The Shasta courier., 1867-11-23
SHASTA COURIER.
. NOw's the Day and Now's the Hour. .

We have all read of the lice and locusts of
Egypt; how rats came down from Norway
IN overwhelming droves; how squirrels en-
igrate in immense herds how grasshoppers
swarm upon fields, and the army-worm. with
resistless march. sweeps all before it; how
IN Africa the rodent takes up his line of
travel, eating all before him. All these re-
markable facts in natural history are now
being excelled in California Henry H.
Halght, the Democratic Governor elect, is
the Egyptian upon whom the lice are crawl
ing, the locusts devouring. He is the happy
land to which all the Democratic squirrels
are migrating. He is the new craft toward
which every old political rat is now swim
ming for dear life. lie is the corn and grass
OF suceLlent juices upon whom all the party
grasshoppers now propose to feed. He is
the Mecca Of all the rag, tag and bobtail pill
grims, and as the Gubernat0rial mountain
will net 60 to the local and county Mahomets,
these prophets are coming to him. His en-
tire vote in the State was only - ,905, and
already, we are Informed upon most vera
cous authority, that he has had over 80 600
applicants for Office and the cry is still thew
come, and like the daughters of the horse
leech their cry Is, 50 give, give - All na-
tionalties except the Chinese, all brother
hoods except the Republican, all colors ex-
cept black, come crawling to his feet, lick
bis hands in hope to pick up the crumbs thai
fall from the political table. The hungriest
and the leanest crowd is the old chivalrv,
and in our opinion they are the most deserv.
ing at all events they are around in num-
bers. Members of the first families of Nir-
ginia and Carolina descendants from Poca-
hontas and Georgia majors Charles, twelfth
Earl of Fairfax, and William last Duke of
Gwin, are standing about convenient for the
Office to find the man. Broadbrim hats, un-
familiar for the last six years, again make
their appearance upon our streets old fos.
sis, dug from the anti-pluyial era of the
Republican deluge are again crawling up to
the surface aud warming themselves in the
sunlight Of their new hopes. Old butternut
trowsers again walk our streets as bright as
new, the old holes repatched and the ever
present crook topped hickory cane swings
pendant from the arm, as, waiting for whis-
ky, the ruling class leans in easy nonchalance
against our municipal lamp posts. We hail
the good old times, and 'ook forward to the
happy period when Custom house and Mint
viii again become the alms-house of the
Democracy. where the old chronic cases may
find whisky for the present, consolation for
wv ft-@tr t-'.e+ '-~A-A4tg ANU S44tlltL -tI tit
future. We extend cordial invitation to all
country politicians to come down and see
Governor IIaight; there is a great multitude
Of Offices TO fill, and every man who voted the
ticket is entitled 70 a place Wharfngcrs
along our water front; No.uries Public. to
the number Of twenty; Harbor Commission,
ers, with deputies and employees, a score or
more; not less than fifty good berths at the
States Prison, and room for more inside /:
odd places all around the State, and when the
Legislature conyenes, a multitude of snug
chances where labor IS light, pay excellent
aad whisky within the reach Of all. Let
every Democrat come down to San Francis
co and see the Governor multiply your pc.
titions; call at his Office during business
hours, if he is not in follow him up 90 to
his residence. Sunday is an excellent time
to find him disengaged. If you can't see the
Governor, his partner Mr. Jackson Temple
will be pleased to have you tell him your
story in full detail See Tom Cazneau. he
has influence with the Governor; so has Mr..
Rogers, Chairman of the County Committee.
Do not leave a stone upturned, and. if
everything else fails, McCoppin will at least
give you a position on the police.-Nelcs
Letter.