The Sierra citizen., 1854-11-25
For the Ctizen.l
Sounds from Home.
ECHO 70 ALICE-No. II.

ECHO 70 ALICE-NO. II.
"A glorious life is the pioneers full
of wild adventure; sometimes gloomy
enough, but then the clouds float away,
and let down a food of sunshine" e"-Alice,
Citizen, Nov. 18.
Yesterday afternoon, while the hours
were dragging slowly, and there seemed
to be no resource of amusement or Of
profit, heard hustle in the street, and
! knew that the expresses had arrived. In
two minutes, from the counter of one OF
the express Offices, I received your always
welcome paper.
Now, be it known to you, that B. D. G.
does not pretend to be wanting in vanity
would not wish to be counted deficient in
SO common an endowment. Therefore, as
matter of course, the correspondence
from Camptonville" was one of the first
things to attract my attention. Allow
me to thank you for having SO properly
denied any intention, upon my part, to do
the slightest injustice to my justly respect
ed friend, the Post Master of this place.
And while also thanking, c." for so kindly
and courteously pointing out my error, he
will pardon me for saying-in spirit of
equal kindness, that upon reading the last
paragraph of his excellent communication,
he will see that any man may appear, by
a careless use Of words, to speak invidi-
ously of another, when nothing is farther
from his intention.
The Doctor will be fully satisfied that
it was not my wish to do him any wrong,
upon my simply saying that nothing was
more foreign to my thought. It would
have been better to have said "a post
Office" instead of "the post Office"
The Sounds from Home," however,
are genuine. Emily is entitled to all
the compliments which &C." and the Citi-
zen have paid to my fancy. And if my
neighbor &C." knew who l am, and the
very unimaginative character of my daily
life and business, he would smile at having
attributed the letter Of emily" to my
fancy.
1t is not long since your paper contained
Fthe remark that much excellent writing
is to be found in private letters, not in
tended to be read except by the persons
to whom they are addressed. The good
opinion which you seem to have formed
of the wife-like letter Of emily" and the
compliment to my fancy so unworthily
received from &C.," encourage me to send
you another letter, appropos to the above
quoted words of Alice.
The letter il from the pen of gentle
man whose name is known far beyond the
limits of the State in which he discharges
the duties of his high Office, and for whose
rapid advancement he has done SO much.
He will readily pardon me for allowing his
letter to be printed, when he remembers
that the counsel which commands my
gratitude, may prove Of equal service to
others. Without farther preface, here is
the letter.
"V-, INDIANA, I
Aug. 9th, 1851. {
"My young friend B. Yesterday had
the pleasure Of shaking hands with your
mother, and of renewing once more the
friendly relations which began years ago,
when she was bride in the pride Of her
beauty, receiving the admiration of all
who looked upon her. You do not, of
course, know your mother as she then ap-
peared to others; and may very possibly
smile at the idea Of . sexegenarian like
myself, whose wrinkled face and snow
white hair You have SO often seen, still re-
membering the beauty Of his friends young
bride.
"But my object in writing to you is not
to tell you Of the beauty Of your mother
when she was young-nor of its influence
upon the mind Of gay young fellow, such
as then was. For, to my mind, though
you might laugh at it, now-whea her
cheeks are sallow and withered-when
the hair, which once fell in careless show
ers OF curls upon her neck and shoulders,
scarcely shows silver edge under the
border OF the cap she has long been in the
habit Of wearing-her beauty seems more
perfect than ever before.
aYos viii understand al this some day,
b, when in the wrinkles and time-worn
lines Of some face, now young and beauti-