Daily national Democrat., 1861-04-13
aailp Natlonal Qcmutrat,
Letter from the Coast.
TnMALEs CRY. April LIST.

60, that silence2 Methinks | hear you
w. 20. so here goes. Inow have the p leo-
.,e Of addressing you from the most lovely
.aot this side the classic grounds OF Greece
T.;. "a an embryo city-slumbering in its
,ea.;,s moments-but. believe me. Mr.. Ed
,bot it is classed with the progressive
.ohoo, and will, briefly. be a city of COM
ond;no importance. In point of location
:. ..on;ovs pecniar advantages. 1t is now but
.t ton months since the town was first
ia az, and it's progress in building reminds
one Of 40 times There is splendid wharf
RAPIDLY approaching completion, and when
't 10y, aona a steamboat will be placed on the
.,o Immediately, and ply regularly be-
tweeO this and San Francisco A steamer
Ia be on the route now had it wharf to
,1ot The country around here, as yet,
.ot more than one-ffth settled, and the
,sad not more than fifth part titled, yet,
nvaO at the present time, there are five sehoo-
rora regularly employed in conveying home
-oduce from here to San Francisco. They
Ioye to anchor out in the Bay, and have
their freight taken to them in small boats,
On exceedingly tedious modus operdndi. Be-
s;1as numerous small buildings that are 60
;ro nm there is spacious hotel advancing,
on5 lumber on the ground fof the first store.
A word on our location, as all your readers
,os.iby may not be posted in regard to our
nroo;se whereabouts. The entrance to To-
males Bay, is fifty miles north Of San Fran
cisco, The Bay curves Immediately at its
entrance and bears off in southeast direc-
aion-neary parallel with the coast. Its
length is tea miles, and when tell you that
Inever before sa such beautiful body OF wa
fer. Iassure you that l am bestowing but
very faint encomium.
The city of Tomales is located Oh the east
ern side, and about midway of the bay. The
site of the town, although lying some fifty
feet above the level of the bay, is as level as
the city of Marysvile, and like that beauti-
fu city, it is laid out alphabetically and nu-
merically. From here TO Petaluma it is
about twelve miles, which latter town this
must iulure more or less 1t would naturally
be supposed that all those living nearest to
Petaluma would patroniEe her, and those
nearest to Tomales would patronize her. But
believe me, Petaluma will, must aud shall
suffer more than that, for the following rea-
sons, to-wit: The nearest possible point that
the Petaluma steamer can get TO that town
4; ! LII - h,c !
around miserable muddy creek some ten or
dozen miles in order to gain about four miles
at that. Aud, then, oh what q road that
Two miles is to travel from the landing to the
town Of Petaluma. During the winter sea-
son it is all the time nearly impossible, and
portion Of the time it is impossible to get
through with teams But how diGereut is it
here Here we have no mud, not even after
the heaviest rains, and the steamer will lie
at the foot Of r street ard tcams can at all
times drive dryshod to its side As said be
fore, the bay is two miles in width which is
Just far enough for lovely sail and from the
opposite it is about three quarters Of II mile
over to the ocean. Aad hereby hangs tail.
Last Sabbath q small company Of us made
pleasure excursion to the beach. We roam
ed up and down the shore, but almost every
article Of which we were in quest were some
how unaccountahly deficient.
We did not even get sight at an aLlona,
and of sea shells there were none. Finally a
wag of our company found lying on the
beach champagne cork. There says our
wag, "Mrs. - has been in distress for a
week past for cork for her lemon syrup
bottle | shall take it to her, and in its de-
livery | shall wax eloquently sentimental"
1t being the only tnemento brought ty our
company from the coast, we had little to do
besides watching our hero. Sure enough
upon arriving home be presented the cork,
accompanied with the following speech, to-
wit: Madam, this the only memento of
our pleasure excursion ] beg te present to
sou; and although / question notthat it has
once bravey repulsed the surges of a more
eShilerating fluid than lemon syrup, its most
reasonable excuse for such inebr;ety is that it
was caught in tight place, and will gladly
!ead more sweet and temperate hfe in flu
ture. Take it, and permit it, not to immor-
talize, but Pacifcize your lemon syrup"
Andnow, Mr. Editor, permit me to assure
you that we have no notion of starving here,
because we have a local currency. which has
been somewhat sarcastieally dubbed "Tomale
currency" and "Tosnales currency is Il nutri
tious diet. Would you like to know what
"romales currency" is? Well, it is-clanse !
The Bellingham Bay-ites can Geat ue on
clam soup. Ados,
W. WELLINGTON CARPENTER.
LEGISLATIVE CoURrEsY.-We hear, says the
15ee that there was scene in the Legsm-
tive Chamber on Thursday. Conness and
Laspeyre had some cross firing on the sub
Ject of courtesy'-a very proper subject
end during the remarks L. picked up his
inkstand and hurled it across the chamber
at e., whereupod C. took hold of lis ink
stand and let it fly at L., and then L. drew
Shlie-and with the unsheathed blade in his
e'"nd made n dash at c., while c. kept his
place. waiting and bracing himself for the
attack; but the Greeks did not come togeth-
%F' as members blocked up LIS way and
stopped him. The Speaker ordered LIS ar
-es.' and MIR. Patrick proposed to raise a spe-
'' committee to investigate the subject,
consequently withdrew that motion :;
" '"ue into the chamber again and took
w '"' Inc matter will probably be in