California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, Volume 20, Number 24, 22 January 1864 — "Happy Homos." [ARTICLE]

"Happy Homes."

Will Cherrle, your letter is read, ita sentiments considered, and with pleasure I answer—though

I would not for the world be considered as making love to two girls at once, even through the columns of a newspnper, as I have already answered Carrie ; so both of you will please consider this an open subject, until you or your deputy, tbe editor, Bettles the matter between you ; and If you are unable to do it, why just let me settle the matter by taking my choice I Thank you a thousand times, for your kind wishes, and hope the few days already passed, since the commencement

of the New Year have been happy ones for you, and tbat tho remainder of them may be tbe same; more, I hope that ere its days are numbered with those of tho past, you will be a "poor lonesome one" no longer—that some true patriot before the dawn of unother year, will have plucked you from the position you now occupy, ao temptingly exposed to all the numerous young gentlemen readers of the Farhku, and will ever ao perfectly and effectually guard and protect you from the world's cold storms, that your sweetness shall never be changed, nor the ruddy glow, the natural painting of your cheeks ever marred. Wonder if I can be the lucky "patriot 7" I profess to be a lover of my country, in the fullest sense of the term I Don't like the idea of your being afraid of me ; can't conceive why you should have that little tremor. lam not ao very bard to suit in most matters —but this, the turning point, which leads either to misery or happiness for a lifetime, must be carefully looked to. lam not much of a believer in dreams, but as one came over my mind a short time ago, that seems somewhat applicable, I will tell to you, rather hoping it may prove to be one of tbat class that do sometimes mirror tbe future.

A fine collection of cherries floated before my vision, of which friends requested me to partake. I looked at them, but cared not to take any. Just then appeared one much finer, larger, better than the rest, and all my powers were at once exerted for ita pnssessii n and alter repeated trials, I at length clasped it, and felt conscioua of possessing tbe best among the good. Now Überrie, are you the woman among women that I am to look at through the lenses of love, and thereby appear to me the best among the good ? I don't know but you are the Cherry among cherries!

I admired some of tha thoughts in your letter very much, but have not time now to notice them. It. W. " A. I). C." The Muse* have refuaed to lend Tn me their myntie pen, Therefore I must contented be, In blank verse to write to thee. From your description, Mr. A. Ii 0., what a model you must be. You have lands and money too. Weil, yon perhaps think that will do. "Love in a ro.Mge" (rather romantic, ia It not ?) —a fanner by profession—tbe noblest iv tbe land (so you think i j and you go to church all day I Are you any the better for it pray? I wish you to remember, w« do not dirt from January to December. Bad it been so, wa would not have to advertise you know. Now, I'd not wish to go to every ball, but how selfish to wish me not to dance at all. I will let you know, when I hear good music I ■ all heel and toe. To cook, and iron, wash, and sew, ire not lo taste, I'll have you know, A pretty ror dition your wife's fingers would be, to play on '.he piano after tea. So stiff they'd be, abe could not even play A. I). C. As to stepping Into tbe carriage, that'a very well. Not care a fig for fashions I A pretty figure your wife would make. Why, I'd as aoon be out of the world as out of fashion. "Seeking for a happy borne as soldiers seek a bounty." Now, I consider tbat a right-down insult; for to seek a bounty is disgraceful, rather than the happiness and good of bis country, to any soldier. No Ino I no I We volunteer! The only bounty we seek ia to make tome yood heart happy.

I am afraid your place Mr. A. B. C, at Richland, Sacramento county, will never do for me, tbat la, unlesa there ia Borne compromiae. Chirbii.

To R. W.

You misunderstood my meaning, when I aaid you would find theory and practice a different thing. I did not doubt for a moment thatperaons marrying with your noble idea of beauty, in its true sense, could fail to be happy. For truly they poaaeas the key to happiness. I will now explain my meaning in full. If you should be ao fortunate aa to fiod two persona—one beautiful (although you aay "beauty la a scarce commodity") in the common acceptation of the term, tbe other beautiful as you expresa it, "noble, generoua, good," would not the one possessing beauty of person only, be the one aelected ? For beauty you know covers a multitude of faults, You would endow ber in your mind'a eye with beauty of heart and mind, feeling tbat such a beautiful peraon must surely be truly beautiful. Aa you remark, people do not aludy each other sufficiently before murriage, and that is the great source of unbapplneaa. Now be so kind as to tell me your plan (to use a common terra) of finding a person out, ao aa to be able to judge and know tbat you judge correctly, for people often act and apeak contrary to their heart and reaaon .

