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THE DAUjY_gECOItD:UNION.
8 1TI K» 4 V -«* : «-*' :t ' |y -"-
THE WEEKLY UNION.
The Weekly Uxio.-c (second r""*) *» Issued this
morning.' There is no paper on the coast which
address itseU so strongly to Ihe interest? of the
reader. It is, for inttanca, the otdjr weekly pub
liahedin two parts in or&r tnlt it nu reach its
subscribers twice a week, -nstead of once.; Thus its
readers get news often* and fresher than through
any other weekly i*ipcr. It coiis-sts of sixteen
jii^es each week, and is thus the largest paper. It
presents all the latest and best European," Eastern
and home telegraph" news. ; It is edited with care
and special reference to the advancement of the
people «jd the development of the resources of the
State. •It presents the market reports if Ban Fran
cisco and Sacramento, stock sales, local, religious- ',
sporting, art, mechanical sad political ■ news of the .
day, anil tho choicest original and selected niiscel
b:.v. In -!-'i-t, it is the paptr of all others for fhe
general reader, the household, the shop, the farm
and the •Bos, Its subscription-list has increased
with unequaled rapidity, and is constant nnd relia
ble. It is mailed fur one yeur, postage paid, to any
address in tho United States for $2.
NEWS OF THE MORNING.
Tn Xcw York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at JOBJ i.,r 4s of 1867; 102$ for 5s of 1SS1;
109J for 4J3; sterling, 84 Sat*4 S7J; silver bars,
11 , ; silver coin, J discount buying, p»r selling.
Silver in London yesterday, br,<i; consols,
9S 13-16 ; 6 |>cr cent. United States beads, IC6-; ; 4s,
110|; 4Jb, 112
In San Francisco h«.n" -dollars are quoted at par;
Kexloan dollar?, 93 bny'.njr, 93J eeHin?.
At Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at 9s
2d@9s Sd fur cood te -choice California.
There was a fair fcneiness in raining stocks at the
Boanl in San Frxnciseo yesterday morning, but
prices were generallr lover, though the decline was
only fr.mi 5e to STJc as agair,6t Tl.iiss There will
be uo more Board «ales of stock until uext Wednes
day morning.
The body nf H. R. Hubbanl, former Controller of
the Currency, wfco lost his life in the Seawanahaka
disaster, was fov.nd yesterday.
General Grant -was heart i!> welcomed yesterday at
Kansas City, Mo.
Duncan A. Bothune and .J.ihn Abbot, two miners,
were accidentally kiiled on the Conistock yester
day.
Tl.e body of Henry Fowler, drowned near Port
land, Or., has been recovered.
The State Fair of • Oregon is in full blast at s.i
lcm.
The Virginia nnd Truckee Railroad Coinrany re
fuse to accede to the demands of the strikers.
There will be a general suspension of business in
Eastern cities from to day until Tuesday.
Lewis Schmidt was murdered yesterday at Amity
ville, L. 1., and his body thrown into a well.
In. the English House of Commons yesterday
Bradlaugh n:.ulc affirmation, signed the roll and
took his seat.
The Conference at Berlin closed its labors yester
day. • .
. Mary O'Connor killed her thr. children in Jersey
City Thursday night.
The Etrike of cott«n operators at MoEsley, En?.,
continues.
Heavy showers of rain tn delaying harvest opera
tions in the Northwest.
"The (vusm teturnn r.f Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,
Illinois and Wisconsin, show a decrease in popula
tion, as compared irlth the census oi 18T0.
The.people of ' \ico,as well ag the Government,
arc becoming v a h interested in railroad inatUis.
The Greenback indidatofor President is out with
a long letter defining the position of himself and
parly.
'ii:,: National epublican Committee completed
its organization at Raw York yesterday.
The Santa Cruz races opened yesterday, with a
large attendance.
The population of Marysvfllo is vow said to be
a,S4O.
The Japanese war-ship has left Victoria for San
Fran,
Thursday, beinff Dominion Day, was obsen ed as
■ neral hoUday British in Columbia.
The President ha 3 returned to Washington fr.-in
Connecticut. _^____^^______
THE RETURN OF KEARNEY.
. Kearney's return to San Francisco has
been signalized l>y a demonstration of the
chaotic condition of his party. In address
ing the Inter at the .Sandlots he was con
stantly interrupted by alternate cheering
for Hancock and Carfield, and his an
nouncement of his owu preference for
Wearer elicited no enthusiasm. He must
have realized by this time that his followers
have no Greenback predilections, but that
they are strongly disposed to separate into
their constituent elements, and become Re
publicans and Democrats attain. And it
must be admitted that the political pro
gramme brought back by the redoubtable
Denis is not very alluring. There is no
belief anywhere in California 1 that the
Greenbacker campaign will amount to
anything. It is regarded as one of
those silly sido-shir.is which only at
tract inveterate " cosneoutcrs," and
chronic followers r.f'-er eccentricities
in politics. Kearney will have a
hard battle t > fight if he expect 3 to
the \V. 1". 0. v.ite for Weaver, and
he will find himse'.f deserted by many who
have hitherto supported him. Ealloch has
already declared himself for Hancock, and
il Lrcely a secret that he intends to
carry an many Workingmen •as possible
into the Democratic captp. What his re-
State nnr>ii::ations to be
mn>s.' hereafter will probably indicate, hut
in any . ' :- will tiijil him a formid
:i=t, ami it will require ail the
healing influences of Bartlett'i Spri
prepare him for the contest. Th<
bility hi victory for the Greenback (action
of the \V. P. C. pears so remote
.1 1 to be scarcely worth speaking
of. Nevertheless Kearney will doubtless
stick to his programme, ami will produce
s.>:iH- eff ct in breaking np his party, which
it must be ?;ii'l appears to have
•'
BRADLAUGH'S TRIUMPH.
