The Nevada journal., 1853-04-15
Grass Valley Correspondence.


with life anew Old winter is vanquish-
ed, and gone away to chant his melan-
choly dirge in other climes. The NOR
ming of the new year is dawning upon
u.s. and al. nature is awakening to its
life giving light. The humblest being
of all animated creation has been called
away from the CO embraces of winter,
and made to rejoice with life in the ge-
nial air of Spring. She is scattering her
fairest flowers among the quiet dales and
mountain slopes of the Sierras, and the
mancenita on thousand hills have long
since felt her warm breath, and bloomed
and gladdened and ladened it with a
boundless profusion of ecstatic odors
The vain dogwood, hard by the margin
of the snow-horn brook, will soon scent
the evening gale with its fragrance, the
life-surrents are coursing high on the
boughs of the oak, and its leaves are
bursting from the incarcerations Of their
infant home to catch the pure light of
Heaven. Yesterday stood on the top
Of a proud hill. My vision to the snow
blanched peaks of the Nevada noun
tains was unbroken. Frem north to
south, as far as the eye could reach, for
hundreds of miles, they furnished most
magnificent border for the eastern hori-
zon, and with the pure azure of the sky
r for q background, they seemed as a
: huge representation delincated on the
outstretched Heavens, by the Supreme
Artifcer Of the World, to please and
ennoble the children of the Pacific -
e And, as my eyes rested on vast gorge
9 in the mountains, | fancied the ele-
ments in wintry furcr. The snow
seemed fathomless, and could hear the
cold, shrill blast, as it whirled it away
; through the tempestuous air. | with
y drew my vision for a while, and cast my
eyes about me; the daisy strewed the
6 earth; the air was warm and balmy,
. and | could almost hear the hum Of the
II bee as he flies away to his nectar home
: Where is there country that presents
G to the view of its people picture more
extended, diverse, beautiful and SUBJ
lime? 1t is no wonder that we become
u enamored of California, and that not
!. withstanding the attractions of our
n homes and the scenes Of cur childhood
= and youth, we are unable to leave it,
even with fortune in hands, and 90 back
to them to spend the remainder Of our
y days. We ore getting, however, in clo-
O ser proximity to our native homes every
day, and it is to be hoped that the pe-
riod is not far in the future, when we
n can visit the shades of the graceful elms
e that shielded our plays from the noon
: day s sun, and return again to the kind
4 skies of California in the space Of two
: weeks.
Q The arrangement of our government
0 for weekly mail to the Atlantic States
0 is a highly gratifying event to the peo-
. pie of this town, and it will certainly
: exercise a most happy and beneficial eff
: feet on our whole country-s socially and
j politically
e We feel obliged to you here for the
7 pertinent and just criticisms contained
in back issue Of your paper, on the
very reprohensible tardiness with which
the steamer mails are forwarded up here
: from Sacramento City. They, or, some
thing else, have had very proper eff
: feet, for the mail by the last steamer
was forwarded with becoming industry
Q and promptness. With reference to no
+ places should premptness be consulted,
4 more than our mining towns, from the
great Inconvenience of attending the
y post Offices on the part of the miners.
: 1t is to be hoped that the energy and f.
}. deity Of our post masters below, will
q never again give just room for censure
on the part OF those who have claims on
i them for strict and continued perfor-
v formance Of duty.
If An important decision by jury was
q rendered in magistrates court in this
{ place last Saturday, Judge Fouse presi-
10 ding 1t seems that q party living be-
n low here some six miles, had mortgaged
h his ranch for the payment of certain
i sum of money. The creditor pushed the
payment Of the obligation, and the de-
l. .fendent pleaded the exemption act
which provides $4,000 to each head of q
family, and procured from the jury a
verdict in his favor The defendent has
> no wife, she being deceased, but has tive
'i children in Missouri.
y Business is lively here on Sunday, and
n the hotels and public places are throng
n ed with people; but in the week, srill.
IS ness and quietude prevail, for the mi
q ners are busy in the placers making an
J. industrious and profitable use of plen-
: tiful supply Of water. Sunday is the
i great exchange day, and large amounts
T of gold dust are battered to the Express
Offices ef Adams and Wells, Fargo & Co,
Mr.. A. Delano is agent of the latter.
: understand he has written book on
: California, which is now in press A
! business man, u close observer, with
much travel through the country, expe-
rienced, an extensive reader, somewhat
of philosopher, and, besides, correct,
chaste and humorous writer, we bespeak
, for his book highly popular and fat
tering reception. We await its publ
cation with interest and impatienee.
Last Friday tho bank caved in on a
man from the height Of twenty feet