Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-29
i T San Francisco Correspondence.
san FRANCISCO, Oct. q, 1854

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=. san FRANCISCO, Oct. 81, 1864.
E DIroRs GOLD HILL NEws-Ge'tIenssn
The clouds are gathering day by day in the
hea, .ens, portendinS the commencement o.
the rainy season (which Heaven SEND soon')
and in political matters we are now in
THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM
The Copperheads, hard pressed TOR cash.
and discouraged somewhat BY the election
news and still more by the war news lthe
Shenandoah Valley and Missouri campaigns
having cone against them badly, are hold
in, only distric. meetings, with but moderate
attendance, and no more riotous street de-
mOnstr.,ions since my last. They threat
on 10 have one on the 9TH Of November which
win eclipse everything which has yet been
econ here on either side, and should tney
snccepd in doing so, we shall have Union
demonstration BY daylight on the day prece-
Gno the election which Will leave them, no
whsres" in the line Of numbers and imposing
display. Business is dull ana everything
S val lively time here on election day, be-
rnrd n doubt, and do not envy the position
~ The reporters for the rival papers, who
,ri,I have their hands full, beyond question /;
bnt the authorities are physically prepared
Gov ali emergencies, and no serious troubles
need be feared.
{ The POLICE BATTALION.
The occasion Of the presentation of beau
,ihl regulation sword and belt to Chief
Burke, who is er o6FciO and de factO COM
n,rdcr. Of the Police Battalion" or
ARMED Police Of San Francisco, at the
Pavilion yesterday, called together the whole
four companies at once, and the display,
which was witnessed by large number OF
Ispectators, was very tine one. Over ZOU
remarkably finely formed and athletic men,
all in the prime OF htr, and superbly drilled,
we're under arms, and went through the vari,
ons ryolutions in a manner which would have
donp credit to Grants veterans. The sword
was presented 10 the Chief by Mayor Coon,
nm behalf of the officers and men Of the bat
talon. 1t 4 very elegant one, 6t.for serv'
,rc. not mere show, and cost Sl50. After
the presentation, they we're marched through
the city en- route to Washington Square
where they were drilled in street firing, in
which they also showed proficiency IN q
high degree suggestive to the crowd OF idlcr'
J who surrounded the square, portion o
whom commented on the spectacle IN Ian
gnave which showed that they looked upoI
The formation of the force as an outrage OF
their rights and personal liberties. hav'
heard thieves use similar language towards
the regular police and other civil oticers be
fore now. The great mass OF ourscitlzens
however, commend the organization IN tn
warmest terms. Looking at these men Sc
me to thinking OF,
THE FEAHFUL COST OF VICTORY.
I Two hundred men under arms looks Xix
| large body of men, dyet we have Skin
mishes every day in various parts OF tn
East, South and West, in which that man
are lost with hardly word OF comment, an
in the last victory of Sheridan alone, twenty!
, Ave times'that number died for our country
honor, while fifty times that number fell l
their effort to destroy it. And this was ou
7 one of hundred battles, and the end is nc
| vet What a value should our children pr
r on that which has cost US so much br
1 one cause on earth is worth such sacrlhcC
e and that cause is ours. Thank God fc
f that! Our brothers have not died in vain.
JUMPED.
The reporters Of the press have roug
time of il in DAYS Of excitement like thest
and really run as much bodily risk as I
soldiers on the battlefield. Especially
they are upon a Union paper, are they tn
mark of the hatred of the enemies Of an
kind of government with which our city
swarming now, and to go in some quarter
of the town after dark is not a little DANCE
Gus. On Sunday morning last, Frank Groc
reporter for the Bulletin was jumped BY
i gang Of secession rowdies on Pacific stree
and savagely beaten, some Of his teeth bein
knocked out and his ASSISTANTS are not "
: arrested.
: ALMOST A TRAGEDY.
, A curious affair, half comedy, half trag'
DIV, occurred near Lone Mountain on Tue:
day afternoon, ana the rumor or fearfI
collision and loss Of life, happily mainly Ut
, founded, soon spread through the streets
! The facts were as follows: The Sfgel Rife
, United Order Of Red Men, all German,
!; funeral ut the Cemetery, and we're Just star
ing on the return trip on four horse cars o
) the Central Road, when one OF the rear ca
teams got frightened, and started to ru
: down the steep grade at break neck pact
and the driver lost all control Of them. tn
5 driver next ahead saw what was the matter
; and whipped up his horses to get out Of th
: way, when his passengers became alarmed
/, and Supposiig his team also was runnin
away, put down the rear break so hard thu
il stopped the car entirely, and the rear ca
.. ! coming up at full.speed, Of course, ran int
: the platform, threw down the horses an
: knocked both cars off the track. The COLI
, siun proper hurt nobody, but before the car
came together the passengers in both car
commenced Jumping off the steps and eve
through the glass Of the windows, an
/. down steep and dangerous embankmen
falling pell.mell over each other in thei
frantic terror, and creating danger wher
, little if any before existed. The unloadin
continued after the collision until all wer
out of the cars, when the scene presente
beggars description. 1t was Bull Run owe
lgain, on smaller scale, but exaggerated i
: details. Ten to twenty Of the passenger
we're more or less hurt, some of them So
verely; clothes were torn into rags, rich RI
gala trampled under foot, the instruments
the band nearly all smashed, and much dam
age done to the windows Of the cars, all ia
: want of little presence Of mind. Who ca
, wonder at the. terrible results which follow
military panic where hundreds Of thousand,
: instead OF mere hundreds, are engaged.
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING,
Your readers will remember the outbur.
,, Of indignation which occurred in San Fran
. cisco when the, Ariel was captured by III
Alabama with the California passengers o
. hoard, and the story was told how Sa
, Francisco jeweler, named Josephs, in indie
, cent haste to secure his property, of whic
he had large lot on board, pushed up t
( Semmes and crinGingly informed him that h
was "sall right" y" favored the Confederacy,
. was 'hEngish subject" ETC., ETC., to the IN
utterable disgussof the rest OF the 'passeng
prs. That there was something in the stor
never doubted, but how much il may nav
been exaggerated do not know; it, however
t did him no good, and was never forgotten b
many Of his neighbors. Recently, the car
Of his wealth has grown 50 upon him that h
has manifested symptoms of mental abberra
lion, and at last got so suspicious OF every
, body about him that, he would trustno ono |;