The Foolish entanglement into which the
blind hostility of the English Tory mem
•bers of the House of Commona led them in
the Bradlaugh case, has at hist been cleared
up in the only possible way, liy their igno
miniooa retreat from an untenable position.
They set out with the determination to
unseat Bradlangh on the ground that his
religious opinions did not suit them, hop
in,' by their opposition to embarrass the
Government. They won what they
thought a victory in the beginning, but it
proved a dUsMtroai oue. They had drawn
upon them^ulvea a popular rnewllmiiit
which became more memeiag every day,
for i;> their infatuation they had under
taken to expel a lawfully elected mußibci
of tho House, for refusing to submit to
terms they ha.l no right to impose upon
him. And bo at last they have been
obliged to retrace their steps, and to eat
the leek presented by Gladstone in the
shape of a resolution that any member
should be allowed to mate an affirmation
instead of takiDg the customary oath.
Yesterday Bradlaugh affirmed, and took"
his scat, and thus this moat unnecessary
and dangerous piece of folly has been tided
over. Bradlaugh has gaiiml his point.
Gladstone ha 3 had his way. And the !
Tories, who went in to steal a victory from !
the Ministry, retire with their tails be-'
iween their legs, in a very discomfited
f.ishioa.
THE CLERICAL LAWS IN FRANCE.
It is a singular fact that the application ;
:>f the clerical laws in France has hveu
:[uite generally treated by- the English
press as a blunder or a crime oil tKe part
af the Government. The theory proceeded
upon is that these laws are in tHe nature of
assaults upon the liberty of the citizen, but
it is not perceived that it arrrays must be
impracticable to treat the, Boman Catholic
Church from the standpoint of simple citi
zenship. That Church canaot be regarded
as occupying the same relations to theSt»t«
as are held by all otJicr churches, for it sett
out with an assumption of sovereignty
which ne other Ghttrch pretends to. It
claims, M the vi'.-egermi of God on earth,
the right to dictate, not only in ecclesiasti
cal, but in tenjpora! matters, and though,
its tereporal authority has been of late de
nied, it has never abandoned one jot 01
tittle of its demands, nor can it do st
without snrrendering its whole post
tioa. The sr.btle policy which guide!
the Vatican has led it to bow to th(
(opposition vfiien resistance is impos
fcible, but neither submission noi
tolerance are attributes of Rome, nor cat
she accept anywhere trie second place as :
permanency. Finding that hi France th<
supreme power had fallen into the hands
of the peeple, and that it was no lougei
possible to rule through an oligarchy, sh<
has set herself to regain control of the sit
uation by mastering the mind* of the ris
ing gent ration. But her educational ma
chinery is as much a part of her strnggh
for supremacy as her Councils and hei
Propaganda, and it is a means of securing
I influence far more subtle and far reacliin;
than the more open and conspicuous meth
ods she employs elsewhere. It has there
fore become necessary for the stability o
the French I! epublic that the educationa
machinery should be taken out of tin
! hands of the priesthood, and that ecclesi
! aaticism should henceforth be restricted t<
[ its legitimate sphere. Since France haj
chosen a form'of government the nieces
of which depends upon the intelligence o
the masses, it is absolutely necessary
| that the education of those massei
! should no longer be left to the agents of :
Power whose vory constitution ia incom
[latibie with freedom, and all of whose ef
forts are continually directed to the over
throw of every Government which doe:
; not acknowledge aud defer to its exorbitant
j pretensions. The question really at issu<
iv France to-day is therefore the must mo
mentous that can come before a people jual
emerging into the light of national liberty
| It is whether the franchise shall be em
j ployed intelligently, and for the preserva
tion and perpetuation of free institutions.
or whether it shall become the tool o
Rome, and be utilized to destroy the Be
public, and to establish anew the ! . ■
i of superstition, intolerance, bigotry, ant
j intellectual stagnation.
The unanimity with which most oi i ra
I the conservative statesmen of France have
I supported the clerical laws, should havt
had its significance for outside observers.
No doubt there is among the ultra B idi-
I cal3 a pronounced hostility to Romanists
■ generally. No doubt there are many who
! would be willing to go much further, and
i who would not hesitate to disestablish the
j Church altogether. Aml % if this could be
; Ba-fely done it would be for the best inter
i ests of France, and sooner or later it will
! have to be done. Bat the controlling
: mind* in the Government fully recognize
the present inexpediency of doing ninre
i than has been resolved upon. They arc
willing to support and maintain the Con
; cordat, and to leave the churches a gov
ernmeutal oharge. But they clearly
perceive the necessity of reforming and
reorganizing the educational situation,
and they are convinced that it
j is no longer safe to intrust this vital fune
i tion to the agents of the Vatican. The
struggle of the clericals will be desperate,
for they fully comprehend that they are
being driven from their last entrenchment.
