San Andreas independent., 1857-05-23
Get Married.

ulation of our State, and of making Its
residents feel an increased interest in its
prosperity, and welfare, and success, the
one which forms the caption of this article
is deserving of serious consideration. So
long as men have only themselves to look
out for, and care for, so long as they stand
alone IN the world, with none others de-
manding their support and cherishing aid,
50 long, and particularly in country like
California, will our population be floating
one, SO long will it lack the clement of per-
manence, which we now so much need to
make our State great, glorious and happy
Woman has ever been to man his other
self. She has passed with him in ioy. in
the sunshine and beauty of the world. Tn
sorrow she has mingled with his. her
pearly tears; in danger she has breasted
with him the storm of life, and has ever
been to him blessing and JOY. Who
that has been separated for time by seas
and mountains, from the bright being, who,
in his early youth was his ideal of all that
was pure and holy on earth, and who, years
ago, at the sacred altar step, pledged her
young love to him, has not often thought
upon the blessing of virtuous, loving
wife; how eagerly she ran to meet him,
when his returning footster pressed the
threshold of his home and hers how, in
the long winter evenings, he sat at his own
board and hearth, and she, his early choice,
was with him, and how the little prattlers,
his and hers, climbed about his knees, and
with her, welcomed him, when he came to
his home. Years of absence from these
blissful scenes fail to drown their remem-
brance, and the wanderer, returning to
them often in thought, revels in their de-
lightful memories with the pleasure with
which the weary, thirsting traveller on the
desert sands of Arabia, quaffs from the
clear spring in the oasis, the bright and
crystal waters.
Time has been when it was said that
California was not fit country for the es-
tabllshment of homes. If that time has
ever been, it has passed away with our pro-
gress as a people, in the re6nements, and
the comforts, and the pleasures of social
life. We have settled down, comparatively
at least, into permanent organization
We have set up here, our altars of wor-
ship, of trade, and of home The hearth
stone glows with the embers, and the lamp
is lighted on the parlor table, and the wife
sits in expectation of her husband S return
from his daily labor, and waits for him
with welcoming smile. Churches and
schools have grown up and flourish around
us. All the elements of prosperity are
palpable to our senses on every hand, and
no country in the world offers now such
inducements for permanent place of res
idence as does California
The best evidence man can give of his
intention to cast his lot in life in this God
blessed land, is to marry and build him
here home or, if he be married, to bring
hither his wife and children, and his
household goods and gods He will thus
add not only to his own happiness, gain
an additional incentive to labor and to en-
terprise, but will aid in the progress of
our State. Marriage, as an +" immigration
scheme merely, should be encouraged
here; for, in the natural order of events
prescribed by a good Providence, immi-
grant" are brought hither by it from land
where they have imbibed no early preiu-
dices, which must be removed; have ac-
quired no bad habits, which must be bat
tied with-come hither, indebted to Cali
fornia for their all of life, and of hope, and
therefore, the most promising, to become
permanent residents among us. Our mild,
and lovely, and generous climate, promises to
nurture rising generation, and bring them
up to man and womanhood, in health and
strength, and is well calculated for the
production of race of men and women
who shall be the pride of the continent.
Two weeks ago to-day, in Sunday ar
ticle on "Home," We recommended all
our young men, many of whom are now
living aimless, objectless lives, to procure
for themselves a home; by economy and
prudence, and care, to secure foothold
on the earth somewhere, which they could
call their own, and to raise upon it a dwell
ing place which should be theirs. In ad-
dition to this, we now recommend them to
cast about them, and find partners to share
with them the joys and sorrows of their
homes and their lives. The cottage, how
ever beautifully adorned, is desolate in the
absence of her who should be its light and
It's joy; the flowers in its garden bloom
not SO brightly without her presence. Get
home, then, you who can, and "get mar
ried;" and, instead of being as too many
of you now are, mere waits on life's great
ocean, become permanent, happy dwellers
in this goodly land, with all the comforts
of home about you, and blessed with the
light, the joy, and the happiness, which
will be the sure result Of proper mar
riage.-Aha California.
The ARTEsTAN WELL.-Y esterday. saws
the Stockton 4 drnns of the 18th inst the