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Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20
Economy and Fidelity HumbuHs.

In every Legislative body there are certain
fussy little people whose especial business is to
make a big noise on small occasions The first
outcry of these invisible green statesmen is
ally for instantaneous economy of the peoples
money! or in vocferous declaration of their in
corruptible fidelity to the people whom they
serve. They can scarcely wait the organization
of the Assembly to spring up, with arms extended
and fingers spread out, declaring their indestruc-
tible fealty to the people whom they humbly
represent and forth. That's generally the
last we hear of them on every occasion when the
people require positive and courageous repre-
sentation they stand with their hands deep in
their pockets eyes dlated cheeks inflated, shoul
ders drawn up, toes turned in and digging in the
bottom of their boots. But it matters not they
have moved for an early adjournment or for
the purchase of cheap clock by which to econ
omse the peoples time, and have thus shown
their friends, the people, an early example Of
industry and economy.
An example lately occurred in the Assembly.
Mr.. De Long. Of Yuba. whose intellectual stature
is entirely contradictory of his names siguif-
canoe, introduced resolution providing that,
thereafter, no questions Of political nature
should be entertained in the House. lie was op-
posed to wasting time-he had been sent there TO
do the peoples business, and such like declara-
tions Soon after we find this same conservative
little man advocating and prolongng the Vigi-
lance discussion, and on various occasions occu-
pying the House with speeches which, as they are
printed in the reports, are of utter insignfcance.
During the debate following introduction of the
resolution, member uttered sentence which we
applaud He said / think it perfectly legti-
mate for us to comment on important political
movements / feel myself here the peoples hum
BILE servant declare that | am not their pri-
vate slaveP
We like independence of that sort, and had ra-
ther trust the public treasury in the keeping Of
men who speak thus, than to have it watched on
ly by the economy and fidelity -vociferatug dem
apogues who scream at tissue in the wall leav-
ing the door open and unguarded.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

Savage N1r. Lee,

Assemblyman Lee, of FL Dorado, has been
kicking up the dust of Vigilancsm with wonder
full vigor he has made a speech showing. not
only prodigious veneration for law and abhor-
renee of sediton, but also marvellous familiar
ity with the passages from Shakespeare used for
declamatory purposes in schools. While we ques-
tion Mr. Lees historical accuracy, we cannot as
sert that he has not studied the poets, at least
those portions of their works which have been
generally used for speech establishment for a
hundred years or 40. We are astonished that Mr..
Lee did not pronounce during the lifetime of
that horrid monster whose grave no stamps so
spitetully but just then nothing was heard of
Mr.. Lee, though he Is presumed to have been
residing near that frightful tree which bore skel-
eton fruit, and made classic Hangtown' SO fa-
nous in story. An advocate of law and order so
ferocous, and armed with statutory missiles Ora
CONAN in character as those MIR. Lee now brings
into the field abandoned by the sedtionists, might
have instantly dispersed the rebels and restored
the supremacy of the Constitution and laws to
which Mr. Lee is so addicted But the FL Dorado
law giver had not codifed his intentions, and
ndKeU reDelllOn WIN MS tOTCu anu SWOIu ulONe
Governor johnson TO his comfortable house in
Sacramento and DR.. Scott to his vestry.
The speech of this man is slander on the peo-
pie of this State it is full of falsehood. No such
condition of anarchy, murder and terror ever ex-
listed, and Lees fustian oratory, poetry and mis-
statement appearing among the Legislative pro-
ceedipgs, will confirm the ISLANDERS already pub
lshed by pulling sentimentalists and defaming
journalists who were trodden under the peOples'
shoes, for pronouncing them traitors and hang
men, We maintain that the people of California
are not more exctable, cruel or sanguinary than
the inhabitants of other States they are not less
law, bidng or enduring they lack nothing of
that generation which every good American citi-
zen feels for the government of which he is an
integral element, and they need no more of As
semblyman Lees statutory enormities, disfran-
chsing penalties and abducting provisions which
were never applied to other freemen His Mob
Bill is a discredit to the Assembly, disgrace to
himself, and damning to all who support it.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

