The union Democrat., 1870-04-30
SAN FRANCTsco ConREsPoNDENr.
SANTA cRuz. April 18th, 1870.

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CONTINGENCIES or TRAVEL.
Looking from San Francisco toward San
Jose, you see range Of mountains. People
living long wayof term them the Coast
Range; nearer, you find them termed the
Santa Cruz Range. AT all events, Santa
Cruz lies on the other side. have demon
strased that by actual experiment.
The scenery in these mountains is beauti-
full. 1t reminds one of the Sierras. This is
the Redwood' country and some Of the
stumps | saw would feel almost at home
| among the smaller worshies of the Calaveras
Grove. But shall not attempt 10 describe
scenery. 1t is very beautiful and pleasurable
10 look at. Ii is bore to read about. The
Ocean in storm. for instance, il after six
pages of description simply the Ocean in a
storm on paper. Il has been described thou
sands of times, in prose, in bad, good, indif-
ferent and blank verse, yet no one by the
reading was ever made unsteady on their legs
or sea-sick. Give me a description Of the
Ocean in storm that makes me sea-sick and
will throw mp the sponge and bow down to
e man who can penetrate my stomach through
my imagination.
LEXINGTON.
Lexington is little town about rs large as
Jeffersonville in its palmy days. Lexington
is midway between San Jose and Santa Cruz.
Location picturesqae; use, a stage depot. and
centre for the fumbermen in the mountain;
accommodations poor; whisky worse. Of the
latter assertion, judge by iss eject on the
inmates of the house where stopped for the
night. 1t was pandemonium all night. II
was the old times, Hawkins Bar, Chinese
Camp, Jimtown, the Long Tom aud all the
Tuolumne County Conventions after adjourn
ment from $50" to 40" cut up in strips,
and boiled down in small ketrfe. Theland-
lord gave in early; the house was then run I
think, by an association OF drunken hostlers.
sought refuge in bed al a very early hour. 1t
was NO use. P.ndemoniuln came upthrorgh
the cracks from tae bar beneath Pandemoni-
um shook the light frame building as these
unwie.dy and unsteady hostiers essayed their
demonium persevered and struggled through
the long, long hours in shout and shrek and
maudlin song and p0intless story acd brap
And laid and TOOK it all and said "serves
you right, old boy; you we're years ago guilty
Of the same thing time after time; you have
less revel yourself, while sober people next
door or up stairs or down stairs or in the mex,
room wished you and your comrades in Jeri-
over the text. "Cast thy bread upon the
xroto.s ,o1 - ehon ,atr,c 49, >c.a,
days." But mind that it be good bread. II
very mouldy, gnawed some Of my mouldy
biscuit that night. But these were the con-
tingencies of travel.
They put me in some hostler's bed too. /
knew it by it's "boquet" So far as the fla
vor went, they might as we'll have given me
stable. Every time turned over or even
moved. seemed to dislodge little whiffs and
puffs of the true "boquet de hostler." 1t was
genuine too. 1t had the freshly gathered ar
oma of the uncurried horse upon it. Had il
but been merchantable article. and as desra-
BILE in the market as Luhn = extracts, would
have arisen carefully in the morning and
without washing or shaking myself would
have gone to the nearest parfeumeurs had
myself tried out and sold at dollar an ounce.
apothecaries weight and then there would
Fave been enough clinging /, me- to have last
ed the Muford family until 1900. Bot these
are among the contingencies of travel.
left Lexington before breakfast. want
ed no breakfast. realized the diet Of the
faries and subssted on odors. Near the sum-
NIT of the range, the stage picked me up.
The horses knew me. Why, sir, horse to
leeward pricks up his ears now when am
anywhere in the neighhorhood. You may
break, you may shatter, you may wash,
smoke, scrub and fnmigate the vase if You
will but the scent Of the quadruped hangs
round it still. So with me. But this is a
contingency of travel.