Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1864-12-31
The Dying Year,

join its dead companions = to tell them of
the wonders it has seen, of the joys and sorrows
that came and have gone with it,
Unable to lift the veil which covers the future
let us for moment look back upon the Dying
Year and study its lessons. 1t has been most
momentous not alone in the history of our own
country, but of the entire civilized world A
year of carnage and bloodshed of untold suf-
ferngs and glorious military triumphs was the
year Eighteen Hundred Sxty-Four. With anx-
ious hearts all waited the coming of the telegraph
ic dispatch to learn how the defenders of our
Flag, our nationality, were progressing in their
noble work, and nearly every flash of lightning
brought us tdings of yictory-yictory bought
with the life-blood Of the noblest and bravest of
the land The Southern Rebellion,-the demon
offspring of Slavery, is lettering under the hea-
w blows of our Grant and Sherman, our Sheri
dan and Thomas, and the the time is not far dis
tant when Slavery and Rebellion, too, will be
things of the past. With hardly single cxcep
ton, our troops have moved triumphantly for
ward from the Potomac to the very gates of Rich
mond and Petersburg---from Chattanooga to Sa-
vannah-from Harpers Ferry throughout the
Shenandoah Valley,-and our officers and SOL
diers have covered themselves with glory. And
brave old Farragut, with wooden ships, but
iron hearts " in spite of forts and Instructions,
entered Mobile Bay, and gave Europe lesson in
naval warfare which Captain Wnslow complet-
ed when the Kearsdrge did its quick work with
the Ala5ama, which, armed with British can
non and manned with British tars, found fitting
grave in the the very face of so-calicd foreign
friends. And the Florida and Georgia, Anglo
rebel pirates, now covertly sail under that flag
which they only dare attack when aoated from
an unarmed merchant ship.
But the greatest triumph of the Old Year was
one which though bloodless, eclpsed all others
With trembling and anxiety the American Ma
ton, and the oppressed and enslaved of every
land, looked forward to the result of the Presi-
Dental election. Taxation ola character and
weight unknown to America, pressed upon the
people thousands mourned the loss of dear ones
on well-remembered battle-ields draft for adj
ditional soldiers had been rigidly enforced, and
a new one was expected party with the pres
tige of the name of Democracy had declared the
war a failure and under the seductive garh of
pence lured the Nation to its deadly embrace
Is it a matter of surprise that the patriot await
ed with mingled hope and fear the ides of Novem
Der? But the people were equal to the emergen
cy With unanimity never before witnessed in
the history of Presidential elections, but worthy
the OCCASION they rallied round the Flag, and
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN was reelected President Of
the United States. His election is a guarantee
that not single star will he torn from the
(. Banner of the Free" but that it 5 lustre will
be more dazzling, for the STAIN OF SLAVERY
shall never more disfgure it. The Presidential
election of 1864 will forever make that year the
most memorable in history And we have
reason to be profoundly thankful that the most
dangerous epoch in our nation life has been
safely passed. Too far removed from the scene
of conflict to participate in its glories, we can
only aid our brethren on the battle-fclds by our
prayers that Right shall triumph, and by contrib
uting to the Sanitary associations for the aid of
the sick and wounded. Trinity, in this respect,
has done nobly may she not fllter in the good
work.
In our county the past year has not been
a fourishing one After the disastrous flood of
81 followed seasons of dronth, which drove ma
nv miners from hitherto prosperous camps.
The excitcments consequent to California OF new
Undiscovered mining regions, far north or south;
the farther the better, carried away many a
good man. ana many IL lHOusaHu lIoiH
our county. But within the past few months we
have noticed many, very many of the truantS re-
turning to their old homes in Trinity. The win
ter thus far has been the most favorable for five
wears The creeks and gulches filled to
Overlooking with water, the mountains are coy
cred with SNOW, and all have reason to fee! hope
full Trinity bids fair in the coming year, as in
days of yore, to prove herself one of the richest
mining counties in the State.
To the patrons of the JOURNAL wish a
HAPPY NEw-YEAR,-as happy as they themselves
can wish to each young and blushng damscl a
bridal wreath to our bachelors each arosy bride,
and to our married friends-well, another draft
has been ordered; Uncle Abe needs {: infantry.
DAMAGE BY THE FLoop.-I'erhaps it would be
better to say the succession of floods, for there
have been several unusual freshets already. At
Bates ranch the water in Stuart S Fork WAS as
high as in 81, but did no harm We hear of no
damage between that place and Woods ranch,
where Grow old fume over the river was car
ried away. Nothing more until we get to Jones
& DobrowskyS settlement. at what used to be
Reas' mill. - The Judge tells us that if Hook
er's ditch had not gone in December 81, it
would have rent in December 81. At Arkansas
Dam the buckets knocked from some of the
wheels by drft-wood. The large wheel at Raab's
went the way of the smaller ones-down stream.
The big China wheel below the ford to NcGilliy-