The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-06-12
Sketches or California.

SIR In this far famed Western city we have our
say as well as in those numerous towns and cities
that are dotted about your York State IT'S true we
have no theatres, therefore, saloons. We have no
Bishops Church lectures, nor four days meetings,
ergo, we have no crazy fanatics. No elections, nor
political mobs,no doctors nor much sickness; no sur
geons, nor those with amputated limbs no lawyers
therefore no court housesnor prisons. 'Tisbut step
from one to the other. Wehave no sheriIs nor con-
stables, marshas nor tipstaffs of course no writs
nor replication, no executions nor sacrifices of pro-
perty. Cock-fighting has gone by; bull and bear
fights have had their days, and like things that
are not We have neither the yellow fever nor the
black vomit; no fevers and agues, as those of the
north term II, nor agues and evers as the south have
It, We have neither apothecary nor confectionery
stores; ergo no pale faces nor bad teeh-no bridges
yet we ride; no wharf, yet we sail no dancing
masters, yet we dance no air balloons, nor corpo-
rated companies, therefore, we experience no great
falls nor magnificent bankruptcies. We have no
banks nor paper money, yet we pay our debts and
flourish; no mailcoaches, steamboats, nor railroads.
yet we communicate one with another, without the
aid OF post offices or postmasters we have no rain
IN the summer, nor snow in the winter, yet the earth
brings forth and gladdens our hearts. We have,
finally, no medicines nor hospitals, yet many mo-
Their can show SIX year old child, with four or five
younger brothers and sisters gamboling about her.
It that will not count for any thing, show you
and have seen a lady enjoying ball of ten hours
duration, who had left at home child of fifteen days
old. In the name OF wonder, methinks hear you
excalm, 1t you have none of these, what have you!
how do you exist and have your being? Not SO
fast, but 'poco a POGO" and I'll tell you Theatres
we have none, for want OF actors; Bishops nor four
days meeting. bur Sundays mass for those who
choose to heart; elections none-government takes
that trouble of the people doctors, lawyers or She
riffs cannot flourish here, because no one will pay
ihem-the alcaldes do all the law business or none
At all, as they please; no banks or paper money,
having silver dollars IN their place, which pref
y good substitute, let your politicians say what they
please. No coaches, steamboats,, nor rallroads-a
dozen horses will carry a man I4O miles in a day,
IT you will pay him for IT, II his horse fails the
road, the rider, with his leather lasso "borrows'
another, and leaves him some leagues ahead, where
he borrows" another that's running at large. b.
ing in hurry, he has no time to look for the owner
or his house--sufhcent for him is the horse. When
lassed, he shifts the saddle, and away he goes With
his lasso and knife, he can always obtain good
horse and fat calf and the owner will never be the
wiser or richer for it. We SOW but little and spin
and satins;. New England sends us dome stics-and
Solomon, In all his glory, was not more happy than
Californian. He sings and he dances-every man,
woman and child can waltz like German and
ENTHUSIASTICALLY at home with a guitar in his
hand or lasso-whether treading the may steps of
a tandango, with his scores of cousins or with his
fleet horse following thousands of wild cattle on the
falling poncho hanging over his shoulders to protect
him from both, he enjoys the day, and cares not for
the .morrow-earns a dollar when he needs it, but
will not work for doubloon when his present wants
are supplied. The most unaccountable being to him
is the foreigner, who is ever grasping for little
more, to lay up for-he knows not who
MONTERREY, California, Sept 1874.
SIR-lt is now some two years since forwarded
your office an account OF the arrivals of vessels in
this port tor one year, also sheet of matters in ge
neral and nothing in particular. From Boston pa
per saw part OF the latter credited to the Herald
therefore suppose you received 1t; since that time
have not written to you for two reasons first be-
cause did not feel IN the humor; second because
have had no line direct from you on the subjecti
OF course cannot say whether my letters to you
worth the postage.
Now as there is many ga slip between the cup
and the lip, it follows, that there is more between
your city and NINE. as "a letter must be handed
twenty times from ship to stage, ere it reaches its
destination, and be sixty to one hundred days
the road and SEAL In this case you may have written
and not have received; taking this into considera-
ton and being again in the humor, pen another
sheet tor your perusal.
AS write merely because choose to, shall
write merely as please to- You will receive the let
tiers, not "post paid" as far as the United States
postage is concerned, and shall pay the Mexican
postage, which is double what yours was year
ago. l presume, by this time, Congress has been
wise enough to reduce the postage; the wisdom of
the Mexican Congress In this respect, in all proba
bty will run in counter strain. II its happy to be
ignorant and its folly to be wise, ii not for let
ters and mail bags, the foles and fancies of each
city or town, would be confined to its own narrow
limits, and the wheels of government would only
revolve round the Congress house, and not be OBJ
structed by tens of thousands oedtors and editor
correspondents, one halt of whom spend their time
In macadamizng the road, while the others are en-
ployed IN corduroying it, IT'S true each little big
would not be known out of his own district but
then his envy would not be touched by hearing of
the praise OF his brethren at a distance
Yours, PAIsASo.
MONTEREY, California, Sept 1874.
SIR 1T is now six months since we heard from
the States In general we have news six or eight
times year; this time are all in the dark now;
the world wags We, of course, lose the sweet anxi
etymonth by month, of knowing who's ahead in the
tour years race for the White House; and when we
do receive our papers, we shall find the President
nominated, voted for and fairly in the chair, with
out any trouble of guessing on the subject. In the
monthly for the mail, land wonder how goes on John
Tyler, Victoria, Louis Philippe, Emperor of all the
Russias, the Father of all the Chinese the Queens
of Spain and Portugal, and the rest of the folks at
The other end Of the world when bang comes in
the Eastern and Western mail, and at sitting,
(not short one, assure you) we hear all about the
six above mentioned ladies' and gentlemen and
read their several yearly speeches, and what they
said to their sub ects, and what they said of their
neighbors, and all their antlcipations which might
hereafter happen, we know did or did not happen
We read OF the whole face of the globe at once; leach
nation therefore sinks III our mighty views of things
state OF the smallest class; kings and queens
appeared but common people chatting Of each other;
we read that the last mighty convention Of such
nation would overturn all around il in the next
paper we find it growing more and more in
Its tremendous power, and would certainly carry
all before IL; before rise find another noun
tam OF the fable; then we hear of the last and
splendid steamboat ready in Liverpool for sailing,
then she is lost, and hundreds in mourning for
their departed friends. When "lo,'' we find in ano
Their paper that she is again in the Liverpool docks,
not lost, (as advertised) but safely returned and
gold medal or pitcher presented TO the Captain for
outrdng the greatest gale the greatest rain, since
that OF the 40 days and 40 nights rain have never
seen but half OF that at falling in California,
gon, that would pass for a shower. Matters and
things are great or small in this world according to
what part OF the world you find them'tis said there