Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1869, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. | PUBLISHED DAILY, Sunday excepted, At the Star Building, §.W. Corner Pennsylvania Av. and Lith St, | BY THE EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY. The STAR is served by the carriers to their subscribers in the City and District at Tas CEnte PER WEEK. Copies at the counter, with out wrappers, Two OzwTs each. voR Martie —Three Months. One Fifty Cents, six months, Three Dollars: one year, Five Doliars. No papers are sent trem te office longer than paid for. { The WEEKES STAR—pablished on Friday morning—One Doliar-and-a-haif a year. SPECIAL NOTICES. | WHAT A WO! ERFUD DISCOVERY 18 PEBRY Davis’ VEGETABLE PAIN KIL- LEB! It aotoniy cures the i's of the bumen femi 7, Dutis sito a eure remedy for horses with | colle. Ithas mever been known to fait in cure | of the worst cases, and for sprsins, galls, etc., it | Directions sceompany | Sold by Draggisie generally —Aenton | ee Bela bever fails—try it once ) Demovras. — | tne 7 reo ~ mame D rsome reguirisg @ safe and valuable fmpart tove and stren the : Bet given by bitters merely atis ent ia their pala " 5FS éffects; which. althoug! poasess tonic | vegetable properties, cannot give the strength to | the blood which the Iron Bitters > Prepsred by Wm. Bliss Ohemist. Washinetor by KIDWELL & SON, P ne and Lith street | NATIONAL THEATRE. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. First nighi ished Yor FORMOSA; OR, THE BAILELOAD TO RUIN. With new scenery, new appointments. ani ex- G®sp CONCERT FoR THe BELIEF OF TEE AVONDALE 80 FP BY THE ABION QUARTITE OLU. Under the ueadership of PROF. M. CO. BECMANN, ar G street. ft ou wa aah ot street tween reets. TUESDAY, SEPT. 25. 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DAILY (s stios. m.for MOUSE fouching ot Blerandria, isgicn, Mareball Hall, Jone. Va . returning to the ity ate ay ES. Gent Supt. ‘Fare to Mount auZ-tf ‘Office: Willard’s Hotel. Isaac coare, 3n., & BRo., IMPORTERS OF 's Furnishing Goods, 14 HANOVER STREET, you EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. IFTEREAL REVENUE—The receipts to-day from tBis source were $641,192. Secretary Roneson will retarn bere from Philadelphia to-morrow. Ma Joay Hitz, Swiss Consul General, has Teturned to this city trom Tennessee. 34---N°. 5,163. StcRETARY Fise left Washington Satarday | Bight for New York, and will return here at ‘the close of this week. CommissionzR DBLano wilt return here from Pennsylvania about the latter part of this | week. APPOINTED BY THB PausiDent.—The Pres- ident to-day appointed William Whust, of Mo., to be Register of the Land Office at Boonville, Mo. Lravt. Com. E. P. LULt, U. S. Navy, has been detached from the Lancaster, and or- dered to command the Nautasket on the 15th of October next. Mississire! ELection.—The time for the election in Mississippi has been extended one day. It will commence on Tuesday, Nev. 20th, and end on Wednesday, Dec. Ist. Mason S.W. Saxtow has been premoted from a first to second-class clerkship ia the First Comptroier's Uffice, Treasury Depart- ment. TWO HUNDRED AXD FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLaRs im fractional currency was received at the Treasury Department this morning from the Bank Note Printing Companies in New York. Arrlications tor clerkships or appoint. ments in the seyerg! Departments must here after be sent to the Departments direct, and not to the White House. They will not be considered at the Executive Mansion, nor for- ‘warded thence to the Departments. Hon. S. S.F1sume, Commiesioner of Patents, lett this city on Saturday for New York to be present at the opening of the tair of the Ameri- can Institute to be held there this week. A number of ihe Examiners now absent on leave ‘will probably be preseat. d Taz WHITE Hovsr.—There was quite a large crowd of visitors at tne Executive Man- sion this morning, nearly all of whom weread- ‘Mitted to see the President. Among them were George W. Paschal, of Texas, James Hagger- ty, late United States Consul at Glasgow, and others. ‘THE SCARCITY OF FRACTIONAL CURRENCY is still @ source of grent annoyance to business . Banks have much difficuliy in supply- ing their customers. Notwithstanding the efforts made to supply the constant demand, the United States Treasurer is not able to fill orders as fast as they are received. Nor So.