Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-11-12
CALIFORNIA.

painted the picture of that route into Il
familiarity of boyhood's school path Br
as his ships prov makes It's twentieth inc
sion into the waves of ocean, he turns h
helm hard down, to avoid an unmarka
and unnamed island, which neither h
chart nor his memory can at all explain
By what strange convulsion that new oas
has been thrown up in the briny Sahar.
he knows not but he marks down tn
new evidence of Natures activity, and give
it 4 proper place in the family of the saa
50 has California sprung W, vulnerable
and unlocked for. Men live in an age O
dreams, when fancy plumes capacious wing
ana leaves the earth far, far behind; bu
none dreamed Of the liquid gold that ha
been melting for ayes in the rocky crucibl
of the Pacific. There came 10 lce!tc from
the land of sprites, to wave Il magic wan,
toward Ca!ifornia's shore but, printles
and unknown, its golden coast threw bacI
the golden sunlight which FIR counties.
generations had mingled in its beauty.
As Ii .htlv Ger its FURNISHED bed
The forest warbler G,w,
Der go'i,t c,t,s BE- b,;., his head,
To Griu, ia. IL rn5n Z, 'eg.
BIT fee.i1E i.ris ia sul--it ancks
Alone jh"r w...-s ca,ii fold
Where : rsr. sling SANDS aLd studied FORKS
Flashed I.,k Ia IL vi. II god.
Il seems strange that during the liz, tine
os the .Adsn;c race, this lani sanuI have
slept in sceuri y, with is treasures locked
up IN its deep clycrns, and ~, till yes.er-
DIV should the natious have been called to
contemplate a discovery 50 materially af-
f,c,ing the relations and interests Of the
world. The history of the Past can furnish
n, instance Of national movement, in all its
attendant circumstances, comparable with
this. California stands ont the Minerva
of the nations sprung, full grown, from
Jupiter's brain. The stars that deck the
deep azure, come there from the faintest
glimmer of departing twilight, and in
crease in brilliancy as the night spreads
its mantle but Mis star has passed into
the heavens while it is yet day, and pre-
faced twilight. in the golden glory of the
sunset. The vast exp1nse, untracked save
by the hunters moccaSn, or the hoofs OF
rowing herds, ever associated with the ex-
tremities Of distance, and put away, in the
miad 5 estimate, on the verge Of remote
lands, has suddenly assumed Il prominence
ia the commerce of the world, that more
resembles the fulG!ment of Arabian rhap-
soiies, than the stern reality Of actual life.
The public ear still tingles with the
startling echo, which walked up the masses
from the St. Lawrence TO the Rio Granie,
and from Cape SaLleto Vancouver Island,
Never was such an exodus from mart and
villa, from shop and field, since a myth
cal complny Of eager spirits sailed through
the Black sea in search Of the Golden
Fleece. NJ pen can picture the enthusiasm
which entered into the excited mHlttude,
when the cry of Gold was sounded from
the Sacramento Valley All ranks and
classes, colors and kinds, sought the
reality of their auriferous visions. Tie
farmer heard the sound and filing the
last furrow OF his icrefathcrs domain, went
ia reap the harvest amid quartz and sand.
The artizan heard it /; and putting the I'm
ishing stroke to the subject OF his skill,
packed up his tools, and went to try their
temper, and his own,on gold studded rocks.
The tradesman heard it and boxing the
remnan. of his wares, which an undiscern-
ing public would not buy at half prices,
went to speculate in yellow stones and gold
dust. The laborer heard it; and scraping
the dirt from his pick axe and shovel,
went to test their virtues in the bowels Of
the golden hills. The physician heard it;
and leaving his patients 10 the regimen Of
Natures prescriptions, went 10 employ
his patience in sinking shafts into fcldspar
The student heard it; and taking last
leave Of lexieons and blackboards, went to
read what Nature laugh: him in the golden
trimmed volume of q western press. The
Young man heard it and the wiidness Of
youthful ambition tore him from domestic
fondness and maternal love. The old man
heard it; and sighed, as he gave his part
ing blessing to his eager boys, that age had
dimmed his eye, and crippled his step,
and home must claim him as rover no
more. Households heard it; and leaving
the accumulated comforts of years, with
babesa aud baggage marchedlrom their home
stead to seek dwelling in the fairy realm.
Loves votaries heard it; and tear drops
fell from beauty's eyes, as loving and loved
ones wept last farewell, and hoped for
coming wealth for future happiness. Tie
nations from afar heard it; and Christen-
dom and Heathendom sent their represen-
tatives to bore the finty rocks; as if finger
posts had been erected in every land,
pointing to the Pacific coast, and bearing
the inscription-"Gold for the World"
Never die such a motley crowd meet to-
gether before. There were the hard 6sted
son of toll, and the nervous offshoot Of the
drawing room. In the same mine might
be seen the lank specimen of New Hamp-
shire citizenship, and the dark browed
dignity of the chivalric Virginian. At
the same washing we're the proprietor of
the faro bank, and the distracted face Of
the New England deacon. The English
axd Sho Msvinan fhe Russian opd