Year: 1874




Majestic on her brilliant throne,


Does not believe that star most bright


Nativity has made his own


Yet every star a glory lends


To others in the field of blue;


And every star, itself, depends


Upon the light they all pursue.


Then, dare we intercept the rays


Which, streaming from our central sun,
Have pierced the dark, chaotic haze


Around newly risen one!


Dare we obstruct the upward march


or one that to the western seas
Extends our glorious Federal Arch


Among those wandering Pleaides!
Shall we the fillet now unbind


Which makes us in our Union strong,
Because the progress of the mind


Refuses to sustain wrong?


Dare we, with fratrcidal hand,


Annul the bond which now creates
A brotherhood throughout the land


OF Freedoms great United States!


No! Spread the bunting.-as of old


Yet waving in the loftiest breeze


Uniting, by its ample fold,


Atlantic and Pacific seas!


The storm has gathered-let it burst!


The Temple which our strength defends
Will stand uninjured when, dispersed,


The wrath reveals its noble friends!
Then, as the iris-arch extends


Where storms their trailing clouds have
The covenant, which CLEANS and bends


Shall vouchsafe Freedom to the world!
The manner of obtaining the latest
news from the Pacific Coast is thus set
forth with q credit to the Sdnd,Oich
Observer:


We learn that when the news of the
last steamer from California was re-
ceived in New Bedford, two carrier
pigeons were dispatched to Nantuck-
ct, in advance of the boat, with an alb
stract of the most important particu
lars of the intelligence. One of the
birds arrived safely at Nantucket.
The other, driven by the wind out CT
it's course, and becoming confused,
turned it's wings towards Falmouth,
and took refuge in the house of Mr..
Lawrence, who is now in california.
The dispatches were eagerly taken
possession of by the family, who thus
obtained news two days in advance of
q letter from the absent husband and
father. The bearer, after short
tarry, was dismissed by his hospitable
entertainers, and it is supposed re-
turned to new Bedford.


A little speculation on the part of
an ambitious young gold hunter as
follows, under the caption of "The
Candy Trade in California;"


An active and enterprising young
man from Providence, r. l., writing
to his friends, states that while wait
ing for the company in which he was
connected, to make some necessary ar
rangements previous to starting for
the mines, not wishing to be idle he
took some molasses from the stores of
the company and made fine batch of
molasses candy, placing it on waiter,
he sailed forth, and in about two
hours disposed of his stock in trade for
the handsome sum of seven dollars
and twenty-five cents, receiving a
ninepence stick for the delicious
compound.


Perhaps the "active and enterpris-
ing young man" is still with us as q
representative of the genuine Forty
miner; and, if this should meet his
eye he will revive those early days in
his memory and perhaps smile at this
little incident.


There are many other things in the
old paper, which could be reproduced
with interest to the reader but our
limits preclude further details, and we
carefully lay aside for the benefit OF
the still curious our souvenir OF 1850.