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Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-03-02
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
WAsHfNGToN, Feb. 2, 1872.
THE AMNESTY BILL.

liz ANN hcA DlLLs
The amnesty bill before the Senate ex-
cites more serious opposition than any
measure recommended in the Presidents
message has done thus far. Universal
amnesty is very bitter pill for Union
men to swallow, but so much has already
been granted in that direction, aside from
many just claims to clemency, that it is
doubtful whether as a mere act of parti-
san policy it will not be best to go the
whole figure. Senator Chandler yester-
day visited the Democratic argument as
to the right of amnesty with some ex-
ceedingly ponderous blows. He was
quite sarcastic on Senator Schurz where
in he assumed the ignorance of our lead
ing statesmen on the subject of the spirit
of American institutions, as well as upon
his alleged republican standing, but after
all these side issues are settled between
consistent and inconsistent Republicans,
have little doubt that the amnesty bill
will pass and receive the votes of many
who cannot find Justification on the ground
of right, but simply on the expediency of
allowing the slightest excuse for the dis
loyal rage of the late rebels. Suppose
jeff Davis, A. III. Stephens, ct III on,ne
gems are returned to the Senate and
House by the rebels, their frank utterances
in Congress would be the greatest weak
ness of the opposition and the best strength
of the Republican party that could pos
sibly be devised. Eleven years have so
changed public sentiments that the echos
of their stereotyped strains instead of fal-
ling harmoniously upon the listening ear
of the Republic would prove the death
strain ofthe Southern goose. A few years
at best will render the Fourteenth Amend.
ment obsolete from the death of the last
man in his metaphorical ditch, four-fifths
of his command being already there.
Why then shall we longer prevent these
Kuklux leaders from rushing on imme-
date destruction by showing their bloody
hands to the country within the sacred
precincts of our national legislative halls
as they now do in the halls Of their own
State legislatures.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-03-02

Bsaeoa Lodge, No. 400, L. o. Il. r.,
Meets at Coon TEMpLARs' HALL, Weaverville,
every Sunday evening at o'clock:
I. p. ASHBR00K, w, @. t.
W, s, CONWAY, W, S, janl.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-03-02

Comet Ledge, No. 81. T. o: o. r.,
Holds its regular meetings, at ODD FELLOWS
of each week. A. NJ. CARTER, N. G..
S. HUBBELL, X. s. janl.
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FREMONT HOTEL,
NJ AIN STR EFT,
RED BLUFF.
WILLIAM P. MAYHEM,
PrOPrietOr.

The Proprietor would most respectfully an
nounce to his many old friends and also the
travelling public that he has leased this we'll
known brick hotel, and will at all times be
found ready to wait upon all those who may
The TABLE will be supplied with the hest
the market affords, The ROOMS are large,
well ventilated and furnished with new Spring
Beds throughout.
janl, WILLIAM p. MAYHEM.
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TRINITY COUNTY.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY;
COURT TERMS;

District Ceurt-Second Monday in April,
August and December.
County COurt-First Monday In Janu-
ary, March, May, July, September and No.
Vember.
Probate COurt-(Same as County Court
BOard of supervisOrs--Firs Monday
in February, May, August and November,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-03-02

Stella Eseanpmsaf,. NO. 12, L. o. o. n.
Meets on tho evenings of the First and Third
Tuesdays of each month, at ODD FELLOWS
HALL, Weayerville, at O'Clock. Patriarchs
from abroad are invited to visit US.
+. w. YOUNG, G. p.
W. II. BACHELDER, Scribe. janl.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-03-02
suited from these ministerial conferences.
UTAH MURDERERS.

Judge Mexican fears that Judge Lynch
would assume his seat if he were to prove
himself unworthy of it by setting free the
prisoners charged before him with murder
as suggested by District-Attorney Bates.
G. NJ.
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SOCIETY NOTICES.

