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Year: 1870

April p, 1870.
Genaemen-In order to secure uniform
ity in the administration of the Homestead
Law, you are hereby directed, in regard to
the Homestead affidavit, that where it is
made before the clerk of the County Court
the rule laid down in Section of the
Amendatory Homestead Act of March u,
1864, must be strictly observed, in which
rule it is stipulated the parties shall salts
factorily show in the testimony that their
family, or some member thereof is resid-
ing on the land they desire to enter and
that bona fde settlement and improve
nicnt have been made, and showing further
the cause of their inability personally to
attend at the district land office The
affidavit must be made before the Clerk of
the Court for the County in which the
land is situated.


Very Respectfully.


JOS. S. WILSON, Commissioner
Registers and Receivers,


U. S. Land Offices
Year: 1870

VUVHE UNDERSIGNED GIVES NOTICE TO


the Property Holders of Shasta County, that
on the


FIRST MONDAY IN APRIL, he will
enter upon the performance of bis official duties
for the current year. He would call particular at
tention to the following section of the Revenue
Law:


"If any person shall willfully make, or give,
under oath or affirmation, false list Of HIS or her.
or their taxable property, false list of taxable
property under his, her, their CONTROL such per-
son shall be deemed gnilty of perjury. and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished therefor, rs
is by law provided for the punishment Of perjury
and any property willfuy concealed, removed,
transferred or misrepresented by the owner or any
agent thereof, To evade taxation, shall upon dis
eovery, be assessed at ten times the of tax
for that year, which would otherwise have bcon
assessed upon it and fifty per cent. Of the amount
OF such additional tax when collected shall be paid
to the person or PERSONS who shall furnish the
per centage for collection, shall be paid into the
Treasury, for the benefit of the Common School
Fund of the State"


If Tax Payers were to have list Of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs, by the time of my reaching them, they
would thereby perhaps save themselves much an
noyance, as well as facilitate my work.


C. W. TAYLOR,


Assessor of Shasta County.
Shasta April I'd, 1870. n4.
Year: 1870

Bills to repeal the Test Oaths for
Lawyers and Teachers were reported in
the House from the Judiciary Commit
tee yesterday aud read the first time.
From what we learn there can be no
doubt of their passage at an early day.
Ia spite of many efforts made to pro-
duce q contrary impression, we have
hope that this Legislature will do much
to meet the pressing demand Of the peo-
pie for q general removal of disabili-
ties.


In few days, it is believed, the
whole subject of prescription in one
shape or another will be presented for
the consideration of our lawmakers.
The feeling is general that the dis
abling policy of our State has lived its
day. The passions of war times
have died out. Neighbors have
ceased to hate, to revile and to
perseoute each other. Common interests
aud common destiny are uniting the
people who were divided by the rebel
lion. A union of all for the maintenance
of public prosperity, for developing the
resources of the State and for building
her up in that material greatness of
which she is capable, is the demand of
the hour. Nothing stands in the way
of complete peace and unlimited pro-
gress but the inequalities amoug citi-
izens which our proscriptive laws per-
petuate. Instead of making men con-
tented and therefore active and useful,
they produce discomfort and
foster emigration. We have no popula-
tion to lose. Past faults do not pre-
vent the dsfranchised men of West
Virginia from becoming valuable ard
welcome additions to the population of
other States. If other States need them,
so do we. West Virginia wants the
cheerful support and active fidelity Of
every one of her citizens. These she
can gain by making them in form and
in fact free men, by removing all these
legal determinations which preserve a
sort of political vassalsge in the midst
of Republican institutions.