—The statement. telegraphed from thiscity, and referred to in THE SraR of Sat- urday, thata writ of mandamus had been is- sued against Gen. Sherman as Secretary of War by several claim agents, who were sus- pended as attorneys before the War Depart. ment on charges of corrupt ¢ondact, is, we are informed, incorrect in all its particalars; no mandamus having been issued, and therefore no subsequent action taken. GovERNMENT SELLING GOLD AND Burise Bowps.—: Boutwell bas directed Gen- eral Butterfield, the assistant treasurer at New York, to sell one million of gold each Tuesday and Friday till the tstof November, commenc, ing to-morrow. Also, to purchase two mil- Mons of bonds each Wednesday till the Ist of November. These sales and purchases are addition to the sale and purchase on account of the sinking fand, which will be continuea without change of the existing mode. Compznsation ov Larren Cannimrs.— First Assistant Postmaster General Earle is engaged im adjusting the compensation of let- ter carriets, The maximum amount ot pay is fixed by law at $500 per year. The act of July 1, 1564, allows the Postmaster General to increase the salaries of diligent and faithful carriers after they have been some time in ser, ‘vice to $1,000, but no higher rate of compensa- tion is allowed. The object of resdjusting the compensation isto asceftain whether the sala- ries fof mail carriers in the raral district may Rot be reduced. This the Postmaster General i" thorized to do, butit is nor likely that the salaries of carriers ip the large cities will becat down, as $-W0 is comidered low enough. ‘Umitap States Sawa ?0Rs Prom VincINia Messrs. Alexander Rives and James G. Pax. ton Dave published 8 card, stating that the President did not declare General Williams Rue choice for United States Senator trom Vir- ginia. “On the con , he was aware several gentlemen were named for the office in whom be bad p-rfect confidence, and there might be others unkRown to bim n&ving the same title to his confidence; and while feeling it to be improper for him to exprvss any choice at all, he would certaimly nothave done so to the pre- judice of any one of bis friends. Among these were General Wickbam and others: alse, Dr. Sharp, whom he bad tong known and whose loyalty was perspicuously displayed im the hostile commpnity im which he lived at the outbreak of hostilities.” This card ot Messrs. Rives aud Paxton, bub- lished this morning, purporting to give the points of a conversation between themselves and the President, relauve to the Virginia Senatorship, may be construed unfavorable to the integrity of General Williams very un- justly, as all who know that officer must ad- mire his truthfulpess of character and devotion to principle. General Williams has never rep- resented himself as being the choice of the President for the Virginia Senstorship, but has simply stated that the President, in conversa- tion with a mutual friend, declared that he ‘Would be perfectly satisfied with the election of General Williams as Senator from Virginia. General Williams being an officer of the army, and baving positively refused toenter thecan- vass oF to accept the Senatorship unless he should have the full confidence of the people of Virginia, it wasevery way improbable that be would it himself as being the choice of the President, after notifying the people ef Tas aes Verdict in the case of g 6 The ‘heninig WASHINGTON, D. C.. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1869. WASHINGTON TO THE PACIFIC. THE WALLEYS OF CALIFORNIA. [Béitoriat Correspondence of The Star. } Saw Francisco, August 17, 136°. To treat spon Oalifornia withoat some alla- sion to its valley system would, indeed, be the @lay of Haméet with the part of the Priace of Denmark omftted; and the leading valleys of the State so radiate from Sin Franeisco, or rather from the Bay of San Francisco, that the visit r cam readily tamiliarize himself with their most interesting features by brief trips: per railroad and steamer, eked owt in some in- stances by the Concord coach or the eaddle- horse. The trip te the Yo Semite gives one a good general idee of the San Joaquin Valley, which, with the Sacramento