Trf"ffy Lodge, No. 80, n. n. M,
Hold their regular communications at Ma
SONIC HALL, Weaverville, on the last Saturday
of each month. Hour of meeting, O'Clock,
p. NJ. o. c. CHRISTENSEN, W. M.
NJ. +. GRIFFIN Secretary. janl.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-03-02
SCHURZ VS.. NYE.

The impromptu speech of Senator Nye
in reply to the carefully prepared argu-
ment of Carl Schurz is exciting consider
able attention, and has been largely sub
scribed for as a campaign document
Great as Schurz is as special pleader,
the homely but common-sense way in
which Nye put the case is complete an
tidote. Amnesty to all who desire it /;
who give any evidence of patriotism or
of accepting the situaton-amnesty for
all who are governed by the motto "live
and let live;" give general rights to the
colored men and northern immigrants,
but no amnesty for those who have muir
dered since the close of the war at least
10000 people obnoxious, to them on ac-
count Of color or political proclivites
This is probably the actual right and
justice of the question aside from policy
and expediency.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-03-02

A PERSON looking at some skeleton
the other day, asked young doctor
present where he got them. He replied
" We raised them.'
Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-03-02

TrfHtfV Chapter, No. 10, n. n. M,
Meets ON the Second and Fourth Tuesdays
of each month, at Masonic HALL, Weaver
vile, at 7 o'clock, p, NJ.
W. j. TINNIN, II. P.
M. +. GRIFFIN, Secretary. janl.
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North Star Lodge, No. 6I, H. o. n
Holds its regular meetings at 0nD Fellows
HALL, Weayerville, every Thursday evening,
at O'Clock. Members of the Order from
abroad are cordially invited to attend
G. w. CRAIG, N. G..
W. ii. BACHELDER, X. S. jan1.
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THE SYNDICATE IN THE HOUSE.

The debate thus far upon the question
of power to place the loan has been char
terized by low comedian jokes on the
part of Cox and others, but no argument
worthy of refutation against the Secre-
tary has been submitted. The Demo-
Gratis seem to take the ground that the
late law authorizing the conversion OF
the loan was designedly so framed that the
conversion would necessarily be illegal /;
so that the Secretary would either have
to break the law or report to Congress
that he could not place loan subject to
its provisions. This is what the Demo-
Gratis confidently expected, and success
where the avenues to SUCCESS were SO
carefully guarded is SO great disappoint-
ment to the political enemies of the ad-
ministration that feeble attempt to
SANDER him is made. Well, there is
nothing equal to success but success itself,
and our Democratic friends will discover
this after the November election, when
President Grant will be regarded by
them in a more favorable light.
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AMERICAN SHIP BUILDING.

Secretary Boutwell, appeared yester-
day before the Commerce Committee,
and urged prompt legislation in favor of
encouraging the building of American
ships. He is opposed to granting regis
ters to foreign built vessels, on the ground
that it would not be an adequate relief to
the ship building interests Of the country,
but on the contrary, it would stimulate
the enterprises of England in this, branch
of industry. He pressed upon the atten-
ton OF the Committee his proposition to
pay first iron steamers for five years
to come a subsidy of Sl3 per ton. lie
does not allege this to be the only meas
ure of relief that is practicable, but de-
sires action upon it as perfectly feast
BILE plan, y. NJ. General Cresswel was
also before the House Appropriation
Committee urging that the subsidy now
given to the Pacific Mail steamers be
doubled. Nothing definite has as yet re-
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CONGRESSIONAL,
The Senate Is still hammering on the
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Death of One of General washing
toms Slaves.

Old Uncle Maurice Jasper, who has been
paralyzed for the last twenty years, died at
the residence of Mr.. Frank Triplett, near
Mount Vernon, on Tuesday last. He was
the last one of the slaves emancipated by
General Washington, and was sixteen years
old when bis master died. His father and
mother came directly from Africa, and are
well remembered by some OF the Old resi-,
dents of the vicinity. Uncle Maurice nved
for time on the tract about four miles from
Mount Vernon, set apart by General wash
ington for his manumitted slaves, but ior
fifty odd years before his death lived with
Major George Triplett and that gentleman s
descendants. Gazette.
This old man, Maurice Jasper, lived long
enough to become free, to enjoy the privilege
of giving his consent in the matter OF his
government, to see his children allowed to
learn to read and write. This freedom came
of the second revolution. His emancipation
by Washington was only mockery of free
dom. Uncle Maurice and ancestors had
been robbed and outraged, kept in ignorance
and degradation for years, and then set at
an insult to liberty without any attempt on
the part of his master to eradicate by educa-
ton the woful influences of the slavery in
which he had held him.
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The Georgetown AImshOuse.

