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The California Emigrant
BY M. S. A.
Across the snowclad mountains, along the
barren plains—
Through winter’s icy fetters, through sum.
nier's copious rains—
The tide of emigration, like a mighty riv
er, rolled;
The sea towards which it (lowed along—
that ‘promised land” of gold!
From many a cheerful fireside, from many
a happy home;
With bright anticipations those brave gold
seekers roam;
from many an anxious bosom wrung the
bitter tear,
When parting from their best beloved witli
mingled hope and fear.
Yet ever bright before them rose that glit
tering land of gold !
From love's fond arms it tore them with a
sorrow half untold;
Whithin the inner chambers of many a
manly heart
Strange fears had cast their shadows dark
when came tee hour to part.
Still gold, bright gold, is glittering, and
etriving with its niialit
To chase away the darkening gloom that
shrouds their spirits 1 jiglit;
It whispers, its ‘possession unto them will
pleasure bring;’
Aud to the winds and waters all their
doubts and fears they fling,
They fancied not that perils would encom- -
pass them around;
Over land and sea they traveled, and di
rest suffering found,
And ever on their journeying? were groans
wrung from their hearts,
From homesick, weary spirits, pierced
with keen remorseful darts !
Dark and dreary were the hours, as they
slowly flitted by,
Unto one youthful wandeter— afar from
home to die ;
Witli no fond arms wherein to rest his
weary, aching head—
No hand to wipe the death-dew from his
cold brow as life fled!
Vain yearnings fiill his stricken heart for the
comforts ol that home
I From which, for paltry worthless gold, all
reckless did he roam;
And oh ! like^ Is h -the
■ o his fevered ‘brain of
past happy hours,
Unto his soul conic longins to behold his
friends once more,
And his heart clings fondly to thorn, though
his feet are on the shore
Os those illumined waters, in’the waves
of that broad sea
That flowetlt oil for evermore, to join
Eternity!
Oh ! ‘California gold mines,* what a fear
lul curse they’ve brought!
• Wiih what heart-rending sorrows has that
• search for dross deen fuugbt !
How many tearful partings, acd how many
lives untold
Have been laid upon the altar of this ra.-
ging thirst for gold !
From the New York Organ.
THE LOTTERY GAMBLER
OR
One step towards a Drunkard’s grave.
“ One excitement leads to another.
Fixed F^ts.
Secret evils in a community art - the
worst of evils. Others can be retheiljeil
c— can be guarded against. The* mur
derer is caught and the law is enforced.
And so it is with most crimes knqAvn in
our staule book. The, commnnUvsus
tain the might and niaj<j#iy of the (C
who afe entrusted with its execution fail
to do their duty, the cilixens soon dis
countenance and supercede them. They
abhor the murdL'er and thief. But 1 there
are other lawgkwhich are openly and
shamelessly brown; but as largf E num
bers of our mostTrespectablc citixens en
courage and sustain a clafU'who should
be state criminals, or buseverely punish?
ed, the autholitics/shflit their eyes, and
the law i* lWked in such cases.
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We allude to Sellers and
Policy Dealers. against
them. Lotteries are forhiatfeji in this
Slate. The selling of
drawn in other States is also IIIMMM
Lotteries to be drawn out of the
forbidden to be advertised; and vet it is ho- |
torious that there is a paper published in
litis city, and scattered by thousands eve
ry week, in which all the lottery schemes
got up in oilier Slates are published in
the most attractive characters, and slat
ing also where the tickets in such schemes
can be purchased. It is notorious that
hundreds of thousand of dollars are drawn
every month from the pockets cf our cit
izens which eventually find their way to
the States where the lottery is drawn—
tints making a double robbery. They
rob individuals, they rob the Slate—and,
worse than all, the individuals so robbed
become so infatuated by the lottery man
ia, that they, in turn, rob their employ
ers or somebody else, and eventually rob
iheir families of comfo.it and happiness;
and, to drown their remorse fly to the
excitements of intemperance, bring up in
the alms house, or die in a gutter or rum
shop the horrid death of a drunkard.
This is no fancy sketch and the melan
choly narrative wo are, to relate is true
in every particular. Before we proceed
with it, however, we must say a few
words more about Lottery Dealers and
Policy Venders.
The person who buys lottery tickets
can keep it a secret from all the world-
He can lose hundreds, aye thousands of
dollars in the purchase of lottery tickets,
and it is only known to himself, for in the
lower part of the city of New York alone
there are filly places where lottery tick
ets are unbfushingly sold to anv one who
will buy them. Nearly every ‘Exchange
Office’ has them for sale in a back part
of their office, which is partitioned, or
screened off. The authorities are aware
that such is the case, but they overlook
it, and many of our policemen are as
great lottery and policy purchasers, in a
small way, as can be found about our
city.
