Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-03
Our San Franoi,oo CON, oadsnoe.
San FRAMo1sco, nsc. q, 1854.


marred BY the prevailing rains and oceans Of
mud. 1t is easy enough to say "Wishyop
merry Christmas !" when the sun il shining
brightly, even in the coolest Of weather,
especially If egg-nogg is plenty and dinner
has been abundant and well discussed by the
friends who have gathered around your table,
but when everything about you Is slippery and
Shiny, the caves are all dripping, the streets
running mud, as the sewers do filth, and
stream Of damp, very damp, water, about the
size of ssove-pipe, is pouring down your
back like mill race, when you have wet
feet, wilted shirt collar,.a cold in the head
and neuralgia in the LETT shoulder and right
side of the face, it isn't so natural. One
seems to recognize an absurdity in the mat
ter and don't bring the expression out with so
much earnestness and hedTt-so to speak.
All San Francisco has been "slashing
around" in the mud for the last week, and
outdoor amusements have been ut an end.
Standing under an umbrella and watching
the rain come down has become little
tedious employment-andW what we have seen
and enjoyed Of life has been mainly in doors.
Christmas voted blk. We will drop this
subject and wish you
A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The old year, with its joys and sorrows, its
hopes and disappoinsments-and more than
all. its glorious triumphs for Freedom and
the Union, is almost gone. We could not re-
call it if we would-possibly would not if we
could. The world does move, and our cause
has advanced beyond our fondest hopes.
Let US be content.
While Days express in golden car Is driven,
Der the high arch around the verge of Heaven,
And stars are lit to mark its fight sublime,
Lo round the dial sweeps the wing of Time
And Prime to Youth, as noon succeeds to morn !;
And twilight, gray with trembling steps and slow,
Tears on her robe, and voiceless in her woe,
Lets fall the curtain of the final even
| And sees aloft the signal lights of Heaven
A ripping Year just kissed Times hither shore,
oh where .he footprints that were there before
Borne out to sea upon the ebbing year,
It's all we know-they are no longer here.
That billow bears q star upon its breast
Break All Times waves as brightly-snd as blest!
How little notice is taken Of the departure
of the year-how much ado about its coming
in! We simply turn the calendar over our
desk one notch ahead, and write "-65" in
stead Of ct" at the head Of our letters,
| and the old friend, is, like other old friends,
ever very dear to US, but now "played out -
and we have hardly stopped to say good bye !!
Such is life, the world over.
STILL OFT OF LUCK.
The Metropolitan Theatre is still as badly
out Of luck as ever, the tide Of fortune, for
some utterly unexplainable reason, persist
entity setting in another direction. 1t was
started again finely last week for the holt
days, but on Monday night, just as the cele-
brated circus-manager and actor, Fl. c. Lee,
had assembled to the top Of the fly for the pur-
pose Of taking flying leap in the Christmas
pantomime Of " George Barnwell, or the Lon
don Apprentice" the treaeherous timber gave
way and he came down to the stage with a
crash, fracturing his right ankle badly, and,
as was supposed at the time, fatally injuring
him. The audience, in the utmost conster-
nation, left the house, and the performance
came to an abrupt termination. They expect
| to be able TO reopen again this evening, and
what will happen next to disappoint the &C
tors, proprietors and audience, Is beyond my
powers Of prophecy; something Of the kind,
| however, is bound to turn up, as sure as my
name is Amigo smith.
RECRUITING IN CALIFORNIA
The refusal of the War Department to al
low the formation Of a veteran California
| regiment for Hancock's corps, gives great
diSappolntment to our volunteers, who en-
tered the service three years since in hopes
nj having an opportunity to strike blow for
the Union on the battlefield, but 1t cannot
be doubted that in view of possible foreign
| complications the policy Of retaining all our
( fighting material on this coast IS wise one.
Meantime recruiting goes on with accelerated
rapidity for the various old and new Callfor-
mia regiments, and blue coats are as thick on
| our streets as flies in Summer. Some OF the
veteran officers Of the regular army, such as
Major Van Voost, Of the 9th Infantry, have
been promoted and ordered East, or soon will
be so, and their places Will have to be filled
by volunteers who have seen service and are
capable Of assuming the responsibilities OF
| their positions and discharging their duties
| Understandings. The Seventh Regiment C.
V. is now almost complete, and the Eighth
c.. v, which is to be charged with the de-
tense of our harbor at the various posts Is
nearly as far advanced, Company G having
already been mustered in. There are now
1900 troops at the Preside, besides large
number at Fort Point, Alcatraz and the other
posts.
Apropos of the failure Of our military men
to secure permission to raise veteran regi-
ment here for service at the East, it is ru-
mored that had there been no divided coun-
sells on this side, the request might and prob
ably would have been granted. 1t is rumored
that there were too many patriots who wanted
to serve as Colonel, and Colonel Drum Is
mentioned as one Of those who desired to
change a life of inactive and in glorious ease
on this coast for the chance Of rapid promo
ton and the glory Of representing the Yete-
rams of the Pacific Coast on the battle-6elds
of the Union. Qsaes sG6e.
THE CIRCUS AGAIN.
"Here we are again, Mr.. Merryman ~ the
hero of the sawdust ring used to exclaim to
our intense delight as he cracked his whip in
the days Of our youthful innocence, and our
Circus seems to come before the public IN
about as many shapes, and as often as did
the man with the military uniform and the
ambrosial locks, who then so excited our
wonder and admiration. The last turn up
was at the late Mechanics Fair Pavilion
which was transformed into the Hippo
drome" last night, moderately good audi
enee being in attendance. II may succeed
for half dozen nights but not more.
A NEW sTAR(O
"Ada Clare" is to appear at Maguires'
Opera House tomorrow evening as "Ca-
mile" a character which she can play, !
imagine, as gracefully as COW would ham
die musket and 60 through the manual Of
arms. She will have full house the first
night, moderate the second, poor one ON
the third, and next to none at all after that.
/ am free to confess that 1 do not admire her
style off the stage as a writer Of very light
literature or otherwise, and don't believe she
has any Of the elements of an actress in her.
You have seen her in Washoe, and will re-
| member her have no doubt. The Mag
nolia" or the Angel Of the Swamp" very
| effective sensational drama Of the Uncle
Toms Cabin style Of composition and cha
racter, which has been running to good
houses is to be withdrawn for her, and
Wheatleigh the really excellent and effective
actor is to succeed her.
THE KRANs.