Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-12-27
OUR SAN FRANCISCO NEWSLETTER.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20, 1862.

FRIEND GORDON 1t is raining here, this
morning A heavy fog overhangs, and coating
of mud underles the city. We have ceased to
look for the "rainy season." however The ex-
traordinary watereness of last winter will be apt
to be compensated by an unusually pleasant
season until towards spring.
Eastward Steamers.
You heard that the opposition steamer, Noses
Idylor, broke shafe was dismasted, aud re.
turned after having been two days out. The
Company have chartered the old steamer
Heymana, which, together with p. NJ S. S. Sonora,
will leave this afternoon for Panama. Very few
tickets have been sold yet, and it is presumed
that passage will be very low There are not
many passengers wanting to go.
The Disaster at tFredericlksburg. r.
All the newspapers are threatening dire ven
geance on the scalIywag who is responsible for
the butchery at Fredericksburg Be it Old Abe,
IIaleck or Burnside, It's all the same Just let
em get sight of the rascal, and he'll catch it
very summarily but they don't venture to in
dicate any particular supposed maleiactor. The
general opinion is that HIalleck will have to
stand up or tumble down under the hefty load of
responsibility People are beginning TO remem-
Der that when living here, nobody ever accused
IIalleck of possessing any extraordinary talents
for anything outside of the " Flint aud Sharp "
law practice of Halleck, Peachy & Billings
1t is remembered that Edmund Randolph on one
occasion made the memorable remark that Hal.
leck would make irstrate schoolmaster," but
it is now doubted whether he could have arrived
at the celebrity of Mr.. John SWEET, had his en-
terprise been divided in the line of pedagoging.
In short, the senior partner in the firm of Hal
leck, Peachy u Billings is decidedly unpopular
this foggy morning, but the newspapers dare not
say so, for Halleck, Peachy Il Billings own Mont
gomery Block, and ever so many corner lots
The popular supposilion is that the General got
his appointment by compiling a military alma
nae, and by a system of boring at the White
House, in which Doctor Rab6 failed so signally.
The Doctor, who is said to have gone to Wash
ington with the benevolent intention of whipping
Old Abe, has got back in no very good humor.
lie is particularly severe on the Administration.
He says te whole Capinet ought to pc poot
between te mill stones of te Cots and crount ferry
schlow unit ferry dne." Such is patriotism If
the Doctor hadn't been ousted from the Marshal
ship, we have no reason to believe that he would
have made that savage observation. But Others
besides the Doctor feel humiated and mortified
that thousands of brave men have been driven to
slaughter where half million of men could not
have succeeded 1t seems to be a strange gem
| hot 1Nua tbpan
until $4,000 rebels can completely entrench
themselves, then to attack and be utterly re-
pulsed. Thirteen thousand is the number killed
and wounded, but if the truth were known it is
doubtless more. Some think this disaster will
result in the restoration of Mcclellan but the
Republic has had enough of his generaship for
the present-never enough of men. enough of
supplies, or enough of shoes or enough of some
thing else. If the responsibility of this tremen-
dous slaughter falls on Burnside-which is i'm.
probable-I am inclined to think Sige OF Banks
will be the "coming man."
wild Cats stirred Out.
The Nevada Territory Incorporation Act has
&" busted out " the stock jobbers who did such
smashing business in Washoe stocks, and there is
great grief on Montgomery street The act re-
quires majority of mine-owners to reside in the
Territory, and to have their business offices
there. This will put stop to dealing in wild cat
stock, as purchasers may first examine claims to
be sold One individual here invested largely
in celebrated claim, and on writing to his
agent at Virginia City, was told that the ground
wasn't worth two d-ns an acre. This is very
good illustration for a hundred-perhaps thou
sand other cases of stock-swindling.
The AerOiite.
The learned pundits are still pow-wowing over
the aerolite sent from Arizona by Col. Carleton,