The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-05-23

six dollars. Your high boots, which
have never seen a brush since you first
put them on, have given out. You find
a pair that will replace them-thevare
a tolerableft; and now what is the price
Fifty dollars! Your beard has not fell
q razor since you went to the mines
it must come of, and your frizzled haiI
be clipped. You find a barber; his
dull shears hang in the knots Of your
hair, like shoepshearer's in fleece
matted with burs; his razor he straps
on the leg Of his boot, and then he
hauls away, starting at every pull some
fresh fountain Of tears. You vow you
will let the beard 60; but then one
side is partly off, and you try the ago
ny again to get The other side some
thing like it. And now what IS the
charge for this torlurel -Four dollars!
Night is approaching, and you must
have place where you can sleep. To
inquire for bed, would be as idle as
to hunt for pearl in the jungle Of a
Greenland bear. You look around for
the lee Of shanty or tent, and tumble
down for the night; bnt a thousand
fieas dispute the preplses with you;
the contesti is hopeless--you tumble out
as you tumbIed in, and spend the re-
mainder of the nightin finding place
not occupied by these aborigines Of the
soil.
See you that young man with a long
whip in his hand, cracking it over an
OK teeml He was one of the most
learned geologists, for his age, in the
United States, and came out here to
apply his science to the discovery Of
gold deposits; but somehow bis diving
rod always dipped wrong, and now he
has taken rod about which there is
no mistake; so, at least, think his cat
tie. But look--do you see that young
gentleman with string of fish, which
he offers for salel He was the best
Greek and Latin scholar Of his class
IN Yale College, and subsequently, one
Of the most promising men Of the bar.
But he exchanged his Blackstone for
pick; and instead of picking fees out
OF his clients pockets, he came here to
dig gold out ofthe mines; but the deuce
~ =: "a g s-t----s-s---Is -Is'u'u- uv,4viu
close upon a deposit it was no longer
there! So he exchanged his pick for
hook and line, and now angles for pike
Plckerel and perch, and can describe
each tish BY some apt line from Catul.
l1s. He would do well at his new mis-.
catory profession, hut for the eilded
hook OF the gambler. He laughs al
the trout for darting at fctious fly, and
then chases a bait himself, equally fan.
ciful and false.
But look again-do you see that pull
Per'a' with its gathered groups ofsold-
lerS and sailors, poets and politicians,
merchants and mendicants, doctors and
draymen, clerks and c9bblers, trappers
and tlnkers? That lltte man who stands
0ehlnd the bar, and deals to each his
dram Of fire, was once a preacher, and
deemed almost prophet, as he depict
ed the Pangs Of that worm that dieth
not. but now he has exchanged that
worm for another, but preserved his
consistency; for this worm, too. distil.
Ielh dellrium aud death. And that thick
'et man who stands in the midst of the
crowd with ruby countenance and rey>
elilng eye, whose repartee sets the
whole pnlperia in a roar, and who is
low watching the liquor in his glass 70
'ee i II stirreth itself Alright, once lee.
ured IN the west on the temptations Of
sose who talry late at the wine: but
low his teetotallsm covers all liquors as
'ood gifts graciously bestowed. ButII
ne short year, and some Dame Quick.
y may describe his pale exit as that Of +:
lls dehnnm prototype-"I saw him
umble with the sheets, and play with
lowers, and smile upon his fingefs'
'nds," And yet, with all these draw /.
all these gaming tambles,
.rog shops, shavers and Aeas--San
lranclscois swelling into atown Of the !
lghest commercial Importance. She
ommands the trade Of the great val. :.
eys through which The Sacramento and
oaquin, with their numerous tributa- /
es, roll: she gathers to her bosom the I
manufactures Of the United States, of /
,ngiand, China, the shores and islands {
the Pacific. :
BETTER GO TwIcE.-Keen. - Two v
ID gentlemen were complimentinp i,
acn other on the habits Of temperance. v
"Dld you ever, neighbor," )" said one, il
zee me with more than could carryl" Il
No. indeed, Twas the reply, anot |. Il
ut ! have seen you when thought 81
ou had better have gone twice afterit. a,
q western paper says that the loco- Z
otlvo is the very best motive that has y
zen given forriding a man on arail. q
a man who had scoldinp wife. be- iii