Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-08-08
MIR CALIFORNIA CORES.
PONDENCE.
ESPECIAL TO THE TIMES
SANTA CLARA, Aug. 2.

DEAR TIMES The summer Is
oyer for your correspondent, as a
saturn to town, and cold weather
comes in with August in all its
terrors. Fogs, wind, dust : the
three exponents of San Francisco's
summer climate, greeted our ar
rival at the metropolis, and without
further attempts to be mild on the
subject, it was simply abominable.
The rise in stocks that is now
confidently expected, gladdens the
hearts of those who crave this
kind of excitement, and things are
Just now moving. What will be
the result: whether past lessons
are all forgotten, or people will
still stand back and let the manip-
ulators try their own financiering
to their hearts content, remains to
be proved /; but stockholders are
sanguine.
Politics are more or less interest
ing, depending upon the tastes OF
parties. Abuse being the general
mode of warfare, it has been car
ried on pretty thoroughly. and
whether Bidwell and others are
scamps or saints in the minds of
partisans, depends entirely upon
the newspaper one takes, and what
deduction is drawn from them.
The contest will be heated, and in
the end everybody will retire in
satisfaction to their closets to give
thanks in what order they may that
the campaign is ended. No matter
what is said of some of these ras-
Gals, for reading attentively both
sides of the animadyersions, all of
them have earned for themselves, in
some way, the unenviable title,
must representthe will of the people
and if the country is going to be
safe, it must he protected by muscle
or direct i4terposition Of the cire OF
Providence, a4d having ( pose tdT Ii ,'i
a few of these campaigas already in
the course Of our lives, we feel pretty
certain it wi. be. Appropo of the
political state Gf the atmosphere, a
little boy offered some pups, of course
of wonderful breed for sale few
days ago. "Arc they Republicans
or Democratsl" asked the wished for
purchaser. "Democrats'" replied the
boy. "Ol don't want them" The
next day, the gentleman was accosted
again, and asked the same question.
"Republican," answered this time the
enlightened salesman. "But yester-
day, you told me they were Demo-
Gratis. !" "But to-day they have got
their eyes," said the young politician,
but whether he effected sale or not,
deponent saith not.
The wonderful operations of the
young stock manipulation, F. Kus-
chell. the boy oils, who has gone in
to business, with the cunning if not
the caution of older aud wiser ras-
calls, is to-day's sensation. How he
has managed to conceal his tracks
and hide his light in this way under
bushel 50 long, is question. I'm
less others have worked at his opera
tons or have managed to make some
thing for themselves out of them.
Young Hotf, minor luminary OF "a
similar character, sinks into insight
fcance beside him. But the lesson for
parents to learn is, to put their boys
into business more useful if not more
respectable, where there is less tempta-
ton. To be able to carry on such
business as that, and in that
manner, has undoubtedly re-
quired good deal of inge-
nuity, if not ability, which, If
better applied, might have resulted
In good to himself as well as others;
as it is, he is an outcast, and will
likely become the inmate at length
OF a prison; and yet he is but boy,
taught only in bad school, and
where shall we say we ought really
to look for tho criminal? In man
ner the boy is to blame, but the So
ciety which winks at the sin in the
beginning OF putting boys in the
midst of such temptation, has much
to answer for; and while California
street offers its present premium for
money to be made by gaming IN
idleuess, no ones boy is free from
temptation To ptrtake in some way
in it. Blu; when boy is placed, as
1t were, at the cannons' mouth,
and allowed to handle the matches
which may end in his destruction,
Is there any wonder that many will
pity the victim whom youth alone
should have insured some protec-
ton? AS it IS. he is nine days
wonder, receives visitors, and while
probably anxious, still considers him
sell ofa much consequences as while
dealing with thousands on Califor-
ma street he undoubtedly really be
iieved himself to be. But woe is