Year: 1867

PUBLIC SESTIMExr-WHo CREATED II There
is lively discussion going on just now as to
who created the radical sentiment of the people
of California. 1t is asserted in some quarters
that at the time of the breach between Congress
and President johnson, certain candidate for
Governor issued for a brief time a paper devoted
to radicalism and planted in the virgin soil OF
the public mind the seeds of the sentiment
which now sustain the movement of Congress.
In refutation of this claim certain leading jour-
mails appropriate the honor by proving priority Of
advocacy by few days. These arrogant as
sumptions are equally absurd and arc found in
an erroneous estimate of the intelligence
Of the masses: The issue between the
President and Congress were plain and the
question involved were well understood. The
President had avowed his policy and Congress
had spoken for itself. The masses upon whose
intelligence and virtue Our free institutions su-
pervene, had formed opinions when the parties
alluded to defined their several positions, and
whose silly egotism leads them to suppose that
all existing opinions were created by them.
The opinion of certain class concerning the


importance of the place they fill in the universe
resembles the superstitious custom of certain
tribe of Indians who, to remove the deTouring
shadow from the when in eclipse discharge
arrows in that direction !; the shadow is dissipa-
ted and the savage with grunt of satisfaction
basks in the sunlight his supposed,valor has won.
1t not unfreQuently happens that party paper
turns complete somersault and confdeniialiy
expects to see an astonishing exhibition Of
I" ground and lofty tumbling' among its readers,
when, 10 the sentiment of its former advocacy
quietly establishes q new organ to represent it,
and leaves the renegade to die like fish on dry
land. This is true also of party leaders-thcr
sway is sometimes so complete that they iinag
inc themselves autocrats but their desertion to
the enemy seldom carries more than their most
intimate varletry. Examples need not be cited
How vastly superior TO our common humanity
must be the aforesaid candidate and editors TO
whom the State owes her present political status,
and how grateful we ought to be, TO be sure, for
the kind instruction which has taught us how to
vote and directed us how to think. II Colum-
bus had been afflicted with Il 1.-THE of modern
egotism, he would certainly have claimed to DC
the creator of the western hemisphere instead OF
its discoverer merely.-Ihe Rescue


LOOKING At THE BRIGHT SIpE-Ifere is letter
from wife in Massachusetts to her husband in
California. She don t intend going through the
world with the blues -" Ny dear husband-as
it is now some time since you left for California
l suppose you would be glad TO hear how we get
along in your absence. l am happy to say we
are enjoying very good health en- the whole
Just at the present two of the boys have got tie
smallpox. Amanda Jane has got III typhus fc
yer. Betsy is down with the measles. Samuel
got hooked by COW, the other day, and little
Peter has just now chopped off three of his fin
gers with hatchet. 1t is mercy he didn't
chop them all off. With these triling exceptions,
we all we'll and getting along nicely. You
needn't be at all anxious about US. | almost
forgot to say that Sarah Matilda eloped last week
with tin peddler. Poor girl She's been
waiting for a chance, and glad she's mar
ried at last. She needn't have taken the trouble
to eope though for I'm sure l was glad enough
to have her go. She was great eater, and
find baked beans don't go off near MS fast as
they did. The way that girl would dip into pork
and beans was a caution to the rest Of the fImi-
w. The COW took it into her head to away,
which was very fortunate, l am sure, for the
barn caught f-c last night and consumed.
was in hopes the house would go too, for its


nconvenient but the wind was the wrong way,
so it didn't receive much injury. Some boys
broke into the orchard the other day and strip
ped all the fruit trees. | am very glad Of it, for


if they hadn't presume the children would have
made themselves ILL.,


THAMES FROM THE SoUTH. The communica-