Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-01-29
Our San Francisco Correspondence.

Our San Francisco Correspondence.
SAN FRANCISCO, January "a, 1856.
ED. GOLD HILL News - Dear Sir
This week has opened lively; and here allow
me for my own credit and that Of the News
to gently remark.
IToLD You so!
By turning to my last weeks letter, you
will see that l fully predicted a healthier state
Of affairs in town, this week, than then pre-
vailed. Let me see to begin, I might say
that we had
AoRAND BRrIsiNa MATCH
Last week, at Lakeville, Sonoma county,
which took away some two hundred thieves
and others, and left the city rs quiet as a New
England Sunday, for some forty.eight hours.
This, Of course, is now only an old story, so
l will merely add that we never had so little
stolen in any forty-eight hours in San Fran
cisco, as during the absence Of that small but
select party-I wish the people Of Lakeville
could say us much. But out Of the prize
fight" as a miserable wallowing in the mud
for u couple Of hours, by two broken nosed
r%ufians, was called, grew n tremendous eX-
element among " the fancy and a tirst-class
and really heightened and admirable
SHOOTING scRArE.
This affair took place-as you already know
ON Saturday night, and resulted in one
man, widely il not well known in this COM
munity, getting shot BY another man who
sells liquor for a living, but is reported a
quiet, orderly, and pcaceable citizen. The
Mcguire faction did not mean to allow
Chandler to win the fight, il fair or foul means
would prevent it, and when beaten they re-
sorted TO every possible dodge to get rid Of
paying. Higgins had put up I considerable
sum on Chandler, and went TO the Sports
mans Saloon, the headquarters OF the Ma
guirc gang, to demand the stakes, but was
told that the other party did not consent to
give up the money. He then demanded that
at least his own money should be returned to
him, but was told that he could not have even
that. Therefore he denounced the whole
affair as a robbery, and was set upon by a
gang who commenced throwing tumblers, one
OF which cut him in the head quite severely.
He was struck several blows, and fnally-in
self-defensc, as his friends ~claim-drew a
pair Of derringers and fred them both, hitting
one Of his assailants, Patrick Kelly, o hack
man, both times. Unfortunately for Higgins
he was at the moment he was surrounded by
friends Of Kelly exclusively, and il it is possi-
bic for them to swear his life away or send
him to San Quentin, they will do 50. l
doubt, however, il n jury can be found to con-
Wet him, in spite Of all that. The shooting
affair was followed. n few hours later, by an
ITEM AT SUICIDE.
H., Jo.o,h p pn,rd m xycll Lnoyyn ,;t;,ap
formerly occupying a high official position at
Sacramento. Beard had been greatly excited
over the refusal Of the Legislature to pass a
bill enabling his son, who is but nineteen
years Of age, to assume the position and re-
sponsibilities Of y man Of the full age OF
twenty-onc years, the object being to enable
him to 90 to Texas and take possession and
disposal OF considerable property belonging
to the family. The bill is in itself an alb
surdity, and could have no binding effect in
Texas, even il legal here; but the Senate,
after rejecting it, changed about and passed
it on Saturday last. He was not aware Of
the change, and committed the rash act while
laboring under mental arrangement caused
BY the excitement. He telegraphed from
from Stockton on his way down to San Fran
cisco that his family could see him at the
wharf when the Paul Pry landed, and the
family, alarmed at the ambiguous dispatch,
hurried to the boat. On the arrival Of the
boat they found that he had cut his throat in
a horrible manner, and it was too evident
that ne had contemplated self-destruction
when he sent the dispatch.
oLwBLL's EXECUTION
Took place on Monday, and passed off very
quietly and agreeably for all parties con-
cerned. II was one Of the most successful
affairs of the kind I have ever witnessed, and
I am pleased to see that Mark Twain, who
witnessed the execution, now walks the street
with the air Of a man fully reconciled to his
fate and rather pleased with what fortune has
in store for him. The demonstration Of the
entire painlessness Of death by hanging was
so complete and perfect that he no longer
trembles when he hears a policeman whistle
behind him. But / digress. Barney dwell
was a brute Of the lowest type, hardly cnti-
tied to be considered a man he committed n
brutal murder in cold blood and with malice
aforethought. He died as he lived, inditfer-
ent to his fate and repeating the words Of the
clergyman at his eide with the air OF 4 man
who cares nothing about the matter either
way, but is willing to accommodate those
who had interested themselves in his behalf.
The details Of the execution have all been
published and I will not bore you with rope
tition Of them, but let me correct one or two
misstatements which have crept into print.
The execution was not witnessed by a single
fellow prisoner Of the condemned man, as
their cell doors were closed and the two-inch
opening in the wickets did not admit OF their
getting a glimpse even Of the edge Of the gal
lows. On the other hand, dwell did not cat
a hearty breakfast that morning, simply Ia
king a cup Of, coffee and tasting SOM cakes
which were handed him. He was cool and
indifferent enough, God knows. but I see no
reason for making him out a greater brute
than he was, or casting reflections on the
management OF the Jail, which, in spite Of
Mark Twain's complaining, is, I believe, one
Of the best managed public institutions in the
United States. By-the.by, speaking Of Twain
reminds me Of the fact that he is ~fearfully
down on
II POLICE.
an sorry for this, as it may tend to injurc
him when he needs their assistance; and
here let me say that much Of this prejudice is