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Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

PLEASURES OF OVERLAND TRAvET.-We find in
the San Francisco Times letter from DR.. Glib
bons, dated Pico River, Texas, February 2Gth
He says:
We left San Francisco on the Sth, and took in
so many way passengers that night, that some of
us had to hang out our feet in the frosty air-a
bad preparation for a three weeks vigil. At
TETON Pass we left way passenger quite crazy
from torture and loss of sleep. The crowdng
system has continued ever since, and the passen
gers have suffered beyond expression.
At Tucson we lay by nearly four days, owing
to the Indian troubles. Before reaching there
we saw two Indians hung by the way.side as
scare-crows. After leaving Tucson we came upon
a burning ranch, near the station, just at night
fall. The station was deserted and we spent the
night in watching against an attack by savages.
Since then we have had no difficulty from Indians,
though doubtless exposed to constant risk. At
Apache Pass the bodies of six Indians hung in a
tree by the side of the road. They were hung
by the soldiers.
Arriving in Texas, an express met us to-day
from Gen. Twiggs, ordering all the military posts
and property surrendered to the State authorities,
except what is necessary to the support and con
veyance of the soldiers. We have now been
travelling in Texas nearly four hundred miles,
and this is barren waste--nOthing on 1t but the
works Of the Government and Overland Mail. II
is the most dreary region to be conceived of.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

SENATOR BAKER on THE CALIFORNIA WAR DEBT
There was an exciting debate in the u S. Sen
ate on the 10th of February, in regard to the
bill for the payment of expenses incurred in the
suppression of Indian hostlities in this State,
during the years 1854, '55, '56, '5S and SO. SEN
ators Baker and Latham worked earnestly for
the success of the bill, the former so much so
that we quote portion of his remarks, in reply
to King of New York, who opposed the bill.
Now for this California war debt. We are on
the frontier. children of dispersion. far away
from you and your civilization. and your modes
of defense We depend upon the imperfect ope-
ration of regular troops upon fields where they
are not fit to operate, in mountainous countries
where supplies are almost unattainable, and
where the savage upon the frontier strikes us
when we least expect him. This debt was con
tracted in defense of the lives and property OF
our people, upon such q frontier as that Are
we to be told, almost sneeringly, that we have
waited five years, and ought not to be paid at
all? More shame to those who have caused us to
wait. Sir, some of u.s. at least, from the Pachc
coast, acknowledge that there are great demands
made by the frontier upon the central civilized
portions of the country l. at least, as one OF
their representatives am willing to vote that my
own people shall bear all their proportion of
for the highest tax on iron, coffee. on tea. and
on sugar. | will vote for SIS 100000 fora navy;
| will vote SIS, ,000,0 for an army will vote
millions for a coast survey; will vote all that
gentlemen from New York, or Pennsylvania, or
Ohio, or Indiana, or Illinois, ask me to vote, for
the common defense and the general welfare. |
do it on the recommendation of Committees ; |
do it according to the custom of the House and
the Senate do it loyalty. full Of devotion to
the whole Union. | would despsc myself If
were to sneer, "to hint fault and hesitate dis
like" because here $l,0O0,000 and there $4,000
600 were to be spent which, locally, would not
benefit my people.
Sir not Interested more than any other Senator
for this peculiar bill, am willing to vote for It,
| have lived there have seen something of
frontier service | know the exposure, the priva-
ton, the dread the doubt, the difficulty, the
danger, the bloodshed, the massacre, amid which
we have fertilized the wilderness, and made 1t
&" bloom and blossom like the rose" and If, some
times that fertility is increased by the hearts
blood of our women and our children, that is
poor reason why. after five years delay, we are
to be scaled, diminished, decreased, bellttled,
demeancd, and then, not only our just debt dis
puted but our motives impugncd, when we come
here to ask it,
claim for California to-day, as | should, if
could be heard before the other house tomorrow,
for Oregon, the just payment Of just debt long
delayed, none the less Just for that and shall
call for it day by day and year by year as long
as my people place me here, or until they shall
send better man.
The bill subsequently, passed.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30
The Inv of Newspapers.

