The Sierra citizen., 1854-02-18
Oak Valley Correspondence.
OAK VALLEY. Feb. 18th. 1854

of corresponding with yon this week, until
this evening learned from Bob " (not
the Poor Bob" of last weeks issue, but
the well known attache of Langton &
Bros Express) that the Citizens" new
head had gone up, and as where there is a
head there must also be caudal extremity,
| put in. The last day or two has been
passed in very exciting interviews with
Poadunk with regard to my last letter.
The matter, by the interposition of mutual
friends, has been arranged without blood
shed, much to my own satisfaction and
that of my well-wishers. Fosters Bar is
just subsiding from the fever of excitement
caused by the advent of Meagher, the Irish
patriot, who delivered lecture at that
place on Tuesday evening.
l find that there, as well as elsewhere,
the Cuisen has made its mark, and there
is but little doubt if you 60 on as you have
begun,your success is certain. understand
from friend Bob that it is your intention
to illustrate the forthcoming numbers of
the Citizen with wood-cuts. A drawing en-
titled the "Return from the Wake" is now
IN course OF preparation, and will be duly
forwarded to you,as soon as finished, ,togeth-
er with tale explanatory of the drawing.
The incidents are exciting, and the scene
itself is well depicted by the artist, and no
doubt will be acceptable to your readers.
OF general news have but little to COM
municate. Lawsuits are prevalent; and
have found that the only two articles which
command the ready money at the present
time are whisky and law, and in many
cases they are dispensed at the same place
if not at the same time. Here are often
heard displays of forensic eloquencc that
would astonish the dwellers in cities, and
| suspect the upper portion of this
county contains many embryo lawyers, if it
has not the good fortune to contain bare
footed candidate for president. need
scarcely tell you that most of the above
was written at Fosters Bar, and the pur-
suit of knowledge under difficulties is prac-
tically exemplifed here. Around the
table are sitting some three or four hom-
bres engaged in the discussion of almost
every imaginable subject under the sun.
One, deeply imbued with the Meagher
fever, is reading short extracts from a
pocket edition of Irish melodies, mot
Moore's,) and at the same time that am
entertained with the history of mascu-
line duck which was the property of Ger
tain gentleman named Flaherty, of Irish
extraction, done up in most excruciating
verse, another will give dissertation on
the plurt6us uaanimOuse, which is latin
term, he informs me, for the Constitution
of the United States This, with an
occasional hint thrown in concerning Pre-
sident's messages, telegraphic dispatches,
ETC., are enough to perplex the brain of a
much more ready writer than | am, and
this is the reason why the tradition of
Digger Origin :" is not yet sent you; and
farther, it would not be characteristic of
my usual modesty to appear in public
under cover of the new beaver which
you expect to sport in your next number.
l can, however, now take an obscure cor
ner, and leave your readers to appreciate
your appearance without aid from the
paper wot collapsed a fue." l thank you,
worthy Citizen, for treating the blow-up so
leniently. as most of your readers are not
aware that the whole concern consisted of
one tlue, and one only. Like the image
of Supreme power, it is rising from the
wreck of empires and the crash of
worlds 1t died glorious death, and
will | trust have happy resurrection.
But it is nearly time that l should close
this most desultory letter. Poadunk has
again attacked me, and my phelinks are so
much excited that can scarcely [
have just been called dissemination of
usury principles by that erudite Individual,
simply because | asserted that road going
by certain house in which l was slightly
interested, was nearer to Downieville than
one which goes through a rival town in
which Poadunk is an extensive landholder.
AS you, in one of your articles, have
very properly remarked, editors can ex-
pect nothing in this transitory world ex-
cept, now and then, challenge to fight.
A missive of this character and a washing
bill are generally to be found among
printers private papers. But | am re-
solved henceforward to be above such
feelings, and with an undaunted heart to
endeavor to exist, Poadunk to the contrary
Notwithstanding. To live and let live,
with the enmity of no man, is consum-
nation devoutly to be wished And now
that the weather has cleared up somewhat,
and | can sit within my domicil without
being kept in constant bodily exercise in
dodging the drops,I do not doubt but that
l can truly say have begun to live,
or, as certain legal friend of mine, who
is of poetical turn, would render the
term, "to breathe the refreshing air which
comes from the snow-clad SUBMITS of the
Nevada, bracing and invigorating the
frame of the examples of industry, who ex-
cavate bitches on the grassy slopes Of the
beautiful hills which are the beauty spots
on the face of nature That's what lie
said, lie did (! | have since understood that
"Bob" was one of the examples. And
now, in conclusion parting word to poor
Bob! How applicable are his verses to
his situation and how common it is to
see, in the simile of every composition,
some allusion to the great finisher of all
all earthly things, Death Life and poetry
begin and end alike. Would it could
be renewed as lightly in the one case as
in the other. But this can never be, as
day after day fits by, bringing us nearer
and still nearer to the time. We drive
the thought from us and when the blow