Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-12-30
Oar Sam Francisco Oorrespondence.
SAN FRANc1sco, December q, 1866.

Our San Francisco Correspondence.
SAN FRANCISCO, December q, 1866.
ED. GoID HILL News - Dear Sir
We still live! iwhel I say "we," I mean,
Of course, Mark Twain and l. He survived
the festivities attendant upon Christmas Day
more is the wonder, as I did not think no
could possibly do it, and I have not yet fallen
a victim to the raids Of the niptomaniacS Of
80. THE FOURTEENTH INFANTRY.
The gallant Fourteenth, / think they are
generally called, which is almost an equal
wonder. BY the bye, those F~ourteenthers
are some. The average Of their arrests BY
the police for petty larceny, is not less than
twenty-five = week-ah6 IL would be ten
times as large If all the thieves were caught
and strangers who happen to attend the Po-
lice Court ofa morning generally mistake it
for a court martial, the men with martial
cloaks and requirements around 'em so
far predominant over the civilians. Not to
descend to the notice Of such little triles, l
will merely mention that they have the town
surrounded, and We may be said to be in a
state Of siege. The new arrangements Of the
Provost Guard secures our citizens who live
east OF Kearny street from their raids, but
they don't avail outsiders much, nor those
who live off the main streets and in the su-
burbs. The principal achievements Of this
branch Of the service during the past forty
eight hours-I mean achievements above the
ordinary standard of petty larceny-are rs
follows: Four Of them met a man sixty-hve
years Of age on Christmas night, as ne was
going back to his home in the Western Addi-
ton, and knocked him down, jumped on him,
and beat him, out Of pure, unadulterated ems
sedness, until the bones OF his right arm were
broken into a hundred pieces, and his chest
| so injured that his life IL despRired of. He
| loses his arm, and probably his life, for this
| little exhibition Of a playful disposition on
their part. Earlier in the day two battalions
| Of the same regiment got into q fight with
| each other, and some half dozen OF them we're
| carried off the field on stretchers. The
whipped battalion retreated to the Presidio-
| this happened at a whisky shop outside the
| lines-and arming themselves for a regular
battle, returned with loaded muskets and
| fixed bayonets, but were unfortunately de-
TERED from commencing the butchery by the
| efforts Of their officers and the interference
| Of meddlesome outsiders. Only one OF the
| combatants has died up TO this time, and It is
| thought that not more than a dozen others
| are MORALLY wounded. Next morning n few
| of them raided through Pacific street before
| daylight, muskets in hand, and cleared out
everything in their way, but RETAINED from
killing anybody or carrying of any Of the
buildings. And yet (would you believe it :;
these fellows have tho cheek to say, when
Il .o-.n1a:nk 70 oaolo % mr. all a. Y0unh
do you? Well, Just you wait until you see
| the First Cavalry, and you will find us a DID
| decent, well behaved lot Of gentlemen !"
| Heaven deliver US, II such is the case! The
telegraph has just announced the coming Of
the First. .....5. ..
PETALUMIASs TOO OUT oP LUCK.
The people Of Petsluma seem to be pecu-
liarly susceptible tothe tender passion, and
as peculiarly unfortunate in their ventures
among the fair sex OF San Francisco. Last
week we had two cases in point. One Balm
came down here, got acquainted with Cathe-
rine Mccarthy, the chambermaid in an emi-
grant boarding house, known as the 18TH
mus House, On First street, and after a
twenty-five hours courtShip, agreed to marry
her. He made her numerous presents, and
on Saturday the knot was to be ticd-but
"there's many a slip" as he soon found out.
On Friday one OF his friends came to visit
him and congratulate the happy couple on
the marriage-got tight drinking their health,
and was put to bed by Catherine. When he
awoke his money was gone, and it was not
long before he had the detectives after Kate.
She retreated to the room Of the landlord,
with whom she seems to have been very well
acquainted, and from thence got out OF the
| L.1l.-- -. .~n.a Oh. % n fopnl IN .
house on Market street and arrested, ind the
money has since been recovered by the police
from where it had been hidden BY the fair but
fruil damsel. Balm has not, however, re-
covered his confidence I'M Catherine, and the
marriage will probably be postponed, il not
broken entirely. On the following evening,
Thurston, the landlord OF the American
House at Petaluma, while going out Pine
street to visit a female, to whom he had made
very liberal presentS-with q view Of mar
riage, it isJeported-met an intimate friend
Of hers, who drew u revolver and commenced
blazing away at him. Three shots were fred,
and one Of them brought Thurston down,
when the friend Of the female ran away. He
was subsequently arrested, but denies all
knowledge Of the affair. Thurston was not
killed, as the ball ran half way around his
head and came out without breaking the
| bhulls 4uub maj AoBC a. ahoS POohpOhCht oAe
Kate has gone to Jail, while the landlord Is
acquitted. Such is
II COURSE OF JUSTICE.
We occasionally see a slight crook or bend
in the path OF justice; the venerable old
dame shying once in q while, taking a little
turn out Of the straight course. I don't mean
to say that the old female gets tight-but I
do say that, for some cause, age, infirmity
Of vision, or something Of the sort, she don't
run average no not by a blamed sight. For
instance, u soldier Of the gallant, but unfor-
board tho other day-and, God knows, he
needed it badly-and for this was convicted
and sent to the County Jail for ninety days,
yesterday. All right, so far, but at the same
time a negro who attempted to commit a rape
on a white child and was caught in tho act,
was allowed to plead guilty to q simple as
sault and battery in the County Court, and
was sent to the County Jail for ninety days
also. So that it seems to be established that
Judge Cowlcs' standard OF punishment for
| the most revolving and hsllish crime on record
is exactly that which Judge Rix affixes to the
| theft Of a washboard Well, the two crimes
may be about equal in magnitude and hei-
nousness, but as I am q sinner, l cannot
see il. II a man deserves ninety dnys in the
c~hain-gang for stealing a fifty cent wash
board, it seems to me that he ought to get
hell for a rape! But I am not 4 Judge, and
perhaps I ought not to mix into such matters
at all.
...HgAN INFAMOUS OUTAGE.
We have just learned that President John
SON has pardoned Captain Tucker, Of the
ship Volunteer, who confined a Kanaka sailor
in the stocks, in a cold climate, and fed him
on bread and water until he contracted con-
sumption, from which he died q few days
after his arrival here. He was only convicted
Of assault and battery, and sentenced by
Judge Hoffman to four months imprisonment
in the County Jail, and yet the friends Of the
owners think even that too much-and tina
Judge, good, kind hearted man, unites with
them in asking his pardon. Do you remem-
Der the case Of the ship Great Republic, a
year since The perpetrators Of the horri-
bic outrages on the crew OF that vessel went
free in the same manner. Had a sailor
merely struck a Captain in self.defense and
killed him, all the efforts Of the crew would
have been powerless to save his life, but with
the Captain it is diFerent-he is not amen
able to the same code which regulates the
conduct Of the common sailors. Such i, the