Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-02-20
THE BLACK KNIGHT OF sIsKIYOU
OR, THE AvENoER OF
Grecnhorn and Humbug. Tail.

She,eing ho,o that ye fayre ponsn Of ye ancient
to,cns Of Yreka tcere falsely decused Of 6uque-
! ing at We game Of rondolo, and hOw that ye
spirit of ancient chipairy gat hold on ye knighi
Of Sniktatc pho ofereh TO do bioodie battle :
"ED. TRINITY JOURNALISM IL notice that
you have made some remarks derogatory to the
character and purity of our women. This Is to
certify that our women, as general thing, al
ways walk IN the paths of righteousness, and all
her paths are peace. They are all on their wea-
wing way to the land of Canaan, to that happy
land where the spirits of just men made per.
| feet, and where the music is played on harp of
a thousand strings. Once in long while, owing
to the effects OF climate, one of them kicks out
of the traces, but the natural magnetic influence
of the rest draws her in again, about as easy as
an honest miner draws bucket OF dirt from the
bottom of the shaft. They pretty much all went
for the Independent candidates. They go their
whole amount on purity and moral reform. How
somever, few as had been taught by their foro-
fathers that it was objectionable sin to scratch
the ticket, went for the corrupt Democrats, and
l expect you must have had your minds eye on
them when you wrote the article. Our men we
acknowledge are pretty bad. They buck at ron
do, and some of them would buck their souls
salvation against dollar and aquarter in mon
ey. They shift around in politics worse than a
weathercock in hurricane. They get drunk and
stay drunk as long as their money lasts. They
smoke two bit cigars, wear plug-ugly hats and
don't pay for them. The men are bad, and a
good many are going to Utah, with the expecta
tion Of jumping the ranches and taking up oil
the women that do not follow Off the Saints
They have great desire to be amongst the breth-
rem and sisters. Our women, though, resemble
very closely the unsulied snow the top of
Shasta Butte, aud consider you an Internal cow
ard for making the remark that you did know
ing as you do that there is twenty feet Of snow
tha p,nn ptain an1t thn irutl 10 i'm
you want anything out of me you can have it,
Yours, pretty salty. SNIKTAw."
Boastful NorthmaD, we defy ye to mortal con
fab Ifby calling us an " Internal coward" you
mean to express doubt, approximately or re-
motely," of our courage we demand an immedi-
ate explanation. Make the implied doubt whit
.more explicit, and we will not hesitate to demand
satisfaction, (hoping that the difficulty may be
amicably settled on the feld.) If by comparing
the feminine virtue of Yreka to the virgin snow
on top of Shasta Butte, you mean to insinuate
any disbelief in the indistructability Of Weaver
virtue, you shall DO fought the moment the Shas-
ia and Yreka turnpike is finished. If we can't
make it convenient TO fight you ourself, we shall
send somebody-in any event you shall be fit =
These observations are not intended to be bind
ing after the twenty feet Of snow melts off, Af-
ter that time we shall acknowledge the uncxam-
pied purity of your women, precpitately. If
any of them on their weaving way to the land
of Canaan kick out Of the harness." we shall at
tribute their restiveness to the assaults OF GALL
nippers and other nomadic insects, peculiar to
Chadean swamps and way-sde lodges, which go
about seeking whom they may devour. Mean
time-while the trails are blocked up-consider
us in state of the widest excitement and most
defiant hostility.