The Sierra citizen., 1855-01-13
San Francisco Correspondence.
SAN FRAxc1sco,
j IN. 4fh. 1855. {

reply. Your order for news and gossip
will be indilf.rently filled up this time, as
the manufacturers Of that article-~I mean
the active jaws of the news-mongefs, are
mostly shut By the extraordinary dearth
and high price of the raw material-I
mean incident. In vain you chat with
your washerwoman, or whisper mysteri-
ously with Capt. O., Of the Custom House,
or X. 7. 2. of the Union; they are dumb.
Dnlness reigns, and the reading public"
yawn over clippings from our exchanges. /"
In the last number Of your journal I
notice sharp attack ON the Steam 81 ip
Companies. 1t will interest You perhaps
to learn why the journals Of this city do
not attack this formidable and ruinous
monopoly; they wish to retain the adyer.
tisements of the companies and the priv
ilege of free passage which has hitherto
been given to editors and journalists
These gentlemen Of the press wish, at all
events, to secure for themselves door of
escape by sea, in case they meet with ad.
verse fortune here; to attack the compa-
nies is to cut off their own rear. They
are like the soldiers of Mexico, who keep
o door of escape open at the back Of the
fortress, in order to feel always genial
glow of comfort and security behind. /
must make an exception here, in favor
of the Evening Journal friend Wash
burns paper, which has gallantly attacked
the steam monopolists, and consequently
expects to "stay in California" for some
time yet, which is all right-the longer
the better. The Journal is fine paper,
able and honest.
have not yet done with the steamers.
You will be pleased to hear that new
route is just opened ccross the State of
Honduras, 900 miles north of the Mica
ragua route,) and that the famous Commo-
dore Vanderbilt, who has broken down
so many monopolies, is getting up a new
line to go by it. Your old acquaintance,
W. V. Wells, Esq, formerly the talented
city editor of the Wing aud Advertiser,
has been down into Central America, to
make survey of the new route, and re-
port its feasibility. l have seen letters
from him in which he pronounces the new
transit Commonly called "Squire's route"
as it was first proposed and surveyed by
that gentleman) to be far superior, in
every respect to that of Panama and Mic
aragua; besides reducing the Isthmus
voyage less than twenty days. There will
be great rush to Honduras and Califor-
mia, by the new line, as it is perfectly
healthy, and the passage will not cost half
as much as by the old fever, monopoly
boats. e
BY the by, what do the people of Sierra
County think of the new overland project
of a Stage Line? It is spoken of here
with en- husiasm. There is already mail
and express line from ST. Louis to indie
pendence, and the rest is easy. Adams &
Go. will carry packages, money and letters
by this line. 1t will be God-scnd to
the western peoTlc.
New Years day passed off with the
New York ceremony Of making calls"
The streets were muddy, and umbrellas in
hourly requisltion under changeable sky.
No ladies to be seen in the streets, of
course; each one remaining at home to
receive her acquaintance. Not TO call
is to cut-you must visit all or none.-
Some made sixty, an hundred, two hun
dred visits! a great labor; and when you
reflect upon the necessity of slipping glass
of wine at every house-60, 100, 200, glas-
ses OF Sherry! Consequently in the af-
ternoon the streets were full of gentlemen
sprung, tight, boozy, slowed, raced, half
seas over, brick in the hat, Tired, convivial,
oscillating, faddled, muddled, three sheets
in the wind, balmy, tippled, top heavy
and all other shades, grades, style and de-
grees of the fashionable weakness, engen-
dered by Sherry; from gentlemen gay to
gentlemen swine-drunk; from the parlor
to the gutter. And so the New Year
came in with his giddy pate full ofliquor
and woke next morning with ringing in
his ears, roaring in his head, a fur in his
mouth, o fire in his stomach, thorn in his
liver and ten-penny nail in his belly; as
cross as Ajax, and totally out of humor
and snappish.
You will find full account of the gale
in THIS quarter, which commenced on the
evening of the lst, in your exchanges, not
the gale, but the account of it. A number
Of houses were blown over, unroofed and
dischimnied. Business is dull, but the
rain has come, and with it we look for
trade and prosperity. ScRuccs.
New PEN-)ur friend r. H Ha;nnc ~