THE LAMP THAT NEVER QUITE GOES OUT.-
Storms and darkness come over the sea where the
the waterfowl sat asleep, with her head under her
wing, and great crested waves, coming landward,
rave and roar, and beat themselves to death
against the rocks. But, after while, single
star comes down and mirrors itself tremblngly in
a wave, another and thousand others drop
down beside it, till the sea flashes with jewels
then the chariots of the storm wheel down the
horizon, the waves wall themselves to sleep, and
in the morning wake to each others calm en-
brace.
So it is with the human soul There are times
when shadows steal into the heart and lie about
its chambers like the black plumes of some evil
bringing bird from nights Plutonian shore :
grim spectres stand all about the door, and with
their wasted fingers unfold a scroll where dark
prophecies are written Despair stands like the
wooden Virgin of the Inqusition, with out
stretched arms, bristling with sharp daggers, and
the heart shuts in on expiring hope, like sliding
walls slowly crushing the doomed prisoner. A
little fash of light is seen through the gloom, the
fu,eral pail begins to trail away, the feeble spark
expands to a star, planet, sun, universe of
blazing light, until the heart, once dark as Ere
bus, becomes kingdom of gladness. 1t was the
lamp that God hung In the soul to light it through
the dark places of life it had burned down low,
and Hope came and blew it to life, and declared
it imperishable as the light that burned between
the cherubims over the Ark of the Covenant.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20
SHASTA, Feb, 1868.

MARITAL RELATIONS or BIRDS AND BEAsTs.-
The editor of the Marysville .Nesos makes this
beautiful argument against polygamy
The sexes, being equal in NUMBER the evident
intention Of Nature Is that the perpetuation Of
the species shall be accomplished by equitable
unions of the masculine and feminine individuals
of the species. BY equitable unions we mean
pairs. Birds and beasts, without hearing or read
Ing the lectures of philosophers and theologians,
implicitly obey this law Of their being, and, in
their family arrangements are pure monogo-
mists except when diverted from their instinct
by domestication under the tyranny OF man. The
eagle and the robin, the lion and the hare, i'm
PEELED by an irreversible natural law, live hon
estly in couples-the male with his own wife, and
the female with her own husband-and never
disgrace themselves or outrage Nature by perpc-
trating the sin of polygamy. The domestic ami
mails are forced to violate this law Of their being
by the artiGces OF man, who In subjecting them to
his purposes, destroys their sexual equilibrium
Old Chanticleer, whom some poets have called
The Sultan Of his farm yard harem, would moi
be a sultan and would have no harem, had moi
man made pot pies of his brethren. Left to Ma
ture and his own instincts, he would be a pat
tern of monogamic fidelity
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20
NEWS OF THE STATE.

They are about starting Douglas Broderick
Democratic newspaper at San Francisco.
State Prison claims to the amount Of one hun
dred thousand dollars are before the Legislature.
The proposition TO re-organize the Democratic
party, In San Francisco, has been voted down Ia
every district OF the county.
The Academy of Sciences, at San Francisco,
has skull of South Sea cannibal; the eye
teeth are longer than the others, aud hooked,
like teeth of fiesh-eating animals.
Two villains undertook TO rob some Chianamen
at Knights Ferry. but the Johns resisted aud cut
them nearly oil to pieces.
At man was killed recently ut Todd's Valley,
In dance-housc row three persons are under
arrest therefor.
w. c. Smith, an old and esteemed citizen Of
lille, has become insane, and has gone to the
Asylum
Bruce Husband, of the Amador Sentinel, has
been appointed State Librarian.
Wells, Fargo 4 Co.'s letter bag was lost in the
bay from the Sacramento steamer-it had not
been recovered at last accounts.
Mr. Sterret YVES killed In tunnel at Placer
vle last week He had bought a share In the
claim the day before.
A Masonic ball was given at Jackson on the
22d.
Up to Saturday week sixteen new acts had been
approved by the Governor.
Six long speeches had been made on the Vigi
lance question at last accounis-seventy- -four
were to come. Estell pumps the vind to dis
tract attention from State Prison matters.
The Placervllle .Argus has ceased to be.
A Catholic Journal, called the Monitor is to
he issued In San Francisco March 9th, by Marks,
Thomas & Co. 1t will contain forty columns OF
Catholic literature and general intelligence
Five dollars year.
The gold dust owner advertised for in the
Shasta papers, by Bull, Baker & Co., has been
found lie had been living for three years on
Canon Creek In this county. His name Is VIM.
Lush, and his purse contained $4,000.
The Clear Creek dtchmen and the miners are
still at outs-the latter want water reduced from
80 TO 20 cents, the others say they can't and
wont afford II. Last week an attempt was made
to break tho ditch and burn down the aqueduct.
Mr. Smith Is going to tunnel through Whisky
Creek divide, diyertng the water from Horse
town to Shasta diggings.
Assemblyman Lewis has offered bill creating
new Senatorial District ont of Tehama and
Colusi counties these counties, with Shasta,
make the 18th District now
The Shasta Courier has seen a beet two feet aud
a alflong and as much round and thinks II would
make q good war-club for the Hebrew Hercu-
les
The Honey Lake people have about given up
their independent sovereignty. The Sheriff of
Plumas county only came down on them aud ev-
cry man grasped--his purse, paid his taxes aud
then sank back into his boots.
The citizens of Sacramento county, outside the
city, are savagely opposed to the Consolidation
Bill, and whereasd and resolved against 1t at
Folsom.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

