Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-07
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To the Audrain Boys.

ter to you, nor will we say anything
in contradiction of what was said in
our first. In fact we should like to
impress more indelibly upon your
minds what was said.
OF course, all the boys OF old Au-
drain are familiar with the contour OF
California, which, of course, includes
the spot where the writer of this is
located. Nevertheless we will give
you the exact spot. With a rich old
Missourian &. j. Ely), clever as rich,
who lives near the little village called
knights Landing, named after the
man who first owned the grant OF
land on which it is located, and which
is situated ON the bank of the Sacra-
mento river, opposite the city of the
same name, but twenty-five miles
above. Out in the broad, extended
plains of the grand old Sacramento,
whose waters have carried many a pan
of dirt, shuffled and rubbed over from
one to four and five times, down into
San Francisco Bay. And, we will say
right here that this shuffling and pam
ming out has not ceased fors those fell
lows who are so obnoxioih> to the
white people, and especially 70 the
laborer; yes, and the laboress, for
they take the kitchen, too; those tel-
lows whose eyes are cut obliqueiy in
their heads, whose heads are adorned
with a long tail of long, black, stiff,
hrs hair and silk thread, plated in
three-ply, and which hangs to their
heels. Most of you have seen these
coolies, that the California women
think are $50 NICE" ''They can
wash and cook so handsomely and
splendidly, with a great many other
things" The women are to be ex-
cused, of course. They don't like
to wash dishes any more than men do
to husk corn when there is sleet upon
the shock. The heathens are still
strainlng the soil that, no doubt, some
of your fathers washed in the days of
'49 and '50,-trying to get the few
grains left, that they may send it back
to China, where they want every one
of them to 60, after they have gotten
all that they can possibly get from
our country. OF course q great many
of them will never get gack there
alive, but are consoled by knowing
that, should death catch them here,
their bones will be sent back. Yes,
they sometimes unearth their dead,
tear the flesh from the bones, box them
up and send them back to China for
final deposit. Excuse us, boys We
did not intend to get on the ''Chinese
subject" but it is Il subject that SO
much interests everyone on this coast
that it is natural to drift in that direc-
ton. We think that if we could
get yoar able and worthy congress-
man, Judge Buckner, and a few more
of his kind, to work for us, we should
finally get rid of the greatest nuisance
to this coast and a great detriment to
the United States, as some States are
permitting such things to become citi-
Zens-disg,acing those who fought,
bled, and died that white people might
have this for their country.
Were it not fox these, we could say
TO you, ''boys, come 10 this coast
you a make a good livelihood"
Then you would not have to compete
with a people that a live on seven
cents a day, and sleep where a dog
would not. Talk about Outstanding
You know how hard it would
be to make a coon run backward up
a tree, then you know how hard it is
to Christianize these fellows.
Kearney, the great agitator of poll
tics in California, says ''the Chinese
must CO." And let us say that, al
he is a great, big, double
listed, dray-driving, uneducated Irish
Catholic, he has many followers, and
creating a big disturbance. We
have four tickets in the field--Demo-
Republican, WorkiDgmen's and
New Constitution parties. We trust,
however, that the old M~issourian,
great landholder and wheat-grower-
Glenn, Democratic candidate for
governor, will come out victorious. {
Now, boys, a little about the crops
Of this country, which are principally
wheat and barley, and then we are {
for this time. The yield this {
is an average one, taking the {
State from one end to the other. In '
'ome parts it is good, and in some
here is nothing. The grain is all cut I
'y a machine, called by its most ap-
'ropriate name ''The Header" 1t c
takes about seven hands, four s
If whom may be boys, to run a
Header" In one days time they
will cut and put in stack twenty-five,
hirty and sixteen-foot sicklc) forty u
lcres two hands working moderately u
lard, the rest will have easy work.
Then come the threshers with their a
engine (straw burner), their L
portable kitchen, with all that apper-
aims thereto-cook stove and pro- ii
isions. They usually number six W
cen, and will thresh out about eigh- Il
hundred or two thousand bushels u
Ter day, and charge seven or eight .
ents per bushel, the rancher furnish d
ne nothing. Again the poor woman
) left out-for they employ a China Il
IAN or let some of their crew cook.
hey carry their blankets with them n
nd sleep out of doors,-you could G.
ot hire them to sleepindoors. That's
he a it's the finest country in G.
he world for tramps. They can Z
cratch up enough food by begging, o
can roost where night catches 81
hem, their greatest burden being
lankets. The wheat, is sacked at the =
lachine and left in the field till hauled y
, market by the rancher or contract
~ companies, who have steam wag-
ms, carrying tons at a load to mar y,
ct. @
This, boys, is something of Califor- s.
ia; but mosquitoes are about to eat -
s up, skin and bone, and you can n
nagine the pleasure in writing while
ley are nibbling at the same time. n,
G. D.. v,
KNIGHT's LANDING, CAL, July 23. lie
Run for a doctor and a glass of a,
quick" cried a red-nosed