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Year: 1870

MEAN BUSINESS When William
Neely johnson, a capable man of pure
character, was removed from revenue
position by Grant, who did not know that
he was blind, the act was justly condemn
ed as one of peculiar cruelty, by papers of
both parties in the State. Since then Mr..
Johnson has been made State Librarian,
a posision which he can fill acceptably
with the aid of an excellent deputy and
devoted wife. Yet men of his own party
one of them in high position, are now
working to effect his removal, merely to
make place for an importunate applicant
The Record says that on "Wednesday,
while Mr.. johnson was circulating petit
ton in the Legislature for the retention of
her husband, the Attorney G eneral of the
State was on the floor lobbying against her
in behalf of his own partner IS. T. Bull
letin.
Year: 1870

PATRIARcHAL FAMILF-A gentleman
in the course of his travels in The West.
one day emerged from the neck of piece
of timber, and suddenly deserted coun-
try tavern upon the porch of which sat
one of the Oldest white haired men he had
ever seen, crying like a child In answer
to an inquiry as to what was the cause of
his trouble he sobbed out that his "father
had just licked him." Upon entering the
bar-room the traveller saw another and
much older man behind the bar, whom he
addressed: "You seem to have some
trouble here, stranger. Your son informs
me that you have whipped him" "Yes,"
exclaimed the landlord excitedly, II could
not avoid it. The young rascal was chas-
ing his grandfather around a ten acre lot
and stoning him. | had to intefere,
stranger"
Year: 1870

GOMEZ. B. Chandler, an old resident
of this place, and for four years Treasurer
Of the county, has gone to Vallejo where
he will probably take up his permanent
residence. We cannot well afford to loose
Fred, but if be must go, we wish him sue
cess in whatever he may embark else
where.
Year: 1870

ExPTRED.-The State Legislature was
kicked out of existence by constitutional
limitation on the evening of the 4th inst.
We shall not undertake to write the epitaph
of the aforesaid body unless the Central
Pacific railroad company will pay for the
same at regular advertising rates.
Year: 1870

THE SHASTA COURIER reviewed the
history of that paper in the issue of last
week. The COURIER has just begun new
volume and the nineteenth year of its pub
lication. 1t is good paper and has our
best wishes for its prosperity.-Trinity
Journal.
Year: 1870

THE SHASTA CoUBIER.-Thise excellent
and independent journal has entered upon
its nineteenth year. 1t had the manlines9
and honesty to denounce the Fifteenth
Amendment iniquity during the last polit-
ical campaign, and showed itself above any
thing like servile advocacy of unjust and
inconsistent measures for the mere sake Of
party. Brother Carter, long life and more
power to you.-Yreka Union
Year: 1870

A GOOD AS CAN BE MADE, BUT IF 1
IA was to say that there was no other man in
the State who could make one as good you might
think ! was getting ready for Stockton and was
in great danger of the fool-killer
Call and see for yourselves l charge nothing
for looking at them. All kind of Blacksmtbing
done with neatness and dispatch, such as horse
shoeing, repairing, pick-work and edge tools.
Respectfully to the public,


j. E. TIFFIN.
Shasta, April End.
Year: 1870

The importation iof large number Of
Angora or Cashmere goats into this port
has caused considerable inquiry with regard
to this interesting animal, which we win
endeavor satisfy at an early day There
seems to be considerable speculation in re-
gard to this breed of goats Just at this time
IN all parts of the country, and it is thought
by many that there is danger of an undue
excitement in this direction. We do NOT
entertain any fear on that account but at
the same time would counsel sober careful
caution. Experiments on this coast have
already proven two thing-that the climate
of California is well fitted for the raisino of
this goat, as it does as we'll or better here
than on its native hills, near the Black sea
and that it is most admirably adapted for
improving sour common breeds, in regard
to both fleece and flesh. The animal is
beautiful to look upon, and although quite
as mischievious, is almost entirely free from
the strong odor SO peculiarly offensive in
the common goat Its flesh is also said to
be very superior for the table. Their
feeces are long, exceedingly fine, soft and
silky They take color very easily aud per-
fectly. The demand for them in this
country is now chiefly for fancy work,
fringes, tassels, etc They sell in New York
according to quality, which varies greatly,
at from 81 to So per pound. The Cash
mere wool may be seen almost any day in
the streets of San Francisco, worn by our
ladies as fringes to their outer garments
Il Scientific Press