An ARCTIC WINTER IN MorHER's HEARr.--
We look around, but can see no appearance OF
sinful propensity, no floating physical evidence oi
a depraved tendency. Men appear manly, wo-
men seem to be womanly over the earth comes
and goes purifying breath there are fine man
sions and tasteful cottages where childhood
blooms within and flowers bloom without The
sun light is soft and the sky is clear towns grow
and cities improve aud society looks as though it
wore a spotless garb. When we see all these ap.
parently positive proofs of excellence, we are
amazed at the possibility OF occurrences such as
are daily reported we wonder at the conduct Of
men and women they do that which is inexpli-
cable to themselves and yet they hasten on in the
mysterious infatuation, to what end they know
not nor do they care. Men may trifle with many,
or ALL of the proprieties which should govern So
ciety and business and put some little justiflca-
tion in their excuse women may play with mod
esty, and even chastity, and still be worthy Of
forgiveness and admiration But when mother
leaves her young to follow an allurement, though
it be of the holest nature, there Is asked an un-
answerabe question there is exhibited state OF
being less than animal instinct, there Is a soul
night impenetrably dark.
A few days back, a husband and wife with two
sweet children, came to this city from Nevada, in
tending 10 remain The wife, intelligent, lovely
and oveable was invited TO ball which she atten-
ded, unaccompanied by her husband. He advised
her not to 90, but she w0nld listen to no per-
suason, left her house, went to the pail, and re-
fused to return to her home. He discovered
where she was stopping aud mplored her to go
home he took the little children with him and
they looked up into her face and said Mother,
come 90 homep Tears and entreaties were pow
erless, deep snow had fallen and icicles had form
ed around the mothers heart, and she bade her
dearest kindred leave her and take care OF them
selves The husband told us his story and grief
fingered on every word the children reached
out their soft hands, aud their eyes, beaming with
the beauty of innocence aud health, sparkled with
tear pearls. Disconsoate, and clouded by the
mystery which deprived him of companion who
had been the recipient of his kindness and love,
he went back 10 Nevada. The wife who had lost
her affection and violated her duty, the mother
who spurned and deserted her offspring. is here
in her perverseness, and perhaps going away down
into the unnaturalness of error and the insanity oil
vice. OH what a winter there is In that mo-
theirs heart How fearful that arctic frost which
has frozen the tenderest sympatbes and made
solid ice of the warm flow o. love toward the lit
tie child SO innocent and beautiful! Sac Age.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20
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HAT TY ID X r D Il j..

Come with me, Hatty. dear.
Come, sit beside me- here,
For your cheek is as white as the colorless snow
For that wan, sngel.face,
There is a resting-place,
Here on my bosom, sweet Hatty Defoe.
Up in the mountain glen.
Close by the puma's den,
Where ice-fettered rivulets struggle below,
There is the miners home
Thither, my darling, come
And rest in my cabin, my Hatty Defoe
Down to the frozen branch,
Thunders the avalanche,
And cliffs In the sunshine with frost-fre glow ;
But, In that wnterspot,
Hatty, I swear, there's not
Frost In the miners heart, Hatty Defoe
Under yon naughty flr
There IL home for her,
And heart that will love her forever, know
Till down on life's sunny tide
Hatty and shall glide,
And at night camp in Heaven, with Hatty Defoe.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

