San Andreas independent., 1858-05-15
LETTER FROM MURPHYS.
Correspondence of the Independent

Mr. Misunderstanding partially promised tc
keep you posted in regard to the one great ana
all-absorbing object here, l. e., the Flume
binding and sacred as if it was made in full
will endeavor to keep it to the best of my
limited abilities. Under the new adminstra-
ton the work is progressing bravely, and you
may confidently expect to hear in few weeks
that the cut has entered the Flat after which
it will be II thing of little moment to complete
Having been frequently warned, in youth
full years, to fix my faith upon the Rock OF
Ages, | ever neglected to obey the kind COM
mand, for the simple reason that it was q
thing to me incomprehensible, but now it is as
clear as mud, for we have found it; aye, sir,
what once considered mere supposition-a
dream,-a resting place for the weary mind
to fold its wings upon, far out on the ST.
lent bosom of space we have found in all its
hideous materiality, and if my faith" is not
fixed there, my hopes are, to "a great extent.
Good men are wanted at all times upon the
Flume, as it is the intention of the Company
to push it through at once. If you have any
idle fellows-ide, remember, from not having
Il chance to be industrious, s,-who want to live
well and to have an easy berth, just send them
along, and they will be accommodated at once
by onr gentlemanly Superintendent. Most
persons, and particularly strangers, labor un-
der the impression that upon the Flume the
toll is unusually severe, but in this they are
sadly mistaken, for it is comparatively light,
and if not agreeable pleasant, it is still
something to be enrolled with the genial spir-
its already there. Send them along.
The claims in this place and vicinity are
paying well, and although nearly all the claims
on the Flat are idle, there is but a small de-
crease in the amount of gold taken out. Some
half dozen of our choicest spirits have left for
the Ell Dorado Of the north feeling confident
of being enabled to return in a few years with
an abundance of the precious metal. Others
are preparing to- fellow their example, and in
a short time our once glorious legion will have
dwindled to an Insignificant squall. Indeed,
could each and all who wish to go, raise the
necessary funds, Murphy's would be almost
depopulated, and none but few old grey
spirits like your humble servant, be left to
mourn its glory departed. Nothing of sufficient
Importance has transpired of late to interest
any one, or to cause the dignifed posscssor of
few odd thousands to raise his brows, or to
lose single puff of his delicious @ short six
News, did say? All WE'LL the solution of the
problem is easier than had imagined Here
it is: The moment a jest is born, and even
before it is christened-aye even before it is
known whether it is perfect, or an abortion,
and ere YOU can welcome its entrance into tn c
world with smile, at least score of hats
and 'kerchefs are off and out to catch it, and
if successful, it is at once bagged for the Bulle-
tie. That's it, and yoo may depend upon it.
Every fedgling in the shape of news, is at once
seized upon and confscated for the especial
benefit of the Bulletin. Seeing how matters
were, and not having many of my friends
around me at the time, made tracks for the
cabin, sprang inside, and hastily boiling the
door, offered up a most laughable petition,
and after thanking myself that had so mi
raculously escaped being bagged for that con-
! founded Bulletin, took glass of wine with
"Mazeppa,' and became more reasonable
The editor was in town, and methought saw
in the glance of his eye the mute music of the
grave-dgger's song," and which seemed to
say, gather them in, gather them in u
but when, by mere accident, his glance fell
upon me, by Jove! l would not have given a
bottle of pop for my chance.
You may think it strange, nevertheless it is
true, that have natural horror of Sheets
Being of a singularly nervous temperament,
the very sight of a large sheet fills me with
visions of dread but when it approaches a
focus, per Bachus it is the next thing to being
in love with an old maid. All you laugh, do
you? Laugh at the Big Tree Bulietm2 Now
just let me ask you a question, privately: Is
it at the Big Trees or the Bulletin that YOU
smile in so contemptuous manner? At the
Bulletin Then, sir, allow me to hint to YOU,
in the most delicate manner possible" that
Napoleon Bonaparte was small man, Alex
ander the Great was small also, proving at
once that when either Nature or Man wishes
to make anything par excellent, and marked
Excelsior, it is invariably small because of
much finer material To increase the size of
the Bulletin would be to commit wholesale
murder here, for even as it is, it is no rare
thing to see a man putting on an extra belt
before he attempts to peruse it. The first
sheet nearly put US hors de combat, by its hui
morous tales and infinite jests; and we are not
to be caught unprepared again. Another great
object is, to limit the number of its subscribers
to million. Now, if it was larger, clubs like
mushrooms, would spring up in a night, or
ders, unlimited, come focking in, and it would
take at least half dozen steam presses to
supply the demand. 1t is one of the neatest
and best filled little papers in the State, and
as | am about to take drink, permit me to
give you toast: Here's to its gentlemanly
editor, and rire la bulletin! MAzEPpA.
A New TRADE.-The steamer Henrietta SAYS
the Republican, now makes regular trips from
Stockton to Frezno, a town located near the