l. Subscribers who do not give express notice TO the
nrary considered wishing t0 continue their sub
! Hptions.
II subscribers order their papers stopped. publishers
! AZ continue To send it till all charges paid.
If subscribers neglect refuse to take their papers
hn the office place to which they sent they are
M responSs until they settle their bill and give notice
l. dso0nttnue them
T. If subscribers ia other places without inform
s the publishers. ard tIe paper is sent to its former
ERECTION they htd Mstie should awas
b. given OF removal.
s. rostuasters failing to give notice WITHIN tiret
,onts. "t n,e failure of subscriber to call for his paper
!, liable f'r the Amount "f the subscription.
The courts have decided that refusing 10 take paper
periodical from the Office removing and Tearing it
uncalcd for. is pris,d fccic evidence OF fraud.
Fosmastcrs would oblige by strict fulment Of the
regulations requiring them 10 notify publishers, in
three months, n papers not taken fr,an their ioe iy
fnl,crib"rs.
rnjer the laws Of Congress. papers not charged
postage in the counies in which they are published
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

Deadwood, Indian Creek, Fort Jones, IS and
Sc, and Mouth Canon Creek, 50 and So so.
nss- The above schedule not to apply to Yreka
until after the goth of April next and continue
until the 18th of September
Ok teams may take freight TO Shasta for !, to
Weaver for J. and Yreka for ] cent less per
pOu nd than the above rates.
The officers elect of the Society are William
Vosburg, President Jared Weston, Vice Presi-
dent Matt. Lowden, Treasurer; Geo. Pritchard,
Secretary Charles Simmons. VIM. Wear |. l..
Timer. Robert McI}eth, Charles McCaully, p. Mo-
ran, j. II. Gosset. Irwin Wallace, 0. Brown. G.
w. kirkpatrick, +. McGurc and VIM. Gurnsey,
Executive Committee.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30
Return of Youth.

NV friend thou sorrHwest for thy golden prime,
For thy fair youthful years too swift &c flight,
Thou musest. with wet eyes, upon the time
OF cheerful hopes that filed the world with light
Years when thy heart bold, thy hand strong,
Thy tongue prompt the generous thought to speak
And willing faith was thine, and scorn Of wrong
Summoned the sudden crimson to thy check.
Thou lookest forward on the coming days,
Shudderng to feel their shadow DER thee creep;
A path, thick set with changes aud decays,
Slopes downward to the place of common sleep;
And they who walk'd with thee in lifc's first stage,
Leave one by thy side and waiting near,
Thou seeest the sad companions of thy age
Dull love of rest, and wearness, aud fear.
Yet grieve thou not nor think thy youth is gone,
Nor deem that glorious season e'er could die,
Thy pleasant youth Il little while withdrawn
Waits on the horizon of n brighter sky
Waits like the morn that folds her wing and hides,
Till the slow stars bring back Der dawning hour;
Waits like the vanish spring that slumbering hides,
Her own sweet time to waken bud and Hover
There shall he welcome thee when thou shalt stand
On his bright morning hills, with smiles more sweet
Than when at first he took thee by the hand,
Through the fair earth to lead thy tender feet.
lie shall bring back but brighter broader still,
Iite's early glory to thine eyes again,
Shall cothe thy spirit with new strength and I'LL
Thy leaping heart with warmer love than then
Hast thou not glmpses. In the twilight here
OF mountains whore immortal morn prevnisY
Comes there not through the silence, to thine ear
A gentle rustlng of the morning gales;
A murmur, waited from that glorious shore,
OF streams that water banks forever fair,
And voices Of the loved ones gone before,
More musical in that celestial airy -Brydm
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30
The bill subsequently passed.
SrKING CAxxoN.-The Pittsburg Despatch

