Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1864-03-05


prove the statement, but transporting events
tend to confirm the belief that there is not
Copperhead paper in California sustained on ac-
count of its merits news journal. Cut off
from the :. organ the breath of life impaired
by the party bellows, and ii becomes mute. The
continuance of some is by taxes levied on the
partisan leaders in manner that might prove
usefully suggestive to Directors of undeveloped
mining claims, as to how far and how long and
how large and how often assessments will be
borne When at last these owners of = feet
in papers of this class, not being able to see
single hope cropping out, tire of paying assess
ments without end and put their stock in market,
death to the institution is the inevitable and
speedy result Many have recently left this vale
of non appreciation of late unwept, Union
ored and unsung and more will follow.
That the mortality among public journals
should be entirely confined to particular
class, while journalism in general is in a remark
ably healthy state, suggests that there must be a
powerful and widespread cause. 1t is not lack
of editorial ability, for papers of their political
complexion are and have been in the hands of
able writers Our population is a reading one
indeed this is a newspaper age, and the newspa-
per is relied upon as an essential element in the
education of families, of children-is looked to
as the source of correct information touching all
of cotemporaneous history.
If public journal misreprcscnts facts, if it
perverts them for personal or partisan purposes,
if it raises false issues. it is untrue to its high
trust. Has not the so-callcd Democratic .
press sinned in this regard? They speak of the
war as having been commenced by the Govern
ment, that the Government has prosecuted it
cruelty and bunglin@lv, that the Government is
wrong and has been 50 from the start, etc Their
sympathy with traitors is often but thinly dis
guised. \ matured mind might sift the truth
from the falschood, but Il chid's intellect could
not What manner of citizens would come OF
children thus educated? What would be their
ideas OF right and wrong-of patriotsm-of
government? Secession if right in 4 large fam
lily, is right in a small one-and those who now
advocate tacitly countenance such herisics
may in their old age see the children they have
thus taught, seeding from them. There is many
q strong - Democrat" who, however much he
may desire to see such papers sustained for the
good of the party, would no more place one
of them in the hands Of his children than he
would present to their lips poisoned draught.
Thus many who have political or ambitious mo-
tves for sustaining journals Of questionable 10y
atty, have especially It this pcrilous time in or
country's history, social and most sacred inccn-
tives to discountenance them. And that is why
they de-.Sacramento Bee.
ANECDOTES OF President LINcoLN.-An En-
gish correspondent of London magazine is
giving some lively sketches Of American life,
and among other things relates the following
anecdotes of President Lincon's conversational
manner. a he saw the President recently in 4
small party in Washington
:. The conversation, like that of all American
official men have met with unrestrained in
the presence Of strangers. to degree perfectly
astonishing. Any remarks that | heard made as
to the present state Of affairs, do not feel at
liberty to repeat, though really every public man
here appears not only TO live in Il glass house.
but in 4 reyerberating gallery. and to be abso-
lutelv Indifferent as to who secs or hears him.
There are Il few I.inconiana.' however. which
may fairly quote, and which will show the style
Of his conversation. Some of the party began
smoking, and our host remarked, laughngly,
The President has got no vices lie neither
smokes nor drinks That is doubtful COM
piment, answered the President recollect
once being outside a stage in Illinois. and man
sitting by me offered me cigar. told him
had no vices He said nothing, smoked for
some time, and then grunted out, It's my ex-
pcrience that folks who have no vices have
pag ed few virtues
Again, gentleman present telling how a
friend Of his had been driven away from New
Orleans as a Unionist, and how, on his cxpu-
sion. when he asked TO see the writ by which he
was expelled. the deputation which called on
him told him that the Government had made up
their minds to do nothing Illegal, and they
had issued no illegal writs, and simply meant to
make him go of his free will. Well, said
Mr.. Lincoln, that reminds me Of hotcl-keepcr
down at St Louis, who boosted that he never
had death in his hotel, for whenever guest
dying i'll his house he carried him out to die
in the street. At another time the conversa-
ton turned upon the discussions as to the Mis-
souri, Compromise and elected the following
quaint remark from the President: . 1t used to
amuse me some to find that the shareholders
wanted more territory because they had not
room enough for their slaves, and yet they COM
planned of not having the slave trade, because