Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-26
Our San Francisco Correspondence.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. "a, 1864.

oao lew weeks since when everybody else
was in the same fix, and the town is quiet as
New England Sunday or the Barlow
knife " with which We used to try to white
holes in the school house benches and
couldn't do it, in the days of our childish in
nocence and all that sort OF thing, as my
lively friend, the poet Martin F. Topper, hap
PLY expresses it in his work on philosophy
and things. The town is lively enough now,
Heaven knows if trade is dull, which am
prepared to believe.
POLITICAL CAULDRoN BOILING.
The principal business going on in town
| nowadays is shooting, cutting, and cussing
and discussing politics. The blowers on both
| sides are making tremendous fuss, as usual,
and the thinking Union men are looking on
with grave apprehensions of results. Since
my last have noticed that some of the most
bitter Secessionists in California are being
whipped into the traces and taking hold with
will for Mcclellan, while many protested
Union men, whom would not have dreamed
OF being III S>tch company, are acting with
them. There is no excuse for longer shut
ting our eyes tn the fact that every element Of
NHPNoiNAoAA w blG SulOu, " luG EhNlLlAiaSt'S
ton, to free government, to good order, and
to the existing condition of things political
and social, will be united, and that we shall
have to overthrow the most powerful combi-
nation ever effected in the Pacific States, or
see ourselves dlsgracefully whipped, and that
too with victory perching on the banners OF
our advancing armies, and the rebellion re-
duced to one nope only-that of discussions
in the North. We have got to leave off quar-
reling among ourselves, and go to work with
more unanimity than ever before, or this
contamination so to be dreaded by every lover
of his country, will surely DC accomplished.
The progress of the campaign is developing
the worst passions of the worst classes OF the
community, and if We go through it without
serious commotions in this city l shall We,
for one, most agreeably disappointed. The
meetings of the Copperheads have been
largely attended, and have been perfectly un-
disturbed By the Union men, hut the compli-
ment has not by any means been returned,
and from the increasing boldneSS Of the dis
| orderly crowds who from time TO time pass
| through the streets groaning for Lincoln and
cheering to the utmost for Little Mac, in
sultiug every soldier they meet on the streets
! with the most infamous epithets, and even
| threats of violence, | infer that it wants but
| a word to create riot here at any moment.
| l have been used to seeing excitement, OF
course, at every Presidential election, but |
| never witnessed one before in which such
| hat1eds, such uncomfortable passions, were
brought out and excited TO such an en-
| tent. To add to the evils which threaten US,
the city is filled with idle men, thrown out of
employment by the failure Of the crops, the
want OF water in the mines and the general
| depression Of business consequent, or who
| have come here from the East to avoid the
draft, or for other reasons-just such mate
| rial as the creators Of the New York riots
| found ready to their hands year ago, and
such men are ever ready for mischief. The
scenes which occurred along Montgomery
| street last evening at the close of the Union
meeting at Platt'S Hall, are but family de-
scribed i'll the morning papers. They were
| disgraceful to our city in the extreme. and II
| | was the greatest admirer of Mcclellan in
the universe, the sight of the mob which
went ranging up and down, bowling his
praises, cndeavoring TO provoke nights and
! inauGurate bloody riots, would convert me to
voting for the out and out Lincoln and Union
| ticket. l have never been Il Republican, but
| God deliver me from the association of such
| Union men as went around our streets, yell
! ing for Mcclellan last night. Better Union
| men are fighting by thousands in the armies
of the Southern Confederacy to-day.
THE FAIR.
What the total receipts from the Fair
amount to up to this date l am unable to
| state, but they must be enough to clear all
expenses and leave the Institute a handsome
profit of not less than from FIVE to ten thou
sand dollars, l think. The attendance is
falling off gradually, and l do not think it
will pay to keep open beyond next week. In
spite Of the undeniably hard times, the cXhi-
bition has been success, and will be the
means of putting the Mechanics Institute
! out OF debt, think.
| ALA NODE DE CHINE.
| 1 was the lucky holder of an invitation to
the great Chinese Banquet given by the
Ming Yeong Company, at the new temple on
Dupont alley, last Monday, to the members
| of the press and the high dignitarics OF the
| Courts. One hundred and fifty dishes, more
| or less, comprised the substantial porticL OF
| the banquet, and about everything which
| Chinaman thinks is wholesome, entered into
| the composition of the dishes. The banquet
| lasted some three hours, and during that
| time Iswallowed abalones, sharks fins, birds
| tongues, every conceivable species Of CHI
| nese vegetable, cooked in every conceivable
| manner, birds-nest soup, "licey in fifty
| forms, and a thousand denominations, for
which even the ingenuity of Chinaman
| fails to find a name; and to crown all and not
put too fine point upon it-worms. Fish
are delicate eating, and they live on worms
know it, for have seen EN- do It and If fish
| form the only connecting link between me
and worms, why not drop that medium en-
! tirely and go at the worms in proper person
Reasoning on this basis, l bolted the little
| iokers and found them not unpleasant to the
| taste, fit was not for the name of them, and
| could do it again if | wanted to, but as the
| old Rackensackan remarked when he dined
off of buzzard on bet, " l can eat EN-, but
dog-gone my heart If l banker arter 'cm!'
| Some of the dishes were really "magnlf,"
and if there was anything about the affair
which felt ashamed OF, it was the avidity
with which my brethren of the press Swal-
lowed everything which was set before them,
having evidently come with the set determin-
alton of getting square meal. The noe
| turnal female equine steed has galloped madly
over my couch every night since the feast,
and can now fully appreciate the miseries
which were inflicted on Europe through the
operation of 1.-THE Diet Of Worms"
THE STEAMSHIP HANDS STRIKE.
The strike of the Steamship hands on We'd
nesday, caused by reduction of $40 per
month in the wages of the firemen and coal
beavers, which has already been announced
to you by telegraph, is formidable affair,
and the rioting along the City front yesterday
was fully as bad as stated in either the BulIe-
tin on the Alta. Three-fourths Of the rioters
were wharf loafers, and bummers, who never
worked on a steamship or anywhere else, and
their conduct seriously compromised the
strikers, most of them condemn any such con-
duct unqualifedly. The Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company's wharf would certainly have
been attacked at o'clock P. NJ, had not the
Provost Guard armed with swords and pistols,
arrived Just in season to oyerawe the mob.
To-day large number Of idlers are hanging
around that neighborhood and endeavoringto
prevent men from shipping, but no further
riotous demonstrations have taken place, and
| the Provost Guard and Police will be so dis
posed tomorrow as to prevent any chance for
a racurrpnce of the infamous scenes of yester-