The Shasta courier., 1855-06-23

ure at the beautiful landscape spread out before
me. beautiful with bill, hamlet and forest have
walked upon the verge oil roaring cataracts; have
+ piIlowed my head upon banks OF roses; have
stood upon the shores of the ocean, and gazed
with indescribable emotiors at the lone mag
nfcence of its waste of waters, and watched
with awe to see the giant waves come in charge,
like regiment of maddened soldiers upon the
barriers which dare impede their progress The
wild waves of the foamt in grandeur at my
| feet; but the wilder waves of love and feeling
were beating in my BOSOM l have rolled like
hog, in golden sands. | watched the great
condor. as he circled in his lofty flight. and f.
| nally perched himself upon the rifted rock. But
III all these shifting scenes, you were ever by
my side
. must close by saying that am completely
gone in l spent the last scad' which had
in order to see the great 'caucaiic troupe of
monkeys and dogs thinking the excitement
would throw of,the pressure that on my
mind. But It of no use: in warn did the
Snowman stir up the monkeys with long
pole would rather see you than all the mon
keys. hyenas, and wildcats in the world. Per
haps, my dear you would like to know what
mean by gone in A man is gone in when
his hnancial-ideas become adnmbrated with The
intellectual clouds of impervious tenebrosi;y-
when the rattlng OF dollars sounds like forgot
ten strain-when he sits down 70 a first rate
breakfast, but does not know where his dinner
will come from man of genus is gone in
when his head is stuffed full of gorgeous and
heavenly conceptions. and his pockets full of
nothing-when he lays down at night TO dream
of love and glory, and wakes up III the morning
to work for common grub Bnt to all this you
may ask, Why do you not give up the mines and
fall back on your gems ?? The answer is short
have been laying low for black ducks
long time; but it seems that the Democratic
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carry the day; and am afraid the Wings will
march through, and have the Democracy of both
columns bowing and scraping to lhem where
as, if they would concentrate, their forces, and
fall back on third person, they would win the
race. Eight dollars per day is more Than can
make at mining. But is useless to grieye over
the matter, though feel conscious that, If the
people would give me chance, would
raise my name TO the eternal clouds, and shed
ray of sublime etfulgence over this entire cOun-
try But they know | am broke, and conse-
quently throw me off. Genus and steamboats,.
genus and railroads, genus and vara.lots, or
genus coupled with eny kind of material aid
makes The greatest team in the world. never
felt so insignificant as when contemplating that
one-horse concern, genus in the abstract. But
you will say that there other fields open be-
sides politics. | admir- it. Dat Poetry is done
for long ago; the stream of Helicon is taken
up, and the entire Mount of Parnassus, from
base TO summit, is claimed. | might do some
thing in the way of statuary; but California
marble is not good, and you know that true ge-
nus never spreads itsei anything short of
genuine Carrara.' | only know two .nnes-
Hard road to travel over Jordan and Bold
soger boy consequently, could not tnrn my at
tention to music. What am TO do? To re-
main here without you is nearly 'Hades. III |
return, famine and starvation await me. Cali
furuia still holds out inducements superior to
the Atlantic States; and [ might yet come out
victorionsly.
Bnt | must bring this letter TO focus. I
have been trying tor about half an hour to wind
up with 3 grand flourish, but it is useless; !
am obhged TO enunciate the bitter fact. If you
love me as well as you did when l owned
the big Suarlz-vein before Adams & Co. burst
up in the days when struck the lead then |
am all right Come out aud join me; and we
will build lli!e cottage beside some purling
stream, and .ys; spend our days happily. You
need net bring any money; but if you have got
any old clothes, fetch them along.
Yours forever. If you stick to me; but, il
you throw me off in this hour of my adversely,
'.Yours, in defiance, SNIKTAw."