Butte record., 1856-01-26

running tri-weekly from wharf at the
foot of - street, who, within the
memory of the writer of this article
presided over fourishing village church
es in New England, and on Sabbath
morn made the nighborhood redolent
with their eloqnence, and caused many
weeping eye, and contrite heart, to
see the ''error of its ways" by then
fervent and vehement appeals in be-
half Of the cause and suferings Of
''our blessed Redeemer." One OF
them kept monte-bank few months
prior to the passage Of the anti-gamb
ling law.
TO those from the older countries,
so much behind the progressiyeness Of
the age, as to believe in titles of no
bility, it must be humiliating to ac-
knowledge, that such and such a scul-
lion is a count, marquis, or baron, and
that hneal deseendent of one of the
most aristocratic as well as most an
cient families in Spain, is now engaged
in San Francisco selling charcoal from
the back of a jack-ass!
This general leveling, has not only
made it evident upon the scions of no
bility, but the ''liberal Professions
art, literature and the sciences, have
been compelled to succumb to the force
of circumstances, and are largely
represented in the conglomerate
population of the Golden Horn Of the
West. An euridite physician, who
spent years of his life in diving into
the mysterious qualities of the mineral
and vegetable kingdom, is stranger
to anything outside Of his alma mater,
and has no sympathy with quackery,
finds himself, much to his modification,
performing a miraculous cureo in
consideration of a nights lodging
An importer of coffee and sugar from
the West Indies, silks and rice, from
the East-ex-member of the Board
of Trade, Wall street, New York,
whose parlors in the fifth avenue, have
been the recipients Of the brilliant
and wealthy and happy of that neigh
borhood, whose ships have spread their
white sails to the breeze in all climes
is reduced to the incorporating ne
cessity of getting his bread while his
boots is down at the heel, by running
errands and collecting bills for car
pet store. The cashier of nantuck-
ct bank, with mixed colored suit on
takes care Of the horses for line of
coaches belonging to California Stage
Co., while the President Of that very
company, FIVE years ago, drove coach
between the American House, Boston,
and the different railroad stations in
the CITY. A di. t-nguished mathemati-
elan describes tIiangles and practices
the curvns of triganometry among the
rubbish in Washington Square Stock
ton street, to find a potato that he may
live another afternoon without letting
his approximation to the starving point
be known among his dressed acqain-
tances. An opera singer can be seen
daily sticking bills for the theater.
Do the successful who are engaged
in the swift race of life, ever think Of
its wonderful mutations? Seekers after
mammon, who iostle against the un-
fortunate in the street, remember what
might once have been his position.
Outward decoration does not make the
man. The heart that beats hard un-
der unprepossessing habiliments, once
entertained hopes and aspirations as
high as yours, and with, perhaps,
greater expectance of reallzatlon.-
1Riches take to Themselves wings and
fly away" and the next adverse
breath Of wind should not surprise you
if it carried your best laid schemes,
and long cherished prospects out Of
sight, if not out of remembrance
V'bipl- of ~