San Andreas independent., 1856-12-06

to our State to bring with them their fam
lilies, their households, and if need be,
their 'household gods" Let them come
prepared to settle and remain with us, and
spread the contagion of home comforts
among those who are already here And
| would ask, whence come those who ar
rive in our golden State with their families!
Almost invariably from the agricultural
sections of the Union. Men who are in
ured to toll, who have been raised to swing
the axe and hold the pillow, and when they
arrive, being unacquainted with mining,
would prefer locating where they would be
undisturbed, and turn their attention to
agricultural pursuits But, if they en-
gage in mining, they wish place-if not
more than garden spot-which they can
call their home. If they cannot be se-
cure in such positions, what is the conse-
quence? They refuse to stop in the
mines, 90 to the valleys and settle upon
vacant land, from which they are soon
ousted by some large land-holder, in the
person of an old claimant Disguised with
such country, they "pull up stakes"
and the next move is back to their former
homes in the Atlantic States. We are
yearly losing, not one, but hundreds of
families from this very cause, and such
will continue to be the case until we grant
them rights, and secure them in the pos
sion of the same. Let us look to our fu-
ture prosperity, comfort and respectability;
when we can see our hill-sides and our
valleys dotted over with cottages, kept
neat and tidy by the hands of fair women,
when the rose, the honeysuckle and the
geranium, will take the place of the wild
flower of the mountain, when frolicsome
children will frisk and gambol on every
hill and in every valley, sending forth
their gleesome voices, as token of their
happiness, to strike the hearts of men
with remembrance of former days of in
nocence, when they too were happy and
"like one of these" Then will Califor-
MIA advance in the scale of prosperity and
true greatness; but never under the pres
ent organization of society, which will
continue to retard her progress.
Have the miners of California no higher
ambition than, after their days work, to
assemble in the saloons night after night,
for months and years in succession, and
and there spend the evenings in idle con-
versation. and return to their cabins gloomy
and disconsolate, without one pleasant
thought of happy and well spent even
ing in the society Of the fair? Do they
desire to throw every obstacle in the way
of whatever may tend to remind them of
the domestic comforts and sociable pleas
ures of former days, in the society of those
they joycd in esteeming and loving? Do
they desire to obliterate every recollection
of former home, made pleasant by its
many comforts, its smiling faces, the sill
very voices of fair women, and the inno-
cent prattle of happy children? Never
When they come to the sober second
thought, they will refuse to wrap them
selves in their own sclfshness, but will be-
come satisfied that what is calculated to
advance California in the social scale, is
for her true greatness, for the interest of
all her citizens, whether miners, ranch
men, merchants. or traders; with even a
faint prospect of elevating her loafers and
"bummers' t. responsibility and some
honorable calling. :. SO mote It BE-