Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-26
Our San Francisco Correspondence



and women out for a holiday, the stores are
nearly all closed, the markets have been shut
up for the day, and everybody, save the I'M
fortunate printers, and more unfortunate
members of the quill-driving fraternity, are
enjoying
THANKSGIVING.
All, me what world Of memories come
rushing back on the mind with the mention
of the word need not recall them to 9TH
ers-they will come unbidden, and hope,
too, with more pleasurable thoughts than
they bring to me. Twenty years ago! re-
member it as if but yesterday, l sat by the
| bountifully spread table in New Eng land
farm house, around which were gathered
father and mother, four tall sons and four
daughters. To-day close my eyes and see
mentally an aged couple sitting alone in their
desolate home in pleasant village in the
gallant Prairie State, three graves in New
| England churchyard, three on a mound in
the prairie, and one under the pecan trees far
| away in the distant South. And here am
| alone living Of the eight children then gath
cred to celebrate Thanksgiving. Enough Of
this.
ILLINOIS FOREVER.
Speaking of the West recalls one fact more
| pleasant to think Of than the above. 1t is a
little curious that the locals Of all the leading
papers Of San Francisco, with a single ex-
ception, are from the Fighting State -
glorious Illinois. Gross, Of the Bulletin,
halls from Pike county, in that State; Evans,
Of the Alta, from Chicago; McHenry, of the
Press, from Randolph county; and Howe, of
the Flag, from Kane county-representing,
as they do, the most opposite political ideas,
and belonging to rival establishments, they
bury the Ratchet and scalping-knife for to-
day, and sit down to dine together like white
men and Christians. l think, on the whole,
l will hurry up my letter and go and join
them.
RUN on BANK.
1t is with no considerable regret that an
nounce the failure of one Of our principal
banking institutions this week. On Tues
day night it was run upon so persistently by
a party of gentlemen known as "sports,
that after paying out $4,000 in coin, the
manager, Charles Burrows, ESQ.,, was COM
PEELED to announce that the establishment
| had "gone in" and would be compelled to
remain "closed for repairs until fuI liner
notice. The further notice" has not yet
been given. 1t was located at the corner of
| Commercial and kearney streets, up stairs,
and was known as the "Bank Of Diana,
| Phario & Co." l mention the fact, not from
any interest take in it personally, but for
the reason that the residents Of the Silver
State have from time to time deposited large
sums there, and they have now no show Of
getting even.
STILL IN ABEYANcE.
The new burlesque dramatic star Of the
female gender, Miss Fanny Brown, is still
deferring her appearance at Maguires' on
account of the engagement OF the hean' s
(now drawing rapidly to a close,l and Of
Coppin, the very low, but thoroughly finish
ed comedian. She will appear at the Opera
House on Monday evening next, and from
what am told OF her style, l am prepared
to see something rather good in the genteel
burlesuue dramatic line. The keans will 60
to Australia when they leave these shores.
LEGERDE2AIN.
The heaviest thing have seen or heard Of
in long time in the theatrical line, is the
"Siege of Troy" now running at the Metro
politan, which has Just re-opened after tho
rough repairs, and some fine additions to the
scenery and ornameutation Of the dress cir
Gle and ceiling. The piece is the most in
fernal trash that ever was put on the stage,
embracing, as it does, the entire story, given
in Pope's abominable verse, of the old Greek
and Trojan buffers thirty years war, about a
girl who wasn't worth a greenback anyhow.
But the legs my boy the legs. Thirty fe-
male " supes" with understandings of every
possible style and pattern, long and short,
thick and thin, fat and lean, crooked and
straight, in flesh colored tights, with robes
split up at the side nearly to the top, in all
sorts Of positions, and all coming and going
one after the other in indescribable eonfu-
sion, gods, goddesses, Greeks, Trojans, and
everything else conceivable in heaven or
earth, or the regions down below-the foot
lights, and a crowded audience, composed
mainly of bald-headed men Of 45 and up
wards, fathers Of families, respectable mer-
chants, lights of the church, and all this sort
of thing; that will stand for description Of
the play of the "Fall Of Troy" as it dragged
its dull length along through three mortal
hours. The humanizing effects Of the stage
is now everywhere acknowledged, and l am
glad to see that San Francisco appreciates
enterprise and talent, especially where talent
is coupled with sound, well developed under
standing.
From such theatricals to the Prize Ring, is
but step, and that step is "as easy as fall
ing off log" On Tuesday night, "Patsey
Marley" one of the fancy crowd who deal in
the "manly art" for business and for
amusement encourage chicken and canine
Theatre-the regular company no: playing
announced from the stage that Patsey and
Johnny Devine had made the preliminary
arrangements for a mill, and this morning
the preliminaries are to be arranged at
"Sportsman's Hail." the sporting head
quarters on Kearney street. Now the best
Of the Joke is this. There is young man
in the city, named Chandler, who had the
misfortune to be caught short time since
in the act Of assisting a hickman Of the
" scalper" style to carry young girl from
the Panama steamer landing to a house Of
i'll fame on Pike street, and the court having
a prejudice against such a proceeding-the
Judge being a father himself-sent him to
the county Jail. This promising youth is
now practising industriously with dumb bells,
etc., and on coming out will challenge the
victor in the projected mill. As the rules Of
the P. R. say nothing about a man being
barred out for having been so unfortunate as
to be barred in, Of course the victor must
fight him, or give up the belt. Gay, is it not?
THE scANDAL-MoNoERs IN THEIR ELEMENT.
Just now the scandal-mongers of San
Francisco are in their element a big thing
has fallen in their way, and don't they enjoy
it to the utmost though? To be brief, on
Tuesday last Raphael Abecco, the obese
negro balladist and harpist, well-knowh on
your side of the mountains, having sent his
unsuspecting wife and three little children
into the country on visit, attempted to
elope to Australia on the schooner Osprey,
in company with young girl belonging to a
respectable family Of this city. He was
pursued out of the harbor by the police, with
the steam tug Goliah, and his intended
victim taken from him and returned to her
parents. That is the whole story in brief,
and as have no taste for indulging in the
prurient and filthy addenda, made by the
scandal retailers with which this and every
other city is cursed, will stay here and say
no more about it. Abecco has left his
country for his country's good, and the COM
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