Year: 1859

DhAh olh - OelieNe your hhuiS 10 Lt"'"
icum. If mistake not you are the man
who few months since occupied the respon-
sible position Of second deputy in the office
of WIN. Sharkey, Esq, County Clerk OF
Vuba county, and very positive enemy OF
Mr.. Buehanan's administration. Pray tell
me, did Mr.. Shalkey's money ever burn
hole in your painfully loyal pocketF You
are now the unknown editor of an obscure
newspaper, conducted on highly economical
principles, and which is, as verify believe.
more despised by members Of your own par
ty for its imbecility, than feared by its op-
ponents for its influence. The proprietors Of
the paper Tone third being owned by lady,
and one third by an alien. as is asserted.) not
being very prominent in politics, you are
supposed by many to seek: :counsels. as to the
course you shall pursue, from few scrubby
county politicians who have just been drag
ged into local offices upon Milton S. Latham's
shoulders. against the known wishes and
open rotiug opposition Of cfh"ndreds of Adminis'
trdtion Democrats do not know but some
Of these few land do not. by any means,
refer to the whole county ticket last elected
may have penned the virulent attacks which
have appeared against me, in your paper.
When you were allowed employment on the
Express, many people laughed, and thought
that you felt as little at home as bull would
in China shop, to use plain figure; but
then they said you were poor. and they were
glad you could make living. In this char
table feeling shared. l never thought you
hadmuch gall in your composition, and, to tell
the honest truth, never saw either malice or
much of anything else in anything you ever
wrote. until on Friday you uncorked a small
vial of wrath on my head, and reformed oil
my former good feelings towards you by try
ing to make my present situation uncomfort-
able to me. My employer. Judge Bolts. re-
piled in Saturday Standard. thought
ought to be satisfied with what he said, and
intended to make no reply. To day you
make grand onslaught, assisted by Sacra.
mento correspondent, signing himself ID ,
(does that stand for Dog. or Donkey y and
seem really bent on annihiating me. do
not know whether you do this Of your own
accord, or whether you are instigated to it
by the little spiteful crew of adders whose
fangs have sometimes helped to extract dur
ing the past four or FIVE years. The malice
exhibited in your leader to-day has frightened
away truth. and unless you correct yourself
l very much fear that you will have your
part in the lake that burneth with fire and
birthstone"


1t is not true. that I ever wished the De-
mocracy of Yuba in any especially warm
place. l have said that the Express had not
friends enough TO do me any harm in my bus.
iness relations, and I repeat it. Your quota
tion from the DEMOCRAT concerning the
Standard and the Supreme Court, touches
not me, as did not write it. (Neither did
Mr.. Ridge.) So you are foiled, in your at
tempt to poison the mind Of one of my best
friends against me, and at the same time to
iniure me with the editor of the Standard
You perhaps thought I wrote it, but now
you know that did not, and of course the
repetition of the contrary would be wlful
and deliberate lie. l took occasion some
time ago to set myself right with those in.
terested.


Do not fear that I will attempt to iniure
your business in any way. My friends are
naturally indignant at the malicious efforts
Of your paper to follow me into my private
business arrangements, but they need not
mind it. You can assure them from me that
have q very comfortable and respectable
'ituation, and that am likely to retain it.
as Judge Bolts is kind enough to inform me
do not envy you the place you occupy. l
hope that when you are through with abus-
ing me. you will take pains to learn some
thing about yOm own business, so that you
may retain your position, if you can live
upon it. If the venomous attacks upon my
unimportant self are rather the productions
of some old enemies of mine, than any of
your work, pray pass this letter over to the
man who wrote the articles for you.


believe you tell your Yuba county read
ers no news when you charge me with hav-
ing acted against the Lecompton party, as
you are pleased to term it, during the last
two campaigns. / am free to act rs please
now, as l was them and l shall take the
liberty, without explanation to you, (for it is
none of your business,) or to the public at
large. (for they don't care what do) to ex-
hiGit my attachment to the Democratic creed.
hy acting with the organization which can
alone be heard at Charleston, from this State,
either for or against the nomination of that
great Democratic leader STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.
You may now fret at your leisure upon what,
though you do not like, you cannot help
Remember me to the select few around you,
and permit me to apologize for being in good
health and spirits after such drubbing as
you have given me.


Imust now part with you by saying that
| can devote half your to writing you at
any time when your Sacramento correspon-
dent "D." is otherwise engaged.


GEoRGE G. GoRHAM.
VEGETABLE WoNDER-The San Andreas
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