The union Democrat., 1870-05-28
sACRaMENro conREsposDENr.


Tale 90 We. sacramente and Tuslu mne
with glance nt the Past Present and
Future.
DULL.
Without her Legislature, Sacramento loses
her tail feathers and droops. There is almost
the quiet of summers eve about the princi-
pal hotels. There is sepulchral silence
about the once busy and swarming State
House. | enter there and almost mourn, so
great is the contrast to that Of few weeks
since. All the great men have gone. They
are scattered from Siskiyou to San Diego.
Along the high arched passages, no longer
tramp and hurry and gather in knots of
threes and fours, the scheming conglomerate
Of Legislators, Lobbyists, Pages, Correspon-
dents, Williams. Miners, Murderers, Horse
Thieves and other State officials. The Pa
geant has vanished. The Capital is left to
itself save the few unfortunate State officials.
Occasionally one gl.des along the further end
OF the long, dim passage, like ghost hurrying
back to it's tomb, warned by the approaching
daylight. A solitary man sits by the main
entrance guarding these the peoples prem
ises. lie is to me the modern Marias sitting
midst the ruins of Cartridge. the air within
the building is damp, chilly and chsrnellish.
The spiders already commence to weave their
webs from the cornices. 1t is good place
to 90 to mourn over ones dead relations. 1t
Is also good place to be prepared to rejoin
them for the damp. stagnant atmosphere of
THE water saturated pile of brick and mortar
Is heavy with coughs, colds, consumption,
asthma, fever, ague, rheumatism, battle,
murder and sudden death.
sIcKgL AND MARDIs.
In one corner of this damp pile, the corner
devoted to the Office Of Clerk of the Supreme
Court, are imprisoned those martyrs to their
country's service Sickel and Mardis. A coal
fire is constantly necessary to keep the apart
ment at decent temperature. Their office like
all the others is of magnificent proportions;
the carpet is Brussels; the mantles and wash
stands are marble; the desks are grand in
proportions and elegant in workmanship; the
general aspect OF the room and its occupants
is grend and imposing; and both of these
magnificent gentlemen march into their mag
nifcent Office and stalk to their magufcen t
desks and dip their magnificent pens into
their magnificent inkstands and with, Oh
how they wish that they were back in some
one or other of those little, old. dirty, home-
like, cheerful deus of the Sonora Court House
and the clock of time was put back ten or
twelve years to some bright sunshiny morn
ing and Dan Patterson vas calling the Court
from the Court House portico and the Table
Mountain Tunnel case was to be tried over
again; fifty odd witnesses being summoned
from all parts of the country; half of them
resurrecting their memories with regard to
the matter by the help of Fred Brown 8 whis
ky. Barber rushing up to Court loaded with
law books and dripping with papers, while
Allen Oliver follows behind legal voluntary
corp de reserre freighted with his own law
library.
MARDIs AND sICKEL.
Men still suffer in doing the State some
service. All through the long days my
friends above mentioned pine in their damp,
official, cage of gilded misery for Tuolumne.
They ascend into the cupola and look long
and longiuely over the country in the direction
of TuolLmne. They go home and embrace
the old clothes once worn in Tuolumne
1t is even thus with all sane and sensible
men who once lived in Tuolumne. There is
no place in California where aresidence would
be preferable did business but warrant it. say
they. meet such men weekly in San Fran
cisco. Peter Snyder had cigar stand on
Fourth street. Oliver Wolcott and Miner, my
self and several others used to caucus there
nightly to discuss Tuolumne. In that depot
of the tobscconist we hung up our harps and
sat down and chewed and smoked and weps,
thinking of our former Zion and comparing
her mild and luxurious climate, with the
damnable wind and dust and fog and chill of
San Francisco. Ther Peter Snyder moved
his snuff and things to the corner of Market
and Third street under the NGcleus building
on the wipdiess corner in the city; corner
whereon the aerial current descends in power
ful blasts vertically from above and as it
strikes the pavement splits in three or four
gusts, and every gust blows violently in any
direction it listeth on its own private resour-
ces and responsibility: corner which has ex-
posed more ancles and turned more women as
to their apparel inside out than any other in
the CITY. Well, Peter moved his snuff thither;
we followed him only to talk Tuolumne. Go
there when you visit the city and you may
add your grief to ours as we mourn over past
help swell the briny food Of grief which
nightly from the eyelids flows.
REsuReAM."-Bdrber.
When we are all safe in heaven we will re-
organize Tuolumne from "49" upward. We
will create our beloved Zion afresh, its dig.
gings all untouched. And then We shall all
rush in; the flush times shall again be realiz.
ed; We shall walk the old streets with Its
rows of cloth covered houses; we shall fling
down our dust on the monte and faro table;
the cutting and shooting shall be as of yore;
the fight at Holden's Garden shall be re
enacted with real blood. murder, guns and
death; Justice Barry shsll again convulse
and astound the legal world; he shall again
commit Barber to prison for contempt OF
Court; he shall visit the Jail and grin through
the bars at his victim; be called again a-and
etc and refine his prisoner then and there for
rs-contempt; we will also re-organixe the
political world of our connty. Jamestown as