Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-23
our San Francisco Correspondence,

Times have been quite lively in San Fran
cisco of late, and if our people have had
but little to do, they can not complain
that they have not had abundance to talk
about; and to do them justice, I must say
that they have made full use Of the oppor-
t~unities Heaven has ~vouchsafed to them.
rHB aorrscHALK BscAPADE
Has been one of the leading topics OF dis
c~ussion, and the scandal has been all the
more relishable for the reason that it af-
fects two families in the most respectable
circles Of society. The facts Of the case,
as commonly credited on the streets, are
as follows: Gottschalk, who is notorious
for his personal vanity, and prides him
self on his feats in the way OF personal
triumphs over weak women and silly
school girls, ven over to the Oakland
Female College and played the piano for
the edifcation of the pupils and teachers,
some weeks since. His cartes de Uisite
were soon after distributed by some means
quite extensively among the girls. One
morning last week, just before dayoreak'
two of the girls, one the daughter OF an
ex-Assemblyman of this city, the other
belonging to a highly respectable family
here, were detected in attempting to gain
admission to their rooms through q win
dow, and on investigation it turned out
that they had been out TO meet w men
from San Francisco, Charles Legay. a
halter, and Gottschalk, the pianist. The
story got back to San francisco almost
as soon as did the gallant q young men,
and was soon in everybody's mouth. The
scandal was 80 great that Gottschalk's
friends were compelled to come out and
make an attempt to defend him. Their
story is that young Legacy received q let
ter from one of the young girls, which
| contained an invitation to him to come
| over and meet them with either Sbriglla'
| Orlandini or Gottschalk, and that they
| 1.-THE girls) would "yield to their every
| desire" This letter-which has not been
shown to outsiders, I believe-he exhibit
ed to Gottschalk, with the invitation to
20 over with him. The two went over
and met the girls outside the building.
Gottschalk was accosted-he says-by
Miss -, with How do you do, Mr..
| Orlandini :" To which he says he re-
piled, II am not Orlandini; I am Cots
chalk" ooh! we'll, tits all the same !"
mo, it is not all the same /; l do not come
here as a substitute for any other man."
And with that, he says, he became 80
disguised that he left the party after q few
minutes conversation. How likely q man
of his stamp would be to abandon such
an adventure, after going so far on it, out
of disgust at the forwardness of the weak
headed girl who had invited him to such
a meeting, I leave you to judge. At any
rate, the story did not satisfy the public,
and as matters were getting too hot for
him, he packed up his traps, including the
magnificent testimonial" said to have
been presented to him by his admiring
San Francisco friends, which has been on
exhibition in the windows of fuckers
iewelry store so long, and, under the
modest title of Mr.. John Smith, left our
shores without even the formality Of a
tenth and last farewell concert" on the
Colorado, getting on board just as the
steamer left the wharf. The position Of
young Legacy in this matter-that of a
procurer for the distinguished foreigner"
is not an enviable one, and will hardly
procure him the entire in future into good
society"
ANOTHER CASE.
Quite ON excitement was created one
night last week, by the discovery of the
fact that q downtown furniture dealer
named V-m had seduced the daughter
of his landlady. q girl of by no means
bright intellect. and about 10 or 10 years
of age. The young woma was caught in
his store at a late hour Of the night, and a
crowd Immediately gathered around the
building. The furniture dealer escaped
by the back door, and the miserable girl
was taken back to her widowed mother.
She insisted that they were married, but
had no papers to show for the assertion,
and a number of the friends of the family
started post haste after the s~kedaddling
furniture man, to compel him to make
good his promises and take her for better
or worse; but up to the time I write he
has not been found.
HARD SET.
The " veterans from the battle fields"
over whose arrival two weeks since the
daily papers of San Francisco made 80
much ado, turn out to be about as hard o
set of unmitigated scalliwags as ever
landed on our shores. Of the $40 men OF
the Second Battalion Of the Fourteenth
Infantry who came here, over 100 are re.
ported to have deserted already, and
three of them were arrested for petty lar
ceny before they had been here a week.
The regulations at the Preside were so in
different that the town was flooded with
stockholders, who got in without passess,
running the guards every night, and rows,
fights and assaults upon citizens and each
other became at last 50 frequent that Gen.
eral Mcdowell was compelled to order
new patrols and change the entire system
of guards and passes, and Pacific, Jackson.
Pike and Kearney streets have now as
sumed their wanted semi civilized appear
ance. The worst case which occurred
was that of three soldiers who waylaid
officer Thomas, near the corner Of Pacific
and Taylor streets, on Sunday morning
last, about Q o'clock, for the purpose Of
plumber, and came within an ace Of muir
dering him. They left him shockingly
d~isfgured and dangerously injured, and
made their escape with his pistol and hat,
leaving one of their own caps behind in
the haste of their flight. Their names
were afterwards ascertained, but they de-
serted before being arrested, and will now
probably never be punished. The Cali.
fornia volunteers were, some Of them, not
the best of men, but as a whole they were
as fine material as ever served in an army,
| and I an afraid that our citizens will find
that the change from volunteers to regu-
lars is not for the better. The Second
Regular Artillery, which arrived yeSter-
day, is however composed Of better ma
| terial.
No suRR TUIN0 YET.