Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-07

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Or scans in Calaveras' mammoth pride
The trunks three thousand winters have defed
! W mere er IN all this suuset-and she flies
New signs, new wonders meet her maz-ed ewes.
But California's glory is not told
By wealth OF resource like to ths-ber pold
Her hidden riches in the earth, her stores
vi precious undevelOped things, her ores,
Her quarrles vast her springs medicinal
Beyond all these and far surprising all
Akin to these, her Agriculture stands:
lhe pride OF earth, the envy of all lands!
Prolific soill within itself it Yields
OF every cline the fruits. Its smiling fields
The tasseled maize afford the waving wheat;
Hemp, rice; the jonted cane with essence sweet :;
The many seeded fig; its tropic mate
The oily olive, tamarind and date;
The pear and peach the grape as rare and fine
In all that gilds the immemorial vine,
AS ever grew, in shepherd days of peace
In native beauty on the hills of Greece,
Or wild in woods that skirt the Arabian Sea
The wandering savage fed with bounty free.
Or in ltalia's purpled wales did hang
10 lips as ripe that Horace kissed and sang.
Here grow those garden monsters that surprise
Like miracles our scarcebelieving eyes
Reminding us of that Titanic age
Recorded in the geologic page,
When shrubs were trees, and plants that now in
lines
Our gardens green, had dwarfed Norwegian pines.
O' S,' that same soil, which thus prolific threw
Those giants forth, when vet the world was now
Our soil partakes. And thus we leave behind
All chmes and lands, and wonder-strike mankind.
Fair Land but fairer yet shall be-for still
snail Industry her hills and valleys till,
And Agriculture write on many SPOT
Her name in verdure. where before twas not
AS Franklin hiS when wondering rustics saw
A miracle in Natures simplest law.
Ils Irrigation, wOndrous art though old,
W th aids ofmodern science manifold,
Shall work the magic change we vet shall see.
When all the desert lands shall cultured be-
When from the Sacramento's margin green,
Or tule borders of the San joaquin
10 eastern peaks, whose curving line of snow,
Like some white arm of beauty all aglow
with love- enwreathes the nesting hills below:
From yonder western slopes that lave
Their feet within the blue Pacihc's wave
70 woods infringing on the arid plain
That heated rlpples to the mountain chain;
From Northern heights of rugged Siskiyou
Whose wales abysmal hide from view
To where the smoothly shaveu waters play
In sheltered San Diego's tranquil bay,
The land shall blossom with its edens fair,
The fruitful hills make fragrant all the air,
Ana breezy valleys wave their yellow hair.
For, mark you Art, with Science aid shall make
Spots fertile which the ignorant forsake,
And all that weary waste of hazy heat,
el Which inc neron 5 lonely wing doth beat
In effort vain some moistured spot to find,
Shall prove to mans enlightened labor kind.
The hidden fountains of the earth shall rise,
And mock with cOoness all the brazen skies;
The piercing steel shall strike the secret vein
That, bursting forth, shall fertilze the plain
And soon where late no blade or leafwas seen
Shall orchards bloom and waving fields be green.
oh Land of Beauty why the theme prolongP
Like that delicious isle OF Indian song
Which, Ger the waters gliding, fed pursuit,
Thou hast all gems, all wealth, all golden fruit,
And, far more blest than Indian dreamers were,
We lose thee not, vision of the air!
UPoN the assembling of the Democratic
State Convention on Wednesday, J. P. Hoge,
Chairman of the State Central Committee,
said in the conclusion of his remarks
l see many old familiar faces here that
have in times gone by battled with in the
Democratic cause. ] welcome them back
am glad to meet them upon the common
platform of the Union and the Constitution
Loud cheers. l bury all differences, for
get all divisions. take by the hand every
one cheers every man who is resolved
to fight for the national nominees, Stephen A.
Douglas and Herschel V. johnson. Loud and
continued cheers. Gentlemen, don't recog-
nize any distinction amongst boilers. Cheers
and laughter However honorable they may
have been in times past, or however much
may have loved heretofore to follow them,
yet they have cut themselves loose from the
Democratic organization. Cheers. A voice
That's the sentiment" They have lent
themselves to a determined and foregone con-
spiracy to dissolve this Union by the de-
struction of the Democratic party. They
were our friends once, and | part with them
without regret Cheers and laughter, Their
Democratic religion and their Democratic
principles could not stand the test. They
were weighed in the balance and found
wanting cheersl and look for the verdict
from the Democratic people of the State of
California, TO be rendered in November next,
to be death to the disunionists, no matter
where they may be- Loud applause Those
that the Democracy delighted to honor
those that they have, year after year, elec-
tion after election, elevated to the high places
in the gift of the Government, have deserted
the faith of their fathers, have abandoned
their Democratic religion have united them
selves with the enemies Of the republic
with the disunionists of the nation--and they
are no longer worthy. Loud applause. |
Gentlemen, we undertook to do what many
people thought was an immense undertaking;
a little band of ten determined faithful and
reliable Democrats undertook to read out
twenty-six of the party, [Cheers and laugh
ter. But say TO you that these ten could
have read them out if they had been twice as
many. if it had been necessary Loud and
continued cheers and laughter.
The San Francisco correspondent of the
Stockton Argus says: Orders have been
sent from the Federal official head quarters
here, to all the subsidized boiling Brecin-
ridge and Lane organs throughout the State.
to cease denouncing Popular Sovereignty"
and heap "Squatter Sovereignty upon Doug
las instead. | notice that several of these
organs have already obeyed the order
Perhaps your cotemporary-th Republican
can thus find a loop hole ont of which to
crawl for its advocacy of Douglas and Popu-
lar Sovereignty in 1858. Do the boilers
really think that the Democracy can be so
egregiously fooled and deceived at this late
day, by such bare faced imposition? If they
do, the ides of November will teach them
differently.
ToUGH SToRY.-A house near Pleasant
Home, KY, was struck by lightning, lately,
and man and his daughter were struck but
not kill Their escape was miraculous, for
| the man, and burnt the hair from the head
of the girl.
! held at Janesvillc, in Shasta county, last
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