Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-04-03
Genius of the Three Cities.

We have received two or three letters from
friends, elsewhere, hazarding the opinion that it
is possible for us to make this the best paper in
the State, outside of the three cities, whereat we
would feel very much Aathered,' were it not that
our correspondents assumption of superiority,
inside the three cities rather impairs our conf
dence in their judgment Are they not aware
that the best journals in the State are edited and
printed outside of the three cities? We have
had some experience in all Of the three cities
and while in one of them we said
Every here and there through the mountains,
we find weekly papers conducted by men whose
places we would have some misgiving in trying
to fill. They are the makers of opinion; they
have it in their power to poison the streams OF
thought that flow out of the country. Surround
ed by a people of Intelligence, such as is not
found in any other State, they sit in watch-tow-
ers on the hll-tops, whence single musical note
is heralded all over the Union
1t is easier to attain supremacy in either of the
three cities than in the country. There is less
of originality, freshness and vgor in the writings
of city editors. Overwrought, and without am
bition, they become accustomed to certain role
of words which are transposed to suit every occa-
sion--marrage or funeral, light or darkness, the
same everlasting role. Transfer them to an in
terror town, away from the literature of police
courts and the changeful panorama Of multi
tude of people, and they would sink into utter
oblivion in six months. In a quiet place, where
original thought is necessary to interest restless,
impatient and intelligent people, they would be
tlan ind IN a
bark mill
viii our correspondents please to tell us what
journals in the three cities are remarkable for
excellence? So far as the netoS department is
concerned, we suppose the Sacramento Union and
San Francisco Bulletin excel all others but that
is only one department of journalism. A dozen
gossips, hired cheaply, and meeting from their
itineracy in the evening, to have their observa-
tens printed, in addition to the industrious ap-
plication of scissors to other mems thoughts can
hardly fail to make an interesting ne,Cspaper.-
But Of what moment, in any particular, are the
editorial opinions of eitherY What passage,
therefrom, has added beauty or strength to the
literature Of the coast ? What sentence will live
dozen moons in the memory of any reader In
our opinion, the best daily journal in either OF
the 'three cities is the San Francisco Herald but
even in that there has never been sentence
written which has not been equalled in vigor OF
thought, range of imagination and terseness OF
expression by writers whose productions origin
ated and were printed under the shadow of noun
tains and the voice of storms.
We wouldn't detract from our municipal breth-
rem /; as a body they are equal to any of like nn-
merical strength in the United States ; but we do
deny that in originality, grace of diction and
written eloquence, they excel all interior news
paper writer's. Moreover, we assert that as indi-
viduaIs,, but few of them are equal. When we
shall have extrNGted the compliment that our
paper is equal to the best Of mountain journals,
we shall be we'll satisfied that it is as good IS any
and a great deal better than most in the three
cities