Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1863-12-12
waits OF Gossip from San
Francisco.
By JAY wHIPPLE.


DEAR Lutte 1t has been long time since
have written you a letter. which may be ae-
counted for by two reasons-partly for the
want of time, and partly because | was in no
humor to write again until I had received 8
letter from you, if but q brief one. and that
too written in pencil marks. As such an one
has been received / forget past differences and
cheerfully proceed to pen another, meagre
/ though 1t may be.
! Now, in the fall of the year San Francisco
is all aglow with business. The streets are
/ crowded, the stores are crowded, the hotels
are crowded. the theatres are crowded in
fact the whole, city is crowded, aud all pass
/ ers-by are crowded together.
/ Montgomery Street is now one grand piano.
rama of handsome woraen with " fashionable
trails" and good looking men particularly
those of the latter species, who wear their
duizzing glasses and part their " har" down
the middle.
| AS l said before, the hotels and theatres
are crswded TO repletion. Now admit that
! theatres and hotels appear to have no special
| connection with each other, yet here one
thing may be said Of them both. At this
moment they are making fort unes for those
engaged in them more expeditiously than any
other business in the city.
AS for hotels, you would be fortunate if you
obtained a room in any respectable one with
out bespeaking it in advance
The boarding houses are ten times more
numerous than the hotels, and they are all
crowded. Now hotels are DING up every
day, old ones are being enlarged, ard private
houses are being altered to boarding houses.
The Russ House charge $ls per week for
board, Occidental $50. and the Lick $25.-
They are the best hotels in the city, and all
are making fortunes. There are hundreds Of
other respectable houses. counting the great
and small, besides the good, bad and indlfer-
| eat
In the theatrical world, managers as well
as artists are reapng a rich harvest. Hiss
Adah Isaac Nenkin has been playing MAJ
zepa at McClure's Opera House, and has
drawn immense houses. Her make-up and
style of acting is particularly attractive. and
well suited to a California audience AS he
(she) is dashed TO the fiery stecd," and goes
whirling over mountains. aud lcaping from
cliff to cliff. she brought down the housa,"
and many am " honest miner" gave eacula-
ton TO words more expressive than classical.
"She is trump r. " bully boy !"
In few days she goes to Virginia City to
| c.
ell alias Orpheus Keer, is permitted to accom-
pany her. She enjoys the reputation Of being
a very strong minded woman but when this
"literary cuss'' married her in Baltimore, she
promised her dear husband Ito keep eff the
STAGE" promise she complacently complied
with until the hnOey was over, and
then she very actress-like informed Mr.. keer
she was gong to take a TOUR through Cali
fornia to play hazzcpa, and if he did not
choose to go with her he might stay in Balti-
mere. He decided 10 go.
Mrs. Julia Dean Hayne.an actress of world
wide celebrity. is resident of this city, ard
frequently plays TO San Francisco sudicnee.
DIR. Hayne, her husband, is a nephew of the
OiiNC uiStlit uiSHSd H. nv VI AOu1h
There are number of persons living in
this city whose names are not entirely unfa-
miliar. Butterworth. who figured rather con-
spicuously III the Sickles tragedy VIM. Car
ney Jones, who has been an eisinent lawyer,
and who married the daughter of Thomas H.
Benton Judge McCarkle. an ex-member Of
Congress from Kentucky Vandorn, who is a
brother to the rebel General; Starr King. a
Bostonian, and the most eloquent divine and
speaker on the Pacific Coast; Beriah Brown,
editor of the Democratic Press" paper
recently started in this city; a son of Sena-
tor Baker, who is sporting character, and Is
considered a degenerate son of an ilustrious
sire; besides, might enumerate many other
distinguished persons whose names are not
entirely unknown TO fortune and to fame.
Ross Brown, the happy and inter esting
correspondent of Harper's Monthly, has been
featuring heare.
That "phunny fellow" A. Ward, is expec-
ted here every day. aud doubtless will create
a sensation.
Upon being telegrapheo from here what he
would take for thirty nights. he answered,
,' Brandy and Water" He can find it here
in abundance, and if only taken in small
quantities, it will puzzle him to spell "goak."
San Francisco, Cal, Oct. &c. 1868.