Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-09
Letter From San Francisco.
SAN Francisco, February 6.

SAN Francisco, February 6.
DEAR TIMES There is nothing
to do but to sit down, fold our
hands, and mediate upon the un-
certainty of earthly things, espe-
cially the stock market. Bonanza
and all has not been able to hold
up everything longer; and so to-
day everybody in and about Cali
fornia street has an appearance of
gloom. The crowd looks funereal
in its aspect, and one would i'm
agine, q stranger especially, that
the last friend had departed, and
this extensive gathering was wait
ing to perform the final obsequies.
The best friend to many has gone;
the money departed, and all the
mourners can do is to stare hope
lessly at the bulletin boards,
whereon but short time before
was painted in glowing colors
brilliant expectations, alas no
more to be realized. The million
aires are smiling, as usual, and
congratulating themselves that the
fall has come so gently, it will not
depreciate future prospects, in this
way, and before the bonanza is
finally crushed, expect another dis
covery, somewhere else, will help
all up again. The Nevadans, we
are told, are smiling somewhat
contemptuously at our being SO
easily duped, and believe in in
Vulnerable bonanzas from which
they expect to realize great expec-
tations. We are going down hill,
certainly, in this respect, and are
/ glad to catch hold of anything to
prevent too precipitous an arrival
at the bottom-so in a few days
another rise is expected, and an
other market-day looked for.
There have been some stunning
private parties lately, among the
Frys, Lathams, etc. But since the
:" Chronicle" reporters have de-
nIned taking part in the entertain
merits, the public, the unwashed,
uncared-for public, are not allowed
to enjoy, even in imagination, the
feast prepared for the high ivers,
the devourers of bonanzas, and all
the hundred others, who by hook
and by crook, have managed to
play part in the drama of social
life, in this good city. Suffice it
to say, that no accident happened,
that we are aware of, and the givers
of the entertainments are resting
upon their laurels, till new ones
have suppaanted them.
All the elite of the kitchen are
on the "qui vive" just now, as the
China new year is approaching.
The Irish portion of the gentry,
willing to make point in their
own favor, as John must have to
worship JOSS, at least once in a
year, and the Nadams get angry,
the house is in confusion, and
everybody declares the Chinaman
belongs elsewhere than here, and
ought to be compelled to remain
there. The Lenten festival is at
hand, as we'll, when the Christian
world is supposed to be in sack
cloth, repenting its sins, and pre-
pairing to make q fresh raid in
fashionable folly as soon as it is
over. What blessing to go into
retreat, is it not, and feel ones self
completely purified, with a load of
sins gotten rid of, new strength
acquired, to commence again, per
haps, or perhaps to be really
strengthened. Let US hope for the
best.
1t is not very long while since
the Hawaiian King passed through
on his Eastern pilgrimage, and
here he is back again. A portly
looking gentleman, colored like a
well-colored meerschaum, we'll
dressed and we'll educated, but
still not white, and holding rather
an anamolous position in the social
world, being either somebody or
nobody, just as people look at it.
Somebody, if an august potentate
of a half-civilized people, can be
somebody, and nobody to those