SrIKTNG CANxoN.-The Pittsburg Despatch
contains the following interesting information:-
There is no method of spiking cannon which
will forever prevent its use. If the spike is
made of iron or unhardened steel, II may be re-
moved by the drill If IL is loosely inserted, or
without much force, may be blown out by firing
n charge of gunpowder placed in the bottom OF
the bore. But if the spike is made OF hardened
steel, to fit the vent closely, and Is driven in
with great force, and if its lower end is made soft
and rivetcd within the bore, then neither the
drill nor gungowder can remove it.; the vent re-
mains permanently closed. The remedy, in such
cases. is to drill new vent, which may be done
without impairng the servceableness of the gun.
A new vent may be drilled in any cannon by
skillfu machinist in two or three hours.
In experimental firing, when a vent becomes
too much worn and enlarged, we drill new one,
and sometimes many as three or four vents
are made in the same gun, and many hundred
fires are made afterwards
During the recent Crimean war, an article re-
lative to spiking cannon was published in the
London Times, in which it was asserted that use
of new patent spike would destroy the service
ableness of the gun The spike was described as
piece of finely tempered steel, turned to fit the
vent but to move freely in it, and turning out in
fOrked spring in the bore. This spike, it was
alleged, could not be removed, as 10 would turn
readily with the drill; but it seems that the pos
sibility of cutting or breaking off the t0ngs or
forks of the spring inside the barrel was not
considered. The communication given above,
from high authority, may be looked upon as con
elusive that the worst effect of spiking would be
few hours delay in the use of the guns--ofLen
an important matter.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30
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1t appears from official data that the Secretary
of the Treasury resigned as Aid de Camp to Gen
eral Brown in 1926 and his commission in the
army in 1928. Major Anderson graduated at
West Point in 1925. Secretary Dix served as a
Captain of Artillery at Fort Monroe, S26 and
1927, and Anderson was a Lieutenant in bis
company.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

that his second and third Gift Entertainments
are postponed one hundred years. lie says less
than one thousand tickets have been sold. He
agrees to redeem all tickets cOuntersigned G. G..
b., numbering 81. The holders of the remainder
of the thousand tickets sold, he says must look
to the agents for their money-Shasta Covir
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

New DEAOcRATIc ORGAN.-C. B. Mcdonald
writes to the San Francisco Mirror that an i'm
portant newspaper enterprise is projected at
Sacramento. He had credible information, that
number of wealthy party men had desired
Homer King to establish democratic daily
journal at the capital, and had offered some $780,
900 for that purpose 1t is thought the paper
will be started about the middle of May.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

EI.oPED.-Our readers will remember that
Harry Courtaine, the actor, has been cutting up
for several months past. His wife " cut sticks"
on the night of the 18th inst-sailed for Austria
liza with an actor named Emonds.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

HARD ON FLoYD.-The Richmond Wing reviews
The report Of the Congressional Committee on
the abstraction of Indian Bonds, and asks these
pertinent questions In conclusion
Do not all these facts prove that Floyd is a
living mass of corruption, from his head to his
heels Aud ought he not to be forever hereafter
summed and despised by every man in the land
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

GREAT REDucTroN.-Capt. James S. Johnston,
agent of the California Steam Navigation COM
pany, at Red Bluff, informs the public that until
further notice fare to Sacramento is reduced to
$5. We also learn that freight has been reduced
to $l2 ton, although IL is not official.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30
TRINITY JOURNAL.
WEAVERVILLE, CAL,
Saturday Morning, March 80, 1861.
SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY.

MIR. L.. II. Fisher is our only authorized Agent
IN san Francisco receive advertisements receipt
the same, and to transact business generally for the
TRINITY JOURNAL OHice-No 172 IL Washington street,
nearly opposite Magures Opera House, up stairs
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

"DoN'T BLEED ME.''-Mr. Cough, In one Of
his lectures. describes man who got an honest
living by falling into counterfeit epleptic fits !
On his breast be wore leather placard with
these words inscribed am subject TO these
fits. Don't bleed me but give me brandy"
The Chicago Journal suggests this as an appro-
pirate inscription upon the Palmetto flag which
Is now floating over Charleston =" am subject
to these fits" Dreadfully so. But we recollect
seeing you cured Of one very suddenly once, by
n stern old practitioner named Andrew Jackson.
Don't bleed mel" by no means! The very
threat of bleeding made by the old doctor aforc-
said once broke one of these fits right in the
middle.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

ARMY AND NAVY REsIGSATIoNs.-Number OF
the Army and Navy. on account of the political
crisis, as well as that Of those who still retain
their position in the service:
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