Many of these animals spoken of above,
were brought by parties living in this
county, and are now upon their ranchos.-
Mr.. Jones, who is a resident of cur town,
and has large interests in the upper portion
of the county, purchased several, and ap-
pears well pleased with them He says
they are beautiful animals; will do we'll
upon pasturage unfit or Improbable for
sheep, and the difference in the value of
the clip and meat of the animals makes it
an object to go to more expenses in obtain
ing, as well as caring for them Santa
| Barbara Times.
Year: 1870

A BE4uTiFuL Horn. In President Ell
lots Inaugural Address at Harvard, he
spoke Of the founders Of that ancient
University as being animated by "lhe
beautiful hope Of doing good, The ez-
preston strikes us as singu'arly attrac-
tive and pregnant with meaning. What
hope can be more desirable in the heart
than this Of doing good, and Of doing
good so that the years Of the future viii
rise up and call our actions blessed ~
Andyet in how comparatively few hearts
does this hope find place The maiori-
ty Of men live and die making no pro
visions for the future, whereby their
names shall be kept in remembrance
when the place that know them, shall
know them no more forever.
Year: 1870

An English writer on the "The Con-
stitution of Papal Conclaves" gives
some curious information rs TO the
mode in which the cardinals elect a
Pope. Upon the death of Pope, one
of the cardinals whose duty it is
to representsupreme authority during
the interregnum, proceeds with a gilt
mallet to knock at the Pope's door,
and then to tap the forehead of the
deceased with a silver mallet. The
great bell of the capitol is then tOlled
tOsummon the cOnclave, but nine days
must pass before the actual meeting,
to give all time to arrive. On the
ninth day the cardinals meet in the
Church of st. Sylvester, and walk In
procession to the Quirinal Palace,
where they are, three hours after sun
set, closely locked up until an election
is made. Each cardinal has his cell,
and is supposed to fix his choice in
perfect solitude, free from all exter-
nal influences. But their eminences
are not shut up alone. Each cardin-
al may have with him too cOnclaves,
or confidential private secretaries; and
these have sometimes been able to
play an important part in the papal
elections, their practices having been
more than once as adroit and success
full as those of our own "lOg-rollers.
Besides the conclavists, there is a
population of confessOrs, physicians,
etc, down to BARRIERS, carpenters and
sweepers. These being locked and
barred in the cardinals vote each day
until an election is accomplished. A
simple ballot is taken in the forenoon,
and, if no election is made, a second
is taken in the afternoon, but only for
transfer votes to either Of the names
voted for in the morning. If there is
still no election, the ballots are thrown
upon the fire in the chapel, and the
smoke from the chimney announces
to the people that the church is still
without a head. The strietest precau-
tions are used to prevent fraud, but
not always with success. Even cardi-
nails have been known to resort to
tricks. Betting on a papal election
was prohibited by bull of Plus w.,
yet even cardinals would send out by
the turning-wheel used to introduce
their meals instructions for putting
into the lottery.
Year: 1870

The Easton pa Free Press tells


the following beautiful incident 4:


1--WE heard of an incident concerning


the alarm at the school building the


other day, which so well illustrated


the noble part of human nature that


we give it publication. In one of the
schools there is a young girl who is a


cripple. 1t is the custom of the teach


er to allow her, when the scholars are
dismissed, always to pass out first, in
order that she may escape from the
confusion attendant upon the dis
missal of so many children. On Mon
day last, when the alarm of fire was
sounded, all the school-rOOms were at
once emptied of their contents. While
in all of them they rushed out in dis
may and fright, in some cases leaving
everything behind, in the one where
the lame child was there was perfect
quietness and order. All the scholars,
Notwithstanding the noise and appar-
ent danger, remained quietly in their
seats till their lame companion had
gotten safely out, and was secure from
the rush, when they with a bound
cleared the room. They thought of
her safety before their own, neither
fright nor selfishneSs inducing them
to provide for themselves until they
saw her secure from peril. Such
display of consideration and kind
ness we have not heard of for many
a day, and when we remember that il
came from children, it becomes all the
more touching and beautiful"
Year: 1870

