Year: 1866


Old Memories.


There is disposition in the human mind. TO
wander back, and rumina.e among the almost for
gotten scenes OF the past 1t matters not whether
thnse memories are painful or pleasing. we move
along the checkered pathway of cur past lives, ta
king up aud ma~Ing over each incidenAef import
ance that has occurred.


Taking up one Of my old manuscripts the other
DAY found piece of poetry that ! wrote for
young LADY in Piumas county which struck me as
Containing something bordering on the ludicrous.
She was fair young creature just budding into
wnmanho0d endowed with all the stirring senti-
mentalites of poelical nature. and adorned by
nature with personal beauty that was almost ire
sisab,e: besides there vas an occasional glance of
melancholy that lurked 10 the dreamy depths of her
deep blue eyes, which BYRON would have pro
nonnced 10 be fatal gift" But hold. Here
an rushing headlong into the description of my he
roine like modern novelist, and if don't check
myself. may get her into perilous situation and
leave her just to excite the curiosity OF the read
ers Of the RECORD when in fact she is no heroine
at ALL that am aware Of, unless she has made her
self such by getting married and raising fine fam
lily of children; at least, a gentleman from Plumas
the other day, said he saw three sitting on the
fence and was informed that there weee two
than if she had broken the susceptible hearts of
half dozen honest miners by nsuferable coquetery.
When | commenced this sketch intended TO send
you the poetry l wrote to her; but | have got so
much prose that doubt the propriety of sending
it, However, the above remarks would be worth
less without the poetry in question. You know in
1857, it was stated by some of our greatest astron-
omers that immense comet would collide with
our earth the 18Th of June of that year and in
my poem to the young lady, must admit that
tried to frighren her into the sudden commission of
matrimony; bat after failing to alarm her fears in
the least determined never to resort again to such
anargument for the purpose OF getting wife
Then here goes FOR the lnes
DEAR EMMA the earth in its orbit hath sped


For six thousand years, if not more;


Bat astronomer seers have soemnly said


That the Comet collision is sure


On the 18th of June will see its red glare,


And its tail like river of fire


With awful explosion, ignitng the air,


As a mark of the great spirit ire.
When its long lurd fame envelopes our world


With heat that 10 mortal can bear
To ashes and smoke will our mount aims be hurled,


And the ocean be lifted in air


Frail man with his boasted inventions and arts,


Will float in small atoms about
No man and his wife, with their kind human hearts,


Will be left to feel, love, hope or doubt.
Now, beautiful ENEMA, lets marry and love.


Fer we have but a short time to stay,
TIL evaporation will take Us above


Then we'll both pass together away.
Thro' the bright starry heavens in grandeur weTl


roam.


And evade evade every comet we see,
Until we arrive in that far distant home


Appointed for you. love, and me.
Perhaps We'll embark on some fast sailing orb.


That's floating sublimeiy through space,
And take survey of the heavenly host,


As onward our journey we trace.
The catastrophe love, will certainly come


lis eviuced by the signs of the times
In letters of flame will be written the doom


OF this wicked old world for its crimes.
lis wicked you know for girl not to wed


When she has good offer to do it,
And if you refuse me the sin your head,


Forever will cause to rue it
When the comet comes whzzins. red hot with roar


Disturbing the sea and the land,
Wen lie suuGered afar, and You'll see me no more,


Till at the tribunal we stand.
III then be compelled to accuse you. sweet Miss,


OF refusing to marry below.
And rohbing MY heart of the tenderest bliss


That poor r.hly mortal can know.
You'll then be exied to far distant spot


To place where the does not shine
A solitude dark. viii be your sad lot


Where your heart will eter ally pine. [PREs. |