Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1865-01-28

WHISKY AND THE NEwsPAPER.-A glass of
whisky, says an exchange, is manufactured from
perhaps dozen grains of mashed corn, the value
of which is too small to be estimated. A pint
of this mixture sells at retail for shilling,
and if good brand is considered by its
sumers well worth the money. 1t is drunk off
in a minute or two, it fires the brain, rouses the
passion, sharpens the appetite, and derangeS and
weakens the physical system ~ gone, and
swollen eyes, parched lips, and aching head arc
its followers. On the same side-board on which
this is served lies newspaper, the new, white
paper of which costs about two cents.
This is covered with hundred thousand types;
it brings intelligence from the four quarters of
the globe it has in its early printed columns all
that is strange or new at home it tells you the
state of the markets gives accounts of the war,
the execution of the last murderer, the last
steamboat explosion disaster, articles on
philosophy, government religion, etc, and for
all this, the newspaper costs less than glass of
grog, the juice of few grains of corn.
1t is no less strange than true, that there is
large portion of the community who think the
corn-juice cheap and the newspaper dear, and the
printer has hard work to collect his dimes, when
the liquor dealers paid cheerfuIly. How is
this? Is the body Il better paymaster than the
head-are things of the moment more priced than
things of the future? Is the transient tickling
of the stomach of more consequence than the
improvement of the mind, and the information
that is essential to n rational being? If this had
its real value, would not newspaper be worth
many pints of whisky ?-British Standard.
An ExGLIsHMAx Upox THE ExGLIsH.-The fol-
lowing indignant hint to his own countryman by
Ruskn, is about as cruelty cutting as though it
had been a Yankee who said it. The best fea
ture of it is that it all true. lie says:
We English, a nation know not, and care
not to know a single bond or basic principle of
human Justice. We have only our instincts to
guide us. We will hit anybody again who hits
us. We will take care of our own families and
our own pockets; and we are characterized in our
present phase of enlightenment mainly by rage in
speculation, lavish expenditure on suspicion or
panic, generosity where generosity is useless, anx
iey for the souls of savages. regardless of those
of civilized nations, enthusiasm for liberation of
blacks, apathy to the enslavemcnt of whites, pro-
per horror for regicde, polite respect for popu-
eide. sympathy for those we can no longer serve,
and reverence for the dead whom we ourselves
delivered to death.
ARMY UNIFoRMs.-A recent order of the War
Department gives official authorization to the
practice which has already become almost uni
versal among army officers, with reference to the
wearing ofbadges indicative ofrank. 1t permits
officers to dispense with shoulder straps and the
prescribed insignia of rank their horse equip
merts. The marks of rank to be on the
shoulder strap will henceforth be worn on the
shoulder. They will also be permitted to wear
overcoats, pants. etc. similar to those worn by
private soldiers nor ornaments on the hat,
overcoats, forage-caps, sashes or epaulets longer
required. Wonder if the above could not be
made applicable to militia of the different States.
Officers could then uniform themselves at small
expense. Many good and competent man refu-
ses the honor because he has not the means to
spend, necessary to full equipment, and some
popinjay steps in and ruins good company by
his tomfoolery and want of common sense.-Red
Bluff Independent.