VELOCITY OF DREAM THouUHT.-A gentleman
once told us of his dream. He dreamed that be
was arrested, tried, imprisoned, let down from a
window to the scaifold, exhorted by the minister,
hooted at by the crowd, showed from the plat
form aud suffered protracted strangulation, but
waking, the report of pistol, that suggested the
lightning chain of imaginary events. was still
ecboing in the street Who can comprehend the
velocity with which the soul travels its mysteri-
GUS paths, when the body lies in the embrace of
sleep? What eye but omnisclence can follow its
electric fight, what arm but Omnipotence can
lead il back from its infinite wauderingsf
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

THEY WHO Go Down UNDER THE SEA, IN SHIPS.
The following named steam-vessels have been
lost in the Pacific Ocean since 1850: Steamship
Independence, $50 lives lost; North America,
l50 died of starvation; Winfield Scott; Yankee
Blade, rs lost Tennessee; Southerner Ohio ;
Pittsburg, s. S. Lewis, Monumental City, lost 100
lives, Gen Warren lost all on board but FIVE FIRE.
mont, Chesapeake, Constitution, Sea Gull, Com
modore Preble and Union complete the record Of
disaster.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20
TRINITY JOURNAL.

TRANSLATION OF THE RAIN.-Last night the rain
fell heavily on the roof 1t spake manifold
things and this is the translation my errand is
life. have reused the sleeping streams they
leap from the rocks and tear down through the
chasm, roaring and foaming, and proclaiming
wealth and prosperity to man. have left my
hoary companion on the mountain tops, who will
not yield up his treasures until wooed by the
summer sun, but l, answering the prayers Of
thirsty earth, am here. / will smite on the cabin
roof and wake the sleeper to labor l will beat
against the window pane and rouse the debtor
from his stupefed despair Gathering my forces
l will turn them against the hills and unearth
treasures that will make the veins and arteries
and heart of commerce pulsate with fever. My
power shall be felt in every kingdom and State,
and all shall acknowledge it, from the jewelled
queen to the Lazarus by the wayside. l will
send messengers of joy to the dwellers by the
Missouri and the Kennebec, the Solway and the
Shannon, the Rhine and the Loire and to the
tawny people of pagan lands will make the
hearts of emperors swell with pride and ambition
or tremble with fear as golden levers shake their
thrones. 1 will quicken the cold blood of the
miser, as he adds to his store, and answer the wi
dow, who cries in her desolation for bread.
will sharpen the settlers AK, and send him far
ther into the forest, and temper the plonghshare
for ground that is yet unsubdued. / will have a
voice in the councils of nations, and when en-
pires and republics are weighed, will even the
balances and then l will freight the rivers and
seas with ships, some to gather The moss Of the
worlds waters, and some to wreck against the
cebergs of arctic seas. oh, what a mighty, hea-
ven-sent monarch am | My sceptre is gold, my
empire is the world, my subjects everywhere, my
power i6nnitude, my reign ages Of ages
But gently To the quiet sleeper, peace To
the sinking and respondent heart, hope and joy.
To wives and children raiment and bread to de-
serted fathers and mothers the return of the prod
igal son ; to waiting maidens the embraces of
streng arms, and the kisses of lips unpolluted by
untruth, and to Con the gratitude of all =
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20
WEAVER 4 TRINITY VALLEY
WAGON ROAD COMPANY
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN

TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN
T|now ye, that we, the undersigned, have and
N do hereby declare that it is our intention to
organize Corporate Company under the name
and style of the
Weaver & Trinity Valley Wagon Road Go.
for the purpose of constructing and collecting
tolls on Wagon Road leading from Weaverville
in Trinity Co., to Trinity Centre, in said County,
by way Of Bates Ranch.
Notice is hereby given that we will apply to
the Board of Supervisors of Trinity Co. as soon
as we may get hearing for authority to COIL
struct said road.
All persons who are now or may hereafter be-
come subscribers to the stock of the above-nam-
ed Company, are notified that Monday, March
lst, is the time, and the Court Honse, in Weaver,
the place appointed for the preliminary organi:
cation of the Company, when and where you will
attend. W. S. LOWDEN,
Nj. F. GRIFFIN,
FORDYCE BATES,
HENRY HOOKER,
AND OTHERS.
Weaverville, Feb, 6, 1858. 4.3t.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