The anxiety, care and eventual wretch
edness of a lottery purchaser, can only
be imagined. He loses daily, (as loose
he must,) and his loses increase his aijfjtv.
iety to make them up by drawing a $50,-
000 ot even a SSOOO prize) and lie bor
rows, —ay, steals often to get life means
whereby he can try Ids luck once more,
and when his money and hope are both
gone, be resorts to drink for- excitement,
and the shame faced lottery buyer be
comes a sol and a drunjiurd. Many of
our drunkards, (who have been respecta
ble men in other days,) have been made
so by purchasing lottery tickets and cau
sed more failures, more bankrups, and
made more thieves, drunkards and vaga
bonds, than any other known vice.
This may startle many gdtxl people who
do not even dream of such- an alarming
evil in the heart of our city. As we have
said, it is to a certain extent a secret evil,
and only wounds deeper and more dead
ly because it is so. Like mortification
in the human body, if not cut out, and
eradicated entirely, the poor victim must
perisli.
YVe shall have a little to say about pol
icy vending. The policy venders are
legion, they are scattered all over the ci
ty, and can otdy be counted by hundreds.
Many who are too poor to buy even the
smallest denomination of lottery tickets,
can buy a policy, for the price ranges
from three cents to an unlimited number
of dollars, which can be invested in the
various ways of ‘ (laying’ a single num
ber buying a saddle,’ which is two num
bers, or a * pig,’ which consist of three
numbers. The result is dc<ided by the
drawings oflotleries in Washington, (Del?
Vvare,) Baltimore, or Alexandria. These
drawings are sent Jigre by telegraph.—
On a ‘day’ a person may pay $1 on a
certain number; say 50—if 50 is drawn
or * if 50 comes out,’ the policy payer
wins back $6, but there are about 70
numbers, (1 to 76) and only 13 are drawn
the chances are 6 1-4 in 1 that he loses
his dollar. If he takes a ‘ saddle,’ say 50
and 10 for sl, he may win S2O if both
of these numbers ‘ come out’ in the same
drawing. But the chances are 30 to 1
that these two numbers, for any oilier two
he may select will not both come out. —
If he buyp a ‘gig,’ he fixes upon three
numbers, say • 10, 25, 50,’ and pays
sl, lie may get SIOOO to 160,’ (if
the policy dealer don’t break or run
away,) but the chances that numbers 10,
25 and 50, will not come out in one draw
OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUKE 12, 1851.
ing is about 200 to 1, and yet silly peo
plewill, day after day, follow up this ru
inous’ game.
It was slated in the colored convention*,
recently held in this city, that over $ 100,?
are annuylly sunk by the colored
in *lus hazzardous game—the
of gambling.
then, must be sunk by the
poor wlim population ? At least half a
million,wfidi goes to enrich the law brea
kers who selmhe policy tickets. Where
are bur atnhofifes ?
Five years h®y)assed over our head
since we becaiftegßouainted with a young
man of the name of Mhu Greenwood. He
was about tweniv-fivlfv&irs of age, of a
very prepossessing
of superior mitnl.excellein edtfeiUipii. des
cended from a highly respectable fiytjJy
in New Jersey, was a member of an Epis
copal Church, and very much beloved
by all who knew him. He was die con
fidential clerk of a large shipping house
in South Street, kept their books, and re
ceived an annual salary of $1,500. —
Having some transactions with the firm
where lie was a clerk, we became acquain
ted, and an intimacy sprang up between
us, which very shortly led to an invitation
from him to visit iiis home, and becoming
acquainted with his family. We cheer
fully aud gladly availed ourselves of it.
We found him living in a two story
house it N M Street, which was
handsomely furnished, and was introuuc.-
ed to his wife, a sweet lovely woman, and
their three interesting children. .The el
dest was a boy four years old, the second
a girls, and third was a hoy baby, in the
cradle by the fireside. We never in our
life envied a married man so much as we
did our friend Greenwood. We believ
ed that if every man possessed every el
ement for domestic happiness, and a iifi|
of comfort, it was him. Il'^w.^xy<ts pi
ous, and so was Iter mother who lived in
the house with the \n>i)r)g couple. As for
money, lie told u/lte had saved from his
salary—and made'by little adventures, a
bout $5.000—-dliich he placed in a safe
investment, Pm# to be used in a rainy
day, that lie was adding to it every month
by his savings, and that it was accumu
lating interest.
