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Show A "Special Correspondent." A few dnys since an infiiMtile bohemian from the wooden station of Truckee, on the Central Pacific, put in an appearance on our streets, and loudly bazzooned and widely heralded himself as the special correspondent cor-respondent of the Sacramento Record, "Special correspondents" are so deuced common in this city that they do not amount to much, and excite about as little attention as a magpie among a flock of his fellows; but this juvenile soiler of while paper would mke himself known and heard. If that young man will profit by wise counsel he will immediately return to his timbered Truckee and secure a situation to count lath, bunch shingles, shin-gles, or sweep sawdust from a mill race. His genius would there find ample scope, and by steady habits, and regular attendance at Sabbath school?, he might be elevated to the position of tail sawyer. 1 This "special correspondent" visits daily the District Court, and then gets his news trom the -United States Marshal's Mar-shal's ofiice. Here is a specimen of his brilliant composition, which adds so much to the attractiveness of the Record columns: The grand jury found and reported to-duy nineteen indictments! Some ot them would give the Christian world great hopes of the ultimate, nay immediate im-mediate triumph of justice in Utah. The names of the indicted cannot be ; inade puoltc, however, until the ar-j rests are made, so he patient for a Jew days. Eighteen indictments were reported re-ported tbis morning, and to-night a special session of ihe court was called that one more might bo reported. I have not the slightest idea who the subject is, but I'd stake my existence that it is a powerful indictment! I have closely scanned the (aces of the jurymen every time they have come into court, and I never saw such an excited, troubled expression on ny faces as theirs were lo-niglit. Not a man ol them but Bhowcd intense in-tense mental excitement! They are a fine, intelligent looking body ot men, and evidently aim to do their duty iully and well; but to-night they made a report that required a fearful struggle. Whether the excited look was caused by horror at the crimes rrcited before them, or by the dreadful dread-ful responsibility ot the act they were perJorminfi, could not be told, but it was caused by one or the other. I predict that an arrest will be made ere morning dawns that could not have been made if the jury had not been returned to their rooms. In (tome way information would have reached the party, and before the sunbeams lit up the Wasatch Peaks, he would have been miles a way. In speaking of a noted criminal a few days eince, an officer who & thoroughly thor-oughly posted said, ' Give that man one hour's notice of an indictment, and he will be on his way to Mexico, with an arnlcd body guard of 200 men. Three ye.irs atro Brighaiu Young and Daniel H. Wells were each indicted in-dicted on two separate charges lor murder! 1 talked with a man last night who will swear positively that he himself has committed murder at the instigation instiga-tion and under the instruction of the Mormon leaders! He has corroborating corroborat-ing witnesses! How annoying it must have been to the jury to have an ass "scanning their faces'' even- time they came into court, and watching the "excited troubled expression,'' aiid the "fearful "fear-ful struggle" depicUd on their countenance?, coun-tenance?, when they reported that "powerful indictment.'' If intelligent intelli-gent men could be insulted by such a thing, wc would expect to hear that someone of the grand jurors had taken the infant across his knee, and set him to crying for hii mamma, for sayicg the iury had to bo locked up to prevent Jhsm fiom discovering the subject of that powerful indictment. But we are devoting too much enacc to this mi:?, who ought not to again trust himself from home till he is weaned. To the credit of the ordinary ordi-nary correspondent be it said he doos not furnish to his journal such senseless sense-less twaddle and sickening balderdash as the above from the pen of the Record's baby Fater wuster. , |