Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-22
Our San Francisco Correspondence.
san FRANCISCO, july 10, 1865.

SU GA S
SAN Francisco, July 10, 1865.
ED. GOLD HILL News = Dear SIR
Dust las | think I may have casually re-
marked before in some of my letters to the
NEws,) is n Of the institutions Of San
Francisco; a permanent institution / may
say, " In summer and in winter shall it be-"
just now it holds its own wonderfully /; bet
ter than trade or travel, or amusements. In
fact, without any unnecessary effort on the
part of any body, one can always have enough
Of this in San Francisco. He may go hun
CRY, half clothed and shivering with the cold,
and without a red in his pocket, but he never
need be afraid Of being disbelieved when he
is asked by u friend as to his conditions,
prospects and intentions, if he answers with
a knowing wink, "Tve got a fine piece OF
city real estate in my eye" Nobody need
ever be so poor that he can't say that much
anyhow. Just now, the dust raised BY the
politicians who are figuring on the Senatorial
question is the all prevailing nuisance Of
San Francisco, but Of this more anon.
THE c~oNsPIRAToRs ACQUITTED.
You will remember that some weeks since
I wrote you that the prosecution Of General
Williams and his party of the o famous
"a Bron,es expedition" (Which never was an
expedition at all, never started at all on the
charge of conspiracy, and there take and
carry away a steamboat, to wit, the Colon"
was a mere dodge Of the myrmadoms Of his
Imperial majesty Napoleon III, and his pup
pit Macmillan l, to delay the sailing Of the
expedition until the members Of it should be-
CONF tired out with waiting and abandon the
attempt, there not being the slightest pos
sibility Of their ever being convicted Of the
absurd and utterly unfounded charge. The
trial in the County Court, which came off
last week, fully bore mt out in what / then
stated. So well satisfied was the jury Of the
infamous perjury which had been resorted
TO in order to blacken the character Of young
men who might have been foolish and guilty
Of bad Judgment, in attempting to get up a
a~uixotlc expedition for the overthrow Of the
usurper in Mexico, but erred at any rate
through devotion to the holy cause Of Liberty,
not from mean, sordid or selfish motives,
that they hardly left their seats, returning at
once a verdict Of not guilty. Their verdict
meets with the fullest appreciation Of every
loyal man in the community. The French
Consul himself had no hopes Of being able to
convict these young men on such an absurd
charge, but his agents accomplished the
work he had laid out for them, nevertheless.
The expedition is broken up and abandoned.
FRANCE y MEXICO.
Meantime, neither Mexicans or French
are idle in this community. General Ochoa
is hard at work, and meets with some sue
cess, while Tego is endeavoring, thus far
vainly, to get the 10000 stands Of arms he
purchased here, more than a year since sent
TO Mexico. They were attached at Benicia,
by the Sheriff Of Solano county as soon as
released by the United States military
authorities, in pursuance Of the general
plan to harrass and impede the operations Of
the friends Of Mexican independence and
republicanism generally at every step. They
hayc been rcprievcd Of course, rs the delay
is death to the J~uarists, and life to Maxi
milan and his accursed gang Of foreign mer-
cenaries. Meantime the French ship arms,
supplies, and munitions Of war to the Next
can coast without hindrance from anybody.
They have plenty of ready cash, and the
MeXicans are poor. Such is our neutrality,
and so do we see " fair play" and help>our
struggling brethren. l sec from. time to
time notices in the columns of the Alta and
Call, of NJ. L." meetings, and am told that
an active organization of the friends Of
Mexico exists in this community. / hope it
NAV be so, and that something practical may
come Of il. OF one thing there can be no
doubt, the whole feeling Of our people is for
the enforcement Of the Monroe Doctrine.
The slightest ~allusion to it at our places Of
amusement or public meetings is enthusias'
tically appluuded, and speaker Colfax's
rather unfavorable remarks on the subject,
met with the only marks Of disapprobation
which he received while among us.
THE LONG M THE SHORT OF IT.
In politics, that is to say, in the matter Of
the Senatorial fight, l had supposed that per-
sonal issues only were involved, and that the
people at large would gain or lose nothing
either way, money distributed among a few
partizans would settle the question. But l
ind that | was in error. The irrepressible
negro has got into the fight, and his head is
the pivot on which the election turns. A
wear ago, the "short-hairs were denounced
rs "hOwlers," By the conservative but loyal
' long-hairs," the first being par excellence
the negroes friend, and the latter rather in
clining towards the white mar rs the better
fellow Of the two. Strange rs 1t may seem,
the short-hairS have recently executed the
exact movement which made Pillow famous
at Fort Donnelson. They have driven the
long-hairs ont OF their Entertainments and
into their own, rs the rebels did the Federals
in the fight on the Tennessee. FELTON, is the
candidate of the short-hairs, and the copper
- .l- h.., ,,hs1n AN n nd
Sargent are both classed as long-hairs (the
latter " full length and the former "medi-
UNI y, and arc supported by the very men
who formerly opposed them, and rice rerSa.
Nor is this all. The short.hairs have dex-
terously shifted position on the negro suf-
fragc question, and although publishing
nothing of the kind, are privately pledging
FELTON, as opposed to negro suffrage, and on
that tack they are sure to win the primaries
and enlist the bulk Of the foreign element
which went with the apprehension their
side. There is no doubt but hat the Senti-
ment of n majority of the voters Of this State
mind, l & don't say Of the enlightened and
educated portion OF the community is
against negro suffrage, and the short-hairs
deserve the highest honor for the skill and
tact they have displayed in this matter.
Their strategy has been admirable. The
long-hairS are more than half committed to
the other side Of the question, and can not
well back out now. The negroes who have
regarded the short-hairs as their friends,
look with establishment and indignation at
the change which has taken place, but they
have not yet the right Of suffrage; their
noses don't count in this fight, and so it
makes little difference what they say about
it anyway, so far as immediate results are
concerned. FELTON, carries San Francisco (;
Low is out of the ring; Sargent is second
best in the race so far, and that as far as l
can put il up for the present is about "the
long and the short Of it."
THE OCEAN OPPOSITION.
The drawing oil Of the Nicaragua Transit
Company's steamers on this side, on account
Of the loss OF the Golden Rule, is, l am led
to hope, but temporary; and there is every