The Hawaiian gazette., 1868-10-07
CALIFORNIA CORRESPONDENCE.
EsrscrALIr TO rHx HAwAuAS GAZETTE.
sAN Francisco, Sept is 1865.

1 WILL QitittH gOftttkOt ONBkUQLs
| ESPscIAIIr TO rHx HAwArIAS GAZETTE
SAN Francisco, Sept Is 1865
We are now in the vacation of Congress.
Consequently, the Eastern news lacks that
exciting interest which it formerly possessed.
/ In the southern States there is stil feverish
condition Of affairs. In the reorganization
Of their local governments, the old rebel
prejudice breaks out against the freedmen.
| Their rights are stubb9rnly resisted in two or
three Of the States wheresthe rebels have
predominated; they are seeking 20 eject the
! freedmen from the legislative Offices TO pre-
vent them from giving testimony before
courts Of justice. and in other Tvapects to
degrade them IS far as they are permitted 10
do under the Reconstruction measures Of
Congress
The freedman has had taste of liberty.
I Ii is sweet TO him, snd as revolutions were
never known TO 20 backwards, he is bold TO
assert his equality before the law, and is de-
{ termined al all hazards to maintainit il Blood
shed has ensued and must continue TO ensue
until the present generation has departed
with its prejudices Of a cast, and new Peo-
pie occupy the stage Of human action in the
South-edueAted in a different school and
taking higher and more comprehensive views
of the sublime sentiments Of the Declaration
Of Independence
California News.
The Mechanics Industrial Fair ended on
Saturday night last 1t was brilliant sue
cess. The receipts were equal to about S56,-
Oo0, more than covering all expenses
On Tuesday, the 18th, the Fair of the State
Agricultural Society commenced at Sacra-
menio. In the exhibition Of live stock,
fruits and agricultural implements, it is said
TO DC creditable-Otherwise poor affair, fall
ing far short of the Mechanics Exhibition in
the extent of its goods aud the interest man
ifested by visitors II Is generally known
here As the Sacramento annual horse races"
inSSmuch Is the races get all the large purses,
while the exhibitors are Obliged to be salts
fed with three and four dollar premiums or
diplomas
Politics
The season of niass-meetings and torch
light professions has commenced. At least
once week the streets OF our city are made
vocal at night by the shouts of parading clubs,
and the air made luminous by the display of
rockets, torches, and Roman candles. The
campaign has been fully inSugurated; the
ablest speakers Of the two parties are on the
stump in every county of the State, and if
the voters do not find out before the Sd Of
November which candidates they ought to
support for Presidential offices, it will not be
for the want Of opportunities or partizAn
instruction
George c. Gorhsm, candidate of the Union
party for Governor last year, and recently
elected Secretary Of the Senate Of the United
States, returned from the East a couple Of
weeks ago and was hOnored with grand re-
ception by his political admirers, who turn
ed out 70 receive him with music, torches,
etc. At the Occidental Hotel he addressed
the crowd. which was handsomely entertain
cd in the diningrOOm with wines and col
l2tIO1- Mr. 6Oiham Is now stumping il
through the Stale, holding discussions with
a leading Democrat named W W Wallace,
formerly an Attorney General He acquifs
himself with marked ability, and is thought
10 Be more than match in pOlemics for his
adversary. They have had several meetings.
The Democrats. however, are displeased with
the result, and il Is said have written to Mr.
Wallace TO cut loose from the arrangement
10 discuss and strike out so}iLs as 4 speaker
On the 9th, the Pioneers celebrated their
18th anniversary Many Of the public build
ings and private residences of the city were
decorated with flags throughout the day. A
procession was formed al one O'Clock, P. N,
and marched through several Of the prinei-
pal streets 20 the new Mercantile Library
Hall. WHERE the OrziiOl was delivered By Z.
D. Wheeler, ESQ. A poem, written for the
occasion BY = pioneer lady, was rad at the
CONCLUSION Of the address BY Master Lucio
NJ IeEkskury. The Society subsequently,
enjoyed feast Of reason and ! flow of
socli' AZ their rooms, where a sumptuous
spread" had been made for their corporal
and mental deleetation-
The Small Po1.
n lsrs=s f-f,-T,s-ior, I bsvs f,aa-, enabled
to obtain concerning this fatal epidemic, is
in the Ala Of the 18th, As follows:
For the week ending Saturday, Sept 12-h,
st u N, the deaths in San Francisco amount
ed 70 eighty-eight-s considerable increase
On the mortality Of the previous week A
contemporary makes the number one hun
dred and fony-four, which is fffy-six too
many. There were sixty cases OF smallpox
reported II the Health Office during the
week and twenfy-0ne deaths from that dis
ease IL one or the other Of lis forms. or the
decedeDfs during the week thirty-t1o were
children under I've years Of age There were
nine deaths from phthisis, and the remainder
-exeiUcing the smallpox czses-Tere dis
tributed pretty evenly through list Of some
thirty diseases
Inmy last letter, spoke Of the wreck Of
berk called the BrgLarde70, just outside Of
the Golden Gate The only thing te add i,
that the largest part Of her cargo has been
saved, and Efforts are stIIl being made to get
tie vessel OF, although the chances are
against their success
4 morning paper furnishes the annexed SC
e0unf q the f0undering Of schooner Al sea
The event occurred about week ago:
Cspizin King, Of the schooner 4 J. Burr,
Tezehed this city yesterday morning in
yzEi with Z crew OF four men belonging 10
his vessel He reports that when about i've
miles to the northwest Of the FzrTalOnes, on
the first instant, a. about hzH-pzst four A-x-,
the schOO1er sprung alezk- They got the
boef out Immediately and then tried 70 free
the vessel q water, but found il matter Of
impossibiliTF. xs she filed and went down
lad foremost il about half an hours time,
the crew being able 20 save only portion
of their clothing. They then started for the
FzrTzlones, which place they reached in safe
g AZ twelve N On September 2nd, they
sighted thr wreck about two miles and =
hzlf 10 fse southeast Of the islznd and went
OF 10 IL bit being unable TO do any good,
ret1rned 10 the Island On September 9th,
a eizht A n, they started for this city, ar
riEing At II P n The 4 j. Barr was very
Old Tezzel- Of forty-thres tons register, and
szs owned b. C. johnson, Of suisun, and C.
Rzlczll- Of this city She came from New
fOrk. via the str1its of Magellan, Under
slOop ~. IN 1s53 She Ess bOuBd for Rus
ban River for cargo Of lumber when the
disaster occurred
Unaeeoanf.kIe Phenomenon-
YESTERDAY morning when Day dATDed,
nist Was fosnd to euTs3op the city, 20
strznge il character IS 10 Be entirely znex-
pIzin1ble- Il szz partially fog, put Tot ali