Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-04-24
The Worm nt the Vine.

AnV Plopnet SAT ABOVE uneven, 10 see what
would become of the city he was vexed and an
CRY, and the hot sun beat upon his head. In the
night gourdvine sprang up, overgrew and shell
tered him, and the prophets heart was glad, be.
cause of the vine. But at mid day an earth worm
gnawed the vine, and it died the dried leaves
fell about him, and the sultry east winds fevered
his blood, and then the prophet said it was better
to die than to live
Close to the western land-verge of great re-
public is beautiful valley where deadening
leaves scarce find sepulture, till re-creating ver-
dure overthrows their burial places. Birds sing
all the year, and snow fakes, softening as they
fall, descend in warm tear-drops enlivenng the
dropping flowers. Beautiful are the evergreen
valleys and boary and grand are the naughty
promontories that look out on the western isles
and frown on the landward coming waves, which,
with their burden of strange ships, rage and roar
and dash their foaming fronts against the i'm
moving rocks To the north, wrapped in snow
mantles, are great mountain treasures, and deep
underneath them the spark born of steel and stone
reveals the presence of the subterranean explorer
That country is like a widc-spreading and per-
petual Towering vinc under which the industrial
of many lands find grateful shadow, and, from its
branches, gather golden fruits But reptiles in
nd-venomousness, are gnawing at the vine,
and already its leaves begin to wither and its
fruits to turn to ashes
And the people are not entirely blessed who
live under its diminishing shadow in the deep
night and at the noon Of day the graspng talons
of robbery are within the sacred circle Of their
homes. The settler who leaves his sweat drops
in the furrow, Uses from his evening meal to ad-
nit the androbber, who, with a fraudulent grant
and perjury stained title in his hand, bids the
settler take his sickle and scytbe and bunted
plOwshare, and go out from bis whitening fields
If he has buried his child in the field, he must
leave the sOrrowful parallelogram to the boofs of
the robbers cattle, to violate the ground sancti-
fed by the tears Of his wife and the dust of his
first born. Going to the sea-shore he sees mag.
nifcent ships, trembling with the rcstive spirit of
steam, and ready to row him away from shore
on which he utters curselul words; bat he and his
wife and children ore weighed in the balance and
| found wanting. None but the rich may travel
there, and the iron sinews of The seahorse shake
the pauper's hands from his wethers. Oh, what
a sanctuary for the starving poor, who with their
pale aud shruEken faces look up from among the
still iron wheels of the deserted work shop =
Come not here now the curse of gold is Oh the
land
Forty-three thousand letters went out on the
last coffin ship, for which the people Of California
paid three thousand dollars unrighteous postage;
this is at the rate of seventy two thousand doll ars
year, all Of which goes to support the accursed
pirates which our government employ to trans
port the mails. What they steal through the
connivance Of the Post Office Department. alone,
would in ten years build two safer and stronger
ships. But how many ships would the money
build which they wiring from travellers whom
! love Of home and kindred bring within their
grasping avarice? How many millions OF dol.
lars, wrought for by the hour in the dismal sol-
tudes Of the gold mines, have their damnaLle
constructive screws crushed from the wasted fin
| gers of want? We leave the enumeration to our
venerable SenatOr-the Father of the Pacific
Railroad = lie is in Washington enacting roy
atty his republican wife is giving banquets at
which lords and ambassadors and ministers of
State appear in costume The golden and silver
cups may be part of the Pacific Mail dividend, and
the taudry trappngs about this venerable pair
of emancipated republicans may, inpart belong to
the sickly children shivering along the Desmoines
or the Missouri If a voice from California dis
turbs the feast, the old man hurries TO the Capi.
tol and drivels an hour over map of the Pacific
Railroad if reference be made to the postal en-.
ormity, the venerable one wheezes Pacific Rail
| road If, in a remote corner of the Senate Cham
ber California Settler land troubles are talked Of
the hypocrtica emessary of ocean pirates lays
his hands on his stomach, and bowling low, sighs
out Mr. President the Pacific Railroad, if You
please And thus, in the face of all nations,
the Iscariot Of his tribe, and standing in the place
made illustrious by the voice of the most exalted
patriotism of our republic, that Janus faced en-
bassador of ocean Bedouins, is wringing the wa
terry blood from the veins of poverty, and racking
the aching limbs Of labor.
Al that sumptuous banquet another costume
should have a place it should be the wasted
form Of the deserted wife, draped in the beggar's
| gabardne, and under those brilliant lights that
sparkle on the dazzling diamonds, her thin,
corpse-ike lips should hiss into his deafening ear,
| that for every silver hair on his frosty scalp,
curses are breeding in her house.
Down RIVER AFFAIRs.-The road and bridges
on Weaver Greek have been repaired by Mr.. Co
chell, road overseer. A fine new bridge has been
erected across the Creek at Mabie's ranch.
ditch is to be taken from the river, above
! Lowdens bridge to be fumed the whole distance,