Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1866-11-17
1.-TWO Thousand q Year"

year extra pay wmch congress mas voted IT.
self. They have harped about it so much,
looked at it in SO many different lights, twist
ed it into so many different shapes, exagger-
ated and magnifed it. and lied about it SO
persistently that they have succeeded in
making themselves believe their own false
hoods. They hold up their hands in holy
horror, perfectly aghast at the enormity of
the crime. and in piteous accents exclaim.
1.-TWO thousand a year." Monstrous, isn't
it: How excruciatingly economical these re-
constructed traitors have become. all at once.
We do not for moment suppose, however,
that any one is foolish enough to believe
they are sincere in their pretensions. If it
has not been instructive, it certainly has been
amusing to those who have watched the
course of these ribald hypocrites for the past
few years. They now raise a terrible hue
and cry because Members of Congress have
seen fit to vote themselves small increase of
silary to offset the depreciation of currency,
and make their pay equsl to what it was be-
fore the war. They are extremely afraid
that some of the peoples money will be
squandered now were they always so ; Let
us see. Five years ago, when their fre-eat-
ing, chivalrous brethren of the South threw
wide open the doors of the Temple of Janus,
setting at liberty the merciless war-fend to
ravage, desolate, and destroy peaceful and
prosperous country, inaugurating a fratri-
cidal strife which turned friend against
friend, father against son, and brother against
brother, deluglng the land with the blood of
her noblest sons, long, bloody war, which
involved the National Government in an ex-
penditure of from one to three millions day
during the four years of its continuance
what then was the course pursued by these
economical journals: Were they then,
during that trying hour, when the Govern
ment needed all the aid it could possibly re-
ceive. looking out for the national interests,
advising rebels to lay down their arms, and
bewailing the enormous expenditure of blood
and money? Not by a long shot, On the
contrary, they were aiding and assisting the
gory-handed traitors by every means in their
power, and, as openly as their cowardly ma
lures would permit, urged them on and bade
them Godspeed in their diaboical warfare.
A precious set of scoundrels to prate about
"Two thousand year" But that is not all.
While these Stimulating villains are trying to
persuade the people that Congress is squan-
dering the public money, who has ever heard
one of them express single regret at the in
calculable misery, woe and suffering which
the war they were mainly instrumental in
commencing has brought upon the country
Throughout the entire length and breadth of
the land, from the Kennebec to the Rio
Grande, from the sterile hills of the East to
the fertile plains of the West, the voice of
lamentation is heard, and every fre-side is
dIaped in mourning. A country once rich,
fertile, and prosperous, now sterile, desolat-
ed, and deserted, marks the track of pillag-
ing armies, while the cracking flames of
burning cities and towns, the shrek of de-
fenseless women and children, the means of
the wounded and dying which ascended
from the smoke of hundred battle-fclds,
was the music which accompanied the march
of the remorseless demon, war. Who can
number the childless parents, the weeping
widows and homeless orphans. whose grief
cln never be assuaged, more fruits of
this unnatural contest Look at the empty
sleeves and wooden limbs. Listen to the
hollow cough of the consumptive. Peruse
the sickening history of Andersonville and
Libby. Think of the enormous debt YOU
must help to pay. And still not one of these
economical" pure minded journalists who
now make such a fuss about 1.-Two thousand
a year" ever said one word in condemnation
Of the traitors who are the cause of all these
horrors! No! never lisped one single sylla-
BILE in favor of the Government they are now
so anxious to protect. That the people have
proper conception of these would-be guar
dians of the treasury. the result of the recent
elections East fully demonstrate. They
"swung around the circle" too late in the
day to gull even the most credulous with
their wonderful exhibition of economy"
Coop News FOR M1NERs.-On the first of
December next, the Mokelumne Hill and
Campo Seco Canal and Mining Company
will reduce the rates for water to those u.s.
ing it for hydraulic mining, to twenty five
cents per inch, provided hundred inches
are purchased weekly. No reduction will
be made to those who purchase water for the
purpose of washing dirt taken from tunnel
claims. The Company have, at an enormous
expense, rebuilt and enlarged their Aume,
and in the future will be able to meet the
largely increased demand which the reduc-
ton III price will undoubtedly cause. The
object of the Company in thus materially re-
ducing the rates is, to allow the working of
the large section of mining country through
which their fume extends, considerable Dor
tions of which will not pay under the pres
ent high price of water, but when it can be
procured for twenty-five cents per inch, will
return the miner remunerative wages. Hun
dreds of claims have already been taken up
along the line of the fiume, upon which work
will be commenced as soon as the reduction
is made. The range of country which it is
known will pay for working, is extensive,
and there will no longer be any excuse for
persons out of employment remaining idle.
unless they prefer dong so. We think that
the new arrangement will prove highly ben
ehcial. both to the Water Company and the
miners, and we feel onfda,+ that tb;s W;n