New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-11


fore them; aud hey all shall have pIessu, oe
many a fair day. and many soft evening, in teIhnS
and listening
Still after the eye becomes little used to The
glare of the tnsel in which the author delights to
dress up his narrative, we find certain charm IN
following his adventures, and devoutly wish that
we might sometime have plain account Of them,
minus the Trimmings Here for instance, 10 q Gu
rious description of his early life which cannot
fail to be read with interest
lief a curious little cabin fome Gu the banks of The
savannah. IL bad been the wolk OF my o~n hsnds,
snc of that eghbory bel ever 30 readily lent by ne
Southern pl. Dter ard bscksooo smzn Ii vas ru1e
little wocoen but but ire pte log vsns, and the OAK
board roof and the mud and site, chimney hAd been
pleasant home; and the corn cake baked on my oEn
hearth stone eat swstly in ttose Gays, when co rse
fare spd Dr. augh from the water BROOKS was 11ury.
The best of my early years Sere spent on the waters
OF The Say an, al: on botn Of its bspks-on the Caro-
liz a arc on the Georris side. | have Travelled t,ose
waters from the Tybee moath TO toe utmost hm.
where 'eamsrs kes csn run; then WIN shoulder 10
boat pole hove urged, wi Glow and raining step,
the at botoDeo cotton barge up TO the shoss on the
| SENECA. / have csnoed on Keowee and Twelve Mile,
and be- wade6 crossed on some simple log every
branch and spr pg ing Gown from the Said
da Hills on The OF side The Currahee on toe Other.
| love the lard by The Saws, nahs wa'ere. have
war cered over add exp o'ed every WOOD ana noaow,
every fteep snd ravi ?, from Ch,tooea AID Cnsusa,
|
Fl. hieeb 10 six aud Twenty on he Carcins side and
then from Tugsoo al tt coa from Big Cetsr and Lit
lie LisLtrood Log, to the Great Broad in Georgia
love the people thai live by these waters; the
ces,-headed, generous, inc ependent men ana tne
| foir, trusty, warm hearted women OF the southern
backwoo
lived the philos ophers coveted l'e IN my early,
uDsn bilious tse eSpe IN me- sh al w ,""
ed tbep OF smpe dress and simp food the honespun
gsrb both inner and outer one, from the coat to The
sto king feet, vas caded, spun, dyed, woven, ana
made up, by the hands that cooked the back
woocs fare And cared not for more than this supply
of sin pie wants and my pinelog home
When this light labor was laid aside, which was OF,
ten done then turned TO her toll with my rihs and
ba'c ct az bunting knife in the woods; ans reused
the red deer Astounding in the sens and valleys, and
On the hil-sides around Oconee and the Nalhaila oil
| later days.
was wooed by deep se ut and shade hollow TO shel.
ter from the MONDAY hes. and take my hunting me al
ard as 10y CD cool, green bank, wet hung tle ieap
irg aro eody ing play Of lmpid mountain sream that
purleo and braw.d over its pebbly bed cav amid
tie bubbles of little shoay point, glstening speck
| of bfigbI metallic luser.
pebble bearing upon its face govt of pure white,
tilsery metal from which tie dim coating OF nsilye
ore bad been bu nisbed, when swollen waters had
hurried it ard i'll the streamlets bej rubbing against
| lie fellows.
The glister ing of that metal had greater cha IN than
the chase of deer. sough aons the srea II Tor more
of the material of coin, Of which so lite was seen IN
| those mountain wilds; and as sought came 10
curious dent 10 Il steamlets bans, yered with tue
growth Of the surrounding ground, bur which showed
Iba, the hand of had been burrowing In that wild
| glen many years sgo. .,c-
| okees when masters of these forests, how In some
ontier fare they had dealt out death with silver
bullets found in some mountain ha nts, never seen oy
| the white mat E eye.
| MANY a search has been made aud dare say is
making TO this day. TO find out the ever nit o. kno Tn
to The IL dians and when found the pebble with the
sjlvery govt and looked upon the cut 10 the little
one Of the lpdian miIts.
returned home with the piece OF shining ore, ana
| showed il to one who knew much about gold and si
yer and lead mining and he a, once prJnoun ed what
had found TO be piece of native silver, often found
il ductie gou's and threads ON the surface OF some
mostly o bio, .nd from Shich by ernCing and by heat
| or metallic fux only can i. be brought forth.
Themiper made tempting offer to lead him to
the SPOT where hsd found the silver but cared
OF to ,baye my secret, and sougLt it again alone.
went this time 10 pick and spade to dig into the cut in
ibe creek bank. / saw plainly that The bel OF earth
Ito which dug bad been before distut bed, and was
he the filing in OF some old pit. pierced through
bis nil GID soil and came to bed OF dark and crys-
talre ruck and earth, and still deeper found the
same dark stone and quartz; and of this brought
away a load not knowing whether had found siVer
| or Lot.
TIE mir els mortar ar d crucibe showed thst had
found a silver mine. NOE there visions of great
treasure, and Of pom2 and PRIDE OF wealth, which
those back oods bad kno and nov the rude
rect bome aid the simple dress and fore had lost the
| quiet charm which once they hal worn for me-
The desire to buy the lands In viii; the silver
was found bu they part OF Rrea;, encountered,
law.eDtaI ged domain; ano 80 utterly rugged and bar
reu that no could seek their purchase vita the plea
| OF wthn 10 till the sol.
Still il b. came my great wish to own this land, go
that could work out the maa ined oliver masses unmo-
leseo but toward the carryitg out OF this wish, my
| chief means life, a mule some old books, and
| the little iuInisbines of my rough log shelter
| But had youth-the youth OF niueteen; and large
share Of that ages ardOr ard uine bo efa-
ress and then from my point OF vieE, IN those back
WOODS, when my young mind had been 50 long grow
| ing up untrsnmeed and uIuriant, | fel. not those
chtcks in looking forward TO any achievement OF for
tune OF fame which spring from the discipline Of
arts al letters and the training of society.
In speekirg of ths-my state of mind, and the ind
Ing OF The faLcied great silver mine- merely wish 10
tell Of one q most pleasing one TO the curious ear
| Of The II any causes, alo with tue death have
spoken OF, that led me TO leave peace and quiet Joys
| and a simple life in fair sylvan home, TO 60 and
enter into the common stre for gam with the rest OF
| the money gropina world.
Tnere We calls to common practical pursuits
which led me into The business would; but beneath
this outsde of every day toll. there gose the hope
in that hopeful time 10 get the means to draw forth
silver waLd from the hills OF Oconee, that would
osen up road to the charmed East and with that IN
view, lett the pine-log home the bomely fare, the
bomespun gstb and the unfettered life OF the back
woots.
Isoon Learned that an s5ver urous spirit and anb-
tous bopts and all lack Of traio TO ANY labor OF the
head hands but poor stock In trade amorg the
made 90 itch among the forests, would in the
city keep NE very poor.
The drudge al the routre of the daily life of trade
coon d, owe away al dreams of the past. Ba. wealth