Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1864-08-06
Letter from Douglas City.
DuoGLAs CRY, August 1

DuoGLAs CITY, August I, 1854.
| DEAR JOURNAL Like all your correspondents
have had to remain quieseent for the past two
months-cause, nothing to chronicle But now.
by way of news can tell you that the weather
for the past month has been hot, awful hot, and
is getting no cooler very fast Working in the
sun is about played out the lean fellows sit in
the shade and fan themselves and our mutual
friend, the % fat fisherman" leaves greasy trail
between his place of business and the spot where
lager is dispensed to thirsty suckers. Mining is
about at a stand-still far as taking out money
is concerned, except in very few claims, but
everybody is busy preparing for winter, and not
single unemployed man can be found The
Humboldt and Boise fever has carried off our
surplus population and those who are left are
busy as bees.
had hoped by this time to be able to chronicle
big strike by Dobrowsky L Co., but thus far
we have failed to connect We found gold of q
very fine qualty-so fine in fact that we were
not able to see much of it even with the aid of
" Dob's" spectacles, and so id light that it
takes two ounces to weigh one. Laid in the sun
it will warp, and it floats on water like an iron
clad. We have laid that claim by for winter,
hoping the stuff may grow little in the mean
time, and are now engaged in divertng the bed
of the stream from its natural channel in order
that We may extract the fine particles of gold
scattered through the auriferous earth-in short
las Mr.. Micawber would say) wing damming |
expect we will not only wing-dam but d-n the
river before get through with it. The water
-, IL oil L. ~
seen it in the past ten years, and if it were not
for the large amount of tailings that fill the bed
in many places to the depth of ten or fifteen feet
many rich spots could be worked. The coolest
inhabitant," who happens to be Mr.. 1njun, tells
of having the river low that it could be
crossed dry-footed on the ripples, by stepping
from rock to rock, and begin to believe it now.
Since my last the klapperschldmge have been
totally exterminated, nary " snaik " having
shown himself for some time. | must not forget
to tell you that the Copperheads have - Demo-
cratic u Club at this place, numbering, am told,
over twenty members. didn't know before that
Jeff. had that many disciples here, and am at a
loss yet to know where they were imported from.
All hate about it is that they desecrate the Sab
bath by holding their meetings, and m not re-
markable for piety myself. This activity upon
the part of the enemies of the Government should
be met in corresponding manner. Our candi-
dates are already in the field, and if g Demo-
Gratis - can pledge themselves in advance to vote
for the Graye-Digger Of the Chickahominy, or
any other bird of his feather that has enough of
treason in his composition to secure nomina-
ton from the Chicago Convention, Union men,
with two such trusty leaders, and platform
which aims at nothing but the restoration of our
National supremacy, should be on the alert to
meet and defeat their plans at every turn
Douglas City will soon move in the formation Of
Wide Awake Lincoln and johnson Club, and
the same action should follow in all the other
precincts Of the county.
Our Board of School Trustees fulfilled the re-
qurements of the law by levying special tax
Of 80 cents each one hundred dollars worth
of taxable property for the purpose of keeping
the school open q few months longer. never
saw q tax paid more cheerfuly-and you know
that taxes and - tolls " are the two things above
all others that men hate to pay. Most of the
heavy taxpayers single fellers " who swear
that before another tax is levied they try and
have something to receive the benefit of it.
Bully for them. lMPREssoR.