Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-08-28
our San Francisco Correspondence
Sax FRANcIsco, August 25, 1865.

been smashed already, and it is "every man
for himself and the devil take the hindmost."
The Union Convention at Sacramento re-
suited in a drawn battle, practically speak
ing, although the Longs claim to have carried
most of their points in spite Of the Shorts,
and to have come out Of the fight less dam
aged than their enemies. Here, in town, it
is hard to tell how things will shape them
selves. One thing is measurably certain,
however, there will be
THREE RIcHMoNDs IN THE FIELD a
At the coming election. The Shorts, or
regular Union party, will have a full ticket,
so will the Longs, or Indepeudens-anti-Pri
mary.clection Union party, and so also will
the unadulterated Coppcrheads, who demand
| ed more Of the. Shorts than they could get,
and must now run a ticket or SO out OF exist
ence entirely. even as a minor political Gle.
| ment in the community. The Shorts were
badly beaten in the matter Of the Supreme
Judgeship, and their organ therefore reads the
whole StAte Convention and Committee out
Of the party. They also committed q fatal
error in nominating r. p. Clement, a very
good man, now 4 member OF the Board Of
| Supervisors, but nowise fitted for the bench,
for the fifteenth District Judgeship, against
their former friend Judge Dwinelle, the pres
ent able incumbent, whose brother had dis.
pleased them. The Peoples Party will now
re.nominate Dwine!le, although formerly op-.
posed TO him. The whole bar Of San Fran
cisco has already declared for MIN, and he is
bound to be reelected by an immense ma.
I .o.,.. IL all oor.- vr,th ht,n . larra n,,,n.
her Of votes to the Peoples or Independent
Uuion ticket, and chances seem to be in favor
Of n majority of that ticket being elected.
All parties appear to oe against negro suf-
frage, and afraid to take sides either way on
the Specific Contract Act question, and as
for the Senatorial question, no living mar
seems to have any clear idea as TO who is
dhead-I know l have Mt. Nobody has yet
requested me to run, and I do Mt think
should accept the nomination il it was offer.
ed me. The fact is that modest merit, my
boy, is not sought after in the San Francisco
market at present, and | am overlooked. II
will be different when Wide West and Daney
pay dividends and l become q millionaire
again you may gamble on that I!
THE oLFAX ART
The Colfax party-with the exception Of
suks AbASAatAoOhJ Wv AShiaiuS OSuAaAA ~ ~
count Of his health-leaye for the East on
the steamer Of the Sd Of September, carrying
with them not only a vast number Of souve.
Mrs Of their visit to our coast, but a host Of
pleasant recollections and memories which
will be cherished in after years. From their
arrival down to the present time, they have
been feted and feaSted day and night, and
spite Of the OVERRIDING of such things, to
which our people in the excess Of their
friendship and a desire to please have indulg'
ed, on the whole they have had a right pleas.
ant time of it.. Last week they visited the
Yosemite, tomorrow they visit Mare Island
Navy Yard with a party Of friends on the U
5. steamer Shubrick, and the next day they
start for the Geysers and Sonoma, which will
finish their sight seeing oD this coast.
IHAvE DRAWN A DIVIDEND.
I have at last done what few Of my fellow
citizens can boasto doing-drawn 4 dividend
on a mining stock. don't mean an Irish
d~ividend"-S5 per foot in gold coin or be
sold out have received any quantity Of
them bu, a regular Square.ous dividend. It
almost makes me crazy to think Of it; don't
ask me what time IL is, little boy Go away
IOL lNC ~ 10 iuS that u - NV
large-only 80 cents per foot-aud NV certif'
cate only calls for a little stock-onc foot 4;
but those considerations are not material
after all. l HAVE GOT A DIVIDEND I!
Yes, gentlemen 4 dividend-a new bright
American half dollar, with 4 figure Of the
Goddess OF Liberty in light summer costume
(God bless her y, on one side, and the Ameri.
can eagle God bless him y, on the other.
"What will do with il !" Heaven help me,
my boy, there is where you have. got me !! l
don't know what to do with it. The mis-
Sionary dodge is about played out, and |
don't think | will put it in the plate next
Sunday. lit vas not for being out Of the
fashion, l would apply it towards the liquida.
ton of a grocery bill Of long standing, but
the custom Of the country forbidS the indul.
gcuce in such ~luxuries as paying debts. On
the whole, l believe / will bore a hole in it
md wear it around my neck as 4 priceless
treasure, unique in character, ana not to DC
stumbled on every day in San Francisco. !
have no doubt but that there will be an as
sesSment on the stock next week or the week
after; but what of that? Don't cloud ms
young heart with such suggestions, l may be
able TO give the stock away before that time.
Sufficient unto the day" my boy, TIE got a
dirideRd!
THE All.
The Mechanics Institute Fair is, as l
wrote you las; week, but a slim affair, after
Ill the noise which has been made about it,
and but for one fact would prove a total fail
ure. We have, in all San Francisco, not a
single place where ladies or children can
promenade aud look at each others clothing
in the open air, and no great public place OF
resort in doors where such amusements can
be INDUCED in. For this reason the Pavilion
has become 4 place Of fashionable resort, and
is crowded every afternoon and evening BY
persons who go there merely TO see and be
seen Of others, caring nothing for the exhi.
bition Of the products Of Mechanical skill and
Industry there on exhibition.
CHRISTIAN GAMBLING.
AS you are doubtless aware, gambling and
lotteries are prohibited BY law in California,
but while the unsancti6ed are compelled to
carry on their gambling operations in secret
and in terror Of the police, the Church can
and does defy the law with perfect impunity.
A, the Fair, directly under the noses Of the
police, is Il gambling stall for the benefit Of
one Of the fashionable Churches Of a fash
ionable faith, and there the little children are
encouraged TO "grab" for fly cent toys, and
such other trihcS as will serve to fill up a bag
at the least possible expense, at % and so
cents a go. /, is true that this can hardly be
called gambling, as BY no possibility can the
little victims get back one half the value Of
their money, but | submit that the principle
is all the same, and the effect on the rising
generation pernicious TO the last degree.
ANOTHER ESTATE CONE TO NAUGHr.
One prominent feature Of life and death in
San Francisco, is the manner in which large
estates, left BY persons who have spent a life
time in the accumulation Of property, melt
away and disappear, leaving nothing what
ever-or the next thing TO it-for the families,
after the demands of creditors, the courts,
executors and administrator have been salts
fed. But a short time since, it was under
stood that the Garwood estate was a very.
large one, and that the family would be left
in comfortable circumstances, but it now ap-
pears from the statement Of the executor OF
i iii ~. l.. 49,. o. mn -. III :. ~.