The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1849-12-14


} With thu banjo on my knee
/ ! accostcd the singer, an Irish lad of fourteen
and asked him where he had learned to sing the
air, Of Virginia, and be said in London Of the ne
gro singers that came from America. passed a
/ little further to the head Of the basin or harbor
and there was a large and we'll built ship, "L'In,
termindble, advertised to sail for California a.
merica forever, said l. and went aboard Sure e.
nough, there was score OF ship carpenters fitting
( her up all into berhs for 200 passengers; and so
| there are TO be mingled in the population Of the
! golden California, Two hundred Of the blackeyed
MurseIllas. Several were on board looking them
selves up beTth- and examining with marks OF
curiosity the huge copper cooking furnace that
stands in the centre OF the deck And what do
yon expect to gam in exchanging La b. lie France
! for California said !, to a young man in whose
peculiarly dark features discovered SLIGHT dash
! Of Moorish blood "Ah, Monseur-Eh bien
| look ut me, Monsieur, ! am one of four Nv mo-
! tAcr Is dead--Hy father is dead We hold the
/ least bit Of land For one it Is good For twoi-
/ Is plssabe, For three it is too petit For four it
/ IS impossible. We are f1u brothers, Monsieur
! Weurc I'll one, Monsieur We cannot ba separa-
! ted We cannot be one in France We viii be
one in America" America forever | inwarlly
exclaimed. America Land Of hope TO how ma
| ny in whose breasts hope has been extngui-hed .
Thou only canst renew the light, thou land of pro-
mise, the orphan, Of the world turn to thee -
| Thou art the common mother Of the oppressed,
the home Of the unfortunate, the asylum Of the
exile. This thou hast ever been, and this mavest
| thou continue to be- for there are more Departing
eyes turned to thee across the western wave now,
since loagoel oppression HIS triumphei over the
old world!
The crowning glory Of Marsei,cs is to be found
| IN the stupendou- hydraulic work, which size has
jus, competed, -urpl- -iny in extent the aqucducts
of the Roman empire AMI all similar works Of
molcn days. II Is not, however IN aqucduct
but canal; and It's magnitude i derived from It's
great length the vast volume Of water it holds AMI
( the dtculte5 encountered and overcome IN the
Course If is construction 1t is 81 miles in length
and takes Is water from the river Durlnce at a
/ place called Pcrtuis The whole tract Of country
through which it passes is mountainous, but not
much of it broken by ridges and nynes. Il pas
sc5 through three cham, OF mountains in II course
making m all a distance Of 20 miles Of tunnrln.
through rock. Ii Is carried across the river Arc.u
the form Of an argue !uct on three rows otarchcs
and Is continued in the same form over thcrlvne
through which that small stream runs in Ill q Dis
tlnyc Of 2t2 feet above the river /, is calculated
that eleven tun, of water per -e'ord pass ;hrou n
this canal and il rcaclse, the city at an elevation
Of 400 feet above the level Of tie sea- which j. IL
bout The same rs 400 feet above the plveman.- Of
the streets which are hut a few feet above the
tdclJss waters Of the Mediterranean A triple
object was 10 be- gained in the construction Of this
work water in ablnianae for the citr.a water
power for certain hranchc, Of manufacturers; and
the means of iIr,rlt,n, the parlieas AMI region q
round the city, where 1t Is c-f.ml.eI that tht val.
uo Of land viii be eah nrul 'hrac-1lt By cOu'au,