Contrary as our disabling laws are to
the spirit of our Government, needless
ss they are among people of whom
Governor STEVENSON testifies that "the
people Of no State are better disposed
or more law-abiding than they" the day
of their total abolition must speedily
come. That is the firm and unalterable
determination Of the voting masses.
Each day but confirms and strengthens
lit. If this Legislature were to fail of
duty in that direction, q supposition
we cannot entertain, another and new
one would certainly and swiftly accom-
plish the task. We do not believe that
the members of the present body will
set themselves against this swelling
tide of public opinion. We prefer to
think that they will prove equal to the
duty of the hour, and that when their
work is finished the universal plaudit
will be theirs, "Well done good and
| g.. f-1
Year: 1870

The Congressional Committee on Re-
construction recently discussed the
question of a general removal of politi.
cal disabilities. The general tone Of
the discussion was quite favorable. 1t
is believed that a bill for the purpose
will be introduced at early day. Its
passage cannot be questioned. The en-
tire sentiment of the county favors it.
And when Congress acts in that direc.
.ion it is not to be supposed that the
Legislature Of any State will lay behind,
Year: 1870

without any special complaint, except grad.
ual declination Of bodily strength and nervous
energy, will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEVIG0R AS RE
A POOL IN IHR DESERT TO THE SAND
SEARCHED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1870

TIE lengthy editorial in the Courier
of yesterday, under the heading,
Democrats to the Rescue. is copied
word for word-if we except the Coas
rier's typographical blunders-from
the New Albany Ledger of Tuesday
last. A more shameful instance OF
editorial stealing has not come Under
our observation for somo time past.
Certainly, if the Courier wants to
appropriate editorial matter. it ought
to 20 further away from home.
Year: 1870

New ORLEANE, February 6.-In the
Legislature yesterday bill passed ma
king the metropolitan police warrants
receivable for taxes.


The House passed a bill authorizing
the issue of three million bonds to
pay for work heretofore done on the
ievees under contract by the Board OF
public Works
Year: 1870




The Coroncl'e inquest upon the murder Of
Mr.. NATHAN has adjourned without day
and without n verdict. The members of the
Jury have agreed not to leave town without
leaving their address with the Coroner, so
that they may be summoned together should
lhe detection Of the murderer or any other
cause render IL advisable


The Coroner and his jury have thus con-
fessed their entire inability to determine
how the murder was accomplished or to
detect the murderer. They are very much
In the condition of the Grand Jury held in
nominal session by Judge BEDFoRD's
request that they should not adjourn because
he expected that Superintendent JouRDAN
would find out some pleasant morning who
1t was that killed Mr. NATHAN


Now all eyes are turned to the police in
ihe hope that they may perhaps discover
something, and we hear rumors Of mysteri.
ous information received In Mulberry street,
and Of solemn obligations of secrecy imposed
upon the reporters of the press, for fear that
they should prematurely reveal this impor.
tant intelligence. But the sum of Il all is
that all parties, the police and its Supcrn.
tendcnt, the City Judge and his Grand Jury,
as well as Coroner ROLLINS and his inquest,
with the assistance of Distric; Attorney
FELLOWS to aid them, are brought 10 the
practical declaration that they are all help
less and useless in this matter. They can.
&. \
NATHAN


Our criminal authorities thus confess that
in this case they c.NHot give TO the people
that degree of protection against tloody VIC.
lence which consists in the tra., convection,
and punishment Of those who have commit
ted IT, Is this coniesso on 10 stand This
shocking case of a murder pcrpetratej in the
very heart Of the city, in n most conspicuous
house, and with thousand circumstances
which, in skil.ul hands and with competent
magistrates ought 10 have pointed iniallibly
10 the criminGl-nust it honceiorth remain
IN impenetrable mystery? Tic secrets Of
other heinous murders have never been
found out but not OF such murders as this


But what better can we expect W.
have a vast number Of policemen We spend
millions, wrung from the taxes Of the people
in maintaining them, and in paying theii
officers and Commissioners bu! so long as
their real business is not to protect life and
property, but to enrich their chiefs by illegal
plunder and to elect them TO more lucrative
offices, 50 long murder, robbery, and every
other crime OF fraud and violence may be
committed with lmpuri;y in New York
Year: 1870

