The Empire County argus., 1854-11-11
Correspondence of the Argus.
Croa Bar has 10 ,cork Distinguished Visitors Sen
atorial Question Law--Fees an Office.

JoHNTowN, Nov. 6, 1854.
Mr. AReus-It is long time since have hei1
communion with you. and in order to renew our
acquaintance take my pen in hand to inform you
that have to work hard every day and hope you
enjoy the same blessing. 1t is good TO work and
earn bread by the sweat of the brow. labor keeps
the conscience and physical system active and in
tune The lazy drones in the hive of humanity
always have an aching void and conscience stings
them until tits scared with hot ron, then they
begin to devise plans to plunder the unwary and
hang around groceries, occasionally playing seven
up for whiskey These misdirected specimens oi
humanity constitute the fashionable fraternity of
loaferdom Myself and the Major do not belong
to this class we work and feel proud of labor: it is
true we are occasionally interrupted Ivy great men
who call to see about the Senatorial question
Doctors of the law and doctors of physc call us.
California being healthy country doctors turn
their attention to seeking office, and employ us to
feel the pulse of the miners Members of Congress
also visit u.s. and sometimes an editor comes along
to enlghten u.s. On occasions of this kind we sit
down on the ground and in democratic manner
each of US pick up little dirt and carefully work
it with fingers in the mean time talk about
mining and big strikes" then taking up more dirt
our visitors touch gently upon politics. whereupon
the Major and invite our friends to walk into our
cabin, ana bringing forth our Schnapps we all cut
the phlegm i'll our throats and in order to make Il
practical illustration of democratic equality wipe
our lips with our shirt sleeves visiting friends
following suit by wipng their lips with their coat
This faot bainr pnrf,,r,oo5 visit
admire our cabin when we all take another suck
and strong one at the Schnapps, wiping our lips
as before. never for a moment forgetting that we
are pure and practical democrats. The Senatorial
question is opened. we canvass the merits of
Doctor Gwin and conclude that he was created ex-
pressy for United States Senator and that he can
push State into notice better and quicker
than any other living even dead man Taking
another drink of Schnapps we believe that Doctor
Gwn is the best man for great occasions and that
no man can represent California, the Sandwich
Islands and Cuba well he-these places
such occasions in opinion, constituting part
only of what California is going to be when fin
ished.
On another occasion we discussed the merits of
Mr.. McDougal in the course of which we learned
that Doctor Gwn had been an active instrument in
violating the Constitution, being member Of the
Convention which formed the Constitution of this
State. TO prove this they read to us from IL letter
of Hon. Henry A. Wise to the Rev. Mr.. Adams of
Boston. in which Mr. Wise, after telling what i.
good place California would have been for slavery.
and mourning over the failure to introduce the
'instution here, piousy exclams:
"Looking to God always. and especially to cor
rect and prevent the mischief of many wrongs done
by the violent California outrage. Slavery out OF
the question: our Constitution and form of Govern
ment stricken the most fatal stab yet felt
in our history, by the military introduction into the
Union of that Alammon State. The severest blows
at Slavery in the United States which Abolitioniss
could have given would have been TO fer bounties
even to masters to take their slaves to the gold
mines. But no: they blind enough to violate
the Constitution Of the United States, and TO jus
tify military usurpation in the acts of Brigader
General Riley. who, from the camp proclaimed II
Territorial government who after thus meeting
and satisfying the plea of the 'salus popui'," by
ganizing Territorial government, backed by ii
naval and military force of the United states. went
further. and from the camp again proclaimed me-
place. and manner of holding elections prescribed
the elective franchise gave the right of voting tn
those who We're not citizens, indiscriminatcly to
Peruvian and latagonian. to Chinese and hilian
to Mexican and muatto. and to Il member of Con
gress from Georgia; and from this promiscuous
aggregate of population en- masSe- not IL people i'll
any organized sense--exercised the highest attr-
butte Of man, next to that Of Deity. the attribute of
organizing a convention which was to create and
did create, State to be induc,cd into this Union
This paragraph sh' cked the Major and myself
but we expect some distinguished visitor who
will explain the whole thing to us and show Is why
Doctor Gwin did not cooperate with that member
of Congress from Georgia.
Mining about |olntown is now very good, q nj
will be excellent with water | was al
Georgetown the other day; they have very
rich diggings there, some claims pay by the pound
was told that Esq. Southworth had been appoint
ed Deputy District Attorney to collect licenses for
selling goods and liquors, and that he was string
up the animals with sharp stick and making them
fork over to the County Treasury This is good
improvement and there ought to be Deputy Dis
trict Attorney at Placervlle, and another at Fid-
dletown, The Statute, believe authorizes the
appointment of these Deputies. One is needed at
Johntown | shall therefore hang out my >hinglc
to read thus: Crow Bar, Attorney and Counsellor
at Law Solicitor in Chancery and Proctor in the
Admiralty Courts Then in small gilt letters
9eEs' Particular attention paid to the recovery of
Spanish grants before the U. s. Land Commission,