The hydraulic press., 1859-03-05
The Audraulie grtss.

"A MOUNTAIN MAN ON MOUNTAINS.
-Ata festival in St. Louis, Sierra coun-
ty, D. T. Berry said:
"The voice of the past tells us that
sfrowning rocks and rugged mountains
had often sheltered and protected the
spirit of liberty after it had been driven
out from verdant lawns and luxuriant
wales. The pleasant valleys of Europe
have, during the middle ages, been pc
riodically oyerrun and ravaged by mer-
ciless foes, until, at times, it would seem
that the last spark of liberty was about
to be extinguished. France, Spain,
Austria and the lower countries have
shared this fate, and have been forced
into many changes in their forms of gov
ernment and habits Of life. But where,
all this while, was the Swiss Republic
the land of VIM. Tell? There she
stood, and there she now stands; perched
upon the summit of her Alpine noun
tains and protected by their impenetrable
barriers, she breathes the same spirit of
liberty which she inhaled a thousand
years ago. The lowlands of England
and Scotland have been invaded and
subjugated by the Romans, the Saxons,
the Danes and the Normans, and have
undergone many changes in their laws,
language, manners and customs-while
Grampian hills have shielded the Scot
tish Highlanders from the ravages of
those invaders, preserved them in their
ancient spirit of liberty, and the Gaelic
language is still spoken on the heights
of Ben Nevis. Wales, too, has suffered
from England's many conquerors, and
when driven to their last refuge, her
people have shielded themselves within
the bosom of the mountains of Snowdon !;
and should the despots of the old world
combine against us, and gain foothold
on these shores, liberty will yet find a
resting place amid the dark canyons and
recesses of our lofty Sierras.'
CALIFoRNIA.-Eloquent pens have
written and sung of Italy, the bright
and glorious land where the luxuries of
fife spring forth almost spontaneously,
and where the toll of the husbandman
is but the compromise of idleness
Where nature is her own handmade and
fashions the vine and the fig tree, the
olive and the orange without exterior
aids. Where the sunlight spreading over
broad plains covered with golden grain
presents sight such as the vivid fancy
Of the painter exhibits, or the poet tells
us of in Arcadian realms. Spain with
her dreamy climate, her unrivalled pro-
ductiveness Of soil, her superior natural
advantages over her less fortunate neigh
bors, has occupied the pen of an Irving,
and it remains for some master limner to
tell us in the future the history of this
our golden State. Capable as she is,
both as to soil and climate, of producing
almost every tropical fruit and flower;
inhabited by the most energetic race on
the face of the earth, who may venture
prediction as to her future prosperity
and Importance? In few years the fig
and the pomgranate will cease to be ar
ticles of import; the almond and the
olive are now becoming as native to the
soil as the willow or the oak The diff
ferent cultivated berries are becoming
prodigies yearly, while triple crops Of
fruit in the same time are getting to
be no longer an uncommon occurrence.
! A country where the fruit trees blossom
in the month of February and the COM
mon garden vegetables grow and flourish
all winter, is surely an anomaly and
furnishes incontestible proof that were
the golden treasure not in her hills, it
would still be produced at the plow's s
point, and the prairies of California be-
come the placers of unbounded wealth.
Iehama Gazette.
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