Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1868-08-29
San Ft.ocisco corespondence.

San Fraucisco Correspondence.
San FRANcrsco, August l7th. 1868.
NKcHAN1cs' INSTITUTE PAIR.
Ecellent as was the display of California
faberics at the opening. since then it has i'm
proved greatly. Every day has brought large
accessions to the exhibition, till now it is
really gorgeous" as Jeems Pipes would
say. As . financial venture, it promises to
be q success beyond the most sanguine ex-
pectation of its friends. The receipts for the
first week, ending last Saturday, amour,
to nearly $4,000. The cost per diem Of
running the machine is $400, which amour,
added to the cost of the Pavilion. ($33. .0OO)
and we have, to. the close of the opening
week, an outlay of $35,000. Deduct the
receipts of the first week and they will have
but $ll 800 to take in to clear their building.
So far as the present writing "wednesday Of
the second week), their receipts are quite
up to those of last week, so it must be poor
"cuss of figurer" that can't cypher them
out of debt this season, with a handsome
surplus on hand. Talking of Figuring
brings up vividly to my minds eye our
"misfortunate." sad and cast down Demo-
cratic neighbors. Not having recovered
from the bad fit rhey'll get a worse .'6t''
before the "boys in blue" get through with
them), of the ''dumps" into which they were
thrown by the news of the doings of the
New York Convention. A "pay the debt
candidate for President nominated upon a
reputation platform war.radical- Repub-
lican, fight-an no. fight, war. TO- the knife.
peace-to-dishonor, revolution up to-the-eyes
candidate, Frank Blair, on this patchwork,
hotch-potch. conglomerate platform. say
those Democrats not having regained firm
foot-hold on solid ground, out Of their foul
pit of mirey clay into which the news Of
their nominations threw them-not being
able to get up the ghost of enthusiasm-Ire-
land being lukewarm, Germany phlegmatic,
native Americans, all but the Dixie stripe,
colder than the frosts of Nova Zembla, and
feeling badly "down at the heel generally,
and not feeling well themselves in particular,
to whistle up their courage. they have taken
to Figuring" as sick chickens take to any
sort of shelter in thunder storm. And a
sorry figure they cut, surely!
Happening in at your agency the other day,
and occupying a quiet nook in the back
ground, busy with a little Figuring"
of my own. my presence seemed to attract
but little notice. Our host, (who by the way
trains with the "unwashed''), }, with brace
of friends also of the unclean tribe, from the
cow district, connected with the Dixie press,
and of course know all about it, gravitated,
as naturally as ducks take to water, to the
harmless pastime of figuring up majorities
for their Dixie ticket. One read off the
States while the others placed them where
they severally belonged, according to their
best judgment, in the Unitn n or the rebel
line. The result of this funny fun that don't
hurt any body particularly bad. and don't
do much good any way, but keeps the "boys'
out of mischief, from bunting down defense
less negroes and Cinnamon, while they them
selves have the protection of the .Star''
gang. was to give every State, North and
South, except Massachusetts, and Vermont,
to Seymour and Blair; even Massachusetts,
got into the Union column by a scratch.
One of the cow-men contended long and
valiantly for the old Bay State. He thought
they might want that particular State par
ticularly bad, as Bunker Hill Monument is
located in it, and their friend Toombs may
want to call the roll of his slaves under it's
shadow. But it was no go. They-his COM
peers-could'nt see it in that light. and he
had to surrender at discretion. Poor old
Massachusetts, THAT was the most un-
kindest cut of ALL" as Joe Miller makes Ben
Johnson say in Shakspeare's tragedy of the
Comedy of Errors. To place her for mo-
ment in doubt as to her position in this
crisis of human affairs, is an injury so deep
and damning that in comparison, General
Haine's dig under the short ribs, inflicted
several years ago, was as pin scratch. No
DR.. Webster. nor any other NJ. D. can close
up this gaping wound.
PERSONALITIES.
Major Stratman! The inefable, the IN
comparable, the irrepressible Major Stratman
is back again The Major was received by
Freedoms Defenders, the other evening,
with fitting demonstrations of enthusiasm,
and whether he would or no, he was made
to mount the rostrum at Congress Hall and
give an account of his stewardship. which
he did amidst applause to the echo. that
applauds again." He told us that the en-.
thusiasm of that occasion was only equaled
by that which greeted HIM on the occasion
of his celebrated speech at Cooper Institute,
New York. The Major was at first little
at loss to account for such unheard of out
oS~S VI oPPiouoc % SieeIeu Alul Ou tilht
occasion. and began to think that the blasts
OF fame's trumpet had out-fown his own
laggart pace, when n,iro6ile dictu. he found
out all about it. 1t seems that the people
wanted to hear Dan Sickles speak, who
wasn't present, and didn't want to hear
somebody else who was present. and so they
sandwitched the Major in between them to
kill time until "Dan" should arrive this
accounted for the boisterous applause his
''inconsiderable nothings" received. All his
high-blown opinion of his great popular
ity came to earth with so much force, had it
hit him square. it would have knocked all
the remaining sense out of him. The Major
wasn't "stuck after" New York and New
Yorkers. He says they about cleaned him
out of every thing but his mustaches, and
they would have had them. s-u-r.e, had they
not been stuck to his face securely. He
thinks people visiting that cesspool of in
iquity, who have any thing (but mustaches
we'll stuck on). had better leave it at home.
L. W. r.
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