The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-10-13
THINGS IN CALIFORNIA,


with the exception Of Bayard Taylor's' that
have been written from that country. We
make the following lengthy extract from
his forty third letter, dated ut San Francisco,
Sept. 1:
The perfection to which stagc-coach trav-
cling has been brought in California is one
OF the striking features of the country. In
no part of the United States are travellers
conveyed in stage coaches with SO much
comfort and CELEBRITY as in California, as may
be inferred from the following extract from
Sacramento paper:
STAGING AT SAcRAMENro.-Cali iornia
can now boast of the best coaches and last
est teams in the world Every morning
twenty splendid Concord coaches, each
drawn by four spirited horses, leave Sacra-
mento, carrying passengers for moderate
price to all the different mining towns with
in fifty miles, and then connecting with lines
that carry the traveller 10 the most remote
corner Of our State.
But whatever is done in California Is we'll
done. 1t is the last place in the world to
which inferior talent in any kind Of business
ought to go, for the simple reason that the
public taste demands the best in everything;
and the extraordinary inducements which
the country offers to the highest order OF
talent, has brought hither multitude OF
persons emnently qualified to succeed any
where. This il fact which, think. is not
sufficiently appreciated abroad. Judging from
the large number who come here, not only
without money, but without even tolcrable
capacity for business of any kind.
On the 18th inst there were at anchor
in this port - ships, 81 barques, IL briggs
and schooners-in all 1916 vessels, eaclu-
sve Of those employed in the coasting trade,
and exclusive, also, of our fleet OF river and
ocean steamers. Such facts as these afford
the best evidence of the immense commerce
of this infant city; and demonstrate with in
ialliblc certainty the necessity for railroad
across the continent.
Those who have been skeptical about the
enormous size to which the redwood trees
are alleged to grow in Oregon and calitor-
MIA, are likely soon to have their doubts re-
moved. A section Of the bark has been re-
moved from the big tree in Calaycras county
and is now in this city, and will be exhibit
ed to the public in a day or two The en-
tire bark was taken off in sections TO the
height of 90 feet, and the pieces are so mum.
bered, that they will be put together again
precisely In their natural order; SO as to ex.
hibit an accurate view of the trunk Of the
tree to the height of TO feet. 4 house has
been erected here for the special purpose OF
exhibiting this California sapiing; and Il
render the building sufficiently eapaeious tc
inclose the trunk. it has been made about n
large as an o!d-fashioned Pennsylvania barn
The tree is about 80 feet, believe, in
diameter, AMI OF course II will require 20
right smart room, as we say out West. Il
inclose the tree and afford space for the
spectators After being exhibited here 70,
a time, it will be taken to the Crystal Palace
of New York, where il must prove great
attraction; and the ''outsde barbarians" car
see with their own eyes, what nice little
walking sticks grow in California.
But the following extract from Stockton
paper would seem to indicate that other
things besides trees, grow to considerable,
size in this part OF the world.
LARGE Melons Yesterday there was
sold in this city load Of water melons, st
in number, weighing 2,Io7 pounds, - /. ID
each OF the number SIR were picked from
one vine They were cultivated on the San
joaquin, Globe Ranch) owned BY Messrs
G ROOM & WALLACE, They have now grow
/ inn on their ranch, onions IL inches in cir
cumference, and weighing 81. bs.-R,.
pub.
New evidences are constantly accumula'
ting, tending to prove that California has
once been inhabited by race far more nd
vanced in civilization and ART than the tribes
sc ,t,birh alty cd "a
have been its first occupants. The Placer.
willie Herald contains the following state
ment:
We were shown, few days since, al
the residence of Col. DROWN, few miles
east OF Diamond Springs, an ancient mortar
OF such perfect workmanship as to preclude
all possibility OF its being the handwork OF
the present race of Indians. Nothing hall
so perfect has ever been seen of their work
manship, and the locality in which it was
found is a bar to all probability of its being
the manufacture even Oft very remote anccs-
try of the present race.
II was some four feet below the surface,
and in a position that would render il next to
impossible that il was ever covered BY Il land.
slide, neither was it in river alluyium, but
upon a nearly level plain, among boulders
and pebbles of primitive rocks. II is nearly
round, larger than mans head, and with a
cavity nearly two-thirds its diameter in depth;
the sides and edges smooth and perfectly
wrought, and is, decidedly. a curiosity.
The mania for real estate speculation in
this city, continues undated. Immense
sums are invested from day to day in city
lots, and handsome fortunes have been ac-
cumulated by bold operators in this line, in
an incredibly short space of time. Such
items as the following very often appear in
the city papers:
REAL EsTATE.-Mcssrs. HENRY S. FITcH
G.. Co. sold last week real estate TO the
amount of over 100000. On Saturday,
three one hundred vara lots, the property OF
DR.. WsDEKis, situated near Russ Gardens,
were sold for the sum of $4,000.
Death of Gen Tallmadge.
We have already informed our readers
Of the decease of this distinguished
man He died very suddenly MT the Mptrn-