Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-03-25
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regions Of California, was 4 resolute.
e%nterprising band Of sixty men from
Sag Harbor, Long Island, N. Y, all
In the prime Of life and full blush OF
manly hopefulncss, styling themselves
the Southampton and California
Mining and Trading Company" They
purchased the ship Sabina, an old
whaler which had made many a suc-
cessful raid from that pert In quest OF
the o~leaginous loviathans Of the great
deep, fitted her out properly for the
expedition, and took their departure
for the land Of gold on tho sth day Of
February, lsi9-twcnty- five years ago.
From the Sag Harbor Correeior, a re-
cent copy Of which lies before US, we
learn that there were sixty stockhold-
en In the company, and the shares
were $500 each. OF. the stockholders,
tlfty went themselves, and the balance
sent substitutes. There were also
eight passengers aud a crew Of twenty
men. Included In the company OH
board tho Sabina was no less than
nineteen old whaling captains, surely
enough to have brought calamity or
somo sort Of r~etributive evil upon any
maritime voyage, yet the old Sabina
gallantly w~eathered every trouble, got
along nicely, aud brought all hands
safely to their golden destination, ar
irving at san Francisco OH the 9th day
OF August, 1910. The most serious
mishap encountered on the voyage
was a few days out from home, when
the slip "spruns a.leak" and the
pumps had to DO called into active re-
QUESTION till the ship arrived at st.
GATHERINGS, Brazil, where she was
docked for repairs and n detention OF
several weeks occurred. Tho compa-
ny, however. bore this little delay
very philosophlcally, considering the
pleasures, novelties, and general en-
joyments Of that tropical country, with
Its fruits, flowers aud friendly dark
skinned population.
The incidents OF the long and tedious
voyage were simply duplicated ON
board all the numerous ships with sim
liar expeditions, being ut that same
time OF their way to California. There
were the usual unavoidable conflicts
between tho stockholders and passen.
gers and crew, the little jealou'ies In
dnced by favoritlsm. the clashing Of
aud rivalry Of the different messes, the
Fourth Of Jaly dinner, practical Jokes,
petty anlmosities, theoretical and ro-
llsious arguments, attempts ut Sunday
services, target shooting, ~porpoises,
l~obscouse, soft-tsck, whist, seven.up,
aud all that sort Of thing. Then there
we're the various individual character
i,tics developed and brought to lntl-
mate view. There was Seelcy, noted
for his inordinato fondness for "duir,"
and his amusing nervousness In tack
Ing ship, while others were fully as
noted In other peculiaritiss. There
were plenty Of :" ~forecastls lawyers"
to cxpound the maritime laws and the
rights Of minkind on shipboard or on
land. and there was ut least n dozen
amateur navigators to "keep run Of
the ship" aud who figured her to DO a
thousand or two miles cut OF her urs
all the time, and who were willing to
prove IL to the officers whenever called
upon. Had the ship run afoul Of a
strange island nobody ever knew Of
before, there were plenty to have said,
al told you SO; 1 knew the mates
reckoning was wrong" Then there
was the occasion, when Capt. Barney
Green took command Of the ship, and
carried sail, and carried away spars AZ.
ter a style best known to that bold and
spirited old whaling skipper, and to
the CONSERVATION Of the legitimate
master Of the ship, who came on deck
and found his vessel dashing furiou,ly
across. the bounding pillows like tho
famous Flying Dutchman. Then, too,
not last nor least by any means, there
was the debating society, with Its AMI
mated discussions, especially that as to
"who was entitled to the most credit,
Columbus for discovering or Washing
ton for freeing America ?" when Cap
tsins Hand aud Howell decided In IA
vor OF Columbus, the former asserting
that the decision was given ION the
law aud the evidence, by Cd, and
from which there Is no appeal"
Soon after their arrival In San
Francisco tho company broke up, like
pretty much all other organizations
and associations Of their kind, and the
various members chose their own d.
verging paths In search Of fortune, the
bright golden hope OF which beamed
Into their sanguine souls from all d.
rectlons. Twenty-Five years have
passed, and how many Of tho old
Sabina's c. company did or have done
better than II they had remained at
home In Sag Harbor, cannot easily be
Some still remain living In
and Nevada, aud some arc
engaged iulm~ercantilc aud other pur-
In the Eastern States and else
but the majority are dead, very
Indeed finding their way back to
sag Harbor. The only members OF
the company w know Of In this State,
ut present, are a. l.. Edwards, Deputy
County Treasurer, aad W. W. Tinker,
OF the firm OF Tinker & Shepard. both
we'll known aud respected residents OF
Virginia City. Theodore Wood OF the
Exchanye I'm that city N fav