The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1865-01-14
San Francisco Correspondence.
San FEAScIsco, Nov. 80, 1864.

AtN IEANCiSCo. NOV. 0U, loOts
My DEAR Posi- Sc The Lord raineth, let J
the earth rejoice" After three years of
drouth, once more the windows Of Heaven
are opened, and the rains have descended,
and the foods have almost come. No one
who has not seen it, can realize the I'M
mense. relief to the country that these
showers will be- In the southern
part of the State, hundreds Of thousands of
cattle AMI sheep have actually starved to
death. The crops have all been cut OF. md
in some cases, ithas becnrecessary to.cnd
relief to southern counties to secure the lnS
habtants from actual Starvation. The rain
Will change the whole thing. Farmers are
in state of beatitude, and everybody but
the -four spectators rejoice with exceeding
great joy. Bot such rains have their in
Half of the sewers in this
city are damaged and the back water has
damaged parties immensel y-one firm to
the extent of 100000. Trees have been
blown down, houses unroofed. and much
other mischief done generally, but the re-
lief OF mind for the future, that shows it.
self upon every face, alone would compen-
safe for all damage done.
The heavy southern winds that have &C.
comp lnied the rains, has brought in large
leet Of vessels from New York, and foreign
ports, and the wharves between the showers
are all alive with the men of business
When proper facilities are made, az they
will be, Your country will get it's supplies
from California. There is every thing
here that you need, and no reason why it
could not BE- furnished as cheapy as inst.
Louis, except that the grecnback currency
is very d.fcrCnt from our gold currency.
That, however, time will reetify, and then
you will come to your natural head
quarters.
have met several persons from Virginia
and generally found together. DR.. Hardy
and Mr. Wilbur are at the Russ lIoase in
a state of salabrity. Bill Farwea,her and
Pat Gafln Y are on hand and well, and
several others whose names 10 hot know.
They have been extensively engaged in
admiring the beauties Of Charles kean's
acting, and in prospecting for all the lun
going on. BY the way, that acting Of kean's
is the most wonderful instance OF energy
and determination overcoming impossible
ties, that was ever seen. With a bad form.
decidedly mean looking face, and week :,
cracked voica, he has placed himself by
pure study and perseverance, At the head
Of the hissrionic profession. Every word is
studied and placed in just its proper posi-
ton, with the proper tone graduated for the
compass of his voice. Every gesture is
prepared long ago. Every change OF
counteaance, and every movement Of the
eyclids is a pure piece of mechanism.
have seen him twice in his greatest part
as think-Cardinal Wolsey, and if ma
chine had done it, it could not have been
more alike 1T each representation. He has
no natural genius, bat wonderful applica-
tion, aad is truly 4 wonderful man.
Amusement. of all kinds are plainly this
season, though not So well patroniz-d as
they would be in better times. \ San
Franciscan, however, if he have not hall
enough to eat, must have his amusement,
and from the M9lodeon up, all public places
live.
The iIclodeon is peculiar institution.
| have been once to the Bella Union. That
will TO for o1ca, to satisfy curiosity, but 1
think any one who should go thvre u second
time, would be good subject for moral
reform society. The performers consisted
of four men and about dozen women, and
the performance lasted some three hours.
and | venture to say that during the same
length Of time, more pure obsccnity was
never ventilated, than was given to that
audience. What that audience was COM
posed of-especialIy in the private boxes
you can guess, but surely | felt safer when
once more upon the sidewalk, with my Gu
riosity fully and completely satisfied. In
slang phrase, a very little Of it would &c
a long way with me-"
Mkt on the list. and just above tle Me-
lodeon, we have the,Pony Express saloon
where almost every night you can indulge
in the classics amusement of dog fighting
and rat catching, at fifty cents admission
front seats extra-not seldom varied by q
free fight among the audience, which, how.
ever, if YOU carry good watch you had
better not indulge in, for there are some
programmes outside that are not put in the
bills.
Then we have the agro melodists of al
classes and knds-some very good aHc
amusing, and some that would make al
/" Am erican citizen Of African descent,'
blush rosy red for the character Of his race
Then we lave the theatre and the opera
Great is the dramatic art in California. ant
Tom Mcguire is its prophet. lie heads
leads, manages, and pays, is rich-and owns
about all the theatres in this State ant
Nevada besides. At one time, he had 4 frs
class opera, and a first class band of negr'
Ministries running in Frisco, theatre il
Sacramento, and theatre and band o
Ethopians at Virginia City, Nevada, ant
the Lord only knows how many more a
other places. He is indeed genius and I
very busy one.
The theatres, since the advent Of 'E Th
Menken I" have rather gone into the bust
ness of selecting the best formed to Civ
performances that would, in New York
come under the statute against model ar
lists. and some of them certainly out sfri
anv female performers of ancient or mo
srn times, If We except Hottentot fan
dango. They tell me that they wear aes
coIored tights, but if they hadn't told N
so, don't know what should have thought
| tiartainlr. if it be so, the flesh color is pu