Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1868-02-29

NAsBy IN GRlEr.-The latest from the Post
master at the "Confederit Roads, is a "wale'
over the decease of Elder Pennibacker, I" the or
nament NV the meetin-house Nv which hev bin
for two years pastor" He says of the closing
scene:
The Emancipashen Proclamashen nearly fnisht
him, and he fingered along, broken man, ontil
Johnson's 22d NV Febroory speech, witch acted
ez tonic onto him. He revived, put the ehect
wuz temporary Ez the conservatives made
Roadway, he came up, and ez Congris triumph
ed he went down, and thus he lived like can
die in tin lantern, flokrin orquiet, ez the wind
blowd He pluckt up amazinly after the eleck-
shun last FALL but alas, the treachery OF Meade
and the reinstatement NV Stanton wuz two blows
from wich he could not hope to recover. And
so, yesterday, at two P. NJ, wien IN thls case
means post mortem, he died.
"Send in Sairy p sed he, and favorit mu-
latto woman Nv hizzen who, OWN to the fact Nv
her hayin eight children, who wuz quadroons
he'd STAYED onto the place, wuz sent for. She
set on the bed, and the Elders head WIZ placed
in her lap. sGive me my munney, said he
and box of Confedrit scrip was given him.
And so, with his head in Sairy's lap, fingerin
Confedrit scrip and takin liker out Nv spoon,
he passed away 1t WIZ :roo Kentucky de-
parture "This is the eend Nv life ~ sed l.
q May my end be like his murmured Deekin
Program. and all was o err
There wuz trouble immejitly. When the Ell
der's will wuz read l wuz disappointed to find
that he had not remembered me, and Mrs. Pen
nbacker also disappointed to find that the
Elder had left the half his estate to Sairy,
and hz wife. Sairy and the people Nv the Cor
ners to witch he wuz indebted in small sums,
wuz disappointed to find that Bascom he'd mort
gage on everything the Elder possessed, Nv quite
its valyOo. Bascom, | bleeve, hez mortgage
onto every foot NV ground within ten miles Nv
here. He would hev mortgage onto my prop
erty, make no doubt, eff had any. But aint,
halleloogy | do WISH however, that some one
nv more enlarged views would start a grocery
here Its inconvenient to hev SO sharp man
supplyin 700 with the absoote necessities Nv life.
We buried the Elder to-day. 1t wuz huge flu
neral. In front wuz hiz children by his wife,
then the entire Corners, and back NV EN- more
than forty yaller niggers, who he'd bin hizzen.
Wat drawd EN- to his tomb? Wuz it instink
Who kin tell?
THE MILITIA LAw.-The new Militia Bill, of
which Captain Wolleb of Sacramento is the
father, has gone to the Military Committee. 1t
makes no change in those subject to military
duty. The Assessor will enroll them at pres
ent. 1t provides for seven brigades. The
changes from the present law follows =
q The expenses of the National Guard shall be
paid by leyying tax of one cent on each
one hundred dollars of taxable property of the
State. 1t is the duty of the Board Of Supervi-
sors of each county to provide an armory tor the
use of the companies of the county and for
each member of an infantry company the sum of
two dollars per annum shall DC allowed by the
State, payable every six months. The regula-
tons OF the United States army shall constitute
the rules and discipline of the National Guard.
Infantry companies required to drill in the
open air once each month, parade on the Fourth
of July, and hold at least target shooting
each year. All members of the National Guard
shall be exempt from jury duty and from the
payment of poll taxes Of every description, and
shall not be subject to arrest on civil proceed
ngs while on drill"
THE Nevada Transcript has article upon the
inconsistency of the Democracy, which it heads
g The Unfortunate White Man, and concludes
as follows 90 That party hold the negro to be
a coward, and yet fear that he will commence n
war against eight times his number of white men.
that he will occupy the best lands of the South.
His intellectual improvement is impossible, and
according to Democracy he will become the rul-
ing race of the country, unless he is kept in sub
lection. These positions of Democracy upon the
negro question may be demonstrated by pc
rusal of any modern Democratic journal. If
Democracy is right in its estimate of the negro,
what poor unfortunate and miserable set are
the white race.