The Empire County argus., 1856-01-05
lA Ell DORADO COUNTY, CAI SATURDAY, JANUARY s. 1856.
THE CARRIERS ADDRESS.

THE CARRIERS ADDRESS.
Again, dear Patrons, in the opening year,
To your kind hands my annual gift bear,
Replete with small events-the great [ scorn-
Let those promulge them, to that duty born,
But l. not famed for and classic art,
Content to play the while an humble part;
Bound, like an Ariel, to some master hand,
Nor having leisure at my own command
Must glad your ears with hints and gossip small,
Such trfes as within my compass fall.
'Tis curious fact, that once a year,
A custom prevails with the carrier
OF newspapers all over creation,
To leave small token in poetry,
As though the poor fellow would merely try
Your purse by its facnaton.
But alas this method of raising the wind,
Your Printers Devil % not always doth find
So savory to his stomach
For wit oft o'erleaps prudential bound,
And often the new-year carrier hath found
His shoulders assailed with o crummoch.
Admonished then by the fate of the ass,
He fain would all personalities pass
All falsehood and scandal eschew-
And closing his eals to every good thing
In the way of fun, his music would sing
Of naught but what's wholesome and true.
Nor would she dilate, how the allied fleet,
Were by previous concert in the Baltic to meet,
And Constradt, with guns to rake her,
To the allied ships the thing was dead,
For, by Cd, he couldn't take her.
Nor that long labor, much staer than all,
How the Allies beleaguered Sebastopol,
And fired great guns at the Russo,
And after ten months of sortie and siege,
The batteries pushed to its very edge,
The Malakof was taken in q muss
Nor the visit of her, the English Queen
For better she monarch never was seen
Since the days of good Queen Bess-
How she cross'd the channel and went to Calais,
And was met by the Emperor's suit the same day,
And went on to Paris in less.
OF the royal reception and loud ''vivas,''
That greeted the Queen, so the Monitenr says,
And beggars' petitons-a million!
OF the costly banquets and costly wine,
Where the 6 Fleur-de-Ls" " and the " Jack " en-
To the cost of the nations, billion! Irvine.
And how in searching the Herald's scroll,
Which, since Waterloo, would unroll,
She found Napoleon her cousin
While cencs gave knowing wink
AT this popular CANNON, for who but would think,
For such cause she could find dozen.
Nor aught does she care for that strip of land,
Like &C bakers loaf,'' and cad Jutland,
Where the Danes catch fish and make whisky,
Nor a sixpence she about the sound dues,
Which quidnuncs would call the gist of the news,
And for which Uncle Sam looks so frisky.
For all Europe says, for Antiquity sake,
That Christian the - the dues should take,
And our nation pay the reck ming,
For ever since the days of Scold,
Who poughed these waters, pirate bold,
They've been paid without note or bick'ring.
Nor recks she farthing for that sooty humbug,
Which the Free-soilers, Know-nothings, Cufyites
And so sweely roll under their tongues, Thug,
And prating of Union from morn to night,
Debating if Kansas be black white,
Ard wailing DER Sanisas' wrongs.
Nor does she stoop her Aerial wing
To warble in rythmatc prose sing
OF the Philadelphia Convention,
Where the Know-nothings, national, found to their
A union of party was an . idea " lost [cost,
To them and the rest of the nation
For swear and bamboozle as much as you will
For of oaths big and strange they had taken their
The negroes would be represented, [fll.)
And of all the free-soilers, doughfaced and red,
From Miss Parson Brown to Douglass, call'd Fred,
The Gardner equally scented
But to instinct true she winds her way
To the twilight that mantes the dying day,
To peep in the s. clear-obscure,''
For RuanOr, the dam of thousand lies,
Lives in this crepuscuar light, so she HES
Its underlined space to explore.
Now perched, like " the Devil upon two sticks,''
She notes the night-stroller, his hat full of bricks
Steal softly away to his lair,
And thinking all safe in the well cover'd house
She unroofs-when 10 in his white linen blouse,
She finds him with Betty the fair.
Again at the close of long Summer day,
When mOrtas sweating beneath the hot ray
Of the sun-as the sun shines in June
She sees from the half-open lattice a hand,
1t waves half persuasion, it waves half command,
While a voice softly MARBLES tune.
1t told how Gencva-king Arthur's fair queen
First ogled young Lancelat from behind her silk
And enticed the knight errant astray, [screen,
How nimby he climbd, by her small fingers wrought,
The ladder of rope, and the fair truant caught
In his arms, and bore safely away.
And now, by the taper's dim glow, she descries
A party intent with their hands and their eyes
To bear off the trophies at Loo [boot,
While Jack unobserved, draws trump from his
And Dick quite forgetful ''rengs the lead suit,''
And Bob with potations grows blue
But who is that treading his "winding way %
As the cock trumpets forth the approach of day,
III at case, for his spouse has not slept,
She has counted the hours and looA'd out for him,
Until her poor vision with watching grows dim,
Still intent on the lecture well kept.
He fegns himself sober, and kicks over the fat,
In bucket of water he souzes his hat
While his silence proclaims something wrong
Vain effort, his tenderest rib to disann, [warm
For she watched the whole night to keep her wrath
And her tongue thunders forth like gong.
And now goody muse, thy bright wings suspend,
And here of the Carriers address make end,
Lest some harm should befall. for tits bruted
Although thou art vrtuous Cpsar's wife,
Ills plain thou art up to all shifts of life,
And to strange company very well suited.
-A~~~&IN--%>p
THE New Coal MINEs.--The Stockton Argu
us defines the locale of The coal deposits latel
ened in that region:
The discovery is on this side the dividing ridg
the Coast Ranpn at the head of Corral Ho1lo,,