The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-08-25

be unpopular. Of course am often defeat
ed, but sometimes win, and when ] do tri-
umph it is a glory worth wining. Yet have
been known to go with the masses, or them
asses, just as you choose to set the type.
That has always been when / was appeHsed. |
The Mountaineer appeases me once a week to
the amount of $780,. and gets his pickles.
"Newell is great, and pickles is his profit"
Canyon City can do precisely as she pleases.
But TO that meaker side where Whaley
stands "alone in his gwl-lo-ry." In the first
place l don't know rs Canyon City is any
better than other places in the State, nor do
think she has taken out license to be
great denl worse. 1t is hard to tell where
all ye denizens were raised, but to hear you
talk one would suppose the observance of
the Sabbath as surprising thing to you as
a twenty dollar piece is to an editor. Sab
baths, my pug nosed idiots, are as old as
this Mountdin-here. They were brought across
the plains by Moses, and over the ocean in
the MdMttower. 1t is true, you may never
have seen one before you came here, but
should have thought you hnd heard your
parents talk about them, anyhow. o, but,
| some one says, 60 the miner wants to work on
Sundays !; the noble miner who is the bone
andssin-ner of the mining camp" Now,
really have thought that Sunday was the
best day to catch fish on in the world, but Ms
for mining or making rails, / never suspect
| ed it better than any other. Allow me then
to suggest to the muscular cuss, yclept ye
miner, that if he can't get work enough
done in seventy-two hours a week to just
stick candle in his hat, and work about
two nights in six, and then perhaps he will
recognize Sunday when it comes Secondly,
this censuring the law, and the officers of the
law, is simply bosh. Didn't you make
these laws? Didn't you choose your own
officers to enforce them? Didn't you pro-
cure the seal of the State and signature of
the Governor to the law, and then require
j your officer to be sworn and give bonds to
faithfully perform and enforce2 What are
you talking about2 Do you want to rue
b rgains now, like q schoolboy in jack
knife trader My dear maltreated patriots,
you made asses of yourselves in making the
law now don't make double asses of your
selves in breaking it. If you should, il
would be hard to guess the progeny. Yonr
officers are sworn to emf rec this law, the
same as that against robbery and murder
they know no difference, and if they don't
enforce it they are either knaves or towards
But that is enough to show you that there
are two sides, albeit one is weak and unpop
ular. And dear people, unless Pickles il
appea~ed, he may follow his instincts ant
hurrah for the bottom dog in the fight Yor
may say that pickles don't amount to much
because pickles are always green, and sour
and all that. Very well, my dear Canon
put up pickles to suit your own taste, and
) shall bide my time.
POSTSCRIPT.
e l am grieved to 61d that some of my per
sonal friends feel offended at the remarks i
n my third letter. 1t makes me miserable and
hardly know how to make it right In tina
y letter mentioned only my particular friends
and had not the remotest idea that
J, should offend. James Hastings, one of th
Q gentlemen referred 10, was absentat Owyhe
at the time of writing, therefore did nc
It know it. | here wish to state that he, as we
as his finances are in excellent health, an
II that men must go far indeed, before a nc
It bier or truer friend can be found | woul
J, rather have had my right arm severed tha
IS wilfully have harmed the feelings of him
IS his. Mrs. Brown, an elderly and most estim
10 BILE lady, was also mentioned by me careless
y in that letter. She may not receive it in IL
Ie spirit of merriment intended. Allow me
n say that the marriage mentioned was a thin
10 impossible to be entertained without smil
III and that was all it was intended to produc
G. While in San Francisco / noticed letters of ID
ID style in the literary papers, and they were
to ways well received and most popular Allo
me to refer my friends to the July Bird No.
s. +. Golden Era, where they will find Il
"a names of Gov. Low, Sargent, Phelps and
the leading men alluded to in the same sty
rs as that letter. But the express is about clio
K ing, and good night.
v Cannon Ciiy, Au0. 10 1855,