Valley, form the grat interior basin of the State. In entering the State and in going out the traveler has an Opportunity to see a considerable portion of the latter valley. Both these great vai! the iarge amount ot tule marsh jediately bordering on the rivers, and the fiat iand bata few feet above the level of the water elsewhere im them, hve @ certain air of flatness and sameness. These valleys, which contain nearly five-eighths of all the level land in the State, are, from their formation, peculiarly Hable to overtiow daring rainy seasons, City in the one, and Stockton in the other, have suffered so frequently dy inunaations that the whole surface of the ground in them is being raised, Chicago fasbion, to put them above high water. The Great Int r Basin. The Sacramento Valley is the most interes‘- ingot the two, ough both may be said to be really one valley. The San Joaquin, for one thing, bas little timber, and its fiat, monoto- nous eharacter comtinues toitesources. Stock- ton, the principal eity upon the river and in this part of the State, shows sigas of thrift and growth, and as the shipping peint of a large agneulteral and mining ; must become ®& place of considerabdl ‘tance. It has Row perhaps 6,000 iahabitants. When the Bundreds of thousands of acres of tule marsh on the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers are reclaimed, they will not only add greatly to the wealth of these distlets, as they make the richest Iandsim the State, and have the ad- vantage of never suffering trom droutb, bu; the sppearance of these river valleys will b,, greatly improved. Now no Bing can well be conceived more tiresome and unattractive than the tedious winding course per steamer through this dense growth of rushes. The Sac: ento Valley. The trip by land up the Sacramento, how- ever, isnotsotame. The pieasantly-situated and flourishing t»wn of Vallejo, (Val-la-ho,) which General Frisbie and other enterprising Vallabans expect to make the commercial ri- val of San Francisco, becsuse it is on the right Side of the bay, end basn’t the marine worm, is worth visiting, both on its own account and a account of the Mare Island Navy Yard op- posite. Admiral Farragut makes his home at Vallejo, and has recently purchased consider- Qble real estate here. 4 Rich County. Suisun City, in tris same rich county of Solano, and 54 miles by steamboat from San Francisco, is the seat of a flourishing grain trade, and has an element of great business Sctivity in the mumter of New. aitled bere. Solano county ranks smong ‘wealthiest, most populous and best agricuitn- Tal counties in the State, and, mext to Santa Clara county, bas the most land under cultiva- tion and grows the most wheat. Some pleasant drives over the rolling prairies, through the fertile valleys, and among the vineyards that cover the rounded hills of Solano county, afforded me an oppertanity of seeing agricul- tural California in its most attractive aspect. The soil of this county is a rich clay loam, deep and very productive in the valieys, and snfficiently rich on the top of the highest hilis to aff@d fine natural pasturage, sammer and winter. Vine Growing in jane County. The hill-land is 1» however, to be so much more valuable than the valleys for tbe cultivation of the grape, that the bright green Of the vine is rapidly supplanting the rica yel- low of the wild oats. I visited a vineyard, of thirty-five acres, on one of these hills, owned by a German, who came here penniless from Missouri s few years ago, took up this groand as Government land, and is new in very pros- perous circumstances, if not wealthy. On en- termg bis wine cellar we found him inside of one of the enormous wine casks used cleaning it, his industrious wife assisting hun from the outside. Like the reel in the bottle, vbe wonder was how he ever got in througa the small square aperture in the side of the cask, but he presently emerged, in answer to the call of my friend, getting out very readily, despite bis broad shoulders, and showing that it is possible for man to get through a very smali hole. It was formerly supposed that the vine stood drought best upon the low land im Oalfornia, and it was not until recently that ‘¢ was cultivated upon the hills, unless where there was a chance to irrigate during the