Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-29
Our San Francisco Correspondence.
say FRAScIsco. July q, ls6l.

SAN FRANCISCO, July q, ls64.
EDITORS NEws-GeatEesa Last week
I sighed for excitement, something to write
about, and this week hesitate where to be-
gin and what to leave out, for il has come In
on US Ike food, proving the truth Of the
old adage, at never rains but 1t pours.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SCANDAL.
You viii have learned ere this from the
daily press of San Francisco the full details
of the horrible disclosures which have been
made in the matter Of our Public Schools.
Suffice il then for me to say that the police
are still busy hunting out the evidence of
guilt on the part Of the parties arrested, and
others not arrested but implicated in the de
baucheries Of the school children. The
amount Of obscene literature, abominably OBJ
scene pictures, and other eth, found in the
possession Of school children, and traced to
the brutes arrested, or TO the keepers Of small
fancy stores and shops. IS beyond belief, II
one has not seen it as have done. The
creature named LambertSon, now, thank
heaven in the chain-gan9 for two hundred
and forty days, has confessed to every infa-
nous crime Imaginable, or capable Of inven-
ton BY anything in human form, but for
various reasons can only be punished for the
single oEense to which he pleaded guilty, VIZ
" Exhibiting obscene pictures. he got
sound constitutional dose, however, from
Judge Shepherd, and viii find San Fran
cisco an unhealthy place TO live in after he
has served his time out. The number OF
girls, mostly orphans, or half orphans, known
10 have been debauched, IS over twenty, and
the worst part Of the matter is that the affair
creates that degree Of suspicion and doubt in
the mind Of the public, that hundreds Of mere
children viii be the victims of doubts and
malicious reports, based on these terrible
revelations For this subject, to one hardly
less horrible, is but step, and so viii tell
you Of what know regarding
A CASTLE OF MYSTERY.
On Fourth street, in this city, not a thou
sand miles either way from Mission street,
standing in the centre Of a block, Is a house
which has for some time been mystery to
the people residing Whereabouts, but the char
acter Of which is becoming tolerably well de-
fined in the minds of the police at least. The
neighborhood is one Of the best in the city,
and the residents Whereabouts who have an
idea Of the character Of the establishment
feel greatly scandalized in regard to the mat
ter. The house as have said stands in the
centre of the block; the windows are carefully
secured with blinds through which nothing
is ever seen from the outside, and on the two
side streets, from which there are entrances
TO the premises; very high colored fence
shuts of the view Of al but the roof Of the
building from the people in the street. Thro'
these fences on either street door way IS
cut, and these doors are always kept locked
70 outsiders. From the roof Of a high build
ing fronting on the Fourth street side Of the
block, YOU can look down into the yards on
either side Of the house and some half dozen
inner doors closing passage ways through
which one must pass to gain admission TO
the building, can be seen. Residents there
abouts state that not single soul has ever
been seen to enter the premises, save ct night,
since the house was built, and BY day so far
as can be ascertained the place IS utterly de-
serted It is now generally understood that
the establishment IS the property Of club OF
some twenty or more members, all men Of
rneans in the community; some married and
some single. Zach member has pass-key
10 the premises and can at all times gain adj
mission with his friend, and ''no questions
asked" The rooms in this house are small
but numerous and the furniture which went
in there was such as is usually found IN the
chambers Of the finest private residences. II
this house could speak aloud and reveal the
secrets of its frequenters, how many homi-
cides would be committed in our city within
-. ~, ,,,auxr faifhIeaq wives would be
turned forth from the homes they have dis
Qraced: how many daughters now loved and
earessed by fond and doting parents, would
be cas-. of as something too loathsone and
corrupt TO find shelter under the parental
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