Owyhee tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1869-1870, 1869-10-21
Letter from Joe,
SAN Francisco, Oct. 8, 1869.
A FEW PARAGRAPHS

-ANO"s wings SShSiotfy aiVuhu tuc I
Bay" is all can think of. A gem
eral wind-up of State and county
fairs (horse-races) is approaching,
and the only show entitled to The
name of fair (the Mechanics Insti-
tute) is also closing out. The latter
is good exhibition creditable to
this, or would be to any place but
the fairs outside have been mis-
nomer-a swindle and cheat; drunk
en-, thimble-rigging, horse,jockeyiug
occasions, with but one or two ex-
ceptions. The
PRESENT DIVERSION
In the city, is the death of the Daily
Herald, and 'sell' on the Alta.
Nugent, the Rip Van Wrinkle of the
former. who has been asleep since
the vigilance times, came out OF
Sleepy Hollow last winter, and with
him came the old Herald, enlarged
and beautified in bodily shape, but
in spirit yet dead 10 the times. IL
has been tedius drag IA newspa-
per funeral procession, with all the
equipage Of State. Its dignity was
lis chief capital paid in, and in dig
niiied de6anee, dies bard. Its one
redeeming feature while alive, was
a manly war on the Western Union
Telegraph monopoly but monop-
oily is the word in this city generally
the banks, the telegraph, the
grain ring, &C., and the newspaper
is doomed that attempts to weather
it in opposition. There is not a pa
per lett now truly independent in
ANY one thing mentioned, and the
Herald was only Independently
poor. Nugent assumed to be an
autocrat of the breakfast table
among the morning dLilies, and l.
now lower than Lazarus among the
crumbs. lie had the gaudiest OF
| editorial rooms, and the visitor was
reminded of Il court rather than the
known drudgery oil "a newspaper.
In this sense, this mornings Oakland
News says, the dcfinct should be
monrned for by the other members
Of the press. with thirty days Grape,
for the bold stand it took TO elevate
the position Of editor into one oil
eiysium. Nugent to low music III Il
column and Il halI-last words,
will the people of the Pacific
coast sustain me !"--emphaslze the
word "me," aud yon have all there
is of the Herald past, present ana
to come ii it comes again, I'll let
you know.
The best thing now is the last
Alta swindle-that paper Is proven
bial for putting its foot in it, rather
than putting down on anything. II
seems one W. j. Shaw, formerly
State Senator (Democratic) from this
city, went to China year ago. and
i still in that direction. A couple
of months ago one E. Il. Smile. O.
this city. conceived the idea o.
"do"ing the Senator and the Alta a
the same time. From books. oil
what not, Smile got up several read
able letters. purporting to have beef
written in the Corean Peninsula, IL
China. and signed them e W. J. ).
and through one means or another
got two or three printed in the Alta
the latter believing them genuine
and copied from Shaw's private
manuscript, as per request OF Shaw
The letter reflected on the Irish ant
in favor OF the Chinese. and on thu
whole, were damaging to Democra
CIV. To cap the climax, the las
letter even traced the origin OF thu
Irish to the Mongolian race. A
} this juncture, one OF Shaw's friend