The Empire County argus., 1854-10-21
Coloma: Saturday, Oct. 81, 1854.
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and none have keener appetite for the genuine ar
ticle than Californiaus themselves At the centre
Of refinement or where refinement ought to be, in
the cities the press deals out large supplies Of un
mitgated humbug daily, about big strikes and
immensely" rich dggings until every body is sick
encd- The next move is visit to the theater where
the most miserable acting may be seen nightly
ever witnessed since the deluge thus large num-
Der of people are humbugged ont Of much precious
time and money. This same humbugging commu-
nifty demanding the aid Of the press of course to
praise and chronicle performances Of the most mis-
cradle and contemplate character as being in point
OF excellence but one removed from Heaven itself.
1t is not at all strange that such community
should make public exhibition Of their toadysm
upon every occasion possible to be invented Silver
pitchers and services Of plate become so COM
mon, and presented by sycophantic satellites with
so little regard to merit as to be nothing more than
tangible receipt that the recipient is q mere wal
king ickspittle or respectable rascal Something
of this kind has been witnessed often on the ocean
Steamships, few cabin passengers having free tick
cts, no doubt, assemble and adopt flaming resou-
tons On behalfo of the passengers, prasng the sump
tOus entertainment afforded them on board and the
wonderful nautical skill Of the Captain winding up
with a presentation Of plate. Now what are the
facts simply this, two thirds Of the passengers on
board are in the seerage and treated to worse fare
and with less attention than thrifty farmer would
presume to infict on his hogs the whole perform
ance being far they are concerned an'absolute
le and SO far as the'publc is concerned an unmti-
gated humbug. To carry out the established fash
ion of this State the free ticket gentry ought now
to assemble in San Francisco and pass column of
resolutions and sing hallelujah in praise of Van
derbilt, not forgetting to present Capt Randall with
magnificently mounted telescope Capt Randall
deserves this much of attention certainly, and had
he run the Yankee Blade ashore upon some one of
the Sandwich Islands he would have been entitled
to two Telescopes
Now If the whole human family were so green
that COW would mistake the race for cabbage
they could and certainly would see through the
transparent humbuggery of plate presentations in
California generally and On board steamships in
particular.
Financially the people swallow humbug freely.
Brokers find no difficulty in making the people be-
heve themselves mighty liberal set of patriots and
so import millions of franc pieces and other coin
worse than shinpasters of paper and lampback
for their accommodation and to ahold them an op-
portunity Of exhibiting their lberality in receiving
it, when after rich harvest is realized the dear
people are convinced of mistake in the value of
francs to the tune of half million.
To complete the costly farce steamship owners
raise the freight gold dust and thus force up the
rate of exchange among bankers to another tune of
half million per annum and BESIDES raise the
price of passage, the increased percentage amount
ing to million and half more per annum and
tor what ! In part to enable the Steamship Com
panies to purchase Commodore Vanderblts ships
at twice their value and to pay fora yachting cx-
eursion of that prince of humbugs, and to enable
interested parties to run a magnificent steamer
ashore in broad daylight in order to humbug the
community with the belief that steamboating is
mighty expensive business and that therefore in
creased prices of freight and passage IS perfectly
right and necessary. If the community would in
yariably hang captains and owners of every steam
ship run ashore an accident of the kind would not
occur once in fifty years
Not content with humbuggng and swindling the
people of California, see these corporate steam
ship associations attempting to humbug and swim
die the nation
With characteristic impudence they present claims
to Congress that would put the blush upon the
most hardened gambler in existence They find
even in the United States Senate tool to open his
mouth in behalfof their exorbitant demands, thus
dsgracing himself and his State in the eyes of all
chrstendom. To complete the cnormity Of the pic
ture we have this same steamship advocate pream-
bulating throughout our State as candidate for
reelection to the United States Senate. The cor
poration on the hand forcing hundreds of thou
sands OF dollars out of our mining population by
increased freight gold dust and increased rates
ofpassage through the medium of an "unholy COM
binaton." The candidate for Senatorial honors on
the o'her hand advocating enormous bills in the |
Senate IN behalf Of the Pacific Mail Steam Ship
Company Tor the use of rotten steamer This is |
another humbug, and fair specimen of "Gwinoi-
dism"
JUDGE FREELoN, of the San Francisco Court of !
Sessions, has directed the attention of the Grand
Jury to the Meiggs frauds, the loss of the Yankee
Blade and the escane of Stata Dr;so,,a.. III u,