Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-12-04
THE JOURNAL.
wEAvERvILLE, SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 1858.

"CoNFIpENCE JEN," TIRE EpTToR.-" In tact'
like many others of his class be finds it very easy
TO be a large man in small crowd"
The foregoing remark was applied TO noun
tain journalist by a mean, little, flash paper,
named the Morning Call. The only name con-
nected with it is that of one Jobson who attained
a certain notoriety by sueing somebody for
damaging worthless character. Not vouchsahng
a reply to an individual so Insignificant. we may
amuse Others by drawing picture of his class
the confidence Jems' who infest metropolitan
printing houses-the long-tailed 'rats' that
underbid and exclude men of intellect, talent and
genius from employment.
Confidence Jem is literary man; he writes
for the papers; he tends beaters, police courts,
marches in professions. makes speeches at fire.
mems suppers-in brief is an editor lie is
occasionally inspired with devotion, and devoutly
thanks God OH discovering unobstructed access
TO a bar-room lunch table, or at being permitted
to squat and swell on platforms assigned the
'press' on exhibition days, or to wear spectacles
in a theater dead head box. Coincidence Jem'
is always around when an association printers
will do the ritin' for mere song-ten dollars
week with contingencies Of free passes to theater
and circus, will put him in circumstances which
will raise his eyebrows from straight streak to
a crescent The debris at the bottom OF free
lunch soup bowl will on a tight pinch, stop the
wrangling Of his bowels, when the proprietors'
are not in circumstances to lift evidence Of in
debtedness. Jem' is professionally distinguished
for pitching in;' he is particularly down on
the municipal government, and is the devil,
himself, on corruption in high places though
he is usually found in the lowest places magma
ble. According to prospectus Confidence Jem'
pitches in,' until somebody threatens to pull the
several noses of the proprietors, wheyeat Conf
dence Jem' is pitched out.
Jem is exceedingly patronizing for city editor;
he is always on the sharp look for mountain
journalists, and is the first person they discover
ut the Rail Road House, where, during flush
times, be is observed banqueting on the proceeds
ofa 'long Bit Our gourmand feeds with adcal
Of ceremony; occasionally pausing to read in
tenty from newspaper, which is generally the
one he is on His attitude combines the graces
Of n. p Willis, Horace Greely's slovenliness,
Prentice's concentration and abstraction, and
Noland's ferocity. But Jcm' has eyed the sran-
ger and mnutcly calculated the advantages Of
acquaintance. Jem addresses: Ahem sir, have
you read the .4uroral YeH, Of this morning.
If the mountain man hasn't had the pleasure OF
Jem's acquaintance, previously, speedy intima
cy ensues; the provincial learns with astonIshment
and awe that bis companion is no less person
than the EDITOR Of the Aurorai YA!! who
details bow in his next paper he will annihilate
20, the rascally corn league! D-n 'em
Meantime a well-dressed stranger appears; the
huge flaps over his coat pockets, with an enormous
fob chain and SEAL proclaim an onterprsing
young business man. lie accosts Confidence
Jem' with a single, oracular expression: Mister
hobsoatakeadrak p 'Jem is electrified; be stands
straight up in bis boots; then his nose describes
an arc in the direction of bis toes, and coverty
depositng chew Of tobacco in his jacket pocket
our editor drinks and smokes, and concludes not
to illuminate on the proposed subject to- morrow /
His friend with the fob-chain and seals is Mr..
Self Rising, of the corn league-he has put an
insect in our reformers ear; he has propitiated
the Jupiter Tonans of the press with drink
offering and burnt Offering, and with the sweet
smelling odor of a bit-a-grab cigar and gill Of
good, American brandy.
Confidence Jem' has rather a contempt for
country editors be thinks it next to nothing to
do the writing for the Shasta Courier, Sierra
Catizen, Butte Record, and Trinity Journal; but
"a Io;I tI,of j. i
Confidence Jem, editor Jem, Jem, the metropoli-
tan, won't stick on dignity, and consents to show
the stranger round drinks at the green ones
expense, smokes dimes, and, perhaps, borrows
quarter to redeem his shirt from custody of an
inAexible washwoman who has declared intention
of foreclosure.
VIII the Golden Era inform US whether we have
not hit Confidence Jem square on the culmina-
ting point of his cabesa Jem, who has success
fully edited thirty or forty journals, aud the
Lord, only, knows how many more be will not
edit before starvation and consecutive washwo-
men can persuade him to exile himself in the
country. Oh, Enthusiastic Jecms Incompatible
Jem of the Metropolis, thou shrtless Jupiter
Peripetitia Heaven ordain no discontinuance
of the free-lunch system, nor harden laundry
women'c bowels of compassion; and may the
devil never turn the spigot on any ones benevo-
lenee who, in pity for their forlorn, thirsty
presence would observe, Observation-Disclosures
A VALUABLE PUMA Mr. Rainie of Knights
Ferry, has invented selfworking pump which
will make a certain quantity Of water raise itself
twenty-eight feet higher than the place from
which it was taken If this pump works. then
we shall benceforth assert that a scientific man,
by catching hold of the seat OF his breeches with
one hand and the collar of his coat with the
other, may With felicous facility hoist himself
from first floor to third story, or from the ground
into the top of tree-a devilish handy thing in
peach seasOn.-Shas Courier.
Sure, and be the powers, how conyanient that'd
be in grizzly time \