Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-22
Our San Francisco Correspondence.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 90, 1864.

that designation in connection with the press
after what have seen within the past few
months in San Francisco, where unwasEed
vagabonds. fresh from the cutters, huri the
lie in the teeth of men, who have IN years not
| long past kept them from starvation, or the
County Jail, or Home Of the lnebriate, tax
Of "shads, -" prostitutes" "dogs," hogs,
"curs," "puppies," etc., promise "whip,,,
pings" "kickings," and castlgatlons,
which they will be as likely to give as they
will to fight duels, which they darkly hint
their willingness to invest in, or pay the
board and tailors bills which they have owed
| from time immemorial, and then 60 back on
their dig as Gentlemen of the Press ior-
sooth, with regulations and all that.
However, there may still be such Things as
| gentlemen connected with the INSTITUTION
known as "the Press" and having Vainly
sought in your columns for such express,siSSn SONS
and groupings out of style as have alluded
to, win leave the word standing as form
of address, applicable to yourselves until
| further notice"
DULL TIMES.
al do renember me-" dimly and indis-
tinctly it is true, but still remember Of time
when there was something stirring i'll San
Francisco besides dust, Aeas, mosquitoes and
| politicians. In that far off time, we had once
in while lively, wholesome, and, might
say, healthy excitement; somebody shooting
somebody, or running away with somebody's
wife, or robbing somebody out OF half MIL
lion i'll double eagles, or something OF that
sort. But it is all up with us now-thoSe
happy days are past.
'Vainly over them the tired soul may yearn,
They are dead, wept, buried, why should theF IT,
turn,
That is what l want to know, o Poetess
Why should they Greenbacks are down to
forty cents, and they cant afford II. That's
what's the matter! We must try to get
along without EN-, and do the best we can
under the trying circumstances of the case.
"KIssING GOES BY FAVOR"
Thus saith the ancient saw, and said saw
is law; so says Judge Shepherd, and so say
l. Ut will doubtless be relief to Judge
Shepherd to know that l coincide with him
in his opinion, and endorse his decisions.
differed with Judge fancy in the matter OF
the bred Scott decision, and the rebellion
broke out soon afterwards. I don't mention
this rebellion as the direct result OF that diff
ference of opinion, but l may say, without
laying myself liable to the charge of egotism,
that it is coincidence, striking coincl-
dence, remarkable coincidence, so to
speak, Sometime since, poor hard'work-
ing waSherwoman, of the Teutonic persua-
sion, and a marked prediction for Switzer
kase and onions, fell among thieves, and was
arrested on charge of grand larceny, which
an investigation turned out to be unfounded.
While she was in the calaboose, married
man, whose ancestors are supposed to have
at one time resided on the banks OF the Nile
previous to the row about the adobes,
which terminated in an outbreak among the
laborers, "by all accounts" as my friend
Wambold would say-went in TO the cell to
see her, and interested himself, as he
stated on her behalf. On her release,
he endeavored to become more intimately
acquainted with her, if her testimony is TO
be believed, and failing in his purpose sued
her for $50 for time and trouble expended
on her behalf. He got his bill allowed in
Justices Court, but things suddenly took
change about that time. She employed Sa-
muel Plat, ESQ.,, to attend to the County
Court when it will take different turn de-
cidedly. But that is not all. Plat had the
plaintiff arrested on n charge Of assault and
battery for kissing the toido,o against hercOE
sent, convicted him in the Police Court, and
had him fined S25 to-day. He now proposes
to go still further, root out the history of
PAaLLAlAh ShO" "lA0S ms aANA-At
was before he came here" and investigate
other matters which most people would pre-
fer not to have investigated. Well may the
unfortunate kisser bewail his fate, and take
unto himself the advice Of the elder Weller,
"Samivel beware Of the Vidders !"
THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL.
dull business and no show of improve
ment," is the report from all the theatres
At the old Eureka Theatre, "Bert's Min
strels" form the New Idea, with Ben Cotton
and Talbot-both capital performers-as
End Men, are doing their best to draw
crowd but with small show of success. The
performance is at least as good as the bust
ness of the establishment warrants, but that
is not saying much.
Mcguire brought out n new actress this
week; Miss Ada Clifford" as she is down
on the bills. She is, as | am informed a
New Highlander by birth, and now halls from
St. Louis. Her real name is Evans and she
is said to be daughter of wealthy and highly
respectable parents. She is rather petit in
figure, good looking, agreeable in manners,
thoroughly up in stage matters, and sufficient
" self-possessed to show that she has the
making of good and attractive actress in
her composition. She is now i'll with hem
morhage of the lungs, but will soon be out
again.
Miss Jennie Campton, Il new contralto
singer, said to be fully equal to Miss Rich
ingS as an artistic, and possessing voice
which will contrast finely with the rich So
piano of the latter, arrived from New York
on the last steamer to join the Richings OPP
era Troupe, now under Maguire's control,
and will make her debut on Monday next.
What think of her, and what others say of
hpr I will lnt knnw in
THE sPEcK OF CIVIL WAR.
The revelations made by Pool, the captain
Of the Placerville land pirates and stage rob-
bers, and his young confederate Altman
Classy, leave little doubt, none / might say,
that we are threatened with civil war in Cali
fornia, and must be on our guard to put
down with a strong hand the first demonstra-
ton made by the enemies of our country
with one stroke, or it will be upon US in all its
horrors before we are fully aware of our dam
ger. In March last number of Confeder-
ate military officers certainly came here from
Texas via Mazatlan, and have been at work
since their arrival sowing the seeds of mis-
chief and plotting robberies and raids, which,
as yet, have resulted in no great good to the
Confederates, or injury to us, but which, II
allowed to go on unchecked and unpublished,
may ledu tue W kuG iIOsL
results CLASSIFY was in this city yesterday
en- route for Placerville, and while here he
was Intercepted touching matters connected
with these plots. His afidavits are in the
hands of the authorities, civil and military,
and steps will be taken to profit by their con-
tents. What these revelations are in sub
stance am not able to say, as don't know
in fact, and if did know, should not be
permitted to tell it at present. This much,
however, do know, that different parties in
the city and State are implicated in these
plots, and the new general order looking to
the protection of our steamers against sur
prise and capture, which was issued by Cen
eral Mcdowell yesterday, is based upon in
formation derived from this and other sour
ces. enclose the order referred to:
GENERAL ORDERS No. IS.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San francisco, Cal, July ~, 1864.
There being probable danger Of an attempt to
take possession of the steamers on this coast, by
men introducing themselves as passengers and