The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-09-16
OUR CALIFORNIA LETTER.
The Ancient Monsters Of the Pacific
Linked Events-Antf-CoOli Con-
yentiOn-WOuldn't stand the Chi
nese-The DiscoYerer OF Coda
Petrified Forest - Grizzlies nd
their yiettms-Notab
Especial Correspondence Of the Register.l
SAN Francisco, Sept, 6, 1870.
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LINKED EVENTS.
1t is strange that few words spoken
to the French Ambassador on the es
planade at Ems. two months ago, should
decide the municipal election of an
American city removed by ocean and
continent from the scene Of diplomatic
dispute, yet the local government Of
San Francisco will undoubtedly be con-
trolled 10y the circumstance The Radi-
calls, by playing upon national sympa-
thy, have cleverly managed to array the
German vote against the Irish, and the
result has been temporary desertion
of the Teutonic element from the Demo-
cratic ranks. The Republicans expect,
I'd by this manpuvering to receive an
accession to their party, and stood with
open arms to welcome the recruits; but
the Germans have wisely resolved to
vote the Independent Municipal Ticket,
and as soon as the ill-feeling caused by
the noisy sympathy of our Irish citi-
zens for the French has somewhat
abated, they will resume their normal
position in the body polite,
THE AHrICoOLIE CONVENTION,
From which so much was expected
by the opponents of Chinese labor, ut
terly failed to present any new eluclda-
ton of the Celestial problem, and, in
fact, merely resolved itself into tender
of the Democratic Convention. After
several sessions, each of which was char
acterized by an acme of blackguardism
that would have done credit TO an
assembly of prize.fghters, the sapient
council organized State Executive
Committee, adopted platform embrac-
ing planks on every conceivable topic,
from settlers rights to the Alabama
wrongs, and then adjourned without
saving anything TO the point about the
question at issue.
WOULDN'T STAND THE CHINESE.
Americans are not the only ones who
exhibit hostility to Chinese immlgra-
ton. About twenty Asiatics went down
to Mexico some six weeks ago for the
purpose Of gathering oysters for the San
Francisco market After reaching MAJ
akin. they went to work building their
habitations and mending their boats,
when the Mexicans held meeting and
decided that the new corners were not
at all desirable neighbors. They there
fore requested them to leave by the next
steamer on pain Of losing their queaus
with chronological attachments) and
John accordingly obeyedthe order.
THE DIsCovERER OF GOLD.
James W. Marshall, the discoverer
of gold in California is writing a book
detailing his early experiences. The
old man is reduced to q condition verg-
ing on absolute poverty, fact which Is
not at all creditable to the generosity
of the State. His partner, General
Satter, has received an appropriation OF
$3.50 per month for several years, and
bill passed the Legislature giving Mar
shall 500 per month for two years, but
Governor Haight promptly vetoed It,
The noble old pioneer after three quar-
tiers of a century Of labor and excite
ment is still active and well preserved.
He tried lecturing last April and made
better attempt than many of the I'M
ported professionals, but as Californlans
rarely patronize platform entertain
ments the effort was failure.
A PETRIFIED FOREST.
An interesting discovery has recently
been made near Calistoga, in Napa
county. A gentleman while wandering IN
the vicinity of the famed Geysers came
across a hitherto unknown forest Of
petrified trees. So far as known they
are all recumbent and broken squarely
across the trunk proving that the frac-
ture was made in falling after they be,
came stone. The sections all separated
from each other by two or three feet as
though they had moved by their own
weight when they tell. Some Of them
are & feet in diameter and % or 30 feet
long; the roots in every case being below
ground. The wood appears to have
been oak or madrona, and the grain OF
mary peices has alternate streaks OF
beautiful quartz,
MONSTERS OF ANCIENT TINES.
The Pacific Coast is wonderfully rich
in the fossilized remnants of the ante
dilnvian err. Within the last two
months discoveries have been made
that in any other country, would set
the sarans crazy with excitement and
furnish material for endless discussion.
The chief of these is what was once evil
IDENTIFY an immense sea monster. 1t lies
on a high plateau, about one hundred
miles to the southeast Of Hamilton, In
Nevada. and from its position 1t is sup
posed that the locale was once great
sboal, and that the leviathan tioundered
and perished on its surface as the water
receded. The petrification is perfect
and is estimated to weigh about ten
tons 1t has the head and body OF a
bumpbacked whale, while the extremi-
ties extend into feelers and antenn9,
| like the polypus or devil fish, with the
execution that they were evidently
| lined during life, with hard and bony
surface The head is flat and oblong'
with ewes set in each side twenty-tourr
inches apart The month Is armed
with triple rows of teeth, sharp in front
but underneath, and well into the Jaws
they turn into grinders, capped by
solid osseous formation The length Of
this singular relic of an unknown age
has not yet been determined, but as the
body blends into the tail, it tapers down
into so small size that, making due
allowance, its weight would not be ia,
from that stated.
At the present time there is on exhib
ition in the city the tusk and some teeth