The Placer herald., 1860-04-28
From the Nevada Journal
OUT IN WASHOE.

'Mong the sand-hils and the sage-brush;
In their tents and in their shanties,
Are the men that couldn't wait till
Spring had come and SHOWS departed.
Round their fires they sit and shiver.
Shiver, shiver, shake and shiver
With their toes stuck in the ashes.
With their eyes all smoked and watery
With their noses swollen and angry,
With their checks we'll cured as bacon;
To the blaze their palms extending,
With the ashes falling round them,
Falling, falling on their hair and
On their wbiskers like to snow-fakes;
Thicker faster falling, falling,
Till their heads are powdered over,
Till their whiskcrs well are whtened,
They'r out of bread, also of patience,
Hope has fed. ditto their bacon;
Sugar gonc-an ''Injun'' with it
Smith is hungry, so is Muggins,
Bowels yearning. ycarning, yearning
For the hesh-pots left behind them,
For the slap-jacks, for the bean-soup
For the coffee, tea and bacon
Left behind in California.
SO they sit and growl and grumblc;
Prospects of fortunes getting dim,
Dim, dim. getting daily DINNER.
Smith is home sick SO is Muggins,
Young "Popkns,'' too, has got the blues;
Also, Phclim, son Of Erin,
Pike and Poscy. all gaze omeward
All the silver precious silver.
Found by them was in their pockets
Alas, the lead" too soon it ''l etered,'
Petered, petercd, petereG, petercd
Not ''scad' and not "a "chispa,"
Scrape the ''bed-rock mot a color?
Busted busted, busted busted
Still they stay and wait and hunger.
Still they sit and growl and grumble.
Afraid to leave afraid to stay;
Cursing wind and cursing weather.
Cursing this thing, cursing that thing
Cur ing, swe ring. damning, cursing-
Cursing fires that smoke and sputter;
Cursing men that tell big stories
And the fools that will believe them;
Coming all the way to Washoe.
Wading through the snow to get there:
Struggling. tugging just to get there,
Drawing srow and Drawing weather,
Killing horses, killing mules to
Get to dreary, hungry Wasloc,
There to sit and growl and shiver
THE Crisis" in the United States.
The following is from late number of a
ally newspaper Published in Liverpool, Eng
md. The British editor gives "an opinion
$ is an opinion"
"The boas,ful Republic so much Wanted
V vainglorious Yankees, seems on the brink
f precipice, from which retreat will be
isgrace, and advance destruction The very
isest of the American Bonner,
le Smith Bro hers, Aaron Burr and others
are wranging in the House Of Parliament
the Columbia District, over a little VOL
me called the 'lmpending Crisis written
y an Octoroon named lleifer in which the
uthor proves that, unless the States south
the State of New Orleans agree TO abolish
egro slavery, the ncrth will supply them
ith no more shoe pegs, ard utter financial
lin will be the consequence. The members
Parliament who quarrel over this singular
ook, belray all the American characteristics
| their savage abuse Of each other, and
,meimes they even come to blows. The
Ion. Charles Sumner, one of their number,
AS recently fired upon 10y a man named
looks; and Just before the Asia sailed, it was
aported that a man named Askins was de-
.cted in the act of throwing away a heavy
file, which he had previl usy managed to
AIRY in pocket made expressly ly for it.
Though we have no particular faith in the
ability of what the Americans call their
Republican Institutions we are sorry 20 see
ur cousins working their own ruin with the
lgesword of political incompatbiIity. AS
zee born EngIishmen, we are bouud to SYM
athize with the so called 'Abolitionists' of
ne Northern States of Georgia, Nashville,
Iarpers Virginia, ETC., in their efforts to
zee the negroes from bondage. Some Of
ne greatest men now living in America are
lacks-the famous James Brown was a ne
ro, therefore the Governor of Harper's
erry hung him. Horace Greeley, the fa-
lous journalist, is a negro; their great SEN
alton preacher, Henry Wood Beecher, is
aid to be quadroon. Yet despite such
vidences of the Africans natural equality
nth the whites in intellect as we'll as in
else, the Southern members of
'ariament, led on by a Mr.. Sppi, are threat
ming to dissolve the American Union if they
re not allowed to bold their slaves in New
york.
There can be but one termination of this
tate of things in America. Civil war must
ventually break out among such dlscordant
lements, and then the Union will cease to
e, forever.
C1RcUMsANTIAL EvIDENCE.-The follow
no is an extract from Professor Horn-the
mad astronomers diary: 30 men O men q
Mortal natured men, reflect and remember il
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