For six months not a week passed that
we did not spend an evening at his house,
and delightful visits they were. Some
times we accompanied him and his wife
to a Friday night prayer meeting in the
lecture room of the church to which he
belonged. He was a teacher in the Sun
day School, and we never saw him touch
a drop of liquor or wine.
Business took us across the blue water
six months after Greenwood and we be?
came acquainted. We were absent two
years, and most of the time in Germany.
We often thought of him, and often wrote
to him, as we had promised to do when
we parted on board the packet ship inde
pendence. For several months vve re?
reived a letter from .Mr. Greenwood ev
ery week. They were all written by a
person evidently in good spirits, who was
in the enjoyment of health, happiness and
comfort, and who had bright, joyous
hopes here and hereafter. They were
filled witli good advice as to our own
conduct, both in a moral and religions
point of view. In one letter which is now
before us, he writes, ‘ Your last letter was
cfated at ‘ Baden Baden,’ I know that it
is a fashionable sort of Springs in Ger
many, ami a great place for gambling, as
you value your own happiness, never
gamble in any way, manner or shape. It
lias ruined thousands.’
We answered Mr. Greenwood’s letter,
and ridiculed his fears, and added—
‘ There is no more fear of our gambling
than there is that you will do so.
Our rorrespodence continued about
nine months and then we got no more
letters from him, and we ceased writing to
Mr. Greenwood - ,We never heard a
ivord„good, bad or indifferent, about him
until we reached New york again, after
an absence of over two years. * ’ :
We got ashore in the afternoon, took
a room at the Carlton House, and that
very evening went up to N M
——. Street to see John Greenwood aud
his interesting family. In answer toour
ring'al the door, a servant girl opened it,
and we were about entering, when she
asked —
‘ Who do you wi>h to see ?’
Mr. Greenwood or his wife—are either
of them in, ?’
‘ There is no such name lives here.—
There used to be, but they moved away
long ago.’
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD IS OCRS.
‘Have they, indeed! Do you knoxv
where they have moved to ?’
* No, sir, I don’t. I believe they don’t
keep house now—they are boarding.’
‘Tliankyou. goodnight.’ And we left
for our hotel, feeling that sort of uneasy
depression which very often precedes bad
news, and which is so unaccountable.—
However, we had good night’s sleep, and
ten o’clock the nex morning found us at
the counting-house in South Street of Mr.
Greenwood’s employers. We asked for
John.
‘ He is no longer in our employ sir,’
said the matter of fact partner.
‘ Indeed! II iw long since lie lias left
you ?’
‘A year ago.’
‘Can you inform me where lie is now,
or where I can find him or his family ?’
I A Don’t know anything about him or
his fiirnily, nor do I wish to know more
thOT 1 do.’ And the great merchant
turned his-hack upon us, as coolly.as if’
we had called to get a note renewed.
For several days we made inquiries of
every mutual acquaintance about John
Greenwood, but vve could obtain no in?
telligenceql him, and we gave up in des
pair and made no mute inquiries.
We had been in New York six months
before vve received any information, and
then we got it in a way that was any
thing hut agreeable tons. We received
it from Greenwood’s own lips. We wish
ed to find a good washer, woman, and a
friend recommended us to one that had
formerly worked for him. He did not
remember her name, but gave us the
slreel and number where she lived. It
was in the upper or attic story of an old
wooden kuildijiiJ®pLjr-—•—
stumbled tip stairs, got confused about the
room which vve had been told down stairs
was the home of our friends laundress,
and so vve made a push and entered what
vve thought was the right one, and there
surrounded by his wife, his children and
his mother-in law, was John Greenwood,
lying on the floor upon an old stiavv bed,
stupidly drunk.
VVe were too shocked to speak. The
children had forgotten us. The wife
sunk upon an old broken chair, pul her
handkerchief to her e ves anil wept. She
could not speak. The mother alone
shook hands and expressed her gladness
to see us back again, and in broken tones,
which went home to our heart, observed.
‘We are somewhat differently situated
from what we were when you saw us last.’
‘You are, indeed,’ vve replied, as we
looked abont the little cubby-hole, and
noticed the wretched furniture, and won
dered where they all slept, ‘ but ivliai
does all this mean ? what is the matter 1
Is John sick?’
‘Don’t ask us any questions, Frank—
or not now,’ said the weeping wife, as
she put out her hand at the same time
withdrew the handkerchief from Iter eyes.