They were willing to condone the growing
indifference and even infidelity of the
adult male population ; to see the church.,3
empty three-fourths of the year ; to in
iliire the scoilings of a sullen and unsym
pathetic peasantry ; if only they could
| keep their hold upon the schools, and so
m .lire the enormous advantage of molding
j the opinions of the rising generation. Once
i forced from this vantage ground, acd pro
hibited from teaching, the prospects of the
Church in France must become
less. For though Rome makes no con
cessions, and though she still looka
forward to the restoration of her ancient
supremacy, civilization is- carrying man
kind further and further away from her
ice, and is rendering her most for
midable weapons more obsolete and im
potent every year. It is not probal .
the present hostile attitude of the church
will postpone tho evil day, cither. The
sense of the French nation has been de
clared against ecclesiastical instruction in
the school?, and it will have to go. The
Jesnita may (iml a shelter in Spain, wh< r<-.,
hon vor, the people are already too be
sotted to require any further drugging, and
i France will proceed with renewed vigor
when she has shaken off the throttling
gr^sp of this Old Man of the Se*.
LIBRARY STATISTICS.
The annual report of the Sftcnmento
free Library, which we published yester
day, indicates a very gratifying state of
affairs in that institution. It is ovident
that the public fully appreciate its advan
tages, and that it has already done much
to stimulate a tasty for reading in the com
munity. We observe that the Librarian
attributes the large percentage ol Sotiaa
called for, ti> the want of more solid liter
ature on the shelves ; bat though we have
no doubt that the efficiency of the library
in its higher departments may easily be
increased, we do not think that the per
centage of fiction eighty-five — is much
above tlie average. A somewhat careful
examination of library reports in all parts
of this country and Kurope has satisfied n
th.it the demand for fiction everywhere
attain! a percentage of seventy to eighty
of the whole demand. This is the case ia
such centers of intellectual culture as
Boston, ami it is one of the curious facts
about reading that the appetite for novels
remains to constant. Generally spe&kiog
twenty per cent, is quite as much as can
be expected for all other kindß of litera
ture. The reasons no doubt are, that more
people have some acquaintance with novels
than with books of a more solid kind, and
that more people go to public libraries iv
search of recreation than for instruction.
T",ie demand for fiction represents a very
real need of the averaga PaiDd, however,
anil the only wise polity for the directors
of pr.b'ic libraries to follow regardiug it is
to see that the fiction supplied is of the
be3t quality, an,d to exclude mere trash as
much as possible. As a rule people only
read trash beci'ase they are not acquainted
with more arir.stie work, and trash -readers
can be easily converted to a purer taste by
furnishing them with better novels, since
the best novels arc always the moat inter
esting. Oi course a small library like ours
must be content with a gradual growth. It
cannot hope to keep pace with the presses
which are constantly pouring new books on
the market, nor is it desirable that
it should do so. Where the means are
limited, however, it is the more necessary
that every purchase should be made with
sound judgment, and though the public
requires 80 per cent. . of liction to 20 per
cent, of solid matter, it does not follow
that books should be bought in exactly
these proportions. It should rather be
made an object to till up the shelves with
i standard works which are not new, but
j have stood the test of a few years. At least
nine-tenths of all new books are soon laid
aside and forgotten, but a judicious com
mittee may go on for years spending a
few hundred dollars at a time upon stand
ard books, without coming to the end of
its desiderata, or burdening its shelves
with useless volumes. On the whole the
Sacramento Librar} 1 appears to be doing
very well, and its report fully vindicates
the wisdom of the arrangements through
which it wa3 secured to the public.
CENSUS COMPLAINTS.
As usual after a census a chorus of com
plaints and accusations rises all over the
country. There is scarcely a city of any
importance whose newspapers are not
ready to declare that the enumeration has
been badly done. Everywhere there is
heard complaint of the insufficient count
ing. Local vanity and brag have been
quite generally hurt, in fact, and these
ridiculous expressions of dissatisfaction
are the consequence. We call them ridic
ulous for good reasons. The people who
make them are putting forward random
assertions about population, etc., with the
utmost dogmatism. Thuy undertake to
! assert that the enumerators, who have
proceeded methodically and on a carefully
devised plan, must have blundered, be
cause the results do not accord with their
I own ignorant guessos. That is the real
state of the case. The newspapers that
are finding fault with the census know
nothing about the facts, and the enumer
ators know a great deal. Which is the
more likely to be right? If a farmer who
was altogether ignorant of surveying should
undertake to dispute the accuracy of a
Government survey on the strength of his
crude notions of distances and localities,
he would very properly be laughed at. It
is equally absurd for journals which have
no trustworthy data to go upon, to find
fault with and question the conclusions of
the enumerator*, who have taken the only
possible means of arriving at the truth.
We have no doubt that a great many cities
in the United States have over-discounted
tlit-ir increase during the past ten years.
San Francisco appears to ho one of them.
She has been claiming a population of 300,
--000, and it is now stated that she has le«s
thnn '2J0,000. Kuch revelations are per
haps disagreeable to those who are stupid
enough to believe that there is anything
specially creditable in mere extent of popu
lation, and who thus confound bigness with
greatness, but the census enumerators are
the only trustworthy authorities in such
matters, and their statistics will have to be
accepted, ar.d will be received at once by
all sensible people.
DR. TANNER'S EXPERIMENT.
