Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-12-13
ouR SAN FRANCISCO NEWSLETTER.
Introductory.


ure to comply with your request, and, insomuch
as can, supply you each week with an interest
ing news letter, embodyng brief mention of cur
rent events, together with whatever remark may
seem Apostle and necessary. Your readers will
doubtless not hold you responsible for any sup
nosed beresies to be found in my communica
tions and shall take care that nothing in them
will provoke the dsapprobation of citizens who
love their country and who are JEALOUS of its
honor. Your space will he very little occupied
with mere opinions; my chief design is the mar
ration of facts many of which. at that distance
from the commercial metropolis. might escape
your observation, or need little explanatory
remark. 1t is reported here that parties of more
enterprise than discretion intend to start another
newspaper in Weavervlle. If put in motion on
a seccsh projection. the publishers will have a
good time, If have not misunderstood the peo
pie of Trinity county. Any sort of peace party
ism, however disguised, won't win there and II
a patriotic. faithful and intelligent newspaper is
what the people of your county require, ihry
beve that same in the dimensions and personality
Of the JOURNAL. / will take the liberty OF as
suripg your readers, friend Gordon, that there is
not a mountain paper in California that is better
esteemed among its cotemporaries, or which more
creditably represents an intelligent community.
| have seen This sentiment expressed by numbers
of your cotemporaries, and | am sure it is cor
rect If the people of Trinity county do not
lose sight of their true interest, they will stand
oIJ of
rather than encourage an enterprise which, in
the nature of things, must end in disaster and
financial ruin to its projectors.
Triniiarians in Town.
A few days ago had the pleasure of meeting
our mutual friend W. W. Tnnin, who lately re-
turned from visit to Sonora, whittier he went
in search of health He has altogether recov
cred, aud looks exceedingly well. This evening
| had the good luck to encounter Dan Bennett
Esq, who had just arrived from Weaverville. |
was astonished to hear his account of the cold
weather there. Here it is warm and pleasant ;
we have no need of fire, except occasionally of
an evening, or early in the morning. am not
advised whether Dan. intends to remain long.
The annual Incoming.
Great numbers of people coming from the
interior to reside here during the winter. Living
is cheap. and the weather is so pleasant in
winter that an aggregate of thousands come here
to pass the winter months In consequence of
this unusual influx good rooms in central parts of
the city are hard to fnd and high. A small par
lor and bed room in a respec table lodging house
is considered worth from $25 to $35 month,
when located the chief business streets. OF
course, rooms in good hotels are much higher.
1t will, perhaps, astonish some of your readers
to hear that very good dinner can be had the
restaurants here for two bits, and quite a sufi
cheney for an ordinary appetite for one half that
small sum. Thousands dine " munfcpntly > on
bit, not for the want of more money, tut he
cause dime will procure all they desire to eat.
The Lick House and the Russ House are the
crack hotels al present. They both immense
buildings, about 200 feet in length by l60 wide,
and three stores high the first story occupied
by stores Of great spendor. The Occidental an
other large establishment, also on Montgomery
street, will soon be opened by Leland, the noted
hotel man of New York 1t is intended to sur.
pass the others, and to be the fashionable house.
improvements.
If you have not been in San Francisco you
wouldn't know the place. The progress of i'm.
provement, especially within year, has been
absolutely astonishing. In walk, to day. |
counted nineteen new brick buildings, either in
progress or undergoing the finishing touches of
the painter and upholster. OF wooden houses
the number is legion, extending out toward the
Mission Dolores, and even be yond The city has
now fully hundred thousand population. Nearly
all the old wooden buildings on Montgomery
street have given place to tall and imposing
brick structures, handsome in design and sub
stanlial in workmanship. Among the later i'm
provements are the Episcopal Church and Jesuit
College ; the former is the finest example Of
church architecture on this coast. The latter is
also magnificent building, more notable Tor
magnitude and strength than for beauty of de-
sign. The cornerstone of a new Unitarian
church was laid few days ago, where the elo
quent Starr King will, be heard, after awhile.
There are tbirly-seven church edifces in this
city ; several other congregations borrow places
to worship
The "Caiifornia One Hundred.u
Capt. Reeds company of one hundred picked
"Cafornia Rangers is complete, and will sail
for the scene of war, on the 1Ith. Gov. Andrew.
OF Massachusetts, telegraphed that S20, 900 had
been appropriated by that glorious old State, aud
authorized its payment here for equipment and
as bounty; $40 to be paid for passage, $40 for
uniform and the balance SlI0 each, to be paid
to the men. don't suppose that hundred more
soldier looking men were ever seen together in
the armies of the world and of ages. 1t is mel
ancholy to think of such splendid types of man
hood being mangled by traitors bullets E.W.
Woodward, of your town, is one of the elect.
The Wnr-POiiiics.
The telegraph news, this evening, would indi
cate that the rebels are in hopes of effectinr a
hollow peace, or at least an armistice through the
John Van Buren-t Fernando Wood sort of Demo
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