I fully agree wilb you, that if we would be bappy, we must throw aside tbe minor considerations of beauty, money, convenience, and be guided, I must say, not wholly by the law of attraction, for we might be attracted to a beautiful but inferior being; therefore we should be guided by the heart; when rcnon commands what the heart dictates, then will be true happiness ; for heart an I mmd mint go hand in hand together. I lay not always by the law of attraction. How many have wrecked their happiness, being guided merely by this law? Yes, good men and women, with as noble an idea of the beautiful as you have expressed, marrying an Inferior In Arorf and laiaol. How is it? Can you explain tbe mysteryT I Mow you feel tbat you could not be attracted to,

or love a person, not really beautiful as you feel It. Would you not, as I have said, in your mind's eye, endow her with the very talents that were wanting ? I know you will think that I am rather skeptical. I have seen so many marry as you have described, without thinking or feeling, and I have Been so much unhappiness among m irried people, that it has made me "linger, fear, and wait." I shall never marry unlil I can lind ouo iv whom I could have perfect confidence —knowing as well as feeling, that a loving heart and a strong arm, would guide and protect me—feeling that time, although it might bring change of place or condition, yet never change of heart—year by year drawing the chain tighter around the heart, making them one now and forever; the wife lo cheer and comfort, the husband to guide and protect. OaKKts.

Taki Hold.—-What are you looking down for ? Hold up your head I The world isjusl an wide to you a« to others, and you are just as good as any one—take hold. Remember the mind is full set with jewels, created there and only obscured by the thin vapors tbat melancholy dreams beget. What foolish dreams? Take hold I and wail not for circumstances, those limping door-keepers of renown, eipecting to gaiu their favor by standing still—take bold and make circumstauces wail upon you—treat them as your slaves. Look out no longer from tbe dull chambers of slumberinggenius upon the world at labor, but go forth and take hold—see how the busy millions work I They are earning their daily bread and storing away tbe crumbs. If active bands can brinu comfort, wealth and position, what cannot active minds do 7 If tbe grosser part of man's structure can Btislain the vitality of the whole, what cannot tbe polished members of the inner temple perform ?

Take hold and let the mind labor, hire it out to a desirable object und keep it bent over its duty, like a smith over his anvil, from the dawn until the lamps of tbe firmament are lit, ami until indolence has long been upon tbe journey ol sleep. Let misfortune come ; let envy blow upon you its poisonous breath, and taint your sphere wilh calumny; let age spread thick ber wrinkles, and failure roll rocks and hills into your path—heed tbem not, take hold and bold on I and though you are forced to lodge with ruin until it makes you gray, go forward and let the great object of your hope be the, sole object of your life.

Take hold I the glory of a purpose is ita accomplishment. Never aacrifice principle for gold, nor honesty for office, and never hesitate to run a race when the reward is great. Obtain first by your hands that which will obtain honest bread —then feed the mind. And alwaya think and feel that you are as gaol as others. Why, when it was said, "let us make man after our own image," the great mould w»a broken, and Adam left the only eaat I No, all have the aecret impress of the Deity ; and the stamp of that sublime imige makes the man, and bids him claim the right of being called a Man indeed.

Thi Tuhko-Amkrican Bath—The patient submits to an air-bath in an apartment heated to 100° Kah., followed by another at 146* Kah., remaining in these hot atmospheres for half an hour or ao, until profuse perspiration is induced. Tbe seven millions of pores are thus made to open their portala, bringing the effete matter of the aystem to the eurface of the skin ; thence it is removed by aoap and brush, in tbe hands of a vigorous assistant ; closing with a warm-water shower, and a comfortable drying off between clean sheets and soft blankets. Nothing can be more luxurious than this process, while its medical uses are considered extensive and important. The TurkoAmerican bath has been inaugurated at tbe Brooklyn Water Cure.

Elevation or thb Working Classu.—l have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people, the very highest acquisit ion which their taste, or their time, or their inclinations, would lead them to realize ; for, next to the aalvation of their aoula, I certainly say, that the object of my fondest

aspirations is the moral and intellectual, and, as a sure consequence of thia, the economical advancement of the working claases—the one object wbich, of all othera in the wide range of political speculation, ia the one which should be the dearest to the heart of every philanthropist, and every true patriot.—[Chalmers.

Procani Lanol'ao«.—lt ia related by Dr. Sendder tbat, on hia return from hia mission in India, after a long absence, he was standing un the deck of a steamer, with his aon, a youth, when he heard a gentleman using loud and profane language. "See, friend," aaid the doctor, accosting tbe swearer, "this boy, my son, waa born and brought up in a heathen country, and a land of pagan idolatry ; but in all his life he never heard a man blaspheme hia Maker until now." The roan colored, blurted out an apology, and looked not a tittle aabamed of himaelf.