Dr. Tanner has for several years been
yearning for an opportunity to display his
proficiency in enduring starvation. Hith
erto his importunities have failed, mainly
because the scientists to whom he applied
declined to be parties to the death of a
fellow creature, supposing hia abstinence
genuine, or to be accessories to an impos
ture, supposing it to bo fraudulent. At
last, however, he has secured a committee,
and has entered upon the experiment of
abstaining from food for forty days. The
first three days have not affected his
health, according to the reports, but if
he persists, and really does not take any
nourishment, the reasonable expectation
is that he will die by tho fifteenth day.
There are a few cases on record in which
life has been sustained for longer periods,
but the circumstances were all excep
tional, and there is at present no ground
for supposing that this particular lunatic
will hold out longer than the average pe
riod. Kven if he does, it will not prove
anything.
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.
(From San Francisco exchangee of July i\l.]
The steamer City of Peking Will be due
from Huugkong next Tuesday.
. For the first six month* of ISSO, tho col
lections of duties at this port aggregate
$2,531,507 64.
The last Bteamer from Oregon brought
$20,000 in treasure, showing a balance of
trade in our favor.
The statement of the Pacific Bank for
July Ist shows over §1,500,000 to the
credit of individual depositors and nearly
$1,000,000 of .cash.
At a Directors' meeting of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company held in thig city
on the Ist instant, a semi-annual dividend
of 3 ]< r cent, was declared, payable Au
gust 15th.
The managers of the Southern Pacific
Railroad hive sent down all their spare
sleeping-cars to the ; Hotel Del Monte, so
as to accommodate those who have been
unable to secure room* at the hotel.
Intelligence has been received that the
German bark Vesta, bonnd from New
castle, England, to San Francieco, ? was
totally wrecked on the coast of Patagonia
Jnne 3d. , No particulars of the disaster
have been received.
Before many months the people of San
Francisco will be greeted with the an
nouncement that another transcontinental
line of railroad is open to travel. Last
evening the Southern I'acilic U.iiiroad was
completed to a point Fix miles east of Ben
son, Arizona, and 1,031 miles southeast of
San Francisco. A. N. Towne, General Su-'
perintendent of the Central Pacific, hears
that ttie Atchison, Topeka and , Santa Fo
Ruiiroad ia pushing forward down the Rio
Grande valley. The gap between the two
roads is about 300 miles. -J The connecting
point will be somewhere in New Mexico
west of the Rio Grande.
To Wash Tis-wark.— Take hot soft
water, soap your cloth well and mb
the tin briskly and thoroughly, then wash
well, then pour boiling water over it and
wipe immediately with a dry cloth and
you will'be surprieed at tho result.
THE RENAISSANCE OF MONTEREY.
Being Some Account of the Evolution 0!
a Fashionable Watering- Place.
Every one who has given the subject
any consideration knows that ■watering
places arc Dot governed by the laws which
control commercial centers. Trade is a
question of demand and supply, of facili
ties of transportation, of central situations,
of low rents, and other factors which can
be estimated with some approach to pre
cision. But nobody can calculate the des
tiny of a watering-place, for it is dependent
upon that most capricious and volatile of
all influences, called Fashion. At present
the greatest watering-place in England is
Brighton. It is a beautiful place, and de
serves to be the favorite resort it is. But
for something like a thousand years its
attractions remained utterly unregarded,
and it was only when, in 1754, the Prince
of Wales (afterwards George the Fourth),
was pleased with the place, and caused a
hideous structure called the I'avilioa to be
erected there, that the world discovered
how charming a summer residence could
be had within a couple of hours' drive
from London. A similar caprice has
marked the rise of nearly all
the most flourishing and popular watering-
I places in the United States. Saratoga,
Cape May, Long Branch, aud a score of
equally well-known resorts, have owed
their prominence far more to chance inci
dents than to appreciation of their solid
attractions, and this appears to be the reg
ular order of things, against which it is
. vain to rebel. It is therefore not to be
: wondered at that Monterey, though per
i haps the best known of all California sea
side places, and though industriously writ
ten up for over a quarter of a century by
all kinds of litterateurs and verse-makers,
should have remained untouched by the
subtle spirit of Progress which has thrilled
through every other part of the State, and
should have done little more in all these
years than earn its sobriquet of the Sleepy
Hollow of California. And in truth no
one who visited Monterey six months ago
could have perceived any reason why
! it should ever awake from its chronic
\ lethargy. Six years ago a nar
i row-gauge railroad connected it with
| the rest of the world. Such a change
, would have been a new departure for any
other place, but Monterey only opened one
eye lazily, winked at the railroad, and im
mediately sank into deeper slumber than
ever. All sorts of tourists and travelers
have visited the place, and all a!ike have
commented on the marvelous placidity and
unemotional happiness which marks the
lives of the Montereyans. Generally this
has been attributed to the sluggish nature
of the Spanish blood that predominates in
the community, but this is not the true cx
i planation. Monterey was made by nature
j for recreative and recup;rative purposes,
| and the consequence is that all who live
there pass the indolent, dreamy, placid and
careless existence which active participants
i in the battle of life know only during their
brief and infrequent visits to springs and
watering-
THE OLD TOWN".
Monterey is accustomed to neglect and
even oblivion. After Vigcaino discovered
it in IGO2, it was altogether forgotten for
the greater part of two centuries, and- until
'Portala found it again, without recogaiz
ing it. The mission was not established
until the third attempt, in 1770. Thur it
ia evident that tlio law of the place i 3 pa
tient expectation, and that there is nothing
in its history to justify ns in looking for
such steady or constant progress as merely
commercial entrepots exhibit. But there
i aro many peculiarities about Mouterey.
