Year: 1875

DEAR TIMEs:-The world goes on
in q stupid slow old fashion, just at
present. Nothing new transpires to
make it agreeable, or to give the
least idea of something sensational.
The Fair building is crowded, gener-
ally in the evening, people staring
at one another, quite as much as at
the wonders of art, which surround
them, aud try to look jolly, but the
effort is melancholy failure, and
nobody is deceived into the belief
they are not making an effort.


Why every thing must be siero-
typed in San Francisco it is hard to
say, but every thing is. The fair is
a reproduction of the last one, the
same works of art, little varied
perhaps in some particulars, the
same people staring at each other
and making All effort, the same mu
sic, the same fountain, the same
everything. We go through the
world in the same manner. This
year is the re, production OF the last,
no variety in seasons, no variety in
.amuseneuts, save and except the en-
tertainments given to the pubic, by
managers who attempt to bring out
novelties in which they are some
times successful and sometimes not.


The sensation, whatever it my
be, and however terrible, is in con-
sequence seized upon and revelled
in, to vary monotony, but after
such sensation as the failure of
the Bank of California, comes reac-
tion, and consequent stagnation, and
in that stagnation we are at present
existing


The Bank is to be open again tit Is
said) on the 27lh, or the LIST at the
latest.


Everything is to happen on the
first. Stocks are going to commence
a stampede at that time, and never
children longed for a holiday more
than everybody wishes the first was
here.


What Is going to be done no one
really knows, outside of council
chambers, and as long as their doors
are shut on the public, the small fry
have to be quiet, look wise, and
guess. Some persons believe that
the closing of the Stock Boards has
been for the purpose Of manipulat-
ing the market, in new and strong
manner, and that when business Is
renewed, a most extraordinary rise
will be the result. Don't buy on
the strength of this report, however,
for imagination has plenty a room
for play these days, and in absence
of anything better for data, each one
is inclined to look to whatever may
give hope, if emanating from ano
ther.


Apropos of what Is to be done,
the rather extraordinary document,
puporting to have come from Rails
ton, and been given to sharon, IN
which he has transferred his prop
erty to the latter, for oar mutual
benefit, instead, as it was first sup
posed, for the benefit of the Bank,
is eliciting comment. Whether Mr..
Sharon may think it for our mutual
benefit to appropriate it for his own
benefit, or that our mutual benefit
may include the family OF Ralston
an the calculation, is the question.
The Bank Directors are silent. Ev
.erybody is silent. Sharon says the
Bank is to open on the 9th; that is
all anybody seems to know about it.


One of the features of the week
has been the admittance of visitors
to the new building at the corner of
Montgomery and California streets,
belonging to the Safe Deposit Com
pany. 1t is u very fine establish
ment, and is likely to do large
business. II is intended for the safe
keeping Of articles of value of any
description. The vaults are of steel,
Enclosed In fine proof easing, and
the safes are in sufficiently large
numbers to accommodate the COM
munity. They are to be rented by
the day, month or year, on terms
prOportionate to their size, and will
of course be- sufficiently will guard
ed to preclude all anxiety in regard
to the safety OF any valuables there
In intrusted. In the East, these safe
companies have proved not only
convenient for the public, but profit.