Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-21
our San Francisco Correspondence.
San FRANo1sco, Jan. 10, 1866.

week, but we manage to keep doing
something to keep the blood in circulation
nevertheless. The weather for the past
few days has been quite cold, and spring
seems to have got a setback, SO to speak,
but the feeling of our whole community
has never been more hopeful than to-day
and the belief is strong that season more
generally prosperous than any which has
preceded it is dawning upon the State and
the Pacific coast generally.
GONE AND LEFT Us. IA
Miss Ada Clare or rather Mrs. Bah
cock, did not try the stage second time
as she threatened, but did better thing;
she took the steamer for Panama, and left
the shores of the Pacific in disgust. The
sentiment is mutual, believe, no one here
shedding freshet oftears over her depar-
ture. ..
THE KEANs. ..
The KeAns, with powerful company
to back them, have been playing to good
houses all the past week, the audience
being made up entirely of two classes,
viz: regular theater-goers, who drop in
once to see an actor and actress of whom
they read the most glowing accounts in
the DAYS of their childhood, and go away
sorry that the real has dispelled the ideal;
and English or Canadian born residents,
who feel that their national honor (now at
contemptibly low ebb,) must be main
tanned at all hazards, and go every night
to applaud everything seen or heard, and
when asked what they think OF the
"stars," reply with look of astonish.
ment that the keans were acknowledged
to be ut the head of their profession years
ago, and wonder how we can ask such
question. Every thing they do Is admi-
rable; the London Times said so years
and years ago. As rule, we do not pay
our money in America for what has been,
but for what noto is, and on this princi-
pie real admirers of the drama and judges
OF histrionic ability will never go the Sc
cond time to see the keans. Outside Of
Mrs. Kean's Queen Constance, and kean's
Louis NJ, there is no character which
thew appear in, which is not better done
BY regular stock actors on our stage with
thousandth part of the pretension to
ability. Miss. Sophie Edwin is ten times
the actress no,o that Mrs. kean is, and
Kean himself is not fit to hold candle to
Forrest, Anderson, Murdoch, or even
Dillon. Although he comes fully up to
the standard of Mexican Buchanan-or
would do SO if he had the voice. They
will leave our shores richer by many dol
lars than they came, and poorer by not a
dime given in charity in any shape, hav-
ing steadfastly refused to assist in a char
table benefit of any description, demand
ing the full pound of flesh "as nominated
in the bond" every time. ...
AN INTERNAL BRUTE.
The most utterly FLOODED, heart
less, infamous murder we have had in this
community for years, was perpetrated
Just out of town, on the San Bruno road,
on Friday last. James Irwin, quiet, in
offensive man, who owned hay ranch
at that point, employed one Barney o.
well to dig well for him, and was I'M
able to pay the amount due-$42-on the
day the Job was finished, but told dwell
to come back in few days and get the
money. Barney told him he would come
on Friday, and if he did not then pay hun
he would kill him. On Friday he came;
demanded the money; was told that he
would have to come on Monday, as the
money was not yet ready. and then draw
ing pistol, which he had loaded for the
purpose, shot Irwin dead where he stood.
He then started for town, but was arrest
ed on the way. He acknowledged the
murder, and says he knows that he will
be hanged for il; but manifests as little
conjunction for his crime, or fear for the
result, as if he were dumb brute-which
he comes very near being. If he is not
hanged there is no use of having courts or
laws. never saw such an utter fend in
my life as this dwell.
GENERAL DAN. sIcKLEs.
The announcement of the fact that Gen.
Dan. Sickles was on his way to the Pacific
coast, created quite futter in military
and political circles. day or two since,
and numerous were the inquiries: 4" What
can all this mean:'' Some thought that
Mcdowell must have been removed, and
others suggested probable foreign compli-
cations, requiring an increase Of the mill
tary force in the Department Of the Pacific
as the probable cause of the visit, and the
telegraph was used by number of weak
kneed persons who thought they snuffed
danger on the breeze. 1t turns out that
the gallant Dan-for gallant soldier he
certainly has been, whatever may have
been the faults of his past life-is on u
tour of inspection of the Pacific posts, as
he has been on the Atlantic coast during
the past summer, and nobody's head is in
danger after all. General Sickles will be
warmly welcomed on our shores, feted,
feasted, and fawned upon to his infinite
disgust, have no doubt, and most of all
by the very parties who were shaking in
their shoes when his intended visit was
first announced. Sich is life.
- HUN.
The Wellington Minstrels opened
at the American theater on Monday even
ing, with grave flourish of trumpets, the
".Autocrats of Ethiopian minstrelsy," etc.
They had fine house to open with, but
fell SO far short of their announcements
that before the performance was half over
the audience was kissing and grooming
until the affair reminded one of Broom
Ranger professions. am told that in
stead of being stars I" from Christy's,
London and New York." the company is
made up of very ordinary amateurs from
this city. Such "a show will not win in
San Francisco week, and poorer place
for starting one l never saw or heard of.
We have too many people here who
a have travelled" and cant be fooled"
SPURIOUS COIN.
Counterfeit gold and silver coin is get