rain. leas season. Now it is found that not only does the vine thrive on these steep hills without be- ing watered at all, but that the flavor of the ‘wine is better than when the vines are watered. When traimed to depend upon itself the vine strikes its tap-root deep down to the point ot moisture. The vine on these hills is not snb- ject to mildew, and the soil seems to be just ‘what is needed, without the aid of a particle of manure. The vine bears in Oaltfornia in the second year, and begins to be profitabie in the third year. The grape is noted, like ali the other fruits in this dry climate, for its perfec- on and its uniform ripening; such a thing as Totted or unripe berries on the bunch being al- most unknown. Sacramento, and Sacramente County. Sacramento, in the county of the same name, om the other side of the river from Solano county, has now about eighteen thousand in. habitants, and with increasing railroad b: Ressand its growing trade, as the centre rich agricultural region, seems to have an assured fuiure. Itis mot a handsome city, by any means, but undoubtedly a better class of buildings will take the place of the present commonplace structures, now that the grade bas been raised, and broad levees made to pro. tect it from the ipandetione «9 which it has been heretofore lable. This (Sicramento) county is almost & dead level; but proceeding up the river, the copaties bordering upon it (the river) are more diversified in surface. Sutter county, which gets its name from Gene- Tal John A. Gatter, of fame, and whose name 1s identified with first discovery of cold in the State, is ne of the most tertile aad energies in adapting itto the proéuction of vast crops of whest end parley. He devotea 15) acres to @ garden (now Deautifally laid supply miles of carriage road throagh every portion) wherein are cultivated im the greatest Pertection not onty the doest American fruits, ‘but those of Southern Ataly Of exquisite quali. ty. He-produces the most delicate varieties of rapes, the olive, orange, and the lemon; the tea-tree thrives here, while the figs of Ranch> Chico are distinguishea throughoat the S:at- for their quantity and excellence. His tarm is noted not only for its prodectivences, bat fo its beauty, resulting from the taste and cos which have been bestowed id & way+o rende itmall its parts a place of rural attraction and beautiful cultare, much in advance of any other large in California His crops ana different kinds of live stock ar enumerated by thousands. While heseads no fruit to market, the demend at the place pace with the increasiag supply, so that th* Income from his garden amounts to a greater sam annually than others receive trem their grain crops. The Chico creek affords a fine ‘water power, of which the General made avai! many years since to constract ome of the best fouring mills in the State. His Rouse is costly ‘and of great beauty, and, presided over bya ‘Waspington lady, is the scene Of & genarous bospkality at all times. Bat few comparatively of those who were seized with the gold mania Row possess a competency, while this property alone possesses the value and affords the re nuesof 4 principality. General Bidwell em. ploys Europeaus, Americans, and Asiatics, and has for many years endeavored to preserve & small celony of Indians on his place from the vices and demoralizing influences of tne white race. The town of Chico, built apon a Portion of this ranche, contains near 2,09) in- habiiants, many of whom are people of refine ment, Probstly no place in America presents & better illusteatien of the capacities of this country than 1s now supplied by the excelience and variety of the productions of Rancho Chico. Butte county. with fertile bottom lands both on the Sacramento and the Feather rivers, has 8 large area of the best farming lands in the State. Colasa county, on the otner side of the Sacramento, is largely devoted to stock-raising, and in 1867 had 25,000 Bead of cattle and 125,000 sheep. The Inland Valleys of the Coast Range. More interesting and pleasing to the eye are the rich and picturesque inland valleys of the Coast Range, Napa, Petaiuma, Santa Clara and others, Subjvined I give no'es of trips taken through some of these valleys within the past fortnight. Santa Clara Valley. And first im