Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-30
Our San Francisco Correspondence.

mentS nave naQ the leau al the way
through, I will speak Of them first.
vEsTyALI
Is sick. What she is sick Of, unless it be
San Francisco, I do ms pretend to guess.
! She is sick, nevertheless /; so the papers
say, and I am bound to believe it. Her
success was but qualified, at best; and she
had come bere with such high anticipa-
| tions of a tremendous run, oceans of cash,
carloads Of boquets, and immense COM
plimentary benefits without number, with
q gold watch, diamond brooch, and gold
medal presentation before the footlights
| every time, that the reaction must have
| been rather sudden and severe, and her
sickness may well be set down as an
honest fact. To show you what ideas
people in New York have of California, ]
will merely state the fact that H. B. Plat,
of this city, aware Of her immense success
in New York, called on her there and Of
| fered her an engagement for thirty nights
| in California. And her terms were, what
think you? Only $4,000 for the thirty
nights, and all expenses out, back, and
here, paid! She might have closed with
Platt but for the offer of Mcguire, which
included a portion of the receipts, which
would-providing the house vas crammed
nightly -amount to a larger sum. Well,
she has tried it and-is sick.
II WARS OF THE TWO PoGUEs.
Next on the programme came the wal
of the two Pogues, viz: Bourcicault':
and Barron's. 1 wrote you, two weeks
since, that Wheatleigh had engaged Mrs
| Seldom Brown, Of New York, and taken
the Metropolitan Theatre, to bring out
"Arrah-na-Pogue or the Wicklow Wed
ding" Well, the play was delayed, and
Mcguire attempted q fire in the rear "
dodge, by bringing put an original dra-
| matization of the story, by one Barron. q
new aspirant for histronic fame. The
dramatization was well put upon the stage,
| and drew tolerably well for three or four
| nights. Then the author, or dramatist,
rushed into the papers in cards; Wheat
leigh replied, Of course, and the result was
| that the whole town was on the qui rirt
to see the genuine article, by Bourcicault,
| Maguire's efforts overwhelmingly ad-
vertising the genuine play; and when
Wheatleigh opened on Monday night last,
the crowd at the doors was so great tina,
! the building was found too small to &C.
commodate them, and hundreds, after
paying their money, finding that they
could only enter the vestibule, and could
| not get within earshot Of the inner doors,
received back their cash and went away
to wait impatiently for another night.
| Fully $1,000 remained in the house, and
last night the house was nearly as good.
The piece has really little merit in itself,
but the scenery and stage effects as it is
produced by Wheatleigh 60 immensely
beyond anything in the line ever before
attempted in San Francisco, and are in.
| deed magnificent. 1t will run for q week,
and perhaps two weeks-as long as any
thing will run here-and pay like the
| Allison Ranch gold mine. Mcguire,
meantime, is not idle though beaten fair
ly this time, he has a long head and will
bring out novelties of equal attraction III
rapid succession, so that a lively theatri,
cal season is opening before US.
II NEW YORK MISsrRHLs.
Hussey,\ Collins, Wallace s Clinton:
New York Minstrels" are playing &c
slim houses at the Academy of Music
Their entertainment is "fairish," nothing
more.
ADAM AND EvB
Are making up for Paradise Lost" a
| the Eureka. and will have a good run, q,
| the really excellent entertainment q be.
lieve you have seen it) deserves.
oUrDoNE.
The joke Of the season par excellence was
the grand ~rope-walking feat at Poin,
Lobos on Sunday last. The proposition
of Cooke, the tight-rope performer, tc
walk from the Cliff House to the South
| Seal Rock and back, was at first suppose q
to be a joke only, but in due time the
generous American public began to recog-
nize the fact that he really "mesnt bust.
ness" and was going to "try it on"
Now. although the feat in a fair, still day
is perhaps no more difficult of accomplish
ment than hat Of walking to the top Of
the Circus tent pole, which is done every
day in the year almost, the fact that a fall
would be certain death in that locality,
gave a piquancy and agreeable horrible
ness to the proposition which set the whole
| population crazy to witness the feat. On
| Saturday everything wa in perfect readi-
ness, and the weather was delightful.
Everybody and their wives and children
were in a fever of expectation, and when
Sunday dawned, despite the threatening
clouds which filled the western horizon,
every vehicle in town, from a private
coupee to q dilapidated butcher cart
drawn BY two horses (tandem) was press
ed into the service, and started for the
Cliff House, loaded down with old and
young, male and female sight seers. It
had not rained for six months or more
why should it rain that day, pray: Peo-
pie wouldn't see it, and pressed on. l
doubt if less than 5000 men and women
went out there on foot "a distance of four
and a half miles-while the number on
horseback and in carriages could not have
been less than 10000 to $4,000, or say
1900 to 100000 all told. By half-past
II P. N. the rain was pouring down in a
fine, regular drizzle, very refreshing to
the gardens and young ducks, no doubt,
but anything but grateful to the broad
cloth and silk-clad sight seers. 10 make
a long story short-the telegraph has
already told you of the failurc-the rain
continued until the rope was dripping
with moisture and the crowd wet to the
skin, and the wind, for the first time in
months, came in a gale from the south,
striking squarely across the rope. and
rendering it impossible for mortal. man to
accomplish the feat. 4 man would have
wanted more than ordinary skill, courage
and steadiness of head to have walked
over that yawning chasm On an ordinary
six-foot sidewalk. Cooke was in q fury,
and foreseeing his reputation ruined, made
n rackleSs attemnt IN accOmDliah n mart nf