A BnAUTIFuI. SENTMENr.--I Horace Greeley, In
his extensively read organ, the New York Tribune
declares that he prefers the principles OF the
Republican party to fifty Unions" We don't
think he could possibly have uttered a more trea-
sonable sentiment. We sincerely hope (and be-
lieve many honest Republicans are of like opn-
ion) that Horace is one Of the chosen, and that
he will be called at the earliest convenient time
that is to say, we trust Lincoln will find him
place abroad-so far distant that he can't have
daily opportunity to circulate sentiment so trea-
sonable as the above extract
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

IT. the South Caronans were moi submission
lists, would they submit to see a foreign flag, the
flag of the United States, floating over a fortii-
cation in their principal harbor? No doubt they
get very mad whenever they look at the star
spangled banner over Fort Sumter, but not quite
fighting mad.-LouisUiiie Journal.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

We notice among other late Washoe intelli-
gence, that Chas. r. Ludngton, formerly of this
county has been elected first assistant OF Virginia
City Bucket Company, No. |.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

SECESSION IN SHAsTA.-The Courier gives the
particulars of meeting of citizens OF that coun-
ty residing on the east side Of the Sacramento,
having for its object division Of the county. II
they succeed 10 their endeavors the new county
will be called " Reading" and Millville will be
the capital
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

THE Forest Hill Courier, alluding to the in
corporation of that place, in connection with
similar move at Duteh Flat and Grass Valley,
truthfully says: "The principal objects OF in,
corporation should be 10 have we'll regulated
fire department"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

AMERICAN ELoQUENCE.-Thc following beauti-
iul passage unsurpassed in American oratory, Is
from late speech in the Senate by VIM. ii.
Seward
"The American man-of- war is noble specta-
Gle | have seen il enter an ancient port In the
Mediterranean All the world wondered at 1t,
and talked of it, Salvos Of artillery. from forts
and shipping in the harbor. saluted its flag.
Princes aud princesses and merchants paid IL
homage. and all the people blessed it as har-
binger of hope for their own ultimate freedom
imagine now the same noble vessel again enter
ing the same haven. The flag of thirty three
stars and thirteen stripes has been hauled down,
and in its place a signal has been run up, which
naunts the device of lone star or palmetto
tree. Men ask Who Is the stranger that thus
steals into our waters" The answer, contempt
uously given, il She comes from one OF the
obscure Republics of North America. Let her
pass on. y
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

Vanderbilt AND THE SECEssI0NIsTs. - The
Charleston folks tried to buy Vanderbilrs iron
steamer. the Champion. for war vessel. He
told them that their money could not buy any of
his steamers for the purpose intended. Good for
Vanderbilt.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

Lucky EpIroR.-Dan. Gelwicks. the able, and
said to be-handsome editor Of the Mountain Dcm-
ocrat, has taken a wife. The fortunate young
lady was O resident Of Sacramento.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

ARTEMAs WARD ON SEcEssIoN-liIs SPEECH AT
BAIDwINsvnLE.-FellerS Sitterzens the Unions
in danger. The black devil dsunion is trooy
here, staren us all squarely in the face! We must
drive him back. Shall we make a 2nd Mexico of
ourselves? Shall we sell our birthrite for mess
Of potashf Shall one brother put the knife to the
throat of anuther brother? Shall we mix our
whskey with each Others blud? Shall the star
spangled Banner be cut up into dshcothsY
Standin here in this Skoolhouse, upon my native
shore so to speek, | anser-Nary!
Feler Sitterzens | am in tho Sheer n Ycller
leaf l shall peg out of these dasc. But while
do stop here shall stay in the Union. know
not what the Supervisors Of Baldwinsville may
conclude to do, but for |, | shall stand by the
Stars Il Stripes. Uuder no circumstances what
somcver will | scscsh. Let every Stait in the
Union sesesh x let Palmetter flags hote thicker
nor shirts on Square Baxter's close line still will
stick to the good old flag The country may
go to the devil, but won't And next Summer
when ] start out on my campanc with my show,
wharever | pitch my little tent. you shall see
notin prowdly from the center pole thereof the
Amerikan Flag, with nary star wiped out,
nary stripe less, but the same old flag that has
alters notid thar Il the price of admishun will
be the same it alters was--lj cents, children half
price.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30
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Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

EPFoRT.-What would be the most definite
manner of finding out the difference between a
Fort and an Effort
Attempt to take Fort Sumter. PANTY Fair.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30

Tng Red Bluff Beacon will be Issued on Thurs
day hereafter.
The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1861-01-30
Living Alone.

