The union Democrat., 1870-01-22
SACRAMENTO conREsPoNDENcE.
SACRAMENTO, January 18th; 1870.
HEAR YE.

was thngiDle reaiity, ana the old Long
Tom was no: myth. If you would see large
portion of the prominent features of the hu-
manity of Sonora extaut and fourishing at
that period; men the political and social pill
lars of your community; men who might be
seen abroad at any hour of the night past 3
p. M; men, without whom County Conven-
tion would have been strange, dull, lifeless,
unnatural affair: an exhausted vacuum;
smashed and napless hat; virgin over sixty:
If you would see all this. come TO Sac
ramento. Tuolumne end Sonora in par
ticular have poured their Jewels into the lap
of the Capital Here are Mardis and Seckel
and Vaudeville and DR.. Browne and George
Evans and Bob Ferral and Charley Patrick
and DR.. Franklin and Gillette and Ii. p. Bar
ber and VIM. Cooper end James Coffroth and
Geo. III. Rogers. Speaker Of the House and c.
Dorsey and Gen. Dobbie and Stephen Wing
and last though not least Joseph Won Prag,
all more or less of Tuolumne. Gen. Evans
remarked the other night that it needs but
r. f. Gardiner, c. Ii. Randall, DIR. Walker
and |. j. Potter here to fiji, the bill. With
these, the menagarie would be complete and
Sonora would be sucked still dryer-of sedi-
tious characters.
PROPOSITION.
| propose in this letter to give short cpl
taph on each of these individuals not post
mortem historical biography. | mean only
mere passing autobiography of the hour. |
entreat of the subjects pardon for the liberty
| take, / do not wish to offend. We are all
human. 1t is fortunate for us oil that we are.
1t is quality for which thank Providence
daily | shall take these men in their order
of importance, rank, influence and merit.
Consequently, am compelled to commence
with
JOSEPH yANPRAG.
Joseph Van Prag, or as he is sometimes err
oneousy termed by the San Francisco CORES
pondeuts, Joseph Won Prack, or Yosef Van
Prag, has become Great Man he is anoth-
er proof of the ennobling and intellect quick
eninC qualities of the Tuoumne atmosphere.
lie is now known, noticed and admired of all.
His name figures in the newspapers. He
hobnobs and confabs with noted men. He
carries the Democracy of Tuolumne in his
breeches pocket. lie says so. lie is a polit-
ical power. Everybody knows Joseph Won
Praek. lie will soon be interviewed by the
leading newspaper reporters.
Mr.. Won Prack is countryman of TIE
Great Humboldt. He evidences in his speech
the deep investigetorial and metaphysical
tendency of the German mind. History is as
yet silent as to the place Of his birth But
who, when admiring the full grown lion cares
to ask him where he was born?
Mr. Van prar being an applicant for a no
sition ut the commencement OF the present
Session was defeated it is rumored by Mig
ger This, in the ultimate may prove not on
ly stain on the California Democracy, hut
an irreproachable injury. Won Prag has in
fluence and power. So has an organ grinder
when he PLAYS for hours 1.-The Bold Bucca-
neer" beneath your window. You are at last
forced to "come out" that he may be made
to move. You may not admire this persever-
ing quality OF mind, but is it not most potent
rs to results? Is it not power? | think so.
| think this power so eminent in The Great
Prag is being silently leveled at some vital
spot in the California Democracy. 10 inti-
mates this. He declares "By-hell get even
with them yet And as see that busy en-
ergetic man darting from place to place with
out aim object from the Senate to the As
sembly Chamber, from this man to that from
Orleans, from Sacramento to San Francisco
from Dan to Beersheha and mark the restless
sweeping roll of his elliptical optics. | snuff
birthstone in the political atmosphere. Mr.
Won Prack is virtucus and an ornament to
the entire human family.
INTGRREGNuM.
| said, | would place in this sketchegorical
category the Sacramento Sonorians in their
order of Importance rank and merit. l will
not, cannot. Won Prag stands alone, un-
ique, unaprroachablc. No one is fit to come
after him. will therefore shuttle the list,
cut and make a new DEAL selecting the one
coming up first.
ROBERT rERRALL,
makes most able Chief Clerk of the Assem-
bly,, seems n general favorite and drops into
his duties as it he had been pre-ordained,
planned, cut, planned, smoothed and polished
for them. He has elements favorable for po-
htical popularity and something deeper to be
far more valued l recolect this young man,
when he was a simple printer in the Uaion
Democrat Once, and was a simple scrub ut
Hawkins Bar. Time. indeed works great
changes. 7empcra mutdattu' ct nos mHtant,tr
which traslsted in the vernacular of Swett 5
Bar, means Time is H-ll of feiler Mr..
Ferrall is also virtuous and al ornament TO
the entire human family.
ALLEN NARpIS.
This gentleman far out weighs many would
be great men and possesses in my opinion
more good sense. Man excels as rational
being when he eudeayors to take the world
easy and from it extracts all the amusemeuts
possible. Man excels es a prudent and skill
full being when he knows the right time and
place to dip his spoon into the pudding dish.
like tact in everything. like man who
can stand outside even of his own crowd and
laugh at their ''cussed fooiishness." I'm
not gong to throw away my apple because
some one else doesn't like the core. Mr..
Msrdis' virtue is without stain and be i an
ornament to the ebtirs human family.
GEORGE sECKEL.
Ii is needless Tor me to speak here of the
ability with which Mr.. Seckel fills the nos;.