Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-03
Our San Francisco Correspondence.
san FRANCISCO, Sept. l, 1864.

/ 4ofe Is tne prime cause Vi Woe III Ohe
shape or another, every time, and as we are
all on the fight nowadays, and love to hear
Of war, rapine and slaughter, will tell you
first of an incident which proves that
cHIvALRY IS NOT DEAD.
Two tender youths hight respectively Dex-
ter and Louderslater, were deeply smitten
with the charms of sweet faced young ac-
tress, who is known and admired by all the
world of San Francisco, and both laid suite
to her hand. 1t was commonly supposed she
was little sweet ON both, but he who went
to work most dexterously made the nearest
approach to her affections, and the other
went off in a huff as disappointed lovers have
been in habit of doing, from the days
when Helen got up such high, old row be-
tween the Greeks and Trojans down to the
days of the Presidency Of Abraham Lincoln.
BroodinR over his sorrows only enamored
him the more, and he finally sent challenge
| to the lucky rival to come out and fight him
in the ring like man, or yield the "posish"
and retire from the field in as good
order as possible under all the circun-
stances. Lucky rival would not yield but
agreed to meet him, not exactly By moon
| light alone, but at Black Point on Sunday
last, and fight it out on that line, If it took
all summer. They met with their seconds in
presence of 300 spectators, the ring was laid
| off, the bottle holders and seconds took their
places, and at the word 60, they went in
| First blood for Dexter, first knock. down for
ditto, but no signs Of yielding on the side of
! the other party. After SO rounds had been
fought, and both parties had been rendered
unfit objects for parlor ornaments on the &C.
casion OF small tea party, the Louderslater
crowd threw up the sponge, and Dexter was
declared the winner. He expects to be pre-
sentable again in about 80 days, and as all
obstacles are now removed, he will marry the
object of his gushing affections at the end OF
that time. Had he got licked should call
ed him fool, but as he won, i join my voice
with the crowd, and say bully for him with
all my heart.
CHANGE IN THE PROGRAMME.
Thepeople of San Francisco week since
were sweltering in a moist heat, which wilt
ed them down like so many immature cab
bage plants, transplanted into beds exposed
20 the blazing sun, at the wrong hour Of the
day. The programme underwent change
Immediately after, and for some days we have
had sand storms, beside which, those of Sa-
hara are but child's play, and ocean winds
| WHICH cut luTOuSu OHG Inc u
Curse such climate anyhow, say l. Any
man who would live in it Of his own free
will and accord, deserves the hearty contempt
of " all the world and the rest OF mankind"
The Norther is letting up on US trife, and we
hope soon to be able to go abroad after dark
| without an overcoat. Those who come down
from the interior to visit our city, during the
Fair, will be apt to sympathize with your
correspondent, who, about this time, is una
BILE to tell whether the music which at this
moment Sits through the window shutters
along with the dust Of the streets, and the
sand of Russian Hill, is the proceeds of
dog fight, the strains from brass band, or
the grinding of hand organ, all on account
Of" a shocking bag gold id the cad"
THE HORSE DRAMA.
As anticipated when I wrote last, Mrs.
Perry outstripped the Jordan in Mazeppa,
and drew tremendous house at Maguire's
on Saturday night. The old charger Oh
which Menken assembled to the upper flights,
stumbled about the stage occasionally, dis
playing strong point, but painfully weak in
the whole, and when it came to the laid out
scene, positively refused to be laid out and
kicked, reared, plunged and resisted until the
curtain was lowered amid the Kisses of the
dissatisfied audience. Thorne came forward
to apologize to the audience in behalf of the
horse, when this ungrateful brute charged on
| him stern foremost from behind the curtain,
| and gave him shot in the rear. which came
! near shooting him over the footlights, and in
! some degree compensated the audience for
what they supposed themselves cheated out
of, A scene Of confusion followed, and Just
as everybody was looking for grand row in
the house, the refractory mustang yielded to
the persuasive influences Of rope around
the fore leg, went down on his side, and the
curtain came up. The fur Mazeppa, illus
trating in striking degree the "beauty I'M
adorned, adorned the more 3" idea, was taken
up and carried of on hospital stretcher to
the delight Of the assembled sovereigns, and
when in the last act she mounted her fiery
untamed cabdila and started up the ladder,
| followed by twenty recently caught tartars, to
clean out Poland, the enthusiasm Of the au-
dience knew no bounds. By the bye, those
Poles seem to be blamed unfortunate peo-
pie, always getting licked, with all the adj
vantages Of truth, honor, right, justice, cour-
age, ETC., not to speak of Providence on their
| side. 1t is rough, but am not responsible
| for it. / assure you am not. The grand
spectacular humbug is still running at both
houses, and must admit that both Mazep-
| pas are equal to Menken in point OF artistic
merit (if such thing can exist in play so
utterly devoid Of everything but utter bosh
and vile appeals to the basest sensual pas
sions.) am glad to say that it don't draw
the better class Of society, and is already
ausqespeik." A day or two more and it
will Be withdrawn. The Melodeons, which
suffered terribly for few nights by this raid
into their province BY the theatres, are on
hand now, and are trotting out rival exhibit
| - IL lodl Lraf ha az hoe
| of the legitimate theatres. At the NewIdea
Miss Jennie Lamont is riding Mazeppa Ia
| Merigue, that is to say, on a jackass and
| without u diaper, and, as in the classic lam
guase OF the pit, she "strips the best Of the
| lott or course she draws the crowd. Her
Mazeppa is no greater burlesque than the
| others, and why shouldn't it draw "My
friends, we live in an age Of light and knowl-
edge"
CLEANED OUT.
If there is anything do feel weakness
for in this world, il is square steamboat run,
and had the pleasure Of seeing capital one
on Tuesday night. The C. S. N. Co.'S, beau
tiful steamer Yosemite was stripped for race,
the freight being all put on board the Ante-
lope, and those two vessels, the Pad Pry
| and the Washoe, all LEFT their wharfs within
river. The Bay was very rough, and the
Yosemite and Antelope had therefor the ad-
vantage, being deep draught boats, but as the
Washoe went past the city front, it was eyi-
dent that she was into il" and long before
the Red Rock was passed she had left all
competitors far behind. She beat the 70
semitic IA minutes to Benicia, and the others
were nowhere in the race. As she is now in
complete order, we look for some Of the tall
est running within the next few weeks which
has ever been ventured in these waters. The
| C. S. N. Co., are not the ones to let up on
rival so easily, and the relative ability Of their
different boats viii be tested to the utmost
before they give in beaten BY boat which
only draws four feet of water. What they
lack in speed they make up in murderous
violence, and determination to sacrifice
hundreds Of lives if they cannot accomplish
their objects otherwise, as you will see BY the
following account, of GFl
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