The Sierra citizen. [volume] (Downieville, Calif.) 1854-185?, 1854-07-08

place WueFc ddllOWd( AaHCu III" ooouuS,
there we campsd and held consultation
about making descent to the river.
Indian Greek, July l, 1854.
Life on the Yuba.
Some "traant husband" has beer writing
letters to his wife, as truant husbands
sometimes do, which the good lady has
had the good taste to publish in the
Knickerbossse,. IF we are right in our
surlnises the writer might have been
seen" year or two ago, acting as engineer
of all Irish locomotive in the neighbor-
hood Of Billiards Bar, on the Yuba, while
less gifted men were haggling at constitu-
ton ana law in the national councils
Does the old n,untaineer recognize the
picture of mountain sccnerys
"And there they stood-those thunder
stricken trees-stretching their lcaaess,
barkless boughs far upward into the
heaven which looked so lovingly upon all
the rest, but had been so pitiless to them
And other trees there were, whose lofty tops
had vainy tried to meet the wind-shocks
that had sometimes come upon them from
the wide valley beneath, and the ocean
beyond. And there they stood, still strong
and green, bat broken and humbled
among their fellows; and il trees, too,
might grow proud, and needed, as some
men do, to have ever before thciii the ex-
amples Of misfortune. Eastward, was a
scene beyond all this: too grand for de-
scription, too wonderful for painting
The high peak from which we gazed went
rapidly down, faster and farther than we
could follow it with our eyes. In the
gorge at its base grew great trees; much
greater, probe bly,, than those about us;
and their lofty tops filed the narrow space,
and kept us from seeing the river that
must have roared and fretted over chaos
OF rock below; for. at the height we were,
its voice came to us softened aud mellowed
by the distance, until it mingled in har-
mony with the breeze which made holy
music in the pines above us. Beyond this
chasm, the mountains rose high and
higher: but with gentle slopes, SO that the
reddish yellow clay, st this season bare Of
grass, contrasted not unpleasantly with
the green trees. Higher and higher rose
the mountains, until we saw, beyond the
sources of the rivers, the great majestic
masses of the Sierra Nevada. Here rose
giant cones, far above the mighty hills
about them, but still green with their
fitting crowns.cf pines. Between them,
far in the faint distance. rose others yet
higher, whose proud SUBMITS bore no tree,
but were decked with white, shining snow;
purest of earthly hings and fittest to rest
against the blue heaven. Below--that is,
south of these conical mountalns-stoOd
q bare, grand, rocky, broken mountain,
which seemed to have received upon its
splintered crest all the shocks which a
deied heaven had hurled upon it for six
thousand years. And yet it stood-bat-
tered and broken into thousand crags-
as bold and defiant rs ever, trusting in its
granite strength to out-last the wrath OF
storms, and weary the omnipotetlce OF
Heaven" ase
Wing Meeting at Forest City.
At a meeting Of the Wings Of Forest
City precinct, at the Read House in For
est City, July 9Th, 1854, Mr.. s. Lyman
was appointed Chairman, and Mr.. VIM.
Ballou Secretary. sa 100
Motion was made and carried that
twelve delegates should be elected from
this precinct to represent the Wings in
the County Convention to be held at
DownieviIIe. July 18th. 81N
A Committee of three consisting Of
Messrs. Shaffsr, Heaton, and Long, was
elected to report the names Of delegates to
the meeting; whereupon the following
named persons were reported to the meet
ing: s.
Ballou, Mr.. Brown, VIM Morey, Charles
Bosworth, w. E. Potter, E. b. Townsen md.
W.n. I. Davis, s. Lyman, Jas. Oliver,
Samuel Moody. t
On motion, the report was accepted and
the above named prisons declared duly
elected as delegates to the County Con-
vention. Moved and adopted that the
delegates, in case of inability to attend,
shall have the power to appoint proxys.
The thanks Of the meeting were then
rendered to Messrs. Read & Homer, for
the use Of their hall. s 81
| Moved and carried that the proceedings
of this meeting be published in the Sierra
Citizen.
Adjourned sine die