interest and easiness of access to ‘San Francis¢o js the rich valley of Santa Ulara at the Southern extremity of San Francisc> bay, twenty mes wide and extending avout twenty miles southward, level to some extent bat diversified with gentle sloping hills after the manner of the rolling praries ofour +‘ West” and susceptible of calt! lon over their entire surface. Itabounds clusters of park-like oaks and presents asuccssion of pretty vil- lages, and highly cultivated farms, the houses: throughont the valley having a iook of com- fortand even elegence rarely seen in Oal ifornia where the houses are generally much of the shed order of architecture, The climate of this valley, though so near Ssn Francisco, is from tem to fifteen degrees warmer than in this city, Brom the cold winds tad fogs Walch Fast op the funnel of San Francisco Bsy. Taking tne cars of the San Jose railroad for the Santa t of the chilly San Francisco into a thorougaly de ighttul atmosphere. Tnis railroad is completed as far as Gilroy, in the southern partof the valley, and trom thence a stage line rans through to Montery, Los Angeles and South. ern Califorma, One notes the number of wind- mills used for irrigating purposes; the moss on the fences and trees indicating a touch of sea- sir; the pyramids! piles of baled wild-eate, cut for hay; and the artesian wells on almost every farm, and the presence of which are noted by the carpet of mm in the fields, contrasting with the wes and yel- lows of the ground elsewhere baked by six months sunshine. ‘There are over one thousand artesian wells in the Santa Clara Valley, averaging about one hundred feet in depth. Before thenumber become so great the ‘water spouted twenty or thirty feet in the air, but now they barely bring the water to the surface. The greater portion of the Iand in this Valley is “adobe,” a black sandiess loam, yield. iug from twenty-five to thirty bushels of wheat to the acre for many consecutive years without manuring or any decrease im the yield. The famous Stocktan ranche, purchased by Uom- modore Stockton in 1847, and celebrated for its wheat crops, is on the eastside of the Santa Olara Valley. Some of the new land in the Valley has produced seventy-five bushels of ‘Wheat to the acre. San Jose, (San Ho-Say,) the county‘seat isa thoroughly thriving place. 1 have seen no point in California where there seemed to be so much business activity and “go-aheaditei ve. ness,” The streets were filled with farmers wagons and teams and the stores all occupied with customers. San Jose is not only the business centre of this richest of the valleys of Califoruia, but is the radiating point of half a dozen stage lines in con. nection with the railroad. Every visitor to San Jose, who can climb, goes to the top of the Court House to view the bean. Ufa! panorama of the Santa Ciara valley there afforded. The valley here is about fitteen miles wide, and is completely under the eye with its multitudinous fields, orchards and narseries of parti-colored vegetation, spread out in bands Tesembling the carpet-stripes of closely cul. vated Belgium. ‘San Jose 1s famous for its exotics, acclimated here in the biand air of the valley. Beautiful shrubs and flowers from every part of the globe may be scen growing here in the air, torming a variety Of foliage not to be seen traveling-ctewls. The Pionesr Woollen Mills, im San Frencieco, manufacture on nearly as Jarge & scale, and much the sxme articles. used, and gfeatly to the satiefection of the employers. Sheep-raising om a Big Scale. « Monterey county is the great sheep-raising county of the State, and of the Uaited States, doubtiess. In 1867 certainly it contained more sheep than any other county in the Union. Everywhere sere you hear the names of Flint & Bixby. -They carry on the business of eheep-raising om an immense seaie, and may be said tobe the wool autocrats of the State, ‘The history.of sheir operations interested me, and will perhaps interest Stag seaders as well. The Weel Autocrats of the State. 