The Nevada journal., 1853-06-03

iects may not as they do, commend
themselves to the best sympathies OF
our hearts but from the liberality OF
our citizens exhibit on acOrthy objects,
fear advantage is taken to pick away
our loose change for trirolous ones.
/ The modest and virtuous ladies Of
Grass Valley, as of every other place
under the starry canopy, we love as
they say down in Orleans with per-
feet loossness p and though our hairs
betoken much experience as well in the
world Of gallantry as in the changing
and ruggetscenes Of real life, our re-
gard and devotion to the sex has never
yet been questioned.
But if ever the cry, ''save me from my
friends" possessed truth and point, it
is in the ease of the fair damsels and
chaste matrons of Grass Valley. "Pike"
would ruin them forever more by such
another '.wishy washy, everlasting food
of pue rility, as his column Of defence in
your paper of last week exhibited. i
remember something said in an ancient
record about ''daubing with untempered
mortar ;;''-and Heaven forbid that any
one who has reputation to love should
be SO unfortunate as to have pike for
defender. If the 4, in the cognomen
of your able correspondent were changed
to u, nothing would better express the
peculiar and happy Characteristic of the
gentlemen's jsremiad of last week.
In my younger days | remember lis
tening to the eccentric Lorenzo Dow,
who, for piquancy of illustration had but
few equals, and upon the tendency to
egctism in that day, exhibited by
Pike" in this latter generation the
old man had an aphorism.
'Great and little are seen to stun our
faith and prayers,
Eleuen letters lie between, the alphabet de-
clares."
Now if nay friend "Pike" were paid
contributor, your numerous readers in
the valley would pray that his brillian n t
lucubrations be given to US in homeopathic
instead of allopathic doses. If not, more
than ever will he manifest the necessity
of founding public hospital in; Grass
Grass, as suggested IN my former ar
ticle
| would not be considered ungrateful
fer so much good advice as "Pike" has
kindly bestowed upon me in regard to
the fair sex. | have long and ever truly
loved, respected and honored them, es-
pecially in their proper sphere, and will
not deny them to be the "noblest work
of God" And "Piken may have the
vanity to think that by his defence of
them (and such defencel) 'he's gained
women friends by scores Postblemente !
There are those however, who are likely
to be skeptical upon this point, having a
more exalted opinion of the ladies of
Grass Valley.
Perhaps Pike had better "dry up,n
for he seems already quite at his wi ts for
nothing to expatiate upon. Excuse me
for not following my critic in his ''hy ia
lutin," in comparing a may-day festival
in Grass Valley with the American Rev.
olution Oh Oh !
l am well aware that many public
improvements and charities tending to
ameliorate the conditions of California
society, can only be accomplished by
the united and hearty cooperation OF
all good citizens, and for such objects
the appeal to our pockets ale never made
in vain. But in the name of all that is
noble and good, do not let the sympa-
thies of the liberal hearted Californians
be frittered away by these frequent
calls upon their pockets fer mere purpo-
ses of idle parade, to enable ambitious
young people to show their beauty and
grace, and to furnish pretexts for inno-
cent firtations. A girl that is worth
marrying by any true man, will be
sought not among the psonies and pop
pies of public assembly rooms, but with
in the sacred precincts of the family
circle, where alone her real and sub
stantial virtue, like the diamond in the
depths of the mine, shine with a native
refulgence all their own.
Grass Valley has much to be proud of
in her beautiful alton, the good order
that prevails within her borders and a
healthy tone of public morals, and to
no cause so much as to the number of
ladies and families who have chosen it
as their residences. is this happy state
of society due. 1t is this purity of wo-
manly character and this healthful
progress towards the refnements of
older communities that it is desirable to
foster and subserve. And. when "beg-
ging'' is really necessary to accompl sh
great public good, my word for it, the
purses of our liberal residents will be
open and latch strings of their doors
found upon the outside. w. G. S.
/ lNoI n nrrcr l.