On Wednesday of last week we accepted an
invitation from the Hon. s. G. Browne, of the
House OF Delegates, to accompany the Com
mittee on Health and Charities (of which he
is chairman) on visit to the almshouses and
other charitable institutions in the District of
Columbia. Our first visit was to the George
town workhouse or almshouse. We had ex-
pected to find comfortable building with
suitable surroundings, competent manager,
and some decent regard for the comforts of
the poor inmates. Instead we found a rickety
old building sadly in need of repairs, a SUI
perintendent or keeper so old and feeble as
to be utterly unfit for anything but to be
taken care of by nurse or guardian of some
sort. The rooms were filthy and loathsome,
the walls and ceilings having been in want
of whitewash for many years according to the
statement Of the keeper. This den is a blot
and disgrace upon the people of the COM
munity. 1t belongs to the age, not far in the
past, when the swealthy in this community
looked upon laboring men and mechanics as
mud-sils of society, and the poor among them
as trash" fit only to be swept away into the
receptacles for other trash and filth. Our
District government should set about reme-
dying this disgrace to civilization. The poor
system needs reforming. Instead Of aims
houses in Washington and Georgetown re-
spectively, we should have one centrally
located for the whole District, in building
that would reflect credit upon the civilization
of this District. The Legislature should
give attention to this matter at once. We
are informed that the committee, Of which
Hon. S. G. Browne is chairman, has the mat
ter under consideration, and will no doubt
report a bill for the consolidation of the
almshouses of the District of Columbia upon
an entirely new and more humane system
than is the present one.
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mt WayIand Semi
nary.

The examinations at this institute have
been going on since Thursday, embracing the
common branches and the classics. Most OF
the students are above the age OF eighteen
and have had no other facilities for acquiring
an education than those that have been
afforded by this seminary. Beginning studies
at an age when those more favored are in the
habit of leaving off these students have made
a progress at once remarkable and encour
aging in the highest degree. Professors
King, Storum, and Miss Bartlett are not only
qualified for the position of instructors, but
are earnest and indefatigable in their efforts
to bring knowledge out of soil in which
nothing but ignorance and degradation have
been sown. Their laudable efforts are
seconded by the pupils under them, and all
seem striving hard to acquire an education
and are, we are happy to say, succeeding.
Doubts of the capacity of the negro to attain
an education may be dispelled by visit to
this school, composed as it is largely of those
whom oppression has heretofore stamped
with degradation. All appear conscious of
the importance of knowing as much as pos
sible, hence no time is thrown away in cram
ming for the purpose of making brilliant dis
plays of what might pass for valuable attain
ments. We saw students who have been but
short time in the seminary commencing
with second or third readers, able to answer
difficult questions in arithmetic (mental and
written) and grammar, spell with correct
nd Il vii L., Il,
dren of the freedmen of the South be permit
ted, without fear of molcstatiOn, to pursue
their schooling it will not take, as is asserted
by many, two or three generations to make of
the colored race in this country an intelligent
and highly useful people. Such progress as
is made by the students at Wayland gives
| evidence Of the ability of the race to, in a
very large measure, overcome the terrible
| results of their slavery in at most twenty
years. Parents must become thoroughly i'm
pressed with the importance of educating
their children, and with good teachers the
children will do the rest.
Wayland Seminary, 50 far as we have been
able to observe, offers the best advantages in
this vicinity to those young ladies and gen.
tlemen of our race who have, because of op-
preston, been unable to attend school until
above the ordinary ape
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A Well-founded Com plaint.