An esteemed correspondent from Mime
Gotta informs Ut that the reports winch have been
put in circulation that the crops of the West have
failed arc utterly untrue. In Minnesota the yield
Of wheat in 1869 was fily.two million bushels,
while this year it will be fully sixty-Gve millions.
The same Is true Of Wisconsin and Michigan.
The quantity in those States is fully up to the
average, while the quality is above it. Iowa and
Kansas will also largely surpass their usual yield ;
and the only region where there seems to be anv
considerable falling of is in some parts of ILL.
nois where severe drought has prevailed
Upon the whole, however there can be no ques-


on that the wheat crop in this country is largely
in excess Of that of ordinary years so that if
there should be any considerable demahd for this
great staple in Europe, we shall be abundantly
able to supply it.
Year: 1870

say that as clothing and houses were in.
vented 10 satisfy the necessities Of shelter,
language 10 communicate thought, and the
arts and sciences 10 minister 10 mems physi
cal wants, 80 religions grow up by the exer-
else Of the human intellect on the facts of
nature and its own experience The sources
of rel & ions being in every case Of similar
character, the religions themselves, we are
told were necessarily formed with an equal
similarity or, where they vary, it is because
of the variety in the minds which gave birth
to them. Thus, both the excellences and the
defects of every form of religion are accounted
for by reference TO the constitution OF man
alone, and lie supposed agency in con
structing his belief for himself.


But to argue that because all religious
resemble each other therefore the truth
which they in common cmbody is of human
and not of divine origin--is merely natural
and not supcrnatural-is altogether falla-
cious. II is much more reasonable TO believe
that this resemblance is the rcfult of an
effort constantly making by the Divine Be-
ing to impart to his children true ideas con-
corning himself and their own spiritual ma
turc and that the superstitions and falsi-
ties relating 10 these subjects, which are 30
generally met with among men, are alone
the product Of human agency. For no one
doubts that 1t may be nbsractly possible to
conceive Of o religion which shall be alb
solutely true but in our actual ex.
periencc, tho dullncss and tho perver.
sty of human nature prevent the
realization Of this ideal. There have
been from time immcmor1 not only
various forms of belief. but numerous sects
Of believers Of the same general doctrine.
This diversity has been likened TO the rays
Of the sun shining on a stained glass win.
dow IL comes pure and white from the sun,
but after it has passed through the window
IT takes on the hues of the pieces of glass Of
which 1t iscomposed. So, divine truth, which
is one and indivisible in itself, is broken and
distorted by the human mediums who receive
and transmit IL.


The practical value Of this acknowlcdg.
ment Of the one divine source Of what
is true in all religions is that ii
teaches at once fidelity to the truth and
tolerance OF honest error. Only a bigot will
contend that no alone is right in his reli-
gious opinions, and only fool will, out Of
opposition to bigotry, believe nothing. We
are all bound to exercise our understanding
in adopting religion, and our perseverance
in adhering to our convictions in regard &c
II afterwOrd; and we shall do this the better
the more thoroughly we are persuaded that
the inmost principles Of our religion are not
of human invention, but come from above.
Year: 1870

A cable telegram from Europe which
reached us last night states that the circular
invitations to the great Powers requesting
their attendance at conference to be held in
London on the subject Of the Treaty of Paris,
the navigation of the Black Sea, or what is
generally classed as the Eastern question, were
issued from Downing street on Thursday. The
diplomacy of Austria towards the assumption
of the part of central mediator, afraid Of
Russia and anxious for a Encouragement of
existing treaties, appears to confirm the report.
Russia maintains her position. The Gear has
ordered the enforcement Of an ample con-
scription for the army. His Majesty is not
the less anxious, however, for fair discussion
of the Russian claims eastward. The Muscovite
emperor stands forth, indeed, pretty much in
the character of the Irish gentleman in the fair.
He is ready to 60 into tent and treat and talk
with his friends and there "spend half q
CROWN" and then to come out and for '1ove
knock them down."
Year: 1870