Am or oca I'i.uit It is supposed that the plants of the coal period required a temper iture of 12° Iteauinur. The mean vow is B°, or 14° less. By experianents on the rate bf cooling of lavas and melted basalt, it is calculated thai 9,000,000 of years are required iv the earth to lose 14° Heaumur. M Hibert puts the period al 5,000,000. But suppposing tbe whole to have been in a molten state, the lime that must have elapsed In passing from a liquid to solid slate is fixed at 350,000,000 years.—[Ami Boue, Jaiuesou'a Journal, No. 113.

It is'stated by gentlemen recently from Tennessee, that at an informal meeting of thirty prominent slaveholders of tbe .State, all but two expressed the opinion that tbe advantages to be derived from coming again under tbe National Covernment would more than compensate for any loss of (lave property they might suffer, and that therefore no remuneration should be asked from tbe Federal Uovernment. 1

Another Extrusive Salt lID in Nbvaoa Tkrritoky.—The Virginia City Union of 7tb January says: Mr. (Jartrell of this city informs us of a most important discovery, one which ii worth millions of money and of incalculable value to the silver mining interest of this Territory. It is no less than tbe discovery, near Sand Springs, on the OverUnd wagon road, of a salt bed five milts square. The first discoverer, we believe, was a young man in the employ of Eaves k Ilawley, or' Sand Spring station ; but Messrs. 1 t.trtrell, Murray, Pitzer, Arrington nnd Wilsoa of litis city are interested in tbe mine or bed of salt. There are about 30 owners altogether, who have located the whole basin in which the Bait is found. This Lu-in appears to have once been tbe bottom of a lake, and the salt is found good, even on the surface. A covering of about three inches is loose and indifferent; but beneath this, for a depth of fourteen feet, pure rock salt is found as clear as ice and white "as the driven snow." lleneath there is water, which seems to be filtered through salt for an unknown depth. The whole of this fourteen feet in thickness does not contain a single streak of any deleterious matter or rubbish, and is ready for quarrying and sending to market. (IreHt block* of the pure stuff can be raised the same as if it were ice or stone ; on exposure, however, it crumbles sufficient! y to admit of being closely packed in sacks or wagon boxes. Grinding will be necessary to prepare it for tbe table; otherwise nature has "done the clean thing" in its preparation. Once loose salt on top is removed, one man can quarry and wheel out five tuns each day he may work, ready for mill use or to offer on sale iv the j store. Indeed, this bed of salt is so convenient to get at, and so near the great Overland road, that the proprietors are confident they can sell it in thi- market at 5 to 6 cents the pound, or half the present price of tbe article. Mill men will rejoice j at this fact, as some 300 tuns are required for the mills in this and adjacent counties. Moreover, tbe road from this salt bed to Reese Hiver is one of tbe best in the Territory, and the mills there can be supplied at one-third the price they now I pay. The locality is 100 miles this side the Reese River mines, iv tbe Valley of tbe Sinks, and about 7"> from Virginia, the road from here being good most of the way. This discovery will also lessen the price of freight to Reese River, as teams can load with salt on their return to help pay their ex penses. .Several teams are on the way in now with a quantity of this salt lo offer in this market.

Home Compobts—Every working man need* good thingr< to eat; and we hope every man In a working man, whether he be a merchant, a professional man, a manufacturer, a mechanic, or a farmer Farmers we know are working men ; for if they don't work in season, and out of season, they cannot harvest- Every body should work ! Work, laborishonorable; and they that will not work ehould not eat! Drones should not be |iermitted in the hive of humanity The "busy bees" kill the drones when they cease to work, and clear them out of the hive; and we go for driving out all drones, and then there would ha more food for workers Itowen <& ii rot" -era believe this doctrine, and act U|>on it. They are working men bee the lots of eatables they are sending to every part of our State —hardly a county where they have not lots of customers Lately tbey have been receiving fresh goods. They call them SPECIALTIES. V7e call them "goodies"—all kinds of nice things, such as nice dried and fresh fruits preserved. (Lisbon cheese and butter extra, Boston butter and w\ter crackers, Rordeaux salla 1 oil, very extra, teas, tbe imperial brand, coffee, chocolate, reliable The family wine*: from this house are just *hat they should be. very superior; and these luxuries are for thoje who labor. "They shall eat the fat of the land "