Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-12-18
THE JOURNAL.
Example OF Complete Jonrnaiis,n.

We have before remarked the notable excel
,ence of several mountain contemporaries, and by
certain truthful but, perhaps, not judicous OBJ
eoryations of comparison, have secured ill-wish-
ers. not few, among our metropolitan co-work-
ers. But whatever offensive observations were
made, were the result of certain disparaging re-
marks indiscreetly INDUCED in, at the expense of
our mountain brethren, by pert striplings who
mstook advantages of accidental location for
journalist accomplishment, and executed con-
tcmptuous sneers at the assumed, uninstruct.
cd men who write for country papers.
The purpose of this remark is to Illustrate our
opinion by example, and to indicate in the ret-
racy of the pine woods, a journal which in ele-
pance, originality and momentum of language,
is not excelled by any newspaper in the United
States. We refer to the Sierra Citizen,--a jour
nal which we gave existence and a measure of
celebrity, and which in the dirty hands of knaves
never ceased to defame us, until redeemed from
the slough of literary Despond by the uncontrol-
led supervision of art and genius.
The Citizen is conducted by WASH. WRIGHT, a
Young man who has been, successively, painter,
soldier and editor but although his skill in the
compounding and application of colors exhibits
Wonderful capacity of self-instructed artist, and
Though his soldiers diploma proves honorable
#prescnce in many hard taught battles with Mexi
cO his proper vocation is evidently, in the arts
Bic arrangement of words expressive Of original
sand valuable thought to which language is given
with wonderful conciseness and elegance. The
fault Of the writer is, perhaps, too great cxtirpa
ton of auxiliary words from we'll constructed
eentences to him, the thought appears dressed
perspicuously in all the designed briliance and
beauty but to others, not stopping to study the
1ull import of every adjunctve, the writer's
meaning may not he entirely clear. Like the
BOO careful arborculturist, he may lop every
excrescence and unsightly limb, so closely, that
DE beautiful tree cannot be ascended to secure
De golden plumaged birds that are fedgng in
De upper branches Our cotemporary is no mere
sOrd-multiplier-not one of the sort who speed
~ draw out parrallelograms of unimportant
manuscript, as a slight-of-hand performer reels
gaudy ribbonds from his mouth ; he thinks rapid
" and writes slowly, and having written, has ex-
pressed something which develops in significance
es tits reviewed and studied.
How little profit, soever, may result to the sub
pct of this brief remark from cotemporary's
Unsolicited expression of opinion--and we pre-
mme ii will be of no Importance, except about
Ms lahor-place-we will not abstain from asser-
Hon that this State has no journalist of superior
Merit nor do we know of any elsewhere who in
aspheTe so limited, has displayed rarer capacitv.
Certainly, there is no journal in the larger cities
III this commonwealth, which in the same superb.
eIal area, can display half so much elaboretely
completed mind labor, as the comparatively oh
~nre newspaper printed in the village OF Dow
neville
I've have thus said in substantation of for
"a assertion, and, we trust, without any of that
Mse principle which saddens the heart at the ad-
voncement of one with whom we run in the race,
mi rejoicing, rather, that young companion,
Mf-educated, laboriousy toiling up to the first
sting places on the heights of Fame, has alrea-
dXreached an eminence where he is beginning to
Mprominently seen by slower footed climbers
~ accelerating speed has nothing to do with
on advancement, or that of any cOtemporary-
h&he ascent each depends on the extent and te-
nHity of his own grasp. Rather than lay slip
plng stone in the way of our companion, we would
poInt out to him friendly vine or branch trail
W down the preciptous heights which he would
ascend.