The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-09-24
Unmaterialized Spirits at the Recent
State Fair.
What They Saw in the Historical Col
lection. and What They We're
Overheard to Say.

world beneath my feet.
when the British General mistak
ingly supposed he won the field at Water
loo, and / retired to the Isle of Elba, that
blackened mahogany accompanied my
fallen fortunes, and rested thereon the
pottery and metal that replaced the
Sevres porcelain and silver and gold of
happier days.
Eyes, there are the ink-stains that mot
tied the Honduras board when l whiled
away the dreary hours in silent converse,
and when, on the good ship Natalie, out
whiting the guard, I escaped from dur
ance, that same old garniture reposed in
my cabin. But how and why do l see it
again in what was known as this far off
New World ?"
PHILIP A. Roach Cast AIcalde of Mon
terey).-' Senior, after you had ceased to
live, ana your bones reposed beneath the
weeping willow at st. Helena, storm,
mighty and long, did cast on our shores
that ship, the Natalie. That table. taken
from the wreck, and known to have been
thine. was treasured for thy sake, and
still more for the sake of history. 1t long
was used by officers Of our navy; on it,
some say, was signed the first framing of
the laws of this Golden State; it now be-
longs to one Carlos de la Guerra, who
would not barter it for all its weight in
the precious metals of the Comstock."
Napoleon-"Helasi the world is larger
than that of which I dreamed, and yet
smaller; for nothing can therein be hid"
RIDER OF THE Pony EXPRESS "Wnat
mean these crowds of gaily-attired car
riers that throng the doorway of that old
building called the postoffice, and sur
round the entrances OF SO many branches
named after letters of the alphabet on the
plan of our streets in this gay Capital?
lime was when one small satchel, car |
r1ed by boy who galloped one small |
pony across the plains took all the mis- |
slves from this Western shore to the |
Eastern States"
TIMOTHY MAHoNY (the first letter |
carrier in San Francisco)-'Yo pony |
express gave place to the shanty Post |
office, where miners focked, on seeing |
the ship arrive, for news from their far !
off homes; which in time was succeeded |
by the quake-cracked structure that |
backs down on the sheetiron patchwork
of early days on Jackson street, the same
having overfowed to a dozen branch de- |
positories named a, b, G and d, etc.,
soon to be bound together by a parent |
building on 81, 100000 lot"
JOHN A. SUFFER- - Marshall, good
friend, how is this? When you and
were frustrating at Coloma, and you |
struck the glittering rock whose echo |
1lrst made California's name synonymous |!
with gold; there was wealth of cattle |
land and grain; abundance for the rough |
and-ready life of days pre-pioneer; when |
meat and drink, with homespun cloth |
and couch mot over-soft); adobe walls |
and rude tiled roof: with horses fleet to |
ride were all that nature needed, then !
unschooled in luxury; but now, what |
mean these cushioned seats in figured |
Silken goods-theSe gorgeous draperies
1rlsT
these wondrous coaches that have sent
forth the fiat. Let there be no Sierras |
and yet no plains,' where weary oxen
dragged their tedious way in early fifties. |
Behold these beauteous elevations, |
where stately DANES have grouped with |
artist hand the golden sheaf, the luscious
fruit of varied forms and tint, com bined |
with their CONNECTIONS of the same in many
pleasing arbor.
in early mining days pickax, pan
and shovel kept many horny hand with
hopeful heart; but see what complica-
ton is in that machine-shop-wheel !
within wheels, many cranks and arms
Tor crushing ore and concentrating; such
wonderful devices as must have had their |
being from superhuman mind.
what stately structures grace this |
handsome city that we knew a scattered
village! What works of art adorn these
walls, compared to the Indian efforts to
portray the Christian subjects taught |
gaudy contrast still are seen before u.s."
MARsHALL.-'My friend, tits four
times eleven years since you were rich in
lands and cattle and / discovered gold
upon your rancherie, that made the world
go mad in quest of it. The fever caught
your Spanish help and took them to the
hills, forsaking all beside. Your cattle
died, your crops they were neglected |
Your fortune dropped from then, For
ma ntifaer- -
like the mirage of the desert, never nearer |
grew, always distant, far, elusive; till, |
almost forgotten, obscure and poor, in q |
remote, torsaken camp shuffied off the |
coil; and then my country learned TO |
honor my name, and, having scarcely |
given the bread / sought, adorned my |
memory with costly stone. Like many /
hero and ingenious man whose life-work |
proved boon to many, did not profit |
by my own discovery. But gold-the |
magic power of its name drew hand and |
brain and muscle from every nation I'M
der heaven, and they drew gold not only, |
but grain and wine from this most gener- |
Gus soil, and sent them far and wide, re-
ceiving gold in payment, till they have
grown enriched. Iron has given place to
silver; cotton yielded up to silk gilded
palaces replace the shanty the iron horse
careers across the desert, and Partisan
fashions deck our smiling DANES"
FATHER SALVIDIO.-"Ahi that bell
wheel, whose familiar tones rang out on
air San Juan Capistrano, when we la
bored TO carry the gospel of peace to the
benighted red men. IT'S there! / see i'll
though some of its chords ara broken, it
lives, link with the past And that
confessional, where so oft lent an ear to
the whispered sigh of the penitent!
live again amid the scenes of that mis-
sionary period, and see on yonder wall
beautifully pictured device-the dead old
ruin itself, in all It's simple grandeur,
with three and twenty others painted as
by one who loved them! And rightly,
too, for light is centered on the churches,
made brighter by contrast of surround
ing darkness. Seel the candlesticks, the
chalices, the vestments, the crucihXes!
Father Junipero-you, who first brought
the dawn Of civilization on this fair coun-
try-see how it has travelled, like a spark
of fire on summer ground, till the length
and breadth of this sunset land blossoms
as garden, bringing forth the first fruits
and the beSti
Here where the Indian dWelt unmo-
lested-his wigwam the only architecture
known; his squaw the beast of burden
science reigns, and pointing to the stars
discovers other worlds from Mt Hamil-
ton! No longer the wild West the far
Vest but the fair Westn see what you
have led TO its becoming!'
JUNIPERo SERRA.-''Yea, dear part
ner in those missionary iabors, we
wrought and sacrificed our personal ease,
travelling many a weary mile with san
oaled feet to lead neglected souls unto
SalVatlon. Many a soul we were the
means of saving, who gave US in return
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