Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1866-10-20
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l tCIs dAot tS3 ~ lac " as HUI crazy OSiOiCs hC
is as tickled us a boy with a tin whistle.
and in the exuberance of his joy becomes
very frisky. and cuts up more antics than
colt let loose from the stable. Joy, like whis-
ky, affects no two persons alike. Some ex-
press their gladness quietly, showing by no
outward indications that they have received
| pleasing intelligence. Others are more bois-
ferrous in their manifestations, and evince
their delight at some unexpected stroke Of
good fortune by gleefully informing their
friends. shaking them cordially by the hand.
receiving their congratulations and inviting
them to partake of stimulating refreshments.
There is another class of individuals upon
whom JOY. instead of producing an exhiler-
ating influence, renders them disgustingly
foolish. Persons of this character are gen.
orally little soft. naturally, and upon the
! occurrence of any unlocked for event, or the
reception CT some unexpected good news.
their weak minds are thrown entirely off their
balance. and they become perfectly ridiculous
in their demonstrations. Having scarcely
sense enough to conduct themselves properly
under ordinary circumstances, little ex-
citement upsets their equilibrium, and rem
ders them silly and childish. If there is any
doubt to which of these classes the editor of
the Register belongs, perusal of an article
headed, To the CHRONICLE" which ap-
| peared in last weeks issue of that sheet, will
settle the matter to the satisfaction of anyone
For the benefit of those who have not had'an
opportunity of reading that insane produc-
ton, VIC give few choice extracts. Here is
| one:
| How do you do. Mr.. CHRONICLE mans
And how are you old County Seat at Mo-
kelumne Hill until the onicers grow gray
How old are you now, Mr.. CHRoN1cLE man
How many gray hairs have you in your
head
| If the man who wrote that was not crazy,
or drunk. or both, then we are greatly mis-
taken. Who ever heard such senseless twad-
dles We have listened to the chickering's of
insanity before now, but we never heard the
equal of that. He wants to know how many
gray hairs there are in our head. Very few
indeed. They are abont as scarce es ideas
are in his. Another extract:
Get up out of the filth and corruption of
place that has been the seat of more rascality
than was ever committed in any one town of
its size in the United States, and get breath
| OF pure air in town uncorrupted by the
swindiing operations of men whose acts you
have sanctioned and whose rascality you
| have ar,nlaudaA 1r Will Il
give you an appetite for your breakfast.
Great God! What brazen impudence
Satan rebuking sin would be the heighth of
modesty in comparison to the check exhib-
ed in the above paragraph. Talk about Mo-
kelumne Hill being the seat of rascality
Why, there has been more swndling cheat
ing and defrauding committed in San An
dreas, during he continuance of the county
seat trial, than the people of this town ever
dreamed Of. Should that sink-hole of iniquity
be put to the same test applied to Sodom and
stone until not vestige of that "very fine
place" was left. There would not be even
Lot" escape to tell the sad story. Dur
| ing this whole controversy the Register has
been coarse and vituperative in its abuse Of
what it has been pleased to term the MO
kelumne Hill clique" while we on the con-
trary, have carefully avoided personalities
Were we SO inclined, we could mention the
names Of parties at San Andreas whose pro-
firiency in what the Register calls i" thieving
low-lived. contemplate tricks would put
to blush any attempt on the part of Mokel-
umne Hill clique. But we never believed
that personal recriminations ever benefited
any cause and have heretofore paid no atten-
| ton to the base innuendoes and misrepresen-
tat'ons ct that delectable sheet. We suppos-
ed that that paper would exult over the vic
tory; but we gave its editor credit for hav-
ing sense enough to express his qualification
in half decent manner, and to discontinue
for at least one week, his wholesale, foul
mouthed abuse of our citizens. But find that
we greatly over-estimated his regard for de-
cency. Again, he says:
Those parties who have been concerned in
the contest have resorted. either by them
selves or their tools, to the most thieying.
iow-llved, and contemplate tricks. and ras-
cality, to defeat the ends of Justice from the
very commencement to the very last mo-
ment. They have caused the expenditure of
nearly 100000 in their vain attempts to
swlndle the people of the county out of what
they had decided. hyy :..h.air votes, should be
.ne county seat,
re- aa
1t he means to apply the language quoted
above to parties residing at San Andreas we
shall not for moment dispute the truth
OF the assertion but if it refers to the de-
fendant in the action, it is slanderous false
hood. The passage of the Bill authorizing
the county seat election was secured by
bribery and treachery. 1t was conceived in
hatred, brought forth in malice and reared
in corruption. On the day of election two
gentlemen were sent from this place to San
Andres to take the names of those who vet
| ed at tnat precinct. and two gentlemen, resi-
dents of San Andreas, were stationed at the
polls here to perform similar duty. Every
facility was afforded them by the Inspectors
and Judges of election. and no disrespect was
shown them until after the reception of the
intelligence that our representatives in San
Andreas had been forcibly driven away from
the polls. and threatened with maltreatment
ifthey persisted in attempting to register the
names CT the voters. Sir hundred and thirty
ballots were cast in San Andreas that day.
| when it is a well known fact that there were
not one hundred legal voters in town; the
most of the citizens being scattered around