New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-21

Hsdes but its magic tones have never charmed 20
slumber the sentinel Of the California forest
The full grown California bear measures from
eight 10 ten feet in length and four or five In grth.
His strength is tremeDdout-hs embrace death -
Had the priett Of Apollo fallen into hi. folds, he
would have persisted without any of those protrac.
cd egoDies vhch the ~ N pathetic muse has vailed
round the world Natare has thrown over him a
coat Of mail cor indeed, butim pervoas 10 the storm
and the arc Of the Indian. The for, which is OF a
dark brown color. is nearly span long, and when
the animal is enrsged each particular hair stands
on end. His food ia the Summer is chiefly berries,
but he will row and then, on some OF his feast
days, slaughter bullock. la Winter be lives on
acorns, which abound in these forests. rs is Al
excellent climber and will ascend large oak with
the rspidty of tar the shrouds OF his ship. Ia
procuring bis scorus when on the tree he does not
manifest bis urual cunning. Instead OF threshing
them down like the Indian, be selects 4 well stocked
limb, throws himself upon its extremity, and there
hangs swinging and jerking till the limb gives way
and down they come, branch, sc0rns and bear to-
gether On these scorns he becomes extremely
fat yielding ten or fifteen gallons OF oil, which il
said to be sufficiently pungent and nutrtye Is
tonic 10 tuit a statue 9 marble head.
The abe bear has one peculiarly that mus. puz
ze even the philosophical inquirer. AS soon as
abe ducovera herself with younS, she ceaIes TO
roam the forest and modestly retres from the pres
ence OF Others to some secluded grotto. There she
remains, while her male companion with c0nsid
GRAFTON that does honor 10 his eek, brings her food
She reappers at length with her twin CUBS, and wo
TO the luckless wight who should attempt to mi IRE
or molest them. They are guarded By en- affection
and ferocity with which it would be madness 10 TIL
he For them she hunts the berries, and dislodges
the acorns. Her m sterDal care is beautiful trait in
her savage nature, and
"Shines like good deed In a naughty world"
THE ALcALDEs SUMMARY METHODS
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her soD, full grown youth, had struck her. Usage
here allows q mother 10 chRStise her 1on as long
he remains unmarried and lives at home. whatever
may be bis age, and reg ards blow inH cted on
pareIt as q high ofense. sent for the cu pri., laid
bis crime before him, for which he seemed to care
but little; and ordered him 70 take off his Jacket
which was done. Then putting riata into the
bands Of his mother, whom nature had endowed
with strong arms, directed her 70 fog him. Every
cut of the RATA made the fellow Jump from the
floor. Twelve lashes were enough; the mother
did her dtty, and as had done mine, the parties
were Dismissed. No further complaint from that
quarter
THE ALCALDE AND HIS MAS BOB
Ny man Bob, y ho is Of Irish extraction, and who
had been in the mines about two months returned
to Monterey four weeks since, bringing with him
over two thousand dollars, as the proceeds OF his
labor. Bob, while In my employ required me to
pay him every Saturday night, in gold, which he
put into little leather bag and sewed into tue lin
ing OF HE coat after taking out cents, bic week
" allow Ance for tobacco But noW he took rooms
and began 10 branch out he had the best horEes
the richest viands and the choicest wines in the
place. He never drank himself, but il filed him
with delight to bin the sparkling goblet for others
met Bob to-day, and asked him no y be got on
"Oh very well" he replied; but | am OIL again
for the mines" "How is that, Bob you brought
down with you over two thousand dollars hope
bay oil hat IN In
saving; l2I ceuts week for tobacco, and the rest
you sc wed into the lining Of your coat" Oh,
yes" replied Bob, "and have got that money yet
/ work ed for it, and the die can't git itaway; but
the two thousand dollars came asny by good luck,
and has gone az asily as it came" Now Bobs
story lie only one Of thousand like il! in California
ard has deeper philosophy in it than meets the
eye. Multitudes here are none the richer for the
mines. he who can shake chestnuts from an ex-
haustess tree wont sickle about the quantity he
roasts.
MONTEREY SOCIETY IL COOKED HAT
The gold mines have upset all social and domestic
arrangements in Monterey the master has become
bis oW n servant and the servant his own lord
The millionaire is obliged TO groom bis an horse,
ard roll his wheelbarow aud the hidalgo-in
whose veins flows the blood of all the Cortes-to
clean his own boots Here 10 Lady L, who
has lived here seventeen years, the pride aud orna
ment of the place, with broOmsiick IN her jeweed
mana! AnO mere IL ucI
ter-all the way from odd Virginia" where they
graced society with their veried accom- 3lishments
now floating between the parlor and kitchen, and
as much at home in the one as the other! And
here ia Lady s., whose cattle are on a thous-
and hills, lifting, like Rachel of cid her bucket OF
" ater from the deep WE'LL And here is Lady VI.
l., whose honey moon is still full of soft Sc
rtphc light, unhouseliHg potato, and hunting the
hen that lsld the laGt egg. And here am /, who
have been a man OF some note In my day, loatrg on
tie hos pitaty OF the good citizens and grateful for
4 meal, though in an Indians wigwam. Why, is
not this enough to make one wish the gold mines
were in the earth's ilsming center from which they
spIungl Out on this yellow dust tits worse than
the cinders which buried Pompeii for there, high
and low shared the same fate
THE ALcALDE DREAMS DREAM
| had come to the mines without pick, but this
morning fell in with a trader who had one for sale
bis price was $40 in specie, or sis in gold dust.
gave him the specie the pick weighed about four
pounds, Yves of rude manufacture and without a
handle; but this apPendSee was readily supplied
from the limb Of an ash. Thus ACQUIRED, | strobe
down the ravine not doubling bu. what should,
before night, strike upon some deposit which would
fill my pockets. Passing groups who were engaged
in digging into this bank and that, fell IN with
sailor, whom l recognized as one of the men who
had been honorRbly discharged from the Savannah.
He was cropping about as if in queat OF something
he had lost. {" What is the matter, Jonesl' | in
CURED; he sprung to his feet gave m his rough
hand and pointed TO cliff which oyerhung the
glen. There, on that crsg," said he, D" have
been at work ever since the peep OF day, and got
cut several bits Of gold and one good sized lump:
| put them in my tin cup, when, striking away
again my picked glanced struck the cup, aud
Knocked it, gold and all, halfway across this
ravine; and | might as well hunt clam ia the
Pacific as that gold, though it was jewel OF a
piece-the bigegst have seen here" So laid
DOWN my pick, assembled the cliff, e,certsined as
near as possible the direction in which the cup
few, ard commenced the search. Every bunch OF
leaves, every hole and guey were examined, and
! the cup recovered, but the gold vas not in it.
! Fshgued, j threw myself into the shade OF
scruboak, and went to sleep; but the gold OF poor
! Jones glanced through my dreams. saw, in that
fantastic realm small birch tree, sbubbling spring
at its root and in it's fount piece Of gold. /