Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-02-12
Our San Franoise, Correspondence.
SAN FlANclscJ, February o, 1885.

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SAN F~nASolscd, February o, 1855.
Ed. GOLD HILL NIws:- Dear Sir
Generally speaking, the past week has
been devoid Of incident Of striking mo-
ment. We had some tolerably fsirish
thunder and lightning on Monday last,
but so far - heard from, neither struck
anybody 80 as to hurt them much. It Is
said that there is always q calm before q
storm, and admitting the truth of the
proposition. we may, I think, safely an
ticipate q whirlwind 1t the last before the
end Of another week. For the present, we
must be content with "the day Of small
things" in making which remark allow
me to assure Mr.. T. that I mean
NOTHING PERSONAL.
am panied beyond measure, friend Of
my heart, to learn that Mark Twain insists
on regarding as persona! that friendly adj
vice I gave in my letter Of two weeks
since, and intended merely to SAVE trouble
to b~enighted denizens Of the land Of sage
brush, temporarily sojourning in San
Francisco. I beg leave to assure you that
nothing personal was intended. Having
due regard for my reputation for veracity,
I cannot, Of course, take it upon myself to
deny that Twain might not at one time
have profted by the advice, a. well as
some others, but at the same time I must
frankly admit that his experience ought
by this time to have satisfied him of the
value Of the rules I laid down, and has
been amply sufficient to thoroughly post
him on all such points long since, leaving
any advice from mo entirely unnecessary,
50 far as he 10 concerned individually. If
I had gone on to tell about q Bohemian
from the sage-brush losing $40 in the
house Of q lady, under peculiar circum-
stances, being 30 inconsiderate as to 60 on
q fellow BohemiAn's bond for 800 for
appearances at the Police Court to answer
q charge Of "misdemeanor," and on said
friend failing to come to time, being him
self arrested and forced to expose his i'm
pecuniosity BY pleading "the money no
has got, so 10 can pay" on divers occa-
sions; how he lost his watch, and thought
that the police had stolen it on the night
previous, having been oblivious to the fact
that his friend had taken it from him early
in the evening, in order to ave him from
loss, etc., etc., he might have considered
that I meant to point at him-providing,
Of course, that I had not given the real
name OF the individual whose trials thus
embittered him against the whole force Of
San Francisco, from Chief Burke down
but asst is, he ought to DO ashamed TO
accuse me Of such base and inexcusable
motives. He had. indeed! I am afraid
that those "scofy oysters" ore not the
only things which have disagreed with
Marks stomach in San Francisco.
IT MONT HAVE BEEN
I told you in the same letter how we
were threatened with a food in the Sacra-
mento river; how we had the smallpox
etc., among u, and were threatened with,
the Asiatic cholera, and another volume Of
"Ou,croppings," and prophesied concern
ing . panic in the Oiye) stock market,
should the latter calamity befall US. Thank
Heaven! we have lived through it, how
ever, and the Day Of Judgment has not
yet come. The fact is, that the extent Of
the threatened calamity wal exaggerated
in the first reports. 1t was not a bona
fde second volume Of "purp stuff" with
which we were to be cursed, after all
only q tolerably clever burlesque on the
first and San Francisco breathes easy once
more, or rather I should say, breathes like
q man awakening from . nightmare cursed
sleep, and thanking Heaven that he had
not been compelled to swallow an entire
hogshead Of tartar emetic at q single dose.
as he had . few minutes previously fully
believed. The burlesque il certainly toll.
erably fair, and has one or two really good
things in It, which 10 more than any sane
man ever claimed for the original. Here
is the best Of the lot:
NY MEAT.