Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-04-01

the most important witnesses as to MS
1 loyalty and general character, and his
financial operations, although subpenad,
have never been called at all, and were
! told that they were not wanted. Bung'
lingly as things have been managed, how
ever, enough has leaked out to show that
O'Byrne has used the most dlsloyal Ian
guage, and followed course which would
shut him out of the house of every decent
private citizen, and out of all private en-
ployment, and if the testimony which has
been sent for from Victoria is torthcom-
ing, as expected, there can be no earthly
reason why the service should be dis
graced by his retention another day. The
matter is so mixed up that don't know
hardly what predictions to make as to the
issue of it.
DUST, OH
The cold breezes which have been such
an annoyance to our citizens for months
past, have not only checked vegetation
around the Bay of San Francisco, and
blighted the hopes of the market garden
ers, but they have done another thing
more distressing to the people OF this be-
nighted neck of the country. They have
dried up every particle of moisture in our
soil, and the dust is to-day as deep, light,
buoyant and penetrating as it usually Is IN
midsummer. The street cars are almost
deserted on account of the unbearable
dust, and what we shall have in three or
four months from now, Heaven only
knows. Think I shall be compelled to
emigrate to Saucelito, where they have
neither mud or dust, sand tomorrow
shall be even as to-day, all the year
round"
TROUBLE IN sHoDDY.
Since the fall in gold in New York,
shoddy" and all descriptions of woollen
clothing are at discount. The streets
are already lined with enterprising mer-
chants who offer to dispose of all kinds of
ready-made garments at "a frightful sac
rlfice." You can buy a suit of "all wool
French beaver cloth" throughout, "any
color you ish pleasht to call for" from $lS
to $50. l think l will hold on until next
week and have the garments given me.
WAS IT TREASON:
The fact that views of all the forti6ca-
tons in and around the harbor of San
Francisco, down to the most minute and
trifiing detail, have recently been prepared
in this city, and that part of them have
been seized by the Provost Guard, while
a search is being made for others, leaked
out through an article in the Aha this
morning, and the further fact that the
pirate Shenandoah is reported at Mel
bourne on her way hither, is creating. in
connection with the other matter, quite a
sensation among our military authorities
and people, to-day. We have a number
of vessels on this coast amply able to cope
with the Shenandoah if she could be found
by them; so that we need have no fear of
any direct danger to San Francisco save
through our commerce, which she could
paralyze if not destroy; but the matter of
the drawings and views of the forts being
taken, has, it is thought, something of
more Importance in it. am told that the
views of Fort Point, Inside and out, show
ing every gun, their bearing, range. and
all other particulars, were taken by orders
of the Post Quartermaster, James, for what
purpose can only be dimly conjectured as
vet. I am not certain whether he has
been arrested or not, but the impression
here is that he is under arrest, pending
investigations. The military are very reti-
cent on the subject. Another fact, am
informed, has come to the knowledge of
the authorities, viz: men have been en-
gagged for nearly month in little shanty
on the end of Meiggs wharf, taking the
most minute drawings of everything on
Alcatraz Island and Angel Island, one
man using a spy-glass or telescope, and
the others working with drawing instru-
ments at the same time. That there is
something in all this, am sure but what
it will be found to amount to in the end,
remains to be seen. 1t is very strange
that such an affair should occur at this
time, and the ever sensitive public will
hardly rest easy until something more def
mite is ascertained, and published "by
authority"
UP OR DOWN.
The question now most agitating COM
mercial circles is "will the present fall in
gold be permanent" or in other words,
twill greenbacks go up or down: ;" The
general impression among merchants,
bankers and brokers seems to be that gold
has touched its lowest point, and that even
if peace is declared at once, it must con-
tinue to sell at high premium for long
time to come. Whether this view is cor
rect or not is, of course, a mere matter of
conjecture, but it is hardly probable that
our first Indebtedness can be cleared away
and bonded and specie payments resumed
by our Government for several years to
come, under any circumstances. Much
depends on the course of the war and
manner in which peace is attained, but the
vast volume of our indebtedness is, after
all, the next fact with which we have to
deal, and the subject is one which may
well tax to the utmost the resources and
powers of mind of the ablest Enanciers in
America and the world. There is one
noticeable fact in regard to the rates of
gold and greenbacks at the present time.
A year since we always held greenbacks
at 3 to 5 per cent. higher rates here as
compared with gold in New York now,
however, the reverse is the fact, and
dealers think that distrust of the perma-
nency of the gold decline is the reason
for the present anomalous condition of
affairs. Adios. AMIGO.
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