San Andreas independent., 1857-03-21


Bsr The Daily Morning Cau!--price l21
cents per weeks published at little tumble
town, (earth-quakery,) on the Sand-hills fur
nenst the suburbs of the Limantour domain,-
where the Common Schools have "gin eout' and
the Common Council ''gin m,"-( about fifty miles
from the great Commercial Depot and terminus
of the Pa Cifc and Aunt Lunatic Rail Road
Benicia.) This institution, the road, not the
Call, is to be a kind of national "crinolne" TO
hoop the skirts and stiffen the borders OF the
Goddess of Lberty's neither garment, as she
gathers under its outrageous folds, the COM
merce of the world, while making her Morning
Cau on the hardy sons and daughters OF Uncle
Sans Farm from mthe seas east to the seas Uest."
acr.nd with sword but worthier with her FAM"
We imagined the Goddess, seated in Indian
Valley. IA cosy rocking-chair,) dining on Table
Mountain. ouenching her thirst at the Twin
Lakes. and using all the Big Trees for tooth
hicks and bodkins to punch holes through the
upper deep and set "new stars of glory there :"
lighting her pipe at Volcano, to send up curling
clouds-the patriotic incense of national great
ness and liberty-(whch eternally wraps the
earth-quakeryin in afoggy mist, while bathing her
feet at the base of that "beeting island" picto-
paper not the editor,) which we mistook for a
mud-turtle, but turned out to be Jerusalem
cricket-surrounded by juvenile crickets! We i'm
imagined all this, and yet could not discover
how tha article of. 0rion from, tba Co, Joco
Tribune, should be called by the Call, "stolen
scraps from the poets" We first intended to
call him out, but us it is all about an Inaugural
tion Ball, will merely call his hand and go nine
big Bucks over; sThumb-hand side of Calaveras
county," Big Trees, Mammoth Cave, Natural
Bridge, Immigrant Road, Twin Lakes, Indian
Valley, Table Mountain, Volcano and all, we go
you betterl San Francisco Morning CaH-cALL
"SAN ANDREAs" BECOMES ENTHUSIASTIC
The editor of the San Andreas Independent is in
extacies. He has been at an Inauguration ball,
away yup at Upper Calaveritas, on the .'thumb-
hand side did you ever of Calaveras coun-
ty, and we should judge from the enthusiastic
description of the tete he enjoyed himself
hugely. In the first place he says ''the music,
the dancing, ana the supper were superb -
Just hear him expatiate upon the charms of the
gentle sex it ought have read sic in that sec
ton; <
Not guilty of the charges and specifications. !
Whew Amt that high? What magic arts
have the girls of Upper Calaveritas practiced
upon the independent man, to wake up such a
strain? From the facility with which he deals
out the beauties of the poets, one would think
he had been at feast of quotations., and stolen
Edid you eoer2] all the scraps" One hundred
and forty souls, including the editor of the In
dependent, assembled in the grand saloon Of the
spacious edi6ce wherein the ball was given, and
seating themselves at the table commenced
series of Epicurean gyrations. One-third of
the guests were ladies' who so entertained our
chronicler, that time was like a feeting sky
rocket, and "sped on until daylight caught
darkness in her arms, and bore it far o'er the
lashing seas to a lonely isle" How Iadepen-
dent could ever become reconciled to the mat
fact atmosphere of his sanctum, after
having been thus transported beyond the sor-
did realities of this base sphere, we cannot
imagine what a change was there my coun-
trvmeni'
Not dime of change could be prospected as
we left the 'smooth quarters" to get " short
bit !" of comfort for our "quickslyer DUST