Daily national Democrat., 1860-06-27
IN Search of a Topic.


fairs and dearth Of exciting news, every
writer for the daily press in the state is
nowadays, occasionally at a loss for topic
We are in precisely that "fx" this Tuesday
morning. We might write it is true, upon
the criminality Of crime, or the mutaLility Of
change, or some similar subject but, then,
what is the use Of going over the selt-same
! ground that has been trodden since the days
OF the eldest time? Read Seneca or Socra
ties, and let us alone. Crime has been COM
mitted and earthly things have changed, and
virtue has been its own reward Seldom does
it get any other) since the world began, aud
all that the sages and philosophers have said
or the poets sung has ayailed nothing in
turning the tide.
1t would be good idea to expatiate upon
mountain roads, and the benefit they would
be to the city (and truly. they would be
benefit,) but, then, in this sultry, debilitating
weather, how can we write of roads, without
becoming suiTocated at the very thought Of
the heat and dust?
As for railroads the theme has been ex-
hausted. For the trans continental railway
we have the comforting assurance that the
late Congress has done completely nothing.
The Central road in California is going ahead,
and so is the San Francisco and Marysyiile
railroad. The public know all about both.
and it is too Lot, to-day, for US to 90 to the
trouble Of any repetition upon the snljeet
We shall be very glad to learn that it is not
too hot for the workmen upon the roads to
proceed with their labors.
As for the Washoe war, there is nothing
to dilate upon in that quarter Except an
occasional heir breadth eaeape Of some lone
prospector who saves his scalp by the fortu-
nate circumstance that he can outrun a Pah~
Ute Indian there Is nothing to relate. We
record the event as it Happens, and let it
pass We might dwell upon the matter and
institute comparison between the average
swiftness upon the heel of the savage and
the civilized races, with due consideration
for the quality of fear which enters into the
estimate, in connection with the expeditions
locomotion of him who is pursued, but with
the thermometer within few degrees OF
blood-heat, we positively can't do it. a good
starting point for the enquiry occurs TO us in
the case Of Richard Ceur dc Leon, the English
King who could run down stag in the
forest, and of Big Thunder, or an individual
of some such title in the Usage nation, who
used to run hundred miles day as a her.
aid between the Osages and the whites. But
we shall not even think Of running, in such
hot weather as this, any longer than we can
help, and so good bye to that topic
The Fourth of July All, there's a subject
that well might arouse the slumbering
thoughts from their lethargy. But, then,
we must wait until the 4th Of July comes.
We mustn't exhaust oursclf before the period
arrives.
The preservation of our glorious Union
Who couldn't expatiate upon such a theme
But, how can we write upon the dissolution
OF the Union. when We ourselves are dis
solving in that realization of the desire of
Hamlet, ooh, that this too too solid flesh
would mcltl"
Cannot We make some attack uron polit.
ical opponent? Mol We are "in the melt
ing mood" and couldn't dream Of being in
the least ferocious
Can we crow over the result in Oregon,
which was a sort of mixed triumph for the
Douglas and the Administration Democracy,
! (if so be the reports are correct y No, it is
entirely too much mixed to adnii, Of growing
Time will show what sort of n victory it Is.
Speaking Of growing reminds US Of crows,
and we remember that, about this time last
year, the crows upon the plains in Sutter
county fell dead, as they flew or tumbled
from the limbs Of trees where they sat, on
account of the extreme heat. But that is !
neither here nor there and we don't intend
to pursue the subject.
Every thing that we think Of suggests heat,
or a recollection Of heat, or a prospect Of
heat. If we turn from earthly topics to the
consideration of religion, the first thing we
think Of, by perverseness as unaccountabe
as it is hateful, is the very hottest Of all
places of which there is any record and e
are fain to fly back again to the sphere in
which heat may be measured by the thcr-
mometer.
The fact is, it is too hot 20 write "leader5
about anything, and we positively and en-
phatcoly decline doing it, this day We
shall probably get used TO the weather ere
long. If We don't Heaven have mercy on
us.