Grass Valley telegraph., 1857-12-26


few were abq dainty prospered, and met
with no reveres. They went back to cheer
waiting hearts and to enjoy with them their
new acquisitids. Enough returned to keep
up the fever ol oladventure, to induce others
Z to come also. But the great majority
how was it viii them? They seemed to be
in sight of tleir hopes, but could never
overtake them If gold>was got, it was lost
again, slipping through the fingers as if it
6asf SOLID 81 metals Some co6Iaan ct Iaanf nSStt ct
get it eVerpthe first time. Their claims
turned out poorly; their shafts struck no
lead; their rock would not pay for crushing;
their fumes were swept prematurely away.
II they engaged in traffic, every thing wentin;
their partners swindled them their interest
I money hung, dead, weight on their shoul-
ders; sweeping fires turned all their sub
stance into smoke. Never has land been
the theater of such business disappointments,
as California in these eight years. The men
of the cities have suffered from fire and
flood, from fraud and revulsion. The men
Of the plains have found even agriculture,
Injected with California caprices, and the
network of land titles cobweb, on which
only legal spiders could grow fat. The men
of the mountains have had their own troub-
les too much rain, or too little single
handed workers, toiling to poor advantage,
and companies impoverished by ill-manage-
ment Villages reduced to ashes, and lone
cabins plundered ;-villainy clutching the
deposits of years the cheapest living still
up to what we should once have thought star
walton prices. In some way or other, it has
come to pass, that almost every man among
US is a disappointed man. The record of
hopes thwarted in this State, of expectations
defeated and ambitioTfsA crushed, would fur
nish reading fol gederaton, and tears for
a thousand tragedies
The Immediate result Of all this disap-
pointment, you well know. Men could not,
or thought they could not, redeem their
promise of speedy return. SThose some
what successful, found it >long g-winded af-
fair to get richt they could not break up
AID leave, without too great asacriice. The
un1oAtunate still hoped for success they
!, were too proud = 60 -Aaal- r,aap Como
/ even, could notge back, from sheer poverty
" And SO, for varioB reasons, all centering in
!; the one reason, disappointment, they are
# still here. Ohe have they been urged,
: when urging seeEd mockery of their own
beating desires, tgo back News has come
|" of the parent wbse bowed form has found
: its rest in the giye,-of the wife or child
l. snatched beyonI human gaze,-of another
and still anothe inroad in the circle of the
zaalisssaaass asSa4s1saaass Wlting hearts grew despond-
ent, and half-T5foaohfnl "Will you not
home, and stag" has been the oft-repeated
question. Buthe' strong chains of disap-
poinment havaeld them still to the soil of
: California. 1they have visited home, it
= has not been stay their golden hopes
were too far finn being realized.
Such is thepmmon outline of Califor-
MANS history 1t is by nomeans true of all.
Some came td make the>State their home.
Some have std because, they were not dis
appointed. ~
:. But such a. fraction of the sum total.
| 1t is still truthat the majority of respect0-
bic men in th State, are 6eTe to-day through
= disappointmlt.
e And now Pt US see what recompensing
/ sweet Califonia can eS<act from all this
: bitterness. here have been satNeonsequen-
e ces. Disappointment has ruined many noble
! minds. 1t is been the turning point for
$ evil, when tnptations. were pressing; when
d mad mirth nd reckless debauchery offered
: to cure the ieart's pain That is one side
of the pictre But there is another, far
If brighter. Califoruia has been vastly the
n gamer SbyCalitornians disappointments.
e To spek first of negative blessings -
It These disapontments have kept out an in
n tolerable warm of bad people. We have
!. enough no. A multitude of villains and
: vagaboudand strumpets did burst in on
!. the State, nd threatened to carry every
thing by form. Society is still reeling
e under the low. But'suppose the glittering
r hopes of a these hoaestSpeople. who came
n also, had Yen realized. supPose this had
I! really proid to be lapd where gold could
v be gathere eat will ;-where the great law
j of labor fore Dealth, was for once set
t aside Is ot such a land the Paradise of
: those who se idle and dishonest and vicious
= And what Id would there have been to this
: infux,-mEe Ee disastrous than any Vandal
irruption the fertile plains of Italy? The
a State woul have become iatolerably bur-
if dened with hnavery and vice. The selfcon-
: stituted Bqny Bay of the world, it would
d have reekei with crime and pollution, and
S have becom a sMghtful Sodom, which the
nations wdd ~gladly have seen destroyed
9 by FIRE fron6eaYsn. II is q comfort when
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