Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-08-18
Letter from San Francisco.
SAY FRAxcIsco. August l

SAN FRAScIsco, August IL, 1866.
: EprroR NAL:-Having a few moments leis-
ure time / will, with due respect to your better
Judgment, submit few lines to your considera-
ton concerning matters and things in this great
CITY. Great because of its natural advantages,
commercial and financial resources, and because
of its rapid growth and progress. Unaffected by
the ravages of civil war which brought ruin up
on many proud Eastern city, San Francisco
stands to-day the most prosperous, and it is said
the "most loyal city of the Union" The latter
assertion is disputed by many, and with some
reason, too, for the approaching election which
is to decide the matter more fully than did the
preceding municipal one, is fraught with many
dangers, though the ticket which has been adopt
ed is unquestionably a Union ticket 1t is
thought that Johnson men, with cunning and
trickery equal to that which placed the Janus
| faced tailor of Tennessee in the Presidential
chair, have glided noisessly into the Union fold
and lay ready to dart their poisonous fangs into
the heart of the party that has nurtured them
did their refugee tailor who fashioned his
Presidential costume to suit himself but which
needs Amending now, and would better become
one who knows how to wear it. Borrowed clothes
never fit well, and when the robes of state, reek-
ing with the blood of that noble President, fell
from his shoulders, its glorious folds completely
hid the apostate renegade from the South, and
in his drunken delerium he has sadly soiled the
throne that Lincoln left unsuled and it is now
spotted and stained with the record of Andy
Johnson's recreancv. No man living deserves
less at the hands of the loyal North than this be-
trayer of his country. and no man receives such
universal endorsement from all disloyal men, ana
mercenary newspapers this @ ninth part OF
man
There is only one Independent and fearless
paper in San Francisco that dares to attack the
policy of the Johnsonians, and refuses to sup
port those who do not sustain Congress al
iu1e to the american Flag. Other weak -kneed,
pusllanimons sheets don't like the RAIDS that are
up for office for the next term. 1hey are sats-
fed with of the men on the ticket, but
can't endorse all. At the time the NOMINATIONS
were made national politics were not brought IN
question, and men nominated that were
known to be true, loyal men, but if they be not
such and rank themselves among the Johnson
ties let their names be recorded beside that OF
their leaders, and handed down to posterity as
evidence of their disoyalty, as were the Tories
of the Revolution.
There is considerable excitement here about
this new and dangerous party sought to DC tE-
humed from the grave of rebellion AID Copper
head Democracy at the North. Ever ! league
with each other the two elementr being
welded together and with johnson their leader,
defeated rebels at the Sou'', and disappointed
traitors at the North, 4 to win by the ballot
box what they inglOfrionsly lost on the battle
field of rebellion. Who among US now can look
back over the past four or five years of awful
carnage and say to those who inaugurated it
come forth and receive the sympathy and support
of those YOU sought to destroy rebuild your
citadels of treason and people them with martyrs
of secession; hunt up the rusty slave-shackles
call again your trusty pack and reclaim the freed |
men Of your soil. If they assert their rights.
call them insurrcctionists, and shoot them down
without mercy run riot, murder Union men,
and destroy their houses; and we will love you
all the better All this the modern "Moses
will grant you, and bless you for it. All this he
has done and is still doing, and "the end is not
vet" Notwithstanding these horrible facts,
Union men are called upon to support the Pres
ident. ion hands with unrepentant rebels, and
lead them to the Capital over the graves of the
heroes who died in its defepse. Such an act
would be more disgraceful to the nation than the
drop the tailor and his sympathisers now
There will be great revolution in our city
officers soon. The old police department is as
corrupt as gang Of thieves. In it can be found
Johnson men and secessonsts. All snch will
be ousted, or else Patsy Crowley is not what he
is said to be- and he IS to be the next Chief
He is an honest, fearless man, and beat Chief
Burke badly in the Convention.
Nothing Of unusual interest outside of politics
has occurred lately, unless it be the Imprisonment
of a high minded female who came to the con-
clusion that male attire was more comfortable
and healthy than the dress usually worn by the
feminine gender. Her name is Mrs DR.. De
Wolf She was convicted of misdemeanor,
fined S2l, appealed the to the County Court,
where it was dismissed, and the lady sent to
ail for the space of ten days. She was how
ever released on a writ of hqbeas corpus, and now
parades the streets unmolested by ilI-mannered,
ignorant policeman Her dress is somew hat diff
ferent from the bloomer costume, but is neat and
becoming, much more so than three or four yards
of silk trailing in the dirt, or the abomnable tilt
ing hoops.
A goodlv number of old Trinitarians are in
the city now. Some of them will probably re-
main here. J. P. J. and H. J. H. are in their ele
mcnt-the former in clubs and chess-rooms. the
latter in courts and law snits. |. G. NJ. and Nc.
W. are gents of leisure, and can be found on
Montgomery street when wanted. ELIUs.
THASKs-To Mr.. Oherdeener for newspaper ia
rapdero1 this ofFca durn he week