Daily national Democrat., 1861-02-28

ONE GRAND SoLTLoQUY.- writing
to the Yreka Journal, gives history of hi:
California experiences He had been. after
eight years Of absence from female society,
where women were, enjoyed himself in their
smiles, and then started back for the solitude
OF the mountains. On his way, he sat down
and held a conversation with himself:
Says to myself-"Are you the same in
dividua that stood upon the lowering peaks
of The Nevadas ten years agoT Yes, says
|. "That was pretty extensive programme
you pictured in your minds eye, at that
time ?" "You are right there, says |. "Well
what about them ten bushels of gold dust ?'
"Well. to tell you the truth, after all of my
trouble, | have not got but a peck of fine
dust, and two or three quarts of specimens u
"Any black sand in the dust?" Not bit,
says |, firmly and emphatically. "Well,
what about the clipper ship that you inten-
ded to charter p ''Poetcally speaking" says
|, "she sunk a long while ago in the sea of
oblivion" Anybody lost?" "Mr w, poor
soul" "How about the fine shaws and rich
silksT "They, alas. have also been coRSiga =
ed to oblivion, and it would just be my luck,
when wish to pay visit to the Atlantic
States, to be compelled to go in one of those
smoky steamers with such men as DR.. G win
and Mulligan for company mo wife yet Y
"An ideal creature, which, sometimes, stands
by the bedside at night, but entirely too
modest to come any farther" "Ilow about
laying brick on your otium clm dig?" "Can
lay back on the dig. but don't think much of
the Otium." "Weil, there was a great many
things you allowed to do, when you stood on
the towering peaks of the Nevadas? You
alloweds to drink out of golden goblets; have
servants in livery drive richly caparisoned
horses, and all that sort of thing, did you
mott p "Of course, all that was in the pro
gramme, and heap more just like it hut
the fates are against me, and now, instead OF
drinking out of golden goblet firmly be-
lieve that | will have to use glass tumbler
all the balance of my days and as for the
servants they can dress to suit themselves
instead of ten or fifteen courses at dinner, I'll
have to govern my appetite, and put up with
four or five" "Well, if you were to make
out grand balance sheet, between yourself
and California, she would be in your debt
considerably, would she not ?" "You bet,
says |. using California classics. make it
out then ?" ooh, it would take too long
Give us an item to see how it would start
solid million of dollars" What is that
fo:?" "Totul deprivation from female socie-
ty for eight years" says l. well, don't you
owe her anything?" yes" says l, 'two
hundred thousand dollars for very few
glances at the crinoine during the last two
years, paying the women another handsome
compliment. well, W, it is too bad that a
man, who is SO fond of the refined and beau
tiful, should be compelled to live in secluded
canons and lonely retreats ten or twelve
years Why don't you change your course o
life? Why don't you become IA politician
and go to Congress?' "In these trying time
we want the heaviest timber we have got tC
go there" says | ; "it is of no use to send {
pop-gun when nothing but a siXtyfoul
FOUNDER will do the work these are the
times that tries mems souls, and we want sucl
men as Burch and Scott-men that under.
stand the niger question and the Bear Flag.
*Sniktaw is evidently from the Westerr
country, where they use the term allowed
for intended or expected.