Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-01-26
Letter From San Francisco.
SAN Francisco, JAN. %, 1874.


Francisco has enough of her own
little physical difficulties to attend
to, without taking this part of
yours. Fogs and winds belong to
us; keep as much of your snow as
you can to yourself, if you please.
The fever of the stock market
however, is not cooled by it. Its
pulse is up to hundred, and beats
as nervously as ever. Everybody
breads the final crash, which, is
said, must come, and everybody
does his best to prevent it. In the
middle of the week something let
the stocks down. Some said the
Bank of California was at the bot
tom of it; some that it was impos-
sible to withdraw so much money
from legitimate business, and hold
it where it was any longer; but
there were long faces on the curb
stones, wailing women in the
offices, when some good genius
started to the rescue. and sent
them up again, and stocks now are
cried louder than ever. There is
no other excitement, whatever in
the city; everything is dead beside
it, and when a reaction comes it
must be tremendous.
Benefit week at the California
has crowded that theatre to its ut
most capacity. Miss Pateman,
Jenny Lee, and Mrs. Judah, have
had full houses, and all the world
in that respect have felt content.
A party at the Mayors has been
one of the events of the week
Everybody who was not there
wished they were; everybody who
was, were of course delighted.
There is no use in talking about it,
San Francisco does its best to keep
itself up to respectable standard
in some respects. There is no
place can give finer parties no
place to build finer houses; and
none given more to a general over
hauling Of things sometimes than
San Francisco. The Coroner was
recently kicked out of office;
the Assessor { (Rossenor) comes in
for his share of investigation, and
is respectfully advised to make
good his reasons why he should
not accept the same fate. There is
no doubt large proportion of the
community are in favor of virtue,
when the pocket is likely to be
touched, and it behooves all other
Office holders, who are making
their money out of the vitals of
the people, to take fair warming.
We are wanting a straightfor-
ward, honorable class of young
men in this city, who don't gamble; !;
don't ruin themselves with cigars
at fifteen dollars a box have no
penchant for fancy cock tails, and
would be ashamed to be seen in a
bar-room. Have you such an art
icle to spare? Our young men are
hlgh-livers, as soon as they are a
little past leading strings; have a
fancy to be thought fast live in
club rooms; have blonde manor
atas, who may be of the highest
type of womanhood, if their hair
is burned to correspond to the
fashion, and living in a free and
easy way, make it quite unneces-
sary that a man should take unto
himself wife, or find himself a
home, social culture, or indeed
refined and lady-like companions,
for his guiding female influence.
1t is said, to think of the amount
of money squandered in this way,
by erring youths, is enormous.
The salaries lavished upon them
might support families quite de-
Gently, and bring into general use
a higher class of American citizens
than we are now producing. 1t
would be better for most of them
never to have been born, and better
for our community if many of the
leading men of ripper years might
be taken out of it, before their in
fuence and example could con
taminate farther. AS it is, the old
Harry seems only likely to help us;
and we fancy as he seats himself