The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-01-24
Wednesday, Jan'y "a. 1877.


4 San Francisco correspondent Of the
Alameda fadeJead<n,. a journal conduct
cd by our Quandsm townsman. w. ".
Thcobslds. gives the following iolorous
account Of things within the Golden
Gate:
aFrom all parts of the State come
the reports that trouble is near at hand
II Jupiter Piuvius don't come down
before long In the Sacramento and
San joaquin valleys considerable dam-
age has already accrued to the early
sown grain, aud down the southern
coast il Is reported that the stock ranch
ers are killing their cattle to save their
lives that's a good Irish bull and
make what they can off the hides aud
tsilow. In this city We are feeling the
effects Of the drouth in sundry ways.
Sickness prevails The Unfinished sew
ers exhale miasma. aud diptbtheria,
typhoid and mslarisl fevers are max
Ing uHwonted threads, especially among
the juvenile population. The prospect
ot . dry season aud short grsin crop
has 10 stlffsned the sale of wheat, that
business il almost at q stand-still.
Holders refuse TO part with the cereal
Ut . price which buyers consider war
ranted by the foreign market. aud
ships lie idle in the stream. or slip
their anchors for foreign Iorts. in bal
LAST. for want Of cargo. Once or
twice we have had indications Of a
change ia the weather. but only TO in
tsnsify our appreciation Of the old FAY
ing. that ''sll signs fail in dry times. "
Since the above was dated our .ele-
graphic dispatches note the fall Of rain
in various parts Of the State. which We
trust has been sufficie ntly copious to
avert the threatened failure Of crops
and the unhappy train Of misfortunes
that would cnsue.
OF the moral social aud monetary
status Of the metropolis, the picture
drawn by this correspondent is no
brighter. He continues:
AS To preventing the recurrence OF
crime. that is something that seems the
hardest conundrum Of all. Since the
days Of the Vigilance Committee there
has hardly been time when reform III
this respect was SO much needed here.
Our hoodlums have graduated from
mischief to murder. and every day their
audAcity seems TO increase. Once in y
while spasm If activity on the part OF
the authorities seems to have some tenn
porary repressivc effect, but it is shor,
lived, and the evil breaks out again
with renewed strength AS soon as polio,
pressure lets up. The force is not halt
numerous enough to begin with. and
when an officer has u beat mile or tive
long he can hardly cover enough of il
ut a time to do much good.
stocks are fearfully demoralized
The bears have had things all their own
way and decline and panic has resulted
Almost every day, after the adjourn
ment Of the Board. the auction sales OF
delinQuents show that some one ha.
gone to the wall Consolidated Virgins
passed its dividends yesterday, but
that in itself had but little effect, .,
every one expected il. and the price o,
the stock was bat slightly affected Il
the statements Of the bonanza kings are
TO be believed the matter is beyond their
control. 1t is asserted on presumably
good authority that they have put up
some ave million dollars within the las,
two weeks to bolster the market. but
- bean have been too strong for them
- treat reason for the present dcpres-
snt0n b undoubtedly the fact that ncarl,
all the ssbig fellows are out Of the mar
ut &c pecsent Jones and Sharon ar,
{ a Washington. Hayward is not in . Do
!Sltioa u do anything, Jim Kcene 10 il
New York or Europe, to say nothing o
he wheat ventures. Lucky Baldwin is
rod deal tied up in real estate matters
Gills Il believed to have lost his taste fo
set0ck gambling. so who is there TO max,
syhings hooms Brokers stare vacant,
- the clean pages Of their ord boob
md Sigh for the good old times all,
GaIlnets and depression reigns suprcm,
IN the street
This il not the only intelligence tina
i hos reached Us Of diseouraging on,
look ID California. bat within the pas
~ days we have received number o
lettsrs from the much lauded Southern
.pettioA Of the State. portraying in the
most gloomy eolors the difficulties of
the present ami the dubious prospect,
sof ths future for tho poor working
men In that elysian cline Some Of
these orc not unlike in tone aud tenor
d the similar communications Ne are
cCusfahtly receiving from grasshopper-
devastatei Kansas. some of which have
now been Published. l. surely cannot be
AZ hence in the future before the over
esowded world 10 the eastward will
haccms apprised To its advantage OF
Che fact that Washington Territory to.
1Ay presents the best climate and the
oest resources wherein the wayiarer
Hny max home.
e BY q Communication in another
column Ii will he noticed tina. residents