The Californian affects to regard it with
special reverence and affection, for it con
stitutes his one little connection with a
decent antiquity, and is further memorable
for its relations to the early history of the
State. It is the only place to which we
can take oar visitors who seek ruins of any
kind, and while we profess to think a good
deal of these relics — the old Colton House,
where the first Constitution was drafted,
the Cuartel, the fort, the mission churches
at Monterey and Carmel, the oross of Por
tala, , and so forth— nobody put? forth
a nDger to save any of these monumental
buildings from the utter wreck and ruin to
which they are fast hastening. It is odd
that with so many Societies of Pioneers in
the State, none of these organizations
should have thought it worth while to at
tempt the pieservation of any of these
quaint and interesting places. It would
seem that the Pioneers exist principally for
the purpose of banqueting one another,
and recounting old stories of a somniferous
character, but that they have a rooted ob
jection to spending their money upon auy
thing which may ba considered practically
UEeful. The historic attractions, of Mon
tery are, however, fortunately not all so
perishable. The spot where the austere
fanatia Junipero Strra landed will be
pointed out for centuries, though the tree
upon which he hung* his bells has already
fallen. The ruins of tho old fort from
whose battlements Commodore Sloat rc
mond the M-xieau Wag, when he had won
that sailing-match with the English Ad
miral which probably decided whether
California should l>e a British colony
or an American State, will soon be
gone, but the elevation on which
it stood will remain, and shore
and sea and sky and the close
encompassing woods and hilU will forever
furnish the material for '. reconstructing
those pictures of tho vanished past, which
in truth require but little material sugges
tion for their erection on tiia mental
retina. Bat all these yeara, since the
brief glory of Monterey departed from it
with the advent of the gold era, and it
ceased to be the impossible Capital of a
sort of No Man 'a Land, it has been dream
ing on in a comfortable and thoroughly
indifferent way, as conscious of the im
possibility of any real awakening before
the appointed time, as the people in the
Palace of the Sleeping Beauty. The true
Prince hal not conic, and so the spoil still
held the place, and ; the soft, sweet, nar
cotic influence of it stole gently over all
who came within its scope, end set them
wondering why any one should toil and
moil, and why it would not be a good thing
to
"S»Tir an oath, and keep it with an equal
. .--L mind X . .;-■
In'the hull'iw Lotos-laod to live and lie reclined
On the lulls like Qodg togeihar, careless of mail
kind."
But they did not stay. . They went away,
still wondering at the wierd, dreamy place,
and they thought of it ever after aa some
how uncanny. And yet the time was
rapidly approaching when the true • Prince
should arrive, and when his burning kisses
should startle the Sleeping Beauty into
new life.
THE OKNKSIS OF A W.VTKIMXH-PLACT.
We have now to narrate a series of facts
which though strictly true and soberly
practical, may appear to carry a flavor of
the inventive audacity of Dumas, or the
magnificent Oriental imaginativeness of the
Arabian Nights Entertainments, rather than
the ordinary events of this every-day world.
At the beginning of the present year the
Directors of the Southern Pacific itailroad
Company were moved to purchase a tract
of land in the vicinity of Monterey, and to
build there a hotel of the first class. Now
the building of hotels and the buying of
land may seem very commonplace perform
ances, but in the present case the rule does
not hold good. The amount of land pur
chased was seven thousand acres, and in
the midst of a wood of venerable and
magnificent oaks and pines, some of which
are from a hundred to a hundred and fifty
feet high, and five or six feet in diameter,
it was decided to build the new hotel.
The project was very largely Mr. Charles
Crocker's, and his energy and push have
been distinguishable" throughout its pro
gress. It was at the end of February that
he stood talking to Mr. Arthur Brown, who
was the architect and designer of the
building, on the selected site, and it
was then he remarked that the hotel, to
be opened this you at all, should be
completed by the first of June. To an
ordinary architect such a proposition would
have been absurd, and indeed Mr. Crocker
did not himself seriously intend to require
I the completion of the undertaking within
I the time named. Mr. Brown, however,.
| had been employed on railroad work so
many years that he had acquired a strong
conviction of*the necessity of carrying out
! all orders to the day and hour, and there
fore he never thought of questioning his
chief 's decree, but set himself at once to
build the hotel. Be it understood that
this was no slight or temporary or small
I edifice, but a most elaborate, handsome,
| spacious and composite structure, of which
I every detail must be thoroughly worked
I out, in which no scamping would be per
! knitted, and which therefore called for the
! best possible work in the shortest possible
time. Next to the marvels of Aladdin's
Lamp and the Count of Monte Cristo, it
is probable that the most wonderful feat
I of building on record is that of Fonthill
Abbey, by the celebrated Beckford, the
j author of "Yathck." Possessed of
I enormous wealth, and impatient to see the
design completed, he employed double re
lays of mechanics, and pushed forward the
work night and d.iy until it was finished,
In that case, however, haste was at the
expense of stability, for one of the great
towers, which he had caused to be built
by torchlight, fell down soon after it Mas
finished, and a part of the main building
also collapsed. Xo such lisks were run in
the construction of
THE HOTEL DEI. MONTE.
The admirable subdivision of labor, and
I perfect discipline, which are necessary
adjuncts to great railroad companies, came
into play here. The mills and shops of the
company were able to fill all the requisi
tions for lathe and scroll-work. The
entire outfit for the hotel was purchased in
the shape of raw material, and worked up
lin the house. The enterprise was pushed
forward with indomitable determination.
