The Nevada journal., 1855-10-19
immigration Papers--No. 5.
VALE FILIBUsTERERs

Emigration from California -Eldorado
weighed in the balance against Nicaragua
and found wanting-its bracing, inspirit-
ing climate matched against the drowsy
steam heat of the tropics, and declared
interior-its fertile, sturdy soil and sub
stantial productions compared with the
rank earths and bloated vegetation of a hot
bed region, and abandoned elastic en-
terprlse, its hearty, CHEEKY spirit of work,
Its fullness of promise and its matchless
prospects in the future set side by side.
with tropical inaction, tropical lazint IS.
Spanish promises, and future amongst
mixed breeds, Indians and negroes, and
voluntarily given up
Three hundred sons of America and cit
izens of California emigrated to Nicaragua
in the tropics, on the Uncle Sam, October
D, 1888, and more are preparing to follow
Not the least remarkable of the effects
of the advent of California in the world,
has been the spirit of adventure its birth
has generated. A spirit which has already
qulckened the cautious currents of COM
merce into whirl of speculation in which
many noble fortune has been engulphed
which has reversed the ordinary pru-
Dental rules governing mems movements,
and has substituted apparently Irresistible
impulses to start off at unreasonable tan
gents without permitting them to stop to
consider where they will bring up, or what
they may dash against in their course
which despises patient industry as means
OF acquiring substantial comfort, and sub
stitutes spasmodic and eccentric leaps af-
ter wealth-which weans mems hearts
from their early reverence of home and
home-like joys-from domestic love-
from gentle fre-side virtucs-from
those happy, holy feelings which gath
er and grow there-and which makes
them selfish first, unsettled afterwards,
then impure in thought, irregular in habit,
and vicious in life 1t is a violent ebulli-
ton of this spirit which has produced the
movement on Nicaragua.
What, o gallant Filibusters do you
want IN Nicaragua, what do you expect,
what Go you hope for What motives
impel you to become particles in the fiery
tail Of the erratic Walker comct-to de-
tach yourself from the stately planet of
Federal America, and fly off on an buc-
eclipse, with the avowed intent
OF dashlng yourselves against miserable
place in the tropics.
Doyou want manly, honest er ployment
as a means of gaining present subsistence
and future wealth : Here in California is
the place for you. Here, where the COM
monest pursuits of industry have the vi
vacious charm Of speculative hope, COM
bined with substantial reward here,
where work, downright work is cheerier in
It's doing, and better paid when done, than
anywhere else in the world where even
drudgery is divested of its sombre charac-
ter; for its eye and car-dull, listless and
heavy in most countries-here is bright
and quick, catching inspiring glimpses of
wealth continually, and hearing daily the
glad tones Of successful labor from its fell
lows. Ii your impctuous energies cannot
bend themselves to California work, which
admits Of more of that impulsivcncss which
is so congenial to you than does any spe-
cies of industry elsewhere, you cannot
hope to find employment at all. Least
of all will you find it in Nicaragua.
Do you want a climate suitable for the
exercise of your physical and mental pow
er where health will sweeten exertion,
will render success doubly good, or mis-
fortune easily reparable Stay here A
clear and vigorous air sweeps round you
in California, which. like an unseen bless
ing, awakes in you sense of enjoyment
that comes you know not how, and DO not
stop to inquire. Your axe or hammer
strikes blow, and there's nerve in it: it
goes home direct and hearty You plant
your foot down firmly, and instantly it
springs, lifting you to the next step-no
faltering languor in it Your whole frame
throbswith activity and life. And you
can think! You plan. contrive and
scheme more here i'lAu yuu ever did be-
fore. How rapidly you pr GIVE, combine,
and arrive at results III your minds 1t
may not be that you ever achieve very
great triumphs of reason, for your rcfec-
tive powers are net much called into req
uisition but your percep;iye faculties
were never so bright before. And tins Is
a delight, a pleasure to live for, buoy
ant element Of existence California has
been a continual exhibition Of life in its
most vigorous developments. Its climate
just gives that gentle stimulant to North
ern blood which purges its sluggishuess
without impairing its powers of replen sh-
ment. And the time is coming when
the rudeness OF its recent settlement shall
give place to amenities Of civilization,
when the comforts of domes ic homes null
tiply in the land, when virtuous and intel
lis ent women shall awaken by their nu-
merous presence soft and gentle thoughts
in the hearts of rough men when time and
industry shall have surrounded US with the
externals of living to which we were in
our old homes accustomed that life in
California will be more enjoyable, and
greater delight than life anywhere else i'll
the world