The Nevada journal., 1857-11-27
UNwRITTEN Observation-Disclosures

expression. Like the blithesome carol
of the morning songster no combination
of letters can give even faint idea
There they are, deep in the inner re-
cesses of the soul, gems in the world of
mind, known only to the possessor. The
diviner after Natures laws may tax his
speech, his prolific pen, but they assume
not the form Of tangibility. The orator
may strain his mental powers to their
utmost tension-'tis but a fulsome gush;
and the most unshackled of all-the po-
ct, enrapt, with the tongue of an angel,
may pour his lays, but after all he signs
for a gift to which his efforts are but
feeble echo. He knows it-he mourns
it. On the sacred tablet, the Utmost
shrine of the heart, there they are, and
there forever they must remain, "unwri-
table yet writ, ''-unwritable to the pen
Of mortality, yet written. nay graoen in
unefaccaLle characters by hand we
would but cannot initiate and glowing
ly readable to him who turns his sight
within. Here is the sanctum sanctorum
of man. Here is an essence, a some
thing his own, yet not his own-his own,
for none can take, or purchase; it comes
not within the pale Of venality-'tis
wealth entailed-not his own, for he
cannot do as he would, he cannot com
mand it. 'Tis struggling spirit chain
ed. The liberty of expression is the
goal of effort, unattained and unattaina
Bile.
The joys of the human heart find a
faint and feeble utterance. Its sorrows
too well up in a gushing fountain, but a
mimic slow Of the torrent boiling at
the depths. There is something left,
the hottest of all, which challenges the
human tongue to tell. Language is
powerless, vocal sounds with all their
intonatons, lisp, speak or herald it not.
All feel it, and know it. Often, how
often, does the writer of every grade,
and speakers Of varied eminence, after
every mortal effort, sigh for key to I'M
lock the treasures Of the deep untold
The thoughts of Locke, Kant, and
a Bacon were never unfolded. A Mil
ton scared and scared and yet was
bird Of earth; the incubus of the flesh
cramped the energies of lis soul. A
Shakespeare, deeply read in the nature
of man, found many time that which
beggared description. But Byron above
all others, has gone the length Of Ian
guage to portray his inability, and the
stanza in Childe Harold expressing his
want of language, like the pure white
cross in the celebrated picture, is a
beautiful substitution for the unexpres-
i've:
'Couli crnLody and unboSon now
That which is most within me, could vreak
Ny thoughts upon expression. and thus tl.ro,v
Soul heart, mind pas>lons feeling strong eaA
All fha, would have sought aud all seek,
Bear, know feed, ana yet breathe into word,
And that word lightning, wcula speak,
But as il is, live and die unheard
With lrss thoug GIT shcatlug sword
Thus is it with our imperfect organi-
zation-thc best remains untold. That
which is expressed is poweress. lis
but the vapor Of the more substantial,
which can never be told, never divuIged,
never realized till mortality and immor-
tally are separated, till the spirit is
freed from its earthly embrace
TIE Great Congressional C,usadc.--
Tie BarbeyouS Ditch Act.-A few, very
few, individuals who happen to have
property IN bitches set on foot project
some time since of getting rid of an I'M
popular official or two on an errand to
Washington to procure the passage of a
law giving to ditch men a large share of
the country they might cross. The
credentials are already made out and
awaiting only the endorsement OF the
Legislature about to assemble to be put
in the pocket of the would be lobby
member of Congress. Unfortunately
for the hopes of aspiring young men,
the presses in the mining districts have
mounted the miserable hobby of the few
ditch men and are squirting it to death.
1t will scarcely get to Washington now.
From all parts of the mountains there
comes an universal condemnation of the
proposed ditch bill. Shasta gives it a
set back, Sierra back handed slap in
the mouth, Nevada terrible mauling
and the other mining counties admins
ter few wholesome kicks that make
the CALLED jade vince. The thing was