The Nevada journal., 1855-09-21
SACRAMENTO, Sept. II, '55.


ise, 1 drop you few lines. I came dow
in company with two of the "devils o
your office, q ask their pardon, for the,
hare risen to the dignity of proprietors
but industry and intelligence will raise til
derI. } Passed through Grass. Valley
and found desolate tract of coal an,
smouldering fire, which here and ther.
cast dismal light over what had just pre-
viously been beautiful and thrivin.
town. Poor Grass Valley! after severa
years of immunity from the fearful scourge
that has swept every other place of i'm
portance almost in the State, at last
rubbed out in a night like an old account
from slate, From its position, fire
once under headway was certain to SWEEP
over the whole place, and aware of this
the citizens for long time past have had
close watch kept; but one incendiary may
battle one hundred watchmen. But like
all California towns, Grass Valley will b,
rebuilt, and in better shape. The peo.
pie have The industry and energy, and
capitalswil! not be wanting to improve SO
advantageous a location. The loss j.
heavy for individuals, but the ultimate ad
vantage to the place will be evinced by
the better style in which it will be bull
up. Luckily it occurred at a season o.
the year when little suffering can be ex-
perienced by the homeless from the wealth.
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The great topic of conversation here, is
the third parade of the Windy Guards
which took place on Saturday Accor.
ding to accounts it was most grotesque
spectacle. The Artillery was section Of
a boiler, on cart drawn by oxen. The
weapons Of war were of most original
character, and the mode of warfare adop-
ted by company thus armed must be
conducted a la chinoise, in the early bat
ties between the English and Natives in
the Celestial kingdom, when the Chinese
regiments opposed the guns of the intru-
dcrs with hideous masks and horrid noise,
by fcats of tumbling, and other exploits,
to strike terror into the hearts of the bar
barians. One cavalry private in the
Windy Guards had a section of a tin
spout some forty feet long, which was Of
ten unmanageable in sudden evolutions OF
his horse, and once took the commander
in chief over the head, annihilating his
chapeau. Wooden guns, ten and fifteen
feet long, added to the formidable aspect
of the guards. ~Woman's rights~were
represepted in the person of counterfeit
Lucy Stone-a strapping counterfeit too,
was it! She lodged about the crowd,
and was not slow in emphatic slaps to all
who questioned the rights of the ladies to
ego training" or ''run with the machine.
Lucy finally got astride of one of the OK
en- that drew the artillery, and got thrown
off, and being by this too tight to loco
mote solus, was laid at full length in the
cart. The Little Bird~of the Journal
was in the professionals first public ap-
pearance, and proved to be a buzzard OF
eight feet height, but the ungrateful crit
ter turned against his friends, for when
ever he caught sight Of a leading Phalanx-
er, HI chased him through the crowd, peck
ing at him, and as the victims said, he
pecked awfully hard-to be accounted for
by the fact that he had block head.
His mate was Shanghae of six feet tallsA,
who had all the pecking propensities OF
her compeer, and finally got kick from
one of the oxen which damaged her feath-
ers considerably. Sorry to say, -LittIe
Bird~got very tight. He took after one
Phalanxer, on horseback, and the horse
took fright, and dashed off sideways down
street, at the rate of g. 40 time. Two
initiated Chinese graced the procession,
one with tail of the real sort, the other
sporting an OK tail. All kinds of nation
alities found representations in the Guards.
One fellow occupied standee in the ar
tillery wagon, with demijon on his head
that covered down to his shoulders, a
lager bier barrel with the bottom knocked
out, the head sawed out large enough for
the head to pass through, and the side
cut for the arms, for coat, demDons Oh
his arms and legs, and champagne bas-
ket for knapsack. He represented the
+national BEVERAGE lager On the order
to "tabout face,7 the Guards would face
each other The whole affair was su-
premely ridiculous, and if the Guards did
not succeed in forming into straight lines,
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