Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-01-07
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
trRox U REGULAR coRREsroSDEsT.l
A BAD BRGINNING-ExIT GUT.
TER SNIPR-DARK WAYS OF
THE CHINEE-HIsTORY OF A
PROMISING CONVERT" OUR
MAZRPPA0 TO BE SUP.
PRESSED BOGUS LOTTERY
TICKETs,

SAN FRANCISCO, January 5, 1871.
The seventy-ilrst child of the CEN
fury, although but a few days old, has
had its local reputation sullied by
three suicides, one murder, three Mt
tempts ut murder, n mayhem, n
beating of a car conductor while a
brother ruflian held driver and pas
sengers at bay with q drawn revolver,
and 80 many assaults, robberios and
minor offenses, that 1t would require
the memory of a dozen "oldest inhab-
itants +" to keep track Of them. Sothe
new born year, although ushered into
life on q Sunday, and attended at its
birth by a whole bevy of clerical mid
wives, may be said to have made a de-
cidedly bad beginning. How to check
this fever Of bloodshed is, becoming
every week a question Of more import
ance. Saturday is almost as regularly
murder-day as Sunday is the Sabbath.
Il Is safer now to shoot q man down In
cold blood In the streets than 1t Is to
steal an article worth fifty dollars. In
the one case acquittal is nearly a GER
tainty, In the other a conviction with
heightened Imprisonment almost as
sured.
Whose Fault L. Itf
The cause of this condition of things
Is mot very difficult to find. A lax
public sentiment permeates all classes,
from tho Judge to the jury, from the
preacher to his congregation, from the
editor to his reader. The most trifling
circumstances are held to justify the
taking Of life. The murdered is always
the murderer always innocent.
As soon as the grave has closed over
the victim, a thousand tongues seek to
the crime, a hundred papers
to manufacture sympathy
for the criminal, and the very fire.
luency Of the deed helps to procure
his acquittal.
why Should this Man DO Hanged q"
'aid one of the jury who tried Quinn
for the murder Of Maggie Ryan, "when
fifty others equally rs bad have es-
And this reasoning is no
doubt applied in many other instances.
for murder are now merely
of justice. Juries are EN-
panneled to acquit. The verdict Is
before the first word Of the
evidence has been given, and friends
the Courtroom with congratu-
ready on their lips to welcome
the indicated slayer rs he steps from
the dock and ends the farce. But for
false humanitarianism the annals of
San Francisco would soon be free from
the constantly recurring stains Of hui
man blood. One hanging in this city
10 morrow would save ten lives be-
tween now and next December.
'ssme Language from Truthfal
JaHes,o
Judge Stanley charged the Grand
Jury that met to-day on several sub
Iects of special interest. He directed
heir attention to the lottery mania,
md the latest features 1t has assumed,
taking the semblance Of homestead
associations, and suggested that 1t was
heir duty to indict every one con-
with such schemes, whether
projected, rs In the latter case, or
accomplished. rs In the case of the
Library. The melodeons
md underground concert halls were
llso noticed, and commended as fitting
for investigation, with the
1iew of indictment; and lastly, "a
paper published in this city,
If which It Is asserted that Its chief
iource Of support is derived BY a sys-
EN- of levying blackmail ~ which
will be- ut once recognized as Oar Ma
'eppa-was mentioned as n publication
hat could be prosecuted with some
to the .community-a sug-
that meets with such concur
'ence that 1t Is a wonder It has not
,een adopted before. II Kearny street
lens and Hylton's infamous sheet
re blotted out Of existence, the duties
4 future grand juries will be consider
bly, lessened. Gg l.ao
"BSEus Lsstery TIekets.o
Since an example has been made Of
ONE Of the shrswd gentlemenin New
FORK city who offer to sell counterfeit
to country cousins, they
ave turned their wits to the organiza-
ion Of new swindle. Circulars have