Columbia gazette., 1854-04-01

IZed agents In OOnOra, 10 receive sub
scriptions, advertisements and job work,
and receipt for the same.
va We commend the following Eek
tract from the views of an old Tuol-
umne Senator" to the attentive perusal
of our readers; it contains many hints,
which it would do well to follow:- ia.
esWhat are in fact all these cliques,
clans, factions and sectionists that divide
our party now in Tuolumne, but tools to
leaders? / say emphatically down with
indiridualism and raise once more in
purity the banner of principle.-The in
quiry should come home to every man,
''what is necessary to our people, in the
action Of Congress:" Then comes the
legitimate inquiry ''wAom shall we select
as our agents to obtain it thence"
Look but for one moment at what con-
stitutes the great productive interest of
California; what is it that feeds the
stores, expresses, stages and steamers Of
the mountains and rivers; builds the
palaces Of river and bay cities; and
sends out feet after fleet upon the broad
Paci6c' The pick and the shorel, the
slu;ce and the tom; the minds and the
bodies that move these,-the science
and the labor of these high hills and
deep ravines, is the great power that
sustains the State, and has revolution
lied the property Of the whole world
We have excellent men; to represent us
in the National Councils, and excellent
"rcry good" reliable" "good demo-
Gratis" sc, proposed as their successors;
with scarcely one exception, all these
"good men" have comparatively no
knowledge Of the wants of the great pro-
ductive development Of this State; the
gold region. The politics of our State,
if we permit it, will become but game
between eleaders" and the tools of
influential men," When men become
esmart" in politics let us shun them;
VIXEN they are too dull not to see cor
ruption and to fight it, avoid them-but
when subtle moving take place, look to
it closely. Let us look to the rotes of
our representatives; the neglect to call
the ayes and nays-the 'tpairing OFF,
the absentces-the "saving at the spig-
got and letting out at the bung" policy
practically carried out. When we see
hundreds Of thousands of dollars vanish
ing; not into their air, but indirectly to
uses fruitful Of future i'll rather than
good; and attempts to sing economy be-
side it; let us look out, Mer:'s acorse to
come. We say then to cold Tuolumnen
rise up as the Lion and shake off the
Shiny dews Of the night. This is the
business of every man that values the
principles of a pure democracy, and he
must hold himself ready to sustain by
the might of clear conscience, what
he knows to be right.-Itis is emphatical-
ly every mans business, with or without
the "leaders" and Influential men, to
council. Let us for once at least cast
an eye toward the selection of such men
in the Senate and in the other House of
Congress, as know our wants-are firm
in their convictions of the propricty Of
our claims for Indian Wars Ga debt of a
million now hanging upon our State) of
our claims for monies wrung from the
people Of California before her admis-
sion as State, in the shape of duties
collected by Military Officers; another
oaAaAon UuC US. We dcCOru W soeIldtOT
Gwin and to Gen. McDougal and 9th
ers our sense of thankfulness for their
untiring effort in relation to the Rail
Road and many other important mat
ters; but of the two million named above,
they are doing nothing in the latter, and
they have not, as the mountain sufferers
have, a firm conviction of the justice of
the claim for Indian Wars. They all
were enjoying fine sofas in the CONNER
cial cities, where the newspapers (somc-
times the bible to the politician) ridicul-
ed rather than chronicled the butcher
les of our people in the Mariposa, Ell
Dorado and other mountain homes
Let US meet often and talk of these
things t.fore our primary meetings, and