Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-21
nnr San Francisco Correspondence.


on Pine street opened last evening TO a full and
fashionable audience. OF course. the press are
unanimous in their fulsome praise of its elegance
capaciousness, and all that In truth, 1t is q
model of lightness and airiness of architecture
the auditorium is something memorable TO behold,
the dress circle, particularly, being the pretties,
affair imaginable for the advantageous display oi
opera cloaks and "loves of bonnets." The de,
fects, however, of the theatre as whole are glar.
ing. The lot lacked sufficient depth for the pur-
pose This has obliged the architect to dispense
with the requisite space for lobbies, and the audi
,orium is crowded out upon the street, commencing
almost from the front wall For the same reason
the stage has very limited depth, which must
prevent the heavier class of dramatic pieces from
being effectively rendered Much of the perfor,
nance necessarily passes within such n short dis
tance of the footlights that the paint and general
get up" of the actors is painfully visible 10 those
seated in the front part OF the parquette. Then
too. the famous drop scene taken from some allie
gorical picture entitled the Age Of Gold" is de
ill failure and offers sad contrast 10 Arigoni's
wellkuown spanish Dance" drop scene at Ma
guire's Opera House on Washington street The
new Temple of Thespis Is situated on Pine street
Just in the rear of Andrew McCreary's Gould
and Curry" building, on the corner of Pine and
Montgomery streets In matters OF ventilation
strength, ease OF eSrcss in case OF hre, ana com
Portable seats this excels any theatre in the State
/: is the siereRta that Mcguire has built on the
Paciic coasi-eiSht in San Francisco, two in Sac
ramento, and one in Virginia City.
Andrew McCreary returned in the Golden
City yesterday, after an eight months airing in
tha 4 eifia Ha
all his mining interests save an hundred and III
teen fee; in the Gould & Curry. What with hi,
enormous mortgages on some of the principal
Montgomery street property, anu that OF MS own
possession he may feel tolerably snug for life
The sojouru in the Eastern States of a man who
has reached affluence by silver mining, must nave
no inconsiderable influence for good
McCartys american Flag is now in the fourth
week ofits existence, and is rapidly becoming .
power in San Francisco. His daily Jousts win
the Alta and Bulletin in the struggle for the tele-
graphic dispatches impart TO ills columns some
thing of an aggressive character, and create
a constant desire 10 see how the fight progresses
McCarty Is evidently in earnest He staOs 10 tue
quick with pungent, fearless articles, shaving
Copperheads and Secesh right and left From
the earliest DAYS of journalism in this city II mas
been the custom 10 touch the Hebrew, Irish ana
Catholic interests with q delicate hand: or rather
so influential and powerful are they, to severely
let them alone. McCarty sails into them regard.
less of conseuuenceS Within week. several
vigorous and pointed articles have appeared. to
show that the influence of the Catholic and Jew
ish churches has Is general thing, been thrown
into the scale OF copperheadism, and denounclnS
them in no measured terms. The result has
been TO increase the enemies and the friends OF
the Flag 1t is running more matter daily
than the Ballstia-which has been confessediy
the coStiiest paper in San Francisco. Whether
it will secure the support necessary TO meet such
huge expenditures, is matter OF no little com
ment among the newspaper fraternity.
The election for local officers passed off quietly
on Tuesday-thc entire Peoples Ticket as uSua
carving the day-with the exception OF Frank
MeCoppin iof the Mission Dolores) who was
elected Supervisor an independent ticket, and
DR. l. Rowe,l, who enters the Board by large
majority on The Democratic Union Ticket Bott
succeeded on their personal popularity. The day
had like TO have ended in u serious row at tht
Tenth District Polls where officer in L. \
uniform who was quietly looking on, was at
tackled first by a drunken ward politician, anC
afterwards by gang Of some twenty. Tue po
lice and Provost guard were called oGt and thlnS'
looked rather squally for half an hour, when ;
shower of rain driving the crowd into shelter
things quietly subsidized
Il is rumoret that the Judges OF the Supreme
Court are about revising their recent opinlol
touching the constitutiOnality OF soldiers voting
while absent from their places of residence. Thi
reached by the supreme Court Of Iowa in recen
decision on the same question, in which the legal
ity of soldiers voting is established. As th'
clause IN our Constitution, touching this matter
is literal transcript Of that OF Iowa, the case
are analogous, and the reasoning OF the low1
Judges NAV possibly influence our really patriotic
bench. l doubt not every loyal man in Nevad;
will hope for a revision, which would add at least
four thousand Union votes 70 California's grand
total
Afler about nine weeks of continuous labor
the iron ram COmanche has been taken out piece
meal from the sunken Aquila- and is now being
put together preparatory TO launching her rs 1
part Of our harbor defenSeS. The Aquilla has
been raised by sunken pontoons or floats, and
may possibly be made seAworthy again, though
it is doubtful as her timbers are said 10 be badly
worm eaten.
Kuchel is striking off the last of his photographic
view OF Virginia City. 1t is an elaborate and, ]
should think. truthful work large, minute in de-
TAIL and well executed. 1t is taken from point
about east of Mount Davidson, not far from the
Gouid & Curry lower tunnel and ore house, and
includes the whole city, and a portion OF Gold
Hill District, though none of that locality. For
borders it has the principal buildings and views
of the works of the most noted mines With l. is
an explanatory key. No copies have yet been
issued-the whole work been one Of subscription
The suit between Camp & Green is now on
trial before Judge Sawyer. Camp You may re-
member was entrusted by Green two years ago
with large sum of money TO invest for their
joint benefit in silver mines in Nevada Territory
Camps shrewdness enabled him to make for
tune for himself and principal After affairs were
settled up, Green discovered that his Agent had
retained the lions share, and hence the suit.
A good deal of testimony is being taken on
both sides, elcitng some curious and amusing
facts. The mining ground at stake embraces some
of the best in Virginia and Gold Hill One of the
in hag haAn n rAla direction
of the Comstoek Ledge, and whether the reasons
for supposing that it of to the eastward from
the Potosi were such 10 justify the locating by
Camp and others of the san Francisco the
Golden Age" and others in that line, sundry
shares in which Camp disposed Of to Green at
rather lofty prices 1t is very pretty quarrel as
It stands.
One of the effects of the open winter of Califor-
MIA has been to bring forward all fruits and yege'
tables with quickness unparalleled. For the
last two weeks we have had strawberries and
cherries in abundance, and any amount of every
kind of vegetables you can mention The result
is that our hotel tables are loaded with succulent
delicacies, which might well tempt the palate oi
an anchorite. New Workers who arrive here
open wide their eyes at the unwonted spectacle,
and vote the country and its climate and produc'
tions marvel.
Besides the great English Loan Association
which is shortly to be established here, with its
millions of capital for Investment several Eastern
capitalists have arrived lately, with the view OF
starting banking company. All this influx Of
capital is based on the silver mines of Nevada,
which are actually giving an impetus to the Imam
cial system of the whole world The English
Company advertise in the Alta list of promi'
nent capitalists, whose combined wealth is colos-
sal II they do anything like what is claimed for
them, mining enterprises with fair showing Of
merit will not lack for capital with which to de-
yelOp them. CHESTER.
GREENBACKS.