Silent he sat in the forest shade,
Silent but not alone
lie and his hound and the unseen form
OF one then dead and gone,
Not dead, while she lives in his throbbing heart
Not gone, while her dark eyes make him start
Living alone
Hcartless the trees, soulless the rocks,
Nothing but wood and stones
No sympathy here for sorrowful hearts,
No voices with gentle tones
j Not hcartless the forest while joy it yields
Not souess the rock that sad heart shields
Living alone
Silent he walked in the cloudless night
Her eyes the stars above;
Her voice in the thrilling wind-from the South
His world-her world of Lowell
Love, that will live and the loved one gone;
Love, that will live and forever live on
H Living alone
Heart Of the forest, and soul Of the rock,
Star-eyes in heaven that CLEAN,
Voice of the wind that thrilled his heart
And are yc all dream?
Dream then let him through life dream on,
Dream yes, dream till life is gonel
Living alone
The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1861-01-30
To the Planters of the soutll.

We have never, since the days of the re-
violation, passed through such trials as are
now before US, and it behooyes us to look
we'll to the future We have heretofore de-
pended upon our great Southern staple, cot
ton, to supply all our material wants, and
vet, in itself, It is neither meat nor drink.
why should You keep yourselfin condition
TO be dependent upon others for an exchange
of products before you make the fruits Of
your labor available to sustain life! There is
no good sense 10 this. We beg, therefore,
to suggest to you the propriety of calling a
planters meeting in every county in the
South, and by common agreement and un-
derstanding you shah, during the coming
year, plant one-hslf the usual cotton. crop
and devote the surplus labor to the growth
of grain and the improvement of your stock
and farms. You win, in the end, get as
much money for a half as for a full crop, and
then have the product Of your surplus labor
70 subsist upon in the bargain.
Think of this, friends, and act at once
Meet together at your respective eourt-houses
and resolve upon this course. : Memphii
dSalaneAe.
The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1861-01-30
s1imulants.

THE Louisville Journal beautifully says -
There are times wben the pulseIies low in
the bosom and beats slow ir the veins when
the spirit sleeps the sleep, apparently, that
knows no waking in its house of clay, and
the window shutters are closed, and the door
hung with the invisible Grape Of melancholy;
when we wish the golden sunshine pitchy
darkness, and sery willing to fancy clouds
where no clouds be. THIS is a state of sick
ness when physic may be thrown TO tho
dogs, for We will have none Of Il. What
sirali raise the Sleeping Iazarusf What
shall make the heart beat music again, and
the pulses dance to it through all the myriad
thronged halls in our house of life = What
shaII make the sun kiss the Eastern hills
again for us, with an his own awskihg glad
ness, and the night overflow with moon
light, music, love, and flowers r Love itself
is the great stimulsut-the most intoxica-
ting Of ail-and performs all these miracics
but it is miracle itself, and it is not at the
drug store, whatever they say. The conn
terfeit Is in the rlarket, bat the winged god
is not money changer, We assure you.
Men have tried many things--but still they
ask for stimulants. The ssimulauts we use,
but require the use Of more. Men try to
drown the floating dead Of their own souls
in the wine cup, but the cotpses win rise-
We see their faces in the bubbles. The in
toxication of drink sets the world whirliug
again, and the pulses playing widest music,
and the thoughts galloping-but the last
clock runs down soeaef, and the unnatural
stimulation only leaves the house It Gus With
widest rerelry, more silent, more sad, more
deserted, more dead. ts
There is only one stimulant that never
fails, and never intOxicates-Duty. Duty
puts blue sky over every msn-up In his
heart may be--iuto which the skylark, Hap
piness, always goes singing. il q s