Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-12-16
From the Mo Republican.
KATY COwSliD'S Eancics.

NIFTY w" ShhR > EahhIACSs
"-Entreat me no. to leave thee or
to return from following after thee; for
whi:her thou goes: will go, and where
thou lodges. will lodge; thy people shall
be my people. Where thou diest will
die, aud there will | be buried. Ruth.
Ii were President and the whole oi
Congress only tor one week, would re-
model The world, or as much of it as be-
longs to Uncle Sam; at least think
would pass-yes, the very first--would
be one prohibiting men with wives and
families, and men with wives and no fam
lies, and men with families and no wives,
making arrant asses of themselves by
running away to California without their
encumberances. wouldn't have any
such wild goose scampering off to lead a
vagabond, dirty, grubbing, nalt-loatins
life, thousands of miles away, while the
poor women are left al home to cultivate
the morals, dirty noses and ragged
clothes of AN indefinite amount of worse
than fa,herless iuvinility. have no,
come to it, the gods be praised; and |
wish every woman. California widows |
mean,) who has come to it, and has go,
used 10 her lonliness like a weak, loving.
hoping. longing drudge that she is, had
a little of my spirit when her lord aud
master (save The mark first broached the
subject. | should like to hear my hus-
band, supposing that had such an ami
NAL attached to ne, tell me he was going
to California without me. should en-.
joy it; j, would be exciting, particularly
in warm weather. On second thought,
l should not enjoy it. if cared any
thing for the fellow, | might wound his
feelings.
Going 10 California, are you, Mr..
Jones! 1 always did abominate the name
of Jones, it is worse by many degrees
than Smith, and | know 1 shall be perse-
culed into marriage by one of the tribe. J
| will have divorce MIR. Jones, and
you shall settle an allowance on your chii-
dren, and then, Mr.. Jones, you may go
to Cahfornis aad welcome, or to Homo
lulu and marry one Of Queen Pomare's
big black daughters; if not, "whllher
thou goest will co. as sure as my
name Is Katy. That is what every
woman placed in the same position
should say. He should never hear the
las: of it. would serve i, up in his
shaving water, directly he had tumbled
out o. bed in the morning; he should
have it mixed up with groans in his off
ice for breakfast: tackled on his dinner in
sighs Of forty female power; made sup
Elementary to his supper, and showered
upon him in cataracts of tears and thun-
dering representations of bad luck,
when fairly inside the curtains. He
should rough il at home, before he went,
besure, by way ol foretaste of that to
come in the dlgglns. With me. it is an
axiom, that the woman who allows her
husband TO tramp off to California with
out her, has softer place than her heart
in her head. ..-...
"Whilher thou goest, will go; and
and where thou lodgest, will lodge; thy
people shall be my people. Where thou
dicst, will | die." This is the doctrine,
the true and only compact which should
be binding between man and woman
"Whither thou goest, | will go;" what
is sauce for the gander is sauce for the
goose. Will his bright dreams OF gold,
always of gold repay her for long. weary
months, weary, long years of anxious,
moody, fearing thought! Will those
golden dreams fill up the dreary void of
the heart, which--long since tired of self,
when she gave il him in the al,ar--now
pines anc frets for that answering pulse
it misses! Will the glitiering dross he is
shaving for, and hiding steailhllv, lest the
spirit Of murder and theft should clutch
it from h.m-will the thought of this TO
her be taken as fair barter for missing
letters, which he had promised 10 send
by every mail. and never fail! Will
whole reams of correspondence, written
never so closely. equalize the loss OF
his daily presence in his house! Will
page upon page of the fondest endear.
ments ever coined in words caused her
to think the less on the husbands kiss,
hers ever as he left or came home, when
he was with her! Her child. perhaps,
has learned to lisp 'papa" since he left;
she taught him that first of all--and he is
not at home 10 hear it. 'rhe child is ILL.,;
perhaps is dying. Oh God! he is no,
there. When will he come! she asks
herself-when? His last letter says:--
I'm the fall. Months. long. sad. repent.
an. months are yet to pass over her, as
lone and wrapped in memory of the past.
aud hope of the future, as those already
swept over her ma,chless heart. And a.
night, as the prayer Of Him dies on her
lips for him, her other self. far away, and
the child she bends over--her heart says:
Husband. husband. never, never more.
"Whi,her thou goest, will 60. Thy
people shall be my people, where thou
diest will die, and there be buried"
KATY COWSLIP.