Year: 1871

he can pull up stakes and emigrate to another
spot. just so with myself and that ife-sized
portrait of bad luck, T. Snort Jones, the String
Band (see JoURNAL) of Trinity county that
he-Christian who never receives credit for any
thing he does, except his sins of omission, COM
mission and, might add, subdivision AS l
was going on to say, an hour ago, we failed
to see that remaining on that spot called Head of
Navigation would add to- our store" (suffer
me to quote from any American poet like best
so moved down, once more, to old Douglas
How things have changed in few years. This
little town, of life and business once now looks
like ripe mullen patch. Her sun has gone
! down, and down forever.


We are going to mine on Union Hill bully
name, that; but "a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet" which l am disposed to
believe, although never knew of its being tried.
Have known it to be tried on a pole-cat; call
him skunk or call him poe-cat, it's all the same,
John, he smells-phew Just sweet.
| The political pot begins to bubber handsomely
and, judging from the start, in three months or
less vesuvius will not be circumstances In
that time the question will not be asked &C. who
are the candidates ?" but rather " who are not ?"
We will poll in round numbers say 500 votes /;
798 Of that lot will, perhaps, be before the dear
people soliciting their sufrages. That will leave
but two constituents, who will be myself and
partner. What fine opportunities for selling
We propose to make raise out of the campaign,
as we cannot do it at mining have got every
thing set ParG is to do the fnancering and
am going to put up sore-head panacea-hold'
am stealing an advertisement but, be aisy Pat,
| if we should strike anything good, remember
the JOURNAL Office is in with us. am glad to
see so many candidates before the people, it
speaks well for the intelligence of the country.
For my own part want no office, never did
very bad, and if | ever do hold one, the office
must hunt me, By the way, if an Office should
be prowling around in search of any old, " life
long" Democratic war-horse, they can be found
in the back stalls and out-sheds You can back
your ears, old fellows, and try to kick, but you
have got to eat that kind OF hay and you can
help yourselves.


1t was said of John G. Calhoun that when he
snuffed Carolina sneezed. 1t was just the same
in Kentucky when Henry Clay took snuff. Boys
of my age were going to make statesmen of
mselves-eclipse Clay even. distinctly re-
collect, at the age of nine, at a school exhibition
how strutted upon the stage, exclaiming =
Where's the mighty man of war, who dare
accept the challenge of Philistia's Chief % and
echo answered, o, git out l'' That sound has
never entirely died away. Aspirants for office,
some of you make a note of this and, after the
election is over, listen for that sound There are
just two classes of citizens in this county who
stand the best chances of an election the class
who have money enough on hand to purchase
the Office right out, and class who are so deep
in debt that their friends bound to support
them that they pay up


The War in Europe, suppose, is virtually over.
Nasby had good plan at one time for the relief
of Paris, but if General Trochu could have only
had his uniformed in shirts like one Pard
has, and used with Pard's tactics, it would have
saved France great deal of humiliation. Pard
is saving that shirt for his last winding sheet.


There's one thing had almost forgotten in
speaking Of candidates for office. The Republi-





teen years-that being the length of time have
been in this county, do not recollect of Hay
Fork ever having had candidate, although there
are plenty of good men over there that | could
name. The same might be said of Canon Creek.
To be sure, the latter place did have Supervisor
but then, who wants that? There no money in
it, and if a man could ground-sluice with the
curses he gets, he would want the bottomless pit
for dump.


| know nothing of the mines of this district
in fact, there is only few claims that have
full supply of water as yet. JAoINTo.


P. .S.-As Grimes, Jr" deceived no one,
will hereafter write my letters over the signature
of " Jacinto," as usual.


never write a postscript without thinking l
am transgressing the reserved rights of the
women. Whoever received letter from lady
without the inevitable P. S.-sometmes two or
three of them. | never did venture to say
that you might request a lady friend to send you
written copy of the Lords Prayer " Give us
this day our daily bread, :" and the letter would
close with "P. Snow, be sure and ask for
hop-yeast bread"


As this is about all the slander | am in pos
session Of shall bring my letter to a close with
the following short


PRAYER.


o, Lord, Thou knowest that the gates of Stock
ton are yawnng for another victim, and Thou
knowest that am nearly ready to be yawned
Be it Stockton, o Lord or be it San Quentin,
Thy will be done. But beseech Thee, o Lord,
in Thy magnanimity and loving kindness, to de-
liver me from the yawnings OF Humboldt county,
California aud Thine shall be the power, Amen.


David Please copy prayer and charge Eureka
Fog Works. j.