California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, Volume 5, Number 21, 30 May 1856 — To Bessie. [ARTICLE]

To Bessie.

Like the fragrant and modost violet that so unostentatiously greets us as we are roaming o'er a flowery field, filled with the bright, the beautiful and the most treasured gems of Flora's fair world, so comes the modest but wolcome greeting of fair and gentle " Bessie," among the group of happy aud joyous spirits that weekly gather around the altar of the Ladies' Department of the California Farmkr. And however unassuming Bessie muy be, we know she is as welcome to the circle, and to all who assemble there, as her own kind spirit would wish. Yes, Bessie, you have truly named the group as like a "picnic," and 'tis a glorious one, too, for those that meet there are congenial spirits; aud thus may it alt be .sunshine there, not a discordant element; and as you say of an old bachelor, sometimes a spirit led this way, why, like the splendor of a genial sun upon the icicle, so he melts away aud becomes as a "dew drop," wishing he too might be claimed by some fair flower, so he could "nourish it as his own." So yoo are right, too, Bessie, in another guess'

3g. -;Mararo no "Hoi, denies' or "XanaW|^*lßP^"'' v \ ( ** v,>r so £ (> °d looting; they in, for we all worship flu' brighter! colors of life, emblemed by Hope, f "better times coming:" and we worship tl it "bow of promise" which set in our heaven, i < 'all of life j to us." So if Bessie wishes a closer commu-: nion with each or all this glorious .rroup, lot; an envelop of white, tied with the " b nnie blue ribbon," hold fast the thoughts of \ Bessie to i to Alice." We will in all lionor aai duty, as careful page, see it conveyed to th>- rightful owner, and thus that talisinanic wor " open Sesame" makes them known to saol otherhearts, that like twin lutes, are tonep alike to harmony and beauty. We have conned over all tho prett/Words of Bessio, about our fair correspondent! and we can only say, there is in the varioul norn dt plumes a something—yes, there is "somlthing in a name," and we—no, no, we will not tell now— how like music names fall upon the eir sometimes, for we see that crusty, envious aid jealous—what did you call him, Bessie .' thlt "Placerville American man !"—so miserable that we don't like to make folks unhappy. So we will whisper you, sometime, what we meaul if we don't speak it right out: so farewell, Besjie, but remember, you are no longer proscrihet —the great ruler of Europe, Napoleon, has granted an amnesty, forgiven all who have \inned against the Empire, restored them to fame and fortune; and, like them, shall you be welcomed "to the charming group of sisters." [This was intended as the answer for Bessie's introductory, which appenred in No. H, but unfortunately mislaid by tke printer in our absence.—Ei>.]