New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-25

lupn, poppy and cter varieties to which can give no
name
We attained the crest of the chain AT an elevation of
about $500 feet above the Behind u.s. away to Monte
Dahlo, all the land covered with hot blue haze ;
before the sky was gray and misty cold seabreeze
struck faces and the ridges below were maze OF
dark forests The driver gathered up his reins and
prepared for eight miles of furious descent The
body Of the stage began 10 roll Ike Dutch Galio in
chOppiug sea- and involuntaTily racod my feet "St
mbcr!" cried the driver" Just il you drunk -
He appealed. iun0ccuty enough, TO my memory, but
was obliged to call in the aid Of magma
ton. I had noticed that drunken men double up"
easily and therefore endeayored to make myself Of
Walt Whmans " limherlipped men" The driver was
right there was both and safety in yielding to the
motion will not onumerae the sharp around
which whrled with haf-tilted wheels, the chasms
along the brink OF which flew, the pitches down
which plunged with sublime reckessness, while the
driver pleasantly remarked Here's where Of the
stages went over" Here's where the poepn broke
suffice 1t to say that the did not stop until we
reached SCOTS Valley below all the sleeps and forests
Thence to Santa Cruz there eight miles, through
green, cool, rolling country. dotted with farms. The
best thing 1 saw on the way huge bush Of wild
azaa, covered with large pink, white and now-
fine any variety Of the pontieG-and so fra
grant that the bunch plucked nearly made us giddy
The country around Santa Cruz is like the Isle of Wight
equahle moist atmosphere, long stretches OF spen-
did farmland, a vegetation mixed of England and the
Mediterranean, and old-loOkng town. buried In the
greenest orchards and gardens This IS the external I'M
pression when you arrive you find the town to he as
ncw shabby, and commonplace another of the same
age.
Santa Cruz is Newport to the Sacramento Valley; but
oil the cOnvenences are s lacking. 1t appears to be
wonderfully prm and conventional fora California town
Not many years ago. the people scadazed because
two or three gentlemen and ladies bathed in company
NT.x f1fpa Is
small house the beach, and dozen So families go
10 santa Cruz during the hot weather. | found some
agreeable society there, and more delighted with
the drives about the hills and the incompatible scenery
than with anything have since reaching the state
jacksonville. on the Paiaro River, is p mites from
Santa Cruz. The stage leaves the latter place at noOn
and the afternoon journey during the present heat IS
by no means a luxury; yet was refreshed with the
sight OF wonderful fields of grainthousands Of acres
rich and fresh and covered with such benecent promise
that it seemed almost incredible, after the drouth III
other regions. The Pajaro Valley is very garden of
fertility singulary enough it reaches the Bay Of Mon
terey side by side with the salinas Valley where the
crops are now ruined and the herds dying for want Of
pasture.
watsonville which has grown into existence within
the last ten years, town Of 1000 inhabitants
IT. one broad, cheerful street is nearly mile in length
am told there are many SOuthcnors in all this region
and that the Secession spirit is still active, though
1t seems to live without anything TO feed upon
II is hardly likely that the prcjudices brought
thther 10y the parents will survive in the children
there Nothing illustrates the superficial character
much Of political life striungy than the fact
that Southonors helped to make California free State
was at Monterey during the Convention of lS49, knew
every member personally, present when the vote
was taken, and il was unanimous. But Labor Gn the
shape OF 1900 gOddigeCTs) then the ruling element
and dictated the clause of Freedom L. 7.