We did not ask any questions. We
saw at a glance vvlint was needed, and vve
went procured it. They were without
food even. Wlton John had slept off his
drunk, vve made him go witli us to our
hotel, and he left it with a complete rig
out as vve had on ourself. He promised
he would not drink any more that night,
and the next day we travelled with him
and saw that lie did not, ami ere evening,
he and all the his family were in a com
fortable boarding house and their board
for a month paid in advance. In a week
John’s nerves were all right, he was so
ber, and we saw no reason why lie should
nut keep so, and hold his head like a man.
We persuaded him to sign the pledge,
and told him vve would get him back to
his place as book keeper again
‘Jo mercy, don’t mention it,’said the
startled iuan.
‘ Why, what on earth is the mailer? I
suppose you think because you got drunk
and lost your situation, that it’s all up
witli you, eh? Notiseuce ! Better men
than yw>n have got drunk, been drunk for
months, and yet reformed and became
rich and respected. Cheer up, old fel
low, Only let that in'ernal stuff alone,
and y'bu will come round all right. ’
‘Never! Never! It is not altogether
drink,’ said he grasping us by the arm.
‘ 1 robbed my former employers.’
‘You did vvhal?’ sail vve, as soon as
vve recovered from our first shock.
‘ I robbed them of over $4,000, and
they would have put me in the Tombs, to
Stands a trial, if it had not been for the
the pleading of my poor innocent wife to
one of the partners of the firm.’
‘ Why, what on earth induced you to
rob tin in ? Perhaps you are unjust to
yourself, Rob is a bard word, explain it
all to me more clearly.’
‘ When you saw me before you went
away, l was happy, very happy. I had
55,000 / could call my own. A
that sum I told you l had made in busi
ness operation. 1 did not speak the truth.
/ drew $3,000 in a lottery. I wanted
enough to get into business, and I bought
and bought lottery tickets, day after day,
even by packages, until 1 wasted all I had
and then, hoping that I might have a run
of luck, and draw a prize that might make
ail straight, 1 took a lew dollars (rom my
employers’ funds. You know how they
trusted me, and what confidence thev
placed in me. I lost the lit*le I took at
first, and then more, and more, until it be
came hundreds, and then thousands, as
/ became reckless,, and spent all for
the lottery tickets. Then all was dis
covered, and I was disgraced. 1 gave
tip all that I had called mine. Furniture,
every tiling that 1 had in the wide world.
Q merciful God ? vvliat agony 1 Jtave suf
fered, and mjPwife and children! God
bless and protect them. 1 am their curse.’
‘But tell me, John, liovv came you to
take to drink ?,
‘ How could /avoid it ?’ I was in tor
ture. I drank to ease it, until I became
vvliat you found me, and liovv do yon
think we have lived for a year past ? I’ll
tell you. At first my wile got some dress
es to make ; and at last, when we lost
(after 1 had pawned a silk one
to a lady, and spent it Ibraxicket in a
Baltimore shajjand her mother
have supported ourselves by taking io
others toJ|plu I’ve told you all my sto
‘)A sad one it is, John ; but while
there is life, there is hope, ‘ while the lamp
holds out to bard, the vilest sinner may
return.’ it’s not too late to repent yet.’
We lia've but a few words to add.—
Months passed, it was in vain that friends
found work for John Greenwood to do.
Regardless of his wife and children, the
instant he received money it.was spent for
lottery tickets, and his ‘ bad luck,’ set him
to drinking again worse than lie ever had
done. Then his wile’s mother died, and
after that lie abused bis wife and children
and treated them worse than brutes. The
wife gave tip all hope, and, for her chil
dren’s sake she led him, and with nu al-_
most broken heart, sought refuge foiJHp
self them among her relatives in the
try, where she lias since maintained tier:
self aud them.
We were absent when the separation
occurred, and had been for months pre
vious to it. When vve returned we could
find no trace of any of them, and soon af?
ter we took charge of a daily newspaper,
and our name appeared in it. A copy
found its way to Mrs. Greenwood. Short -
!y after vve received a letter from the
wife beseeching us to obtain some news
of her husband, and stating that she could
help him if lie needed help. We were at
our editorial desk when vve got the letter,
and at once wrote a u nice, which appear
ed in our paper that morning, it simply
requested that any person who had seen
John Greenwood, or could give any in
formation in regard to him, would confer
a favor by calling at the Office.—
That day two persons called. One was
a woman, with a hill for a week’s board
against Mr. Greenwood, and bringing
with her two pawn tickets io give us when
vve paid her bill of three dollars and a
half. We paid John’s bill and then vve
went up to Simpson’s and redeemed the
tickets for two dollars more. One was
for his family Bible, in which was record
ed liis marriage and the dates ol (he birth
of his three children ! The other was for
a miniature. It was one taken of liis wife
in all the loveliness and beauty of the ear
ly years of her marriage, with her infant
first born nestling in her bosom.
