Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-17
Our San Francisco Correspondence

Our San Francisco Correspondence.
san FRISCIsCo, Sept. Is, 1864.
RDIToRs GOLD HILL NEws-Ge'tienls'' ;
Before drifting about on general SUBJECTS a
J MILITARY AFFAIRS. =
We are TO have no DRAFT on the Pacific
Coast; set that down as decided. The old
California regiments are to be filled by vol
unteers, and the number Of recruits and vet
Grams already offered is so great, that no ne,
cessity will exist for the Offering OF additional
bounties by the State. Another fact I have
learned to-day. Since General Mcdowell
left for the North, orders have been received
here for the raising of one or two additional
regiments in the Pacific States, to serve for
not less than three years, the number being
left optional with the Commander OF the De-
partment The order for the enlistment OF
one new regiment, at least, will be issued as
| soon as General Mcdowell returns, which
will be some time within the coming week,
and Governor Low has already had applica-
tons to-day for appointments in the new reg
iments. The patriots are not yet all dead.
THE FAIR.
The great Industrial Fair is still in full
blast, and pleasanter place to spend an
hour or two of an evening / do not know Of
The display throws the State Fairs at Sacra-
mento utterly into the shade, and two or
three days may be pro6tably spent there ex;
aiming the thousands Of beautiful and useful
articles on exhibition. The display in the
picture galleries is very fine indeed, and some
Of the paintings Of California scenery are
truly magnificent. The display OF photo
graphic pictures is very extensive, and the
| peculiar cleaness and delicacy Of outline
visible in them all is much commented on BY
strangers from the Eastern States and Eu-
rope. This popularity is undoubtedly attrib-
utable to the purity Of our atmosphere, and
the fact that as people, good looks are our
distinctive characteristic. heard lady
make this remark yesterday while standing
in front Of group Of portraits in which my
own classic figure-head figured conspicu-
ously. regret to be compelled, by my nat
ural loss Of truth and candor, to somewhat
weaken the force of her remark by admitting
that she qualified it by adding, "But what
on earth is the reason that they will stick
such looking things as that up there !" When
she said that she poked her parasol contempt
uously towards my picture. had before ad-
mired the woman, but her last remark opened
my eyes to the hideousness of her mental
deformity, and pitied her from the bottom
Of my heart. If my ever adored Lucy Jane
had been possessed Of no higher ideas Of the
beautiful, no truer appreciation OF the sub
lime in nature, and the soul which lights up
the human face divine, what blow it would
have been ut posterity, and what would have
been my chance of becoming the honored
| .pd happv of fn,rfoan lnynlv chill
dren, and-in short, madam, you are no
Judge That is what ! said mentally, and
| III stand by it, il her husband is as big as
Daniel Lambert, or my friend D. ]. Murphy,
the Irish giant.
At half.past s or 9 o'clock in the evening
the crowd is at its food, and it is 4 real treat
to sit in some secluded corner Of the great
building and watch the throng as it surges
past. Old age, manhood in its prime, wo-
| manhood in its prime, and prime thing that
| is, too, I assure you, hopeful youth, and
beautiful laughing, careless childhood, all are
there. It worries one a little to think that
the days Of patriarchal institutions are over,
and that Mormon ideas don't seem to meet
| general appreciation, so that one can only
love so much loneliness in general aggre-
gative sort of way, SO to speak but there is
| consolation also in the thought that with po-
|
| luxuries of life at famine prices, the expense
of housekeeping is heavy, and SO finding balm
in the reflection, 90 home satisfied to let
things 90 on in the good old fashioned way.
The attendance is falling of little this week,
but it is still large, and the receipts are about
| 50, 900 per day. The money received thus
| far will about meet all outlays since the COM
mencement of the undertaking, including the
erection of the building, or more properly
buildings, and hereafter the receipts will be
| all profit. Within the past week, extensive
additions have been made to the buildings,
| the dome has been covered with waterproof
| felt, and other improvements of permanent
character made, which leads me to believe
that It is the intention Of the Mechanics In
stitute to retain possession Of the premises
after the Pair is over, instead OF leaving the
square unoccupied as at frst agreed. .
jon. THE HORSE FAIR. ..T...
There be those who do say that the
"world's Horse Fair" was no fair thing at
| all, bnt race course in plain terms, and that
the prizes for lady equestrians were unfairly
| distributed. or course it is no affair OF mine,
and only mention it to show that the sub
iect is hardly worth mentioning. There was
some good racing, and the thing paid-ergo,
it was a good thing, and have no more to
say.
BLOW Al SACRAMENTO.
The C. S. n. Co., acting in conjunction
with the Freeport and Sacramento Valley
Railroad Co., is preparing to deal deadly
| stab under Sacramento's fifth rib in the shape
| of a transfer of the freighting business from
the Capital City to Freeport- The advanta-
ges for handling freight at Freeport are
khat, 81 hovnnd q d0Ylhf
and the absence of charges for wharfage, ETC.,
and the fact Of the route to Washoe, via the
| Freeport line, being the most direct, will tell
heavily against city which has suffered
more by fire, food and political mismanage-
| ment and misrule, than any other in the
| State, or for the matter Of that in the United
States.
POLITICAL.
Politics are badly mixed with US in San
Francisco just now, badly split up" as the
Hoosier remarked about his family during
the Harrison campaign. There is big
crowd going for Mcclellan certain, but on
the other hand there is big crowd who amt.
Which crowd can count the most noses, when
the election comes of is the question. bet
my Legal Tenders and Postal Currency on
the men who don't go for him. The comno-
ton among the newspapers for few days
past is almost laughable. The Alta came
out on Monday with an editorial which
proved as clearly as possible that Mcclellan
was loyal to the hearts core, and that the
Chicago Platform didn't amount to shucks;
all parties are now committed to war policy.
The first effect produced on the public mind
was one Of astonishment and doubt. "ls
the Alta throwing out feelers, and coming
out for Mcclellan" everybody seemed in
clined to ask The Press was in an agony
of fear lest the Aka was coming out Copper
head, and that its cake would be doughed-
so to speak, by the change, while the Alta
would carry off whatever patronage it had
hitherto enjoyed. On the other hand, the
FLAG was equally anxious lest the Alta
shouldn't come out for Mcclellan and give it
chance to bid for the patronage Of the loyal
business men Of San Francisco, patronage
which is suspected to be worth some money
to say the least. The storm subsidized as
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