To give an idea of what we mean by that
J phrase we will state that on one occasion
it rained so persistently that it seemed
impossible to mix the plaster and carry it
without spoiling into the house. To obviate
this sheds were built over the plaster-beds,
and extra-men were employed to carry
umbrellas over the hods of plaster as they
were taken into the house. No obstacle,
in fact, was allowed to interfere with the
work. Mr. Brown had been told to get the
hotel finished by tho beginning of June,
and he was going to accomplish it. Un
limited means, akilled labor, trained intelli
gence and thorough discipline won the
day, even against the heaviest odds, and
when the 31 of June arrived the Hotel
Del Monte was complete from basement to
garret, and ready for occupation. The
whole of the furniture was mai'e in
the house. Even the spring-beds and
hair-matt resscs were manufactured
there, and with .1 special view
to their excellence, which is fully
borne out by actual experiment. It
was the intention that everything should
I be aa good as possible, aa perfect as possi
ble, as comfortable and convenient as pos
sible, and the general result i 3 a magnificent
illustration of what capital and enterprise
together can effect The Hotel Del Monte
was designed by Mr. Brown. It is in the
i Queen Anne, or Eistlake style ; a com-
I posite architecture combining the Italian,
I Gothic and Rustic, in a somewhat hetero
;lo>: but assuredly picturesque result. For
its surroundings indeed we doubt whether
a more sympathetic and appropriate design
could have been chosen. The building is
embosomed in trees, of a noble and majes
tic character, and it is in keeping with
them. It is spacious, being three. hundred
and seventy .to^t long £nd from seventy
five to one hundred feet deep. It is re
lieved by towers and wings which rise to a
lii 'ht of four aad five stories. The interior
O
is fiuished throughout in the Eastlake style,
and the hall, reading-room, ladits' billiard
room and ladies' parlor, are provided with
open fire-places and tiled hearths and man
tels. These rooms are all of noble propor
tions, as is the ball-room and dining room,
the latter being scarcely, if at all, smaller
than the magnificent Lick House dining
room. A feature of the house is the
broad and comfortable verandahs which
j surround it, and which constitute the most
agreeable lounging places imaginable. The
effuct of the buililing as a who'e is ex
tremely pleasing. It is so thoroughly iv
keeping with its sylvan surroundings that
it really seems to belong of right to the
spot it occupies. It is supplied with excel
lent gaa from its own manufactory. Within
a few yards of the main building a hand
some bowling alley is being erected. On
all sides the grounds are being improved
and laid out in walks and drives as rapidly
as possible. To make the walks decom
posed granite has been brought forty miles,
from Soledad. On the left of the hotel a
short walk conducts the visitor to a fair
sized lake, provided with safe and roomy
boats for the use of the guests, and a con
venient landing. A walk of a quarter of a
mile bring 3 one to the sea shore, where a
large double bath-house haa been built,
and every arrangement made for the com
fort of those who use it. Here Mr. Daly,
for many years swimming-master at Santa
Cruz, is employed to watch over the safety j
of the bathers, and to give them instruo- i
tion. In front of the bath- house a raft is |
moored some distance out in the bay, |
and a life-line stretches from it to the
shore. The beach, as is well known, is
composed of the iinest and purest white
sand, and no better bottom for a bathing
groiind can possible be desired. It, in fact,
constitutes the very ideal luxury of
bathing.
S( KNF.r.Y, I MMATE. KT<\
The surroundings of the new hotel are
rural altogether, and th 6 energy of tl.e
Pacific Improvement Company, which
owns the property, is leaving nothing un
done that can add to the beauty and com
pleteness of the place. A race-course,
croquet grounds, all kinds of arrangements
for games and sports of every sort, are being
prepared with the swiftness and thorough
ness which have marked every detail of
the enterprise. Flowers and shrubs have
been conveyed in pots to the grounds, and
there planted and attended so carefully
that they have at once adapted them
selves to their new habitat. Palms
six feet high, orange trees in bloom, roses
in massive bushes, great beds of varia
gated and brilliant-hued How it?, are among
the wonders which the modern Aladdin's
Lamp has here produced. Kven the grass,
though so recently sown, seems to have
partaken of the general push and energy, j
and is spreading its carpet of green
velvet through the shady avenues l«tweeu
the hoary old trees on every side. Shade
I and repose and beauty and comfort meet
the eye wherever it is turned, in fact. It
is as a whole a really extraordinary proof of
what can be done in an incredibly short
space of time when the conditions are all
favorable, and it is the more gratifying to
reflect that all this beauty and elegance
I and thoughtful provision for the most
j various tastes is for the benefit and use of
; the public. Del Moute is a People's Pal
ace, in truth, and it has been so managed
that it mu.-t not only be but continue the
most fashionable and popular -watering
place in the State.
In addition to its claims upon Califor
nians, however, the climate and surround
ings of Monterey offer special and import
ant advantages to strangers and invalids.
The temperature of the place is more
equable than that of any other part of the
coast. Protected by the Bay of Monterey,
and by the Gabilan and Santa Cruz mouii
j tains, it is always mild and temperate.
