The Sierra citizen., 1854-11-18
Camptonville Correspondence.

EDITOR CITIZEN The only apology
have to offer for troubling you with this
hasty scrawl is to correct an erroneous
impression contained in communication
from the pen Of your correspondent B. D.
G. of this place, which, if silently passed
over, might result very unjustly to the
prejudice of one Of our most highly esteem
ed citizens, DR.. S. j. Bowlby, our Post
Master.
After careful perusal Of echo to
Alice" l cannot, do not wish to, think
that it was intentional on the part of B.
D. G. to place the innocent in false posi-
ton, and yet the intelligence (as manifest
ed in his communication he does possess
almost creates the impression that one so
we'll posted could hardly have confounded
an Eapress Office with Post Office.
Your old friend, the Doctor, am hap
py to say, justly commands the respec. of
the community in which he resides, and
while he, together with many of his friends,
admire and commend the motire which
dictated the Echo to Alice" we still can
but regret that 8. d. G. in his fancy did
not select place more in consonance with
facts, rather than place worthy citizen
in an unenviable position, improperly, not
only before this community, but also be-
fore his numerous friends in some of the
more eastern States.
Is there no balm in Gilead . for the
cure of this moral leprocy, that seems to
have fastened upon the very vitals of soci-
ty within our State? Vice in all its Hydra
headed deformity, boldly stalks throughout
the country! Men in high places lend
their influence, by participating in the
lowest depravity, in open day. The sot is
often elevated to distinguished political
positions the soulless libertine receives
the commencing smile-as he glories in
his own shame-while he recites the sue
cess of his last affair, in which, perhaps he
has, fiend-likc, destroyed the peace of a
once happy family; plunged another de-
luded victim into the lowest depths of
infamy vauntingly sneers upon the spirit
crushed and dishonored husband, and fear
lessly laughs as he hears the timid shrek
OF the helpless children, calling upon un-
worthy bloated representatives of Justice,
to punish the destroyer of all their earthly
happiness, that makes their existence
living death"
The virtuous mind sickens when it con-
templates the debauchery of this country;
but still there is many California heart
that Echoes to Alice ~ kindred feelings
and sentiments now, and l trust will ere
long arouse with unity of purpose, with
bold hearts and strong arms, with firm
determination never to yield, until our
young State shall be rescued from the con-
troll of men who aciH not or dare not move
to blot out from her otherwise unstained
escutcheon, that which intemperance and
gambling have placed upon it.
But trespass, and in conclusion |
would "render unto Caesar the things
which are Caesars" The Post Office and
Langton & Bros Express Office are under
the same roof, in seperate rooms, in nei-
ther of which is bar kept, and as the P.
NJ. was one of the most Jealous in estab-
fishing (recently) the order of "Sons of
Temperance in this place. he thinks his
suspected position of dealing out Brandy
straits to crooked heroes not at all an
enviable one. Yours as ever; C.
Camptonville, Nov. l4th, 1854.
IT has been decided to remove the Coun-.