Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-07


singing, interspersed with one or more
fights on the forward deck, constituted the
amusements of the homeward voyage.
1t is understood that prominent auc-
tioneer of Sacramento has been elected
Mayor of Hoboken, and a well-known
banker its Treasurer. These gentlemen
were respectively toasted and cheered in con-
nection with their honorable positions, and
good-naturedly lent the influence of their
names to the circulation of the harmless
fiction.
Hoboken. although very pretty place
and highly suitable for the occasion which
gave it birth, is destined to be short-lived.
Two weeks of pleasant weather will knock
it into a cooked hat as there is no conve-
nient access to it in low stage of water
at least Of such character as to justify the
expense of transhipment of goods when
the metropolis city is so near. Its existence
thus far has been pleasant one, however,
and we sincerely hope that all those en-
gagged in doing its business may profit
largely for their enterprise and industry in
ministering 10 the wants and convenience
of the interior trade"
A gentleman in describing Hoboken in a
letter TO an Eastern friend says: THE
traveller, as he wends his way from the
Phoenix city of the Plains, toward the
northern mining regions, will descry what
the distance will induce him to believe is a
clothes-line, full of clean, newly-washed
linen but which, as he approaches, will re-
solve itself into heightened row of can
vas houses and tents, all white and gisten-
ing in the morning rays. As he draws
nearer, he hears the ringing of the anvil,
the cry of the auctioneer the whistle of
the teamster, the melodious voices of trains
of pack mules, and all the sounds that ac-
tive industry can produce. Heis now about
FIVE miles from Sacramento, and as he has
travelled this road before, when no city
here greeted his vision, he asks in some
surprise, for the name of this blooming
daughter OF California, arrayed in spotess
white, whose smiling face bids him well
come to her Inequalities. He looks around
for the oldest inhabitant who, luckily, is
coming under full sail up Main street
at that particular moment.
They seat themselves upon the top rail
of the fence, with no intention OF railing at
their neigbors, but the one to commence
and the other 10 listen to the following
well authenticated legend:
90 My son, the young lady whose name
and history thou art so anxious to learn is
called Hoboken. and by the beard of the
Prophet, there is beauty in that name
a. Was she christened by that name?
asks the stranger, more III sorrow than in
anger.
- She has never been to the baptismal
fount,' replied the oldest, for her mother,
whose name is Sacramento, is for some I'M
accountable reason, inyeterately opposed to
christening, and would never consent that
the beautiful Hoboken should be immersed.
She is but ten days old, and yet thou hast
never beheld more perfect symmetry, or a
more fully developed earthly angel than
she who hath excited thine admiration
1.-THE legend was here interrupted by a
passer-b by, who requested the oldest to
take something whereupon he left the
traveller somewhat hastily, and struck a
Decline for the Magnolia.
But the traveller again walks through
the town, and his observant eye perceives
that the length is about half q mile along
the main street, which is crowded with
teams; that boxes, bales sarels and goods
of all kinds are being IaptHy transferred
from the stOrehOuses to the various wagons
which are constantly leaving for the mines;
that about one hundred and fifty houses
have been completed; many more are in
course of erection, and he notices very par
ticularly that Hoboken contains high, dry
and wide streets, On one side of the main
street the houses back up to the bank of
the American river, along which there are
three or four steamboat landings. The
water is now far below the natural bank of
the river, which it never oyerfows at this
point"
A correspondent of the Union, writing
from HOboken, January 10, 1853, among
other things, says: To-day our new city
exhibits considerable activity. I noticed
about 100 teams this morning loading for
he mines, and also the departure Of several
trains of pack-mules for the mountain
towns. The roads to Mormon Island,
Piacerville, Coloma, Uniontown, Jackson,
etc, are gradually improving, as teams
with light loads are enabled to reach them
without encountering other difficulties
which existed few days since. The roads,
however, in some directions are so bad that
hey can only be reached by pack-trains
md in consequence the more staple ar
icles are taken in preference to most
others and the dealers in lighter and more
anciful kinds must await the good time
coming which is hourly expected and
which, were it not for the immense amount
If potatoes, barley and flour daily brought
IS by the Page Oakland and Kenne-
zee, might possibly arrive by those steam
RS. Still, we take the liberty of asserting,
hat no town OF its size in California, or in
he world, disposes of more goods in one
lay than does our little Hoboken.
THE mist of the morning still hangs
round rs, obscuring the snowy summit
II the SierraS, but when the sun dissipates
he yapor, the wanderer standing upon
heir clOud-capped nights, can look upon
'ur valley, where the plowman is now
irving his smoking team, and where the
ich springing verdure Of a California
sinc2r grows bright beneath the rising !
un. He must feel like exclaiming with |
la ro4i ..
:. Here from this mountain hight | see,
Thy bright waves floating to the sea
Thine emerald fields outspread; s
And feel that in the book of fame,
Proudly shall thy recorded name
in later days be read -
The same correspondent In letter dated
February 9th, closes It by saying: This
morning noticed the departure of three
# foTr Of the canvas houses on the upper
,ait OF the town, and also observe the ar
ival Of those two obnoxious individuals,
For Sale and TO Let But this decay
las been anticipated by our merchants,
who remember the injunction to
Gather the rose buds (slugs) while you may,
For time is still flying;
And the same flower that blooms to-day
Tomorrow may be dying.
The town declined as rapidly as itsprang
into existence The Union of February
10Th said: I'VE are informed by those
who have recently passed through the de-
lightful village of the Elysian Fields, that
its condition is languid and melancholy in
the extreme. It's business men, now
greatly reduced in numbers, are observed
mapping costly on the merchandise in front
of their stores, or suolling idly about town,
while the many teams and pack-trains,
with which its trade was formerly delight
ed, hurry rapidly through the streets and
pass on to Sacramento"
To-day the river Is not what it was in
those times, its channel long since having
filled flush with sand from the hydraulic
mines, and the high banks spoken of have
Fields now form portion of the broad
acres of Jehn Rooney.
MERCHANDISE REPORT.