Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-05-21
Our San Francisco Letter.

we did not know the census of our Irish popula
lation until Sunday, when about 10000 people
turned out to give Fenan welcome to John
Savage, chief of the bombast brotherhood. By
misapplication of terms we call an excursion
of several thousands picnic, and so one-fourth
of our white residents "picniced at San Mateo
park, fifteen miles away, and listened with greedy
ears to the appeals of needy demagogues. The
Board of Supervisors, cunning gentlemen with
political aspirations, attended the gathering in
state, but they took care to have all the police
that could be spared from town duty within
hailing distance. .Fenian frolics are always pro-
life of fights and this one exception to
the rule. Half the doctors were busy next day
in plastering cracked crowns and joining broken
bones, while the county hospital received Il ward
full of recruits to its indoor patients.
Amongst the celebrities who will honor the
Pacific Coast with their presence early in June,
is the redoubtabe Colonel James Fisk, Jr, He
has telegraphed to the Lick house for accommo-
dation, requesting that the handsomest suite of
rooms in the house be reserved for himself and
friends He has also signifed his intention of
giving grand ball to the ladies of San Fran
cisco, the cost of which is announced to be $780,
900. What ulterior designs he has on our
purses is not yet manifest, but holders of min
ing stock, " sure thing, only it requires lit
tie capital, are already on the qui pice, and if
the "boss of the ring" wants to speculate,
plenty of opportunity will be afforded him.
Do you remember the sensation created some
months ago by the advent of young person
called Annie Sheppard-better known as the
q" beautiful mute? She professed to be a dumb
and badly prosecuted maiden, and carried on
the deception SO thoroughly as to deceive our
experienced Chief of Police. At length one of
the ubiquitous Chronicle reporters interviewed
her with such effect that she not only found a
tongue but lost and won a heart. 1t was case
of mutual love at first sight one of those roman
tic episodes seldom heard of outside the Ledger
and NeW York Weekly The affair eliminated
in matrimony, and on Saturday last the bride
pronounced the important " will " without the
least hesitancy proving that Cupid, in addition
to his other qualifications, has the power of CIV
ing language to the silent.
That little lady Camilla Urso the inspired fid-
dler who played her way as effectualy into our
pockets Orpheus did into the Internal regions
went East yesterday with banking account in
creased by some $40 600; the result of gratui-
tions. Her first effort was a grand musical fes-
tival for the benefit of the Mercantile library, by
which she unconsciousy contrived to net a COM
plimentary SIS 200, a little more than half
the proceeds Then she made interior tour,
concertng for this, and volunteering for that
charity, but always manag gng that a full share
OF the dollars should roll into her own Golfers.
Her last appearance was in behalf of the French
Mutual Aid society, where she scraped a couple
of symphonies for about ten minutes and was
unexpectedly presented with a seven-hundred-
and-fifty- y-dollas diamond brooch, carefully Sc
lected before hand by her agent. For months
past our journals have been lavishing enconiums
on her liberality now they begin to see they
were somewhat bamboozled at which they wax
wrath and indulge in backbiting and sneers.
Every man, woman and child in San Fran
cisco has firmly resolved to draw that one-hun-
dred-dollar prize in the big lottery scheme.
No one seems to care about the paltry $50 900
and we turn up our noses at the mere thought
of being put off with the smaller sums. Three
days only have elapsed since the official publica-
tion of the plan and already orders have been re-
ceived to the extent of hundred and sirty
thousand dollars. The thing is going to be a
huge swindle on the public, under pretence of
aiding an arstocratic association of novel read
| ers. Morice Dore, the real estate man, and
Charles r. Peters have the business manage
ment of all arrangements, pocketing for their
| trouble the modest sum of twelve and a-half per
cent, or total of one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars for work that could be as well
done by good clerk. And it is further under
stood that this is but the first of three similar
projects so that three million dollars are to be
taken out of our speculative pockets to pay off
debt of about two hundred thousand. Your
| correspondent is not particularly moral, he
never affiliated with the young Christians nor
sat on the anxious seat at revival. He has
even occasionally INDUCED in the venturesome
pastime of fighting the tiger, but it seems to
him that the spirit of gambling is such latent
demon in every Californian bosom, that it would
have been well not to rouse the monster, per-
haps cheaper in the end if the State had made
direct appropriation for this impecuniOus insti-
tuition. However, it is too late to moralize.
We will all take shares and trust to luck,
Bvsiness has been very much depressed dur
ing the past week in consequence of the alarm
ing accounts about the wheat crop. Farmers
have already sent to the city to secure seed for
next fall as they think it can be purchased now
at more favorable price than in a few months
Last year out of 2 ,l52, $50 acres of cultivated
land 1907, $50 were sown in wheat and barly,
so that fully threefOurths Of the whole agricult-
ural interest is concentrated in grain. Flour
has advances from seventy-fve cents, to q dollar
per barrel, within ten days and the drift is still
upwards. The times are so dull as even to af-
feet the Chinese, and their temples have been
converted into Temporary lodging houses, while
pun "iselapie creatures, wan ana Saunt with
hunger, now appeal for aims the principal
thorough fares.
AT length we have found chivarous defender
for our much abused sex. Miss Roberts, of Wis
consn-may her tongue be long in the land and
a good husband reward her efforts-has entered
the field as an advocate for ''mens rights" and
is lecturing to crowded houses. The female
suffragist's in despair at this treachery and
talk about demolishing her chignon, while ladies
watch the quarrel nightly amused
novelty in the literary world is Mr.. Bro
man s story, now publishing in the Alta. The
scene opens in the Faust cellar, the old head
quarters of beer-drinking Bohemians and other
bibulous Journalists, and introduces many char
acters easily recognizable. The plot begins to
| tlicken from the start and the stulo ir ;..c4