Weekly Trinity journal., 1857-03-07


White cottage, and an old woman and
even Rheumatism cannot make him afraid
What was the spell that wrought these
transmitted the toads and
lizards, and all the loathsome things Of a
dissolute and lawless community, into the
very pearls and diamonds of fairy tale
that by some wondrous cunning made, of a
day of lust and rapine and worse than lsh- /
mael's rule, lovely Age of Gold ? The
Influence of a quiet eye, a graceful mein, a
thousand pretty pleas for homage and pro-
tection-the power of woman, the potent
restraint of her presence, the persuasive elo-
quence of her very silence, the hattery of
her slightest appreciation, the suficing re-
buke of her turned-away face-that dim re-
ligion of the heart which demands no cost
lier fame than the humblest rooftree, no al
tar more formally consecrated than cottage
cradle no deity more awful than that God
of Love whose smile makes the wilderness
blossom like the rose, and the little hills to
skip like lambs.
Under a green hillock, hard by an old
Switzcr's house, and sacredly remote from
the savage holocaust of Californian victims,
sleeps the First Lady of San Francisco
Quiet consumaton have,
And renowned be thy grave
Let us see what the Old Adobe is within.
Entering by the ever-open portal we are in
a wide hall, which divides the house in equal
wings-thcre is but the one story. This
first room on the left is the Governors
Office. That is he-the dark-haired, thin
whiskered, dapper little man. Not forget
ting that you are in San Francisco in the
early fall Of Forty-nne, you wonder at his
well-fttiug clothes, his freshly-shayen chin,
his Interchangeable dicky, starched for the
latitude Of Broadway above all, at his
patent-leather shoes and spotless undarned
stockings These are miracles not to
mention the genuine aroma Of lis Havana
that bcwilder you at first. Dut presently
Colt there, the deputy, ro.ds you your rid
die. The Governor he says, is good,
oHe acay ar 0aCther, ,and Colt has a way,
peculiarly his owl, of saying that one way
or anothcr) lor three thousand dollars a
month which at once make the tailor and
the ldundress mere commOn-placcS and mat
ters Of fact Colt himself reflects the gov
ernor'S outer man aftera crooked fashion, as
hawed lookingglass might do t-that is,
his dicky is fresh, but it confesseS to brown
soap--and his stockings are clean, but they
are also dirty SOilcd in the washing and
the shoes that Colt wears are pumps-there-
fore simply ridiculous. But Colt thinks he's
doing very wei! on eight hundred month
one way or another
There are some other small particulars in
which the deputy successfully reflects the
governor.
Once, when the green tables of the Par
ker House lonrished exceedingly, and the
game went mcrrily as a marriagc-bcl Colt
approached a montc-table with Il red silk
handkerchief in his hand, and in his quiet
way-such modesty as you would naturally
expect from eight hundred dollars month
one way or another asked for lay out
The bland dealer gr0ciously accommodated
him with ray, ocho sinkwee, and keryaiyo'
Colt believed he'd ride this time so he
tcndcrly deposited lis red bundle on keryai-
yo, the stecd
Dust or coin, Mr.. Colt ? inquired the
dealer.
Coin, old horse
Gold or silver, if You please, Mr. Colt p
That's nothing to you, unless you should
be so unhappy as to lose, my fancy friend,
in which case you shall be gratilied imme-
dlately with a minute inspection of my pile
Otherwise, do me the honor to take John
Colts unimpcachcd word for it that the
money is good money, and don't expose it
to the vulgar gaze
AS you please, sir your word is enough
And John Colt, receiving from the hand
of the smooth professor the sybline 'papcS,
in accordance with an established courtesy
extended by well-bred dealers to heavy
gentlemen, proceeded to decide his own fate
BY graceful, undulatory movement of his
dainty, jeweed hand another reflection on
the goyernor-he gradually, and without
huttcr, erected two sympathetic piles Of
cards until, suddenly, one way or another,
lie returned what remained of the pictorial
parallclograms to the dealer--with Sauvity
of gesture which was his own happy man
ner, merely requesting that equally aesthetic
individual not to trouble himself with the
arithmetic till the rabble haG retired. In
the morning, the arithmetic disclosed thr-
teen thousand dollars in the sweetest eagetS
of Uncle Sans golden eyrie.
One way or another John Colt was the
best deputy his governor ever had Thongh,
indeed, the governor was an easy governor
10 please-a most coniidng governor. His
room of Office looked on the vcrandah by
two windows near one of these sIGo6 tne
sub-treasury being an iron chest not unlike
Pennsylvania Dutch farmer, in respect of
its being so much better acquainted with
substantial belyfuls than its very seedy ex-
terror would lead yon to suppose More
than once has Subtrcasury- only thing
of steady habits west of the Rocky Noun
tains then-turned out its golden lining to
the day, while the governor and his deputy
had both retired for a period to refresh
themselves in one way or another-and ne 'er
a man afraid There were three months of
Arcadian simplicity in the lS49 of San
Francisco.
TO BE CONTINUED.