Grass Valley telegraph., 1854-06-08
For the Tele9raph.


,rn Enrrop What has become Of the adj
vocates for the incorporation OF Grass V al
lev? Has the subject been entirely given up
bv our citizens. and are the benefits and adj
vantaoes of incorporation to be thwarted by
individuals at enmity, in conduct at least.
with those high and noble ends, calculated
and destined to carry on the work of advance
ment. refinement and perfection in the social
and physical condition of the human family
What argument can there be against incOrpo-
ration? What objection can any spirited,
enterprising and refined man or woman have
to such regulations as will secure to the resi-
dents and visitors of this place, at once, safe
ty and comfort Why, unless something is
done for this town soon. we shall all be up to
our heads and ears in heterogeneous and in
explicable mass of filth, consisting in part of
old Shoes old boots, rags and abandoned clo-
thing of every species and configuration. bar
rels, hoops, iron and wooden, old pots, glass
bottles. flming masses of animal and vege-
table putrefaction, etc. ETC., at which narra-
ton. revolts. In every direction is there
scene of rubbish and dirt,-the whole town,
from birds cxe-yiew, presenting a grand
eonspcctus OF disorder and filth unrivalled
| by any town Of Ike size in this State. Any
philosopher with three grains of common
sense must know that, were it not for the
rarity, warmth ana dryness of our atmos-
phere, causing in everything complete desec-
cation thus arresting the processes of decom-
position, an awful pestilence would be bred.
and the cholera or the ship fever, in no little
time end the career of half of US. Taxation
Taxaton!! What spiritless old fogy crea-
ture has this to say? Such person as this
should not get up in the morning for fear it
might tax his muscles to slight contraction
he should not eat, for fear mastication would
tax his teeth and jaws:-he should not mar
ry pretty and lovely wife, for fear it would
tax his eXertions to support her,-he should
live in perpetual filth, for fear cleanliness
would cause him some eXertion,--he should
luxuriate in ignorance, because intelligence
costs some labor; and lastly, he should cease
to live, for the tax Of breathing on the respi-
ratory organs.
Nothing of value can be accomplished
without labor, is known among savages. as
we'll as civilized people. 1t were the qunt-
essence Of simplicity, to talk about clean
streets. pleasant sidewalks and Order-and
public virtue-and morality, without trouble
labor or taxation, only different words ex-
pressing the same thing. If we have a neat
clean and pleasant town, it is onlyat the ex-
pense of labor if we have one that is filthy
disorderly and unpleasant the sloyenlness
Incidence and tasteIessness of our citizens is
the only inference to be drawn by unpreju-
diced strangers.
Let us have the town Of Grass Valley in
corporated, and then let us have clean streets
and good sidewalks at all events. No citi-
zen Of delicate scnsiblity but that is asham-
ed Of the filth that on all sides beSets this
town. The people Of the Deer Creek City de-
ride US, and only come down in their buggies
occasionally to see how pitiful and mean we
look; we shall soon be lost in the dark fogs
of retrogress;on. Grass Valley will be for
gotten as the most romantic and beautiful of
mountain towns, and we shall be stigmatized
for our want of progression, taste, energy and
enterprise.
We don't want nonsense,-we don't want
extravaganza but we do acant ?he mantle
Of authority that will enable us to do what
is necessary, fit and proper for the welfare of
this town. Let petitions, on proper basis
be circulated at once and sent to the County
Court. There will be no trouble about in
corporation; the intelligent population of
Grass Valley know their duties and their in
terests. Yours truly, S.M