1t is said-and in one sense it is
| true-that serpents have no limbs I;
but some of the bOas and pythOns have
at the base of the tail, on each side of
the vent, little hook, which is sup
/ ported by n bone imbedded in the
flesh, and this rudimentary limb is no
doubt the insignificant representative
of the hinder leg of the ordinary quad
ruped, and of our own lower limb,
just as the nipples of the male mann
malta answer to the fully develOped
breasts of the female, and just as our
eye teeth correspond TO the canine
tusls of the lion.


Nor is the serpent restricted to a
single method of progression, or even
to two or three. There are even four
or five distinct ways in which its 1.-the
and slender body may be used. The
slOwest, but least conspicuous, is the
stealthy glide of retreat, when you
can scarcely perceive a movement of
any one part, and yet the whole body
does advance steadily; but if you have
the courage tOplace your hand quietly
in the serpent's path, and allow it to
pass over it, you will perceive a sem
satiOn as of series of dull edges, like
those of paper knives, striking the
hand backward. Each edge is that OF
one Of the broad overlapping scales, or


'scutes," which cover the belly of the
snake, and each scute is moved for
ward and backward by a correspond
ing pair of ribs, of which there are
from one hundred to two hundred and
fifty in different species; and so,
though completely covered by skin,
and capable of but slight individual
motion, each pair of ribs is Il pair of
legs, and each scute q single foot,
which slips forward without him
dranee, but whose hinder edge catch
es upon the least inequality, and so
serves as q point of resistance by which
the body is pushed forward a little
And this little, multiplied by the
hundred pair of ribs, is enough to pro-
pei the snake slowly, but steadily on
ward, and in straight line.


The above arrangement of the scute
also enables the serpent to move in
several other ways, in which the ribs
are less directly, or at any rate less IN
dividually concerned; for the back.
ward-projecting edges hinder n move
ment in any other than a forward
direction, whether the serpent merely
fixes one region of the body and then
drags the others after it, or throws it
selfinto vertical or lateral undulations,
by the successive Strengthening of
which a more rapid movement is
effected. The greatest speed is attain
ed when it elevates the body in a lof-
ty arch, and then projects the head
forward, draws up the tail, and re-
peats its steps, after a fashion of the
so-called geOmeter or measuring cater
pillars.


1t is commonly believed that some
serpents can take the tail in the mouth
and roll along like hoop, but ne such
proceeding is scientifically described.
Many species, however, may spring
by suddenly uncoiling themselves
into a nearly erect position, and using
the tail as the point of resistance. The
rapidity of this movement is less re-
markable than its precision, when it
is considered that every change in the
position of any part of the spiral must
tend to affect the position of the head.
-IFrom "Beast, Bird and Fish," by
Burt G. Wilder, in Harper's Magazine
for January.
Year: 1870

Gov. Clafiin, of Massachusetts (who


is Chairman of the National Repub-
lican Committee, in his annual mes
sage to the Legislature of Massachus-
etts, spoke as follows on National
affairs:


