Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-12
Our San Francisco Correspondence.
san Francisco, Dec. 8, 1864.

| For a week past we have been rather slow IN
San Francisco, no wonderfully great crimes
having been committed, trade being nearly
dried up for the time being by the we;
weather, and politics being dead and damned
until the next election.
AN OLD rIoSgER GONE.
| Frederick D. Kohler, one Of the early pio-
neers Of San Francisco, the first business
partner Of David C. Broderick in California,
and the first Chief Engineer Of the San
Francisco Fire Department, died at the Russ
House on Tuesday, and was buried Yesterday
BY the California Pioneers and Fire Depart
ment. He was u warm-hearted hale old man,
and will be well remembered by most OF your
readers as the proprietor Of the famous old
"Blue Wing Saloon" on Montgomery street
near Clay. Death has been at work with
| terrible energy among the California pioneers
within the past year, and at the rate they
have been going off of late few more years
none will be left to tell the tale Of the early
settlers of San Francisco.
MINOR INCIDENTS.
Among the minor incidents Of the week,
little matter to the public at large, but deeply
interesting to the parties themselves and their
immediate friends, mention the following:
A ire on Third street, by which an old shell
Of frame building called the Mechanics
Exchange was burned nearly TO the ground,
and John HAYES, one of the dodgers, was
burned to death. Origin Of the FIRE doubtful.
Building well insured. Such things will
happen. A poor devil, Edmund Mccain,
who had worked on a ranch near Santa Clara,
and took horse and sulky In payment, or
part payment for his wages, came to town,
tried to sell his team, could not; started out
into the country and offered it with no better
success, came back to the city discouraged
and fiat broke; put the horse in stable,
footed it back to the hill near the Six Mile
House, on the San Jose or old County Road,
and ended his troubles BY hanging himself on
a tree, to which he was no ornament to be
sure, but which could not refuse TO help him
out Of his troubles. On Thursday evening
last drayman fell from the roof of three
story brick building at the southeast corner
of Montgomery and California streets, and
instead Of being mashed as fat as fap-Jack
on the sidewalk beneath, absolutely went
through the thick redwood planSs and landed
in the cellar without even broken bone to
show for his terrible fall. He is now at work
about the streets as usual. The thing APP
pears at first sight incredible, and l would
no, have believed it il l had not seen the
hole which he made through the planks,
about the size of barrel head. Perhaps
YOU will say YOU wouldn't either. Well l
couldn't blame you il you did, but assure
you nevertheless that it is a fact notwlth-
standing. This case is peculiar, but when
one comes to think Of it, not half as rough
A. 81 h. afToh0 nfa1n
who on his boat blowing up at BAYOU Sara,
went a mile or so into the air-to look after
his carpet-sack suppose-and coming down
rather suddenly, and with some show OF vio-
lence, went head foremost through the roof OF
a shoemaker's shop. Picking himself up,
and shaking himself to get the splinters out
Of his hair, he advanced to the artificer in
bristles, waxed ends, and calf-skin, and SEN
tentiouSly inquired. Whats the damage
The cobler looking up remarked with equal
GOODNESS and breyity, give dollars !" Give
h-l!" replied the captain, growing red in
the face. "this is the hfty-seventh time |
have been blown through building, and
d-n me If you are not the meanest man
have had to settle with yet. l was never
charged over two dollars and half for going
through 4 mans roof before in my life J
Cuss me, stranger, eff don't think you come
from New Jersey" They compromised on
three dollars. In one case am happy to be
able 10 say that the rumors that the owner OF
the property applied to the intelligent assist
ant District Attorney for a warrant for the
arrest of Harrington, the drayman, on a
charge of misdemeanor BY damaging the
sidewalk, but was refused because the ordi-
nance forbid the tearing up" OF the side
walk or driving over it" but was silent on
- 1t Ar,- nnh n
Harrington in getting up remarked that 1t
was something Of fall, but nothing to what
he had experienced in mining stocks, were
both incorrect. AIS well that ends well.
THE FLIGHT OF THE cHIvs.
The town is no longer laughing over the
adventures of the horse doctor who was
hoaxed into challenging livery stable man
to fight a duel at thirty PAGES with shot-guns
about a woman neither Of them ever spoke
word to, for we have struck something better
in the shape of a neatly Autographed circu-
lar of the white Mans Colonization So
ciety." A Chiy. institution exclusively, as
YOU will see hereafter. This circular bears
date, August /, 1864, and was evidently is
sued for the purpose Of providing for refuge
for broken down and disappointed politicians
who scented defeat on the gale in advance,
and was intended exclusively for circulation
among those who were "sound on the goose,
Unfortunately, one Of the parties entrusted,
with copy Of this precious document fell In
with a city reporter, and the secret was
wormed out of him. The preamble Of this
model prospectus is slightly rich. It sets
forth that the Association is formed for the
purpose Of providing an asylum where
civil and religious liberty shall be fully en-
loved freedom from the horrors OF civil war
obtained, personal rights be respected, bur
densome taxation be avoided, and nome un-
der the protection Of just and equal laws be
secured" And where think you was this
blessed paradise to be found In Heaven,
or some as vet uninhabited isle in tropical
ocean, YOU will say, unhesitatingly. Nary
time, my dear boy! Nary time 1t was in
Mexico, near the seaport Of Natiyidad, the
scene Of the wreck Uf the Golden Gate, IN
beautiful valley where. even Greaser has
never vet been able to exist, on account OF
the deadly malaria there prevailing; country
where, as every body knows, peace, plenty,
lust and equal laws, and all that sort OF thing
prevails to an alarming extent. The loca! oil
the Bulletin grows merry over the fact that
the location is very eligible one for first
class burying-ground, and enjoys hugely the
prospect of good stand-of, knock-down and
drag -out fight among the dissatisfied, self-ex:
lied Democratic politicians over the ONCE OF
Coroner, the only one in the colony worth
having; and the AkG's young man, who has
lived in the sunny South, and is posted on
cotton and eane-growing, spreads himself
with the ideal picture of the "poor white
trash, self-exiled from temperate cline and
the protecting folds Of our starry banner,
hoeins and picking cotton in the blazing sun
of Southern Mexico, to the tune Of ..
And we'll all feel gay
When Old Abe goes marching home
A company of Maxlmilian's blackguards,
known as "furcos," or native African negro
soldiers standing guard, meantime, to see
that they kept at their work and plotted no
mischief. The concluding paragraph OF the
circular is gem. Here you have it:
Gas this is intended exclusively for tOhite
mans colony, it is especially agreed that no
Negro, Monaghan or Abolitionist can, on
any condition, become member OF the AS
| ISOLATION. Reference, for further particu-
| lac BERfAH Brown,