Year: 1873

SoliIOIiud OiISSpOIlOStTCS'


COLUMBUS, Cal, Sept. 90, 1873.


Editor Dispatch:-Somebody said, q
long time ago, and the saying has since
been many times repeated, that variety
is the spice of life, and the adage seems
by common consent to have been ac-
sspted as truism. l have only made
the quotation for the purpose of finding
IN it a justification for again occupying
valuable space in the columns of your
paper. Everybody and all the rest of
,us like to have life made spicy and
pleasant, and did not know but might,
In some small degree, contribute to that
end by adding to the variety of matter
Sontained in your usually well diversified
sheet. Whether I write anything good,
bad, or Indifferent, it is all the same SO
far as "spice " is concerned, providing
what / write only adds to or increases
the variety of matter contained in the
general make up of your issue. Ifsuch
should be the case, then my object in
writing would be accomplished, to wit:
to add to the "spice of life in proper.
lion as increase variety.


As you will have learned through your
California exchanges ere this reaches
you, an election came off down here in
the Eureka" State on the Sd inst,
sesulting in glorious victory on the
part of the Liberal Democratic voting
fraternity. 1t was emphatically tri-
unph of Democratic principles and
sentiments over those of Radicalisn, q
reputation of the Gorham Railroad
Ring, and real " socdolager" on SUBJ
sides and corporate moaopolies. AL
though the leading political parties held
conventions and made nominations
something in the old way at the polls,
the contest assumed quite non-partisan
aspect, being in the main between indi-
vidual candidates on their merits as to
sbiiity and sentiments regarding the
questions and issues above mentioned.
1t was union in good faith of tbs good
and true in common cause against the
evils that have been engendered and
grown into corrupt and dangerous sores
on the political body In late times; and
the result of their united effort has
given them great satisfaction and en-
couragement, enabling them to breathe
freer and deeper; while the unsuccessful
anti democratic gobbleIs and grabbers
and corporate monopolyites, are trou-
bled with a distressing phthisic, are
down in tho mouth down all over
without any foundation upon which to
rest a hope of restoration, either 1mme-
Q or remote.


Away they have gone up the Salt River shore
To the station where many have landed before
Their sins of the past there in sadness to rue.
Rrpentant. collapsed " dumfuddled and blue





Hsve retired in their woe and encamped on the


sand:


There, degraded to sit in their threadbare cloth,
And fish for their meat In clam shell broth.
Tho land is SO poor long the Salt River shore,
That no " grub " is raised now-nor was ever


before;


It's place but for torment, created by God
Over political sinners to WELD his rod;


And those rascals will never get back alive.
I will bet any money from one to five.


Dismissing the subject of the election,
I will next mention that the weather
here remains without change hot and
dry-but the longer the drouth contin-
ues the scarcer and poorer becomes the
water, the dust and uncomfortable the
travelling. the shorter the feed for stock
and withal the more difficult for the in
habitants to obtain a comfortable sub
sistence. But when relief from our
present situation comes, in the shape of
the rainy season." the weather will
probably be as much in the extreme on
the other hand. Then it will rain, ard
rain, and rain, when it has rained, and
rained, and rained, it will then setin for
. rainstorm; and whereas it was not
and dry and drsty, it will then be cold
and wet and muddy. And thus the
weather wags on the Pacific coast-heat
and dust, cold and mud, in measured
time, and alternate succession. And who
likes it ? Not I. Give me a mixture
of sunshine and shade, of showers and
fair weather. It is more like variety,
and consequently more of the "spice of
life " in it. But we can't have cur way
or say as to what the weather shall be,
and therefore We may as we'll be con-
tent with it as it come, and don the old
summer fashion of Georgia. shirt col
lar and pair of spurs only-tor our
hot weather rig. and in winter get into
the weighty pea jackets and pondsrous
boot of Novia Scotil. 1t is not of much
consequence what we wear, so long as
we are comfortable. Happiness is not
20 much in the apparel as in the mind.


Having occupied so much Of my sheet
in speaking of the election and it's re-
suits, and of the weather, etc., 1 have
but few lines left, and will fill them by
declaring that, although it is tine of
general physical health, tits one ofgreat
encouragement and general mental
prostration. The human Imagination
IS scarcely able to conceive of more
sun, burnt, desolate and barren looking
country than the interior parts of Cal
ifornia present at the present time.
can only cxclaim. with Selkirh, go,
solitude J." ETC., etc.


SLUICE FORK.