Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-02-16
OUR SACRAMENTO LETTER
WHICH SHOULD HAVE APPEARED LAST WEEK.

SACRAMENTO Feb. 8, 1861.
DEAR JOURNAL The monotony Of the past
week has been uninterrupted by any incident or
occurrence worthy of more than ordinary note.
The Pony Express news smack Of civil war, and
ere this meets the eye of your readers, our
friends, and possibly kinsmcn in the east, may be
arraved against each other, and Heaven only
knows where this intestine war will end.
IN THE SENATE,
On Wednesday, the Hon. Henry Edgerton, OF
Napa, delivered most eloquent Union" speech
which fills five and ahalf columns of the daily
Union His speech has been compared to COL
Bakers, in soundness, on the issues of the day
On the following day, r. d. Crittenden' OF I'll
Dorado, essayed reply, and defended his na'Vo
State, South Carolina, in all her acts. lie only
waits for n declaration of war against the South
10 resign his seat in the Senate, proceed to his
birth. nlaoe and take up arms in defense of the
"Sunny South,n We would be better oil win
fewer such men among us.
Senator Harvey, of I'll Dorado, has Introduce"
a bill which If passed will be one oil the greatest
reforms of the age-thc abolition OF the present
system of sealing Weights and Measures IL
takes from the Sccre tary Of State the power to
appoint deputy Sealcrs, and constitutes all county
clerks ex oflcio Sealers of Weights ana Measurcs'
Il does not compel man to have his we'gh'H
sealed, but provides punishment for those VINO
uso fraudulent ones The bill will certainly pass
and tho present odious system will become opso'
,eto Seuntor Ueacock hos Introduced Dill
which will play the deuce with tho enormous Tees
of the Clerk Of the Supreme Court such an
amendment has long been needed. and believing
that reform should be commenced where IL IL
most needed, this movement ia very opportuno'
The present Office OF Clerk is n sinecure-hls
salary aud fees amounting to at least S3o'ooo per
annum-and laying reform aside, II Is an Unfair
distribution of the State funds to her officers.
The proposed amendments will divert the i'm
menso copying per cenfum into tho salary fund
to pay the Judges
THE ASSEMBLY
Is composed Of q most singular set OF fellows.
Endless discussions on the most trivial subjects,
occupy the almost entire attention OF that body
of worthless. Frequent visits 10 this branch OF
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their action is becoming more and more the sub
ject of every day talk. IL was proposed, on
Thursday last, by a Republican, to investigate
certain Beef aud Pork Inspectors offices In San
Francisco, and If necessary abolish the same, for
no other reason except that political opponent
held the Office After consuming nearly day
in useless discussion, the resolution was with
drawn. So il goes from day to day early adj
iournments follow. and instead of attending to
Committee duty, visit the" Melodeon," and other
places not mentioned in polite society. Sic tran
sit gloria mundi.
TIE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
Held their annual meeting on the 3Oth ult.
and on Thursday elected their officers for the
ensuing year. They are, Jerome G. Davis, of
Yolo, President o. G. Wheeler, Cor Secretary;
N. A. III. Ball, Rec. Secretary A. X. Grim, Sec-
retary.
The Society changed the constitution In order
to make this city the place for holding State
Fairs in tho future, which out of the immense
concourse present met with unanimous appro-
val.
LECTURES
II hos been proposed to have speech from
Mai Bowie, on the life and history of Gen. Scott,
at an early day, for the benefit of the Library
Association of this city, but using plain phrase,
lectures are "played out" and Notwithstanding
the speakers good looks and faultess mien,
fear he cannot draw. When T. Starr King DR..
Scott and Nathan Porter cannot I'LL lecture
hail. the Major, with his graces, had better hang
his harp on the willows"
GOOD JOKE.
As Hon. J. G. McKibben is in town, am re-
minded of "good one" that heard related on
him while in Washington. Joe always did love
his "Old Bourbon" and the state of society ut
the great Capital is such, that he who does not
indulge in the social glass Is almost beneath so
cal notice. Our hero possibly considering thls
the standard OF greatness INDUCED to such
degree that his corporal proportions became i'm
mense, and still worse bis friends said that unless
| he changed his course he would soon see snakes,
| etc The entreaties of his I" intimate friends"
were of no avail he still drank on. One Sunday
morning he visited tonsorial institution, the
proprietor of which had, unknown to Joe, reeeiv
ed from " tropical" friend a genuine specimen
of the ringtail' species. Joe was quietly re-
clining in ono of the great arm chairs of the
establishment, and the lather had scarcely been
applied to his face when he espied the monkey
creeping toward him, and evidently determined
to get on his legs, which were elevated on the
! high stool prepared for the purpose thousand
thoughts came fitting through his BRAIN lie
knew the barber had no monkey he recollected
we'll what his friends had said and dared not
make motion, lest his condition might be known
| to others near by. The monkey got upon his
| knees pulled his clothes and scratched him, but
Joe dare not move His awful feelings can be
better imagined. A relief soon came the ami
NAL rot down and disappeared under the chair
and into the back room. Joe got up looked
around and no monkey was to be seen. " tmu@
! be so, said he he was cured He left the shop
with determination, and kept his resolution for
a long while, to drink no more. He told his ad-
venture to his friends, who knowing the facts,
had good laugh at his expense, and to this day:
Joe amuses his associates with the monkey"
story. limit
No man can vote in South Carolina unless he