1t gives us no pleasure to find fault with
the Republican leaders in Congress, or with
the Republican party, but colored citizens
have just cause to complain, and to complain
loudly and bitterly, because of the position
they arc now left in before the country.
During the last five months they have pa
tentiy and persstently sought at the hands
of Congress protection from unreasonable
degrading, and CALLING oppression in the shane
of proscription--such as no other class NJ
citizens, guiltless of crime, are compelled to
endure. They have petitioned, argued and
appealed for Supplementary Civil Rights
Bill, which should complete the true measure
of American citizenship, and have been told
over and over again that their reasonable
demands should be complied with but thus
far, through lukewarmness, through preiu-
dice, through the fear of wounding too deeply
the sensibilities of those who would gladly
undo all the benefcent action of the Govern.
ment in respect to the colored race, they are
stu left naked to their enemies. The friends
OF the Government are treated with an indif.
ference, a contempt, not even shown to its
worst enemies. The rebels against the Gov
eminent, too proud to ask for reinstatement
in their rights of citizenship, get amnesty
with alacrty, but the colored citizen. who is
loyal and true to the country in the hour of
its EXTREMIST need, after long months of inn
portunity, is turned away from the halls of
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The Political Outlook.

We have had occasion to meet and con-
verse with intelligent gentlemen of both
political parties from various portions of the
State of New York since the nomination of
Greeley at Cincinnati, and have come to the
conclusion that the best thing that can be
done for the success of the Republican cause
is to have the Cincinnati ticket endorsed at
Baltimore by the Democrats. That this is
what Mr.. Greeley and his little band of Re-
publican followers desire and arc laboring for
there is no doubt, and that this is what the
Republicans who hope for the success of the
party and its principles should most earn
estly wish, is equally true. The number of
Republicans in New York who are ready to
declare their allegiance to the Greeley, Sey-
mour, JEFF. Davis coalition are quite limited.
Outside New York cicpthe number of Re-
publicans who have declared their intention
to desert the Republican cause for the uncer-
tainties of Greeleyism arc not numerous. In
the city of New York, where Mr.. Greeley
has had train-band of Republicans, whose
duty it was to follow him to State conven-
tons and breed disorders in the party, he
will have some show of strength, but in the
rural districts he cannot break the Republic
can lines to any considerable extent, even
with the aid of Senator Fenton's power and
shrewdness. That distinguished Senator,
who has been honored almost out of measure
by the Republican party, will find, when
ever he tries the experiment, that he cannot
seduce more than handful of men away from
their Republican allegiance. He is strong
inside the Republican party, but when he at
tempts to break its lines by insurrectionary
and dislOyal movements, he will find that
his power will desert him and he will be
harmless for mischief.
The losses that this movement may inflict
upon the Republican party will be more than
compensated when the Democratic National
Convention adopts Mr.. Greeley. The diver
gence from the Republican faith will not
exceed one-half of what will be added to the
numerical strength of the Republican force,
when an attempt is made to make the Demo-
Gratis swallow their ancient enemy and re-
viler. The trading politicians of the Demo-
cratic party will take Greeley or anybody else
to beat Grant, while the more intelligent,
who are connected with the commercial,
mercantile, and industrial interests of the
country, are reluctant to place power in the
hands of Greeley, and say openly, as between
him and Gen. Grant, they prefer the latter,
and will cast their suffrage for him. These
form much larger class than the seceders
from our ranks, and will more than compen-
safe for our losses.
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A Representative COlOred Woman.

The meeting of the Peace Congress will
take place in Great Britain in June next,
and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the most learned
of American women, is spoken Of as the dis
tinguished delegate to represent her sex and
race.
As the element in literature, eloquence,
and philanthropy for America among colored
women is now confcssedly represented by
be found to more acceptably appear for the
cOlOred ladies of the United States, and they
should see to it that Mrs. Harper is selected
for the distinction.
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Senator Ferry DisappOints the
Liberals.