The other visitor was a person who was
a stranger to us. lie said that three
months previous John Greenwood called
upon him, sick, ragged and in a wretch
ed condition, that lie had advised him to
seek relief and rest in the alms house.—
We thanked him and went at once to the
Commissioner of Alms and talked with
him about John Greenwood. He prom
ised to send to Bellevue, and ascertain
whether there was any such person there.
The next day we received a note from
him.
“John Greenwood was sent up to Bel
levue on ihe2lsi of- and died on the
24th with the delirium tremens.”
John Greenwood sleeps among the un
known ones ofthc Potter’s Fieid. Wt
wrdtc the facts to his wile, and mil the
| TEEMS: $2 in Advance.
miniature and the Bible. We heard no
more about her until we learned from one
who lives in the town where she sought
refuge, that a few weeks since she had
married a worthy deserving rnerchaut,
and had found a home and luxury and
comfort for herself and children. May
they all be happy, and may rich and poor,
old and young, avoid lottery and policy
gambling, as they would avoid the hor
rible fate of John Greenwood.
GEMS OF TOUGHT.
A loving heart incloses within itself un
unfading and eternal Edeu.
Our wishes are but the idle blossoms
of the tree of human life, seldom bearing
fruits.
None go to heaven but those who have
a taste for h on earth.
A (Hire mind can derive more enjoy
ment from this world, and from the senses,
than an impure mind. This is true even
of the .lowest senses
Gold is a poor legacy in comparison
with immortal thought. The one is hu
man, worthless ; the other divine, inval
uable.
Birds of Paradise always fly against,
the wind, and heavenly-minded soul 11
move against the current. .
Some there are who gaze
Unwell of (| i >o P ei °ri§ppt
iug thcr own image reflected in it.
T® more tender and delicate the bios?
soins of joy the purer must be the hand
that will cull them.
The chief source of human discontent
is to be looked for, not in the real, but in
our fictitious wants: not in the demand
of nature, but in the artificial craving of
desire.
A correct taste is ever the concomitant
of a chaste mind ; for, as it celebrated au
thor lias justly observed, ‘our taste com
monly declines with our merit.’
The proper element of man is constant
activity. The waters oflife are like those
of the Belhesda pool— it is onl} - when
they are agitated that they are healthful.
in times of national disorder, great men
rise to the summit of affairs as certainly as
the large lumps come to the top when you
The consumatioiTof
sin is, ever, and in every form, the ex
treme of folly. And it is that most pitia
ble folly which is puffed up, with arro
gance and self-sufficiency.
Self'khovvledge is said to be the wav
to virtue —it would be more correct to say
thal virtue is the way to self-knowledge.
A pure mind, like a diamond is clouded
by the slightest defilement, and does not
see till after its purification how many
specks and stains still disfigure holes and
corners.
THE OLDEST REPUBLIC ON
EARTH
The American Quarterly Review
contains a letter from G. W. Irving,
giving a sketch of his visit to Sait Mari
na a small republic in Italy, between the
Appennines, the Po and the Adriatic.
The territory of this State is only forty
miles in circumference, and its population
about 70,000. The Republic was
founded more than 1400 years ago* on
moral principles, industry aud equality,
and lias preserved its liberty and inde
pendence amidst all the wars and dis
cords which have regarded around it.Bon?
aparte respected it, aud sent an embassy
to express his sentiments of friendship and
fraternity. It is governed by a Captain
Regent chosen every six months by the
representatives of the people, (sixtysix
in number.) who are chosen evry six
months by the people. The taxes are
light the farm houses are neat, the fields
well cultivated ; on all sides are seen com
foil and peace, the happy effect of moral
ity, simplicity, liberty and justice.
E.Vormours Outlay for Advertising.
—Townsend, the Sarsaprrilla man (says
the Great West,) sals that liis “books ’’ex
hibit an outlay for advertising in tlio course
o( fivoycurs, in the various papets of the U
niled States, of $300,0011! He says, for sis
months, he cut off all his udvetisements, to
see if Ills medicines would not go on their
own iiitiiis, just as well as by advei tising Ha
lost $30,000 by it ; sales dwindled down to
nothing, for his coinpetitois, seeing him drog
off, went on, advetdssd heavily, and gut the
start of him.
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