Weekly Trinity journal., 1863-02-21
Extra Pay for California Volunteers.

ing provision for extra compensation Tor the volunteers
enlisted in this State We more strongly inclined to
regard this act Of Justice to those who have enter
their country ser1cpaced themselves at the disposal
Of the Government defend its aag its honor and its
National integrtyrom the fact that every loyal state in
the Unon except has made provisions through their
Legislatures indicated their intention secure through
their executive departments, extra compensation for all
volunteers during their term of service.
The above, from the TRINITY JOURNAL. we
heartily endorse The volunteers from this State
have had thankless time of 1t, and have been
shaLbily treated by the State. a Vermont pri-
vate gets S34 a month-more than twice the
amount paid Californian, who in civil life
could make four times what is called wages
in Vermont Sierra Democrat.
We have failed to make note of similar en-
dorscments of the proposition made in this paper
q few weeks since, 10y several other California
journals-the names Of which we now forget
We look at the matter not so much in the light
of wages" as in the actual necessity and justice
OF increased pay for California volunteers. When
good and worthy citizens abandon lucrative sit
uations and well paying avocations to shoulder
the musket in defence Of their country and their
country's honor, it is hardly consistent to argue
that they do so out Of any consideration for the
compensation they are to receive. Thirteen dol
lars a month b no inducement for Californians to
/ enter the Gdsornmcut service. The man who
does farm labor or saws wood realizes more than
that amount every week. Patriotism and love
of the priceless heritage beque athed them by
their fathers, is the incentive to volunteering in
this State. But the soldier must subsist, and
every article of subsistence and comfort used by
soldiers here costs double what it does at the
40 i, oil nd
insist that common justice requires the State TO
assume the payment of a sufficient additional
amount to the Government pay to meet the ne
cessiies of the soldier.
We are glad to see that Bill has been intro
duced in the Legislature the object of which is
Is TO appropriate IS month additional compen.
sation to the pay of California volunteers now in
the service If it had been 81, or even SO, it
would have pleased us better; the total amount
then would have been but 1.-THE of what is an
nually squandered and stolen by State and Gov
ernment officials
When the bill referred to comes up in the Leg
slature, we have no doubt that every peace
Democrat, and treason sympathiZing member
will oppose it-but they, thank Heaven, are few.
They would not only dislrancbsc the soldier, but
would rather reduce his already trifling pay
In this connection we would recommend TO the
prayerlul consideration of peace Democrats of
this State the following from the New York EUeH-
ing POST They will see from it what dear friends
of the soldiers their peace brethren in the East
are especially those who wish to get into Con
greSs
We notice that several of the opposition candidates for
Congress who were beaten at the last elections by the
of the soldiers those states where the soldiers voted,
propose TO dispute the validity OF me election VIM j.
Cullen who defeated in the second Minnesota District,
has notified lguaus noney, the Republican member elect
that hc viii contest his seat ON the ground that the Act
which secures votes the soldiers Of that State is
stitGtoual. aud that the election is therefore void Henry
NJ Martin opposition, beaten by the soldiers vote in the
Fourth Iowa District proposes to dispute the same
grounds the Of his successful competitor b. Grinc
Jas ii Birch peace and prosa avery candidate was beaten
in the ssh Missouri District by A. A. Keg. Who received
the soldiers vote and he too claims that this makes the
election void W. believe there are several other cases 1t
roportvd soe days that John e. scott would
test the election OF NOEL, the able member of Congress
from the THIRD Missouri district also ON the ground that
the soldiers, who serving their couutry in arms have
right % share In the election Of those Who arc to govern
/ them and the whole country.
"Faust !" be calcful to give us the correct
record when this additional compensation Bill
comes up. See that you don't get kewen, Baker,
Watson, Holden, Vineyard, Varney, etc, with
the "ayes'
An OUT AND Our CoNTmrrIoNALlsr"-In
recent speech in the U. s. Senate, Senator Mes
'milh said that former citizen Of Oregon, now
in the Confederate service, came to Washington
and collected certain monies due him from the
Government He went thence into the Confed-
crate army and took part in several battles.
Nesmth says he has since turned up in one OF
the loyal States boasting bis intent to collect the
balance OF his claim. The constitutional "
l., oth hpp / I,onpriCl NJ
the delegates who aided in disrupting the Demo
cratic party in the Charleston COnventioD-a
genuine Southern " constitutional " Demo crat
California has her Gwin, and Oregon her Lam
erick both have host of lesser lights who are
only waiting q favorable opportunity to follow
their example.
90 TEMroRA, O MoREs !"-Were Cicero on
earth he might be amazed TO find in this enligh
ened age his favorite exclamation used when in
Weighing against the impunity Of wicked men,
burlesqued by modern Ciceros as 0 Temporal,
0 moras," and employed to denounce the deeds
of good men, bat this he might pardon as u mere
typographical error, were it not in juXtapostiOn
with magma est the Bukhead,' ct pravale-
bit.n Would he not be astOuished? Such iargon,
lin which the rules of the Latin grammer are as
hagrantly violated as The Constitut tiou is said TO
be) would justify him in eXclaiming with in
creased emphasis, . tempOra, o moresl"
ASSEMBLY BuLs.-Our Sacramento CORE
spondent, Faust" has placed us under oblga-
tions for copies of several Bills now before the
/ Legislature One introduced by Smith, of Butte,
is "an Act creating Board of Commissioners to
revise and codify the Laws of the State' one by
Whpple OF Humboldt, making Legal Tender
Notes, aud other Notes of the United States,
receivable for taxes and other dues Also, Sen
ate Bill No. u, introduced by Van Dyke of
Humboldt, which is an Act concerning the
Courts of Justice of this State, and Judicial OIL
GERS IA good Bill.
MARIA LOUISE MELERs.-1he newspapers in
this State will confer favor on anxious friends
by asking for information relative to the where.
abouts of the person whose name heads this no
tice She left the East in company with an aged
couple some three years since, and is probably