The weekly Butte record., 1862-12-13
MISCELLANEOUS
San FRANcIsoo. Dec. ., 81.
San Francisco CorresnondSences

weather, inaugurating the rainy season. went
into effect this morning Visible consequences
up to 1880 =. N, hustliug among street re-
pairers. and collapse in the criuoline depart-
ment. Wirra, wirra = Montgomery-eav
Montgomery-isn't nigh the street il was ves-
terday. People wear darkly. deeply" mot
d" beautifully p blue look. peculiar to cloudy
weather.
Any amount Of people from the interior are
temporarily sojourning at the Bay = Mer-
chants getting in their winter supplies-lucky
fellows who own undeveloped millions in gold
and silver lodes-oihers attracted by the low
rates Of homeEard- -bound steamers, etc, etc.
Among the sensations of the day, con-
spieuous is the new company of Rangers under
Captain Reed. who viii 20 East ou the next
steamer. They are a splendid body of men.
( TO appearances, and will undoubtedly do good
service. Their outfit IS cgeditable to the Iber-
ality Of San FranciscaBs, but this thing Of
joining the Dashaways and undergoing bless
ing and praying operation at the hands of that
clerical mouniebank, T. Starr King. your cor
respondent respectfully submits, is running
the thing in the ground" Temperance is a
1 good thing, but the idea of q cold water soldier
is simply ridiculous and ridicuously simple to
one who has been TO the wars" PRAYING
and preaching are good things toe, and real
nice - parson is rather an ornament to civil
lied community, and. like Mrs. Toodles' door
plate, handy to have about the house :" but
from the time first read, in Holy Writ, of the
hypoerite who thanked God he was not as
other men, down to the last abolition sermon
of his ineal descendant, II STARR have
despised their stock He is joined to his
idols = We will " let him alone"
\ decision of Judge Reynolds Of the Fourth
District Court appears in the morning papers.
1t has especial reference TO the city slip proper
ty, and the Judge holds that the ordinance IN.
der which the property was sold was void :;
that no legal sale could have taken place. and
that purchasers could acquire no right to prop
erty sold without authority of law; and, fur
thermore, that the money alleged to have been
paid over by the holders, was not legally re-
ceiyable by the City Treasurer. If this decis.
ion is sustained by the Supreme Court, the city
will be saved great many postage stamps
say over a million of dollars. The slippers are
machly" worried, and serves EN- right"
So say the people
An extraordinary expose appears in the
Call, Of this morning, in reference to the pilot
question, involving the fair fame of Stanford
Bros particularly that of the Gubernatorial
branch of the firm. 1t seems that the Cover
nor rants rotes. and through the influence Of
his brother, who has assumed control of the
Board of Pilot Commissioners, the public veal
must play second fiddle to His Excellency's
aspirations for the L. 5. Senate.
Apropos of Senatorial matters, rumor has it
that Conness has the inside track Park is
spoken of by the knowing ores as having no
chance. He is very quiet, but, for all that, Is
dangerous cause why, he has got muslo
cash. If you think his money isn't hard to
beat, refer you to the defeated candidates for
the Legislature in Mariposa county.
1 see You have received and read the
last " great state paper!!," 1t is about the
silIiest production that ever emanated from his
sublimely sappy brain. 1t is even a little too
much for the toady variety of the California
press. which has invariably chaunted halleuiah
to everything emanating from that quarter
Had the elections East shown different result.
they would never had the nerve to criticise
that mosterly production. Methinks the day
has passed when patriotism was measured by
songs Of praise to old John Browns soul and
siekly hattery of a notoriously incompetent
Executive. R1cuEIIEU.
CARRIED Our THEIR THRFArs.-About one
hundred Of the six hundred employees of the
Sehuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, refused. at
the late election, to vote the abolition ticket,
oil rrrl