MY A View of the City of San Diego, by Sir Benjamin West. Interview between Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Duchess of Sutherland, from a group of Statuary, by Clarke Mills. Bank Account of J. Phoenix, Esq., at Adams & Co. Bankers, San Francisco, California Gas Works, San Diego Herald Office. Steamer Goliah. View of a California Ranch.-Landseer. Shell of an Oyster once eaten by General Washington; showing the General's manner of opening Oysters. There!—this is but a specimen of what we can do if liberally sustained. We wait with anxiety to hear the verdict of the Public, before proceeding to any farther and greater outlays. Subscription, $5 per annum, payable invariably in ad vance. INDUCEMENTS FOR CLUBBING. Twenty Copies furnished for one year, for fifty cents. Address John Phoenix, Office of the San Diego Herald. SANDYAGO-A SOLIQUY. Oh my what a trying thing it is for a feller By which we git our letters and sufforth From the Atlantic States and the British Provinces. Except by the Sutherner or the leky Fremont I come to this plais, and wisht I was furder. Some white, some black, & some kinder speckled, That gits drunk and goes round lickin every body. Which are kept by the children of Zion At seven times more than they costed, And hit the fust feller they come to. With the pleasant screak of the victim Whose been shot prehaps in his gizzard. I'll hire a mule from some feller "THE JUDGE" looks melancholy!-He knows that this is Phoenix's Last, and that's exactly "where the shoe pinches." This squib is adapted to the comprehension of the meanest shoemaker. FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION IN SAN DIEGO. (Reported expressly for the San Diego Herald.) TUESDAY last, the 4th of July, being the anniversary of the discovery of San Diego by the Hon. J. J. Warner, in 1846 as well as that of our National Independence ("long may it wave," &c.), was celebrated in this city with all that spirit and patriotism for which it has ever been distinguished. Every citizen, with the exception of those who had retired in a state of intoxication, was aroused at 2 A. M. by the soulstirring and tremendous report of the Plaza Artillery, which had been carefully loaded the previous evening with two pounds of powder, and half a bushel of public documents franked to this place by our late honorable representatives. Each citizen on being awakened in this manner (if he imitated the example of your respected reporter), reflected a moment with admiration on our glorious institutions; with pride on our great and increasing country, and with gratitude |