Those never-surrender Democrats who ia
vor an out and out Democratic nomination
for the Presidency, are iubilant over the let
ter of Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, whose
election was claimed as victory for Liberal
Republcanism, and as the first fruit of the
Cincinnati Convention. Mr.. Ferry looks
upon the election of Mr.. Greeley as a "mid-
summer Madness and no support of Cincin-
natl can be expected from him. To those
Democrats hungry for office, and ready to
sacrifice their principles for it, the letter of
Senator Ferry is discouraging. The opposi-
ton to the endorsement of Greeley by the
Baltimore Convention have based their oppo-
sition mainly on the ground that the Greeley
movement has developed but very little
strength, and has for its main reliance the
support of the Democracy, or in other words,
that Horace Greeley and friends would climb
into power not by Republican, but by Demo-
cratic votes, which might as well elect a
straight out Bourbon Democrat. The New
York Tribune, Greeley's paper, hailed tho
election of Senator Ferry by combination
of Democrats and Republicans as a Liberal
Republican victory, and as giving that evil
dence of the willingness of Republicans to
desert the regular organization and join hands
with Democrats in the election of conserva-
tives. But now that Senator Ferry has writ
ten as follows to friend, Mr.. Grreeley's pa
per On. Y. Tibune) finds only melancholy
satisfaction in the hope that Senator Ferry
will follow its teachings on amnesty &C.:
Our foreign relations and our domestic
policy in matters of finance and revenue are
again assuming their natural prominence.
To entrust these great interests to an adj
ministration made up and controlled by Mr..
Greeley would be mere midsummer mad
ness! You and l will
i,,y ha ri
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Civil Rights.

The colored people of Philadelphia ought
to move at once and prepare for meeting in
that city, on Tuesday evening next, of lead
ing colored men who will meet there for the
purpose of attending the Republican Conven-
ton. This meeting should express itself i'll
unmistakable tones for an Endorsement of the
grand idea of equality before the law by the
Republican National Convention. We ask
for justice; it is our right as American citi-
zens. Mercy has been extended to would-be
destroyers of the nation; while merciful to its
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silent Men.

Washington never made speech. In the
zenith of his fame he once attempted it, fail
ed, and gave it up, confused and abashed.
In framing the Constitution of the United
States, the labor was almost wholly per-
formed in Committee of the Whole, of which
George Washington was day after day the
Chairman, and he made but two speeches
during the convention, of a very few words
each, something like one of Grants speeches.
The convention, however, acknowledged the
master spirit, and historians affirm that had
1t not been for his personal popularity and
the thirty words of his first speech, pronounc-
ing it the best that could be united upon, the
Constitution would have been rejected by the
people. Thomas Jefferson never made a
speech. He couldn't do it. Napoleon, whose
executive ability is almost without parallel,
said that his greatest difficulty was in finding
men of deeds rather than words. When
asked how he maintained his influence over
his superiors in age and experience when
ommander-in-chief of an army in Italy, he
said by reserve. The greatness of man is
not measured by the length of his speeches
and their number. Philadelphia Ledger.
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Periodicals.

The atlantic Monthly, volume 3Oth.-The
publishers of the atlantic announce that Haw-
thone's romance, Septimus FELTON,, will be
concluded in August. The Poet at the
Breakfast Table, The Comedy of Terrors,
and The Life of Jefferson, will be continued
throughout the remainder of the year.
The next volume, beginning with the July
number, will contain paper Of peculiar in
terest on an obscure phase of Post-Rebellion
history, by Advocate General Bolles; a
story in three chapters, by I. Ii. Aldrich;
several literary papers by E. ID. Stedman,
in the vein of his article on "TennysOn and
Theocritus :" a chapter of Early Jesuit Adj
venture in New York State, by Francis Park
man stories by j. w. DeForest two short
romances by II. James, Jr.; sketches of
Southwestern Life, by VIM. NJ. Baker; Siam
csc stories, by Mrs. Leonowens; paper on
Mythology, by John Fiske; Poems, by j. T.
Trowbridge, John G. Whittier, J. r. Lowell,
&c, with many other attractive articles ON
various subjects.
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