Year: 1867

SHASTA COURIER AS growing at the
State Ticket seems to be a free thing, please
permit me, through the columns of your pa
per, to vent my spleen at a portion of the
State ticket recently put forward by the So
called Union State Convention.


Commencing with the head of the ticket ::
Gorham is entirely too small. have it from
reliable and trustworthy source that he
only weighs about l40 pounds avordupois.-
Now, no consistent Union man can vote for
a man of that size for Governor. We want a
man that will pull down at least 225 round
face; side whiskers large abdomen; and
smiling countenance,-a man that sports a
cane, keeps concha cigars in his Office for
city gents, and barrel of old Andy john
son" on tap in the cellar for his country
friends.


Jones is gray headed. | hardly think any
sound and consistent Union man can vote for
gray haired man for Lieutenant Governor.
The idea is preposterous. In reconstructing
the ticket we should choose a man seven feet
high at least, lean and 5ony. with long flow
ing red locks one whose very look, even,
would quell a mob among the San Quentin
boarders in a second.


Parks and Howell suit me. | have not as
yet been informed whether Curry wears a
white neck tie or not. lie can never secure
my vote if be wears black handkerchief
White looks dignifed, you know. McCul
Tough suits, having always had partiality for
Mcs-my wife was Nc. If Pacheco keeps
dog l will support him, not without. The
remainder of the ticket is unobjectionabe.


l should like by all means to have Nc
Carthy elected, so as to get him out of San
Francisco as soon as possible. There is a
strong probability that some day not far
hence the city of San Francisco will go down
with an earthquake, and as the State is
liable at any moment to fall into the hands of
scrubs, l want all the good men saved that's
possible.


Coming on down to your candidate for
State Senator, l hear good deal of COM
plant about the way he spells his name. The
idea of two p's and two Is in mans name,
when one would do as well, and not consume
so much time in writing, viii not 60 down
the throats of sound Union loving plebians.
That name must be reconstructed, or defeat
stares us in the face.


On the political situation, considering that
we are so high up in the mountains-out of
the world, almost-we keep pretty well
posted. On Tuesdays we get the Bulletin,
and learn from the perusal of its c3lumns
what the Union says; on Thursdays we get
the Union, and from it learn what the Bulle.
tin says, and on Saturdays get the Journal
and learn what the Union and Bulletin says.
So you see we are hunk on news.


A word on the duty of Union men, and
will bring my letter to close. On all the
great political issues of the day there seems
to be one question only, momentous as it is,
upon which the great Union party seems to
be divided, and that is the length of g har." !"
To those who claim to be of the short bar
persuasion, would recommend speedy
application of Bachelder's Har Restorative !;
and to those who have identified themselves
with the long hars, l would suggest BARRIERS
shop, and for fear of a relapse, while you are
on it, take bath also, and by the 4th of
September next the hair of both wings would
be about the same length. Remember that
united we stand divided, overheard.
JIM PECK, Dog Tax PAYER.