Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-05-18
San Francisco Letter.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, $50.

Mcmahon, VINO IS reVeling ID lpe
blissful realities of the honeymoon.
He was surely "as happy as a big
sunfower'' IF that means. an un-
limited supply Of the quality. He
corraled California gal ofseventeen
Summers and no Winters-she hav-
ing been raised at or near San Jose.
Happy events have been the order
of the day for the past week or more.
Picnics, celebrations, feasts for body
and soul, and an abundance of straw
berries at a bit a pound for every
body, prevail gorgeously and within
the reach of all. Just why anybody
should commit suicide with such
surroundings is incomprehensible,
and yet they do it, and do it fire.
quently. Not a week passes in
which some mortal does not commit
self destruction in this city.
The Railroad Celebration yester-
day was large, liberal and enthusi-
astic. Except that the Stars and
Stripes were displayed in the great
est profusion, no ole could object to
it on partisan grounds; unless
thoughts, that all the chief origina-
tors, projectors, builders and owners
are " niger worshippers " and Rad
icals, arouse enyious feelings. But
illusions of this kind may be unkind
towards a few proud but useless
relics Of chivalry. A place being
awarded in the procession to and
filled by a well-trained and behaved
company Of colored troops, was
enough to call forth noble and chiv-
alric remarks of disgust from set
of men who don't properly belong
to the United States. My only mis-
fortune of the day, was the one Of
juxtaposition with few OF these
envious creatures. The trouble
seems to be that black men with the
few opportunities grudgingly OBJ
tanned, are improving them, and each
year exhibits in them an orderly
manliness and worthy ambition to
do and be something in the world.
1t is pleasant to note that all sneers,
filings of irony and exhibitions of
jealousy toward them come from
men who boast of being real mem
bers OF a played-out chivalry or are
sorry they are not. The celebration
was a grand success-the procession
being largely made up of the indus
trial classes-and it was just one
hour and ten minutes passing the
occidental Hotel. The notices,
emblems and leading features in
some way referred to the occasion
and the expected fruits of the great
iron highway. The Pacific Union
Express Company had a large wagon
piled high with packages marked to
the principal cities OF the world,
via Pacific Railway. a 32-ton loco
motive-San Francisco make--was
hauled about the streets on trucks
by twenty-four horses. The origin
al steam sand-hill paddy was burn
ished up and hauled in procession
with steam up and whistling incess-
antly. The sight was rendered brill
, liant by Examinations, bonfres and
fireworks. But it is useless to at
tempt even an outline OF the gay and
historic day. The large papers have
several columns on it and fail to dc
the occasion justice. 1t really marks
an epoch in the commerce of oul
country. A consignment Of tea ha'
already been started overland. I've
/ conversed with persons but eigh
I days from Chicago. 1.-THE trip wa
made in five days and twenty hour
from Chicago to San Francisco thu