Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-01-30
81 Calling for FemaIes.o

s1Or Femntes'"
1t is wonderful what degree of enterprise is
perceptbe among people who accomplish little
or nothing in life They are constantly original
ing gigantic projects which, if executed. would
throw the world as much out of its accustomed
orbit as If fArchimedes had succeeded in adjusting
bis all-powerful lever but, unhappily, they can
never get fulcrum on which TO rest the potent
crow-bar of their imagination and after deal of
putting and blowing, fuss and furry, they permit
things to go on very little, If any improved.
A while ago some public spirited and philan-
thropic people devised plan by which Califor-
MIA was to be filed to overhowng with the most
intractible Of bone and sinew from the labor
fe Ids Of the Atanfic States. Ships were to be
chartered and freighted with "poor, but honest
people who were to be discharged at San Fran
cisco to make their way directly to the mines, and
there amass fortunes instantaneously. No thought
was taken about what the Navigation Company
might charge for ferrying them across the Bay,
or how they were to live until they could be EN-
ployed at remunerative wages-all that was
necessary was to land the fortune seekers on the
prolific sand hills OF San Francisco and let them
runl That project failed, not for want of enter
prise and love Of human kind, but for want of
funds. Substantial men didn't like to invest
Now We hear Of another enterprise equal in gran
deur Of design, and infinitely more important in
its bearing on the perpetuity and multiplication
Of individual soveregns-a design which will so
strengthen the underpnning of the common
wealth that its overthrow will be even less feasi-
BILE than Paddys duck. 1t is nothing less than
the formation of a society for the transportation
sufficient to supply every "ageable " miner
with one or more. 1t is expected that on the ar
rival Of the vessel containing the fragile pack
ages, every unmarried miner will hurry to the
wharf, and seizing the first in sight, will has
ten to magistrate and marry her with the ut
most precipitation, and no questions asked. As
consequence every miners cabin is to be the neu-
cleus OF populous village, and himself the father
of a numerous family. School masters and. wet
nurses are to be more literally patronzcd, and
Congressional representation to be increased
SwampS and ovPrfowed lands are TO be speedily
reclaimed a Pacific railroad built by private
subscription, and forces legitimately raised to
fight the Mormons, leaving undeveloped squatter
sovereigns in every chimney corner for the col.
onization of whatever new territory may be dis
covered by succeeding explorers These are lIy
some of the great results that will follow the
working out Of this stupcndous sum in human
multiplication.
And who will question the wisdom of this grand
enterprise? What misanthropc gold digger has
benevoleDce and philoprogeniliveness so imper-
f. la, A., L.. .l.,tl H..
vidual allotment Of antique virginty or trans
m0ntane widowhOod? Is it not fact that a few
years ago vessel arrived at San Francisco with
IA cargo of cats, and that a sequence the feline
census nearly equals the human, that prodato
ry vermin travel at imminent peril? a? If that ex
pertinent OF forcing the cat-immigration has been
so successful and satisfactory in its results, are
We not safe In hazarding a " "therefore" that
society for the equalization of the sexes in Cali
ornia will be equally successful?
The idle projectors Of this foolish scheme know
little OF the men whom they would e'suppiy" with
wives. Nearly every miner, however long he
may have lived alone, has some one with whom
he expects to share the reward of weary years of
labor Time and care and disappointment may
have wrought landscape of wrinkles on his
age may have grizzled his beard,
but still an elected queen reigns in his heart
standing in the inner sanctuary of the soul she
prOclaims an undivided empire, and bidding de-
liance unto timey descends from her throne and
comes down to meet him through the drapery OF
dreams, with footballs like the snow.