Year: 1867

Bio FLAT, September IS, 1861


EDITOR JOURNAL The election is over. We
have met the enemy and we are hisn. | can
hardly realize that the great State of California
has gone Democratic. The enemy has captured
as at time when it does him the most good and
does US the greatest possible harm. 1t is not the
mere fact of their electing Governor who is
Democrat, but the effect that it will have in At
iantic States where elections soon to be held,
and on the next Presidential contest. The idea
that the greatest of the Pacific States, that has
been loyal to the core and responded SO nobly
with men and treasure at the time when our
country's existence was imperiled, should change
from . majority of 20 900 Union to half that
number Democratic, electng their full State
ticket. and sending their entire Copperhead del
egation to Congress [guess not and with their
chances OF electing one OF that party 10 the
United State Senate, is most dsheartening to
contemplate. But all this the Union party must
now put up with as best they can, and attribute
their defeat to the fact that as party they
had become overgrown, and outnumoered our
opponents to such extent that we concluded
that we could afford some little wrangling, dis
sension and strife, until we allowed the enemy
to capture US.


Well, this may teach us q lesson, but the ques-
ton very naturally arises, we afford to be
taught the lesson? Will not few more of the
same sort prove fatal to us party and per-
haps endanger the prosperity of our country :?
Well let them make the most of their victory
and let US indulge the hope that they may ad-
minister affairs honestly, ably and successfully.


Local news is is rather scarce here. The late
rain sweled the river so as to temporarily sus-
pend fuming operations. The stream has fallen
again, however, and the damage done is found
not to be serious, and two or three days only
will be required to repair the dams and fumes
and resume work. Should the season prove fa-
vorable the proprietors A. Martin, Dr. Monta-
que, Barnum and Waters (tne latter is foreman
of the job), seem sanguine that rich yellow har-
vest is in the bed of old Trinity for them. Sould
these calculations prove correct land we are all
in favor itl the chances that things will liven
up here to an extent not thought of since early
times, when huge piles were taken out here.


For some reason that is unaccountable to a
newcomer like myself the TRINITY Journal
rarely ever reaches this place until a week so
old, and of course everything gets cold before
we know anything except by hearsay. What's
the matter. Is anybody at fault? | suppose
not, of course. [Uncle Sam, we guess.]


TRAVELLER.


NEIGHBoRING OPISIoN.-The editor of the
Virginia City (Neveda) Enterprise, referring to
the result in this State, few days since ir-
dulgcd in the following specimen of fine writing
4" 1t is loss of her prestage for loyalty that
the cheek of every patriot in California to blush
with shame and the flush should have burned
as hot on their faces had the election resulted in
the defeat of the Union candidate for Governor
as it does now when the whole Union line has
been broken and routed. The pride, the glory
of California was the exalted position she occu-
pied in the opinion of the nation From the re-
mote East the people beheld her seated like a
a queen beside the Western shore her fair young
head encrclcd by halo of loyalty whose splen-
dor dimmed the brilliancy of even her own SUM-
SETS and her jeweled hands forever busy and
bountiful with patriotic charities. Her voice
had cheered the loyal hosts in the hour of COM
bat she had stood steadily by them during the
political perils which succeeded and they con-
hdently relied upon her sympathy and assistance
until the great work was finished Where is the
nations idol now? Fallen from her proud en-
nence-what matters how little or how low
since she will henceforth be looked upon as q
siren that sang falsely by the sea? The shame
is greater for California in that she sinned wan
tonly against her better feelings and judgment
She belittled herself and let petty personal NAL
ice overcome considerations of national import
ance. The majority of voters in California to
day are AS devoted to the policy of Congress and
the purposes of the loyal masses of the natior
as they ever were but what avais it since they
have lost their reputation by mad political de
bauchery and pawned their power to the Cop
perheads for the qualification OF a paltry spite z


Our Nevada friend had not heard that thu
Union party of California intends, in a measure
to retrieve its reputation on the 10th of mex
month.