We can not forget that we belong
TO this great Union, made indissolu-
bic by the events of the late war.
The struggle for national existence
has revealed to us our strength and
the chief cause of our weakness.
This cause has been removed, and no
interest at war with human freedom
now predominates in our land. The
thrOes of the mighty contest are still
felt, but each day lessons their force,
and soon they will pass away forever.
The election of the great Captain to
the Presidency at once gave assurance
of peace to the country. The hopes
of the firmest friends of the incom-
ing Administration have been more
than realized. The laws, so far as
the General Government is concern
ed, are enforced; integrity prevails in
all its departments, and the steady
decrease of the national debt gives
assurance of its ultimate redemption.
4C Alll1l dOlt llc II lilcGulH AIueDu-
ment to the Constitution, which will
place all the people of this nation on
an equality politically, is nearly con-
summated. Its completion will add
luster to our name by proclaiming to
the word that no prejudice of race
will prevent justice being done and
equal rights accorded to the most op-
pressed and obscure in the land. 1t
will give to the freedman the ballot,
the only power that will efIectually
save him from abuse and wrong, and
all laws affecting personal liberty and
political rights will be substantially
the same in every part of the Union.
Slowly but surely the great problem
of the destruction of slavery is being
demonstrated. From its ashes will
arise a nobler civilization than has
hitherto been known in human histo-
~. The people of the Old World, in
their attempts 10 wrest from the
hands of tyrants the liberties so long
withheld, and for which they have |
sacrificed so much, are receiving from |
our history fresh impulse and new
Let us. as people, |
do our part in bringing in the better
and brighter day.
Year: 1870

That must have been a strange scene
in Madagascar when the Queen had
the royal idols brought and commit
ted to the flames. She had embraced
Christianity, and when the chapel for
divine service was ready, the dis
graeed deity-whieh consisted OF two
pieces of silk with a small splinter OF
wood in the middle-was taken from
his temple and thrust into fire. The
crowd declared that, being god, he
would not burn; yet, somehow, "he"
was very soon consumed; and then,
with no little pathOs, ''the people,
seeing that now they had no gods to
worship, sent to the Queen to ask
what they were to worship for the
future" The foundation of their faith
had indeed been greatly shaken. The
Queen is to send teachers of Christi
anity among them, and Madagascar,
one of the clark places of the earth, +"
is likely to have turned the last page
of the sanguinary records which have
hitherto formed so large a part of her
York Times.
Year: 1870

1t appears from the report of a care
| full survey by nautical man, pub
| lished in the London Shipping Ga
Zette, that the SueZ Canal in every re-
spect is a great success, and is work.
ing handsomely; but the most inter-
esting fact reported is that throughout
the canal q steady current mOUes from
the Red Sea into the Mediterranean
varying in its velocity from three
knots an hour, near SueZ, to knot
and a half at the Mediterranean out
let. This current proves that the lev
el of the Red Sea is higher than the
level of the Mediterranean, and the
question naturally recurs, if so, why ?


1t is simply because of the tremen-
dOus evaporation of the Mediterrane-
an. This great inland sea is fed from
the east by the powerful current of
the BOsphoTus and the Dardanelles
from the Black Sea, and from the At
lantic Ocean in the West through the
Straits of Gibraltar, and by numerous
rivers on both sides, and yet the hot
and thirsty winds which sweep across
it from the great desert of Africa keep
it down by evaporation below the
general ocean level.


The evaporation from the Red Sea
per square mile, with a roasting des-
ert on each side, and nearer the equa-
tor, is immensely greater than that
from the Mediterranean but as the
Red Sea is only narrow gulf running
up from the Indian Ocean, its aggre-
gate loss is comparatively small and
easily supplied. At its northern ex-
tremity, at Suez, therefore, it is kept
nearer the general level of the ocean
than is the Mediterranean along the
African coast.


But granting all this, what does it
signify in a practical view of the Suez
Canal? 1t signifies that the canal has
become a river or an arm of the Indi-
an Ocean, flowing into the Mediterra-
mean, and that unless this continual
current be checked, the flow of this
inlet will in time wash down the
sandy banks of the canal into its
channel and fill it up. This is what
it signifies in a business point of view.
If the report in question is current
land we have no reason TO doubt it,
pair of locks will be necessary at the
Suez inlet to regulate the flow from
the Red Sea. Otherwise, a heavy
wind up this sea of several days dura-
ton may create such a current in the
canal as to choke it up with the wash
ings from its banks in single night.
Year: 1870

