Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-12-20
OUR SAN FRANCISCO NEWs.IETTER
SAY FRANcrsco. Dec. 13. 1862.

SAN FRANcIsco, Dec. 10, 1862.
FRIEND GoRDoN About a week ago we had
day's rain, and every body thought the wet season
was at hand but the weather has cleared off and
is quite pleasant, though little colder than
usual The chief local event of the w q, has
been the departure Of the
"CaIiGornia One q ,,rsuo.,,
Who' after oe'ng ieasI''. and speeched at, and
mustered nearly oy tbeir logs. at length Got or
'or 'ne ""'s' on the steamer Golden Age. They
are h',t, Colder like looking set of men, and
WIZ dodbtless do as good service as only hun
dred men can in the vast armies of which the
company will be only an atom 1t seemed to me
that the immense TODD got up here over the
matter of sending one hundred men to the war
made certain busy ones look not little riaicu
lous You know We have certain number Of
" platform statuary " who always crowd them-
selves into public sight on all occasions they
are never Of much account 10 any other respect /;
but this has been busy week, q harvest time Of
local notorieiy for them. The two steamers took
away some 1900 passengers, about equally d.
vided The Moses Taylor's prices were $3.50 in
cabin and $50 in the steerage the other adver-
tsed SlG3 for first cabin, but I'm incf.9d TO
fbink that towards the last tickets were sold for
less. The steamers did not leave until several
bours after the hour appointed TO sail and
think that in the interval late passengers got off
for less. The Steamship Offices were surrounded
with crowds during two days, generally waiting
for the lowest reduction.
Homestead Speculation.
You will see by the city papers that there is q
great rage for organizing /" Homestead Ass0ca
tions " just now, with immense fictitious capital
seldom less than 100000 Do not let your
readers be deceived they are generally "Wild-
cat" c0ntrivances to sell worthless tracts of
land for ten times their value, and at the expense
Of the poor. Many of the directors of these
Peter Funk" associations are bankrupts aud
picayune speculators who couldn't buy and pay
for square rod on the bleakest sand hill
Washoe stock sharpers have played that out and
gone into the Homestead line.
LcgisIative Condition.
1t is said that an effort will be made in the Leg
isature to unite Union Democrats with hard 4bell
Sccessonsts for the purpose of electing Speaker
Of the Assembly. That, it is expected, will
create a nucleus, round which will be formed a
peace PARTY, TO be called Democratic, AMI to be
controlled by the old chiyalry leaders who were
so ignominiously condemned and rejected at last
election. 1t is the same old ec0n,tuction
enterprise attempted last spring with such uusat-
isfactory results. But the seccsh are not to be
discouraged they are ind0mtable; they never
give up. Emboldened by the recent Eastern
elections, they come forth again from their hu-
initiation and abandonment, with their fayorite
olive branch Of peace, which they offer first to
the Union Democrats and next to the rcb,ls or
first to their 80 Southern brethren " aud next TO
the Union Democracy il makes very little diff
ference which, so that some sort Of party is
patched up which will do TO call Democratic 1t
is right that this miserable dcker should be made
known 10 the people before the representatives
leave their homes, that there may be fair un-
derstandiDg. If any of the Assemblymen who
were elected on the Union ticket are going to
sell themselves to the sccesh Moloch, the infamy
may as well be known at first. ! am perfectly
aware that Mr. Pers0nette, Of your county, is
incapable Of having any part or lot in such Judas
like bargain, but your paper will serve to warH
others in the northern part of the State of The
peculiar game now on the board. What tell
You may be relied on as exact truth the success
of the scheme is another affair. ! do not believe
that any such disreputable arrangement can be
effected. Members Of Assembly will hardly be
willing to be iepudated and publicly dishonored
by their constituents as they would inevitably
be II guilty Of breach of confidence SO fragrant.
The Democratic party cannot be re-Organized in
this State on peace.basis until the end of the
rebellion. The spirit of the California people is
averse to il the popular heart beats time to the
music of the Union They will haze no conf
dence in any party that includes the peace-hypo-
critics who have always been ready to yield the
rebels all they ask The result of elections in
New York and elsewhere cannot change the fixed
Union principle Of the people Of California who
are in favor of war aud nothing but war until
the last rebel shall have been dirarmed. II is
the supremest folly to expect that party or
ganized on any other basis can be successful in
the next State election and whatever membar of
the Legislature is seduced into fellowship with
peace Democrats will return to his betrayed con
stituents ruined and dshouored
The Pacific Railroad.
The Sacramento, Marysville and PlaceryiIie
people are having big eight about the location
of the Poetic railroad, and the people of Santa
Clara aud Stockton are not idle By too mnch
greed the sacramenOns have overreoched them
selves and stirred up formidable opposition
Matters went on smOothly enough for while
nohl ehlzen OF PlacerviIle come to this city
f. A Bee, Eeq.,-tO look after the interests of
his county. Two days after his arrival II became
manifest that immense heas had got into the ears
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