1n 1853,two Flunts—brothers, and one Bix- by, brother-in-law of the Flints, ail Maine Yankees, (Kennebeckers, { think,) crossed the plains wits skeep, starting the flock trom Council Bluffs and coming by North Platte and the South Pass to Balt Lake, thence by the Fremont trait to Los Angeles and up to San Juan (San Wan) Valley, arriving im 1854. They Jett the East with 2,200 sheep, and before start- ing from Council Bimfis had increased their flock by purchase to 5 600. They lost about half their flock on the way. This Valley (San Juan) they found to be full of wild Borses and cattle, indicating its value for grazing pur- poses, and they bought a Spanish grant con- taining 35,000 acres, half of which they sold, and put sheep on the rest. Ia 1857 they were among the first to import fine Spanish merino bucks from Vermont. Tais was before the day of the rage for this kind of property had sent it Up to fancy prices. Later they paid $1,000 for their best buck, bougnt on the day of Lincoln's Bomination and named “Old Ade,” which name he now bears with his ‘wooly honors. ‘The flocks increase wondertully in this pro. lific country; twin lambs betng the rule rather ‘nan the exception. The Yearly increase of flocks is about 90 per cent. The weather is mild im wiater, and the increase occurs in Jan- wary or February. Lambs are sheared the first fall, and every spring afterward. Some shear their flocks twice a year, the second clip being made Inte im the fall, but the practice is not approved. id Acres Flint & Bixby have extended their opera. tions until they now own about 230,000 acres in Montery, San Lous Obispo, and Los Angeles counties, and have on all their ranches—there are no “farms” here—over 100,000 sheep ! Their wool clip is nearly 500,000 pounds per annum. They also sell sheep to all points, and many emaller flocks have been started irom theirs. They have given great attention to improving the breed of @eep and their bucks grein great demand. Last year they sold two thousand at from $10 to $35 a piece. The increase of flocks is constantly kept down by sales of poorer sheep for mution and good ones to those who are sterting flocks. Last year’s sales of sheep amounted to $60,000. ‘The flocks are herded by men who stay near them by day, and ‘corral’ them at Bight; one man cares for from 1,500 to 3,000 according to the “gumption” of the mem. As a general ‘ning dogs are nct used by the shepherds. Flint & Bixby, after trial, find that quite as well, end ihe s 5 umoat Sots ‘as wueptords wa goed ap, one would think, for such simple work, $25 Per month in gold and found. Curiously the very listlessness and monotony of their occupation seems to unsettle the mind nd the number of suicides amongst this class of men is said to be disproportionately large. Asl bave ssid Messrs. Flint & Bixby have ‘Some 230,000 acres devoted to sheep pasturage They make it & rule to allow plenty of pasture and they average on their lands of ali kinds— bill and valley, one sheep to the acre. The ‘valley lands, it shonld be stated, are tar better tor pasturage than the hills, and it must be re- membered that this pasturage is all wild grass. 1f cultivated, the land would of course sustain many more sheep, but there is abundant room yet without. ‘There is very little sod in California, the six months drought from April to November kiils the roots of grass pretty effectually, and it springs up from the seed every year. The hay of California is made mostly from wild oats and barley. The wild odts with which the hills of California are covered give to them the appear- ance at this season of rich yellow fields of grain. Itis smaller than the tame oats, and ‘bas bearded projections with bent Joints lixe the » Which makes the grain unfit for use, but the stalk of it makes 00d hay, and tattening pasture. It is believed that the ‘Wild oat is a climatic deterioration of the tame oats brought here by the Spanish missionaries some seventy years ago. In this San Juan Valley there 1s considerable moist ground, or ground where water is reached a short distance below the surface, and a species of wila clover— the Alfalfa clover flourishes well. There are also other wild grasses in the valley. ‘There has been a good deal of declamation in the California papers against large ranches as a damage to thefinances of the counties,but some experiments made in the way of cutting up sheep ranches into smaller farms for cuitiva- tion would seem to render it doubiful if sheep- raising is not the most profitable of the two. Col. W. W Hollister, of San Francisco, who