New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-20

markable and q great deal pleasanter And what
will the untrayeled cockney, who, like me, has
coaxed coy heotropes and fuchsas to grow two fect
high In not and blossom once year. say to fuchslas
growing over house front like Wstaria, and stoOp-
ing down TO look in at the second story windows, or
to heliotropes honey-sweet, and fiery az the sum-
growing high above ones head, in clustered stems
which my two arms could not enfoldi UT 10 trumpet
vines and Cape jasmine and honeysuckle, ana pas
sion flowers eyen such masses OF them all toge'ner
and bending to be pueked, as in all these years.
wherein have often seen the righteous forsakeh
and his seed begging bread, these eyes have never
beaeld Or to hedges, rods in length and very Daks
of color of velvety scarlet geraniums. or 10 sprea
ing thickets of thck-stemmed bush. whose heaVy'
shining, laure-like leaves, being broken. rouse you
from the languOr of the hot morning with the pun
gent. aromatic odor of camphOri But TO mention
half the floral wealth of these gardens INTENTIONALLY,
dRzies the arithmetic of memory. a - ~
Sacramento, like the other new towns Oh the west
is slipping out of its small cottages into very snowy
houses just rs it slipped from its mining cabins ana
sauatters huts into the cottages. But wealth mas
come faster than taste kept pace. and though your
true Californian will not only have costly but real
surroundings this honesty of intention does not
prevent his beng satisfied with very tawdry and
and panels of solid laurel most exquisite and costly
of woods and in the same room ceiling OF stucco
horrors, and carpet whose design must have been
composed in a nightmare. You will see wooden
mansions built on the scale of q palace, bizarre
with crockets, verge-bOards, finals tracery, bell
towers and turTets, whose owners would cheerfnily
give thousands of dollars for lovely picture which
they can enjoy but despise the sham of elaborate
library whose doors they would never open. You
will see barns more costly than houses, and cellars
better furnished than paTlOrs There is little over
doing of everything never found in an assured
society Tones are q little too loud talk Is little
too voluble trains are little too long, equipages
are a little too snowy coors are little too bright,
good fellowship is little too emphatic welcome Is
little too absorbing the stranger is asked little too
often if he knows Smith Of Washington, or Jones OF
New-York California is little too much thrust for
ward and urged TO shake day day to the lady, OF
make a pretty bow to the gentleman"-to BIO quite
comfortable. But it is much easier to tone down
too eager and ebuient fe than to tone up an inane
and empty one that there Will one day be charm
ing society here-unless, indeed the men and women
who are to compose il often told that crudeness
is charming nature, and bosterousness cordiahty,
and show elegance, and eating and drinking hoSpl-
taty as TO come not to care for something finer than
they.
An American in Europe could 80 rout with banner
and spear the languid vices of missionaries, to
admirng slow music on the part of his countrymen;
but An American in America shrinks from pointing
a cambria needle at the energetic shortcomings Of
own flesh and blood lest he be accused Of abusing
his sacred Hospitality not to speak of his being in
santly transformed into a Viper, and Ghoul, and
Rufian LET him never come here again ~ being the
mildest anathema registered against him. We are
such young people and have been so nervous lest
we should be ridiculous that we have been ridlcu-
lous and brazen too "Bashfulness il vanity wrong
side says the subtle Autocrat and personal and
passionate resentment Of honest and kindly criticism
is confession that the critic is right. We have not
i'm America so noble elements Of manhood as on this
Pacific slope to-day. The two oceans will give us
the best civilzation-salt and strong, and abiding
But in the Last we have certain old inirmities to
struggle against certain taints and obstacles, un
known here. to conquer. SO that in some respects
California Oregon. Nevada have the best fus. That
they have the worst Of in others is the fault OF
youth and laggard opportunity. And when have
said what they seemed TO me to lack, mean only
that as Western Americans, they have not yet come
into the riches of their inheritance of culture and
neness " ich when they have fully possessed theJ
will ontvalue us all. .. ..
That Sacramento publishes the best newspaper in
California and one of the best in America that IL Is
fond of music and gives the largest houses TO the
cleyeTest lecturers, and takes many copies OF Inc
Orerdnd are all facts of excellent significance. Aud,
lest forget the satisfaction Of the practical reader
lct me here and now say that there are many streets
of shops where clothes pins, ginger Becktes, rngs,
backing and every thing else necessary to cheerful
housekeeping and elegant dressing can be bought
cheap for cash. and there is. l believe, no dill
ficulty IN obtaining good cignrs at ruinous prices
Also there are churches banks, and q steamboat
landing where on this same day we took boat for
San Francisco The wharf was covered with good
hnmored crowd many acquaintance went down TO
wave kind farewell AS sailed. we sailed and
the leave-taking festive as the welcome,
though dashed little with regrets. IL is impossible
10 be kinder than every body whom we met was to
MS all. though only two of us had even fancled
claim upon their kindness. To Eastern visitors this
exuberant frendliness that runs to serve you when
it might walk that tires itself out to save you steps
that sits up q nights TO plan new pleasures, and all
because you have come from the Old Home. ~ mex
pressibly touching. We said goOd-by with honest
pain. and long after we out OF sight our
thoughts went back In tenderness, while IN our
after-dinner coffee-because not even as stirrup-
cup will its genial first guest drink wine-we drank
to the health of Sacramento. !" c. O.