Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-06
0nr San Francisco Correspondence

Our San Francisco Correspondence.
SAN Francisco, May 4, 1864.
EDS. GOLD HILL NEws-Gentlemen:-
We are progressing steadily in civilization
and the "moderu improvements on society
in San Francisco. Witness the
GREAT SANITARY PICNIC.
All young San Francisco and an immense
representation of old San Francisco were
over to the EncinaI de alameda on Monday
to attend the Great Sanitary May Day Pic
mic, and such demonstration as that was |!
Jones' Woods, or Coney Island, never saw
more disgraceful exhibition in the palmiest
days of New York Plug.ugly and Dead-rabbit-
ism. Ten thousand persons, big and little,
were crowded upon steamers, and damned
like sardines into box inside cars and
dumped on to the ground like so many cattle
or sheep going TO the slaughter houses.
There was dirt, and dust, and heat, and con-
fusion, and whisky, and mismnnagement on
all sides going to the grounds, the same
doubled with occasional fighting and black
guard ruthanism Of language, on the grounds,
and all these things ten times multiplied on
the return. II an not much mistaken, II
will be many day before the respectable
parents Of San Francisco will permit their
children TO 90 on such an excursion again.
Not even the Committee of Management, If
management there was any, seemed to know
Or care what was going on, aud the whole
affair was disgrace to San Francisco and a
worse disgrace to the railroad and ferry COM
pany, which so grossly imposed upon the
public BY advertising ample accommodations
for all who might come, and PROVIDED sucn
niggardly means Of transportiOn, that they
damned their reputation for all time to come.
There is one consideration about this matter:
half the proceeds went to the Sanitary Fund,
and this is the only redeeming feature OF the
whole affair. May this be the last OF its kind
in California!
THE NICHOLSON.
One Of the sensations Of San Francisco at
this time is the " Nicolson or Chicago
Wood Pavement" a single block Of which
has Just been laid down on Montgomery
street from Sacramento to Clay. The work
was done BY men new at the business, and
will have to be re.laid in one or two places,
but its merits are so obyious-no dust, no
noise, no Jar to vehicles, and most Of all, no
injury to the feet md legs of horSes-that its
success here is almost certain to be as great
as in the great cities Of the West, where it
has superseded all other pavements. Hith-
erto San Francisco has been the worst paved
city in America, and a ride through her
streets has been as full OF terrors to the weak
backed and nervous as one over the SierraS
in the flush times of old stage roads and dead
neck and neck racing opposition. A ride
across the block l have spoken of presents
such contrast to the rest of trip through
Montgomery street, that everybody goes IN
at once for a change from the old loose cob
bles to the new, clean, smooth, noiseless,
wooden pavement. The omnibus railroad
company, satisfied that an outlay Of SlOO,0 900
for this pavement will be more than repaid in
the saving OF horse-hesh in two or three
years. have already commenced laying down
the Nicolsun on all their tracks, beginning
on Howard street. as
1ToLD YOU so.
As predicted in last weeks letter, Capt.
Paul, OF the Great Republic, has been par
doned by President johnson, upon the repre-
sensations Of many merchants Of San Fran
cisco, and the authorities, not waiting for the
reception Of the document from Washington,
as would have been done in an ordinary case,
set him free on the receipt Of the dispatch
announcing the fact by telegraph. All right.
He is now at liberty, and the majesty OF the
law will be fully yindIcatcd by the punish
ment of his subordinates to the full extent Of
their sentences. This is as it should be. The
head men should be invariably let off in all
such cases, but the "blasted low fellahs ="
the common subordinates should catch it.
The Captains are wanted on board their YES
sells, and good Captains, like Captain Paul,
are always in demand-but brutes, like
Walls, the hrst mate, the second mate, and
the bnatSwain, VINO beat sailors until they
are crippled for life, and commit other out
RACES which cannot be even named on the
poor Shanghaied wretches thrown into their
clutches. can be found at any time in a6und-
ance. You may not see the force Of this
STYLE of argument, but Lord bless you, the
merchants Of San FranciscO-all honorable
MEXICAN, and do see it, and it is for them
to say what is right and what is wrong. The
old style of justice is played out, my boy,
and you are behind the times.
DEAD-RAKE.
You remember the moderately successful
debut of Miss Louisa Deadrick." at Ma
CURES some six months since, and the un-
purchased encomiums lavished upon her by
| The press? She was so d" artlesS," had "such
Z" quiet lady.like way" with her, and was
withal so modest, difident and retiring"
that she took all hearts captive. II was con-
6dently prophesied that she would become u
hne actress as soon as she became "accus-
| toned 10 the stage" | was one of the healthy
Young critics who said as much, and confess
to some slight touches Of disgustful feeling,
not to say downright annoyance, when l read
the following in the AKa's New York cores
pondence on Tuesday last. The St. Louis
Democrat says:
"Dr. William Bahr, well known veterin-
airy surgeon OF this city, whose Office for
some years has been on the second floor OF
| the building southeast corner Seventeenth
| street and Franklin avenue, over the drug
| store, committed suicide yesterday, by taking
morphine. The cause OF the suicide is un-
derstood to have been trouble Of domestic
kind. Two or three years since DR.. Bahr
married d German actress, who, though a
woman of education and many accomplish
ments, appears to have been Of somewhat
vain and thoughtless disposition, and having
| a better appreciation Of social recreation and
amusements than Of domestic happiness. At
| the time of her marriage with Bahr, though
mot over twenty. one years Of age, she was a
divorced woman. A year ago her conduct
having become such as to excite the jealousy
Of her second husband, their union became
an unhappy one. They at length parted, she
remaining for time 10 the city, carrying on
all sorts Of firtations with her gentlemen
friends, until, some six months since, she
left for California.
Oh, woman! woman! you are as big a
humbug as you were in the days Of my boy
hood, and-man is as big a goose and as
readily gulled by you as erer Such is life !!
walked UP AT LAST.
Uncle Sam has suddenly awakened to a
knowledge Of the fact that block Of ground
in the very heartof San Francisco, next west
of the Post Office aud Custom House grounds,
belonging to fIinnt for which other people
have received hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars in rents, and he nary cent. On Mon
day, General Mcdowell received peremp-
tory order to take possession Of this block at
I once, and Colonel Rabbit was directed to
dispOssess the numerous occupants. Of
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