The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1865-01-21
VIRGINIA. CITY, MONTANA SATURDAY JANUARY 1861 " ~ -
once more meeting his oldest and dearest

once more meeting his oldest and dearest
mFor have loved thee, ocean, and my Joy
was, as child, upon thy breast to be
Borne BY thy billows onward" ! : .~E. .. 4
Well you have had time to see the seals.
ENJOY the prospect, inhale the fresh Sea
breeze, and both you and your companion
feel like enjoying your dinner, and If you
90 not ENJOY the dinner you get at the Cliff,
you must be very particular indeed. Ali
the lu1uries OF the season, and all import.
ed Injuries are at your command if your
purse is long enough. and after a lone, and
If IN good company, a happy day, You re-
turn at night to the city, to again return to
your usual employment, rested and recruit
ed by day Of sensible and health,
amusement-about the most sensible of all
the ways of spending money that Califor-
MIA presents. Should you not be fond of
sea trip-or if in bad health, you may vary
by going to the Nappa or Sulphur Springs.
or in fact, hundred other places, so we'll
Kept and respectable, Others of the very
opposite character, and one has need to
know the difference before taking a re-
spectacle lady with him. But our trip has
lasted long enough for the present. Au
reuoir. Dpsnrc,Do
San Francisco, Dec. 25, 1864.
Ny DEAR PosT A merry Christmas to
you and yours, though tits not to me. Sol
ltary and alone, sit at my desk writing to
you, while In every direction around friends
are meeting. Families long separated, arc
again united, and the thousand amenities
OF ilte are bringing even strangers together.
But with all this, ''the disinherited % in
wealth and honor has no part, and can only
from his distant place look on, like Dives
In torment, with not even a hope for the
drop OF water to cool his parched tongue.
What blessed memories cluster around the
day! What loving remembrances Of pa
rents, brothers, sisters and friends-all,
perhaps, long since gone to their home in
haaeen. My mothers gentle hand! |
seem to feel it resting once more upon nv
brow, while sit thus silent and alone. on
THE day of JOY and happiness, and hear
her loving voice as it was in my childhood
giving comfort and hope in my troubles now
as it did to my childish Affections them
God bless her memory, and again, in re-
membranes of her, l say So a happy, happy
Christmas to you and yours.o
commenced, some time ago. writing you
about the amusements of the Friscans.
thinking that it would perhaps occupy one
or two pages. Well, have written some
ten or twenty pages Of it, and still, like
the phantom kings in Macbeth, they stretch
on and on, and fear that you, like him,
will soon c1claim, I" I'll see no more" But
| should be lacking in even common pen
and ink sketch of the city did not men
ton the pastime that has given to Frisco
the name of the "City Of Billiards.
There is a perfect mania for that game.
Everybody plays it. can't swear that
Starr King played, but if he did not,
think he was the only man in the city.
New York is the great oyster city, and when
one has nothing to DO there he eats oysters.
In Frisco, in the same case, he PLAYS bill
lizards. Pm not sure. but | think YOU could
find here " billiards fried -" billiards stew
ed" and "billiards ON the half SHE'LL
Every corner saloon has its table or tables.
Every grog shop Oh the wharf has its like
ness, and the second story over almost
every store on Montgomery and Kearnev
streets, is fitted up with from two to twenty
At "NuAa bC u uulJcT Ol CURIOSITY
to collect the statistics of billiard PLAYING
here, but the arithmetical knowledge re-
quired 81 sizes my pile" The Bank E1-
change boasts the finest billiard hall in the
United States-a room one hundred feet by
fifty, with eighteen tables of the very first
class, thirty feet in height, (thc hall, not
the tables and ornamented as highly as
taste will permit. From this down 10 the
sailors boarding house on the wharf. all
are going, and it is safe calculation that
every male Inhabitant of San francisco
spends one-quarter of his waking hours in
playing billiards. can't answer for the
women, for though they have their billiard
rooms, we poor devils who have no criuo-
line to dance attendance On, can get to
60" thsre-but it is said that they have
learned to handle cue in style that
would put many a sharp to his trumps to
compete with them. -.
We had a queer thing come off here last
night, (ezcuse me, but l told you should
let my pen ,on whatever came into my
inind). Some wag or rascal got up an ex,
ira; purporting to come from the Alta and
Bulletin, the papers that monopolize the tel
egraph giving long and interesting &C.
account Of the taking of Savannah, assault
on Richmond. Lees army destroy cd, fight.
ing in the streets Of Richmond, Ben Butle,
killed, and gold at S4, less than par. AL
the news boys were sapplied at the same
time, and in every part of the city you
could hear nothing but shouts of Joy, un.
less 1t were the monotonous cry Of '''Ere's
your extra Alta and Bulleiin." Every one
was exeited-some with Joy, some with
hope, and some with fear. Arrangements
were made for a grand illumination and
specialization, when the did folks, who
of course knew it was hoax, started out
the police, and soon filled the station with
blubbering news boys, and at last, with the
getters-up of the thing. They will be
brought up on Monday, but l have been
bothered to know what head of the crimi.
nal law the offence will come under. Is il
forgery, or Obtaining money under false