The Empire County argus., 1854-07-29
Correspondence Of the Argus.
.lonNTowx, July 28th, 1854.


Mr. AEGug-lorace Greedy IS Of some celebrity
as Editor Of the n Y, Tribune IN organ Of Wing
cry and jsms. lie is flmous for lis love Of protcc
tive Tariff Spain IS famous for the same thing |
having tariff of ten dollars per barrel on Amcri- /
can flour to protect Spanish millers. Statutes OF
this kind have run Spain into the ground. Two
hundred years ago Spain was one of the most pros
ferrous nations in the world. Now she is tho poor
est. So that in the vicinity of Madrid there is no
business that will yield living except highway
robbery. Therefore the National Surgeons, should
amputate a limb for the benefit of this Spanish pa
tient or more correctly speaking for the benefit OF
the Operator. It may be mortifyng. bat neTcrthe-
less Cuba should be amputated- ed--Congress should
at once prepare two fresh seats for Cu6o, and while
about it, order the uphostercr to put N two chairs
for the Sandwich Islands Jlc'e Scm is great
Doctor and will be coed surgeon ere long es-
pecially after applying The Scalpel 70 Central Amer
;ca, Provided Horace Greedy and the Wing party
do not ruin the student before he graduates
Our Fathers some OF them landed at Plymouth
Rock and some ut jamestown. They had great
tasl, to accomplish in subducing the forests and In
dams Ct the Atlantic States. This DONE we their
a,condants layc something to do, therefore let US
while we are about it grasp Canada, on the north
VIC can not only get territory but runaway niggers
FOO LET AS however be patient about this, inasmuch
ns the British Government is cxpendmg large sums
of money annually in the erection Of massive tortl-
Gcations when completed let us pitch IN and secure
this portion Of the earth.
The Theologians Of the old world for centuries
have relied on the scriptures basis for the dl-
rection of their efforts They may still do So poor
souls but if they lived in California, which by the
way is fast country, they would soon learn that
Barrel of whiskcy has more practical virtue than
tract societies u bottle Of cocktails has more attrac-
tions than Watson's Theology, and that deck CT
cards is examined with more than Cruden 5
concordance.
This is an age of improvement we have TeegTophs
and spiritual Communications, all we want now Is
telegraphic morals, spiritual developments we can
find in the Schnapps mixed by John of the Brick
Store and drank pretty freely by the candidates
of Immortality residing the vicinity Of his cs-
tablishment.
Mr. Argus, did you ever notice young and
promising man stepping up to the bar, and looking
about for bis friends, and saying what will you
take to drink 2 | have every such young man is
slave, to appetite or fashion, and will 1--we to he
ashamed of himself if he does not die druu&arj.
Young men in this country too often furget the as
sociatons Of their youth, and disregard the early
instructions and prayers of fond mothers. Young
man beware, You have but one mother, and can
never have another therefore revere her memory.
it is holy When temptation saluteS you, think Of
my mother. remember that her prayers ascend
- i.c
thy head 1t is many years since Grow Bar saw
his mother, her hairs row silyercd by time -
'Deal gently with ny mother, world
Her days are il the yellow Leaf,
And time with her is growing bef;
She is not what she hath been,
Hor eye hath lost its glowing sheen;
The is faded from her check,
And LIES dark stream grows faint and weak
The forms which walked with her Of yoce,
Como back again, Oh novoruore
DIAL gcaty with my mother, world.'
Nevertheless remember now with pleasure, her
lecuring me, upon the danger Of spelling my teeth
eating sugar
This month and the next is the chosen season of
pleasure on the Atlantic side of the Continent. The
fashionables are now rustcating at Niagara, New
port and Saratoga-
"WE'RE going to Saratoga E?giag3;
Tomorrow wei be oil
Fer Ma has got some chains and rng3
And la has got cough;
And they must hasten, with their daughters,
To them both with Congress Waters.
Wen follow where the ''toa' has led
For Pa is somewhat IL
And NJ. has got d.ead{l head
That aches-to try its kill
Man@uvrng for Nell and me,
And Angeno and Rosalie %
1t is just now vulgar to plod along the sunbakcd
streets of New York above Blecckcr, or to be seen
in Broadway on the two shilling side Even south
of Masons and Dixon's line all the ton must away
in Car and steamboat to the great hot houses Of
pleasure and sin. We of the mountains in Califor-
mia can do better than drink the water of nauseous
springs We can look out every day and see the
beauty of ofnature towering to the sky can breath
the pure air of the Pacific shore and sec honest
industry developing the golden treasures of our
hills.
Mr. Argus, come up and me, go with me to
Georgetown and see my correspondent she is twelve
years old, and takes through course of sprouts
for wearing glasses. am told that some of your
readers desire to know who Crow Bar is, will tell
them, he is man about five feet hich and n miner