Year: 1876

more pleasant city to live in in Winter
than in Summer, but if the little sample
OF weather which has greeted the close of
Fall can be taken as criterion of what
Is to follow, l, for one, am willing to sell
out. On Thursday and Friday the rain
poured down steadily, and peculiar
pleasure OF this locality appears to be
that the wind, which is an invariable ac-
compartment to storm here, appears to
strike you in the face which ever way
you happen to be travelling. However,
II the folks who live here can stand it all
the time, had ought to be able to stand
1t Tor few days. | feel rathar grutf
about the storm coming on just as it aid,
for bad weather interieres seriously with
business and sight seeing, and when
fellow has not got Il great deal of time to
spare, he likes to economise it. And
there is much, especially at the present
time which will interest Il stranger, AS is
to be expected of IL city of the size and
population of this.


The theatrical world has been stirred
10y the arrival Of the great tragedian Ed
win Booth, who closes Il most successful
engagement ut the California Theater
with tonight. There were full houses to
greet him on each night, and last night
IN particular, i. being the occasion of his
benefit. 1t was n matter of impossibility
to obtain seat-all having been taken
and reserved for some days. Our tastes
change as we grow older and the things
that were once apparently almost neces-
sary to our enjoyment cease to interest.
Thus 1t was with my experience. With
a vivid recollection, of the pleasures of
the drama rs shown by such actors and
actresses as Mr.. and Mrs. Stark and
others who fourshed on the boards of
this city twenty-five years ago, | came
away with something Of feeling of dis :
appontment-not but the acting was
| good, but simply for the reason that such
scenes no longer possess the same inter.
est-the same power to kindle enthusi-
asm as in former years. But there were
enough to fill the spacious theater night
ly Notwithstanding there are several
other places of amusement open, and the
political campaign is at its hight.


Speaking Of politics, we of the noun
tains have but little conception of the
manner in which the campaign is being
conducted in the large places. 1t was
my good fortune to strike Sacramento
when Estee spoke, and TO hear Gorham
at San Jose. The gathering ut each of
those places was large enough to con
vince me that there was considerable
foundation to the dispatches we saw in
the daily journals in regard to the "lurg-
est and most enthusiastic meeting of the
campaign" But those proceedings "pal-
ed their Intellectual fires " before the
monster demonstration which greeted
Senator Booth in this city last night
Although the rain poured down in tor
rents, preventing many doubtless from
coming, all accounts agree in placing the
number present ut from six to eight
! thousand. | am not so great an admircr
of the Senator as many, yet 1t must be
conceded that he has an influence second
to that of no other man on the Pacific
| Coast. Much of this influence is no
doubt due to the fact that he is not
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hidebound," /" that he does not feel him
self compelled to act with his party when
| he knows, or believes, his party to be in
the wrong. There are many who, while
conceding to Mr.. Booth honesty of pur-
pose, felt satisfied he had made mistake
in giving his sanction to the Independent
movement at the time he did. Time will
tell whether this mistake was fatal one
or not. California innuguated the move
ment which spread to other States and
resulted in nothing but throwing the con
troll of the lower branch Of Congress into
! the hands of the Confederate brigadiers.
1t may be that this was all for the best -
that ii just needed slight torctaste OF
Democratic rule to thoroughly sickcn the
/ people of any desire to return to it.


Quite II ,tir was created by the publ
cation OF the so-culled Black List. -
This was list OF names appearing on
the Great, or more properly speaking
Ward Registers of this county, which
| showed themselves as improperly enter
ed. Included in it were many heretofore
and now quite high in political circles
members of both parties. AS most OF
| the names were those of citizens Of for
/ eign birth, it became god send to the
orators of the unterrifed, who at once
protcssed to SEQ another proof of the
Know-Nothng proclivities of the Repub-
li9an party. One Democratic Club got
so scared at its probable loss of strength
that Governor Irwin was telegrapheG to
to call a special session Of the Legislature
which should enact law declaring every
man registered in the State, no matter
how, should be declared legally regis
tered citizen. But his EXcellency's 5
Democracy was hardly strong enough to
stomach such IA wholesale endorsement If
fraud and he declined to do so. 1t is a
little singular that almost every attempt
to destroy the purity Of the ballot box
| originates in the party of reform. -
The election law is plainly laid down and
its requirements are not followed we
might as we'll return to the old system of
voting and get rid ofthe expense the
Registry Law entails. The Democracy
do rot hesitate at any means to carry an
election, and the proof Of this is coming
out. mocratic voters have been made
by the thousand in the Courts within the
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