Year: 1871




Mr. EDITOR Suffer me to congratulate you
together with Messrs. Crowninshield and Mar
shall, on your election by such overwhelming
majorities. Before entering upon your duties as
Jursts, perhaps little advice from q venerable
wel-wsher will not be amiss, and at the same
time kindly received. Like Quackenbos' works,
after Bolander qualities, if not worth much, will
not cost much.


Ahem Let the sloth and the lAggard linger
by the embers of the past. Be guided at all
times by right and justice. Be alive to the vital
issues of the moment. Stamp precedent under
foot. Plant your standard beside reason and in
telligence and stand by your colors. Rise early
and let your daily walks be spiced with a fun
amount of courage and stubbornuess. For an
example, let me cite to you that deceased indi-
vidual who butted the bovine off the bridge
Here is name that lives in history, is being
passed from generation to generation, and will
live in song and theme when marble tombstones
shall decay and tumble upon the graves of the
present generation.


| That last flight of eloquence "toated " me
up pretty WE'LL but guess can come down all
safe


word about the election just passed. What
on earth is the matter with Democracy? Get
ting little discouraged, l should think. Now
| have not word to say against any defeated
candidates, and shall have but little to say
against the Democratic party. It's bad enough
to bit a man when he's down, but to calmly and
with malice aforethought, deliberately walk up
and kick a corpse is more chances than wish
to take. fellow might see something bobbing
around in the dark, you know. Though not a
firm believer in apparations, prefer not having
unnecessary " hett on my conscience"


am one among many Republicans who hon
estly believe that many heretofore Democrats,
belonging to or better known during the war as
rebels, Intend hereafter to act with the Repubi-
can party. Those men were honest in their
opinions then, and being thoroughly sick and
disgusted with such nonscal twaddle as they
are called upon to swallow, in the shape of " Re-
solves" that hereafter they will support the
party of progress, and know those boys when
they do come. Just bet your last dollar on
them They'll do.


We had quite fire, several days ago, on
Smiths Flat. The house of Joseph Thomas,
together with his household chattels, grub, q
fine watch, and in fact everything, was con-
sumed but the clothes he had on. The fire came
very near burning " Boss Smiths barn, which
at the time was full of hay. About the same
time, his house on Brown s Creek took fire, and
was barely saved by the exertions of Mr.. Dolife,
who was at the house. John says be is not
afraid that fire will ever injure him dollars
worth, his great enemy being water. Thinks
if a rotten apple was squeezed within mile of
here, that " ehebang" would 60 the bridge. :.
| The county seems to be overrun with black
bears. Between here and Hay Fork, a foot-man
has to give the road to them. Two three
men left here this morning. going in that direc-
tion, with the intention of disputing the passage
with Bruin.


Down on the river our nights are quite cool,
with pinchng frost every morning. About
every one you meet now has his regular Winter
hump on.


The fact is, little cold weather goes long
way with me. | never could stand cold. | oft
| Gu Julnk OF u OtaJe-OI-Mulne partner Hdu Ou
this Flat at one time. He often said to me that
he knew very well after having resided in this
country ten or twelve years he could never stand
the climate of Maine. He went home in 81 and
wrote me that it was just as he had always con-
tended, and he had sold his farm and was going
to to move in few days to Minnesota where it
was warm. AS never heard from him again
| suppose he got choked to death with the heat


1t seems that the Fall and Winter marriages
have set in also. Go in, ye old baches. !"
There's nothing on earth that equals lovely
woman - next to her is a live newspaper, and if
| was umpire to decide what come next, should
most emphatically say thorough Kentucky
race-horse That S all this pop. JACINTo.
For the very Best Photographs go to BRADLEY RU-
LOFS0N, No. 429 Montgomery Street, San Francisco
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