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Beyond the Rockies in the Seventies
And Other Reminiscences.
BY CHARLES CARTER HAY
Author of "The Youngest Soldier Under Pat Cleburne's Blag.”
Part 2.
CHAPTER 1.
EN ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA ON
BOARD “THE OCEAN QUEEN.”
Early in the fall of 18G6, at the
earnest invitation of ray brother,
Dr. Hay. whose home was in San
Francisco, I started lor the land, of
gold. Perhaps a little disappoint
ment in a love affair made me so
prompt to accept his invitation to
leave my native state and sojourn
a while in the “Queen State of the
Pacific Slope.”
Going to New York City, I took
passage on “The Ocean Queen”
and sailing down the beautiful
bay and through “The Narrows”
was soon riding the waves of the
Atlantis, which produced such a
oominotiion within me that I was
for a while incapable of appreciat
ing anything but my own uncom
fortable condition. Fortunately
my sea sickness was of short dura
tion and I was soon able to go out
upon deck and form the acquain
tance of other passengers. Some of
these had just been through an ex
periment similar to ray own, while
others had not been sick at all.
Being a little shy, I at first held
ny peaee and listened to what the
others had to say. 1 soon found
that I was the only Southern man
on board, but rejoiced to note that
there were sevoial who sympa
thized with me and who were filled
with admiration for the heroic
fight made by the gallant sons of
the south for home and native land.
Among these was a genial son of
Erin, a Mr. \Y. M. Nicholls, who
owned considerable property in
San Francisco. There were on
board several ex Federal soldiers
and citizens. The latter were the
loudest talkers and said by far the
larger part of the disagreeable
things that naturally annoyed me.
When 1 heard my native section
maligned and our motives misrep
resented the fires of indignation
burned in my soul, but for a time
1 restrained myself and took com
fort from calling to mind Scott’s
familiar lines,
"Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said
This is mjj.ow n, my native land?
Finally a young upstart, the
would-be leader of the citizen
crowd, approaching me in a rather
pompous style inquired: “Sir,
may 1 ask where you are from!”
1 felt like the man who was “an
orphan and far from home.” or
like the fellow all the way from
Pike, who, upon being asked his
name replied: “Well, itmought be
Smith, then agin it moutn’t.” But
Southern pride eaine to ray rescue
and I answered, “I am from Geor
gia.” #
“What! front Georgia!” ex
claimed all in a chorus.
The young man stepped, back
and eyeing me from head to foot,
said: “Why! you look like a gen
tleman.”
1 felt that 1 was and at the same
time felt somewhat indignant at
the patronizing manner in which
his last remark was made, but Mr.
Nicholls, who on more than one oc
casion, showed himself my friend,
led me aside, and the war of worsts
was deferred to another time.
On the next day, when the fact
that there was a live rebel on board
had been noised abroad, quite a
crowd gathered around, when the
same young man approached to be
gin hostilities.
“You were, of course, too young
to be in the rebel army,” was the
first remark to which i unhesitat
ingly replied: “I had the honor
to serve in the confederate army
and claim the proud distinction of
being the youngest soldier that
marched under the llag of Pat
Cleburne.”
After some other sparring he
asked, “Who fired the fiist gun?”
“John Brown,” I replied, and
gave as a reason that but for the
mistrust of the republican party
throughout the south, occasioned
by the conduct of that villain and
its hearty endorsement by so many
prominent men of that sectional
party which in 1861 was alxmt to
assume the reins of government,
the states of south would never
have gone into the secession move
ment. I then proceeded to show
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what old John Brown attempted
and what his success would have
meant to the south. Finding that
the sympathy of many of the by
standers was with me, he shifted
his ground and inquired, “Why
did the southern people wish to
kill Mr. Lincoln?”-
In reply, I said: “I have never
yet met the southern man who
justified that act or who desired it
done. Southern men fought in
the open and did not resort to as
sassination. 31 r. Davis, the pres
dent of the confederates states, on
whom you tried to fix a share of
the guilt of Mr. Lincoln's death,
has always expressed regret that
such a thing should be done and
disclaims any part in it for himself
or his people.” Here hostilities
closed and on the rest of our voy
age I found many northern friends.
At Panama we were transferred
by an eighteen mile railway across
the isthmus to a steamer on the
Pacific side and thence we
had smooth sailing to the “Golden
Gate.”
Just before entering port, a party
of my newly made northern friends
pledged me in the sparkling cham
pagne and called on me for a toast.
“In view of all that has been said
and written, ” I responded, “Here’s
to George Washington and Lee—
the greatest rebel!” Some were
displeased, but others laughed and
drank *to the toast.
While I do not admit that one
soverign state can rebel against
another and claim that no southern
man was a rebel by reason of siding
with his native state, yet, remem
bering the patriots of the revolu
tion who were rebels, I refuse not
the title but wear it proudly.
"Rebel! ’tis a holy name;
The name our father bore
When battling in the cause of right
Against the tyrant in his might,
In the dark days of yore.’’
The once despised Cromwell,
whose bones were dug up and hung
in chans at Tyburn, is now one of
the acknowledged heroes of Eng
land.
We of the fair southland were
once reproached as rebels, but now
even northern writers glory in our
fame and proudly hail Lee and
Jackson and their noble lieutenants
and soldiers as Americans and fel-
low countrymen.
Even Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, who wrote “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin,” when after the war she
made her winter home in Florida
pronounced the southern people
“among the most enlightened, hos
pitable and enterprising” in all the
world.
CHAPTER 11.
SAN FRANCISCO.
Upon landing in San Frandsco
I first went to the oiliee of Rev. O.