has been largely eugaged in stock-raisin and who owned one half of the San Justo (San Hew-so) ranch (Flint & Bixby owning the other) sold Bis portion last year to fifty far- mers to be divided imto that number of farms. ‘The tax-books of the eounty, however, snow that the fitty tarmers with their land, stock sna products pay less tax than Fiiat & Bixby on their 1and stocked with sheep. Col. W. W. Hollister. Col. Hollister, who has made a large fortune in stock rassing, came to California some years ego trom Obio with broken fortunes, and indebted, 1 believe, to one business firm in Onio some $30,000. After he made his “pile” here he repaid’ the morsy he owed in Obio pPinéipal and ingerest, and also insisted upon adding a bonus ef $10,000 for the use of the money. Thiris the Unlifornia way of doing business—when yeu have the money, but there are plenty of ‘who have not only #albed 9 do so but have no, made enough absotu! take them home So there are blanks in’ Ualiformis lottery. Doing Away with Fences. As a matter of some interest to Esstera read- ere, I may sto the notice of the division of the ‘Hollister lands into farms, that tee fifty owners made an agreement to de dway with fences. ‘Fencing materia} is a0 scares in the valleys of California that the expense of erecting them is ‘the most formidable item in the business ot entering upon farming operations. After German plan and that put in pragticeat Vi land, New Jersey, and in parte of Virginia ‘since the war, theowners of cattle are required to keep their stock from trespassing, either by fences or by guarding them. It is estimated that the fences in the United Sistes cost more than all the railroads, bridges and public build. ings, and the proportionate cost in Oslifornia is Mona! ‘hacienda Meesrs. Flint & Bix! about te miles froen Saat Jin, on Pepind the valley bordering on te Coast Renge tains, and sheltered bead far, PRICE TWO CENTS sores,—gardene, orchards, trout ponds, 2... and perhape the most ¢elightfal climate in Oalifornia,—they ought to be able te enjoy life. It is not every one who cam select histabie ‘Matton from hie own flock of 100,000 sheep, or ‘who bas an annual clip of half a milion Pounds of wool to keep his tamily from coming vage! I may add that they ran stage-lines and other public enterprisss hereabouts, ana re in fact, the great motive power of this part of the country. Sen Jean. South. Getting down this tar south of San Francisco, | One finds himeelf among a population large mace up of “Greasers” and other aborginals, And where the old-time Spanish habits and customs prevail largely. The little village of Sum Juan, South is dominated by one of the “Old Spanish Mission” buildings we read about. making quite a figure in the landscape Sta distance, with its white walls and corri- dors with massive arches, and its roof o heavy red tiles. but on near view it is found to be & wretched structure of adobe, unburat clay. On the other side of the village is the sharp spire of a New-Engiandish looking charch, in which am energetic missionary preacher of the Congregational denomination, the Rev. Wm. Ladd Jones, of Maine, officiates. Asbarp contrast was afforded, illustrative of the two civilizations, the Mexican-Spanish and the modern Yankee, by this old adope church, with its drowsy services, and the New | Englandish church opposite, resonon: with the ringing words of the young missionary preacher, and later in the day with theexer- cises of & wide-swake Sunday School of the modern pattern. ‘Yet no longer ago than 1820 thm now decayed old Mission was oneof the most important and Prosperous of the twenty-one Missions estab Ushed In Upper Ualifornia by the Monks of the Order of St, Francis. At that time the jovial, kind-hearted old Padres, who held sway here, had the comfortable worldly ‘Pos-es- sions of 43,870 cattle, 1,360 tame horses, 4,870 mares and colts, and 69.500 sheep. The Mission of San Jose, Gan Hosay,) only forty miles away, in the Santa Clara Val- ley, had 62,000 cattle, 810 broken horses, 1,500 the same valley, Bad 14,280 cattle, 407 youe Working oxen, 82,510 sheep, 1,990 horses broken. to saddle, 4,235 breeding mares, 725 males, and 1,000 bogs. All the other Missions were equally rich in live stock, while the specie and other valuables in the possession