The Nevada Democrat., 1858-10-20


The Oldest nhabitant ofthess mountsns has been found
AZ last on Thursday last Of the men employed at
drifting In Marlette Co.'S claim in this place, on break
ing OF piece Of hard cement was not little astonished
to sec frog leap out Of the mass, and hop of towards
the streaks Of daylight that penetrated down the shaft
He was captured and upon close examination into the
onarters occupied Il found that his body had been
neatly fitted into the cement that its outlines
perfectly defined His frogshp perhaps the most an
cient Of living thingsso ancient indeed that specna-
ton upon his would doubtless carry us back to
tedilu Wan times and throw the antiquity OF the Pyra-
mds far into the shade During all this time he has been
close prisoner over one hundred eet beneath the earth
Give the old fellow chance.-Sdn Andreds Independent.
Allah be praised We can now convince the
Weavervlle Journal that good thing can come
out Of Nazareth. Long and anxiously had we
watched the propitous moment which should
admit us within that circle of fine writers, of
which Mcdonald is at once the ornament and
the oracle; and while from his practiced pen,
suggestions upon the holes in ladder and rev.
cries upon the remains of u rat, became themes
of thrilling interest, and in the Weaverville
Journal we saw through Clouds mists and met
aphors,
The quill torn from its parent bird
Still bears the goose in loftiest fights sublime,
we concluded Mac was right, and that the bal
ance of us were indeed the drudges Of the pro-
fesson. But in the advent above announced,
of frog Imprisoned for a million years in ce-
ment, we see the portals open to fame and i'm
mortality. Already upon our cnraptured ear
falls the plaudits of millions, as Mac calls the
tickling of the Golden Era and the San Andreaf
INDEPENDENT, and experience that comfortable
consciousness of greatness that characterizes
our Weavervile contemporary. We seizo this
happy moment and this hapless frog, and after
the style of our mountain censor and model,
do up the varmint in this wise:
Venerable Terapn you have come down to
us from former generation. You were tad
pole when the earth was without form. and
your tail fell off before the waters under the
armament were separated from the waters
above the armament. Before original matter
had got into shape or on to the outside of the
Weaverville Jowndl,'in the dawn Of creation
when the morning stars sang together, and an
echoing universe rang with the mighty chorus he
squeaked some. And when heaving continents
arose from the world of waves, and newborn
light shined on this newborn world. he go
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get out Since be has remained thus, eras arc
the units of his existence. The nativity Of the
world is his but earth has grown gray and be
is unchanged. Empires have risen from the
wilderness and returned to solitude; dynasties
have fitted by like shadows on the wall; the
genius of species Uniformed when this reptile
found his tomb, has changed the face of the
globe, invented lager beer and draw-poker,
likewise telegraphs and aquariums. Since he
retired from active live, million of frogs at
the bidding of Moses, have marched into Egypt
in judgment on a Pharoah, ana millions more
have gone into the maws of ravenous French
men. The big tree of CasVcras has come to US
from the eternity of the past and received from
Nc Donald q new lease for the Immortality Of
the future. When we think of the wonderful
events which have transpired since last this
reptile saw the light, we feel as Mac did when
he reflected on the big tree, only more go, Since
he went into the cement we have been into
quartz, (and don't think we shall ever get out;)
America has been discovered, also the sea-ser-
pent, and wbiskey has fallen to bit drink.
When we consider the wondrous changes since
this reptiles existence began, we are over
whelmed, we weaken, we pass, our feelings
overcome us. Mac must take this frog he
can do for him, and old as he is if he dom. make
him wish he had laid in the cement thousand
years longer, we are mistaken.