Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-22
California Homes.

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A few years past home in California was
thing unthought Of. Men came here In
haste to be rich threw of the restraints Of
life, and engaged in anything by which they
could, in the shortest period of time, amass
the coveted "pile." In those days few
thou ght Of bringing to this country, wife,
mother or sister. The prevailing idea seem
ed to be, stay in California few months, q
| few years at most, amass wealth and then
return to spend the balance Of their lives IN
luxury and ease mid the scenes of their child.
hood, forgetting in their selfshness, that
there was anything dne from them to the
land Of their adoption, and California suffers
to this hour for the wrong inflicted upon her
in that early time.
California Las proved to the world, that
where man can go. woman sh0uId go where
ever man can stay for month or year
there should he plant his home. The more
dangers and difficulties the more trials and
temptations with which he is surrounded, the
more he needs the sustaining, Strengthening,
purifying influence Of home.
A short time since and the hills which are
now thickly dotted o'er with redemption
pledges to California, were barren sand
heaps, and in the valleys where now may be
found many an humble yet happy hDne.
were vast pools of stagnant water, sending
up their poisonous yapor, fit emblem Of the
moral atmosphere with which men had sur
rounded themselves in those days.
How strangely now contrasts my own
comfortable and happy home with that I
found when first I arrived here. had the
best there was, lis true, but cloth andPaper
formed but poor protection against such
winters as we had then.
Now cloth and paper structures have given
place to more substantial buildings Of wood
and brick. California is the place for homes
What other part Of the WQrld boasts a cline
equal to hours: AS for her productions, it
seems as if Dame Nature had provided for
the rest Of the world with benevolent, but
prudent hand, but when she came to Cali
fornia, she e,nptted her lap and scattered
upon the prolific soil in wild protusion. luz
uries which hitherto she had boarded With
! jealous care.
Homes of California How the hearts of
many thrill to the music Of these words
The heart of the miner beats warmer Gnd
faster beneath his blue shirt, as be sees his
comfortless cabin converted into home by
the presence Of wife and little ones, aud the
song of Home, Sweet home," rises ever
and anon from his lips as he bends DER his
sluice box, or pursues bis labors in the bow
els of the earth.
With the advent Of homes in California
has dawned new era in the social horizon
Gold is not now the o7s1y subject of conver
sation the only good sought for. Tie mind
of man refuses longer to be fed upon husks,
and turns to pursuits more intellectual
more worthy of himself. There are mines
of intellectual wealth in our midstye unex-
plored, more valuable than ony mineral
wealth as yet discovered.
Every pure home in California is an .AJtar
upon which the domestic virtues are offered
day by day, and their influence, like the
perfume of incense, is waited forth perva-
ding and purifying society as naught else
CAM Hesperien.