of the Fathers ex- ceeded balt a million of dollars. In the iatter years of Mexican rule in California the Fathers, amid the political convulsions that existed, lost, little by Httle, all their property. The Missions became neglected, and the Padres Killed thousands of their catde to obtain the Price of their hides and tallow. In 1860 Con grees took charge of the Missions, and most o them were permitted to go to ruin. There is little now to mark the former "as con- dition of this San Juan Mission but the rich old gardens, and the venerable pear-trees, grown ‘o aM enormous sizs and loaded down with fruit. Bat I find I bave used up all my paper, and bave not done with the valleys yet. ©. 5.N. —__-2-e-—____ FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. ‘That “afler a storm comes a calm,” was Government Securities. Wasnrmerox, Sept. 21, 1x69.—Jay Cooke & Co., furnish the following quotations of Gov- ernment securities : Mills’ super, $6086.64: do. extra, $625a87 50; do, 10.25, Western super, $6286.25; extra, $625006.75; do. family, $787.75. Wheat duit; prime to choice rad, $150481.55. Gorn frm; ‘white, $1.25881-39; yellow, $1200 51. Rye $1.10a81.20. $28850.50.” Bacon active ana advan cing: ni 20; do.. 4; shoulders, 19; hams, 24025. Lard quiet at 1992. ‘Whisty dull at $i.19381.20. ASSOCIATED PRESS. REPORTS. - DOMINION NEWS. = will be wade to Parhinment at its Bert section fora for the Union Pacific » j Bt constracted from a point om jw 1 , Of Britten sea on the tien. ‘were only three pas- sengers and the crew on board, and they took nie, boats, one of which, tn ot ry Arno, a lot of South West yesterday th four persone inciuding two ted company with the other boats , and | The weather os very cb, bat steamers | Bave gone in search of the missii i |; THE F TEMENT 1N } ~ Legal Proceedings. Telegraphed Baciusweely to The Bvening Star. New York, Court, this issued 8 Bumb: of Injanctions ‘against the Gold Bank id several prominent Wall street brokers. | Avorder of arrest was sued aganst Wm. Belden, at the suit of Samuel A. Hatch. Bel- den is charged with secreting bis property to | detracd creditors, and secreung bi: itt Avoid service of a summons. | THE CUBAN QUESTION OMA Pa- RISIAN STAND.POINT. Trlegraphed Exclusively to The Evening Star, Loxpox, Sept. 27.—The Morning Port has a letter from its Paris correspondent, wherein ‘We Cuban question is discussed at length. The writer says —“The interest in the matier is Pare, but the pablic mast aot to jearn precisely the mtercoupse be- a Wi - There is a aificwit game to be play 48 order to avoid ‘wounding the Span TUCKY REGU- Tetegraphed Exclusively to The Evening Stay, CINCINVATI, Sept, 27.—Ue the 224 mes rede into Lancaster, cousty, Kentucky, took a colered man from jail and hung him. Thesame rs. afew gn whi Waiter B. Sutton and Mr. Hutehinson, and ordered them tw rave the country, ty THOMAS. + Telegraphed Exclusively to The Eveniag Star. Havana, Sept. 1. Advices received from ADMIRAL POOR af SEA. Telegrophed Ezclumvely lo The Becming Star, Naw York, Sept.2’.—Admirai Poor, the re- cently assigned commander of the North Atlantic squadron, went aboard the Powhatan Priday,and sailed for Key West yesterday. ————___. FROM ST. DOMINGe. HAVANA, Sept. 2.—Advices trom St. Domin- go to the 9tb instant reports that Baez tbe revels who were oon ae Am The news of the detest of Saluave. ally, was sorrowtally received by the parusans. Baez's latter's ee MARINE DISASTER. Exclusively to The Evening Star. Havana, Sept. 2—The Tasmania, trom was disabled im @ burricane on the B tof the 17th, and it was expected thar it take four Gays for repairs. DisTUREING TEB Deav.—1he keeper of the “St. Lousis Catholic »" near Louls- lie, Ky., was aroused on Tuesday last rh one o'clock by the barking of and a) Going out to ascertain OFFICIAL. Laws Passed by the Sixty-Seventh Council of Washington City, D.C. AN ACT defining the duties of the dent of public schools, and for o! ve it enacted by the Boardof Aldermen and Boart Common Council of the City of Washingt That it shall be the daty of tae so eat inten pur- superintendent of public schools tw carry into execuuon the Tules and regulations of the Board of Public Schools; to visit each sci 8s bis other duties will permit, that obtain, as far as practicabie, F i ily