Year: 1875

DEAR TIMEs:-We are waiting
for the fog to clear away, to see
what time of day it is in San Fran
cisco. 1t has been so cold and
gloomy here, we find ourselves in
the blues, humming doleful airs to
keep our courage up, and wonder
ing what is going to happen. The
fog whistle, night and day, gives
us intimation of danger ahead
somewhere, and we begin more
fully to realize that life is not all
sunlight.


The state of the stock market is
the great excitement. Everybody
wonders if the fabulous stories are
true; if solid masses of silver are
really in sight; and, in fact, when
Consolidated Virginia is going to
disgorge whole silver tea services,
not yet manipulated by human
hands, but worked into most art
istic shapes by nature, in the bow
els of the earth. Everybody is
ready to believe everything, and
the more glowing accounts that can
be sent us from Nevada, the more
capacious will become the realms
of imagination, in each mans
mind, to reach the reality. I, Gym
thia Ann, whose small revenue
comes always in silver, am only
fearful that the time is coming
when silver shall be such drug in
the market, that lots of tin, in any
other shape, will be preferable, and
feel inclined to believe that to keep
up state of pretension in that
aristocratic metal, it will finally
become necessary, for successful
stock manipulations. to shut up
that for a time, to allow that
already in circulation to wear itself
out, before more thousands of tons
are brought to light.


We are going to have a Califor-
mia representative in Washington
this winter, in the person of Mrs.
Jones, nee Sullivan. l hope her
poor head will not be turned bv
ovation, and that croaking old
maids, like myself, will not have
the opportunity of saying 81 told
you so" should it prove that it
had. 1t is hard place, that polit-
ical city, for anybody to enter; and
"deliver us from temptation"
might, with propriety, be written
upon the walls in all directions.
To be the wife of a rich man is
one temptation; to be the wife of
one in power another; and poor
little Mrs. Jones will need the
prayers of all her relatives to keep
her from falling into the notion
that she is not herself-a superior
being indeed, very much, and
more so, if toad eaters and pol
lticians can do their best to spoil
her. Her quiet, sensible wedding,
gives US some hope that the worthy
Senator's good sense will prove
her best protection, and that our
little native-born Californian may
return to our State to set good
example to the leaders of snObbery
and fashion, which we have "ad
nauseam."


The health of the city at present
is the subject of anxiety. More
deaths have occurred the past week
than ever before in the same space
OF time without an epidemic, and
II rumor tells the truth, it is very
slckly. Fair weather and sun
slime, followed by fog, has upset
everybody, and all the world at
present is like the rich man asking
OF the beggar in Abraham's bosom,
thinking of water. There is moth
ing more likely to do mischief than
the want of rain in California
community. How is it in Nevada? :?


Nevada mines are making us
prosperous, if one can Judge from
the erection of new buildings. In
all localities, possible and impos-
slble, one sees signs of a movement
IN real estate. Before the report of
that little nugget, discovered in
California, there seemed a possi-
oiilty OF a pretty extensive rise,
out when people sell off the family
utensils toEa <bo hoJ fro,,, ,,,lo,