Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-05
MANHATTANISMS.
FICTITIOUS FoRTY-NINERs IN NEW YORK
AND THEIR coZENING HABITS.
The Worlds Fair-Prodigious Exactions
Of Lawyers-Tilden and His Presi-
dent Purchasing Millions.
NEW YORK. January "a. Is,

New YORK, January "a, 1880.
The publication during the week of gi-
gantic railway operations, in the way of
sales, leases and combinations, has at
tracted more notice than anything else,
and been the prevailing topic, not in Wall
street merely, but in all business circles.
While the main movers in these trans.
actions are naturally impelled by self
interest, there is little doubt that they will
rebound to the benefit of the corporations
and the general good. 1t is always SO.
Enlightened self-interest can rarely be
gratified without advantage to the COM
munity. Most large enterprises under
taken for personal gain result in profit to
society. Telegraphs, railways and like
works, though they may have been
founded in the spirit of greed, often ac-
complish more desirable issues than any
number of ethical systems, sermons, lee.
lures and benevolent plannings.
In the late railway operations, number
of Californians were conspicuous, as they
are very apt to be in most big things here
Not a few of the longest purses and the
longest heads among great New York
financiers have been trained in your State,
and it is generally conceded here that
Montgomery street is fully as shrewd, far
sighted and sagacious as Wall street, and
that it has often beaten us at our own
game. / heard veteran capitalist of Ex-
change place say, the other day, "What
these Californians don't know isn't worth
Ubax,sro draa Jfullx,
awake lot To keep even with them, it
will not do for man to get up early in the
morning, he must sit mp all night
SPURIOUS ARGoNAUTs.
Californians are, as you know, very clan
nish. They recognize and feel kindly
toward one another, the world over, sim
ply from the fact of their present or past
relation to the Golden State. They hold
that to have been a Californian, how
ever short time, is always to be
Californian. | am acquainted with
men that talk of being forty. miners.
or Argonauts, who went out to the Pacific
coast during the first gold excitement,
stayed few weeks, sponged on their ac
quaintances, borrowed moEey to return
East, never paid it back, and have not
seen California since. There are a good
many of this sort here. They seem to live
chiefly by their pseudo argonautism. for
they are constantly approaching the better
sort of Californians, permanent or tenn
porary residents, with view to negotiate
loans by hypothecating their word and as
suming that it is the very best security.
Millionaires of the G. P. Huntington, Jas.
r. Keene and d. o. Mills stamp are so
overrun with such fellows that they have
to take measures for their own protection.
As you may infer, many of the forty miners
are spurious. They have been in San Fran
cisco or Sacramento some time, have
learned the names of prominent citizens,
picked up considerable local information,
and on this they are prepared to do an
active business in borrowing.
These shams deem it the strongest rec
ommendation andaguaranteeo of favor to de-
clare to anyone who has lived in your
State, 81 am an old Californian. My
name is John Doe. You ought to know
me. / have been unlucky. / want to
borrow little money. Shall be able to
return it very soon. Got big thing in
prospect. You'll help me I'm sure. Cali
fornias
THE LAND OF BIG HEARTS.
When l want aid, know where to come u
Applications of this sort are stereotyped.
They no longer move the men to whom
they have been made again and again but
they still have their effect on mere soiourn-
ers hailing from the other side of the con-
tinent. Few Californians stay here even for
few weeks, without encountering some OF
these dead beats for they are nothing
lse-and opening their pocket-books for
their benefit. When arrivals at the inns
are published in the newspapers, coupled
with San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton,
San Jose or Marysville, the arrivers are
pretty certain to be visited by some mem
ber of the chemically ''hard-up" class,
and petitioned for loan. The people OF
your State have such reputation for gen.
erosity that they are continually called on
to sustain it by giving-in the name oi
lending-to worthless people.
:" don't know, said an ex-resident oi
San Francisco lately, show much it costs
me a year to have lived in California but
| am Obliged to pay regular contribution.
for my Pacific slope experiences.
An Argonaut, now permanently settled
here, told me, few weeks since, that ht
had given up going to California celebra
tions. g | meet delightful fellows there
but then am very likely to meet also som,
OF the yaqabonds who borrow money OF
the strength of being forty miners. I've len
thousands Of dollars to them but don
intend to lend any more. A good many