Year: 1863

The TRINITY JOURNAL to day commence es tn,
Eighth Year of its existence. Through sever
years we have sought to afford weekly newspa
per that would be useful and acceptable to this
community that we have been measurably sue.
cesstul, its prolonged existence and increasing
prosperity are satisfactory evidence. For these
we are doubtless much indebted to the forbearance
of our patrons and to disposition, ever manifest
in this community, to help those who are disposed
to help themselves. For the generous support
which the JOURNAL has received and for the gen
eral interest manifested in its behalf from its
commencement to the present, we are sincerely
grateful. We have always sought to be independ.
ent and self reliant but in looking back along
the way travelled, we can recognize many places
where we might have stumbled and fallen, had it
No man is wholly Independent of his neighbcr ;
we would not be il we could ; we wouldn't fore
go the pleasure of gratitude for the miserable
satisfaction of standing alone, unfriended and un-
ircnding. Even the strong trees, deep rooted in
the forest lean one upon another when assaulted





Frustrated all but one, its limbs are wrenched off
the lightning strikes it, and after a while It be-
comes melancholy ruin.


1t is true that our enterprise has not met the
APPRECIATION of everybody, nor are our obligations
universal. AS in'evcry other neighberhood there
are some who whatever be the nature of the en-
terprise, had rather help to pull down than to
build up Without capacity to control their own
passions, their friendship can be neither secured
nor retained without the penalty of their des:ruc.
tive dictation and without having contributed
the amount Of years subscription, they become
enraged and spteiul when the local paper cannot
be made the conveniency of their individual or
party interests. Such we never expected to
please-wouldn't please them if we could
couldn't please them if we would, without forfeit.
approval and patronage are of vastly more sig
nifcance But we have friends enough with
whom we have journeyed along in pleasant com
panionshp through seven measures of time
True, some of them have gone-some to sleep
dreamessly on yonder slope, where we have seen
the sunset of glorious manhood and imperial
beauty some have been drawn away by the
magnetism of old homes. But enongh still re-
main to satisfy all our desires for society. endear
ed by old associations, proven faithful by the
unerring calculus of experience.


In commencing another septenary period, we
have resolved upon still greater efforts to conform
with the increasing requirements of this commu-





resentative Unpopular intelligence and enterprise.
Thinking people need not be told that good
local paper is as necessary in an intell gent
community as are the heart and lungs in healthy
it may be inconsiderable in itself, but when uni
ted with Others it helps to form the larger current
of opinion upon which depend the health and
vitality of the body polite The interior news
papers of California have in the aggregate an
immense representative influence, and when
compared with their class in the older States, they
have greatly the advantage, both 10 topographic
beauty and ability of conduct. Some of them
are conducted by men of splendid mind whose
natural gifts and educational requirements would





maintain a creditable place among its cotempo-
raries Is the JoUENAL's highest ambition. Thai
attained, we know it will be acceptible to iti
readers


And now, closing the old Volume and opening
the new, let us hope that ere it is finished tbt
portentous clouds that overhang over nation viii
hay parted and revealed the calm heavenof peac,
with every star restored and every glory undim
have been re-affxed over every foot of grount
where II used to float. We would have no peace
at the cost of national unity and national honor
no compromise with traitors though the blood,
hands of war remain outstretcbcd for century
Rather than impiously break the bond which ou
fathers sealed with their blood rather than destr
the hope which the oppressed of the earth bav,
reposed in the stability Of our free government
it were better that every house in the loyal State
dropped with mourning, and that kindred blood
of every loyal heart bad smoked on the battle
fields of the Union


ApPoINTMExr-The Lynn. (Mass) tReporte,
states that Mrs. r. w. Lander, of that city, widow
of the lamented Gen. Lander, has been appointed
Lady Superintendent OF hospitals 10 the Depart
ment of the South, and will soon proceed witt
her mother to Port Royal, s. O., where they vii
reside. She is said to be eminentfy fitted for the
position.


WHEN we see one plank of an American ship
H.. n IN OF ba