BRIDGE AT MCGILLIvRAY' Sit is intended,
early in the spring, to make wagon road from
Weavervile to North Fork. Messrs McGillivray,
Raab aud others, living on the river, intend
building bridge over the Trinity at HOcker's. A
good road can be made from this place to Sturde-
wants ranch, through Oregon Gulch,-the whole
can be finished in four months. From North Fork
another road can be made, over the divide, to
Salmon river, which will open communication six
weeks earlier than by the old trail.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

SUICIDE IN THE CITY OF SN.-Are not the peo-
pie OF San Francisco breathing the malaria OF
death Have they lost hope, and courage, and
selfstrength? Is there no warmth of soul there,
no love Of life, no cheerfulness, no aspiration but
to gain, by the short way, the black gate of
death Is that beautiful city to be destroyed by
itself! Are its inhabitants all to remove to the
narrow tenements Of Yerba Buena and Lone
Mountaing OH whence this dreadful insanity,
this Fastening to the suicides gloomy determi-
nation and melancholy end Sac. Age.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

.TuAr's MY THUNDER.-The origin of this
phrase was In this wise In the reign of Queen
Anne, there was a sage and grave critic by the
name Of Dennis, VIII, In his old age, got into his
head that he had written all the good plays thst
were acted at that time At last a trgedy came
forth with most imposing display of hail and
thunder At the first piece Dennis exclaimed
That's my thunder
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

ExEMPrIoN.-King, of Amador, asks the AS
sembly to pass an Act, exempting type, presses,
and material necessary to publish a newspaper,
from execution for debt We see no reason why
such property should be exempted, more than the
appliances Of any other business. There is a
great deal Of absurd ado made about the sacred
ness and usefulness of presses, which if parcelled
out to their just creditors, would give their first
example of utility.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

CLEANLINESS AND GoDLNEss.--A Sacramento
schoolmaster sent dirty little wretch out to
wash his face. The boy came back with lower
part of his head in tolerable condition, but the
upper face dirty and streaked as ever He said
he had washed and wiped as far as his shirt
would reach, but was afraid to stretch the id
thing for fear the tail might pull OUT
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

PRIvILEoED Notwithstanding Lee said:
Il take the privilege Of the wind, and blow on
whom please The Sacramento Bee replies
that that is privilege enjoyed in common by
Assembyman Lee and certain peculiar flies, fire.
ouentnp meat markets.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

SALAMANDER PIETY-A Methodist preacher en-
tered a Presbyterian meeting and kueeled down
by the red-bot stove, with his overcoat on. The
prayer was long, but the good man stood II till
nearly baked then rose, took off his coat, and
kneeling down again, muttered Now, brother,
here's at yon for all night this heat
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

THERE is a woman in the lunatic asylum at
New York, who thinks that the Roman Cathoiics
are irving to build cathedral in her stomach.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

IT won't do for man to bump his head against
an iron post even with the additional momentum
of brick in his hat, unless be conscientiously
believes that his head is the hardest.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

A GrpsEY, going through village on rainy
day, in pair of torn boots, was accosted by
passer-by, who suggested that his boots were toe
bad for such weather you are mistaken SIR
said the Gipsey, it is the weather that is too bad
for my boots
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

SIGNIFICANT LAST WoRDs-One Of the patients
at the Commercial Hospital st. Louis, who died
recently, knowing and feeling his approaching
pom eoes the weazel p breathed his last.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

MATTER OF NoNEY--msrrying rich old mad
or widow for the sake of your board and lodging
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

GENIUS lights its own fire, but 1t is constantly
collecting ma aterials to keep alive the hame'
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

A GREEDY fellow once bolted door, threw up
a window, aud then swallowed story OF Wind
sor Castle.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

THERE Is continuous line of railroad from
Portland, Maine, to st. Louis, Missouri--l446
miles, through thirteen States and ten large
cities.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20

THE Doctor thinks sick cobbler out Of dangs
when he begins to mend.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20
GARDEN SEEDS.

s<s DUNLAP'S SUPERIOR GARDEN
THS SEEDS, put up with great care, and with
1zgSt reference TO the California trade, by A. III.
Dunlap, Nashua, n. II. For sale at Shasta pri.
ces, by JOHN COLE,
p2td. Main Street, Weaverville.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20
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