Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-02-24

in nine cases out Of ten, "capped dead to
rights" within a month after commencing
business in San Francisco, is generally
acknowledged, and this alone ought to be
tolerably conclusive as to the efficiency Of
the detective portion Of the force. Some
of the men are not my friends, and with
some Of them I have quarreled on more
than n occasion, but barring all that, I
doubt whether the discharge Of the whole
force and the substitution OF the gang of
yelpers who are always at their heels,
would benefit the city or add to the secu-
rity Of life and property in San Francisco.
Thieves always speak i'll of the police, and
it is no wonder that a howl is occasionally
sent up against the officers Of the law by
those who have suffered at their hands;
but the fact that the %law-abiding citizens,
Taxpayers and voters are satisfied with
the force as it exists, ought to tell some
what in their favor, I think. The COM
mittee appointed by the Board of Super
yisors to investigate the trashy charges
which have been trumped up and pub
lished against the police in the
stated, have had a number of meetings,
and thus far nothing duplicating in the
least any individual member of the force
has been discovered. Several Of the charges
have been found utterly ~unfounded and
malicious, and the only thing which ap-
pears bad at all is that which appears in
the testimony Of John L. Durkee, q strong
'dDemocrat" Fire Marshal, who claims
that he has on several occasions paid to
policemen, ,ohoss he does not remerr
Der, amounts, tphich he is unable to specify,
for services rendered in guarding property
recovered from fires, the locality and dates
of phich he is unable to state. Great cry
and little wool, so for.
BY Lightning Express.
J. Walter Walsh, the publisher Of the
Varietie,, was indicted on Thursday morn
ing last, for libel on q dancing master
named Sheldon. Before the warrant could
be served on him, he gave bail for appear
ance to answer the charge in the indict-
ment, and before 6 o'clock p. NJ. was d.
vorced from his second wife. On Satur.
day at II A. NJ, say SO hours after the de-
cree Of divorce was entered, he was married
to the niece of the woman from whom he
was divorced by special d~ispensation at
the palace Of Arch Bishop Allemany.
Through by daylight, stoppages inclu-
ded."
wniiing in tho stock Market.
Tho glory Of the stock market has de-
parted, and all along Montgomery street
may be seen stalls for which S25, $50,
800, and even 5000, or $500 a month,
was demanded 4 short time since, now
vacant and tenantless. The thing is played
out, and the paper millionaires who sport
their 81, 900 a night in riotous living and
doubled their money next day are seen no
more among us, or are ekeing out a mis-
| cradle existence on charity and in some
! cases by more questionable methods. The
latest sensation in this line is this pro-
duced by the escapade of T. c. Sanborn,
once a broker Of renown, who in spite Of
an early education sadly neglected, was
among the heaviest brokers IN the street
but a few months since. He it was who
wagered S5OO-and put up the cash-at
the Bank Exchange, that St. Louis was
the largest city on the continent, and many
are the stories of his reckless expenditures
and wild revels in the flush times of the
stock market. Well he got busted at last,
and was almost counted out of the ring,
but one day he appeared suddenly flush,
and bought largely Of nearly all the stocks
offered in the board. The other brokers
supposed from his conduct that he had
found q new hacker and sold as literally
as he bought. He gave his checks, sold
the stocks again and gave the money 70
his r~artuer,to deposit in bank @ make his
Checks gocd. pUr Just Mere vi. Silver
thorn, Deputy Sheriff, stepped in and
levied on the grand cGsh for Il deb; alleged
20 De due TO another broker supposed 70
Se as im%pecunious RS h!msCif. The losers
by this little operation thought that they
smelled a large sized mice, and took coun-
sci together. On Monday last, q number
of them were at the Folsom street wharf,
waiting to zee il Sanborn was not about
to leave for the East without bidding them
adieu. Captain Lees arrested Sanborn on
a charge Of obtaining money under false
p~retences." and the case comes up before
the Police Court at 7 o'clock this evening.
The brokers allege that there was collision
between Sanborn and another party in the
matter of the attachment of the funds, but
such q charge is easier made than proven,
and I fancy that the chances Of Sanbom
being convicted are slight. Sich is life, my
boy! Sich is life!
What Cheer Now, Woodward
Woodward, Of the What Cheer, came
to grief last evening, the jury in the 18th
District Court rendering o verdict agains,
him for Sl0.7S7 20 on account Of moneys
lost in the What Cheer House robbery in
November last. The whole gist Of the
matter was this: Whether Woodward
knows how to keep a hotel or not, and
whether he keeps a hotel or net; he adver-
tised as an inducement to people to pat
ronlze his house; that he kept a safe for
the safe keeping Of all valuables belonging
to guests, and by so doing induced people
to come there and entrust their funds to
his care. By doing so he became liable
az q bailee to use at least ordinary dill
gence in protecting the deposits. The safe
was furnished with a combination lock,
which, il set and kept in repair, was q
perfect security against robbers, unless
said robbers had ample time and opportu-
nifty to blow the safe open by drilling and
introducing g%unpowder at their leisure.
This combination lock was allowed to get
out Of repair and become useless, and the
fact becoming known to burglars and rob-
bers, they had only to recover the plain
key to the outer door of the safe, and the
work was done. This they did, and the
robbery was thus effected through the
gross carelessness OF Woodward aud his
employees. Woodward being thus re-
sponsible through his wi fault and neg
lect, the jury had nothing to do but to
bring in their virdict against him. The
lesson is a good one, and he has no sym.
pa,hy in the community.
No Dlstiuctions.
Judge Pratt. in charging the jury, used
the following language: "Should you
find for the plaintiff, then, in estimating the
value Of the gold dust alleged to have been
lost, you are not at liberty in your calcu-
lotions to recognize any mercantile differ
ence In value between gold and silver, as
distinguished from United States legal
tender notes, since in law the dollar of the
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