New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-19
LETTER FRoM SAN FRANCISCO.
Customs of the Country-Blending of
Youth and Age-The Latest Sensation
Mrs. Fair The State Election and Con.
gressmen-Rainy Thanksgiving.
'rrespondence of the Republican.

LSpeclaI Correspondence of the Republican,
SAN FRANCISCO, December 8, 1872.
CaIifornians, and especially San Francis
cans, are sensational loving and inquisi-
tive people. Ifit is in their latent natures,
1t will crop out to it's fullest and most NOR
Did extent after a short substantiation to
these wonderful shores. 1t is in the
climate-''one of the customs of the coun-
try" and all newcomers gradually and so
naturally fall into it that the change is
hardly perceptible to them, and of course,
not noticed by The others. Here man, or
rather a fraud in that shape, can txedly
gaze in lady's face for full FIVE minutes,
with half leering, lecherous look until her
face is crimson with bushes, to be height
ened to some obscene eremark as she can
but hear in passing, and nothing strange is
| thought Of it. 1T is one of the customs of
the country" and her gallant will so con-
| slider it, and further exhibit his chivalry
and nice sense of breeding by returning the
| glare on the first handsome lady they meet,
and abruptly turn his head and continue to
gaze as long as he can see her retreating
form.
And another Peculiarity or custom is the |
mating, legally and otherwise, of May and |
December or in the plain vernacular, te- |
male youth ard lOvelIness with hoary- |
headed uglinesss and infrmity. But they |
are more affairs of convenience than of the /
heart. Such instances are quite common |
wherever tie tender passion is moved by |
the magic Of gold and old age is credulous; |
and that's everywhere. But it is more so |
here than elsewhere. Silly vanity and SO
called STYLE" and pretentious living
above ones means is the cause of it ALL A |
very interesting sermon could be preached |
on this subject by one competent to do SO.
The Escaped Num- and the escaped
Brotherton sensations having died out the
:" Harbor Commissioner Frauds" having
been fixed and The diamond bubble
haying bursted, we are entirely without a
sensation" excepting, if we include
little case which occurred the other evening.
4 white DeSdem0na stabbed her colored
OatelIo, and there was no Lago in the case
either-i6 was bad whisky. As she has no
money. long trial will be dispensed with,
and the romance Of the affair thus lost to
gossip-ioving community, and she will be
unceremenionsly 0senS oyeS the bay to the
penitentiary. /
But we do not DESPAIR, as Mrs. Fair has
received her pistol, and still fingers behind.
She expressed her determination to lecture
''or know Hhe reason wbye" and as she was
not permitted TO do SO. she may yet demand
to ''know Che reason why" at the pistols
mouth. She may noS get off so easily the
hext time she kills man-more especially !
as her money is abouS out.
In the absence OF a first class sensation, G
we make up our daily pabalum from minor
matters. such as elopements an middle life, {
divorces among the lower strata, an orca- :
Sional coolness or separation or ''outside" 9
affinity among the npper crust: and even
he details OF the trial of an amorous I
'Hoodlom' for iarruping his Baby s.
lawkey' dufcjna is no! entirely without in
crest. 81
OuT divorce cases are nos argued in open f.
Ourt, and thereby great deal of interest 81
ng scandal is lost: but as tea is quite gen p
rally used. especially by the far sex, scan
al generally follows, and those little mat N
ers are pretty generally we'll aired before :,
hey are referred 60 judicial ears; but then sc
hese little shortcomings in that line are
lore than made up for when some unso-
hlsticated youth. with less brains than
honey, and less discretion than either, is "a
ccuse6 OF seducing OF raping a genuine
girl ef the period, or some lecherous old
east is brought up on charge of main
aiming an jncestuous intimacy with his
aughter, niece, or some other female rela- 81
We under the age Of discretion Then the =, -
Is shocked. the press teens with be
10 disgusting details Of the affair and
ouse Of the inhuman monster, and it IN
lords theme for the pulpit and moral ur
cturer; but somehow or other the matter tn
"hushed up or ''tYed.' and we hear no ne
ore OF lt-all mistake, nothing of the (,,.
nd ever occurred. Fixing things" is a iel
rm peculiar to this State, and is well un. IN,
7rstood from its general application to lei
en- and things. ",
Though, whatever may be charged against
), it can not be said that we do things of
plece'meal, or make a bungling job of III III
lything. When a policeman shoots i'm
an or woman, he brings them the first
e, orif man takes notion to correct th,
S wife, if he be bad marksman or has mi
, pistol convenient, he take her at me
Orter and sureT range with a razor or bo
ck-knife. Therefore the embarrassment ~ ~
mistake by killing some one else is 18f
oided, except, perhaps. of course, stray los
otherin-law. gir
In one of my former letters, l predicted lev lev
at this State would give Grant from 5000 So,
10000 majority IA wide range), and No
rec Republican and one Democratic Con ta1 s1
essman would by elected The State <AE
We over 1900 for General Grant, but in ant
e matter of Congressman 1 was correct
my Judgment, except as regards the m@ r1lC1
3tucts. In the Southern portion of the Ea
ates the Democratic nominee was beaten, Is,
d the third or northern district elected a val
smocrat, mainly because of his anti Tn Tn
lroad monopoly record, and it will be pre-
served that the Republicans elect ain
who were friendly to the Goat sea
ana cession, ran far behind the Grant sea
ctoral ticket, with the exception of in g,
s city, which comprises a district within rat
elf, where the Republican nominee ran 70 =
cad Of his ticket-many Liberal Repub- fra,
ans and Democrats voting for him be- lI2
lse of the Obnoxiousness of the "dia-in- Ill