We wonder not at the ambition that
aims at the editorial chair. All other
modes of affecting the public mind are
weak and narrow compared with it.
The pen is the lever that moves the
world, and ink-rOller of the printing
press the battering ram that smites
into dust the walls Of ignorance and
sin. But the press is q strong team to
drive, and one must be sure Of the har-
ness and the wheels, or coming along
a steep place, there will be a capsiZe,
and q wreck from under which the
literary adventures will not have
strength to. draw themselves. Phe-
toms attempt to drive the chariot of
the sun ended in a grand smash up
Independent.
Year: 1870

A friend of ours was recently bless.
ed by an addition TO his household
Next morning the happy man took
his fOur-year old boy into the room
to see his little brother, who was qui-
etly enjoying his first morning nap
with his little mouth open. All were
watching the elder brother, desirous
to catch the first observation. With
eyes firmly fixed at the new conner,
and with a eountenance showing
trouble within, after a moments 81
lence, he defiantly exclaimed: al
should like to know who has pulled
out baby's teeth?"
Year: 1870

Mr.. EDIToR AS Peaches and Peach
Baskets are almost the only topics of con-
versation in all circles, now-a-days, and as
all are anxious in regard to the shipment
OF Peaches and the return of Baskets, but
some make no effort on their part for the
security OF either, but depend solely upon
their neighbors to secure transit Of fruit
and return of their empties, and are con-
stantly annoying those who look after their
own matters; to all such 1 would say that
the Association meets at Dover, on Tues
day next, the 2lst inst. let them step for
ward 10 the captains Office and take tic
ket for Dover, on that day, and l will
guarantee that they will hear the Basket
busines ventilated to their hearts content


And if they do not see proper to aid the
Association by uniting themselves with it,
they can enjoy seat in the lobby and OBJ.
tain iuch information as they desire with
out paying for it. PEACH Grower.
Year: 1870




The directors of the Elkton and Massey S
Railroad were to have met at Elkton, on
Tuesday last, to devise plan to raise a
subscription sufficient, with the addition
of the $4,000 granted by the State, to
put the road under contract, and to have
it finished in twelve or eighteen months.
If this had been done in the first instance
instead of dancing attendance, cap in hand
at the doors of the Baltimore Council
Chamber, the enterprise might have been
much further advanced. An active can
vassing committee might obtain individu-
al subscriptions in Baltimore, but there
never was the slightest prospect of getting
aid from the city government The pur-
blind policy of Baltimore has suffered the
trade of this peninsula te be diverted from
her, and she deserves it. Nor can she
ever regain it. She may do something,
however, for the convenience of those de-
sirous of trading with her, by aiding this
connection with Elkton. 1t must be done
however by individual subscription, as
the directors have seen. by this time, that
this is the only way to raise the money to
construct the road Let them address
themselves to the work before them with
becoming energy, if they would succeed
Year: 1870

Greely utters, through the Tribune, ar
indignant protest against the admission Of
Whittemore to his seat in Congress from
which he was expelled for selling cadet
ships, but lately reelected by his black
constituency. In this connection the Tri-
bune points to the working of negro suf-
frage coupled with the disfranchisement
/, S OF the whites, and pronounces it :" dis
graceful" The fruits of negro suffrage
thus carly bitter to the lips of the great
philosopher of the Tribune, are yet des-
tined to become as wormwood to all those
who like himself assisted in the grating
OF this Upas bud upon the stock of our
Tree of Liberty.
Year: 1870

To produce large hogs they must be-
fed from birth all theJ will eat. Ii
will not do Ia let them sbirk for them
selves in the summer, and then eX-
pect to make large hogs Of them, a.
fat as butter, by feeding them a few
weeks in the fall A writer on hogs
says, growing right along through ev-
cry day OF their lives till slaughtered.
More is commonly lost in the winter
than at any other time. See that
they have a dry, warm, sheltered
place, plenty Of good, clean litter
TO keep theR warm, a very regular
supply of whole food, mot trash, and
a clean place 70 stay in With this
kind of management, such pigs as
you would have next spring, would
astonish your slip shOd, careless neigh
bors at your wonderful luck: and il
corresponding care were continued
through the season, could show such
porkers as would surprise them still
more.