New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-04

in town. and two miles south IS the long, low build
ing warm and picturesque with red-tiled roof and
narrow windows and walls of sun-burned brick,
which was the Mission Dolores II wonder what lovely
legend is in the name) with its Chapel ever so old
But there is lager beer shop, OF some practical
industry of that Sort in actual possession, think,
and the open ground thereabOut is fast covering
with rght-angled blocks, and rank growth of that
square, two-storied Mansard-roofed uglness called
the suburban villa.
But one treasure of the past California has kept as
the apple of her eye, and that is the SOFT hsping
Spanish geographical names. do not believe there
is county in the State which has not the dowry OF
q gracious name. l know only two OF them-San
Francisco Is one and have forgotten the other-but
that knowledge encourages to this cheerful faith
Think of having such streets in ones own town as
Sacramento and Vallejo pronounced with lingering
vowels, Val-laeyO), and SantaClara andiCalaveras,
and Yerba Buena. TO be sure, one is confronted
with Davis, and Bush and Folsom, also, but one
is upborne by both remembrance and hope
of happier things and they are made tolerabe
by the thought of the 76 st or the O1st n memory
of the gentle Scheherezadel to which ere shall I'M
doubtedly come, in the poverty and practically of
our system of nomenclature, as population increases
on the island Of Manhattan. And though we did
encounter in the country Roberts's and Hardins
and GOmers's, they much less appalling than
RObertsrillt GOmeTsrille to him who las faith In
the finer instincts of his kind, beside that they were
made up to us by Tuolomne and Mariposa and
HOrnitas.
1t is more unchristian to call town Larknsville
than to call child Zurishadda There are not six
men in generation for whom a town may be named
Unless Larkin is many-sided, hosptabe, capable OF
infinite growth, of unnumbered activities, unless
he develops ever more beautiful results, unless
there are broad avenues leading to temples in his
SOUL and straight ways to libraries, museums
schools, and gymnasums in his brain. he has 10
business to impress his image and superscrption on
an embryo which should possess the germs of all
this completeness. And il he have these gifts he
win have modesty beside. and never dream of doing
il. Alexandria and Rome are well enough now,
because they are stately and grand, and have his
tory in their fine sound. But If l had been
contemporary philosopher, would have fought
upon the theme until my eyelds had no longer
wagged before the names of two flbusters had been
bequeathed to pOsterty with my consent as the best
legacy of the time 1.-THE complete and irremediable
balefulness of the transgressOn can be understood
however, only when it is known that there are nine
teen thriving post villages" in the United States
called Rome and twelve hight Alexandrial9 And
alas not Larkin, nor Brown, nor Hicks nor Corners
will ever dream of going to untamed Nature for the
of strong race or mighty city, nor even sigh
for new worlds to conquer, indeed prove title 10
the one he was born in by any deed of valor
or sublime using of the common To-day. While !
have breath to speak will declaim against this
ve-ifyng of places which is losing all the poetry
out of our great topography And, if grateful ma
tion wishes to build me monument when am no
longer its agis and palladium and adorns the capital
OF its youngest State with my name,-why, what
would be more fit and properf Yes, my Country,
thou hast wrung from me my slow leave
And now that l have talked away Sunday, IL is
Monday. or any secular day that may be preferred.
For we 60 to the Cliff House to breakfast and to ride
thther on Sunday were to be condemned by public
opinion, into everlasting redemption. Vaguely,
as in a dream, do / struggle with the
recollection that somewhere. at some time by
somebody, something has been written about
the Cliff House. and the Seals and Strawberries-all-
the-year-round But certain themes have an immor-
talty of youth. There is the weather and
Webster's Unabridged, and my cousin Mrs. Grundy's
observations, with other family utteranees Besides.
have prepared very fine sentence on the Wonders
of the Animal Kingdom, and can't think how to
use it if forego this chance. / shall oveTtake it
duly BIZ the Homeric method which, if you have
business at the next tent leads you there by way of
the whole sea-coast with the dctour of land jour
ney whenever harbOr occurs, so that You arrive
quite ont of breath and little dazed with the
grandeur of things in general, and 40 prepared to
accept without question the heroic tragic quality
of that thing in particular which you about to be
called upon to admire.
AS we left the door of tho hotel at o'clock on O
dazzling morning, in four-in-hands-(O, do assure
Won We make nothing of r-in-hands now. When
ever we mount one we put on, nearly we can
assume IT, that look Of laDgud misery which in Cen
trail Park or at the Races the lucky dogs of
always wear as inseparabe an element of the glory
of the establishment, il appears, the buttony
tails of the liveries nailed the edge of the back
seat or the spots of the hound between the wheels
repeat in fOur-in-hands, phaetOns, char a. bancs.
and buggies, and twelve of us mounted gallant
steeds, looked, perhaps. more like the Egyptians
approaching the Red Sea- or like the Assyrian coming
down like wolf on the fold, OF like the armies at
the Field of the Cloth of Gold than like any pageant
of the present century The chariots rolled gayly on
but the horsemen came to modification by reason of
one Of the steeds insisting on lying down the side
walk once in five minutes. and rubbing along on his
back his legs waving wildly but weakly in air the
while lie made better time in that attitude than
one would have thought possible, but his rider
planned of not having room enough. SO we all took
turns in rolling over the obnoxious quadruped who
looked like a cenhped while he was
kicking and standing him up again.
Poor thinRl l suppose he was rep
tile in his last "spire of FORM" and
being young, was not yet really acquainted
with his legs which thus embarrassed him. SO it may
be unjust to blame him, though he injured our pic
toria effect not little.
Deduction of the Intelligent and Scientific Tourist
commended to Dixie, Todd and others: The horse
of California NAV be considered a sEMI-YERTEBRATE.