The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-11-18

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growth of Jonah's gourd, ore beginning to dot
the American shores Of the great Pacific.
( Far be IL from me TO insinuate that their ven-
ture is wild one, and their hopes necessafi-
ly doomed TO untmely blight. have faith
in American energy; still more in sturdy,
J persistent, intelligent Industry; and ] feel
sure that cline SO genial, country so di-
versified in it's natural features, a soil SO deep
and virgin, as those of California, must prof
fer many inducements to the hardy, resolute
pioneer, even though that soil be here and
there spriukled with gold Such an enter
prise as the peopling and settling of coun-
try so new and SO remote from prior civiliza-
tion, will, of course, demand its martyrs: in
its prosecution thousands will die, and tens of
Thousands fail; but the enterprise itself will
neither die nor fall and many of those who
fifty embark in it will achieve, at last, sue
cess and competence. What ! would say
is addressed rather to the tens of thousands,
whom flial or parental ties retain among lis,
while they impstehtly champ the bit and
say, "Why am not /, too, at liberty to cross
the Rocky Mountains and gather my share
of the golden harvest!" To these | would
earnestly say, "Beleve not, repning friends.
that California and fortune are inseperable;
nor forget that there were broad avenues to
success and competence before Fremont un-
furled his Bear standard in the valley of the
Sacramento" Nay: be assured that, right
here in Indiana, are ample plGcers for all who
Will resolu;ely and wisely work them--pla-
GERS, whereof the yield may be less per pan or
day than that of some of the richest'gulches'
on the Feather or the Yuba; but then it is
certain, inexhaustible, and sure to prove more
and more abundant with each returning sea-
son. The deeper these mines are worked the
more ample is the return; they require no
outlay Of skill or labor in "prospecting;'' for
every arabic rood will reward the digger's ee-
forts, and from the Ohio to the Missouri he
will find hardly any other than "pay-dirt"
As for me, long-tossed on the stornest
waves of doubtful conflict and arduous en-
dearor, have begun to feel, since the shades
OF forty years fell upon me, the weary, tenn
pest-drivIn voyager's longing for land, the
wanderers yearning for tie hamlet whers
in childhood he nestled by his mothers knee,
and was soothed to sleep on her breast. The
sober down-hiIl Of life dispels many illusions
while it developes VI strengthens within US
the attachment, perhaps long smothered or
OveTlaid, for "that dear hut our home" And
so !, in the sober afternoon OF life, when its
sun, if not high, is still warm, have bought
me few acres OF land in the broad, still coun-
try, and, bearing thither my household treas
ures, have resolved to steal from the Citv's
labors and anxieties at least one day IN each
week, wherein 10 revive as farmer the MEM
ories of my childhood's humble home. And
already realize that the experiment cannot
cost SO much as it is worth. Already | find
in that days quiet an antidote and soiace
for the feverish, fostering cares Of the weeks
which environ it, Already my brook mur-
mers soothing even.song to my burning,
throbbing brain: and my trees, gently stirred
by the fresh hreezes, whisper to my spirit
something Of their own quiet strength and
patient trust in God. And thus do family
realize, but for brief and fitting day, the
serene joy which shall irradiate the Farmers
vocation, when fuller and truer Education
shall have refined and chastened his animal
cravings, and when Science shall have en-
dowcd him with her treasures, redeeming La
Dor from drudgery while quadrupling its eff
icieucy, and crownng with beauty and plens
ly our bounteous, beniicent Earth.