Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-04-13
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A Retrospect-The Late Mldard Maseh-
Embryo Gold E~xcIte1cuts Shnrkes
Theatres and S~aieides-As Trngcaian
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SAN FRANCISCO, April II, 1870.
The What Cheer House has been OH
a huge drunk for the last two days.
Two dollars and a half j~udiciously in
vested in five-cent drinks will nicely
cover a 4S-hour spree, and that Is the
exact amount the W. G. II. had to
spend. After all, there is nothing like
honest labor, and the crowd who most
do congregate in that c~ara,anserie are
enjoying the fruits of one day and a
half's hard toll at the sandhills, lately
a cemetery but now promoted to the
dignity of 4 park. Five thousand dol
lars paid out for q few hours work. and
nothing whatever to show for 1t! One
of our brisk afternoon breezes would
shift more sand than this army of UNI
employed has yet done, and not de-
plete the City Treasury, either, for the
Indirect benefit Of one-horse whisky
mills. During q residence Of 10 years
in San Francisco I never saw so much
drunkenness as on Saturday and Sun
day. Every vagrant on the peninsula
went In for two and q half'S worth.
| Owing to the beautiful system adopted
| at Yerba Buena, there was no check
whatever OH fraud. All you bad to do
was to 60 up to the pay office, give
your name and get coin; and when
that petered out the window was shut
down, and applicants told to "cone
again tomorrow"
1 wonder if you Gold Killers can
stand a few plain words OH this labor
question. Nc paper here dare publish
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., you know
and as Silverdom is far enough off to
take q calm, philosophical view Of the
subject, I'll just inflict my ideas on
you-leader fashion. We Il am writing
editorially now will call 1t a
Retrospect.
cit is now a year since a few taps
of the hammer at Promontory Point
announced tothe great cities ofthe Con-
tinent that the Overland Railroad was
completed, and perhaps a short review
of its effects Oh our trade may prove
interesting. We had formed great ex-
p~ectations about the benefits to accrue
to California by reason Of this national
highway, and In every Instance expe-
rience has shown that-we knew moth
ing about it. No sooner was 1t finished
than Chicago came down like a wolf
OH the fold, ~underselling our mer-
chants, giving long credits, content
with small profits, and altogether coli
| Quoting business In 4 style so different
| from our own that we were COM
pletely taken aback, and before recov-
ering from the surprise, providing,
greedy Chicago had stolen u interior
trade. The truth stands that Chicago
was wide awake. and sleepy-headed
San Francisco had an idea that all the
trade west Of the Rocky Mountains be-
longed Of right to her, and that no dar-
ing intruder would poach on the re-
serve. This is the great cause OF the
present depression, the reason that
| thousands Of men in our streets clamor
for work, that manufacturers languish
land customers forsake us for other
marts. Talk about San Francisco ell
| terprise-for twenty years the press OF
| the State has been putting us up. until
we thought that all the virtues Of the
| world were concentrated in this one
| city, that trade and commerce would
| halt in their track II we spoke the
word. Instead of being ahead Of the
| times in commercial matters, we are
Just five years behind, and like q fat,
pussy old man running after a railroad
train, shall have to do considerable
exertion before we catch up with it."
That's not exactly 4iltd logic o Bui-
letin lore. but 4 few leaders in that
style would effect more good than the
customary dissertations on eight-hour
leagues, Chinese competition and
money stringency. Now, l dismiss
this labor movement from all future
consideration, and unless the "stary-
ing populace" r good enough to
furnish q few readable items by COM
hitting wholesale Celestial manSlaugh-
tor, ! shall not refer to it again.
The Lato billiard Match.
The Chicago Times, Of the Sth Inst,
has an item IN which 1t says that Ru-
dolphe was badly swindled by the
opposite party In the late match be-
tween him and Deery. Well, are we
not mortal, and shall We not have re-
yenge? We feasted and entertained
Chicago right royalty last summer
when her merchants came "a spies to
view the fairness Of the land, and in
return her Common Council refuses
to paw a paltry bill Of 5000 for enter
tanning our California Pioneers. So,
we very properly ignore the Scriptural
maxim about turningthe cheek, andfall
upon the first isolated Chicagoan who
| ventures In our midst. Let Rudolphe
DO satisfied. we showed great magma
nimity In allowing him to spoil us OF
| the diamond cue, and ho ought not to
| complain that we made his pocket the
scapegoat for the sins OF his fellow cit
liens.
Embryo Gold Excitement.
The embryo gold e~xcitements, caused
by San Diego quartz and Peace River
reports, are not likely to hatch into a
rush. Your regular old torty-niner
doesn't care q straw about dlggings
close at hand; they couldn't possibly
be of any account unless difficult OF
access, situated in some semi-eXplored
territory, and surrounded by hostile
Indians, high mountains and all sorts
of dangers. San Diego is a little too
near, the journey not sufficiently haz-
ardous, and there would be no credit
in getting broke in a Write mans
country" Our British neighbors are
known to sow an annual spring crop
Of lies; but numbers ofold Caribooltes,
with 4 vivid recollection Of the rich
ness of Williams Creek, are disposed
to believe the news from Victoria, and
these wandering mortals will, in a
week or two, strap the Inevitable
blanket to their shoulders, and with
light hearts and great expectations
start for the unknown region around