Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-08-26
Mitchell, the Martyr.
Mr.. Mitchell, it will be remembered, escaped
(after some curious practice touching his parole)

Mr.. Mitchell, it will be remembered, escaped
(after some curious practice touching his paroe)
from Australia. He went to the United States.
He received shelter welcome and generous hos
ptality there He soon disgusted and Mortified
his Irish friends by declaring himself a rampant
advocate of slavery He made himself specially
repulsive because of the coarse complacency and
chuckling grossness Of his avowals on the SUB
iect The martyr of freedom declared that his
great aspiration was for a plantation of fat mig
gers He went down South and plotted against
the Government and the States which had pro-
tected him when none elsewould. What should
we think of Mazzini if he to repay our
shelter by joining in conspiracy to destroy our
Government empire. and our free political
organization This what John Mitchell did
for the United States. Such was his hatred to
those who had protected him that in the bitter
ness of his heart Against the Northern States, he
sometimes forgot for moment his abhorrence
of England. No Southern tongue or pen ever
slandered and insulted the Government and peo-
pie of the North as did the pen and tongue OF
the outcast whom the North had saved in his
hour of peril He sometimes honored Europe
BY visit and while residing in Paris, as If to
show how utterly false had been all of his pro-
fessions of sympathy with liberty, he devoted
himself to writing articles for an Irish Ultramon-
tame paper iu which he calumniated and de-
nounced the efforts of the Italian patriots for the
independence of their country. Returning to
conCenial occupation in the capital of the slave
dominion, he exercised his pen in Richmond
paper by viluperaton against the free States,
against abolition, against liberty and against
England. No man, it may be safely asserted,
did more within his range to embitter and make
ferocious the struggle then going on, to rob 1t
of all the characteristics of courtesy and chiyal-
rv, to make it as hateful and brutal in practice,
as it already in principle, on the side OF the
South. While Meagher was leading his Irish
Brigade up the nights of Fredericksburg to flood
the battle field with their gallant blood in the
cause of the North, Mitchell was shrieking, hiss
ing and spluttering through Richmond his ven
omous zeal for the cause of the South.
Richmond fell, and Mr. Mitchell fed. He lived
to write treason another day. lie sought ref
uge once again in New York. He reckoned, no
doubt, partly on the proverbal generosity OF the
people whom he had so bitterly traduced, and
partly perhaps their contempt for his ignoble
and puny enmity. But it would seem that he
had tried even their patience too far, and he Is
now in Fortress Monroe awaiting, 1t is said a
charge of treason. The impudence that bore
this man into New York may well be called as
founding 1t is lucky for him that his crimes
were only committed against the Government
and the people whom he execrated and calum-
mated Lucky for him that his treason was not
against the Emperor of the French, whose inter-
venton in the cause of Ireland he once eagerly y
invited. His life, no doubt, is safe enough. He
will perhaps even once more have benefactors
and the chance of traducing them. But what
ever his fate England ought to feel some little
interest in it. For. but for our now discarded
system of shooting our convict rubbish into
Australia the people of North America would
probably never have been vexed by the ungrate-
ful society of Mr. John Mitchell.-London Star
Juae 27M.
To THE DRY ToRTUGAs.-The President has
changed the place of confinement Of DR.. Mudd,
Spangler, Arnold and O'Laughlin from the AL
bany penitcntiary to the Dry Tortugas, secure
prison a barren reef few miles beyond Key
West. No visitors reach their place of con-
fnement except by special permission of the
Government, and there is absolutely no chance
of escape.
Too WELL Posr-ED.-The boilers convention
of Santa Clara county took the liberty of nomi-
mating Dr. Lewis Post of San Jose, for Coroner.
He instructs the Mercury and Courier newspapers
to say that he does not train with disorganiZerS.
and will not serve if elected by the votes Of such
men
BIGGEST Rus on REconp.-At Cuylers billiard
room in Cleveland, a young man named Freder-
ick G.. Britton recently made the unprecedented
number of Sereh Noasand, seren hundred and fifteen
points in a single run. The Herald, of that city,
vouches for the truth Of the statement.
Ir is charged that the guerrilla, Champ. Fer
guson, now in prison at Nashville, has committed
no less than one hundred murders. What pity
that some means has not been invented by which
the outlaw could be made to suffer an hundred
deaths.
HILL BEAcHY has become landlord of the Over
land House, Boise City His California and
South Idaho Stage Line enterprise has been sus-
pended for the present, he having suffered Sc
verey in the loss of stock at the hands of Indians.
-Letriston Raddt0r.
AMONG TIE Losr.-The wife and infant child
of II. C. Lee the well-known circus manager and
proprietor, were among the lost by the Brother
Jonathan. Mr.. Lee was in Portland at the time
of the disaster
:. THARE is a CRATE deel of material modesty in
wmmn-and a CRATE deel of unnateral modesty
two''-Says Josh Billings.
RED BLUFF wEivERyILLE.