Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-06-25
Our San Francisco Letter.

In my last letter | mentioned that the ques-
tion of subsidizing the Southern Pacific railroad
to the extent of $l,OOO,OOO had been negatved
by majority of one hundred and twenty-four
votes, but judicial recount shows such
strange discrepancy that people are pertinently
asking, " Who are the new Caseys aud Nc
Gowan's,' and " Have the old days of ballot
box stufing again returnedY' In the first ward
the election clerks reported three hundred and
seventeen in favor of the subsidy, and two hun
dred and sixty-six against, and insist that their
count was correct committee of the Board of
Supervisors on the other hand, finds four hun
dred and three votes in favor of the subsidy and
one hundred and eighty against 1t seems that
after the tickets left the clerks hand large
number of them were successfully manipulated,
by having the word "against" crossed out in
pencil and " for" written beneath, thus chang
ing the result of the election and giving an az
frmative majority Of sixty-two votes for the rail-
road, Such a startling fraud has never before
been developed in the history of San Francisco
1t is deliberate attempt to steal million dol
lars from the city treasury, and planned with a
GOODNESS that would do credit to the corruption
! of anti-vgilance at times.
! Municipal honesty will soon be as much at
discount here it is New York. The fire de-
partment in which citizens took so much
pride as the finest body of life and property
savers in the State, has been completely demor-
allied and its members iusulted by the appoint
ment of Con. Mooney to the position of Assist
ant Engineer. This gentleman O. late proprie-
| tor of a rat-pt, ex-pugilist, and second to the
celebrated backguard Domy Harris in his prize
fight year or two ago with Chandler, has tried
for long time to obtain some recognition of his
peculiar abilities and now affords another exam
pie of the copy-book maxim that " Perseverance
commands success" and another refutation Of
the obsolete opinion that " Honesty is the best
policy"
That "last spike" multiplies as rapidly as
sanity relic. Every celebrity who has visited
the coast since the railroad was completed has
been presented with some portion of it. 1t was
made into the handle of a walking stick for Sew
ard the outer case of a watch for Carl Schurz
and the mountings of button for Camilla Urso.
The Pioneer society has the original in its mu-
scum another original is on exhibition at Chi
cago, and at least half a dozen others can be
found in various other cities of the continent.
And now comes Mr.. Hewes-Deacon Hewes of
DR.. Scudder's church-and solemny AYERS that
a ring given to Bayard Taylor is also made Of
that miraculous metal If we lived in Biblical
days. when Elijah could make widows cruise
as prolific Pennsylvania oil well, the mat
ter would not be surrounded by so much diff
Guilty, but at present it is rather too mysterious
for my understanding, and find it very hard to
believe that even the ultra pety of a Scudderite
can now work such scriptural deed.
Our annual squabble over the preliminaries for
celebrating the fourth of July took place last
night Last year the anniversary was captured
| by Democrats, with the result that Republicans
held aloof and managed to make the affair a dis
creditable failure. This year the inevitable col
| orc iS nod in Co..
row. and the usual want of harmony almost cul-
minated in a fight. General Cobb and half IL
dozen others who have private axes to grind
tried to get possession of the meeting and failing
in that, tried to break it up. The good sense of
| the more reasonable members of the committee
preventing the success of this project, the valiant
real estate warrior left in disgust muttering
4" You can't gag any black game down my
throat
The newly-apponted Commissioner of Immi-
grafton arrested all the Chinese women who ar
rived by Wednesdays steamer from Hongk ong
on the ground that they were prostitutes and
bad characters, and therefore excluded from the
State by the recent immigration law. When the
case came up in the police court, the Commun-
ion found it would be rather difficult matter to
prove the unchastity of each particular female,
and did not appear to support his case adding
another ignominious failure to the previous at
tempt made to stop the Celestial intlex.
Inc result Vi hH hppIlCatlOu lOf an lnlunCtlOn
to restrain the Mercantile library from pursuing
their lottery scheme, adverse to the plaintiff
rs the techancality that a court of equity could
not enioin anyone from committing a misde-
meanor. By the enabling act the association is
permitted to hold three of these gambling pro-
jecs, but after consultation it thought better
to have only one, and that on "A sufficiently mag
nificent scale to pay off all Indebtedness. The
Roman Catholic orphan asylum thereupon re-
quested the library to make over to it the right
OF holding "A second lottery, or rather to have
another one and hand over the proceeds. This
modest request being refused Daniel o Connel n
porter at one of the hotels, was used as cats
paw to bring suit against the projectors. Up to
Thursday the 10th instant, $9l7 $40 had been
received by the managers, of which amount
S27O 600 was for tickets delivered and $647 $40
for tickets sold but not yet delivered. The re-
naming 6,436 tickets are all applied for, and
Will be apportiOned soon as possible. For
conducting the enterprise Messrs Dore and Pc
ters get $l25, ,000 out of which they pay all and
every expense and bind themselves TO hand over
clear 1915, 600 to the library. Advertising has
already cost Sl4 600 and when the cost of print
ing, clerical help, rent of Pavilion, concert
is taken into consideration, the margin for profit
will not amount to so much as was supposed
probable $50, 900 or $50, 600
A question involving the morality of the
shoe, fly" and "cdn-cdn" was decided by the
Police Magistrate day or two ago. The pro-
pretor of an underground melodeon was pre-
sented on charge of misdemeanOr by giving a
theatrical representation of an indecent char
| acter-said ndecency consisting in undue ele-
vatiOn of the pedal eXtremities in a dance, re-
vealing thereby section of the human body
that is generally considered necessary to hide.
The prosecuting witness, who had been detailed
by Chief Crowley to procure evidence in the
case proved to the satisfaction of the court that
the performance was highly improper, and de-
iendant was ordered to pay fine of fifteen dol
lars. kearny street is now dotted with these
melodeons, some of them coducted as respect
ably as such places can be, others with "a shame
lessness that ought to be abated. From nine to
midnight constant stream of time killing hu-
manity flows into these underground concert
rooms, seeking relaxation In a combination