THE BROOKLYN WATER COMMISSIONERS are
just now occupied with the idea of retrenching
the expenditures of their department. The
public have been somewhat excited by the ex-
travagance of this branch of the city govern
ment. The number Of jobs in sewerage and
the laundering manner in which they have
been conducted, to the severe cost and inter-
minable annoyance of the residents where this
work is going on, have provoked good deal
of discomfort. The Water Commissioners,
acting under the pressure Of public reproba-
tion, have hit upon small piece Of economy
as kind of sop to popular dissatisfaction.
They have abolished the Bureau of Inspectors
of Hydrants, and have succeeded in obtaining
the service of the police patrolmen in looking
after leaky hydrants. OF course the po-
lice can observe during their easy stroll from
hour to hour along the street, whether hy-
drant Is out of order and report the fact to
headquarters. There are many duties of this
kind which the police might attend to that are
now nominally performed by officials drawing
pay from the Treasury. Why may not the
example of the Brooklyn Water Commission
ers be followed here? Cannot we utilize our
police little more In the service Of public
economYf
Year: 1870

ROME Nor CENTRE OF PoL1TIoAL
UNITY.-This great public fact startling and
sad as it may be, is made fully apparent by a
special telegram from the Holy City which we
publish to-day. The mob is in riot at the very
gates of the Vatican. Law and order are set
at naught by the members of the dangerous
classes" acting under the direction Of mur-
derous lead. The Papal troops endeavored to
control these outbreaks, but at great risk to
the lives of the soldiers and officers who still
serve his Holiness. King Victor Emmanuel
must ''hurry up" and show us Italy really
united and the 'sedifce crowned, in fact and
truth, in the city of the Caesars. Politics
cannot supersede religion with safety to the
social structure.
Year: 1870

OWEN HANDS CHRISTMAS Box is commu-
tation of his sentence of death to imprison-
ment for life, which Governor Hoffman has
just sent him. Although the latter fate looks
hard enough to us who are free to walk and
ride and enjoy the lusty air of this keen De-
cember weather, it looks no doubt like the
sweetest boon Of earth to the criminal who has
been covering for the last three days under
the dark shadow Of the scaffold. To him
imprisonment for life is youth, health, wealth,
resurrection from the dead. The great joy Of
. present escape from the mysteries of the
dark river congresses into one little parch-
ment offering all the good things that wealth
of Christmas presents ever displayed to the
richest belle in The land
Year: 1870

The HORRIBLE TALE OF MURDER that we
have from Pittsylvania Court House, Va, dis
closes case wherein hanging is too good for
the murderer. A negro man who had married
white woman, o widow, with son five
years old, kills the boy merely to crafty that
savage malice that SO frequently bursts forth
among the newly enfranchised and long op-
pressed negroes of the South. The boys
mother lay sick in the house, and near the
door, where she was within hearing of his
screams for help, the fend knocks his little
victim down and stamps upon his abdomen
with his feet until the boys stomach buEsts,
Year: 1870

The President ON the Revival Of Commerce.


The news comes from Washington that the
President is about to send a special message
to Congress on the subject of our foreign COM
merce and to recommend some action for it's
revival. Very good. The President could do
nothing better. 1t has been intimated that he
will refer especially to the importance Of
increasing our trade with the South American
and Central American States and the West
Indies. This trade should be ours, because
we are nearer to these countries than other
commercial nations and have political
affinity with most of them, and because their
destiny is connected with that of the great
American republic. Though we have had
these and other advantages England has held
the greater portion of the trade. Nor can this
be wrested from her easily. We must have
comprehensive and liberal policy, both politi-
cally and commercially, to bind the different
countries of North and South America to us.
Lately we have been showing more regard
for European rule and despotism in this
hemisphere than for liberty, republican prin-
OiPAco ouu enO nouVC huAoIaCou pOpuidstOuS.
Such course can never secure the friendship
and trade Of the other American republics and
people. Then to extend our commerce we
must have more ships-steamship and others
of the most approved modern character. But
these we cannot get unless the registry and
navigation laws be modified. Let us get ships
where they can be had cheapest The owner
ship and flag will give them national charac-
ter. Should there be general war in Europe,
as is expected, or even continuance Of war
over part of the Old World, we might restore
to great extent our former maritime great
ness. Had the registry law been repealed
last summer. when the President called upon
Congress at the last hours of the session to
act, our tonnage would have been vastly in
creased by this time. It may not be too late
now. Indeed, should the war in Europe ex-
tend, there will be the finest opportunity to
build up our shipping and enlarge our COM
merce. Shall we lose that We hope the
President will take comprehensive view Of
the whole subject and that Congress will con-
slider the maritime aud commercial greatness
of the country of far more importance than the
supposed interests of few shipbuilders or of
any particular class or locality.
Year: 1870

Congress Yestorday-Mlssouri Politics In the


Senate.


