Year: 1866

this paper he will find very correct and compre-
hensive synopsis of Andrew Johnson's last effort
in that line. We scarcely believe our patrons
would thank us for inserting the whole message.
but think that nine out of every ten will be graf
ifed to see the production condensed as much
as possible. The President is one of those men
who, with the true characteristics of the dema-
gogue, will on every occasion speak of the peo
pie as the high authority in the land who will.
previous to every election, repeat with the most
solemn JUNCTION and hypocritcal respect that
the people must be obeyed, but who never
intends to respect the popular wish or to obey
the popular will, be it ever so plainly expressed.
should the verdict be against him. The Message
is proof of our assertion. The President went
before the people with the most passionate an
peals in his own behalf, and in support of his
policy. Everywhere he professed to be ready to
submit to the will of the people. The elections
which followed his disgraceful tour went against
him with unanimity not surpassed by the last
vote for Lincoln, and the next Congress will be
even more radical than the present one.


In his Message, regardless of the so plainly
expressed will of the people, Andrew johnson
repeats his old song of loyalty in hehalf of the
Southern people their cheerful submission to
constitutional rule and Of the unheard-of in
justice Of keeping LOYAL Southern men out of
Congress All the warmest sympathes of his
heart are CALLED into action when he beholds the
seats of Southern Representatives vacant. The
Northern States never suffered ANYTHING in COM
parson to these people. The thousands of Nor
thern men who sleep in Southern graves are not
to be considered in comparison with the horrid


injustice of Congress in trying to purge the a.
ton of such rare exotcs Davis, Stephens, Lee
and Beaurcgard. In spite of his professons,-
regardless of the result of the late elections the
President occupies the same ground he did at
the adjournment of the last Congress What the
result willbe we dare not imagine but Southern
journals come with the same sneers, the same in
suits, the same idle boasts of chivalry in days
of yore The signs betoken coming storm
Woe to him who invites it


\ GENERAL WAKING-UP.-We glad to no.
tice disposition on the part of the people of this
county to emerge from the Rip VanWinkle sleep


in which they have been indulging for four or five
years. Some new project seems to be on foot in
every section of the county, all of which we have
reason to believe will rebound to the public good.
Wagon roads are to be built, water bitches con-
structed, aud the researches for hidden wealth
iu the shape of quartz are being more vigorously
prosecuted than ever before. In another column





by the projectors of a road TO be built from Stur-
divant ranch to Hay Fork Valley We are IN
formed by gentlemen interested in the movement
that the route is good one,-that the grade
will be easy and several miles of distance saved
between that Valley and Weavervile- But the
chief argument in favor of the new road Is that
it will furnish an easy and disirable market for
the surplus produce of that Valley, which is the
principal inducement to build it. The Company
is already organized with JOS \. Sturdiyant as
President, Geo. Williams as Secretary, and JOS
Ewing as Treasurer. As soon as the route is
SURVEYED the stock books of the Company will
be opened.


Still another thoroughfare leading from this
place to the Sacramento Valley is talked of. The
general route is to be by way of Douglas City
and the source of Reddng's creek, into Shasta
county, and thence by an almost natural road
route to Red Bluff Whether the parties who
are taking an interest in this enterprise really
intend carrying it through, we cannot say to a
certainty vet We have it on good authority
however, that Corbus Brothers, merchants ut
Iudian creek, have already caused a trail to be
opened from that place to what would be the
Shasta county termini Of the road and that the
people of the Ellsworth Mills section offer to
complete 4 road to its intersection with the main
road to Red Bluff. The distance from Indian
Creek town to the foot of the mountain on the
Shasta county side, is stated at only II miles,





more can be saved between Weayervile and
Red Bluff by the proposed route.


Several new ditch projects are under way or
proposed. The most important one, to our no.
ton is ditch taking water from Canyon Creek
at or near PENNSYLVANIA Bar, from whence it will
be carried over the divide opposite the Butler
place. aud to the red hills above and below Nc
Gilivray's ranch There it money to be reaped
by some gne in carrying out that project. The
parties who have the undertaking in view have
the means to put it through, and we trust they
will do it.


We are waiting patiently and with some little
anxiety for reports from qnartz prospectors in
different directions. We have been shown some
fine samples of quartz of late, and assured by
men of experience in that line that they have the
most satisfactory indications. This badly abused
county win come out all right yet. Mind it.