Year: 1870




From Boston bay to San Francisco bay in
eight days am not going to infict Pacific
railroad rapsody on your readers, but is it not
passing all wonder that these New Englanders
should step from their hotels at Boston into the
cars and in such short time be carried to the
very doors of another hostelry right in the heart
of this queen city? They have met an enthusiastic
reception from all classes, and our weather is
on its good behavior, they will carry back with
them an exalted opinion of Californian climate.
We don't quite like the parade of wealth these
gentlemen make. If they are worth $50 0,0OO,-
900, there was no necessity to herald the fact by
wire ten days ahead of their arrival but per-
haps they thought we are such devotees of Nam
mon, that the bare announcement would strike
ms with awe and compel consideration.
The Chambers of Commerce tenders them ban
quet, General Ord invites them to visit the har-
Dor fortfcatons and civilties of every descrip-
tion are being showered opon their fortunate
heads. 1t is good to extend such kindly greet
ings and they will have much effect in increasing
the proverbial reputation for hospitality and
open heartedness


The Mercantile library lottery Office was
opened on Wednesday, and in four hours $l0,-
600 worth of tickets were sold. This, is in ad-
dition to the 80 900 already ordered by mail and
and telegraph For number l849 fifty dollars
have been offered and refused by its holders.
Number l77O changed hands for twenty dollars,
and superstitious individual advertises
that he will pay five dollars for number 1870.


Memorial day was celebrated on Monday with
fitting solemnity, and an unusual feature was
the presence of the Brannan guards-a colored
company of soldiers-in the procession and the
great number of colored people who showed
their reverence for the brave dead by decorating
the graves of Lone mountain with flowers. In
the ceremony Dr. Stone delivered an Grafton at
Platt's hall to an audience that reminded one OF
the old war days and when the immense
throng stood up to sing the Butte Hymn Of tie
Republic, it seemed as if the voice of Starr King
had only just ceased to thrill the assembly with
his eloquence and very difficult to realize that
he too had


Drawn the drapery of his couch around him,


And laid down to pleasant dreams


In the present depressed condition of the
State when every dollar has a value that was
never attached to it before, a proposition that
embodies an expenditure of nearly 100000
should not be hurriedly acted upon. Four years
ago Wilson's series of readers adopted by
the State Board oe Education as the standard
works for the use of schools and they are much
commended by teachers. A quiet but persistent
effort Is now beiug made by certain parties in
this city to substitute new set Of text books
lMcGufieys's series, and they have even ap-
preached members of the board with pecuniary
argument to induce them to vote in favor of the
change. There is such an evident intention to
lobby the matter through the board before pub
lie attention has been directed to it, that it he
hooves parents to be on the alert and prevent
the proposed wrong by immediate action. The
question eXcites very general interest here, but
outside of San Francisco has not attracted the
nntic 4 Il, 10 nit, tIo II
be that hundreds of parents must withdraw their
children from school, rs the cost of new books
will be entirely beyond their means. The army
OF bad boys infesting the streets will gain many
recruits, and every town and village throughout
the State will be affected in the same manner.
If the first change is successfully carried out, it
cW be preliminary 10 tie Introduction of an entire
series Of ne0 eaucationai V0rhs, not with any re-
gard for the youthful good but for the sole
purpose Of beneftting publishers, and pocketing
the premium they offer. public meeting will
be called here next week to protest against the
alteration, and as it is subject that concerns
the head of every family, Trinitarians should
follow San Francisco example.


1t is not often that an entire community ap-
plauds an attempt to take man s life, and wheu
such case does occur the circumstances con-
nected with it must be so exceptional as to COM
mand more than ordinary attention. Most peo-
Pile are aware of the existence of an infamous
sheet called our NazPPa, a paper that week af-
ter week fills its columns with the yilest reflect
ions on pure women and good men, II paper
teeming with obscenity full of scurrilfty and de-
voted to the most outrageous system of black
mailing that ever cursed city. ~Is proprietor
fellow named Hylton who has already done
the State some service in the county Jail, and
openly boasts that he has made sixty thousand
dollars in six years by the publication of weekly
filth. A short time ago he commenced casting
apprehensOns upon the character of Mrs. Lam
sing, wife of "A well-known insurance agent, and
was cautioned by that lddy's husband not to re-
peat bis insinuations Disregarding the warn
ing, last Saturdays issue contained another at
tack, and Mr.. Lansing resolved to abate by force
the slanders that he could not stop by expostu-
lation. So on Monday he met Hylton on Mont
gomery street and drawing derringer shot at
his head, the bullet entering the upper jaw and
coming out below the right eye. The wound is
not necessarily fatal, though if the opinions and
wishes of the large crowd who instantly gathered
have any weight with Providence Our Mdzeppa
will soon require another publisher Lansing
was arrested, and in the course of an hour bail
to the amount of six hundred thousand dollars
was rendered for his appearance by entire strang-
ers, and several legal gentlemen volunteered
their services for his defense.


At length we have got Captain Jinks of the
Horse Marines" an PTOPrta persona. After hear
ing every small boy, cracked piano, music hall
singer, Grassland, shrill female and wheezy or
gan, murder that musical production for some
six months, it seemed impossible that it could
be presented to us as an enjoyable novelty. But
when Linyard came on the stage and instead of
personating very rowdy Feuian Captain of vol
unteers, gave us ideal military gentlemen,
awfully ennu tired of dissipation, tired of firta-
tions tired of life he at once invested the char
acter with interest and was applauded to the
echo. The charming Alice also sang " Walking
down Broadway" "Up in balloon" " On the
beach at Long Branch" and other absurd dtties
in such bewitching style that it easy to
understand why such nonsenscal illusions had
become popular Leo Hudson, Mazeppist and
bare-backed steed rider, is sojourning in our
midst, looking out for an engagement that comes
not. Adeine Phillips gave concert on Wed
nesday night that was perfect bewilderment of
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