The second act Of the excessively stupid
comedy, which might have for title ''The
Muddy Politics Of Missouri" was played out
in the Senate chamber yesterday. The doleful
Drake was on the stage, and recited his part
in style which would do credit to many pro-
fessional tragedian, but which was rather
serious for the occasion-a little too much in
the manner of Mrs. Haller. in "The Stranger"
The whole melancholy history Of the last cleo
tion in Missouri was recounted, AID the man
ner in which Master Carl Schurz betrayed the
republican party in that State was feelingly
portrayed. Finally the actor made his bow,
after delivering sort of farewell address,
which was intended to be pathetic, but was
only ludicrous. Then the epilogue was spoken
by Master Schurz, the curtain fell upon the
comedy, the galleries were emptied Of large
audience that had been almost lulled into stu
pefaction by the drowsiness of the piece, and
the Senate went into executive session, as If
to busy itself about something practical, but
really only to give the spectators time to dis
perse before the senatorial robes were laid
aside.


Seriously speaking, the spectacle Of the last
two days has not been creditable to the Senate.
That body has high and important duties to
perform, great national questions to discuss
and consider, and its time is entirely too valu-
able to be consumed in listening to the
twaddle of two egotistical politicians over
some mere local bone of contention. What
matters it to the Senate that the patronage of
the administration was not given to the fac
tion headed by Mr.. Schurz, or that it was
given to the faction headed by Mr.. Drake? If
these gentlemen have personal woes to relate,
they should find some other place than the
Senate chamber in which to give them vent.
If such bad precedent is to be tolerated, the
next thing we may expect is the appearance
in similar characters of Senators Fenton and
Conkling, and rehearsal of how places in the
New York Custom House and Post Office were
taken from the friends of the one and given to
the friends Of the other. 1t might be amusing,
but it is not legislative, and we beg to remind
the Senate that the session is short and that
business Of Importance is pressing.
Year: 1870

MAYOR HALLS PAVEMENT VEroEs.-The
Mayor has made terrible swoOp on the
patent wooden pavements authorized to be
constructed by the Board Of Assistant Alder
men in eleven avenues and streets in the
Twelfth ward. He vetoes them all on the
ground that in many of the streets no sewers
have yet been made-in some not even the gas
mains laid-so that the pavement would have
to be taken up again, perhaps many times


Property owners understand what the effect
Of this would be upon their tax bills and
Year: 1870

SENATOR BRAKES SUcCEssoR.-A curious
proposition is made in republican papers in
regard to the successor Of Senator Drake
(republican), of Missouri, who has resigned
his seat to accept the more permanent position
of Judge of the Court of Claims. The Legis-
lature elected for the current year, whose term
of office will expire on the 3lst inst, is repub-
lican. The Legislature last elected, and whose
term commences on the 1st of January, 1871,
is democratic. The proposition is that
McClurg, the present republican Governor,
shall convene the old Legislature in special
session and have it elect brakes successor
This is mean way Of doing business for any
purpose, and one can hardly conceive more
fragrant violation Of the expressed sentiment of
the people. If Governor McClurg has any
regard for his future reputation he will not
encourage so unwise proceeding.
Year: 1870

AN INDEPENDENT CoLoRED PARTY has been
organized in Cincinnati The colored people
are bound to adopt all fancy political notions ;
but as regards an independent political col
ored party Sambo is Independent enough
already, and has been 30 ever since the adop-
tion of the Fifteenth amendment.