Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-18
Uur San Francisco Correspondence.
SAN Francisco, March Is, 1866.

ter employed, set on foot rumor in this
city, last week, to the effect that the best
paper on the eastern slope of the Sierra Ne
vadas was detunct. and the Press gave il
additional circulation by publishing it as
authentic. I am glad to learn that the
wish was father to the story, and that
there was no other foundation for the mis-
chievous rumor. Long live the News
1t has deserved success, and will enjoy it
long after the last of the eopperhead tribe
shall have crawled into his hole and died.
STILL LEAVING Us.
The exodus from California continues
undated, and the drain on our productive
resources in consequence must prove most
injurious in the course of a few more
months, if it goes on unchecked. On
Monday last not less than $500 persons
left for the East, and the rush northwaro
is as great as ever. Talking. however,
does not mend the matter, and I suppose
we must grin and bear it, bad as such a
state of affairs is for the country. Our
population and wealth is increasinS.-Ep'
News.
MORE TROUBLE IN STORE.
II would really seem that we are never
to see the end of litigation in land titles IN
San Francisco. Within the past two
wears a species of land-shark lawyers have
obtained foothold among us, and all
sorts of swindling claims are being hatch
ed up to cloud the title to property IN
every part of the city, and extort from the
real owners black mail for the discontinue
ance of vexatious suits, or the release OF
! such claims. 1t IS true that not one OF
/ these claims in one hundred have the
shadow of validity, but they serve as a
pretext for harrassing the owners Of real
estate, and extorting money from those
small property holders who are too poor
to be able to fight lawsuit. In early
times business was done very loosely IN
San Francisco, and there is probably not
square foot of real estate IN the entire city,
the title to which is not technically defec-
tive in some trifling particular. So noto-
rious is this fact, that, unless / am much
mistaken, the entire community will soon
become deeply excited on the subject, and
some organized and systematic action Will
be taken to put stop to this swindllng
forever. Several times, attempts have
been made to pass limitation law which
would put it out of the power OF these
vagabonds to rake up these old claims,
and bring suits upon them, by giving to
the peaceful possessor for given number
of wears, a perfect title to what he has so
held and improved, but the land shark in
terest has always been strong enough in
the Legislature the defeat to attempt, and
thus far no such general law has been
passed. At the next session of the Legs
lature such a law will, think, be put
through; but in the meantime the injury
done to San Francisco by the innumera-
BILE suits now being Matched is incalcu'a-
Bile. People will not build, and dare not
buy when there is the least chance Of such
suits being brought against them. whether
the claims SET up are valid or utterly
worthless on the face, and not only the
individual land owners, but the entire
community suffers. All California is more
or less afflicted in this respect, but San
Francisco real estate being the most valu-
able and desirable. is, of course, the most
generally and persistently attacked. am
told that there is one owner Of valuable
real estate in this city who has lost and
won his property four times in as many
years, By decisions in the Supreme Court,
in cases to which he was not party, and
although he has paid full value for it in
the way Of street improvements, he IS still
uncertain whether he has a sound title or
not.
GONE AND LRPT Us.
Miss Louisa DeaderIck." the new
theatrical debutant, of whom / have oc-
casionally written, has left US. She went
home on the last steamer for New York,
having achieved certainly no striking sue
cess, but still without having made posi-
tive failure. l suspect that the endorse
ment received from the San Francisco
press will be used as passport to public
favor at the East. This dodge has been
PLAYED number of times Of late, with
marked success.
BEFORE THE FooTLIGHTs AGAIN.
Mrs. James Stark, the deservedly popu-
lar actress, who has been lying danger
ously i'll in this city for some months. has
so far recovered as to be able to appear
once more in public. and will on to-mor-
row evening receive complimentary bene-
tit at Maguire's Opera House, her many
friends and admirers. who sympathlze
with her in her unfortunate condition,
having united in rendering it to her. 1t
will be success beyond doubt. On
dit-that Warwick who recently took
leave of the stage. is about to return to It
again, his tastes and fancies being far more
ia that line than he had himself formerly
suspected.
A RAID AMONG THE sHoRTIEs.
The Police Court was densely thronged
yesterday, and again this morning, by the
thieves, cut-throats, jayhawkers, dead-fall
| keepers, pimps, short-card players, conf
dence men. and other scoundrels, who
INFESTED the city VI IdIS, anu lhaNC ~ NaA-
gerous for stranger who was supposed to
have dollar in his pocket, to show him.
self in certain localities after nightfall, or
even in broad daylight. The object of
their solcitude was the trial of notorious
Young scalliwag known as Charles jack
son, alas 81 the Clipper" whose case was
of a character which deeply interested the
entire fraternity. Hitherto the ruling OF
our criminal courts has been such that II
a man brought up as vagrant could point
to the fact Of his having few hundred
dollars of money in hand, he was set free,
as having visible means of support"
and therefore not amenable to the charge
of vagrancy. Under this ruling it was
next to impossible to convict these rascals,
as it was seldom that q positive CRIME
could be fixed upon them, and they hung
,o0stber so that vrher one was arrested