Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-06-15
SAN FaANcpco, June IA, 1870.

ENDS.
~ San FRAscncos June IA, 1870. !
A Review Of the Lecture Season.
Among the last arts may be fairly
classed the art Of drawing a San Fran
cisco audience to a lecture room. With
in the last four weeks ten Eastern lee
turers have tried to engrat their pecu-
liar Bostonian mode of amusement
upon the community, but with such Ill
success that our supposed want OF ap-
probation will probably deter other
platform celebrities from attempting
to enlighten our intellectual under
standings. Pretentious nobodies, pulled
for the nonce into notoriety, thought
that the applause of New England VII
Layers would he sufficient endorsement
to attract Californians; so they came,
and saw, but did not conquer, for their
encyclopaedia facts and platitudinous
wisdom proved q little too stale for our
mental swallow, and only added 9TH
ers to the many instances Of "vaulting
ambition that ~o'erleaped ITSELF" Ac-
Etrnted partly by q fell desire to steal
an original idea III any could be found
from these half-dollar oratlons, and
partly by the sentiment that "eyery
newspaper expects It's correspondent 70
do his duty" I have attended a round
dozenlno Falstafian exaggerationl OF
these discoufses ; heard Hewlett, Bar
mum, Vincent, Bayard Taylor, Mil
burn, Forbes and six or seven others
expound on every conceivable topic
from 1.-THE Cave Of Macpelah" "a
Scripturai and a mining cave) to the
nRoast Beef and Plum Pudding Of
England from 1.-THE United Irish
man +" to "The Universal Law Of Civ
~ilization," with q waste Of time from
billiards and other ~recreatiye duties
that was not rewarded by any informa-
ton gained. TO read the papers, one
would Imagine that each of these gem
tlemen contained within himself the
concentrated eloQuence of Clay and
Webster, with Tom Fitch thrown In,
while to listen was In most instances to
be reminded Of the dreary hf~elessness
of the Right Reverend lngraham Kip,
or the stupid drawing Of State lnstruc-
tor Fitzgerald. Hewlett was as dis
mally witty ass Jest book, Barnum as
amusing as the capers 81 his own
,yooIv horse Vincent as frothy rs q
glass of new-drawn lager, and Bayard
faylor, .soifull Of solemn facts and In
disputable figures that his lecture ap-
peared to be q combination Of Alta edi-
torials and rules In arithmetic. Once
upon a time It was considered neces-
sary for q man to have some special
Qualifications of brilliancy before he at
tempted to speak from the rostrum to
an audience who had paid for admis-
sion ; but now lecturers 60 proving
around the country with regulations
manufactured In q newspaper Office,
and prey upon the public with the COM
placency Of a wolf dining of Of lambs.
Our country Is altogether too prolific
| of such eminent men. There Is more
ability and q truer sparkle Of genius
in any one of Frank Pixley's satirical
efforts than In the best imported at
ltempts, and he could undoubtedly draw
| full benches where o professional lee
turer would have an empty house.
Before this reaches you, the telegraph
will have advised you Of the DISPOSE
tion Of the.
Mercantils Lfbvary Injaactisn Care.
From the remarks Of Judge Morri-
son, 1t seems likely that the application
will be dismissed on the technically
that q Court Of equity cannot enjoin
the commission of an act which Is a
misdemeanor. 1t Is understood that
the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum
asked tho Mercantile Library to assign
to 1t the right of holding the second
lottery, or rather desired the Associa-
ton to hold another and then hand
over the proceeds. This modest re-
quest was refused; and %thereupon
Daniel O'Connell-who Is Q porter at
n of the hotels-was used as'a me-
dunn TO commence suit. Messrs. Dore
and Peters are 50 very retlcent that 1t
IS almost impossible to obtain any
information about the management OF
the project, but / think you will find
the following reliable: Those gentle
men have given bonds to pay to the
Mercantile Library Association the
sum Of $376;000 in gold coin, and every
expense-including the sale Of tickets,
printing, advertising, rent Of Pavilion,
cost Of concert etc.-s to be q charge
upon the remaining &l26,0O Adver-
Using has already cost el4, 900, and as
a great number Of the tickets are sold
In quantities at q discount Of ten per
cent, the margin for profit Is not SO
large as many suppose. AS the special
act permits the institution to hold two
more gift enterprises, Mr.. Swain says
that Immediately amer the first one
they will vitiate the enabling bill by
having q couple Of lotteries for some
dollar article-tenrtickets at ten cents
each-and thus do away with further
cause Of dispute.
The official recount Of the vote on
The RsIlrsaa subsidy
shows such o strange discrepancy in
the First Ward from the figures as
reported by the clerk of election, that
people are pertinent by asking If there
has not been a wholesale transforma-
ton Of, ballots. The first vote was
said to have stood 81 for the subsidy
and l96s against it; the recount gives
4O3 for and $50 against-a gain Of l72
in favor of the proposition. This ward
has been suspiclously Incorrect on two
occasions Of closely contested elections,
and almost appears to play the part
that the old Eighth used to do under
Casey's .manipllations. It seems 90
impossible to make such a glaring
error. that It Is no wonder uncharitable
rlnIors are afioat, charging more than
incompetency.
$780,. Matsfmsnial.
Messenger lwhose real name, by the
BY, Ia william A.. Houptb the Adonis
Of the California Theater, was pri-
vately married q Few days ago to Miss
Grace Riddle, daughter Of the well
. -a,o,oar James Riddle, Our