The Nevada journal., 1861-02-15

TaE BURIED KNowLEDGE.AND REFINEMENT OF
CALIroRsIA.-The Rev. T. Starr King in one Of
his pleasing and instructive letters from San
Francisco to the Boston Transcript, says No
country has ever seen in a larger measure than
california, the conflict of refinement with the
coarsest and most repulsive hardships. Clergy
men who preached in the mining districts years
ago, have told me that, in some places, more
than third of their audiences were from New
Englan colleges, and that large portion of
these cultivated adventures either sunk under
the hardships of mining life, or gained just
enough after years of misery, to return dspirited
to their Eastern homes. Gold is costly when
you must fight for it in the row with delicate
and naked hands. And as 1 rode by the charm
ing Fremont cottage in Bear Valley, overtopped
by the wedgy summit of burly Mt. Bullion, and
and thought ofthe cares and the anguish which
hadbeen experienced under its roof,by those who
belong to the inner circle of the most cultiva-
ted, not orly OF our country, but of our time,
felt that the pilgrim record of California has lea
yes as dark and bitter as any that belong to the
early annals of New England.
MODERN STATEsMAN.--It has been aptly said
that some men "have greatness thrust upon
them'' Gov. Letcher, of Virginia, who has
heretofore had national reputation as man of
unusual sagacity, in his recent message to the
Legislature of Virginia, made a ridiculous sug
gestion, that will do much to detraet from any
fame that he may have acquired. He suggests
that the New England States together with the
Western portion of the State of New York, be
Topped eff of the Union and attached to Canada.
There is plain, practicable, statesmanlke view
for you. The Governor does not tell us how all
this is to be accomplished, but we take it for
granted that he knows, as he is a Statesman
The Governor would transfer to Canada the bat
tie fields of Lexington and Bunker Hill, the
bones of the Adamses, Story, Webster, Prescott
and other patriots and heroes of New England
and the grave of Silas Wright. He does not
wish to have Bancroft, Bryant and Longfellow as
American citizens. Letcher and Fernando Wood
are both Statesman, though = Yreka Journal.
WHEELING grows uneasy at the bare idea Of
Virginia seeding. The Intelligencer of that city
says:
The effect would be to depopulate western Vir-
ginia of her best and most enterprising citizens
The population of this city, in the next decade
would retrograde 9ne-third.-Make us foreign
city to Ohio and Pennsylvania, and grass will
grow in every street in this city next summer
We will sink, and sink, until we become a sort
of old, dull, dry, moneyess Mexican town, tha
subsists by catching penny now and then from
a stray traveller, and ekeing out miserable lit
tie trade with the country Immediately about it
This will be our condition. And it will be that
| of every town and hamlet in western Virginia
| DISTRESS IN CHARLESToN.-The Washin gton
correspondent OF the New York Herald is respon-
sible for the following:
We have reports from Charleston by travel
ers which indicate the existence of much dis
tress there. The troops who have volunteered
and presented themselves for service, are camp
ed in unhealthy locations, and, in consequence
of rain, swamps and miasma, are suffering from
disease. No vessels loading, no business doing
women weeping, and men overcome by sickness,
and the city in the hands of a mob, is the bull
etin travellers present of the condition Of things
at tho present time in Charleston.