Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-04-17
Ia Relation to the Butte Records Dig
nifty" and Other Things.


nifty" and Other Things.
We said, once, that the Butte Record talked
undignfedly of the Trinity Senator for instance,
calling him " John Celestial hurch' with other
like remarks For our having said so the Record
writes a big column Of very peculiarly thunder
ing little things,
Now the Record will be instructed that we
made no defence or advocacy of the doctrines of
the Senator's Lecompton speech, of which we
printed fragment, as we did also of the Sacra-
mento Senator's-both at our discretion; and it
is a matter of much doubt whether, if the Record
editor had, himself, made speech, we had prin-
ted more than ten or twelve inches of it, longitu
dnal measurement. Stewing the Records afgu-
ment down, we find the only question at issue
between us is its undignifed speaking of re-
spectacle opponent, of whom others always speak
respectfully. True it is, that that person first
read and animadverted on the Records sayings,
in the Senate provoking a rejoinder, and had that
been given in that papers usual courteous, sens-
BILE style, we had not said word. But instead
of that, a sort of handbil appeared msnamng
the person, and without sense or severity 1t
seemed to have been prepared and stuck in the
Record by personal enemy This, we said, was
undigniGed, and, though it is no particular bust
ness Of ours, we think so still.
The paper continues;
"Were we disposed to recognize a Court of dig
nifty to sit in judgement upon our productions
should hardly choose the editor Of the Trinity
Journal as our umpire
We hasten to disclaim utter unftness to sit
as umpire on the Records political editorial
with the understanding that the quantity should
be prcserved-we fear some of it would suffer
casualty by fire, not for mal-eXccuton, but for
superluity, and because we could not see what
good could result from its unrestrained extension
We are skcptical in regard to the utility of small
party organs. We do not think that, as general
thing, they accomplish much more good than a
grindsone kept turning at the North Pole. They
are good for little but to breed strife and anmos-
ity in communities or to give casting vote in
bar-room politics; their influence seldom extends
beyond a ten mile circle in which they fret and
fumc, strain and stagger, as though their slender
legs upheld the burthen Of Atlas, But when
they give way nothing falls but little dust and
rubbish; the wheels of party Juggcrnauts roll
on as before, and the poor publisher, who &" fit,
bled and died" so patrotically, is pensiOncd with
a hollow owbonc, wherewith to whistle
down the winds"
For two months, or more, we have been seeing,
in all these little suborgans, interminable articles
on Kausas'-a subject in which our people have
little or nothing of interest The excess Of two
dozen lines in each has been useless and perni-
cious. 1t has not discomposed a hair on the
Presidents scalp; it has not been read or heard
beyond the desk of the California Representa-
tives-it has not weighed n feathers weight in
the federal scales and we say, with profound
respect for the editorial talent of the Record, that
its domestic thunder, however deafening at Oro
viile has scarcely been heard at Washington, or
if heard all, it has been with as little effect as
the hammering of " blacksmith bug on ten
ton rock.
Entertaining these peculiar views, we would
be entirely untitled to sit as umpire" on the
Records political productions AS a newspaper,
we admire it for its wit, originality and indepen
dence. 1t is an excellent newspaper and for that
reason we more readily noted an " undigniGed"
dereliction. We think, however that the Record
has been riding the hobby horse Kansas, until
the creature has laid down and died, leaving the
editor standing in the mud, jolting up and down,
and belaboring spectral steed, under the delu
sion that he is splitting the wind, endwise. Should
the Administrative Kansas policy triumph we
fear that the Record will be among returning
prod gal sons, with torturing pebbles in its shoes;
and in three months will be found grinding Ad-
ministration music, having had entire absoluton
from political sin.
Hoping that the patriotic little Record may
get no back-set in its INDEPENDENCE, and that its
numerous Kansas cOnlinements may resut in more
extensive good than we have reason to expect,
assure it Of our profound respect and consid
Grafton, and beg TO be pardoned for casual re-
mark on what was, really, none of our business.
FAST EXPRESSES ON SLOW BoAr.-Wells,
Fargo q Co. now send their expresses from Sac
ramento north Oh the little aquatic calabooses
that paddle up to Red Bluffs, requiring, we don't
know how many days to get there. 1t is several
days since we heard from Sacramento-Tuesday
The Weayerville Eypressman returned from
Shasta, with no intelligence. We guess Wells
Il Fargo's messenger perished in that boat which
the Red Bluffs Beacon destroyed at the head of
canoe navigation. We think, however, that the
Weaverville weekly mail will bring intelligence
of the Sacramento and Shasta Expressman Per
haps he has taken up a ranch, or is cutting a bee
tree, or 'suthin' or other
A WOMAN SrARvING.--In New York, lady
going down Broadway, met wretehed looking
am hungry | am hungry Stepping inside a
store, the lady procured for her some potatoes
and piece Of meat. The hungry woman quick
lu c.athnrnd thn nnIatnes into her nnnknt thnn |