
out grog. Had endeavored to force the
men by lecturing them and finding fault
with them, | never could have succeed
ed"