Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-08
Our San Francisco Correspondence.

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san FRANCISCO, Oct 8. 1864.
EDITORS GOLD HILL NEws-Ge,aIemen :
The heated term" generally drives local
excitement out of well organized conmuui.
ties, and exercises i sopori6c influence on
the public mind, but with us it is different,
the thermometer and the public pulse going
up together. For the last week everything
has been boiling politics, the weather,
strikes, riots, and an advance in greenbackt
all coming on us in deluge, at once.
FAIR FERMENTATION.
The Mechanics Institute Industrial Fair,
closed in effect on Saturday last, but was
kept open through Monday for the benefit Of
the Santa Barbara sufferers, for whom some
$500 to $1,000 was realized. The Fair run
for full month and the total receipts were
about S37 900, and the expenditures, includ-
ing the cost OF the building, amount to nearly
$50, 900, leaving balance of only $3.50 pro-
tit or Whereabouts. Pretty close figuring l
think. The building is, however, left to the
Institute and has been rented to the Union
Stete Central Committee for the balance Of
the Presidential campaign for $4,000, and a
grand ball for the benefit of the Institute,
which will probably nett quite handsome
sum, will be given there tomorrow evening.
A series of grand Sacred Concerts, at which
the most celebrated Oratorios will be per-
formed on the Sabbath by over one hundred
Of the most talented singers and instrumental
performers in California, will soon be inau-
gurated at the same place. The Fair also
realized several thousand dollars for the bene-
fit Of the Sanitary Fund, and taken all in all,
may be set down as 4 fair but not striking
success.
THE SALE OF THE wAsHoE.
The longest purse has again won, as usual,
and the opposition on the Sacramento is now
ended, probably for years to come. The i'll
fated steamer Washoe, after repeated hair
breadth escapes from destruction by premed-
itated violence, exploded as you well know,
hurting over 100 men, women and children
into eternity, through whose fault will, per-
haps, never be known, and after being raised
and towed down to this city for repairs, was
sold By her indomitable but unfortunate Cap
tain and owner G. W. Kidd, nominally to
the Oakland K. R Co., but really, as have
good reason to believe, to the California
Steam Navigation Company, who paid a
handsome sum through third parties to get
rid of an opposition which, however, disas-
trous to the party running it, was, neVerthe-
less, bar in the way Of great and burden.
some monopoly as long as it existed. The
public may now expect to pay old flush
times" rates for travelling until the advent OF
railroads introduces new system in Cali
fornia, enabling men Of moderate means to
90 abroad once in year or two, without the
necessity OF expanding the savings OF months
Of toll in a journey Of a few hundred miles.
POLITICAL.
There is not much that is absolutely new
in the political line to be told this week.
The Union men are, am glad to say, get
ting warmed up to work, and are more ac-
lively laboring for the success Of the Union
presidential ticket than heretofore, holding
club meetings, Union League meetings, or
mass meetings every night in some part of
the city. The Copperheads are also active,
and are leaving no stone unturned to achieve
a disunion victory at the coming election.
They will have a roaring " Broom-Ranger
meeting and torchlight procession this even
ing, and if no breach of the peace is commit
ted, il may be set down to the credit Of the
police, who are preparing for all emergen-
cies in a manner creditable to themselves,
and calculated to give security and conf
deuce to the well disposed masses Of the COM
munity. A new Copperhead or " INDIE
pendent" daily, the Argus, has made its ap-
pearance, but Of its ability and value to the
Copperheads in the canvass, you can judge
BY its appearance as well as l can. 1t starts
with but limited circulation, and so far as
can Judge, with but small prospects of earn
ing fortune for its proprietors, unless they
go in on the matchmaking dodge, which Is
hardly likely to pay now, as the field is pretty
well filled with operators in this line already,
the last new publication of this character
having obtained but a sorry showing OF
crumbs which the others had rejected as not
worth picking up.
THE RIOTS AND THEIR LESSONS.
You are already familiar with the facts of
the.last steamship firemen's riots, on Stewart
and Folsom streets, on Sunday night and
Monday last; need, therefore, only say
that the presence of strong body Of stall
wart policemen, armed with muskets and re-
yolyers, thoroughly drilled and supplied with
an abundance Of ball cartridges, with re-
serve force of soldiers from the Provost
Guard, was what saved US from an outbreak
which would not have stopped with steam
ship matters alone, but would have extended
through the city and involved US in scenes of
bloodshed and unutterable disorder for
months to come. The riots were quite seri.
Gus enough as they were, but they we're
nipped in the bud by the strong arm Of force,
or thsy would have had far different ter
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