The Placer herald., 1866-06-09
GEO. D. PRENTICE ON BROWNL0W.
TOMAHAWR DESIGN

ToMAHAwK DESIGN.
He showed himself walking volcano,
with snow upon bis peak and all hell 10 bis
bosom.
1t is most extraordinary and most disgrace
ful that any portion Of the people Of Teuues.
see. knowing this man as they did, voted to
make him Governor of that State. Their
only excuse must be, that they we're under
military law, and so not really free agents iu
bis election. No other State was ever atflic,
ted and disgraced and cursed with such 40
uumtigated and unmitigable, such 40 unre.
deemed and irredeemable backguard IS her
Chief Magistrate. He is a parody. carica,
ture, broad burlesque on all possible Gov.
ernors. He is monstrosity.
He is thing as much out Of nature as
Barnum's woolly horse, or his giants and
dwarfs, or his calf with two heads and eight
legs-four Of the legs pointing toward the
zenith. His blood is hell broth, which Satan
will one day sup with long spoon. They
sac there is fire 10 him, but it is bell fire,
every particle Of it. Though be is but sin,
gle swine, there are as many devils in him
as there we're in the whole herd that iran
violently into the sea-" His heart is nothing
but Kissing knot of vipers, rattlesuakes,
corbra and cotton mouths He never argued
a question in his life, approaching no subject,
but with fierce, bitter, coarse, low, and vul-
gar objurgatons. His tongue should be
bored through and through with bis own
steel pen, heated red hot. ...
This man, as we have said, calls himself
clergyman. He holds forth in pulpits. He
breaches, prays and exhorts, draws down his
face, drops the corners Of bis mouth and
undertakes to look sanclimonious. As yet
be seems always trying 10 his pulpit dis
courses to see under how thin a disguise be
can venture to curse and swear aud BIAS
pheme. He can't offer up PRAYER in the
house of God without telling the Lord what
an internal scoundreI, damned thief, or cur
sed vagabond, this, that, or the other neigh
Dor is. From bis youth up to his old age
be has had no personal controversies without
attacking the wives, fathers, mother, grand.
fathers, grandmothers. brothers, sisters, chill
dren, uncles, aunts and ncphews Of bis oppo'
nents. He has sought to strew bis whole
path of life with the dark wrecks of wan,ouIy
ruined regulations He has never bad an
hours happiness except in the unhappiness
of others. He has ever said to evil 'be thou
my good!" He has always carefully jotted
down all that he has ever heard unfavoraLle
to gentlemen while protesting to be their
friends, SO as to be ready for day of alien.
alton. He howls venom, talks venom,
breathes venom, belcbes venom, coughs
venom, sneezes venom, spits venom, drools
venom, sweats venom, stinks venom, and dis,
ts venom through his nose. Not the fug.
inous exhalations from the bottomless pit
not the fire and birthstone fumes from The
sooty throat of the Devil, were ever more
bIgbting and blasting than bis accursed ser.
pent breath. He never had friend on
earth outside Of bis family. No doubt there
are those who fear him for his iendish tero,
city, but no human being not Of bis house,
hold ever loved or respected him. He will
yet have his reward. Sowing in wrath he
will reap in agony. Fury and hate may
sti1e 10 bis heart the feeling Of remorse for q
time, but Nemesis, with ber horrid whip,
will yet scourge him around the whole orb
Of being. All the hairs upon bis head will
seem to him to be snakes like the Kissing
and forkedltongued locks of the Eumenides.
When he shall retire, as be soon must, from
the noisy and tumultuous strifes that have
engaged and still engage all his thoughts, he
will not have solitary, pleasant and serene
memory of the past. On the contrary. q
store Of bitter and desolate and torturing
recolections will corrode and eat np his very
heart, until, cut off from all human sympa.
thies, exiled from the pale Of all Of the beau
tifu genialities Of life, having no friends or
companions around him to soothe him 10 bis
moral and physical solitude, deserted by
mankind, whose enemy he has been, and
loatbed by God, whose holy temple be has
sacriegiousIy desecrated BY bis borrid mock.
cries Of religion, fostering from head to foot
with the polluted and poisonous puddIe,wa
ter iu bis veins, standing as an outcast and
pariah on the lone desert Of despair, shrink
ing from the past, agonized by the present,
and not daring to gaze into the future, be-
holding in fancy upon the door of bis own
soul the words, "Hope comes not here that
comes to ALL" shut out by murkiest clouds
from every star that to others lights the path
to the tomb, and writhing under myriad cur.
ses and execrations piled like mountain Of
living Goals upon bis head, be shall long at
last to make bis escape from scarcely
asking to what more dreadful destiny.
NEW ARTIFICIAL LEe.-Mr s. D. Smith,
Of Marysville, says the mining Press. has in
vented new artificial leg. Its entirely ori.
ginal, as the inventor has never seen any pa.
tents or models of the kind; bnt has construc'
ted this, his first attempt, for bis own use
The late Surgeon Cooper pronounced the
first one made the finest he had ever seen.
and the present mode is much improved. 1t
is constructed Of willow, firmly bound with
steel, and combines in remarkable degree,
lightusss and strength. The boot 10 com.
posed Of tbrse parts, connected BY delicate