I The frequent fogs which roll in from the
! ocean and top the neighboring bills with
their misty wreaths, never descend to the
level of the town, but merely serve to
temper the heat of the sun, and to add to
the gently bracing influences which ren
! dt-r Monterey so healthful a resort, as well
in winter as in summer. A3 a winter re
treat for Eastern invalids, indeed, nothing
better can be found on the continent, and
he must be a peevish creature who could
not in the' hospitable and luxurious Hotel
Del Monte content himself throughout tLe
wiiiTer solstice.
Ihe company is not confining its im
provements to the hotel and grounds. Ifc
j is rejuvenating Monterey and its vicinity
for miles in all directions. Already pleas
ant and sandleas roads have been con
structed almost to the Caruielo Valley, and
in a short time Cypress Point, the light
house on Point Piuos, Point Lobos, the
Shell lieach, and many other points of at
traction in the neighborhood, will be
brought within easy reach. It is needless
to say that these improvements will add
greatly to the availability of the Pacific
Grove Retreat, which was once quite a
head - center of peripatetic piety, but
which, we were recently informed by a
venerable lady who was camping on the
ground, has suffered a sensible fading of
its religion "since the railroad company
"bought it." It remains, however, a
most delightful resort for such as prefer
aa al Jrenco summer establishment, and it
is certain to recommend itself to the many
who dislike fashionable hotels because
they are supposed to be too monotonous a
reproduction of the artificial life which it
is tho aim of sensible peop'e to get away
from when they go upon their summer
holiday.
No better place for children than Mon
terey exists. There is plenty of white sand
for them — and some of this, by the by, has
been ingeniously utilized by Mr. Crocker
in the hotel grounds, being put into larjje
1 tanks, in which the little ones can disport
all day if they so please — and when the
san.ls become monotonous there is an in
finite variety of delightful rooks, with con
cealed treasures of shells and seaweed, and
brilliant sea anemones, and starfish, and
those curious marine hedgehogs called sta
urchins. The algee of Monterey are many
of them extremely beautiful, and thoße
who have sounded the shell question to the
very bottom assert, with pardonable pride,
that there are two hundred and tifty dis
tinct varieties.
ASPECTS OP NATURE AND RBLICB OK MAS.
Those who insist on beauty of scenery
may be fully gratified at Monterey. The
situation of the old town itself is charm
ingly picturesque, seated as it is on the
gentle slope of the hill, with the white
sanded beach at its feet ever receiving the
blue ripples of the bay, and the dark -green
forest rising behind it to the very summits
of its inclosing hills. But whoso wishes
to Bee the very best the neighborhood af
fords must drive over these hills and
through the pleasant-scented woods, until
he comes once more upon the Pacific, and
the ineffable beauties of Carsnel Bay steal
gently upon him. It is a very jewel of a
b.iy. Small, delicately turned, adorned
with the most dazzlingly white beacli of
virgin sand, its waters are of the very
deepest and most lu3trous ultramarine
blue, and the green fields come down al
most to its very edge, as though to em
brace so delightful a neighbor. But the
Carmelo Valley has another sight
for the visitor, in the fast-fading
ruins of the old church of San Carlos. The
Catholic Church ought to preserve, if it |
docs not restore, this venerable edifice,
and since fifteen California Governors are
said to be buried there, and since the mor
tal remains of Junipero Serra were de
posited there, though it is alleged that;
they could not subsequently be discovered,
it might fsecm that some obligation was
laid upon the State to at least solicit at
tention to this matter. As it is, the old
church is rapidly decaying, partly under the
influence of the weather and time,
and partly because the tourist idiot
has a passion for carrying away
fragments of the building, and al
ways prefers the capitals of pillars, or
pieces of friezes,' or volutes, or corniceF,'
or something the removal of which ,' pro '■.'.,"-■
duceß . the . most - scandalous and hopeless
defacement.-y'': The manner fin .which 'i the i ■ *
tourist idiot, : male -and" female, has . be
daubed' ar.d bescrawled the '; Sam Carlos
Church with its legionary but insignificant ;
name, is simply disgusting. As every such' ;
inscription is "an unanswerable demon
stration that the ; scribe was a ; fool,,
the - number of these unconscious cou- '
fessions of imbecility becomes oppressive
and even discouraging. .; It would almost ■;;
seem ;as though all ; the people who had "
visited t!ie place were imbeciles, or that.
Vandalism was the normal -tendency .of \
tourists everywhere. , It is * shame that
this old building, possessing so many and •
interesting associations, should be de
livered over to . the brutalities of
perambulating hoodlums, ■ and . if the
Church has not : energy and self-respect
enough to take care of the edifice, it might
at least permit the State to Msaon the
charge. We would ' not have the old
church restored, for that would spoil it :
but it should be protected from tlie weather
by being inclosed in a rough lumber casing,
leaving plenty of room to. walk all round
every part of it.
T3IESF.QCF.SCEOK MONTEREY'S LOKO DREAM-
And so Monterey's long dream is broken
at last, and henceforth she will be as nnirh
alive as it is either proper or desirable
that she should be. Her destiny is not
that of a trading ceDter. : She will not
produce millionaires. No stock exchanges
will establish themselves in her peaceful
antedduvian streets. It is her lot to be the
fashiouable and favorite watering-place of
California j the resort of invalids from less
genial climes : a winter as well at a
summer haunt for people in delicate health ;
in fact a Sanitarium of the prosperous kind
that has received the imprimatur of
Fashion. Tho Hotel Dol Monte has settled
this question, for it has revealed tor the
first time all the possibilities of the place.
