San Andreas independent., 1858-02-06

CARRYING THE WAR INTO AFRIcA-On Sat
urday night last, as we passed along Main ST.
our attention was attracted toward spot
around which crowd had collected. apparent
iy ON the Macawber principle" waiting for
something to turn up" We quickly fell into
apostion from which we had an excellent
view of the performance about to come off
The performers were two highly colored egem-
mcn from Africa, who had involved them
selves in debate about the Lccompton Con-
stitutiou, something of kindred character.
until the affair had become SO strictly "pusnal''
that the trial by wager of battle seemed
the only plan left for settlement u Git outen
dis, you mis'ble darkey,r said the redoubted
Scipio, "you's de mcanes niggah in de town.
an ef yah darken dis doa' agin, Is gwine-
rs = gwine-eh-eh-T's gwiue fur to u-cah
you out agin de groun-git; wants muffin to
do wif YER And here he spread himself a Ia
Hyer, and showed his ivory like terrier of
i.xconian pluck. Pompey showed a decent
regard for the science and temper of Scip at
this stage of the game-he 'crawfished,' but rs
the storm cooled down, and the torrent of clo-
quencc subsidized, his courage rose, and bend
ing his swarthy body, and gyrating with his
black-snakc arms, he turned fercely on Scip,
rs gobbler on a bandy-cock, with the evi-
dent intention that that gcmmann should
feel the faii force of an indignant niggar's
sarcasm. "You's low coward dahs yah
fur to come of dat style; you's raised on
coon heads and possum tail" And here he
threw his head and back into an angle of
twenty degrees with his heels, tlirusting, first
his right and then his left fist forward toward
meant to pi that institution. Look'a heah, y
said Scip, "you's gwn for to git dis niggah
to pitch in, and den yah take de law on um."-
"Debble take de law" said Pomp, dis chile
nebbah take um, eff you's got any of de chiv-
umry in yer come off dat style; no, you's
feard, you's a Doaen-easter.' dis niggah got de
Pokehontum blood in EN-; dis niggah from
de souf Massum Dicksum line." "Dont yah
call dis erin Down-easter," said Scip, "yah
mis'ble dirt-eatin Norf China tar-heel," and
with this he grew bellicose and pitehed into
Pomp, knocking his nose into something like
= mashed potato putting Paddy's seal on both
his eyes, scattering half a pound of wool over
the ground, and winding up an argument more
creditable to the valor than the discretion of
she chivalrous Pompey.
TRAvELER's GuIDE-HoTEL DrREcToRy-Giv-
ing the distances, localities, accommodations.
&c, with the best Hotels Livery Stables,
bridges, Ferries, &C., on the roads leading
from Stockton to Carson Valley, ria San An
dreas, Angels, Murphy's, and the Big Trees
Also, on the different roads ria Sonora, CO.
lumbia, Mokelumne Hill, &C., with the COM
paratlve distances, &C., by +. A. Taylor, Esq.
OF Mnrphys. We have received copy of the
elegant chart above described, and Rud it re-
picte with such information as it advertises to
give. The whole chart is vanished and neat
ay hnished and framed, similar TO the State
maps NO" In vogue. The traveller and
business man Will find every prominent Hotel
and Livery Stable on the route. properly ad-
rertised in display, on the card. The nr;ce ~
single COPY is very reasonable, as the enter
prise in supported, in the main, by the bust
ness cards. We find, by referring to the T,h,o
of Distances, from Stockton to Carson vo,,o,