Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-27

thoroughly as the = neateu VeIHl (uOes IL III
the Middle or Western States. For three
DAYS past we have had no wind to speak of,
the sky has been overcast, several showers OF
rain have fallen-real, genuine old-fashioned
rain assure you, and the heat has been over
towering to people who have been accus-
toned to shiver with oyercoats on in the mid
die Of summer, in the accursed sand storms
and lev sea blasts of San Francisco. The
reeking filth Astounding in the city under the
effect Of the warm moist air, is beginning 10
give off odors, beside which the "forty
thousand separate stinks" Of Cologne are
nowhere, and last evening as l walked home
with Chicago man, he remarked as an over
towering blast came up from an open
cesspool sewer, Now that reminds me of
home" ~.
WILLIAMS IN TOWN.
David C. Williams, ex-Stock Broker, whose
arrest at Placerville for tampering with the
telegraph wires for stock gambling purposes,
created such sensation here two weeks
since, having succeeded in reducing his bail
to 81 900, has got the money (greenbacks)
nut up in the Sheriff's hands, and is now here
in the city. He will hardly be allowed to 90
on trial, as parties in this city would much
sooner forfeit $1,000 in legal tenders than
have certain facts come out on the examin-
alton and get into the papers. 1t is said that
he bears no good will towards the parties in
whose interest he was acting when he was
arrested, and who hastened to disclaim even
a passing acquaintance with him after he
had got himself into difficulty. 1t is gener-
ally believed that if he wishes to travel in
foreign parts for time, liberal subscrip-
ton will be promptly forthcoming, and he
can go as soon as he wishes, bnt that 1t is
possible his inclinations may run in differ
ent direction, in which case look out for fun.
FAILURES.
Since June LIST, many OF the heaviest stock
dealers in San Francisco have gone by the
board, and their places are now vacant, no
one having the means, or the nerve to step
into their shoes and take the desperate
chances of winning fortune or losing one.
Some Of these failures are sweepers and
their effects are felt throughout our whole
community. One man, whose income from
Gould & Curry alone, was estimated at $500
per week, besides owning other property in
abundance, is now as poor as church
mouse, his wife has deserted him and he
goes East on funds raised among his friends
to help him out of community in which he
has tasted the sweets of unlimited prosperi-
ty and the bitterness OF overwhelming ad-
versity within 4 single year. Another, who
a wear since owned one-third Of Washington
Market, an interes: in block on Montgo-
merry street worth $4,000, fine homestead
and other property, is now living in small
cottage rented by the month, aud cheaply
furnished, Shorn of everything, and $4,000
in debt, with not q red in the shape of avail
able assets. The last great failure made
public, is that of John W, Tucker, the enter
prising Jeweler Of this city. He made
large sum in the outset from u stated bust
ness, but in spite Of the raise he made on
Wide West, went beyond his depth ut last,
and was hopelessly swamped. His name
was painted off the windows OF the magnif-
cent store which he erected on Montgomery
street, on Monday last, and he has filed his
petition in insolvency. His liabilities fall
available) are set down at $500, 900, and his
assets available and otherwise) at $50, 600.
Whatever fuckers faults may have been, he
was liberal enterprising business man, had
done much towards building Of San Fran
cisco, and his failure is TO be regarded in the
light of public calamity. Such men can
i'll be spared from the business circles OF any
community, and their places once vacant are
not readily filed.
WHERE THE MONEY WENT TO.
The idea prevails to wide extent abroad,
that the losses on stocks are only felt in San
Francisco by individual spectators, one
man making what another man loses, but no
idea could possibly be more erroneous. The
money is no longer here. 1t has been frit-
tered away in four thousand mines, doing
trife of unproductive work here, drumming
an abortiYe tunnel there, sending Off super
intendeuts, tools, machinery and provisions
in a thousand directions, and absolutely
wasted in ninety-nine cases out Of hun
dred. San Francisco is poorer to-day by
millions of dollars than she would have been
had this mining mania never started, and all
through a grand radical error in the plan Of
operations adopted at the outset. Had half
the money been concentrated on 100 instead
Of 1000 mines, we should have had to-day
25 paving mines at least, where now there
are half dozen or less. The ruin is not
confined to stock spectators strictly speak
ing, but extends through and affects all
branches of business and all classes and
grades in society. That we may ultimately
be benefited by the work done, badly as it has
been managed is not improbable, but in the
mean time, as q western man would express
it, cit is very mighty hell, stranger" on
San Franciscans.
THE INDUSTRIAL FAIR.
The preparations for the great Industrial
Fair, under the management Of the Mechan-
les Institute, at Union Square, are rapidly
approaching completion. The building, which
is of the highest possible character, covered
with thin redwood boarding and having a
single strip of white cotton cloth running
L., Inefh alnty hn int ha
place Of windows, for supplying the interior
with light; is but single story in height,
save in the center, from which rises mag
nifcent dome, said to be the third or fourth
in size in the world, which completely re-
deems the whole structure from its other
wise unsightly squattiness, and renders it an
ornament tn that quarter OF the town. It
covers nearly the entire block, and | am
assured that it will be filed throughout with
the products of the industry of the people of
the Pacific Slope. The Fair will be opened with
great ecIat on Thursday, September LIST, and
the attendance, with cheap fare on the river,
railroads and fast stage facilities throughout
the interior, can hardly fail to be immense.
ON A sTRIKE.
The Assistant Assessors and Clerks in the
Internal Revenue Department Office in this
city struck in body, this morning, for pay
ment of salary in gold coin, or its equivalent.
They have received heretofore $50 per
month in greenbacks, and at forty cents on
the dollar (more than they are now WORTHY
that would be but $50 per month. They
find it impossible to keep body and soul to-
gether. The Assessor and Collector have
offered them $l75 per month in currency to
resume work, but they declined the offer, and
business is therefore at u dead lock. Nothing
whatever can be done until the Department
at Washington has been telegraphed to and
other arrangements made.
THE CHRISTIAN COMMISSION FAIR.
This affair commenced yesterday with a
grand flourish of truppets and goodlY at
tendance, at Union Hall. The first days
receipts was 81 900, and the attendance to-
day is large. 1 am sorry to say that fear
this Fair will be moderate success. l say
sorry, for the reason that look upon the
Christian Commission as mere sectarian
affair, gotten up to interfere with the action