It has lifted it . out of tho rut in
which it had lain so long and so
contentedly, and has, in conjunction with
the railroad, brought it within ea»y reach
of everybody. Its pleasant climate, its in
teresting associations, its natural beauties,
its tine bathing, will all combine to render
it more popular from year to year, and we
may be sure that in a little while its claim*
will be. recognized by that stiedy exten
sion of country-house building in the neigh
borhood which ahvay3 attends eueh re
vivals. Monterey has thus reached her
renaissance after all, and we have no ap
prehensions that the era of prosperity now
beginning for her will tuff: r any checks
hereafter, save those to which allhumaa
enterprises and efforts are exposed. ■/
COUNTY OFFICERS' FEES.
The following opinion of Attorr.cy-(
llart a* to ll.e effect of the new Constitution
upon spe cial fee and salary laws passed before
its adoption, - and * : as * to the extent of the
power of Hoards of Supervisors in fixing the
compensation of county and township offi
cers, will be of interest to county officers
ani Supervisors throughout the State, as
large numbers of letters are constantly being
received Ijy the Attorney-General upon the
subject :
Sacbajiesto, July 2, 18fO.
James Branham, Ksq., District Attorney
of Lasseu county — D«jar Sir : Your letter of
the 14th uit. is now before me, and ia reply I
beg leave to Bay that the inquiry contaiued in
that letter involves two questions, both of
which, being matters about which there has
beeu no judicial determination, are somewhat
diflieuit of solution. The officers of your
county, as appears from your letter, have
hitherto acted under a special fee and salary
taw, and the Legislature at its last session did
not repeal that law. The question U as to
the proper construction to be niven to sub
division 21 of Section -104t>of the Political Cod
as amended .it the laststssioii of the Legislature,
which provides that the Board of Supervis
ors shall have power ''to fix the oompensa
tion of all county and» township officers not
otherwise paid." Ie construing that Rection
it will not do to elimiuate from the section
or. totally disregard the words "not other
wi-e paid," for those words operate to limit
the power of the Board, and the only ques
tion ia as to the meaning of those words.
To me it is evident that the Legislature never
intended by thw provision to give to the
Board of Supervisors of a county the powtr
to practically repeal an Act of the Legisla
ture by providing for officers a compensation
different from that which the H'atute pre
scribes. l>y the words " not otherwu-e pa:d "
it is evidently meant to limit the power
of the Board to those ca.-e-< where the Legis
lature has not provided a means of payment)
or, in other words, where the compensation
aud its mode of payment has nc>t been fixed
by the statute. The provision was adopted
out of an abundance of caution, aud in view
of the entire change in our organic system
recently made, in order that if au oversight
should occur in adapting the laws to the Dew
system there would be some means left by
which all onii'.ted officer-, or officers "not
otherwise paid," might be provided for. . I
am therefore of the opinion that your Board
of Supervisors ■ has no power to fix the com
pensation of any county or township officer
whose compensation is now fixed by statute.
Such being the case, it only remains to be
determined whether or not your special fee
aud salary law was repealed by the Oonstitu
tion. The only provi>i of th« Constitution
with which special fee and salary lawa have
been claimed to be iaeoMifteal U Section 25
of Article IV. That aeottae provides that
the Legislature "•hall not pass local or
special laws " nffectinj; the (eel or salary of
any otficer. It does not provide that all
local and special laws provioujly paaeed upon
that subject are repealed. It simply pre
scribes what the ' Legislature may do in the
future, and in my opinion operates only as a
limitation or restriction upon future local or
special legislation. In order to be inconsist
ent with that provision within the meaning
and intent of Section 1 of Article XXII. of
the Constitution, it is my opinion that it
would • be necessary that the law should
undertake to authorize ' that which that
section prohibits, that is, that it should
provide that those things might \be dor.c
by the \ Legislature which the Constitution
says that the Legislature shall not do. It is
my opinion that your special law is rot re
pealed by the provisions of the Constitution
above nameri, and if it has not been other
wise repealed, that the j Beard of Supervisors j
of your county have no power to fix the com
pensation of any officer whose fees and salary
are tx--d by that or any other existing stat
ue. I have the honor .to be, yoorß respect
fully, A. L. Hart, Attorney-General. '
.-.; .. . — » «. ; —
An, Abridged Collectioh of Esglish .
Poetry.— There is : probably no ' class of
literary work which : has called out such
vigorous protests from ; antiquarians aud
literary men with a deep reverense for the
great authors as abridgements ; and yet it
would be hard for any one to J get away
from i the fact that .iv • this busy modern ;
world a real necessity exists for something
of this kind. Life is . too short for the av
erage man to do all that it now requires of
him, and then find time in addition to read
such a novel as "Clarissa" or .' Grand
ison," to ' know the ; old ■ dramatists r.s he
knows Shakespeare, and ' to peruse all the
pages of oar English poets in complete cdi.' :
tione. n Long ago jit was : seen how neces
sary it is to have an abridged collection of '
English poetry, and many hands have at
tempted to p make one, some with very in- j
different success, others on a plan that did
not cover the whole field, still others with
out intention of covering the field of Eng
lish literature historically. Indeed, there
is practically no collection which does this
latter; but readers will-be glad' to learn
that there is i bright promise lof one from
the hands of Professor T. H. Ward, Mat
thew Arnold, .'■ Thomas /' Arnold, M Dean
Churcb, ; .W. Minto, E. W. Gosse and many
other men of eminence is Euglaud,

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