Year: 1863

people Of our county. has been excessively busy
+ for the past two or three weeks. eoneocting
schemes and plans for various purposes inter
esting 10 our people But. first, it is well TO
premise that this assembly is composed Of
ofiee-holders and Office seekers who are well
known to our little. quiet community, and, Of
course, their disinterestedness for the veal Of
the public is easily measured. They are com
fortably circumstanced, by being provided with
fat salaries from the public fund, or have
- caught dame Fortunes golden smile p" under
the tuition of Professor Skinnint. The junto
thus composed. has no regard for any one out
side the royal precincts of our quiet village. Il
draws up bills to send to our legislative Rep
resentatiyes, with chosen few petitioners
all from the vilage-and asks those Represen-
tatives of the people at large of our county to
give heed to their edicts, as there is no remon-
STRANGE and the county will be benefited by
the passage of the bill. OF course. the Rep
resentative sees the plausibility of the matter,
and being ever anxious to do something to get
his name in print, rushes the bill in without
thought of its results The bill is introduced
and passed by title" and the people, who
know nothing of the matter, live to see the
foul working of the law after the adjournment
Of the Legislature. The reason that no remon-
STRANGE is presented is, because no one out of
the junto knows anything about it, and it is
stndiously kept from the public Inspection
and if ANYTHING is known Of the movement, it
is so late that the public cannot successfully
move in regard to it. Such bills as we have
here referred to are on their way or are at the
Capital now, and have been gotten up by this
junto There is one-for the election or ap-
pointment Of District Assessors intended to
create an unnecessary number Of officers at an
enormous expense to the county. with a GER
tainty of no more beneficial results in assessing
than exists under the present law. This dis





stances in the State, and has worked well in
one, but not enough so to Justify the multiplici-
ty of Offices thus created. Another, is bill to
reduce the salaries of certain offices in the coun-
tv, and consolidate several offices together,-as
that Of Clerk, Recorder and Auditor, and in
that way, destroying all checks in the auditing
of claims aud drawing money from the treasury.
Another, is to divert the funds on hand in the
railroad tax fund to the salary fund, they say,
to save interest; but, in truth, so they can
draw the cash. They are disinterested patriots,
and, of course, this is for the public benefit and
will save thousands to the people by the way
of the pockets of these pure spirited fnanciers
of the county. These juuto chaps have little
else to do, during these dull times, but to con-
coct such schemes and get few signatures, by
way of petition, and rush down to Sacramento
with the great enabling act to help their salary
fund and save the shave on their scrip. All
their calculations are based upon the theory
that no one is expected to hold or run for Of
fee outside of our village,-hence, those who
hold Office here, now, or are resident here and
seeking it, can live on less salary than can any
new conner having nothing else here to help
pay his way.


The fact is, the junto plays sly; but the
same is not deep, when it occasionally appears
to the light, divested of its cunning ingenuity.
These matters have lately been ventilated
among some of our people just in from the
country, and they want to know if there is no
way for our Representatives to let the people
know what is in the bills they introduced for
them for they have never yet seen one-this
session-although they take the Union, and
from that, only learn the title of the act with
out any ntimation of the contents? As DO
new business will be introduced after the 3lst
inSt.-our junto has got certain things fixed up
in bill, aud some of the members have rushed
down to the Legislature to get it in n time
and crowd it through before any one can know
its contents, and demonstrate against its pas
sage We say to our Representatives to be-
ware of the schemes of this body of low contri
vers, and do not be misled by few signatures
to a petition, for you know how easy it is 10
get signatures to any petition, even one to
hang the Governor or any other man. This
junto does not represent the mind nor interest
of Bate county, for its motives are too sordid
to allow such a result, aud our people would
be better oil with the laws as they are at
present without the multiplication of Offices
without the transfer of sacred tax funds paid
by the people for special purposes, without the
reduction of salaries in our offices, thus bidding
for defacationS and rascalites, without the
consolidation of distinct offices, thus removing
the checks upon our fiscal officers that the law
has so wisely provided. Our Representatives
cannot be too vigilant in watching these