P. Fitzgerald, then editor of a
Methodist paper and later a
bishop ofthe Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, who kindly accom
panied me to the home of my only
brother, Dr. Hay, whom 1 had not
seen since 1859.
San Francisco, now a city of
343,000 inhabitants, of whom
about 17,000 are Chinese, had at
the time of my visit, about 100,000
inhabitants of whom a considerable
element were Chinese. At a later
period these Asiatics poured in by
the thousands until the people of
California took alarm and under
the lead of the democratic party
called a halt and secured the pas
sage by the congress of the United
States of a bill restricting Chinese
immigration. No wiser measure
has ever been adopted. If the
Chinese had free access to our
country, they would swarm iu like
locusts, bring in all the foul di
seases peculiar to the Orient. Then
we should have not only a negro
problem, which has cursed our
country enough, but a Chinese
problem also.
There was a time when some
southern people thought of em
ploying Chinese labor, and an Ala
bama friend of mine strongly ad
vocated the idea. But nothing
could be more injurious to our
country. Iu the negro we have a
buyer and a tax payer, but the
Chinamen even has his bones sent
back to China for burial.
In 1867 I engaged iu the dry
goods and hotel business in Vallejo
(Val la-ho) a town named for a
general who was the first Spanish
governor. This town lay across
the bay from Mare Island Navy
Yard, upon which it depended
for sustenance. From the San
Francisco wharf to Vallejo there is
much to interest an observant per
son. Bearing across the bay with
the city and its miles of shipping
to the rear; Fort Alcatraz, the Go
lden (late and Angel Island to the
left Oakland and the whole Contra
Costa shore and Coat Island to the
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right and the approaching bluffs
along the estuary ahead, all com
bined with the rapidity yet quiet
ness of the voyage and the usually
pleasant evening, to interest the
passenger and make him thought
ful. During my stay in Vallejo
there was considerable excitement
over a congressional election. Sen
ator Aaron A. Sargent in the
course of a speech said: “( itizens
of Solano County, if you do not
send John M. Coghlan to congress,
you will see the grass growing in
your streets.” Why? Aaron A.
Sargent was chairman of the Naval
Appropriation Committee, and it
was in liis power to cut off the ap
propriation for the Navy yard,
upon which the littlg town de
pended. The people saw lit to
elect the democratic candidate, J.
K. Lnt-troll; the appropriation was
cut off, and where the street ears
had run the grass did literally
grow.
During my stay in San Francisco
I met a peripatetic, eccentric in
dividual who was known as “Em
peror Norton,” a title bestowed
upon him from the hallucination
which possessed him, that he was
an emperor and the citizens his
subjects. He was a harmless, tac
iturn sort of genius, who always
dressed “ala militaire,” with huge
epaulettes and much gold lace. He
was as inseparable from his sole
companions, two dogs, “Bummer”
and “Buzarus,” as the Mexican is
from his “Quien Sabe,” or as
Brigham Young was from his hat.
Whenever so inclined he would
walk into a restaurant or cafe at
tended by two companions, order
a meal for the three, after complet
ing which he would coolly take his
departure without settling for the
service rendered. Wherever night
overtook him, there he lodged, and
no one ever thought of asking him
for mnney. If ever he spoke to
any one further than to make
known his wants, it has never been
known.
Within about eighty miles of
San Francisco in Saeramenta. In
this charming* city and for forty
miles eastward the eye is delighted
with varieties of fragrant fiowers,
trees ladcned with fruit and vines
burdened with luciousgrapes. The
road winds its way to the summit,
first on one side then through to
the other of a ridge, passing
through a deep cut here, a tunnel
there, then over a trestle bridge so
high that it makes one dizzy to look
to the land below. After passing
the summit tunnel for several miles,
the road hugs the mountain almost
perpendicularly. Far below lies
Donner Lake, so called from.
a family of that name, who, being
caught here in a storm, perished
in the dreadful blizzard.
A boat ride on this lake in spring
or summer is a pleasure never to
be forgotten. A look in any di
rection in this vicinity impresses
one with the immensity of the
works of God. and as he views also
the great works of man he is ready
to believe the truth proclaimed in
scripture that man was created in
the image of God.
IN SANTA BARBARA.
Down in southern California, in
the beautiful, sun-kissed Carpen
taria Valley—a valley so safely
sheltered by the Santa Ynez Moun
tains—a young Spanish woman
named Joquin Lugodi Ayala
planted a small grape twig in the
year 1842.
And as the years followed one
another that twig grew and grew,
till today it is the largest grape
vine in the world. At the ground
the trunk, which long ago ceased
to be a vine, measures 10 feet in
circumference. At a distance of
five feet above the ground its girth
is 7 feet 11 inches. The trellis,
which is completely hidden by
branches and runnel's, is lOOx
110 feet in dimensions, thus cover
ing about one-fourth of an acre of
ground.
It is claimed that a few years
ago, before the vine had undergone
a thorough pruning, 800 persons
stood under its deep shade at one
time, and, to quote an old Cali for.
nian who was one of that company,
“nobody was crowded tor elbow
room.”
The vine is still in a vigorous
condition and yields an enormous
amount of grapes. In 1895 its
crop was weighed, and it actually
bore 10 tons of grapes. Of eourse,
this did not include the bushels of
grapes that had been picked off by
visitors and the family that owned
it at that time before that year's
crop was gathered. Some of the
largest clusters are said to have
weighed from 9 to 10 pounds each.
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The local singer was resenting mild
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“How is the landlady this morning?”
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And the other boarder, who was no
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