Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-21
Oar San Franciseo Correspondence.
SAN FRANCISCO, October Is, 1865.

It never rains but it pours, and just now
it is coming down thick and fast; it never
poured harder. The Brother Jonathan is
lost with nearly every soul on board, an
earthquake shakes u city to its founda-
tons, and where it does not absolutely
destroy, shows that it might have done it
if It had felt like it, and so shakes public
confidence more than it shook brick and
mortar, and then comes a for greater ca.
lamity.
TIL YOSEMITE EXPLOSION
Will stand recorded as the most unneces-
sary, uncalled for and inexcusable slaugh-
ter of human beings which has ever &C.
CURED in our State. The Washoe was q
new boat, and her boilers being made OF
defective iron, were never sound, in spite
of the fact that they were overhauled and
repaired but a few days before the awful
explosion, which cost the lives of nearly
hundred human beings. But the differ
ence in the two cases was this: The
Washoe was an opposition boat, and had
dared to outrun the boats of the old line,
or California Steam Navigation Company.
What then? The engineer, who was
standing at his post was indicted for
"murder" and thrown into Jail at Sacra-
mento, where, for ought I know, he may
|still be lying, and Captain Kidd, her
owner, was denounced as a creature
worthy of all the torments of hell, for his
heartless disregard of human life. The
Navigation Company had "none but first
class boats" and the higher rates which
they extorted from the public amounted
merely to an insurance on life and prop
erty entrusted to their care Let Kidd
and his employees suffer the full penalty
of the law and be dealt with in the most
vigorous and u%nrelenting manner by pub
lie opinion. But with the Navigation
Company how different is the case. The
Directors are all, all honorable men,"
and have got the hard cash to carry them
through all difficulties. They have been
simply unfortunate" nothing more. The
wall over the slaughter on the Washoe
was hardly over, when the Sophie Nc
Lane, n of the Navigation Company's
steamers, lying in Suisun Creek, was
blown to ininitismal pieces, with every
| man on board. There was no wreck left
to raise, and the boat and her crew and
passengers passed out of existance in an
instant. No word of fault was found.
| The Brother Jonathan is lost, with her
| precious freight of the dearest and best in
| our land the facts must not be scanned
| too closely. The Yosemite is blown up,
and near one hundred lives lost, and the
Coroner's Jury %eXonorate the officers
| from all blame, but "censure the Com
pany for using such poor iron in the
| boilers" And there it will all end. The
shattered wreck is towed around to the
| Potrero for repairs, anchored off the shore,
, and no n but the Company's employees
| allowed to board her. 1t is reported, with
every appearance of truth, that the boilers
which were not originally made for her,
| but were second hand ones, put i'll be.
| cause the new ones were not ready IN
| season-were so VIGOROUSLY unsafe that
an assistant engineer left the steamer two
weeks before the explosion, and lost his
situation, rather than risk his life longer
about her, and the most cursory examina.
ton shows that they had been patched
and mended in numerous places, but there
were places tchere the iron tcaS not thicker
than ordinary 6roadcLoth, tchie the acreage
thickness pas one-third of an inch
vet no action has been or will
he taken in the matter. The old boilers
will be removed because it will not pay
the company to repair their boats so ex-
tensively every year, and they can well
afford with the money already made by
the Yosemite to put new ones into her Of
this time. And there it will end. A few
Of the passengers who have money enough
TO carry on q lawsuit, will threaten to
bring suit for damages, and their claims
will be quietly compromised, and those
who have no money will be sent away to
shift for themselves. 1t is all right. Pro-
violence is alone responsible. Let US bt
thankful that a few escaped, and prepare
to chronicle in due time the next "appal'
ling calamity" for which there will be, as
usual, nobody to blame"
TWO OF A TRADE.
Quite a lively warfare is now going or
il this city between the papers which rep
resent capital and those which are suppoS'
ed to be slightly impecuneous. One side
claims that there was no earthquake at al
worth speaking of, and that the report:
they first published were unwarranted by
the facts, and the other twlt the first with
cowardice and not daring to tell the truth
for fear Of lowering real estate. Two Of q
trade can hardly be expected to agree or
any small subject, but it really does seem
as if an earthquake like that Of Sunday
week ought to be Of sufficient importance
as a great physical phenomena, patent &c
even the deaf, dumb and blind, to warran,
a common acknowledgment of its power,
But it amt, my boy; it amt! Send the
editors of two San Francisco papers, even
Of the same politics, across the bridge o.
He'll, on a hot day, barefoot, and they
would get into a knock down fight on the
first span, as to whether the structure was
at a white heat or only glowed at a gentle
rose color. I don't know why it should
be so, but it is, though, Notwithstanding
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA.
Among the passengers by the steamshir
Golden Age, to-day, is the gallant militia
officer and pointer for G~ottschalk, Charles
Legacy, the hero Of the great Alameda
county raid. Whether the gallant young
t~roubadour, elated with his triumphs here,
signs for new fields of glory, and goes to
try his seductive arts on the fair Count.
esses, Duchesses, Warehouses;, etc., etc.,
who throng the JGrdin MdbdiHe, and other
noted resorts of the nobility at Paris, OIL
finds that his fame is somewhat too much
for his happiness here, rumor saith moi
but gone he is. Adieu, brave and beau.
tiful halter! The country which is hon.
oted with your presence is thrice happy
Loving parents will rush with open arms
to greet you wherever you may go. Be
virtuous and you will continue to be
happy. Our loss is some other country's
gain. Adieu!
If anything were wanting to prove that
the pen is mightier than the sword"
John C. Breckenridge, late "Secretary Of
War Of the Confederate States" who goes
into ,ba boo hua;neoe in Canada. and